That's a big "if", is currently false and will be false for hundreds of years still.
AI vehicles currently have about 4.5 times the fatality rate of human drivers per mile traveled. The AI rate is at about the 1971 human rate, We currently only have the single year of data for AI vehicles, but next year we will have two, and when we have that second data point it will be possible to determine the precise rate of improvement. For now however there is evidence to suggest that the rate of AI fatalities for Googles self driving vehicles in 2014 would have been approximately 25 times the current human fatality rate had the engineers permitted the vehicles to perform across the entire spectrum of AI driving that is performed to today. That is equivalent to approximately the 1920s level of human driver performance.
Put another way, it takes humans about 4 to 5 decades on average to effect an 80% reduction in auto fatalities. AI has demonstrated that same improvement in 2 years. At that rate of improvement, it will be only another 2 - 3 years before AI drivers become safer than human operators, and less than 10 before a human driving a vehicle on the public roads will the the statistical and moral equivalent to what drunk driving is today.
Over here in facts-based land, the Note 7 has a MAX77838 keeping track of power.
The MAX77838 is a power management IC. It claims to have some other circuitry for battery management, but since MAXIMs website does not acknowledge that part number, we have no way of knowing what it really has or doesn't have. All outward appearances would suggest that it is a custom chip for Samsung (probably used in several of their product lines). Personally, I expect that the MAX77838 is similar to the MAX77829 (PMIC + single cell Lion charging circuit). This would make some sense since it looks like Samsung elected to use an external PMIC, and since they had to have one anyways, getting one that had the charging circuit built in would not be that big a deal. Unfortunately for Samsung, the charging circuit has to be relatively tuned to the specific battery being used. Generically designed Lion chargers have a habit of failing. (So much so that Tenma actually ships many of their battery chargers with a fireproof pouch to put the battery in while charging it...
This just goes to show how stupid Samsung is for designing it this way. Since the fault lies either with the Custom Maxim Chip, with the battery itself (or a mismatch between the two), Samsung has backed itself into a corner. They cannot just replace the defective Maxim Chip with an off the shelf component because there is no drop in replacement or they wouldn't have had Maxim build a custom chip in the first place. Nor can they simply change the battery easily, as the batteries are manufactured to spec as well.
If samsung had offloaded the charging and battery management control into software running on one of the processors in the phone, then they would likely have been able to fix the problem with a firmware update. Now, because they did not have the sense to do what everyone else is doing, they are fucked.
The best kept open secret in the Phone / Tablet world are the PSOC processors that are used extensively for all of the low level work in these devices. Cypress sells nearly as many processors as Broadcom, and nobody has ever heard of them. Their processors come with built in PMIC, Capacitive touch sense (which is why everyone started using them in the first place), and a host of other powerful features that reduce part count and unit cost. I have personally designed a half dozen devices that used them, two of which had battery charging circuits and charge control software. The irony is that the PSOC processors cost cost about $5 each and they are full featured processors while the Maxim ICs Cost more than that and are just a PMIC.
TLDR: Samsung is staffed by incompetent engineers. Its no wonder they have exploding phones, their engineers designed a phone with at least $5 more parts than they should have had, but skipped on the thermostat protection on the battery to save $0.50. If they used this same chip in the S5, then they lost more than 60 million dollars in excess unit cost in just the first three months of sales, and now with the S7, its going to cost them billions.
Theres a big difference between the LiPo pack you bought for your toy RC car, and the packs that go in commercial devices. Almost any LiPo you can buy "off the shelf" has built in battery protection circuits. That is not true for built in batteries and devices in quantity. It is left to the device manufacturer to decide if they want the built in circuits or not, and in most cases where there is a processor in the device, the manufacturer elects to add their own software to handle the charging and circuit protection as they are cheaper by quite a bit. This is especially true in cell phones and tablets where the battery is custom designed and manufactured, typically for a specific model or line of phones. The cost of adding the protection circuit to the pack is significantly higher, as is the space and weight penalty. The actual circuit to charge the phone or do battery protection is extremely simple and small, the complexity is transfered into the software domain where a processor is used to handle the logic involved. If your device already has a processor (or in the case of phone more than one), this extra chip is a wasted expense.
Even NiMH packs are supposed to have that thermistor you talked about, but except in rare cases, I have not seen a single pack that actually has the thermistor. Its not much of an expense, but they seem to forego that altogether. Cutting corners in pack manufacturing is the norm, since the packs are high volume low margin devices (All cells and most packs are made in china to varying degrees of quality), and every company making and using them is looking for every opportunity they can find to cut costs.
So what is the real culprit here? I thought it could have been from using the wrong charging IC or someone in the battery department changing the chemistry and not telling the EEs. But they are catching fire without charging.
Lithium chemistry batteries are finicky little bastards. They are not just dangerous from over-charging (or charging too fast), but also from over-discharging and discharging too rapidly. If they are drawing 1A from a battery that is only designed to handle 1/2A, or worse, if their control circuitry allows the battery to fall below a minimum voltage, then the batteries can go into runaway thermal overload. The worst part is that all of the various factors change with pressure, so at 35k feet, you have to be far more conservative with the batteries to avoid a fire. With Li batteries, getting the extra capacity out of them can be very dangerous, and it only take a small error to end up with fires or explosions. Worse still parameters can vary widely from individual battery to individual battery and is made far worse when the batteries are sloppily made.
It should also be noted that it is unlikely that the phones have a dedicated battery monitoring chip as these cost a couple bucks, even in large quantities, and all they really are is a small microprocessor and a couple cents worth of transistors. Since cell phones already have the processor, they just use that, and add the couple of small transistors they need to handle the charging and discharge monitoring.
The root problem could be as simple as a badly chosen set of constants for cutoff voltage and thermal protection, or could be more insidious, such as a thermal protection sub-routine that doesn't work properly because at shutdown the processor looses power and reboots, thus continually drawing power from the battery.
As there is no way to effectively gain political power in this country, your options are
A: Agree to said one sided rules
B: Don't run for office and let others run things however they see fit
C: Foment revolution.
These are not very appealing options, especially considering that the gatekeepers to authority mentioned in A, are the very people we need to be defended from. If there is one overwhelming takeaway from this years election, it is that the majority is tired of getting shit on by the 0.1%. Its that same 0.1% that either constitutes the superdelegates, or directly controls their actions. They are just one more step towards corruption in our society, and for any who are smart enough to pay attention, The 99% is getting pretty pissed off about it. Another 4 years of the political elite seeing to it that our democratic value are subverted and our votes are diluted until a supermajority can't win without "superdelegate approval", and those riots we keep seeing in the news wont just be #BlackLivesMatter anymore. We are not far off from the next candidate dropping hints that we should be "exercising our 2nd amendment rights" on the political elite.
Clinton won the vote without the superdelegate vote so in fact we do know that Sanders would not have won. There was no rigging of the election.
I personally know of two Bernie suppporters who didn't vote because the press claimed from the beginning that the results were a foregone conclusion due to the superdelegate vote. The news from April and May were rife with interviews from people who were voting for Clinton simply because they felt that, although Bernie was the better candidate, they had been told repeatedly in DNC sponsored ads that Bernie couldn't win a general election (We heard that same crap about Trump from the other side, and he still might win in spite of himself). In short, It is my considered opinion that Sander would have won had the superdelegates withheld their votes until after the general election. This is Not just My opinion
Granted, no one can know what would have been, but when voters are staying home, or otherwise voting for a different candidate because the establishment has told them their pick cant win anyways; when voters are not even being given the chance to hear about a candidate because the DNC has picked their winner and wont even release the party roles so that the candidate can reach primary voters and likely donors; When DNC executives are actively contacting large party donors and telling them not to give money to a candidate: Its hard not to think about how much that candidate has been screwed. This is the real reason people hate Hilary. Not because she is a bad person, but because bad people and corrupt people made sure she would get the nomination. It was handed to her as though it were somehow her due.
The most telling aspect of this election: Nearly every single person Sanders spoke to in person voted for him. The same cannot be said of any other candidate.
The superdelegates are election tampering. Their express purpose is to allow the Political elite to shut out candidates, or promote one of their own. The republicans have the same structure, but did not give their superdelegates enough power to override the crazy train.
We'll probably never know if Sanders would have won without the Democratic National Committee and the superdelegates doing everything in their power to shut out Sanders. That is why, in spite of facing an imbecile for an opponent, the democrats could still manage to lose this election. The Democrats political elite severely tampered with this election and they know it, and for many people that kind of tampering is enough to prevent them from ever voting for Clinton. There is a small minority of people who will vote for Trump now, just to watch it all burn and teach the god damn career politicians a lesson.
Bzzz! Hold it right there! What is "sufficient bandwidth"
My ISP has advertised 100mbit service, and I have every right to expect that 100mbit will be available 100% of the time. ISPs oversubscribe their actual available bandwidth because they know almost no one ever uses 100% of the available bandwidth 100% of the time. That doesn't change the fact that they are charging multiple customers for the same resource. The ISPs can't then turn around and say, that there isn't enough because their customers are using more than their fair share, when in fact, the ISP has sold more than they had available in the first place.
Using that metric, Sufficient bandwidth is whatever is required to provide 100% of their customers with 100% of the promised bandwidth. Anything less than that is just the ISP whining because they are being held to the contract they themselves wrote.
In that regard, ISPs with data caps should be required to advertise the datacap / billing period instead of the peak speeds, customers will quickly stop coming in the door when it is made obvious that a 50GB / month limit effectively means that on average you can only get 150kb/s download speed over the course of an entire month. If the ISP had to advertise that 150kb/s instead of being able to claim 100mb/s speeds, they would quickly change their minds about data caps.
In addition to bandwidth is free you forgot the one about how since the hardware infrastructure for networks is a sunken cost it should be free to use. I haven't figured that one out yet; apparently the underlying assumption is that the investors who paid up front ought to be robbed of their expected returns.
In a large percentage of cases, those up front investments were paid for by the FCC. And yes, those investors ARE getting robbed blind.
For someone who needs a small 64-bit x86, this is interesting.
No one needs x86 anything in small form factors. x86 is dominant in desktop and laptop pcs, but is almost entirely non-existant in the embedded space. Pcs are sliding into irrelevance, and with it Intel / AMD / Microsoft. Frankly we're all better off. x86 has always been a pretty crappy architecture as it always had to maintain backward compatibility. For embedded systems that is not a requirement, and ARM has taken full advantage of the flexibility that offers.
Intel keeps trying to push their x86 cores for the embedded space, but they have failed completely to provide a compelling reason to use their processors, and the market continues to completely ignore them. If Intel was really serious about the embedded market, and didn't have their head up their collective ass, they would have abandoned x86 for the embedded space and built a new instruction set without the legacy cruft, much the way ARM has. They dont want to because that is hard and expensive, and they cant leverage all of the hard work they have put into x86 and x86-64. The part Intel doesn't seem to get is that the market isn't going to allow them to push x86 because it is not a superior solution, and Intel cant get enough market share to compete with the ARM economies of scale.
When are these fuckers going to learn that National Security as defined by a secret tribunal does NOT overrule the constitution. I think we need to broaden the definition of treason to include any act that unlawfully and deliberately undermines the good faith enforcement of our constitution.
Do you really need to denigrate the efforts of others, just so you can feel smug about doing nothing?
Questioning the motives of people making extraordinary claims is not at all unreasonable. Didn't Kim Jong Un claim something similar in the last few years? Between MS and Facebook, there seems to be an awful lot of hubris in the news today.
Your lack of patriotism is noted. Maybe you should move?
A coward runs from their home when things are less than ideal. A patriot stays put and defends their home, their neighbors, and their way of life, giving their own lives if necessary. A patriot will face any enemy foreign or domestic.
Thats going to be damn difficult, there isn't much left in this country that doesn't deserve active bombardment, much less saving. Maybe they'll hit the white house and spare us the embarrassment of three more years of whomever gets elected...
Indeed, vanity fair got it all wrong, Silicon valley did not directly cause the fall of Theranos any more than marriage is the cause of divorce. Silicon valley is responsible for the inappropriate elevation of theranos in the first place. The invest now or it will be too late mentality is one big pyramid scheme.
A whole lot of nepotism didn't hurt either. I would venture to say that there are millions of people in the US who would have been more successful in creating a viable company had they been simply *given* the same level of blind investment by friends and family...
Relatively it is very precise though. You can measure a 1m altitude change easily. Knowing whether you are 50 or 51m above sea level is a different question
The key there is altitude change. The longer it has been since the barometer was last calibrated to a known altitude, the less accurate it is. After just 1 hour, the accuracy is +-200m, or the height of a 30 story building give or take, so basically useless unless you are constantly calibrating it.
As a stationary sensor, barometers are useful for predicting certain types of weather. Once you start moving them around, they are useless for that task. As an altitude indicator, they are only good on extremely short timescales (minutes). After the time it would take to ride an elevator to the top of an 80 story building, commercial grade GPS would give you a more accurate indication of altitude.
I can tell you what they are definitely good for though: Detecting how far *below* sea level you are going, as that pressure is usually quite reliable. If you want to find out if people are submeging their phones so that you can deny warranty claims, then that is the perfect sensor...
You know what's even more retarded? Not using barometer data to measure slight changes in elevation when combined with an initial GPS pull.
I agree 100%! I can't even begin to count the number of times I have been climbing a flight of stairs and thinking to myself "I wish my phone had a barometer so I could effectively measure how far I am moving along the Z axis".
You know what Steve Jobs thinks of the Barometer in his new iPhone7? He's pissed off because the only useful thing it can tell him is that he's 6 feet under... Steve Jobs was an exceptional visionary, Tim cook is a no talent hack who's going to run that company into the ground Balmer style.
Has any technology ever had any long term unemployment increasing effect throughout human history? I've heard and read about the fears of human unemployment crisis due to X tech, but I'm yet to see any hard evidence of it in the real world.
that sounds an aweful lot like how NASA described foam shedding from the exterrnal tank on the old shuttles. The thinking was simply: the stuff keeps falling off, but nothing bad ever happens, it must not be as dangerous as the engineers seemed to think. Since it has never caused a problem before, it shouldn't ever cause any problems in the future.
The very definition of shortsightedness is the overriding expectation that the future can be predicted solely from the past.
It just ALSO gives you an improved audio path that provides power to headphones.
Bluetooth is not now, nor will it every be a "improved audio path" There are multiple technical reasons why a hardwired solution is going to be better than wireless for the same cost in parts. If you wanted to spend several thousand dollars in highly specialized parts, you could conceivably make a wireless product which performs equally to the relatively cheap solution that is available in the iPhone 6 and below.
This is a cash grab, pure and simple. Apple can shave $10 per unit off the cost of an iphone by offloading the high quality DAC, connector, etc... associated with the 3.5mm jack. Additionally, it will drive sales of their bluetooth products. Even the inclusion of an external adapter does not cost as much as the internal parts do because the external device can allocate significantly more room for parts meaning cheaper components at similar performance when they don't have to be super small.
In the end, Apple made the same retard mistake everyone seems to be making. People only say they want smaller phones. When they have to choose between battery life and size, they will choose battery life every time, but most manufacturers force smaller size than optimal because it saves unit cost, and they try to spin the size as a product advantage somehow.
There's as many successes in this story as failures.
Yes, but successes should outnumber failures hundreds of thousands to one, or more. That is why pilots train so extensively, and why they follow checklists with the fervor of an evangelist. Failing to do either of those things is one more failure in the chains that lead to disaster. Just because this outcome didn't involve any deaths does not make the errors involved any less ominous. Indeed, entering incorrect data and then either failing to follow the checklist that should have caught the error, or having a faulty checklist that did not include any double checks are the kinds of errors in aviation that kill people. Ultimately, 50% of accidents are caused by pilots doing multiple wrong things, and often that is due to inadequate training, or these days, inadequate understanding of the complex machines they operate.
If you can write software, you can have a comfortable life without doing shit like this.
Not without credentials you can't, and in this country, going to college to get those credentials is a huge financial burden, and upon graduation, people can expect to face severe wage stagnation, growing competition from temporary foreign workers, and a hiring structure that makes it difficult for anyone except the top 10% to even get an interview most places.
The reality is that the best bet for a bright future for any capable person in this day and age is entrepreneurship. To a adolescent brain, this particular brand of entrepreneurship might seem like a good idea, as it does have significant short term gains with very little effort. In fact, if it weren't for the downside risk, it would be an awesome investment opportunity.
I graduated with those credentials in the middle of the.com bust. I was only 50th percentile, so I was unable to find work in my field for more than a decade, and because I was only 50th percentile, grad school was not a financial option (I wouldn't have wanted to do it anyways unless truly desperate. I hated school. After the first 5 minutes of any given lecture, I could have taught the damn course. It always pissed me off that 75% of the class was wasted rehashing the topic to beat it into the brains of those students who were too stupid to grasp the concept and too self centered to just quit). In the end, I did struggle my way back in to programming, but if I had just a little bit less sense, I could have easily gone the malware for profit route.
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That's a big "if", is currently false and will be false for hundreds of years still.
AI vehicles currently have about 4.5 times the fatality rate of human drivers per mile traveled. The AI rate is at about the 1971 human rate, We currently only have the single year of data for AI vehicles, but next year we will have two, and when we have that second data point it will be possible to determine the precise rate of improvement. For now however there is evidence to suggest that the rate of AI fatalities for Googles self driving vehicles in 2014 would have been approximately 25 times the current human fatality rate had the engineers permitted the vehicles to perform across the entire spectrum of AI driving that is performed to today. That is equivalent to approximately the 1920s level of human driver performance.
Put another way, it takes humans about 4 to 5 decades on average to effect an 80% reduction in auto fatalities. AI has demonstrated that same improvement in 2 years. At that rate of improvement, it will be only another 2 - 3 years before AI drivers become safer than human operators, and less than 10 before a human driving a vehicle on the public roads will the the statistical and moral equivalent to what drunk driving is today.
Over here in facts-based land, the Note 7 has a MAX77838 keeping track of power.
The MAX77838 is a power management IC. It claims to have some other circuitry for battery management, but since MAXIMs website does not acknowledge that part number, we have no way of knowing what it really has or doesn't have. All outward appearances would suggest that it is a custom chip for Samsung (probably used in several of their product lines). Personally, I expect that the MAX77838 is similar to the MAX77829 (PMIC + single cell Lion charging circuit). This would make some sense since it looks like Samsung elected to use an external PMIC, and since they had to have one anyways, getting one that had the charging circuit built in would not be that big a deal. Unfortunately for Samsung, the charging circuit has to be relatively tuned to the specific battery being used. Generically designed Lion chargers have a habit of failing. (So much so that Tenma actually ships many of their battery chargers with a fireproof pouch to put the battery in while charging it...
This just goes to show how stupid Samsung is for designing it this way. Since the fault lies either with the Custom Maxim Chip, with the battery itself (or a mismatch between the two), Samsung has backed itself into a corner. They cannot just replace the defective Maxim Chip with an off the shelf component because there is no drop in replacement or they wouldn't have had Maxim build a custom chip in the first place. Nor can they simply change the battery easily, as the batteries are manufactured to spec as well.
If samsung had offloaded the charging and battery management control into software running on one of the processors in the phone, then they would likely have been able to fix the problem with a firmware update. Now, because they did not have the sense to do what everyone else is doing, they are fucked.
The best kept open secret in the Phone / Tablet world are the PSOC processors that are used extensively for all of the low level work in these devices. Cypress sells nearly as many processors as Broadcom, and nobody has ever heard of them. Their processors come with built in PMIC, Capacitive touch sense (which is why everyone started using them in the first place), and a host of other powerful features that reduce part count and unit cost. I have personally designed a half dozen devices that used them, two of which had battery charging circuits and charge control software. The irony is that the PSOC processors cost cost about $5 each and they are full featured processors while the Maxim ICs Cost more than that and are just a PMIC.
TLDR: Samsung is staffed by incompetent engineers. Its no wonder they have exploding phones, their engineers designed a phone with at least $5 more parts than they should have had, but skipped on the thermostat protection on the battery to save $0.50. If they used this same chip in the S5, then they lost more than 60 million dollars in excess unit cost in just the first three months of sales, and now with the S7, its going to cost them billions.
How many battery power devices have you designed?
Theres a big difference between the LiPo pack you bought for your toy RC car, and the packs that go in commercial devices. Almost any LiPo you can buy "off the shelf" has built in battery protection circuits. That is not true for built in batteries and devices in quantity. It is left to the device manufacturer to decide if they want the built in circuits or not, and in most cases where there is a processor in the device, the manufacturer elects to add their own software to handle the charging and circuit protection as they are cheaper by quite a bit. This is especially true in cell phones and tablets where the battery is custom designed and manufactured, typically for a specific model or line of phones. The cost of adding the protection circuit to the pack is significantly higher, as is the space and weight penalty. The actual circuit to charge the phone or do battery protection is extremely simple and small, the complexity is transfered into the software domain where a processor is used to handle the logic involved. If your device already has a processor (or in the case of phone more than one), this extra chip is a wasted expense.
Even NiMH packs are supposed to have that thermistor you talked about, but except in rare cases, I have not seen a single pack that actually has the thermistor. Its not much of an expense, but they seem to forego that altogether. Cutting corners in pack manufacturing is the norm, since the packs are high volume low margin devices (All cells and most packs are made in china to varying degrees of quality), and every company making and using them is looking for every opportunity they can find to cut costs.
So what is the real culprit here? I thought it could have been from using the wrong charging IC or someone in the battery department changing the chemistry and not telling the EEs. But they are catching fire without charging.
Lithium chemistry batteries are finicky little bastards. They are not just dangerous from over-charging (or charging too fast), but also from over-discharging and discharging too rapidly. If they are drawing 1A from a battery that is only designed to handle 1/2A, or worse, if their control circuitry allows the battery to fall below a minimum voltage, then the batteries can go into runaway thermal overload. The worst part is that all of the various factors change with pressure, so at 35k feet, you have to be far more conservative with the batteries to avoid a fire. With Li batteries, getting the extra capacity out of them can be very dangerous, and it only take a small error to end up with fires or explosions. Worse still parameters can vary widely from individual battery to individual battery and is made far worse when the batteries are sloppily made.
It should also be noted that it is unlikely that the phones have a dedicated battery monitoring chip as these cost a couple bucks, even in large quantities, and all they really are is a small microprocessor and a couple cents worth of transistors. Since cell phones already have the processor, they just use that, and add the couple of small transistors they need to handle the charging and discharge monitoring.
The root problem could be as simple as a badly chosen set of constants for cutoff voltage and thermal protection, or could be more insidious, such as a thermal protection sub-routine that doesn't work properly because at shutdown the processor looses power and reboots, thus continually drawing power from the battery.
you agree to them when you sign up to run.
As there is no way to effectively gain political power in this country, your options are
A: Agree to said one sided rules
B: Don't run for office and let others run things however they see fit
C: Foment revolution.
These are not very appealing options, especially considering that the gatekeepers to authority mentioned in A, are the very people we need to be defended from. If there is one overwhelming takeaway from this years election, it is that the majority is tired of getting shit on by the 0.1%. Its that same 0.1% that either constitutes the superdelegates, or directly controls their actions. They are just one more step towards corruption in our society, and for any who are smart enough to pay attention, The 99% is getting pretty pissed off about it. Another 4 years of the political elite seeing to it that our democratic value are subverted and our votes are diluted until a supermajority can't win without "superdelegate approval", and those riots we keep seeing in the news wont just be #BlackLivesMatter anymore. We are not far off from the next candidate dropping hints that we should be "exercising our 2nd amendment rights" on the political elite.
Clinton won the vote without the superdelegate vote so in fact we do know that Sanders would not have won. There was no rigging of the election.
I personally know of two Bernie suppporters who didn't vote because the press claimed from the beginning that the results were a foregone conclusion due to the superdelegate vote. The news from April and May were rife with interviews from people who were voting for Clinton simply because they felt that, although Bernie was the better candidate, they had been told repeatedly in DNC sponsored ads that Bernie couldn't win a general election (We heard that same crap about Trump from the other side, and he still might win in spite of himself). In short, It is my considered opinion that Sander would have won had the superdelegates withheld their votes until after the general election. This is Not just My opinion
Granted, no one can know what would have been, but when voters are staying home, or otherwise voting for a different candidate because the establishment has told them their pick cant win anyways; when voters are not even being given the chance to hear about a candidate because the DNC has picked their winner and wont even release the party roles so that the candidate can reach primary voters and likely donors; When DNC executives are actively contacting large party donors and telling them not to give money to a candidate: Its hard not to think about how much that candidate has been screwed. This is the real reason people hate Hilary. Not because she is a bad person, but because bad people and corrupt people made sure she would get the nomination. It was handed to her as though it were somehow her due.
The most telling aspect of this election: Nearly every single person Sanders spoke to in person voted for him. The same cannot be said of any other candidate.
There was no rigging.
The superdelegates are election tampering. Their express purpose is to allow the Political elite to shut out candidates, or promote one of their own. The republicans have the same structure, but did not give their superdelegates enough power to override the crazy train.
We'll probably never know if Sanders would have won without the Democratic National Committee and the superdelegates doing everything in their power to shut out Sanders. That is why, in spite of facing an imbecile for an opponent, the democrats could still manage to lose this election. The Democrats political elite severely tampered with this election and they know it, and for many people that kind of tampering is enough to prevent them from ever voting for Clinton. There is a small minority of people who will vote for Trump now, just to watch it all burn and teach the god damn career politicians a lesson.
You wont be able to read text or tell the difference at that fine resolution and screen size, so whats the point?
Maybe if it were a 50+ inch display I might get excited, but this is just a waste.
Bzzz! Hold it right there! What is "sufficient bandwidth"
My ISP has advertised 100mbit service, and I have every right to expect that 100mbit will be available 100% of the time. ISPs oversubscribe their actual available bandwidth because they know almost no one ever uses 100% of the available bandwidth 100% of the time. That doesn't change the fact that they are charging multiple customers for the same resource. The ISPs can't then turn around and say, that there isn't enough because their customers are using more than their fair share, when in fact, the ISP has sold more than they had available in the first place.
Using that metric, Sufficient bandwidth is whatever is required to provide 100% of their customers with 100% of the promised bandwidth. Anything less than that is just the ISP whining because they are being held to the contract they themselves wrote.
In that regard, ISPs with data caps should be required to advertise the datacap / billing period instead of the peak speeds, customers will quickly stop coming in the door when it is made obvious that a 50GB / month limit effectively means that on average you can only get 150kb/s download speed over the course of an entire month. If the ISP had to advertise that 150kb/s instead of being able to claim 100mb/s speeds, they would quickly change their minds about data caps.
In addition to bandwidth is free you forgot the one about how since the hardware infrastructure for networks is a sunken cost it should be free to use. I haven't figured that one out yet; apparently the underlying assumption is that the investors who paid up front ought to be robbed of their expected returns.
In a large percentage of cases, those up front investments were paid for by the FCC. And yes, those investors ARE getting robbed blind.
Of course if he was "shitposting" Trump, that would be A-OK, right?
Don't have to...
And liberal groups are not attacking Trump with similar tactics?
Thats too much like work, its far easier to just replay everything he actually says. It goes viral on its own...
For someone who needs a small 64-bit x86, this is interesting.
No one needs x86 anything in small form factors. x86 is dominant in desktop and laptop pcs, but is almost entirely non-existant in the embedded space. Pcs are sliding into irrelevance, and with it Intel / AMD / Microsoft. Frankly we're all better off. x86 has always been a pretty crappy architecture as it always had to maintain backward compatibility. For embedded systems that is not a requirement, and ARM has taken full advantage of the flexibility that offers.
Intel keeps trying to push their x86 cores for the embedded space, but they have failed completely to provide a compelling reason to use their processors, and the market continues to completely ignore them. If Intel was really serious about the embedded market, and didn't have their head up their collective ass, they would have abandoned x86 for the embedded space and built a new instruction set without the legacy cruft, much the way ARM has. They dont want to because that is hard and expensive, and they cant leverage all of the hard work they have put into x86 and x86-64. The part Intel doesn't seem to get is that the market isn't going to allow them to push x86 because it is not a superior solution, and Intel cant get enough market share to compete with the ARM economies of scale.
When are these fuckers going to learn that National Security as defined by a secret tribunal does NOT overrule the constitution. I think we need to broaden the definition of treason to include any act that unlawfully and deliberately undermines the good faith enforcement of our constitution.
Do you really need to denigrate the efforts of others, just so you can feel smug about doing nothing?
Questioning the motives of people making extraordinary claims is not at all unreasonable. Didn't Kim Jong Un claim something similar in the last few years? Between MS and Facebook, there seems to be an awful lot of hubris in the news today.
Your lack of patriotism is noted. Maybe you should move?
A coward runs from their home when things are less than ideal. A patriot stays put and defends their home, their neighbors, and their way of life, giving their own lives if necessary. A patriot will face any enemy foreign or domestic.
into some high-value target in the US.
Thats going to be damn difficult, there isn't much left in this country that doesn't deserve active bombardment, much less saving. Maybe they'll hit the white house and spare us the embarrassment of three more years of whomever gets elected...
We assure you that it' a complete coincidence that it's on a collision course with Washington D.C. Our most humble apologies for any inconvenience...
Inconvenience hell, I would call that in incredible gesture of goodwill on the part of the Chinese.
the signal is to NOT invest in this company.
Indeed, vanity fair got it all wrong, Silicon valley did not directly cause the fall of Theranos any more than marriage is the cause of divorce. Silicon valley is responsible for the inappropriate elevation of theranos in the first place. The invest now or it will be too late mentality is one big pyramid scheme.
A whole lot of nepotism didn't hurt either. I would venture to say that there are millions of people in the US who would have been more successful in creating a viable company had they been simply *given* the same level of blind investment by friends and family...
Relatively it is very precise though. You can measure a 1m altitude change easily. Knowing whether you are 50 or 51m above sea level is a different question
The key there is altitude change. The longer it has been since the barometer was last calibrated to a known altitude, the less accurate it is. After just 1 hour, the accuracy is +-200m, or the height of a 30 story building give or take, so basically useless unless you are constantly calibrating it.
As a stationary sensor, barometers are useful for predicting certain types of weather. Once you start moving them around, they are useless for that task. As an altitude indicator, they are only good on extremely short timescales (minutes). After the time it would take to ride an elevator to the top of an 80 story building, commercial grade GPS would give you a more accurate indication of altitude.
I can tell you what they are definitely good for though: Detecting how far *below* sea level you are going, as that pressure is usually quite reliable. If you want to find out if people are submeging their phones so that you can deny warranty claims, then that is the perfect sensor...
You know what's even more retarded? Not using barometer data to measure slight changes in elevation when combined with an initial GPS pull.
I agree 100%! I can't even begin to count the number of times I have been climbing a flight of stairs and thinking to myself "I wish my phone had a barometer so I could effectively measure how far I am moving along the Z axis".
You know what Steve Jobs thinks of the Barometer in his new iPhone7? He's pissed off because the only useful thing it can tell him is that he's 6 feet under... Steve Jobs was an exceptional visionary, Tim cook is a no talent hack who's going to run that company into the ground Balmer style.
Has any technology ever had any long term unemployment increasing effect throughout human history? I've heard and read about the fears of human unemployment crisis due to X tech, but I'm yet to see any hard evidence of it in the real world.
that sounds an aweful lot like how NASA described foam shedding from the exterrnal tank on the old shuttles. The thinking was simply: the stuff keeps falling off, but nothing bad ever happens, it must not be as dangerous as the engineers seemed to think. Since it has never caused a problem before, it shouldn't ever cause any problems in the future.
The very definition of shortsightedness is the overriding expectation that the future can be predicted solely from the past.
It just ALSO gives you an improved audio path that provides power to headphones.
Bluetooth is not now, nor will it every be a "improved audio path" There are multiple technical reasons why a hardwired solution is going to be better than wireless for the same cost in parts. If you wanted to spend several thousand dollars in highly specialized parts, you could conceivably make a wireless product which performs equally to the relatively cheap solution that is available in the iPhone 6 and below.
This is a cash grab, pure and simple. Apple can shave $10 per unit off the cost of an iphone by offloading the high quality DAC, connector, etc... associated with the 3.5mm jack. Additionally, it will drive sales of their bluetooth products. Even the inclusion of an external adapter does not cost as much as the internal parts do because the external device can allocate significantly more room for parts meaning cheaper components at similar performance when they don't have to be super small.
In the end, Apple made the same retard mistake everyone seems to be making. People only say they want smaller phones. When they have to choose between battery life and size, they will choose battery life every time, but most manufacturers force smaller size than optimal because it saves unit cost, and they try to spin the size as a product advantage somehow.
There's as many successes in this story as failures.
Yes, but successes should outnumber failures hundreds of thousands to one, or more. That is why pilots train so extensively, and why they follow checklists with the fervor of an evangelist. Failing to do either of those things is one more failure in the chains that lead to disaster. Just because this outcome didn't involve any deaths does not make the errors involved any less ominous. Indeed, entering incorrect data and then either failing to follow the checklist that should have caught the error, or having a faulty checklist that did not include any double checks are the kinds of errors in aviation that kill people. Ultimately, 50% of accidents are caused by pilots doing multiple wrong things, and often that is due to inadequate training, or these days, inadequate understanding of the complex machines they operate.
If you can write software, you can have a comfortable life without doing shit like this.
Not without credentials you can't, and in this country, going to college to get those credentials is a huge financial burden, and upon graduation, people can expect to face severe wage stagnation, growing competition from temporary foreign workers, and a hiring structure that makes it difficult for anyone except the top 10% to even get an interview most places.
The reality is that the best bet for a bright future for any capable person in this day and age is entrepreneurship. To a adolescent brain, this particular brand of entrepreneurship might seem like a good idea, as it does have significant short term gains with very little effort. In fact, if it weren't for the downside risk, it would be an awesome investment opportunity.
I graduated with those credentials in the middle of the .com bust. I was only 50th percentile, so I was unable to find work in my field for more than a decade, and because I was only 50th percentile, grad school was not a financial option (I wouldn't have wanted to do it anyways unless truly desperate. I hated school. After the first 5 minutes of any given lecture, I could have taught the damn course. It always pissed me off that 75% of the class was wasted rehashing the topic to beat it into the brains of those students who were too stupid to grasp the concept and too self centered to just quit). In the end, I did struggle my way back in to programming, but if I had just a little bit less sense, I could have easily gone the malware for profit route.