Not in detail on small airplanes, but I know that given the F22/F35's hourly cost, the half hour that the trip would take can buy a few new copies of my car.
This would save me hours and make it immensely more enjoyable every time I have to go between the Bay area and the LA area. Drive to the little airport 10 miles away, land at the airport 10 miles from my target, make it under 3 hours door to door, instead of half a day.
If only I was paid enough to make saving hours worth that much...
You mean like my neighbor, whose panels were running his AC full blast when we lost the grid a few weeks back? They're not cheap, but AC disconnects are kinda useful. And if your city doesn't allow them, vote them into the 21 century.
You're only complaining because they rejected your application for the asteroid vaccine trials. Would it make you feel better to know th*&!@at th&$#^ som%$* minor^%!)* side-effects?
In a truly open competitive market, sure. When the datacenters gets to capacity, the guys there have to pay more to keep their spot, and competitors out.
More links to a chain always end up meaning higher prices when everybody has to take a _growing_ cut off a resource.
"because you don't understand them" Typical internet comment fallacy: I probably know it better than most around here, by virtue of having researched it extensively when I almost accepted a job at an HFT firm.
"passing yet more laws that prohibit consenting adults from engaging in transactions" Did I state I want to pass any laws? Quarter-cent referred to the spread, since the topic was about reducing the spread for everyone. Don't read what you want to read, read what I wrote.
The point, sir, is that in the initial setup of the stock exchange as a place to bet on future growth of various investments, the fees and spread were just the cost of doing business. You thought company X was going to double in value, you bought their stock and waited, or bought most of their stock, told them what to do, and waited. The initial cost of getting, and the cost of selling that stock, was annoying but the point was to get a decent ROI. HFT is another great example of the here-and-now that poisons the economy and the workers (quarterly results, anyone?), by trying to grab profit in a transaction that would happen without you. The fact that massive investments happen shows that there is money to extract from someone on this transaction (HFT hardware builders, operators, banks), but in the end that money has to come from somewhere, and whoever is receiving it will do her best to make sure it keeps coming and growing. So HFT will mechanically translate into higher costs for someone, because someone else's shareholders need to be paid. If you're inside the system and profit from it, great for you. If you're outside and your bank profits from it, maybe good for you. But if you need the services of whoever is on the losing side (which is pretty much anybody not playing), then it will be more expensive, because they have to compensate for that loss.
I'm ok with paying a little for the service of buying a stock. That's how it was for a really long time, and was good enough to finance industrial revolutions and colonizing most the world.
What can't you do if you don't have quarter-cent microsecond trades?
In France, the difference between a cult and a religion is whether they preach being open to the rest of society, versus hiding what you're doing from others. From a society standpoint, this is the only important criteria.
TSMC's metal 1 pitch is 64nm in 20nm, and Intel's 22nm is 90nm. 14/16 is indeed expected to have ~64nm pitch, so it's not better than TSMC's 20, but it's a great leap for Intel.
"disabled": Not quite. When I'm running 491MHz internal, you can't just disable arbitrary logic on me. The slower parts may get away with disabling columns, but you can't change my timing without breaking my design. Also, all the hard IP is not redundant, and there's more and more of it.
10 years of my friend's failed PhD. Essentially proved that something just couldn't be done with known tweaks on the usual biotech methods, but the committee decided that it wasn't valid to publish the failure to do something.
So some other poor guy out there is probably again going to waste 3/5/7/10 years to get the same results.
On the other hand, the guys at Altera have bet the bank on Intel, so they're likely praying that Xilinx's 16nm TSMC process gets delayed. While Intel has utter dominance on their market, Altera is in catch-up mode...
"If the energy of the crash doesn't kill you, if the batteries getting shorted 3 inches from your mangled leg also don't, and don't start a fire in process, please enjoy this free kindle to read a book while the firemen fire out how to use the jaws of life to get you out"
Daddy got caught with their hands in the cookie jar, therefore the kids who saw him are guilty. Because the cookies may have been used to pay off terrorists or something...
Bad analogy? Sorry, I only learnt logic from our democratic overlords.
No, the main problem is that 40Gb/s laser modulation is expensive, anything above is not out of the labs yet. And the 25Gb/s electrical modulation which is supported by FPGAs driving those lasers will run you into the 5-figures BOM cost in a blink. At 400Gb/s today, you need 16 x 25G links (bi-di, that's 64 critical traces), which has to be done very carefully and also dictates powerful redundant cooling. Internally, a 400Gb/s bus at a rate supported by general silicon is pretty wide (512b in ASIC, 1024 in FPGA) and requires a lot more supporting logic than 4 times 100G did.
Really, the only problem is that we have to wait a bit for Moore to catch up every time we multiply by 4.
Slashdot Mirror
Not in detail on small airplanes, but I know that given the F22/F35's hourly cost, the half hour that the trip would take can buy a few new copies of my car.
Now you know why iMaps sends you to the runway of Fairbanks airport.
You're just not cool enough to have an iCar yet.
This would save me hours and make it immensely more enjoyable every time I have to go between the Bay area and the LA area. Drive to the little airport 10 miles away, land at the airport 10 miles from my target, make it under 3 hours door to door, instead of half a day.
If only I was paid enough to make saving hours worth that much...
You mean like my neighbor, whose panels were running his AC full blast when we lost the grid a few weeks back?
They're not cheap, but AC disconnects are kinda useful. And if your city doesn't allow them, vote them into the 21 century.
What are the odds that our best friends already have botnets ready to take our grid down on command?
Excuse me while I got get a few solar panels.
Yep, forget the waterproofing, I just want a Lotus version of this:
http://fr.spirou.wikia.com/wiki/Sous-marin_du_comte
And an FAA-approved version of that:
http://www.coinbd.com/series-bd/yoko-tsuno/les-archanges-de-vinea/images/planche/20051020112350_t13.jpeg
Most submarines are battery-operated. Tell me why a guy who knows batteries fairly well can't make a submarine work.
Maybe, but for the immediate future the big money is in the big exchanges, and HFT requires being within a few meters of them.
You're only complaining because they rejected your application for the asteroid vaccine trials.
Would it make you feel better to know th*&!@at th&$#^ som%$* minor^%!)* side-effects?
In a truly open competitive market, sure.
When the datacenters gets to capacity, the guys there have to pay more to keep their spot, and competitors out.
More links to a chain always end up meaning higher prices when everybody has to take a _growing_ cut off a resource.
"because you don't understand them"
Typical internet comment fallacy: I probably know it better than most around here, by virtue of having researched it extensively when I almost accepted a job at an HFT firm.
"passing yet more laws that prohibit consenting adults from engaging in transactions"
Did I state I want to pass any laws? Quarter-cent referred to the spread, since the topic was about reducing the spread for everyone.
Don't read what you want to read, read what I wrote.
The point, sir, is that in the initial setup of the stock exchange as a place to bet on future growth of various investments, the fees and spread were just the cost of doing business. You thought company X was going to double in value, you bought their stock and waited, or bought most of their stock, told them what to do, and waited. The initial cost of getting, and the cost of selling that stock, was annoying but the point was to get a decent ROI.
HFT is another great example of the here-and-now that poisons the economy and the workers (quarterly results, anyone?), by trying to grab profit in a transaction that would happen without you. The fact that massive investments happen shows that there is money to extract from someone on this transaction (HFT hardware builders, operators, banks), but in the end that money has to come from somewhere, and whoever is receiving it will do her best to make sure it keeps coming and growing. So HFT will mechanically translate into higher costs for someone, because someone else's shareholders need to be paid.
If you're inside the system and profit from it, great for you. If you're outside and your bank profits from it, maybe good for you. But if you need the services of whoever is on the losing side (which is pretty much anybody not playing), then it will be more expensive, because they have to compensate for that loss.
HOW DARE YOU TAX THE JOB CREATORS!!!!! /. ?
Is there a 72-point-sarcasm font on
I'm ok with paying a little for the service of buying a stock.
That's how it was for a really long time, and was good enough to finance industrial revolutions and colonizing most the world.
What can't you do if you don't have quarter-cent microsecond trades?
In France, the difference between a cult and a religion is whether they preach being open to the rest of society, versus hiding what you're doing from others.
From a society standpoint, this is the only important criteria.
By that definition, CoS is a cult.
My supermarket will stick new ones on the label as needed.
They already do that for meat...
TSMC's metal 1 pitch is 64nm in 20nm, and Intel's 22nm is 90nm.
14/16 is indeed expected to have ~64nm pitch, so it's not better than TSMC's 20, but it's a great leap for Intel.
"disabled": Not quite. When I'm running 491MHz internal, you can't just disable arbitrary logic on me. The slower parts may get away with disabling columns, but you can't change my timing without breaking my design.
Also, all the hard IP is not redundant, and there's more and more of it.
10 years of my friend's failed PhD.
Essentially proved that something just couldn't be done with known tweaks on the usual biotech methods, but the committee decided that it wasn't valid to publish the failure to do something.
So some other poor guy out there is probably again going to waste 3/5/7/10 years to get the same results.
Repeat ad infinitum.
Per the latest studies, higher risk of early dementia.
If you don't kill yourself on the road first.
On the other hand, the guys at Altera have bet the bank on Intel, so they're likely praying that Xilinx's 16nm TSMC process gets delayed.
While Intel has utter dominance on their market, Altera is in catch-up mode...
They said US Dollars. That counted until this week.
Totally untrue. Look at the unity 8 screen cap here:
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/unity8screen.png
This makes it clear that it's not changes for changes' sake, it blatant "we want to look like apple" changes.
Seriously, am I the only one who would think it's ios7 if it wasn't for the top bar and background pattern?
I'm missing a "gu" here: "figure out".
"If the energy of the crash doesn't kill you, if the batteries getting shorted 3 inches from your mangled leg also don't, and don't start a fire in process, please enjoy this free kindle to read a book while the firemen fire out how to use the jaws of life to get you out"
Daddy got caught with their hands in the cookie jar, therefore the kids who saw him are guilty.
Because the cookies may have been used to pay off terrorists or something...
Bad analogy? Sorry, I only learnt logic from our democratic overlords.
No, the main problem is that 40Gb/s laser modulation is expensive, anything above is not out of the labs yet.
And the 25Gb/s electrical modulation which is supported by FPGAs driving those lasers will run you into the 5-figures BOM cost in a blink.
At 400Gb/s today, you need 16 x 25G links (bi-di, that's 64 critical traces), which has to be done very carefully and also dictates powerful redundant cooling.
Internally, a 400Gb/s bus at a rate supported by general silicon is pretty wide (512b in ASIC, 1024 in FPGA) and requires a lot more supporting logic than 4 times 100G did.
Really, the only problem is that we have to wait a bit for Moore to catch up every time we multiply by 4.