Because in this case, IBM strategy was buying competency in a market they had no footprint in. Not buying a competitor to shutter (which is bad enough).
They proceeded to slap the Watson brand on it, despite no relationship whatsoever to the technology or the people carrying the Watson brand.
This is another chapter in IBM floundering about with the Watson brand, unable to make it profitable after the publicity stunt of the Jeopardy game back in 2011. They've done everything from touting it's ability to generate recipes to medical diagnosis (several times on the medical front, with unrelated technologies at different points in time).
It's indicative of IBM's general annoying tendency to promise that initiative 'X' is going to really turn things around, and then when 'X' is clearly failing to do so, then they rename something completely different 'X' and try again, and rinse and repeat until they (hopefully) can declare 'see, "X" did turn things around!"
Window snapping, 'expose clone', virtual desktops, the nice window switching enabled by compositing (mostly eye candy, but there is some utility).
Non-functional wise, I hated the plastic design language, but at least you could go to Win2k style if you wanted. Shame about windows 10 not offering that or otherwise having a decent look to it.
Well 'integration' isn't the word I'd pick, they have some lockin if they make a market x86-dependent, and so that was their goal. The assumption would be that if the mobile market became mostly x86, then sure Android would have ARM compatibility, but x86 would be optimal and no one would tolerate the crappy non-native experience. Of course, the glaring flaw is that Intel would have to *live* in that unacceptable non-native experience to begin with, and Intel was right about one thing, no one would put up with such a crappy experience.
Larabee was hubris that a lot of sort-of x86 cores would mitigate the GPU accelerated demand, because even if you couldn't be quite as quick as nvidia, you could use a familiar programming model. Problem was that Phi *also* required developers to be more careful and picky, so it wasn't like programming in x86. By the time Intel could have possibly made it easier, the world was just so used to CUDA that the market was slim. They may have better luck with AVX512 in Xeon Skylake, but who knows. It was always doomed as a GPU because they have no competency.
Another problem is being in denial, taking a long time from changing gears from 'no competitor' to 'oh, AMD is competitive again'. In the datacenter, Intel had crazy high core counts. In the desktop? quad-core, because no competitive pressure. When zen was rumored, Intel was skeptical, and when Ryzen came out they were slow to change. Compared to desktop offerings, AMD was so much better. On the server side, things are a bit more mixed (where Intel actually *has* continued to invest in meaningful advances). For example, desktop core counts have been stagnant, as were clock speeds, and no AVX512, meanwhile server chips moved on and had all those improving. AMD still has more PCIe lanes and memory channels, but it's a caveat, more like 4 processors with 2 memory channels and 16 pcie lanes each rather than 1 processor with 48 pcie lanes. This is a distinction that doesn't matter for many workloads, but for a few, it matters (the memory performance of a single threaded application is much better on intel server than AMD server).
So while OSX and community distributions and Ubuntu LTS don't go that far, there are OSes that do. This is one reason why people snicker at Ubuntu's proclamation of 'Long Term Support', when the competitors have so much longer support cycles.
Of course, I wouldn't wish a RHEL5/SLES11 desktop on anyone, they are missing so many features in the current distros. Then again, XP also was pretty pathetic desktop experience wise when it was still popular relative to contemporary Microsoft desktops.
Basically he was cramming in a lot of digits into a keyboard buffer, but the phone didn't even think about most of them. Meaning that even if he guessed the correct pin, it's most likely it wouldn't have worked because it would be discarded without checking.
Also with Windows 10, Windows 10 is 'eternal', but your device running Windows 10 can at any point have it's support yanked, but "windows 10" is still supported, it's just that your device can no longer get updates....
I will say that searching a forum/google can be rather spotty in terms of results. Often you can't find the prior thread unless you would use search terms that show you have the answer.
Also, speaking from experience, getting the same question over and over is a good indication for developers to know what they need to address.
Two, Windows support communities can similarly be terrible.
The interesting difference is that for Microsoft, you can't (legally) be using it without some recourse for professional support. For Linux, you can either pay and have support or use it and have to resolve in the community.
Of course, based on what I've seen in MS community boards and formal responses, if you hit something 'weird', the community in MS has a better shot at figuring out than the officials from Microsoft...
It's all part of a move for more higher up execs to micromanage people they never even see, taking more and more discretion from the manager on the ground.
Evaluation at that distance with any hint of qualitative evaluation with nuance is impossible, so pretty dumb surveys seeking to quantify everything happen without any ability to, for example, recognize that one survey taker is a dick, or that another is uselessly polite, or recognize that the larger context is at fault (e.g. if a restaurant refuses to hire enough staff, and service suffers, the servers are blamed for the long waits, not the restaurant).
Of course, I'm sure there's also a lot of bad local management that let things slide and some waitstaff are in for a rude awakening for not being able to get away with stuff too.
Firefox and chrome are both advocating for ignoring the system DNS resolver and baking DNS resolving into their code (also, shifting from DNS over UDP to DNS over HTTPS, with etiher json or the traditional binary format. Instead of trusting your dns server, it trusts https://mozilla.cloudflare-dns... as the equivalent of the DNS server, ignoring the local network suggested settings.
Of course, I presume they must be doing something to support non-internet names to be resolved, but I haven't found yet an article going into that much detail.
The problem is that xpoint dimms even as advertised capacity wise will lose out to U.2 drives for storage per unit volume.
Never mind the probably-not-going-to-succeed-either ruler form factor which tries to get more SSD storage density by elongating the drives for optimizing SSD storage per unit volume without incurring crazy number of connectors.
Hyperconverged in practice loves 2U servers with lots of drives. A lot of people love trying to make the argument for storage rich blade-dense form factors, but in practice the market doesn't really like the compromise (however much storage you can cram into a 0.5U server, you can always use the same techniques to cram *more* in the 2U). Today you can buy a half-u server with 100TB of SSD storage, but on the other hand, 400TB per server sounds nice and you don't need that much compute relatively speaking... so 2U it is.
I would guess that after 5pm the available driver base increases (people who have gotten off work on their day jobs starting to take fares because they can't afford rent without a second job).
Note you can make numa domains smaller. It is quite plausible that 3d xpoint in 'memory' mode appears as a different NUMA domain with SLIT indicating higher penalty for use. NUMA is relatively expressive and can describe the high level divisions and implications of this sort of approach.
A challenge for Intel is justifying sitting in a rather inconvenient DIMM slot. It may be able to deliver better performance rather than PCIe,, but even PCIe attached NVME has had a very protracted adoption cycle as the relative value of going from SAS/SATA SSD to PCIe attached SSD is not as dramatic (it's also debatable whether they needed PCIe so much as they needed NVM, SATA/SAS protocols baked in assumptions that do not apply to a highly parallel storage architecture, NVMe provides an alternative protocol with, for example, thousands more queues each thousands times deeper than anything in SATA or SAS).
True, if you get a free concession then you stop at the concession stand, whereas otherwise you might blow past it.
Of course, I have also seen theaters do away with the ticket office and instead require you to go to the concession counter to get your tickets, so they do have alternative methods of getting people right in front of the concessions.
I presume the studios receive whatever price they mandate, and that pricing details are up to the theaters and any amount above of below the studio's take is up to the theaters. So if more people come out, the theaters presumably have to pay the same rate to the studios even if the theater is discounting to the customer.
Here they control things from getting *too* out of hand (3/week at most), they mandate brand alignment (AMC theaters), and sure they have people who will pay and not use, but it won't be too terrible for people to feel like they *should* go to the theater to get value for their subscription and then blow a ton of money on concessions ('hey, I didn't have to buy tickets, I can buy even *more* crazy expensive concessions!' is the sort of thing our brains tend to do).
The usb port embedded into a socket is useless for anytthing other than USB charging. It's just a cheap converter to give DC out of AC. As such the suitability for carrying a signal is lower than sending over the AC lines through the socket. Doesn't require new construction, just replace an outlet, it's not like those USB ports are wired beyond the socket itself.
When I had a house built 14 years ago, I had to go out of my way to have ethernet connectivity in most rooms. This was a time when tech was pretty popular and wireless was pretty useless. Nowadays it's so unfashionable to use wired, builders won't bother. On the other hand, power outlets are mandated by building code to be every few feet.
Note that either the camera would be not be attracted to a magnet and this suggestion therefore pointless, or it would be attracted to a magnet and pose the similar sort of risk as having plural magnets and stick together through intestinal wall.
I was *assuming* the suggestion of a magnet was in jest.
I think blindly speculating things like this is a risky thing to do.
There are plenty of very straightforward, negative consequences of CO2 that we don't need to be fishing for more, and *really* reaching to make connections. Tossing theories like this bolster the position of nutjobs that claim that this CO2 worrying is some sort of weird conspiracy.
The world has changed in so many ways over the last 50 years beyond CO2 concentrations, and a great deal many more of those changes sound more plausible for explaining this data (whether this data means an *actual* decline in intellectual capacity, a failure of the metric to objectively measure intellectual capacity regardless of life context, some other shift in the population that actually takes this particular test, simply a different attitude toward taking the test by the test takers or something entirely else is not known).
I'd say timed test of math performance very much depends on "training" if not education. Growing up I was forced to do a lot of math manually over and over and over again. I very quickly understood *how* to do it, but it was tedious and over time I got quicker by memorizing big 'short cuts' so I could do the same problems faster, not because I understood it any better but because I had memorized shortcuts and understood how to break up the problem to use those shortcuts. Already I'm far slower at doing arithmetic in my head than people older than me because most of the time I had offloaded the tedium to a calculator. Now the vast majority of people have a calculator with them at all times, it would be natural for simple arithmetic to take longer, but that doesn't say the math is any less understood.
It is very difficult to imagine some objective measure of mental capacity that *didn't* get influenced by training. At the very least the suggestion that this *specific* test has shortcomings seems to be the point in this thread.
Besides, even as the tests have been consistent year to year, the broader context of what life demands of our brains have not. A person well equipped with respect to the mental demands of the world 40 years ago would not necessarily be well equipped for the world today, and vice-versa. We may have high ambitions of how we conceptualize intelligence in an abstract way, but in practice we can't really measure without *some* educational/life experience bias.
Sadly, the whole industry has fallen in love with the concept, and whether it is steam or other, if any whiff of a major label is associated with a game, even single player, it will somehow be just buying an online key and will break at the vendor's discretion down the road.
Say instead of abstract number of elements, it was instead competing insects for the sugar. Then they would learn to prefer the less competitive environment as indicated by fewer elements. They learn a correlation, whether positive or inverse and they go with it to the natural conclusion of none. It would be odd if these natural mechanisms *did* short out when it goes from 1 to none, and yet we are repeatedly surprised to find that nature doesn't blow up at the complete lack of something.
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Because in this case, IBM strategy was buying competency in a market they had no footprint in. Not buying a competitor to shutter (which is bad enough).
They proceeded to slap the Watson brand on it, despite no relationship whatsoever to the technology or the people carrying the Watson brand.
This is another chapter in IBM floundering about with the Watson brand, unable to make it profitable after the publicity stunt of the Jeopardy game back in 2011. They've done everything from touting it's ability to generate recipes to medical diagnosis (several times on the medical front, with unrelated technologies at different points in time).
It's indicative of IBM's general annoying tendency to promise that initiative 'X' is going to really turn things around, and then when 'X' is clearly failing to do so, then they rename something completely different 'X' and try again, and rinse and repeat until they (hopefully) can declare 'see, "X" did turn things around!"
Window snapping, 'expose clone', virtual desktops, the nice window switching enabled by compositing (mostly eye candy, but there is some utility).
Non-functional wise, I hated the plastic design language, but at least you could go to Win2k style if you wanted. Shame about windows 10 not offering that or otherwise having a decent look to it.
Well 'integration' isn't the word I'd pick, they have some lockin if they make a market x86-dependent, and so that was their goal. The assumption would be that if the mobile market became mostly x86, then sure Android would have ARM compatibility, but x86 would be optimal and no one would tolerate the crappy non-native experience. Of course, the glaring flaw is that Intel would have to *live* in that unacceptable non-native experience to begin with, and Intel was right about one thing, no one would put up with such a crappy experience.
Larabee was hubris that a lot of sort-of x86 cores would mitigate the GPU accelerated demand, because even if you couldn't be quite as quick as nvidia, you could use a familiar programming model. Problem was that Phi *also* required developers to be more careful and picky, so it wasn't like programming in x86. By the time Intel could have possibly made it easier, the world was just so used to CUDA that the market was slim. They may have better luck with AVX512 in Xeon Skylake, but who knows. It was always doomed as a GPU because they have no competency.
Another problem is being in denial, taking a long time from changing gears from 'no competitor' to 'oh, AMD is competitive again'. In the datacenter, Intel had crazy high core counts. In the desktop? quad-core, because no competitive pressure. When zen was rumored, Intel was skeptical, and when Ryzen came out they were slow to change. Compared to desktop offerings, AMD was so much better. On the server side, things are a bit more mixed (where Intel actually *has* continued to invest in meaningful advances). For example, desktop core counts have been stagnant, as were clock speeds, and no AVX512, meanwhile server chips moved on and had all those improving. AMD still has more PCIe lanes and memory channels, but it's a caveat, more like 4 processors with 2 memory channels and 16 pcie lanes each rather than 1 processor with 48 pcie lanes. This is a distinction that doesn't matter for many workloads, but for a few, it matters (the memory performance of a single threaded application is much better on intel server than AMD server).
Yes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
RHEL5 released in 2007 and is in extended support until 2020.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
SLES11 came out in 2009, LTSS ends in 2022.
For fun, Solaris from 2005 is supported until 2021:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So while OSX and community distributions and Ubuntu LTS don't go that far, there are OSes that do. This is one reason why people snicker at Ubuntu's proclamation of 'Long Term Support', when the competitors have so much longer support cycles.
Of course, I wouldn't wish a RHEL5/SLES11 desktop on anyone, they are missing so many features in the current distros. Then again, XP also was pretty pathetic desktop experience wise when it was still popular relative to contemporary Microsoft desktops.
Basically he was cramming in a lot of digits into a keyboard buffer, but the phone didn't even think about most of them. Meaning that even if he guessed the correct pin, it's most likely it wouldn't have worked because it would be discarded without checking.
Also with Windows 10, Windows 10 is 'eternal', but your device running Windows 10 can at any point have it's support yanked, but "windows 10" is still supported, it's just that your device can no longer get updates....
I will say that searching a forum/google can be rather spotty in terms of results. Often you can't find the prior thread unless you would use search terms that show you have the answer.
Also, speaking from experience, getting the same question over and over is a good indication for developers to know what they need to address.
One, a lot can change in 20 years in a community.
Two, Windows support communities can similarly be terrible.
The interesting difference is that for Microsoft, you can't (legally) be using it without some recourse for professional support. For Linux, you can either pay and have support or use it and have to resolve in the community.
Of course, based on what I've seen in MS community boards and formal responses, if you hit something 'weird', the community in MS has a better shot at figuring out than the officials from Microsoft...
SUSE Enterprise Linux or RedHat would be supported.
RHEL 5
SLES 11
Solaris 10
The shoocker for me was that I can't put any IBM OSes on the list (AIX, z/OS).
It's all part of a move for more higher up execs to micromanage people they never even see, taking more and more discretion from the manager on the ground.
Evaluation at that distance with any hint of qualitative evaluation with nuance is impossible, so pretty dumb surveys seeking to quantify everything happen without any ability to, for example, recognize that one survey taker is a dick, or that another is uselessly polite, or recognize that the larger context is at fault (e.g. if a restaurant refuses to hire enough staff, and service suffers, the servers are blamed for the long waits, not the restaurant).
Of course, I'm sure there's also a lot of bad local management that let things slide and some waitstaff are in for a rude awakening for not being able to get away with stuff too.
I presume the ambition is not to spot retouching, but outright faked imagery.
Bad news:
https://blog.nightly.mozilla.o...
Firefox and chrome are both advocating for ignoring the system DNS resolver and baking DNS resolving into their code (also, shifting from DNS over UDP to DNS over HTTPS, with etiher json or the traditional binary format. Instead of trusting your dns server, it trusts https://mozilla.cloudflare-dns... as the equivalent of the DNS server, ignoring the local network suggested settings.
Of course, I presume they must be doing something to support non-internet names to be resolved, but I haven't found yet an article going into that much detail.
The problem is that xpoint dimms even as advertised capacity wise will lose out to U.2 drives for storage per unit volume.
Never mind the probably-not-going-to-succeed-either ruler form factor which tries to get more SSD storage density by elongating the drives for optimizing SSD storage per unit volume without incurring crazy number of connectors.
Hyperconverged in practice loves 2U servers with lots of drives. A lot of people love trying to make the argument for storage rich blade-dense form factors, but in practice the market doesn't really like the compromise (however much storage you can cram into a 0.5U server, you can always use the same techniques to cram *more* in the 2U). Today you can buy a half-u server with 100TB of SSD storage, but on the other hand, 400TB per server sounds nice and you don't need that much compute relatively speaking... so 2U it is.
I would guess that after 5pm the available driver base increases (people who have gotten off work on their day jobs starting to take fares because they can't afford rent without a second job).
Note you can make numa domains smaller. It is quite plausible that 3d xpoint in 'memory' mode appears as a different NUMA domain with SLIT indicating higher penalty for use. NUMA is relatively expressive and can describe the high level divisions and implications of this sort of approach.
A challenge for Intel is justifying sitting in a rather inconvenient DIMM slot. It may be able to deliver better performance rather than PCIe,, but even PCIe attached NVME has had a very protracted adoption cycle as the relative value of going from SAS/SATA SSD to PCIe attached SSD is not as dramatic (it's also debatable whether they needed PCIe so much as they needed NVM, SATA/SAS protocols baked in assumptions that do not apply to a highly parallel storage architecture, NVMe provides an alternative protocol with, for example, thousands more queues each thousands times deeper than anything in SATA or SAS).
True, if you get a free concession then you stop at the concession stand, whereas otherwise you might blow past it.
Of course, I have also seen theaters do away with the ticket office and instead require you to go to the concession counter to get your tickets, so they do have alternative methods of getting people right in front of the concessions.
I presume the studios receive whatever price they mandate, and that pricing details are up to the theaters and any amount above of below the studio's take is up to the theaters. So if more people come out, the theaters presumably have to pay the same rate to the studios even if the theater is discounting to the customer.
Here they control things from getting *too* out of hand (3/week at most), they mandate brand alignment (AMC theaters), and sure they have people who will pay and not use, but it won't be too terrible for people to feel like they *should* go to the theater to get value for their subscription and then blow a ton of money on concessions ('hey, I didn't have to buy tickets, I can buy even *more* crazy expensive concessions!' is the sort of thing our brains tend to do).
The usb port embedded into a socket is useless for anytthing other than USB charging. It's just a cheap converter to give DC out of AC. As such the suitability for carrying a signal is lower than sending over the AC lines through the socket. Doesn't require new construction, just replace an outlet, it's not like those USB ports are wired beyond the socket itself.
When I had a house built 14 years ago, I had to go out of my way to have ethernet connectivity in most rooms. This was a time when tech was pretty popular and wireless was pretty useless. Nowadays it's so unfashionable to use wired, builders won't bother. On the other hand, power outlets are mandated by building code to be every few feet.
Note that either the camera would be not be attracted to a magnet and this suggestion therefore pointless, or it would be attracted to a magnet and pose the similar sort of risk as having plural magnets and stick together through intestinal wall.
I was *assuming* the suggestion of a magnet was in jest.
I think blindly speculating things like this is a risky thing to do.
There are plenty of very straightforward, negative consequences of CO2 that we don't need to be fishing for more, and *really* reaching to make connections. Tossing theories like this bolster the position of nutjobs that claim that this CO2 worrying is some sort of weird conspiracy.
The world has changed in so many ways over the last 50 years beyond CO2 concentrations, and a great deal many more of those changes sound more plausible for explaining this data (whether this data means an *actual* decline in intellectual capacity, a failure of the metric to objectively measure intellectual capacity regardless of life context, some other shift in the population that actually takes this particular test, simply a different attitude toward taking the test by the test takers or something entirely else is not known).
I'd say timed test of math performance very much depends on "training" if not education. Growing up I was forced to do a lot of math manually over and over and over again. I very quickly understood *how* to do it, but it was tedious and over time I got quicker by memorizing big 'short cuts' so I could do the same problems faster, not because I understood it any better but because I had memorized shortcuts and understood how to break up the problem to use those shortcuts. Already I'm far slower at doing arithmetic in my head than people older than me because most of the time I had offloaded the tedium to a calculator. Now the vast majority of people have a calculator with them at all times, it would be natural for simple arithmetic to take longer, but that doesn't say the math is any less understood.
It is very difficult to imagine some objective measure of mental capacity that *didn't* get influenced by training. At the very least the suggestion that this *specific* test has shortcomings seems to be the point in this thread.
Besides, even as the tests have been consistent year to year, the broader context of what life demands of our brains have not. A person well equipped with respect to the mental demands of the world 40 years ago would not necessarily be well equipped for the world today, and vice-versa. We may have high ambitions of how we conceptualize intelligence in an abstract way, but in practice we can't really measure without *some* educational/life experience bias.
Sadly, the whole industry has fallen in love with the concept, and whether it is steam or other, if any whiff of a major label is associated with a game, even single player, it will somehow be just buying an online key and will break at the vendor's discretion down the road.
Say instead of abstract number of elements, it was instead competing insects for the sugar. Then they would learn to prefer the less competitive environment as indicated by fewer elements. They learn a correlation, whether positive or inverse and they go with it to the natural conclusion of none. It would be odd if these natural mechanisms *did* short out when it goes from 1 to none, and yet we are repeatedly surprised to find that nature doesn't blow up at the complete lack of something.