The airlines are making fine profits, the extra costs are a few cents, they are allready eckking out billions in baggage fees per year that cost them almost nothing. You are doing what some people call "infighting over the scraps" that those who run society are willing to let down to you. The solution is more fairness and market competition to get prices actually based on anything. In reality, both skinny ass and fat ass have HUGE profit cushions for each ticket they buy, you aren't subsidizing them at all.
Then they started getting invasive. Autoplaying with noise, making pages download super-slow, popping over content I'm reading, containing malware, being 4x louder than the show I'm watching, being the same ad 15 times in one show instead of a good variety. I like seeing the ads out there, getting updates on new products and services, knowing they exist, and often they are amusing. But when I'm watching a sad, quiet scene about the death of an anorexic girl and the "I'M ON THE COOKIE AIR DIET" commercial pops up, for the 53rd time this episode, I'm not fucking doing it.
Make ads good or we will block them and you will fail. It is truly that simple. And the rest of us, good content producers will move to subscription services, patreon, other similar methods of providing content. I use adblock because I feel I have no choice, and I feel bad about costing legitimate pages money from using it, I've even disabled it on a few pages I really enjoy that do advertising not-horribly.
They're going to eventually come out with a skylake at that price point and level of power as well probably in Q2-Q4 2016, so I'd just wait for that to come out. It is unfortunate that there isn't any competition at that level, if there was I bet the chip's actual market price would be closer to 599-699.
Don't forget it isn't just raw watt savings. You also have the heat dissipation of that heat, and then the additional AC load and it's inefficiency. I'd multiply power savings by 3-4 if you want an accurate figure for amount saved.
Rents are already the maximum the market will bear, look up the Iron law of Rents. The rents can't go up, regardless of an LVT, which has both strong theoretical and strong historical precedent to prove it. The tax is strictly on land value, not on the property above it, or the services rendered, to there is 0 deadweight loss to any LVT. In few areas it does make sense to rent instead of buy, but those areas are extremely limited. In most of the US (for example where I live, St. Louis), rent will be 10-15x as much as a mortgage on the same space. If I could afford a down payment or had decent credit, I would be paying 1/4th as much as I pay for rent towards a 15 year mortgage for a space 6 times larger with my own yard and more freedom over my own life and how I live it.
Also very uncomfortable and musky.
We are taught in current state of the art HVAC design engineering that most office spaces and spaces generally should be designed for 75F, 50RH, which is reasonable, although a bit chilly, and we have standard AC units that cool the air to 55 degrees, giving a constant output to the room of 50RH and 75F. Any warmer and the AC isn't really cooling anyways, any colder and the air gets chilly feeling immediately.
And it's been taught that way for at least a decade now, so this isn't new.
I was taught the 75 F/50RH in college years ago, as well as how to use charts that adjust for levels of clothing expected in space, gender and age to determine the optimum temperature and humidity goal for that space. This isn't new or news. My professor had been designing systems for that for years. Not new.
You are kidding, right? If anything, that isn't enough. It has over 230 carbs in the present recipe, when a healthy range is 50-150. Anything higher starts to cause insulin resistance high blood triglycerides, high blood sugar, and numerous problems throughout the body. If anything, more of the carbs need to be removed and replaced with fat. They had more protein initially, but lowered the amount because it was causing very smelly farts because people eat so little protein generally, but it should still be higher to keep up with those who live more active lifestyles. The only reason I'm not already on soylent is because of it's extremely high carb levels. At least they brought it down from over 300 carbs per day, but they still have a long way to go.
Not really. We would just let the poor replace the meat with pasta and develop even more severe obesity and malnurishment than they already experience. This is America, we don't give a fuck about the poor and we certainly aren't going to let ourselves be forced to help them. And even without subsidies, the meat would still be rounghly as affordabe, maybe a 5% increase at most.
Why this will never happen:
1. It is too fucking difficult. I know 3 programming languages and I've been building my own boxes for a decade now. I've tried several kinds of linux, and they all fucking stump me. Too much searching for drivers to get anything and everything to work, even fucking USB ports or to get videos to play. It is a never ending shit fuck trying to get the operating system to actually do anything at all and is absurdly time consuming. If I can't put up with it, you sure as hell know that the typical users couldn't possibly even get through installation, much less routine use of the software.
2. Doesn't run industry software. ERP systems, accounting software, CAD software, almost none of it works on any flavor of Linux without extensive posturing to force it to work. If somebody does more than browse the web and very basic spreadsheets and word processing, it just isn't good enough.
3. The hugely fragmented and confusing linux marketplace with hundreds of flavors and just as much fuckery and corruption as Microsoft and Apple, navigating it, finding the downloads, installing and maintaining a Linux OS is damn near impossible if somebody isn't very experienced with Linux or relying on somebody who is, and googling problems like you can with MS and Apple takes you to the most esoteric, impossible to understand sources that offer no real solutions.
The year of the Linux Desktop isn't going to happen until all of the esoteric fucking nerds come together and build a reliable, out of the box functional OS that doesn't fail users, that doesn't make them search out dozens of drivers because, *gasp* a few might be proprietary.
The only successful flavor of linux is android, and it is successful because it just works, all the time, with no user effort whatsoever. And it is *the* big, solid competitor, the standard to be reckoned with, because they avoid the problems above.
Service models are pretty much universally converted to consolidated markets which extract rents from whatever economy you live under. The more poor people are, the more they use service models, and the more those things cost. A tv via. Rent to Own is 100x+ more expensive than just buying a tv, renting a place to live is universally paying far more for a lot less and by the Iron Law of Rents, extracts all disposable income from a community possible. Transportation, durable goods, network connectedness all come with the same dangers.
Not only that, but the ownership comes with rights, so those who aren't owners have all their rights removed and given to those they purchase services from. You can drive a car in your boxers but if you do that on the public transit here you will be literally shot by the police for your wicked crimes. You can smoke, grow food in your own home, apartments can prohibit you from doing that, they can even tell you how to dress in your own home. You become a slave when you have to submit to paid usage of others services when there isn't enough market competition to guarantee your freedom or when all market players have equal restrictions.
We need to tax rents on land and exclusive access rights in order to guarantee people's freedom and individual liberties, but that doesn't do enough, we also need a massive increase and expansion in people's guaranteed rights in various public situations and for renters. Until that day comes, the more we move to a service model, the more we move towards a horrific dystopia that haunts my deepest nightmares.
Few public restrooms, high homelessness, urination as a biological necessity leads to 1 possible outcome: people will piss on things.
Coat it with paint, coat it with spikes, the problem still exists, you just fuck the people who already have no options. If you can't address the cause, you can't solve the problem, period. I don't understand why politicians think shitting on those who have no choices available to them is an effective policy.
Since your chips are so small, have you considered moving to BJT TTL circuits to ramp up frequency to the 50-100 GHz range while using lower power to improve your GFLOP/W rating?
This spawned interesting discussion that seemed to just be back and forth bashing. I think all of it misses the point.
Single family homes have the benefit of: privacy, self-determination, hobbyism and DIY, not being a slave to rentiers and the iron law of rents. But they give the advantage of pedestrian society where there is a lot more interpersonal interaction, friendships, community, which is an enjoyable aspect of European life. For many in America, especially with our extreme market consolidation and the control/conformity fetishism of the wealthy, those trade offs are not worth it.
Plus, US industry tends to place itself far away from high land values, and thus away from employees, a seriously negative situation which makes it hard to have short commute times.
I think if the US had an LVT and regulations to preserve the fundamental rights of renters instead of turning them into essentially the property of building owners, and started adopting better, bigger, more DIY and hobbyist friendly apartments, this would stop being an issue, and if we were less uptight about nudity and sex and bothered to have soundproof walls, then yea, I think the US would definitely favor renting a lot more, and an LVT leads naturally to high density living. It would be nice to be able to use public transportation to get where I need to know (Trains, not the god awful horror that is busses in most US cities, mine included). But then the trains are patrolled by fascists. No intoxication, mandatory shirt and shoes, harassing people just for the fun of it, etc. Which makes public transport hell to take. I rode for 5 years, fucking hated every single second of it because of the rudeness and oppressiveness of using it. You are made to feel like a child, an insolent shit by the people running it and security, so why would anybody use it voluntarily if they have better options?
The problem is, in America, the trade offs are beyond not worth it, they are horrible and brutal. But a similar lifestyle in Europe is freeing, enjoyable, and does not suffer from those same symptoms ours does. If America would agree that people deserve protected individual rights not just from government but from the powerful and that corporations don't have far more infinite and expansive rights, then I think we would see a massive increase in high density living and pedestrian culture in the US. That and we'd have to invest in better public transit, invest in street cars and light rail again. Because everybody hates buses.
The big issue is clocks. Right now with current size, 1 THz, the propagation is a big issue around 500 GHz. With smaller technologies like 15nm, 7nm, it gets even smaller so propagation is even less of an issue. With a clock per core in a typical nVidia chip, you could get up to about 5 THz before propagation delay becomes an overriding factor. And the power efficiency gains would be amazing. Even if we just ran them at 5 GHz to quintouple speed, or 50 Ghz even, it would just mean no increase on power usage.
That is the SWAT team's disgusting militarization, abuse, horrible culture and corruption. The fact that a swatting is dangerous is a sign of illegality within our police culture and pure evil in our police culture, not in those who do something stupid and evil from a distance who don't personally see the effects.
Actually I have. My home was raided in June of 2010 because I was involved in a protest of Koch Industries. A boycott to be specific, but they accused me of being a part of a DDOS.
I had PTSD for a while, but most of it was linked to my complete ignorance that our police and federal police were pretty much the most corrupt entity ever, and sadistically violent. So I'm well aware that it is a big deal, but I wouldn't send somebody to jail for swatting somebody for more than a month or two.
I define "Nudity" as being NAKED. Not wearing a shirt isn't being naked. If a person is wearing nothing but shoes, they aren't naked. To be naked is to be not wearing clothing, otherwise the definition can be regressed all the way to showing ankles is being naked. Also, topless men =/= exposed by social definitions, we are sexist in discriminating against topless women.
So I don't know where you got your dictionary, but you should throw it out and buy a new one.
Hey, I'm definitely morally opposed to excess police use of force and militarization, it disgusts me on a very deep level. But that is the action of the SWAT team not doing their homework, not paying attention, going overboard, etc., not the person who called them. The fact that SWATting is even possible is horrifying and disgusting.
Yea, Americans have NO conception of time whatsoever. Most of my countrymen would happily send somebody to prison for 10+ years for even minor offenses. Punch somebody while you are both drunk? 5 years. They have no idea how long 5 years, how insane a punishment is, how badly their lives will be permanently destroyed, how many friends and family they will lose, just how much time really costs somebody. 16 months during that developmental period is a HUGE chunk of his life. You can recover from a SWATing in a few weeks, months if it hit you particularly hard. But 16 months in jail is basically making sure the rest of his life is seriously restricted and damaged.
But for that many swattings? Sure. It fits. I even thought this one was a little light.
And back then the fastest processors were running in the low MHz range, and the thermal runaway and leakage was high in large BJT transistors. But when you scale them down much of that thermal runaway disappears, as does the leakage, and, since they are not capacitors in their function, you can run them at speeds 2-3 orders of magnitude faster. I'm not ignorant of the problems of early BJTs, but CMOS can not be pushed faster due to it's reliance on capacitance for switching, that is a fundamental upper limit that we have hit and why we are pushing out sideways, it is why we could no longer frequence scale and started adding cores and building wider pipelines that could do more functions per clock, etc.
Modern BJTs on silicon can be made in the same way we make CMOS, with extremely low leakage, no thermal runaway, the damping techniques have gotten a lot more advanced and efficient. The switch back to BJT development would allow us to break through that frequency barrier that so strongly limits our current technology. With today's technology, there is no reason at all we can't make that switch and the gains would be unfathomably high.
But if you have a real reason it can't be done, a technical reason, not an appeal to a past situation or an offhand dismissal, I would *really, really, really* like to hear it. Honestly. I'm not in the same camp as many slashdotters, I'm here to learn.
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The airlines are making fine profits, the extra costs are a few cents, they are allready eckking out billions in baggage fees per year that cost them almost nothing. You are doing what some people call "infighting over the scraps" that those who run society are willing to let down to you. The solution is more fairness and market competition to get prices actually based on anything. In reality, both skinny ass and fat ass have HUGE profit cushions for each ticket they buy, you aren't subsidizing them at all.
Then they started getting invasive. Autoplaying with noise, making pages download super-slow, popping over content I'm reading, containing malware, being 4x louder than the show I'm watching, being the same ad 15 times in one show instead of a good variety. I like seeing the ads out there, getting updates on new products and services, knowing they exist, and often they are amusing. But when I'm watching a sad, quiet scene about the death of an anorexic girl and the "I'M ON THE COOKIE AIR DIET" commercial pops up, for the 53rd time this episode, I'm not fucking doing it. Make ads good or we will block them and you will fail. It is truly that simple. And the rest of us, good content producers will move to subscription services, patreon, other similar methods of providing content. I use adblock because I feel I have no choice, and I feel bad about costing legitimate pages money from using it, I've even disabled it on a few pages I really enjoy that do advertising not-horribly.
They're going to eventually come out with a skylake at that price point and level of power as well probably in Q2-Q4 2016, so I'd just wait for that to come out. It is unfortunate that there isn't any competition at that level, if there was I bet the chip's actual market price would be closer to 599-699.
Don't forget it isn't just raw watt savings. You also have the heat dissipation of that heat, and then the additional AC load and it's inefficiency. I'd multiply power savings by 3-4 if you want an accurate figure for amount saved.
Rents are already the maximum the market will bear, look up the Iron law of Rents. The rents can't go up, regardless of an LVT, which has both strong theoretical and strong historical precedent to prove it. The tax is strictly on land value, not on the property above it, or the services rendered, to there is 0 deadweight loss to any LVT. In few areas it does make sense to rent instead of buy, but those areas are extremely limited. In most of the US (for example where I live, St. Louis), rent will be 10-15x as much as a mortgage on the same space. If I could afford a down payment or had decent credit, I would be paying 1/4th as much as I pay for rent towards a 15 year mortgage for a space 6 times larger with my own yard and more freedom over my own life and how I live it.
Also very uncomfortable and musky. We are taught in current state of the art HVAC design engineering that most office spaces and spaces generally should be designed for 75F, 50RH, which is reasonable, although a bit chilly, and we have standard AC units that cool the air to 55 degrees, giving a constant output to the room of 50RH and 75F. Any warmer and the AC isn't really cooling anyways, any colder and the air gets chilly feeling immediately. And it's been taught that way for at least a decade now, so this isn't new.
I was taught the 75 F/50RH in college years ago, as well as how to use charts that adjust for levels of clothing expected in space, gender and age to determine the optimum temperature and humidity goal for that space. This isn't new or news. My professor had been designing systems for that for years. Not new.
You are kidding, right? If anything, that isn't enough. It has over 230 carbs in the present recipe, when a healthy range is 50-150. Anything higher starts to cause insulin resistance high blood triglycerides, high blood sugar, and numerous problems throughout the body. If anything, more of the carbs need to be removed and replaced with fat. They had more protein initially, but lowered the amount because it was causing very smelly farts because people eat so little protein generally, but it should still be higher to keep up with those who live more active lifestyles. The only reason I'm not already on soylent is because of it's extremely high carb levels. At least they brought it down from over 300 carbs per day, but they still have a long way to go.
Not really. We would just let the poor replace the meat with pasta and develop even more severe obesity and malnurishment than they already experience. This is America, we don't give a fuck about the poor and we certainly aren't going to let ourselves be forced to help them. And even without subsidies, the meat would still be rounghly as affordabe, maybe a 5% increase at most.
Why this will never happen: 1. It is too fucking difficult. I know 3 programming languages and I've been building my own boxes for a decade now. I've tried several kinds of linux, and they all fucking stump me. Too much searching for drivers to get anything and everything to work, even fucking USB ports or to get videos to play. It is a never ending shit fuck trying to get the operating system to actually do anything at all and is absurdly time consuming. If I can't put up with it, you sure as hell know that the typical users couldn't possibly even get through installation, much less routine use of the software. 2. Doesn't run industry software. ERP systems, accounting software, CAD software, almost none of it works on any flavor of Linux without extensive posturing to force it to work. If somebody does more than browse the web and very basic spreadsheets and word processing, it just isn't good enough. 3. The hugely fragmented and confusing linux marketplace with hundreds of flavors and just as much fuckery and corruption as Microsoft and Apple, navigating it, finding the downloads, installing and maintaining a Linux OS is damn near impossible if somebody isn't very experienced with Linux or relying on somebody who is, and googling problems like you can with MS and Apple takes you to the most esoteric, impossible to understand sources that offer no real solutions. The year of the Linux Desktop isn't going to happen until all of the esoteric fucking nerds come together and build a reliable, out of the box functional OS that doesn't fail users, that doesn't make them search out dozens of drivers because, *gasp* a few might be proprietary. The only successful flavor of linux is android, and it is successful because it just works, all the time, with no user effort whatsoever. And it is *the* big, solid competitor, the standard to be reckoned with, because they avoid the problems above.
Service models are pretty much universally converted to consolidated markets which extract rents from whatever economy you live under. The more poor people are, the more they use service models, and the more those things cost. A tv via. Rent to Own is 100x+ more expensive than just buying a tv, renting a place to live is universally paying far more for a lot less and by the Iron Law of Rents, extracts all disposable income from a community possible. Transportation, durable goods, network connectedness all come with the same dangers. Not only that, but the ownership comes with rights, so those who aren't owners have all their rights removed and given to those they purchase services from. You can drive a car in your boxers but if you do that on the public transit here you will be literally shot by the police for your wicked crimes. You can smoke, grow food in your own home, apartments can prohibit you from doing that, they can even tell you how to dress in your own home. You become a slave when you have to submit to paid usage of others services when there isn't enough market competition to guarantee your freedom or when all market players have equal restrictions. We need to tax rents on land and exclusive access rights in order to guarantee people's freedom and individual liberties, but that doesn't do enough, we also need a massive increase and expansion in people's guaranteed rights in various public situations and for renters. Until that day comes, the more we move to a service model, the more we move towards a horrific dystopia that haunts my deepest nightmares.
Few public restrooms, high homelessness, urination as a biological necessity leads to 1 possible outcome: people will piss on things. Coat it with paint, coat it with spikes, the problem still exists, you just fuck the people who already have no options. If you can't address the cause, you can't solve the problem, period. I don't understand why politicians think shitting on those who have no choices available to them is an effective policy.
Better to hide in an authoritarian regime that will protect you than be prosecuted in an authoritarian regime that betrayed you.
Since your chips are so small, have you considered moving to BJT TTL circuits to ramp up frequency to the 50-100 GHz range while using lower power to improve your GFLOP/W rating?
This spawned interesting discussion that seemed to just be back and forth bashing. I think all of it misses the point. Single family homes have the benefit of: privacy, self-determination, hobbyism and DIY, not being a slave to rentiers and the iron law of rents. But they give the advantage of pedestrian society where there is a lot more interpersonal interaction, friendships, community, which is an enjoyable aspect of European life. For many in America, especially with our extreme market consolidation and the control/conformity fetishism of the wealthy, those trade offs are not worth it. Plus, US industry tends to place itself far away from high land values, and thus away from employees, a seriously negative situation which makes it hard to have short commute times. I think if the US had an LVT and regulations to preserve the fundamental rights of renters instead of turning them into essentially the property of building owners, and started adopting better, bigger, more DIY and hobbyist friendly apartments, this would stop being an issue, and if we were less uptight about nudity and sex and bothered to have soundproof walls, then yea, I think the US would definitely favor renting a lot more, and an LVT leads naturally to high density living. It would be nice to be able to use public transportation to get where I need to know (Trains, not the god awful horror that is busses in most US cities, mine included). But then the trains are patrolled by fascists. No intoxication, mandatory shirt and shoes, harassing people just for the fun of it, etc. Which makes public transport hell to take. I rode for 5 years, fucking hated every single second of it because of the rudeness and oppressiveness of using it. You are made to feel like a child, an insolent shit by the people running it and security, so why would anybody use it voluntarily if they have better options? The problem is, in America, the trade offs are beyond not worth it, they are horrible and brutal. But a similar lifestyle in Europe is freeing, enjoyable, and does not suffer from those same symptoms ours does. If America would agree that people deserve protected individual rights not just from government but from the powerful and that corporations don't have far more infinite and expansive rights, then I think we would see a massive increase in high density living and pedestrian culture in the US. That and we'd have to invest in better public transit, invest in street cars and light rail again. Because everybody hates buses.
I didn't know Alaska wasn't part of the US. I'm surprised their secession didn't get more media attention.
It was like this when I started viewing this place in 2007. I don't think that is a very steep slope.
The big issue is clocks. Right now with current size, 1 THz, the propagation is a big issue around 500 GHz. With smaller technologies like 15nm, 7nm, it gets even smaller so propagation is even less of an issue. With a clock per core in a typical nVidia chip, you could get up to about 5 THz before propagation delay becomes an overriding factor. And the power efficiency gains would be amazing. Even if we just ran them at 5 GHz to quintouple speed, or 50 Ghz even, it would just mean no increase on power usage.
Fair point.
That is the SWAT team's disgusting militarization, abuse, horrible culture and corruption. The fact that a swatting is dangerous is a sign of illegality within our police culture and pure evil in our police culture, not in those who do something stupid and evil from a distance who don't personally see the effects.
Actually I have. My home was raided in June of 2010 because I was involved in a protest of Koch Industries. A boycott to be specific, but they accused me of being a part of a DDOS. I had PTSD for a while, but most of it was linked to my complete ignorance that our police and federal police were pretty much the most corrupt entity ever, and sadistically violent. So I'm well aware that it is a big deal, but I wouldn't send somebody to jail for swatting somebody for more than a month or two.
I define "Nudity" as being NAKED. Not wearing a shirt isn't being naked. If a person is wearing nothing but shoes, they aren't naked. To be naked is to be not wearing clothing, otherwise the definition can be regressed all the way to showing ankles is being naked. Also, topless men =/= exposed by social definitions, we are sexist in discriminating against topless women. So I don't know where you got your dictionary, but you should throw it out and buy a new one.
Hey, I'm definitely morally opposed to excess police use of force and militarization, it disgusts me on a very deep level. But that is the action of the SWAT team not doing their homework, not paying attention, going overboard, etc., not the person who called them. The fact that SWATting is even possible is horrifying and disgusting.
Yea, Americans have NO conception of time whatsoever. Most of my countrymen would happily send somebody to prison for 10+ years for even minor offenses. Punch somebody while you are both drunk? 5 years. They have no idea how long 5 years, how insane a punishment is, how badly their lives will be permanently destroyed, how many friends and family they will lose, just how much time really costs somebody. 16 months during that developmental period is a HUGE chunk of his life. You can recover from a SWATing in a few weeks, months if it hit you particularly hard. But 16 months in jail is basically making sure the rest of his life is seriously restricted and damaged. But for that many swattings? Sure. It fits. I even thought this one was a little light.
And back then the fastest processors were running in the low MHz range, and the thermal runaway and leakage was high in large BJT transistors. But when you scale them down much of that thermal runaway disappears, as does the leakage, and, since they are not capacitors in their function, you can run them at speeds 2-3 orders of magnitude faster. I'm not ignorant of the problems of early BJTs, but CMOS can not be pushed faster due to it's reliance on capacitance for switching, that is a fundamental upper limit that we have hit and why we are pushing out sideways, it is why we could no longer frequence scale and started adding cores and building wider pipelines that could do more functions per clock, etc. Modern BJTs on silicon can be made in the same way we make CMOS, with extremely low leakage, no thermal runaway, the damping techniques have gotten a lot more advanced and efficient. The switch back to BJT development would allow us to break through that frequency barrier that so strongly limits our current technology. With today's technology, there is no reason at all we can't make that switch and the gains would be unfathomably high. But if you have a real reason it can't be done, a technical reason, not an appeal to a past situation or an offhand dismissal, I would *really, really, really* like to hear it. Honestly. I'm not in the same camp as many slashdotters, I'm here to learn.