The big draw of ARM is performance/price per watt which is exactly what Intel is shooting for.
I'm too lazy to Google my citations but I remember reading somewhere that Intel CPUs and SOCs actually perform competitively if not better per watt when compared with the better ARM implementations. But that's when the CPU or SOC is actually doing what computers are supposed to be doing, computing. The problem is that the typical Intel desktop CPUs, which the Intel mobile SOCs are still partly based on, are quite poor at doing nothing. In the desktop, there's a clear distinction between a CPU in "sleep" mode and a CPU in active operation. ARM SOCs don't have a distinct sleep mode. They just greatly reduce power consumption when the screen of your smartphone or tablet goes dark. This area is where Intel needs to catch up to, not in terms of raw processing performance.
Yes, the quantity has gone up but the quality has gone down. In the past, we used to call those passing faces acquaintances at best, more often just the "guy I met on the bus".
Maybe Microsoft is acquiring more weapons for its mobile patents war chest. Or defense, given the madness of the IP landscape that ensures only the big boys can innovate.
I agree with you here. We're not going to make Slashdot a Reddit clone. I'd like your take on how we can keep the front page more timely (ie. very interesting breaking news making the front page), without relying 100% on an editor who might post it too late. Should we show some stories automatically on the front page that have reached a certain level of popularity within the firehose?
Does this mean the new owners aren't interested in significantly growing, say 3x, the Slashdot user base? Because in its current form Slashdot cannot scale to a Reddit dimensions.
Heh. Remind me of the comments I've seen in assorted places, to the effect that the intelligence of any group of humans is an inverse function of the number of members.
However, with a smaller sample, the probability of getting either extreme is higher. In a crowd of three, two idiots make a majority.
I've always been curious about why the absence of stars is often cited as proof that the Apollo landing was a massive government conspiracy. Sure, nobody had yet invented Photoshop or The Gimp, but even then you could superimpose two sets of different images via multiple exposure or other purely analog techniques.
First, they are running out of interesting stuff to buy, and secondly everyone else cottoned on to their gimmick and started to out-innovate them.
Everybody just out innovated Apple by copying their gimmick?
No, the problem is that you can innovate only so much before your product becomes a Rube Goldberg machine. Just how many different ways can you innovate on the "portable device with a touch screen" category of gadgets? What Apple has been doing is merely tweaking the basic round edges iPhone design, which it borrowed from the iPod. The iPhone was basically a large iPod with phone functions, while the iPad was a large iPhone. So, yes, the title is correct. Apple is in need of a new killer device category
Exercises is fun and pleasant, but when it comes at the cost of not seeing kids at all that day which is reality of many crunch or full-time+ working guys, I guess they favor being present fathers over having fun with friends.
So why can't you exercise with your kids? There are different kinds of exercise. You only need the extreme variety if you're training for the Olympics or are a professional athlete. If playing with the kids is not your bottle of beer, you can do simple light calisthenics before and even after every meal. Just don't eat a horse or you might throw up. You can also try old-fashioned walking. If you work in a high-rise, use the fire exit for part of your journey to your office. If all else fails, do what bonobos love to do when they're not eating bananas.
Yes, I've always wondered why the terms we often see in the press are "child pornography" and "pedophile" rather than "child abuse photos" or "child abuser". Pornography has become a generic term for nudity, so it's quite possible for have photos of naked children who have not been victims of abuse. Why not focus on the real crime, the abuse of children?
But this law makes me a criminal for not perpetuating that injustice.
It's not your job to decide that. Our system of law has courts for that purpose, and this law simply allows for (hopefully) more possible cases to be heard by those courts.
But this law makes me a criminal for not perpetuating that injustice.
It's not your job to decide that. Our system of law has courts for that purpose, and this law simply allows for (hopefully) more possible cases to be heard by those courts.
Great, more cases for the overloaded justice system. We might as well let Google adjudicate our morals.
google( and other big techs ) seems to think throwing money(= people and resources) at all kinds of frontiers ( and even non frontiers) will result in success( that will keep the company relevant) . so far it has precious little to show in way of successes.
There was a time not too long ago when Google was merely a web-based search engine for the desktop. If Google stuck to its core competency, then there wouldn't be Android, GMail or the Chrome browser. Google would still be just a search engine.
Actually, I thought it was because Pluto hadn't cleared its orbit.
A dinosaur astronomer could say the same thing about the Earth.
Hint: "cleared its orbit" is not the same as "can't be hit by objects not in its orbit".
Any definition of "cleared its orbit" is bound to be statistical, so there's going to be a gray area in the chart where a celestial body could belong to either cleared or not cleared category.
Actually, I thought it was because Pluto hadn't cleared its orbit.
A dinosaur astronomer could say the same thing about the Earth. Seriously, I suspect it's a matter of restricting the definition to the point where the number of planets become manageable rather than the couple of thousands mentioned by the grandparent. I wonder what would happen to the definition if the new ninth planet turned out to be a collision prone celestial body.
... he thinks even advanced aliens wouldn't be able to build something capable of covering a fifth of a star in just a century.
Clarke's first law: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
Clarke's third law would also be appropriate: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
If all you want is the bragging rights to say you work for Google, don't bother. Unless you live in some country sealed off from the global Internet, chances are you're already working for Larry and Serge. Every time you search the fine web, open an account with some site that wants you to prove you're "not a robot" by clicking on some pretty pictures, or even just plain open a web page, you're statistically "helping" Google improve their artificial intelligence algorithms. Everybody works for Google, fewer get paid.
The mechanisms that should have prevented this outcome have broken down, and as a result there’s no longer much reason to think Bitcoin can actually be better than the existing financial system." Is the end of Bitcoin on the horizon?
Xcoiners have nothing to fear. The existing financial system is also on the verge of collapse. It's just a matter of who goes first.
The President’s FY17 budget proposal would provide nearly $4 billion over 10 years for pilot programs to test connected vehicle systems in designated corridors throughout the country, and work with industry leaders to ensure a common multistate framework for connected and autonomous vehicles.
So the administration is spending somewhat less than half a billion a year to test the road-worthiness of such autonomous vehicles and then ensure that the different models can operate with each other. It's not about crony capitalism but ensuring that the autonomous vehicle market doesn't degenerate into a Wild West of clashing, or worse crashing, standards. Of course, the ideal would for a world body to set the standards for autonomous vehicles, but waiting for that could mean some other country could get a head start in developing the technologies that would later be incorporated in those standards.
Seriously, I thought military grade meant a device won't break accidentally. If you dropped a military grade laptop while hiking, expect it to still boot up, but not if you tossed it out of a fourth-floor window. So this could be military grade for most people who don't work in military intelligence and just want some pretty good privacy.
All that's left is possible legal FUD around VP9, but even that seems pretty cut-and-dried to me. MPEG-LA tried for something like a year to find patents to put into their patent pool to extract royalties from VP8, and in the end Google gave them a one-time payment [osnews.com] of (to Google) a relatively small amount of money.
If I recall correctly Google also held some important media-related patents from its Motorola purchase that allowed Google to just basically cross-license the H264 patents, the small fee being for the much greater number of patents held by the MPEG-LA. These patents are besides the cellphone-related patents that Google wasn't able to enforce because they fell into the FRAND category of essential industry patents.
PGP works great for Linux users. If I had to make a guess as to why it's not working so great for BB customers, I would just take a stab in the dark and say it's related to the fact that BB's CEO openly defends putting backdoors in phones and computers for "lawful access" by governments.
That makes it military grade in an unintended sense. If you're a general, you want the capability to monitor your drones and troops.
And people wonder why I want an armed population...
I don't trust government. It can do good, I don't think we could live without any government (that would be equally silly), but I don't trust them either.
In a few more decades the second amendment will become obsolete. Good luck shooting down your local Autonomous Mobile Crime Enforcer. Better start agitating for 28th amendment, the right to build robots.
So this is a problem concerning the use of weak hashes for cryptographic verification. But how "harmful" are hash collisions when all you're looking for are file transmission errors or bit rot? Do we need a stronger hash function when dealing with compressed archives? Has anybody succeeded in creating two valid zip archives with the same MD5 sum?
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The big draw of ARM is performance/price per watt which is exactly what Intel is shooting for.
I'm too lazy to Google my citations but I remember reading somewhere that Intel CPUs and SOCs actually perform competitively if not better per watt when compared with the better ARM implementations. But that's when the CPU or SOC is actually doing what computers are supposed to be doing, computing. The problem is that the typical Intel desktop CPUs, which the Intel mobile SOCs are still partly based on, are quite poor at doing nothing. In the desktop, there's a clear distinction between a CPU in "sleep" mode and a CPU in active operation. ARM SOCs don't have a distinct sleep mode. They just greatly reduce power consumption when the screen of your smartphone or tablet goes dark. This area is where Intel needs to catch up to, not in terms of raw processing performance.
Yes, the quantity has gone up but the quality has gone down. In the past, we used to call those passing faces acquaintances at best, more often just the "guy I met on the bus".
Maybe Microsoft is acquiring more weapons for its mobile patents war chest. Or defense, given the madness of the IP landscape that ensures only the big boys can innovate.
I agree with you here. We're not going to make Slashdot a Reddit clone. I'd like your take on how we can keep the front page more timely (ie. very interesting breaking news making the front page), without relying 100% on an editor who might post it too late. Should we show some stories automatically on the front page that have reached a certain level of popularity within the firehose?
Does this mean the new owners aren't interested in significantly growing, say 3x, the Slashdot user base? Because in its current form Slashdot cannot scale to a Reddit dimensions.
Heh. Remind me of the comments I've seen in assorted places, to the effect that the intelligence of any group of humans is an inverse function of the number of members.
However, with a smaller sample, the probability of getting either extreme is higher. In a crowd of three, two idiots make a majority.
I've always been curious about why the absence of stars is often cited as proof that the Apollo landing was a massive government conspiracy. Sure, nobody had yet invented Photoshop or The Gimp, but even then you could superimpose two sets of different images via multiple exposure or other purely analog techniques.
First, they are running out of interesting stuff to buy, and secondly everyone else cottoned on to their gimmick and started to out-innovate them.
Everybody just out innovated Apple by copying their gimmick?
No, the problem is that you can innovate only so much before your product becomes a Rube Goldberg machine. Just how many different ways can you innovate on the "portable device with a touch screen" category of gadgets? What Apple has been doing is merely tweaking the basic round edges iPhone design, which it borrowed from the iPod. The iPhone was basically a large iPod with phone functions, while the iPad was a large iPhone. So, yes, the title is correct. Apple is in need of a new killer device category
Exercises is fun and pleasant, but when it comes at the cost of not seeing kids at all that day which is reality of many crunch or full-time+ working guys, I guess they favor being present fathers over having fun with friends.
So why can't you exercise with your kids? There are different kinds of exercise. You only need the extreme variety if you're training for the Olympics or are a professional athlete. If playing with the kids is not your bottle of beer, you can do simple light calisthenics before and even after every meal. Just don't eat a horse or you might throw up. You can also try old-fashioned walking. If you work in a high-rise, use the fire exit for part of your journey to your office. If all else fails, do what bonobos love to do when they're not eating bananas.
Yes, I've always wondered why the terms we often see in the press are "child pornography" and "pedophile" rather than "child abuse photos" or "child abuser". Pornography has become a generic term for nudity, so it's quite possible for have photos of naked children who have not been victims of abuse. Why not focus on the real crime, the abuse of children?
But this law makes me a criminal for not perpetuating that injustice.
It's not your job to decide that. Our system of law has courts for that purpose, and this law simply allows for (hopefully) more possible cases to be heard by those courts.
But this law makes me a criminal for not perpetuating that injustice.
It's not your job to decide that. Our system of law has courts for that purpose, and this law simply allows for (hopefully) more possible cases to be heard by those courts.
Great, more cases for the overloaded justice system. We might as well let Google adjudicate our morals.
google( and other big techs ) seems to think throwing money(= people and resources) at all kinds of frontiers ( and even non frontiers) will result in success( that will keep the company relevant) . so far it has precious little to show in way of successes.
There was a time not too long ago when Google was merely a web-based search engine for the desktop. If Google stuck to its core competency, then there wouldn't be Android, GMail or the Chrome browser. Google would still be just a search engine.
Actually, I thought it was because Pluto hadn't cleared its orbit.
A dinosaur astronomer could say the same thing about the Earth.
Hint: "cleared its orbit" is not the same as "can't be hit by objects not in its orbit".
Any definition of "cleared its orbit" is bound to be statistical, so there's going to be a gray area in the chart where a celestial body could belong to either cleared or not cleared category.
Actually, I thought it was because Pluto hadn't cleared its orbit.
A dinosaur astronomer could say the same thing about the Earth. Seriously, I suspect it's a matter of restricting the definition to the point where the number of planets become manageable rather than the couple of thousands mentioned by the grandparent. I wonder what would happen to the definition if the new ninth planet turned out to be a collision prone celestial body.
... he thinks even advanced aliens wouldn't be able to build something capable of covering a fifth of a star in just a century.
Clarke's first law: "When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong."
Clarke's third law would also be appropriate: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
This. I'm moving all my queries to expertsexchange.
Is this the site where you post all your gender identity issues?
If all you want is the bragging rights to say you work for Google, don't bother. Unless you live in some country sealed off from the global Internet, chances are you're already working for Larry and Serge. Every time you search the fine web, open an account with some site that wants you to prove you're "not a robot" by clicking on some pretty pictures, or even just plain open a web page, you're statistically "helping" Google improve their artificial intelligence algorithms. Everybody works for Google, fewer get paid.
Xcoiners have nothing to fear. The existing financial system is also on the verge of collapse. It's just a matter of who goes first.
So the administration is spending somewhat less than half a billion a year to test the road-worthiness of such autonomous vehicles and then ensure that the different models can operate with each other. It's not about crony capitalism but ensuring that the autonomous vehicle market doesn't degenerate into a Wild West of clashing, or worse crashing, standards. Of course, the ideal would for a world body to set the standards for autonomous vehicles, but waiting for that could mean some other country could get a head start in developing the technologies that would later be incorporated in those standards.
The only Robot Wars I want to see is between gigantic bipedal robots piloted by cute blue-haired girls.
Seriously, I thought military grade meant a device won't break accidentally. If you dropped a military grade laptop while hiking, expect it to still boot up, but not if you tossed it out of a fourth-floor window. So this could be military grade for most people who don't work in military intelligence and just want some pretty good privacy.
If I recall correctly Google also held some important media-related patents from its Motorola purchase that allowed Google to just basically cross-license the H264 patents, the small fee being for the much greater number of patents held by the MPEG-LA. These patents are besides the cellphone-related patents that Google wasn't able to enforce because they fell into the FRAND category of essential industry patents.
PGP works great for Linux users. If I had to make a guess as to why it's not working so great for BB customers, I would just take a stab in the dark and say it's related to the fact that BB's CEO openly defends putting backdoors in phones and computers for "lawful access" by governments.
That makes it military grade in an unintended sense. If you're a general, you want the capability to monitor your drones and troops.
And people wonder why I want an armed population...
I don't trust government. It can do good, I don't think we could live without any government (that would be equally silly), but I don't trust them either.
In a few more decades the second amendment will become obsolete. Good luck shooting down your local Autonomous Mobile Crime Enforcer. Better start agitating for 28th amendment, the right to build robots.
My earlier rumor about LIGO has NOT been confirmed by independent sources. Stay tuned! Gravitational waves may NOT have been discovered!! Boring.
Well the article did say Krauss was "60% confident that the rumor was true". If you're quantum gambling, that's better than cat odds.
So this is a problem concerning the use of weak hashes for cryptographic verification. But how "harmful" are hash collisions when all you're looking for are file transmission errors or bit rot? Do we need a stronger hash function when dealing with compressed archives? Has anybody succeeded in creating two valid zip archives with the same MD5 sum?