.. aren't the only people on the internet. Should the entire world (including US's rivals) have access to taxpayer-funded research, when one of your primary competitive advantages is r&d?
I know scientists don't really care much for nationalism (as welll htey shouldn't), but if this is taxpayer-funded research, then it's not entirely up to them.
You probably don't realise that you're very lucky. I myself can get full 100mbit, but that's rare. Most NBN FTTN connections are only good for less than 48mbit/s, and less than 25mbits is very common.
My point is that if you're able to get over 50mbit/s (I think the average is 48mbit/s), you aren't getting a realistic impression of what the NBN is really like for the average punter. Try to imagine being stuck at ~20mbit/s and look forward to being stuck on that for the next 10 or 20 years. That's why people are angry.
The libs said they'd employ a "tech agnostic" approach to building the NBN, but we're not seeing FTTP being used where it's needed.
This bit of code would've been identified as super-important when Intel (or whoever) was writing it, and it's too obvious a bug to have been unintentional. It's made to _look_ like an accident.
To Intel: What's the name of the programmer who made the mistake? What does their other authentication coding look like? Are they a junior developer? Can we scour their github history (if any) and see if they really are that stupid? Who was the project manager for this software, and who was this idiot's supervisor? Who was responsible for reviewing their code?
Intel's customers should consider this malicious until proven otherwise.
To be fair, even windows has trouble waking from sleep and re-enabling all of its components. I've got a recent-ish pcie soundcard and an old pci tv card that don't wake up in linux OR windows. Things are improving under linux and at some point sleep/resume will be superior under linux for any component that is at least a year old, because open source. Also, did you try sleep/resume on ubuntu 16.04 LTS before you zapped it? Laptops are kinda hard for any OS to get 100% working drivers for - maybe you should've stuck with the LTS. Upgrading a windows install on a laptop is more likely to be troublesome, especially if you're upgrading to a just-released version.
(trolling) If we in oz has gotten our nation-wide optic fiber NBN like the labor party had promised, our ping times would be much more better then the 250+ms we're getting to the US currently. Unfortunately, some people don't understand the internet, and voted for corrupt right-wing government who put in crusty old copper cable vdsl network. now we only get 100mbit/s link to our ISPs and our ping times to the US are no beter then they were!!! Impeach Malcolm turnbull for this atrocious mess.
I wish Samsung would stop polluting the delicate internet ecosystem with their bad software. It's bad in UI design, it's bad security-wise, and it's bad in intended purpose (wrest control from google). What's the bet this so-called "Bixby" (scoffs) has a frig-ton of security issues that siri and google assistant don't have? Samsung have demonstrated a lack of either skill or interest in writing secure software. The best phone I ever owned was a google nexus (admiteddly samsung hardware), simply because google did the software. The camera was better than all the phones I've had since, and all of the software on the phone actually made sense. Samsung's notes, calendar etc. are just bloody awful. Their system updates to their smart TVs turn the TV into a sluggish, unresponsive pile of crap.
PLEASE Samsung just stick to making hardware as your programmers tend to suck the balls.
"More education" isn't a magic bullet - most people doing menial jobs are doing them because they're not mensa material in the first place - in spite of the left's insistence that everyone's completely equal in every single way. Even if they were able to turn more education into marketable skills, there's already a glut of skilled white collar workers in the west; I'm sure you've read plenty of articles about millenials being stuck working at mcdonald's paying off a 5 year college debt. As for the coal miner's jobs, I do agree that those guys could've at least tried to get an electrician apprenticeship and get a job installing solar panels or something.
And while the cost per watt of the panels goes down (and from that the cost of shipping & installation), the cost of the inverter & other electrical wiring stays relatively fixed. It's way behind the panels & batteries but it is in the thousands of dollars per installation.
While I agree in general, ECC server ram ain't ECC server ram. Finding a motherboard/system that supports that amount of ram can end up more expensive than the ram itself. And then you'll find that the 'board doesn't like those sticks you got from newegg, because server hardware tends to be a lot more picky in that regard. After you've dropped 20 grand on the rest of the system and returned that $5,000 ram kit, you could find that the only 384gb kit you can get working on your system costs three times as much.
But was the cost of laying fibre to every house still going to be cheaper than a box on each street corner, taking into account that that the cost of the box is shared between all the houses? Genuine question, not being rhetorical.
Thanks to Turnbull (well, Abbott really), I have NBN far quicker than I would otherwise, and at lower cost to either me or the taxpayer or both, take your pick. Very few people actually want faster than FTTN can provide (set at 100mbits, although the existing tech can manage higher already). Why do you insist on forcing a product onto others that they don't want? I don't want to pay for more than I'm getting, what I'd really like is a much higher download limit from a higher quality network. Oh and you know what would be really great? More bandwidth to the USA and other parts of the world. And, having a "mere" 50mbit connection now, I can tell you that verty few parts of the web are generous enough to give you that kind of bandwidth on the servers they're paying for. The last mile really is a small part of the whole picture. Added to that, VDSL technology keeps improving. Why the fuck do you want me to wait another 5 years for some vaporware ferrari-class technology that doesn't actually solve anything? Why the fuck do you believe that Kevin "Earwax" Rudd had any idea how he was going to deliver on his pure fibre NBN? You know he came up with the idea on the spot, in front of the cameras? How far did his government get in implementing it? Why do you imagine that you would've actually gotten your fibre connection in the next 5 years? It's one thing to come up with an idea of what to spend taxpayer's money on. It's another thing entirely to manage an actual physical implementation of something as huge as the NBN. Labor didn't do jack shit, the Libs actually delivered NBN to me and five of my family members already, which is astounding given the size and population density of our country. I wish they offered FTTP for everyone if they were willing to pay for it, so morons like you could pay for your 1gbps connection and enjoy your 100gb limit piss away in the first few hours of every month while you pay an extra $200/mo for the priviledge. Or maybe you're really prepared to pay hundreds a month for your internet to be over 100mbit's, in which case, that's nice for you but don't demand that the rest of the country pay for something that YOU want.
It would be great if someone did an FMRI study on the brain activity of people of different political leanings - responding to various social and moral situations. We might finally see what people of different political leanings are actually thinking.
If we're being honest here, both the PS4 and XBox One are just a compact PCs with unimpressive specs.
A simple bit of reading on the wikipedia page for ps4 would tell you that it's not just a PC with unimpressive specs. The main difference (and the main reason it'll be very difficult for any PC to emulate at reasonable speed) is that the 8-core CPU & the GPU share 8gb of GDDR5 ram. The new 8core ryzens combined with faster pcie specs and ddr4 system ram might help PCs catch up but anything written for the PS4 will run like shit on a high-end gaming PC for (uneducated guess here) at least another 5 years. I don't know the performance difference between ddr3/4 and gddr5, but not having to shuffle textures and other bits between ram and gpu memory is a huge advantage for games on its own. People wonder why ports from consoles have so many issues on PCs, but with my limited experience with programming, I wouldn't be surprised if they had to rip the low end guts out of most of these games and re-engineer them just to get above single digit FPS on PC hardware. I do know for certain that game performance is VERY sensitive (by orders of magnitude) to small changes in cache sizes, mem latency, bus width etc. You can watch youtube vids of Mike Acton & Scott Meyers explaining some of this.
Yes. I'm a bit surprised I had to scroll down so far to find the word "scam" in the comments. Elon Musk is a genius but somehow his brain did a big smelly fart and he's still not owning up to it. There's plenty of videos on youtube and commentary on the web debunking the remote possibility that the proponents of this shit actually believe it will work. LIke so many pointless charities with the word "children" in their name, this is purely an exercise in soaking up funding in admin costs, giving these scam artists 10-20 years of cushy jobs with BMW x-5 company cars and french champagne for lunch. Elon Musk really should do the right thing and call these guys out, and denounce this idea outright. Alternatively, hook these people up to lie detectors and ask them if they believe it'll ever work.
I agree that clang++ is better at the moment, I prefer it over g++ myself. However, as I understand it gcc has had a resurgence in effort and has caught up recently in some metrics (citation probably needed, whatever), and gcc could concievably overtake clang in the future. Microsoft wouldn't be wise to target a compiler purely based on which was superior at this point in time, rather they should base it on the compiler project's expected momentum in the next 5-10 years. Also note that they had already targeted clang for their android development bits of vs.
Yeah, msi file yep, for our windows 10. So we can download it, install it, go to our start menu, scroll past the PowerJelq(tm) ad that popped up in our pinned list since the last windows update, and check if anyone's been dicking with our system without our consent.
.. and if nobody ever pirated, we wouldn't know what we're missing. I think this parallels the FOSS vs proprietary/closed software ideal that Richard Stallman champions. RJS is a complete nut, but like people who pirate, and especially like people who facilitate piracy, without him we wouldn't even know what we're missing. You really do need someone operating outside the established system to do this as the incumbents will fight hard to put a stop to it. To give a real-world example, I very much doubt Netflix and the like would even exist if torrents hadn't existed; the film studios would have us buying DVDs for $35 for the next 50 years.
Oh and don't get me started about blu-rays. I bout a blu-ray player for my pc, only to find that I wasn't allowed to use it to watch blu ray movies unless I bought some $50 software that paid a license fee to Sony for the priviledge. It wasn't enough that the manufacturer of the drive AND the movie studios paid a license fee to Sony to use the tech. What a fucking joke.
I downgraded my win7 to 10 just before the cutoff date for free upgrade, so I had the option of 7 or 10 later on. After trying out 10 for a while, I just decided that it was a joke, and that it was becoming more of a joke as time went on, and started dual-booting to linux mint cinnamon. ~6 months later and I don't ever boot into my windows partition even to play games. If you want a windows 7 replacement, Linux Mint Cinnamon is your best bet.
What I take away from this summary (didn't RTFA) is that people thinking that they could solve the serious, endemic problem of growing inequality without any chaos in the whitehouse and elsewhere are delusional. A career politician who knows how to talk the talk and walk the walk was never going to make any difference.
OTOH, do we really want a catastrophe just to fix the growing inequality? That depends on the observer i suppose; and there seem to be enough really unhappy people in America who say "Yes".
The absolute worst example of this I've encountered was the insane recent trend for Linux DEs to have invisible vertical scrollbars, which only popped up when you hovered the mouse over the single pixel RHS border. Drove me frickin insane, especially since the scroll wheel doesn't work on a lot of Linux apps.
When oh when will the Mo$illacrap dictators up in their high castles stop wasting so much time and resources on
1) Spending HOURS designing & mulling over new logos 2) writing HUNDREDS of lines of javascript for features nobody wants 3) Maintainting a slow, leaky, outdated old Nut$scrape codebase that is not based on fresh, new KDE Konqueror codebase from 1990s like everyone else
. and when oh when will they realise that what's really needed is a new, secure multi-threaded / multi-process browser.
Came here to say something similar. Men pay higher car insurance premiums (at least in my country) because they crash more than female drivers. Are they worse drivers than women, or do they enjoy driving more, so take more risks? People who buy autopilot upgrade would not be the ones who want to race their tesla. A person who has bought autopilot but then has it turned off is more likely to be taking risks. To put it another way, if you have the option of not having to drive your car, what reasons (besides cost) do you have left to drive it?
Pro's what? Actually I'm not 100% on this - is this valid because of "Pros" being a contraction of "Professionals"? It hurts my eyes to look at in any case.
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.. aren't the only people on the internet. Should the entire world (including US's rivals) have access to taxpayer-funded research, when one of your primary competitive advantages is r&d?
I know scientists don't really care much for nationalism (as welll htey shouldn't), but if this is taxpayer-funded research, then it's not entirely up to them.
You probably don't realise that you're very lucky. I myself can get full 100mbit, but that's rare. Most NBN FTTN connections are only good for less than 48mbit/s, and less than 25mbits is very common.
My point is that if you're able to get over 50mbit/s (I think the average is 48mbit/s), you aren't getting a realistic impression of what the NBN is really like for the average punter. Try to imagine being stuck at ~20mbit/s and look forward to being stuck on that for the next 10 or 20 years. That's why people are angry.
The libs said they'd employ a "tech agnostic" approach to building the NBN, but we're not seeing FTTP being used where it's needed.
I agree ooloorie, this couldn't be an accident.
This bit of code would've been identified as super-important when Intel (or whoever) was writing it, and it's too obvious a bug to have been unintentional. It's made to _look_ like an accident.
To Intel: What's the name of the programmer who made the mistake? What does their other authentication coding look like? Are they a junior developer? Can we scour their github history (if any) and see if they really are that stupid? Who was the project manager for this software, and who was this idiot's supervisor? Who was responsible for reviewing their code?
Intel's customers should consider this malicious until proven otherwise.
To be fair, even windows has trouble waking from sleep and re-enabling all of its components. I've got a recent-ish pcie soundcard and an old pci tv card that don't wake up in linux OR windows. Things are improving under linux and at some point sleep/resume will be superior under linux for any component that is at least a year old, because open source.
Also, did you try sleep/resume on ubuntu 16.04 LTS before you zapped it? Laptops are kinda hard for any OS to get 100% working drivers for - maybe you should've stuck with the LTS. Upgrading a windows install on a laptop is more likely to be troublesome, especially if you're upgrading to a just-released version.
(trolling)
If we in oz has gotten our nation-wide optic fiber NBN like the labor party had promised, our ping times would be much more better then the 250+ms we're getting to the US currently. Unfortunately, some people don't understand the internet, and voted for corrupt right-wing government who put in crusty old copper cable vdsl network. now we only get 100mbit/s link to our ISPs and our ping times to the US are no beter then they were!!!
Impeach Malcolm turnbull for this atrocious mess.
I wish Samsung would stop polluting the delicate internet ecosystem with their bad software. It's bad in UI design, it's bad security-wise, and it's bad in intended purpose (wrest control from google). What's the bet this so-called "Bixby" (scoffs) has a frig-ton of security issues that siri and google assistant don't have? Samsung have demonstrated a lack of either skill or interest in writing secure software.
The best phone I ever owned was a google nexus (admiteddly samsung hardware), simply because google did the software. The camera was better than all the phones I've had since, and all of the software on the phone actually made sense. Samsung's notes, calendar etc. are just bloody awful.
Their system updates to their smart TVs turn the TV into a sluggish, unresponsive pile of crap.
PLEASE Samsung just stick to making hardware as your programmers tend to suck the balls.
But it comes with a free frozen yoghurt, which I call Froghurt.
"More education" isn't a magic bullet - most people doing menial jobs are doing them because they're not mensa material in the first place - in spite of the left's insistence that everyone's completely equal in every single way.
Even if they were able to turn more education into marketable skills, there's already a glut of skilled white collar workers in the west; I'm sure you've read plenty of articles about millenials being stuck working at mcdonald's paying off a 5 year college debt.
As for the coal miner's jobs, I do agree that those guys could've at least tried to get an electrician apprenticeship and get a job installing solar panels or something.
"This framework I'm writing will make it easy for new programmers to understand and modify the system."
And while the cost per watt of the panels goes down (and from that the cost of shipping & installation), the cost of the inverter & other electrical wiring stays relatively fixed. It's way behind the panels & batteries but it is in the thousands of dollars per installation.
While I agree in general, ECC server ram ain't ECC server ram. /system that supports that amount of ram can end up more expensive than the ram itself. And then you'll find that the 'board doesn't like those sticks you got from newegg, because server hardware tends to be a lot more picky in that regard. After you've dropped 20 grand on the rest of the system and returned that $5,000 ram kit, you could find that the only 384gb kit you can get working on your system costs three times as much.
Finding a motherboard
But was the cost of laying fibre to every house still going to be cheaper than a box on each street corner, taking into account that that the cost of the box is shared between all the houses? Genuine question, not being rhetorical.
Thanks to Turnbull (well, Abbott really), I have NBN far quicker than I would otherwise, and at lower cost to either me or the taxpayer or both, take your pick. Very few people actually want faster than FTTN can provide (set at 100mbits, although the existing tech can manage higher already).
Why do you insist on forcing a product onto others that they don't want? I don't want to pay for more than I'm getting, what I'd really like is a much higher download limit from a higher quality network. Oh and you know what would be really great? More bandwidth to the USA and other parts of the world. And, having a "mere" 50mbit connection now, I can tell you that verty few parts of the web are generous enough to give you that kind of bandwidth on the servers they're paying for. The last mile really is a small part of the whole picture. Added to that, VDSL technology keeps improving.
Why the fuck do you want me to wait another 5 years for some vaporware ferrari-class technology that doesn't actually solve anything?
Why the fuck do you believe that Kevin "Earwax" Rudd had any idea how he was going to deliver on his pure fibre NBN? You know he came up with the idea on the spot, in front of the cameras? How far did his government get in implementing it? Why do you imagine that you would've actually gotten your fibre connection in the next 5 years?
It's one thing to come up with an idea of what to spend taxpayer's money on. It's another thing entirely to manage an actual physical implementation of something as huge as the NBN. Labor didn't do jack shit, the Libs actually delivered NBN to me and five of my family members already, which is astounding given the size and population density of our country.
I wish they offered FTTP for everyone if they were willing to pay for it, so morons like you could pay for your 1gbps connection and enjoy your 100gb limit piss away in the first few hours of every month while you pay an extra $200/mo for the priviledge. Or maybe you're really prepared to pay hundreds a month for your internet to be over 100mbit's, in which case, that's nice for you but don't demand that the rest of the country pay for something that YOU want.
It would be great if someone did an FMRI study on the brain activity of people of different political leanings - responding to various social and moral situations.
We might finally see what people of different political leanings are actually thinking.
If we're being honest here, both the PS4 and XBox One are just a compact PCs with unimpressive specs.
A simple bit of reading on the wikipedia page for ps4 would tell you that it's not just a PC with unimpressive specs. The main difference (and the main reason it'll be very difficult for any PC to emulate at reasonable speed) is that the 8-core CPU & the GPU share 8gb of GDDR5 ram. The new 8core ryzens combined with faster pcie specs and ddr4 system ram might help PCs catch up but anything written for the PS4 will run like shit on a high-end gaming PC for (uneducated guess here) at least another 5 years.
I don't know the performance difference between ddr3/4 and gddr5, but not having to shuffle textures and other bits between ram and gpu memory is a huge advantage for games on its own.
People wonder why ports from consoles have so many issues on PCs, but with my limited experience with programming, I wouldn't be surprised if they had to rip the low end guts out of most of these games and re-engineer them just to get above single digit FPS on PC hardware.
I do know for certain that game performance is VERY sensitive (by orders of magnitude) to small changes in cache sizes, mem latency, bus width etc. You can watch youtube vids of Mike Acton & Scott Meyers explaining some of this.
Yes. I'm a bit surprised I had to scroll down so far to find the word "scam" in the comments. Elon Musk is a genius but somehow his brain did a big smelly fart and he's still not owning up to it. There's plenty of videos on youtube and commentary on the web debunking the remote possibility that the proponents of this shit actually believe it will work. LIke so many pointless charities with the word "children" in their name, this is purely an exercise in soaking up funding in admin costs, giving these scam artists 10-20 years of cushy jobs with BMW x-5 company cars and french champagne for lunch.
Elon Musk really should do the right thing and call these guys out, and denounce this idea outright. Alternatively, hook these people up to lie detectors and ask them if they believe it'll ever work.
I agree that clang++ is better at the moment, I prefer it over g++ myself.
However, as I understand it gcc has had a resurgence in effort and has caught up recently in some metrics (citation probably needed, whatever), and gcc could concievably overtake clang in the future.
Microsoft wouldn't be wise to target a compiler purely based on which was superior at this point in time, rather they should base it on the compiler project's expected momentum in the next 5-10 years.
Also note that they had already targeted clang for their android development bits of vs.
Yeah, msi file yep, for our windows 10. So we can download it, install it, go to our start menu, scroll past the PowerJelq(tm) ad that popped up in our pinned list since the last windows update, and check if anyone's been dicking with our system without our consent.
.. and if nobody ever pirated, we wouldn't know what we're missing. I think this parallels the FOSS vs proprietary/closed software ideal that Richard Stallman champions. RJS is a complete nut, but like people who pirate, and especially like people who facilitate piracy, without him we wouldn't even know what we're missing. You really do need someone operating outside the established system to do this as the incumbents will fight hard to put a stop to it. To give a real-world example, I very much doubt Netflix and the like would even exist if torrents hadn't existed; the film studios would have us buying DVDs for $35 for the next 50 years.
Oh and don't get me started about blu-rays. I bout a blu-ray player for my pc, only to find that I wasn't allowed to use it to watch blu ray movies unless I bought some $50 software that paid a license fee to Sony for the priviledge. It wasn't enough that the manufacturer of the drive AND the movie studios paid a license fee to Sony to use the tech. What a fucking joke.
I downgraded my win7 to 10 just before the cutoff date for free upgrade, so I had the option of 7 or 10 later on. After trying out 10 for a while, I just decided that it was a joke, and that it was becoming more of a joke as time went on, and started dual-booting to linux mint cinnamon. ~6 months later and I don't ever boot into my windows partition even to play games. If you want a windows 7 replacement, Linux Mint Cinnamon is your best bet.
What I take away from this summary (didn't RTFA) is that people thinking that they could solve the serious, endemic problem of growing inequality without any chaos in the whitehouse and elsewhere are delusional. A career politician who knows how to talk the talk and walk the walk was never going to make any difference.
OTOH, do we really want a catastrophe just to fix the growing inequality? That depends on the observer i suppose; and there seem to be enough really unhappy people in America who say "Yes".
The absolute worst example of this I've encountered was the insane recent trend for Linux DEs to have invisible vertical scrollbars, which only popped up when you hovered the mouse over the single pixel RHS border. Drove me frickin insane, especially since the scroll wheel doesn't work on a lot of Linux apps.
When oh when will the Mo$illacrap dictators up in their high castles stop wasting so much time and resources on
1) Spending HOURS designing & mulling over new logos
2) writing HUNDREDS of lines of javascript for features nobody wants
3) Maintainting a slow, leaky, outdated old Nut$scrape codebase that is not based on fresh, new KDE Konqueror codebase from 1990s like everyone else
. and when oh when will they realise that what's really needed is a new, secure multi-threaded / multi-process browser.
Oh wait.
Came here to say something similar. Men pay higher car insurance premiums (at least in my country) because they crash more than female drivers. Are they worse drivers than women, or do they enjoy driving more, so take more risks? People who buy autopilot upgrade would not be the ones who want to race their tesla. A person who has bought autopilot but then has it turned off is more likely to be taking risks. To put it another way, if you have the option of not having to drive your car, what reasons (besides cost) do you have left to drive it?
Pro's what?
Actually I'm not 100% on this - is this valid because of "Pros" being a contraction of "Professionals"? It hurts my eyes to look at in any case.