A slight disagreement, R. Stanley Williams is interested in other solutions as he specific refers to options other than von Neumann architecture computing. Considering he is from HP one might surmise he is looking to DMC as well as their vague (to me) The Machine concept. I have yet to read the other article that is concerned with The Machine.
The issue he offers up for consideration is that further spending of even more $B to move Moore one step to 5nm or beyond would be better spent on looking to other directions for computing itself. He feels clearly that research into other directions have been starved because of the relentless metronome that was Moore's Observation (aka Law). Making a statement of intent is different from his observation that the huge investment in Moore has stunted the very research you are suggesting.
Even your subject was incorrect (ftfy). He is looking at a semiconductor industry that has been investing everything (or nearly so) into extending Moore when the very things that are needed if we are indeed at the end of it are being starved of funding.
If they would play video games they would be very aware of cheap DDoS and their love of Internet of Shitty Things.
Next up will be saying that all IoST must run on the Federal Approved OS. Win98 or Win Server03.
Windows is MS/DOS writ large, and poorly. There is no comparison possible. I used to build DIY/W* for others. Swore a lot. Bought my first Mac product (macbook pro 15") and 30 MINUTES later it was on the web, updating and fully functional. I never had or heard of that experience using MSFT OS products. It just works is so horrifically overused and I apologize for using it. But it is quite true.
When you read articles titled 'Is 20xx the year of the Linux desktop?'. To save time, assume no. However, BSD the unix-like, but different as proved via lawsuits, is the actual underlying OS and has a great user experience. So, the BSD year of the desktop has been successful for quite some time now.
That and the absolute nutty devotion to 'design' that defined the late Steve Jobs. Thankfully much of his design focus has survived his passing. That more than any other single thing is why I stayed once I got my very first apple infection.
I know three people that have ever had a Windows portable device. They were all business requirements or perks. Two no longer have those requirements and no longer have their W-phone/tablet. The third is retired and is now more frugal, so that phone will stay until it must be replaced. Although the OS was never updated to W10.
AMD doesn't run the fabs, one could say they are doing better because they have to. Which is related to being a customer and making your design work on the node that is available to you. Something they were never all that good at when they had their own fabs. Just cycling a design on TSMC or GloFo will produce significant performance gains. And it has hopefully their other work will pay off as well.
What are you comparing to, for these leaps of functionality, ability and/or speed? Although many of the modern enhancements are simple 100MHz increments. Which is more than CPUs used to be able to do. We started PCs at 4MegaHertz. We got to 100MHz with Pentium-2 and Pentium-Pro (I think) then 1GHz with the Piii.
We can make 10GHz systems today. No users (well, normal people) will buy them. Because they don't want to pay $50k for the latest and greatest processor. Not to mention having the 30-ton air conditioning in their purpose built computer room and having the power company install a SECOND connection just for the room as well. Oddly enough, except for the super computer business and the military there are really a limited number of customers for such. Satellite companies routinely use the really expensive stuff but they are used to paying tens of millions of dollars for one unit, indeed up to hundreds of millions. And their gear is notoriously hard to service.
The public (as in customers) accepted the solution the move to more cores as they were unable to accept the massive heat from 5GHz and up. Also, look into ECC 'buffered' RAM. Great for enterprise, less so for power, heat and cost - for you, me and everybody we know.
Now we are easily running at multiple GHz. TODAY you can buy 4GHz system with 8/16GB of RAM, a reasonable video card & 1TB HDD for around $1K. I spent $6k on a PC-AT. Count your blessings (and get off my lawn;-).
Multiple cores, really fancy floating point, huge graphic gains and all running at lower power than just five years ago. I had friends that were heavy into graphics and they routinely bought 1000Watt PC power supplies because they had to. Now, they're not necessary unless you are doing multiple cards or some other form of heavy computing.
Past that, read up on physics and semi-conductor processes. Electro-migration is a fun one. Atoms just moving around because they want to (actually quantum mechanics) at the finest layers. Remember that each new process essentially enables creating a new layer underneath the existing version. Things get tiny real fast that way.
Well, I was involved verifying that we were in compliance. Over 100k products and some percentage were software, probably under 5%. A few projects were archived in the company archives. Funny coincidence I was there when the initial procedures were established. I didn't establish them, but I used them to archive a few software projects I was involved with.
Bounce back to Y2K and I am requesting source code from several projects, now defunct but quite possibly will existing users. Simple, we will read the source, establish if there was or was not any time related silliness and go back to the main projects and 10's of thousands remaining.
Of course you have already guessed it. No files were available. All the storage media provided was blank. I suspects that the dd-equivilent was done backwards. Take the blank storage and dd it to the incoming data. Fun. I doubt if it has ever been corrected as my comments were ignored back then. BTW, I am blissfully retired.
Nobody really cares about MSFT in a high end system. The W10 cost is fairly high, not the money, the cost to their privacy. Many enterprise customers have a solution but every one else with a high end system gets ripped off by MSFT and their "selling everything about you to anyone" business model is counter productive. Not even mentioning them putting ads on your desktop.
A high end system is more likely a game system. The only choice is MSFT for well over half the games. Depending on the actual market there are limitations in professional software that rely heavily on W*, so the purchase is driven by requirements, not desires.
Also, how is this different than the otherwise noted bit of a pip in the PC market as eventually even the older high end systems need replacement? Answer: same old, same old. Any bump in the PC market affects W* sales and MSFT will use it as evidence that they are winning. Something, whatever, a war with apple for the mac sales? Sure, whatever lies float your silly little boat, MSFT.
Most commenters will rail on about the 'gaming press' and some of them might be old enough to recall that many (if not most) of the game press were nothing more than a blog in decades past. Also game reviews are opinions. Something that gets lost to many nerds. There is no way to review games in a scientific and concrete form, it's all down to the reviewers opinion. This is why you need to find a reviewer you trust/agree with/relate to and ignore most of the rest.
As to your fun game, enjoy it. It has acceptable but not particularly great graphics and that alone will get it killed in the major review cycle. Many game reviews are driven by clicks (just like when they were blogs) and the most clicks win. So they review the modern pieces, not an ARMA retread, even a good ARMA retread. Also it appears to be yet another MMO FPS PVP where griefing is the major point of the game (correct me if I'm wrong).
Have fun.
Well done, many times summaries and the articles, as claimed by the submitter, are wildly different. Not always click-bait but distinctly not accurate. The closing paragraph clarified the attitude of the article, such that clicking on it would be a waste of time.
We even have some comments that aren't only from the 'you must hate google' crowd.
Verizon might have been one two decades or more ago. But they have trashed that reputation by refusing to maintain their copper infrastructure, lying to government agencies regarding meeting their stated goals for subsidies and... just look at their customer service ratings.
They suck.
The summary is off and not just a word. Preda Law's extortion scheme was targeted on IP addresses. Many claimed to never having seen the video in question and some didn't even have computers. Some paid nonetheless because the extortion letter offered them a cheap buyout of $2-4k vs the legal limit of $150k.
One might suggest that a significant number never downloaded anything as Preda and Penises were finally reigned in when judges finally understood that IP address is not an indentification system. Two or more people accessing the address makes their claims unprove-able.
Each key press, release and the context in which they happen is of course not available to law enforcement or random hackers siphoning data from the ever secure OS known as W* (read as dubya splat).
I would suggests an actual thanks to the FCC versus the snark. Keeping GPS working near airports is a good idea. I realize that Australia has a different view of what is good as their copyright shenanigans can attest to.
Also disrupting 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz systems near airports (and many other places) isn't actually a good idea either. Given the range of 1.2 miles one suspects that using the 'drone gun' for various lulz would be just one web order away. Or one slightly less than attentive operator. We have lots of them spread throughout the various police depts in the South, both East and West.
Good point.
Companies lower prices because they must. There are many reasons; To engage new customers, to broaden their customer base, to fight off new comers, to shore up their own structures (more sales, more parts needed, better pricing). Much of which is driven by competition.
Which is why cable companies are so driven to stop any competition. They don't want to lower prices even though any technician knows the actual cost of supporting a customer has gone down dramatically. Not the cable bill though.
This is logged under funny right? It's Sunday, a perfect day for a new comic. Sadly, the graphic itself is actually missing. There should have been a link to the now famously inaccurate Wolfram Bible explaining how his and his way alone to code the entire universe in python, with math.
And there is confusing text in place of it. Obviously the writer forgot to flush the buffer from some PR for a movie(?) or an interactive marketing attempt from Wolfram Claims Copyright of Wikipedia Pages Corporation, dept of Corporate Overreach a sub-dept of Damned Fine Work with Amazing Hubris.
But noooo, Intel wants to barge into another area in the same manner as they blundered about in the mobile market using the poor Atom once again.
I buy Teensy (by pjrc.com at sparkfun.com and adafruit.com). They cost about as much as the Atom CPU and do exactly what is needed. A simple solution that works within the power envelope of the idea. If I was to go all commercial (not likely at all) I would still stick with ARM and the lower power envelope.
Intel's IoT idea is the same pig they failed with in mobile/phones. Changing the pig's lipstick doesn't make it a usable solution.
This will set no precedence as it was a separate but consenting opinion (IANAL). That was mentioned in the techdirt.com article, but only at the very end of it. It is still significant as the judge in question has actually lead the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) during some of its worst years. Worse for software, specifically. So this is a hard about face from someone that was at the forefront of enabling software patents from the bench of the CAFC. While it won't actually change much, it is good to hear/read.
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A slight disagreement, R. Stanley Williams is interested in other solutions as he specific refers to options other than von Neumann architecture computing. Considering he is from HP one might surmise he is looking to DMC as well as their vague (to me) The Machine concept. I have yet to read the other article that is concerned with The Machine.
The issue he offers up for consideration is that further spending of even more $B to move Moore one step to 5nm or beyond would be better spent on looking to other directions for computing itself. He feels clearly that research into other directions have been starved because of the relentless metronome that was Moore's Observation (aka Law). Making a statement of intent is different from his observation that the huge investment in Moore has stunted the very research you are suggesting.
Even your subject was incorrect (ftfy). He is looking at a semiconductor industry that has been investing everything (or nearly so) into extending Moore when the very things that are needed if we are indeed at the end of it are being starved of funding.
If they would play video games they would be very aware of cheap DDoS and their love of Internet of Shitty Things. Next up will be saying that all IoST must run on the Federal Approved OS. Win98 or Win Server03.
Windows is MS/DOS writ large, and poorly. There is no comparison possible. I used to build DIY/W* for others. Swore a lot. Bought my first Mac product (macbook pro 15") and 30 MINUTES later it was on the web, updating and fully functional. I never had or heard of that experience using MSFT OS products. It just works is so horrifically overused and I apologize for using it. But it is quite true. When you read articles titled 'Is 20xx the year of the Linux desktop?'. To save time, assume no. However, BSD the unix-like, but different as proved via lawsuits, is the actual underlying OS and has a great user experience. So, the BSD year of the desktop has been successful for quite some time now. That and the absolute nutty devotion to 'design' that defined the late Steve Jobs. Thankfully much of his design focus has survived his passing. That more than any other single thing is why I stayed once I got my very first apple infection.
Funny, a well played Zinger is most appreciated in these dark times. Now on daylight savings time, adjust your mood appropriately.
I know three people that have ever had a Windows portable device. They were all business requirements or perks. Two no longer have those requirements and no longer have their W-phone/tablet. The third is retired and is now more frugal, so that phone will stay until it must be replaced. Although the OS was never updated to W10.
A pretty low impact mistake then.
Funny and true, but well said.
AMD doesn't run the fabs, one could say they are doing better because they have to. Which is related to being a customer and making your design work on the node that is available to you. Something they were never all that good at when they had their own fabs. Just cycling a design on TSMC or GloFo will produce significant performance gains. And it has hopefully their other work will pay off as well.
What are you comparing to, for these leaps of functionality, ability and/or speed? Although many of the modern enhancements are simple 100MHz increments. Which is more than CPUs used to be able to do. We started PCs at 4MegaHertz. We got to 100MHz with Pentium-2 and Pentium-Pro (I think) then 1GHz with the Piii. We can make 10GHz systems today. No users (well, normal people) will buy them. Because they don't want to pay $50k for the latest and greatest processor. Not to mention having the 30-ton air conditioning in their purpose built computer room and having the power company install a SECOND connection just for the room as well. Oddly enough, except for the super computer business and the military there are really a limited number of customers for such. Satellite companies routinely use the really expensive stuff but they are used to paying tens of millions of dollars for one unit, indeed up to hundreds of millions. And their gear is notoriously hard to service.
;-).
The public (as in customers) accepted the solution the move to more cores as they were unable to accept the massive heat from 5GHz and up. Also, look into ECC 'buffered' RAM. Great for enterprise, less so for power, heat and cost - for you, me and everybody we know.
Now we are easily running at multiple GHz. TODAY you can buy 4GHz system with 8/16GB of RAM, a reasonable video card & 1TB HDD for around $1K. I spent $6k on a PC-AT. Count your blessings (and get off my lawn
Multiple cores, really fancy floating point, huge graphic gains and all running at lower power than just five years ago. I had friends that were heavy into graphics and they routinely bought 1000Watt PC power supplies because they had to. Now, they're not necessary unless you are doing multiple cards or some other form of heavy computing.
Past that, read up on physics and semi-conductor processes. Electro-migration is a fun one. Atoms just moving around because they want to (actually quantum mechanics) at the finest layers. Remember that each new process essentially enables creating a new layer underneath the existing version. Things get tiny real fast that way.
Accessing FTP sites with Java and/or Python. It will be great training. See article above this.
Well, I was involved verifying that we were in compliance. Over 100k products and some percentage were software, probably under 5%. A few projects were archived in the company archives. Funny coincidence I was there when the initial procedures were established. I didn't establish them, but I used them to archive a few software projects I was involved with. Bounce back to Y2K and I am requesting source code from several projects, now defunct but quite possibly will existing users. Simple, we will read the source, establish if there was or was not any time related silliness and go back to the main projects and 10's of thousands remaining. Of course you have already guessed it. No files were available. All the storage media provided was blank. I suspects that the dd-equivilent was done backwards. Take the blank storage and dd it to the incoming data. Fun. I doubt if it has ever been corrected as my comments were ignored back then. BTW, I am blissfully retired.
Nobody really cares about MSFT in a high end system. The W10 cost is fairly high, not the money, the cost to their privacy. Many enterprise customers have a solution but every one else with a high end system gets ripped off by MSFT and their "selling everything about you to anyone" business model is counter productive. Not even mentioning them putting ads on your desktop. A high end system is more likely a game system. The only choice is MSFT for well over half the games. Depending on the actual market there are limitations in professional software that rely heavily on W*, so the purchase is driven by requirements, not desires. Also, how is this different than the otherwise noted bit of a pip in the PC market as eventually even the older high end systems need replacement? Answer: same old, same old. Any bump in the PC market affects W* sales and MSFT will use it as evidence that they are winning. Something, whatever, a war with apple for the mac sales? Sure, whatever lies float your silly little boat, MSFT.
Most commenters will rail on about the 'gaming press' and some of them might be old enough to recall that many (if not most) of the game press were nothing more than a blog in decades past. Also game reviews are opinions. Something that gets lost to many nerds. There is no way to review games in a scientific and concrete form, it's all down to the reviewers opinion. This is why you need to find a reviewer you trust/agree with/relate to and ignore most of the rest. As to your fun game, enjoy it. It has acceptable but not particularly great graphics and that alone will get it killed in the major review cycle. Many game reviews are driven by clicks (just like when they were blogs) and the most clicks win. So they review the modern pieces, not an ARMA retread, even a good ARMA retread. Also it appears to be yet another MMO FPS PVP where griefing is the major point of the game (correct me if I'm wrong). Have fun.
Well done, many times summaries and the articles, as claimed by the submitter, are wildly different. Not always click-bait but distinctly not accurate. The closing paragraph clarified the attitude of the article, such that clicking on it would be a waste of time. We even have some comments that aren't only from the 'you must hate google' crowd.
I'm shocked. You should be too. Here, hold these wires.
Verizon might have been one two decades or more ago. But they have trashed that reputation by refusing to maintain their copper infrastructure, lying to government agencies regarding meeting their stated goals for subsidies and ... just look at their customer service ratings.
They suck.
The summary is off and not just a word. Preda Law's extortion scheme was targeted on IP addresses. Many claimed to never having seen the video in question and some didn't even have computers. Some paid nonetheless because the extortion letter offered them a cheap buyout of $2-4k vs the legal limit of $150k. One might suggest that a significant number never downloaded anything as Preda and Penises were finally reigned in when judges finally understood that IP address is not an indentification system. Two or more people accessing the address makes their claims unprove-able.
Note the macrumors.com post has been updated to reflect more input. Suggesting that manufacturing at scale is the actual issue, not WSJ BS.
I got two OS upgrades without W10 for that $6. I would love to know how much other companies 'charged' me.
Each key press, release and the context in which they happen is of course not available to law enforcement or random hackers siphoning data from the ever secure OS known as W* (read as dubya splat).
British shows are normally six episodes per season. So four to six is most of or the entire season.
I would suggests an actual thanks to the FCC versus the snark. Keeping GPS working near airports is a good idea. I realize that Australia has a different view of what is good as their copyright shenanigans can attest to. Also disrupting 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz systems near airports (and many other places) isn't actually a good idea either. Given the range of 1.2 miles one suspects that using the 'drone gun' for various lulz would be just one web order away. Or one slightly less than attentive operator. We have lots of them spread throughout the various police depts in the South, both East and West.
Good point. Companies lower prices because they must. There are many reasons; To engage new customers, to broaden their customer base, to fight off new comers, to shore up their own structures (more sales, more parts needed, better pricing). Much of which is driven by competition. Which is why cable companies are so driven to stop any competition. They don't want to lower prices even though any technician knows the actual cost of supporting a customer has gone down dramatically. Not the cable bill though.
This is logged under funny right? It's Sunday, a perfect day for a new comic. Sadly, the graphic itself is actually missing. There should have been a link to the now famously inaccurate Wolfram Bible explaining how his and his way alone to code the entire universe in python, with math. And there is confusing text in place of it. Obviously the writer forgot to flush the buffer from some PR for a movie(?) or an interactive marketing attempt from Wolfram Claims Copyright of Wikipedia Pages Corporation, dept of Corporate Overreach a sub-dept of Damned Fine Work with Amazing Hubris.
Chance that MSFT fixing W* that isn't W10 is zero. They want their telemetry damn it!
But noooo, Intel wants to barge into another area in the same manner as they blundered about in the mobile market using the poor Atom once again. I buy Teensy (by pjrc.com at sparkfun.com and adafruit.com). They cost about as much as the Atom CPU and do exactly what is needed. A simple solution that works within the power envelope of the idea. If I was to go all commercial (not likely at all) I would still stick with ARM and the lower power envelope. Intel's IoT idea is the same pig they failed with in mobile/phones. Changing the pig's lipstick doesn't make it a usable solution.
This will set no precedence as it was a separate but consenting opinion (IANAL). That was mentioned in the techdirt.com article, but only at the very end of it. It is still significant as the judge in question has actually lead the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) during some of its worst years. Worse for software, specifically. So this is a hard about face from someone that was at the forefront of enabling software patents from the bench of the CAFC. While it won't actually change much, it is good to hear/read.