Betamax recorders were in production for almost 40 years, the tapes were produced for 50 years. That's a high level of longevity for any digital format. Production of the units survived right into the DVD era, and it's probably DVDs which killed it in the end, not VHS. VHS had 40 years to kill it, and failed.
Additionally, Betcam is still in production as is HDCAM, they have two form factors, one of which is the same as Betamax, if you watch any anime, they are still almost all mastered on HDCAM, i.e. high-definition version of Betamax tapes.
It's only a very limited viewpoint that considers Betamax a flop / failed product. If we're going that far we should consider Apple Macs a failure because Windows is industry-standard.
BTW: "the new arithmetic-processing-unit (APU) optimized for graph analytics plus the new memory architecture chips are specified by DARPA to use 1,000-times less power than using today's supercomputers."
A supercomputer designed to scale better for big data processing, that uses 1000 times less power than current supercomputers. Thus, it has 1000 times less cooling needs. Currently we're effectively using networked PCs scale up to fill data centers for our processing needs. A system designed with big data in mind will knock the socks off the current set ups and lead to much more efficient and scalable big data processing for ALL industries and research needs.
And the reason it needs government funding is because then it's an open platform that anyone can use, instead of locked down with patent lawsuits for decades. This way, it gets built by the best of the best from multiple companies and it's openly publishable technology. The free market gave you Comcast and Verizon, it's DARPA that gave us the internet in the first place.
They use big data algorithms for medical research. See "folding@home". There's a lot of data out there that needs to be processed, and processing more medical / chemistry data means trying out more combos and quicker / better results. A customized processor that does a specific type of task far faster than traditional processors is a great investment.
The most expensive colleges don't spend that money on staff, they spend it on advertising. the cheap colleges are the ones with most % of money spent on staff.
Because the incentive is to keep the prison full, which costs more taxpayers money, and some companies involved have been found to pay kickbacks to judges who hand out harsh sentences.
Another factor is that some people are better at estimating risk vs reward than others. When given tests, convicts as a whole are really bad at this. Which shouldn't be surprising in the least. Smarter criminals convince the dumb ones to take all the risks, because the dumb ones are bad at assessing risk vs reward.
For the dumb kids you have to make it a clear yes/no thing: tell them that if you commit crime you WILL go to prison. Don't tell the idiots "maybe", because they're dumb enough to believe they'll get away with it.
On May 19th, WSJ published an editorial AGAINST Net Neutrality. Now, they want a provider to lean over backwards to give them better access to customers, for "fairness". LOL hypocrites.
The problem with the flying car is that it needs to generate a lot of downward force, they're really noise / windy and there's no way around. They're a crap idea. Sure, you could make them, but you could also shoot a nailgun into your eye, that doesn't mean you should.
... also another major point is that Venezuela has had an unprecedented drought that's stuck since 2013. That's not hard to check out, and it's crippled agriculture. Coupled with the sustained drop in oil prices, these two factors have in fact devastated food production and imports simultaneously.
The other side of the coin is in fact a thing called "price controls" and those aren't necessarily a socialist measure, they're a tactic used by many governments when inflation is getting out of hand. This is the really big mistake Maduro made. Price controls cause a discrepancy between the official price and the black market price, leading to hoarding and speculation, which causes further inflation, and necessitates rationing of the controlled-price good, thus leading to long queues. The insidious thing about price controls is that they *create* shortages even if there's plenty of production, because they can create a speculative bubble in the price-controlled asset.
Who did they ask? They didn't ask opinions, they looked at real employment data after implementing the scheme. That's the sort of data that cuts through opinions to the heart of the matter. Also, one of the facts is that if you give out a basic payment, then people have to spend it, which creates jobs for people who want the money.... Funny how that works, right?
Why isn't he being paid under the table already? Tax dodging exists already, there's no plausible cause/effect relationship between creating an UBI and people being paid in cash. The government should already be broke by that logic.
Humans outpace automation because the total labor cost for a human to adapt to a new niche is lower than the total labor cost to use automation to do the same. But... what if that fact becomes false? The idea of a wage job no longer makes sense from a business point of view. Pointing that out isn't doom mongering or saying progress should end. It's just a reality check, the worst case scenario should be explored and planned for. The other side are saying we shouldn't even think or talk about the possibility.
Working out how real brains store information and learn new behaviours can definitely take neural networks far beyond the hand-concocted learning algorithms we currently use. Basically you point deep learning systems at the brain data and let that work out your learning algorithms for you, to make NNs that learn in whole new ways, which mean they can be used for entirely new classes of problems.
> And what you call your 'comfortable life', the US calls 'lower middle class'.
Median wealth per adult is in fact $5000 more in Germany than the USA. That represents how much the average joe is able to save. It's a meaningful measure of how well people are doing *after* all taxes and costs are deducted.
Any 10K per year would entirely replace food stamps and all other welfare measures. Why would you have UBI and still have a foodstamp system? It should also replace the tax threshholds. UBI + flat taxes + no other welfare. That's how you make it work, because it simplifies (abolishes) a whole pile of existing programs that are designed to be redistributive and massively simplifies the tax system.
Yeah, it's a known thing with all currencies, bank accounts etc. Fractional reserve banking. If more than an average number of people withdraw their money from the bank at the same time, you have big problems.
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Betamax recorders were in production for almost 40 years, the tapes were produced for 50 years. That's a high level of longevity for any digital format. Production of the units survived right into the DVD era, and it's probably DVDs which killed it in the end, not VHS. VHS had 40 years to kill it, and failed.
Additionally, Betcam is still in production as is HDCAM, they have two form factors, one of which is the same as Betamax, if you watch any anime, they are still almost all mastered on HDCAM, i.e. high-definition version of Betamax tapes.
It's only a very limited viewpoint that considers Betamax a flop / failed product. If we're going that far we should consider Apple Macs a failure because Windows is industry-standard.
BTW: "the new arithmetic-processing-unit (APU) optimized for graph analytics plus the new memory architecture chips are specified by DARPA to use 1,000-times less power than using today's supercomputers."
A supercomputer designed to scale better for big data processing, that uses 1000 times less power than current supercomputers. Thus, it has 1000 times less cooling needs. Currently we're effectively using networked PCs scale up to fill data centers for our processing needs. A system designed with big data in mind will knock the socks off the current set ups and lead to much more efficient and scalable big data processing for ALL industries and research needs.
And the reason it needs government funding is because then it's an open platform that anyone can use, instead of locked down with patent lawsuits for decades. This way, it gets built by the best of the best from multiple companies and it's openly publishable technology. The free market gave you Comcast and Verizon, it's DARPA that gave us the internet in the first place.
They use big data algorithms for medical research. See "folding@home". There's a lot of data out there that needs to be processed, and processing more medical / chemistry data means trying out more combos and quicker / better results. A customized processor that does a specific type of task far faster than traditional processors is a great investment.
Less than 50% of Harvard's budget goes to salary. Salary isn't the main driver of cost in education.
The most expensive colleges don't spend that money on staff, they spend it on advertising. the cheap colleges are the ones with most % of money spent on staff.
We'll get back a number of Colonel David H. Hackworth's and a number of Timothy McVeigh's ...
Because the incentive is to keep the prison full, which costs more taxpayers money, and some companies involved have been found to pay kickbacks to judges who hand out harsh sentences.
Another factor is that some people are better at estimating risk vs reward than others. When given tests, convicts as a whole are really bad at this. Which shouldn't be surprising in the least. Smarter criminals convince the dumb ones to take all the risks, because the dumb ones are bad at assessing risk vs reward.
For the dumb kids you have to make it a clear yes/no thing: tell them that if you commit crime you WILL go to prison. Don't tell the idiots "maybe", because they're dumb enough to believe they'll get away with it.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/w...
On May 19th, WSJ published an editorial AGAINST Net Neutrality. Now, they want a provider to lean over backwards to give them better access to customers, for "fairness". LOL hypocrites.
Google *owns* Youtube, bucko ...
The problem with the flying car is that it needs to generate a lot of downward force, they're really noise / windy and there's no way around. They're a crap idea. Sure, you could make them, but you could also shoot a nailgun into your eye, that doesn't mean you should.
... also another major point is that Venezuela has had an unprecedented drought that's stuck since 2013. That's not hard to check out, and it's crippled agriculture. Coupled with the sustained drop in oil prices, these two factors have in fact devastated food production and imports simultaneously.
The other side of the coin is in fact a thing called "price controls" and those aren't necessarily a socialist measure, they're a tactic used by many governments when inflation is getting out of hand. This is the really big mistake Maduro made. Price controls cause a discrepancy between the official price and the black market price, leading to hoarding and speculation, which causes further inflation, and necessitates rationing of the controlled-price good, thus leading to long queues. The insidious thing about price controls is that they *create* shortages even if there's plenty of production, because they can create a speculative bubble in the price-controlled asset.
Who did they ask? They didn't ask opinions, they looked at real employment data after implementing the scheme. That's the sort of data that cuts through opinions to the heart of the matter. Also, one of the facts is that if you give out a basic payment, then people have to spend it, which creates jobs for people who want the money. ... Funny how that works, right?
Why isn't he being paid under the table already? Tax dodging exists already, there's no plausible cause/effect relationship between creating an UBI and people being paid in cash. The government should already be broke by that logic.
Dodging taxation by being paid in cash is already a thing, there's no reason to think UBI will cause more of that.
Humans outpace automation because the total labor cost for a human to adapt to a new niche is lower than the total labor cost to use automation to do the same. But ... what if that fact becomes false? The idea of a wage job no longer makes sense from a business point of view. Pointing that out isn't doom mongering or saying progress should end. It's just a reality check, the worst case scenario should be explored and planned for. The other side are saying we shouldn't even think or talk about the possibility.
Slashdot should remove Anonymous Coward completely.
Working out how real brains store information and learn new behaviours can definitely take neural networks far beyond the hand-concocted learning algorithms we currently use. Basically you point deep learning systems at the brain data and let that work out your learning algorithms for you, to make NNs that learn in whole new ways, which mean they can be used for entirely new classes of problems.
> And what you call your 'comfortable life', the US calls 'lower middle class'.
Median wealth per adult is in fact $5000 more in Germany than the USA. That represents how much the average joe is able to save. It's a meaningful measure of how well people are doing *after* all taxes and costs are deducted.
The other saving would have to come from flattening the tax rates, which is the part they're probably not keen to talk about I guess.
Aren't the rich the guys who pay most of the tax? They are in fact talking about using rich people's money.
Any 10K per year would entirely replace food stamps and all other welfare measures. Why would you have UBI and still have a foodstamp system? It should also replace the tax threshholds. UBI + flat taxes + no other welfare. That's how you make it work, because it simplifies (abolishes) a whole pile of existing programs that are designed to be redistributive and massively simplifies the tax system.
(And my PC is fairly old now, an i3 I bought back in 2012)
Must be a YMMV thing, I haven't had FF hang in years now.
Yeah, it's a known thing with all currencies, bank accounts etc. Fractional reserve banking. If more than an average number of people withdraw their money from the bank at the same time, you have big problems.