I may not know an Intel coffee lake from an EU milk lake, but my question is this:
Intel MIGHT be forced to offer a replacement for Coffee lake chips without the Meltdown feature, and if these could be plugged into older motherboards, could some of us be happy to plug in a (paid) replacement from Intel into our old mobos, rather than resort to good old lynchings?
There may be other reasons for lynching Intel CxOs, I am not in a position to comment on that either.
Imagine you are quietly typing boring quarterly financial reports for you boss, who is on vacation in Hawaii, when suddenly you are attacked by hordes of rampant sexbots.
When you were a kid, a colour TV cost about the same as 1,000 burgers. Now it costs about the same as 20 burgers, but you don't have 50 TVs.
20 burgers would feed you for 3 weeks - a TV lasts 5 years. (Some families of 4 could eat 20 burgers in a couple of days, but still only need one TV).
Contrary to the right-wing bullshit that passes for news in most of the developed world, a lot of "poor people" were quite well off until their employers went under as a result of a mixture of (incompetent management, government interference, automation, general progress, bean counters, shareholder greed), and if they survive, many will be well off again once they get through the bad patch. Many will be so psychologically damaged by realising that they have become the "scum" they were berating a few years ago, that they never recover.
Obviously the solution is for a bunch disaffected gun nuts to shoot the manufacturers of violent video games;-)
Rest of the world sees our movies, its one of the last US exports.. and they dont have the issues we do?
Cos we look at them and say to ourselves "Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people!"
- and, taking the whole of the Americas, that's pretty much true.
Even including war zones, the gun related death rate per thousand of population in Africa is still about 1/10 of what it is in America (for the whole of Africa - individual countries are, of course different, just as States in America are different). South America is as bad as the USA. Bad bits of Mexico are worse than Texas.
I fail to understand who you are attacking, and on what basis.
In the UK, automatic transmission is fitted to a very small percentage of vehicles, and our accident death rate is probably 1/10 or yours.
Maybe every driver needs to carry a gun so they can shoot drivers who are about to crash into them? Perhaps you need the NRA to design your traffic rules too?
some low skilled jobs will be lost, and some high skill jobs created
The underlying problem is that 50% of the population is of below average intelligence. They will all be hungry, and, in America at least, have guns and 4x4s.
In my view, poor people with guns and 4x4s are more dangerous than Nerds with access to Sourceforge and Github put together.
In the view of the US government, access to Pornhub is more dangerous than idiots with guns.
Maybe I should ask/. - which is more dangerous out of the above scenarios?
the potential for abuse of AI is disproportionately focused on the most wealthy and powerful individuals who can afford a second-hand Pentium 4
Sure FPGA based stuff might be faster, but, in the end, its either intelligent, or its not.
And in 100% of cases I have examined, its not
There is, in fact, no evidence at all of actually "intelligence" in any of the stuff sold as AI at present.
There is good evidence for the ability to solve certain specific problems (Playing GO or Chess), and a lot of evidence that multi-threaded attacks on complex problems can do things that people find difficult.
That is NOT intelligence.
I am still waiting for a definition of intelligence that would be generally acceptable to most people, including those with the resources to implement it.
can't speak for Nissans, but my 2010 Ford Fusion does 25MPG (UK gallons). I had a Ford Anglia in 1968 that did 25MPG. that would appear to be 50 years with NO PROGRESS AT ALL. However, the Anglia was far easier to repair, and only cost me £20 - probably the equivalent of £200 today, and went for scrap - probably got £5 for it. The Fusion cost me £7,000 about five years ago, and I had no offers when I advertised it for £4,000. Not so much progress as regress.
As for phones, I have several - including a Samsung Note 3 for normal use, and a Nokia 6310i for my international calling SIM.
I would buy a new note, but the bloody things have non-removable batteries and curved screens. Samsung will have to think again if they want to sell me something.
debugging is incredibly frustrating and a huge barrier to entry.
Especially when the only error message is:
Syntax error at or near: line 1, column 1
Maybe BASIC is not the best way to go, after all.
I think the real issue is, as was pointed out earlier, it is very easy to create a command line UI after seeing one. However, most kids today have not seen one. It is, however, also very easy to create a web page and not have to worry about "creating the whole GUI" - however, you need a server for your web page, You are probably not going to have access to one without significant effort. Installing and commissioning Apache is hardly "dead easy for a beginner" even on Linux.
Many years ago, in the days of HTML 1.0, I had a web server running, and people who today find it hard to post on Facebook were able to create web pages. (I am not claiming the web pages were any good, but nor would I claim anything on Facebook is much good either).
The ideal learning environment is a system that starts by taking people from dumb terminal interaction on the command line, though the level where you had terminals with programmable fields, that sent the contents when you pressed [RETURN] and then to HTML. I suggest that is one to three hours learning. After that, they need access to a web server where they can put their stuff on their local machine.
I know in theory the default installation of Apache on Linux is supposed to do that, but, as they say:
in theory, theory and practice are the same.
In practice, they are different
Yes, I run Nginx on OpenBSD, and my youngest son uses something else on OSX to develop websites professionally. He started by using Apache on FreeBSD hosted by me at the age of fifteen. He had no need to know anything about Apache - just put the stuff in a specific directory on the server - and he has also done the same on "a popular hosting company" which is not exactly expensive. He is now doing Ruby on Rails professionally, but has PHP and C experience.
I think the answer is as simple as preconfiguring Linux installations to serve any directory off user's home directory called www as http://localhost/<user>/ and jailing the directors of browser companies that stick up error messages when serving http.
Any kid who is not inquisitive enough to use the command line interface in Linux will never become a coder, and anyone who does not have access to a PC with Linux is doomed.
I do not recall either of my sons ever asking for help debugging - but we spent many hours playing Commander Keene - which is the ideal tool for teaching persistence. I am not sure Mario Kart has the same benefit.
I await a flame war between GTA and Leisure Suit Larry fans with interest.
Try to live like your grandparents did. They were in most cases not inflamed by BS books from Marxists and other SJWs. Neither were they inflamed by the BS factory called Hollywood. Feminism and Ecology-Nazis were non-existent.
I am not sure how old you are, or where your "reality" comes from. Marxism was a big thing in the 1940's and 1950's. Feminism is far older it was big in the 1920's and 1930's, but had its origins earlier than that. Your grandparents probably took Hollywood more seriously than people do today.
People have been campaigning for social justice since at least the time of Jesus Christ, and probably even earlier - you might remember a guy called Moses saying "let my people go". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzDw1QF-9ko? Not all people trying to stop their surroundings being actively destroyed are "Ecology-Nazis" although clearly some are.
By their own logic the 96% of the worlds population who do not live in the USA should avoid US made products.
Fortunately for us, there are no "made in the USA" products actually made in the USA - they are all made in China anyway. The USA economy would appear to be entirely composed of fake news, Gangsta Rap and Hollywood Movies, all of which are much easier to pirate than get legally.
And If I had a secret, I probably would not discuss it on my phone.
There is no role for back doors in a world where people might wish to do things like Internet Banking. The average 12 year old can encrypt things completely securely if he/she listened to the maths and history teachers, without even using a computer.
There is no shortage of ways for terrorists to pass messages securely without using the Internet - although some might be marginally slower, that disadvantage is not as big as it might be since some of us have to use BT Internet legitimate communications.
Here in the UK, it is hard to see how DST makes much difference to anything - in the summer its light from 5Am till 10PM, so there is plenty of sun to go round. In the Winter its dark from 3PM til 10AM. An hour each way might make a marginal difference in March and October - maybe. Obviously, taking sun from one part of the day to move it to another part of the day is a waste of time. It just messes with your circadian rhythm.
The solution is to take sun from the summer and move it to the winter!
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You have the right to arm bears, we have the right to mod our computers.
Intel MIGHT be forced to offer a replacement for Coffee lake chips without the Meltdown feature, and if these could be plugged into older motherboards, could some of us be happy to plug in a (paid) replacement from Intel into our old mobos, rather than resort to good old lynchings?
There may be other reasons for lynching Intel CxOs, I am not in a position to comment on that either.
FTFY
(Most of the rest of the world disagrees).
They have probably never seen any of those things, due to the health and safety risk.
I take it you have never used an upright Imperial.
I am guessing he did not mean a Vaio laptop keyboard or SInclair ZX81.
Just as unlikely, but lads more fun!
The common recommendation is to use Centigrade.
20 burgers would feed you for 3 weeks - a TV lasts 5 years. (Some families of 4 could eat 20 burgers in a couple of days, but still only need one TV).
Contrary to the right-wing bullshit that passes for news in most of the developed world, a lot of "poor people" were quite well off until their employers went under as a result of a mixture of (incompetent management, government interference, automation, general progress, bean counters, shareholder greed), and if they survive, many will be well off again once they get through the bad patch. Many will be so psychologically damaged by realising that they have become the "scum" they were berating a few years ago, that they never recover.
Obviously the solution is for a bunch disaffected gun nuts to shoot the manufacturers of violent video games ;-)
Cos we look at them and say to ourselves "Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people!"
- and, taking the whole of the Americas, that's pretty much true.
Even including war zones, the gun related death rate per thousand of population in Africa is still about 1/10 of what it is in America (for the whole of Africa - individual countries are, of course different, just as States in America are different). South America is as bad as the USA. Bad bits of Mexico are worse than Texas.
In the UK, automatic transmission is fitted to a very small percentage of vehicles, and our accident death rate is probably 1/10 or yours.
Maybe every driver needs to carry a gun so they can shoot drivers who are about to crash into them? Perhaps you need the NRA to design your traffic rules too?
The underlying problem is that 50% of the population is of below average intelligence. They will all be hungry, and, in America at least, have guns and 4x4s.
In my view, poor people with guns and 4x4s are more dangerous than Nerds with access to Sourceforge and Github put together.
In the view of the US government, access to Pornhub is more dangerous than idiots with guns.
Maybe I should ask /. - which is more dangerous out of the above scenarios?
Sure FPGA based stuff might be faster, but, in the end, its either intelligent, or its not. And in 100% of cases I have examined, its not
There is, in fact, no evidence at all of actually "intelligence" in any of the stuff sold as AI at present.
There is good evidence for the ability to solve certain specific problems (Playing GO or Chess), and a lot of evidence that multi-threaded attacks on complex problems can do things that people find difficult.
That is NOT intelligence.
I am still waiting for a definition of intelligence that would be generally acceptable to most people, including those with the resources to implement it.
Maybe if my 4G worked I would believe you.
As for phones, I have several - including a Samsung Note 3 for normal use, and a Nokia 6310i for my international calling SIM.
I would buy a new note, but the bloody things have non-removable batteries and curved screens. Samsung will have to think again if they want to sell me something.
Especially when the only error message is:
Maybe BASIC is not the best way to go, after all.
I think the real issue is, as was pointed out earlier, it is very easy to create a command line UI after seeing one. However, most kids today have not seen one. It is, however, also very easy to create a web page and not have to worry about "creating the whole GUI" - however, you need a server for your web page, You are probably not going to have access to one without significant effort. Installing and commissioning Apache is hardly "dead easy for a beginner" even on Linux.
Many years ago, in the days of HTML 1.0, I had a web server running, and people who today find it hard to post on Facebook were able to create web pages. (I am not claiming the web pages were any good, but nor would I claim anything on Facebook is much good either).
The ideal learning environment is a system that starts by taking people from dumb terminal interaction on the command line, though the level where you had terminals with programmable fields, that sent the contents when you pressed [RETURN] and then to HTML. I suggest that is one to three hours learning. After that, they need access to a web server where they can put their stuff on their local machine.
I know in theory the default installation of Apache on Linux is supposed to do that, but, as they say:
in theory, theory and practice are the same.
In practice, they are different
Yes, I run Nginx on OpenBSD, and my youngest son uses something else on OSX to develop websites professionally. He started by using Apache on FreeBSD hosted by me at the age of fifteen. He had no need to know anything about Apache - just put the stuff in a specific directory on the server - and he has also done the same on "a popular hosting company" which is not exactly expensive. He is now doing Ruby on Rails professionally, but has PHP and C experience.
I think the answer is as simple as preconfiguring Linux installations to serve any directory off user's home directory called www as http://localhost/<user>/ and jailing the directors of browser companies that stick up error messages when serving http.
Any kid who is not inquisitive enough to use the command line interface in Linux will never become a coder, and anyone who does not have access to a PC with Linux is doomed.
I do not recall either of my sons ever asking for help debugging - but we spent many hours playing Commander Keene - which is the ideal tool for teaching persistence. I am not sure Mario Kart has the same benefit. I await a flame war between GTA and Leisure Suit Larry fans with interest.
I think Abe Lincoln said that. (But if could have been Bob Dylan, Grace Jones or Boris Johnson ... or possibly someone else).
Well, not on planet earth, it isn't.
I am not sure how old you are, or where your "reality" comes from. Marxism was a big thing in the 1940's and 1950's. Feminism is far older it was big in the 1920's and 1930's, but had its origins earlier than that. Your grandparents probably took Hollywood more seriously than people do today.
People have been campaigning for social justice since at least the time of Jesus Christ, and probably even earlier - you might remember a guy called Moses saying "let my people go". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzDw1QF-9ko? Not all people trying to stop their surroundings being actively destroyed are "Ecology-Nazis" although clearly some are.
They will be if Trump continues to have a say in things.
Fortunately for us, there are no "made in the USA" products actually made in the USA - they are all made in China anyway. The USA economy would appear to be entirely composed of fake news, Gangsta Rap and Hollywood Movies, all of which are much easier to pirate than get legally.
And If I had a secret, I probably would not discuss it on my phone.
math doesn't abide by human law except in Australia.
There is no role for back doors in a world where people might wish to do things like Internet Banking. The average 12 year old can encrypt things completely securely if he/she listened to the maths and history teachers, without even using a computer.
There is no shortage of ways for terrorists to pass messages securely without using the Internet - although some might be marginally slower, that disadvantage is not as big as it might be since some of us have to use BT Internet legitimate communications.
The Turtles, obviously!
The solution is to take sun from the summer and move it to the winter!
FTFY