seriously, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that this will have long term affects similar to asbestos. It's not the chemical that's the problem but the super small, non-destructible particles that damage the fine internal tissues. They already had this problem using buckeyballs to deliver meds. I'd expect the raw fibers during processing will need to be tightly controlled. Wrapped up in epoxy it will be fine for normal use as long as it doesn't break... but if airplane wings break the passengers have bigger problems.
I call BS. the specification is not even complete yet. No ports exist outside of intel labs.
But that is the point, there is no replacement for the feature Firewire provided but it is gone and in Macbooks there is no option to upgrade in 12 months because they don't have ExpressCard slots either.
their product takes time to work out the lumps because their pioneering. The lure of the product was that Tesla was doing this because other companies wouldn't and someday that'd be big.
In the last few weeks the feds kicked in $25 Billion (with a B) to the plain-ole auto companies to compete with them. That's more funding than Tesla will ever get even if they made a profit... VCs are jumping ship.
that's a good example because there's just one image that represents the idea. People are not making images to imitate this, they just point to the original or copy of it. It's not like there are copycats like lambsex or sheepbutt.. one Goatse.cx is enough to get the point across.
the idea of expensive is that it will be supported. If you pay lots of money you can expect somebody to man the phones when you need them. Suits like to see support, and you have to have a real price to value the software against your highly paid developers.. open source or cheap stuff is hard to sell to suits because without high cost there's nobody to blame!
how about when there was constant attack by French and Indians... the British offered to help by stationing soldiers in people's houses without compensation rather than let them have guns... The framers knew what real terrorism was and wanted freedom of speech, freedom from search and freedom to defend ourselves in SPITE of.. because of.. what was happening.
this is where democracy as we know it fails. The lobbiest system means that people with agendas can keep hammering the same pre-written laws year after year, tweaking them a little more each time. That's how the USA PATRIOT act got thru after 4 years of being laughed out of Congress, one day everybody found it really interesting. Our notion of "free speech" for some reason applies to unconstitutional laws without any means of stopping them.
that's the truest joke of all... back in the 1980's when they had REAL IRA problems there's no way they would have tolerated such intrusion. When the survivors of German bombing were still alive to remind people what freedom really was. Now they put firecrackers on a few subway cars and it's the end of the world, they need super-spy powers.
the colonies had representation... they were considered "corporate" employees of the lords that held title to the land and ran the trading companies. When they joined the colonies they promised to follow the "company rules"... sound familiar?
you have to remember that if the room is 80 degrees the processors are probably at 110 degrees while exchanging heat. That's the number Google wants raised. There's big bucks in cooling data centers. I probably costs several times as much to power and cool a chip over it's life than is paid for it. Expecting Intel to put extra engineering will save lots of electricity down the road.
you miss the point entirely. Google wants Intel's processors to operate properly at a higher temperature than currently spec'd that will allow Google to use less cooling. They want the processors to tolerate more heat, not generate more heat. This means Intel will have to make the processors slightly more beefy, but how much does that really cost across millions of units once the design work is done, a few bucks per processor tops.
Google pays dozens of dollars a MONTH to cool each processor. Intel making this change may cost them a dozen dollars up front, one time. If Intel spends a little extra up front to make a processor that allows higher temps, Google will save multiple times the Processor's cost in electric bills... that's REAL efficiency at work. Google wants Intel to design a chip $20 more expensive so they can save $1000's in energy cost.
what a waste of time and money... a Masters without experience is useless. compared to entry level, you should be making double with a masters.. if you can't demonstrate that on a resume then you are now over-qualified and under-experienced for even MORE jobs. If you have paid to learn the skills and actually learned them correctly, you should be able to get the job you have trained for. This is the big problem with the US education system. The big schools refuse to generate qualified results preferring marketing speak over graduates that have job skills. Think about it. If you go to be a nurse, when you graduate you have actually done the job a nurse will do. If you go to be a teacher you will have done student teaching. If you go to be a lawyer, you will have learned the skills and have specific testing to complete. In any of these other jobs when you are done with school you are qualified to do the actual work in real-world situations. But we techies are chumps... we pay for a degree that's only "entry level". We go into computer science or mechanical engineering but we only learned "principles" of our professions... because our professions are so "wide and varied" we get told that we didn't learn quite the "right skills" to get the job we went to school for.. but with a "few more years" of experience companies are sure we'll fit in.
We're chumps.. and the field is full of poorly planned job descriptions. The few companies at the top cherry-pick the best candidates with non-quantifiable criteria so that the job is not about taking the right classes, or getting the right grades but passing some silly "emotional quiz". That way colleges pump out lots of students trying for the "prize" but few get it. That would be unacceptable in any other field. Why do we accept it in technology?
the problem with programmers (and other technical people) is that in general we expect to do the work, document it, and get the job. In business that's never how it's really done though. Look at how resumes are filled out for more "business" related positions, with all sorts of classes to basically teach you to use marketing speak to get your resume to the top. It's not technically lying, but because HR sees so many of these they blow right past the honest ones because they don't know how to read resumes anymore. The key is cover letter writing where you put "feeling" words... you don't ever lie about the facts but you can definately beef up anything that might have an "opinion" without getting in trouble. The key is once you do that be able to back it up.
I think you hit on one point right there. Companies are only interested in what you do for them right now... if you are "good enough" then why move you someplace else? Of course you'll never be good enough to move up, because you were only good enough for the position you have right now. It's a catch 22 and HR loves it.... You're good enough to do the work, but not good enough to demand the position and pay... that's just right for the company interest and very hard to break.
Saint Nick has to be the biggest damn infringer of all. Where does he get the IP rights to make all those cool toys without license fees? I wonder when Disney will do a flick to "fix" this perceptions... and Disney does do stuff like this quite a bit.
The only government that could have such power is a global totalitarian state. I used to use that as an argument for why copyright law cannot be enforced.
You say that like it's a bad thing? silly rabbit. The people in power have seen that as a flaw for quite some time. Most people over 40 don't give a damn about personal rights as long as they can drive SUVs and own Guns (but not "bad" guns) Nobody believes in PERSONAL freedom anymore, they want the govt to fix marriages, stop gays, make people have good credit because it's a guy borrowing $200k for his house that caused this mess. But the people at the top can live better than rockstars and do no wrong because they live the dream and worked hard and got rich... so they must be good people!
you'd note that patents have been just fine at 20 years for a long time..manufacturing is dozens of times bigger slice of the economy than "media" based ones. why did copyright need to extend from 28 years to near infinite in 70 years?
this is the one reason why these banks should have failed... because when bankruptcy hits, executives get paid last... the bail out only prevents the very people that should be losing salary and stocks from losing.
no, the BANKS are making it hard because they got out of the business of honest loans. The ARM rush was all about selling YOU on a 4% loan that was "too good to be true" and selling investors the "locked in" 7% loan that was a "sure thing". So much so that banks often refused "honest" loans simply to tag people for the ARM ones. Of course the banks want to "look busy" now, so they will punish the new home buyer because they can't deceive you or overcharge you... hence "honest" loans aren't as profitable anymore... that's what the FMs did when confronted about profits, they bought up "risky" "low income" paper (to get out of fines or jail) and tried to play it off as the home owner's faults when they lost billions. The scale of dishonest accounting is legendary and for the most part they got away with it... people should be broke and in jail... executives should have their entire salaries from the last 5 years seized but it won't happen.
there's an adage if you owe the bank $100,000 You are in trouble...if you owe the bank $10 million then the bank is in trouble.
That's exactly what happened here. The banks made MILLIONS of high risk home loans and LIED about the risk and invented "swapping" instruments to skirt securities and insurance laws. Only about 6% of even the high risk loans are failing... and that's an all time high (that's less than the unemployment rate!). Why did the bankers so mismanage their money that losing 6% crashes the whole system? Who is responsible for those BILLIONS and why are they not in jail for mismanagement?
I think you hit the real issue. Most US cars are geared toward meeting the requirement for EPA mpg testing at 48.3 MPH. Because of this, car makers don't optimize (or advertise) for proper highway speeds people actually drive... except for the 6 speed "sports" cars that have the extra gear to get good mileage at highway speeds.
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seriously, I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that this will have long term affects similar to asbestos. It's not the chemical that's the problem but the super small, non-destructible particles that damage the fine internal tissues. They already had this problem using buckeyballs to deliver meds. I'd expect the raw fibers during processing will need to be tightly controlled. Wrapped up in epoxy it will be fine for normal use as long as it doesn't break... but if airplane wings break the passengers have bigger problems.
I call BS. the specification is not even complete yet. No ports exist outside of intel labs.
But that is the point, there is no replacement for the feature Firewire provided but it is gone and in Macbooks there is no option to upgrade in 12 months because they don't have ExpressCard slots either.
their product takes time to work out the lumps because their pioneering. The lure of the product was that Tesla was doing this because other companies wouldn't and someday that'd be big.
In the last few weeks the feds kicked in $25 Billion (with a B) to the plain-ole auto companies to compete with them. That's more funding than Tesla will ever get even if they made a profit ... VCs are jumping ship.
that's a good example because there's just one image that represents the idea. People are not making images to imitate this, they just point to the original or copy of it. It's not like there are copycats like lambsex or sheepbutt.. one Goatse.cx is enough to get the point across.
the idea of expensive is that it will be supported. If you pay lots of money you can expect somebody to man the phones when you need them. Suits like to see support, and you have to have a real price to value the software against your highly paid developers.. open source or cheap stuff is hard to sell to suits because without high cost there's nobody to blame!
so is the next Xbox 540? 4? 720, 1080, Y-Cube?
most of the time all you need to do is flash the firmware of the drive again from something safe ... non-windows. But don't play the game again!!!
how about when there was constant attack by French and Indians... the British offered to help by stationing soldiers in people's houses without compensation rather than let them have guns... The framers knew what real terrorism was and wanted freedom of speech, freedom from search and freedom to defend ourselves in SPITE of.. because of.. what was happening.
this is where democracy as we know it fails. The lobbiest system means that people with agendas can keep hammering the same pre-written laws year after year, tweaking them a little more each time. That's how the USA PATRIOT act got thru after 4 years of being laughed out of Congress, one day everybody found it really interesting. Our notion of "free speech" for some reason applies to unconstitutional laws without any means of stopping them.
that's the truest joke of all... back in the 1980's when they had REAL IRA problems there's no way they would have tolerated such intrusion. When the survivors of German bombing were still alive to remind people what freedom really was. Now they put firecrackers on a few subway cars and it's the end of the world, they need super-spy powers.
the colonies had representation... they were considered "corporate" employees of the lords that held title to the land and ran the trading companies. When they joined the colonies they promised to follow the "company rules"... sound familiar?
you have to remember that if the room is 80 degrees the processors are probably at 110 degrees while exchanging heat. That's the number Google wants raised. There's big bucks in cooling data centers. I probably costs several times as much to power and cool a chip over it's life than is paid for it. Expecting Intel to put extra engineering will save lots of electricity down the road.
you miss the point entirely. Google wants Intel's processors to operate properly at a higher temperature than currently spec'd that will allow Google to use less cooling. They want the processors to tolerate more heat, not generate more heat. This means Intel will have to make the processors slightly more beefy, but how much does that really cost across millions of units once the design work is done, a few bucks per processor tops.
Google pays dozens of dollars a MONTH to cool each processor. Intel making this change may cost them a dozen dollars up front, one time. If Intel spends a little extra up front to make a processor that allows higher temps, Google will save multiple times the Processor's cost in electric bills... that's REAL efficiency at work. Google wants Intel to design a chip $20 more expensive so they can save $1000's in energy cost.
what a waste of time and money... a Masters without experience is useless. compared to entry level, you should be making double with a masters.. if you can't demonstrate that on a resume then you are now over-qualified and under-experienced for even MORE jobs.
If you have paid to learn the skills and actually learned them correctly, you should be able to get the job you have trained for. This is the big problem with the US education system. The big schools refuse to generate qualified results preferring marketing speak over graduates that have job skills. Think about it. If you go to be a nurse, when you graduate you have actually done the job a nurse will do. If you go to be a teacher you will have done student teaching. If you go to be a lawyer, you will have learned the skills and have specific testing to complete. In any of these other jobs when you are done with school you are qualified to do the actual work in real-world situations. But we techies are chumps... we pay for a degree that's only "entry level". We go into computer science or mechanical engineering but we only learned "principles" of our professions... because our professions are so "wide and varied" we get told that we didn't learn quite the "right skills" to get the job we went to school for.. but with a "few more years" of experience companies are sure we'll fit in.
We're chumps.. and the field is full of poorly planned job descriptions. The few companies at the top cherry-pick the best candidates with non-quantifiable criteria so that the job is not about taking the right classes, or getting the right grades but passing some silly "emotional quiz". That way colleges pump out lots of students trying for the "prize" but few get it. That would be unacceptable in any other field. Why do we accept it in technology?
the problem with programmers (and other technical people) is that in general we expect to do the work, document it, and get the job. In business that's never how it's really done though. Look at how resumes are filled out for more "business" related positions, with all sorts of classes to basically teach you to use marketing speak to get your resume to the top. It's not technically lying, but because HR sees so many of these they blow right past the honest ones because they don't know how to read resumes anymore. The key is cover letter writing where you put "feeling" words ... you don't ever lie about the facts but you can definately beef up anything that might have an "opinion" without getting in trouble. The key is once you do that be able to back it up.
I think you hit on one point right there. Companies are only interested in what you do for them right now... if you are "good enough" then why move you someplace else? Of course you'll never be good enough to move up, because you were only good enough for the position you have right now. It's a catch 22 and HR loves it.... You're good enough to do the work, but not good enough to demand the position and pay... that's just right for the company interest and very hard to break.
I nominate RMS... the payback would be a bitch!
Saint Nick has to be the biggest damn infringer of all. Where does he get the IP rights to make all those cool toys without license fees? I wonder when Disney will do a flick to "fix" this perceptions... and Disney does do stuff like this quite a bit.
The only government that could have such power is a global totalitarian state. I used to use that as an argument for why copyright law cannot be enforced.
You say that like it's a bad thing? silly rabbit. The people in power have seen that as a flaw for quite some time. Most people over 40 don't give a damn about personal rights as long as they can drive SUVs and own Guns (but not "bad" guns) Nobody believes in PERSONAL freedom anymore, they want the govt to fix marriages, stop gays, make people have good credit because it's a guy borrowing $200k for his house that caused this mess. But the people at the top can live better than rockstars and do no wrong because they live the dream and worked hard and got rich... so they must be good people!
actually, they have a press conference about notebooks scheduled for tomorrow.
you'd note that patents have been just fine at 20 years for a long time..manufacturing is dozens of times bigger slice of the economy than "media" based ones. why did copyright need to extend from 28 years to near infinite in 70 years?
this is the one reason why these banks should have failed... because when bankruptcy hits, executives get paid last... the bail out only prevents the very people that should be losing salary and stocks from losing.
no, the BANKS are making it hard because they got out of the business of honest loans. The ARM rush was all about selling YOU on a 4% loan that was "too good to be true" and selling investors the "locked in" 7% loan that was a "sure thing". So much so that banks often refused "honest" loans simply to tag people for the ARM ones. Of course the banks want to "look busy" now, so they will punish the new home buyer because they can't deceive you or overcharge you... hence "honest" loans aren't as profitable anymore... that's what the FMs did when confronted about profits, they bought up "risky" "low income" paper (to get out of fines or jail) and tried to play it off as the home owner's faults when they lost billions. The scale of dishonest accounting is legendary and for the most part they got away with it... people should be broke and in jail... executives should have their entire salaries from the last 5 years seized but it won't happen.
there's an adage if you owe the bank $100,000 You are in trouble...if you owe the bank $10 million then the bank is in trouble.
That's exactly what happened here. The banks made MILLIONS of high risk home loans and LIED about the risk and invented "swapping" instruments to skirt securities and insurance laws. Only about 6% of even the high risk loans are failing... and that's an all time high (that's less than the unemployment rate!). Why did the bankers so mismanage their money that losing 6% crashes the whole system? Who is responsible for those BILLIONS and why are they not in jail for mismanagement?
I think you hit the real issue. Most US cars are geared toward meeting the requirement for EPA mpg testing at 48.3 MPH. Because of this, car makers don't optimize (or advertise) for proper highway speeds people actually drive... except for the 6 speed "sports" cars that have the extra gear to get good mileage at highway speeds.