Sure, today's software is buggy and crash prone as hell, but at least the bugs do not usually kill people.
Something tells me that will change once we start getting mass produced self driving cars, and more computer controlled and network connected medical devices. The "release early, release often, fix the bugs and security holes later" mantra of modern software development combined with those products is going to be a fatal combination.
Hmm... Sounds like we should be expecting a #androidmetoo campaign in about 20 years when the fembots become self aware and sue their owners for abuse.
Knowing what I know about IBM (I used to work there), I'd imagine that this is more about having an excuse to have lower starting salaries for new workers than actually being concerned about skill gaps.
IBM's HR department knows that people without a college diploma tend to make $30,000 a year less over their lifetimes, and that benefits the companies bottom line.
Yeah, there are a few games out there that support it. Turning it on often cuts the game performance by half, though. It's basically the same impact as jumping from 1080p to 4K resolution at the moment.
It kind of makes sense, I guess... many elderly people come from an era where Dan Rather or Peter Jennings read them the days news on TV every night and it was treated like gospel and rarely questioned.
Yeah, real time ray tracing isn't really a thing yet. They haven't really built video cards powerful enough to enable it without a huge performance hit.
Maybe the next gen cards will support it in 2020... but it's not gonna happen now.
The problem that statement is that Nvidia doesn't seem to be interested in providing faster and cheaper cards. They really only seem to be interested in manufacturing the higher end cards with better profit margins, and seemingly letting the rest of their product line stagnate.
Hell... for most of last year, it seems that they were purposefully keeping supplies of their higher end (1060/1070/1080) cards low so they could get higher than MSRP prices for them. It was actually working out for them pretty well until the price of Ethereum crashed and the demand for mining cards disappeared faster than they could plan for. Now you can get those used cards on eBay half of MSRP in some cases.
Not really. They are planning on switching from a Proof Of Work algorithm that requires "mining" coins with brute force mathematical computations to a Proof Of Stake algorithm where the largest crypto holders who help with processing network transactions get a cut of the transaction fees.
The algorithm seems to be much more energy efficient, but tends to favor giving more coins to the few people who already have the most of it. In a way, it tends to work more like fiat currency than gold mining... the rich tend to get richer off the interest, and the rest of us just tend of stagnate where we are.
They probably would have just shot down the drone, anyway, and then gave the drone pilot a fine for flying it in an unauthorized area if they were feeling extra mean.
It's still better than shutting down traffic on a major interstate and creating a headline news story about it, anyway.
Have you actually tried buying something from sears.com? It's a pretty bad experience. Their selection sucks, the prices are higher than Amazon's, and it's filled with "affiliate" retailers that basically just drop ship stuff from other retailers.
I bought something from them this Christmas, but only because I had a gift card that I wanted to use before they finally went bankrupt.
Besides, you wouldn't want your local Library jumping on the latest technical bandwagon before the underlying technology has been standardized.
Otherwise, you might end up with with a movie library filled with HD DVD's instead of BluRay's just because they happened to get a donation check from Microsoft that year.
I think that.tk was the first country to offer free domains, which is why they had a head start. If I remember right, they reserved a bunch of "premium" domains (like cars.tk or movies.tk) that the country tried to sell for higher dollar amounts. That money seems to have gone for funding internet access and to help keep their island above sea level. I don't think that the latter is it working out too well for them.
The funny thing is that Microsoft tried cramming Edge down the throats of Windows 10 users with various pop-ups telling us how much greater it was than Chrome, which basically had the opposite effect of what was intended.
Instead of promoting Edge from that "other browser pre-installed on my computer that I used to download Chrome" to the browser that I actually used, it Demoted it to "that piece of shit software that I have to disable notifications for".
We (the IT community) really should be promoting Firefox usage instead. Sure, their development team is kinda weird, but at least they are promoting open web standards. It sure beats trying to force your users into to using company specific web services to get the most out of your browser.
I mean, how dare Firaxis not make the Chinese military units in Civilization more powerful than everyone else. They need to update that game for the Chinese market, so whoever plays that character always wins!
I think that the big problem is that is now costs a small fortune to move in the US if you have to buy and sell a home. Once the realtors, lawyers, state and local governments, mortgage company, and moving company all get their cut, you can easily be out of pocket over $20,000 if you're moving out of state.
That wouldn't be bad if companies still offered moving bonuses or relocation assistance, but most do not.
I guess that the mind control drugs didn't work on me, because I held onto my last iPhone for 4 years before it finally died. I have the iPhone XR now. Something tells me that it will not last quite as long because it's made of glass.
AWS also has a problem where large retailers like Target and Walmart will not use their products because they would be essentially be funding their retail competition by doing so. Spinning them off might help to drum up some additional customers.
I don't think that we're really sure yet that customers really WANT power-efficient ARM chips. I think that many of them are more worried about x86 compatibility right now.
Hell... there are a lot of people out there who are afraid to move off of Intel processors because they can't be sure that their vendors validated their older software on the AMD Epyc stuff yet.
Yeah, I'd imagine that AT&T will pull a similar stunt to what they did a few years ago, and rebrand their newer 4G LTE Advanced phones as "5G" until they get a chance to expand their "real" 5G network.
Use up my "unlimited" (5GB invisible data cap) data in 5 minutes instead of 30 and have my download speeds throttled to 3G speeds for the rest of the month even faster.
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Sure, today's software is buggy and crash prone as hell, but at least the bugs do not usually kill people.
Something tells me that will change once we start getting mass produced self driving cars, and more computer controlled and network connected medical devices. The "release early, release often, fix the bugs and security holes later" mantra of modern software development combined with those products is going to be a fatal combination.
Hmm... Sounds like we should be expecting a #androidmetoo campaign in about 20 years when the fembots become self aware and sue their owners for abuse.
Knowing what I know about IBM (I used to work there), I'd imagine that this is more about having an excuse to have lower starting salaries for new workers than actually being concerned about skill gaps.
IBM's HR department knows that people without a college diploma tend to make $30,000 a year less over their lifetimes, and that benefits the companies bottom line.
Yeah, there are a few games out there that support it. Turning it on often cuts the game performance by half, though. It's basically the same impact as jumping from 1080p to 4K resolution at the moment.
It kind of makes sense, I guess... many elderly people come from an era where Dan Rather or Peter Jennings read them the days news on TV every night and it was treated like gospel and rarely questioned.
Yeah, real time ray tracing isn't really a thing yet. They haven't really built video cards powerful enough to enable it without a huge performance hit.
Maybe the next gen cards will support it in 2020... but it's not gonna happen now.
The problem that statement is that Nvidia doesn't seem to be interested in providing faster and cheaper cards. They really only seem to be interested in manufacturing the higher end cards with better profit margins, and seemingly letting the rest of their product line stagnate.
Hell... for most of last year, it seems that they were purposefully keeping supplies of their higher end (1060/1070/1080) cards low so they could get higher than MSRP prices for them. It was actually working out for them pretty well until the price of Ethereum crashed and the demand for mining cards disappeared faster than they could plan for. Now you can get those used cards on eBay half of MSRP in some cases.
Not really. They are planning on switching from a Proof Of Work algorithm that requires "mining" coins with brute force mathematical computations to a Proof Of Stake algorithm where the largest crypto holders who help with processing network transactions get a cut of the transaction fees.
The algorithm seems to be much more energy efficient, but tends to favor giving more coins to the few people who already have the most of it. In a way, it tends to work more like fiat currency than gold mining... the rich tend to get richer off the interest, and the rest of us just tend of stagnate where we are.
They probably would have just shot down the drone, anyway, and then gave the drone pilot a fine for flying it in an unauthorized area if they were feeling extra mean.
It's still better than shutting down traffic on a major interstate and creating a headline news story about it, anyway.
Have you actually tried buying something from sears.com? It's a pretty bad experience. Their selection sucks, the prices are higher than Amazon's, and it's filled with "affiliate" retailers that basically just drop ship stuff from other retailers.
I bought something from them this Christmas, but only because I had a gift card that I wanted to use before they finally went bankrupt.
Besides, you wouldn't want your local Library jumping on the latest technical bandwagon before the underlying technology has been standardized.
Otherwise, you might end up with with a movie library filled with HD DVD's instead of BluRay's just because they happened to get a donation check from Microsoft that year.
I think that .tk was the first country to offer free domains, which is why they had a head start. If I remember right, they reserved a bunch of "premium" domains (like cars.tk or movies.tk) that the country tried to sell for higher dollar amounts. That money seems to have gone for funding internet access and to help keep their island above sea level. I don't think that the latter is it working out too well for them.
Look at the bright point... once 2025 rolls around, you'll be able to hit your 20 GB "unlimited" data cap faster than ever!
The funny thing is that Microsoft tried cramming Edge down the throats of Windows 10 users with various pop-ups telling us how much greater it was than Chrome, which basically had the opposite effect of what was intended.
Instead of promoting Edge from that "other browser pre-installed on my computer that I used to download Chrome" to the browser that I actually used, it Demoted it to "that piece of shit software that I have to disable notifications for".
We (the IT community) really should be promoting Firefox usage instead. Sure, their development team is kinda weird, but at least they are promoting open web standards. It sure beats trying to force your users into to using company specific web services to get the most out of your browser.
I mean, how dare Firaxis not make the Chinese military units in Civilization more powerful than everyone else. They need to update that game for the Chinese market, so whoever plays that character always wins!
Wasn't he also caught selling $50 Macklemore t-shirts at his concerts around that time? If you can't beat them, join them I guess.
I think that the big problem is that is now costs a small fortune to move in the US if you have to buy and sell a home. Once the realtors, lawyers, state and local governments, mortgage company, and moving company all get their cut, you can easily be out of pocket over $20,000 if you're moving out of state.
That wouldn't be bad if companies still offered moving bonuses or relocation assistance, but most do not.
I guess that the mind control drugs didn't work on me, because I held onto my last iPhone for 4 years before it finally died. I have the iPhone XR now. Something tells me that it will not last quite as long because it's made of glass.
AWS also has a problem where large retailers like Target and Walmart will not use their products because they would be essentially be funding their retail competition by doing so. Spinning them off might help to drum up some additional customers.
Not to mention that the first gen 5G phones will probably be brick sized and have lousy battery life.
My wife had one of the first gen 4G LTE Verizon phones from HTC, and you would use that damn thing as a weapon.
MetroPCS did up until recently, as did Straight Talk. I'd imagine that their are others that still do so.
Isn't more like, "They're probably right, but I don't care because the dividends on my GiantOilCo stock helped me pay for my new Jaguar." ?
I don't think that we're really sure yet that customers really WANT power-efficient ARM chips. I think that many of them are more worried about x86 compatibility right now.
Hell... there are a lot of people out there who are afraid to move off of Intel processors because they can't be sure that their vendors validated their older software on the AMD Epyc stuff yet.
Yeah, I'd imagine that AT&T will pull a similar stunt to what they did a few years ago, and rebrand their newer 4G LTE Advanced phones as "5G" until they get a chance to expand their "real" 5G network.
Use up my "unlimited" (5GB invisible data cap) data in 5 minutes instead of 30 and have my download speeds throttled to 3G speeds for the rest of the month even faster.