If everyone weren't so fucking vile and crazy right now then we could get real bipartisan pro-consumer work done. You wouldn't have to worry about Chinese out competing smashed up silicon valley tech firms with Trump's trade war against china. As odd as it likely sounds, winning the trade struggle means we could have our cake and eat it. US firms wouldn't be killed off by unfair state sponsored Chinese competition but they also couldn't flex their market dominance on consumers.
Not really no, because they aren't telling me I can't buy Huawei. They are telling government employees they can't purchase for it work. Business restrict vendor options all the time for a multitude of reasons. The US government doesn't have to buy Huawei equipment if they don't want to and they don't even have to give a reason. I only buy HP servers for my business. I like to keep my data center as uniform as possible in terms of hardware, configs and support contracts. That doesn't give Dell or anyone else the right to sue us because we didn't buy their stuff.
You might have a point if the government banned the importation of all Huawei products including ones for consumer use. But they didn't. And even if they did they can do that. Products have been banned from import on many occasions and for various valid reasons. And even if the security concerns weren't real (but they definitely are), a trade war is a valid reason to block products. That is essentially the entire intellectual basis for the concept of tariffs. If a country decides it doesn't want you to sell your products in their land, or if they think you are too competitive and want to handicap you versus domestic producers then it is entirely within their power and rights to do so. I should also point out this is something that China exercises every day on the US and everyone else and the entire point of this trade war is to give them a taste of their own medicine and re-balance trade between China and the US to be more fair.
When you link wiki articles remove the.m from the url. The regular url works in all situations, on a mobile device it will redirect to the mobile site, but the mobile link will always load the mobile site. Even on my 27inch display.
I want to prevent a misunderstanding and potential goal post moving in this discussion. I thought my point was clear but I'll lay it out to save us headaches. I am talking about closed down systems that rely on someone else's cloud infrastructure to work. They pull the plug and you are screwed. That is fundamentally different from purchasing your own hosting that you control. The third party host could potentially end service without warning but unless you have a really bad ToS you can usually get legal relief in that case.
So no, paying for your own hosting is not the same as a locked down cloud. Ideally you should be in total control of all of the hardware and software but that isn't always practical. Especially if you need it to be hosted offsite. But last I checked these guys didn't give you the option of hosting your own server.
It could also get really annoying really fast if you just wanted to type an equation without the answer. Just think how aggravating it would be if you just wanted to type 2 + 2 and it automatically appended = 4 every time. You would then have to compensate by deleting the extra text just like you have to fight with autocomplete on smartphones.
Same here. I use it to sanitize text. If they started adding features then i could no longer use it for that. If I need more functionality in a text editor then I will use one of the countless alternatives available.
Most antivaxers are vaccinated. Their parents made them get vaccinated a long time ago. Given the age of the movement, there isn't a large overlap between people who are adults now and are also young enough to have not been vaccinated before the movement took off. So they aren't even harming themselves, they are harming their children.
The cloud is just someone else's server. That's nothing you cant do yourself with just getting offsite hosting. Your use case is also a niche explanation that doesn't address the issue with these devices and services being required to use an online service that is ethereal. In most cases service can be terminated at any time just like with these "robots" and there is nothing you can do about it.
It really is an internet of shit. Not everything needs to be connected to "the cloud". I actively avoid cloud based devices because I cant truly own them. Why would anyone spend close to $1k on something that could stop working at any time?
Maybe I misunderstand the issue but I thought the problem had more to do with the physics of the hardware and less to do with any mathematical model the system was based upon.
Ask someone who isn't familiar with medical terms what a syndrome is. At best they will tell you its a fancy word for disease. Again, you are wasting your time on pedantry.
I think 1/5th the performance is over stating it a bit. There will be an impact but we are realistically looking at more like 25%. CPU's didn't magically get 5x faster when OOO execution was introduced.
And while it is in medical terms important I think you will find that you are wasting your time. Most people equate HIV and AIDS. There isn't much you can do about it. And making a stink about it on/. where people do understand the difference wont help.
That speculative execution as a concept is flawed and insecure. Or at least the way it is understood today. Perhaps new implementations need to be developed or potentially we should just abandon the concept altogether and accept our CPUs will be a bit slower.
Also, in before f**k JavaScript. The researchers just chose to use this has a means to demonstrate the weakness in Intel processors, not a weakness in JS.
Your post is akin to saying "He wasn't cured of the common cold. He was cured of rhinovirus." A technically correct but utterly useless distinction for laypeople. AIDS is the disease caused by HIV. While it is possible to have the virus in you without it having progressed to a full outbreak that really only matters in medical terms.
I don't think Google should be filtering anything that isn't illegal. Blocking and de-platforming people you disagree with is wrong, and even if it technically doesn't violate the 1st amendment it certainly violates the spirit. Trolls are a fact of life on the internet, it used to be that people learned to grow a thicker skin, ignore them and move on. Now everyone feels like they have a right to be protected from it. I don't know where that notion came from but not only is it silly its impractical.
I do draw the line at illegal activity though. I don't expect any platform to be able to 100% remove illegal activity but they have to put in a good faith effort. The laws regarding terrorists, pedos etc etc are pretty clear so there is no excuse not to remove that when providers become aware of it.
No? If the government puts in barriers that make it impossible for the free market to provide affordable housing then it isn't a failing of the market. Capitalism isn't a charity, no developer is going to provide housing at a loss and its unreasonable to expect them to. The only ones who can do that and survive are the government. If SF wants affordable housing then they have two options, either repeal and replace bad policies that made it impossible for the market to provide them or build the housing themselves at a loss.
Using USB for networking sounds like a horrible idea. The cables will be short and expensive, the infrastructure a mess and 40G ethernet (yes it is a thing) can go up to 30 meters for copper whereas copper Thunderbolt (USB 4) is limited to 3. So its inferior and pointless. Cat8 is $40 for 20m while TB3 rated USB-C is $20 for 0.5 meters. Ethernet is considerably cheaper at $2 a meter versus $40 a meter. Unless you mean making USB 4 to ethernet adapters so you can ditch the ethernet port on your machine. I definitely see that happening. Apple already has done that. I don't like it, because it quickly leads to a world of dongles but I don't see why it wouldn't carry over to PC's as well.
Well there is the scunthorpe problem when dealing with text communications. Some games due try to employ text filtering and it has unintended results as expected. As for filtering voice comms. How do you propose that works without massive processing and bandwidth overhead? Speech recognition isn't all that great even now and adding it to your consoles as a background filter for naughty words is going to degrade the experience to an unacceptable level. That aint happening.
And of course we get to the issue of who is to say what is and is not acceptable? It's ok to say fuck on the internet. And if the game is rated T or higher it should be expected that foul language will be common. But what about all of the 10 year olds who end up playing because they have terrible irresponsible parents? Do we adults have to change our habits because some fuckwit let their kid into an adult game? Should we be punished because of that? Where does one draw the line?
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If everyone weren't so fucking vile and crazy right now then we could get real bipartisan pro-consumer work done. You wouldn't have to worry about Chinese out competing smashed up silicon valley tech firms with Trump's trade war against china. As odd as it likely sounds, winning the trade struggle means we could have our cake and eat it. US firms wouldn't be killed off by unfair state sponsored Chinese competition but they also couldn't flex their market dominance on consumers.
Not really no, because they aren't telling me I can't buy Huawei. They are telling government employees they can't purchase for it work. Business restrict vendor options all the time for a multitude of reasons. The US government doesn't have to buy Huawei equipment if they don't want to and they don't even have to give a reason. I only buy HP servers for my business. I like to keep my data center as uniform as possible in terms of hardware, configs and support contracts. That doesn't give Dell or anyone else the right to sue us because we didn't buy their stuff. You might have a point if the government banned the importation of all Huawei products including ones for consumer use. But they didn't. And even if they did they can do that. Products have been banned from import on many occasions and for various valid reasons. And even if the security concerns weren't real (but they definitely are), a trade war is a valid reason to block products. That is essentially the entire intellectual basis for the concept of tariffs. If a country decides it doesn't want you to sell your products in their land, or if they think you are too competitive and want to handicap you versus domestic producers then it is entirely within their power and rights to do so. I should also point out this is something that China exercises every day on the US and everyone else and the entire point of this trade war is to give them a taste of their own medicine and re-balance trade between China and the US to be more fair.
When you link wiki articles remove the .m from the url. The regular url works in all situations, on a mobile device it will redirect to the mobile site, but the mobile link will always load the mobile site. Even on my 27inch display.
You just conflated conservative with hate and liberal with anti hate. The bias in your post is clear.
On windows I primarily use Notepad++, on *nix, and I'll probably get crucified for this, I use whatever the default text editor happens to be.
I want to prevent a misunderstanding and potential goal post moving in this discussion. I thought my point was clear but I'll lay it out to save us headaches. I am talking about closed down systems that rely on someone else's cloud infrastructure to work. They pull the plug and you are screwed. That is fundamentally different from purchasing your own hosting that you control. The third party host could potentially end service without warning but unless you have a really bad ToS you can usually get legal relief in that case. So no, paying for your own hosting is not the same as a locked down cloud. Ideally you should be in total control of all of the hardware and software but that isn't always practical. Especially if you need it to be hosted offsite. But last I checked these guys didn't give you the option of hosting your own server.
It could also get really annoying really fast if you just wanted to type an equation without the answer. Just think how aggravating it would be if you just wanted to type 2 + 2 and it automatically appended = 4 every time. You would then have to compensate by deleting the extra text just like you have to fight with autocomplete on smartphones.
Same here. I use it to sanitize text. If they started adding features then i could no longer use it for that. If I need more functionality in a text editor then I will use one of the countless alternatives available.
Most antivaxers are vaccinated. Their parents made them get vaccinated a long time ago. Given the age of the movement, there isn't a large overlap between people who are adults now and are also young enough to have not been vaccinated before the movement took off. So they aren't even harming themselves, they are harming their children.
The cloud is just someone else's server. That's nothing you cant do yourself with just getting offsite hosting. Your use case is also a niche explanation that doesn't address the issue with these devices and services being required to use an online service that is ethereal. In most cases service can be terminated at any time just like with these "robots" and there is nothing you can do about it.
It really is an internet of shit. Not everything needs to be connected to "the cloud". I actively avoid cloud based devices because I cant truly own them. Why would anyone spend close to $1k on something that could stop working at any time?
Well we could have had Dart but everyone said nah I like JS. And of course there is WebAssembly which seems to be the new hotness.
Maybe I misunderstand the issue but I thought the problem had more to do with the physics of the hardware and less to do with any mathematical model the system was based upon.
Ask someone who isn't familiar with medical terms what a syndrome is. At best they will tell you its a fancy word for disease. Again, you are wasting your time on pedantry.
I think 1/5th the performance is over stating it a bit. There will be an impact but we are realistically looking at more like 25%. CPU's didn't magically get 5x faster when OOO execution was introduced.
And while it is in medical terms important I think you will find that you are wasting your time. Most people equate HIV and AIDS. There isn't much you can do about it. And making a stink about it on /. where people do understand the difference wont help.
Shit like this is why so many users have disdain for AC's.
That speculative execution as a concept is flawed and insecure. Or at least the way it is understood today. Perhaps new implementations need to be developed or potentially we should just abandon the concept altogether and accept our CPUs will be a bit slower.
Also, in before f**k JavaScript. The researchers just chose to use this has a means to demonstrate the weakness in Intel processors, not a weakness in JS.
Fair enough, but still fuck javascript.
Your post is akin to saying "He wasn't cured of the common cold. He was cured of rhinovirus." A technically correct but utterly useless distinction for laypeople. AIDS is the disease caused by HIV. While it is possible to have the virus in you without it having progressed to a full outbreak that really only matters in medical terms.
I don't think Google should be filtering anything that isn't illegal. Blocking and de-platforming people you disagree with is wrong, and even if it technically doesn't violate the 1st amendment it certainly violates the spirit. Trolls are a fact of life on the internet, it used to be that people learned to grow a thicker skin, ignore them and move on. Now everyone feels like they have a right to be protected from it. I don't know where that notion came from but not only is it silly its impractical. I do draw the line at illegal activity though. I don't expect any platform to be able to 100% remove illegal activity but they have to put in a good faith effort. The laws regarding terrorists, pedos etc etc are pretty clear so there is no excuse not to remove that when providers become aware of it.
No? If the government puts in barriers that make it impossible for the free market to provide affordable housing then it isn't a failing of the market. Capitalism isn't a charity, no developer is going to provide housing at a loss and its unreasonable to expect them to. The only ones who can do that and survive are the government. If SF wants affordable housing then they have two options, either repeal and replace bad policies that made it impossible for the market to provide them or build the housing themselves at a loss.
Using USB for networking sounds like a horrible idea. The cables will be short and expensive, the infrastructure a mess and 40G ethernet (yes it is a thing) can go up to 30 meters for copper whereas copper Thunderbolt (USB 4) is limited to 3. So its inferior and pointless. Cat8 is $40 for 20m while TB3 rated USB-C is $20 for 0.5 meters. Ethernet is considerably cheaper at $2 a meter versus $40 a meter. Unless you mean making USB 4 to ethernet adapters so you can ditch the ethernet port on your machine. I definitely see that happening. Apple already has done that. I don't like it, because it quickly leads to a world of dongles but I don't see why it wouldn't carry over to PC's as well.
USB bus
Universal Serial Bus bus?
Well there is the scunthorpe problem when dealing with text communications. Some games due try to employ text filtering and it has unintended results as expected. As for filtering voice comms. How do you propose that works without massive processing and bandwidth overhead? Speech recognition isn't all that great even now and adding it to your consoles as a background filter for naughty words is going to degrade the experience to an unacceptable level. That aint happening. And of course we get to the issue of who is to say what is and is not acceptable? It's ok to say fuck on the internet. And if the game is rated T or higher it should be expected that foul language will be common. But what about all of the 10 year olds who end up playing because they have terrible irresponsible parents? Do we adults have to change our habits because some fuckwit let their kid into an adult game? Should we be punished because of that? Where does one draw the line?