Microsoft *almost* lost their Lindows case in a big way because of that.
Microsoft did lose their Lindows case... Well, they paid Lindows way more than the entire company was worth just so that they don't persue the case through the end, so they technicaly didn't lose. But they lost.
Anyway, I recall they lost it because "window" is a common word in the context of GUIs. While common words are allowed if they are used out of their contexts.
Maybe I'm a radical, or something, but if I were to buy a sentient AI for a factory, I'd choose one that wanted to work on a factory above anything else.
Thus, if I were to design an AI for selling for a facctory, I'd design one that wanted to work on a factory above all else.
And if I were to design an AI that would create an AI for selling for a factory...
The population boom was caused by a weakening in nearly all the selective pressures on humans. That's why it was a boom.
But nowadays a new selection pressure, unfavorable to inteligence has appeared. It did last for 2 or 3 generations already (depending on where you look).
They probably do, and even if they don't, you can always get a snapshot of the time they distributed it (if so, you can go all the way back into the time it used to work). It is free software, what means it can't be just revoked.
Now, why would he choose to run slashcode, I can't even imagine.
As everybody already said, they have the entire kernel in common.
Also, there are mainly 3 varieties of Linux out there (at least plugged at the net), GNU/Linux, BusyBox/Linux, and Android. Linux isn't not even nearly as diverse as most people claim.
The paper table of codes that is used by some banks is way safer, more reliable, and somewhat cheaper than the SMS code. Also, it is about as much easy to use as the SMS code. Yet, lots of banks prefer SMS.
This equals to approximately 1 injury per 100,000 Buckyball sets
Dogs are statistically over 120 times more dangerous Tennis injuries are 1,228 times more dangerous Soccer, Cheerleading, poisoning through common household chemicals are all over 1,000 times more dangerous. Skateboarding is 890 times more dangerous.
And, yet, authorities expect airplanes to be at least 10 times safer (The US is roughly 30 times safer, my country, Brazil is right within the mark), and there is a public outcry everytime an acident happens.
We can't calculate probabilities, we can't discern how dangerous something is, we can't make rational decisions most of the time. Evolution took a lot of shortcuts in our brain, and we act like if we were great on all those things.
Why? Apple damaged Samsung's brand a lot when they made a media campaign stating that Samsung copied them. It is fair that they now must fix it, telling everybody that they lied.
"We" like Google and Samsung because they don't do such kind of thing. "We" got mad at Apple only when they started to do that. You must go check your belived causality. If the roles reversed, I'm pretty sure nearly everybody here would be rooting for Apple, and you'd be complaining that if it were Apple that did that, we'd be laughing.
Also, you are conflating a BSD distributor against a Linux distributor, and claiming that we are partial because of Linux. That's just ridiculous.
How to spot an article written by a matematician: That definition is perfectly correct. Altough, a lay-person will be misled by it, thinking that symbolic computation is just one of its applications (the one the author uses more).
The same way that a computer can only work with numbers, but we abstract those and think about an image or sound wave, we also often abstract the symbolic algebra, and think about text and data objects.
GPUs are built for numerical computation. They are just terrible at branching, and thus, can't deal with complex data.
ARM has smaller cores than x86, that use less power each. That means you can fit more ARM cores at the same space and same price. If the performance is comparable (what we don't know yet, but isn't an unreasonable assumption), an ARM chip will be able to process hightly paralelizable symbolic tasks faster than an equivalent priced x86 chip.
If this thing does crypto well, I could use a quad-core ARM chip at home.
But I doubt those chips are targeted at home or small business. They'll probably have much more than 4 cores, to achieve similar throughput to the current x86 offerings.
So, where is ARM supposed to actually fit in that grand scheme of server chip?
At hightly paralelizable symbolic processing. Like the GP said, that is most of what servers do nowadays: webserver, database manager (to a lesser extent), network filtering and caching, and a lot of other things.
I guess the bigest question is: How well will those new chips handle cryptography?
For the civilization who did do it, wouldn't that argument be just as valid?
Well, the same would apply for any civilization appearing now. Keep in mind that our solar system is a newcomer, most of the other ones at our galaxy are more than 2 billion years older than it. Most of the others are something from 0,5 to 2 bilion years older... A very tiny minority has the same age or is younger than it.
A civilization appearing on one of the first metalic stars out there wouldn't ask this question.
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Yet, this time Apple has a patent on displaying characters on a screen.
Find a way around that.
Microsoft did lose their Lindows case... Well, they paid Lindows way more than the entire company was worth just so that they don't persue the case through the end, so they technicaly didn't lose. But they lost.
Anyway, I recall they lost it because "window" is a common word in the context of GUIs. While common words are allowed if they are used out of their contexts.
No. It's good for Android.
Altough, that is one of the few cases of a thing tht is good for Android, but isn't good in general.
Maybe I'm a radical, or something, but if I were to buy a sentient AI for a factory, I'd choose one that wanted to work on a factory above anything else.
Thus, if I were to design an AI for selling for a facctory, I'd design one that wanted to work on a factory above all else.
And if I were to design an AI that would create an AI for selling for a factory...
What? You noticed that it can't work?
Humans are hightly inneficient converters of energy into labor. Robots can with with much less energy.
The population boom was caused by a weakening in nearly all the selective pressures on humans. That's why it was a boom.
But nowadays a new selection pressure, unfavorable to inteligence has appeared. It did last for 2 or 3 generations already (depending on where you look).
Or is it only fit for a virtual machine?
They probably do, and even if they don't, you can always get a snapshot of the time they distributed it (if so, you can go all the way back into the time it used to work). It is free software, what means it can't be just revoked.
Now, why would he choose to run slashcode, I can't even imagine.
As everybody already said, they have the entire kernel in common.
Also, there are mainly 3 varieties of Linux out there (at least plugged at the net), GNU/Linux, BusyBox/Linux, and Android. Linux isn't not even nearly as diverse as most people claim.
Eh... What?!
Does it cost a truckload of money, or can any nerd in a garage build it? I didn't get your point.
Last time I looked, a phone was a piece of harware.
Did you notice that TFA is about a new architecture from ARM?
The comment was not only about Samsung, there are other manufacturers tooling their fabs for this new architecture. But nobody is producing it yet.
It's still dificult to understand.
The paper table of codes that is used by some banks is way safer, more reliable, and somewhat cheaper than the SMS code. Also, it is about as much easy to use as the SMS code. Yet, lots of banks prefer SMS.
I blame MBAs for that.
Samsung didn't start to produce this chip yet, how do you expect Facebook, Google, Amazon and others to use it?
We, humans, are funny.
And, yet, authorities expect airplanes to be at least 10 times safer (The US is roughly 30 times safer, my country, Brazil is right within the mark), and there is a public outcry everytime an acident happens.
We can't calculate probabilities, we can't discern how dangerous something is, we can't make rational decisions most of the time. Evolution took a lot of shortcuts in our brain, and we act like if we were great on all those things.
Kids put everything in their mounth, that's simple the way it is. It is also not the fault of parents if their kids swallow something.
What is the fault of the parents is they letting their kids play with dangerous stuff.
All that is true. But people still dream of going into the US and oppening a small business.
In most of the world, people envy that 30 minute head start, and wish they had so much time.
Why? Apple damaged Samsung's brand a lot when they made a media campaign stating that Samsung copied them. It is fair that they now must fix it, telling everybody that they lied.
I'll bite.
"We" like Google and Samsung because they don't do such kind of thing. "We" got mad at Apple only when they started to do that. You must go check your belived causality. If the roles reversed, I'm pretty sure nearly everybody here would be rooting for Apple, and you'd be complaining that if it were Apple that did that, we'd be laughing.
Also, you are conflating a BSD distributor against a Linux distributor, and claiming that we are partial because of Linux. That's just ridiculous.
How to spot an article written by a matematician: That definition is perfectly correct. Altough, a lay-person will be misled by it, thinking that symbolic computation is just one of its applications (the one the author uses more).
The same way that a computer can only work with numbers, but we abstract those and think about an image or sound wave, we also often abstract the symbolic algebra, and think about text and data objects.
GPUs are built for numerical computation. They are just terrible at branching, and thus, can't deal with complex data.
ARM has smaller cores than x86, that use less power each. That means you can fit more ARM cores at the same space and same price. If the performance is comparable (what we don't know yet, but isn't an unreasonable assumption), an ARM chip will be able to process hightly paralelizable symbolic tasks faster than an equivalent priced x86 chip.
By all means, what do you understand by "symbolic processing"?
No, GPUs don't rule at that. (And crypto is not symbolic processin, thus it is an open question.)
If this thing does crypto well, I could use a quad-core ARM chip at home.
But I doubt those chips are targeted at home or small business. They'll probably have much more than 4 cores, to achieve similar throughput to the current x86 offerings.
At hightly paralelizable symbolic processing. Like the GP said, that is most of what servers do nowadays: webserver, database manager (to a lesser extent), network filtering and caching, and a lot of other things.
I guess the bigest question is: How well will those new chips handle cryptography?
Well, the same would apply for any civilization appearing now. Keep in mind that our solar system is a newcomer, most of the other ones at our galaxy are more than 2 billion years older than it. Most of the others are something from 0,5 to 2 bilion years older... A very tiny minority has the same age or is younger than it.
A civilization appearing on one of the first metalic stars out there wouldn't ask this question.