A decade ago? 1TB to 4TB, you think that is normal? 1TB should have gone to 256-512TB in half that time and we would easily have 1PB+ drives if manufacturers weren't milking everything they can out of the current line-up.
It's pretty flat compared to the increased density the manufacturers have actually produced, only to then deploy it at rape the enterprise level pricing.
"The 3 DRAM makers have shown a very rational approach to increasing DRAM production — they try to prevent oversupply and keep margins up."
Which is good for nobody... including them. Producing and selling twice the product for the same profit is neutral for the manufacturer and twice as good for absolutely everyone else (except their competitor).
The manufacturing latest developed technologies produce Petabytes of ssd for similar costs. Don't confuse the artificially restricted supply we've been seeing with actual supply.
Yes alongside the crimes regarding 10gb nics... I'm sorry is 10+ yrs of this technology commonplace in thousands of datacenter systems and massive transistor density increases still not enough for 10gb nics to be the slowest you see... period. Can someone explain to me why the $300 ultra high end cpu's of a few years ago are now 4x+ that price for the same tier? Must be all these improvements in density and reduction in manufacturing cost.
There is collusion as well. At any point the manufacturers could scrap their timelines and go directly to retooling for the their most advanced and highest density technologies, they don't. Instead they give ground inch-by-inch in a tug of war with their competitors. This isn't surprising, you don't dump out your latest generation tech at 1000x the density when you can make dozens of small increments in between and your competitors don't have anything on their roadmaps dramatically better. It isn't so much that the dramatically superior tech is ready to go, it's that it could be ready to go in 6 months and unless the competiton forces them to they won't get serious about getting it there until 5.6yrs from now. The competition won't because you don't know need to collude to know you all make more money this way.
"3). Soft on Russian aggression. "The Russians know us and we know them." Wow, by this logic, every dictatorship is A-OK!"
By this logic every nation we interact with has to governed and have the same moral, ethical, and philosophical ideals we do. Talk about isolationist. A democracy can be worse than a dictatorship but that doesn't really matter, when talking about whether we want to deal with a government what matters is leverage and mutual interests and those thing have pretty much nothing to do with social issues.
"By undermining Europe, by undermining NATO"
NATO is US. You do know that right? NATO is our political tool we drag it out with only token gestures required from other countries so we can claim our global political actions are multi-national efforts.
"What exactly would you call this right wing American attitude towards the Europeans? Sounds pompous to me."
A common attitude in Europe is to avoid admitting ignorance so you can create the false appearance of knowing more than you do, combined with the assertion you should always know the answer and therefore it isn't false. That is hubris and pompousity. Pretending superiority on the basis of education rather than actual intelligence is hubris, there are plenty educated idiots in the world and poorly educated genuises. Would you have tossed aside Einsteins paper if he'd misspelled words, mixed up a political timeline, or admitted to not being familiar with the location of a river halfway across the world? If so, you are pompous as well.
That's a strong term, more of a modest lead. It also isn't a metric that is likely to remain especially relevant going forward though its relevance will probably last longer than the current generation chips it isn't likely to last long enough for ARM to catch up with either.
You might be right about their shareholders but not the technology. The market is just slow to shift. AMD's gains are because like Apple through the dark years there remain a number of people in technology who remember the last time AMD was on top. But the fact is, that last time was a very long time ago and comparatively AMD's superior chips have only held the lead for a short time. Intel's brand and reputation as the market leader combined with the entrenched optimization for their chips that has built up while they were in the lead is what drives their sales at the moment.
AMD is competitive with them on single thread and beats them hands down overall at dramatically lower prices. They'll need to maintain or improve on that in subsequent generations to win the show and Intel is beloved of institutional investors who love to play games with destabilizing AMD stock. That said, they already hold 6 of the top 10 spots on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-Computer-CPU-Processors/zgbs/electronics/229189
"Liberals believe people are generally good, and want to encourage cooperation. Conservatives think people are generally bad, and want to focus on protecting themselves."
Actually one side pretends people are generally good and says avoiding trusting those who advocate that idea with lots of central power to do good is crazy and paranoid. The other exploits paranoia built on the simple but blindingly obvious truth that everyone doesn't need to be bad if anyone is bad it is a bad idea to leave your door open for them. Both want you terrified and extreme because terrified and extreme people have a hard time banding together and since both groups are two sides a single coin in power their constituents coming together in the numbers required to do something else is a terrifying thought.
Why do you think you started hearing that Trump was a dictator on CNN before he even had sworn in? Why do you think Colbert goes on the late show (which is normally neutral politically) and narrates even sensible actions on the part of Trump with an idiot voice and sneer? Trump isn't one of us, he is a rich asshole who never had to become more socially mature than every rich asshole was in the 80's, but he also clearly isn't one of them. Anything he screws up is just collateral damage.
If the GP essentially saying "he isn't actually Hitler or Vlad's bitch" has become "praise him profusely" I think you seriously need to re-calibrate your bias meter before going around judging what is and is not "appear reasonable."
You do if every CEO comes out of a set of ivy league CEO factories that churn out as many flavors as there are McNugget shapes. Trumps purpose is to be steel wire tossed into the CEO stamper, his purpose is to break the damn machine and thereby disrupt the stranglehold of not only the shapes but the factory as well. We don't have to beat them entirely, we just have to disrupt their system enough to screw up their plans.
I didn't vote for Trump but I do understand the people who did... the 49% of the country who aren't from the cities or educated in them.
"The problem is that Trump makes policy by shooting from the hip, with no consideration for the ramifications of it. Nobody does any analysis or planning, just suddenly there is a bad policy dumped one everyone."
And if there are problems you adjust the policy. People can't agree on anything and nobody is happy with the existing policy. He might have character flaws but he certainly hasn't actually done any worse than the last few. There is one thing different though, every good and bad move he makes is being narrated on the late show in a mocking voice and since he's been in office CNN has shown the same level of journalistic integrity of Rush and Hannity.
"The problem is other countries might decide this is an Unfriendly Act (which is diplomat speak for 'we don't like what you're doing and we're monitoring it'), and if escalates to a Hostile Act (which is diplomat speak for 'now we're really pissed off and things are going to get messy')."
No, they won't and they can't. Maybe you think it is bad form to throw our weight around but we DO have the military and economic weight to throw around. The biggest complainers are Europe but their opinions amount to hot air and have virtually zero impact on the US. They can't do anything more than talk very smugly and disapprovingly about us but more importantly their pomposity doesn't leave room for trying in the first place. The leaves Russia and China, the minute any of these three parties starts looking legitimately hostile without valid cause the other party will move to take advantage. At the end of the day we have enough military power to take on either and while they may or may not agree all three know the damage from the fight isn't worth it.
Frankly the Russians are the last people we need to worry about. We had a relationship with Russian leaders throughout the cold war and on. The Russians know us and we know them. It's like VISA and Mastercard, one actually visibly winning would be bad for both and why when they can pretend adversity and use it secure more power domestically and abroad. Russia actually tried to help the US when Obama's expanded off shore drilling resulted in the decimation of the Gulf of Mexico. Russian alleged "interference" in the elections was mostly just revealing a bunch of crooked stuff one party and candidate was up to... that is hardly malicious and thanks to citizens united there was definitely at least as much interference from other countries using corporate financial interests to dump money in Clinton's superpac and likely tech companies overtly working to benefit her.
Yes, in the sense that your old malware scanner cleaned up THOUSANDS of infections!!!! Automated script kiddie attacks are what happen all the time. As a professional working in enterprise scale security I assure you, we have automated defenses and snake oil deployed and not in that order. The problem with tight security is that you'd need more dedicated security people than employees, they'd need to be experts on every single system of the dozens or hundreds deployed in your organization as well as with every scripting/programming language those systems speak, oh and of course they need to all be experts on those things from a security perspective, oh and they need to be black hats as well so they know about as many zero days as possible, oh and they all need to have permissions so restrictive that nobody can work, oh and they all need to know every aspect of the system they can correlate everything correctly, oh and they need to be heavily silo'd and divided so they can't see enough of the picture to be a risk...
And THAT is why cyber security and defense is a fucking joke and everybody looks to have their drawers around their ankles when they come under scrutiny, there is no amount of money and effort that can accomplish it in a large organization, period. Cyber offense on the other hand is actually relatively easy.
Yes they did. I suggest the OP at least watch Snowden for a very inside scoop on how that went down. But in fairness DOMESTIC electronic espionage was the biggest growth area under Obama while he put in policies reducing electronic espionage in foreign powers.
I'd be more impressed if they were targeting AMD's overall performance and cost. Intel's qualifier of single thread performance doesn't become any less a way to avoid admitting they are behind just because ARM is repeating it.
Too often that part of things like this is "intention" and not hard coded into the directives and policies. I want the rules to explicitly block the things the potential uses that aren't part the justification/spin tyvm.
I don't agree with this position but I don't agree with it being moderated into non-existence either. Rather battling with a modpoint I'll comment so others can consider if they are modding appropriately.
You do have a valid point but healthcare costs in the US have reached insane levels that are impossible to excuse. Conservatives are right in that expenses like this DO have to be made up. Liberals are right in that doctors given this pass WILL take the money and run because they can with a few altruistic exceptions. Even if it were all altruistic exceptions it would leave a loophole open to abuse and it is just a matter of time before it became abused.
Where this makes a difference is that it robs medicine of one of it's major excuses for the insane rates and prices Americans are being charged and as long as we leave them excuses there won't be enough bi-partisan support in the political and private sectors to actually come together and do something about it.
You can't do something about this without bi-partisan efforts both public and private because there are abuses at almost every level and there is some truth to the talking points on every side. The same regulation meant to keep this industry safe is being used to grant legal immunity and prevent competition. People from the industry have to be involved to make sane regulation but those people are corrupted by the industry. People without healthcare coverage or with ineffective coverage are slamming the ER's and driving up prices through the roof and that includes illegal immigrants.
Something has to give because extreme positions on every issue are resulting in a vicious cycle that feeds on itself. We need to break that cycle so costs can go down, healthcare pricing needs to race to the bottom for awhile. It's one thing to say we have better healthcare and it costs more than a public system but a broken arm requires 15hrs+ wait in an ER and a several thousand dollar bill both from the hospital and the ER (remember a few years back when the doctor was paid by the hospital?).
Maybe you oppose a public healthcare option because it would cost too much but you can't deny your argument should be weaker than it is because the gap shouldn't be this insane. Those who do want a public option, you might not find as much opposition from those in a better financial position if you were proposing investment in reducing overall healthcare costs and closing those gaps. A capital investment to help restructure is a different animal than arguing people shouldn't ultimately carry their own weight in the end.
It's not really about what I believe it is about the direction something can go and making sure everyone is suitably paranoid so they shut down avenues that lead to government overreach before they are a problem. Once the government gets away with granting themselves power they never take it away or stop there because the people ultimately have only two options, ask them to pretty please respect the rules that say they can't do that or engage in violent revolt.
The person who shoots an innocent citizen is most likely to be a police officer or a spouse. You should always be doubly skeptical of what you trust, it is true in science and it is true in life.
I haven't thoroughly reviewed everything in the paper but I did scan it and the hardware used was off the shelf wifi cards, the rig was no more specialized than what you'd see geeks playing with in vans roaming around vegas at defcon and it was indicated that all that was needed was a commodity wifi device with 2-3 antennas. Although there are images of the setups they tested on and I could have missed it skimming, I didn't see any explicit mention of distances or range.
The concern isn't what a handful of students are doing right now, the important thing is to raise enough alarm bells to incite proper level of paranoia and panic so that even a whiff of someone advancing down that avenue is met with appropriate outrage and shut down.
This technology is using a frequency range that is poorly suited to it to detect physical properties, motion, and even chemical composition. Where do you think that leads with 5-10 years of advancement and crazy fast learning AI? It can do so through physical obstructions like bags, there are other projects to perform imaging and motion tracking with wifi.
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A decade ago? 1TB to 4TB, you think that is normal? 1TB should have gone to 256-512TB in half that time and we would easily have 1PB+ drives if manufacturers weren't milking everything they can out of the current line-up.
It's pretty flat compared to the increased density the manufacturers have actually produced, only to then deploy it at rape the enterprise level pricing.
"The 3 DRAM makers have shown a very rational approach to increasing DRAM production — they try to prevent oversupply and keep margins up."
Which is good for nobody... including them. Producing and selling twice the product for the same profit is neutral for the manufacturer and twice as good for absolutely everyone else (except their competitor).
The manufacturing latest developed technologies produce Petabytes of ssd for similar costs. Don't confuse the artificially restricted supply we've been seeing with actual supply.
Looking forward to spending under $100 for a 100tb m2 laptop drive.
Yes alongside the crimes regarding 10gb nics... I'm sorry is 10+ yrs of this technology commonplace in thousands of datacenter systems and massive transistor density increases still not enough for 10gb nics to be the slowest you see... period. Can someone explain to me why the $300 ultra high end cpu's of a few years ago are now 4x+ that price for the same tier? Must be all these improvements in density and reduction in manufacturing cost.
There is collusion as well. At any point the manufacturers could scrap their timelines and go directly to retooling for the their most advanced and highest density technologies, they don't. Instead they give ground inch-by-inch in a tug of war with their competitors. This isn't surprising, you don't dump out your latest generation tech at 1000x the density when you can make dozens of small increments in between and your competitors don't have anything on their roadmaps dramatically better. It isn't so much that the dramatically superior tech is ready to go, it's that it could be ready to go in 6 months and unless the competiton forces them to they won't get serious about getting it there until 5.6yrs from now. The competition won't because you don't know need to collude to know you all make more money this way.
Not every flying game is a flight simulator... there are really only two consumer flight sims worth mentioning and that isn't on the list.
Love killing the messenger much?
"3). Soft on Russian aggression. "The Russians know us and we know them." Wow, by this logic, every dictatorship is A-OK!"
By this logic every nation we interact with has to governed and have the same moral, ethical, and philosophical ideals we do. Talk about isolationist. A democracy can be worse than a dictatorship but that doesn't really matter, when talking about whether we want to deal with a government what matters is leverage and mutual interests and those thing have pretty much nothing to do with social issues.
"By undermining Europe, by undermining NATO"
NATO is US. You do know that right? NATO is our political tool we drag it out with only token gestures required from other countries so we can claim our global political actions are multi-national efforts.
"What exactly would you call this right wing American attitude towards the Europeans? Sounds pompous to me."
A common attitude in Europe is to avoid admitting ignorance so you can create the false appearance of knowing more than you do, combined with the assertion you should always know the answer and therefore it isn't false. That is hubris and pompousity. Pretending superiority on the basis of education rather than actual intelligence is hubris, there are plenty educated idiots in the world and poorly educated genuises. Would you have tossed aside Einsteins paper if he'd misspelled words, mixed up a political timeline, or admitted to not being familiar with the location of a river halfway across the world? If so, you are pompous as well.
"significant lead"
That's a strong term, more of a modest lead. It also isn't a metric that is likely to remain especially relevant going forward though its relevance will probably last longer than the current generation chips it isn't likely to last long enough for ARM to catch up with either.
You might be right about their shareholders but not the technology. The market is just slow to shift. AMD's gains are because like Apple through the dark years there remain a number of people in technology who remember the last time AMD was on top. But the fact is, that last time was a very long time ago and comparatively AMD's superior chips have only held the lead for a short time. Intel's brand and reputation as the market leader combined with the entrenched optimization for their chips that has built up while they were in the lead is what drives their sales at the moment.
AMD is competitive with them on single thread and beats them hands down overall at dramatically lower prices. They'll need to maintain or improve on that in subsequent generations to win the show and Intel is beloved of institutional investors who love to play games with destabilizing AMD stock. That said, they already hold 6 of the top 10 spots on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Electronics-Computer-CPU-Processors/zgbs/electronics/229189
The government has never hesitated to go on the offensive to protect the copyright cartels before... why would it be different now?
"Liberals believe people are generally good, and want to encourage cooperation.
Conservatives think people are generally bad, and want to focus on protecting themselves."
Actually one side pretends people are generally good and says avoiding trusting those who advocate that idea with lots of central power to do good is crazy and paranoid. The other exploits paranoia built on the simple but blindingly obvious truth that everyone doesn't need to be bad if anyone is bad it is a bad idea to leave your door open for them. Both want you terrified and extreme because terrified and extreme people have a hard time banding together and since both groups are two sides a single coin in power their constituents coming together in the numbers required to do something else is a terrifying thought.
Why do you think you started hearing that Trump was a dictator on CNN before he even had sworn in? Why do you think Colbert goes on the late show (which is normally neutral politically) and narrates even sensible actions on the part of Trump with an idiot voice and sneer? Trump isn't one of us, he is a rich asshole who never had to become more socially mature than every rich asshole was in the 80's, but he also clearly isn't one of them. Anything he screws up is just collateral damage.
If the GP essentially saying "he isn't actually Hitler or Vlad's bitch" has become "praise him profusely" I think you seriously need to re-calibrate your bias meter before going around judging what is and is not "appear reasonable."
If "You had a stable democracy which was improving incrementally." That wouldn't be a problem.
You do if every CEO comes out of a set of ivy league CEO factories that churn out as many flavors as there are McNugget shapes. Trumps purpose is to be steel wire tossed into the CEO stamper, his purpose is to break the damn machine and thereby disrupt the stranglehold of not only the shapes but the factory as well. We don't have to beat them entirely, we just have to disrupt their system enough to screw up their plans.
I didn't vote for Trump but I do understand the people who did... the 49% of the country who aren't from the cities or educated in them.
"The problem is that Trump makes policy by shooting from the hip, with no consideration for the ramifications of it. Nobody does any analysis or planning, just suddenly there is a bad policy dumped one everyone."
And if there are problems you adjust the policy. People can't agree on anything and nobody is happy with the existing policy. He might have character flaws but he certainly hasn't actually done any worse than the last few. There is one thing different though, every good and bad move he makes is being narrated on the late show in a mocking voice and since he's been in office CNN has shown the same level of journalistic integrity of Rush and Hannity.
"The problem is other countries might decide this is an Unfriendly Act (which is diplomat speak for 'we don't like what you're doing and we're monitoring it'), and if escalates to a Hostile Act (which is diplomat speak for 'now we're really pissed off and things are going to get messy')."
No, they won't and they can't. Maybe you think it is bad form to throw our weight around but we DO have the military and economic weight to throw around. The biggest complainers are Europe but their opinions amount to hot air and have virtually zero impact on the US. They can't do anything more than talk very smugly and disapprovingly about us but more importantly their pomposity doesn't leave room for trying in the first place. The leaves Russia and China, the minute any of these three parties starts looking legitimately hostile without valid cause the other party will move to take advantage. At the end of the day we have enough military power to take on either and while they may or may not agree all three know the damage from the fight isn't worth it.
Frankly the Russians are the last people we need to worry about. We had a relationship with Russian leaders throughout the cold war and on. The Russians know us and we know them. It's like VISA and Mastercard, one actually visibly winning would be bad for both and why when they can pretend adversity and use it secure more power domestically and abroad. Russia actually tried to help the US when Obama's expanded off shore drilling resulted in the decimation of the Gulf of Mexico. Russian alleged "interference" in the elections was mostly just revealing a bunch of crooked stuff one party and candidate was up to... that is hardly malicious and thanks to citizens united there was definitely at least as much interference from other countries using corporate financial interests to dump money in Clinton's superpac and likely tech companies overtly working to benefit her.
Yes, in the sense that your old malware scanner cleaned up THOUSANDS of infections!!!! Automated script kiddie attacks are what happen all the time. As a professional working in enterprise scale security I assure you, we have automated defenses and snake oil deployed and not in that order. The problem with tight security is that you'd need more dedicated security people than employees, they'd need to be experts on every single system of the dozens or hundreds deployed in your organization as well as with every scripting/programming language those systems speak, oh and of course they need to all be experts on those things from a security perspective, oh and they need to be black hats as well so they know about as many zero days as possible, oh and they all need to have permissions so restrictive that nobody can work, oh and they all need to know every aspect of the system they can correlate everything correctly, oh and they need to be heavily silo'd and divided so they can't see enough of the picture to be a risk...
And THAT is why cyber security and defense is a fucking joke and everybody looks to have their drawers around their ankles when they come under scrutiny, there is no amount of money and effort that can accomplish it in a large organization, period. Cyber offense on the other hand is actually relatively easy.
Yes they did. I suggest the OP at least watch Snowden for a very inside scoop on how that went down. But in fairness DOMESTIC electronic espionage was the biggest growth area under Obama while he put in policies reducing electronic espionage in foreign powers.
Depends on how you define PC chip dominance. AMD is second in marketshare, they are currently in first place in actual cost and chip performance.
I'd be more impressed if they were targeting AMD's overall performance and cost. Intel's qualifier of single thread performance doesn't become any less a way to avoid admitting they are behind just because ARM is repeating it.
Too often that part of things like this is "intention" and not hard coded into the directives and policies. I want the rules to explicitly block the things the potential uses that aren't part the justification/spin tyvm.
I don't agree with this position but I don't agree with it being moderated into non-existence either. Rather battling with a modpoint I'll comment so others can consider if they are modding appropriately.
You do have a valid point but healthcare costs in the US have reached insane levels that are impossible to excuse. Conservatives are right in that expenses like this DO have to be made up. Liberals are right in that doctors given this pass WILL take the money and run because they can with a few altruistic exceptions. Even if it were all altruistic exceptions it would leave a loophole open to abuse and it is just a matter of time before it became abused.
Where this makes a difference is that it robs medicine of one of it's major excuses for the insane rates and prices Americans are being charged and as long as we leave them excuses there won't be enough bi-partisan support in the political and private sectors to actually come together and do something about it.
You can't do something about this without bi-partisan efforts both public and private because there are abuses at almost every level and there is some truth to the talking points on every side. The same regulation meant to keep this industry safe is being used to grant legal immunity and prevent competition. People from the industry have to be involved to make sane regulation but those people are corrupted by the industry. People without healthcare coverage or with ineffective coverage are slamming the ER's and driving up prices through the roof and that includes illegal immigrants.
Something has to give because extreme positions on every issue are resulting in a vicious cycle that feeds on itself. We need to break that cycle so costs can go down, healthcare pricing needs to race to the bottom for awhile. It's one thing to say we have better healthcare and it costs more than a public system but a broken arm requires 15hrs+ wait in an ER and a several thousand dollar bill both from the hospital and the ER (remember a few years back when the doctor was paid by the hospital?).
Maybe you oppose a public healthcare option because it would cost too much but you can't deny your argument should be weaker than it is because the gap shouldn't be this insane. Those who do want a public option, you might not find as much opposition from those in a better financial position if you were proposing investment in reducing overall healthcare costs and closing those gaps. A capital investment to help restructure is a different animal than arguing people shouldn't ultimately carry their own weight in the end.
It's not really about what I believe it is about the direction something can go and making sure everyone is suitably paranoid so they shut down avenues that lead to government overreach before they are a problem. Once the government gets away with granting themselves power they never take it away or stop there because the people ultimately have only two options, ask them to pretty please respect the rules that say they can't do that or engage in violent revolt.
The person who shoots an innocent citizen is most likely to be a police officer or a spouse. You should always be doubly skeptical of what you trust, it is true in science and it is true in life.
I haven't thoroughly reviewed everything in the paper but I did scan it and the hardware used was off the shelf wifi cards, the rig was no more specialized than what you'd see geeks playing with in vans roaming around vegas at defcon and it was indicated that all that was needed was a commodity wifi device with 2-3 antennas. Although there are images of the setups they tested on and I could have missed it skimming, I didn't see any explicit mention of distances or range.
The concern isn't what a handful of students are doing right now, the important thing is to raise enough alarm bells to incite proper level of paranoia and panic so that even a whiff of someone advancing down that avenue is met with appropriate outrage and shut down.
This technology is using a frequency range that is poorly suited to it to detect physical properties, motion, and even chemical composition. Where do you think that leads with 5-10 years of advancement and crazy fast learning AI? It can do so through physical obstructions like bags, there are other projects to perform imaging and motion tracking with wifi.