The good: next year AMD start making APUs with HBM. The only thing that was holding back the iGPU was memory bandwidth. So, now they can put a 1024 shader GPU on the die and not have it starved by bandwidth.
Yeah, now you just need to get 500W out of that chip that combines a power-hungry AMD CPU with a power-hungry AMD GPU.
So customers are not raped or murdered. If you hire a ride from Joe Random taxi driver without licensing and a background check you have no assurance about the driver.
Yet there was a scandal in the UK recently when the newspapers discovered some guy had been given a taxi license despite being a convicted rapist and the licensing body knowing he was. There was another a couple of years before that about a taxi driver who'd been picking up hookers and raping them. A few months ago, there was another scandal when newspapers found some women refusing to get in taxis driven by men of a certain persuasion, because they were afraid of being raped.
When the driver of the Uber car you are in gets in a serious accident, then you will care very much about industry regulation.
How does 'industry regulation' prevent car accidents? When I worked in London, taxis were generally the most dangerous cars on the road; I was almost killed one day by a taxi driver who drove straight across a pedestrian crossing while filling out some paperwork and not looking at the road.
Statists believe everyone is as stupid as they are.
While widespread availbility of narco-yeast seems a bad idea, the only way to prevent it is a global total-surveillance totalitarian state. Which would be far worse.
Most likely the cartels are way ahead of government science in these areas, as they have a ton of money and an eager market.
Telepresence is the real threat. By the time usable driverless cars are available, there won't be much demand for them. Skip the tedious travel part, and just rent a drone wherever you want to be.
The first thing he asks me about any car I buy, going back to he 80's, is how good the stereo is. So yeah, the "car entertainment system" sells cars.
To be fair, the reason we decided not to buy one car last year was that the stereo took several minutes to start up if you plugged in a 32GB USB stick full of music. I'd be half-way to work before it started playing.
Isn't it odd? Seems like a person having a talent for something is somehow bad today. But today we seem to believe that anyone can be Einstein if only we apply ourselves.
Modern left-wing dogma is based on 'we're all the same under the skin!' and there's no inherent differences between people and some just succeed through luck so we must take all their stuff and give it to the unlucky ones.
Admit that some people just aren't as good as others at some things, and the whole scam collapses.
If it's no big deal, they're working on a non-existing problem, right? There's no need to avoid the populated areas at all.
Yes, exactly. Sonic booms from airliners have never really been a big problem, because airliners want to fly as high as possible to minimize fuel consumption. Most of the damaging booms are from military aircraft at lower altitudes.
But, unfortunately, saying 'it's no big deal' isn't good enough for the NIMBYs.
The problem is 90% or more internet users are unwilling to pay for content.
The problem is that 99% of the content on the Internet isn't worth paying for.
And finding actual, useful information on the Internet was much easier in the days when there were no ads to fund web sites that exist solely to grab search engine queries to sell advertising.
This doesn't mean it's work spending billions of dollars to get more. We can manufacture them here, cheaper than going out into orbit, much less another planet.
But these are SPACE DIAMONDS, and clearly far more likely to get you laid than those silly artificial diamonds.
Older cars were generally more reliable because there were fewer things to go wrong.
Uh, no, they weren't. You might be able to fix a 1970s car when it broke down, but they broke down a lot more. Go back to the 1930s, and there were even less things to go wrong, but you were probably doing maintenance on those things every weekend to ensure they didn't break down.
Good to see they're working on the important stuff, rather than fixing bugs. No wonder their market share is rising so fast. Oh, sorry, I meant sinking.
Installation of the windows was a factor, true, but the square windows was the primary point of failure.
The corners had higher stress than expected, which is why they were redesigned once they discovered the problem. But the cracks started from rivet holes, where the windows were incorrectly installed; AFAIR the design specified different rivets, and glue as a backup, and would probably have at least survived long enough for an engineer to notice any cracks during normal inspections, if they'd been installed that way.
The passengers in a plane do not need windows but clearly because planes have windows at considerable cost to design properly (remember the Dehavilland Comet?) there's clearly a want for them to be there.
If I remember correctly, the Comet windows were designed properly (though they turned out to have less safety margin than intended), but they weren't installed properly. And I believe the window that failed was the one used for navigation fixes, which would have been hard to live without in the days before GPS.
Your terminal -- mainframe concept sounds a bit too 70ish to me. Why should it be the future of computing now when it already failed in the 80s-90s for most uses? I really don't buy it.
Because we've had a generation of people developing for desktop machines, and now the New Shiny is the old mainframe model. In another twenty years, everyone will be abandoning it for the New Shiny of local processing after they remember why giving all your data to someone else who charges you to access it is a Really Bad Idea.
But this is Slashdot. In 13 years, we'll all be in driverless Teslas, so you'll be able to watch pr0n or post kitty pictures to Facebook for the duration of the trip.
More seriously, 'high speed rail' appears to be just a huge boondoggle to shovel money to unions. That's presumably why it's going to take so long to build; if there was real demand, no-one would want to wait thirteen years for it.
If they were required to have an auto-deploy parachute that might reduce some categories of problems
Why would any commercial enterprise in their right mind fly a big, expensive drone that would smash to pieces if it hit the ground from normal operating altitude, and not have some device to prevent it from doing so?
All that's really needed is insurance and common sense. All the FAA can do is cripple the US drone industry with pointless regulations.
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The good: next year AMD start making APUs with HBM. The only thing that was holding back the iGPU was memory bandwidth. So, now they can put a 1024 shader GPU on the die and not have it starved by bandwidth.
Yeah, now you just need to get 500W out of that chip that combines a power-hungry AMD CPU with a power-hungry AMD GPU.
So customers are not raped or murdered. If you hire a ride from Joe Random taxi driver without licensing and a background check you have no assurance about the driver.
Yet there was a scandal in the UK recently when the newspapers discovered some guy had been given a taxi license despite being a convicted rapist and the licensing body knowing he was. There was another a couple of years before that about a taxi driver who'd been picking up hookers and raping them. A few months ago, there was another scandal when newspapers found some women refusing to get in taxis driven by men of a certain persuasion, because they were afraid of being raped.
So, no, that argument doesn't work, either.
When the driver of the Uber car you are in gets in a serious accident, then you will care very much about industry regulation.
How does 'industry regulation' prevent car accidents? When I worked in London, taxis were generally the most dangerous cars on the road; I was almost killed one day by a taxi driver who drove straight across a pedestrian crossing while filling out some paperwork and not looking at the road.
Statists believe everyone is as stupid as they are.
While widespread availbility of narco-yeast seems a bad idea, the only way to prevent it is a global total-surveillance totalitarian state. Which would be far worse.
Most likely the cartels are way ahead of government science in these areas, as they have a ton of money and an eager market.
Telepresence is the real threat. By the time usable driverless cars are available, there won't be much demand for them. Skip the tedious travel part, and just rent a drone wherever you want to be.
The first thing he asks me about any car I buy, going back to he 80's, is how good the stereo is. So yeah, the "car entertainment system" sells cars.
To be fair, the reason we decided not to buy one car last year was that the stereo took several minutes to start up if you plugged in a 32GB USB stick full of music. I'd be half-way to work before it started playing.
He is supported by the establishment but has no credibility elsewhere.
Hey, it worked for Romney!
The only "guarantee" is that people will always need plumbers, electricians, and other tradespeople.
Yes, but, in ten or twenty years, Indian and Chinese plumbers will be doing that work over the Internet with plumbing drones.
Isn't it odd? Seems like a person having a talent for something is somehow bad today. But today we seem to believe that anyone can be Einstein if only we apply ourselves.
Modern left-wing dogma is based on 'we're all the same under the skin!' and there's no inherent differences between people and some just succeed through luck so we must take all their stuff and give it to the unlucky ones.
Admit that some people just aren't as good as others at some things, and the whole scam collapses.
Politicians hate freedom. Full story at 11.
If it's no big deal, they're working on a non-existing problem, right? There's no need to avoid the populated areas at all.
Yes, exactly. Sonic booms from airliners have never really been a big problem, because airliners want to fly as high as possible to minimize fuel consumption. Most of the damaging booms are from military aircraft at lower altitudes.
But, unfortunately, saying 'it's no big deal' isn't good enough for the NIMBYs.
The problem is 90% or more internet users are unwilling to pay for content.
The problem is that 99% of the content on the Internet isn't worth paying for.
And finding actual, useful information on the Internet was much easier in the days when there were no ads to fund web sites that exist solely to grab search engine queries to sell advertising.
This doesn't mean it's work spending billions of dollars to get more. We can manufacture them here, cheaper than going out into orbit, much less another planet.
But these are SPACE DIAMONDS, and clearly far more likely to get you laid than those silly artificial diamonds.
Older cars were generally more reliable because there were fewer things to go wrong.
Uh, no, they weren't. You might be able to fix a 1970s car when it broke down, but they broke down a lot more. Go back to the 1930s, and there were even less things to go wrong, but you were probably doing maintenance on those things every weekend to ensure they didn't break down.
Why connect EVERYTHING?
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
What more reason do you need?
Good to see they're working on the important stuff, rather than fixing bugs. No wonder their market share is rising so fast. Oh, sorry, I meant sinking.
Anyone else sick of driving a REAL car and NOT being able to see around super-oversized SUVs at a safe following distance?
I'm sick of driving a REAL car and NOT being able to see around your Corolla.
REAL cars have the engine in the middle, where Newton intended, and are as low as possible to reduce drag.
Installation of the windows was a factor, true, but the square windows was the primary point of failure.
The corners had higher stress than expected, which is why they were redesigned once they discovered the problem. But the cracks started from rivet holes, where the windows were incorrectly installed; AFAIR the design specified different rivets, and glue as a backup, and would probably have at least survived long enough for an engineer to notice any cracks during normal inspections, if they'd been installed that way.
The passengers in a plane do not need windows but clearly because planes have windows at considerable cost to design properly (remember the Dehavilland Comet?) there's clearly a want for them to be there.
If I remember correctly, the Comet windows were designed properly (though they turned out to have less safety margin than intended), but they weren't installed properly. And I believe the window that failed was the one used for navigation fixes, which would have been hard to live without in the days before GPS.
Your terminal -- mainframe concept sounds a bit too 70ish to me. Why should it be the future of computing now when it already failed in the 80s-90s for most uses? I really don't buy it.
Because we've had a generation of people developing for desktop machines, and now the New Shiny is the old mainframe model. In another twenty years, everyone will be abandoning it for the New Shiny of local processing after they remember why giving all your data to someone else who charges you to access it is a Really Bad Idea.
Yeah, I saw the latest Office recently. Man, what a heap of smelly stuff.
'But people won't understand menus if they're not in UPPER CASE!'
It's like they've got confused and are trying to do a Nokia on Microsoft itself.
The reason so many distros have adopted systemd is because it fills a need: it does something useful for them.
Like what?
You are aware that every form of ebook DRM is completely broken and serves no purpose other than to annoy legitimate purchasers, right?
But this is Slashdot. In 13 years, we'll all be in driverless Teslas, so you'll be able to watch pr0n or post kitty pictures to Facebook for the duration of the trip.
More seriously, 'high speed rail' appears to be just a huge boondoggle to shovel money to unions. That's presumably why it's going to take so long to build; if there was real demand, no-one would want to wait thirteen years for it.
If they were required to have an auto-deploy parachute that might reduce some categories of problems
Why would any commercial enterprise in their right mind fly a big, expensive drone that would smash to pieces if it hit the ground from normal operating altitude, and not have some device to prevent it from doing so?
All that's really needed is insurance and common sense. All the FAA can do is cripple the US drone industry with pointless regulations.