>>> How is it improving the human condition? Uh, moving transportation from a fossil fuel basis (with all the pollution, wars, etc that involves) to a sustainable basis using Solar power?
It may not be the way that you personally are improving the human condition (you are doing that, aren't you?), but it is certainly a valid way to do so.
>>> meaningless until Tesla cars can lap the world standard Nurburgring Circuit at speed. Can't remember the last time I did that.
>>> what about towing a two-axle mobile stable with two horses in it, steep uphill? I'm pretty sure that the bog-standard BMW 3-series wouldn't be particularly happy about that task either. I'm not quite sure where you'd mount the 5th-wheel hitch, either. That's why there are heavy-duty pickup trucks in the world. I guess we can revisit your challenge once the Tesla Semi is hauling 80,000 pounds around the US.
Is there a reason that you believe a mid-sized sedan should both lap the Nurburgring at speed, and pull a horse trailer?
So, we've found out in the past that some Certificate Authorities are about as trustworthy as the guy offering you Rolex's from the back of his van. At least he's open with the fact that he'll sell one to anyone.
From that, we realized that a modern browser has innumerable CAs that they trust - and any one of them can issue rogue certificates.
And now we realize that, not only do we have to worry about those, we have to recognize that, because the certificate issuance process isn't handled inside the client company, that anyone who can acquire the credentials of someone who can login to Digicert or whoever, can issue rogue certificates. And keeping credentials secret has been shown in the current world to be almost impossible.
And yet we continue to write checks to CAs for certificates that we can't trust.
>>> he's terrible at the thing an enterpreneur is supposed to excel at - generating profits.
Let's see. Typing 'Entrepreneur' into Google, I get a definition: "a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so." Well, that pretty much sums up Elon Musk.
The whole point of a book like "1984" is to explore what happens to society when Government has this level of surveillance and control. When you can't curse the "great leader" in your home without someone or something hearing you and reporting you; when you can't discuss government with your neighbors without your words being reported; when you can't gather with like-minded people to discuss ways to change the government (either within the rules, or outside them) without being arrested as a danger; when the government can identify every person in a demonstration, the age-old remedy of revolution becomes unimaginable, and society freezes into rigid authoritarianism with no viable hope to break free.
And if you believe that China is the only government teetering on the edge of this chasm, you haven't been paying attention.
>>> 3. Reduced control over a system I *own* I find this the most fascinating part of modern computing - "Here, pay me $700 for this smartphone so I can see everything you do, know everyone you know, and sell that information to anyone who'll pay me a dime for it. And, no, you're not allowed to stop me, or to even find out what information I'm collecting". Windows 10 moved that smartphone concept down to the PC. This whole concept of paying large amounts of money for something that isn't yours (because you're not allowed to make unauthorized changes to it) and that's going to be used to make money off you is so new, and so foreign, that I have trouble with it. Maybe I'm just too old. I remember when I trusted Quicken to not upload my whole financial database to Intuit for their perusal - and that now I assume that it does. I remember when I refused to get a supermarket loyalty card because I didn't like them tracking my purchases - until they implemented punitive pricing measures that "encouraged" my compliance. I remember when the concept of a car that stored my accelerations and speed for 10 seconds prior to an accident seemed like a huge invasion of privacy - and yet I have a Tesla Model 3 on order that will be able to count how many times I picked my nose on the way into work, and will likely use that information to advertise nasal sprays to me on the central display screen.
"Obsolete"? My home PC just blue screened from outrage at such a statement. Its Deneb processor from 2009 is just fine, thank you, and even ran DOOM 2016 acceptably (well, it did after I stole my son's video card). Methinks your definition of Obsolete is different than mine...
Kudos to Microsoft and Terry Myerson - great article with excellent details...
as long as you're running an Intel processor. Inquiring minds want to know where in the performance-hit list a Ryzen shows up. Does it have the " refined...instructions used to disable branch speculation to be more specific to indirect branches, reducing the overall performance penalty of the Spectre mitigation."?
Crap, that's what my home PC is running on. Guess it's time to permanently block updates... Never mind, I'm good - I'm actually running an AM3 processor (Phenom II X4). Guess it is time to go block updates, though.
>>> It boggles the mind. It does, doesn't it? I mean, as a platform, it's something you could knock together in a week or so and host on AWS. Maintain it with a ten-person team, hire a 50 person sales team, and you're good to go. What the heck are the other 3440 people doing?
Imagine that the USAF investigated a UFO report, and found credible evidence that there was a real flying craft, and that it was of alien origin.
I'd imagine their budget for following up on UFO sightings would suddenly have three zeros added to it. The supposition that this didn't happen proves they haven't found anything of interest.
There's nothing on the moon of value, and nothing to be gained from redeveloping the technologies for going there. Helium-3 is said to be in abundance - but for the hundreds of billions of dollars it'll take to get the first kilogram back to earth (not including the money necessary to build the fusion reactors to use it) we could cover Arizona in solar cells and power North America.
There are likely the same kinds of rare metals on the Moon as on Earth - without, of course, the problem of 200,000 years of humankind picking up all the obvious bits of pretty gold. Even so, the value of the rare metals is mostly artificial - having 10,000 tons of gold dropped on Earth won't enable anything that we can't do today with the gold we already have.
So, the only explanation is that this is a dick measuring contest. Our tall, thick rocket standing erect on the pad is more manly than your short skinny rocket. And, frankly, I don't want to pay for that.
After doing some investigation, I understand why the US Military decided not to allow DJI use any more.
DJI makes some really nice drones (I have a Phantom III Pro). No argument there.
However, their app is a security nightmare. Installing it leaves persistent services running on your phone forever, and those persistent services maintain open network connections to servers in China. With it's extensive list of required permissions, you basically give it complete and total control of your phone.
>>>I've often wondered how to reconcile the need for security with accessibility systems need for deep access into applications
The easiest way that springs to mind is to NOT make the accessibility features of the OS available unless the user specifically asks for them. I'm temporarily able-bodied, so I don't need such features - and preventing every app under the sun from using them makes for a more secure system. If 75% of the systems don't support accessibility, the amount of malware targeting accessibility will be vanishingly small.
That said, having accessibility "Off" be default is no excuse for app developers to not support it. Yes, you can write an app and not support accessibility - but it's an anti-social thing to do.
Once my payload gets bolted onto the top of the rocket, I don't care whether the rocket blows up in the assembly building, on the pad, or in it's way to space - if it blows up, it's a failure.
Now, for a manned mission, I really only care about failures that occur once the humans have climbed aboard.
I lived through the later Apollo missions. Watched the Space Shuttle program prove that, if you have infinite money, you can make a brick fly. Watched that excessively complicated ship come apart - twice. Watched ISS become operational, then watched us lose the ability to fly people to it. And I watched SpaceX go from blowing up rockets, to making orbit less than ten years ago, to becoming a (semi) reliable truck to the ISS, to LANDING A FREAKING ROCKET ON A BARGE, to reflying reused rockets almost casually. Age of Miracles.
Absolutely. At home, I'm running a 10 year old AMD Phenom X4, and it's only gotten noticeably slow in the last year or so (although DOOM didn't run great last year).
At work, we just upgraded our four-year old 2.6 GHz, i5 dual-core Lenovo laptops with... new 2.6 GHz, i7 dual-core Lenovo laptops.
Year-over-year performance improvements simply aren't that important these days. The massive core counts recently announced by AMD and Intel may, on the other hand, make an upgrade attractive...
I'm guessing that "most" Superchargers aren't heavily used. Those are going to be the ones that get a field of solar panels next to them, not the 20-stall beauties that average 60% utilization over 24 hours. From a PR standpoint, being able to say that "80% of our Superchargers are off-the-grid" is a beautiful thing; one can quietly ignore that the other 20% are consuming 80% of the kwh being dispensed.
Yes, but the OEMs have full control of the code in TrustZone. As an example, there are at least four different commercially available kernels that run in Trustzone, making it a PITA to support anything connected to it.
As a spec-built glider, it would be interesting to see if they considered incorporating supercaps into the structure, for example, as the center layer of any honeycomb material. You have to carry the weight anyway; replacing or augmenting something which doesn't provide power seems like a win.
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>>> How is it improving the human condition?
Uh, moving transportation from a fossil fuel basis (with all the pollution, wars, etc that involves) to a sustainable basis using Solar power?
It may not be the way that you personally are improving the human condition (you are doing that, aren't you?), but it is certainly a valid way to do so.
>>> meaningless until Tesla cars can lap the world standard Nurburgring Circuit at speed.
Can't remember the last time I did that.
>>> what about towing a two-axle mobile stable with two horses in it, steep uphill?
I'm pretty sure that the bog-standard BMW 3-series wouldn't be particularly happy about that task either. I'm not quite sure where you'd mount the 5th-wheel hitch, either. That's why there are heavy-duty pickup trucks in the world. I guess we can revisit your challenge once the Tesla Semi is hauling 80,000 pounds around the US.
Is there a reason that you believe a mid-sized sedan should both lap the Nurburgring at speed, and pull a horse trailer?
So, we've found out in the past that some Certificate Authorities are about as trustworthy as the guy offering you Rolex's from the back of his van. At least he's open with the fact that he'll sell one to anyone.
From that, we realized that a modern browser has innumerable CAs that they trust - and any one of them can issue rogue certificates.
And now we realize that, not only do we have to worry about those, we have to recognize that, because the certificate issuance process isn't handled inside the client company, that anyone who can acquire the credentials of someone who can login to Digicert or whoever, can issue rogue certificates. And keeping credentials secret has been shown in the current world to be almost impossible.
And yet we continue to write checks to CAs for certificates that we can't trust.
Incorrect, bucko, "bated" is correct.
There is an editing mistake, though, in that the "on with" should just be "with".
>>> he's terrible at the thing an enterpreneur is supposed to excel at - generating profits.
Let's see. Typing 'Entrepreneur' into Google, I get a definition: "a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so."
Well, that pretty much sums up Elon Musk.
You're the one that blurted out your ignorance like it was some point of pride.
Suck it up, buttercup.
So take your money and find a better supplier.
There's no excuse for continuing to complain about how poorly a product is being maintained, and not doing anything about it.
The whole point of a book like "1984" is to explore what happens to society when Government has this level of surveillance and control. When you can't curse the "great leader" in your home without someone or something hearing you and reporting you; when you can't discuss government with your neighbors without your words being reported; when you can't gather with like-minded people to discuss ways to change the government (either within the rules, or outside them) without being arrested as a danger; when the government can identify every person in a demonstration, the age-old remedy of revolution becomes unimaginable, and society freezes into rigid authoritarianism with no viable hope to break free.
And if you believe that China is the only government teetering on the edge of this chasm, you haven't been paying attention.
>>> 3. Reduced control over a system I *own*
I find this the most fascinating part of modern computing - "Here, pay me $700 for this smartphone so I can see everything you do, know everyone you know, and sell that information to anyone who'll pay me a dime for it. And, no, you're not allowed to stop me, or to even find out what information I'm collecting". Windows 10 moved that smartphone concept down to the PC.
This whole concept of paying large amounts of money for something that isn't yours (because you're not allowed to make unauthorized changes to it) and that's going to be used to make money off you is so new, and so foreign, that I have trouble with it. Maybe I'm just too old.
I remember when I trusted Quicken to not upload my whole financial database to Intuit for their perusal - and that now I assume that it does. I remember when I refused to get a supermarket loyalty card because I didn't like them tracking my purchases - until they implemented punitive pricing measures that "encouraged" my compliance. I remember when the concept of a car that stored my accelerations and speed for 10 seconds prior to an accident seemed like a huge invasion of privacy - and yet I have a Tesla Model 3 on order that will be able to count how many times I picked my nose on the way into work, and will likely use that information to advertise nasal sprays to me on the central display screen.
you're right; I RTFA'ed, but didn't fully RTFC. I stopped after the first phrase. I hang my head in shame...
"Obsolete"? My home PC just blue screened from outrage at such a statement. Its Deneb processor from 2009 is just fine, thank you, and even ran DOOM 2016 acceptably (well, it did after I stole my son's video card).
Methinks your definition of Obsolete is different than mine...
Kudos to Microsoft and Terry Myerson - great article with excellent details...
as long as you're running an Intel processor. Inquiring minds want to know where in the performance-hit list a Ryzen shows up. Does it have the " refined...instructions used to disable branch speculation to be more specific to indirect branches, reducing the overall performance penalty of the Spectre mitigation."?
Crap, that's what my home PC is running on. Guess it's time to permanently block updates...
Never mind, I'm good - I'm actually running an AM3 processor (Phenom II X4). Guess it is time to go block updates, though.
>>> It boggles the mind.
It does, doesn't it? I mean, as a platform, it's something you could knock together in a week or so and host on AWS. Maintain it with a ten-person team, hire a 50 person sales team, and you're good to go. What the heck are the other 3440 people doing?
Imagine that the USAF investigated a UFO report, and found credible evidence that there was a real flying craft, and that it was of alien origin.
I'd imagine their budget for following up on UFO sightings would suddenly have three zeros added to it. The supposition that this didn't happen proves they haven't found anything of interest.
Just, Why?
There's nothing on the moon of value, and nothing to be gained from redeveloping the technologies for going there. Helium-3 is said to be in abundance - but for the hundreds of billions of dollars it'll take to get the first kilogram back to earth (not including the money necessary to build the fusion reactors to use it) we could cover Arizona in solar cells and power North America.
There are likely the same kinds of rare metals on the Moon as on Earth - without, of course, the problem of 200,000 years of humankind picking up all the obvious bits of pretty gold. Even so, the value of the rare metals is mostly artificial - having 10,000 tons of gold dropped on Earth won't enable anything that we can't do today with the gold we already have.
So, the only explanation is that this is a dick measuring contest. Our tall, thick rocket standing erect on the pad is more manly than your short skinny rocket. And, frankly, I don't want to pay for that.
After doing some investigation, I understand why the US Military decided not to allow DJI use any more.
DJI makes some really nice drones (I have a Phantom III Pro). No argument there.
However, their app is a security nightmare. Installing it leaves persistent services running on your phone forever, and those persistent services maintain open network connections to servers in China. With it's extensive list of required permissions, you basically give it complete and total control of your phone.
>>>I've often wondered how to reconcile the need for security with accessibility systems need for deep access into applications
The easiest way that springs to mind is to NOT make the accessibility features of the OS available unless the user specifically asks for them. I'm temporarily able-bodied, so I don't need such features - and preventing every app under the sun from using them makes for a more secure system. If 75% of the systems don't support accessibility, the amount of malware targeting accessibility will be vanishingly small.
That said, having accessibility "Off" be default is no excuse for app developers to not support it. Yes, you can write an app and not support accessibility - but it's an anti-social thing to do.
Once my payload gets bolted onto the top of the rocket, I don't care whether the rocket blows up in the assembly building, on the pad, or in it's way to space - if it blows up, it's a failure.
Now, for a manned mission, I really only care about failures that occur once the humans have climbed aboard.
I lived through the later Apollo missions. Watched the Space Shuttle program prove that, if you have infinite money, you can make a brick fly. Watched that excessively complicated ship come apart - twice.
Watched ISS become operational, then watched us lose the ability to fly people to it.
And I watched SpaceX go from blowing up rockets, to making orbit less than ten years ago, to becoming a (semi) reliable truck to the ISS, to LANDING A FREAKING ROCKET ON A BARGE, to reflying reused rockets almost casually.
Age of Miracles.
Absolutely. At home, I'm running a 10 year old AMD Phenom X4, and it's only gotten noticeably slow in the last year or so (although DOOM didn't run great last year).
At work, we just upgraded our four-year old 2.6 GHz, i5 dual-core Lenovo laptops with... new 2.6 GHz, i7 dual-core Lenovo laptops.
Year-over-year performance improvements simply aren't that important these days. The massive core counts recently announced by AMD and Intel may, on the other hand, make an upgrade attractive...
I'm guessing that "most" Superchargers aren't heavily used. Those are going to be the ones that get a field of solar panels next to them, not the 20-stall beauties that average 60% utilization over 24 hours.
From a PR standpoint, being able to say that "80% of our Superchargers are off-the-grid" is a beautiful thing; one can quietly ignore that the other 20% are consuming 80% of the kwh being dispensed.
Yes, but the OEMs have full control of the code in TrustZone. As an example, there are at least four different commercially available kernels that run in Trustzone, making it a PITA to support anything connected to it.
As a spec-built glider, it would be interesting to see if they considered incorporating supercaps into the structure, for example, as the center layer of any honeycomb material. You have to carry the weight anyway; replacing or augmenting something which doesn't provide power seems like a win.
And what instruction set do you believe the Intel ME runs? Hint: It's not x86.