But what happens when cheaper, more power efficient ARM chips are powerful enough for desktops and laptops?
When ARM chips become powerful enough to challenge Intel on the desktop they won't be cheap and power efficient any more. ARM is arguably having more trouble leaving the mobile world than Intel is entering it.
Anyway, the submitter is trying to steal a base by pretending x86 can't dominate mobiles because it hasn't already. ARM is in the same position AMD found itself a decade ago - it has a line of superior designs but faces in Intel a competitor with unmatched manufacturing prowess that can fail time after time but only has to win once.
So much idiocy in such a short comment. For one thing, we didn't invade Iraq because of the 9/11 attacks. For another, we haven't "destroyed" any countries. We invaded Afghanistan because their malignant excuse for a government was hosting Al Queda knowing full well what the organization was up to. That's an iron-clad casus belli (let me get you started on that one). It wasn't the first time they attacked us, either. That was the second attack on the WTC, there was an attack on the USS Cole, and two of our embassies were bombed in Africa.
The mistake we made was turning a perfectly reasonable exercise in gunboat diplomacy into an open-ended "nation building" fiasco, where we pour billions of dollars into that third-world shit hole in the forlorn hope they'll behave like civilized people as a result. We should have flattened the place for a month or so and then dropped leaflets announcing our return should they continue to host anti-American terrorist groups.
I have never run across a company that wasn't serious about security. The problem has always been keeping people out takes a different skill set and a different mindset than building things. Companies I've worked for had their systems compromised because they didn't understand the nature of the threat, not because it didn't have "ROI". By now I think most companies realize a bad hacking incident can be an existential threat to a product line or even the company itself.
My current employer hands over tons of cash to a consulting firm that specializes in this sort of thing. As much as I think using consultants is usually a waste of money, in this case it probably makes sense.
Personally I'd like to take the Neuromancer route and have a corporate hit squad run these fuckers down and shoot them (katanas would be good, too), but my boss won't go for it. Something about liability. Pffft.
Actually, a safe is a good analogy. Nobody actually "cracks" a safe any more, in the same way criminals don't gain access to your computer by cracking your crypto. Safes are blown open, battered open, cut open, or subjected to some fancy chemical attack. But modern high-quality combination locks are impervious to the guy with nimble fingers and a stethoscope (which is a Hollywood thing anyway).
Installing a rootkit from an email is roughly analogous to having your safe opened because you put the combination in the top right drawer of the adjacent desk.
To be fair, lots of Chinese people are already looking at significantly reduced lifespans from the air quality. Even if a significant nuclear accident happens the radiation isn't going to kill them any faster than the coal already is.
TFA I notice is awful light on the details about what EXACTLY if left after this chemical burning, is it a paste, a gel, powder, maybe i missed it but I couldn't find any clear answer on that.
Maybe it's diamonds. Boy, are those Belgian airport thieves going to be pissed.
The bad news for you is the desktop is dead. The writing has been on the wall for years.
This is nonsense. Netbooks and tablets are useless for serious work. You're not going to get cubicle dwellers to tolerate tiny screens and tiny and/or missing keyboards. There has been a slight decrease in the number of desktops shipped, but I could argue that's as much because we've reached a plateau on CPU speed and businesses have realized you don't need to replace them every two years.
As for home users, well, most people use their tablets as portable televisions.
I think I can make it to the next bearable version of Windows, assuming they keep following the "every other version is crap" strategy. There's no way I'm every going to buy the mobile operating system they've released for my desktop.
Part of the problem is that the 1st class mail is being used to subsidize bulk mail and as a result as 1st class mail gets sent less and less the subsidy has become insufficient to cover the cost. I'm somewhat unclear as to why they're not raising the rates on bulk mail.
If you believe the post office's numbers, it's actually the other way around - bulk mail is subsidizing first class mail. I've always been skeptical, but that's what they say.
You could have said the same in Einstein's day. You could have said there was no way to measure the speed of light. That we'll never know much about particles we can't see with our strongest optical microscopes. That the atmosphere places fundamental limitations on out ability to observe the stars, and that we'll never be able to detect exoplanets until we build a horking huge telescope that's physically impossible to construct.
Geniuses don't come along very often. It may just be that we haven't seen a true scientific genius in a few generations. Or that people who are capable of earth-shattering discoveries were lured away from science and into investment banking.
It's funny you should say that. I had a friend who worked for Drexel six or seven years after the company was technically liquidated. There were a bunch of high priced law firms racking up billable hours deciding things like who gets the money from the sale of the photocopier on the third floor. It took years and years for them to finally suck the last dollar from the company - I want to say it was almost a decade.
In an ironic twist, all the time she worked for the company they were collecting CA state taxes from her paycheck and not actually turning them over to the state, so a decade after she lost her job the state sent her a letter saying, basically, "you owe us $40,000 for all the taxes you didn't pay when you were working for Drexel."
Gone are the days when a sole inventor working in a garage could come up with a revolutionary new design that will change the world. All the low hanging fruit is gone.
None of that "low hanging fruit" was considered low hanging until after the fact, the way the answer to a riddle is obvious once you hear it from someone else. There's no reason to believe the universe is now devoid of low hanging fruit. Maybe we're just devoid of observant fruit pickers.
But seriously, at least we are seeing white now instead of ever increasing intensities of blue. I am tired of covering up blue LEDs with tape so they don't blind me with glare.
Amen, brother! My latest wireless router lights up the entire damn house with blinkety blinkety blue lights. I had to put it in a box. Did they really think this is desirable?
From an European perspective, it is easy being anti-US, the differences are just that striking obvious. I mean, the US has not even solved basic problems, like sound infrastructure, health-care, education, food-safety, etc.
It's amusing how anti-European sentiment from Americans (capitalized, by the way) is "really sickening", but anti-American sentiment on your part seems perfectly logical. I guess when you're from the place that gave birth to communism and fascism, which have together killed hundreds of millions, a little doublethink doesn't ruffle the old mental feathers. Yeah, it's our cultural inferiority that prevents us from birthing those kinds of soul-crushing, murderous ideologies, but hopefully someday we'll be as advanced as you. Then we too can embrace nihilistic hedonism, stop making babies, and remove ourselves and our superior culture from the planet.
You may wish your ISP is a monopoly, but it isn't. They're perfectly within their rights to diversify. Where I live, counting DSL I have four ISPs to choose from, so I see no reason for the government to get involved.
how did they acquire all of these items, in such a short period of time.
Probably by borrowing. Companies rarely buy other companies out of operating profit. Almost never, in fact. They borrow money, either by getting a loan from the bank or (more likely) they floated some bonds. You can't know whether their asset purchases mean anything without looking at the entire balance sheet.
...sure, if you pretend wind turbines (the things that actually produce the power) are free. And you assume the nuclear plants will have cost overruns, but not your donut (even though it's the first of its kind). And also assuming there's some equivalence between a plant that generates 24 gWh of power a day and a big tank that stores only 900 mWh.
Yes, making all those assumptions this thing will be more efficient.
If you think anyone is ever going to come up with enough private money to send people to Mars you have no right to imply anyone else is ignorant. Ever.
Humans are going to colonize space, and it's not for your personal entertainment, but because people with a spirit of exploration want to see what's out there and want to set foot on and colonize new worlds.
Great. They can do it with their own money then.
The early settlers didn't migrate to the New World for the purposes of entertaining those back home.
No, for the most part they went there to get rich. The lumber alone on a plot of almost-free land was worth a fortune in the old world. But there's nothing like that on Mars. There's literally no reason to go. It's a big dust ball completely incompatible with human life. It would make more sense to colonize Antarctica or the bottom of the oceans. It would make more sense to dig a bunker far underground.
That humans are going to colonize space is by now a matter of 'when and how', not 'if'.
There's no reason to believe this. The solar system sans Earth is very inhospitable to human life for people who are just visiting let alone colonists.
Now there is no such advantage (and for most women it was a welcome advantage), now the wives must work to pay their husbands' taxes (post tax revenue of an average couple is about the same as pre-tax income of the husband). What's the point in getting and staying married if it has no clear economic benefit to the woman?
There is a clear economic benefit for two people to maintain a common household. I own a house. It costs me $x to heat and $y to maintain. Before my ex and I broke up the added cost to add her to "the household" (me) was negligible. Now granted, you don't need to get married to share accommodations. But it does give the lower wage earner (typically the woman) a measure of financial security. Marriage was always the single most effective anti-poverty social institution - one of the biggest indications of whether or not you'll be able to accumulate wealth over your working years is whether or not you're married.
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Except the transfer of ownership on a vehicle involves a voluntary transaction for both parties.
This is more like "Okay, either you buy this car for $4000 or I'm gonna flip this coin. Heads and the car is $2000. Tails and I shoot you."
But what happens when cheaper, more power efficient ARM chips are powerful enough for desktops and laptops?
When ARM chips become powerful enough to challenge Intel on the desktop they won't be cheap and power efficient any more. ARM is arguably having more trouble leaving the mobile world than Intel is entering it.
Anyway, the submitter is trying to steal a base by pretending x86 can't dominate mobiles because it hasn't already. ARM is in the same position AMD found itself a decade ago - it has a line of superior designs but faces in Intel a competitor with unmatched manufacturing prowess that can fail time after time but only has to win once.
The Air Force was a "back seat designer" because NASA forced them to use the shuttle in an attempt to hijack part of the AF budget.
So much idiocy in such a short comment. For one thing, we didn't invade Iraq because of the 9/11 attacks. For another, we haven't "destroyed" any countries. We invaded Afghanistan because their malignant excuse for a government was hosting Al Queda knowing full well what the organization was up to. That's an iron-clad casus belli (let me get you started on that one). It wasn't the first time they attacked us, either. That was the second attack on the WTC, there was an attack on the USS Cole, and two of our embassies were bombed in Africa.
The mistake we made was turning a perfectly reasonable exercise in gunboat diplomacy into an open-ended "nation building" fiasco, where we pour billions of dollars into that third-world shit hole in the forlorn hope they'll behave like civilized people as a result. We should have flattened the place for a month or so and then dropped leaflets announcing our return should they continue to host anti-American terrorist groups.
I have never run across a company that wasn't serious about security. The problem has always been keeping people out takes a different skill set and a different mindset than building things. Companies I've worked for had their systems compromised because they didn't understand the nature of the threat, not because it didn't have "ROI". By now I think most companies realize a bad hacking incident can be an existential threat to a product line or even the company itself.
My current employer hands over tons of cash to a consulting firm that specializes in this sort of thing. As much as I think using consultants is usually a waste of money, in this case it probably makes sense.
Personally I'd like to take the Neuromancer route and have a corporate hit squad run these fuckers down and shoot them (katanas would be good, too), but my boss won't go for it. Something about liability. Pffft.
Actually, a safe is a good analogy. Nobody actually "cracks" a safe any more, in the same way criminals don't gain access to your computer by cracking your crypto. Safes are blown open, battered open, cut open, or subjected to some fancy chemical attack. But modern high-quality combination locks are impervious to the guy with nimble fingers and a stethoscope (which is a Hollywood thing anyway).
Installing a rootkit from an email is roughly analogous to having your safe opened because you put the combination in the top right drawer of the adjacent desk.
To be fair, lots of Chinese people are already looking at significantly reduced lifespans from the air quality. Even if a significant nuclear accident happens the radiation isn't going to kill them any faster than the coal already is.
Maybe it's diamonds. Boy, are those Belgian airport thieves going to be pissed.
This is nonsense. Netbooks and tablets are useless for serious work. You're not going to get cubicle dwellers to tolerate tiny screens and tiny and/or missing keyboards. There has been a slight decrease in the number of desktops shipped, but I could argue that's as much because we've reached a plateau on CPU speed and businesses have realized you don't need to replace them every two years.
As for home users, well, most people use their tablets as portable televisions.
I think I can make it to the next bearable version of Windows, assuming they keep following the "every other version is crap" strategy. There's no way I'm every going to buy the mobile operating system they've released for my desktop.
Part of the problem is that the 1st class mail is being used to subsidize bulk mail and as a result as 1st class mail gets sent less and less the subsidy has become insufficient to cover the cost. I'm somewhat unclear as to why they're not raising the rates on bulk mail.
If you believe the post office's numbers, it's actually the other way around - bulk mail is subsidizing first class mail. I've always been skeptical, but that's what they say.
You could have said the same in Einstein's day. You could have said there was no way to measure the speed of light. That we'll never know much about particles we can't see with our strongest optical microscopes. That the atmosphere places fundamental limitations on out ability to observe the stars, and that we'll never be able to detect exoplanets until we build a horking huge telescope that's physically impossible to construct.
Geniuses don't come along very often. It may just be that we haven't seen a true scientific genius in a few generations. Or that people who are capable of earth-shattering discoveries were lured away from science and into investment banking.
It's funny you should say that. I had a friend who worked for Drexel six or seven years after the company was technically liquidated. There were a bunch of high priced law firms racking up billable hours deciding things like who gets the money from the sale of the photocopier on the third floor. It took years and years for them to finally suck the last dollar from the company - I want to say it was almost a decade.
In an ironic twist, all the time she worked for the company they were collecting CA state taxes from her paycheck and not actually turning them over to the state, so a decade after she lost her job the state sent her a letter saying, basically, "you owe us $40,000 for all the taxes you didn't pay when you were working for Drexel."
Gone are the days when a sole inventor working in a garage could come up with a revolutionary new design that will change the world. All the low hanging fruit is gone.
None of that "low hanging fruit" was considered low hanging until after the fact, the way the answer to a riddle is obvious once you hear it from someone else. There's no reason to believe the universe is now devoid of low hanging fruit. Maybe we're just devoid of observant fruit pickers.
But seriously, at least we are seeing white now instead of ever increasing intensities of blue. I am tired of covering up blue LEDs with tape so they don't blind me with glare.
Amen, brother! My latest wireless router lights up the entire damn house with blinkety blinkety blue lights. I had to put it in a box. Did they really think this is desirable?
It's amusing how anti-European sentiment from Americans (capitalized, by the way) is "really sickening", but anti-American sentiment on your part seems perfectly logical. I guess when you're from the place that gave birth to communism and fascism, which have together killed hundreds of millions, a little doublethink doesn't ruffle the old mental feathers. Yeah, it's our cultural inferiority that prevents us from birthing those kinds of soul-crushing, murderous ideologies, but hopefully someday we'll be as advanced as you. Then we too can embrace nihilistic hedonism, stop making babies, and remove ourselves and our superior culture from the planet.
You may wish your ISP is a monopoly, but it isn't. They're perfectly within their rights to diversify. Where I live, counting DSL I have four ISPs to choose from, so I see no reason for the government to get involved.
how did they acquire all of these items, in such a short period of time.
Probably by borrowing. Companies rarely buy other companies out of operating profit. Almost never, in fact. They borrow money, either by getting a loan from the bank or (more likely) they floated some bonds. You can't know whether their asset purchases mean anything without looking at the entire balance sheet.
no, they price a few users into paying more
Seems reasonable to me. I don't want to pay more because other people just have to download the latest schlock from Hollywood in HD.
...sure, if you pretend wind turbines (the things that actually produce the power) are free. And you assume the nuclear plants will have cost overruns, but not your donut (even though it's the first of its kind). And also assuming there's some equivalence between a plant that generates 24 gWh of power a day and a big tank that stores only 900 mWh.
Yes, making all those assumptions this thing will be more efficient.
You didn't do well in math, did you?
Look, I know it's popular with kids today to be all cynical about space with "ooh, space, never gonna happen
I'm probably older than you. My cynicism is born of experience.
The Mars One project current estimate is $6 billion
This is a really good indication these people don't have the first clue about what they're doing.
If you think anyone is ever going to come up with enough private money to send people to Mars you have no right to imply anyone else is ignorant. Ever.
Humans are going to colonize space, and it's not for your personal entertainment, but because people with a spirit of exploration want to see what's out there and want to set foot on and colonize new worlds.
Great. They can do it with their own money then.
The early settlers didn't migrate to the New World for the purposes of entertaining those back home.
No, for the most part they went there to get rich. The lumber alone on a plot of almost-free land was worth a fortune in the old world. But there's nothing like that on Mars. There's literally no reason to go. It's a big dust ball completely incompatible with human life. It would make more sense to colonize Antarctica or the bottom of the oceans. It would make more sense to dig a bunker far underground.
That humans are going to colonize space is by now a matter of 'when and how', not 'if'.
There's no reason to believe this. The solar system sans Earth is very inhospitable to human life for people who are just visiting let alone colonists.
Not only that, they'd be wearing a pressure suit. It would feel like remote control even if it wasn't.
There is a clear economic benefit for two people to maintain a common household. I own a house. It costs me $x to heat and $y to maintain. Before my ex and I broke up the added cost to add her to "the household" (me) was negligible. Now granted, you don't need to get married to share accommodations. But it does give the lower wage earner (typically the woman) a measure of financial security. Marriage was always the single most effective anti-poverty social institution - one of the biggest indications of whether or not you'll be able to accumulate wealth over your working years is whether or not you're married.