I spend $975/month for 5 rooms, 10 minutes from downtown by metro, 20 minutes by bus or 15 minutes by bike to work at an enterprise software company, $15 to $25 for a taxi ride to as much nightlife as one could handle.
Yeah, but you get paid less, the taxes are high, you have fewer jobs to choose from, and the weather sucks for large chunks of the year. The closest major city is the most boring place in Canada, and Toronto is 5 hours away. Good skiing available nearby, at least. And a lot of strip clubs:).
Pros and cons to everything. I'd still take Montreal over SV, but there are many affordable places better (for techies) than both.
Try clicking on "other google activity", and then location history. It's incredibly accurate. I can see where I walked around 2 years ago and made wrong turns and walked back.
Sounds like a reason to complain to the local government, not to usher in a totally unregulated company.
Can the local government force a cab company to work hours and locations it doesn't want to? Would you even want to see the government be able to do such things?
The vendor in question here was Apple, in which you're left with little or no choice.
That's silly. Apple has a monopoly on Apple products. Sure. You still have a hundred other phones to choose from.
As far as the rest of the smartphone universe, that would be dominated by Google/Android, hence my propensity to use the term monopoly accurately.
You complain that others are bringing up semantics, but even if you just look at the OS market, it's dominated by *two* companies, and is clearly not a monopoly. And that's not semantics, the difference is huge -- in one case, the competition is dead, in the other it's alive and well.
And, then, Android is just the OS, you're still free to choose from any kind of phone -- big, small, with memory cards, without, with keyboards, with and without headphone jacks (imagine that, someone already tried that before Apple!), waterproof, and so on and so on... Nobody is dictating to you what options you can have, they are all competing to build the phone that will sell the most, which is how the market works. I don't understand the reason for your fear.
How about we allow a silly-con valley start up to provide amateur dentistry? Why should dentists be protected by big gubbermint and allowed to fleece their patients for such large sums of money? We need to deregulate dentistry!
Because just about anyone can drive you safely from one place to another, and almost nobody can safely perform a root canal?
No, it's just that there aren't any. There's too few of them in late hours, unpopular locations, destinations, etc...
It's not the coolness factor, it's the convenience and reliability, and, well, cost, too. You need a ride, you have a reasonably priced one in 10-15 minutes, in almost any part of the town.
For all practical purposes, we don't. The only time I ever needed one, I had to make a 30 minute walk to the nearest hotel, which was the only place they were willing to come to.
Hey consumers, where the fuck were you 172 pointless "upgrades" and $500 MSRP dollars ago?
Don't even bother bitching about design changes now. The monopolies aren't listening anymore. Consumers lost the ability to provide feedback that would result in action long ago.
What monopolies? There's like a hundred different phones you can buy, for anything from $50 to $700. You've got more choice in quality smartphones than ever.
Texas produces 5 billion chickens a year, and it could still use a gift of 100,000 chickens to poor and unemployed who could get some income out of raising them. As if often happens, pride and politics are getting in the way of helping some people:(.
The process advantage is substantial, it allows Intel to have significantly more transistors for the same power usage. Intel is significantly ahead in the process game, almost 2 whole nodes. To beat Intel, AMD would need a processor design that's 20% better than Intel's. Everything is IPC/watt these days so they need to squeeze more IPC per watt than Intel and they just can't do it with the process node problem.
Don't worry though, Intel has to keep AMD around for anti-trust reasons, so they won't ever go out of business.
It seems like you haven't been reading up on your tech news. No surprise, not much of it left on Slashdot;).
That was a story a few years ago... Intel has just about lost the process advantage as most foundries have caught up.
Now, AMD is still AMD, so who knows what their design is going to do, but it's unlikely that it'll be slower because of the process. If it's slower, it'll be because the uarch just isn't good enough.
Readers here used to be interested in nerdy toys and discussed how they worked, and how to hack them and get the most of out them... Now it's a bunch of people with tinfoil hats complaining about Amazon is trying to track them and feed their data to the cops of Jeff Bezos.
Aren't there some nerds in the crowd that wanted to play with an Echo but didn't want to buy one just to try it out, and are happy that they can now see what it does? Doesn't anyone appreciate the engineering challenge of this?
Fortunately, the law here doesn't allow such clauses. You can't give up your rights with a contract, let alone a dubious EULA.
Where is "here", and what rights exactly are we talking about? The right to sue in small court? I'm not sure that many countries explicitly name that as one of your rights.
If they were that important, why did you move 6000 miles away?
Are you really that naive? You must've lived a very privileged life to not understand that tough choices have to be made frequently, including moving away from family that you love dearly.
In the grand scheme of things, waiting in line at the airport security is really not that high on most people's list of deciding factors on where to live and work. It doesn't mean they "accept" it. World isn't such a neat black and white place.
That's impressive, and makes me realize just how awful air travel in the US must be.
It really isn't. You're getting information from a guy who hasn't flown since 2002.
Security is much worse at Heathrow than any American airport. They are extremely anal about every little thing, and damn slow, too.
Americans have a 3 or 4 weekend when half the country is flying somewhere, and the spoke-and-hub setup the airlines use tends to crowd the crap out of major airports. Outside of those major airports, and outside of those 3-4 weekends, things are perfectly fine. You can also get pre-checked and get through even quicker.
I think it's bullshit because telecom execs have collected piles of bonus money while failing to meet broadband penetration targets, after we paid them to do so. That is to say, it is more expensive, but we could clearly have accomplished it, and we did not because of fraud.
I'm certainly not trying to defend the disproportional pay at the top, but how many rural neighbourhoods do you think they could've hooked up with shiny new broadband connections for that $5 million they gave the CEO?
The numbers aren't even a couple of orders of magnitude close to each other.
Japan isn't an expensive holiday. Going to the states costs more.
What are you comparing it to? Going to New York?
Just like you can get out of Tokyo for a "minimal price", there are countless dirt cheap b&bs all over US.
The only fair comparison is really the cost of getting there, which could be more or less, depending on where you live. For Canadians, it's much cheaper to go to US.
Once there, both countries have cheap and expensive ways of spending your time and money.
How many of those job titles and descriptions actually correspond to a college major that an American citizen can learn?
They almost all correspond to an electrical or computer engineering major, however the vast majority are not really available to new grads. Three or four on that list will accept new grads who have already specialized a bit in their masters programs, and then once they have a better handle on the big picture they can transfer into other roles.
For example, you don't design systems without knowing how the pieces work first, and you don't help customers integrate your IP/chip without knowing how *their* systems work. But, you can work on verification of a simple block with knowledge picked up in school, with appropriate guidance.
A lot of the logic design is still done in US (in case of US companies), and many of these roles require close proximity to designers... so, you'll find that many are still widely available locally.
Because barrier to entry in hardware design is much higher (you can't simply read a book or take online course and be proficient enough), it's much harder to fill the needs with a bunch of "cheap" H1-Bs. The outsourcing tends to happen by opening location in India/China and hiring full teams to work on some of the more easily outsourced tasks, like CAD and integration. But even there, it's hard to find enough experienced engineers.
Oh, and WTF is up with AMD's stock? It's under $3. Is there something I don't understand here? Their patent portfolio alone makes them worth more than that.
They've got several billion dollars of debt, which negates much of what they have on the positive side.
I think for many people it is effectively "bearing arms". The ability to stream live video and audio from the scene of any government activity by any citizen is a huge burr in Simon Barsinister's ass. If one subscribes to the enumeration of a right to bear arms being meant to enable the citizenry to possibly defend against governmental tyranny then it's not a long stretch to see the cellphone as the modern day equivalent of the musket of colonial times.
It's an interesting comparison, I never looked at it that way.
However, we are talking about the situation where you've been arrested and the government has a warrant to search your stuff. You're not streaming any live video at that point, either way.
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Yeah, but you get paid less, the taxes are high, you have fewer jobs to choose from, and the weather sucks for large chunks of the year. The closest major city is the most boring place in Canada, and Toronto is 5 hours away. Good skiing available nearby, at least. And a lot of strip clubs :).
Pros and cons to everything. I'd still take Montreal over SV, but there are many affordable places better (for techies) than both.
Yeah, and I paid $100K upfront for my house, and a 30-year contract.
It doesn't mean that I got the house for $100K, and you didn't get an iPhone for $200.
Try clicking on "other google activity", and then location history. It's incredibly accurate. I can see where I walked around 2 years ago and made wrong turns and walked back.
Can the local government force a cab company to work hours and locations it doesn't want to? Would you even want to see the government be able to do such things?
That's silly. Apple has a monopoly on Apple products. Sure. You still have a hundred other phones to choose from.
You complain that others are bringing up semantics, but even if you just look at the OS market, it's dominated by *two* companies, and is clearly not a monopoly. And that's not semantics, the difference is huge -- in one case, the competition is dead, in the other it's alive and well.
And, then, Android is just the OS, you're still free to choose from any kind of phone -- big, small, with memory cards, without, with keyboards, with and without headphone jacks (imagine that, someone already tried that before Apple!), waterproof, and so on and so on... Nobody is dictating to you what options you can have, they are all competing to build the phone that will sell the most, which is how the market works. I don't understand the reason for your fear.
Because just about anyone can drive you safely from one place to another, and almost nobody can safely perform a root canal?
It doesn't even begin to compare.
No, it's just that there aren't any. There's too few of them in late hours, unpopular locations, destinations, etc...
It's not the coolness factor, it's the convenience and reliability, and, well, cost, too. You need a ride, you have a reasonably priced one in 10-15 minutes, in almost any part of the town.
For all practical purposes, we don't. The only time I ever needed one, I had to make a 30 minute walk to the nearest hotel, which was the only place they were willing to come to.
What monopolies? There's like a hundred different phones you can buy, for anything from $50 to $700. You've got more choice in quality smartphones than ever.
Texas produces 5 billion chickens a year, and it could still use a gift of 100,000 chickens to poor and unemployed who could get some income out of raising them. As if often happens, pride and politics are getting in the way of helping some people :(.
That's so boring.
It seems like you haven't been reading up on your tech news. No surprise, not much of it left on Slashdot ;).
That was a story a few years ago... Intel has just about lost the process advantage as most foundries have caught up.
Now, AMD is still AMD, so who knows what their design is going to do, but it's unlikely that it'll be slower because of the process. If it's slower, it'll be because the uarch just isn't good enough.
Employees in general. It doesn't have to be poaching, people are more likely to move to a place that has a whole bunch of options for their industry.
Readers here used to be interested in nerdy toys and discussed how they worked, and how to hack them and get the most of out them... Now it's a bunch of people with tinfoil hats complaining about Amazon is trying to track them and feed their data to the cops of Jeff Bezos.
Aren't there some nerds in the crowd that wanted to play with an Echo but didn't want to buy one just to try it out, and are happy that they can now see what it does? Doesn't anyone appreciate the engineering challenge of this?
I'm glad you felt the need to tell us that. It's very important to the discussion about a new toy that us geeks like to play with and understand.
Where is "here", and what rights exactly are we talking about? The right to sue in small court? I'm not sure that many countries explicitly name that as one of your rights.
Are you really that naive? You must've lived a very privileged life to not understand that tough choices have to be made frequently, including moving away from family that you love dearly.
In the grand scheme of things, waiting in line at the airport security is really not that high on most people's list of deciding factors on where to live and work. It doesn't mean they "accept" it. World isn't such a neat black and white place.
It really isn't. You're getting information from a guy who hasn't flown since 2002.
Security is much worse at Heathrow than any American airport. They are extremely anal about every little thing, and damn slow, too.
Americans have a 3 or 4 weekend when half the country is flying somewhere, and the spoke-and-hub setup the airlines use tends to crowd the crap out of major airports. Outside of those major airports, and outside of those 3-4 weekends, things are perfectly fine. You can also get pre-checked and get through even quicker.
I'm certainly not trying to defend the disproportional pay at the top, but how many rural neighbourhoods do you think they could've hooked up with shiny new broadband connections for that $5 million they gave the CEO?
The numbers aren't even a couple of orders of magnitude close to each other.
In my area, Time Warner has 3Mb for $14, and 10Mb for $29. So, yeah, there's comparable stuff, at least in some parts of US.
Why craptastic? It's very snappy, voice search actually works great, it has 4k output... I've been very happy with it.
The only thing that it lacks (for me) is a youtube app, for watching google play stuff.
What are you comparing it to? Going to New York?
Just like you can get out of Tokyo for a "minimal price", there are countless dirt cheap b&bs all over US.
The only fair comparison is really the cost of getting there, which could be more or less, depending on where you live. For Canadians, it's much cheaper to go to US.
Once there, both countries have cheap and expensive ways of spending your time and money.
They almost all correspond to an electrical or computer engineering major, however the vast majority are not really available to new grads. Three or four on that list will accept new grads who have already specialized a bit in their masters programs, and then once they have a better handle on the big picture they can transfer into other roles.
For example, you don't design systems without knowing how the pieces work first, and you don't help customers integrate your IP/chip without knowing how *their* systems work. But, you can work on verification of a simple block with knowledge picked up in school, with appropriate guidance.
A lot of the logic design is still done in US (in case of US companies), and many of these roles require close proximity to designers... so, you'll find that many are still widely available locally.
Because barrier to entry in hardware design is much higher (you can't simply read a book or take online course and be proficient enough), it's much harder to fill the needs with a bunch of "cheap" H1-Bs. The outsourcing tends to happen by opening location in India/China and hiring full teams to work on some of the more easily outsourced tasks, like CAD and integration. But even there, it's hard to find enough experienced engineers.
They've got several billion dollars of debt, which negates much of what they have on the positive side.
It's an interesting comparison, I never looked at it that way.
However, we are talking about the situation where you've been arrested and the government has a warrant to search your stuff. You're not streaming any live video at that point, either way.