I don't see how you can get the data rates and power delivery capabilities of TB3 without an active cable. Unless it's a very very short cable. Seems like a price worth paying for one-cable-to-rule-them-all type situations.
My biggest beef is that they didn't go with a mag-connector for USB-C. Seems like an oversight to me.
The same could be said of many private markets, including the current US healthcare market. In some markets, there's simply a lot of collectivism. Utilities fall into this category. And with current must-treat-if-sick laws, so does healthcare.
Private markets tend to work pretty poorly for industries that need collectivist actions. Healthcare (at least basic healthcare, not specialized research) is one of them.
I like the taxes approach because it affects profits, not revenue. Meanwhile, having to provide healthcare for every full-time employee is a large drain on revenue. So a business can be in the negative and still have healthcare be a drain on their bottom line.
Taxes also work as a distribution of wealth from large, successful businesses to small struggling businesses. Basically, the government is providing a baseline and everyone who is successful goes above that baseline.
It seems to imply more than just persistent memory, though. It sounds like they're distributing processors in the data-path of the connected memory. Instead of the OS determining which context to put on a CPU and fetching the necessary data from memory/disk, the context and code will be decided by what data resides in memory that is closest to the processor node.
A rather natural result of persistent, high-capacity memory for non-interactive compute tasks.
I would wager to guess that each node lives in some subregion of the memory address. And that each OS instance (or one giant distributed OS) accesses all addresses uniformly.
It's certainly not infeasible even without memristor tech. But I wonder what benefits it has. The whole point of having localized nodes is to take advantage of the travel latency. Unless this is optimized specifically for embarrassingly parallel data feed-forward tasks, which even modern GPU workloads aren't anymore.
I agree. But it's quite a big step to go from corporate welfare to decoupled government welfare + market economy. There's just too much ideology in the US to make that happen.
There's also the argument that corporate welfare is more efficient than government welfare -- that is, the benefits of "taking care of people" provided by private companies can be better than that provided by government for the same price. There can be some merit there.
I like Australia's model where the government provides a basic safety net with regards to healthcare and unemployment pay. That's a good way to cap the spending spiral that would result from open-ended welfare programs.
While incorporation charters perhaps grant too many advantages today compared to individuals, private organizations really have no obligation to provide welfare for a population. So whether or not they're interested in long-term profitability or just short-term pilfering of what's left (before the house collapses) is really their own decision.
That being said, incorporation should probably be rethought as it grants incorporated organizations far too many legal and tax preferential treatment compared to individual (real) people.
It's not really tech significant. But it is a significant economic indicator of the auto industry. The boom of car buying seems to be coming to a halt.
Not every business is able to "build better products to increase profits". A lot of things are out of one individual business' control. For instance, the overall health of the economy has a huge impact on consumer spending. And things like government trade policy are, for the most part, out of the control of Ford.
Companies that are able to weather such changes are ones who are willing to cut workforce when the going gets tough and hire when the going is good.
Companies that stick to a myopic "gotta take care of every employee" went out of business long ago. Even during the Great Depression, Ford laid people off. Of course, the ones he kept around, he took care of because he knew things would get better and he's better off having loyal employees.
The racism bleeds through so much. The vast majority of employees in SV are not H1B; they're US citizens. And they are roughly 50% white (lower than national average by a whole lot). Source: http://fortune.com/2015/07/30/...
So no, it doesn't look like "a suburb of Mumbai". Though yes, there are a lot of Indian and Chinese workers here (again, mostly either permanent residents or US citizens). But that, of course, didn't stop you from from assuming they're "all H1B imports".
Your value system of "they should just buy less" isn't universal. You may think it's a good idea to reduce global economic activity (i.e. buy less stuff) but others, especially those working in any market remotely associated with clothing (retail, marketing, shipping, textiles) who want jobs obviously want consumers to buy more.
It's what I tell my mom every time she complains about how much tech gadgets Americans buy (old Chinese lady). Global economics doesn't hit home until I tell her "I wouldn't have a job if that were the case".
I would imagine the vast majority of software downloaded for Win32 isn't very demanding performance wise. The only major exception to that statement I can think of is Chrome. Which probably won't offer a Windows universal app and also be very resource intensive.
Then again, Microsoft is actively trying to push people away from Chrome and onto Edge so from their perspective, it's a non-issue.
Professional apps that are performance intensive but not ported to ARM usually have very regular and non-exotic instruction sequences, so translation wouldn't be very hard for those.
Wasn't Microsoft slapped with an anti-trust suit in the 90's for the same vertical integration? Seems like Google preferring Google Music and Apple pushing Safari on iOS would be equivalent.
There are advantages, of course. Integrated platforms can be tested together to guarantee they work well. But it also does stifle competition.
On the flip side, there are often very heavy non-exclusive agreements that are pushed on you when you supply to someone like Apple or MS. So you end up being nothing more than a division of their company that can be cut off any day. Proceed at your own risk.
"Superior" is a subjective term not at all equivalent with "drains battery less". I do in fact acknowledge that for Vimeo video playback and a "normal browsing" set of tasks Microsoft has come up with, Edge drains less battery than Chrome.
That, in and of itself, doesn't automatically confer the label "superior" to Edge for me. As I value the usability features of Chrome much more than Edge.
If his/her particular wedge issue is climate change, progressive taxation or women's health, it would seem one party "perpetuates" that more than the other.
Is that the same as if Obama intervenes in Syria, it's a giant waste of military power and "losing to Putin" but if Trump bombs Syria to ill effect, it's a "show of strength"?
To be clear, I agree with the recent missile strike against the airbase in Syria. I just find it amusing how hypocrisy works.
This is the US Customs and Border Protection requesting private data on accounts who are criticizing POTUS, accounts purportedly done by current Administration staff. So it seems appropriate to tie in "Trump Admin" into this. Had it been US Customs and Border Protection doing their normal every-day thing of screening foreign visitors, you'd have a point.
Funnily enough, this is done through the foreign surveillance legal framework. Which can be done without a warrant now. They claim the accounts hurt national security.
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I don't see how you can get the data rates and power delivery capabilities of TB3 without an active cable. Unless it's a very very short cable. Seems like a price worth paying for one-cable-to-rule-them-all type situations.
My biggest beef is that they didn't go with a mag-connector for USB-C. Seems like an oversight to me.
Luckily, Excel is available as a Universal Windows App...
Anecdote != data.
For every clothing store that's struggling, there's an Amazon/Walmart/Kohls. Not to mention Etsy and the various farmers market-style street vendors.
The same could be said of many private markets, including the current US healthcare market. In some markets, there's simply a lot of collectivism. Utilities fall into this category. And with current must-treat-if-sick laws, so does healthcare.
Private markets tend to work pretty poorly for industries that need collectivist actions. Healthcare (at least basic healthcare, not specialized research) is one of them.
I like the taxes approach because it affects profits, not revenue. Meanwhile, having to provide healthcare for every full-time employee is a large drain on revenue. So a business can be in the negative and still have healthcare be a drain on their bottom line.
Taxes also work as a distribution of wealth from large, successful businesses to small struggling businesses. Basically, the government is providing a baseline and everyone who is successful goes above that baseline.
It seems to imply more than just persistent memory, though. It sounds like they're distributing processors in the data-path of the connected memory. Instead of the OS determining which context to put on a CPU and fetching the necessary data from memory/disk, the context and code will be decided by what data resides in memory that is closest to the processor node.
A rather natural result of persistent, high-capacity memory for non-interactive compute tasks.
I would wager to guess that each node lives in some subregion of the memory address. And that each OS instance (or one giant distributed OS) accesses all addresses uniformly.
It's certainly not infeasible even without memristor tech. But I wonder what benefits it has. The whole point of having localized nodes is to take advantage of the travel latency. Unless this is optimized specifically for embarrassingly parallel data feed-forward tasks, which even modern GPU workloads aren't anymore.
I agree. But it's quite a big step to go from corporate welfare to decoupled government welfare + market economy. There's just too much ideology in the US to make that happen.
There's also the argument that corporate welfare is more efficient than government welfare -- that is, the benefits of "taking care of people" provided by private companies can be better than that provided by government for the same price. There can be some merit there.
I like Australia's model where the government provides a basic safety net with regards to healthcare and unemployment pay. That's a good way to cap the spending spiral that would result from open-ended welfare programs.
While incorporation charters perhaps grant too many advantages today compared to individuals, private organizations really have no obligation to provide welfare for a population. So whether or not they're interested in long-term profitability or just short-term pilfering of what's left (before the house collapses) is really their own decision.
That being said, incorporation should probably be rethought as it grants incorporated organizations far too many legal and tax preferential treatment compared to individual (real) people.
It's not really tech significant. But it is a significant economic indicator of the auto industry. The boom of car buying seems to be coming to a halt.
Not every business is able to "build better products to increase profits". A lot of things are out of one individual business' control. For instance, the overall health of the economy has a huge impact on consumer spending. And things like government trade policy are, for the most part, out of the control of Ford.
Companies that are able to weather such changes are ones who are willing to cut workforce when the going gets tough and hire when the going is good.
Companies that stick to a myopic "gotta take care of every employee" went out of business long ago. Even during the Great Depression, Ford laid people off. Of course, the ones he kept around, he took care of because he knew things would get better and he's better off having loyal employees.
The racism bleeds through so much. The vast majority of employees in SV are not H1B; they're US citizens. And they are roughly 50% white (lower than national average by a whole lot). Source: http://fortune.com/2015/07/30/...
So no, it doesn't look like "a suburb of Mumbai". Though yes, there are a lot of Indian and Chinese workers here (again, mostly either permanent residents or US citizens). But that, of course, didn't stop you from from assuming they're "all H1B imports".
Your value system of "they should just buy less" isn't universal. You may think it's a good idea to reduce global economic activity (i.e. buy less stuff) but others, especially those working in any market remotely associated with clothing (retail, marketing, shipping, textiles) who want jobs obviously want consumers to buy more.
It's what I tell my mom every time she complains about how much tech gadgets Americans buy (old Chinese lady). Global economics doesn't hit home until I tell her "I wouldn't have a job if that were the case".
I would imagine the vast majority of software downloaded for Win32 isn't very demanding performance wise. The only major exception to that statement I can think of is Chrome. Which probably won't offer a Windows universal app and also be very resource intensive.
Then again, Microsoft is actively trying to push people away from Chrome and onto Edge so from their perspective, it's a non-issue.
Professional apps that are performance intensive but not ported to ARM usually have very regular and non-exotic instruction sequences, so translation wouldn't be very hard for those.
FB stock IPO's at $38 in May of 2012. By August of that year, it was at $18.
Share price post-IPO isn't a very good indicator of long-term success.
Wasn't Microsoft slapped with an anti-trust suit in the 90's for the same vertical integration? Seems like Google preferring Google Music and Apple pushing Safari on iOS would be equivalent.
There are advantages, of course. Integrated platforms can be tested together to guarantee they work well. But it also does stifle competition.
On the flip side, there are often very heavy non-exclusive agreements that are pushed on you when you supply to someone like Apple or MS. So you end up being nothing more than a division of their company that can be cut off any day. Proceed at your own risk.
On the flip side, if there are true business advantages to moving something in-house, should a company pass it up just to "be nice"?
In other news, I hear a bunch of buggy makers expect to be able to pass their trade down to their grandson.
Or coal miners expecting a boom in coal consumption.
Or unskilled laborers expecting those pesky computers and robots to disappear someday.
Or Americans expecting to work less, produce less but get paid more than the other 80% of humanity forever and ever.
"Superior" is a subjective term not at all equivalent with "drains battery less". I do in fact acknowledge that for Vimeo video playback and a "normal browsing" set of tasks Microsoft has come up with, Edge drains less battery than Chrome.
That, in and of itself, doesn't automatically confer the label "superior" to Edge for me. As I value the usability features of Chrome much more than Edge.
Republicans just stole that seat.
No they didn't. The voters gave it to them.
No they didn't, the States gave it to them.
If his/her particular wedge issue is climate change, progressive taxation or women's health, it would seem one party "perpetuates" that more than the other.
Is that the same as if Obama intervenes in Syria, it's a giant waste of military power and "losing to Putin" but if Trump bombs Syria to ill effect, it's a "show of strength"?
To be clear, I agree with the recent missile strike against the airbase in Syria. I just find it amusing how hypocrisy works.
This is the US Customs and Border Protection requesting private data on accounts who are criticizing POTUS, accounts purportedly done by current Administration staff. So it seems appropriate to tie in "Trump Admin" into this. Had it been US Customs and Border Protection doing their normal every-day thing of screening foreign visitors, you'd have a point.
Funnily enough, this is done through the foreign surveillance legal framework. Which can be done without a warrant now. They claim the accounts hurt national security.