Tesla is really betting on "software will fix everything", but there's really no saying when it'll happen.
Well, lets hope that really, really stupid expectation will not kill them. They have some thing they do well (batteries, solar roofs) that would be a loss if they went bankrupt..
No, that is not what he is saying. What he is saying is that GM cannot do it with these limitations and there is very good reason to believe that others cannot do it either. As Musk is full of it in a number of topics, it would not surprise me one bit if he were on this too.
In particular when you take into account the other insane claims Musk makes all the time. There is a certain (unfortunately large) audience that cannot distinguish fantasy and reality, and Musk caters to them with great success. The one thing I am undecided about is whether he himself is just artfully manipulating the morons or whether he also has trouble separating fantasy and reality. At this time, both options are credible.
I fully agree. Funding research with public money and then not publishing with free access or, worse, patenting the results is just one thing: Stealing the money from the public. Many researchers have a similar opinion, and while they are forced into the greedy and stupid publishing system, you can often find a nice technical report or the like that may just have a few more typos by just by googeling the title of a paper behind a paywall.
I doubt it. This stuff is all digital PCM these days. Unless you have some bizarre resonances, the headphones will correct any missing filtering, as they are basically mechanical low-passes called. I used to be one of these people that had dedicated sound cards and I even used to replace cheap OpAmps and drivers on them. Not anymore. The low-end stuff that comes with mainboards these days is quite enough. Of course, I am not talking about the extremely cheap stuff here that may not even have 16 bit resolution or come with max sampling rates below 44kHz, just the cheap stuff.
Apple/Google apologists are not very smart. This idea of "coexistence" is probably too complex for them. Same as the idea that Apple or Google could actually be wrong on something.
The other is currently a non-removable battery. Sure, the "high end" crap is a no-go that way, but I will get a phone designed by actual engineers, not by marketing morons and wannabe "designers". It will also be much cheaper and do what I need.
Well, possibly. There are so many zero-understanding tech-"journalists" today that this may well just be another useful idiot that was actually not paid off.
There are no major performance gains to be expected. This technology is now approaching maturity, which means it will slowly get cheaper and consume less power, but it will not get much faster anymore. Maybe we will eventually see something 2x as fast for desktop loads eventually, but that could take half a century or longer. There is still significant potential in writing software better, in particular in making it more parallel, but even that is limited and it is hard to do.
There is a reason the current instruction set is called AMD64 and not Intel64. Intel actually licenses it from AMD, because they failed to come up with anything competitive. AMD cares more about engineering and Intel more about profits. Now, if only MS would get a credible competitor, maybe this atrocity going on with Windows would finally stop.
Patents have stopped being for the public good a long time ago. They serve as mechanism for intellectual theft from anybody else now and nothing else. Same, incidentally, for copyright. I bet most people here do not know that copyright was created to prevent publishers from ripping off artists by publishing their stuff without permission or payment.
You do not need to ask. Intel had this design basically ready, except for the optimization of the last production steps. This means for years, Intel has screwed over its customers with a sub-standard design at vastly inflated prices. The funny thing is that many of these screwed over customers think Intel can do no wrong.
Sadly, customers that buy from the largest vendor only and do not even consider the competition are the death of competition and quality.
In does not even explain that it got from Kaspersky to the Russian hackers. It may have taken another path. Or it may have been given to other parties (including other AV vendors and to government agencies) after analysis showed it was malware and not personal files. AV vendors do that all the time, and some organizations can pay for that data-stream as well.
Yes, every AV spies on you if you allow it to. Configuring AV is one place where you should pay attention.
And no, I am not particularly fond of Kaspersky. I just do not think they are really different in this regard to other AV vendors.
Stupid is stupid and no way around that. But do enjoy your popcorn, that seems to be right down your alley. difficulty wise. But I would advise you to stay away from anything mentally more tasking.
Incidentally, you are being stupid by believing Kaspersky is any less trustworthy than their competitors.
Only the utterly stupid would think that. Do you really think a f****** Government agency can run a successful software company? Also, malware samples are shared all the time between AV companies and agencies tasked with keeping a country safe do also get them. That sharing is likely all that happened here.
Note we make no apologies for being aggressive in the battle against cyberthreats.
Sound like a tacit admission?
No, it does not. It merely says that if the Kaspersky scanner detected files it suspected of being malware but did not know yet (e.g. because the identification was via suspicious behavior pattern, not code signature), it phones home. That is standard behavior and no secret. In fact, you agree to that in the license and it can, I believe, be switched off.
So what likely happened here is that the Kaspersky product was configured to send suspected, but yet unknown, malware files to Kaspersky and it did correctly identify some NSA malware as such and sent them to Kaspersky. I men, seriously, this is what correctly working AV is supposed to do. This whole thing is much more likely about the NSA being butthurt that their criminal activity (criminal everywhere outside the US that is) was discovered and that their respective malware is now detected by Kaspersky. Add to that a few creatively misleading statements to the WSJ reporters (who have zero understanding of what is going on and how the respective technology works) and you have what the WSJ is reporting now.
And very likely with pretty much the methods described, I think this cannot get much more hypocritical. And while we _know_ the NSA does this, we only have a scare-story that may turn out to be a complete fantasy on the Russians and Kaspersky.
Those that simulate it will stay long hours, but actually have less output and worse quality than more sane workers. But unfortunately, many "managers" are pretty low on productivity and insight anyways, so simulating productivity may be better for your career as those evaluating you do not understand that they are using an unsuitable metric. What we see here is the ages-old problem of faulty optimization strategies because of wrong selection of metric. The result is that people optimize with respect to the metric and not with respect to the actual problem they are trying to solve.
Of course, your live will suck badly with all the time spent at work, but many people seem to prefer that situation. Many will also be trapped in this situation, because they have no actual good marketable skills and need to fake it in order to survive.
Indeed. The thing is that as soon as safety is adequate, the next thing they will tackle is cost, as in reducing wear&tear, reducing fuel consumption, reducing damage to transported goods, etc. One thing they already have is increased flexibility, because of no rest times and no other biological limitations. Pretty soon a human driver will be entirely outclassed and hugely more expensive.
This stuff is coming. The only sane thing for those it will replace is to make sure they have other marketable skills when it comes. Trying to fight the tide just does damage to everyone and will eventually fail anyways.
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Tesla is really betting on "software will fix everything", but there's really no saying when it'll happen.
Well, lets hope that really, really stupid expectation will not kill them. They have some thing they do well (batteries, solar roofs) that would be a loss if they went bankrupt..
No, that is not what he is saying. What he is saying is that GM cannot do it with these limitations and there is very good reason to believe that others cannot do it either. As Musk is full of it in a number of topics, it would not surprise me one bit if he were on this too.
And where do you take that absolutely baseless claim?
In particular when you take into account the other insane claims Musk makes all the time. There is a certain (unfortunately large) audience that cannot distinguish fantasy and reality, and Musk caters to them with great success. The one thing I am undecided about is whether he himself is just artfully manipulating the morons or whether he also has trouble separating fantasy and reality. At this time, both options are credible.
I fully agree. Funding research with public money and then not publishing with free access or, worse, patenting the results is just one thing: Stealing the money from the public. Many researchers have a similar opinion, and while they are forced into the greedy and stupid publishing system, you can often find a nice technical report or the like that may just have a few more typos by just by googeling the title of a paper behind a paywall.
I doubt it. This stuff is all digital PCM these days. Unless you have some bizarre resonances, the headphones will correct any missing filtering, as they are basically mechanical low-passes called. I used to be one of these people that had dedicated sound cards and I even used to replace cheap OpAmps and drivers on them. Not anymore. The low-end stuff that comes with mainboards these days is quite enough. Of course, I am not talking about the extremely cheap stuff here that may not even have 16 bit resolution or come with max sampling rates below 44kHz, just the cheap stuff.
Here is a hint from the actual real world: Even low-end audio DACs are much better than what a human can hear these days.
Apple/Google apologists are not very smart. This idea of "coexistence" is probably too complex for them. Same as the idea that Apple or Google could actually be wrong on something.
The other is currently a non-removable battery. Sure, the "high end" crap is a no-go that way, but I will get a phone designed by actual engineers, not by marketing morons and wannabe "designers". It will also be much cheaper and do what I need.
Well, possibly. There are so many zero-understanding tech-"journalists" today that this may well just be another useful idiot that was actually not paid off.
And yet, AMD drives x86 CPU technology forward and not Intel. Apparently you missed that little detail, probably because you mistake money for skill.
Indeed. It will not make you any less of an idiot.
Likely. They have done so in the past. They have been punished for anti-competitive behavior. don't ever expect Intel to play fair.
There are no major performance gains to be expected. This technology is now approaching maturity, which means it will slowly get cheaper and consume less power, but it will not get much faster anymore. Maybe we will eventually see something 2x as fast for desktop loads eventually, but that could take half a century or longer. There is still significant potential in writing software better, in particular in making it more parallel, but even that is limited and it is hard to do.
AMD always had vastly superior integration, e.g. the memory controller on the CPU half a decade before Intel.
There is a reason the current instruction set is called AMD64 and not Intel64. Intel actually licenses it from AMD, because they failed to come up with anything competitive. AMD cares more about engineering and Intel more about profits. Now, if only MS would get a credible competitor, maybe this atrocity going on with Windows would finally stop.
Patents have stopped being for the public good a long time ago. They serve as mechanism for intellectual theft from anybody else now and nothing else. Same, incidentally, for copyright. I bet most people here do not know that copyright was created to prevent publishers from ripping off artists by publishing their stuff without permission or payment.
You do not need to ask. Intel had this design basically ready, except for the optimization of the last production steps. This means for years, Intel has screwed over its customers with a sub-standard design at vastly inflated prices. The funny thing is that many of these screwed over customers think Intel can do no wrong.
Sadly, customers that buy from the largest vendor only and do not even consider the competition are the death of competition and quality.
In does not even explain that it got from Kaspersky to the Russian hackers. It may have taken another path. Or it may have been given to other parties (including other AV vendors and to government agencies) after analysis showed it was malware and not personal files. AV vendors do that all the time, and some organizations can pay for that data-stream as well.
Yes, every AV spies on you if you allow it to. Configuring AV is one place where you should pay attention.
And no, I am not particularly fond of Kaspersky. I just do not think they are really different in this regard to other AV vendors.
Stupid is stupid and no way around that. But do enjoy your popcorn, that seems to be right down your alley. difficulty wise. But I would advise you to stay away from anything mentally more tasking.
Incidentally, you are being stupid by believing Kaspersky is any less trustworthy than their competitors.
Only the utterly stupid would think that. Do you really think a f****** Government agency can run a successful software company? Also, malware samples are shared all the time between AV companies and agencies tasked with keeping a country safe do also get them. That sharing is likely all that happened here.
Although doesn't this:
Note we make no apologies for being aggressive in the battle against cyberthreats.
Sound like a tacit admission?
No, it does not. It merely says that if the Kaspersky scanner detected files it suspected of being malware but did not know yet (e.g. because the identification was via suspicious behavior pattern, not code signature), it phones home. That is standard behavior and no secret. In fact, you agree to that in the license and it can, I believe, be switched off.
So what likely happened here is that the Kaspersky product was configured to send suspected, but yet unknown, malware files to Kaspersky and it did correctly identify some NSA malware as such and sent them to Kaspersky. I men, seriously, this is what correctly working AV is supposed to do. This whole thing is much more likely about the NSA being butthurt that their criminal activity (criminal everywhere outside the US that is) was discovered and that their respective malware is now detected by Kaspersky. Add to that a few creatively misleading statements to the WSJ reporters (who have zero understanding of what is going on and how the respective technology works) and you have what the WSJ is reporting now.
And very likely with pretty much the methods described, I think this cannot get much more hypocritical. And while we _know_ the NSA does this, we only have a scare-story that may turn out to be a complete fantasy on the Russians and Kaspersky.
Those that simulate it will stay long hours, but actually have less output and worse quality than more sane workers. But unfortunately, many "managers" are pretty low on productivity and insight anyways, so simulating productivity may be better for your career as those evaluating you do not understand that they are using an unsuitable metric. What we see here is the ages-old problem of faulty optimization strategies because of wrong selection of metric. The result is that people optimize with respect to the metric and not with respect to the actual problem they are trying to solve.
Of course, your live will suck badly with all the time spent at work, but many people seem to prefer that situation. Many will also be trapped in this situation, because they have no actual good marketable skills and need to fake it in order to survive.
Indeed. The thing is that as soon as safety is adequate, the next thing they will tackle is cost, as in reducing wear&tear, reducing fuel consumption, reducing damage to transported goods, etc. One thing they already have is increased flexibility, because of no rest times and no other biological limitations. Pretty soon a human driver will be entirely outclassed and hugely more expensive.
This stuff is coming. The only sane thing for those it will replace is to make sure they have other marketable skills when it comes. Trying to fight the tide just does damage to everyone and will eventually fail anyways.