Indeed. My take is that AMD will now catch Intel and maybe move a tiny bit ahead (10-20%) in the years to follow. Intel will find those 10-20% as well eventually, but that is basically it for the AMD64 architecture. Not that I am complaining, I think the raw computing power is pretty awesome. Software wastes most of it though, and frameworks, interpreted languages and clueless coders are the main reasons.
The only real option, baring some fundamental breakthrough (not even on the horizon, caches, pipelining and branch prediction are fairly old tech, but were just to expensive for regular computers up to now) is massively more and simpler cores, i.e. ARM. But for them, the software side is not there at all, because most coders have no clue how to do multi-threading well.
Well, any tech article that proclaims something "dead" or asks whether it is "dead" usually is just a sign of a brain-dead writer. Also, anybody that expects any real speed-ups from Intel in the next 2-3 years has no clue how long it takes to fundamentally improve a CPU.
Security patches and graphics drivers. Games and machines only running games get attacked too.
As to Linux, I hope in 2020 gaming on Linux will have started to work well due to Vulcan, but at this time it is just not really there yet. And I say that as a long-term Linux user and fan (since 1994).
That is basically what the numbers say. The 15% increase means these are mostly replacement PCs and laptops, and people likely cannot get Windows 7 for them easily or transfer it form their old machine.
Personally, I will not move to Win 10 before I can block updates indefinitely and I can turn off spying ("telemetry") reliably. If that does not happen, then I will go to one gaming-only Win10 machine, no email, no browsing, no non-gaming uses at all, and a Win7 VM for Office with no network connection on a Linux basis. Everything else will be Linux, which I use for a lot of work already anyways.
They are form a study done by the DoJ. Unfortunately the link to the DoJ is broken and I cannot be bothered to find the document, but there is no reason the Washington Post would make numbers like these up.
They have 4'500-21'000 underage persons working in the sex trade in the US, with an average age of entry at 15.8. Only 15% have a "pimp", i.e. if you assume each pimp forces his girls into prostitution (extremely unlikely, most of those with a "pimp" will still be in it of their own free will), you get a maximum of 675-3150 underage persons forced into the sex trade overall. This nicely shows that the "100'000 children forced into the sex trade each year in the US" numbers are massively bogus and nothing but an outrageous lie.
The 100'000 "children forced into prostitution" was per year as in "new in", so the same applies to the missing persons. This was only a demonstration how far wrong the "100'000" children number must be. For example, many of these missing persons show up again in a short while, which just makes my argument stronger.
When you have people basically implementing a process without much understanding, it is pretty easy to automatize their jobs away. The only thing Watson is contribution is the translation from natural language to a more formalized one. No actual intelligence needed.
So you think somebody forces a child into prostitution, risking 20 year or so in prison and only does it once? That does not make any sense at all! If this is for economic gain, it will be done regularly over the full time that child has a reasonable market value. But since this is mostly your perverted fantasy, economic realities (or any reality, really) does not come into play.
Most over Europe, prostitution is legal. This makes it easy to find out whether women working in that field a coerced or not. They pay taxes, you can talk to them and ask them for their motivations, etc. Turns out, they are only very rarely coerced and those few that are usually are not coerced for very long. Also, no brothel owner will be willing to prevent the ones working there from leaving the building, as that would make for a large pool of victims that could a) escape b) tell customers what is going on and these would then go to the police, and, surprise!, that is exactly what happens in the extremely rare cases where a brothel owner thinks this is a workable idea. I remember one case where forced prostitution happened here last year, and, I think, the second customer was the one to inform the police. The violent "pimp" was an utter looser that had no clue about the realities.
The thing is, this is so rare that whenever it is discovered, it makes the news.
The other thing is that forced prostitutes do not make for good prostitutes and are in the very lowest price class. Being a good prostitute is hard and requires both empathy and intelligence. Add to that the constant risk of one having enough (and she can always tell her customers and that usually works and cannot be prevented) and you have the reason why criminal enterprises have given up on it. Now, human trafficking is real, but basically none of it is sex-trafficking. It is for cheap labor, because that one works economically.
Unless you count people that chose prostitution over another way to earn money because the other ways would earn them way less, there is no coercion going on in prostitution. No, really not. It is a "Big Lie" that gets told to people, mainly in the US in the west, but that does not make it true.
As I said, "deranged fantasies". You are guilty of those.
The number should already give anybody with two braincells to rub together a clue: There is no way for 100'000 children with an average age of 12-14 in the US to be forced into prostitution. There are only about 3.5 million children of that age-range (it does not get any better with an understanding of what "average" means, the author of that propaganda-piece has none), hence that would mean one in 35 is forced into prostitution. Now that would be a bit more noticeable, would it? (Well, "massively more noticeable" would be the right term.) And at an _average_ age of 12-14? That is nothing but an utterly perverted fantasy. This would mean loads of of children would be forced into it at 1-12 years old, otherwise you do not get an average this low. Now, assume these on average 13 year olds stay in prostitution until they are 18 (well, as long as they are "children"). That would mean you have at the very least 600'000 underage persons in forced prostitution. So, where are these? Aybody? Right, THEY DO NOT EXIST!
Actual prostitutes in the US are estimated by reliable sources as 23 per 100'000. That is around 90'000. For these, the average age they start is 23. Hence the number of children forced into prostitution on average at 13 (!) years of age would be 7 times greater than the legal one. That is simply preposterous and can only be an extreme lie. It is truly amazing how gullible people are. The perverted fantasies will certainly play a role here.
And here is another number: Apparently, there are only about 38'000 missing persons under 18 per year in the US. Now, if _all_ of them are forced into prostitution (which is most certainly not the case by a very large margin), you are still missing 62'000. Think they are all "disappeared" magically without anybody noticing or forced into prostitution by their parents? Or by random strangers, and basically no one of them tells their parents? The gross stupidity of such a claim is staggering.
Also, if there really were these many children forced into prostitution on average at 13 years of age, this story would not be news at all because they would be found everywhere all the time with these numbers. One 16 years old already making the news is proof that this is very rare indeed.
Nobody is "being sold" for sex these days except in exceptionally rare circumstances. It does not work economically. The Mafia gave up forced-prostitution a long time ago for that reason. In the rare circumstances where it still happens, the first customer is usually the one to call the police. (Well, not in the US obviously, but in decent countries where prostitution is legal, that is how it goes.)
This thing basically shows the deranged fantasies of the "rescuers". More likely than not, this young lady was in it of her own free will. And guess what, 16 year olds can make decisions about their lives and are not in any form "children" (except in those deranged fantasies...).
And rather handsomely as No Man's Sky shows. Apparently, the only thing they needed to do is make the first 3-4 hours interesting and give people some false hope. Personally, I canceled my pre-order after reading the early reviews.
It must be some felony, after all libraries must be emptied and prisons filled. Now look up which other societies in history had those priorities. Opps, sorry, you cannot, _those_ books have been removed....
It is not the primary task of a library to cater to the current fickle tastes of its patrons. Sure, this can be a secondary consideration, but the primary one is to have a wide selection available for people to discover things in the first place. I don't know how many hours I have spent as a teenager pulling books at random from shelves in a library and finding quite a few of them interesting.
Not true at all. EU law is far ahead in this regard. They need to explicitly ask. And even if they do and I say yes, I can order them at any time to delete all my data and they have to do it. Storing and correlating data on people that do not have consented and that do not have an account with them is a criminal act.
I think your estimate is way low. Get something on the moon that is self-sustaining over a few decades, and then we can talk about doing it somewhere really far away like Mars.
You mean that country that did a lot of stunts, but never managed to get anything manned permanently into space (except LEO)? That country that does not have a reliable launch vehicle at this time?
That one does not only generate a lot of thrust, it does so without needing energy from the outside! These aliens seem to have a leak in their very large EM drive v3.0 and the signal is from them testing it and shutting it off again (...damn, still leaks....).
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Indeed. My take is that AMD will now catch Intel and maybe move a tiny bit ahead (10-20%) in the years to follow. Intel will find those 10-20% as well eventually, but that is basically it for the AMD64 architecture. Not that I am complaining, I think the raw computing power is pretty awesome. Software wastes most of it though, and frameworks, interpreted languages and clueless coders are the main reasons.
The only real option, baring some fundamental breakthrough (not even on the horizon, caches, pipelining and branch prediction are fairly old tech, but were just to expensive for regular computers up to now) is massively more and simpler cores, i.e. ARM. But for them, the software side is not there at all, because most coders have no clue how to do multi-threading well.
Well, any tech article that proclaims something "dead" or asks whether it is "dead" usually is just a sign of a brain-dead writer. Also, anybody that expects any real speed-ups from Intel in the next 2-3 years has no clue how long it takes to fundamentally improve a CPU.
Security patches and graphics drivers. Games and machines only running games get attacked too.
As to Linux, I hope in 2020 gaming on Linux will have started to work well due to Vulcan, but at this time it is just not really there yet. And I say that as a long-term Linux user and fan (since 1994).
You have no clue about engineering, obviously.
That is basically what the numbers say. The 15% increase means these are mostly replacement PCs and laptops, and people likely cannot get Windows 7 for them easily or transfer it form their old machine.
Personally, I will not move to Win 10 before I can block updates indefinitely and I can turn off spying ("telemetry") reliably. If that does not happen, then I will go to one gaming-only Win10 machine, no email, no browsing, no non-gaming uses at all, and a Win7 VM for Office with no network connection on a Linux basis. Everything else will be Linux, which I use for a lot of work already anyways.
Incidentally, here are a few a few harder numbers
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They are form a study done by the DoJ. Unfortunately the link to the DoJ is broken and I cannot be bothered to find the document, but there is no reason the Washington Post would make numbers like these up.
They have 4'500-21'000 underage persons working in the sex trade in the US, with an average age of entry at 15.8. Only 15% have a "pimp", i.e. if you assume each pimp forces his girls into prostitution (extremely unlikely, most of those with a "pimp" will still be in it of their own free will), you get a maximum of 675-3150 underage persons forced into the sex trade overall. This nicely shows that the "100'000 children forced into the sex trade each year in the US" numbers are massively bogus and nothing but an outrageous lie.
I wish. Artificial stupidity is a bit more advanced than AI, but nowhere there yet.
The 100'000 "children forced into prostitution" was per year as in "new in", so the same applies to the missing persons. This was only a demonstration how far wrong the "100'000" children number must be. For example, many of these missing persons show up again in a short while, which just makes my argument stronger.
When you have people basically implementing a process without much understanding, it is pretty easy to automatize their jobs away. The only thing Watson is contribution is the translation from natural language to a more formalized one. No actual intelligence needed.
I see you have nothing to back up your claims, and hence you are trying to change the subject. Figures.
So you think somebody forces a child into prostitution, risking 20 year or so in prison and only does it once? That does not make any sense at all! If this is for economic gain, it will be done regularly over the full time that child has a reasonable market value. But since this is mostly your perverted fantasy, economic realities (or any reality, really) does not come into play.
Most over Europe, prostitution is legal. This makes it easy to find out whether women working in that field a coerced or not. They pay taxes, you can talk to them and ask them for their motivations, etc. Turns out, they are only very rarely coerced and those few that are usually are not coerced for very long. Also, no brothel owner will be willing to prevent the ones working there from leaving the building, as that would make for a large pool of victims that could a) escape b) tell customers what is going on and these would then go to the police, and, surprise!, that is exactly what happens in the extremely rare cases where a brothel owner thinks this is a workable idea. I remember one case where forced prostitution happened here last year, and, I think, the second customer was the one to inform the police. The violent "pimp" was an utter looser that had no clue about the realities.
The thing is, this is so rare that whenever it is discovered, it makes the news.
The other thing is that forced prostitutes do not make for good prostitutes and are in the very lowest price class. Being a good prostitute is hard and requires both empathy and intelligence. Add to that the constant risk of one having enough (and she can always tell her customers and that usually works and cannot be prevented) and you have the reason why criminal enterprises have given up on it. Now, human trafficking is real, but basically none of it is sex-trafficking. It is for cheap labor, because that one works economically.
Unless you count people that chose prostitution over another way to earn money because the other ways would earn them way less, there is no coercion going on in prostitution. No, really not. It is a "Big Lie" that gets told to people, mainly in the US in the west, but that does not make it true.
As I said, "deranged fantasies". You are guilty of those.
The number should already give anybody with two braincells to rub together a clue: There is no way for 100'000 children with an average age of 12-14 in the US to be forced into prostitution. There are only about 3.5 million children of that age-range (it does not get any better with an understanding of what "average" means, the author of that propaganda-piece has none), hence that would mean one in 35 is forced into prostitution. Now that would be a bit more noticeable, would it? (Well, "massively more noticeable" would be the right term.) And at an _average_ age of 12-14? That is nothing but an utterly perverted fantasy. This would mean loads of of children would be forced into it at 1-12 years old, otherwise you do not get an average this low. Now, assume these on average 13 year olds stay in prostitution until they are 18 (well, as long as they are "children"). That would mean you have at the very least 600'000 underage persons in forced prostitution. So, where are these? Aybody? Right, THEY DO NOT EXIST!
Actual prostitutes in the US are estimated by reliable sources as 23 per 100'000. That is around 90'000. For these, the average age they start is 23. Hence the number of children forced into prostitution on average at 13 (!) years of age would be 7 times greater than the legal one. That is simply preposterous and can only be an extreme lie. It is truly amazing how gullible people are. The perverted fantasies will certainly play a role here.
And here is another number: Apparently, there are only about 38'000 missing persons under 18 per year in the US. Now, if _all_ of them are forced into prostitution (which is most certainly not the case by a very large margin), you are still missing 62'000. Think they are all "disappeared" magically without anybody noticing or forced into prostitution by their parents? Or by random strangers, and basically no one of them tells their parents? The gross stupidity of such a claim is staggering.
Also, if there really were these many children forced into prostitution on average at 13 years of age, this story would not be news at all because they would be found everywhere all the time with these numbers. One 16 years old already making the news is proof that this is very rare indeed.
Nobody is "being sold" for sex these days except in exceptionally rare circumstances. It does not work economically. The Mafia gave up forced-prostitution a long time ago for that reason. In the rare circumstances where it still happens, the first customer is usually the one to call the police. (Well, not in the US obviously, but in decent countries where prostitution is legal, that is how it goes.)
This thing basically shows the deranged fantasies of the "rescuers". More likely than not, this young lady was in it of her own free will. And guess what, 16 year olds can make decisions about their lives and are not in any form "children" (except in those deranged fantasies...).
Indeed. If customers do not punish game-makers for bad quality and broken promises, what do people expect to happen next time?
And rather handsomely as No Man's Sky shows. Apparently, the only thing they needed to do is make the first 3-4 hours interesting and give people some false hope. Personally, I canceled my pre-order after reading the early reviews.
It must be some felony, after all libraries must be emptied and prisons filled. Now look up which other societies in history had those priorities. Opps, sorry, you cannot, _those_ books have been removed....
It is not the primary task of a library to cater to the current fickle tastes of its patrons. Sure, this can be a secondary consideration, but the primary one is to have a wide selection available for people to discover things in the first place. I don't know how many hours I have spent as a teenager pulling books at random from shelves in a library and finding quite a few of them interesting.
Not true at all. EU law is far ahead in this regard. They need to explicitly ask. And even if they do and I say yes, I can order them at any time to delete all my data and they have to do it. Storing and correlating data on people that do not have consented and that do not have an account with them is a criminal act.
Keep kidding yourself, you obviously are not living in the real world. It is not a question of money.
I think your estimate is way low. Get something on the moon that is self-sustaining over a few decades, and then we can talk about doing it somewhere really far away like Mars.
You mean that country that did a lot of stunts, but never managed to get anything manned permanently into space (except LEO)? That country that does not have a reliable launch vehicle at this time?
That one does not only generate a lot of thrust, it does so without needing energy from the outside! These aliens seem to have a leak in their very large EM drive v3.0 and the signal is from them testing it and shutting it off again (...damn, still leaks....).
Apparently, the operators of the US power grid are using cheaper-than-possible security, i.e. they were basically asking for it. Stupid.
Smart people have been saying that for a while.
The stupid will not be swayed by whatever amount of evidence. After all, they are stupid.