MS has huge profit margins, so they can afford hiring just about anyone. The problem is they need competent engineers. Not everyone who thinks he/she's competent really is, despite the years they wasted sitting in front of the screen. What you describe is true for smaller shops - they really benefit from cheap labor.
I see 3 problems with your post: 'can possibly', 'purely hypothetical' and 'but not at all improbable'. All other scenarios are 'purely hypothetical', not the one that you described.
Russian space agencies are very promiscuous project-wise. They'll be happy to launch you to Alpha Centauri, as long as you pay. Needless to say, they can't really do it. There won't be a Moon-base not because of technological limitations, but because it requires huge money and a management that a)can get those money _over the years_ (that's the hard part) from the government b)make sure the project is done, which is non-trivial given its complexity
Linux distros need to strive to be better than Windows.
Back in late 80 - 90 MS software and PCs used to be worse, but cheaper (Actually, since late 90 PCs were better and cheaper, but MS software still was crap). So they won. Now Linux is worse, but cheaper. I can't see how it may fail to win, eventually.
It seems that I failed to emphasize distinction between Iranians in general ("clearly brighter than their neighbours") and their rulers ("islamic loonies"). The guy in question is just a guy who's interested in UAV. But when mullahs want to build some recon/combat UAVs they'll grab him by his balls and he'll do it. Not because he's bad, but because he's within their reach. His view on the government won't matter at all.
How can that be moderated insightful? Iran is a heavily islamic state. Zoroastrians have either converted or migrated to India 1000 years ago. All their achievements are in distant past. Just because Iranians are clearly brighter than their neighbours doesn't mean that we can ignore that islamic loonies are running their country.
Then pay attention as crime doesn't go down, as youths don't magically become better adjusted This (paying attention) never happens
What really happens is that after "major advancments in protecting our youth" "we need to put more effort" because crime doesn't go down and youths don't magically become better adjusted. Nanny-state is like gas, it expands unless confined by sitizens. It's a form of power. They can't kill you and rape your wife, but still they can decide what you can or cannot do. That's satisfying. A moral empire is still an empire.
about half of responses to the root post (redundantly) describe what will be their next step after that and why it'll end being cross-platform in any meanful (to everyone but MS) sense
I never quite understood why chip manufacturers had added cores long after memory bandwidth had became a problem. Why not add specialized execution units and make instruction set a bit fatter? It's not like arithmetic and logic operations are all that you can do with an int or a few ints. Same for floats (but even more operations).
Cross-platform (ideally) means platform-agnostic
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Microsoft is trying to expand their platform, which won't make you platform-agnostic at all. While that can technically be labeled as cross platform it isn't what either you or me would call cross-platform.
That's a 19th century idea. In the subsequent 100+ years we've learned about hierarchical and territorial instincts, genetical predisposition manifested by testosterone level and lots of other stuff. You can do that too.
I suspect that T2 won't fit in any existing FPGA-s. Well, may be if you throw away a cache... Either way, I see little point in running it on FPGA. It'll be slow and even more expensive as it is now.
A powerpoint presentation about someone's girlfriend making a powerpoint presentation?
Some time ago we had an article about a gal who reverse engineered c64 hardware, and now this.
That's low.
Given the fact that UK is pretty ordinary white country when it comes to IQ (don't bother to remind me of British blacks, we're talking about history here), one might expect that all the other white countries (and there are a lot of them) should pass through the same transition in such a mysterious way as to arrive to aproximately to the same result. Not bloody likely.
What if the Russian Federation is able to revitalize the silicon portion of its economy by producing this chip?
Russian Federation (and Soviet Union before that) have a long and sordid history of producing SPARC-compatible cores for military. They suck, cost a lot and generally make no sense at all (being produced in Taiwan for the military lately). The idea of a bunch of scammers revitalizing an industry doesn't seem plausible to me.
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The difference probably reflects the accuracy of their estimates :)
MS has huge profit margins, so they can afford hiring just about anyone. The problem is they need competent engineers. Not everyone who thinks he/she's competent really is, despite the years they wasted sitting in front of the screen. What you describe is true for smaller shops - they really benefit from cheap labor.
I see 3 problems with your post: 'can possibly', 'purely hypothetical' and 'but not at all improbable'. All other scenarios are 'purely hypothetical', not the one that you described.
Russian space agencies are very promiscuous project-wise. They'll be happy to launch you to Alpha Centauri, as long as you pay. Needless to say, they can't really do it. There won't be a Moon-base not because of technological limitations, but because it requires huge money and a management that a)can get those money _over the years_ (that's the hard part) from the government b)make sure the project is done, which is non-trivial given its complexity
Al Gore looks artificial enough for me
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Linux distros need to strive to be better than Windows.
Back in late 80 - 90 MS software and PCs used to be worse, but cheaper (Actually, since late 90 PCs were better and cheaper, but MS software still was crap). So they won. Now Linux is worse, but cheaper. I can't see how it may fail to win, eventually.
It seems that I failed to emphasize distinction between Iranians in general ("clearly brighter than their neighbours") and their rulers ("islamic loonies"). The guy in question is just a guy who's interested in UAV. But when mullahs want to build some recon/combat UAVs they'll grab him by his balls and he'll do it. Not because he's bad, but because he's within their reach. His view on the government won't matter at all.
How can that be moderated insightful? Iran is a heavily islamic state. Zoroastrians have either converted or migrated to India 1000 years ago. All their achievements are in distant past. Just because Iranians are clearly brighter than their neighbours doesn't mean that we can ignore that islamic loonies are running their country.
Then pay attention as crime doesn't go down, as youths don't magically become better adjusted
This (paying attention) never happens
What really happens is that after "major advancments in protecting our youth" "we need to put more effort" because crime doesn't go down and youths don't magically become better adjusted. Nanny-state is like gas, it expands unless confined by sitizens. It's a form of power. They can't kill you and rape your wife, but still they can decide what you can or cannot do. That's satisfying. A moral empire is still an empire.
my user_agent string will be "I don't see your stinking ads!"
about half of responses to the root post (redundantly) describe what will be their next step after that and why it'll end being cross-platform in any meanful (to everyone but MS) sense
I never quite understood why chip manufacturers had added cores long after memory bandwidth had became a problem. Why not add specialized execution units and make instruction set a bit fatter? It's not like arithmetic and logic operations are all that you can do with an int or a few ints. Same for floats (but even more operations).
Microsoft is trying to expand their platform, which won't make you platform-agnostic at all. While that can technically be labeled as cross platform it isn't what either you or me would call cross-platform.
3 tonnes? Being Russian, I don't see a problem here. The real question is why have they done it. Who's gonna buy it?
In certain population groups that are (of course) by pure chance overrepresented in American prisons - yes.
That's a 19th century idea. In the subsequent 100+ years we've learned about hierarchical and territorial instincts, genetical predisposition manifested by testosterone level and lots of other stuff. You can do that too.
With eMule you type in what you want, select 'download' and get it. With BitTorrent.... ahhh, how could public fall for such thing?
Mainframes are so much better for managing my pr0n collection
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I suspect that T2 won't fit in any existing FPGA-s. Well, may be if you throw away a cache... Either way, I see little point in running it on FPGA. It'll be slow and even more expensive as it is now.
A powerpoint presentation about someone's girlfriend making a powerpoint presentation?
Some time ago we had an article about a gal who reverse engineered c64 hardware, and now this. That's low.
Given the fact that UK is pretty ordinary white country when it comes to IQ (don't bother to remind me of British blacks, we're talking about history here), one might expect that all the other white countries (and there are a lot of them) should pass through the same transition in such a mysterious way as to arrive to aproximately to the same result. Not bloody likely.
What if the Russian Federation is able to revitalize the silicon portion of its economy by producing this chip?
Russian Federation (and Soviet Union before that) have a long and sordid history of producing SPARC-compatible cores for military. They suck, cost a lot and generally make no sense at all (being produced in Taiwan for the military lately). The idea of a bunch of scammers revitalizing an industry doesn't seem plausible to me.
Netcraft confirms it?