I doubt it is a hardware issue. I am more inclined to think it is software that is too tightly integrated, and software that was integrated to the "Mass" without a restart ability.
If A depends on B and B depends on C and C depends on A, then, how to bring up the system on A with all the dependencies?
Overtakes China in one run! Way to kick the shit out of China!
Japan too!
China will do to Germany and Alstom, what it did to the USA. Steal designs, and if they could, purchase a pair of trains to serve as models, while they copy/clone to make their own designs.
I am pretty sure David Patterson is out there doing it. He is a professor in the field who has accomplished plenty. He is 70 now and is likely past his academic prime, so now he is doing what he should be doing at this time in his career: teaching, mentoring, and inspiring the next generation.
How can you say, "Past your prime". I am 80 and doing hardware and software design. I am inspired and I enspire others.
For the desktop, what I foresee is migration to loosely coupled systems. Don't need 32cpus on a chip, instead have a half dozen sub-systems with multi-core cpus. My next major desktop should have a system(with it's cpu) for file-IO, another for security, another for user interface and perhaps more specialized subsystems. Each system would be independent of the other and communicate between each other via some fibre optic interface
While the author, Nikita Prokopov makes a valid point, we have seen that the world is full of hackers, and those wanting all that data that resides on your phone.
The bloated apps are so because the author discovered the need to check return codes from function calls, to check that there was no corruption with the app.
Your today recent cellphone can now produce 4096 different colors in 64 levels of intensity and a pixal resolution that did not exist in devices some years ago. Therein is the majority of application bloat. Handling all the extra beauty and pixals.
Often hardware virtualization support defaults to off in the BIOS. With it on, there will generally be no noticable slowdown in a VM provided you give the VM a reasonable amount of RAM. You might see it called Intel VT-x or AMD-V in the BIOS. Enable it.
Sometimes people give a VM 256MB of RAM, then they are suprised that it's almost as slow as a machine with 256MB of RAM. If top performance is needed, a VM should have almost as much RAM assigned as you'd use in a bare-metal machine withh the same OS. IO buffer in the host reduce the RAM requirements a little bit.
The other thing that can happen is if you have a VM that does a ton of IO, you want to use virtio. Set the VM settings to use virtio rather than emulating a particular network card and hard drive. That can significantly faster, if the VM writes to disk a lot or it's pumping a hundreds of megabits through the network card.
When Ram prices come down, and the standard desktop cpu is 64gigs of ram, I will run virtual I/O
I envy people in places like France and Quebec who take their free-time seriously -- closing time is 6 pm for many business that would stay open until 8 or even 10 pm in the US.
The Quebec government takes family time as valuable. They did not want to see kids dropped off to daycares at 6:30am, and picked up at 7:pm. So, it became a provincial law that certain stores close early. Excluded are gasoline stations, some groceries, fast-food outlets. But for these latter types, the employee hours are adjusted to match the offset.
It also benefited the chain stores, as they only needed one shift of employees. For example, some employees arrive at 8am, do some stock organization, and neatness arrangements and then the doors open at 9:30am or 10am. These early arrivals leave by 4pm. Others who arrive for 10am leave at 6pm. Thursdays and Fridays, stores are open to 9pm, and Saturdays to 5pm. Some younger employees were able to leave for evening-university courses, dental appointments, etc.
We've already failed. It is hopeless that mass transit can get fixed in less than 30 years, so self-driving cars is the solution.
Every consider that the modern person just doesn't want to ride mass transit for their daily lives?
Even if it was clean, on time and lacked smelly bums.....why would I choose public transportation when I can more easily and directly have door-to-door services with my own car?
Not to mention, in my own car, I keep my own stuff it in and don't have to load/unload all the time, I have my radio programmed in, I keep some daily possessions in there, etc.
Unless you are down and out with regards to money, why would anyone choose it?
The times I come close to wanting to go somewhere and not drive or park....I uber. Again, it is door-to-door.
This is especially important when there is inclement weather, or when, like here, it is fscking 95F out with 98% humidity. If you're dressed at all to look nice for work, etc, you don't wanna be sweating your ass off by the time you get to work.
I love our mass transit system (Montreal). Subways run on time, fast, clean, noisefree, seats designed for people wearing winter coats. . Some newer trains include good quality wifi. If your mass transit (bus/subway) provided wifi, and punctuality, and the roads had special bus lanes, (as we do here), and it is affordable to use, then MT will win. Single rides are $3.25 (good for transfers too). Seniors, single rides $2.25. By 10 rides for a discount, buy a monthly pass for $100.00 (less for seniors and kids). Some of our buses and some subway cars accomodate wheelchairs
Branch prediction is speculative execution. If I have a pipelined processor, and the process execution arrives at a branch statement, I can either hold execution until the condition for the branch statement is calculated. Then the pipelines of my processor run empty until the calculation of the condition has finished. Or I predict the branch the execution is going to and start to fill up the execution pipeline with the commands of the branch I predicted and start decoding and executing them. But that is speculative, as the exact value of my condition is not known yet.
Branch prediction was introduced to keep the pipelines of the processor as much filled as possible. Branch prediction without speculative execution does not make any sense. Why would I try to estimate beforehand what branch the process is taking when I don't use that estimate for anything?
I'm an old codger, but I remember IBM system engineers telling me that their 3090 or more recent systems had 21 instruction look ahead. They actually decoded both sides of the compare statement, so that there was minimal lost time at the branch. A few lookahead instructions to discover a comparison and the few instructions setup for either side of the branch. The question to answer is "what do you do with the microcode data setup for the branch not taken?
So if we increased the minimum wage to $50 an hour, everything would be great all of a sudden. Wouldn't $100 an hour be better still then? I think the logic breaks down and it's easy to see why.
It also doesn't make much sense when looking at history. There were no minimum wage laws and people often were paid starvation wages if they were paid at all. And yet useful progress occurred nonetheless. People are always going to try to find a cheaper way of doing something as long as there's a potential for increased profit that they can realize as a result of doing so. While there are some that don't even need that and are quite happy to work away at some problem for its own sake, they are rare.
Perhaps what you're thinking of is that there's less pressure to find a less expensive alternative when the cost of some aspect of production is low relative to the other components and that's certainly true, but the logic still does not hold. One could argue that paying starvation wages to the low skill labor leaves more money available to invest into research and development. That naturally implies that there will be higher wages for researchers if there is more demand for that kind of labor, but it does nothing for the kind of low skill employees whose plight the original poster was bemoaning.
Please try living on minimum wage for a month. Can you survive?
I suppose you can try to play economic god and demand that certain jobs pay more in order to try to drive technological advancement in those areas, but history has shown that the people who try to run planned economies often make an utter mess of things.
In order to qualify for "Canadian phones", the final assembly must be done in Canada. The final assembly issue won't work for USA, as the sub-assemblies will still be Chinese and subject to the tariffs.
This is the president's dream, but I bet it will not come to pass. Apple's pockets are extremely deep. Trump could be convinced otherwise.
Let face it. These people are doing this to themselves. Its not facebooks problem if they can't learn to not let themselves be trolled in to violence. In this case someone told them to walk off a cliff and they did. Sounds like this country has many deep seated problems that the tech is just shining a light on.
Its called education and tolerance. Deeply rooted over the centuries of practice / lack of practice.
"An even greater share of the world's computer chips are designed domestically and made overseas by companies including Qualcomm, Apple, Broadcom and Nvidia."
This reads as though Qualcomm, Apple, Broadcom and Nvidia are making chips. What would be clear and accurate is:
"An even greater share of the world's computer chips are designed domestically by companies including Qualcomm, Apple, Broadcom and Nvidia and made overseas."
I thought that the best chips were designed in Israel for Intel and for others.
From the linked article: When a solid bulk cargo liquefies, it can shift or slosh inside a shipâ(TM)s hold, making the vessel less stable. A liquefied cargo can shift completely to one side of the hold. If it regains its strength and reverts to a solid state, the cargo will remain in the shifted position, causing the ship to permanently tilt or list in the water. The cargo can then liquefy again and shift further, increasing the angle of list.
Take a raw egg and give it a spin. Boil the egg to "hard boiled state" and give the egg a spin. Its a way to detect which egg of a pair has been cooked
Electric car owners will find themselves at public charging stations infrequently. As an ICE owner, I have to refill at a gas station once a week. An electric car owner generally charges overnight at home, and only has to charge on the road occasionally when their trip is longer than 250 miles. Sure- if you're going to say "But I have a 300 mile trip every week!" then an electric car may not be for you. But you would be greatly in the minority.
The car could be for him if that once per week trip was done from a car rental agency.
Any backdoor means bye-bye to online financial transactions. No bank is going to be able to protect itself from being infiltrated and with money siphoned off.
Most of the folks I know believe the warming we've experienced is a natural cycle tied to the solar cycles and the fact we're still coming out of the last ice age. They can't buy the crap that says one little molecule out of 2500 that can only absorb at most 11% of black body radiation is the cause.
Its nice that you rely on what folks you know believe rather than letting things like facts get in the way.
Our issue is that if CO2 were actually the cause of this then the proposed solutions are for the capitalistic industrialized nations to change their societies in a negative, costly manner and move away from capitalism.
So there is no capital in coming up with energy solutions that don't rely on fossil fuels? Why does the change from fossil fuel to more sustainable energy have to "change their societies in a negative way"? I'll agree that it may be costly in the short term but isn't the whole idea of capitalism to capitalize these types of situations? The other thing is who is it costly for. It will be costly for those people/companies that built their fortunes on fossil fuels but it might just be very profitable for those people that embrace alternative energies. Moving to clean energy doesn't mean moving away from capitalism.
So we're not skeptical of warming, we're skeptical of you who claim it is because of CO2, coincidentally the one green house gas produced by an advanced industrial society.
Just because we have advanced as a society by exploiting energy that produces CO2 doesn't mean that CO2 is "the one green house gas produced by an advanced industrial society". I'm sure if we try hard enough we could come up with another green house gas that can produce an advanced industrial society (or maybe we could just skip the whole greenhouse gas thing altogether).
All that you say is true, but... Humans with automobiles and other co2 producing fuels are accelerating this issue.
I expect that within 50 years, the cattle industry of the lower prairies, Texas, will be unsustainable, with months on end 105-110degrees days, tornadoes and hail storms. Only the Northern USA will be truly comfortable and habitable without super high electrical and gas energy costs..
I trust Journalism from reputable sources like the BBC, PBS, MBC, ABC, and any non Trump station. I exclude FOX and Sinclair from this list of trustworthy's.
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I doubt it is a hardware issue. I am more inclined to think it is software that is too tightly integrated, and software that was integrated to the "Mass" without a restart ability.
If A depends on B and B depends on C and C depends on A, then, how to bring up the system on A with all the dependencies?
Systems need to be more loosely coupled.
Perhaps the VTELS of the world should be paid by the subscriber count and not by the number of towers built!!
I don't mind a self driving car, as long as it is on rails.
Overtakes China in one run! Way to kick the shit out of China!
Japan too!
China will do to Germany and Alstom, what it did to the USA. Steal designs,
and if they could, purchase a pair of trains to serve as models, while they copy/clone to make their own designs.
I am pretty sure David Patterson is out there doing it. He is a professor in the field who has accomplished plenty. He is 70 now and is likely past his academic prime, so now he is doing what he should be doing at this time in his career: teaching, mentoring, and inspiring the next generation.
How can you say, "Past your prime". I am 80 and doing hardware and software design. I am inspired and I enspire others.
For the desktop, what I foresee is migration to loosely coupled systems. Don't need 32cpus on a chip, instead have a half dozen sub-systems with multi-core cpus. My next major desktop should have a system(with it's cpu) for file-IO, another for security, another for user interface and perhaps more specialized subsystems. Each system would be independent of the other and communicate between each other via some fibre optic interface
While the author, Nikita Prokopov makes a valid point, we have seen that the world is full of hackers, and those wanting all that data that resides on your phone.
The bloated apps are so because the author discovered the need to check return codes from function calls, to check that there was no corruption with the app.
Your today recent cellphone can now produce 4096 different colors in 64 levels of intensity and a pixal resolution that did not exist in devices some years ago. Therein is the majority of application bloat. Handling all the extra beauty and pixals.
...one gold egg. Seriously, it was there for A MONTH and nobody noticed? Might be time to switch to a different site for my computer parts.
Time to apply for a replacement card with new CCD or whatever.
Often hardware virtualization support defaults to off in the BIOS. With it on, there will generally be no noticable slowdown in a VM provided you give the VM a reasonable amount of RAM. You might see it called Intel VT-x or AMD-V in the BIOS. Enable it.
Sometimes people give a VM 256MB of RAM, then they are suprised that it's almost as slow as a machine with 256MB of RAM. If top performance is needed, a VM should have almost as much RAM assigned as you'd use in a bare-metal machine withh the same OS. IO buffer in the host reduce the RAM requirements a little bit.
The other thing that can happen is if you have a VM that does a ton of IO, you want to use virtio. Set the VM settings to use virtio rather than emulating a particular network card and hard drive. That can significantly faster, if the VM writes to disk a lot or it's pumping a hundreds of megabits through the network card.
When Ram prices come down, and the standard desktop cpu is 64gigs of ram, I will run virtual I/O
More like 8-6 in much of the US, if not worse.
I envy people in places like France and Quebec who take their free-time seriously -- closing time is 6 pm for many business that would stay open until 8 or even 10 pm in the US.
The Quebec government takes family time as valuable. They did not want to see kids dropped off to daycares at 6:30am, and picked up at 7:pm. So, it became a provincial law that certain stores close early. Excluded are gasoline stations, some groceries, fast-food outlets. But for these latter types, the employee hours are adjusted to match the offset.
It also benefited the chain stores, as they only needed one shift of employees. For example, some employees arrive at 8am, do some stock organization, and neatness arrangements and then the doors open at 9:30am or 10am. These early arrivals leave by 4pm. Others who arrive for 10am leave at 6pm. Thursdays and Fridays, stores are open to 9pm, and Saturdays to 5pm.
Some younger employees were able to leave for evening-university courses, dental appointments, etc.
Are there any bets that his wife and kids laid down the law. Clean up your vocabulary or else use sleep alone.
In the spring, a "trio lunch" was around $6.00 tax in. That same meal today is 9.00. A 50% increase in 5 1/2 months
For a family of 5, thats $15/meal
Supermarkets are able to provide "meals for two in a tray" for for the fastfood price of a meal for one.
Now, exclude all papers found to be misleading, wrong or outright fake. How big is China's impact on contributing to the sciences now?
China has free university.Therefore, from rich or poor, the smarted of the lot are doing the advanced studies and research.
Want the USA to lead, make universities affordable, don't cut off 70% of the student population
Every consider that the modern person just doesn't want to ride mass transit for their daily lives?
Even if it was clean, on time and lacked smelly bums.....why would I choose public transportation when I can more easily and directly have door-to-door services with my own car?
Not to mention, in my own car, I keep my own stuff it in and don't have to load/unload all the time, I have my radio programmed in, I keep some daily possessions in there, etc.
Unless you are down and out with regards to money, why would anyone choose it?
The times I come close to wanting to go somewhere and not drive or park....I uber. Again, it is door-to-door.
This is especially important when there is inclement weather, or when, like here, it is fscking 95F out with 98% humidity. If you're dressed at all to look nice for work, etc, you don't wanna be sweating your ass off by the time you get to work.
I love our mass transit system (Montreal). Subways run on time, fast, clean, noisefree, seats designed for people wearing winter coats. . Some newer trains include good quality wifi.
If your mass transit (bus/subway) provided wifi, and punctuality, and the roads had special bus lanes, (as we do here), and it is affordable to use, then MT will win. Single rides are $3.25 (good for transfers too). Seniors, single rides $2.25.
By 10 rides for a discount, buy a monthly pass for $100.00 (less for seniors and kids).
Some of our buses and some subway cars accomodate wheelchairs
Branch prediction is speculative execution. If I have a pipelined processor, and the process execution arrives at a branch statement, I can either hold execution until the condition for the branch statement is calculated. Then the pipelines of my processor run empty until the calculation of the condition has finished. Or I predict the branch the execution is going to and start to fill up the execution pipeline with the commands of the branch I predicted and start decoding and executing them. But that is speculative, as the exact value of my condition is not known yet.
Branch prediction was introduced to keep the pipelines of the processor as much filled as possible. Branch prediction without speculative execution does not make any sense. Why would I try to estimate beforehand what branch the process is taking when I don't use that estimate for anything?
I'm an old codger, but I remember IBM system engineers telling me that their 3090 or more recent systems had 21 instruction look ahead. They actually decoded both sides of the compare statement, so that there was minimal lost time at the branch.
A few lookahead instructions to discover a comparison and the few instructions setup for either side of the branch.
The question to answer is "what do you do with the microcode data setup for the branch not taken?
So if we increased the minimum wage to $50 an hour, everything would be great all of a sudden. Wouldn't $100 an hour be better still then? I think the logic breaks down and it's easy to see why.
It also doesn't make much sense when looking at history. There were no minimum wage laws and people often were paid starvation wages if they were paid at all. And yet useful progress occurred nonetheless. People are always going to try to find a cheaper way of doing something as long as there's a potential for increased profit that they can realize as a result of doing so. While there are some that don't even need that and are quite happy to work away at some problem for its own sake, they are rare.
Perhaps what you're thinking of is that there's less pressure to find a less expensive alternative when the cost of some aspect of production is low relative to the other components and that's certainly true, but the logic still does not hold. One could argue that paying starvation wages to the low skill labor leaves more money available to invest into research and development. That naturally implies that there will be higher wages for researchers if there is more demand for that kind of labor, but it does nothing for the kind of low skill employees whose plight the original poster was bemoaning.
Please try living on minimum wage for a month. Can you survive?
I suppose you can try to play economic god and demand that certain jobs pay more in order to try to drive technological advancement in those areas, but history has shown that the people who try to run planned economies often make an utter mess of things.
In order to qualify for "Canadian phones", the final assembly must be done in Canada.
The final assembly issue won't work for USA, as the sub-assemblies will still be Chinese and subject to the tariffs.
This is the president's dream, but I bet it will not come to pass. Apple's pockets are extremely deep. Trump could be convinced otherwise.
Let face it. These people are doing this to themselves. Its not facebooks problem if they can't learn to not let themselves be trolled in to violence. In this case someone told them to walk off a cliff and they did. Sounds like this country has many deep seated problems that the tech is just shining a light on.
Its called education and tolerance. Deeply rooted over the centuries of practice / lack of practice.
"An even greater share of the world's computer chips are designed domestically and made overseas by companies including Qualcomm, Apple, Broadcom and Nvidia."
This reads as though Qualcomm, Apple, Broadcom and Nvidia are making chips. What would be clear and accurate is:
"An even greater share of the world's computer chips are designed domestically by companies including Qualcomm, Apple, Broadcom and Nvidia and made overseas."
I thought that the best chips were designed in Israel for Intel and for others.
or work for the interests of who you are working for.
The American people?
I suspect that a collaboration of senior officials got together to write the op-ed. Which woman signed it? Kelly or Sanders?
From the linked article:
When a solid bulk cargo liquefies, it can shift or slosh inside a shipâ(TM)s hold, making the vessel less stable. A liquefied cargo can shift completely to one side of the hold. If it regains its strength and reverts to a solid state, the cargo will remain in the shifted position, causing the ship to permanently tilt or list in the water. The cargo can then liquefy again and shift further, increasing the angle of list.
Take a raw egg and give it a spin. Boil the egg to "hard boiled state" and give the egg a spin.
Its a way to detect which egg of a pair has been cooked
Electric car owners will find themselves at public charging stations infrequently. As an ICE owner, I have to refill at a gas station once a week. An electric car owner generally charges overnight at home, and only has to charge on the road occasionally when their trip is longer than 250 miles. Sure- if you're going to say "But I have a 300 mile trip every week!" then an electric car may not be for you. But you would be greatly in the minority.
The car could be for him if that once per week trip was done from a car rental agency.
Any backdoor means bye-bye to online financial transactions.
No bank is going to be able to protect itself from being infiltrated and with money siphoned off.
So what's the incentive to buy one of these things if the content world is pretty much still on 1080i/p, let alone 4k?
Its just to impress the neighbors. After all, what separates the men from the boys is the cost of their toys.
Most of the folks I know believe the warming we've experienced is a natural cycle tied to the solar cycles and the fact we're still coming out of the last ice age. They can't buy the crap that says one little molecule out of 2500 that can only absorb at most 11% of black body radiation is the cause.
Its nice that you rely on what folks you know believe rather than letting things like facts get in the way.
Our issue is that if CO2 were actually the cause of this then the proposed solutions are for the capitalistic industrialized nations to change their societies in a negative, costly manner and move away from capitalism.
So there is no capital in coming up with energy solutions that don't rely on fossil fuels? Why does the change from fossil fuel to more sustainable energy have to "change their societies in a negative way"? I'll agree that it may be costly in the short term but isn't the whole idea of capitalism to capitalize these types of situations? The other thing is who is it costly for. It will be costly for those people/companies that built their fortunes on fossil fuels but it might just be very profitable for those people that embrace alternative energies. Moving to clean energy doesn't mean moving away from capitalism.
So we're not skeptical of warming, we're skeptical of you who claim it is because of CO2, coincidentally the one green house gas produced by an advanced industrial society.
Just because we have advanced as a society by exploiting energy that produces CO2 doesn't mean that CO2 is "the one green house gas produced by an advanced industrial society". I'm sure if we try hard enough we could come up with another green house gas that can produce an advanced industrial society (or maybe we could just skip the whole greenhouse gas thing altogether).
All that you say is true, but... Humans with automobiles and other co2 producing fuels are accelerating this issue.
I expect that within 50 years, the cattle industry of the lower prairies, Texas, will be unsustainable, with months on end 105-110degrees days, tornadoes and hail storms.
Only the Northern USA will be truly comfortable and habitable without super high electrical and gas energy costs..
I trust Journalism from reputable sources like the BBC, PBS, MBC, ABC, and any non Trump station. I exclude FOX and Sinclair from this list of trustworthy's.