File a bug report for the compiler with 'missed optimization opportunity' in the title and a reduced test case.
We like to see real-world examples of where we're generating bad code - if we don't see them, we can't fix them.
How do you define bad code? I define it as producing erroneous results. But if your in a compute bound application, and the cost to upgrade hardware looks formidable, then you look at optimization. In my world, I look at optimization first, and hardware upgrades as second choice.
There are sure hours and hours of test cases for the work was done for optimization. The author looked at employing math factoring, not in designing new hardware. Great!!!
Well done!
I promise to not store and count with my integer fields in display format.
The security of the open source model isn't really the problem or the answer here. The problem is homogeneity. A million different sites and applications rely on just a few libraries, so that when a bug hits one, it has massive impact on the entire internet.
We also know that the answer isn't in rolling your own security. Very few people or organizations are likely to be able to securely implement their own version of TLS. Even the best packages of today didn't start out perfect, they had to iterate through several flaws to get to where they are today.
So perhaps the better answer is in having more packages to choose from? Instead of picking just openssl by default, it would be better to have a broad array of choices. With a dozen packages on the market, that might mean 11 times out of 12 the bad guys wouldn't exploit our site. If the packages are interchangeable, we'd be better positioned to switch them quickly in case of emergency.
Today, disk space is very cheap. Memory is very cheap, and I think nothing of having 32gigs of ram. My point-- do away with dynamic linking for your application. Do static linking, except possibly for display libraries. If a flaw is found, its going to require many recompiles, but that is offset by the non-reliance of multiple dynamically linked libraries. As was mentioned, get a flaw or security issue with that library, or create a "man in the middle" attack with one dynamically linked library, and voila, your security is compromised. With static linking, your application is more secure and is known to work with more versions of the operating systems
That said, despite school having literally been decades ago, I find myself empathizing with the kids on this one, who I'm sure arn't seeing this as an investment in their future but rather yet more time spent in the dungeon. I didn't exactly hate school growing up, but damn if I wasn't ready to get the hell outa there when the bell rang.
Maybe it's because we just had Christmas and that always puts me in a nostalgic child like mood. I'm sure if they announced this in September when school is just getting back into session and screwing up my morning commute I'd say to hell with the kids, but for now, the kid in me say: BOOOO!
Its not a bad idea. Our kids start at 8:15 to Noon, and 12:45 to 3:30. They are in public school, and half the day is taught in French, and the other half in English. The kids learn maths, science, and all the social studies that go along with multiculturalism. What does suffer somewhat is spelling, because of the doubling up and not dubling up. example department and département. We pay for extra curricular activities (1 hr twice a week). Its alloted for extra sports, a third language, or religious studies. (The extra hour is not in the school cirreculum, but the school board makes the classroom available. )
Yeah, and global warming is faked by the left wing media, and vaccines are poison, and municipal water flouridation is a communist plot. Oh, and by the way, you don't really believe that you are anonymous here on/., do you?
Doubting the official line on the Sony hack is hardly the stuff of tinfoil-hat denialism. How's this for a scenario: (1) Garden-variety haxx0rz and/or a disgruntled employee steal a bunch of embarrassing files from Sony -- plenty of motive there -- and dump the files on the web. (2) Some moron in the media starts speculating that it has something to do with an idiotic movie about North Korea, and the echo chamber amplifies it as truth. (3) Haxx0rz, sensing an epic opportunity for lulz, play along with the feeding frenzy in the media with some crazy threats against screening the movie, then sit back and watch the fun as paranoia in the FBI and mindless nationalism in the population do the rest of their work for them.
Couldn't be.
What if you substituted the presidents name for that of NK? Would that go well with Americans? I bet it will go very very well with Arab countries and in those countries where American Companies (United Fruit, et. al) exploited those countries for their wealth. I bet the foreign country gets only 2% of the benefit and the Corp and bribes get the rest.
In a country where the internet is about as commonplace as for us having your own rocket launch system in the backyard? Please. How do you hit NKor via internet? Take down their online payment system? Hack their official pages so their citizens would get to see defaced pics of li'l Kim?
How?
I can see that as an offensive force, but defense? Please.
From what I read, and what I am led to believe, probably every water treatment plant, every electrical generating system, including the interconnects, has been identified and an attack prepared. The USA electrical grid needs only a core state to fail, and the entire country would fail.
And if you include airports in their attack catalogues then the North Korean protections are complete. Attack them and most probably, the USA part of the internet, and possibly the entire world would be downed.
So, its ok to joke about the NKs capabilities, , Its ok to believe that the commercial anti-viruses give you a false sense of protection, but... there is no protection. Stuxnet was a perfect example. Perhaps the NKs virus software is already installed and laying dormant, just in case....
Software patents are utter bullshit from word one. They should just go away and stay away.
Hardware patents are something else, but it's pretty clear they are being *very* poorly managed. I don't even like saying it, but I'm afraid I agree with you: they do more harm than good now.
We need an entirely new model of encouraging invention. Trade secret is useful in providing a reasonable profit window and establishment of precedence in the marketplace (the only way to go with software, as far as I'm concerned) as the window you get correlates well with the complexity of what you've done, but has its limits when we're talking hardware.
Perhaps a way for society to pay for an invention, and once that's been done, it goes right into the "available to everyone" pool. Panels of experts setting perceived value and an immediate payment being made, followed by a revisit ten years later to determine how it all went, with extra reward possible if the invention's impact was underestimated?
Look at me, suggesting government committees. Oy. I should go bang my head on a table.
But damn, we *really* need to clean out the drains. Patents are the disgusting glop that are making the system run slower and slower, while getting legal sewage all over everyone involved. The only consistent winners here are the plumbers (lawyers.)
I don't consider algorithms to be patentable. But I consider a process to be patentable. What is the difference? An algorthim is an application of a set of defined rules that presents a proof, a set of steps to follow to a solution. An algorithm may be copyrighted. A process is a application of a set of rules to define the control or manufacture of a product. (Driver for hardware, agricultural process, or manufacturing process, fabrication process). If we deem an algorithm a process, then the writing of a book has to be patented.
Can the algorithm be the product? I am not a lawyer, and I leave that to others to interpret that interpretation.
Software patents are utter bullshit from word one.
FTFP. "We induce errors in most DRAM modules (110 out of 129) from three major DRAM manufacturers."
Short version, leakage current from adjacent gates can nudge other to bit-flip. I don't think this is a manufacturing problem as it is a fundamental EE design oversight. So yeah, defective by design (unintentionally)!!
So, as ddr3 gets more dense, and space between the cells has decreased, we should be standardizing on ECC memory for all desktops and servers. The second thought I have is "What minimal cpu clockspeed would enable this activity to occur with standard hardware? " It this problem likely to occur with off the self hardware motherboards and cpus?
I think it's about time we implemented some sort of single use credit card system.
That's how Chip and PIN works. Your account number is still fixed, but your authorization to spend from it (your PIN) is encrypted by the chip, and is valid only for a single transaction. There are still kinks with non-electronic transactions, but those can be solved.
Look for it to be all over the US by October of next year.
For the past two years, my Visa provider intercepts the authorizations that are made via the internet, and electronically asks me to respond to questions that only I know the answer (mothers name, graduation year, etc). If I fail, the transaction authorization fails. So, just because someone knows the 3 digit code on the back of the card means zero. And our credit cards have had the chip version since 2011. That technology is just coming into force in the USA, after 4 years of fraud.
Thank you. I don't know why so much of Slashdot seems to be taking the obvious "it was NK omg" story at face value, even after NK explicitly denied it. They take credit for things they've never done - if they'd hacked Sony successfully, of course they'd be bragging about it.
As robots take over, and liberate man from tasks, it also implies that man is liberated from an income. Should there be a have and have not society? Can the have society sustain the infrastructures we hold dear, such as roads, schools, desire to be productive?
If robots take over, we will require a guaranteed wage. That will allow money to circulate, and society to be vibrant and alive.
If that does not occur, look for malaise and crime to grow out of proportion to today's level.
Perhaps. That is certainly a valid concern. However, the state of the art in this area is continually advancing very quickly. Just having an advanced fab in China does not mean that Chinese engineers are able to create the next generation chips and fabs. I think Intel's move is quite logical, and the danger of intellectual property theft not too serious in their case.
Intel, like GM will gradually leave the USA for permenancy in China. Population 1.2 billion vs 350 million, Single party government vs democracy, better labour cost controls, lower overheads and government (universal) medicare.
In other news: A company so desperate to get into bed with Apple signs away their soul for rainbows and promises.
New entrepreneurs are always optimistic. They haven't dealt with irresponsible organizations or organizations that think out loud but then choose decisions other than what they let people believe. In a way one could say Apple was bullshitting their plans to confuse the competitors.
Actually the opposite is the case. Our economy has exactly the opposite, but nonetheless equally destructive, problem communism had: They had a shortage of supply. We have a shortage of demand.
Our economy produces enough. Proof? Go anywhere and behold how desperately everyone wants to sell. Be it goods or services, You'll be hard pressed to NOT find someone offering whatever you may want to you. What's lacking is the demand. And without it, there is no market either.
If you think people need any kind of incentive to be ravenous asshole capitalists, think again. Those that could invest already want to. Quite badly, too. There just isn't anything to invest in, because there is no viable business possible without consumers that would want to buy what you'd offer. And the main reason for this is simply that there are not enough people who have enough money to become consumers. And jobs are sadly not created when someone wills a business into existence. Well, you can do that, but it's not really viable to produce without a chance to sell what you produce. You'll be bankrupt in no time.
A job is created when the market situation of demand forces the supply side into hiring additional personnel to fill that demand. Nobody in their sane mind creates a job for the sake of creating a job, paying another person and putting more goods he can't sell on the stockpile. If this is the situation (and that is the situation currently), the sane option is NOT to hire someone and NOT to produce more of what you can't already sell.
I fully concur with your statements. As corporations outsource jobs, the local net net discretionary income disappears. Only essentials are purchased. It's sad, as the American society has become a for profit everything, from public education to medicine. Even the military is a for profit institution. MacDonalds has become the location of "lets go out for an evening's supper"
It's not about countries, it's about cultures. Some cultures (e.g. Western European culture) favor more serious subjects versus others. Some others (e.g. Northern American) favor lighter subjects (unwind-type). Asian cultures apparently favor explosive feeling-related and augmentative headlines ("It's SUPER effective!"; "AMAZING performance!").
Nobody's to blame, really, except companies not doing their homeworks and trying to vomit their own culture-specific successes over other cultures and promptly failing.
The difference is in the quality/richness of education. French/Europe get bored with useless drival from social networks. On the other hand, Americans like to waste time posting trivia. Another factor is the 6/4 situation with monetizing minutes of connection. Six minutes of important stuff and 4 minutes of commercials. How many crime programs do you need to see on the web?
We are shaped by what we visit. KISS applies more for North American users.
did this take so long to occur. It amazes me both that people fall for this, and that the credit card companies allow these services to operate under merchant accounts.
The credit card companies like these guys. After all, they did not steal the card numbers, payments were made and there are no losses, as would happen if the card/card number was stolen.
It tends to be; but I think regulatory authorities only get nervous if it shows signs of being dangerously effective, or if there is reason to believe that the pockets behind it are deep enough to ignore losses almost indefinitely(as with international dumping/tariff slapfights, where a mixture of xenophobia and the fact that a nation state can typically afford to keep dumping longer than a company can afford to keep competing).
In the case of Intel trying to break into tablets, my understanding is that it's a known matter of fact that Bay Trail parts are being practically given away(along with a nontrivial amount of Intel software work, including an emulator to handle ARM NDK stuff and general porting and polishing to make the x86 Android not look like, say, the blasted hellscape that is MIPS Android); but it is less clear whether Intel has been able to dump hard enough to actually damage competition.
The one product line that they definitely helped bury was Windows RT (which was mostly an unloved bastard child anyway, even before you could cram an x86 into the same chassis, and definitely had no reason to exist afterwards); but that didn't hurt MS much, since the quality of Windows tablets went up. In the wider ARM ecosystem, ARM Ltd, themselves seem to be riding high and unbelievably cheap SoCs continue to pop out of the woodwork.
Their Bay Trail pricing has definitely made x86 Android something you might actually see in the wild, and tablet-Windows something you might actually consider at a sub-Windows Surface price point; but it doesn't seem to have crushed the ARM market very much.
Will we see the I7 47xx cpus drop in price, or will that price increase to sustain the Intel mobile market/tablet?
There are plenty of things that can use all the computing power you can throw at it these days. As you mentioned, weather forecasting - though more generally, climate science. Somebody from one of the National Labs mentioned at a college recruiting event that they use their supercomputer for (among other things) making sure that our aging nukes don't explode while just sitting in storage. There are thousands of applications, from particle physics to molecular dynamics to protein folding to drug discovery... Almost any branch of science you can find has some problem that a supercomputer can help solve.
Additionally, it's worth noting that these generally aren't monolithic systems; they can be split into different chunks. One project might need the whole machine to do its computations, but the next job to run after it might only need a quarter - and so four different projects can use the one supercomputer at once. It's not like the smaller computing problems end up wasting the huge size of the supercomputer. After all, many of these installations spend more in electricity bills over the 3- or 5-year lifetime of the computer than they do to install the computer in the first place, so they need to use it efficiently, 24/7.
You forgot encryption key researching. Got an encrypted file you want to read. Lets use this beast to determine the encryption key and read the xxx contents.
This is just Comcast trying to get some good PR before they force their agenda through. There is no purpose in companies kissing up to President Barack "Lawnchair" Obama, as he has consistently caved to the demands of conservatives and big businesses every time it was important to do otherwise during his administration.
Every. Single. Time.
Remember how he said he was going to stand up to insurance companies, and offer a single-payer option for health care? Remember how that was going to be his crowning achievement as president? Did we get any of that? No.
Remember how he said he was going to help the middle class instead of helping wall street fat cats? Remember how that worked out?
Comcast is just waiting for the attention to blow over. Eventually public attention will wane and then Comcast will kill off the net neutrality proposals and get their way.
Comcast is a backbone supplier and as well an isp. Somewhere in their boardroom, someone recognized that if you establish rates for one company (Netflix), then they can establish rates for other companies and the whole billing system will start to be most interesting. Furthermore, Comcast is a consumer of data from thousands of websites, and each website or interconnect partner in the distribution of data will have the right to bill Comcast for carrying their data.
Net neutrality wins because the sword has two cutting edges
There is no downside to lower gas prices. lower prices on anything is always a positive.
we as a group are saving billions a day after a very long recession. The gas prices are still not low enough to help those who need it most, the poor and lower middle class.
Your comments are not completely true. Lower prices hurt revenues of the developers and also reduce the taxes that are collected from export sales.
Technically, you still have to pay state sales tax on purchases made over the Internet. You just exploit the fact that the states can't force Internet retailers to collect those taxes and send them to the state as a way to skip out on paying your taxes.
There's no state sales tax on out of state purchases; that would be an unconstitutional tax on interstate transactions. There is a use tax on out of state purchases that you didn't pay sales tax on. I consider this "use tax" to be a transparently obvious evasion of the restriction on states taxing interstate commerce, and therefore invalid. Then I exploit the fact that the states can't force Internet retailers to collect those taxes to avoid getting into a dispute with the state over whether they are actually invalid.
Here in Canada, the tax is applied to internet sales, based on the billing address or shipping address. If the billing address is not known, the shipping address is used.
It is fair If I go to a local store, I have to pay sales taxes. If I buy from the net, with delivery to my premises, I have to pay the taxes. We can't bancrupt the province.
Yes Our government is playing hardnose. Fortunately they will be out for the next election, and Nationwide civility will return. When it does, the internet spying laws that are in place will be "softened". Court orders will be required to do the spying on "suspects of interest".
I am not going forget all of history in one instant,
I'm not worried about history. It's their present actions I want to see corrected.
1. Stop blocking open file/document formats and start actively working towards interoperability. I want to be able to use any tool of my choice on my data.
2. Stop astroturfing EVERY tech forum in existence. I want to be able to discuss Linux and other OSs/software etc without harassment from MS damage control drones.
3. Lose the control-freak attitude towards competitors. Don't try to patent-bomb/bleed/cross-license them out of existence.
4. Don't buy/bribe government customers to keep them locked in. We have a right to use free and open tools on documents written on taxpayer dollars.
5. Stop manipulating hardware manufacturers. Locked/broken bootloaders, closed drivers etc are dirty ways to compete.
There's a lot more, but the point is made. Until I see some fundamental changes to the way MS does business, I'll have to keep assuming this current cosying up to the community is cynically motivated and dangerous.
I concur. I have watched Big Bad B from Microsoft Rant and Rage about competition. Wow, I suspect that Windows 10.x is the last windows version we will ever see from Microsoft. The reason are obvious. If you can't beat them, join them.
And what are we supposed to do with these incompetents if we can't promote them out to management?
Where do you think executives come from.
You'd be surprised how much damage an incompetent executive can do. It may not be immediate, but it poisons an organization systemically. A bad boss can be fired. Firing a bad exec may not remove the toxins fast enough for the organization to recover.
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And he missed the second step:
File a bug report for the compiler with 'missed optimization opportunity' in the title and a reduced test case.
We like to see real-world examples of where we're generating bad code - if we don't see them, we can't fix them.
How do you define bad code? I define it as producing erroneous results. But if your in a compute bound application, and the cost to upgrade hardware looks formidable, then you look at optimization. In my world, I look at optimization first, and hardware upgrades as second choice.
There are sure hours and hours of test cases for the work was done for optimization. The author looked at employing math factoring, not in designing new hardware. Great!!!
Well done!
I promise to not store and count with my integer fields in display format.
The security of the open source model isn't really the problem or the answer here. The problem is homogeneity. A million different sites and applications rely on just a few libraries, so that when a bug hits one, it has massive impact on the entire internet.
We also know that the answer isn't in rolling your own security. Very few people or organizations are likely to be able to securely implement their own version of TLS. Even the best packages of today didn't start out perfect, they had to iterate through several flaws to get to where they are today.
So perhaps the better answer is in having more packages to choose from? Instead of picking just openssl by default, it would be better to have a broad array of choices. With a dozen packages on the market, that might mean 11 times out of 12 the bad guys wouldn't exploit our site. If the packages are interchangeable, we'd be better positioned to switch them quickly in case of emergency.
Today, disk space is very cheap. Memory is very cheap, and I think nothing of having 32gigs of ram. My point-- do away with dynamic linking for your application. Do static linking, except possibly for display libraries. If a flaw is found, its going to require many recompiles, but that is offset by the non-reliance of multiple dynamically linked libraries. As was mentioned, get a flaw or security issue with that library, or create a "man in the middle" attack with one dynamically linked library, and voila, your security is compromised. With static linking, your application is more secure and is known to work with more versions of the operating systems
This all makes sense and is probably a good idea.
That said, despite school having literally been decades ago, I find myself empathizing with the kids on this one, who I'm sure arn't seeing this as an investment in their future but rather yet more time spent in the dungeon. I didn't exactly hate school growing up, but damn if I wasn't ready to get the hell outa there when the bell rang.
Maybe it's because we just had Christmas and that always puts me in a nostalgic child like mood. I'm sure if they announced this in September when school is just getting back into session and screwing up my morning commute I'd say to hell with the kids, but for now, the kid in me say: BOOOO!
Its not a bad idea. Our kids start at 8:15 to Noon, and 12:45 to 3:30. They are in public school, and half the day is taught in French, and the other half in English. The kids learn maths, science, and all the social studies that go along with multiculturalism. What does suffer somewhat is spelling, because of the doubling up and not dubling up. example department and département. We pay for extra curricular activities (1 hr twice a week). Its alloted for extra sports, a third language, or religious studies. (The extra hour is not in the school cirreculum, but the school board makes the classroom available. )
If these hackers get into government sites, I would consider it an act of treason or warfare. Result should be death penalty or lifetime in prison.
If is a bank, then at least 50 years and a day in prison as a dishwasher.
Yeah, and global warming is faked by the left wing media, and vaccines are poison, and municipal water flouridation is a communist plot. Oh, and by the way, you don't really believe that you are anonymous here on /., do you?
Doubting the official line on the Sony hack is hardly the stuff of tinfoil-hat denialism. How's this for a scenario: (1) Garden-variety haxx0rz and/or a disgruntled employee steal a bunch of embarrassing files from Sony -- plenty of motive there -- and dump the files on the web. (2) Some moron in the media starts speculating that it has something to do with an idiotic movie about North Korea, and the echo chamber amplifies it as truth. (3) Haxx0rz, sensing an epic opportunity for lulz, play along with the feeding frenzy in the media with some crazy threats against screening the movie, then sit back and watch the fun as paranoia in the FBI and mindless nationalism in the population do the rest of their work for them.
Couldn't be.
What if you substituted the presidents name for that of NK? Would that go well with Americans? I bet it will go very very well with Arab countries and in those countries where American Companies (United Fruit, et. al) exploited those countries for their wealth. I bet the foreign country gets only 2% of the benefit and the Corp and bribes get the rest.
In a country where the internet is about as commonplace as for us having your own rocket launch system in the backyard? Please. How do you hit NKor via internet? Take down their online payment system? Hack their official pages so their citizens would get to see defaced pics of li'l Kim?
How?
I can see that as an offensive force, but defense? Please.
From what I read, and what I am led to believe, probably every water treatment plant, every electrical generating system, including the interconnects, has been identified and an attack prepared. The USA electrical grid needs only a core state to fail, and the entire country would fail.
And if you include airports in their attack catalogues then the North Korean protections are complete. Attack them and most probably, the USA part of the internet, and possibly the entire world would be downed.
So, its ok to joke about the NKs capabilities, , Its ok to believe that the commercial anti-viruses give you a false sense of protection, but... there is no protection. Stuxnet was a perfect example. Perhaps the NKs virus software is already installed and laying dormant, just in case....
Software patents are utter bullshit from word one. They should just go away and stay away.
Hardware patents are something else, but it's pretty clear they are being *very* poorly managed. I don't even like saying it, but I'm afraid I agree with you: they do more harm than good now.
We need an entirely new model of encouraging invention. Trade secret is useful in providing a reasonable profit window and establishment of precedence in the marketplace (the only way to go with software, as far as I'm concerned) as the window you get correlates well with the complexity of what you've done, but has its limits when we're talking hardware.
Perhaps a way for society to pay for an invention, and once that's been done, it goes right into the "available to everyone" pool. Panels of experts setting perceived value and an immediate payment being made, followed by a revisit ten years later to determine how it all went, with extra reward possible if the invention's impact was underestimated?
Look at me, suggesting government committees. Oy. I should go bang my head on a table.
But damn, we *really* need to clean out the drains. Patents are the disgusting glop that are making the system run slower and slower, while getting legal sewage all over everyone involved. The only consistent winners here are the plumbers (lawyers.)
I don't consider algorithms to be patentable. But I consider a process to be patentable. What is the difference? An algorthim is an application of a set of defined rules that presents a proof, a set of steps to follow to a solution. An algorithm may be copyrighted. A process is a application of a set of rules to define the control or manufacture of a product. (Driver for hardware, agricultural process, or manufacturing process, fabrication process). If we deem an algorithm a process, then the writing of a book has to be patented.
Can the algorithm be the product? I am not a lawyer, and I leave that to others to interpret that interpretation.
Software patents are utter bullshit from word one.
FTFP. "We induce errors in most DRAM modules (110 out of 129) from three major DRAM manufacturers."
Short version, leakage current from adjacent gates can nudge other to bit-flip. I don't think this is a manufacturing problem as it is a fundamental EE design oversight. So yeah, defective by design (unintentionally)!!
So, as ddr3 gets more dense, and space between the cells has decreased, we should be standardizing on ECC memory for all desktops and servers. The second thought I have is "What minimal cpu clockspeed would enable this activity to occur with standard hardware? " It this problem likely to occur with off the self hardware motherboards and cpus?
I think it's about time we implemented some sort of single use credit card system.
That's how Chip and PIN works. Your account number is still fixed, but your authorization to spend from it (your PIN) is encrypted by the chip, and is valid only for a single transaction. There are still kinks with non-electronic transactions, but those can be solved.
Look for it to be all over the US by October of next year.
For the past two years, my Visa provider intercepts the authorizations that are made via the internet, and electronically asks me to respond to questions that only I know the answer (mothers name, graduation year, etc). If I fail, the transaction authorization fails. So, just because someone knows the 3 digit code on the back of the card means zero.
And our credit cards have had the chip version since 2011. That technology is just coming into force in the USA, after 4 years of fraud.
Thank you. I don't know why so much of Slashdot seems to be taking the obvious "it was NK omg" story at face value, even after NK explicitly denied it. They take credit for things they've never done - if they'd hacked Sony successfully, of course they'd be bragging about it.
Perhaps they could solve the ISIS problem
As robots take over, and liberate man from tasks, it also implies that man is liberated from an income. Should there be a have and have not society? Can the have society sustain the infrastructures we hold dear, such as roads, schools, desire to be productive?
If robots take over, we will require a guaranteed wage. That will allow money to circulate, and society to be vibrant and alive.
If that does not occur, look for malaise and crime to grow out of proportion to today's level.
Perhaps. That is certainly a valid concern. However, the state of the art in this area is continually advancing very quickly. Just having an advanced fab in China does not mean that Chinese engineers are able to create the next generation chips and fabs. I think Intel's move is quite logical, and the danger of intellectual property theft not too serious in their case.
Intel, like GM will gradually leave the USA for permenancy in China. Population 1.2 billion vs 350 million, Single party government vs democracy, better labour cost controls, lower overheads and government (universal) medicare.
In other news: A company so desperate to get into bed with Apple signs away their soul for rainbows and promises.
New entrepreneurs are always optimistic. They haven't dealt with irresponsible organizations or organizations that think out loud but then choose decisions other than what they let people believe. In a way one could say Apple was bullshitting their plans to confuse the competitors.
Actually the opposite is the case. Our economy has exactly the opposite, but nonetheless equally destructive, problem communism had: They had a shortage of supply. We have a shortage of demand.
Our economy produces enough. Proof? Go anywhere and behold how desperately everyone wants to sell. Be it goods or services, You'll be hard pressed to NOT find someone offering whatever you may want to you. What's lacking is the demand. And without it, there is no market either.
If you think people need any kind of incentive to be ravenous asshole capitalists, think again. Those that could invest already want to. Quite badly, too. There just isn't anything to invest in, because there is no viable business possible without consumers that would want to buy what you'd offer. And the main reason for this is simply that there are not enough people who have enough money to become consumers. And jobs are sadly not created when someone wills a business into existence. Well, you can do that, but it's not really viable to produce without a chance to sell what you produce. You'll be bankrupt in no time.
A job is created when the market situation of demand forces the supply side into hiring additional personnel to fill that demand. Nobody in their sane mind creates a job for the sake of creating a job, paying another person and putting more goods he can't sell on the stockpile. If this is the situation (and that is the situation currently), the sane option is NOT to hire someone and NOT to produce more of what you can't already sell.
I fully concur with your statements. As corporations outsource jobs, the local net net discretionary income disappears. Only essentials are purchased. It's sad, as the American society has become a for profit everything, from public education to medicine. Even the military is a for profit institution. MacDonalds has become the location of "lets go out for an evening's supper"
It's not about countries, it's about cultures.
Some cultures (e.g. Western European culture) favor more serious subjects versus others. Some others (e.g. Northern American) favor lighter subjects (unwind-type). Asian cultures apparently favor explosive feeling-related and augmentative headlines ("It's SUPER effective!"; "AMAZING performance!").
Nobody's to blame, really, except companies not doing their homeworks and trying to vomit their own culture-specific successes over other cultures and promptly failing.
The difference is in the quality/richness of education. French/Europe get bored with useless drival from social networks. On the other hand, Americans like to waste time posting trivia. Another factor is the 6/4 situation with monetizing minutes of connection. Six minutes of important stuff and 4 minutes of commercials. How many crime programs do you need to see on the web?
We are shaped by what we visit. KISS applies more for North American users.
did this take so long to occur. It amazes me both that people fall for this, and that the credit card companies allow these services to operate under merchant accounts.
The credit card companies like these guys. After all, they did not steal the card numbers, payments were made and there are no losses, as would happen if the card/card number was stolen.
As the card companies would say
"There is a sucker born every second".
It tends to be; but I think regulatory authorities only get nervous if it shows signs of being dangerously effective, or if there is reason to believe that the pockets behind it are deep enough to ignore losses almost indefinitely(as with international dumping/tariff slapfights, where a mixture of xenophobia and the fact that a nation state can typically afford to keep dumping longer than a company can afford to keep competing).
In the case of Intel trying to break into tablets, my understanding is that it's a known matter of fact that Bay Trail parts are being practically given away(along with a nontrivial amount of Intel software work, including an emulator to handle ARM NDK stuff and general porting and polishing to make the x86 Android not look like, say, the blasted hellscape that is MIPS Android); but it is less clear whether Intel has been able to dump hard enough to actually damage competition.
The one product line that they definitely helped bury was Windows RT (which was mostly an unloved bastard child anyway, even before you could cram an x86 into the same chassis, and definitely had no reason to exist afterwards); but that didn't hurt MS much, since the quality of Windows tablets went up. In the wider ARM ecosystem, ARM Ltd, themselves seem to be riding high and unbelievably cheap SoCs continue to pop out of the woodwork.
Their Bay Trail pricing has definitely made x86 Android something you might actually see in the wild, and tablet-Windows something you might actually consider at a sub-Windows Surface price point; but it doesn't seem to have crushed the ARM market very much.
Will we see the I7 47xx cpus drop in price, or will that price increase to sustain the Intel mobile market/tablet?
There are plenty of things that can use all the computing power you can throw at it these days. As you mentioned, weather forecasting - though more generally, climate science. Somebody from one of the National Labs mentioned at a college recruiting event that they use their supercomputer for (among other things) making sure that our aging nukes don't explode while just sitting in storage. There are thousands of applications, from particle physics to molecular dynamics to protein folding to drug discovery... Almost any branch of science you can find has some problem that a supercomputer can help solve.
Additionally, it's worth noting that these generally aren't monolithic systems; they can be split into different chunks. One project might need the whole machine to do its computations, but the next job to run after it might only need a quarter - and so four different projects can use the one supercomputer at once. It's not like the smaller computing problems end up wasting the huge size of the supercomputer. After all, many of these installations spend more in electricity bills over the 3- or 5-year lifetime of the computer than they do to install the computer in the first place, so they need to use it efficiently, 24/7.
You forgot encryption key researching. Got an encrypted file you want to read. Lets use this beast to determine the encryption key and read the xxx contents.
This is just Comcast trying to get some good PR before they force their agenda through. There is no purpose in companies kissing up to President Barack "Lawnchair" Obama, as he has consistently caved to the demands of conservatives and big businesses every time it was important to do otherwise during his administration.
Every. Single. Time.
Remember how he said he was going to stand up to insurance companies, and offer a single-payer option for health care? Remember how that was going to be his crowning achievement as president? Did we get any of that? No.
Remember how he said he was going to help the middle class instead of helping wall street fat cats? Remember how that worked out?
Comcast is just waiting for the attention to blow over. Eventually public attention will wane and then Comcast will kill off the net neutrality proposals and get their way.
Comcast is a backbone supplier and as well an isp. Somewhere in their boardroom, someone recognized that if you establish rates for one company (Netflix), then they can establish rates for other companies and the whole billing system will start to be most interesting.
Furthermore, Comcast is a consumer of data from thousands of websites, and each website or interconnect partner in the distribution of data will have the right to bill Comcast for carrying their data.
Net neutrality wins because the sword has two cutting edges
There is no downside to lower gas prices. lower prices on anything is always a positive.
we as a group are saving billions a day after a very long recession. The gas prices are still not low enough to help those who need it most, the poor and lower middle class.
Your comments are not completely true.
Lower prices hurt revenues of the developers and also reduce the taxes that are collected from export sales.
There's no state sales tax on out of state purchases; that would be an unconstitutional tax on interstate transactions. There is a use tax on out of state purchases that you didn't pay sales tax on. I consider this "use tax" to be a transparently obvious evasion of the restriction on states taxing interstate commerce, and therefore invalid. Then I exploit the fact that the states can't force Internet retailers to collect those taxes to avoid getting into a dispute with the state over whether they are actually invalid.
Here in Canada, the tax is applied to internet sales, based on the billing address or shipping address. If the billing address is not known, the shipping address is used.
It is fair
If I go to a local store, I have to pay sales taxes. If I buy from the net, with delivery to my premises, I have to pay the taxes. We can't bancrupt the province.
but we won't say who we are, eh?
Canada, is that you?
Yes
Our government is playing hardnose. Fortunately they will be out for the next election, and Nationwide civility will return. When it does, the internet spying laws that are in place will be "softened". Court orders will be required to do the spying on "suspects of interest".
I am not going forget all of history in one instant,
I'm not worried about history. It's their present actions I want to see corrected.
1. Stop blocking open file/document formats and start actively working towards interoperability. I want to be able to use any tool of my choice on my data.
2. Stop astroturfing EVERY tech forum in existence. I want to be able to discuss Linux and other OSs/software etc without harassment from MS damage control drones.
3. Lose the control-freak attitude towards competitors. Don't try to patent-bomb/bleed/cross-license them out of existence.
4. Don't buy/bribe government customers to keep them locked in. We have a right to use free and open tools on documents written on taxpayer dollars.
5. Stop manipulating hardware manufacturers. Locked/broken bootloaders, closed drivers etc are dirty ways to compete.
There's a lot more, but the point is made. Until I see some fundamental changes to the way MS does business, I'll have to keep assuming this current cosying up to the community is cynically motivated and dangerous.
I concur. I have watched Big Bad B from Microsoft Rant and Rage about competition. Wow,
I suspect that Windows 10.x is the last windows version we will ever see from Microsoft. The reason are obvious. If you can't beat them, join them.
And what are we supposed to do with these incompetents if we can't promote them out to management?
Where do you think executives come from.
You'd be surprised how much damage an incompetent executive can do. It may not be immediate, but it poisons an organization systemically. A bad boss can be fired. Firing a bad exec may not remove the toxins fast enough for the organization to recover.
Is that the reason Scott Adams developed Dilbert?
How about Safari?
Or Opera