Probably not the ones Zuckerberg has threatened to "investigate" for surreptitiously crossing out BLM slogans.
And the answer is sure, go ahead and make it Facebook policy to "stop Trump." Trump would love another chunk of red meat to dominate the news cycle through next Tuesday.
but is that where todays CPUs spend a lot of time?
First, no one said anything about a "CPU." Second, ever heard of a GPU? Pretty much nothing but a huge collection of vector "arithmetics" [sic] processors and high performance RAM to feed them.
We're not all writing corporate web apps. There are many important applications that need to process huge quantities of noisy data such as signal processing, machine vision, lossy compression, real-time control and many others. Some of these do not need high precision, and if sacrificing precision means the battery lives N times longer or a few more milliseconds can be shaved from the loop cycle then that's the right answer.
Pretty much the most mainstream media story I've ever seen on Slashdot. Is there some problem with Reuters or CNBC that these government statistics 'news' stories need to be repeated here?
has blanket sent notices to every subscriber in the US multiple times so
Never seen one here. I don't pirate. If you think they're blanketing everyone you're wrong. Former comcast, centurylink subscriber and current charter subscriber.
I'm no fan of IP holders but making stuff up is bullshit. I know people that pirate nearly everything they watch/listen to; some have been noticed and others haven't. So my anecdotal evidence is that they're being conservative.
No actual problems left so lets go back and wallow in the old ones. The direct result of the bombs, the surrender, the subsequent governance and unwavering economic and military allied status with the US is that Hiroshima is a thriving metropolis worth hundreds of billions and populated by 1.17 million healthy, safe Japanese. But lets set all of that aside and haunt the remnants of a 70 year old war so we can tsk tsk at the US.
Oh, wait, multiply by five to take into account that it's done by non-US scientists and engineers.
I think your factor of five is very low. There is no thicket of TLA's to navigate in China — OSHA, NLRB, EPA, FDA, etc. — just grease the right palms and hit the go button. Even more than that you have to consider the legal risk; anyone involved with this in a developed Western nation would find themselves in front of congressional committees or parliaments and subject to a barrage of legal challenges by who knows how many pressure groups. Individual scientists would be demonized by academe. I think an industrial cloning operation is politically infeasible in the US or any part of Europe.
I find this all rather amusing. We've built this industrial, scientific and financial monster in Asia with our trade regime while simultaneously feathering our environmental regulatory regime at home and fostering this anti-industry, anti-energy, anti-anything-more-impactful-than-a-hobby-farm mentality. It turns out the monster we've created couldn't care less about our finely honed sensitives and is going to fill the world with cloned food.
No, it doesn't. At least not for what Boyalife intends. When you actually read the story you learn they intend to produce "prime" grade beef. Only 2.9% of of carcasses grade as prime using existing techniques (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef), and these fetch premium prices. Obviously they intend to use cloning to get control over the variables and produce a reliable supply of prime beef.
People that don't care enough about teevee to accept the huge cost of cable teevee packages are far better served with a low cost streaming system. Netflix is doing it right; they learned back in 2011 not to jack up rates to pay for a huge catalog, and instead they're making new content and watching their subscriber base grow rapidly. They're doing it right and the endless horde of critics are arguing with success.
I think they need to go further. They should build a genuine news network and stream it live. CNN blew up news reporting in the 80's, displacing traditional network news and creating multiple cable exclusive competitors. Netflix has 65 million international viewers that would probably tune into a streaming exclusive news network.
Trump has consistently opposed not only TPP but threatened existing trade deals as well, to the point that China has published "warnings" to the US about Trump. Cruz held the typical Republican position on "trade" until recently, and has since even cast votes against the "fast track" rubber stamp authority Congress wanted to give Obama, but it still looks like an election year position. Kasich is your typical US Chamber of Commerce Republican; endless cheap labor and frictionless imports forever. Hillary is bought and paid for by the TPP lobby; she's a Walmart exec for Christ sake. Bernie has a clue; he's been fighting against all this trade crap since forever, opposing Most Favored Nation status for China, NAFTA (both circa Clinton I), etc. I don't see Bernie expound on this nearly enough however. If he'd shout it from the rooftops like Trump does he'd be doing far better in the primaries.
Suposedly the charging standard allows for up to 100 watts over the same cable you're going to be shuffling many gigabits of data over.
5W at 20V. 100W of power for battery chargers, displays, sex toys, whatever. Yes, the bozo manufacturers have to be weeded out of this market before the bozo "sort by cheapest" shoppers burn everything down.
It's a tax shelter that buys influence through contributions to the "non-profits" of Rockefeller allies so they can employ the daughters and sons of the powers-that-be for $350k+/year. Oil hits $80+/bbl and they'll quietly buy back in, and no one will post a story about it on Slashdot.
So they were vested in Exxon for the years of high oil prices, but now that oil has tanked they're pulling out for better opportunities. As a bonus they get to do a little climate grandstanding. Brilliant. That's the sort of thinking that insures the Rockefellers make the big bucks.
Indeed. I don't want to be mass surveilled any more than you do, but on a personal level the culture war and the hate being created by it is many times more chilling than anything the NSA is doing. So I have some contempt for those who feel one so acutely while studiously ignoring the other.
MFN status for China in the 1990s is why were facing the expansion of a Chinese military power today. I don't see a real path to countering this now; the die is cast and TPP won't create a meaningful counter to China. Game over; thanks for playing.
But sure, let's do it anyway. Let's eliminate the last impediments to capital movement around the planet. Apple needs some new place to take their profits since it seems Europe is on to them in Ireland. At some point the Chinese might decide to stop living in an industrial wasteland so we'll need the rest of Asia for the factories. Keep those iphones affordable!
reduce the kinds of societal tensions that can really be disruptive and destructive to people's lives
All sorts of disruptive and destructive things are tolerated every day; hundreds of H1-Bs displace citizens from their livelyhoods, small midwest communities are expected to absorb Syrian immigrants into their schools and hospitals without complaint, property owners in border states live in fear of smugglers unimpeded handcuffed border patrol... Funny how we only indulge this "societal tension" language when it's comfy SF gentry being disrupted. In all other cases it's `racism' and/or `intolerance.'
It's entirely plausible to me that Apple built something the FBI can't get into using their existing tools and techniques and Snowden has produced no evidence to the contrary. Don't make shit up.
Naturally his fans are obligated to defend this now and build a fictional world view around it, condemning anyone that fails to accept their bullshit... It's all enough to make you hope for a large bolide impact.
The softpedia link puts some stink on the story. Otherwise, yes, this appears to be a fairly inoffensive story about an open source alternative to Dropbox et al. It's gotten to the point where being mentioned on Slashdot is bad thing; it's assumed to be a slashvertishment for some commercial unicorn wannabe.
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they really think
It's more of a case where they're absolutely certain reacting cooperatively will not save their jobs.
Which employee was this
Probably not the ones Zuckerberg has threatened to "investigate" for surreptitiously crossing out BLM slogans.
And the answer is sure, go ahead and make it Facebook policy to "stop Trump." Trump would love another chunk of red meat to dominate the news cycle through next Tuesday.
but is that where todays CPUs spend a lot of time?
First, no one said anything about a "CPU." Second, ever heard of a GPU? Pretty much nothing but a huge collection of vector "arithmetics" [sic] processors and high performance RAM to feed them.
We're not all writing corporate web apps. There are many important applications that need to process huge quantities of noisy data such as signal processing, machine vision, lossy compression, real-time control and many others. Some of these do not need high precision, and if sacrificing precision means the battery lives N times longer or a few more milliseconds can be shaved from the loop cycle then that's the right answer.
Pretty much the most mainstream media story I've ever seen on Slashdot. Is there some problem with Reuters or CNBC that these government statistics 'news' stories need to be repeated here?
and that most CEOs would prefer to work with someone that doesn't point out the 7 year zero-percent Fed bubble isn't going to last forever.
FTFY.
Translation: more cheap, family-free, exploitable H1B's for Facebook Inc.
... and the Cooks of the world want their TPP and even less friction for Asian imports.
Trump Derangement Syndrome has liberals singing the praises of corporates.
real public good
Cheap labor. Full stop.
has blanket sent notices to every subscriber in the US multiple times so
Never seen one here. I don't pirate. If you think they're blanketing everyone you're wrong. Former comcast, centurylink subscriber and current charter subscriber.
I'm no fan of IP holders but making stuff up is bullshit. I know people that pirate nearly everything they watch/listen to; some have been noticed and others haven't. So my anecdotal evidence is that they're being conservative.
No actual problems left so lets go back and wallow in the old ones. The direct result of the bombs, the surrender, the subsequent governance and unwavering economic and military allied status with the US is that Hiroshima is a thriving metropolis worth hundreds of billions and populated by 1.17 million healthy, safe Japanese. But lets set all of that aside and haunt the remnants of a 70 year old war so we can tsk tsk at the US.
Pathetic.
Here are four more times:
International Environmentalism: Flaunting White Privilege
Environmentalism is Political White Privilege
Whiteness and Sustainability: Reflecting on Race, Class, and Green Living
On Why the Environmental Movement is Failing to "Diversify"
The prols have noticed that "environmentalism" is an anxiety indulged almost exclusively by conformable white folk.
When non-climate scientists are critical of this consensus science we're told they have no standing because they're not climate scientists.
Oh, wait, multiply by five to take into account that it's done by non-US scientists and engineers.
I think your factor of five is very low. There is no thicket of TLA's to navigate in China — OSHA, NLRB, EPA, FDA, etc. — just grease the right palms and hit the go button. Even more than that you have to consider the legal risk; anyone involved with this in a developed Western nation would find themselves in front of congressional committees or parliaments and subject to a barrage of legal challenges by who knows how many pressure groups. Individual scientists would be demonized by academe. I think an industrial cloning operation is politically infeasible in the US or any part of Europe.
I find this all rather amusing. We've built this industrial, scientific and financial monster in Asia with our trade regime while simultaneously feathering our environmental regulatory regime at home and fostering this anti-industry, anti-energy, anti-anything-more-impactful-than-a-hobby-farm mentality. It turns out the monster we've created couldn't care less about our finely honed sensitives and is going to fill the world with cloned food.
Brilliant. Go China.
Artificial insemination works well enough
No, it doesn't. At least not for what Boyalife intends. When you actually read the story you learn they intend to produce "prime" grade beef. Only 2.9% of of carcasses grade as prime using existing techniques (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef), and these fetch premium prices. Obviously they intend to use cloning to get control over the variables and produce a reliable supply of prime beef.
what's the real difference...?
C O S T !
People that don't care enough about teevee to accept the huge cost of cable teevee packages are far better served with a low cost streaming system. Netflix is doing it right; they learned back in 2011 not to jack up rates to pay for a huge catalog, and instead they're making new content and watching their subscriber base grow rapidly. They're doing it right and the endless horde of critics are arguing with success.
I think they need to go further. They should build a genuine news network and stream it live. CNN blew up news reporting in the 80's, displacing traditional network news and creating multiple cable exclusive competitors. Netflix has 65 million international viewers that would probably tune into a streaming exclusive news network.
Trump has consistently opposed not only TPP but threatened existing trade deals as well, to the point that China has published "warnings" to the US about Trump. Cruz held the typical Republican position on "trade" until recently, and has since even cast votes against the "fast track" rubber stamp authority Congress wanted to give Obama, but it still looks like an election year position. Kasich is your typical US Chamber of Commerce Republican; endless cheap labor and frictionless imports forever. Hillary is bought and paid for by the TPP lobby; she's a Walmart exec for Christ sake. Bernie has a clue; he's been fighting against all this trade crap since forever, opposing Most Favored Nation status for China, NAFTA (both circa Clinton I), etc. I don't see Bernie expound on this nearly enough however. If he'd shout it from the rooftops like Trump does he'd be doing far better in the primaries.
Suposedly the charging standard allows for up to 100 watts over the same cable you're going to be shuffling many gigabits of data over.
5W at 20V. 100W of power for battery chargers, displays, sex toys, whatever. Yes, the bozo manufacturers have to be weeded out of this market before the bozo "sort by cheapest" shoppers burn everything down.
It's a tax shelter that buys influence through contributions to the "non-profits" of Rockefeller allies so they can employ the daughters and sons of the powers-that-be for $350k+/year. Oil hits $80+/bbl and they'll quietly buy back in, and no one will post a story about it on Slashdot.
So they were vested in Exxon for the years of high oil prices, but now that oil has tanked they're pulling out for better opportunities. As a bonus they get to do a little climate grandstanding. Brilliant. That's the sort of thinking that insures the Rockefellers make the big bucks.
Lap it up. Your training is working as intended.
my first thought
Well here's another little meme to keep your outrage collection fresh. Our most powerful academic institutions are straight up teaching hate.
Indeed. I don't want to be mass surveilled any more than you do, but on a personal level the culture war and the hate being created by it is many times more chilling than anything the NSA is doing. So I have some contempt for those who feel one so acutely while studiously ignoring the other.
allow them to dominate the Far East
MFN status for China in the 1990s is why were facing the expansion of a Chinese military power today. I don't see a real path to countering this now; the die is cast and TPP won't create a meaningful counter to China. Game over; thanks for playing.
But sure, let's do it anyway. Let's eliminate the last impediments to capital movement around the planet. Apple needs some new place to take their profits since it seems Europe is on to them in Ireland. At some point the Chinese might decide to stop living in an industrial wasteland so we'll need the rest of Asia for the factories. Keep those iphones affordable!
reduce the kinds of societal tensions that can really be disruptive and destructive to people's lives
All sorts of disruptive and destructive things are tolerated every day; hundreds of H1-Bs displace citizens from their livelyhoods, small midwest communities are expected to absorb Syrian immigrants into their schools and hospitals without complaint, property owners in border states live in fear of smugglers unimpeded handcuffed border patrol... Funny how we only indulge this "societal tension" language when it's comfy SF gentry being disrupted. In all other cases it's `racism' and/or `intolerance.'
The old gentry doesn't like the new gentry.
It's entirely plausible to me that Apple built something the FBI can't get into using their existing tools and techniques and Snowden has produced no evidence to the contrary. Don't make shit up.
Naturally his fans are obligated to defend this now and build a fictional world view around it, condemning anyone that fails to accept their bullshit... It's all enough to make you hope for a large bolide impact.
The softpedia link puts some stink on the story. Otherwise, yes, this appears to be a fairly inoffensive story about an open source alternative to Dropbox et al. It's gotten to the point where being mentioned on Slashdot is bad thing; it's assumed to be a slashvertishment for some commercial unicorn wannabe.