Re: Guilt complex
American lawyers would take that as an admission of guilt, and sue for a billion or more. CEOs have to take that kind of thing into account.
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That market dominance is the important factor here. You can do what you want (within limits) providing you don't hold a dominant position in the market. The moment you do additional rules apply. Since Google have a 75% market share in Europe those rules apply to them.
Unfortunately most international trade is priced in USD. Oil for example, even if it never goes anywhere near the US, is priced in USD per barrel. Most electronics manufacturing happens in China, who wants to be paid in USD. Result: computers and other IT equipment goes up in price.
Walkers may have a hard time justifying their price increase (energy costs will rise, as will the cost of imported potatoes, but that adds up to a cost price that has changed by small fraction of the exchange rate delta), but HPE and Lenovo have a fair point.
Erm, no. Personally Identifiable Information, yes. The combination of dynamic IP and time is personally identifiable.
The EUCJ is saying that the German government can't require the ISP to store that data as doing so contravenes the EU convention. They do seem to have little idea how easy it is for a computer to combine together the IP and time to link to the subscriber, but that's another point entirely.
The Cyclone V SE has been shipping with them for a couple of years now. Intel meanwhile have specialist Xeon parts with FPGA fabric on them.
I'd guess that the design work for this was underway pre the Intel buy-out so there's nothing particularly noteworthy about it having an ARM in there. I understand there are specialist Xeon models out there with FPGA fabric also. No real change yet.
Yes. Once a company reaches 50% or more of a market they are subjected to different rules to prevent them abusing their dominance. As Android constitutes around 80% of the mobile OS market, and the reason for that dominance is down to the size of the Play store, then restricting access to that store unless you follow a set of rules that Google lay down, including insisting on bundling Google apps, constitutes abuse of power.
Roughly 150 tons of fuel are joined to the stack by the second launch. It's that which will be consumed to boost to the specified 6.5km/s transfer velocity and slow down at the far end. It's the size of the fuel budget that gets them the speed, and nothing to date has had a budget anywhere close.
The objection is to ISPs giving preferential treatment to services that pay them for the privilege. The reason being this discourages new companies and services as they are unable to compete on a level playing field with the established players.
It doesn't matter that, in the short term, consumers like the product. In the long term it's against their interests.
@boltar - so you're coding exclusively in assembler and hitting the hardware directly are you? It's the compiler, hardware abstraction layers and library code that slows a modern program down compared to days of yor. All of those are good things in terms of productivity.
Even ripping those out you still have the basic problem that a CPU is designed to execute a stream of instructions, one at a time. There are assorted techniques used to make this as fast as possible, but it's still effectively a sequential process. Hardware is good at tasks that can be either pipelined or run in parallel (or both). If the workload is suitable then hardware can implement it thousands of times faster than the best written code.
You're not getting it. Software will not be going away. What will be happening is that progressively more work will be offloaded to hardware, at least some of which can be soft-configured (which is the whole point of FPGAs). "Patch Tuesday" will contain updated soft configurations as well as traditional code. There's also the matter of the driver stack that connects the software to the hardware.
The problem with the Topgear review was that it didn't represent what happened during filming. I've no problem with them saying it caught fire/ran out of charge etc if that's what actually happened on the day, but to misrepresent events isn't on.
I can understand, in part at least, why they don't like electric cars (the G-Wiz is wretched for example) but Tesla are pushing them to the point they compete fairly well with Petrol (usable range, good acceleration and handling, not a track car), and that should have been more accurately portraid.
I'm not sure where you get some of this from but :
1) the secure enclave is a physical not a virtual processor. It has 4MB of its own flash memory directly on the SoC die and runs its own OS.
2) the details are quite well documented, as are the APIs used to access it. See for example https://www.apple.com/business/docs/iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
But the key to the data on the flash is maintained in the secure section of the A7 and higher. Once the secure section decides that the maximum number of attempts are reached (it is a separate CPU with limited connection to the main system) it destroys the key and the data is rendered useless. It doesn't matter how many copies of the data you have, the copies still need the AES key in order to read them.
With the iPhone 5 and earlier the AES key and try count are stored on the flash chip. Reloading that chip with a copy will reset the count of tries. On the iPhone 5S and higher (anything with an A7 or newer) the key information and count are stored on a secure area of the CPU chip. Taking an image of the flash memory will have no effect on retry counts or prevent the key from being erased.
Do you not see the difference between it being unprofitable for a company to provide a service and the company getting laws passed to prevent local residents providing the service for themselves?
Either it's not profitable, in which case the company should have no interest in the area, or it is, in which case they should be providing a decent service.
That's the reason that companies don't want to repatriate foreign earnings to the US is that they will first have to pay corporate tax on the profits (35% at the moment as I understand it), then any money paid as dividends is also taxed at another 15%. If Congress were to fix that then there would be more pressure from investors to bring money home.
Even were it possible, a craft powered by such a device still couldn't travel faster than light. If the author understands e=mc^2 they should realise that only by converting a body completely to energy can it reach the speed of light. As the craft approaches the speed of light time dialation effects become apparent. The acceleration experienced by the occupants remains constant, but to an external observer it reduces. As they approach light speed their time slows to zero as does their acceleration.
The whole hyperspace/wormhole thing in SciFi is a plot device to get around this problem.
Even China is getting hacked off with the behaviour of North Korea, as can be seen in their voting in the UN, and North Korea is one of their client states. I wouldn't hold that up as an example (though I agree that the "news" companies are far from neutral).
You do realise that the author of that article declares anyone who doesn't write unstructured FORTRAN on IBM mainframes not to be a real programmer? I doubt you qualify, and neither do 99.9999% of the readership here.
Pascal in this case is a GPU family code name, not a language BTW
OOP isn't about making things faster, it's about isolating functional blocks from each other. C++ will let you write bad code, but done properly it can produce robust, testable code that isn't much slower than raw C. If you think otherwise you're doing it wrong (and yes, I've seen an awful lot of programmers who claim to understand OOP who don't)
You're confusing servers with workstations. Workstations spend most of their lives waiting for users to tell them what to do. Servers can get thousands of requests per second, in which case the time it takes to transfer the requested data from disk to memory is important.
In case you hadn't figured, this is a server class product (read expensive).
As a response to 9/11 lest we forget (and for reasons that aren't very obvious, Saudi Arabia had far more to do with backing the attacks). Having made the mess (partly due to equipping the Talliban in the first place) at least the US committed to clearing it up.
Except that Greenfield isn't talking about WiFi being unsafe, she's talking about large amounts of Internet usage by kids, and her colleagues don't agree with her
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3196340/Baroness-Susan-Greenfield-slammed-Oxford-colleagues-misleading-unfounded-claims-internet-damages-children-s-brains.html
The other point is that, as volumes ramp up, the cost per kWh of the battery packs falls. In 10-12 years a replacement pack will be far cheaper than it is today.
Your petrol car also contains consumable parts (oil, spark plugs, filters, belts etc) which are going to add up to rather more in maintainance over that period.
How often do you drive more than 250 miles in a day? When you do, do you stop off for a coffee break?
People make far too much about the range limits of these cars. I have a friend with a BMW i3, with a range of around 90 miles on a charge. He manages quite well even with that, and he makes a long journey twice a week with it.
The 99/4A was intentionally hamstrung by TI marketing. They didn't want it to compete with their lucrative mini market, so they gave the CPU (which had a fair bit of grunt for the day) a tiny amount of fast RAM and made if request the rest from the video chip. The result was like slow motion.
Someone stepping out in front of you, at night, dressed in dark clothes and not at a crossing point counts as "too fast for the conditions" now does it? The glare was only a distraction here, not what would have been the major cause of the accident (stupidity on the part of the pedestrian).
The car was physically able to stop inside of the required distance. The driver failed to spot the issue partially because of distractions, but mainly because the pedestrian seems to have gone out of their way to make themselves hard to spot.
In the same way that you (normally) don't have enough cash to pay for a new house or car. The company borrows money for capital projects that will be repaid over 10 or more years. That way we get our shiney new network/house/car now and it is paid down over its expected life span.
The standard ARM licence lets customers bolt together their standard bits of IP, and combine them with third party designs (you want a PowerVR graphics core rather than a Mali, certainly sir). The architecture licence lets them roll their own cores, with changes to things like the execution units (for higher IPC) or the memory manager (for higher throughput).