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As someone who works in semiconductor engineering I can confidently say that your comment is mostly wrong. Physics is the primary reason that Moore's law is failing - just as the Nature article states.

C# development does not require Visual Studio. There are several free versions of Visual Studio. You can develop for OSX with essentially the same languages as any other OS.

It is possible to save into a raw format, but I don't think that's the concern. Since neither Reuters or the photographers are going to be manipulating the photo, there is no need for them to take or provide photos anything other than the jpg. Since raw formats require additional processing...

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That's not how copyright works. If they're suing for copyright violation they have to show that their copyrights were violated. There is no copyright infringement unless something was copied. Copyright does not grant an exclusive right to all revenue remotely related to the work; it...

It certainly has been discussed with respect to mobile ISPs. See the FCCs request for comment, the multitudes of policy studies, all the discussion online for the past decade, etc. etc. MMS (and SMS) services have long been criticized for having billing way out of line with regular data...

That's irrelevant. Net neutrality is violated when ISPs give certain traffic preferential billing or network access. Money does not need to exchange hands for the service provider to treat traffic in a non-neutral way. It's literally in the name "net neutrality" - they are not treating...

It has been inadequately answered. There's clearly a fundamental conflict with one of the principles of net neutrality, which say ISPs shouldn't have the authority to setup routing and pricing that prefers some content over others. It's irrelevant whether or not T mobile has good...

No disagreement there - I wonder though if a CS program is the right place to teach those skills. Especially in an undergraduate degree, there's a limited amount of subjects one can study and including technical courses that teach skills that aren't really computer science is a hard sell...

Rightly or wrongly, I suspect a lot of students go into CS wanting to broadly learn software engineering. I'm conflicted on the degree to which CS programs ought to be teaching vocational skills.

Anecdotes from a repair shop owner are likely to suffer severely from all sorts of sampling biases. If you want accurate information on build quality and failure rates, then you pretty much have to look at that data directly, which may or may not be easy to obtain. You can find a litany of...

While the Snowden leaks confirmed that the NSA was intercepting and decrypting an enormous amount of internet traffic, they also revealed that there were several communications protocols that they had been unable to break.

I should add that they'll certainly also have differences in their schematic and RTL implementations, beyond just physical implementation.

lol New Mexico is part of Mexico, and New England is part of England.

Each chip is going to have a totally different physical design, so it's not a particularly effective way to compare process area/density. Same goes for power consumption.

Are you seriously suggesting that most business workloads or most database procedures are P-complete problems? Or is this just a non-sequitur meant to distract us? Complexity theory speaks to the inherent serialization of instructions in a program based on unavoidable data dependencies; it...

Your comments about power are confused. Intel's (CMOS) manufacturing process is considered 2 years ahead of the rest of the industry. The per-transistor power consumption is lower then anyone else. This is a big factor in why Intel has lower power - because it has better silicon. Intel...

In the first sentence you agree that Intel has 50% margin on its x86 server market, which is quite good margin. In the second sentence you fall back on your claim that x86 server market is extremely low margin. How can you possibly reconcile these two statements? Check my link again. The...

I didn't say they were biased. I don't think they are.

Hey guys I really don't care about this. I don't care about it so much I'm going to write a 3 page editorial to show you I don't care.

By relevant I suppose you mean the tiny subset of workloads where they are competitive. I've said repeatedly, the majority of business workloads are not those applications. Can you provide any market data that suggests otherwise? Citation needed. Regardless of your lack of evidence...

No, Intel's server business margin is just over 50%. Where are you getting this 10% number from? Please provide some data for the numbers you're inventing about Intel's server margin. What's your source for that number? It seems like you're just guessing. Sun was losing money on the server...

Fastest in a workload representing like 5% of the market. Not nearly as impressive with that caveat. It's so easy to selectively pick out benchmark statistics. I can do the same for Intel: Encryption performance increased by 600% with the addition of AES instructions Video encoding...

Intel's server business gets ~50% margins on a market size of approximately $50 billion. Their *profit* in x86 servers is larger than the entire RISC *revenue* size combined. The vast majority of the money is in x86 servers. IBM and Oracle might not make a whole lot of margin on x86...

Ok, so you're talking about a small fraction of the server market, which accounts for less than 20% of total revenue and is shrinking. That's less than $10 billion annually. There are lots of massive enterprise deployments using what you'd consider "small" systems. The data centers at...

Looking at idle times of different architectures under different workloads is essentially a meaningless comparison. Even if we assume the workloads of those idle numbers are identical (and they aren't), if the Xeon has 2x the IPC*frequency of the SPARC (and it very well might) then it still has...

brutalizer, what you've described is a type of simultaneous multithreading, which Intel has also supported in some manner since the P4 under the name of Hyperthreading. Checking the Intel website just now, it appears you can get an 18 core Xeon that supports 36 threads in simultaneous...

My opinion is that prudes have worse societal impacts.

Apparently he'll fit right in at Amazon.

My feeling is that Intel is not intentionally throwing overclockers a bone. If they can hit 5.8GHz that's great and of course they're going to market it, but the CPU architects are probably fretting about how much lost area and power went into over-engineering the chip.

I did. It seems like you didn't though. Nowhere in the message does it state they've changed their hiring criteria. In fact, it specifically says that they are trying to address the "the broad underlying challenges". They mention expanded recruiting efforts, and educational investments...

Having gone through two engineering degrees, and working professionally as one, I can tell you that male engineers are on aggregate the most accomplished, celebrated and receive the most awards.

Actually I have no objection to you creating a Society of Male Engineers. You can do a find and replace on their motto; I do not care. But please continue imagining false outrage on my behalf.

"attempting to claim a fallacy"? lol what you have done is explicitly begging the question. You literally assumed the premise that was up for debate. If you don't see the point in adhering to foundations of epistemic reasoning, then i guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You're begging the question. The premise of the claim is that it's not stupid.

I'm not aware that such a society exists, but feel free to create one. Also note that the award is for both men and women.

Likely they never applied for the job in the first place. That's largely what these programs are meant to address.

Is there literally any evidence to suggest that Apple chose to hire less qualified candidates based on their ethnicity or gender?

Their hiring remains performance based. These programs don't affect decisions on who gets hired.

That's why these initiatives about getting more diverse applicants. The notion that they are hiring less qualified candidates in order to meet quotas is pure hysteria.