Being 63 years old and a resident of new england, I have amnesiac longing for the old manufacturing of my youth. It really was a much dirtier environment. I can remember my Dad parking the new Chevy near a factory for a few hours and it was covered with some type of soot. There are still remnents of the old days. Mill comlplexes largley empty and river bottoms with "heavy metal" that is best left undisturbed. 20 years ago, I couldn't conceive the area surviving as a service economy. We have survived and I hope we continue without dirty manufacturing.
Because of Apple's kowtow to China, human beings will be imprisoned, tortured, and executed from information gleaned from Apple devices. Not just common criminals but political and religous dissidents. I would imagine the other cell phone choices available are just as bad, but does that make it ethical to be part of CCP's surveilance?
I think Nvidia should be as worried about IP theft as Tesla. I remember from the Model 3 teardown, the commenter was saying the Tesla logic boards were way above the quality of the other car manufacturers. He compared them to cell phone PCBs.
In my opinion the medical profession know quite well how to run the system. My mom spent most of her career in a terminal cancer hospital. I was an active opiate addict at the time, so my opinion wasn't solicited.
I watched this in action with my father's death. My mother had a long nursing career and had a talk with the doctor that lasted about 15 minutes (it was 20 years ago), after that a large morphine dose was added to his IV. Within 5 minutes I watched my dad stop breathing.
My Dad was in his early sixties, morbidly obese, this condition was aggrevated by his lifelong fear of doctors. Dad needed hip replacements but wouldn't consider it because of his medical phobia. This caused his lack of mobility which caused urinary track infections from his dificulty moving to a toilet chair.
He was in the hospital for chronic UTI's when my mom made the decision. He was lucent and not at all ready to die.
Mom has passed too and it feels cathartic to say this.
Wikipedia says Lotus won that case." In February 1990, the case went to court and on June 28, the court ruled that Paperback Software's product, by copying Lotus 1-2-3's look and feel menu interface, violated Lotus's copyright.[10] Osborne stepped down from Paperback Software the same year."
If we can't robotically seperate the different types of plastic presently, could we tag new plastics with something machine readable? Bar codes seem impracticle for some uses. So just invent a micro tag, I guess.
My take is that Elon has been putting a lot of effort right from the beginning to paint the "saboteur" as lacking credibility. It appears to me Mr Musk is worried about the message more than betrayal.
I know the Arm A-53 isn't cutting edge fast, but hardly one tenth. Seeing as the A-53 is unaffected by both Meltdown and Spectre, my assumption was that it didn't use speculative execution.
We never really worried about write endurance with dynamic RAM, but it would seem to be a lot busier than disk I/O at least in some server applications.
It might not have the effect President Trump anticipated. In my area (south eastern MA) Amazon has switched to it's own delivery system for the "last mile" at least. This will only accelerate this direction until the "Drones" takeover.
It is very tempting to go full "tin foil hat" at this point. I am seriously considering removing my cell battery and powering it up semi hourly to check for messages.
Price fixing is not the same as "businesses are held guilty of overcharging if they price their products as high as the market will bear". The fact that lawyers will make exorbitant profit is more palatable to me than 3 mega corporation's that collude to make X times the lawyers exorbitant profit.
As to the moral quality of people that are exploited for their organs, please remember all that they have to do to escape their fate is to sign a renunciation of Falun Gong. A little different than common criminals.
I would hope this will shame western corporations that contribute to China's surveillance machine. China is a large and potentially lucrative market. How much profit is one life worth?
Someone has been predicting that Microsoft would in the future produce their own Linux Distro on Slashdot for the last 5 years. I remember thinking it sounded impossible for for the first few years. Seems prophetic now.
As someone that helped construct killing machines(Nuclear submarines in my case) in the past, I will say that I believe I share responsibility for their destruction. My life will be more peaceful when they have retired from service.
The Postal service seems to be a stepping stone for Amazon. It appears that before human delivery people are replaced with drones, Jeff Bezos plans to replace postal employees with people at least contracted to Amazon.
Does anyone care to comment on other countries and their handling of the hazardous waste from semiconductor manufacturing? Also are the unsafe practices long outdated?
I have first hand experience when I tried to drive away from the police because I knew I had a warrant for my arrest. They started shooting and said I tried to run them over. There were five separate police reports with the same story. I had eye witnesses, but they were addicts like myself. So you plead guilty and go to jail.
I think I might have a unpopular perspective but when I was incarcerated for 2 years 11 days it gave me a chance to get away from drugs for that period. Although the environment hardly supported addiction recovery, the high cost and irregular supply made drug use unsustainable. If I had made parole and gotten out after a year, I would have been right back into hard drugs. Allow me to add that I had a pretty much uninterrupted 30 or so year addiction to opiates.
It would seem as though electric power could create a much safer helicopter. An electric motor powering the rotor with the engine acting as a generator much like a diesel locomotive. A smallish battery would give enough power to descend safely in case of engine failure.
I started working in electronics in the late 1970's and as a "drug criminal" at the time, it became obvious to me that I was working on building my own handcuffs. I guess I really lacked vision because I didn't see this coming.