see, here nobody accepts my belief system, they have moded both of my comments as "troll", yet I never troll here, I always say what I mean when it comes to tech, politics and economics. To mode my comments as "troll" means to declare that I do not believe and practice what I say or maybe that I am trying to start some sort of a riot. The former assumes that I am not serious, the latter assumes that everyone reading these comments camnot engage in civilized discourse, it is disgusting really, that people deny others their intentions or agency.

any amount of government, all of it makes me sick to my stomach, that is all I have to say on the topic.

Correct, government shouldn't be running services, this is up to the private individuals to satisfy needs at an agreed price. Years ago here I said that at some point in the 21st century we will see collapse of the government structures, we are observing it now. The next logical step is to have all services, no matter what they are to be done privately if needed. This is what I am rooting for, I am hoping to see it in this life time.

fuck ruzzia, fuck all ruzzians and triple fuck everyone doing business with the. Hopefully their scourge of s country collapses and breaks into small pieces and everyone there gets ass cancer of the 5th degree and dies a horrible death.

Oops, you're right. Anyway, big die size = minimal bit flips.

Until they were finally grounded the Space Shuttles used 486 CPUs, mostly because the large die size minimized the issue of flipped bits.

I wouldn't expect the PR flacks who write press releases know the difference.

That works, until bean counting MBAs are allowed to control what should be an engineering process. In the case of the 737-MAX it was because the MBAs that run Boeing see programmers as a fungible input like aluminum, so any old programming team will do if the price is right. In that case the programming team which won the low bid normally worked in the financial industry.

Those guys were too expensive for Boeing's management, they've all been laid off years ago.

Also busses, tractors and combines and all sorts of farm equipment, everything that could be looted from businesses and homes was looted. Hundreds of thousands of children were kidnapped.

ruzzia is a scourge, always was always will be, unfit to exist on this planet.

Every time I say it here, I am moded down as a troll, doesn't change the reality.

One issue with germanium, and even more so with gallium, is the very limited number of sources for them. China controls over 70% of world germanium production, and well over 90% of gallium. Get dependent on one or the other for computing and you are thus dependent on China for computing.

I've worked in construction, restaurants, farms, retail and factories, all places heavily populated by the people falling in the lower half of the IQ scale. The majority of dumb people have no more imagination than a sheep, which is why they're also the core Trump voters.

As I said, ruzzia is a scourge https://slashdot.org/comments.... unfit to exist on this planet. It akways was a scourge, always will be. Same with islam, by the way, muslim brotherhood is coming for all of us, not just ruzzian zombies

If you're referring to the Carlin quote, he recognized the difference but had to deliver the line to an audience made up of a goodly portion of people who were already drunk and/or stoned.

If you're referring to what I wrote, the IQ test (which I recognize is not actually accurate because of cultural bias, but it's a phrase that everyone understands) then an IQ of 100 is designed to be the midpoint, with half the population above and half under. Unless it's changed in the last quarter century, it was intended to measure the mean.

Oh, carp. Posting to fix bad mod.

And what about the half of the population which has an IQ lower than 100? Dumb people need to eat too, and if they can't they pick up pitchforks and torches (metaphorically). When robots run by AIs are washing dishes and picking strawberries the people who previously did those jobs are not going to be doing things requiring "human creativity and judgement".