To be honest thought you guys were being way too nitpicky about the title but after reading the article I'm starting to wonder if the typewriter got stuck on those letters, in that order, somebody must have seen an early screening of Black Panther. More concerning though is that the author thinks atomic clocks are a rarity in space. I mean they were created to solve the problem of "astronomical time". That's a bit of a hint you'd think but the fact that every single navigation system satellite has several atomic clocks for each individual satellite might be worth looking into. It's kind of sad coming from a website that you'd think would know more than the average newspaper.

If you go into an application on your desktop PC like Spotify or Steam, the application has everything it needs to run on your computer, this would be a tier 1 system or sometimes a native application. You open your browser of choice, go to amazon.com and search for "Shadow of the Colossus PS4". Now you are looking at a tier 2 system, you are performing an action and your computer is a part of that but it can't complete this action without the help of Amazon's servers, 2 part's, 2 tiers. Now you are done shopping for the day and you are going to play some mario knock off flash games on your favourite ad spam website. You use your computer(tier 1) to connect to the website(tier 2), then you click your favourite crapware game and you are taken to a small flash app running within the browser(tier 3). But here's the trick, tier 3 is now being abandoned for tier 4, 5 and 6, separating the business logic alone and adding low level compute like auto-calculating shipping charges or tax based on your location, even basic things add more complexity and the tiers aren't like an elevator going from floor 1 to 10, stopping at each floor and up and up, the tiers are tiers, they intermingle and interact with each other, you don't have a functioning system without all the tiers performing their job, tier 6 isn't going to tell you what the tax costs are till tier 3 finds out what your location is, meanwhile tier 2 can't access custom tabs in the database till tier 6 accesses the database and so on and so on. If you are doing something very simple you can often get away with it without taking a huge hit in performance. Adding complexity to the chain dramatically increases your problems. If Candy Crush can run on a $100 smartphone you'd need a desktop PC worth several hundred dollars to get the game running at the same resolution and detail if it was a web app. I mean here's the OFFICIAL website for king.com's candy crush that will run in your browser: https://king.com/play/candycru... I have a i5-6600K overclocked to 4.5GHz and every time I put a line together in my Vivaldi browser(based off fairly new Chrome build) the damn thing slows down and lags, whereas with my 2 year old Galaxy Tab S2 that I got for $200 when they bought the Tab 3 out and did a clear out on samsung.co.uk on the older model, I mean it pretty much does some weird popping stuff on the tablet that I don't even see on the tablet because it blurs everything together when it has to process the changes between the 60 billion layers. This whole spiel really isn't new, this shit started back around 10 to 15 years ago with Ajax, it reared it's head again around the time iOS was exploding circa 2007-2008 and thanks to Apple's annoying way of doing things, it was very difficult for developers to maintain apps for iOS as well as Android and/or Windows Phone. The web app was back in business baby, native apps were dead and hopefully Apple too. Eventually everybody ended up making their own App store so.. yeah maybe a bit of a misfire there. The issue is very very simple, when you add a layer between two things, that layer takes up space and increases the distance between two objects, this isn't some programming flaw from 1962, this doesn't even require understanding of low level code or computing to process. You put ten layers between something and distribute it amongst a bunch of computers in different locations it is quite possibly going to run a little worse than just running the application right from your local storage array right into your computers memory and your CPUs cache, you could be travelling faster than Superman but speed is distances bitch, light may think it's the fastest thing in the universe but if that was true then why hasn't light got to the edge of the universe yet, fucking noob-light. I'm jesting of course but there are no programming tricks to overcome hurdles like the distance between two computers as opposed to having both parts on the same computer, the best you can do is try and make the gap as small as possible and then find ways to make the difference negligible, wait isn't this stuff supposed to make life easier... By the way the dude that you responded to, he didn't go far enough. WPAs can access: Bluetooth, Geolocation(they don't have any geofencing last I checked so they can ALWAYS read your location and there is no deny there), in fact here is a table of everything that WPA can do as of February 2018: https://cdn-images-1.medium.co... It wasn't what I was looking for but beggars can't be choosers. Suffice to say it has a LOT more access than any browser, by the end of 2018 the developers and fans of this project are on target to give this application all the access it can get on a smartphone/tablet without having to root the phone and download SU, it doesn't only do a LOT of stuff browsers can't, it is damn near doing everything it can do. Microsoft are talking all that shit about security and how Windows S will protect the casual user from malicious Win32 programs, you know because the average user downloads and spends a lot of time on Win32 exe's named after terrorists, and of course the Edge Browser and the Bing search engine are mandatory too, because Google is probably some haxxor word and what the fuck is a chrome anyway. Then they turn around and say they are going to add a million webapps, apps that have the kind of access to your devices that would make the CIA paranoid. Webapps are developed because they are cheap for the most part, it's a lot easier writing code when 90% of the work is done for you after all. They think adding a million webapps to the store is the solution but they insist on Bing and Edge to protect you? I still like Windows 10, though I'm starting to reconsider things but that's just bullshit and Microsoft knows it. Nadella is such a POS, can we have Ballmer back now, it's better to die with dignity than to live like a cunt.. said Shakespeare. PWA are good because they are an option, options are good because they give you more possibilities but the entire reason for the existence of PWA has to do with man hours for making and maintaining code which translates into money. It's like going to Starchucks, and getting a mocha lartay, I mean fuck it's probably not going to kill you but you aren't going there for the customer service. I remember some years ago when they started adding these tools to browsers and people were like "all game development will be done in the browser, why even bother with PC's and their expensive GPU's when you could just drop into a game of Half Life 2 with a click of a button on any computer in your house, hardware is dead guys. Then 2 years later Apple is selling an "eyephone" that costs 800 dollars, or 900 if you want the extra shiny back. Also it uses a piece of toast as a processor and the screen is so low resolution they call it retina because you can't see the gap between pixels when there's only one pixel. I'm going to file this one with the Linux desktop, the NT supercomputer, the many-core CPU that replaces GPU's and all those DRAM alternatives that were supposed to kill DRAM within a decade of it being released with superior technology that would eliminate the gap, still waiting on super-RAM a few decades later but I'm patient, plus everybody knows selectron tubes are due a comeback, it's been a 70 year comeback but time is nothing if not persistent. I mean I guess a ray of sunshine is that by the time Half Life 3 comes out web apps should be able to play it in browser at native speed. It'd be one solution to the GPU massacre at least.

Yeah I was going to post that myself, Foxconn is a subsidary of Hon Hai. Hon Hai has actually been around since the 70's but they weren't as big then. People now associate Hon Hai/Foxconn with Apple but if you did some digging you'd find that your Pixel XL, Playstation 4, Nintendo 3DS and faithful old iPod Touch might be strangely familiar with Hon Hai too. Suffice to say HH has grown enormously in that time in terms of the amounts of stuff it produces but if you track the companies history it went from making a few million dollars a year with tens of thousands of employees to a few billion dollars a year with... uhmm tens of thousands of employees. In fact Foxconn hit it's peak in terms of revenue and the amount of workers it employs a few years ago and since then it has shed hundreds of thousands of workers whilst increasing it's revenues and profts. The CEO is a bloke called Terry Gou and he's stated time and time again, whilst firing anywhere from tens to hundreds of thousands of workers systematically every financial year, that he plans to go 100% automated in his factories and I mean 100%. The way he sees it, human workers heavily affect the way a factory is designed, everything from our height, our need for bathrooms, the space we require to work have an effect. He wants to make assembly lines with small to medium sized robots stacked in very efficient ways. If you've ever been Tokyo, they have these "tall" carparks, you park your car, get a ticket and then leave, the carpark takes your car up and then "parks" it somewhere. When you return, you put your ticket into the machine and wait a few seconds whilst the car is bought back down to ground floor. They have these all over Tokyo and if you've ever seen how hard it is to find ANY parking in Tokyo, you would realise how amazing this technology is. I mean the thing is automation is not new, we used to have people write books with pen and paper till printers became a thing, in human society right from the beginning we've had jobs that are accessible and jobs that aren't accessible, when we had printers replace scribes we didn't replace the people writing interesting stories with printers, we just replaced the people copying and pasting the stuff by hand. If you want job security doing a job that can be done by anybody is not the way to go about it because that job by default is the one most at risk, it's just simple logic. If you want job security you acquire a skillset that takes some time and/or effort to get to. CEO's are not going away anytime soon(unfortunately), but the guys that are turning that knob really well? Sorry Larry, who knew this day would come, I can't imagine my knob polisher losing his job, how will we ever replace thee? Now I just need to find a guy that will invest in the combustion engine, buy all my coal, buy a bridge that may or may not be the London bridge and resurrect buddha to see how many transistors he can put on a CPU by hand.

Labour costs barely make a dent in the technology industry nowadays, nearly everything is heavily automated but it isn't only that, the processes used in manufacturing advanced semiconductors is not contingent on cost of materials or cost of labour anymore, some of the most expensive things we can make as humans are expensive because the tools we require to make these things are very expensive which requires an upfront investment but more importantly, electricity consumption can be absolutely absurd. For example if you were to sneak into Google and tell them you know a guy who can get you Xeon's for 20% off they would be listening. If you told them you can reduce their energy consumption by 10%, you'd be the CEO a few seconds later. After all hardware, even when expensive is a one off purchase, recurring costs are like the pebble in your shoe. I mean technically speaking I can make you a billionaire right now, go gather all the pencils in your house, trust me, I'll go get the sciencey-kit I stole from school. Gather all those pencils and we can start messing around with chemicals and heat and stuff and when we get our patented formula right we are going to zap the clay out of those pencils and then splice the graphite into atom thick layers. I mean an atom is small... realllllllly small. If we start cutting the graphite into atom thick layers your (I'm hoping) abnormally large pencilcase would give us enough graphite to cover most cities in a material thats a million times more conductive than copper, forget money, we'd be in the history books! Of course I'm just jesting but the point I am trying to make is though that with a lot of technology right now, "material costs" and "labour costs" are something that affects our margins drastically in the past and maybe present but not in the future. The Semiconductor industry started this process decades ago using silica sand to make chips and when those chips started shipping with components that are a fraction of the size of a human hair, humans were slowly eliminated from the process almost entirely. Having said that if I was an evil billionaire I'd totally hire human workers to make CPU's but I'd force them to forego the techniques that are automated/machine orientated and do it manually. I want to see how many of the several billion transistors on a CPU or GPU the worker can place before losing his sanity.

Wait I thought you become a trillionaire by inventing stuff, do you work at a nuclear power plant in between inventing things? Is that you Iron Man? Or more likely Homer Simpson.... I mean don't get me wrong I'm not doubting you here, it's not like Los Alamos has been home to some of the greatest nuclear breakthroughs in human history or that you need to be pretty good in your field to even go near the door, I'm sure Los Alamos ain't got shit on Dr Doom. Oh shit I just realised...

Your logic really isn't logic at all. To put it simply, I am a Netflix subscriber. I give them money every month because I want to watch the content they provide on their service. Netflix on the other hand work to make sure when I have consumed that content, I have more content to consume and that is our relationship. Now if Netflix decided to stop investing in new content the day would come when I would run out of things I want to watch on Netflix and I would terminate our contract. In order for that not to happen, Netflix need to invest in more for me to watch. Investment isn't foolproof, you can always get it wrong but then again neither is driving foolproof, thousands of people die on the road everyday, taking a risk isn't business, it's existence. Now if you drive at 300MPH blackout drunk through a busy city during lunch hour then you are probably going to have a memorable evening. However you can mitigate the risk by sobering up, catching a bus or just staying home and watching the service that replaced Netflix or whatever it was called before they went bankrupt because Stranger Things is only good the first 89 times. Netflix intends to invest 6 billion USD in content this year if I remember correctly. Now if they made Game of Drones for 6 dillion dollars and their investment failed, they would be in serious trouble and probably selling assets to keep afloat. However maybe they could take that 6 billion dollars and divide it into chunks, a LOT of chunks and then they could have 10 investments instead of 1, or maybe even 100 investments, or even more! Now naturally we can't do the mathematics to calculate the future outcome of investments(at least not yet) so every investment, however wise or not wise can only be seen as such after the fact. However this is a situation with binary outcomes and yes, investing is the more complicated one because there are more outcomes but that isn't very reassuring when the only outcome for not investing is being replaced by that service that made Stranger Things season 2. Bad investments hurt. No investment doesn't hurt very long, because you just don't have long enough to get to that part.