Depends on the country.
In Germany the price is artificially inflated by "copyright fees" to pay to some RIAA like organizations, as every USB stick is obviously full with pirated material (and pirating is a jailable offence).
I should smuggle USB sticks from Asia and sell them on eBay in Germany
Regarding cars (no idea about bikes) it is similar in Thailand, you have to pass a test on the court of the "license school"
They have no mandatory hours for city, overland or highway or night driving etc.
I remember a facebook post where an agitated American was asking the FB crowed (yes, retarded idea).
The question was like: you try to enter a main road from a side road. The lanes of the main road are separated by two solid lines of paint. You want to turn left into the main road. What are you doing?
a) turn left into the main road (crossing the solid lines of separation)
b) turn right, go to the next U-turn and turn around
So his question was: why his answer "A" was always rejected.
So the community mocked him: why not simply take some driving lesions, read some books about driving rules instead of trying to memorize the correct answers for a multiple choice test - without grasping what the questions are about?
Nvidia is loaning money to AI companies to purchase Nvida GPUs,
That is basically what happened during the "dot com bubble crash", for example SUN lending out money to make companies like Toys Are Us great (no idea what happened to them). When the bubble busted SUN lost an incredible amount of money. So they got bought by Oracle, mostly.
And what will they do if I say, "No"?
Stupid question.
You are not even asked
No idea who modded you.
But this: "or tienaman (sp?) square" - is a stupid question.
The information about this is simply not in the model.
Mao and Stalin and their cronies became the new rich and middle class, while everyone else suffered. Why? Greed.
Stalin, because he actually wanted to starve the relevant people death, because he was an intentional mass murderer, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Mao, because he was an idiot. In grandauers attitude, he rewarded his "generals" province government positions. With - amoung other things - supervising farming. Same time as "punishment" the "Bourgeoisie" was forced to work on farms, to "learn how hard - real work - is".
So, the Governor has no clue how to manage a farm and no workers with any clue how to do farm work.
On top of that the "do not lose faith" attitude and reporting to Mao: all is fine.
Same stupidity happened in Cambodia as Pol Pot was following the same mistakes and was not aware of the catastrophe in China.
And at the places where $400 is more than an annual income, a coffee costs 2 cents.
Q.ANT btw is a German company.
And what is going on Optical Computing, is free available on the internet.
It is just so that American news papers preferer to watch their own navel.
Go on Youtube, or Linked in and join the Companies channels, not really difficult.
What is next? Laser weapons? We have them, you don't.
Rail guns? Japan has them, you don't. (Laser weapons, too)
Fully autonomous battle tanks, China has them, you don't. And dozens of other "drone concepts", like robotic dogs. (Robotic dogs you have too, yes
Completely interlinked stealth fighters with omni directional radar: China has them, you don't. Japan has them soon, too.
Submarines that can sink a US carrier fleet: EU has them, you don't.
USA is so far out of the news loop what science and technology wise is going on on the planet: it is absurd.
How many retrograde and halo satellites around the Lagrange points are up there? Who owns them all? China, China owns them. It was not even news worthy in the US when they got put up.
And no one of you yahoos, knows anything about that. Most of you do not even know what a "halo orbit" and hence a "halo satellite" is. Or what a Lagrange point is, or why it matters
It is just so as if every American weapons program is just made up to burn money and fail. And then conclude: the others can not have them, see how much money we burned without results. It is impossible they made it!
A retrograde satellite around the moon, or a "weapon" shot to the moon doing a retrograde sling shot: can take out nearly every satellite in earth orbit: in one go.
They are ready: we are not.
Because they are betting on the wrong horse(s).
See my other post about Optical TPUs/GPUs and the relation to speed and data centers.
China needs a few days to train a new model. USA a month(?). And the cost difference is absurd.
They are trained and run on optical processors.
Their bottleneck is access to "real RAM".
That is they are so gigantocraspic fast.
The data center hype in the US is utter nonsense, China's (and Germany's) optical processors (The Tai Chi line) are 10,000 times faster than a GPU and significantly faster than TPUs and use 3000 times less power.
As long as they are training, they access RAM only for input data. And finally flashing out the model. The model is hosted in the optical core. The optical core is an analog computer.
As the cores are relatively small, they criss/cross hundreds of optical Computers in a parallel system, like Transputers.
Bottom line the power consumption is about 100 - 1000 times less, as the actual RAM as gateway to the disks is still needed and still needs power, same for SSD.
Watching from an outside perspective, as a German and Thai: it is unbelievable what is "unknown" to the general public in USA. Just as if you do not know what youtube is.
You do not even know that they use optical processors to chunk out dozens if not hundreds of models very week.
Just google a farking random Chinese city. Then watch three or four things:
- the lack of police
- the beauty of the city
- the happiness of the people
- and the prevalence of electric vehicles
You could start with "Nanning". https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
How many companies do you have in USA that work on optical processors, preferable for TPU work loads? Oh, I do not know any. You just wait that a German one has a majour break through and try to bribe/buy one/them.
Just like Pfitzer did with BioNTech.
Does anyone of you know who BioNTech is?
especially when it consists of a population who has refused to submit to invaders EVER.
The "left side" of "Russ" is invaded and conquered by Vikings.
The "right side" by Tartars and and other "Mongolic" hordes.
Now it is free for you to use a map and look where Moscow is.
Stupid post.
"Evil Islam" are countries under the steel boots of their conquerors.
Or countries that were occupied till into the 1980s and got sovereignty around that time, and then tied to settle their internal disputes (as in splitting into several countries again) - which are caused by former colonization.
If USA gets invaded and after it is conquered, the surviving freedom fighters are "Christian Evil Terrorists"?
Stupid idiot. It is farking your fault that you invade an Islamic country and declare the Guerillas there "Islamic terrorists"
So the French Resistance who fought the Germans, were Evil Christian Terrorists?
Stupid post.
Ask germany how that worked out for them,
Germany had no problem with that. We cut the gas and oil imports.
And that is it.
Froze their assets
And: are second biggest supporter of the Ukraine.
Stupid Germany haters. How many grandpas of yours died in WWII in Germany? And how long is that ago?
Stupid post, considering what is going on in USA.
Particularly with ICE.
How many people get abducted every day, and how many deported?
Despite the fact: they are American citizens?
Hypocrite about other countries, to stupid to tacke your own problems.
Oh, not to stupid: to scared? Rightful so, perhaps?
During world war II China was on the "allied side", fighting Japan and such.
However because they had a "communist party" America did everything wrong with them. Just like with Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.
China fought of an Imperialist Enemy, just like Vietnam tried.
And then America declared them enemies. Oh, that was the short story, in the middle Korea is missing and some other things.
Nothing succeeds like success. -- Alexandre Dumas
