Posts by Cryptomuseum 11 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Nov 2020
And what about code efficiency? Why is no one talking about this?
Most code produced is -in fact- a collection of layers 'from the old days' with soft edged icons and nice user interface on top. What about if the Chinese were to go for code optimise? Heck, this can make a lot of difference. My guts feeling says it even may save them 3 nodes of evolution ! (and more secure code on top of this, due to the lesser amount of it)
My 5 cents of what I know and how I think of this personally:
It is important to let all readers here know that the high end already have been covered: TSMC is producing very efficiently. The pain is in the regular electronic devices: MOSFET's, Opamps, Voltage regulators, Bipolar transistors, Logic etc. Waiting for parts from an order given 2 years ago (!). In the high-end stuff you already see decline.
Intel should keep up their own pants and plan down properly, without these extreme demands. Otherwise, this will become a kind of unprecedented sponsored industry we never had before, and.... it will fail. It does not fit in our liberal western open way of doing business. Companies should grow and exist from the results they have created, and not being sponsored bottom up. Otherwise we are no better than Xi Ping in China, right ? With his idiotic plan... Which fails... Right. Point proven ;-)
RISC-OS today is fairly healthy: Together with 3 others our company bought it from the old owners. With lots of help from very good friends & programmers we managed to make it running fine again, but then completely open-source. No money involved, nothing.
Look here: https://www.riscosdev.com/projects/ And give it a try.
On supported ARM platforms.... as fast as lightning ! ;-)
Why we did this RISC-OS buyout? Our company had great succes by using RISC-OS in the first place. We have developed lots of stuff with it and that brought us a good future. So for me I felt it was a matter of payback time. Why we did something like this then? It seems stupid and seems like lost money? I know, but I simply don't care. This step enabled the 4 of us to help to let RISC-OS survive, and to develop important improvements as well. For example, porting a modern browser to it and implementing a modern TCP-IP stack.
Let us hope that others will repeat our idea and take this step too: Donate to the old platforms. I call out for the ones with the old names, the names that have tonns of money on their bank accounts due to all the succes they have had with software development on older OS-ses like RISC-OS or what have you.
I call out to do something and stop complaining about Windoze and MAC.
And if you are such a person, with tonns of money waiting to go over to the next generation due to Darwin only... I feel sorry for your kids. Let them learn to take care for themselves. Let them have the same experience as *you* had by making something a succes from.... almost nothing, the wonderment, you know what I mean. Wasn't this the way for our generation how it all started? Sorry for these crude words, but I believe it is the only way to wake you up...
Anonimous Coward,
I have red the EU proposal as well and I came to *exactly* the same conclusion. So we may conclude that if this 1 on 5 report is the basis of this all, then something is very very very much *not okay* with the EU legislation process. This is not an opinion, but a bitter hard fact.
Numerous times we have had contact with special units of our police force. Here is what they said in 2018:
" We do not need more laws or more rights to do things, we need more people ! "
The conclusion of our talks with these good folks was that they *exactly* know the villains, and what they do and where and how they operate. But our police simply does not have not enough manpower to solve these issues.
Just a note viewed from our profession, not the museum:
Sorry guys... The ASML litho is just one of the 100 machines you need to make proper semiconductors. Apart this newest tech we have given all away to the Chinese, basically for free. Do not blame them, but blame the managers that acted on doing 'off shoring' for production.
And hear hear... with all the Semi-Conductor misery now all of a sudden they are talking about 'on shoring' and building new factories in Europe and the US.
To my humble opinion they belong in prison..... but hey, they quickly hop onto the next 'victim' INC. to completely dismantle it again, the same as the last one where they have 'worked'. I have seen this numerous times and I am sick of it. Parasites, that is what they are. No one, really no one could ever explain to me why a machine running here in Europe must be more expensive than in Shenzhen.
This is *exactly* why IPV-6 is such a bad idea. It is sooo easy for the Chinese to use the spying properties of this protocol.
And the ones shouting that we are outnumbered in IP Addresses and that we need IPV-6? Please switch on your Address Translating Tables and a new IP world will open up for you, as if you create a new galaxy ;-)
Well analysed and said: Personally I fully agree.
And what we see here in Europe is that most programmers in the West are lazy b*stards (I am sorry). Cut and paste policy without thinking. Glueing languages to another without questioning why, and if it is efficient at all... from a code execution point of view. What happens if code efficiency comes in? What happens in China if they open up a can of good Chinese programmers to really *optimize* things?. A good hardware engineer designs something for £2. A better one does it for £1. But what about the code? What hardware does it need? I see this killing the earlier mentioned engineering principle time and time again.
We have more than enough very well performing hardware. There is a real overspill, often with very bad worked out and supported tools, however. And peoplw who do not believe this, they should watch this video to convince themselves: The Rougol interview / presentation with Sophie Wilson:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lOnpQgn-9s
My conclusion: In the West we need good programmers, not new hardware. In the East they have all parameters set to overrule us in many ways. Very scary....
All you read here is based on the CIA Minerva Report about the Thesaurus/Rubicon. We from Cryptomuseum were invited to read this report, and to make notes out of it. (but *not* to have it). Read our story here:
https://www.cryptomuseum.com/intel/cia/rubicon.htm
And about the relevant media involved, see here:
https://www.cryptomuseum.com/intel/cia/rubicon_media.htm
Our special thanks to out to Peter Müller and Huub Jaspers to get us involved to explain the media about all the technical aspects of this affair.
Hopefully this will be a good read for you, and excuse us for burning a couple of hours away of your time ;-)
Marc & Paul, Cryptomuseum
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