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These so-called future seers should hook up with palm readers, card reader, etc. maybe
they can tell us the next president of the United States also.

The article and reference source are total garbage.

http://www.dailytech.com/Worlds+Data+to+Reach+18+Zettabytes+by+2011/article11055.htm

If we continue to use the present technology we will need a nuclear power plant in every
city around the world.

Nanotechnology is the way to go, but the feather heads citing the article and writing the
reference article are obviouly not men of science.

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming.

All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously.

For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down.

Apparently it hasn't affected the global temperatures too much: http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

I'm so confused!

Looks like the eskimos didn't get the latest report, we're experiencing global COOLING and it's the suns fault, not oil, power, Bush, SUV drivers etc. I wonder how they're going to sue the sun? Blame God?

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

No, the world is not actually cooling. It just happens that this winter is, for many parts of the world, colder and wetter than normal.

There is summer in the other half of the world.

Solar activity in the form of sunspots is at its lowest point in centuries. Scientists have been observing the sunspots for 400 years and there hasn't been a lull like this since the "Maunder Minimum."

Solar Activity Diminishes; Researchers Predict Another Ice Age

Please do not be too quick to judge nor to summarily dismiss differing hypotheses to the Global Warming Hypothesis

-We do not have enough long-term and statistically significant data to irrefutably prove the emerging Theory of (AKA still a 'Hypothesis') of "Global Warming".
I agree there has been some warming of at least short-term, however, looking at ice cores and other scientifically determined climatic evidence from the fossil records, it has been quite a bit warmer than it is today. (And mankind was *nowhere around* to "liberate" captured CO2 to cause that 'Global Warming".)
I agree CO2 can become a problem involving surface temperatures, but the average global surface temperatures are the results of much larger cycles with time huge time frames (and sometime small timeframes in the cases of massive Volcanoes and large Meteorites, etc..) These time frames humans are only now beginning to understand.
NOTE: CO2 is actually rather insignificant compared to the sunspot cycle and the resulting diminishing/increasing amounts of sunlight (radiant energy) reaching the earth's surfaces.

Some could argue it the other way too:
http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080227/D8V2CFRO0.html
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6157497&maindocimg=6154941&service=6
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1203343699258&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=332289

So be sure to break out those "the debate is over/you're a shill/denier" nostrums to stiffle debate, boys. You're going to need them...

Good (for some values of "good") timing on their part, what with the news that the world is actually cooling, including the most snowfall in 50 years in North America, and record levels of Antarctic sea ice.

Here we are, trying to keep our planet warm with a nice, insulating layer of carbon dioxide, and the darn ol' sun has to go and become less active.

Yes it is http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm The same idiots were screaming ice age in the late 70's to early 80's. Further they are using it to proposed government initiatives at a global level. Good bye freedoms and even the pittance of accountability we have now have once the UN (majority tyrants) get control. This is junk science at its worst.

Or at least before we switch back to "Igloo effect" hysteria!!!

http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm

I was taught about climate change in middle school from a book that managed to have both cooling and warming in it, so I am always skeptical...

I was taught this in high school in the 1970s.

Now this is news: http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Worldwide+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm !!!!

In a different article it states that sales figures do not include PS3s or the XBox 360 addon drives

Uhh... No it isn't. "In a not-so-surprising turn, standalone HD DVD players have regained their lead on Blu-ray sales in September, giving the overall year-to-date figures (in which HD DVD has always been ahead) as 53% HD DVD, 44% Blu-ray, and 3% dual-format." (quoted from an article on Gizmodo, pointing to http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9202) These are "fresh" numbers too, less than 90 days old. Anyway, if you can pull out your little protractor and draw me a diagram of how 53% is less than 44%, I'll concede.

At least this article didn't try and claim the rings are as old as the universe, like some others have. The article itself has been corrected, but the comments towards the end summarise the "insight" of the original article just fine :)

AnandTech says an RC of XP SP3 is also released. http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9987 Although I don't understand why "download directly from microsoft" on that page links to http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/Microsoft_Windows_XP_Service_Pack_3/1197391546/1

Oh you mean these models? http://www.dailytech.com/Blogger+finds+Y2K+bug+in+NASA+Climate+Data/article8383.htm

That's not a climate model, that's a statistics program for computing global averages.

GOOD science only starts with computer models and works it's way to theory from there. Global warming nut's are trying to skip all that and jump right to a conclusion.

You're confused. Climatology starts with theory, and creates climate models to perform calculations within that theory. The same as, say, starting from fluid dynamics and writing a Navier-Stokes implementation, or starting from statistical mechanics and writing a Monte Carlo or molecular dynamics code. Where the theory disagrees with observations, the theory is revised and new models created to reflect the revised theory.

And when you say "large" numbers of scientists i hope you aren't some how refering to that UN report claiming 2000 of the worlds leading scientists agree....

Sigh. Go look in the latest issue of Journal of Climate, Journal of Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Climate Dynamics, etc. Count how many papers there are which are arguing against the basic idea of anthropogenic global warming.

thats right, its more then likely your previous computer models are wrong. GOOD science only starts with computer models and works it's way to theory from there. Global warming nut's are trying to skip all that and jump right to a conclusion.

And when you say "large" numbers of scientists i hope you aren't some how refering to that UN report claiming 2000 of the worlds leading scientists agree.... because it's been shown even people who proof read that thing were included in that 2000, and a number of leading climatologists have requested their names be removed from it.

Yes, it would. Then again, why would Nintendo cut ads for the Wii and show DS ones instead?
http://www.dailytech.com/Nintendo+Pulls+UK+Wii+Advertising+to+Control+Demand/article9954.htm

Proof in the hardware review industry:
http://www.dailytech.com/pay+to+play+uncovering+online+payola/article7510.htm

How much you wanna bet a similar investigation would show the game review industry is similar?

Even Reggie can't find one: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9807

I think its because he eats them all. Grinding mens bones to make his bread wasn't enough.

Miniscribe all over again?

Many years ago a failing hard drive manufacturer scammed their own accounting system They booked the value of drives the minute they were shipped, but did not adjust the books for returns. So some bright spark came up with the idea of shipping real bricks - each one showed as revenue, but when it was returned, the revenue was not cancelled.

I think there may have been some jail time for management after this one came to light.

There is a reference to the story here

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7482

You doubt the entire thing will weigh (okay, mass) 4000 pounds? Look, I was with your back-of-the-envelope numbers up to that point, but 2000 pounds for 10 megawatts of solar panels, plus meteorite shielding, control/propulsion systems, and the microwave transmitter to beam the power back down? No way. 5000 pounds is a fair weight estimate for a modern communications satellite, and they're a whole lot simpler.

Do you even have an idea of how many square feet of PV cells you need for 10MW? There's a system in Portugal that's that big, you can see a photo of it here. Even figuring that you might get slightly more efficient cells and by putting them in orbit might be able to get more power out of each, you're still talking about a *huge* station.

I strongly suspect you are talking about a Shuttle launch or using one of the Russian or European heavy-lift rockets (I think an Ariane 5 can lift something like 10,000 kilos to geostationary orbit), and that's assuming you can lift it in one shot to begin with.

I think this is neat technology too, but let's not understate the difficulty here. This is an immense undertaking.

Not to mention that we are trying to solve a problem we don't fully understand.
Less Than Half of all Published Scientists Endorse Global Warming Theory.

http://www.dailytech.com/Survey+Less+Than+Half+of+all+Published+Scientists+Endorse+Global+Warming+Theory/article8641.htm [dailytech.com]

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As well Microsoft has announced about 100$ for each xbox 360 sold thus far($1 billion dollars). Which would be warranty repair costs and replacements costs for 1/3 of it's units if each replacement costs the same price as a new one in product costs and handling costs. Some say they may just be overly cautious but no manufacturer would announce such a huge warranty budget and risk extremely bad PR if there wasn't a problem. Given the next revision (falcon) will utilize the 65nm chip fab for the CPU it's less likely those will fail thus that billion is likely for machines already sold. Those new boxes aren't in the retail channels yet either.

With a famous quote, "By the second generation products will see the system benefits", by Melissa Johnson, a product manager at Seagate. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2188425,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532 http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9195

Can't read the article but this will help understand about the Hybrid drives.
Since laptops can't support the faster speeds that their desktop brethren, any access time improvement is desirable. You can keep your most frequently used data on the Flash or as a buffer, such as during a movie. Another benefit is that flash takes less energy to read than a HDD.
Here's also a review of the drive itself

http://www.dailytech.com/Transparent+Plastic+Polymer+is+Strong+as+Steel/article9181.htm

When i saw the title i imagined something more like bulletproof glass, but, as you can see, it's pretty thin.

I can't comment on the quality of ATI's *nix drivers, but FWIW I've never had any trouble with their win32 drivers. My x800xt has served me well the last three years and it still ticks on nicely.

However, much to my regret the ATI of today seems to be a mere shadow of its former self. Given ATI's failure to meet expected release dates with the last two generations, the somewhat disappointing performance of both families when finally released, and the latest string of stories of senior employees signing off, I can't help but think of Netscape's fall from grace and Jamie Zawinski's letter of resignation:

The magic was gone, as the magicians had either moved on to more compelling companies, or were having their voices lost in the din of the crowd [...]

JWZ of course wrote the piece before Firefox saw the light of dawn, so...

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/01/199212 http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4774 rechecked articles - they are still accessible by 2007-09-21 10:00 UTC

Statement from hothardware.com looks correct; parent post is mistaken:

"It made more business sense to design a quad-core architecture where one of the cores could be turned off versus a discrete tri-core product design, Brewer said."

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2184275,00.asp

"Essentially, the Phenom triple-core processors are quad-core variants with one core disabled. This allows AMD to simply disable one core on quad-core dies for maximum use of a single wafer. "

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=8916

Turns out we have some bad data.

"NASA has now silently released corrected figures, and the changes are truly astounding. The warmest year on record is now 1934. 1998 (long trumpeted by the media as record-breaking) moves to second place. 1921 takes third. In fact, 5 of the 10 warmest years on record now all occur before World War II. Anthony Watts has put the new data in chart form, along with a more detailed summary of the events."

MICROSOFT was the company that paid big $$$ for exclusive content in GTA4.

Please cite.

How about here, here, or directly from Take-Two.

35% failure rate is total bull.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=8046

I think the dust to dust, Hummer comparison folk were just a tad disingenuous.

Yes, this low-end dual-core is half the price, but not half the performance. Therefor a real bargain.

Note that 9 days ago, the Athlon 64 X2 4000+ was about $100 before AMD's July 9 price cut to $73 (AMD list price).

Tom's Hardware shows the Pentium Dual-Core 2160 outperforming an Athlon 64 X2 4000+ in open-source audio/video encoders and Photoshop. I'd like to find better performance comparisons between these two CPUs, but most of the good sites seem to ignore the Pentium E21xx series in favor of the Core 2 Duo E4xxx series (Allendale, 2MB L2 cache).

Yes and no,

Some of the bugs will be fixed, others won't. Every CPU has bugs, it's just a fact of life. These things are designed by humans, it's just going to happen. CPU errata happens with Intel (This is the Core2 link) and AMD. None of this is a major threat to most users, and they get worked around by most people pretty quickly. Microsoft have released fixes for the Core2 issue, as have Apple. I don't know whether there has been an update to the kernel for these yet, but I am sure they would get back ported by your distribution.

There is a note here and here regarding the Core 2 bugs, I think one of these might have even become a slashdot article at one point. The two links here both are referring to Linus' comment of it being "Totally insignificant", which given that he worked for Transmeta and knows a lot more about how the industry works, I would be putting a bit of faith in his statement.

As another poster said, keep up to date on your BIOS revs, as CPU microcode does have fixes for this stuff too.

Berny

dailytech had an article last week saying that reports from the BestBuys, Eb Games etc... that offer their own replacement services were seeing 25-33% return rates.

Microsoft is claiming that this will cost them 1.1-1.3Billion

You can read a more in-depth analysis of the error on my site.

Oh and it's the "3 Red Lights of Death" not the "Red Rings of Death" There is only 1 ring and only 3 of the 4 lights glow red... to correct TFA

i do find it interesting slashdot reports this story, as opposed to the reported ridiculous failure rate for the 360...

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7892
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3160603

as a somewhat long-time slashdotter, i'm disappointed this hasn't shown up here for further discussion...

personal anecdote: there are two people i know of with an xbox 360; one is on his fourth and the other's network adapter doesn't work...

But the Wii is outselling the PS3 bigtime.

There is a work around for using the Upgrade Version on a blank disk. http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=5932 The purpose of the upgrade version is that it is installed from within an existing XP installation so that it can revoke the old XP license. MS has closed the loop hole of people buying the upgrade version, keeping an old XP disk around, and using it as a new license.

>"2) Standard PC hardware with fancy plastic that is much more overpriced than the same hardware minus fancy plastic" You're going by old info. You can configure a Dell and an Apple with the same specs and the prices are quite close.

He said minus the fancy plastic. Try pricing it on pricewatch and building it yourself. Yes, most people wouldn't do that. No, that vast majority of linux users would build it themselves, hence the vast majority of people reading your reply would build it themselves, being that the vast majority of people visiting slashdot have used linux in their lives.

The thing is you *can* buy a Mac Mini for $500, but how does it compare to even a name brand PC from Dell at that price? It might have the performance, but any additional item you want in there (save a stick of RAM) will have to be external. And upgrading it is going to be impossible in the same way you can upgrade a PC (Don't like the motherboard? Fine, throw in a new one. Don't like the hard drive? Buy a 3.5" drive anywhere and *ADD* (not just upgrade) 500 GB. One of the 44% of Americans with Dial Up? Throw in a $9.99 special. Etc, etc.

You have to go apples for apples (pun intended). Compare a Mac that has the same upgradeability and additional hardware installation ability as a PC. Hard to do and come out with as sweet a price, eh? Powermacs are what, about $1,000? Yikes!

>"3) A OS that is more expensive over it's life that even Winblows - and Apple CURRENTLY charges serious coin for major OS updates" $129 is serious coin? And remember, this is for the MAJOR updates. Also, they're lax on the DRM, since you usually have to have the hardware to run the OS.

Yes, considering windows is about $50 OEM, and is updated for features for about 5 years and for security for about 10 years. How many updates to OS X have there been in that time that have required purchasing the new OS? Plenty.

>"4) A secure coding and patch release methodology that is *years* behind MS" Patch and release when it's found, not once a month?

Yes, there's a lot of bugs in Microsoft software. But that's not his point. His point is that Microsoft can (and does) push updates onto their machines automatically without (much, sometimes none) user interaction.

>"5) Apple regularly lies about the performance capabilities of its' machines" For example? I'd love to see some examples here.

That's easy (an oldie, but such a goldie!) enough.

>"6) Apple uses Solaris and Windows (Apple china ran it until 03) because of their superior stability compared to OS X." Proof please.

I'll give you this one, I can't find anything solid one way or the other, but even so, the last time I could find references to Apple using solaris were from ages ago... to the point they might not have even had OS X in full deployment. :-)

So they're going to sell it at more of a loss than originally? Especially with games for the thing being expensive to make?

Not necessarily. Production costs are apparently coming down so they will only take more of a loss if the price cut is greater than the reduction in production costs.