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GDDR2 Emerging As A Real Standard
An anonymous reader writes "I noticed here that EE Times is reporting that the GDDR2 standard is finally becoming a reality. Both NVIDIA and ATI's latest chips offer support. ATI helped spearhead the initiative to develop the standard. The significance of this is great, since it may very well mean that every 18 months or so a new graphics memory standard will be released."
Go IRAQ!!!
Too bad the ficticious war leads to real American deaths! Go War! You know we love it! Maybe its time Mr. Bush suited up so he can be exposed to the same shit our boys are going through. Oh... and FUCK Bush.
Fight the invaders of your country. Beat them back out of your country.
They want to get rid of
Sadam, and put one of their own in to rule over you. They will suppress you
even more. You will lose you way of life. They will instil their ways on to
you, and you will submit, as your spirit is broken, then lost.
Don't lose you pride. You are proud people. Don't let these invaders destroy
you as they surely will
FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT,
FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT.
Bush is an evil fuck
so is Saddam
getting sick of the killing
i hate them both
let's hope they both get cancer in their ass and die
you are missing the WAR
the one where PEOPLE DIE
because WORLD LEADERS ARE INSANE
and think that BLOOD
will make them RICH
and POWERFUL
another thing that would be cost-effective is if we conquered the middle east. if we killed all of the arabs like bush wants us to, we could take all the oil and drive prices down! ISN'T THAT GREAT?!
ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS KILL
they should work on graphics cards that work on fossil-fuels.
that way, when we conquer the middle east and kill all of the arabs, we can take their oil and profit profit profit.
we can use their oil to power everything with precious black gold, become rich beyond our imaginations, and then fuck each other in a deranged orgy while drenched in the blood of the dead.
we are simultaneously reading the iraqis their last rites
while we write their names on death certificates
we kill and kill and kill and kill
and bush loves it, he is masturbating to explosions on CNN
This is it. The balloon's going up...
So far this thread is ~90% anti Bush posts. The world supports you Iraq. Kick those invaders out of your country, pronto!
500 Iraqi's held back 5000 US Marines. The US are weak, and feel the need to invade to show they still matter. The US are obsolete; bush is obsolete.
YOU CAN DO IT! GIVE THE INVADERS NO REST!
1. Invade Iraq
2. Steal Oil
3. ???
4. Profit!
no, what makes sense is KILLING FOR POWER AND PROFIT
watch the war, it makes perfect sense!
on a huge scale, the death of iraqis to profit americans makes murder ok! let's kill for bush! HEIL BUSH! SEIG HEIL!
MURDERING IRAQIS is also standard, unlike C++
GO IRAQ!
...AND IRAQ WILL WIN BECAUSE THE WORLD IS BEHIND THEM!
Americans, you are no better than nazi germany, and you idiots will be paying the bill for this war for decades...
man, I'd kick you like... 5 mod points for that. I was wondering, and nobody saw fit to mention WTF it stood for in the article.
YOU DA MAN
instead of reaping the prior standard, let us reap millions by killing iraqis for their oil!!!!
You are an idiot... and off topic.
haven't you seen the bleeding edges of the bulletholes we put in the iraqis??? WE MUST TAKE THEIR OIL!!! we will prevail, sodomize saddam, take his riches and exploit his people for our own profit and POWER
Destroy them. Don't play by their 'rules'. There is no same in using unconventional tactics.
consume the power of the iraqis
take their oil
drink their blood
GDDR is stupid. TOMAHAWK, PATRIOT, USS NIMITZ, these are to be discussed, our weapons of power that will destroy iraqis and make us rich beyond fantasy
masturbate to the imagery, you know you want to
How the fuck did this get modded 'Funny'?
I get this weird vibe from Christiane Amanpour on CNN. Is she a lesbian or what?
Die, USA!
"You are an idiot... and off topic."
And you got trolled, probably wasted a modpoint or two and elevated his bafoonery because until you are modded down, people will get suckered into reading the parent.
Let the trolls live under the bridge or find some other forum for their offtopic drivel.
Oh and please don't mod this offtopic response up.
"What about all of Iraq's violations of UN resolution 1441? They've done the bare minimum to confuse countries like France and Russia to think they've complied."
Look if you unilaterally go outside the framework of the resolution AND are not even the party for which it was written there is no legal basis to go in. Please also remeber that UN resolutions are very precise and can only be used in the context for which there was agreement. Otherwise I could pull some UN resolution out of my ass... err the past saying that they needed to bomb a country now under a democratic government and have just as much authorization as the US under 1441 has in Iraq. That is why Bush is covering his legal flank saying that they must go into Iraq because of the threat to the US. Whether you agree or not well that's up to you.
Just as I mentioned last time this was posted, this story is a complete ripoff of these sites. It's almost a word for word copy - take a paragraph from site #1, a paragraph from site #2 and boom! You have an article. Kinda like an unethical college student.
I think that someone is asking for a lawsuit.
To the tune of: If you're happy and you know it
If you cannot find Osama, bomb Iraq.
If the markets are a drama, bomb Iraq.
If the terrorists are frisky,
Pakistanis looking shifty,
North Korea is too risky,
Bomb Iraq.
If we have no allies with us, bomb Iraq.
If we think someone has dissed us, bomb Iraq.
So to hell with the inspections,
Let's look tough for the elections,
Close your mind and take directions,
Bomb Iraq.
It's "pre-emptive non-aggression", bomb Iraq.
Let's prevent this mass destruction, bomb Iraq.
They've got weapons we can't see,
And that's good enough for me
'Cos it'all the proof I need
Bomb Iraq.
If you never were elected, bomb Iraq.
If your mood is quite dejected, bomb Iraq.
If you think Saddam's gone mad,
With the weapons that he had,
And he tried to kill your dad,
Bomb Iraq.
If your corporate fraud is growin', bomb Iraq.
If your ties to it are showin', bomb Iraq.
If your politics are sleazy,
And hiding that ain't easy,
And your manhood's getting queasy,
Bomb Iraq.
Fall in line and follow orders, bomb Iraq.
For our might knows not our borders, bomb Iraq.
Disagree? We'll call it treason,
Let's make war not love this season,
Even if we have no reason,
Bomb Iraq.
+1, funny
-semi
Their US correspondent Philippa Thomas, on the other hand, is damn sexy. Reminds me of Cate Blanchett when she's on the air (the linked picture isn't that good).
After all, they have oil, and Bush has elections to win and an economy to restore!
"Saddam Hussein is at the very core of the war against terrorism. There can be no victory in the war against terrorism if, at the end of it, Saddam Hussein is still in power...because he is the symbol of defiance of all Western values," Perle asserted during an interview a scant four weeks after the 9/11 atrocity.
So what's this got to do with the technology industry? Nothing, one would hope; but unfortunately, financially-dessicated telecoms outfit and former giant Global Crossing is looking to get bought by bargain-hungry foreigners, and the Department of Defense deems this rather a poor idea. The US government uses the company's pipes, so its sale to Hutchison Whampoa, owned by a Hong Kong business tycoon, and Singapore Telemedia, a phone company owned by the local government, raises rather obvious national-security difficulties and doubts.
Thus Perle has been retained by Global Crossing to work his persuasive magic with stubborn DoD skeptics. He's being paid US $725,000 for his lobbying efforts if they succeed, a mighty sum when one considers the company's slide from a $4 billion behemoth to a $400 million pipsqueak with gargantuan debts. The regulatory organ Perle has been hired to 'persuade' is called CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the US), and it has the legal power to block the sale. The problem is that Perle appears to have been assigned the task of using his position with the Defense Policy Board to benefit a private client, something frowned upon in Washington. Because $600,000 of Perle's anticipated reward is contingent on the sale going through, it's hard to deny that he's motivated to bend perceptions on his client's behalf.
"As the chairman of the Defense Policy Board, I have...intimate knowledge of the national defense and security issues that will be raised by the CFIUS review process that is not...available to the other CFIUS professionals," Perle wrote in an affidavit. Perle told the New York Times that this extremely suggestive language was inserted due to a "clerical error". He said that he had seen it in a draft and had struck it out. He later said that after striking it out, it mysteriously re-appeared in the final copy, which he signed without noticing the error.
He rejects any notion that there could be influence peddling going on. "I'm not using public office for private gain because the Defense Policy Board has nothing to do with the CFIUS process," the NYT quotes him as saying. And of course that's strictly correct; but he has something to do with it, and his position with DPB is a major reason why he's been chosen. We might question the wisdom of a high-level defense advisor who sees nothing wrong with selling a network used by Uncle Sam to the Chinese, and wonder if his advice on re-structuring the Middle East is of any better quality.
Perle has also been in the news recently for other reasons. Displeased by a piece on him in the New Yorker by veteran journalist Seymour Hersh, Perle moderately told CNN: "Look, Sy Hersh is the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist, frankly." Then for good measure followed it up by telling the New York Sun that the New Yorker piece was " all lies, from beginning to end," and that he was launching a libel action in London. Says the Sun: "He said he is suing in Britain because it is easier to win such cases there, where the burden on plaintiffs is much less."
Nice. The Register's local spotters feel that Perle may have got slightly the wrong impression about the UK libel process, but nevertheless look forward to seeing him there in the witness box. Alongside, we trust, Adnan Khashoggi and a galaxy of stars from recent and not-so-recent Republican administrations. ®