Tech Report tells a different story:... A story that says that you can't necessarily compare like-for-like when using different motherboards.
Which is why X-bit Labs did this:
To get a better idea of the situation, we performed a separate Phenom II X4 965 power consumption test under heavy load when none of the other system components are taken into account. To be more exact, we measured the consumption along the 12 V power line connected directly to the processor voltage regulator on the mainboard. In other words, this measurement method didnt take into account the efficiency of the voltage regulator circuitry.... and got 84W for the Q9550 and 147.6W for the X4 965. Granted, like they said in the last sentence, this doesn't take VRM efficiency into account, and it might as well be that those on the AMD motherboard were woefully inefficient and the CPU itself uses plenty less watts than measured. Still, this is 75% extra, and the VRMs cannot be the main reason for it.
They do similar measurements for graphics cards, too, because measuring total system power consumption from the wall can only get you so far.
I'd personally be more inclined to trust the Ukrainians.
Intel and AMD release different numbers for their CPU's power consumption. Intel gives an average and AMD gives a maximum. They're not comparible. In real world testing, the X4 965 uses slightly less power at idle and slightly more power at full load than a stock Q9550.
While idle is comparable (Intel has a slight lead), full load most definitely isn't - 75% extra power consumption (which amounts to over 60W!) for the X4 965 over a Q9550 is far from "slightly more".
The Ribbon is no good even in Windows. And isn't it patented? There's no reason Open Office needs to ape Microsoft's mistakes.
What mistakes?
Microsoft invested an incredible amount of time (and money) into usability research for the Ribbon, conducted with vast thousands of people (close to 10k, I believe) with various levels of computer literacy. The Ribbon is a result of that, and it's - objectively speaking - a massive improvement over standard Office menu hell.
Calling that a mistake is, well, a mistake.
If you have a problem with the Ribbon, it's YOUR problem, and it's statistically insignificant.
Drop by at SPCR forums - I've been lurking there for a while and I've learned an incredible lot. They have people building sub-30W HTPC machines, and idling at over 100W is practically considered a sin. Using as many fans as you do will probably get you burned at the stake, though;)
I'm clueless when it comes to aircraft, but you seem to know a lot, so you could surely answer this question:
What do "air superiority" fighters do?
I thought the last close-combat airfights were done in WWII, and from there on, it became a race of how to fire the longest-range missile with the best available radar tracking coverage. The current generation of missiles can hit a target at 100+ km away, I think... So what's the point?
you're being too simplistic... we don't know the context of the blocking of Opera. I'm sure every programmer out there would want to support it, but if you're 998 hours into a project and you have just discovered that the coding needed to make Opera work with the software is going to take at least another 25 hours, you do what this guy did...
In my experience, this does indeed happen - but only if you develop for Gecko-based browsers. Then you will also find errors with Webkit and KHTML and god knows what else... Finally you'll be just like all those thousands of sites out there: "use IE or Firefox or fuck off". Sadly, we didn't get that far from an IE-only web. This is just a superset, which is - in a way - worse than the original situation. As mentioned already in the comments here, even other Gecko-based browsers sometimes fail because some morons sniff the UA string improperly.
Anyway, it is *extremely* rare to develop for Opera (and IE) and have your site messed-up in other browsers. I have no idea why, but that's what happens when I do my work. Occasionally there'll be a tiny little glitch to fix for Gecko/Webkit, but that's it.
If you're running IE6 is it likely that you're using a modern Mac with Safari on it? Wouldn't it already have this installed? I'm guessing Opera isn't on the list because it isn't free...but that's just a guess. Yes, rewording things would've been more polite.
There's Safari for Windows, and Opera has been free for many years now.
C&C has always been my favourite RTS series. It has a nice balance of not being overly complicated, so that you can focus on the actually strategy part, without being overly involved with micromanaging things like upgrading buildings and researching new technologies.
Ever played Company of Heroes?
Let me know when strategy in C&C involves suppression, flanking, cover, retreating, reinforcing, directional weapons, victory points (because annihilation just won't happen due to the nature of the game), cutting off strategical points and 6-8 units per side on the field. The best part is that it's not complicated at all - everything is just perfectly natural and behaves like you expect it to.
By the way, I recently watched a Starcraft 2 gameplay video somewhere and it left me wondering what the hell that was. To me, it looked like a random RTS game from the nineties with pretty graphics - it was over in 15 minutes, there were numerous base rushes, units were moved in huge blobs and vast numbers, and it seemed like a pure teching battle at the core, with early-game units being quickly phased out and replaced by better ones... Just like C&C. Not my type of game, definitely.
Anyway, try CoH if you haven't already, you might be pleasantly surprised.
RTS: Its all about who is Korean. (I'm new to SC, want to play? I'm a nub go easy)
I know you were just going for the humour, but - it depends on the RTS.
Company of Heroes, for example, is a highly-advanced RTS that you can successfully play at reasonably high levels with a CPM of under 50. I've been hooked on the damn game for several years now, and every other RTS is just completely bland after it - mindless clickspamming and rushing for $BEST_UNIT.
If you use the mouse for text selection, then you can use it for copy/cut/paste - it's on the right-click menu;)
However, if you are doing some text editing or programming, you don't need the mouse, and that's where "my" method shines. I agree that finding people who know about Ctrl/Shift+Insert/Delete is close to impossible, though.
Actually, it's quite the opposite - Ctrl+X/C/V "requires" you to use two hands (while it's possible to use a single hand, I have never, ever seen anyone do it), whereas Ctrl/Shift+Insert/Delete can be done with one hand. On top of that, there is the immediate vicinity of the eight navigational keys, which work in conjunction with copy/cut/paste.
There's a much bigger problem with those keyboards - copy, cut and paste.
Seriously, remove the insert keys in favour of large delete keys, and only n00bs who only know of Ctrl+X/C/V can use them. People who grew up with computers two decades ago have long learned that Ctrl/Shift+Insert/Delete is an order of magnitude better and easier to use.
"When images are loaded, they can be cached so they don't need to be decoded or uncompressed to be redisplayed. This preference controls the maximum amount of memory to use for caching decoded images and chrome (application user interface elements)."
It defaults to 32 MB on an 8 GB system. Opera will use 0.8 GB in that scenario... And will cache tab history, HTML, CSS and JS as well, not just images. Again, not comparable. Firefox just doesn't do what Opera does, even if you give it the same amount of RAM for the cache.
Interesting to see that Opera is not the memory sipping, lightweight browser that it's proponents make it out to be.
Opera has advanced memory caching. When you close a tab, it remains cached in RAM. If you decide to undo the operation and reopen it, nothing is usually reloaded from the disk cache or the network (Opera even keeps the tab history cached, so you can go back and forward with lightning speed on a reopened tab). Other browsers don't do anything like that, so when a tab is reopened, they reload the content (to put it differently, when a tab is closed in Fx/Safari/Chrome, it's gone from RAM, as can be seen from the sharp drops in the graph from TFA).
This just isn't a valid test because Opera works differently from everything else, which is why I love it; advanced caching is one of those things that make all other browsers "unusable" for an Opera user.
Kinda sad, because during the days of IE5 Opera really had a chance to grab some market, but blew it with a pay browser and even worse ad supported. They never have been able how to make money with Opera. Oh well, maybe when they go under the next bunch that buys them will know how to make a profit.
Opera is making tons of money. Their browser is on the Wii, their Mini browser is the most popular mobile browser, their browser is on airplanes, their browser (regular Mobile) is on millions of phones. They are not going under - they are making more money than ever.
Also, like I said here, Opera has above 30% and close to 40% market share in some countries.
Finally, they are a Norwegian company. *AA won't come knocking at their door.
Who the fuck modded you insightful for such trolling?!
Alienate Opera users on your website, and you alienate over a third of internet users from the former USSR... In other words, one hundred million people.
Not only is the market not ready, current-gen consoles are still really expensive. One of the XBox 360 models is $299.99 (first new, non-bundle one I found). The PS3 is $400. The Nintendo Wii is still $250 (same as it was 3 years ago).
Depends on the where you live:)
Wii, one game included: $400 Xbox 360 Premium, no accessories or games: $400 PS3, 40 GB drive, nothing else: $600
17 seconds from 0 to 100 km/h:) But it's perfectly adequate for driving in the city, and I've driven it to longer trips as well, without any issues. Hell, its top speed of 140 km/h is even more than it's legally allowed anywhere.
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Not necessarily. My CPU is overclocked by 33% and undervolted by 15%. It can do a 50% overclock with stock voltage.
Tech Report tells a different story: ... A story that says that you can't necessarily compare like-for-like when using different motherboards.
Which is why X-bit Labs did this:
To get a better idea of the situation, we performed a separate Phenom II X4 965 power consumption test under heavy load when none of the other system components are taken into account. To be more exact, we measured the consumption along the 12 V power line connected directly to the processor voltage regulator on the mainboard. In other words, this measurement method didnt take into account the efficiency of the voltage regulator circuitry. ... and got 84W for the Q9550 and 147.6W for the X4 965. Granted, like they said in the last sentence, this doesn't take VRM efficiency into account, and it might as well be that those on the AMD motherboard were woefully inefficient and the CPU itself uses plenty less watts than measured. Still, this is 75% extra, and the VRMs cannot be the main reason for it.
They do similar measurements for graphics cards, too, because measuring total system power consumption from the wall can only get you so far.
I'd personally be more inclined to trust the Ukrainians.
Intel and AMD release different numbers for their CPU's power consumption. Intel gives an average and AMD gives a maximum. They're not comparible. In real world testing, the X4 965 uses slightly less power at idle and slightly more power at full load than a stock Q9550.
Sadly, that is incorrect.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/phenom-ii-x4-965_4.html#sect0
While idle is comparable (Intel has a slight lead), full load most definitely isn't - 75% extra power consumption (which amounts to over 60W!) for the X4 965 over a Q9550 is far from "slightly more".
Microsoft probably did quite a bit of usability testing before launching Clippy...
Yes, just like Apple did with the Dock.
The Ribbon is no good even in Windows. And isn't it patented? There's no reason Open Office needs to ape Microsoft's mistakes.
What mistakes?
Microsoft invested an incredible amount of time (and money) into usability research for the Ribbon, conducted with vast thousands of people (close to 10k, I believe) with various levels of computer literacy. The Ribbon is a result of that, and it's - objectively speaking - a massive improvement over standard Office menu hell.
Calling that a mistake is, well, a mistake.
If you have a problem with the Ribbon, it's YOUR problem, and it's statistically insignificant.
Your second link is bad, simple 'shopped promo material. This is how Doom3 graphics actually look like: http://i31.tinypic.com/28b4d3q.jpg
Man, 120W at idle is horrible :(
Drop by at SPCR forums - I've been lurking there for a while and I've learned an incredible lot. They have people building sub-30W HTPC machines, and idling at over 100W is practically considered a sin. Using as many fans as you do will probably get you burned at the stake, though ;)
120W? Is that on idle, or full load? BTW, dropping the power consumption down by 20W through buying a new CPU would pay itself off in about a decade.
I'm clueless when it comes to aircraft, but you seem to know a lot, so you could surely answer this question:
What do "air superiority" fighters do?
I thought the last close-combat airfights were done in WWII, and from there on, it became a race of how to fire the longest-range missile with the best available radar tracking coverage. The current generation of missiles can hit a target at 100+ km away, I think... So what's the point?
you're being too simplistic... we don't know the context of the blocking of Opera. I'm sure every programmer out there would want to support it, but if you're 998 hours into a project and you have just discovered that the coding needed to make Opera work with the software is going to take at least another 25 hours, you do what this guy did...
In my experience, this does indeed happen - but only if you develop for Gecko-based browsers. Then you will also find errors with Webkit and KHTML and god knows what else... Finally you'll be just like all those thousands of sites out there: "use IE or Firefox or fuck off". Sadly, we didn't get that far from an IE-only web. This is just a superset, which is - in a way - worse than the original situation. As mentioned already in the comments here, even other Gecko-based browsers sometimes fail because some morons sniff the UA string improperly.
Anyway, it is *extremely* rare to develop for Opera (and IE) and have your site messed-up in other browsers. I have no idea why, but that's what happens when I do my work. Occasionally there'll be a tiny little glitch to fix for Gecko/Webkit, but that's it.
Why oh why did they split Joanna into 9 pages?! Thats so cruel!
They were unsure if Joanna Rutkowska was really Jan Rutkowski (which indeed seems to be the case).
If you're running IE6 is it likely that you're using a modern Mac with Safari on it? Wouldn't it already have this installed? I'm guessing Opera isn't on the list because it isn't free...but that's just a guess. Yes, rewording things would've been more polite.
There's Safari for Windows, and Opera has been free for many years now.
C&C has always been my favourite RTS series. It has a nice balance of not being overly complicated, so that you can focus on the actually strategy part, without being overly involved with micromanaging things like upgrading buildings and researching new technologies.
Ever played Company of Heroes?
Let me know when strategy in C&C involves suppression, flanking, cover, retreating, reinforcing, directional weapons, victory points (because annihilation just won't happen due to the nature of the game), cutting off strategical points and 6-8 units per side on the field. The best part is that it's not complicated at all - everything is just perfectly natural and behaves like you expect it to.
By the way, I recently watched a Starcraft 2 gameplay video somewhere and it left me wondering what the hell that was. To me, it looked like a random RTS game from the nineties with pretty graphics - it was over in 15 minutes, there were numerous base rushes, units were moved in huge blobs and vast numbers, and it seemed like a pure teching battle at the core, with early-game units being quickly phased out and replaced by better ones... Just like C&C. Not my type of game, definitely.
Anyway, try CoH if you haven't already, you might be pleasantly surprised.
RTS: Its all about who is Korean. (I'm new to SC, want to play? I'm a nub go easy)
I know you were just going for the humour, but - it depends on the RTS.
Company of Heroes, for example, is a highly-advanced RTS that you can successfully play at reasonably high levels with a CPM of under 50. I've been hooked on the damn game for several years now, and every other RTS is just completely bland after it - mindless clickspamming and rushing for $BEST_UNIT.
If you use the mouse for text selection, then you can use it for copy/cut/paste - it's on the right-click menu ;)
However, if you are doing some text editing or programming, you don't need the mouse, and that's where "my" method shines. I agree that finding people who know about Ctrl/Shift+Insert/Delete is close to impossible, though.
Actually, it's quite the opposite - Ctrl+X/C/V "requires" you to use two hands (while it's possible to use a single hand, I have never, ever seen anyone do it), whereas Ctrl/Shift+Insert/Delete can be done with one hand. On top of that, there is the immediate vicinity of the eight navigational keys, which work in conjunction with copy/cut/paste.
Home or End?
There's a much bigger problem with those keyboards - copy, cut and paste.
Seriously, remove the insert keys in favour of large delete keys, and only n00bs who only know of Ctrl+X/C/V can use them. People who grew up with computers two decades ago have long learned that Ctrl/Shift+Insert/Delete is an order of magnitude better and easier to use.
Indeed. We're past the days of having half a gig of memory, and browsers are more or less the central point of our computer usage.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.cache.memory.capacity
"When images are loaded, they can be cached so they don't need to be decoded or uncompressed to be redisplayed. This preference controls the maximum amount of memory to use for caching decoded images and chrome (application user interface elements)."
It defaults to 32 MB on an 8 GB system. Opera will use 0.8 GB in that scenario... And will cache tab history, HTML, CSS and JS as well, not just images. Again, not comparable. Firefox just doesn't do what Opera does, even if you give it the same amount of RAM for the cache.
Interesting to see that Opera is not the memory sipping, lightweight browser that it's proponents make it out to be.
Opera has advanced memory caching. When you close a tab, it remains cached in RAM. If you decide to undo the operation and reopen it, nothing is usually reloaded from the disk cache or the network (Opera even keeps the tab history cached, so you can go back and forward with lightning speed on a reopened tab). Other browsers don't do anything like that, so when a tab is reopened, they reload the content (to put it differently, when a tab is closed in Fx/Safari/Chrome, it's gone from RAM, as can be seen from the sharp drops in the graph from TFA).
This just isn't a valid test because Opera works differently from everything else, which is why I love it; advanced caching is one of those things that make all other browsers "unusable" for an Opera user.
Kinda sad, because during the days of IE5 Opera really had a chance to grab some market, but blew it with a pay browser and even worse ad supported. They never have been able how to make money with Opera. Oh well, maybe when they go under the next bunch that buys them will know how to make a profit.
Opera is making tons of money. Their browser is on the Wii, their Mini browser is the most popular mobile browser, their browser is on airplanes, their browser (regular Mobile) is on millions of phones. They are not going under - they are making more money than ever.
Also, like I said here, Opera has above 30% and close to 40% market share in some countries.
Finally, they are a Norwegian company. *AA won't come knocking at their door.
Who the fuck modded you insightful for such trolling?!
I'm sure all seven Opera users will be thrilled.
I know this is an old joke, but stop it. In some countries, Opera has more market share than Firefox, it's well above 30%.
http://my.opera.com/dstorey/blog/2009/03/16/a-look-at-desktop-market-share-cis-edition
Alienate Opera users on your website, and you alienate over a third of internet users from the former USSR... In other words, one hundred million people.
Not only is the market not ready, current-gen consoles are still really expensive. One of the XBox 360 models is $299.99 (first new, non-bundle one I found). The PS3 is $400. The Nintendo Wii is still $250 (same as it was 3 years ago).
Depends on the where you live :)
Wii, one game included: $400
Xbox 360 Premium, no accessories or games: $400
PS3, 40 GB drive, nothing else: $600
New games for all consoles are around $100.
Average monthly salary: below $1000. gg no re :)
No hills here, and no money either. Took me seven bloody years to repay the Daewoo.
I own this thing, first model: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daewoo_Matiz
17 seconds from 0 to 100 km/h :) But it's perfectly adequate for driving in the city, and I've driven it to longer trips as well, without any issues. Hell, its top speed of 140 km/h is even more than it's legally allowed anywhere.