Just upgraded from an AMD 4670 to a GeForce GTX 650TI on my 775 MB E5200 with 4GB of DD2 memory. It's making a significant difference in the performance of many games and works just fine with my PCI-E 1.1 slot.
Could I see a bigger boost if I upgraded the MB/CPU/Memory? Sure, but I would rather wait until Haswell desktop CPUs hit the market to see just what they bring to the table since what I have now is working for me.
Maybe Apple doesn't pay for product placement. Does that mean that they can't provide products for free? I can see them providing the producers of the latest Mission Impossible movie a number of products with the idea that they will get used in the movie since they are new and shiny. That's a lower cost way to get your products on screen (especially when Apple knows that their products have certain cache now.)
Hmm, that's not been my experience. For instance at my local grocery store they have two policies in place for credit cards. For bills under $25 you swipe your card through the automatic card reader, choose credit and then it is authorized. The bill then prints out and you go on your way. For bills that are $25 and up the bill is printed out and you sign it and then go on your way. Neither process takes as long as cash, especially if there is change involved as often the cashier has to open up another change packet or on occasion go get change.
Checks can take much longer but credit is quite fast. The same applies with buying gas where you can run your credit card outside at the machine and choose if you want a receipt or not. That's it for credit. For cash you have to go inside before or after the purchase, stand in line and then pay the cashier your money and possibly wait for him/her to give you change. I can pay for my gas in about 30 seconds with credit but it will take a minute or more (depending on if there is a line) to pay with cash.
So I think the only case where credit is slower is where they have to run your credit card through one of those swipe machines that imprints the card image through the carbon paper and then have you sign it. That can certainly take longer but seems to be more common at places that don't get as much business.
As I see it a crime had not been committed as Swartz had not provided any files to the public. He was legally allowed to access the files for his own use and at the time of his death that is all that he had done. Yes, he probably was going to make them available to the public but he had not done so. It's hard to say he committed a crime when he hadn't done anything that is illegal.
Agreed. I haven't seen any issues with add-ons since around version 4. I've been able to upgrade without any worries and have been on the beta channel since v15 due to the memory enhancements it had.
If I had to guess this is probably being done to test out production facilities that will be used for Haswell. They can make limited runs with this special version of Ivy Bridge and start to generate more interest in the low power CPUs while also getting some good data for the real productions runs of Haswell in a few months.
Only one problem with what you suggest is that it is based on bad information. TR made the effort to look at different versions of the drivers and they've tested it on Win7 and Win8. Also only a couple of other sites have done the same level of testing frame rates that TR has been doing and they've found the same issues. Then you add in that AMD has looked into the issue and acknowledged there is a real issue that they need to address. So you are doing a disservice to Tech Report by misstating the situation and ignoring the other sites that have agreed with their findings.
That's known now but it sounds like Google wasn't removing videos for having fake viewers before. So it's unlikely his competitors would have been artificially inflating the number of views before this announcement since it seems that would have just made his videos seem more popular with no downside.
It could be worse than that if those videos were in the programs where the poster is paid for the # of views. In that case they would have defrauded both the advertisers and Google/Youtube. That could lead to criminal charges if Google wants to press the issue.
But that is accepted practice in the UK. In any case HP had two accounting firms involved in auditing Autonomy plus their own management team. If they didn't realize what Autonomy was doing and why then they can only blame themselves and their accounting firms. (Assuming they didn't see it and tell HP about it. Which isn't likely.)
It all depends on the settings that you use. I'm sure that if Scott Wasson turned down a few of the eye candy options just a bit and re-ran the tests he wouldn't see the same issues. So if you don't turn on all the eye candy (I usually don't) you may never see this issue.
The problem is that you are talking about the frame rate per second. The issue is that the high latency frame rate may only occur for a few frames. So the FPS might still be high for that second but the hitch in the frame rate would be noticeable to a viewer. That's why the Tech Report is including both the FPS rate and the 99th% percentile rate. So you can see if the frame rate is good enough as well as what the maximum delay you might see from frame to frame.
Of course this is all being done with very high resolution for the most part (using one of those high res Korean monitors) so it is possible that just turning down the resoution to 1920x1080 or turning off some of the eye candy could get rid of any delay in delivering frames. Also this is probably just a driver issue and with this being widely discussed AMD will fix it soon.
They can't buy the x86 license. If AMD gets bought out by another company then the x86 license goes away, as I understand it. It might be doable if an individual or some investment firm bought AMD (depending on the contract) but it won't happen if someone like Samsung bought AMD.
I think it is reasonable that you student ID card doesn't count as valid ID since it doesn't have your state of residence listed. So if you could use your student ID you could be from out of state (and be paying out of state tuition) and vote in the GA election, plus you could vote in your home state. So they don't allow that form of ID to be used to vote.
I wouldn't be surprised if that is true in all states since they face the same issue with knowing which students are actually considered residents of that state versus being out of state students attending college in the state.
I don't have an article to point to but one thing that comes to mind is lobsters. Early on they were considered peasant food. At some point (perhaps with some clever marketing) it became an upscale food with a commensurate price.
Perhaps I'm not getting in your house, but what if I set up infrared cameras that record all your movements inside your house. Or maybe terahertz cameras that can record everything in your house from outside. That's all possible today or soon will be possible so how private is your home given new technology?
I'm guessing you either have a number of image laden sites open or you are running Firefox 14 or earlier with at least a few add-ons. I say that because I saw similar behavior before I switched over to Firefox 15. The changes they made to force memory release from add-ons keeps Firefox from holding on to memory that really isn't in use. Now the memory usage stays below 200MB unless I'm actually on a page that uses up a lot of memory (such as one that loads up a number of images.)
I think people will be much happier once V15 goes into distribution beyond the beta channel.
This isn't really surprising. It's one reason I never upgraded to the latest version when they started tossing in the kitchen sink instead of sticking with just being a great bittorrent client.
After watching the video of how the Slidefire works I would have to imagine it will be made illegal or put under the same restrictions as any automatic weapon within a few years. It's really just another way to arrive at an automatic rifle and get around the ban on buying them.
I agree that does seem like the perfect distance to walk or cycle (if it's safe.) Especially since San Francisco seems to have great weather for walking. Unlike much of the rest of the country which can be too hot in the summer (for walking to work) or too cold in the winter.
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Just upgraded from an AMD 4670 to a GeForce GTX 650TI on my 775 MB E5200 with 4GB of DD2 memory. It's making a significant difference in the performance of many games and works just fine with my PCI-E 1.1 slot.
Could I see a bigger boost if I upgraded the MB/CPU/Memory? Sure, but I would rather wait until Haswell desktop CPUs hit the market to see just what they bring to the table since what I have now is working for me.
Maybe Apple doesn't pay for product placement. Does that mean that they can't provide products for free? I can see them providing the producers of the latest Mission Impossible movie a number of products with the idea that they will get used in the movie since they are new and shiny. That's a lower cost way to get your products on screen (especially when Apple knows that their products have certain cache now.)
Hmm, that's not been my experience. For instance at my local grocery store they have two policies in place for credit cards. For bills under $25 you swipe your card through the automatic card reader, choose credit and then it is authorized. The bill then prints out and you go on your way. For bills that are $25 and up the bill is printed out and you sign it and then go on your way. Neither process takes as long as cash, especially if there is change involved as often the cashier has to open up another change packet or on occasion go get change.
Checks can take much longer but credit is quite fast. The same applies with buying gas where you can run your credit card outside at the machine and choose if you want a receipt or not. That's it for credit. For cash you have to go inside before or after the purchase, stand in line and then pay the cashier your money and possibly wait for him/her to give you change. I can pay for my gas in about 30 seconds with credit but it will take a minute or more (depending on if there is a line) to pay with cash.
So I think the only case where credit is slower is where they have to run your credit card through one of those swipe machines that imprints the card image through the carbon paper and then have you sign it. That can certainly take longer but seems to be more common at places that don't get as much business.
As I see it a crime had not been committed as Swartz had not provided any files to the public. He was legally allowed to access the files for his own use and at the time of his death that is all that he had done. Yes, he probably was going to make them available to the public but he had not done so. It's hard to say he committed a crime when he hadn't done anything that is illegal.
Agreed. I haven't seen any issues with add-ons since around version 4. I've been able to upgrade without any worries and have been on the beta channel since v15 due to the memory enhancements it had.
If I had to guess this is probably being done to test out production facilities that will be used for Haswell. They can make limited runs with this special version of Ivy Bridge and start to generate more interest in the low power CPUs while also getting some good data for the real productions runs of Haswell in a few months.
Only one problem with what you suggest is that it is based on bad information. TR made the effort to look at different versions of the drivers and they've tested it on Win7 and Win8. Also only a couple of other sites have done the same level of testing frame rates that TR has been doing and they've found the same issues. Then you add in that AMD has looked into the issue and acknowledged there is a real issue that they need to address. So you are doing a disservice to Tech Report by misstating the situation and ignoring the other sites that have agreed with their findings.
That's known now but it sounds like Google wasn't removing videos for having fake viewers before. So it's unlikely his competitors would have been artificially inflating the number of views before this announcement since it seems that would have just made his videos seem more popular with no downside.
It could be worse than that if those videos were in the programs where the poster is paid for the # of views. In that case they would have defrauded both the advertisers and Google/Youtube. That could lead to criminal charges if Google wants to press the issue.
But that is accepted practice in the UK. In any case HP had two accounting firms involved in auditing Autonomy plus their own management team. If they didn't realize what Autonomy was doing and why then they can only blame themselves and their accounting firms. (Assuming they didn't see it and tell HP about it. Which isn't likely.)
You mean like Alec Baldwin?
As that same picture isn't part of the original story I choose to believe that's a bit of creative editing by the NY Daily News. Nothing makes an article like this even scarier than adding in a nice picture of lots of unlabeled containers in a basement next to something odd that is cooking away. It doesn't help that the picture is labeled with the generic title of explosives.jpg http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1223534.1355938579!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/explosives.jpg
It all depends on the settings that you use. I'm sure that if Scott Wasson turned down a few of the eye candy options just a bit and re-ran the tests he wouldn't see the same issues. So if you don't turn on all the eye candy (I usually don't) you may never see this issue.
The problem is that you are talking about the frame rate per second. The issue is that the high latency frame rate may only occur for a few frames. So the FPS might still be high for that second but the hitch in the frame rate would be noticeable to a viewer. That's why the Tech Report is including both the FPS rate and the 99th% percentile rate. So you can see if the frame rate is good enough as well as what the maximum delay you might see from frame to frame.
Of course this is all being done with very high resolution for the most part (using one of those high res Korean monitors) so it is possible that just turning down the resoution to 1920x1080 or turning off some of the eye candy could get rid of any delay in delivering frames. Also this is probably just a driver issue and with this being widely discussed AMD will fix it soon.
You might find one one my desk where it has served me reliably for years. Not everyone has dumped all of the CRTs for that new-fangled LCD madness. ;)
They can't buy the x86 license. If AMD gets bought out by another company then the x86 license goes away, as I understand it. It might be doable if an individual or some investment firm bought AMD (depending on the contract) but it won't happen if someone like Samsung bought AMD.
And you need to wear a mask or hood so that no one can see your face. After this is Cisco so they must have hidden cameras all over the building.
I think it is reasonable that you student ID card doesn't count as valid ID since it doesn't have your state of residence listed. So if you could use your student ID you could be from out of state (and be paying out of state tuition) and vote in the GA election, plus you could vote in your home state. So they don't allow that form of ID to be used to vote.
I wouldn't be surprised if that is true in all states since they face the same issue with knowing which students are actually considered residents of that state versus being out of state students attending college in the state.
I don't have an article to point to but one thing that comes to mind is lobsters. Early on they were considered peasant food. At some point (perhaps with some clever marketing) it became an upscale food with a commensurate price.
Perhaps I'm not getting in your house, but what if I set up infrared cameras that record all your movements inside your house. Or maybe terahertz cameras that can record everything in your house from outside. That's all possible today or soon will be possible so how private is your home given new technology?
I'm guessing you either have a number of image laden sites open or you are running Firefox 14 or earlier with at least a few add-ons. I say that because I saw similar behavior before I switched over to Firefox 15. The changes they made to force memory release from add-ons keeps Firefox from holding on to memory that really isn't in use. Now the memory usage stays below 200MB unless I'm actually on a page that uses up a lot of memory (such as one that loads up a number of images.)
I think people will be much happier once V15 goes into distribution beyond the beta channel.
This isn't really surprising. It's one reason I never upgraded to the latest version when they started tossing in the kitchen sink instead of sticking with just being a great bittorrent client.
After watching the video of how the Slidefire works I would have to imagine it will be made illegal or put under the same restrictions as any automatic weapon within a few years. It's really just another way to arrive at an automatic rifle and get around the ban on buying them.
If you look at the share price then yes. It wasn't until recently that the price per share started to rise and even then it isn't that much.
I agree that does seem like the perfect distance to walk or cycle (if it's safe.) Especially since San Francisco seems to have great weather for walking. Unlike much of the rest of the country which can be too hot in the summer (for walking to work) or too cold in the winter.