I can see the arguments between brands already: "-Your chip is sucking all the power and making mine look bad!
-No, yours is!"
I mean, we have enough problems with benchmarking as it is; I can't see how they would make that kind of "coordination" work, when not all pieces of the computer are of the same brand. Sure you can test what component takes the more power, but they can always say the others aren't sending enough info, etc...
TFA boasts: "MSI 'Air Power Cooler', more then just saving watts!"; are they trying to appeal to the leet, spelling impaired internet people?
Other than (sorry, then) that, isn't the fan really small? It's kind of strange to see two heatsinks and such a small fan together. But the fact that the Stirling engine is both draining heat from the chip and using the power for the fan is kinda cool. Also that means the fan's speed is autoregulated: no temperature difference, no fan noise.
Anyways, it's for the motherboard chipset; those usually don't have a fan at all!
"The author questions the legality of the practice" : don't worry, I'm sure there are tens of resident laers at Microsoft paid just to answer this question!
About the "so much data they can't do anything with it" point: what the NSA, for example, does when they monitor calls is to add a "link" between you and the person you are calling each time you make a call.
They then make a huge graph of every person in the USA (huge, but perfectly managable on a computer), and they can do stuff like: "okay, we know/think this person is a terrorist, show me all the people he ever called, (first degree aquintance), then all those these person called (second degree)" and so on.
When you smartly add a "weight" to each link based on the length of call or other simple stuff, you can do very subtle things (and not fall in the "small world" effect that would give you the whole planet at the 6th degree or so).
That's a (simple and publicly known) example of data mining: no need at all to read the emails. Now, as long as google keep the data anonymous, all is fine; but the fact is it would be very easy for them to have "anonymized" data which only needs to be matched with some other database to become personal.
Not that I hate google or anything, but that is the knid of thing people mean when they say they fear for their privacy (real life example: people who wanted to distrupt a Bush meeting were stoped from doing so; they were actually watched for months before).
One good thing about this is it could draw some public attention to open source.
Finaly people can see an application where it is actually *really* important to know what a computer is doing, and where trusting some company just isn't enough (obviously protecting their private datas doesn't seem important enough for that to them).
Rmember: the last thing random Joe heard about FOSS vs proprietary probably is the often repeated sentence in the "24" show: "oh no, I can't crack this software, it's proprietary".
As for the rest of the issue, I agree paper trail still is the most important thing, and decentralized elections seem to be a pretty big problem.
my bad for the "not illegal" part; from wikipedia:
The circumvention of CAPTCHAs may violate the anti-circumvention clause of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the United States. In 2007 Ticketmaster sued software maker RMG Technologies for its product which circumvented the ticket seller's CAPTCHAs on the basis that it violates the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA. In October 2007, an injunction was issued stating that Ticketmaster would "likely succeed" in making its case.
It still is pretty counter intuitive that this is (or rather "probablay will be") illegal.
In France about the same thing was supposed to pass with the local version of the DMCA (it was called "license globale"). In the end, it was shot down, by means of numerous violations of the way laws are voted (changing the text minutes before the vote, with a very large text). Of particuliar interest was how film industry lobbyist came inside the national assembly building (which is strictly forbiden); right after this, the law didn't include films anymore, only music.
As for the criticisms: how is this different from television? The fact: the product is easy to distribute to everyone at the same time, with no additional cost; The conclusion: everyone who is able to receive it pays for it.
Then you distribute the money based on a statistical evaluation of how much each artist is viewed, just as public TV does (for exemples, piratebay statistics or the like).
I really don't see how it is a problem or even a new idea.
The real problem I see is that blogs don't have a real definition.
A website that is "often" updated?
Where everything is "mostly" done by the same person?
None really works, and slashdotters know why: blogs are a social phenomenom, which describes the fact that people started to use homepages. "Blogs", if you ask me, are websites that call themselves blog, and follow a certain type of layout (see wikipedia's nondefinition).
That's a real problem to give it any legal status; the same problem was encountered about giving bloggers the same protection as journalists (but the obvious solution, to protect everyone, actualy makes sense).
As any mathematician will tell you, if you can't define it, it doesn't exist; good luck with making a union for it.
What I really want: some FPS running in real 3D with some of these. That kind of glasses display already existed, but with a 320*240 res (worse than TV!) (for exemple:http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.5998). 800*600 is MUCH better. But I'm not about the connectic: will you have one or two cables to plug?
My dream: a 1280*1024 pair, with two cable, and an option in most game so that it calculates two distinct images of the scene at 6.5cm distance, and output them on two output of your graphic card. That's as immersive as it get, way better than those motion capture thingy for your head or a 3 monitor setup. You could see imediatly if an object is far or closejust as in real life!
What I mean with this overly detailed description is that all the technology is in place, but I apparently am the only one to consider it a majer step up for game to have full 3D. I mean, it would be so much better than a hhigher resolution or even better shaders.
I always thought that sentence was an advertisement! Like, "play online, it will CHANGE your EXPERIENCE". What I thought was boring advertisementese was just boring legalese... my bad!
I love the testimonials on google's page:
"Now that I have Gmail Paper, I understand the difference between labels and folders. I had one message with two labels, but when I tried to stick the paper version into two filing cabinets at the same time, it just wouldn't go."
Mayumi M., Associate
I'm so sending this link to everybody complaining about anything digital.
You've got to admit, google sure makes cool april fools; the page looks really professional.
I really appreciated the AI in UT2K4, mostly in multiplayer game; you could see the bots waiting for each other , crouched behind the door, before barging in; that felt very real. The fact that simple orders could be given (attack, defend, follow me, give me your wepon) was good; it's not specific to UT, but too often forgotten.
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I can see the arguments between brands already:
"-Your chip is sucking all the power and making mine look bad!
-No, yours is!"
I mean, we have enough problems with benchmarking as it is; I can't see how they would make that kind of "coordination" work, when not all pieces of the computer are of the same brand. Sure you can test what component takes the more power, but they can always say the others aren't sending enough info, etc...
TFA boasts: "MSI 'Air Power Cooler', more then just saving watts!"; are they trying to appeal to the leet, spelling impaired internet people?
Other than (sorry, then) that, isn't the fan really small? It's kind of strange to see two heatsinks and such a small fan together. But the fact that the Stirling engine is both draining heat from the chip and using the power for the fan is kinda cool. Also that means the fan's speed is autoregulated: no temperature difference, no fan noise.
Anyways, it's for the motherboard chipset; those usually don't have a fan at all!
yeah, I wonder myself how I manage to miss TWO characters :)
I noticed right after posting, but I don't know if slashtiquette alows to reply to your own post to correct a typo.
on an other note, that "creative capitalism" should finaly show to the world that Microsoft does innovate!.
"The author questions the legality of the practice" : don't worry, I'm sure there are tens of resident laers at Microsoft paid just to answer this question!
About the "so much data they can't do anything with it" point: what the NSA, for example, does when they monitor calls is to add a "link" between you and the person you are calling each time you make a call.
They then make a huge graph of every person in the USA (huge, but perfectly managable on a computer), and they can do stuff like: "okay, we know/think this person is a terrorist, show me all the people he ever called, (first degree aquintance), then all those these person called (second degree)" and so on.
When you smartly add a "weight" to each link based on the length of call or other simple stuff, you can do very subtle things (and not fall in the "small world" effect that would give you the whole planet at the 6th degree or so).
That's a (simple and publicly known) example of data mining: no need at all to read the emails. Now, as long as google keep the data anonymous, all is fine; but the fact is it would be very easy for them to have "anonymized" data which only needs to be matched with some other database to become personal.
Not that I hate google or anything, but that is the knid of thing people mean when they say they fear for their privacy (real life example: people who wanted to distrupt a Bush meeting were stoped from doing so; they were actually watched for months before).
One good thing about this is it could draw some public attention to open source.
Finaly people can see an application where it is actually *really* important to know what a computer is doing, and where trusting some company just isn't enough (obviously protecting their private datas doesn't seem important enough for that to them).
Rmember: the last thing random Joe heard about FOSS vs proprietary probably is the often repeated sentence in the "24" show: "oh no, I can't crack this software, it's proprietary".
As for the rest of the issue, I agree paper trail still is the most important thing, and decentralized elections seem to be a pretty big problem.
my bad for the "not illegal" part; from wikipedia:
The circumvention of CAPTCHAs may violate the anti-circumvention clause of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) in the United States. In 2007 Ticketmaster sued software maker RMG Technologies for its product which circumvented the ticket seller's CAPTCHAs on the basis that it violates the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA. In October 2007, an injunction was issued stating that Ticketmaster would "likely succeed" in making its case.
It still is pretty counter intuitive that this is (or rather "probablay will be") illegal.
What is this? Some kind of anti-net-neutrality pamphlet using a random "hacker" related news?
I thought you only found that kind of thing on mainstream TV.
(I mean, common! breaking captcha isn't even *illegal*! )
In France about the same thing was supposed to pass with the local version of the DMCA (it was called "license globale").
In the end, it was shot down, by means of numerous violations of the way laws are voted (changing the text minutes before the vote, with a very large text). Of particuliar interest was how film industry lobbyist came inside the national assembly building (which is strictly forbiden); right after this, the law didn't include films anymore, only music.
As for the criticisms: how is this different from television?
The fact: the product is easy to distribute to everyone at the same time, with no additional cost;
The conclusion: everyone who is able to receive it pays for it.
Then you distribute the money based on a statistical evaluation of how much each artist is viewed, just as public TV does (for exemples, piratebay statistics or the like).
I really don't see how it is a problem or even a new idea.
The real problem I see is that blogs don't have a real definition. A website that is "often" updated? Where everything is "mostly" done by the same person? None really works, and slashdotters know why: blogs are a social phenomenom, which describes the fact that people started to use homepages. "Blogs", if you ask me, are websites that call themselves blog, and follow a certain type of layout (see wikipedia's nondefinition). That's a real problem to give it any legal status; the same problem was encountered about giving bloggers the same protection as journalists (but the obvious solution, to protect everyone, actualy makes sense). As any mathematician will tell you, if you can't define it, it doesn't exist; good luck with making a union for it.
What I really want: some FPS running in real 3D with some of these. That kind of glasses display already existed, but with a 320*240 res (worse than TV!) (for exemple:http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.5998). 800*600 is MUCH better. But I'm not about the connectic: will you have one or two cables to plug?
My dream: a 1280*1024 pair, with two cable, and an option in most game so that it calculates two distinct images of the scene at 6.5cm distance, and output them on two output of your graphic card. That's as immersive as it get, way better than those motion capture thingy for your head or a 3 monitor setup. You could see imediatly if an object is far or closejust as in real life!
What I mean with this overly detailed description is that all the technology is in place, but I apparently am the only one to consider it a majer step up for game to have full 3D. I mean, it would be so much better than a hhigher resolution or even better shaders.
I always thought that sentence was an advertisement! Like, "play online, it will CHANGE your EXPERIENCE". What I thought was boring advertisementese was just boring legalese... my bad!
I love the testimonials on google's page: "Now that I have Gmail Paper, I understand the difference between labels and folders. I had one message with two labels, but when I tried to stick the paper version into two filing cabinets at the same time, it just wouldn't go." Mayumi M., Associate I'm so sending this link to everybody complaining about anything digital. You've got to admit, google sure makes cool april fools; the page looks really professional.
I really appreciated the AI in UT2K4, mostly in multiplayer game; you could see the bots waiting for each other , crouched behind the door, before barging in; that felt very real. The fact that simple orders could be given (attack, defend, follow me, give me your wepon) was good; it's not specific to UT, but too often forgotten.