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L1 cache will more than likely not grow that much as the larger the cache, the higher the latency and there is a benefit of having 1-2 cycle latency for modern x86 chips.
If you want to throw a ton of registers and some barrel thread processing at a chip, you can have much larger higher latency L1 cache that is hidden by massive amounts of registers that require few memory accesses and your memory loads are mostly hidden by the thread-shifting. Don't expect great multi-threaded intra-process scalability though as the higher latency cache will hurt data passing. Really great peak throughput though.
What do you classify as "Low latency" for audio(in milliseconds)? I know Window's audio stack has a "normal" and "low latency" mode, where the low latency mode application gets exclusive access to the sound device. Even "normal mode", which is higher latency, seems instantaneous for my perception, but I could easily understand how millisecond difference can alter wave interaction from sound inputs.
From what I can find, Vista/7 have a normal mode of ~10ms latency and an exclusive mode of 1-5ms(depending on hardware and CPU load) latency. Human perception has a max threshold of ~4-6ms before two audio-streams sound synced with no tone coloring, and an action is considered synced with a sound around 30-50ms(depending on the person).
10ms is well below the 30-50ms required for desktop use.
Just an interesting note, but not meant to be read as "Windows is better".
Starting with Vista's new audio stack, Microsoft created a new standard for audio devices to work with the OS. Effectively lets the OS just work with buffers. Jack-detection and lots of other fun features automatically work with the generic Windows audio drivers. It's like AHCI, but for sound devices.
I wonder if this is documented anywhere and if opensource can tap into this for OS devel.
I haven't had to use 3rd party audio drivers on any Vista/Win7 badged computer. The only time you really need 3rd party drivers is for cards like the Asus Xonar that have an integrated amp, for which the generic audio drivers have no interface to manage. Technically, that like of stuff can be manged side-channel and still use the generic audio drivers.
I read an article about the human brain that talked about how it is a chaotic+deterministic hybrid. It cycles back and forth. First it starts out chaotic, essentially taking random paths, but it then starts to stabilize. As it stabilizes, it eventually takes a deterministic path. This is how all thought and processing is done.
The more often a given task is performed, the more chance a given path is re-enforced, increasing the chance of the chaotic system discovering the same deterministic path for the same/similar task.
Even the deterministic portions of the brain is entirely based on averages. If a new processing tech can "average" the correct result, then a large neural-net of many-core low power CPUs could be one step closer to mimicking the human brain.
If the government labels you a traitor, I don't think you get the pleasure of a jury. We're talking about "State secrets", not your regular commercial damages. Anyway, how can a government show commercial damages?
I have a hard time believing the government can show that these leaks have any retail value at all.
The discussion isn't if Wikileaks won't get in trouble, but how/why the government wants to use civil law to prosecute. I guess the bonus is if they use civil law, they must allow the use of a jury, then you run into the whole jury nullification issue.
While one could use that logic, a Copyright issue is by definition a civil issue. I'm not sure how a government could bring a civil case against a citizen.
6-8 chars is too weak. You need 10-14 chars to be safe from brute-force. How about people like me who can't memorize random things because of some neurological disorder?
Also, you should not have the same password for each account, so memorizing 20+ different random 10-14 char passwords gets hard.
Raw energy/dollar it is. Diesel is more energy dense than gasoline. Ignoring the more efficient combustion of Otto cycle, diesel is still cheaper than gasoline. Throw the Otto cycle into the mix and you get much better Distance/Volume-of-Fuel. Also, the Otto cycle maintains near peak efficiency in many more common cases than the standard gasoline combustion cycle.
In the US, your sister-in-law doesn't have the option to refuse to pursue the father of a child for child-support.
The police don't know where he lives as he has no formal address. He bounces around from friend to friend. He has even lived with her for a few months, but she denys knowing where he is.
I could easily turn him in, but I don't like stirring the pot and his kid has fun with him.
BTW, all the jobs he does is paid in cash. Even his vehicles are owned by his parents. Heck, he hasn't had a driver's license in years. He gets pulled over quite often and thrown in jail, but then released a few weeks later because it costs the tax payers more than it's worth.
Until there is a law on the books stating that the owner of a car is responsible for the actions of a 3rd-party driver, he will always have access to a vehicle. There needs to be a law against willfully enabling a repeat offender.
I am not defending the OP you're replying to, but to the rest of your post.
Many are not arguing whether climate change is happening, but why it is happening and if humans are even making a measurable difference. We can all agree that pollution is an issue, but not everyone agrees that we are the cause of global warming.
Personally, I believe, with the lack of complete and hard facts, we should be making a best attempt to cut back on global warming related pollution, but I do no believe in rash decisions. A great way would be to tax fossil based fuel to the point it becomes on par with renewable energy and all the tax money gets funneled into renewable research and projects.
I have a sister-in-law who sets her AC to 60f when it's 90f outside, then she sits with the patio door wide open for her 30min bouts of smoking. BTW, she's on welfare and refuses to pursue her boyfriend for child-support. We need a way to not let this happen while not harming people who really need welfare.
Quite easy to block RST packets. Wireshark for hours while using the computer for games/browsing/P2P/etc and have never seen one. I have a feeling they wouldn't hurt too much.
How much faith are you going to but into the next "untrackable" p2p method
Quite a bit actually. Freenet is illegal to even use in China, yet it is used all over. If China's government can't track it, I have a feeling it's safe to use in the rest of the world.
Windows RT only allows access to the WinRT APIs?! Say it isn't so! Wait, you want Windows RT allow access to more than just the WinRT APIs? Then don't purchase Windows RT, get the desktop version. BTW, FF/Chrome/etc will run just fine under WinRT(Metro)
Windows RT is called Windows RT because it ONLY allows access to the WinRT APIs. MS does not have any limitations for 3rd parties to use the WinRT APIs. Everyone is complaining about not having access to the Win32 APIs that the "desktop mode" IE has. MS does NOT want users using desktop mode, especially on ARM.
ARM version - dubbed Windows RT[...]Rival browsers won't be allowed on the "classic" desktop
Windows RT supporting the classic desktop is news to me. Windows RT was meant to ONLY allow metro apps, but I guess one may need a way to fall-back if the metro web-browser breaks something. Then IE in the desktop mode will continue to work.
1) MS says "No desktop for Windows RT"
2) MS says Metro web browsers, including IE, have limited API access to keep the system secure
3) MS says "Ohh, shit, we need a "safe mode" incase shit hits the fan, lets allow desktop mode, but only let IE to operate"
4) Community goes ape shit because MS doesn't want 3rd parties to f*ck with their safe mode
I am in now way downplaying your info, but I just want to give my few experiences with lightning.
One summer we had a ton of lighting storms and we had replaced well over 15 modems for people who got "hit", but non of the computers actually got hurt, just dead modems.
I was at my friend's house when lightning hit near-by as the flash and thunder happened at the same time. It sounded like the air was ripping apart. The lights flashed quite brightly. My computer and 5port 10/100 switch was plugged into my UPS. My computer was fine. My friend's computer was no on any surge protection and his NIC got killed. The rest of his computer was fine, but the voltage spike entered his computer and not only took out his NIC, but also the port on my switch the NIC was plugged into.
My switch slowly died over the next month, but originally it was only the port he was plugged into.
Surge protectors are good, but not 100%. Like other have mentioned, a direct strike can do anything.
I would still invest into whole house protection because I would rather put money into something that could very likely help me compared to some other random crap.
IANAL - Last I checked, the DOJ ruled violating the TOS is criminal and goes against Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. An appeals court ruled violating a TOS is not criminal, but several other appeals courts have. It is now going to the supreme court, but it currently stands to be criminal
Anyway, where I was going with this is handing over your password or asking for another person's password is in violation of Facebook's TOS. It currently stands that asking for your password or asking to even see your FB account is criminal, and I'm pretty sure it is illegal to require a potential employee to participate in something illegal.
I also thought it was illegal to require an employee or potential employee to violate a legally binding contract, such as a TOS.
Every year it snows the most when the high is around 20 degrees or so. The cold cold cold days are clear and windy.
Being from Wisconsin, I have to agree that the warmer winters tend to have the most snow. Cold winters tend to have the most accumulation while warmer winters tend to have the most precipitation. Once you get below 10f, the chance of snow drops dramatically. Below 0f will give you a very clear sky and snow almost never falls when the temp is below 0f.
The biggest snow storms tend to happen around 30f-34f.
It's not that absolute latency has gone up between ram tech, it's the relative latency has gone up. CAS 3 latency on DDR1 is the same as CAS 6 latency on DDR2 because DDR2 twice as high external lock, but the same internal clock.
There have been a few reviews involving modern DDR3 1066-1600, and the difference between 7-7-7(CAS-CasToRas-RAS) and 11-11-11 is less than 1% performance across nearly every benchmark. Multiple cores coupled with huge amounts of cache with advanced pre-fetch units has all but nullified latency.
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L1 cache will more than likely not grow that much as the larger the cache, the higher the latency and there is a benefit of having 1-2 cycle latency for modern x86 chips.
If you want to throw a ton of registers and some barrel thread processing at a chip, you can have much larger higher latency L1 cache that is hidden by massive amounts of registers that require few memory accesses and your memory loads are mostly hidden by the thread-shifting. Don't expect great multi-threaded intra-process scalability though as the higher latency cache will hurt data passing. Really great peak throughput though.
This is not a negative post, just curiosity.
What do you classify as "Low latency" for audio(in milliseconds)? I know Window's audio stack has a "normal" and "low latency" mode, where the low latency mode application gets exclusive access to the sound device. Even "normal mode", which is higher latency, seems instantaneous for my perception, but I could easily understand how millisecond difference can alter wave interaction from sound inputs.
From what I can find, Vista/7 have a normal mode of ~10ms latency and an exclusive mode of 1-5ms(depending on hardware and CPU load) latency. Human perception has a max threshold of ~4-6ms before two audio-streams sound synced with no tone coloring, and an action is considered synced with a sound around 30-50ms(depending on the person).
10ms is well below the 30-50ms required for desktop use.
Just an interesting note, but not meant to be read as "Windows is better".
Starting with Vista's new audio stack, Microsoft created a new standard for audio devices to work with the OS. Effectively lets the OS just work with buffers. Jack-detection and lots of other fun features automatically work with the generic Windows audio drivers. It's like AHCI, but for sound devices.
I wonder if this is documented anywhere and if opensource can tap into this for OS devel.
I haven't had to use 3rd party audio drivers on any Vista/Win7 badged computer. The only time you really need 3rd party drivers is for cards like the Asus Xonar that have an integrated amp, for which the generic audio drivers have no interface to manage. Technically, that like of stuff can be manged side-channel and still use the generic audio drivers.
Mind you I am not a scientist of any sort.
I read an article about the human brain that talked about how it is a chaotic+deterministic hybrid. It cycles back and forth. First it starts out chaotic, essentially taking random paths, but it then starts to stabilize. As it stabilizes, it eventually takes a deterministic path. This is how all thought and processing is done.
The more often a given task is performed, the more chance a given path is re-enforced, increasing the chance of the chaotic system discovering the same deterministic path for the same/similar task.
Even the deterministic portions of the brain is entirely based on averages. If a new processing tech can "average" the correct result, then a large neural-net of many-core low power CPUs could be one step closer to mimicking the human brain.
If the government labels you a traitor, I don't think you get the pleasure of a jury. We're talking about "State secrets", not your regular commercial damages. Anyway, how can a government show commercial damages?
I have a hard time believing the government can show that these leaks have any retail value at all.
I'm sure a contract between the government and non-government entity is not a civil matter. A civil issue requires both parties to be non-government.
The discussion isn't if Wikileaks won't get in trouble, but how/why the government wants to use civil law to prosecute. I guess the bonus is if they use civil law, they must allow the use of a jury, then you run into the whole jury nullification issue.
While one could use that logic, a Copyright issue is by definition a civil issue. I'm not sure how a government could bring a civil case against a citizen.
6-8 chars is too weak. You need 10-14 chars to be safe from brute-force. How about people like me who can't memorize random things because of some neurological disorder? Also, you should not have the same password for each account, so memorizing 20+ different random 10-14 char passwords gets hard.
If I had a space-time machine and I wanted to have another one, I would just go back in time and steal it from myself......There, now I got two.
Raw energy/dollar it is. Diesel is more energy dense than gasoline. Ignoring the more efficient combustion of Otto cycle, diesel is still cheaper than gasoline. Throw the Otto cycle into the mix and you get much better Distance/Volume-of-Fuel. Also, the Otto cycle maintains near peak efficiency in many more common cases than the standard gasoline combustion cycle.
Power consumption for computer chips
C=Capacitance
F=Frequency
V=Voltage
P=Power
P=VC^2F
Capacitance is static, so there are only two variables, F and V. As you can tell, amperage doesn't even play into the equation.
A chip may draw amperage, but that is just a function of C and F.
In the US, your sister-in-law doesn't have the option to refuse to pursue the father of a child for child-support.
The police don't know where he lives as he has no formal address. He bounces around from friend to friend. He has even lived with her for a few months, but she denys knowing where he is.
I could easily turn him in, but I don't like stirring the pot and his kid has fun with him.
BTW, all the jobs he does is paid in cash. Even his vehicles are owned by his parents. Heck, he hasn't had a driver's license in years. He gets pulled over quite often and thrown in jail, but then released a few weeks later because it costs the tax payers more than it's worth.
Until there is a law on the books stating that the owner of a car is responsible for the actions of a 3rd-party driver, he will always have access to a vehicle. There needs to be a law against willfully enabling a repeat offender.
I am not defending the OP you're replying to, but to the rest of your post.
Many are not arguing whether climate change is happening, but why it is happening and if humans are even making a measurable difference. We can all agree that pollution is an issue, but not everyone agrees that we are the cause of global warming.
Personally, I believe, with the lack of complete and hard facts, we should be making a best attempt to cut back on global warming related pollution, but I do no believe in rash decisions. A great way would be to tax fossil based fuel to the point it becomes on par with renewable energy and all the tax money gets funneled into renewable research and projects.
I have a sister-in-law who sets her AC to 60f when it's 90f outside, then she sits with the patio door wide open for her 30min bouts of smoking. BTW, she's on welfare and refuses to pursue her boyfriend for child-support. We need a way to not let this happen while not harming people who really need welfare.
Quite easy to block RST packets. Wireshark for hours while using the computer for games/browsing/P2P/etc and have never seen one. I have a feeling they wouldn't hurt too much.
Spoofed IPs will never get routed correctly. You can't hold a "conversation", which means you can't even create an encrypted connection.
How much faith are you going to but into the next "untrackable" p2p method
Quite a bit actually. Freenet is illegal to even use in China, yet it is used all over. If China's government can't track it, I have a feeling it's safe to use in the rest of the world.
This is well past those limits.
Windows RT only allows access to the WinRT APIs?! Say it isn't so! Wait, you want Windows RT allow access to more than just the WinRT APIs? Then don't purchase Windows RT, get the desktop version. BTW, FF/Chrome/etc will run just fine under WinRT(Metro)
Windows RT is called Windows RT because it ONLY allows access to the WinRT APIs. MS does not have any limitations for 3rd parties to use the WinRT APIs. Everyone is complaining about not having access to the Win32 APIs that the "desktop mode" IE has. MS does NOT want users using desktop mode, especially on ARM.
ARM version - dubbed Windows RT[...]Rival browsers won't be allowed on the "classic" desktop
Windows RT supporting the classic desktop is news to me. Windows RT was meant to ONLY allow metro apps, but I guess one may need a way to fall-back if the metro web-browser breaks something. Then IE in the desktop mode will continue to work.
1) MS says "No desktop for Windows RT"
2) MS says Metro web browsers, including IE, have limited API access to keep the system secure
3) MS says "Ohh, shit, we need a "safe mode" incase shit hits the fan, lets allow desktop mode, but only let IE to operate"
4) Community goes ape shit because MS doesn't want 3rd parties to f*ck with their safe mode
This sounds about right
I am in now way downplaying your info, but I just want to give my few experiences with lightning.
One summer we had a ton of lighting storms and we had replaced well over 15 modems for people who got "hit", but non of the computers actually got hurt, just dead modems.
I was at my friend's house when lightning hit near-by as the flash and thunder happened at the same time. It sounded like the air was ripping apart. The lights flashed quite brightly. My computer and 5port 10/100 switch was plugged into my UPS. My computer was fine. My friend's computer was no on any surge protection and his NIC got killed. The rest of his computer was fine, but the voltage spike entered his computer and not only took out his NIC, but also the port on my switch the NIC was plugged into.
My switch slowly died over the next month, but originally it was only the port he was plugged into.
Surge protectors are good, but not 100%. Like other have mentioned, a direct strike can do anything.
I would still invest into whole house protection because I would rather put money into something that could very likely help me compared to some other random crap.
IANAL - Last I checked, the DOJ ruled violating the TOS is criminal and goes against Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. An appeals court ruled violating a TOS is not criminal, but several other appeals courts have. It is now going to the supreme court, but it currently stands to be criminal
Anyway, where I was going with this is handing over your password or asking for another person's password is in violation of Facebook's TOS. It currently stands that asking for your password or asking to even see your FB account is criminal, and I'm pretty sure it is illegal to require a potential employee to participate in something illegal.
I also thought it was illegal to require an employee or potential employee to violate a legally binding contract, such as a TOS.
Every year it snows the most when the high is around 20 degrees or so. The cold cold cold days are clear and windy.
Being from Wisconsin, I have to agree that the warmer winters tend to have the most snow. Cold winters tend to have the most accumulation while warmer winters tend to have the most precipitation. Once you get below 10f, the chance of snow drops dramatically. Below 0f will give you a very clear sky and snow almost never falls when the temp is below 0f.
The biggest snow storms tend to happen around 30f-34f.
It does and it shows Intel's GPU may not be the fastest in all areas, but they're quite well rounded as they are a few factors faster than $300+ GPUs.
It's not that absolute latency has gone up between ram tech, it's the relative latency has gone up. CAS 3 latency on DDR1 is the same as CAS 6 latency on DDR2 because DDR2 twice as high external lock, but the same internal clock.
There have been a few reviews involving modern DDR3 1066-1600, and the difference between 7-7-7(CAS-CasToRas-RAS) and 11-11-11 is less than 1% performance across nearly every benchmark. Multiple cores coupled with huge amounts of cache with advanced pre-fetch units has all but nullified latency.