But at what cost? The US essentially moved a sizable chunk their manufacturing carbon and pollution footprint from the 70s and 80s to the PRC and the citizens are paying for it with much shorter life spans, a nearly unrecoverable ecosystem and no real economic benefit since most of the profit is going to the single individuals in power rather than programs or equal sharing to fix the problems the have sewn.
Yes globalization can be good but if you notice the current trends theres going to be alot more of political and social stratification in the coming decades between "east" and "west" if you like it or not and because of how integrated our economies have become we're all gonna take a hit over this problem. Only the Russians like from the previous reply have a real chance due to the vast reserves of raw materials they have.
Their economy is taking hard hits with inflation this month because of the rise of price in raw materials and this is pissing off the people in the countryside. Also their eco-system is so damaged their citizens are essentially dying from asphyxiation and industrial chemicals in the water and surroundings. If they even got astronauts to the moon before the US it still doesn't change the fact that the PRC is currently in dangerous territory concerning the health and well being of their citizens and that can invite disaster.
Only issue I see with this is that ITRS has a road map for a die process upto 16nm. That means by 2013 Intel will be at 16nm if they can keep that kind of pace up and then hit a dead end because they cant shrink any more, ITRS decides to make the road map include smaller processes because we can make transistors smaller, or they avert it all together and find a new way to make processors with means other than transistors.
The other issue is that, reconfigurable and soft processing(the opensparc T1 is just one example) could become more common as programmable logic devices get faster and the tools for them more sophisticated by the time they decide to go to 16nm, and if thats true, there could be nothing really stopping individuals or companies like M$ deciding to just have a team to programmers "write" an architecture although you would have to have a large chunk of OEMs willing to build the peripherals for it like the motherboard and chipset and so on.
The fact that they improved the floating point from the old T1 should make it very appealing to high-end computing that requires alot double precision math and the like.
....we'll never switch to HD completely, and when we do we'll be probably using 720p while the rest of the world is probably using 1080p or higher. FCC is a joke now, just force the damn consumers to switch already.
Hest is one issue, the major issue is that transistors especially MOS can switch so many times a second, thats why you notice AMD processors rarely hit 3.0GHz clock speed and Intel processors almost never go past 3GHz, I'm not saying its a firm barrier, but when you get past that speed there are more problems than just heat. A new type of mosfet for fab processes smaller than 45nm might solve this problem with clock speed, but it might not solve the still current heat problems you have to lower power consumption to fix that. You are right however, that even though quad cores are now being sold by both processor makers, software engineers are not taking advantage of the parallel nature of the new processors and are essentially wasting cycles, but that will change with time. At least AMD's Barcelona is supposed to have separate adjustable voltage supplies for each core so if one is at 100% load and the other three are at other various loads, the power consumption will be different between them rather than the same all around like in the dual cores that they currently ship.
Because technology in communication seems to get better and better, wouldnt be better to replace a satellite with a better one? Or are we at the point in optomizeing communication that it would be better to keep an old fleet longer? All in all, it is pretty nice to have a long life span in communication satellites given that the typical time of life is usually anywhere from 5 years to 15.
...RMS would keep dumb ideas to himself and keep his damn mouth shut. GPL is not a bad idea, heck its genius for such a unique license even if a large portion of people hate its viral tendencies, but honestly picking fights with no chance of winning with it makes the entire open source community look bad not just the FSF. And if theres nothing I hate more than a dumb legal idea, its alienating your license users over the idea when all they want to do is business.
I wish you could install OSX on other hardware, like a cheap AMD box or something. Kinda wish their hardware was cheaper, I cant seem to justify buying a mac mini for 799.99 when I can get a machine with the same specs but a larger footprint and sometimes a free monitor for less, same goes for the iMac. Looks nice, but will it keep me on par with hardware technology until a few hardware updates to the line happen, seems hard if not impossible to update the video on the new iMac, really just how common are MXM video cards these days?
Its cheaper to just squish two dual cores together and have two dies but performance takes a hit if a processor is made that way. I think AMD was going for scalability on the quadcore they designed, probably in such a way to where they don't have to make a major redesigns until they are ready with their fusion line.
Its funny that alot of people in the IT world say this is AMD's final years because they cant break X clock speed, but you have to remember, Intel has alot more fabs than AMD and a lot more money for R&D on new fab processes like 45nm and achieve X clock speed so the morons in IT can be happy. AMD is trying to counter this by doing this kind of R&D with IBM to save on costs and focus more on product design. Besides whats better than having big blue as a research partner? They make processors for every console now, and they build supercomputers for a bunch of major national laboratories now as well.
I used kubuntu with a hauppage pvr-150 mce, you can use a mce pvr-500 if you need two tuners, pvr-350 should work as well. Only real problem I have is the sound cuts out and goes to static if I leave it on for a few days (probably a driver issue), other than that it pretty much golden. To setup mythtv I used the community docs on the ubuntu website and some of the mythtv wiki.
Heres my specs:
Board: Via SP13000
Ram: 1GB Corsair XMS DDR 400
Drives: DVD-RW IDE and a 320GB SATA HD
Capture Card: Hauppage pvr-150 mce
OS: Kubuntu Fiesty
PSU: PicoPSU 120W
Fan: 1 120mm case fan
You might want to replace the thermal grease with arctic silver if you build it.
I might try hdtv when the new via board with pci-express 16x slot comes out so I can use a beefier videocard.
Is it just me or does this product seem to be an alternative to using expensive DIMMS using normal grade DDR3 memory rather than using expensive FB-DIMMS like intel does on their enterprise hardware and also increasing the amount of slots per system since you have a more ideal fanout with the memory split up like its shown in article?
I would rather wait for military grade Nitinol/Flexinol Muscle Wires http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_wire. But I bet we are decades from good performance with this kind of technology since its temperature dependent.
Thats true, but Intel is right behind them ready to launch those features. Still, I wish Intel would stop making dumb moves by making their own standards to compete with tried and accepted standards like Hyper Transport, a standard that pretty much all the other giant tech companies use currently or are at least affiliated with.
Didn't some one say it would be a couple of decades before all of their environmental and social problems catch up that will be come a total cluster f***?
The "Super-Duper V Chip" will include a small camera in you media device so that big brother can ensure that you are safe from harm. TVs are also required to add Newspeak to English close captioning.
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But at what cost? The US essentially moved a sizable chunk their manufacturing carbon and pollution footprint from the 70s and 80s to the PRC and the citizens are paying for it with much shorter life spans, a nearly unrecoverable ecosystem and no real economic benefit since most of the profit is going to the single individuals in power rather than programs or equal sharing to fix the problems the have sewn.
Yes globalization can be good but if you notice the current trends theres going to be alot more of political and social stratification in the coming decades between "east" and "west" if you like it or not and because of how integrated our economies have become we're all gonna take a hit over this problem. Only the Russians like from the previous reply have a real chance due to the vast reserves of raw materials they have.
just my two cents after all.
Their economy is taking hard hits with inflation this month because of the rise of price in raw materials and this is pissing off the people in the countryside. Also their eco-system is so damaged their citizens are essentially dying from asphyxiation and industrial chemicals in the water and surroundings. If they even got astronauts to the moon before the US it still doesn't change the fact that the PRC is currently in dangerous territory concerning the health and well being of their citizens and that can invite disaster.
Only issue I see with this is that ITRS has a road map for a die process upto 16nm. That means by 2013 Intel will be at 16nm if they can keep that kind of pace up and then hit a dead end because they cant shrink any more, ITRS decides to make the road map include smaller processes because we can make transistors smaller, or they avert it all together and find a new way to make processors with means other than transistors.
The other issue is that, reconfigurable and soft processing(the opensparc T1 is just one example) could become more common as programmable logic devices get faster and the tools for them more sophisticated by the time they decide to go to 16nm, and if thats true, there could be nothing really stopping individuals or companies like M$ deciding to just have a team to programmers "write" an architecture although you would have to have a large chunk of OEMs willing to build the peripherals for it like the motherboard and chipset and so on.
The fact that they improved the floating point from the old T1 should make it very appealing to high-end computing that requires alot double precision math and the like.
....we'll never switch to HD completely, and when we do we'll be probably using 720p while the rest of the world is probably using 1080p or higher. FCC is a joke now, just force the damn consumers to switch already.
Hest is one issue, the major issue is that transistors especially MOS can switch so many times a second, thats why you notice AMD processors rarely hit 3.0GHz clock speed and Intel processors almost never go past 3GHz, I'm not saying its a firm barrier, but when you get past that speed there are more problems than just heat. A new type of mosfet for fab processes smaller than 45nm might solve this problem with clock speed, but it might not solve the still current heat problems you have to lower power consumption to fix that.
You are right however, that even though quad cores are now being sold by both processor makers, software engineers are not taking advantage of the parallel nature of the new processors and are essentially wasting cycles, but that will change with time. At least AMD's Barcelona is supposed to have separate adjustable voltage supplies for each core so if one is at 100% load and the other three are at other various loads, the power consumption will be different between them rather than the same all around like in the dual cores that they currently ship.
Because technology in communication seems to get better and better, wouldnt be better to replace a satellite with a better one? Or are we at the point in optomizeing communication that it would be better to keep an old fleet longer? All in all, it is pretty nice to have a long life span in communication satellites given that the typical time of life is usually anywhere from 5 years to 15.
If its the same or better compared to their chief competitor's linux drivers, then I buy a card for my next linux machine.
We're whalers on the moon, We carry a harpoon. But there ain't no whales So we tell tall tales And sing our whaling tune.
Nice. Cant wait then. :)
...RMS would keep dumb ideas to himself and keep his damn mouth shut. GPL is not a bad idea, heck its genius for such a unique license even if a large portion of people hate its viral tendencies, but honestly picking fights with no chance of winning with it makes the entire open source community look bad not just the FSF. And if theres nothing I hate more than a dumb legal idea, its alienating your license users over the idea when all they want to do is business.
I wish you could install OSX on other hardware, like a cheap AMD box or something. Kinda wish their hardware was cheaper, I cant seem to justify buying a mac mini for 799.99 when I can get a machine with the same specs but a larger footprint and sometimes a free monitor for less, same goes for the iMac. Looks nice, but will it keep me on par with hardware technology until a few hardware updates to the line happen, seems hard if not impossible to update the video on the new iMac, really just how common are MXM video cards these days?
Its cheaper to just squish two dual cores together and have two dies but performance takes a hit if a processor is made that way. I think AMD was going for scalability on the quadcore they designed, probably in such a way to where they don't have to make a major redesigns until they are ready with their fusion line. Its funny that alot of people in the IT world say this is AMD's final years because they cant break X clock speed, but you have to remember, Intel has alot more fabs than AMD and a lot more money for R&D on new fab processes like 45nm and achieve X clock speed so the morons in IT can be happy. AMD is trying to counter this by doing this kind of R&D with IBM to save on costs and focus more on product design. Besides whats better than having big blue as a research partner? They make processors for every console now, and they build supercomputers for a bunch of major national laboratories now as well.
You hit the nail on the head. Parallel programming is now required if you want to take advantage of multiple cores.
Look at the pico-itx and nano-itx by via if you are interested. You might like what you see.
I used kubuntu with a hauppage pvr-150 mce, you can use a mce pvr-500 if you need two tuners, pvr-350 should work as well. Only real problem I have is the sound cuts out and goes to static if I leave it on for a few days (probably a driver issue), other than that it pretty much golden. To setup mythtv I used the community docs on the ubuntu website and some of the mythtv wiki.
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Heres my specs:
Board: Via SP13000
Ram: 1GB Corsair XMS DDR 400
Drives: DVD-RW IDE and a 320GB SATA HD
Capture Card: Hauppage pvr-150 mce
OS: Kubuntu Fiesty
PSU: PicoPSU 120W
Fan: 1 120mm case fan
You might want to replace the thermal grease with arctic silver if you build it.
I might try hdtv when the new via board with pci-express 16x slot comes out so I can use a beefier videocard.
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they said 50mW but for how long until you have to refill it?
I run a Via SP13000 as my mythtv box and it hasn't let me down yet, it also made an affordable computer to learn how to use linux as well.
Is it just me or does this product seem to be an alternative to using expensive DIMMS using normal grade DDR3 memory rather than using expensive FB-DIMMS like intel does on their enterprise hardware and also increasing the amount of slots per system since you have a more ideal fanout with the memory split up like its shown in article?
Would this solve the memory-cpu bottleneck we currently have?
I would rather wait for military grade Nitinol/Flexinol Muscle Wires http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_wire. But I bet we are decades from good performance with this kind of technology since its temperature dependent.
Thats true, but Intel is right behind them ready to launch those features. Still, I wish Intel would stop making dumb moves by making their own standards to compete with tried and accepted standards like Hyper Transport, a standard that pretty much all the other giant tech companies use currently or are at least affiliated with.
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Didn't some one say it would be a couple of decades before all of their environmental and social problems catch up that will be come a total cluster f***?
The "Super-Duper V Chip" will include a small camera in you media device so that big brother can ensure that you are safe from harm. TVs are also required to add Newspeak to English close captioning.