There hasn't been for a while, that's why buying a quad-core CPU is largely useless for gamers and one of the best uses of a dual-core CPU is running a single-threaded application alongside Windows. Graphics cards are massively parallel multi-core systems and have much better real-world and theoretical performance in physics simulations. Physics and AI are all the GPU has left to conquer.
I still see the CPU doing a lot of AI work, though, because those sort of algorithms (hey no recursion neat) are naturally far from the linear access sort of thing CUDA and related technologies are best at.
When Nehalem comes out, with its new socket, motherboard manufacturers are likely going to mandate the switch to DDR3. Right now, it's pretty easy for motherboard manufacturers to push hybrid solutions or redirect consumers to DDR2 1066MHz (which is equally useless unless you're OCing something like a Wolfdale). They won't have that excuse in the new motherboards and I seriously doubt they will stick with DDR2, especially if prices come down by then.
E8xxx are 45nm. The die is Wolfdale.
E6xxx are 65nm. The die is Conroe/Allendale.
Q9xxx are quad 45nm. The die is Yorkfield.
Q6xxx are quad 65nm. The die is Kentsfield.
Generally speaking, anything in the E8xxx line is better than any of the E6xxx line, and anything in the Q9xxx line is better than anything in the Q6xxx line. I'm not understanding what's hard to figure out about this. It's pretty clear nomenclature, especially compared to AMD's 3405940900+X2 silly naming system that's a relic of the megahertz wars, and ATI's similar crazy system.
It seems if you go by relative performance in your number system, people complain, but if you go by new "families" like Nvidia, people complain too.
Most of Chernobyl is no longer very radioactive. A new "coffin" lined with this would be an excellent replacement for the aged cracking one surrounding the destroyed reactor, though.
Blame ATI for using the most convoluted nomenclature ever for years and years while nVidia treks along using such antiquated notions as updating the thousandth digit when they release a new series. What else would they do, skip to 10800?
Well, if you bought a 8600GT it was obsolete the day you took it home. It was never a very good deal price-to-performance, trounced by the 8800GTS 320mb earlier in the release of the 8 series and beaten by the 8800GT now.
Putting BitTorrent on a pillar of anonymity isn't a great idea - I can grab IPs and hostnames of peers and seeds in a couple clicks. Compared to Winny, BT seems rather transparent.
According to the new agreement, copyright organizations would notify providers of Internet protocol addresses used by those who repeatedly make copies illegally, using special detection software. The providers would then send warning e-mails to the users based on the IP addresses of the computers used to connect to the Internet. If contacted users did not then stop their illegal copying, the providers would temporarily disconnect them from the Internet for a specified period of time or cancel their service-provision contracts.
This is pretty much what companies in the U.S. do too. People that seed a bunch of copyrighted files often get cease and desists from their ISPs and if it keeps happening the ISP will sometimes (not always, as it's beneficial for the ISP to keep them around) cut their service off. TFA seems to claim that the majority of this is going to focus on "leakers" of copyrighted material: this means mass-seeders and probably scene groups. It's doubtful that the ISPs are going to end up cutting off many _downloaders_ of the material, but mostly focus on the _distributors_: which is pretty much precedent for ISPs at least in the U.S. and I would assume globally.
Now according to Wiki, Winny is intrinsically anonymous, and the only way the police were able to track those sharing the files was by them boasting on the Winny forums of their upload. So we probably would have heard about this earlier had Winny not been built to be as anonymous as it is now - it seems that the issue has been prompting arrests and controversy for five years or more.
Also, expect 2ch to go bananas over this in the next couple of weeks.
To be semantic, every trivial piece of human knowledge includes the contents of my room at 2:47 AM. There's no real need for that information.
To be fair, the problem is with reliability. If I add something that I heard once (in the 'sum of human knowledge'), there's no way for someone to use that for research or even to check it back to someone reliable to make sure I didn't make the whole bloody thing up. Unless I can go to the library, grab the book and say "oh, wow, this is exactly like Wiki said it was! oh and look, hundreds of pages going into depth on the same topic! now I'm off to write a paper!", the information exists in a Schrodinger-like state of verifiable purgatory where citing it is a huge risk if I don't know anything about it in the first place.
There's really a reason that if you go grab a book off a shelf it has a giant bibliography full of references to other books. It's an implicit certification of accuracy.
Hmm..I wouldn't go that far. That would put editorial control in the hands of whoever was being sourced (and database failures!). With web archiving working pretty well, I don't think notability can be rescinded through simply a page going down (or someone deciding "we would get more revenue if we closed off that free section" or what have you). I see your point about the restaurant not being notable anymore because there's not any more discussions of it, but that could be due to a number of reasons and if it was notable enough to get a review or such in the paper in the first place I'd be willing to give the benefit of the doubt.
One thing where this might come into play though is through expandability - if there's only one citation or review or what have you, the article's unlikely to be sourced and expanded in the future. In WP, you'll often see voluntary keep votes in Articles for Deletion where people will say "give it time to expand, if it doesn't get beyond this stage in X months put it up again/delete it". So I think the deeper point here is that the breadth of coverage from multiple sources and the amount of coverage from a single source are both pretty important. I don't think requiring "updates" from multiple publications over time is required to keep proving notability, but it can in an indirect way help weed out singly-sourced three-sentence articles that will never be expanded in the future.
The thing is, most new articles began "devoid of information" - or, in WP terminology, a stub. If that stub is sourced, it usually stays, if it's not it goes. Articles don't pop into existence in a full state of being, so the line between delete and keep is much more fluid.
The justification is as follows: an encyclopedia is a generalized collection of information for easy brushing up on a subject or to begin research. It's a giant summary of what other people say. Because WP decided to use the encyclopedia template, all those weird trivial articles that nobody reports on in media deserve the hatchet. Had it not and been a collection of everything, they would have a home, but then you have to deal with a bunch of people creating articles on their friends discussing how gay they are with no reason for deletion (similar to Everything2).
It's not based on technical reasons, nor on "trivia" - if Bob's Local Cheese Statue was discussed in the newspaper a bunch of times, and that's cited in the article, that article will definitely stay. It's more based on "can you back this up using a real source, not yourself", to both preserve reliability and make sure that if someone wants to use it for research they can figure out who said what.
The solution to this mess would seem to be to trash everything unsourced or transwiki it to a place that doesn't care about reliability, but that's not going to happen. Wikipedia sets down all these rules and then tries to weasel out of them in any way it can anymore - anyone (esp. an admin) that attempted to actually follow its rules to the letter (delete unsourced content on sight) would get blocked within a couple hours. If you're an established editor and you add something unsourced, it's fine, but if you're an IP it gets rolled back. The whole thing is silly and I don't edit there anymore.
In addition, nobody really understands the point of an encyclopedia anymore. It's to condense and collect information into a generalized mess so that someone can come along, find a snippet or less deep version of the info they need, then follow the source. The "OH MY GOD IT'S THE WEB WE CAN ADD ANYTHING WE WANT LET'S MAKE A BUNCH OF TV SHOWS" mentality snuck in pretty fast. Wikipedia has put way more emphasis on "wiki" and thrown the "pedia" part out the window years before, and *surprise* it's an issue!
Caffeine is quite an effective pesticide. It's an evolutionary self-defense mechanism against insects, especially effective when you're still in the "I don't have any protective stuff" phase like a seedling.
That's a lovely hypothesis but we shouldn't be too quick to subscribe all differences between two countries to culture. We probably wouldn't do it if this was coming out of a European country or Russia or something, but if it's Japan it's "jump on the culture bandwagon". It's a knee-jerk response to anything discussing Japan, a meme that gets annoying after being applied over and over in various contexts, similar to the inevitable "lol, hentai/tentacle rape/pany vending machines". In this case, it was not approved by a majority of voters, it's just a government decision where the general public is apathetic in general to politics. Probably has little to do with "culture" (define what "culture" means in this context?).
Japan, though, does have a very monolithic and corrupt government and I wouldn't be surprised if this was railroaded through with little input by the average citizen. Or maybe the average citizen really doesn't care if the government knows their date of birth. If the latter, it's not culture, it's apathy. You'd be apathetic about politics too if the same party got elected continuously for forty years and most of the prime ministers were crotchety old guys.
That constitutional ban (actually, the entire constitution) was not achieved by the LDP. In fact, the LDP did not even exist at the time the constitution was written. It was achieved by General MacArthur as SCAP during the occupation. The Diet simply copied his suggestion with some very basic changes and voters approved it.
The LDP has ended up creating a "capitalist development state" that thrives on neo-fascistic cooperation between government and corporate entities, dominate the government largely through being the most general party of any country ever, choose successors (which will by default become president) by the old cliche of smoke-filled back rooms, and historically have promoted both stupid banks and pork projects to prop up uncompetitive businesses with loans that will never be paid off and spending that dramatically overvalued those projects. This both led to and resulted from a massive economic crisis in the 1990s which still has effects. How did they attempt to fix it? They elected a crazy populist Koizumi ten years later who managed to clean most of the economic messes up. It's still a nightmare if you look at it from a Western perspective: corruption and scandal is essentially everywhere. It works, but we shouldn't be too quick to hold the LDP up as a bastion of reform and liberalism because it's basically a party that stands for nothing.
They say it uses biopotentials which basically means it picks up on the really faint voltage that finds its way to the skin after excitable cells in muscle and neural cells in the brain discharge. We're not at the "MRI in a box" stage yet where you can directly see things light up, so this is the best that's gonna happen for now. This is more like EEG in a box.
This has been done before, though, in the 90s with cursors too. Unfortunately, it was slow as all hell and took months to master. The apparatus, I assume, was much bigger as well. If this takes less than a month to master I will be impressed - any more than that and gamers will give up on it.
IANAMV but if the virus is not able to infect immune cells in the host it won't be able to live very long there anyway, so it should die off in the host and anyone who had this gene. You can still spread it while you're infected, but that period will be relatively short, I imagine.
It's clear that the more inexperienced you are, the quicker you get a Padawan. I guess it's some sort of natural selection thing where the council decides that only the ones that can adapt and mature survive and the others who simply double their stupidity get crushed in a trash compactor.
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There hasn't been for a while, that's why buying a quad-core CPU is largely useless for gamers and one of the best uses of a dual-core CPU is running a single-threaded application alongside Windows. Graphics cards are massively parallel multi-core systems and have much better real-world and theoretical performance in physics simulations. Physics and AI are all the GPU has left to conquer. I still see the CPU doing a lot of AI work, though, because those sort of algorithms (hey no recursion neat) are naturally far from the linear access sort of thing CUDA and related technologies are best at.
And what does it take to drive electrolysis?
Hint: it too uses the "electro" root and is already something you can drive a car on.
"assertion failed on chromosome 38"
God help us if the Debian programmers get their hands on this organism.
When Nehalem comes out, with its new socket, motherboard manufacturers are likely going to mandate the switch to DDR3. Right now, it's pretty easy for motherboard manufacturers to push hybrid solutions or redirect consumers to DDR2 1066MHz (which is equally useless unless you're OCing something like a Wolfdale). They won't have that excuse in the new motherboards and I seriously doubt they will stick with DDR2, especially if prices come down by then.
I wouldn't use it for anything more than necessary.
E8xxx are 45nm. The die is Wolfdale. E6xxx are 65nm. The die is Conroe/Allendale. Q9xxx are quad 45nm. The die is Yorkfield. Q6xxx are quad 65nm. The die is Kentsfield. Generally speaking, anything in the E8xxx line is better than any of the E6xxx line, and anything in the Q9xxx line is better than anything in the Q6xxx line. I'm not understanding what's hard to figure out about this. It's pretty clear nomenclature, especially compared to AMD's 3405940900+X2 silly naming system that's a relic of the megahertz wars, and ATI's similar crazy system. It seems if you go by relative performance in your number system, people complain, but if you go by new "families" like Nvidia, people complain too.
Most of Chernobyl is no longer very radioactive. A new "coffin" lined with this would be an excellent replacement for the aged cracking one surrounding the destroyed reactor, though.
Blame ATI for using the most convoluted nomenclature ever for years and years while nVidia treks along using such antiquated notions as updating the thousandth digit when they release a new series. What else would they do, skip to 10800?
This basically is a 8800 SLI. It's the same design of the 8800s just running two GPUs off one card.
Well, if you bought a 8600GT it was obsolete the day you took it home. It was never a very good deal price-to-performance, trounced by the 8800GTS 320mb earlier in the release of the 8 series and beaten by the 8800GT now.
I was waiting for someone to awkwardly shoehorn "culture" into the topic as eventually someone does with 99% of topics involving Japan.
Putting BitTorrent on a pillar of anonymity isn't a great idea - I can grab IPs and hostnames of peers and seeds in a couple clicks. Compared to Winny, BT seems rather transparent.
This is pretty much what companies in the U.S. do too. People that seed a bunch of copyrighted files often get cease and desists from their ISPs and if it keeps happening the ISP will sometimes (not always, as it's beneficial for the ISP to keep them around) cut their service off. TFA seems to claim that the majority of this is going to focus on "leakers" of copyrighted material: this means mass-seeders and probably scene groups. It's doubtful that the ISPs are going to end up cutting off many _downloaders_ of the material, but mostly focus on the _distributors_: which is pretty much precedent for ISPs at least in the U.S. and I would assume globally.
Now according to Wiki, Winny is intrinsically anonymous, and the only way the police were able to track those sharing the files was by them boasting on the Winny forums of their upload. So we probably would have heard about this earlier had Winny not been built to be as anonymous as it is now - it seems that the issue has been prompting arrests and controversy for five years or more.
Also, expect 2ch to go bananas over this in the next couple of weeks.
Hopefully, in the middle of negotiations, they won't break down. ;)
To be semantic, every trivial piece of human knowledge includes the contents of my room at 2:47 AM. There's no real need for that information.
To be fair, the problem is with reliability. If I add something that I heard once (in the 'sum of human knowledge'), there's no way for someone to use that for research or even to check it back to someone reliable to make sure I didn't make the whole bloody thing up. Unless I can go to the library, grab the book and say "oh, wow, this is exactly like Wiki said it was! oh and look, hundreds of pages going into depth on the same topic! now I'm off to write a paper!", the information exists in a Schrodinger-like state of verifiable purgatory where citing it is a huge risk if I don't know anything about it in the first place.
There's really a reason that if you go grab a book off a shelf it has a giant bibliography full of references to other books. It's an implicit certification of accuracy.
Hmm..I wouldn't go that far. That would put editorial control in the hands of whoever was being sourced (and database failures!). With web archiving working pretty well, I don't think notability can be rescinded through simply a page going down (or someone deciding "we would get more revenue if we closed off that free section" or what have you). I see your point about the restaurant not being notable anymore because there's not any more discussions of it, but that could be due to a number of reasons and if it was notable enough to get a review or such in the paper in the first place I'd be willing to give the benefit of the doubt.
One thing where this might come into play though is through expandability - if there's only one citation or review or what have you, the article's unlikely to be sourced and expanded in the future. In WP, you'll often see voluntary keep votes in Articles for Deletion where people will say "give it time to expand, if it doesn't get beyond this stage in X months put it up again/delete it". So I think the deeper point here is that the breadth of coverage from multiple sources and the amount of coverage from a single source are both pretty important. I don't think requiring "updates" from multiple publications over time is required to keep proving notability, but it can in an indirect way help weed out singly-sourced three-sentence articles that will never be expanded in the future.
The thing is, most new articles began "devoid of information" - or, in WP terminology, a stub. If that stub is sourced, it usually stays, if it's not it goes. Articles don't pop into existence in a full state of being, so the line between delete and keep is much more fluid.
The justification is as follows: an encyclopedia is a generalized collection of information for easy brushing up on a subject or to begin research. It's a giant summary of what other people say. Because WP decided to use the encyclopedia template, all those weird trivial articles that nobody reports on in media deserve the hatchet. Had it not and been a collection of everything, they would have a home, but then you have to deal with a bunch of people creating articles on their friends discussing how gay they are with no reason for deletion (similar to Everything2).
It's not based on technical reasons, nor on "trivia" - if Bob's Local Cheese Statue was discussed in the newspaper a bunch of times, and that's cited in the article, that article will definitely stay. It's more based on "can you back this up using a real source, not yourself", to both preserve reliability and make sure that if someone wants to use it for research they can figure out who said what.
The solution to this mess would seem to be to trash everything unsourced or transwiki it to a place that doesn't care about reliability, but that's not going to happen. Wikipedia sets down all these rules and then tries to weasel out of them in any way it can anymore - anyone (esp. an admin) that attempted to actually follow its rules to the letter (delete unsourced content on sight) would get blocked within a couple hours. If you're an established editor and you add something unsourced, it's fine, but if you're an IP it gets rolled back. The whole thing is silly and I don't edit there anymore.
In addition, nobody really understands the point of an encyclopedia anymore. It's to condense and collect information into a generalized mess so that someone can come along, find a snippet or less deep version of the info they need, then follow the source. The "OH MY GOD IT'S THE WEB WE CAN ADD ANYTHING WE WANT LET'S MAKE A BUNCH OF TV SHOWS" mentality snuck in pretty fast. Wikipedia has put way more emphasis on "wiki" and thrown the "pedia" part out the window years before, and *surprise* it's an issue!
Caffeine is quite an effective pesticide. It's an evolutionary self-defense mechanism against insects, especially effective when you're still in the "I don't have any protective stuff" phase like a seedling.
That's a lovely hypothesis but we shouldn't be too quick to subscribe all differences between two countries to culture. We probably wouldn't do it if this was coming out of a European country or Russia or something, but if it's Japan it's "jump on the culture bandwagon". It's a knee-jerk response to anything discussing Japan, a meme that gets annoying after being applied over and over in various contexts, similar to the inevitable "lol, hentai/tentacle rape/pany vending machines". In this case, it was not approved by a majority of voters, it's just a government decision where the general public is apathetic in general to politics. Probably has little to do with "culture" (define what "culture" means in this context?).
Japan, though, does have a very monolithic and corrupt government and I wouldn't be surprised if this was railroaded through with little input by the average citizen. Or maybe the average citizen really doesn't care if the government knows their date of birth. If the latter, it's not culture, it's apathy. You'd be apathetic about politics too if the same party got elected continuously for forty years and most of the prime ministers were crotchety old guys.
That constitutional ban (actually, the entire constitution) was not achieved by the LDP. In fact, the LDP did not even exist at the time the constitution was written. It was achieved by General MacArthur as SCAP during the occupation. The Diet simply copied his suggestion with some very basic changes and voters approved it.
The LDP has ended up creating a "capitalist development state" that thrives on neo-fascistic cooperation between government and corporate entities, dominate the government largely through being the most general party of any country ever, choose successors (which will by default become president) by the old cliche of smoke-filled back rooms, and historically have promoted both stupid banks and pork projects to prop up uncompetitive businesses with loans that will never be paid off and spending that dramatically overvalued those projects. This both led to and resulted from a massive economic crisis in the 1990s which still has effects. How did they attempt to fix it? They elected a crazy populist Koizumi ten years later who managed to clean most of the economic messes up. It's still a nightmare if you look at it from a Western perspective: corruption and scandal is essentially everywhere. It works, but we shouldn't be too quick to hold the LDP up as a bastion of reform and liberalism because it's basically a party that stands for nothing.
They say it uses biopotentials which basically means it picks up on the really faint voltage that finds its way to the skin after excitable cells in muscle and neural cells in the brain discharge. We're not at the "MRI in a box" stage yet where you can directly see things light up, so this is the best that's gonna happen for now. This is more like EEG in a box.
This has been done before, though, in the 90s with cursors too. Unfortunately, it was slow as all hell and took months to master. The apparatus, I assume, was much bigger as well. If this takes less than a month to master I will be impressed - any more than that and gamers will give up on it.
IANAMV but if the virus is not able to infect immune cells in the host it won't be able to live very long there anyway, so it should die off in the host and anyone who had this gene. You can still spread it while you're infected, but that period will be relatively short, I imagine.
It's clear that the more inexperienced you are, the quicker you get a Padawan. I guess it's some sort of natural selection thing where the council decides that only the ones that can adapt and mature survive and the others who simply double their stupidity get crushed in a trash compactor.