No, it's because the 'buy an application' model is completely broken. It barely works for walled gardens like Apple's app store. The idea that software is a 'product' you can put in a box and sell is the wrong way to be thinking about the world and creates an incentive system for thousands of scammers.
Joke or troll? I yearn for the days where I could go and buy a box with a disc (or disk!) and manual. They got money. I got software that worked. I got documentation! I could even install it multiple places, resell it, whatever.
Feels like hearing my grandpa talk about how at the age of 12 he would just run across town barefoot, with his friends, and their rifles, to go shoot at cans by the creek.
The House bill would allow individual investors to invest up to $10,000, or 10 percent of their annual income a year, whichever is less. The Senate bill would limit those investments to the greater of $2,000, or 5 percent of either annual income or net worth, if either figure is less than $100,000.
So for those of us in the $50k-$100k category that limits the investment to $2,500-$5000 instead of $5,000-$10000.
Doubles the number of investors needed.
A bit odd, that, since 10% of yearly income, while significant, isn't exactly something that should break you financially. Seems a bit overcautious.
It's not cautious, it's designed to prevent you from profiting off of investments or funding your business outside of a major stock exchange. Any American investments greater than 1 pittance must first be taxed by banks and stock brokers, then left in their control to fuck up.
Please encode 1080p h264 in real time on your main CPU then tell me it is efficent at doing so. Cellphone GPUs can do it while consuming less power than that required to run the backlight on the screen.
1: This is about decoding. 2: GPU-based MPEG 4 AVC encoders produce shitty, shitty, results. This is why the x264 devs refuse to port to Stream/OpenCL/CUDA/Direct Compute. 3: My CPU can encode x264 4.1 1920x1080p at about 40 fps using the "slower" preset. 2600k @ 4.5 GHz.
A specialized part is always going to trump the "jack of all trades". That's rather the point of having the specialize part.
Claims of this kind are especially funny considering that ARM CPUs simply don't have the ability to deal with the vast bulk of video content already out there. That's why these SoCs have special GPUs to begin with.
An ARM would be dead in the water without special purpose silicon for video decoding.
Not only is that not an axiomatic truth, a GPU is in no way a "specialized part" for decoding an MPEG stream.
It's critical, even with multi-core, if for no other reason than battery life.
Because firing up the GPU is such a good way to save power?
Unless you've got a review sample of the new Nvidia cards, your GPU is going to be on a larger process than your CPU and generally consume more power for the same amount of work. Power savings over GPU decoding of video content are a thing of the past, and have been for a long time. GPUs being massively parallel by nature doesn't help shit when CPUs have 4+ more cores and can selectively throttle frequency and voltage, and even power down, unused and underused cores.
Hardware decoding is useful for when the CPU can't do it, or the CPU has to ramp up to assblaster load to do so. Unless you're got a single core or first generation dual core piece of shit, this isn't the case.
RTFS, they intend to "construct a mathematical proof" to show that a given move, or number of moves, indicates cheating. This is impossible to prove because it's always possible that the human made those moves on his own. By the same logic that you can assume a human player can only go so deep in the search tree, you can't assume a human player to arrive at a move solely by use of an optimal or deterministic process. A meatbag can see any valid move and decide to play it for any reason. You can't mathematically prove cheating unless you see them cheating. For all you know the player is just lucky,.
Hey, if he's got the cash, why not retire? I would. Like a shot. Oh sure, do some guest starring roles here and there, perhaps do a Star Trek convention (as long as Grandma isn't dying). But if I've got a nice cottage on a private lake, with high speed internet, and a float plane, why not?
Um, where do you think those Xeons and Opterons are installed? In individual towers? 1U servers are basically the same as blades except you have a lot more smaller redundant parts (power supplies, fans, etc...).
Plus, you are griping about hardware that has been retired.
1U servers are basically not the same as blades, lol.
Are we still using blades? They save physical space but they add complexity, cost, points of failure, and the heat they generate is the same (or worse) per performance, all concentrated in a tiny box with higher cooling demands. New Xeons and Opterons have buttloads of CPU cores and then you just visualize shit. Why mess with blades?
Even a flat piece of plywood will get lift if you angle up (from horizontal) and move it forward with the higher edge being the leading edge. Lift is generated by air being redirected.
You can have contoured wings, flat angled wings, or wings that change attack angle or have adjustable flaps on the back that redirect the spilling air.
No. This is ass-covering. This is "oh shit, someone actually looked at my data, that I tried to hide by claiming my source was now incommunicado. WTF do I say now ?"
He presented stuff as fact. At no point did he say "This is mainly fiction", or "Some of this shit I just made up for dramatic effect", or *anything* in fact that would give the game away.
Even *if* we give him a pass on the monologues, there's no excuse for lying when asked direct questions by interviewers (multiple times, and not just TAL). Things like "did you meet the man with the hexane-poisened hand who was denied medical care and fired, that you claim to have met", answer: "yes"; reality: no.
He's a proven liar. He's been outed. Nothing he says has any credibility any more. Nothing. Which is a shame when it comes to raising the standards of living in China.
Simon.
In what way is he a proven liar? It's just as likely that Foxonn / the Chinese government rounded up a few workers, got their stories straight, and then tipped off TAL to Daisey's "lies". The follow up fact checking could simply have been fed a different story.
Why believe story B over story A? From your perspective, there is exactly as much evidence for one as there is for the other. Bottom line is that unless youw ork on Foxconn you don't know what goes on there. It boggles my mind that so many people are so eager to default to the "Foxconn is okay and better than most." conclusion with 0 evidence, yet they're so quick to skewer a Western company if they don't hand out raises to the unions who encourage workers to sabotage the line so they can work overtime.
The next XBOX will be teased at this E3, but nothing concrete will be shown. It will be revealed in the Fall, probably through some shitty alternate reality game culminating in some MTV / other mass media "first look" at the console.
You'll then get a drip feed of information until E3 2013, which will be the big blowout and release date / pricing announcement. In Fall of 2013 you will be able to buy it. Pick from 3 different SKUs priced at $399 (base shit), $499 (more storage, comes with Kinect 2) , and $599 (even more storage, Kinect 2, fancy headset, stupid shit you don't care about, possibly more Live! Gold credit).
If the average person is sat down and told how much of their life is spent in front of the TV or playing video games, I would expect them to have a breakdown. It's one thing to know "I watch TV for 2 hours a day" but it's completely different when you're told "In the last year you spent 732 hours (yay leap year) watching TV." It's bad enough when MMO's and Steam made it possible to see your playtime.:)
Just throw it at them as a percentage. The average person spends between 25 and 40% of their life sleeping.
A vast amount of data is useless unless you can filter it and analyze it to pick out the important information. Your brain already does this as you live your life.
Tracking other mundane shit is a pointless exercise in nerdsturbation.
So its either race with the rest of the rats in a rigged maze or you are "lazy"?
Personally, I think that America has devalued intelligence, knowledge and hard work to the point that I can hardly blame someone who opts out. The "problem" that the powers that be are struggling with is that they want well-educated, well-trained (on someone else's dime, thanks) employees to work for returns that people of these qualities can figure out don't justify the effort.
So they futz around and do other things, some productive, some not, but that at least match rewards to effort.
Make engineering (or teaching etc.) a job worthy of a quality person's time and you will get an abundance of quality people. Make these careers a drag that requires a tremendous amount of risk and personal investment with the near guarantee that you will be screwed over within 5 years and you will only get people who think they can game the system.
No, the options are:
Try real, real hard and be a big success.*
Try real, real hard and end up no better than the slugs, but with more stress and a heavier workload.
Realize that the odds of making it big are so fucking against you (for reasons that are mostly out of your control) that you may as well make the best out of the situation by being a slug. Do just enough to be average in education and career and you'll be all but guaranteed an average life. Everything from diet to tv watching to credit card balance. The market and the government cater to the masses, so short of winning the lottery the most efficient (quality of life vs effort put in) path through life is to be at the tip of the bell curve. There is very little realized benefit to paying your bills on time buying only as much house as you can afford and, in general, being responsible and productive. The average American has less than $5000 in savings. A responsible person (such as myself, I admit it, I'm one of the suckers) will have enough to cover 6 months of unemployment as well as some for unexpected major (but reasonable) expenses (health issues, auto repair, moving expenses, etc.). Someone just to the left of the bell curve sits on $0, or even a negative amount, but will spend and get just as much as someone just to the right of the bell curve who keeps $10,000 in a simple savings/checking account (since it's the most fluid). When the people a little on the left of the bell curve can rely on food stamps, WIC, section 8 housing, tax breaks, cheaper utilities, and the mass market pricing to their means (so they can all have a smart phone), they'll get about as much quality of life as someone a little on the right. So yes, people are lazy, but no, they're not wrong to be lazy. If anything, it's the hard workers that are the suckers.
*Odds of winning 10,000,000:1, if you have connections with someone who's already "made it" in the field.
Nope. There isn't anyone that won't try to have a rewarding career "because the government make sure they get a certain quality of life." If someone isn't trying to be successful in life "the government will take care of me" is certainly *never* the reason. Even the think tanks that spread this bullshit propaganda know it isn't true. No matter how many times it's repeated it still won't be true.
You typed this out knowing full well the utter sloth that pervades all of American society.
People are lazy and would rather slug through an average education and career knowing the government will make sure they get a certain average quality of life than try hard and likely fail, either because of competition or because the corporations have all colluded to decide not to reward valuable labor.
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Do you know anything about hosts files?
No, it's because the 'buy an application' model is completely broken. It barely works for walled gardens like Apple's app store. The idea that software is a 'product' you can put in a box and sell is the wrong way to be thinking about the world and creates an incentive system for thousands of scammers.
Joke or troll?
I yearn for the days where I could go and buy a box with a disc (or disk!) and manual.
They got money. I got software that worked. I got documentation! I could even install it multiple places, resell it, whatever.
Feels like hearing my grandpa talk about how at the age of 12 he would just run across town barefoot, with his friends, and their rifles, to go shoot at cans by the creek.
by tiny Gnomes, with silver hammers.
This is known, even by the most obtuse of my Aunts.
It is known, Khaleesi.
The House bill would allow individual investors to invest up to $10,000, or 10 percent of their annual income a year, whichever is less. The Senate bill would limit those investments to the greater of $2,000, or 5 percent of either annual income or net worth, if either figure is less than $100,000.
So for those of us in the $50k-$100k category that limits the investment to $2,500-$5000 instead of $5,000-$10000.
Doubles the number of investors needed.
A bit odd, that, since 10% of yearly income, while significant, isn't exactly something that should break you financially. Seems a bit overcautious.
It's not cautious, it's designed to prevent you from profiting off of investments or funding your business outside of a major stock exchange.
Any American investments greater than 1 pittance must first be taxed by banks and stock brokers, then left in their control to fuck up.
You're not unamerican, are you?
Please encode 1080p h264 in real time on your main CPU then tell me it is efficent at doing so. Cellphone GPUs can do it while consuming less power than that required to run the backlight on the screen.
1: This is about decoding.
2: GPU-based MPEG 4 AVC encoders produce shitty, shitty, results. This is why the x264 devs refuse to port to Stream/OpenCL/CUDA/Direct Compute.
3: My CPU can encode x264 4.1 1920x1080p at about 40 fps using the "slower" preset. 2600k @ 4.5 GHz.
You're funny.
A specialized part is always going to trump the "jack of all trades". That's rather the point of having the specialize part.
Claims of this kind are especially funny considering that ARM CPUs simply don't have the ability to deal with the vast bulk of video content already out there. That's why these SoCs have special GPUs to begin with.
An ARM would be dead in the water without special purpose silicon for video decoding.
Not only is that not an axiomatic truth, a GPU is in no way a "specialized part" for decoding an MPEG stream.
It's critical, even with multi-core, if for no other reason than battery life.
Because firing up the GPU is such a good way to save power?
Unless you've got a review sample of the new Nvidia cards, your GPU is going to be on a larger process than your CPU and generally consume more power for the same amount of work. Power savings over GPU decoding of video content are a thing of the past, and have been for a long time. GPUs being massively parallel by nature doesn't help shit when CPUs have 4+ more cores and can selectively throttle frequency and voltage, and even power down, unused and underused cores.
Hardware decoding is useful for when the CPU can't do it, or the CPU has to ramp up to assblaster load to do so. Unless you're got a single core or first generation dual core piece of shit, this isn't the case.
RTFS, they intend to "construct a mathematical proof" to show that a given move, or number of moves, indicates cheating.
This is impossible to prove because it's always possible that the human made those moves on his own. By the same logic that you can assume a human player can only go so deep in the search tree, you can't assume a human player to arrive at a move solely by use of an optimal or deterministic process. A meatbag can see any valid move and decide to play it for any reason. You can't mathematically prove cheating unless you see them cheating. For all you know the player is just lucky,.
Hey, if he's got the cash, why not retire? I would. Like a shot. Oh sure, do some guest starring roles here and there, perhaps do a Star Trek convention (as long as Grandma isn't dying). But if I've got a nice cottage on a private lake, with high speed internet, and a float plane, why not?
Not your MeeMaw!
That's how you solve all problems in Winders, right?
CTRL+SHIFT+ESCAPE is infinitely superior.
Um, where do you think those Xeons and Opterons are installed? In individual towers? 1U servers are basically the same as blades except you have a lot more smaller redundant parts (power supplies, fans, etc...).
Plus, you are griping about hardware that has been retired.
1U servers are basically not the same as blades, lol.
Are we still using blades? They save physical space but they add complexity, cost, points of failure, and the heat they generate is the same (or worse) per performance, all concentrated in a tiny box with higher cooling demands. New Xeons and Opterons have buttloads of CPU cores and then you just visualize shit. Why mess with blades?
Water doesn't need to be saved unless you're breaking apart the atoms.
Clean water, however, is a scarce resource in many places in the world.
And it's an abundant resource wherever grey water systems are put into place.
Except it wouldn't.
Even a flat piece of plywood will get lift if you angle up (from horizontal) and move it forward with the higher edge being the leading edge.
Lift is generated by air being redirected.
You can have contoured wings, flat angled wings, or wings that change attack angle or have adjustable flaps on the back that redirect the spilling air.
Water doesn't need to be saved unless you're breaking apart the atoms.
Seriously ? This is "informative".
No. This is ass-covering. This is "oh shit, someone actually looked at my data, that I tried to hide by claiming my source was now incommunicado. WTF do I say now ?"
He presented stuff as fact. At no point did he say "This is mainly fiction", or "Some of this shit I just made up for dramatic effect", or *anything* in fact that would give the game away.
Even *if* we give him a pass on the monologues, there's no excuse for lying when asked direct questions by interviewers (multiple times, and not just TAL). Things like "did you meet the man with the hexane-poisened hand who was denied medical care and fired, that you claim to have met", answer: "yes"; reality: no.
He's a proven liar. He's been outed. Nothing he says has any credibility any more. Nothing. Which is a shame when it comes to raising the standards of living in China.
Simon.
In what way is he a proven liar?
It's just as likely that Foxonn / the Chinese government rounded up a few workers, got their stories straight, and then tipped off TAL to Daisey's "lies".
The follow up fact checking could simply have been fed a different story.
Why believe story B over story A? From your perspective, there is exactly as much evidence for one as there is for the other. Bottom line is that unless youw ork on Foxconn you don't know what goes on there. It boggles my mind that so many people are so eager to default to the "Foxconn is okay and better than most." conclusion with 0 evidence, yet they're so quick to skewer a Western company if they don't hand out raises to the unions who encourage workers to sabotage the line so they can work overtime.
Tell that to sony and their ever-so-popular launch ps3.
You mean the $599 PS3.
$500 will be palatable to most of the first day crowd.
The $400 option will be there for the cheapos.
The next XBOX will be teased at this E3, but nothing concrete will be shown.
It will be revealed in the Fall, probably through some shitty alternate reality game culminating in some MTV / other mass media "first look" at the console.
You'll then get a drip feed of information until E3 2013, which will be the big blowout and release date / pricing announcement.
In Fall of 2013 you will be able to buy it. Pick from 3 different SKUs priced at $399 (base shit), $499 (more storage, comes with Kinect 2) , and $599 (even more storage, Kinect 2, fancy headset, stupid shit you don't care about, possibly more Live! Gold credit).
I guarantee it.
On the other hand, often you can only recognize the importance of some piece of information when you actually need it.
Actually, "extremely rarely", not "often".
Important stuff you tend to remember: Fire hot, food tasty, poop smelly, etc.
If the average person is sat down and told how much of their life is spent in front of the TV or playing video games, I would expect them to have a breakdown. It's one thing to know "I watch TV for 2 hours a day" but it's completely different when you're told "In the last year you spent 732 hours (yay leap year) watching TV." It's bad enough when MMO's and Steam made it possible to see your playtime. :)
Just throw it at them as a percentage.
The average person spends between 25 and 40% of their life sleeping.
A vast amount of data is useless unless you can filter it and analyze it to pick out the important information.
Your brain already does this as you live your life.
Tracking other mundane shit is a pointless exercise in nerdsturbation.
So its either race with the rest of the rats in a rigged maze or you are "lazy"?
Personally, I think that America has devalued intelligence, knowledge and hard work to the point that I can hardly blame someone who opts out. The "problem" that the powers that be are struggling with is that they want well-educated, well-trained (on someone else's dime, thanks) employees to work for returns that people of these qualities can figure out don't justify the effort.
So they futz around and do other things, some productive, some not, but that at least match rewards to effort.
Make engineering (or teaching etc.) a job worthy of a quality person's time and you will get an abundance of quality people. Make these careers a drag that requires a tremendous amount of risk and personal investment with the near guarantee that you will be screwed over within 5 years and you will only get people who think they can game the system.
No, the options are:
Try real, real hard and be a big success.*
Try real, real hard and end up no better than the slugs, but with more stress and a heavier workload.
Realize that the odds of making it big are so fucking against you (for reasons that are mostly out of your control) that you may as well make the best out of the situation by being a slug. Do just enough to be average in education and career and you'll be all but guaranteed an average life. Everything from diet to tv watching to credit card balance. The market and the government cater to the masses, so short of winning the lottery the most efficient (quality of life vs effort put in) path through life is to be at the tip of the bell curve. There is very little realized benefit to paying your bills on time buying only as much house as you can afford and, in general, being responsible and productive. The average American has less than $5000 in savings. A responsible person (such as myself, I admit it, I'm one of the suckers) will have enough to cover 6 months of unemployment as well as some for unexpected major (but reasonable) expenses (health issues, auto repair, moving expenses, etc.). Someone just to the left of the bell curve sits on $0, or even a negative amount, but will spend and get just as much as someone just to the right of the bell curve who keeps $10,000 in a simple savings/checking account (since it's the most fluid). When the people a little on the left of the bell curve can rely on food stamps, WIC, section 8 housing, tax breaks, cheaper utilities, and the mass market pricing to their means (so they can all have a smart phone), they'll get about as much quality of life as someone a little on the right. So yes, people are lazy, but no, they're not wrong to be lazy. If anything, it's the hard workers that are the suckers.
*Odds of winning 10,000,000:1, if you have connections with someone who's already "made it" in the field.
Nope. There isn't anyone that won't try to have a rewarding career "because the government make sure they get a certain quality of life." If someone isn't trying to be successful in life "the government will take care of me" is certainly *never* the reason. Even the think tanks that spread this bullshit propaganda know it isn't true. No matter how many times it's repeated it still won't be true.
You typed this out knowing full well the utter sloth that pervades all of American society.
People are lazy and would rather slug through an average education and career knowing the government will make sure they get a certain average quality of life than try hard and likely fail, either because of competition or because the corporations have all colluded to decide not to reward valuable labor.