Blade Runner is loosely based on DADoES. DADoES wasn't that good. Blade Runner is a tech noir masterpiece. Tech noir is probably the single best movie genre ever, and yet it is the genre with the fewest entries. The original Terminator is also a tech noir film. Hell - the club Sarah Connor runs to after calling the police is called Tech Noir. (It's on Pico.)
Thus the reason that SLI / CrossFire works. I'm not aware of any non-server motherboard that has multiple x16 slots on it.
The "anonymous poster" who submitted this doesn't know much about that which he writes. Also, could he load the thing up with his opinion more? Most people don't want to lug around a 10 pound "gaming" laptop when they only use it for gaming Lenovo x1?), and still be able to use it with a large display (I believe Apple just put out a 27" with Thunderbolt built in) and gaming power when they want to. Not hard to understand, but he seems to be having difficulty.
There are plenty of enthusiast (gamer) motherboards that have 4 PCIe x16 slots for quad crossfire / SLi. These typically are 8x slots electrically, and 16x slots physically, because the chipsets provide 32 lanes.
There are also enthusiast motherboards that offer 3 or 4 16x slots (physical and electrical). They do this by slapping on another PCIe controller.
And as for the core argument, you're wrong. Not only does bandwidth matter, it matters more and more when you start to use shit like PhysX/CUDA/Stream/DirectCompute in addition to traditional gaming shit. And beyond bandwidth, there's latency. Moving your processing power several meters away is just fucking stupid for anything that needs to make multiple trips. It's fine for a completed frame buffer, or for USB polling rates, or for ethernet, but not for processing data. There's a reason RAM is so close to the CPU. There's a reason you fill slots in the order of closest first.
Intel HD graphics has full video acceleration. I was running a Core i3 with integrated video for a while that ran full 1080p 264 video without breaking a sweat.
Not all hardware MPEG decoding solutions are equal. The more complex your video is, (average/peak bitrate, buffer size, number of sequential bframes, colorspace, etc.), the more likely your GPU is going to take a shit trying to decode it and fallback to the CPU. Intel's GPUs are shit, and still choke on any complex video files, or anything exceeding 1920x1080 in resolution.
Anybody else think thunderbolt is a technology looking for a solution?
USB is cheaper, almost as fast, and ubiquitous. There are probably literally millions of USB devices that work with a USB port.
Thunderbolt has one RAID box you can buy, and now VI is really stretching the bounds of credulity to come up with another use for it.
I'd bet a month's pay that Apple will start removing Thunderbolt ports from Macs in 2014
Absolutely correct. The existing version of Thunderbolt isn't even optical, so the speed benefit isn't there. It's the senseless quest for "one cable to rule them all" as usual.
If you want an external PCIe bus that you can attach all sorts of controllers to (like USB, Parallel, Serial, HDMI, Displayport, Assbadger, whatever), why not just use external PCIe?
All Thunderbolt is is external PCIe with a controller to fold in some common protocols (USB, HDMI, DisplayPort, etc.). Yet for some reason we need a new cable, a new name, a new port, the whole 9 yards.
Because patents are part of their valuation. Credits are obtained with patents as a security. They are assigned value, and kept as assets. If they become worthless over night, many companies will just be bankrupt in the morning.
If the entirety of your assets consist of credit, debt, rights, licenses, patents, copyrights, etc., then you are already bankrupt. Emperor's new robe and whatnot.
AMD used to own their own FAB. A few years ago they spun off Global Foundries into a separate company. They said the usual bullshit about being to be more agile, more focused, whatever. It was really a move to hide losses and to tell the investors "Hey, we're doing SOMETHING!" (in response to getting their asses handed to them during the Athlon II generation.)
Now AMD has to deal with an external company to get things fabbed. That same fab has to entertain orders from companies other than AMD (such as Intel). So if this FAB was good, AMD threw away its advantage. If the FAB was losing money for AMD, they could have produced memory, mobile chipsets, etc. in addition to CPUs and GPUs (to keep the FAB running at full capacity, thus making it profitable / not as lossy).
The fact that AMD sold it off means that AMD needed cash desperately and had no plans for growth. Then we had the Phenom II generation, where AMD got destroyed. And now we have the Bulldozer generation. Oh wait, we don't, because that's fucking still not here yet. Main reason for the Bulldozer delay? Yields not good enough to reach the desired clock speeds - that is, the FAB is fucking up. Gee, if they had their own FAB they would have been able to have much more control and would have been able to react to problems much more quickly.
Selling off their FAB was the dumbest thing AMD has ever done. Buying ATi was the smartest.
This movie retcons the original story. Therefore, this movie is wrong and bad by default. The fact that this movie is stupid and bad on its own merits doesn't help things.
The original story is that a disease killed off all the cats and dogs and such. So we took in apes as pets. Then we started using and treating them more and more as helpers, laborers, and eventually, slaves. Apes became more numerous, more intelligent, familiar with human tools and machinery, and angry. Humans became weak, dependent, and lazy. When the uprising started, humans were caught with their pants down facing a dumber force, but one that was numerous, in their homes, and physically superior.
This movie posits that a drug makes apes smart and people dumb, and that this new intelligence difference is enough for a few dozen apes to mount a successful, small-scale rebellion against modern day humans. The movie doesn't end with Earth being overrun by apes (of course not - you need room for a sequel to the prequel), but the idea that they get to the point they do is laughable enough.
The obvious solution is for the drug companies to buyout the water companies, and then simply filter water based on what drugs are in it. Then they can sell you Lo Estra Springs, Restless Lake Syndrome, Viagra Falls, etc. bottled water brands. Healthy people are stuck picking one and hoping for the best. But don't worry - if it causes any problems, you can just switch to the brand that treats whatever problem you just contracted.
All new home construction will have the big brands piped straight in. Your mixer tap won't be "hot" or "cold", it'll have 32 positions (16 for low-income housing) for you to choose from, allowing you to mix and match.
Existing homes will just have the estrogen water pumped in by default, to increase cancer rates and screw over males.
What would be truly interesting is if we the common people could check the percentage of ethanol when we fill up our gas tanks, or have it monitored within our gas tanks. Being able to tell at fill-up would actually tell you which gas station gives better gas. My money's on the chips being prohibitively expensive, though.
Loving it! Maybe you fucks will give up on that shit and develop apps for a real smart phone.
I'm hoping those fucks give up on developing "apps" and get back to developing applications. Software that does shit, software that runs on my local machine, software that comes with documentation, etc.
You have fudged data from the last century or so and think you've got a model that shows anything whatsoever? This is not to say AGW proponents are right or wrong- just that they haven't the foggiest as they've not honestly done any science with the subject yet.
Sigh... citation needed.
A real citation too. Not just speculation, potential for bias, alleged scientific misconduct. Show me the proof that the entire field is "fudging the data". And when I say proof, I do not mean other researchers trash talking, I mean actual data of fudged data. Because I suspect you are fudging it more than they are.
How about YOU cite a source where there is an actual hypothesis and repeatable experiment? How about YOU verify the accuracy and methodology of temperature measurements and estimates throughout Earth's history? How about YOU certify current temperature measurements?
The claim is that we need to live like hippies and give all our money to Al Gore and friends or THE ENTIRE EARTH WILL BE RUINED FOREVER. The very foundation of that claim, that the Earth is undergoing any sort of damaging change, needs to proven before you can even discuss what, if anything, can or should be done to stop it. But global warming isn't a scientific issue - it's a political issue, so you've picked your side (democrat) and decided to brand anyone who dares question the base claim as a retarded, selfish, greedy, narrow-minded republican.
The people who realize that the entire fucking thing is all political bullshit are most likely NOT republicans OR democrats, because people with brains hate both parties. They hate both parties because they're filled with mindless morons like you. Morons who want everything to be black or white, right or wrong, and are willing to determine such based on what side they've already chosen, instead of actually deciding on the merits of the issue.
Basically: It's all bullshit, and you'll continue to cry "citation needed" despite plenty of valid citations having been given, and despite the severe lack of valid citations supporting your view. People like you are enabling and encouraging the morons in government. People like you are ruining western countries right and left.
They're study found 5% are willing to spend $50 on in-app purchases.
They're study did not find: 5% are willing to spend $50 on a game. 5% are willing to spend $50 on in-app purchases for a single game. 5% are willing to spend $50 on in-app purchases on a regular basis.
Yes, but there are a whole lot more "gamers" on mobile phones than gamers in retails shops. So the 5% of gamers willing to pay $50 may very well be the same as the number of people actually paying for games in retail shops.
Flawed logic right here. You can't compare demographics like this because the study itself is already filtered to mobile gamers who are willing to spend money - a small subset of the population of mobile users, or mobile gamers.
I'd have left the button, but changed the functionality to display a message saying "Sorry, this feature no longer works. You bought an iWhatever, so you'll have to pay 30% more than everybody else because Apple wants their cut."
But then again, I have a tendency to be a dick when people tell me I can't do something.
Math. How does it work? If Apple wants a 30% cut, and an company wants $X for their application across the board, then they have to adjust the price upward to raise the.7X they get (after apple takes.3X) back to 1X.
You have three way of looking at this:.7X + Y = 1X. Y =.3X. Increase the price by.3X, or 30%. This is wrong, as Apple will tax your price increase by 30%..7X * Y = 1X. Y = 10/7. Increase the price by a factor of 3/7 (multiply by 10/7). This is correct, and results in a 42.857142...% price increase. 10/7 (price to Apple users) * 7/10 (your cut after the Apple tax) = 1.
You can round (assuming you haven't rounded down any fractions of a cent yet) and say your price is 43% more for Apple users. Not just 30%.
The third way of thinking about it is a flat +30%, then realizing you get taxed on that and doing a +30% of the 30%, and then +30% of 30% of 30%,... for an infinite summation of the form SUM(n = 1, n -> inf) X *.3^n... which is the same as 10/7 X.
(is FAT32 still used for these high >4GB densities?)
AFAIK, Windows does not like NTFS on a "removable" drive, so unless you make the CF card appear as a hard drive (which would be OK for Windows), you have to use FAT or FAT32.
AFAIK you're wrong. I've formatted plenty of external hard drives / flash drives as FAT32, NTFS, and exFAT under Windows.
At least back in the XP days, swap space ("the paging file") was used heavily. Around the time 1 GB memory sticks became affordable, I found that turning off the paging file completely resulted in a massive speedup. I have no idea if recent Windows versions work the same way, but it wouldn't surprise me. Ubuntu (as mentioned below) has swappiness set very high by default (swappiness = how aggressively the OS tries to swap things out). I usually set it to something like 10 (don't swap unless memory is mostly full).
Windows will write just about everything to swap. The writes should be cached / whatever so they don't get in the way of you doing shit. If you do run out of memory, then you don't have to wait for a bunch of shit to write to disk before you can toss shit out of RAM to make room for more shit.
If Google+ is to succeed, they need to stop with the invite-only nonsense. A social network is only as strong as its user-base, and Google+ remains questionable until it has enough people on it to make it worthwhile.
You've got it all backwards. If Google+ was wide open, no one would give a shit. "Meh. All my friends are on Facebook." By artificially making Google+ "exclusive", people want to get in on that shit to feel special. And once they get in on that shit, they'll spam invites to all of their friends on facebook so other people can recognize how special they are.
But it isn't a lie. It's a fact. Billions of dollars are being poured into climate research by tax-payers. That is an order of magnitude more than corporations are spending on the sceptical viewpoint. None of that money would be available to these institutions and researchers if the conclusion was, "climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 is ~1C and in other news, increasing CO2 makes plants grow more vigorously". Al Gore has made millions from this fraud. But you people are completely blind to these things.
I love how your perfectly accurate, sensible, and truthful post was modded troll.
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Blade Runner is loosely based on DADoES.
DADoES wasn't that good. Blade Runner is a tech noir masterpiece. Tech noir is probably the single best movie genre ever, and yet it is the genre with the fewest entries. The original Terminator is also a tech noir film. Hell - the club Sarah Connor runs to after calling the police is called Tech Noir. (It's on Pico.)
Thus the reason that SLI / CrossFire works. I'm not aware of any non-server motherboard that has multiple x16 slots on it.
The "anonymous poster" who submitted this doesn't know much about that which he writes. Also, could he load the thing up with his opinion more? Most people don't want to lug around a 10 pound "gaming" laptop when they only use it for gaming Lenovo x1?), and still be able to use it with a large display (I believe Apple just put out a 27" with Thunderbolt built in) and gaming power when they want to. Not hard to understand, but he seems to be having difficulty.
There are plenty of enthusiast (gamer) motherboards that have 4 PCIe x16 slots for quad crossfire / SLi.
These typically are 8x slots electrically, and 16x slots physically, because the chipsets provide 32 lanes.
There are also enthusiast motherboards that offer 3 or 4 16x slots (physical and electrical). They do this by slapping on another PCIe controller.
And as for the core argument, you're wrong. Not only does bandwidth matter, it matters more and more when you start to use shit like PhysX/CUDA/Stream/DirectCompute in addition to traditional gaming shit. And beyond bandwidth, there's latency. Moving your processing power several meters away is just fucking stupid for anything that needs to make multiple trips. It's fine for a completed frame buffer, or for USB polling rates, or for ethernet, but not for processing data. There's a reason RAM is so close to the CPU. There's a reason you fill slots in the order of closest first.
Intel HD graphics has full video acceleration. I was running a Core i3 with integrated video for a while that ran full 1080p 264 video without breaking a sweat.
Not all hardware MPEG decoding solutions are equal. The more complex your video is, (average/peak bitrate, buffer size, number of sequential bframes, colorspace, etc.), the more likely your GPU is going to take a shit trying to decode it and fallback to the CPU. Intel's GPUs are shit, and still choke on any complex video files, or anything exceeding 1920x1080 in resolution.
Thunderbolt is a PCIe bus on a cable. USB isn't even playing the same game, let alone in the same league.
External PCIe is a PCIe bus on a cable.
Thunderbolt is playing the same game and acting like it hasn't been around for years.
http://www.ioi.com.tw/images/products/cat_113/l_1130004_01.jpg
Anybody else think thunderbolt is a technology looking for a solution?
USB is cheaper, almost as fast, and ubiquitous. There are probably literally millions of USB devices that work with a USB port.
Thunderbolt has one RAID box you can buy, and now VI is really stretching the bounds of credulity to come up with another use for it.
I'd bet a month's pay that Apple will start removing Thunderbolt ports from Macs in 2014
Absolutely correct. The existing version of Thunderbolt isn't even optical, so the speed benefit isn't there.
It's the senseless quest for "one cable to rule them all" as usual.
If you want an external PCIe bus that you can attach all sorts of controllers to (like USB, Parallel, Serial, HDMI, Displayport, Assbadger, whatever), why not just use external PCIe?
http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/news/2008-06/ati_xgp_x8_connector.png
http://www.ixbt.com/video3/images/guide/pcie_ext.jpg
http://www.ioi.com.tw/images/products/cat_113/l_1130004_01.jpg
All Thunderbolt is is external PCIe with a controller to fold in some common protocols (USB, HDMI, DisplayPort, etc.). Yet for some reason we need a new cable, a new name, a new port, the whole 9 yards.
Because patents are part of their valuation. Credits are obtained with patents as a security. They are assigned value, and kept as assets. If they become worthless over night, many companies will just be bankrupt in the morning.
If the entirety of your assets consist of credit, debt, rights, licenses, patents, copyrights, etc., then you are already bankrupt.
Emperor's new robe and whatnot.
Isn't AMD's single biggest weakness a lack of fabrication facilities?
No:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GlobalFoundries
AMD used to own their own FAB.
A few years ago they spun off Global Foundries into a separate company. They said the usual bullshit about being to be more agile, more focused, whatever.
It was really a move to hide losses and to tell the investors "Hey, we're doing SOMETHING!" (in response to getting their asses handed to them during the Athlon II generation.)
Now AMD has to deal with an external company to get things fabbed. That same fab has to entertain orders from companies other than AMD (such as Intel). So if this FAB was good, AMD threw away its advantage. If the FAB was losing money for AMD, they could have produced memory, mobile chipsets, etc. in addition to CPUs and GPUs (to keep the FAB running at full capacity, thus making it profitable / not as lossy).
The fact that AMD sold it off means that AMD needed cash desperately and had no plans for growth. Then we had the Phenom II generation, where AMD got destroyed. And now we have the Bulldozer generation. Oh wait, we don't, because that's fucking still not here yet. Main reason for the Bulldozer delay? Yields not good enough to reach the desired clock speeds - that is, the FAB is fucking up. Gee, if they had their own FAB they would have been able to have much more control and would have been able to react to problems much more quickly.
Selling off their FAB was the dumbest thing AMD has ever done. Buying ATi was the smartest.
Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within
No, it's not anime / anime-like. That's Final Fantasy VII - Advent Children.
This movie retcons the original story.
Therefore, this movie is wrong and bad by default.
The fact that this movie is stupid and bad on its own merits doesn't help things.
The original story is that a disease killed off all the cats and dogs and such. So we took in apes as pets. Then we started using and treating them more and more as helpers, laborers, and eventually, slaves. Apes became more numerous, more intelligent, familiar with human tools and machinery, and angry. Humans became weak, dependent, and lazy. When the uprising started, humans were caught with their pants down facing a dumber force, but one that was numerous, in their homes, and physically superior.
This movie posits that a drug makes apes smart and people dumb, and that this new intelligence difference is enough for a few dozen apes to mount a successful, small-scale rebellion against modern day humans. The movie doesn't end with Earth being overrun by apes (of course not - you need room for a sequel to the prequel), but the idea that they get to the point they do is laughable enough.
I give it a Triple F Minus.
The obvious solution is for the drug companies to buyout the water companies, and then simply filter water based on what drugs are in it.
Then they can sell you Lo Estra Springs, Restless Lake Syndrome, Viagra Falls, etc. bottled water brands.
Healthy people are stuck picking one and hoping for the best. But don't worry - if it causes any problems, you can just switch to the brand that treats whatever problem you just contracted.
All new home construction will have the big brands piped straight in. Your mixer tap won't be "hot" or "cold", it'll have 32 positions (16 for low-income housing) for you to choose from, allowing you to mix and match.
Existing homes will just have the estrogen water pumped in by default, to increase cancer rates and screw over males.
21 millimeters? I demand at least 10 mm in key travel alone!
What would be truly interesting is if we the common people could check the percentage of ethanol when we fill up our gas tanks, or have it monitored within our gas tanks. Being able to tell at fill-up would actually tell you which gas station gives better gas. My money's on the chips being prohibitively expensive, though.
And the shitty gas with shitty corn isn't?
Still need to research and read all the articles, but would be cool to correlate the temperature and melt events.
What would be cool is a mission to Mars with a man, a shovel, and a box of Ziploc bags.
Most landowners got conned out of their mineral rights in the 60s and 70s.
Loving it! Maybe you fucks will give up on that shit and develop apps for a real smart phone.
I'm hoping those fucks give up on developing "apps" and get back to developing applications.
Software that does shit, software that runs on my local machine, software that comes with documentation, etc.
But alas, those days are over.
20% of 0 = 0
From TF- no, wait, from the second sentence of the summary:
"their terms say that they pay developers 20% of the asking price of an app, even when they give it away free."
RTFS I guess?
And when the asking price is 0...
You have fudged data from the last century or so and think you've got a model that shows anything whatsoever? This is not to say AGW proponents are right or wrong- just that they haven't the foggiest as they've not honestly done any science with the subject yet.
Sigh... citation needed.
A real citation too. Not just speculation, potential for bias, alleged scientific misconduct. Show me the proof that the entire field is "fudging the data". And when I say proof, I do not mean other researchers trash talking, I mean actual data of fudged data. Because I suspect you are fudging it more than they are.
How about YOU cite a source where there is an actual hypothesis and repeatable experiment?
How about YOU verify the accuracy and methodology of temperature measurements and estimates throughout Earth's history?
How about YOU certify current temperature measurements?
The claim is that we need to live like hippies and give all our money to Al Gore and friends or THE ENTIRE EARTH WILL BE RUINED FOREVER.
The very foundation of that claim, that the Earth is undergoing any sort of damaging change, needs to proven before you can even discuss what, if anything, can or should be done to stop it. But global warming isn't a scientific issue - it's a political issue, so you've picked your side (democrat) and decided to brand anyone who dares question the base claim as a retarded, selfish, greedy, narrow-minded republican.
The people who realize that the entire fucking thing is all political bullshit are most likely NOT republicans OR democrats, because people with brains hate both parties. They hate both parties because they're filled with mindless morons like you. Morons who want everything to be black or white, right or wrong, and are willing to determine such based on what side they've already chosen, instead of actually deciding on the merits of the issue.
Basically: It's all bullshit, and you'll continue to cry "citation needed" despite plenty of valid citations having been given, and despite the severe lack of valid citations supporting your view. People like you are enabling and encouraging the morons in government. People like you are ruining western countries right and left.
They're study found 5% are willing to spend $50 on in-app purchases.
They're study did not find:
5% are willing to spend $50 on a game.
5% are willing to spend $50 on in-app purchases for a single game.
5% are willing to spend $50 on in-app purchases on a regular basis.
Yes, but there are a whole lot more "gamers" on mobile phones than gamers in retails shops. So the 5% of gamers willing to pay $50 may very well be the same as the number of people actually paying for games in retail shops.
Flawed logic right here.
You can't compare demographics like this because the study itself is already filtered to mobile gamers who are willing to spend money - a small subset of the population of mobile users, or mobile gamers.
I'd have left the button, but changed the functionality to display a message saying "Sorry, this feature no longer works. You bought an iWhatever, so you'll have to pay 30% more than everybody else because Apple wants their cut."
But then again, I have a tendency to be a dick when people tell me I can't do something.
Math. How does it work? .7X they get (after apple takes .3X) back to 1X.
If Apple wants a 30% cut, and an company wants $X for their application across the board, then they have to adjust the price upward to raise the
You have three way of looking at this: .7X + Y = 1X. Y = .3X. Increase the price by .3X, or 30%. This is wrong, as Apple will tax your price increase by 30%. .7X * Y = 1X. Y = 10/7. Increase the price by a factor of 3/7 (multiply by 10/7). This is correct, and results in a 42.857142...% price increase.
10/7 (price to Apple users) * 7/10 (your cut after the Apple tax) = 1.
You can round (assuming you haven't rounded down any fractions of a cent yet) and say your price is 43% more for Apple users. Not just 30%.
The third way of thinking about it is a flat +30%, then realizing you get taxed on that and doing a +30% of the 30%, and then +30% of 30% of 30%, ... for an infinite summation of the form SUM(n = 1, n -> inf) X * .3^n ... which is the same as 10/7 X.
(is FAT32 still used for these high >4GB densities?)
AFAIK, Windows does not like NTFS on a "removable" drive, so unless you make the CF card appear as a hard drive (which would be OK for Windows), you have to use FAT or FAT32.
AFAIK you're wrong.
I've formatted plenty of external hard drives / flash drives as FAT32, NTFS, and exFAT under Windows.
At least back in the XP days, swap space ("the paging file") was used heavily. Around the time 1 GB memory sticks became affordable, I found that turning off the paging file completely resulted in a massive speedup. I have no idea if recent Windows versions work the same way, but it wouldn't surprise me. Ubuntu (as mentioned below) has swappiness set very high by default (swappiness = how aggressively the OS tries to swap things out). I usually set it to something like 10 (don't swap unless memory is mostly full).
Windows will write just about everything to swap. The writes should be cached / whatever so they don't get in the way of you doing shit.
If you do run out of memory, then you don't have to wait for a bunch of shit to write to disk before you can toss shit out of RAM to make room for more shit.
If Google+ is to succeed, they need to stop with the invite-only nonsense. A social network is only as strong as its user-base, and Google+ remains questionable until it has enough people on it to make it worthwhile.
You've got it all backwards.
If Google+ was wide open, no one would give a shit. "Meh. All my friends are on Facebook."
By artificially making Google+ "exclusive", people want to get in on that shit to feel special. And once they get in on that shit, they'll spam invites to all of their friends on facebook so other people can recognize how special they are.
I love how it takes an AC to point out the blatantly obvious.
But it isn't a lie. It's a fact. Billions of dollars are being poured into climate research by tax-payers. That is an order of magnitude more than corporations are spending on the sceptical viewpoint. None of that money would be available to these institutions and researchers if the conclusion was, "climate sensitivity to a doubling of CO2 is ~1C and in other news, increasing CO2 makes plants grow more vigorously". Al Gore has made millions from this fraud. But you people are completely blind to these things.
I love how your perfectly accurate, sensible, and truthful post was modded troll.