I thought this was the expected result. Throw a bunch of matter about, and gravity will make quick work of it. The areas of slightly higher concentration will quickly converge. Only the bits that are relatively balanced between several large points of gravity will avoid assimilation for a while.
Essentially, given a nearly uniform distribution of matter, the more massive an object is, the older it tends to be.
It makes sense that black holes, as a class of objects, tend to be older than stars, planetoids, etc. because objects that are more massive are the result of more (cumulative) collisions. Early collisions, in a nearly-even playing field of cosmic dust, are more significant (with regards to gravity and increasing the rate at which other objects are pulled in) than later collisions.
Having seen this behavior a thousand times, I was rushing to agree, but then it occurred to me that you're overcomplicating it.
Just because they're Pavlonially excited doesn't mean they know all the nuances of why they're excited.
What, exactly, does "Pavlonially excited" mean? Pro tip: It means excited.
Pavlov's famous experiment only showed that dogs can learn. It in no way, at all, showed that the reaction was subconscious or involuntary.
It's one of the worst "experiments" of all time, because everyone jumps to conclusions it simply does not lead to. This bullshit is up there with the whole frogs in a boiling pot of water anecdote. Frogs will jump out whether or not you raise the temperature quickly or gradually.
HDCP comes in various flavors, i.e. new versions bump the security up a notch. You've been able to get strippers for years, but they aren't cheap, so kid groups that rip these things aren't going to be doing it.
Audio is already watermark protected by Cinavia on some blu-rays. This means even if you rip the data, it won't play on an unauthorized device, like media players. They demand the source is a stamped BR disc rather than file. Nice eh?. Early BR players ignore it, but later ones and the PS3 honor it. Once this is in PC hardware, you can be sure they'll ignore it too.
Consumers don't care. When they hit a protection scheme that's not working, they'll go out and buy the latest $whatever.
No. No no no no no no. You have not been able to get HDCP strippers for years. Every single fucking HDCP remover sold before the master key generation matrix was released is 100% legal, legitimate, and sanctioned. Every single one of them gives you an imperfect stream (either analog, or downrezzed then uprezzed digital).
Not a single fucking one performed the task pirates wanted - removing HDCP and passing the original stream through without degradation. For the love of fuck, please stop perpetuating this myth.
these guys really need to try and do something like Steam and offer their stuff at reasonable prices if they want to protect their profits. I am surprised shareholders are not giving them hell for the insistence on crap business practices that are proven time and time again to not work.
Uh, they've been proven time and time again to work. Bullshit feature is touted about. People talk about it. Deals between content creators are hinted at. People buy the buzz. Nothing of any substance materializes. Chips are still sold. Profits still come out of the wazoo.
No, about $250. I consider it an investment to get a good processor, but I am a gamer, and I heavily overclock. (i7 930 @ 4.2 right now). It's really a matter of how much money you're willing to spend on that performance. Since I compile applications (on Windows; I program), play video games, and do video encoding, I see big benefits in paying a few bucks more and getting better performance.
If by "a few bucks" you mean hundreds, then sure. Intel changes their socket, with no forward or backward compatibility, every full moon. AMD changes their socket much less frequently and provides compatibility out the ass. You always have an upgrade path with AMD. With Intel, your upgrade path to a new generation is always a new motherboard AND a new CPU. This isn't so bad on the surface, but Intel based mobos cost more, Intel CPUs cost more, and Intel mobos with a decent chipset (i.e., not just the reference Intel chipset, but a bunch of other Via/AMD/Nvidia/Realtek/etc. chipsets for audio, networking, USB 3.0, RAID, PCI Express, etc.) cost more on top of more.
As far as overclocking goes, anyone who spends money on a non-stock cooler isn't saving anything. A stock cooler and going for the next step up CPU is always a better option. Non-stock coolers are for when your fan dies, you require a certain form factor or noise level, you have the top of the line $1,000 CPU and you want to squeeze more out of it for ePeen, or if you want to "upgrade" on the cheap after the fact but don't have the cash for a new CPU.
Both AMD and Intel now have automatic overclocking features that are, let's face it, smarter than any 13 year old tweaking their shit in BIOS and posting about it on the internet (i.e., you). Any overclocking results listed by any review sites are a joke. Unless the site bought the CPU at retail, anonymously, it's a cherry picked sample.
Guess what - I play video games, and do video encoding too! And yes, I overclock too! I see big benefits in paying much less and getting nearly the same performance.
Intel's CPUs lose to AMD in terms of bang/buck. Yes, Intel just released new chips that beat AMDs chips handily. But AMD will release their new shit soon, and we'll be at the same point we were two weeks ago: The stupid spending double to get 10% more real-world performance, the smart spending far less to get nearly the same performance in real-world use. Both sides are happy, but only one side features a much larger percentage of pubescent fucks who wave their specs around like it's their dick, telling others that they're special, demanding users and they need the extra performance.
It has to be decrypted to be displayed. There is always a way to tap into that.
At the cost of millions of dollars to put probes directly into the chip.
HELLO! McFLY! Didn't you see the story a few months ago about how the HDCP master key generation matrix is available? HDCP is useless. The analog hole is back, and this time it's digital, baby.
If you think that the FDA is looking out for the interests of the American people, then you obviously believe the EPA does the same.
I'm calling B.S. here. I know several people who work for the FDA and they ARE looking out for the interests of the American people. They are in the difficult position of assessing efficacy of drugs and other therapies while identifying and monitoring for unexpected side effects.
You want to impugn the FDA? Show data.
Provenge. Google it.
See how the FDA intentionally and maliciously held back a life-extending, even life-saving, effective, and safe prostate cancer treatment, contrary to any and all expert recommendations.
You could improve your copy-pasta troll by changing "Sh'eet, must be da law" to "Sh'eet, must be da po-po", which rhymes with "my sister wif her gurlfriend, my brother wif some ho.".
Overpopulation? Forced? You really can't imagine one group leaving home to colonize somewhere else without being "forced" to do so? Perhaps you should review your history books.
Mercury has none of the things people in the past sought.
No air. No water. No food. No amenities. No freedom. You're going to be trapped in a small bubble forever, and you'll be the slave of whatever mega corp or government back on Earth sent you there.
They're fine until units break and they're unrepairable. Sony won't be able send back refurb units with the same functionality. Offering "slim upgrades" isn't going to help. Linux support was ripped out by Sony, and there aren't many units available that have it. The US airforce's cluster will gradually die, or they'll get new machines with CFW, which may well be illegal.
So much stupid here. The PS3 hardware's life span far exceeds the cluster's usefulness. By the time they're hit with hardware failures, they'll have a bigger and better cluster using whatever newfangled cpu some company is selling at a loss/near cost. Sony is absolutely able to send back refurb or new units with OtherOS enabled. They just don't. If the military phones them up and asks for OtherOS-enabled PS3s, they'll get them. There is no hardware difference between the fats and the slims that has anything to do with OtherOS.
None of these are 'laws', where you get punished by breaking them. Not Moore's, not Godwin's, etc. They are more 'generalizations' than anything else. Moore's, especially, could be more acccurately terms an 'observation', as that's what was going on at the time he made it. Everyone repeat after me: "Moore's Observation"
There we go.
Even "Moore's Average" would be more accurate.
"Law" comes from early germanic's "lagan", which means to put or to lay. Thus a law is something that is in place.
Since this is shitdot, I'll post the shittipedia definition: "The term law is often used to refer to universal principles that describe the fundamental nature of something, to universal properties and relationships between things, or to descriptions that purport to explain these principles and relationships."
Moore's law is accurate. Whether or not it's correct is another matter. So far, it pretty much has been.
CharlieMopps's Law(TM): The quantity of articles posted to Slashdot that mention Moore's Law will approximately double every time Intel or AMD come out with a new processor.
I salute you for telling it like it is, and for using "CharlieMopps's Law" to refer to a law that belongs to CharlieMopps. The ess after the apostrophe brings me pleasure.
"Moore... predicted that computer processing power would double roughly every 18 months. Or maybe he said 12 months. Or was it 24 months? Actually, nowhere in the article did Moore actually spell out that famous declaration, nor does the word "law" even appear in the article at all."
"The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year (see graph on next page). Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase."
Moore's law is about minimum cost per unit. In traditional manufacturing, this is volume. In the IC world, component volume is simply chip density, but unit volume is affected adversely by chip density (complexity up, yields down). Thus, there is a balancing act. Moore's law is about the minimum, the optimal point on the curve from a manufacturer's standpoint.
This minimum has traditionally directly correlated with performance. Why? Because we tend to add components that end up doing work.
No, Moore didn't call it a law. It was an observation, and a prediction. As it proved to hold true over the next several decades, people referred to it as a law.
And it continues to hold true.
So please shut the fuck and stop asking about it every 6 months. Moore's law isn't about to be broken. Tablets aren't replacing desktop PCs any time soon. The cloud isn't changing the face of computing as we know it. This isn't the year of the Linux desktop. That breakthrough in solar panel efficiency will never materialize. Batteries still suck ass and there are no signs of any significant improvement on the horizon.
If you've got no news to report, just throw up "Not much news today. People are still talking about those new Intel CPUs, though.".
and if geohot hadnt done the linux hack you wouldnt have shit so shut the fuck up and go back to your wii you owe and every1 else in the scene owe everthing to geohot
Obvious troll is obvious, but:
GeoHot didn't do a "linux hack". All GeoHot did was physically violate RAM. 1: That's not a "hack" anymore than drilling into a lock is "picking" it. 2: It has nothing to do with Linux. 3: It was completely unreliable. 4: It was completely useless from a practical standpoint. 5: It was completely useless from a reverse engineering standpoint - you couldn't control what memory you were getting, when you were getting it, or whether or not you'd get it at all. 6: The fail0verflow guys mentioned it in their presentation when highlighting the timeline and progression of things. Their presentation was approximately 80% about "Piss off hackers, and they'll try to hack you, LOL OWNED.".
No, this is the metldr private key. fail0verflow wasn't able to find that one as it required a metldr exploit
No. fail0verflow had no interest in getting that key. Why? Because they're about homebrew, which they can already do, and they're (officially, at least) against piracy, which the metldr key would simplify.
There was a question asked about this at the end of their presentation. They basically said "Yeah, we don't have that key - we don't give a shit about it. Of course you can get it using the same method we just told you about.".
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Yes.
GeoHot has done nothing of note with the PS3. His memory "hack" was a joke - HEY GUYS IF I WIRE MY MICROWAVE OVEN TO THE PS3, I CAN DUMP SOME MEMORY! Random memory! About 10% of the time!
Later he posted videos in which he vaguely implied he had another "hack" in progress that would allow custom firmware. Of course, all he was doing was changing an innocuous text string and letting the internet idiots speculate out the ass.
And now all he has done is copy the same basic math to find k when he was shown the slide about how Sony used the same number all the time instead of using a random one.
Dude needs to stick to the iDevices - he clearly has no idea what to do when faced with an actual obstacle.
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What?
I thought this was the expected result.
Throw a bunch of matter about, and gravity will make quick work of it. The areas of slightly higher concentration will quickly converge. Only the bits that are relatively balanced between several large points of gravity will avoid assimilation for a while.
Essentially, given a nearly uniform distribution of matter, the more massive an object is, the older it tends to be.
It makes sense that black holes, as a class of objects, tend to be older than stars, planetoids, etc. because objects that are more massive are the result of more (cumulative) collisions. Early collisions, in a nearly-even playing field of cosmic dust, are more significant (with regards to gravity and increasing the rate at which other objects are pulled in) than later collisions.
Having seen this behavior a thousand times, I was rushing to agree, but then it occurred to me that you're overcomplicating it.
Just because they're Pavlonially excited doesn't mean they know all the nuances of why they're excited.
What, exactly, does "Pavlonially excited" mean?
Pro tip: It means excited.
Pavlov's famous experiment only showed that dogs can learn. It in no way, at all, showed that the reaction was subconscious or involuntary.
It's one of the worst "experiments" of all time, because everyone jumps to conclusions it simply does not lead to. This bullshit is up there with the whole frogs in a boiling pot of water anecdote. Frogs will jump out whether or not you raise the temperature quickly or gradually.
Are there some animals in captivity that show signs of collective rebellions ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYTlkwUBwIA
If I were inclined to buy Episodes 1-3 (which I'm not.. well, maybe 3, it was okay)
Your definition of "okay" includes the following.
You are so beautiful.
It's only because I'm so in love.
No, no! It's because I'm so in love with you!
So love has blinded you?
That's not what I meant!
Please reevaluate your definition of the word "okay".
HDCP comes in various flavors, i.e. new versions bump the security up a notch. You've been able to get strippers for years, but they aren't cheap, so kid groups that rip these things aren't going to be doing it.
Audio is already watermark protected by Cinavia on some blu-rays. This means even if you rip the data, it won't play on an unauthorized device, like media players. They demand the source is a stamped BR disc rather than file. Nice eh?. Early BR players ignore it, but later ones and the PS3 honor it. Once this is in PC hardware, you can be sure they'll ignore it too.
Consumers don't care. When they hit a protection scheme that's not working, they'll go out and buy the latest $whatever.
No.
No no no no no no.
You have not been able to get HDCP strippers for years. Every single fucking HDCP remover sold before the master key generation matrix was released is 100% legal, legitimate, and sanctioned. Every single one of them gives you an imperfect stream (either analog, or downrezzed then uprezzed digital).
Not a single fucking one performed the task pirates wanted - removing HDCP and passing the original stream through without degradation. For the love of fuck, please stop perpetuating this myth.
these guys really need to try and do something like Steam and offer their stuff at reasonable prices if they want to protect their profits. I am surprised shareholders are not giving them hell for the insistence on crap business practices that are proven time and time again to not work.
Uh, they've been proven time and time again to work.
Bullshit feature is touted about.
People talk about it.
Deals between content creators are hinted at.
People buy the buzz.
Nothing of any substance materializes.
Chips are still sold.
Profits still come out of the wazoo.
Intel is the king of buzz words.
No, about $250. I consider it an investment to get a good processor, but I am a gamer, and I heavily overclock. (i7 930 @ 4.2 right now). It's really a matter of how much money you're willing to spend on that performance. Since I compile applications (on Windows; I program), play video games, and do video encoding, I see big benefits in paying a few bucks more and getting better performance.
If by "a few bucks" you mean hundreds, then sure.
Intel changes their socket, with no forward or backward compatibility, every full moon.
AMD changes their socket much less frequently and provides compatibility out the ass. You always have an upgrade path with AMD.
With Intel, your upgrade path to a new generation is always a new motherboard AND a new CPU. This isn't so bad on the surface, but Intel based mobos cost more, Intel CPUs cost more, and Intel mobos with a decent chipset (i.e., not just the reference Intel chipset, but a bunch of other Via/AMD/Nvidia/Realtek/etc. chipsets for audio, networking, USB 3.0, RAID, PCI Express, etc.) cost more on top of more.
As far as overclocking goes, anyone who spends money on a non-stock cooler isn't saving anything. A stock cooler and going for the next step up CPU is always a better option. Non-stock coolers are for when your fan dies, you require a certain form factor or noise level, you have the top of the line $1,000 CPU and you want to squeeze more out of it for ePeen, or if you want to "upgrade" on the cheap after the fact but don't have the cash for a new CPU.
Both AMD and Intel now have automatic overclocking features that are, let's face it, smarter than any 13 year old tweaking their shit in BIOS and posting about it on the internet (i.e., you). Any overclocking results listed by any review sites are a joke. Unless the site bought the CPU at retail, anonymously, it's a cherry picked sample.
Guess what - I play video games, and do video encoding too! And yes, I overclock too! I see big benefits in paying much less and getting nearly the same performance.
Intel's CPUs lose to AMD in terms of bang/buck. Yes, Intel just released new chips that beat AMDs chips handily. But AMD will release their new shit soon, and we'll be at the same point we were two weeks ago: The stupid spending double to get 10% more real-world performance, the smart spending far less to get nearly the same performance in real-world use. Both sides are happy, but only one side features a much larger percentage of pubescent fucks who wave their specs around like it's their dick, telling others that they're special, demanding users and they need the extra performance.
It has to be decrypted to be displayed. There is always a way to tap into that.
At the cost of millions of dollars to put probes directly into the chip.
HELLO! McFLY!
Didn't you see the story a few months ago about how the HDCP master key generation matrix is available?
HDCP is useless. The analog hole is back, and this time it's digital, baby.
If you think that the FDA is looking out for the interests of the American people, then you obviously believe the EPA does the same.
I'm calling B.S. here. I know several people who work for the FDA and they ARE looking out for the interests of the American people. They are in the difficult position of assessing efficacy of drugs and other therapies while identifying and monitoring for unexpected side effects.
You want to impugn the FDA? Show data.
Provenge.
Google it.
See how the FDA intentionally and maliciously held back a life-extending, even life-saving, effective, and safe prostate cancer treatment, contrary to any and all expert recommendations.
Sony is not a foreign company, it is an international company.
And yes, companies that do business in the US bend over for the US government at the slightest hint of pressure all the time.
Or have you forgotten about the whole WikiLeaks thing?
Obviously you would swap the lines, and probably rework "empty beer cans and all".
But it's a fucking copy-pasta troll - I'm not going to do their homework for them.
You could improve your copy-pasta troll by changing "Sh'eet, must be da law" to "Sh'eet, must be da po-po", which rhymes with "my sister wif her gurlfriend, my brother wif some ho.".
No, we'd have buildings along the entire track, except for one vacant spot.
If you're at the top left, and you want to go to the bottom right, and the vacant spot is below the bottom right...
[][]...[]
[][]...[]
|_|
Every month we arrange the buildings to form a picture of an apple or kitty.
They wouldn't melt, but the would go through some impressive thermal cycling.
Lead-free solder strikes again!
Overpopulation? Forced? You really can't imagine one group leaving home to colonize somewhere else without being "forced" to do so? Perhaps you should review your history books.
Mercury has none of the things people in the past sought.
No air.
No water.
No food.
No amenities.
No freedom. You're going to be trapped in a small bubble forever, and you'll be the slave of whatever mega corp or government back on Earth sent you there.
Most people that own a FIVE HUNDRED, NINETY-NINE US DOLLARS, 4D, LUCID DREAMING, DUAL HDMI, TREBLE GIGABIT NETWORK PORT video game system do though.
Fixed that for you.
They're fine until units break and they're unrepairable. Sony won't be able send back refurb units with the same functionality. Offering "slim upgrades" isn't going to help. Linux support was ripped out by Sony, and there aren't many units available that have it. The US airforce's cluster will gradually die, or they'll get new machines with CFW, which may well be illegal.
So much stupid here.
The PS3 hardware's life span far exceeds the cluster's usefulness. By the time they're hit with hardware failures, they'll have a bigger and better cluster using whatever newfangled cpu some company is selling at a loss/near cost.
Sony is absolutely able to send back refurb or new units with OtherOS enabled. They just don't. If the military phones them up and asks for OtherOS-enabled PS3s, they'll get them.
There is no hardware difference between the fats and the slims that has anything to do with OtherOS.
None of these are 'laws', where you get punished by breaking them. Not Moore's, not Godwin's, etc. They are more 'generalizations' than anything else. Moore's, especially, could be more acccurately terms an 'observation', as that's what was going on at the time he made it. Everyone repeat after me: "Moore's Observation"
There we go.
Even "Moore's Average" would be more accurate.
"Law" comes from early germanic's "lagan", which means to put or to lay. Thus a law is something that is in place.
Since this is shitdot, I'll post the shittipedia definition: "The term law is often used to refer to universal principles that describe the fundamental nature of something, to universal properties and relationships between things, or to descriptions that purport to explain these principles and relationships."
Moore's law is accurate. Whether or not it's correct is another matter. So far, it pretty much has been.
CharlieMopps's Law(TM): The quantity of articles posted to Slashdot that mention Moore's Law will approximately double every time Intel or AMD come out with a new processor.
I salute you for telling it like it is, and for using "CharlieMopps's Law" to refer to a law that belongs to CharlieMopps. The ess after the apostrophe brings me pleasure.
"Moore ... predicted that computer processing power would double roughly every 18 months. Or maybe he said 12 months. Or was it 24 months? Actually, nowhere in the article did Moore actually spell out that famous declaration, nor does the word "law" even appear in the article at all."
"The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year (see graph on next page). Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase."
Moore's law is about minimum cost per unit. In traditional manufacturing, this is volume. In the IC world, component volume is simply chip density, but unit volume is affected adversely by chip density (complexity up, yields down). Thus, there is a balancing act. Moore's law is about the minimum, the optimal point on the curve from a manufacturer's standpoint.
This minimum has traditionally directly correlated with performance. Why? Because we tend to add components that end up doing work.
No, Moore didn't call it a law. It was an observation, and a prediction. As it proved to hold true over the next several decades, people referred to it as a law.
And it continues to hold true.
So please shut the fuck and stop asking about it every 6 months. Moore's law isn't about to be broken. Tablets aren't replacing desktop PCs any time soon. The cloud isn't changing the face of computing as we know it. This isn't the year of the Linux desktop. That breakthrough in solar panel efficiency will never materialize. Batteries still suck ass and there are no signs of any significant improvement on the horizon.
If you've got no news to report, just throw up "Not much news today. People are still talking about those new Intel CPUs, though.".
and if geohot hadnt done the linux hack you wouldnt have shit so shut the fuck up and go back to your wii
you owe and every1 else in the scene owe everthing to geohot
Obvious troll is obvious, but:
GeoHot didn't do a "linux hack".
All GeoHot did was physically violate RAM.
1: That's not a "hack" anymore than drilling into a lock is "picking" it.
2: It has nothing to do with Linux.
3: It was completely unreliable.
4: It was completely useless from a practical standpoint.
5: It was completely useless from a reverse engineering standpoint - you couldn't control what memory you were getting, when you were getting it, or whether or not you'd get it at all.
6: The fail0verflow guys mentioned it in their presentation when highlighting the timeline and progression of things. Their presentation was approximately 80% about "Piss off hackers, and they'll try to hack you, LOL OWNED.".
No, this is the metldr private key. fail0verflow wasn't able to find that one as it required a metldr exploit
No. fail0verflow had no interest in getting that key. Why? Because they're about homebrew, which they can already do, and they're (officially, at least) against piracy, which the metldr key would simplify.
There was a question asked about this at the end of their presentation. They basically said "Yeah, we don't have that key - we don't give a shit about it. Of course you can get it using the same method we just told you about.".
Yes.
GeoHot has done nothing of note with the PS3.
His memory "hack" was a joke - HEY GUYS IF I WIRE MY MICROWAVE OVEN TO THE PS3, I CAN DUMP SOME MEMORY! Random memory! About 10% of the time!
Later he posted videos in which he vaguely implied he had another "hack" in progress that would allow custom firmware. Of course, all he was doing was changing an innocuous text string and letting the internet idiots speculate out the ass.
And now all he has done is copy the same basic math to find k when he was shown the slide about how Sony used the same number all the time instead of using a random one.
Dude needs to stick to the iDevices - he clearly has no idea what to do when faced with an actual obstacle.
Protip: It's not an acceptable abbreviation for anything.
Also, whoosh.
All the problems you list stem from one thing: You're using a Mac.