what's the financial point of a porsche ? a VW jetta/golf can carry more...
Seriously? You have to ask? As a public display of disposable income. Why do guys want to show off their money? One reason and one reason only...to bed more and/or more attractive women.
I don't think you're going to melt if you can't run the AC or listen to your pop tunes on the radio. LOL. Open the windows, enjoy the breeze.
I lived in Austin, Texas with broken car A/C for a few years. Money was tight so I couldn't afford to get it fixed. The car was a BLACK Accord. It wasn't a problem at all. I opened the sunroof and windows. BTW, Austin regularly has entire weeks where the temperature is over 100F during the day.
I expect people who want speed could just use eSATA devices & cables.
eSATA was effectively DOA due to its inability to provide power.
That it's essentially only capable of providing connectivity to block devices was merely another nail.
eSATA seems to be doing pretty well for a DOA technology. It's on a huge number of external disks, external disk enclosures, motherboards, and cases. It's even on a lot of laptops these days. I love my eSATA hard disk dock. I don't know how I ever got along without one.
It's just not. Maybe it's "slow" compared to the newest chip, but, if you want to pull that crap, the newest chips are "slow" compared to a new Cray.
If you're doing things on a regular basis that are CPU-intensive, then, sure, you need speed. But 99% of applications aren't even going to stress a quad core @ 3ghz.
FREQUENCY ALONE MEANS NOTHING. You have completely missed IPC (instructions per clock). You must take frequency and IPC into account when judging performance. The Llano has worse IPC than Phenom II.
I'll be building a mini-itx system this summer, and I find the cheaper (and possibly cooler) versions of Llano more interesting. Since the GPU side of the chip is rather bandwidth-limited, I wonder whether the lower-clocked and/or lower shader count (320 instead of 400) versions of the chip might perform almost as well as the highest-end chip all the sites I've seen have tested. Anybody seen reviews of any of the rest of the lineup?
If you don't game you'd be better off with an i3. Foxconn has a nice 1155 ITX board for $70. It's on newegg.
Since the prices are comparable, "one gives me good graphics and the other sucks" isnt a hard choice to make.
You left out part of the equation. The choice is more like:
i3-2100 - Fast CPU / Mediocre GPU
Llano - Slow CPU / Good GPU
For most non-gamers the choice will be the i3. For light gamers, HTPC, and notebooks the choice will be Llano. For more serious gamers the choice is obviously the i3 since the Llano CPU is too slow and the Llano onboard GPU isn't anywhere near good enough. These people will use higher end discrete graphics cards. I chose i3 for my gaming box for exactly that reason.
When you grow up you will realise that the relatively small amount of money that adults spend on music/movies/games or whatever is really not an issue to them, and they'd rather spend ten quid on a DVD than hours downloading and reassembling it from usenet.
You obviously live in Yuppieland and have no idea of the plight of lower middle class families in America. Dual 100K incomes is not the norm. Hell, dual $30k incomes isn't even the norm.
I personally know a number of families who are having trouble putting food on the table on a weekly basis, and no they aren't lazy fucks. One family has five jobs between the two adults. I'd like to see you try to support a family on $10 or less an hour. That's a premium wage for "non-professional" workers in my city at the moment and competition for those shitty jobs is fierce. The majority of hourly working in my town are pulling in $7 and some change per hour.
For these people putting food on the table is #1, rent/mortgage is priority #2. Being able to pay for their kids' college is #3. Forking over money to the content mafia is far down on the list of priorities.
I'm sure you will complain that these people should have studied harder or gone to college or something so you can feel better about them having a shitty life. Not everyone has had the ability or opportunity to attend college and boost themselves into the class of "professionals." There will always be a lower middle class and society will always need them to do all of the shitty jobs in this world.
There was one busted just outside my city about a year ago. Authorities found hundreds of puppies in tiny wire mesh cages. The cages were stacked 5 and 6 high and there were no proper floors in the cages. The poor animals had to stand on thin wire that cut into their paws. Food and water distribution was lax. Many animals were malnourished and/or dehydrated. A number were injured and had received zero medical care. There was shit and piss everywhere.
Most of the animals were rescued but quite a lot had to be euthanized. The survivors were distributed to shelters for hundreds of miles. There were far too many for the handful of local shelters to handle. The local shelters had ads running on the local public radio stations for weeks asking for help (financial and volunteer) to help with burden of caring for these animals.
So Mr. Know It All... FUCK YOU! I saw the shit with my own eyes on the local TV news and I personally met a number of the furry little survivors at a local shelter.
This statement embodies some weird assumptions. First, that good looks are hereditary? You'd be surprised at what exercise, diet, good grooming, and fashion sense can do.
Sorry but when I check a woman out I pay absolutely no attention to her "good grooming." WTF is that anyway? Manicured nails, fancy haircut, ??? What I'm looking at are her hips, ass, legs, and face. In that order. The less colored shit she has smeared on her face the better. I suspect that smearing colored shit on the face (makeup) is part of you're "good grooming" catchall. I also don't give a flying fuck what she's wearing unless it obscures my ability to ascertain the shape and dimensions of the afore mentioned hips, ass, and legs.
Of course exercise and diet matter but they only take you so far. For instance, I'm physically repulsed by women who have no hips and waist, the gymnast look, straight up and down on the sides. I grosses me the fuck out even on women who are in tip top shape. Exercise can do nothing for that. Saggy "flapjack" tits are another big turnoff. Sadly, exercise and diet often make that problem worse.
Actually, a lot. For women, hip to waist ratio is a major deal. For men, height is a major deal. Symmetry of facial features is a major deal for both sexes. All of those things are determined by bone structure.
I do agree that there is a lot of "low hanging fruit" to be had for most Americans in simply not being overweight. However, once you get rid of all the excess fat and tone yourself up you're going to be limited by the things you have no ability to change.
Disclosure: I'm somewhere between a libertarian and voluntaryist,
Translation: I think it would be way cool if all of the lazy unproductive people would starve to death and/or die from lack of health care so that all of us hyper-productive individualist heros could have more cool toys to play with.
You rely on the coercion of others all the time. People have to eat. People need a roof over their heads. As a result they toil away the majority of their lives at work.
How many people would work voluntarily if there wasn't a basic need for food, clothing, housing, etc? They might do something "cool" of their own choosing but they certainly wouldn't be making your morning coffee at Starbucks, flipping your burgers at McDonalds, killing and cutting up animals for you, growing vegetables for you. Modern capitalist societies are giant coercion machines by their very nature.
Carnegie Mellon may be for you. When I was there exact gen-ed requirements (100 level english, history, etc) were minimal. People who did well on the high school AP tests were able to avoid them entirely.
There were a number of non-major elective slots and rules for how to fill them, but with a university like CMU it was easy to populate my schedule with wonderfully interesting and/or useful classes. Many people chose electives that stacked with a few additional courses to give them a minor.
One of the few good things I can say about CMU is that very little of my time was wasted. I contrast this with the education many of my friends received at the local "state schools" where more than 50% their education had little bearing on their major. At a nearby state school it was possible to declare a major some time during the junior year and still graduate on time. I don't know how you can learn enough of a field to receive a bachelor's degree after only one year of coursework.
The problem is, tomorrow we won't be happy with the same old video we used to stream, we are going to want a super high-def version with 8 channel stereo sound and in-line twitter commentary plus it will have to update our facebook status every time we pause it to go to the bathroom... And then we will be back to streaming at 100% capacity again, wondering when the next leap in networking will let us do block downloads again.
I think you're wrong. The human audio visual system has limited resolution/perception ability. Once something is "good enough" most people stick with it. They don't keep pushing. Once audio/video is free of perceptible noise and distortion and is clear and sharp most people are happy.
Consumer interest in HD audio formats like Super Audio CD... virtually zero. 16 bits at 44100 samples per second is enough for most people. Lossless formats like FLAC and Apple's lossless are here and yet most people still rip to 128kbps mp3 and are perfectly happy.
All audio could be encoded as 24 bit lossless or even 320kbps mp3. Why isn't it? Most people can't hear the difference. Hell, I did blind A/B testing between 98kbps and 128kbps mp3 and wasn't able to tell a difference on most pop music.
The majority of people I know can't even tell the difference between 720p and 1080p on the displays they own. Why would they want to pay extra for "beyond 1080p" video resolution?
We've passed the point where audio is trivially small for the network and local storage. When gigabit comes to the USA video will be in the same boat. Just as people stopped at 128kbs mp3 audio, they'll likely stop at 1080p video + 7.1 audio. Most people don't even own the hardware required to faithfully reproduce that.
The higher display resolutions (WQHD / QFHD / UHDTV) will need to be common and cheap for people to upgrade. We'll also need an overhaul of the broadcast standards, which will likely mean that most of all of the set top boxes in the US will need to be replaced. None of that is coming anytime soon. By time consumer video goes beyond 1080p another network upgrade will be due and better compression will be here.
Lambdas (anonymous functions with potential captured state) in most imperative languages are essentially sugar for objects. That's what they are pretty much by definition.
The thing with captured state is called a "closure."
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has similar laws and they are enforced. Students of the local colleges (CMU, University of Pittsburgh, Carlow University, Point Park College) run into problems when they try to share a house. The local landlords would rather these kids rent individual apartments at $600/month than pool their resources and rent a whole house.
No one uses batteries on this scale. They compete with hydroelectric storage, where water is pumped up a hill to fill a lake.
Read TFA! It specifically says that the new flywheel units directly compete with large shipping container sized Lithium Ion batteries in this application.
Some people have busy lives. Some people are into nonfiction that's difficult to digest.
I plan to buy a reader when the right device comes along. The technical stuff that I like to read is best consumed in small chunks. Highly technical stuff can be very taxing. It's a whole different ballgame than fiction.
I'm still not sure that she wasn't previously a man. She has very masculine facial features. Does she shave before her concerts?
You can't be serious. Look at her hip to waist ratio. Those wide hips and that little wait mean gaga was always a girl. I wonder about the sexual orientation of any guy who buys into the gaga tranny myth. A hip/waist ratio like hers should be lighting up 1/2 of your neurons.
Doesn't the term "gone gold" refer back to silver, gold, and platinum records? A gold record is one that has sold 1 million copies. How has DNF done this before it's even been released?
"Gone gold" in this context means that the final game disc has been mastered. Once the master is produced no changes can be made and all that's left to do is mass production. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_master
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what's the financial point of a porsche ? a VW jetta/golf can carry more ...
Seriously? You have to ask? As a public display of disposable income. Why do guys want to show off their money? One reason and one reason only...to bed more and/or more attractive women.
I don't think you're going to melt if you can't run the AC or listen to your pop tunes on the radio. LOL. Open the windows, enjoy the breeze.
I lived in Austin, Texas with broken car A/C for a few years. Money was tight so I couldn't afford to get it fixed. The car was a BLACK Accord. It wasn't a problem at all. I opened the sunroof and windows. BTW, Austin regularly has entire weeks where the temperature is over 100F during the day.
Wait six months. Monoprice will have them for $10. : )
eSATA was effectively DOA due to its inability to provide power.
That it's essentially only capable of providing connectivity to block devices was merely another nail.
eSATA seems to be doing pretty well for a DOA technology. It's on a huge number of external disks, external disk enclosures, motherboards, and cases. It's even on a lot of laptops these days. I love my eSATA hard disk dock. I don't know how I ever got along without one.
It's just not. Maybe it's "slow" compared to the newest chip, but, if you want to pull that crap, the newest chips are "slow" compared to a new Cray.
If you're doing things on a regular basis that are CPU-intensive, then, sure, you need speed. But 99% of applications aren't even going to stress a quad core @ 3ghz.
FREQUENCY ALONE MEANS NOTHING. You have completely missed IPC (instructions per clock). You must take frequency and IPC into account when judging performance. The Llano has worse IPC than Phenom II.
I'll be building a mini-itx system this summer, and I find the cheaper (and possibly cooler) versions of Llano more interesting. Since the GPU side of the chip is rather bandwidth-limited, I wonder whether the lower-clocked and/or lower shader count (320 instead of 400) versions of the chip might perform almost as well as the highest-end chip all the sites I've seen have tested. Anybody seen reviews of any of the rest of the lineup?
If you don't game you'd be better off with an i3. Foxconn has a nice 1155 ITX board for $70. It's on newegg.
Slower than an i3, yes. But...it's waay faster than the fastest Atoms
And costs waay more and uses waay more power. Atoms are mostly being used for cheap, low power systems, and this chip fails on both counts.
Exactly! The Llano chip alone is $130. For $100 you can get both an Atom CPU and motherboard.
Since the prices are comparable, "one gives me good graphics and the other sucks" isnt a hard choice to make.
You left out part of the equation. The choice is more like:
i3-2100 - Fast CPU / Mediocre GPU
Llano - Slow CPU / Good GPU
For most non-gamers the choice will be the i3. For light gamers, HTPC, and notebooks the choice will be Llano. For more serious gamers the choice is obviously the i3 since the Llano CPU is too slow and the Llano onboard GPU isn't anywhere near good enough. These people will use higher end discrete graphics cards. I chose i3 for my gaming box for exactly that reason.
When you grow up you will realise that the relatively small amount of money that adults spend on music/movies/games or whatever is really not an issue to them, and they'd rather spend ten quid on a DVD than hours downloading and reassembling it from usenet.
You obviously live in Yuppieland and have no idea of the plight of lower middle class families in America. Dual 100K incomes is not the norm. Hell, dual $30k incomes isn't even the norm.
I personally know a number of families who are having trouble putting food on the table on a weekly basis, and no they aren't lazy fucks. One family has five jobs between the two adults. I'd like to see you try to support a family on $10 or less an hour. That's a premium wage for "non-professional" workers in my city at the moment and competition for those shitty jobs is fierce. The majority of hourly working in my town are pulling in $7 and some change per hour.
For these people putting food on the table is #1, rent/mortgage is priority #2. Being able to pay for their kids' college is #3. Forking over money to the content mafia is far down on the list of priorities.
I'm sure you will complain that these people should have studied harder or gone to college or something so you can feel better about them having a shitty life. Not everyone has had the ability or opportunity to attend college and boost themselves into the class of "professionals." There will always be a lower middle class and society will always need them to do all of the shitty jobs in this world.
Fresh Whole Rabbit http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00012182G/ref=cm_cd_asin_lnk
pet factorie are a peta lie btw.
PET FACTORIES ARE NOT A LIE!
There was one busted just outside my city about a year ago. Authorities found hundreds of puppies in tiny wire mesh cages. The cages were stacked 5 and 6 high and there were no proper floors in the cages. The poor animals had to stand on thin wire that cut into their paws. Food and water distribution was lax. Many animals were malnourished and/or dehydrated. A number were injured and had received zero medical care. There was shit and piss everywhere.
Most of the animals were rescued but quite a lot had to be euthanized. The survivors were distributed to shelters for hundreds of miles. There were far too many for the handful of local shelters to handle. The local shelters had ads running on the local public radio stations for weeks asking for help (financial and volunteer) to help with burden of caring for these animals.
So Mr. Know It All... FUCK YOU! I saw the shit with my own eyes on the local TV news and I personally met a number of the furry little survivors at a local shelter.
This statement embodies some weird assumptions. First, that good looks are hereditary? You'd be surprised at what exercise, diet, good grooming, and fashion sense can do.
Sorry but when I check a woman out I pay absolutely no attention to her "good grooming." WTF is that anyway? Manicured nails, fancy haircut, ??? What I'm looking at are her hips, ass, legs, and face. In that order. The less colored shit she has smeared on her face the better. I suspect that smearing colored shit on the face (makeup) is part of you're "good grooming" catchall. I also don't give a flying fuck what she's wearing unless it obscures my ability to ascertain the shape and dimensions of the afore mentioned hips, ass, and legs.
Of course exercise and diet matter but they only take you so far. For instance, I'm physically repulsed by women who have no hips and waist, the gymnast look, straight up and down on the sides. I grosses me the fuck out even on women who are in tip top shape. Exercise can do nothing for that. Saggy "flapjack" tits are another big turnoff. Sadly, exercise and diet often make that problem worse.
How much of looks depends on bone structure?
Actually, a lot. For women, hip to waist ratio is a major deal. For men, height is a major deal. Symmetry of facial features is a major deal for both sexes. All of those things are determined by bone structure.
I do agree that there is a lot of "low hanging fruit" to be had for most Americans in simply not being overweight. However, once you get rid of all the excess fat and tone yourself up you're going to be limited by the things you have no ability to change.
Disclosure: I'm somewhere between a libertarian and voluntaryist,
Translation: I think it would be way cool if all of the lazy unproductive people would starve to death and/or die from lack of health care so that all of us hyper-productive individualist heros could have more cool toys to play with.
You rely on the coercion of others all the time. People have to eat. People need a roof over their heads. As a result they toil away the majority of their lives at work.
How many people would work voluntarily if there wasn't a basic need for food, clothing, housing, etc? They might do something "cool" of their own choosing but they certainly wouldn't be making your morning coffee at Starbucks, flipping your burgers at McDonalds, killing and cutting up animals for you, growing vegetables for you. Modern capitalist societies are giant coercion machines by their very nature.
Carnegie Mellon may be for you. When I was there exact gen-ed requirements (100 level english, history, etc) were minimal. People who did well on the high school AP tests were able to avoid them entirely.
There were a number of non-major elective slots and rules for how to fill them, but with a university like CMU it was easy to populate my schedule with wonderfully interesting and/or useful classes. Many people chose electives that stacked with a few additional courses to give them a minor.
One of the few good things I can say about CMU is that very little of my time was wasted. I contrast this with the education many of my friends received at the local "state schools" where more than 50% their education had little bearing on their major. At a nearby state school it was possible to declare a major some time during the junior year and still graduate on time. I don't know how you can learn enough of a field to receive a bachelor's degree after only one year of coursework.
The problem is, tomorrow we won't be happy with the same old video we used to stream, we are going to want a super high-def version with 8 channel stereo sound and in-line twitter commentary plus it will have to update our facebook status every time we pause it to go to the bathroom... And then we will be back to streaming at 100% capacity again, wondering when the next leap in networking will let us do block downloads again.
I think you're wrong. The human audio visual system has limited resolution/perception ability. Once something is "good enough" most people stick with it. They don't keep pushing. Once audio/video is free of perceptible noise and distortion and is clear and sharp most people are happy.
Consumer interest in HD audio formats like Super Audio CD... virtually zero. 16 bits at 44100 samples per second is enough for most people. Lossless formats like FLAC and Apple's lossless are here and yet most people still rip to 128kbps mp3 and are perfectly happy.
All audio could be encoded as 24 bit lossless or even 320kbps mp3. Why isn't it? Most people can't hear the difference. Hell, I did blind A/B testing between 98kbps and 128kbps mp3 and wasn't able to tell a difference on most pop music.
The majority of people I know can't even tell the difference between 720p and 1080p on the displays they own. Why would they want to pay extra for "beyond 1080p" video resolution?
We've passed the point where audio is trivially small for the network and local storage. When gigabit comes to the USA video will be in the same boat. Just as people stopped at 128kbs mp3 audio, they'll likely stop at 1080p video + 7.1 audio. Most people don't even own the hardware required to faithfully reproduce that.
The higher display resolutions (WQHD / QFHD / UHDTV) will need to be common and cheap for people to upgrade. We'll also need an overhaul of the broadcast standards, which will likely mean that most of all of the set top boxes in the US will need to be replaced. None of that is coming anytime soon. By time consumer video goes beyond 1080p another network upgrade will be due and better compression will be here.
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Lambdas (anonymous functions with potential captured state) in most imperative languages are essentially sugar for objects. That's what they are pretty much by definition.
The thing with captured state is called a "closure."
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania has similar laws and they are enforced. Students of the local colleges (CMU, University of Pittsburgh, Carlow University, Point Park College) run into problems when they try to share a house. The local landlords would rather these kids rent individual apartments at $600/month than pool their resources and rent a whole house.
No one uses batteries on this scale. They compete with hydroelectric storage, where water is pumped up a hill to fill a lake.
Read TFA! It specifically says that the new flywheel units directly compete with large shipping container sized Lithium Ion batteries in this application.
Umm then why bother even getting a reader?
Some people have busy lives. Some people are into nonfiction that's difficult to digest.
I plan to buy a reader when the right device comes along. The technical stuff that I like to read is best consumed in small chunks. Highly technical stuff can be very taxing. It's a whole different ballgame than fiction.
Two months' battery at half an hour of reading per day? Shyeah, who reads on that schedule?
Busy people. I read "on the can" and maybe a little before bed if I'm not to tired. I'm sure I average less than 30 minutes per day.
I'm still not sure that she wasn't previously a man. She has very masculine facial features. Does she shave before her concerts?
You can't be serious. Look at her hip to waist ratio. Those wide hips and that little wait mean gaga was always a girl. I wonder about the sexual orientation of any guy who buys into the gaga tranny myth. A hip/waist ratio like hers should be lighting up 1/2 of your neurons.
Doesn't the term "gone gold" refer back to silver, gold, and platinum records? A gold record is one that has sold 1 million copies. How has DNF done this before it's even been released?
"Gone gold" in this context means that the final game disc has been mastered. Once the master is produced no changes can be made and all that's left to do is mass production. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_master