..however, the DMCA does not FORCE them to put it back up when you file a counter. They can choose not to put it back up, and since there is so little to gain by putting it back up.. no attorney would ever recommend that they do so.
You're still missing the point. You said [Insert Random Benchmark Test Here] found AMD was better than Intel Xeons.
No, I didn't say that at all.
a) I cited a specific benchmark. You havent cited any.
b) The benchmark was not "AMD" vs "Xeon".. it was specifically "4 x 12 CORE Opteron Systems" and "8 x 6 CORE Opteron System" vs "4 x 6 CORE Xeon Systems" and "2 x 12 THREAD Xeon Systems"
See that? Its very specific, and shows what the fuck you know. Its 48 core systems vs 24 core/thread system. You are such a dumbfuck.
You even called the benchmark "crap."
You are a fucking moron. If Intel is such a performance leader, where does Intels 48 core/thread solution land on any metric? Thats right, they dont even fucking have one other than their "single-chip cloud computer" which they only demo'd. You cant actually own one.
I can pack the register and perform 8 absolute operations per cycle, per core.
How quaint. You think that other people dont know what SIMD is. Heres an idea.. stop using Intel's auto-vectorization.. then clue up that it is not rare knowledge that masking off the high bit of a float removes the sign. If you were worth your shit, you would have masked the bit off to begin with. What a fucking tard you are writing inefficient code and then praising yourself for optimizing it.
Mechanical disks have lots of great failure modes.
My favorites are the ones that make loud sounds during the failure event. When a piece of the head breaks off, for example.. that thing bounces around in there like crazy when the drive is spinning around thousands of times per minute.
A SSD with flash that averages 1,000,000 writes before blocks start to fail but does it gracefully with little/no data loss could be better than one that averages 2,000,000 but goes out in a blaze of glory as soon as the first block fails.
Just so that you are aware,
1,000,000 is a large number if you mean writes-per-block. You will never wear out such an SSD unless its very very small. Lets consider a 32GB SSD that can write 250MB/sec as an example (this would be the highest of the high end ~32GB SSD's) It will take 128 seconds to write 32GB of data to it. With 1 million write cycles thats 243 years and 133 days of full blast writing in order to wear that monster out.
1,000,000 is a small number if you mean writes-in-general. There would already be plenty of stories about these things dying prematurely if that were the case.
While the 10,000 write cycle limit of MLC may be an overstatement, it can't be that much overstated because there arent reports of people killing their OCZ/Intel drives.
You're a fucking idiot and have no idea about high performance computing
...says the dipshit that benchmarks by changing multiple variables at the same time, and also isolation-benchmarks single functions.
Here is a fucking clue.
When you benchmarks CPU's, you dont change the software. You use the same software on all of them, or else the measurement is bullshit.
And when you benchmark a compiler, you use real world code and don't change the processor. This std::max measurement bullshit is just that, bullshit. You don't know dick about its performance until its used in practice, surrounded on one side by the actual code that feeds it, and on the other by the actual code that needs the result. You are like a VB programmer that learned that you have some impact on overall performance of the program.. but unlike a real programmer, you still havent figured out that synthetic tests are useless.
People made the same arguments against POS background checks for firearms but we still wound up with those....
..and at the time, those supporting the bill said that we would never slip down the slope and start requiring it for other things. They cried out "its because they are guns!"
Rewriting an entire SSD is time-prohibitive. It would take several minutes to write 32GB to the fastest 32GB SSD, now multiply that by the 10,000 write cycles claimed by the manufacturers... 20,000 minutes or so at a minimum... and thats without verifying the write.. so add in another 15,000 minutes or so...
In other words, it will probably take about a month to intentionally brute-force a full-bandwidth-kill of a 32GB SSD. Larger SSD's would take proportionally longer.
Because they can. Thats one of the benefits of being a software company. They could even start kicking out closed-source Linux programs if they wanted.
Apple's success or failure rides on the brand itself. In each of their markets (aside from ITMS) they are the terminating link in the chain. Its a great place to be when you carry The Big Brand, but its also precarious. Plenty of Big Brands have come and gone while the markets they once dominated have persisted.
All it says is that Apple owns all of its own manufacturing and equipment and makes a LOT of expensive hardware. MS sells software, mostly.
Apples strategy is not as (industry bullshit term coming) agile as Microsofts. If demand for iPhones and iPods dries up, then Apple will be in serious trouble yet again. Apples suppliers will just supply the next trendy device.
Unlike 14 years ago when Apple needed to be bailed out by Microsoft, this time they do have the ITMS revenue stream which I dont see going away any time soon (even if iPods and iPhones stopped selling.) Their computer revenue stream is still insignificant and cannot by itself support the company, just like before.
Anyway, I'm sure MS Office is still pretty big on Mac OS.
Microsoft is a software company, after all. They have pretty much always provided software for Apple computers, dating as far back as the Apple II. They even saved Apples ass once.
Apple could add an object-C compiler for Visual Studio any time they want. Visual Studio does not restrict what compilers can be on the backside, for instance ICC and GCC both work well under VS.
Its fucking Passmark. Are you new to the benchmarking scene?
Did it use the compiler that intel puts out?
The one that intentionally outputs code that cripples performance on non-Intels? Are you new to the benchmarking scene? Yes, their compiler is great.. as long as you trick it into not crippling performance on non-Intels.
Does it use ippxMalloc to create the datastructures for the number crunching?
Its fucking Passmark. Are you a dipshit or something?
If the answer to any of the last two questions is no, then you are not getting even slightly close to the full throughput of the chips.
First you say the results are crap, and then later you say its only crap if the answer to blah blah blah is no? Make up your mind, dipshit.
Microsoft took their Windows monopoly to put IE on the desktop. There was no need for any third-party browser now, and that desktop monopoly became an web browser monopoly as well, something we all are fighting to this day. IE6 will not die, and IE in general still holds a commanding share of web browser "marketshare".
And then you say:
Apple had a monopoly on selling music on iPods, but Amazon came up and took away that monopoly (because iPods play MP3s). In fact, the closest Apple had was when they were leveraging iPod sales and iTunes - this was why the EU was doing investigations into Apple. Now that Apple has gone DRM free, those concerns disappeared (because Apple sold music that only worked on iPods, thus limiting third party MP3 players from being able to play purchased music).
You spinning little fucker. Apple still has a monopoly on online music sales. In fact, ITMS is the largest music retailer in the world (both online and offline, and thats combined jackass) Amazon tripled its music marketshare this year.... to 11% so yeah, go on about Amazon will ya?
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Once you do that, Google must forward your information to The Tetris Company, LLC, ...
Correct.
...and reinstate your app.
Incorrect. They dont have to reinstate anything. The law does not force them to offer your product for download. Period.
The DMCA does...
..however, the DMCA does not FORCE them to put it back up when you file a counter. They can choose not to put it back up, and since there is so little to gain by putting it back up.. no attorney would ever recommend that they do so.
Therefore, unless one knows (or believes) it to be in the public domain, or licensed to one, one should reasonably presume it is copyright, no?
Copyright does not mean no-rights-to-copy.
All BSD licensed work is copyrighted, for example, but you are free to make copies from now until the day you die.
Is that too much to be considered fair use?
You're still missing the point. You said [Insert Random Benchmark Test Here] found AMD was better than Intel Xeons.
No, I didn't say that at all.
.. it was specifically "4 x 12 CORE Opteron Systems" and "8 x 6 CORE Opteron System" vs "4 x 6 CORE Xeon Systems" and "2 x 12 THREAD Xeon Systems"
a) I cited a specific benchmark. You havent cited any.
b) The benchmark was not "AMD" vs "Xeon"
See that? Its very specific, and shows what the fuck you know. Its 48 core systems vs 24 core/thread system. You are such a dumbfuck.
You even called the benchmark "crap."
You are a fucking moron. If Intel is such a performance leader, where does Intels 48 core/thread solution land on any metric? Thats right, they dont even fucking have one other than their "single-chip cloud computer" which they only demo'd. You cant actually own one.
I can pack the register and perform 8 absolute operations per cycle, per core.
How quaint. You think that other people dont know what SIMD is. Heres an idea.. stop using Intel's auto-vectorization.. then clue up that it is not rare knowledge that masking off the high bit of a float removes the sign. If you were worth your shit, you would have masked the bit off to begin with. What a fucking tard you are writing inefficient code and then praising yourself for optimizing it.
The U.S. also had better production tiles.
Mechanical disks have lots of great failure modes.
My favorites are the ones that make loud sounds during the failure event. When a piece of the head breaks off, for example.. that thing bounces around in there like crazy when the drive is spinning around thousands of times per minute.
A SSD with flash that averages 1,000,000 writes before blocks start to fail but does it gracefully with little/no data loss could be better than one that averages 2,000,000 but goes out in a blaze of glory as soon as the first block fails.
Just so that you are aware,
1,000,000 is a large number if you mean writes-per-block. You will never wear out such an SSD unless its very very small. Lets consider a 32GB SSD that can write 250MB/sec as an example (this would be the highest of the high end ~32GB SSD's) It will take 128 seconds to write 32GB of data to it. With 1 million write cycles thats 243 years and 133 days of full blast writing in order to wear that monster out.
1,000,000 is a small number if you mean writes-in-general. There would already be plenty of stories about these things dying prematurely if that were the case.
While the 10,000 write cycle limit of MLC may be an overstatement, it can't be that much overstated because there arent reports of people killing their OCZ/Intel drives.
You're a fucking idiot and have no idea about high performance computing
Here is a fucking clue.
When you benchmarks CPU's, you dont change the software. You use the same software on all of them, or else the measurement is bullshit.
And when you benchmark a compiler, you use real world code and don't change the processor. This std::max measurement bullshit is just that, bullshit. You don't know dick about its performance until its used in practice, surrounded on one side by the actual code that feeds it, and on the other by the actual code that needs the result. You are like a VB programmer that learned that you have some impact on overall performance of the program.. but unlike a real programmer, you still havent figured out that synthetic tests are useless.
People made the same arguments against POS background checks for firearms but we still wound up with those....
After that it was cold medicine.
Now its cell phones.
Whats next? Pen or Paper?
..which ironically many feel should be destroyed.
King of the impossible!
Rewriting an entire SSD is time-prohibitive. It would take several minutes to write 32GB to the fastest 32GB SSD, now multiply that by the 10,000 write cycles claimed by the manufacturers... 20,000 minutes or so at a minimum... and thats without verifying the write.. so add in another 15,000 minutes or so...
In other words, it will probably take about a month to intentionally brute-force a full-bandwidth-kill of a 32GB SSD. Larger SSD's would take proportionally longer.
How so? Anyone who's used both know .NET is a knock off of Java (not to say Java is entirely original itself, but it's clearly .NET's main inspiration).
Anyone who uses both knows that .NET passed Java a long time ago in features. Its not even a cloe contest on that matric any longer.
The point is that they are not directly comparable, just like a Motocycle vs a Car. They dont fill the same roles.
Because they can. Thats one of the benefits of being a software company. They could even start kicking out closed-source Linux programs if they wanted.
Apple's success or failure rides on the brand itself. In each of their markets (aside from ITMS) they are the terminating link in the chain. Its a great place to be when you carry The Big Brand, but its also precarious. Plenty of Big Brands have come and gone while the markets they once dominated have persisted.
All it says is that Apple owns all of its own manufacturing and equipment and makes a LOT of expensive hardware. MS sells software, mostly.
Apples strategy is not as (industry bullshit term coming) agile as Microsofts. If demand for iPhones and iPods dries up, then Apple will be in serious trouble yet again. Apples suppliers will just supply the next trendy device.
Unlike 14 years ago when Apple needed to be bailed out by Microsoft, this time they do have the ITMS revenue stream which I dont see going away any time soon (even if iPods and iPhones stopped selling.) Their computer revenue stream is still insignificant and cannot by itself support the company, just like before.
VS2010 is much cleaner than the previous versions. Built on Presentation Foundation instead of WinForms. You might want to check it out.
Anyway, I'm sure MS Office is still pretty big on Mac OS.
Microsoft is a software company, after all. They have pretty much always provided software for Apple computers, dating as far back as the Apple II. They even saved Apples ass once.
Apple could add an object-C compiler for Visual Studio any time they want. Visual Studio does not restrict what compilers can be on the backside, for instance ICC and GCC both work well under VS.
You are replying to a person whos signature is a link to 10 reasons why Java is better than .NET.
I'm pretty sure "fucking retarded" is an understatement. Its like listing 10 reasons why a Toyota Camry is better than a Harley.
Yes, a ship that ran aground in a bay and released more oil than this gulf mess has, is comparable to this gulf mess.
Perhaps ignorant people such as yourself you should do something like, umm, not comment.
I generally write micro-benchmarks to test even simple things (std::max, if greater than do this otherwise do that, etc)
This is called benchmarking the compiler, dipshit.
How was the code for the benchmark written?
Its fucking Passmark. Are you new to the benchmarking scene?
Did it use the compiler that intel puts out?
The one that intentionally outputs code that cripples performance on non-Intels? Are you new to the benchmarking scene? Yes, their compiler is great.. as long as you trick it into not crippling performance on non-Intels.
Does it use ippxMalloc to create the datastructures for the number crunching?
Its fucking Passmark. Are you a dipshit or something?
If the answer to any of the last two questions is no, then you are not getting even slightly close to the full throughput of the chips.
First you say the results are crap, and then later you say its only crap if the answer to blah blah blah is no? Make up your mind, dipshit.
Apple is ALREADY in that position.
Microsoft took their Windows monopoly to put IE on the desktop. There was no need for any third-party browser now, and that desktop monopoly became an web browser monopoly as well, something we all are fighting to this day. IE6 will not die, and IE in general still holds a commanding share of web browser "marketshare".
And then you say:
Apple had a monopoly on selling music on iPods, but Amazon came up and took away that monopoly (because iPods play MP3s). In fact, the closest Apple had was when they were leveraging iPod sales and iTunes - this was why the EU was doing investigations into Apple. Now that Apple has gone DRM free, those concerns disappeared (because Apple sold music that only worked on iPods, thus limiting third party MP3 players from being able to play purchased music).
You spinning little fucker. Apple still has a monopoly on online music sales. In fact, ITMS is the largest music retailer in the world (both online and offline, and thats combined jackass) Amazon tripled its music marketshare this year.... to 11% so yeah, go on about Amazon will ya?