I am not certain how to calculate the net performance benefit of the entire device, but if the core CPU/GPU on a die can perform 100x faster or more efficiently, certainly we could expect much better battery life and or other benefits that would be worthwhile.
The equivalent conversation for the Overclockers out there is that more cooling allows for faster speeds... Why? Because of the resistance of the substrate and the faster the clock the more energy waste. If you have a lower resistance substrate, that would be pretty darn handy.
Of course if your bridge/interconnect subsystems can't keep up, some parts of the performance improvement will be limited eventually, but you still might enjoy significant battery gain.
Sadly who knows if this will ever make production.
Who knows, maybe that is exactly how life got started here on Earth the first time. We didn't get human DNA, we got building blocks that by design evolved into Human Beings. Paradoxically, I have it on good authority that they did make a mistake and that mice were supposed to be the dominant species.:)
Lol - I'll cite the article if anyone is actually interested, but I enjoy the fact that you know what I want.
I knew what you meant because it's been brought up by other deniers and shot down repeatedly here already.
Well, once again we establish a proof point that as much as we want to believe certain things does not make them to be true. I was not making any assertions as to whether climate change was or wasn't real, so no need to get your warmist knickers in a twist, I was merely pointing out that there are other factors potentially involved and not all the world's ills are due to climate change.If that upsets you, then I would recommend focusing your attention on deterministic and binary logic problems, not poorly understood complex ones.
For the record, here is one link to many articles that discuss the issue, with at least one estimate that suggests that groundwater usage has 3x the impact of icewater melt on global sea levels: https://www.documentcloud.org/.... Nonetheless, this case still very much to do with human activity, so interesting that you should have an issue with it, when it nominally supports your overall narrative.
But if I must provide something to get your teeth into, here is a good article to get your heart racing if you are looking for certainty and consensus regarding ice in the antarctic: http://climateaudit.org/2015/1...
Enjoy!
Regardless of beliefs of climate change, a recent report on the Antartic ice suggested a more likely culprit to rising sea levels than ice melting is actually ground water. I.e. Humans numbering in their billions sucking water out of the ground aka California, where it mostky ends up at sea.
I am pretty sure we are not ready to limit the population of earth, so I am guessing sooner or later we are going to have to adjust to a changing earth whether we like it or not.
A lot of anonymous cowards on this thread. To go back to 1947 would be interesting, but oh wait, none of the Arabs signed that treaty, just declared war on the Jews and swore to "drive them into the sea". to this day, exactly how many neighboring nations are not technically at "war" with Israel? One, Egypt, bought with American money. what is still part of the founding charter of Fatah, Hamas, etc? the total annihilation of Israel. But don't let the facts get in your way.
I'd be very interested in an actual proposal from those that believe we should reduce our CO2 emissions as a planet to accomplish that fact. Last time I did the math, probably about a year ago, *all* of the proposals combined from any International body or proposal that I saw barely slowed the rate of growth of CO2 in the atmosphere. In other words, the CO2 would still be rising at an "alarming rate". So my conclusion is that AGW policies are merely designed to make some people "feel better" and are otherwise a merely a geoplitical campaign to punish the industrialized nations in favor of the poorer nations of the world. Aka some form of planet wide Socialism.
To actually *reduce* the CO2 in the atmosphere is going to come from one of two places, a) shutting down the entire industrial complex, stop use of *all* fossil fuels and cut the population in half, or b) science will solve this with a variety of technologies that sci-fi fans will coorelate to terra-forming.
So to the proponents of AGW, I state that the conclusions and policies that our governments on a global basis have very little or nothing to do with solving the problem.
Fitbit already turned off all public "sexual activity" information and killed the Google search capability as far as I can tell. Not a bad response of the order of 30 minutes from a corporate point of view. FWIW.
Akin to Password expiration policies, seems like the weakness in Osama's Sneakernet was an overlong cached crednetial (aka courier) that was finally compromised. Would he have had better or worse security if he would have rotated couriers every 90 days with multi-factor authentication (knocks, speech, etc.). Having an old courier (like an old password), seemed a flaw.
There are a lot of math and engineering lessons that can be solved quickly with good coding skills, but one of the things I noticed in implementing a 3DES encryption algorithm back in college was that I had no understanding of the underlying math, but could copy and paste the mysterious black box matrix table into some C code fairly easily. So if the theory applies, one oculd improve coding skills but not necessarily actual learn the subject at hand...
And so out of the ashes of one distribution model is born another distribution model. It seems we can't live with the idea of the content creators making the money, there has to be some forced middle-man. Only this time, the ISP/Network and Cloud are fighting it out with somehow less rights for the consumer (since I won't actually own any games, music or anything tangible that the ditribution model can't cut off).
(thought I'd actually log in this time....)
I would broaden your definition of the problem with the US. The same things happen from all political walks of life... left, right, liberal, conservative, religious, atheist. There is very little factual discovery and open debate on issues, but much of the "sound bytes" from a very biased sources to satisfy and $ell airtime from their selected audiences. Nothing particularly unique about Fox News' approach here; check out your equivalent from Maddow or Huffington Post for counterpoint.
Strangely enough, I noticed exactly that "zone" behavior in college a few years back... worked right through the night completely oblivious to the time/space continuum and having a blast until it was the next morning and the first class of the next day started walking in the lab.
I stepped away from the desk, decided I didn't have the will or fortitude to master my own obsession, and instead of becoming a lost hermit in a cave writing awesome code (in my own mind), switched careers to engineering and then to the ultimate sell out on/., to technology sales.
As I recall, France has a system, unlike our adversarial process, similar to this where the Judge is the chief determiner of fact and ask questions directly of witnesses, etc. Slightly vaguer memory around I think the lawyers act as agents of the court in helping determine the complete facts of the case with the Judge.
A bit different courtroom experience than for our average American litigant, I would presume.
Just to extrapolate the thought a bit, don't we know the Sun is a raging fire/nuclear reactor that we know is going to explode and kill billions of people? Or perhaps trillions by then? How does that play in this model I wonder...
I find myself hard pressed to find a good definition of "legitimate reporting of facts". If at some point there was ever an ethos of impartial reporting of facts without agenda, I just don't see that these days... it doesn't sell papers or acquire viewers.
To me, all media outlets, TV, papers, blogs, are all shades of gray. In practice any fairness doctrine would be used specifically for political gain, nothing remotely to do with anything we would understand as "fairness".
Also, as I recall, it was either white on blue or yellow on blue from WordPerfect in the late 80's.
Avoid standard fluorescent light like the plague. From best ambient light to worst (based on on Oxford University study a while back that blew my mind): indirect sunlight, incandescent/halogen, high frequency fluorescent, indirect standard fluorescent, direct standard fluorescent. Not only did the color temp matter, but the frequency of the light mattered more, so 50Hz dramatic pulses, aka standard fluorescent, was the worst case scenario (interfered with the ability of the eye to even track the line of a sentence).
This same frequency issue would impact CRT's, not so much LCD's. Mixing 50Hz CRT with 50Hz Fluorescent is like a suicide watch for your eyes... don't try that at home.
T.
I would conjecture that there are relatively few modern countries that can claim a birthright in the "true" unambiguous sense of the word.
How many folks that live in the US can claim a birthright? The fertile crescent has been conquered so many times, I don't think any one "people" can claim unambiguous title. For better or worse, the Jewish people have been a part of that corner of the world for more than 4,000 years.
T.
I don't know about you guys, but has "bad press", especially of the kind that equates to "oh, it's really naughty for you to be playing this game" actually going to do anything other than sell more games?
On another note, based on the posts here, I completely agree with the notion that Rockstar handled this really well.
Even though I am not a MS hater (oblig/. karma risk), I too am hugely cynical of the Win7 promises. Doesn't it "have" to be largely a hack of some sort, even if they do swap out some of the kernel components. There is so much code out there, isn't a large percentage of the momentum insurmountable?
Unless they completely fork the OS, a la OS X, which I am not sure they have the cojones to do. While I don't care for Stevo's management style, at some point a "tyrannical genius" CEO certainly delivers technology. Akin to the "benevolent dictator" as the best form of government?
Actually I was thinking that my wife snuck up on me in the wee hours of the morning, so to speak.
In my half-awake stupor, my little 3-year old daughter jumped into our bed with this crazy story about how monsters were in her room and had shaken her bed. Of course, I consoled her with the white lie that there aren't any monsters and only realized on my drive into work that she was not completely imagining the situation! Oh, well. Another less-than-perfect answer from Daddy.
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I am not certain how to calculate the net performance benefit of the entire device, but if the core CPU/GPU on a die can perform 100x faster or more efficiently, certainly we could expect much better battery life and or other benefits that would be worthwhile. The equivalent conversation for the Overclockers out there is that more cooling allows for faster speeds... Why? Because of the resistance of the substrate and the faster the clock the more energy waste. If you have a lower resistance substrate, that would be pretty darn handy. Of course if your bridge/interconnect subsystems can't keep up, some parts of the performance improvement will be limited eventually, but you still might enjoy significant battery gain. Sadly who knows if this will ever make production.
Who knows, maybe that is exactly how life got started here on Earth the first time. We didn't get human DNA, we got building blocks that by design evolved into Human Beings. Paradoxically, I have it on good authority that they did make a mistake and that mice were supposed to be the dominant species. :)
Lol - I'll cite the article if anyone is actually interested, but I enjoy the fact that you know what I want.
I knew what you meant because it's been brought up by other deniers and shot down repeatedly here already.
Well, once again we establish a proof point that as much as we want to believe certain things does not make them to be true. I was not making any assertions as to whether climate change was or wasn't real, so no need to get your warmist knickers in a twist, I was merely pointing out that there are other factors potentially involved and not all the world's ills are due to climate change.If that upsets you, then I would recommend focusing your attention on deterministic and binary logic problems, not poorly understood complex ones. For the record, here is one link to many articles that discuss the issue, with at least one estimate that suggests that groundwater usage has 3x the impact of icewater melt on global sea levels: https://www.documentcloud.org/.... Nonetheless, this case still very much to do with human activity, so interesting that you should have an issue with it, when it nominally supports your overall narrative. But if I must provide something to get your teeth into, here is a good article to get your heart racing if you are looking for certainty and consensus regarding ice in the antarctic: http://climateaudit.org/2015/1... Enjoy!
Lol - I'll cite the article if anyone is actually interested, but I enjoy the fact that you know what I want.
Regardless of beliefs of climate change, a recent report on the Antartic ice suggested a more likely culprit to rising sea levels than ice melting is actually ground water. I.e. Humans numbering in their billions sucking water out of the ground aka California, where it mostky ends up at sea. I am pretty sure we are not ready to limit the population of earth, so I am guessing sooner or later we are going to have to adjust to a changing earth whether we like it or not.
Just wondering how "folding" into layers (which clearly makes the sword stronger/more resilient) compares to this proposed electrolysis layering?
A lot of anonymous cowards on this thread. To go back to 1947 would be interesting, but oh wait, none of the Arabs signed that treaty, just declared war on the Jews and swore to "drive them into the sea". to this day, exactly how many neighboring nations are not technically at "war" with Israel? One, Egypt, bought with American money. what is still part of the founding charter of Fatah, Hamas, etc? the total annihilation of Israel. But don't let the facts get in your way.
I'd be very interested in an actual proposal from those that believe we should reduce our CO2 emissions as a planet to accomplish that fact. Last time I did the math, probably about a year ago, *all* of the proposals combined from any International body or proposal that I saw barely slowed the rate of growth of CO2 in the atmosphere. In other words, the CO2 would still be rising at an "alarming rate". So my conclusion is that AGW policies are merely designed to make some people "feel better" and are otherwise a merely a geoplitical campaign to punish the industrialized nations in favor of the poorer nations of the world. Aka some form of planet wide Socialism. To actually *reduce* the CO2 in the atmosphere is going to come from one of two places, a) shutting down the entire industrial complex, stop use of *all* fossil fuels and cut the population in half, or b) science will solve this with a variety of technologies that sci-fi fans will coorelate to terra-forming. So to the proponents of AGW, I state that the conclusions and policies that our governments on a global basis have very little or nothing to do with solving the problem.
Fitbit already turned off all public "sexual activity" information and killed the Google search capability as far as I can tell. Not a bad response of the order of 30 minutes from a corporate point of view. FWIW.
Akin to Password expiration policies, seems like the weakness in Osama's Sneakernet was an overlong cached crednetial (aka courier) that was finally compromised. Would he have had better or worse security if he would have rotated couriers every 90 days with multi-factor authentication (knocks, speech, etc.). Having an old courier (like an old password), seemed a flaw.
There are a lot of math and engineering lessons that can be solved quickly with good coding skills, but one of the things I noticed in implementing a 3DES encryption algorithm back in college was that I had no understanding of the underlying math, but could copy and paste the mysterious black box matrix table into some C code fairly easily. So if the theory applies, one oculd improve coding skills but not necessarily actual learn the subject at hand...
And so out of the ashes of one distribution model is born another distribution model. It seems we can't live with the idea of the content creators making the money, there has to be some forced middle-man. Only this time, the ISP/Network and Cloud are fighting it out with somehow less rights for the consumer (since I won't actually own any games, music or anything tangible that the ditribution model can't cut off). (thought I'd actually log in this time....)
I would broaden your definition of the problem with the US. The same things happen from all political walks of life... left, right, liberal, conservative, religious, atheist. There is very little factual discovery and open debate on issues, but much of the "sound bytes" from a very biased sources to satisfy and $ell airtime from their selected audiences. Nothing particularly unique about Fox News' approach here; check out your equivalent from Maddow or Huffington Post for counterpoint.
Strangely enough, I noticed exactly that "zone" behavior in college a few years back... worked right through the night completely oblivious to the time/space continuum and having a blast until it was the next morning and the first class of the next day started walking in the lab. I stepped away from the desk, decided I didn't have the will or fortitude to master my own obsession, and instead of becoming a lost hermit in a cave writing awesome code (in my own mind), switched careers to engineering and then to the ultimate sell out on /., to technology sales.
As I recall, France has a system, unlike our adversarial process, similar to this where the Judge is the chief determiner of fact and ask questions directly of witnesses, etc. Slightly vaguer memory around I think the lawyers act as agents of the court in helping determine the complete facts of the case with the Judge. A bit different courtroom experience than for our average American litigant, I would presume.
Just to extrapolate the thought a bit, don't we know the Sun is a raging fire/nuclear reactor that we know is going to explode and kill billions of people? Or perhaps trillions by then? How does that play in this model I wonder...
Paradoxically, 92% of Americans think the Internet is magic.
I find myself hard pressed to find a good definition of "legitimate reporting of facts". If at some point there was ever an ethos of impartial reporting of facts without agenda, I just don't see that these days... it doesn't sell papers or acquire viewers. To me, all media outlets, TV, papers, blogs, are all shades of gray. In practice any fairness doctrine would be used specifically for political gain, nothing remotely to do with anything we would understand as "fairness".
I don't know about you folks, but for some reason a solar powered loincloth came to mind.... I leave you to decide the best application. ;)
T.
Also, as I recall, it was either white on blue or yellow on blue from WordPerfect in the late 80's. Avoid standard fluorescent light like the plague. From best ambient light to worst (based on on Oxford University study a while back that blew my mind): indirect sunlight, incandescent/halogen, high frequency fluorescent, indirect standard fluorescent, direct standard fluorescent. Not only did the color temp matter, but the frequency of the light mattered more, so 50Hz dramatic pulses, aka standard fluorescent, was the worst case scenario (interfered with the ability of the eye to even track the line of a sentence). This same frequency issue would impact CRT's, not so much LCD's. Mixing 50Hz CRT with 50Hz Fluorescent is like a suicide watch for your eyes... don't try that at home. T.
How many folks that live in the US can claim a birthright? The fertile crescent has been conquered so many times, I don't think any one "people" can claim unambiguous title. For better or worse, the Jewish people have been a part of that corner of the world for more than 4,000 years. T.
On another note, based on the posts here, I completely agree with the notion that Rockstar handled this really well.
Even though I am not a MS hater (oblig /. karma risk), I too am hugely cynical of the Win7 promises. Doesn't it "have" to be largely a hack of some sort, even if they do swap out some of the kernel components. There is so much code out there, isn't a large percentage of the momentum insurmountable?
Unless they completely fork the OS, a la OS X, which I am not sure they have the cojones to do. While I don't care for Stevo's management style, at some point a "tyrannical genius" CEO certainly delivers technology. Akin to the "benevolent dictator" as the best form of government?
In my half-awake stupor, my little 3-year old daughter jumped into our bed with this crazy story about how monsters were in her room and had shaken her bed. Of course, I consoled her with the white lie that there aren't any monsters and only realized on my drive into work that she was not completely imagining the situation! Oh, well. Another less-than-perfect answer from Daddy.
Well, I think that was pretty darn funny even if I can't mod you up right now. LOL. :)