I imagine the troubles with "crocodile" in Russia are a good analog to this. It gets its name because your skin and flesh turns scaly, just prior to completely rotting away. It's sufficiently addictive that most people who try it once become addicts, which is invariably followed by death. Yet, people still continue to use it.
I've seen a couple that are just excessively long movies. They're using all ~17GB available from both sides. I also have a DVD player that will mechanically flip discs and resume playback on the opposite side, of course it's not an instant process by any stretch of the imagination, so it's still a significant break in immersion.
There's a guy at work that occasionally drives his Caterham in. I doubt many would call that a weak sports car, of course that's certainly a weak "daily driver".
Your TV is the issue. Actually, that's not accurate. Nearly all TVs are the problem. TV's are not monitors. They overscan. You output 1920x1080, your TV crops about 5% off each edge, and then rescales it back to 1920x1080. Don't ask me why, it never made sense to me either. Your computer is doing sub-pixel rendering of text to make things look better on LCD displays. Sub-pixel rendering only works if you're using a pixel-accurate display, but your TV goes and fucks everything up with overscan, making text look like shit.
Many TVs disable overscan when connected over DVI, assuming they're connected to a PC rather than a video component. If you use it, everything appears as you expect.
With VGA, your display is not pixel-accurate, and thus sub-pixel rendering is not an option. Your computer does not attempt it. As with DVI, everything appears as you expect.
So as mentioned, you have no idea what you're talking about. Amazingly, thousands of people found using Google search results are equally clueless.
Actually, a nice way to put this in context is that the letters F A B are the first three letters in the Spanish word for factory, fabrica.
They're also the first three letters in the English words for fabrication plant, fabrication plant. You know, where they fabricate things like computer chips.
Nope. Nothing to do with HDMI. Anyone who "knows this is an issue" has no idea what they're talking about. You don't actually think your computer is sending text over HDMI to your TV and letting your TV render the fonts, do you?
The problem is that people forget (nearly) all water cooling systems are really just fancy air cooling systems. They're just trading phase change heatpipes for pumped water, expecting something magical is going to happen and amazing low temperatures! Unless you add a larger radiator than you could otherwise fit on top of your CPU, all you get is a modest improvement in airflow efficiency, as you prevent hot air from recirculating back through the heatsink. Well designed cases minimize that issue with air cooling anyway.
Don't forget, an IvyBridge-E part has twice the memory bandwidth over the next closest Haswell part. There are a number of applications where that measure trumps a higher IPC.
Why? Cause having threads over makes other programs run nicely. Run a program eating 4 threads, and you still have response in GUI and other programs. Unless you hit some other bottleneck (and you will).
Just having threads does not necessarily mean parallel processing. It becomes increasingly more difficult to add functional threads to an application without getting them locked down by mutexes.
My next machine will be a i7 with SSD, no bit storage anymore, internet will keep my movies from now on:-)
How does the release of a new CPU have anything to do with you wasting internet bandwidth?
By way, you mean about four times more common. By less dangerous, you mean it's an alpha emitter with a halflife on the order of 14-billion years, as opposed to Uranium, an alpha emitter with a halflife of only 4-billion years.
Thorium is fertile, not fissile, so if we want to use it, we need breeder reactors. If we're using breeder reactors of any sort, we need heavy waste reprocessing to really make a go of it, and our usable stores of Uranium go up by around two orders of magnitude. In other words, if we are going to use Thorium, there's no reason to use Thorium over Uranium unless you've got abundant deposits in your possession. If your country has Uranium, use Uranium. If you have Thorium, use Thorium. Either way, we've pretty much solved our power supply problems for a few tens of thousands of years.
"Mega" is a file sharing site, started in place of the now-defunct MegaUpload, purported to be secure against even themselves. This article is to show that there is exactly zero effective security against data breaches by Mega.
A "bookmarklet" is a bookmark that rather than storing a URL, stores a snippet of javascript, which gets run in-place on the currently loaded web page, altering it in some fashion. Think GreaseMonkey, but without the framework to automatically run the scripts on certain sites.
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I imagine the troubles with "crocodile" in Russia are a good analog to this. It gets its name because your skin and flesh turns scaly, just prior to completely rotting away. It's sufficiently addictive that most people who try it once become addicts, which is invariably followed by death. Yet, people still continue to use it.
Did all the King's men put you back together again?
And then there is porn...
You mean like the Naked News?
I've seen a couple that are just excessively long movies. They're using all ~17GB available from both sides. I also have a DVD player that will mechanically flip discs and resume playback on the opposite side, of course it's not an instant process by any stretch of the imagination, so it's still a significant break in immersion.
Huh? It's either the Android OS or the GNU OS. Not both. Are you suggesting some abominable combination of the two?
If you want to be that way, it would technically be Android/Linux.
Well there is Android...
GNU the operating system, not GNU the public license...
There's a guy at work that occasionally drives his Caterham in. I doubt many would call that a weak sports car, of course that's certainly a weak "daily driver".
Oh yeah, that's what we want. A bunch of paranoid crazies shooting blindly into the air with high powered rifles.
It's very easy to call it a toy. Was it used for anything other than personal amusement? No? Then it's a toy.
Don't take "toy" as a term of derision. Take it as a description of its intended use.
How about a sports car or an off road vehicle.
It's true, and that just makes it that much funnier. Can't you take a joke? Fucking troll...
Your TV is the issue. Actually, that's not accurate. Nearly all TVs are the problem. TV's are not monitors. They overscan. You output 1920x1080, your TV crops about 5% off each edge, and then rescales it back to 1920x1080. Don't ask me why, it never made sense to me either. Your computer is doing sub-pixel rendering of text to make things look better on LCD displays. Sub-pixel rendering only works if you're using a pixel-accurate display, but your TV goes and fucks everything up with overscan, making text look like shit.
Many TVs disable overscan when connected over DVI, assuming they're connected to a PC rather than a video component. If you use it, everything appears as you expect.
With VGA, your display is not pixel-accurate, and thus sub-pixel rendering is not an option. Your computer does not attempt it. As with DVI, everything appears as you expect.
So as mentioned, you have no idea what you're talking about. Amazingly, thousands of people found using Google search results are equally clueless.
RAM has already been up all year. It's currently about double the price I paid for it in March.
Sometimes you can't. You computer does only have so many slots after all.
Actually, a nice way to put this in context is that the letters F A B are the first three letters in the Spanish word for factory, fabrica.
They're also the first three letters in the English words for fabrication plant, fabrication plant. You know, where they fabricate things like computer chips.
Not if they want to be backwards compatible with earlier versions.
Nope. Nothing to do with HDMI. Anyone who "knows this is an issue" has no idea what they're talking about. You don't actually think your computer is sending text over HDMI to your TV and letting your TV render the fonts, do you?
The problem is that people forget (nearly) all water cooling systems are really just fancy air cooling systems. They're just trading phase change heatpipes for pumped water, expecting something magical is going to happen and amazing low temperatures! Unless you add a larger radiator than you could otherwise fit on top of your CPU, all you get is a modest improvement in airflow efficiency, as you prevent hot air from recirculating back through the heatsink. Well designed cases minimize that issue with air cooling anyway.
Don't forget, an IvyBridge-E part has twice the memory bandwidth over the next closest Haswell part. There are a number of applications where that measure trumps a higher IPC.
Why? Cause having threads over makes other programs run nicely. Run a program eating 4 threads, and you still have response in GUI and other programs. Unless you hit some other bottleneck (and you will).
Just having threads does not necessarily mean parallel processing. It becomes increasingly more difficult to add functional threads to an application without getting them locked down by mutexes.
My next machine will be a i7 with SSD, no bit storage anymore, internet will keep my movies from now on :-)
How does the release of a new CPU have anything to do with you wasting internet bandwidth?
By way, you mean about four times more common. By less dangerous, you mean it's an alpha emitter with a halflife on the order of 14-billion years, as opposed to Uranium, an alpha emitter with a halflife of only 4-billion years.
Thorium is fertile, not fissile, so if we want to use it, we need breeder reactors. If we're using breeder reactors of any sort, we need heavy waste reprocessing to really make a go of it, and our usable stores of Uranium go up by around two orders of magnitude. In other words, if we are going to use Thorium, there's no reason to use Thorium over Uranium unless you've got abundant deposits in your possession. If your country has Uranium, use Uranium. If you have Thorium, use Thorium. Either way, we've pretty much solved our power supply problems for a few tens of thousands of years.
"Mega" is a file sharing site, started in place of the now-defunct MegaUpload, purported to be secure against even themselves. This article is to show that there is exactly zero effective security against data breaches by Mega.
A "bookmarklet" is a bookmark that rather than storing a URL, stores a snippet of javascript, which gets run in-place on the currently loaded web page, altering it in some fashion. Think GreaseMonkey, but without the framework to automatically run the scripts on certain sites.
The Mega site runs javascript. If you do not enable javascript, you cannot use Mega. Of course in that scenario, this whole discussion is moot.