"If GPU technology has taught me anything, it's that you can make gamers pay $700 for a graphics card and $200 for a new 600watt power supply as long as they're getting their shiny things fix, so power efficiency doesn't matter for the desktop market, laptops and servers being a different story."
Except that the latest crop of video hardware turns that argument on it's head. I can get more horsepower (dual GPU) now and for under $600 than ever before.* Even the $600 PSU isn't needed except for the most loaded, overclocked machines out there. And even that really isn't being done for performance reasons so much as it is economics. e.g buy cheap, overclock. Get the next hardware up for "free".
"Now all we need are cameras in the players' helmets and then we can all feel like we're really part of the game"
We already have 3D sports. It's called multiplayer in most games. Throw in real-time motion capture and you've just saved yourself several million in not building a stadium.
Personally, I've never understood the hate-on some people have for people like myself who simply don't like watching sports. Its amazing how much disgust registers in their face to a simple, "Sorry, I don't follow sports." You'd think I kicked their dog or something.
Welcome to my friends list. "legal asshole" meet your consul in the form of "But I'm not hurting anyone" and backup singer "They're a big company. They deserve it". Seen on tour with "I'm not with them but I secretly agree".
"Those chips are about as intelligent as a rubber band. There's currently just no way to implement sane wear filesystem-independent wear levelling in a tiny chip like that."
Which is why HDDs do all their "wear leveling" in software.
"Aside from FCC approval do you really think most mobile broadband companies (well, AT&T and such) will hurry to implement this while citing issues with bandwidth and creating caps."
Why would I expect them to confuse two different technologies?
"Add that to RIAA influence and technology upgrades for carriers, it'll probably be at least 5-6 years before we see any consumer use of this technology."
Nothing like the "I WANT IT NOW!" mentality to drive innovation.
"They were actually surprised to see that people did react strongly when a seemingly important NPC gets killed. I guess they didn't play the original Half Life were people didn't want to get barney killed, even though the character has no consistence at all."
Of course I wanted Barney killed. That purple dinosaur has been vexing me for years.
"We're almost dead already! So what if we turn down the candle's need for oxygen? What if we dim the candle so much that we don't even have the energy to die?'"
"The problem I see in current engineering and sciences courses is that they don't teach numerical analysis. Engineers and scientists today try to do everything in matlab or excel, except for those that do postgraduate courses, who often try to do things in fortran."
Maybe in computer engineering they might but I learned mathematical analysis right off the bat and no it wasn't post doc. It's kind of hard for one to call themselves an engineer and not know that.
Agreed, however this is still news because the platform is under such control by Apple. They could quietly and easily put not only hardware and software in place. But implement more effective procedures in their software process to make security tighter. And we wouldn't be the wiser.
The boards are fine (made by Foxconn I believe). They just don't have as many "offerings" as others. e.g. more ports, overclocking (remember Intel was the first to lock their FSB), etc. Also while Intel does CPUs great, chipsets aren't their strong point (same could be said for AMD).
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"The average developer is an ignoramus."
Which one are you and why should that be exclusive to you?
"If GPU technology has taught me anything, it's that you can make gamers pay $700 for a graphics card and $200 for a new 600watt power supply as long as they're getting their shiny things fix, so power efficiency doesn't matter for the desktop market, laptops and servers being a different story."
Except that the latest crop of video hardware turns that argument on it's head. I can get more horsepower (dual GPU) now and for under $600 than ever before.* Even the $600 PSU isn't needed except for the most loaded, overclocked machines out there. And even that really isn't being done for performance reasons so much as it is economics. e.g buy cheap, overclock. Get the next hardware up for "free".
*Even IGPs are becoming respectable.
"Now all we need are cameras in the players' helmets and then we can all feel like we're really part of the game"
We already have 3D sports. It's called multiplayer in most games. Throw in real-time motion capture and you've just saved yourself several million in not building a stadium.
Thats interesting. I wonder how the glasses distinguish between the two?
They take a class in circular logic.
Personally, I've never understood the hate-on some people have for people like myself who simply don't like watching sports. Its amazing how much disgust registers in their face to a simple, "Sorry, I don't follow sports." You'd think I kicked their dog or something.
You don't follow "dog kicking" either?!
Double-D's might make us seasick.
Only if they're yours.
"We don't want people to really know us because we have been convinced to hold ourselves to standards that no one actually meets."
Yeah...well, I do have a bigger dick than everyone else.
Welcome to my friends list. "legal asshole" meet your consul in the form of "But I'm not hurting anyone" and backup singer "They're a big company. They deserve it". Seen on tour with "I'm not with them but I secretly agree".
"What's wrong with us for accepting such horrific violence but if a nipple shows up in film it's offensive?"
Because a nipple isn't a dangerous weapon? Best you can do with one is put an eye out.
"What can I do to maximize the performance of Linux while running off of a slow medium?"
Stop trying to fight physics and use a different technology
"Those chips are about as intelligent as a rubber band. There's currently just no way to implement sane wear filesystem-independent wear levelling in a tiny chip like that."
Which is why HDDs do all their "wear leveling" in software.
"Heck, normal broadband speeds here are abysmal as it is."
No. Dialup at 33.6 is abysmal. Broadband simply spoils you to the point were you forget what it was like "in the good old days".
"Can it be done?"
Only if you ignore that a shared resource is in peril in a world of "me! me! me!".
"Aside from FCC approval do you really think most mobile broadband companies (well, AT&T and such) will hurry to implement this while citing issues with bandwidth and creating caps."
Why would I expect them to confuse two different technologies?
"Add that to RIAA influence and technology upgrades for carriers, it'll probably be at least 5-6 years before we see any consumer use of this technology."
Nothing like the "I WANT IT NOW!" mentality to drive innovation.
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I think it's too little, too late. The time to capitalize on the Ghost busters franchise was when the movies were still fresh in peoples minds.
"They were actually surprised to see that people did react strongly when a seemingly important NPC gets killed. I guess they didn't play the original Half Life were people didn't want to get barney killed, even though the character has no consistence at all."
Of course I wanted Barney killed. That purple dinosaur has been vexing me for years.
I've been playing Q4 and you find different races in that. All dying for the same cause. Now that's equal.
754 lasted longer.
Also as Nevarre points out. The 939 was suppose to be THE AMD socket.
"We're almost dead already! So what if we turn down the candle's need for oxygen? What if we dim the candle so much that we don't even have the energy to die?'"
And what kind of "life" would it be?
"The problem I see in current engineering and sciences courses is that they don't teach numerical analysis. Engineers and scientists today try to do everything in matlab or excel, except for those that do postgraduate courses, who often try to do things in fortran."
Maybe in computer engineering they might but I learned mathematical analysis right off the bat and no it wasn't post doc. It's kind of hard for one to call themselves an engineer and not know that.
Agreed, however this is still news because the platform is under such control by Apple. They could quietly and easily put not only hardware and software in place. But implement more effective procedures in their software process to make security tighter. And we wouldn't be the wiser.
The boards are fine (made by Foxconn I believe). They just don't have as many "offerings" as others. e.g. more ports, overclocking (remember Intel was the first to lock their FSB), etc. Also while Intel does CPUs great, chipsets aren't their strong point (same could be said for AMD).
"What started in 2007 it wasn't "bad" for the ordinary Joe - in fact a recovery might have occurred and we'd never have known about it."
Depends were Joe was on the socioeconomic scale. For a lot of Joes the economy hasn't been right since 9/11.
And make certain it doesn't generate any R6034 errors.