The Opteron supports glueless 8-chip systems. Just wire the HyperTransport links together and off you go. Of course, with dual-core that's already 16 CPUs, and will be 32 CPUs next year. And it's quite possible to add bridge chips to support more than 8 Opterons.
No paper will flat-out lie because that would ultimately hurt sales, but papers and media outlets do and will push the truth as close as possible to sex, violence, or rock and role in a bid to increase sales.
No. Papers will, and do, flat-out lie. And they get caught at it. Regularly.
But the worse problem is that they don't care. Journalists are singularly careless with the truth when it comes to what they consider a good story.
The buying public does not like harsh realities. They won't buy truth.
Not to put to fine a point on it: Bullshit. The buying public thinks - or rather, thought - that mainstream journalism was telling them the truth. Of course, it wasn't, and never has.
The main problem isn't a particular agenda (though that is a problem); the problem is that journalists don't give a shit.
There's another paper by Michael Crichton that is much more to the point: The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect. The point of this is that pretty much every newspaper article gets the important facts wrong in serious ways, but we tend to forget that fact.
Fiction and reader-affirmation sells. Truth and harsh facts don't.
How would you know? Have you ever tried that? It sounds to me like a pathetic justification for laziness and carelessness.
One of the two genes, ASPM, appears to have come under selection only 5800 years ago; but it is now at around 20 percent, with a frequency of near 50 percent in some Near Eastern populations. Whatever this allele does, it had a selective advantage of more than 5 percent.
a P4 would need to be clocked at around 60 GHz to do that.
They could cut that in half if they had a full hardware implementation of SSE3 (which I understand they are doing with the next-generation cores) - only 30GHz required!
First off, C and C++ are not inherently unsafe, it is just that programmers that can use them safely are rare.
The problem these days is that the C mindset is so embedded that many programmers don't even know there's a better way to do things.
C and C++ are not inherently unsafe, it is just that programmers that can use them safely are rare.
That's what inherently unsafe means. A programming language that is inherently safe doesn't let you write unsafe code. Take a look at Ada one day, grasshopper.
Here's a clue: just because another country has made mistakes at some point in the history, doesn't mean Bush is making a better job now.
Here's a clue for you: The French government has collapsed twelve times in the last two hundred years. I'm not talking about elections or impeachments or whatever, I'm talking about dispensing with democracy entirely and installing a king. Or vice versa.
Whatever job President Bush is doing, it's clear that America is doing a hell of a lot better than France.
The density of transistors has been doubling about every 18 months since 1997, in the storage industry, density has been doubling every 12 months.
This was true between about 1998 and 2002. Then it ran into a wall. (Before 1998, the doubling time for disks was the same as for transistors.)
250GB three-platter drives appeared in early '02 - albeit at 5400 rpm. Three years later, we are up to 400GB, with 500GB due soon. That's a doubling time of more than three years.
How about hiring a President that will sign the Kyoto Protocol?
Um, what country are you from? Most countries elect their presidents.
Oh, and by the way, Kyoto was rejected by Congress - not by the President - during the Clinton administration. The rejection was near-unanimous.
What we actually need to do is form an agreement that will help slow global warming without destroying the global economy. Whereas Kyoto would destroy the economy while doing nothing to slow global warming. (Check the actual provisions the Kyoto Protocol makes. It's worse than useless.)
Something like the agreement recently signed by the U.S., China, India, Japan and Australia. The one you probably haven't heard about.
Analysts at Wishbone Mugwump Securities are saying that Sony could ship the PS3 on schedule.
"If the Xbox 360 is a success, Sony won't want to give Microsoft any time to build up momentum. The best way to prevent that is to launch the PS3 on time."
A Sony spokesman refused to comment on what he described as "stupid rumours", but did roll his eyes a bit.
By contrast you are in a way suggesting that the Palestinians have to unilaterally disarm now to prove their worthiness
No.
What I'm suggesting is that the Palestinians actively stamp out the terrorist organisations that they are at present tacitly (or actively) supporting. If they have the will and the ability to do that, then they are a state, and it's time for us to recognise that.
If they lack that will and ability, then they aren't a state, and granting them statehood is just another useless fiction.
Form a frickin' army instead of blowing up school buses. What's so complicated?
The "state" Israel is proposing is more like a series of walled ghettos in to which they want to lock the Palestinians and forget about them
Bullshit.
until the inevitable rocket or suicide bombing happens at which point Israel will roll in just like they do today.
Such terrorist attacks are only made inevitable by the Palestinian history of terrorist attacks. Huge numbers of Palestinians worked in Israel until the beginning of the current Intifada. The wall is being built in response to attacks; to claim that it is the cause of attacks that started long before it was even considered is breathtakingly nonsensical.
If Palestine forms an army and forcibly disarms the militias, then it's a state. If it doesn't, then it's not, and never will be.
The King David Hotel was at the time being used as British military command and communications base, and the British were opposing the creation of the Jewish state. (At that time - they changed policy on this repeatedly.) That made it a military target - which doesn't in itself justify the attack.
The broader point - that some of the Jewish paramilitary groups in the 1940s engaged in at least borderline if not actual terrorist acts - remains. But the mainstream Jewish military suppressed them quite effectively - viz. David Ben-Gurion and the Altalena incident.
When the Palestinian leaders can suppress their rogue militias the same way, then they will be ready to have their own state. Or rather, when they can maintain civil order to that degree, Palestine will be a state.
In Australia, I think it currently works out at $3.30 a gallon. More expensive than the US, but far cheaper than Europe. (The difference is basically taxes. Fuel taxes in Europe are horrifying.)
An economic collapse in Saudi Arabia could have massive implications all throughout the world.
Nope.
The Saudi economy is one fortieth that of the U.S., about half of one percent of the world economy. A Saudi collapse wouldn't matter much at all.
The Saudis have unbelievable amounts of money invested in foreign companies.. and if they decided to pull out, it could destroy our economies.
Nope.
The money they have invested isn't that significant overall. Also, given that they are running out of oil, the absolute last thing they want to do is dump their overseas investments.
The problem in Greece, the formerly fertile crescent, northern Africa (the bread basket of the Roman Empire) and similar areas is deforestation. Clear the trees for your pastures, and sooner or later you'll find that the land has degraded to the point that your pasture is too poor to support cattle anymore. So you bring in sheep, and they degrade the land even further. You end up herding goats, which can live on anything, but prevent the land from ever recovering.
The solution is to come up with something that does for goats what myxomatosis did for rabbits.
Small farms suck. We had small farms for about 8000 years, and they sucked. 90% of the population was trapped in back-breaking labour and poverty.
Now we have big farms. Big farms allow us to use big machinery, which makes farming roughly one hundred times more efficient. The result of that is that I can get paid (by comparison) a small fortune to sit at a desk and fiddle with databases, and never have to look at the rear end of an ox. Food is good, cheap and plentiful because we don't have small farms.
The reason people throughout the third world are heading to the city (even if they end up in shanty towns) is that small farms suck. Living in a slum on the outskirts of Bombay or Mexico City may suck, but living on a small farm is even worse.
I don't claim to be an expert, but plastic is a by-product of oil. When the oil runs out, no more plastic.
Nope, wrong.
We make plastic from oil because that's the cheapest way to do it. We can make it from coal instead (which we have in sufficient quantity to last hundreds of years) or from plants. It will just cost more.
There's good reason to believe that "Peak Oil" is already here. This is it. These are the painfully high gas prices we were warned about. (Historically speaking, gas prices today are horrifying. Ask your parents.)
The question each of us must ask is:
What will you do when gas reaches $5 per gallon?
Move to Alberta and get rich?
As of now Japan, China, and the EU are dumping tons of resources into this, but I've yet to hear anything about the US government acting on it.
There's one big problem: There is no viable alternative to oil, even at current prices. But if the price keeps going up, there will be. Gas will never hit $10 per gallon, because even without subsidies biofuels cost less than that to produce. We don't need to dump tons of resources into it, because the situation will correct itself automatically. From the perspective of biofuel producers, Peak Oil is just a business opportunity.
When we run out of oil, it doesn't mean we run out of fuel, it means we run out of cheap fuel. We use oil because it's cheap. When it's cheaper to use alcohol produced from corn, we'll use that instead.
This will slow economic growth, of course, but there's not going to be any economic collapse outside of Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. In the big picture, oil doesn't really matter that much.
The way stock markets work is based on positive feedback; in the short term they exaggerate everything, good or bad. Ignore them. Mindless panic is what they do every day.
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Wrong.
The Opteron supports glueless 8-chip systems. Just wire the HyperTransport links together and off you go. Of course, with dual-core that's already 16 CPUs, and will be 32 CPUs next year. And it's quite possible to add bridge chips to support more than 8 Opterons.
All of the above are superscalar designs.
Including the Opteron.
No paper will flat-out lie because that would ultimately hurt sales, but papers and media outlets do and will push the truth as close as possible to sex, violence, or rock and role in a bid to increase sales.
No. Papers will, and do, flat-out lie. And they get caught at it. Regularly.
But the worse problem is that they don't care. Journalists are singularly careless with the truth when it comes to what they consider a good story.
The buying public does not like harsh realities. They won't buy truth.
Not to put to fine a point on it: Bullshit. The buying public thinks - or rather, thought - that mainstream journalism was telling them the truth. Of course, it wasn't, and never has.
The main problem isn't a particular agenda (though that is a problem); the problem is that journalists don't give a shit.
There's another paper by Michael Crichton that is much more to the point: The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect. The point of this is that pretty much every newspaper article gets the important facts wrong in serious ways, but we tend to forget that fact.
Fiction and reader-affirmation sells. Truth and harsh facts don't.
How would you know? Have you ever tried that? It sounds to me like a pathetic justification for laziness and carelessness.
One of the two genes, ASPM, appears to have come under selection only 5800 years ago; but it is now at around 20 percent, with a frequency of near 50 percent in some Near Eastern populations. Whatever this allele does, it had a selective advantage of more than 5 percent.
It's the morning coffee gene!
The PS3 architecture is quite odd...
No it's not. It's basically a better-organised and larger version of the PS2's Emotion Engine... Albeit with a different instruction set.
The PS2 developers love it. "256KB of memory per SPE? And we can program it in C? Woot!"
Its a fact that, n parallel processors is less efficient than one n-times-faster processor.
It's a fact that you can't get n-times-faster processors, so tough bickies.
a P4 would need to be clocked at around 60 GHz to do that.
They could cut that in half if they had a full hardware implementation of SSE3 (which I understand they are doing with the next-generation cores) - only 30GHz required!
First off, C and C++ are not inherently unsafe, it is just that programmers that can use them safely are rare.
The problem these days is that the C mindset is so embedded that many programmers don't even know there's a better way to do things.
C and C++ are not inherently unsafe, it is just that programmers that can use them safely are rare.
That's what inherently unsafe means. A programming language that is inherently safe doesn't let you write unsafe code. Take a look at Ada one day, grasshopper.
What's more, many of them were once children themselves!
Here's a clue: just because another country has made mistakes at some point in the history, doesn't mean Bush is making a better job now.
Here's a clue for you: The French government has collapsed twelve times in the last two hundred years. I'm not talking about elections or impeachments or whatever, I'm talking about dispensing with democracy entirely and installing a king. Or vice versa.
Whatever job President Bush is doing, it's clear that America is doing a hell of a lot better than France.
The density of transistors has been doubling about every 18 months since 1997, in the storage industry, density has been doubling every 12 months.
This was true between about 1998 and 2002. Then it ran into a wall. (Before 1998, the doubling time for disks was the same as for transistors.)
250GB three-platter drives appeared in early '02 - albeit at 5400 rpm. Three years later, we are up to 400GB, with 500GB due soon. That's a doubling time of more than three years.
How about hiring a President that will sign the Kyoto Protocol?
Um, what country are you from? Most countries elect their presidents.
Oh, and by the way, Kyoto was rejected by Congress - not by the President - during the Clinton administration. The rejection was near-unanimous.
What we actually need to do is form an agreement that will help slow global warming without destroying the global economy. Whereas Kyoto would destroy the economy while doing nothing to slow global warming. (Check the actual provisions the Kyoto Protocol makes. It's worse than useless.)
Something like the agreement recently signed by the U.S., China, India, Japan and Australia. The one you probably haven't heard about.
Analysts at Wishbone Mugwump Securities are saying that Sony could ship the PS3 on schedule.
"If the Xbox 360 is a success, Sony won't want to give Microsoft any time to build up momentum. The best way to prevent that is to launch the PS3 on time."
A Sony spokesman refused to comment on what he described as "stupid rumours", but did roll his eyes a bit.
It's the belief in God based solely on logic and reason.
Deism: "We don't know, therefore God."
Science: "We don't know, but we'll see if we can work it out."
By contrast you are in a way suggesting that the Palestinians have to unilaterally disarm now to prove their worthiness
No.
What I'm suggesting is that the Palestinians actively stamp out the terrorist organisations that they are at present tacitly (or actively) supporting. If they have the will and the ability to do that, then they are a state, and it's time for us to recognise that.
If they lack that will and ability, then they aren't a state, and granting them statehood is just another useless fiction.
Form a frickin' army instead of blowing up school buses. What's so complicated?
The "state" Israel is proposing is more like a series of walled ghettos in to which they want to lock the Palestinians and forget about them
Bullshit.
until the inevitable rocket or suicide bombing happens at which point Israel will roll in just like they do today.
Such terrorist attacks are only made inevitable by the Palestinian history of terrorist attacks. Huge numbers of Palestinians worked in Israel until the beginning of the current Intifada. The wall is being built in response to attacks; to claim that it is the cause of attacks that started long before it was even considered is breathtakingly nonsensical.
If Palestine forms an army and forcibly disarms the militias, then it's a state. If it doesn't, then it's not, and never will be.
The King David Hotel was at the time being used as British military command and communications base, and the British were opposing the creation of the Jewish state. (At that time - they changed policy on this repeatedly.) That made it a military target - which doesn't in itself justify the attack.
The broader point - that some of the Jewish paramilitary groups in the 1940s engaged in at least borderline if not actual terrorist acts - remains. But the mainstream Jewish military suppressed them quite effectively - viz. David Ben-Gurion and the Altalena incident.
When the Palestinian leaders can suppress their rogue militias the same way, then they will be ready to have their own state. Or rather, when they can maintain civil order to that degree, Palestine will be a state.
The solution is to come up for somthing that does to people what Calicivirus did for rabbits.
As long as you get rid of the goats first.
In Australia, I think it currently works out at $3.30 a gallon. More expensive than the US, but far cheaper than Europe. (The difference is basically taxes. Fuel taxes in Europe are horrifying.)
Remember also that Peak Oil isn't about suddenly running out of oil, it's about runing out of enough oil.
Right.
But the doom-sayers all assume that demand for oil is inelastic, which would be a surprise as it would be the first such commodity ever discovered.
Which doesn't mean it won't hurt as prices rise. Just that the end isn't nigh. Or no nigher than usual.
An economic collapse in Saudi Arabia could have massive implications all throughout the world.
Nope.
The Saudi economy is one fortieth that of the U.S., about half of one percent of the world economy. A Saudi collapse wouldn't matter much at all.
The Saudis have unbelievable amounts of money invested in foreign companies.. and if they decided to pull out, it could destroy our economies.
Nope.
The money they have invested isn't that significant overall. Also, given that they are running out of oil, the absolute last thing they want to do is dump their overseas investments.
The problem in Greece, the formerly fertile crescent, northern Africa (the bread basket of the Roman Empire) and similar areas is deforestation. Clear the trees for your pastures, and sooner or later you'll find that the land has degraded to the point that your pasture is too poor to support cattle anymore. So you bring in sheep, and they degrade the land even further. You end up herding goats, which can live on anything, but prevent the land from ever recovering.
The solution is to come up with something that does for goats what myxomatosis did for rabbits.
No masters, no worldly possetions
...interesting, call it idealist anarcho-communism.
No computers? No thanks.
ans a basic idea at the start : we have enough...do you really need a better hair dryer or a better oven ?
Hell yes.
The idea of the film is
Been tried. Two million people died. Not interested in repeating the experiment.
I expect if vegetable based fuels were created & refined on a decent scale, the price would be in the ballpark _now_.
Possibly. But certainly long before gas hits $10 per gallon, biofuels will become viable, and as production expands, prices will come down again.
Market forces sort out things like this without any intervention - but there are bound to be a few bumps along the way.
More likely that I'll see my tax dollars wasted on recovery of oil from marginal sources, like shale and tar sands.
Nope.
Tar sands are profitable. Very much so, given current oil prices. They're a significant source of tax revenue, not an expense.
That could be easiler utilized by small farms...
No.
No no no no no no no no no.
This is a really, really, really stupid idea.
Small farms suck. We had small farms for about 8000 years, and they sucked. 90% of the population was trapped in back-breaking labour and poverty.
Now we have big farms. Big farms allow us to use big machinery, which makes farming roughly one hundred times more efficient. The result of that is that I can get paid (by comparison) a small fortune to sit at a desk and fiddle with databases, and never have to look at the rear end of an ox. Food is good, cheap and plentiful because we don't have small farms.
The reason people throughout the third world are heading to the city (even if they end up in shanty towns) is that small farms suck. Living in a slum on the outskirts of Bombay or Mexico City may suck, but living on a small farm is even worse.
I don't claim to be an expert, but plastic is a by-product of oil. When the oil runs out, no more plastic.
Nope, wrong.
We make plastic from oil because that's the cheapest way to do it. We can make it from coal instead (which we have in sufficient quantity to last hundreds of years) or from plants. It will just cost more.
There's good reason to believe that "Peak Oil" is already here. This is it. These are the painfully high gas prices we were warned about. (Historically speaking, gas prices today are horrifying. Ask your parents.)
The question each of us must ask is:
What will you do when gas reaches $5 per gallon?
Move to Alberta and get rich?
As of now Japan, China, and the EU are dumping tons of resources into this, but I've yet to hear anything about the US government acting on it.
There's one big problem: There is no viable alternative to oil, even at current prices. But if the price keeps going up, there will be. Gas will never hit $10 per gallon, because even without subsidies biofuels cost less than that to produce. We don't need to dump tons of resources into it, because the situation will correct itself automatically. From the perspective of biofuel producers, Peak Oil is just a business opportunity.
When we run out of oil, it doesn't mean we run out of fuel, it means we run out of cheap fuel. We use oil because it's cheap. When it's cheaper to use alcohol produced from corn, we'll use that instead.
This will slow economic growth, of course, but there's not going to be any economic collapse outside of Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. In the big picture, oil doesn't really matter that much.
The way stock markets work is based on positive feedback; in the short term they exaggerate everything, good or bad. Ignore them. Mindless panic is what they do every day.