I don't know whether you're implying sarcastically that Cell yields are too low to be economical, which is what the short segment you quoted from out of the context you cited says. The point of the Cell is that
IBM has said it needs seven of the eight cores on the Cell processor to work for Sony's Playstation. Will there be an aftermarket for chips with fewer operational cores? Reeves: There are a lot of chips with six cores operational, and we've been thinking about whether we should really throw all of those away. We also have a separate part number for chips with all eight cores good. The stuff that's going to be for medical imaging, aerospace and defense and data uses eight cores.
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That doesn't mean there aren't good uses for a chip with four SPEs [synergistic processing elements].
Electronic News: What's the defining factor that makes some chips better than others? Reeves: Defects. It becomes a bigger problem the bigger the chip is. With chips that are one-by-one and silicon germanium, we can get yields of 95 percent. With a chip like the Cell processor, you're lucky to get 10 or 20 percent.
They get 10-20% perfect, with 8 SPEs, that they use for medical imaging, aerospace/defense and data proc. They must get a lot more than 20% with a defective SPE, which goes into the mass-market PS3 at 7 SPEs. Which alone would pay for the entire run at $95-100 apiece: a $5B fab investment would require 5M chips sold to pay for it, if Cells accounted for 10% of Sony's production there. Sony has already shipped over 2M units at launch, with shortages defining the market. At this rate, Sony will probably get at least halfway to paying off the fab just on PS3 Cells. Before they sell the 8-SPE ones for the high-end apps (at much higher prices). And the 4-6 SPEs, and maybe even all the way down to 0-SPE Power970s for dirt cheap in all kinds of devices. And that's not even using the electronic fuses for "self healing" and even just field tailoring power consumption to just the performance needed. An expensive feature in a cheap, powerful chip.
The redundancy and degradable multiuse strategies exploit yields to segment markets. It's like the revolution in marketing different clock speeds as different products, not defects, resulting from production yields. But this time with parallel, not serial, processing.
Al D'Amato was a crooked senator from NY. Not only did he help his brother scam military contracts using his Senate office, but he ran the Housing and Urban Development agency as his family's interest-free mortgage office, while cutting housing for the poor. Among other swinish career moves.
I'm not surprised he's hooked up with the poker players: no strangers to compromise and bedfellows to win the pot. I hope they can use him to free Internet gambling from the hypocrisy of D'Amato's Republican heirs, who ban it as competition for their more traditional casino mob (and their "Indian" fronts). But don't deify D'Amato: he's a cheater. Count your money before leaving the table.
How about the Cell uP (first appearing in Playstation3), which embeds a Power core on silicon with a 1.6Tbps token ring connecting up to 8 (more later) "FPUs", extremely fast DSPs. IBM's got 4 of them on a single chip, connected by their "transparent, coherent" bus, a ring of token rings. One Cell can master a slave Cell, and IBM is already debugging 1024 DSP versions, transparently scalable by the compiler or the Power "ringmaster" at runtime.
These little bastards are inherently distributed computing: a microLAN of parallel processors, linkable in a microInternet.
No, racism is wrong because it works against our survival. It's just like having an appendix: it once helped survival, but now the environment has changed to make it unfit. As soon as you notice you've got it, you should remove it.
I've got a genetically hardwired appendix. So far it's behaved, but thousands of people each year die when that now-useless old organ pops.
If racism turned out to have genes that modulate its sense of identity/exclusion and affinity/animosity, racism still would be wrong and need to be wiped out.
Maybe finding the "pious" gene would lead to a vaccine.
They're not fighting the Terror War (on terrorists, anyway). They're spying on Americans for political and financial control. Fascists. Meanwhile, there is real terrorism and other threats to security that these fools are neither competent or interested in handling.
The decision ignored not only the small webcasters operating under the old (already fairly prohibitive) rules, but also some less expensive options proposed by SoundScan, the RIAA spinoff that collects the royalties (instead of the traditional ASCAP, BMI, SESAC). No surprise that the FCC screws the people who have to pay the rates dictated by the monopoly FCC: the only documents allowed in the "trial" were submitted by incumbent, huge broadcasters and a couple of tax collectors.
The old rules required $500 minimum payment a year, while 4-minute songs would cost about $95 a year per-play at.07 cents per listen. So the minimum audience (by cost) is at least 6 people continuous, which means at least 25-50+ intermittent listeners, even dedicated ones. Which rules out true "small webcasters", people streaming the way most people blog: with a tiny audience of their friends. That keeps little guys out of the business, instead of competing on innovation and quality with the incumbents dictating the rules. Their audiences and operating staffs are large enough that the new, higher royalty rates are a cheap price for maintaining their domination of media, unlike journalism which now faces serious competition (and quality demands) from little bloggers. "Official publishers", a cartel of $BILLION media corps calling the shots.
Think maybe it's just bureaucracy working with business, try finding the dates and ways to comment in the "15 day period" now reportedly underway. Or participate in the process as a consumer in any way at all.
These rules control the future of broadcasting. Including the future of TV, the digital streaming that will be the only TV after the required switchover in 2009. Which means that those 2010 rates will jump along with the new video streaming they figure out, after they see how much abuse these new rules can deal the "emerging market". The system that only telcos, cablecos and broadcasters want for themselves, while they merge like the new satellite monopoly Sirius/XM.
If anyone can find the way to comment, and to insist on rules that respect the consumers, please post them. And get your friends to use them. While it's still cheap to send group emails without being in the spam business.
ACMENEWSLLC was the user to whose post (to which I linked) I replied, to which post of mine you then replied.
It's interesting that you didn't hear that Badnarik and Cobb sued for an Ohio recount in 2004. There was quite a lot of discussion, especially after House and Senate Democrats forced debate on certifying Ohio's Electoral ballots. I'd think a true independent, who'd even temporarily join parties just to promote individual candidates, would have heard if their candidate were suing for a recount. Especially if joined in their suit by a candidate with largely opposed policies, a suit which could have radically changed the election results, and thereby the course of history (eg. Iraq War). But it seems that you didn't. Which explains how such a serious electoral crisis could make so little impact on the general population, most of whom are even less politically aware than those who just pick from the duopoly.
You're not ACMENEWSLLC, who apparently is the kind of Republican who votes for Bush, but doesn't feel responsible because they wanted him not to be a Republican. Consistent with invading Iraq, but not feeling responsible because they wanted it to greet us with flowers and hugs.
But I am curious. Were you a registered Republican in 2004? Did you vote in the primaries? For whom? Did you support Badnarik's lawsuit challenging the Ohio results?
Try arguing if you disagree rather than some stupid denial, you retard. If you can muster it out of your terrified denial that the fascists are running the show.
When were you a kid? I've been around a while, and I can't remember a Republican government (Congressional majority or president) that actually did even one of those things. Lots of talk about them, but never any action.
Anonymous stalker Coward envies my life where there's a whole website dedicated to topics I find interesting, which I have time to indulge. While wasting their life stalking me and writing inane attacks. Well, everyone knows Slashdot isn't perfect.
The Sony/IBM/Toshiba Cell uP already has an onchip token ring running at 204GBps. Sony is reportedly developing an optical interconnect to join devices together, presumably at that speed (1.64Tbps).
What interconnects already exist anywhere near that speed? 10Gbps ethernet is about $400 per card on a PCIe bus, or 2x10Gbps on a card for $700. Is there 100Gbps for sale today at any price? Any other >10Gbps signalling on a PCIe card, or even on a motherboard?
Some offshore oil platforms (that aren't foundations on the seafloor) use hydraulic feedback lifters to rock their bottoms against the rising waves, keeping their platforms level even in heavy seas. Is there a version of that system which can power itself from the energy coming from those waves. Maybe with a little power against friction to keep the seesaw net action balanced.
Is there a cheap system (<$100K) I could use for a floating home of my own, even if I have to invent the feedback power system myself?
Britons will pay once in taxes, then again in their time wasted on these ads and other crap. Meanwhile, everyone watching the extra crap will be thereby paying for content Britons have already paid to produce.
Maybe if the UK lowered the taxes by the amount it receives from Google for the ads, that might resemble fairness. But even then, the UK has not gone through a process OK'ing the switch from taxes to advertising (or something else). Until it actually switches, it should just broadcast the content, and wave the British flag around the world in a new medium, the way the Queen has her subjects do since "weaving" was new media.
Or the nVidia chip really does deliver 80% greater performance (or less, the AMD claim is "more than 1 trillion floating-point calculations per second"). The AMD chip is a general purpose CPU, "using a general "multiply-add" (MADD)", while the nVidia chip is a GPU. GPUs don't compete directly with CPUs, as I said in the post to which you replied. In fact, the AMD 1TFLOPS appears to beat the Cell's 204GFLOPS by a mile. Which is a tremendous beating for a Sony chip that's incompatible with existing SW, either Intel or most PowerPC, and supposedly the quantum leap in PC performance this decade.
So while you're demanding logic and reason for entry, why don't you examine your own hidden premises and excluded middles? There are 3 kinds of people in the world: those who think there are 2 kinds of people in the world, and those who don't.
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They get 10-20% perfect, with 8 SPEs, that they use for medical imaging, aerospace/defense and data proc. They must get a lot more than 20% with a defective SPE, which goes into the mass-market PS3 at 7 SPEs. Which alone would pay for the entire run at $95-100 apiece: a $5B fab investment would require 5M chips sold to pay for it, if Cells accounted for 10% of Sony's production there. Sony has already shipped over 2M units at launch, with shortages defining the market. At this rate, Sony will probably get at least halfway to paying off the fab just on PS3 Cells. Before they sell the 8-SPE ones for the high-end apps (at much higher prices). And the 4-6 SPEs, and maybe even all the way down to 0-SPE Power970s for dirt cheap in all kinds of devices. And that's not even using the electronic fuses for "self healing" and even just field tailoring power consumption to just the performance needed. An expensive feature in a cheap, powerful chip.
The redundancy and degradable multiuse strategies exploit yields to segment markets. It's like the revolution in marketing different clock speeds as different products, not defects, resulting from production yields. But this time with parallel, not serial, processing.
Yes, NY State Attorney General Robert Abrams called D'Amato a fascist, bringing D'Amato to (crocodile) tears.
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How is calmly mentioning that D'Amato is crooked, with citations, "Flamebait"? Does D'Amato's staff mod Slashdot?
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Who can say that D'Amato's cheating ways are "Offtopic" to a story about "Al D'Amato: Freedom Fighter"? An anonymous cheater mod?
Al D'Amato was a crooked senator from NY. Not only did he help his brother scam military contracts using his Senate office, but he ran the Housing and Urban Development agency as his family's interest-free mortgage office, while cutting housing for the poor. Among other swinish career moves.
I'm not surprised he's hooked up with the poker players: no strangers to compromise and bedfellows to win the pot. I hope they can use him to free Internet gambling from the hypocrisy of D'Amato's Republican heirs, who ban it as competition for their more traditional casino mob (and their "Indian" fronts). But don't deify D'Amato: he's a cheater. Count your money before leaving the table.
How about the Cell uP (first appearing in Playstation3), which embeds a Power core on silicon with a 1.6Tbps token ring connecting up to 8 (more later) "FPUs", extremely fast DSPs. IBM's got 4 of them on a single chip, connected by their "transparent, coherent" bus, a ring of token rings. One Cell can master a slave Cell, and IBM is already debugging 1024 DSP versions, transparently scalable by the compiler or the Power "ringmaster" at runtime.
These little bastards are inherently distributed computing: a microLAN of parallel processors, linkable in a microInternet.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those! No, really: a Beowulf cluster of Cells.
No, racism is wrong because it works against our survival. It's just like having an appendix: it once helped survival, but now the environment has changed to make it unfit. As soon as you notice you've got it, you should remove it.
I've got a genetically hardwired appendix. So far it's behaved, but thousands of people each year die when that now-useless old organ pops.
If racism turned out to have genes that modulate its sense of identity/exclusion and affinity/animosity, racism still would be wrong and need to be wiped out.
Maybe finding the "pious" gene would lead to a vaccine.
Those spooks don't even know the difference between Sunnis and Shiites.
They're not fighting the Terror War (on terrorists, anyway). They're spying on Americans for political and financial control. Fascists. Meanwhile, there is real terrorism and other threats to security that these fools are neither competent or interested in handling.
The decision ignored not only the small webcasters operating under the old (already fairly prohibitive) rules, but also some less expensive options proposed by SoundScan, the RIAA spinoff that collects the royalties (instead of the traditional ASCAP, BMI, SESAC). No surprise that the FCC screws the people who have to pay the rates dictated by the monopoly FCC: the only documents allowed in the "trial" were submitted by incumbent, huge broadcasters and a couple of tax collectors.
.07 cents per listen. So the minimum audience (by cost) is at least 6 people continuous, which means at least 25-50+ intermittent listeners, even dedicated ones. Which rules out true "small webcasters", people streaming the way most people blog: with a tiny audience of their friends. That keeps little guys out of the business, instead of competing on innovation and quality with the incumbents dictating the rules. Their audiences and operating staffs are large enough that the new, higher royalty rates are a cheap price for maintaining their domination of media, unlike journalism which now faces serious competition (and quality demands) from little bloggers. "Official publishers", a cartel of $BILLION media corps calling the shots.
The old rules required $500 minimum payment a year, while 4-minute songs would cost about $95 a year per-play at
Think maybe it's just bureaucracy working with business, try finding the dates and ways to comment in the "15 day period" now reportedly underway. Or participate in the process as a consumer in any way at all.
These rules control the future of broadcasting. Including the future of TV, the digital streaming that will be the only TV after the required switchover in 2009. Which means that those 2010 rates will jump along with the new video streaming they figure out, after they see how much abuse these new rules can deal the "emerging market". The system that only telcos, cablecos and broadcasters want for themselves, while they merge like the new satellite monopoly Sirius/XM.
If anyone can find the way to comment, and to insist on rules that respect the consumers, please post them. And get your friends to use them. While it's still cheap to send group emails without being in the spam business.
ACMENEWSLLC was the user to whose post (to which I linked) I replied, to which post of mine you then replied.
It's interesting that you didn't hear that Badnarik and Cobb sued for an Ohio recount in 2004. There was quite a lot of discussion, especially after House and Senate Democrats forced debate on certifying Ohio's Electoral ballots. I'd think a true independent, who'd even temporarily join parties just to promote individual candidates, would have heard if their candidate were suing for a recount. Especially if joined in their suit by a candidate with largely opposed policies, a suit which could have radically changed the election results, and thereby the course of history (eg. Iraq War). But it seems that you didn't. Which explains how such a serious electoral crisis could make so little impact on the general population, most of whom are even less politically aware than those who just pick from the duopoly.
You're not ACMENEWSLLC, who apparently is the kind of Republican who votes for Bush, but doesn't feel responsible because they wanted him not to be a Republican. Consistent with invading Iraq, but not feeling responsible because they wanted it to greet us with flowers and hugs.
But I am curious. Were you a registered Republican in 2004? Did you vote in the primaries? For whom? Did you support Badnarik's lawsuit challenging the Ohio results?
Anonymous slashstalker Coward tilts at the Doc Ruby windmill.
Try arguing if you disagree rather than some stupid denial, you retard. If you can muster it out of your terrified denial that the fascists are running the show.
When were you a kid? I've been around a while, and I can't remember a Republican government (Congressional majority or president) that actually did even one of those things. Lots of talk about them, but never any action.
Who did you vote for in 2004?
Fascism is government by corporations.
Republicans bring you smaller, less intrusive government.
If you want to live on the water, as I do, themn living in the mountains is impractical.
Anonymous stalker Coward envies my life where there's a whole website dedicated to topics I find interesting, which I have time to indulge. While wasting their life stalking me and writing inane attacks. Well, everyone knows Slashdot isn't perfect.
The Sony/IBM/Toshiba Cell uP already has an onchip token ring running at 204GBps. Sony is reportedly developing an optical interconnect to join devices together, presumably at that speed (1.64Tbps).
What interconnects already exist anywhere near that speed? 10Gbps ethernet is about $400 per card on a PCIe bus, or 2x10Gbps on a card for $700. Is there 100Gbps for sale today at any price? Any other >10Gbps signalling on a PCIe card, or even on a motherboard?
Some offshore oil platforms (that aren't foundations on the seafloor) use hydraulic feedback lifters to rock their bottoms against the rising waves, keeping their platforms level even in heavy seas. Is there a version of that system which can power itself from the energy coming from those waves. Maybe with a little power against friction to keep the seesaw net action balanced.
Is there a cheap system (<$100K) I could use for a floating home of my own, even if I have to invent the feedback power system myself?
Britons will pay once in taxes, then again in their time wasted on these ads and other crap. Meanwhile, everyone watching the extra crap will be thereby paying for content Britons have already paid to produce.
Maybe if the UK lowered the taxes by the amount it receives from Google for the ads, that might resemble fairness. But even then, the UK has not gone through a process OK'ing the switch from taxes to advertising (or something else). Until it actually switches, it should just broadcast the content, and wave the British flag around the world in a new medium, the way the Queen has her subjects do since "weaving" was new media.
Or the nVidia chip really does deliver 80% greater performance (or less, the AMD claim is "more than 1 trillion floating-point calculations per second"). The AMD chip is a general purpose CPU, "using a general "multiply-add" (MADD)", while the nVidia chip is a GPU. GPUs don't compete directly with CPUs, as I said in the post to which you replied. In fact, the AMD 1TFLOPS appears to beat the Cell's 204GFLOPS by a mile. Which is a tremendous beating for a Sony chip that's incompatible with existing SW, either Intel or most PowerPC, and supposedly the quantum leap in PC performance this decade.
So while you're demanding logic and reason for entry, why don't you examine your own hidden premises and excluded middles? There are 3 kinds of people in the world: those who think there are 2 kinds of people in the world, and those who don't.
Live streams, new streams, and on-demand streams in multiple bitrates/formats (MP3, AAC, etc). Streams of phonecalls (mostly conference calls).