If my options are to spend $500 every 6 years on an Intel CPU+MB, or $150 every other year on an AMD CPU+MB, then I'll take the latter. I'll actually spend less money, and for most of the time I'll have a better system. Sure, the Intel system will outperform the AMD system in years 1-2, but the AMD system will outperform in years 3-6, and by a huge margin in the last two years. A CPU is a rapidly-depreciating asset
Not really. I'm still using an i7-860 from 2009, if you compare them to an FX-8350 they're trading blows, the Intel wins 9 of these benchmarks and AMD 4. Granted the FX-8350 was released in 2012, but AMD doesn't have anything newer while Intel does. In terms of "what would be an upgrade for me?" it's not even close, I was considering the i7-4770K but while clearly superior to my processor it's still not compelling enough. Personally I'm looking at possibly buying a Haswell-E/X99 combo, because despite the huge initial cost the general advance is so slow that I think an 8 core extreme processor will still kick a "mainstream" processor's ass in 5 years, maybe even 10 years. It's clearly that we're hitting the limits of performance/watt and so a 130W enthusiast processor has a significant advantage.
You're probably more specialized than before, straight out of college most assume you'll do well at "general development" and the assignments they have in mind are more of that nature too. Now they're looking at someone with many years of experience working with X, how is X relevant to them? I've jumped "subject matter" quite a bit and I feel it's because I've been able to make my experience seem relevant. Personally I feel I've stretched it very thin at times, but I guess a little is better than nothing. And I've tried to keep a positive spin on the things I don't know, as in this is the part of the job I know well and these are things I hope will challenge me and expand my horizons. It sounds awfully cliche but the number one thing you need to show them is that you're still hungry. I'd work on what do you do and say when you don't know the answers.
Or you know you could just turn those features that suck power off. When I'm abroad I usually turn off data transfer, if I also don't use it for games or the GPS tracker or any of the other power hungry uses and limit it to being a call/text only dumb phone then it lasts ages on a single charge. And if that's still not enough, get a Powerstation XL and plug it in when and where you do sleep.
There's still huge groups within feminism who don't just want an end to discrimination, but a forced equality despite unequal input. For example take wage discrimination, women make less than men do yes. But when you correct for such things as maternity leave, women working more part time, women working less overtime, women generally the ones staying home with sick children and look at actual hours and experience contributed to the company they do get equal pay for equal work. I could also take more than half a year's leave of absence, but I'm not going to pretend it wouldn't hurt my career. But many feminists wants the world to pretend like she was never gone.
In much the same vein many feminists are also complaining about different pay for different work, where the high income field is mainly dominated by men and the low income field mainly by women. The most usual example is nurses, it's a three year education very often compared to bachelor degrees (which are also three year here) in the STEM fields. Personally I find this rather absurd, pay is based on supply and demand and if you want to earn well go where the money is, don't complain that your chosen profession "deserves" to make as much as another. But quite a lot of vocal feminists seem to see this as some form of gender conspiracy to get away with paying women less.
It's not so much *who* they're rude toward (everyone), so much as the *way* in which they're rude. There's a big difference between "You suck at this game" and "You play like a girl," to use the most tame example I can think of. Putting down players by implying that they're $category, using hateful slurs, only propagates the idea that $category is not a desirable thing to be. Not only are they hurting the player they're insulting, but any person in $category that is in the same game; as well as teaching the non-$category people that this is an acceptable way to act.
Well, bullies like to punch where it hurts and where you have the least chance to defend yourself. I don't think bullies really have anything in particular against people with glasses or freckles or red hair but they'll still latch onto anything that makes you different and an outsider. It's a variation of trolling where taunting a woman into a feminist rage is a victory. It can be amazingly much more insulting if you use an implied inferiority like "Hey, not bad... for [a woman/an old man/racial slur]" than "You suck", it's like you weren't my equal to begin with so the results were already given. It's also compounded by the fact that we're not equal - we say "you fight like a girl" because in a fist fight to the death all other things equal I'd much rather fight a girl or an old man than a young male. I'm old enough to have to admit a younger me would probably kick my ass.
I believe cache is shared, and is believed to be one of the bottlenecks of the current AMD CPUs.
By far not the most significant one though, in single threaded tests the i7-4770K beats the FX-8350 by 62% in Cinebench R11.5, 73% in Cinebench R10 and 47% in POV-Ray 3.7RC6 and that's when the AMD core is not competing for resources with its sibling. With turbo the picture is a bit more complex than that but 4 Intel cores already equals 6-7 AMD cores. Then you add in cache contention, shared FPU, overhead of more threads for the last 1-2 cores of difference as in the most ideal benchmarks for AMD they're roughly equal. Except the AMD processor is 125W and using every drop of it, while the Intel is 84W, clearly AMD has some very basic performance issues not due to the core layout. They just run slow and hot no matter how you look at them and it's not getting better. In the words of AMD itself:
As we move forward, we will continue to strategically transform AMD as we diversify our portfolio and drive a larger percentage of our revenue from the semi custom, ultra low power client, embedded, dense server and professional graphics high growth markets.
Their CPU/APU division "Computing solutions" is already less than half the revenue and none of the operating income of AMD in Q4, that division's 2013 revenue was down 25% compared to 2012 which was a bad year itself and even their Christmas quarter sales showed a strong downwards trend (722M in Q4 vs 790M in Q3), Maybe AMD will survive as a company but the part of AMD that competes with Intel is clearly shrinking and shrinking fast. There's no significant refreshes of the FX or Opteron line in sight and since they're actively diversifying instead of investing I expect the same will happen to their other chips as well.
Does anyone else find it kind of weird that Intel seems to have gotten into a pattern where their supposed top of the line CPUs are perpetually a generation behind their supposed commodity CPUs in terms of technology?
They're not really consumer CPUs, they're a spin-off of Intel's server/workstation CPUs for the enterprise. That market requires a lot of validation and is generally very conservative preferring tested and true technology so it's not unnatural for server chips to lag behind consumer chips by a generation and so the "enthusiast" processors aren't ready until the Xeons are. My guess is that most of them are "damaged goods", server CPUs with ECC, QPI, vPro, TXT or other essential server features broken, but if you pair it with a high end motherboard you can sell it for $1000 to the "money is no subject" segment.
There's no business reason for Intel to make a CPU just for serving the high end desktop market, sure each chip is very profitable but they don't sell in big volume. If you look at the benchmarks the two extra cores don't help you in games at all, even with dual high-end video cards you're still GPU limited. Sure if you're doing video encoding, 3D rendering or any other task that'll load all six cores fully it's faster. If 64GB (8x8GB) vs 32GB (4x8GB) RAM matters to you then sure. But we're talking very narrow use cases here, even if AMD were able to give them competition I'm quite sure they'd follow the Xeon roadmap anyway. Oh and they are first to adopt DDR4 (since the Xeons do) but I'm sure that's actaully an advantage, my guess is the premiums on non-ECC DDR4 modules will be huge like everything else.
As for the expense - the Rift folks are holding pretty steady about targetting the $200-$400 price range - about the price of a midrange 3D video card or SSD, and I think most gamers would agree that a VR helmet would bring far more to the table.
When you're actually wearing the helmet maybe but I don't see myself using a VR helmet nearly as much as my graphics card or my SSD. Yes, you can look around with a VR helmet but you can't actually move like in a VR world I still need to be glued to my chair. Anything else would take too much space, cost and it's too exhaustive to game standing up. It'll be a gimmick for some kinds of games just like IMAX movies are, but many games won't have any benefit.
You know they've actually researched this and asians are no worse at identifying other asians than caucasians are at identifying other caucasians, it's got nothing to do with genes either just who you've grown up with. Obviously if you grew up with 95 out of 100 caucasians and five asians you don't need to record much detail about the asians to figure out who's who, but then when you're suddenly flooded with very many asians your mind can't cope. Over time if you lived there you'd start noticing more and more differences, but as a tourist it's just mental overload.
But if you asked those same people how big one second of CD music (44.1 kHz, 16 bits/sample) is how many would answer 88.2 kB instead of ~86.13 kB? And how long does it take to transfer 100 MB over a 100 Mbit Ethernet connection, excluding overhead? Hint: If you answer 8 seconds, you're off by about 0.39 seconds. Really if you're on such a low level that the distinction matters, most people in IT would get it wrong. Personally I find the abbreviations useful for clarity, but I refuse to use the silly names. If I absolutely need to be precise verbally I'd use "binary kilobit", "decimal kilobit" or "base 2/10 kilobit" before I ever used kibibit.
Of course, just like repacked cracks usually do provide you with working software - and a trojan/malware infection. Why would you want to fight negative comments and complaints that it's fake when you can deliver and turn your victims into willing advocates and distributors?
To them it probably sounds like asking a socialist party from Europe to write an article that gets applauded by Fox News. I suffered through enough Bible classes to find the appropriate quote (from parable of the sower):
The disciples came to him and asked, "Why do you speak to the people in parables?" He replied, "Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. This is why I speak to them in parables: "Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: "'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'
In their view of the world we've closed our hearts and minds to God and are blind and deaf to the truth, so in their eyes one scientist agreeing with another scientist on evolution is just the blind leading the deaf. You probably think the Nobel prize or scientific consensus means something to them, but it doesn't. To them a legion of blind men are still wrong and need to open their eyes, we're all wrong and the failure lies on our end because we can't see it not theirs. To get back to the parable:
"Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path. The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful. But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."
They're the ones trying to sow the seeds, we're the barren ground. They're looking for the "good soil", the rest of us well they don't really give up on fertilizing it (or as I'd call it, spreading their shit) but well not everybody's cut out for heaven and they as the righteous ones are in and the unworthy of us are out. Unless we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior of course, then all is forgiven.
This is totally false. Almost all bank transactions are reversible in the case of fraud, no bitcoin transactions are ever reversible.
That's generally false for wire transfers. Even if you don't do a wire transfer chances are they have some sort of money mule who'll wire the money to Nigeria and that's the last you'll see of them. The mule is of course a hobo or something with no assets to cease. In general if the receiving bank has accepted the money, it's gone. I see a few people saying you should be able to reverse one within 72 hours, but in practice I don't see anybody saying they've actually successfully reversed such a scam.
It's part of the GPLv666 under the "Demonic Possession" section if you use the "or any later version" clause. I hear Stallman wrote the original in blood, he couldn't find any open source ink. And you really don't want to know how the toe jam is involved.
You must be a teacher. A couple years ago I overheard some teachers saying almost exactly the same thing: "gifted students take care of themselves."
Well, most teachers seem to measure themselves by their failures rather than by their successes. It hits them much harder when a child is failing classes and is held back or becomes a dropout than if they managed to unlock the full potential of their A++ pupil. Honestly, smart people rarely fail at life. Maybe they won't be the PhDs they might have been, but they rarely end up flipping burgers for life or worse. And I don't mean that half as cruel as it sounded, most are just genuinely interested in everyone getting a good base education and that's why they became teachers in the first place. Personally I'd rather not try to teach a bunch of unruly ten years old, even less so starting over each year. I'd probably look for the best and brightest so we could move on to more advanced subjects that's interesting to me, which would make me a horrible teacher for everyone else.
(Its part of why torture doesnt work. The more people are freaked out, the more the brain reverts to a fight-or-flight baseline with faster reflexes and diminished cognitive skills)
Spoken like one of the millions that has not cracked under torture throughout history. No, the reason it doesn't work so well is that they don't know if you're just making shit up to avoid being tortured more. And even if you do tell they're likely to torture you some more because they'll assume you're still holding something back, so even if you get some truth it's maybe half-truth or mixed up with lies. If they had a safe and they knew for sure you have the combination and could instantly verify if you told them the truth or not, I bet torture would be 95%+ effective. What they want to achieve during torture is simply to pass the limit of how much pain you can take, whether you're almost passing out or delirious doesn't matter much as long as you don't die on them. Then they give you a break and say talk or we'll do that again.
There are a few people that can withstand torture but it's not because of amnesia, it's because they know that if they talk their friends will die or go to prison. I've never read a war documentary where the person claimed to have cracked and wanted to talk but mind blanked and simply was unable to, they've all either talked or been of the "the pain was out of this world but I'd never tell them anything, they'd have to kill me first" variety. Or for that matter, kill themselves first if they get the opportunity either before or after getting caught. I've read some stories from WWII that makes waterboarding sound very tame, under real not-pretending-to-be-civilized torture you are going to wish you were dead.
There's a strong reason to suspect that if we were effectively immortal, our birth rates would drop to sustainable rates, or less.
You do realize that the sustainable rate is around two kids/woman because the oldest generation dies off, right? If we were effectively immortal, the birth rate would have to drop to zero to be sustainable. Not a big deal if we live to be 150, it'll just cause a slightly longer delay but true immortality would really throw a monkey wrench in how society works.
That may seem like a victory but it's really just scratching the surface. Once you have cloned a mammoth what then? To establish a viable population you need genetic diversity, a minimum founder population of 50-100 individuals that should preferably be as distantly related as possible.
Keep cloning them from the same DNA sequence for zoos and such? Wildlife that's threatened by extinction because of us is fine, reintroducing wildlife that died out many thousands of years ago due to natural selection seems like an overall bad idea. Despite there being cave paintings of them, there's no place on current day earth where they belong in the natural environment. And even if we could set up such a preserve it'd have to be huge to function.
There's no modern distro which actually implements remote X in any other way than Wayland is proposing to do it, pixels scraping and sending it over the network.
Utter utter utter crap. If you open a standard X app - eg xterm - on a remote server it will use the standard X protocol, it will NOT do remote desktop style pixel scraping. If you don't believe me check it out with tcpdump.
You're of course technically correct, as long as you run a plain X application. Which is xterm and.... what? Nothing that uses KDE, Gnome, wxWidgets or any other form of toolkit from the last 15 years at least. If you talk about remoting anything that actually looks like a GUI there's a 99.99% chance it won't be network transparent, but if you cover your ears and chant "xterm" real loud you can ignore that. And if xterm is all you need you might as well use plain SSH, it's basically SSH with a server drawn border instead of a client drawn one.
A presidential car would never, ever under normal circumstances be allowed to run close to empty. It must be able to drive the President around all day and still have the range for any emergency that might occur at the worst possible moment and where boarding a helicopter or plane to get out of there is unsafe or unavailable, the nearest safe haven far, far away and getting out to swap cars totally out of the question. Yes, it weighs 20000 pounds and gets 8 MPG but one gallon is about 6 pounds. My guess is that it has a 50-100 gallon gas tank, 300-600 pounds for a 400-800 mile range is still less than half of the Model S's 1200 pound battery pack and I'm sure they always keep the tank over half full. By comparison the Tesla would have to drag around literally tons of batteries. Long, single haul emergency drives is pretty much the worst possible case for an electric.
According to the latest market statistics 66% of PCs overall use embedded graphics. Even Steam has a 16% Intel share and probably some AMD APUs that aren't separated out. I don't know about you but anything "serious" I do like work doesn't push the GPU one bit, the only thing that does is gaming. And not everybody is a gamer or their idea of gaming is more like Candy Crush. On that note, I loved The Walking Dead, here's the system requirements:
Windows Operating system: Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7 Processor: 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent Memory: 3 GB RAM Video Card: ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM Direct X 9.0c Audio card required
Oh so that's like any CPU and graphics card made in the last 10 years or so. What about something like Civilization V (okay it's a bit old but there's no Civ6 yet)
Operating System: Windows XP SP3/ Windows Vista SP2/ Windows 7 Processor: Dual Core CPU Memory: 2GB RAM Hard Disk Space: 8 GB Free DVD-ROM Drive: Required for disc-based installation Video: 256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better integrated graphics Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card DirectX: DirectX version 9.0c
Scary requirements yeah? What about World of Warcraft, that's some million gamers:
Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows® 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 with the latest service pack Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2 NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or ATI Radeon X1600 Pro (256 MB) 2 GB RAM (1 GB Windows XP)
I could go on, but long story short unless you're into the latest and greatest 3D games no it's not really required. Sure I need a discrete graphics card, but I know I'm in the minority. And I just need it to run Skyrim and stuff like that, I don't need the worst SLI/CF setup for twitcher FPS games either.
1. Start your own cryptocurrency 2. Make the world use it (Implementation: ???) 3. Profit!
Granted, it was much the same with Bitcoin but there everybody was pooling their work and pulling in the same direction, so either Bitcoins would fly or cryptocurrencies would crash and burn. What does 100 copycat currencies run by people who figured the best way to get in early is to start a new currency get you? It reminds me of the guy who in the dotcom boom made a 1000x1000 pixel page of pure ads and sold space at $1/pixel. He made almost a million dollars because it became a "thing" to see, creating money out of thin air. Of course afterwards there were tons of DIY kits and whatever to set up your own page, naturally they all bombed. Who'd really watch a copycat page with nothing but ads? These "altcoins" are the same kind of halo hype, my guess is most if not all of these will be worth $0 in five years.
Lets start from the top: You *can* plug in an external drive, it's called a complete hardware duplicate of your array (or perhaps for space/cost consideration, a single disk based copy held offline and synced regularly). Not hard and not terribly expensive (i would go with this solution personally).
Exactly. I very much doubt he has 20TB of data that changes very often, plug in a 4TB external drive, fill it to the brim, take note of what you've backed up. This is how I used to do it with CD-R/DVD-Rs back in the day, I had one "incoming" directory and one "archived" directory. When I had enough to burn a full disc I'd burn it and move it. Keep a text file saying what's on the different discs. It's very very low tech but it's simple and it works. Unless he's for some reason keeping a 20TB database at home with random changes everywhere.
While it eventually only had one unreadable file on one unreadable disc, what I found was that with old discs the drive would spin up and down and finally read it very, very slowly like 30-60 minutes to read a single CD/DVD. So in practice what should have been a one night's job turned into a couple weeks. Never again, now I'm backing up to HDDs and if it spins up at least it'll probably finish in reasonable time. Oh, and you don't have to swap TB drives that often...
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If my options are to spend $500 every 6 years on an Intel CPU+MB, or $150 every other year on an AMD CPU+MB, then I'll take the latter. I'll actually spend less money, and for most of the time I'll have a better system. Sure, the Intel system will outperform the AMD system in years 1-2, but the AMD system will outperform in years 3-6, and by a huge margin in the last two years. A CPU is a rapidly-depreciating asset
Not really. I'm still using an i7-860 from 2009, if you compare them to an FX-8350 they're trading blows, the Intel wins 9 of these benchmarks and AMD 4. Granted the FX-8350 was released in 2012, but AMD doesn't have anything newer while Intel does. In terms of "what would be an upgrade for me?" it's not even close, I was considering the i7-4770K but while clearly superior to my processor it's still not compelling enough. Personally I'm looking at possibly buying a Haswell-E/X99 combo, because despite the huge initial cost the general advance is so slow that I think an 8 core extreme processor will still kick a "mainstream" processor's ass in 5 years, maybe even 10 years. It's clearly that we're hitting the limits of performance/watt and so a 130W enthusiast processor has a significant advantage.
You're probably more specialized than before, straight out of college most assume you'll do well at "general development" and the assignments they have in mind are more of that nature too. Now they're looking at someone with many years of experience working with X, how is X relevant to them? I've jumped "subject matter" quite a bit and I feel it's because I've been able to make my experience seem relevant. Personally I feel I've stretched it very thin at times, but I guess a little is better than nothing. And I've tried to keep a positive spin on the things I don't know, as in this is the part of the job I know well and these are things I hope will challenge me and expand my horizons. It sounds awfully cliche but the number one thing you need to show them is that you're still hungry. I'd work on what do you do and say when you don't know the answers.
Or you know you could just turn those features that suck power off. When I'm abroad I usually turn off data transfer, if I also don't use it for games or the GPS tracker or any of the other power hungry uses and limit it to being a call/text only dumb phone then it lasts ages on a single charge. And if that's still not enough, get a Powerstation XL and plug it in when and where you do sleep.
There's still huge groups within feminism who don't just want an end to discrimination, but a forced equality despite unequal input. For example take wage discrimination, women make less than men do yes. But when you correct for such things as maternity leave, women working more part time, women working less overtime, women generally the ones staying home with sick children and look at actual hours and experience contributed to the company they do get equal pay for equal work. I could also take more than half a year's leave of absence, but I'm not going to pretend it wouldn't hurt my career. But many feminists wants the world to pretend like she was never gone.
In much the same vein many feminists are also complaining about different pay for different work, where the high income field is mainly dominated by men and the low income field mainly by women. The most usual example is nurses, it's a three year education very often compared to bachelor degrees (which are also three year here) in the STEM fields. Personally I find this rather absurd, pay is based on supply and demand and if you want to earn well go where the money is, don't complain that your chosen profession "deserves" to make as much as another. But quite a lot of vocal feminists seem to see this as some form of gender conspiracy to get away with paying women less.
It's not so much *who* they're rude toward (everyone), so much as the *way* in which they're rude. There's a big difference between "You suck at this game" and "You play like a girl," to use the most tame example I can think of. Putting down players by implying that they're $category, using hateful slurs, only propagates the idea that $category is not a desirable thing to be. Not only are they hurting the player they're insulting, but any person in $category that is in the same game; as well as teaching the non-$category people that this is an acceptable way to act.
Well, bullies like to punch where it hurts and where you have the least chance to defend yourself. I don't think bullies really have anything in particular against people with glasses or freckles or red hair but they'll still latch onto anything that makes you different and an outsider. It's a variation of trolling where taunting a woman into a feminist rage is a victory. It can be amazingly much more insulting if you use an implied inferiority like "Hey, not bad... for [a woman/an old man/racial slur]" than "You suck", it's like you weren't my equal to begin with so the results were already given. It's also compounded by the fact that we're not equal - we say "you fight like a girl" because in a fist fight to the death all other things equal I'd much rather fight a girl or an old man than a young male. I'm old enough to have to admit a younger me would probably kick my ass.
I believe cache is shared, and is believed to be one of the bottlenecks of the current AMD CPUs.
By far not the most significant one though, in single threaded tests the i7-4770K beats the FX-8350 by 62% in Cinebench R11.5, 73% in Cinebench R10 and 47% in POV-Ray 3.7RC6 and that's when the AMD core is not competing for resources with its sibling. With turbo the picture is a bit more complex than that but 4 Intel cores already equals 6-7 AMD cores. Then you add in cache contention, shared FPU, overhead of more threads for the last 1-2 cores of difference as in the most ideal benchmarks for AMD they're roughly equal. Except the AMD processor is 125W and using every drop of it, while the Intel is 84W, clearly AMD has some very basic performance issues not due to the core layout. They just run slow and hot no matter how you look at them and it's not getting better. In the words of AMD itself:
As we move forward, we will continue to strategically transform AMD as we diversify our portfolio and drive a larger percentage of our revenue from the semi custom, ultra low power client, embedded, dense server and professional graphics high growth markets.
Their CPU/APU division "Computing solutions" is already less than half the revenue and none of the operating income of AMD in Q4, that division's 2013 revenue was down 25% compared to 2012 which was a bad year itself and even their Christmas quarter sales showed a strong downwards trend (722M in Q4 vs 790M in Q3), Maybe AMD will survive as a company but the part of AMD that competes with Intel is clearly shrinking and shrinking fast. There's no significant refreshes of the FX or Opteron line in sight and since they're actively diversifying instead of investing I expect the same will happen to their other chips as well.
Does anyone else find it kind of weird that Intel seems to have gotten into a pattern where their supposed top of the line CPUs are perpetually a generation behind their supposed commodity CPUs in terms of technology?
They're not really consumer CPUs, they're a spin-off of Intel's server/workstation CPUs for the enterprise. That market requires a lot of validation and is generally very conservative preferring tested and true technology so it's not unnatural for server chips to lag behind consumer chips by a generation and so the "enthusiast" processors aren't ready until the Xeons are. My guess is that most of them are "damaged goods", server CPUs with ECC, QPI, vPro, TXT or other essential server features broken, but if you pair it with a high end motherboard you can sell it for $1000 to the "money is no subject" segment.
There's no business reason for Intel to make a CPU just for serving the high end desktop market, sure each chip is very profitable but they don't sell in big volume. If you look at the benchmarks the two extra cores don't help you in games at all, even with dual high-end video cards you're still GPU limited. Sure if you're doing video encoding, 3D rendering or any other task that'll load all six cores fully it's faster. If 64GB (8x8GB) vs 32GB (4x8GB) RAM matters to you then sure. But we're talking very narrow use cases here, even if AMD were able to give them competition I'm quite sure they'd follow the Xeon roadmap anyway. Oh and they are first to adopt DDR4 (since the Xeons do) but I'm sure that's actaully an advantage, my guess is the premiums on non-ECC DDR4 modules will be huge like everything else.
As for the expense - the Rift folks are holding pretty steady about targetting the $200-$400 price range - about the price of a midrange 3D video card or SSD, and I think most gamers would agree that a VR helmet would bring far more to the table.
When you're actually wearing the helmet maybe but I don't see myself using a VR helmet nearly as much as my graphics card or my SSD. Yes, you can look around with a VR helmet but you can't actually move like in a VR world I still need to be glued to my chair. Anything else would take too much space, cost and it's too exhaustive to game standing up. It'll be a gimmick for some kinds of games just like IMAX movies are, but many games won't have any benefit.
You know they've actually researched this and asians are no worse at identifying other asians than caucasians are at identifying other caucasians, it's got nothing to do with genes either just who you've grown up with. Obviously if you grew up with 95 out of 100 caucasians and five asians you don't need to record much detail about the asians to figure out who's who, but then when you're suddenly flooded with very many asians your mind can't cope. Over time if you lived there you'd start noticing more and more differences, but as a tourist it's just mental overload.
But if you asked those same people how big one second of CD music (44.1 kHz, 16 bits/sample) is how many would answer 88.2 kB instead of ~86.13 kB? And how long does it take to transfer 100 MB over a 100 Mbit Ethernet connection, excluding overhead? Hint: If you answer 8 seconds, you're off by about 0.39 seconds. Really if you're on such a low level that the distinction matters, most people in IT would get it wrong. Personally I find the abbreviations useful for clarity, but I refuse to use the silly names. If I absolutely need to be precise verbally I'd use "binary kilobit", "decimal kilobit" or "base 2/10 kilobit" before I ever used kibibit.
Of course, just like repacked cracks usually do provide you with working software - and a trojan/malware infection. Why would you want to fight negative comments and complaints that it's fake when you can deliver and turn your victims into willing advocates and distributors?
To them it probably sounds like asking a socialist party from Europe to write an article that gets applauded by Fox News. I suffered through enough Bible classes to find the appropriate quote (from parable of the sower):
The disciples came to him and asked, "Why do you speak to the people in parables?" He replied, "Because the knowledge of the secrets of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them. Whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them. This is why I speak to them in parables: "Though seeing, they do not see; though hearing, they do not hear or understand. In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: "'You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving. For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.'
In their view of the world we've closed our hearts and minds to God and are blind and deaf to the truth, so in their eyes one scientist agreeing with another scientist on evolution is just the blind leading the deaf. You probably think the Nobel prize or scientific consensus means something to them, but it doesn't. To them a legion of blind men are still wrong and need to open their eyes, we're all wrong and the failure lies on our end because we can't see it not theirs. To get back to the parable:
"Listen then to what the parable of the sower means: When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path. The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy. But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away. The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful. But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."
They're the ones trying to sow the seeds, we're the barren ground. They're looking for the "good soil", the rest of us well they don't really give up on fertilizing it (or as I'd call it, spreading their shit) but well not everybody's cut out for heaven and they as the righteous ones are in and the unworthy of us are out. Unless we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior of course, then all is forgiven.
This is totally false. Almost all bank transactions are reversible in the case of fraud, no bitcoin transactions are ever reversible.
That's generally false for wire transfers. Even if you don't do a wire transfer chances are they have some sort of money mule who'll wire the money to Nigeria and that's the last you'll see of them. The mule is of course a hobo or something with no assets to cease. In general if the receiving bank has accepted the money, it's gone. I see a few people saying you should be able to reverse one within 72 hours, but in practice I don't see anybody saying they've actually successfully reversed such a scam.
It's part of the GPLv666 under the "Demonic Possession" section if you use the "or any later version" clause. I hear Stallman wrote the original in blood, he couldn't find any open source ink. And you really don't want to know how the toe jam is involved.
You must be a teacher. A couple years ago I overheard some teachers saying almost exactly the same thing: "gifted students take care of themselves."
Well, most teachers seem to measure themselves by their failures rather than by their successes. It hits them much harder when a child is failing classes and is held back or becomes a dropout than if they managed to unlock the full potential of their A++ pupil. Honestly, smart people rarely fail at life. Maybe they won't be the PhDs they might have been, but they rarely end up flipping burgers for life or worse. And I don't mean that half as cruel as it sounded, most are just genuinely interested in everyone getting a good base education and that's why they became teachers in the first place. Personally I'd rather not try to teach a bunch of unruly ten years old, even less so starting over each year. I'd probably look for the best and brightest so we could move on to more advanced subjects that's interesting to me, which would make me a horrible teacher for everyone else.
(Its part of why torture doesnt work. The more people are freaked out, the more the brain reverts to a fight-or-flight baseline with faster reflexes and diminished cognitive skills)
Spoken like one of the millions that has not cracked under torture throughout history. No, the reason it doesn't work so well is that they don't know if you're just making shit up to avoid being tortured more. And even if you do tell they're likely to torture you some more because they'll assume you're still holding something back, so even if you get some truth it's maybe half-truth or mixed up with lies. If they had a safe and they knew for sure you have the combination and could instantly verify if you told them the truth or not, I bet torture would be 95%+ effective. What they want to achieve during torture is simply to pass the limit of how much pain you can take, whether you're almost passing out or delirious doesn't matter much as long as you don't die on them. Then they give you a break and say talk or we'll do that again.
There are a few people that can withstand torture but it's not because of amnesia, it's because they know that if they talk their friends will die or go to prison. I've never read a war documentary where the person claimed to have cracked and wanted to talk but mind blanked and simply was unable to, they've all either talked or been of the "the pain was out of this world but I'd never tell them anything, they'd have to kill me first" variety. Or for that matter, kill themselves first if they get the opportunity either before or after getting caught. I've read some stories from WWII that makes waterboarding sound very tame, under real not-pretending-to-be-civilized torture you are going to wish you were dead.
There's a strong reason to suspect that if we were effectively immortal, our birth rates would drop to sustainable rates, or less.
You do realize that the sustainable rate is around two kids/woman because the oldest generation dies off, right? If we were effectively immortal, the birth rate would have to drop to zero to be sustainable. Not a big deal if we live to be 150, it'll just cause a slightly longer delay but true immortality would really throw a monkey wrench in how society works.
That may seem like a victory but it's really just scratching the surface. Once you have cloned a mammoth what then? To establish a viable population you need genetic diversity, a minimum founder population of 50-100 individuals that should preferably be as distantly related as possible.
Keep cloning them from the same DNA sequence for zoos and such? Wildlife that's threatened by extinction because of us is fine, reintroducing wildlife that died out many thousands of years ago due to natural selection seems like an overall bad idea. Despite there being cave paintings of them, there's no place on current day earth where they belong in the natural environment. And even if we could set up such a preserve it'd have to be huge to function.
There's no modern distro which actually implements remote X in any other way than Wayland is proposing to do it, pixels scraping and sending it over the network.
Utter utter utter crap. If you open a standard X app - eg xterm - on a remote server it will use the standard X protocol, it will NOT do remote desktop style pixel scraping. If you don't believe me check it out with tcpdump.
You're of course technically correct, as long as you run a plain X application. Which is xterm and.... what? Nothing that uses KDE, Gnome, wxWidgets or any other form of toolkit from the last 15 years at least. If you talk about remoting anything that actually looks like a GUI there's a 99.99% chance it won't be network transparent, but if you cover your ears and chant "xterm" real loud you can ignore that. And if xterm is all you need you might as well use plain SSH, it's basically SSH with a server drawn border instead of a client drawn one.
A presidential car would never, ever under normal circumstances be allowed to run close to empty. It must be able to drive the President around all day and still have the range for any emergency that might occur at the worst possible moment and where boarding a helicopter or plane to get out of there is unsafe or unavailable, the nearest safe haven far, far away and getting out to swap cars totally out of the question. Yes, it weighs 20000 pounds and gets 8 MPG but one gallon is about 6 pounds. My guess is that it has a 50-100 gallon gas tank, 300-600 pounds for a 400-800 mile range is still less than half of the Model S's 1200 pound battery pack and I'm sure they always keep the tank over half full. By comparison the Tesla would have to drag around literally tons of batteries. Long, single haul emergency drives is pretty much the worst possible case for an electric.
According to the latest market statistics 66% of PCs overall use embedded graphics. Even Steam has a 16% Intel share and probably some AMD APUs that aren't separated out. I don't know about you but anything "serious" I do like work doesn't push the GPU one bit, the only thing that does is gaming. And not everybody is a gamer or their idea of gaming is more like Candy Crush. On that note, I loved The Walking Dead, here's the system requirements:
Windows Operating system: Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7
Processor: 2.0 GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Video Card: ATI or NVidia card w/ 512 MB RAM
Direct X 9.0c
Audio card required
Oh so that's like any CPU and graphics card made in the last 10 years or so. What about something like Civilization V (okay it's a bit old but there's no Civ6 yet)
Operating System: Windows XP SP3/ Windows Vista SP2/ Windows 7
Processor: Dual Core CPU
Memory: 2GB RAM
Hard Disk Space: 8 GB Free
DVD-ROM Drive: Required for disc-based installation
Video: 256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better integrated graphics
Sound: DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
DirectX: DirectX version 9.0c
Scary requirements yeah? What about World of Warcraft, that's some million gamers:
Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows® 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 with the latest service pack
Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 X2
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or
ATI Radeon X1600 Pro (256 MB)
2 GB RAM (1 GB Windows XP)
I could go on, but long story short unless you're into the latest and greatest 3D games no it's not really required. Sure I need a discrete graphics card, but I know I'm in the minority. And I just need it to run Skyrim and stuff like that, I don't need the worst SLI/CF setup for twitcher FPS games either.
A few years back I was visiting a friend in the boonies in Egypt (...) she couldn't hope to download everything from me in her government's lifetime.
I think that says more about their politics than their broadband...
1. Start your own cryptocurrency
2. Make the world use it (Implementation: ???)
3. Profit!
Granted, it was much the same with Bitcoin but there everybody was pooling their work and pulling in the same direction, so either Bitcoins would fly or cryptocurrencies would crash and burn. What does 100 copycat currencies run by people who figured the best way to get in early is to start a new currency get you? It reminds me of the guy who in the dotcom boom made a 1000x1000 pixel page of pure ads and sold space at $1/pixel. He made almost a million dollars because it became a "thing" to see, creating money out of thin air. Of course afterwards there were tons of DIY kits and whatever to set up your own page, naturally they all bombed. Who'd really watch a copycat page with nothing but ads? These "altcoins" are the same kind of halo hype, my guess is most if not all of these will be worth $0 in five years.
Lets start from the top: You *can* plug in an external drive, it's called a complete hardware duplicate of your array (or perhaps for space/cost consideration, a single disk based copy held offline and synced regularly). Not hard and not terribly expensive (i would go with this solution personally).
Exactly. I very much doubt he has 20TB of data that changes very often, plug in a 4TB external drive, fill it to the brim, take note of what you've backed up. This is how I used to do it with CD-R/DVD-Rs back in the day, I had one "incoming" directory and one "archived" directory. When I had enough to burn a full disc I'd burn it and move it. Keep a text file saying what's on the different discs. It's very very low tech but it's simple and it works. Unless he's for some reason keeping a 20TB database at home with random changes everywhere.
While it eventually only had one unreadable file on one unreadable disc, what I found was that with old discs the drive would spin up and down and finally read it very, very slowly like 30-60 minutes to read a single CD/DVD. So in practice what should have been a one night's job turned into a couple weeks. Never again, now I'm backing up to HDDs and if it spins up at least it'll probably finish in reasonable time. Oh, and you don't have to swap TB drives that often...