I've done the distance/size check, I don't need an UHDTV from where I'm sitting. There's not content for it anyway. But I would like a 27-30" 3840x2160 monitor for my computer.
Who wants an automobile? The form factor is terrible; the tiny wheels can hardly get through a foot of mud or ford a stream. You have to fill it up with "gas" constantly, instead of simply letting the horses wander around in your pasture.
No, there's simply no future in the automobile, once people try them out and find how limiting they really are.
I heard something extremely similar in a discussion recently about the Tesla Model S, and it was in all seriousness. "foot of mud" and "ford a stream" was replaced with "drive a 1500 mile road trip" and "pull a trailer", replace "gas" with "charging". There was totally no way they could possibly have a future once people found out how limiting they really are. You can people said what you just wrote in full seriousness back in the day.
Assuming you're willing to write special software that'll only see benefit on AMDs APUs, not on Intel nor anything with discrete GPUs. I suppose it's different for the PS4 or Xbox720 where you can assume that everyone that'll use the software will have it, but for most PC software the advantages would have to be very big indeed. If you need tons of shading power it's better to run on discrete GPUs, even with unified memory switching between shaders and cores isn't entirely free so it might not do that much for general computing, you need the right kind of mix. I'm hoping but can't help to feel that AMD is giving up a big market in pursuit of a small market.
I'm sure RMS would like all code to be AGPL licensed since in his mind locking the code up as a service is just another loophole that keep end users away from the four freedoms. He's also smart enough to know that would cause mass abandonment of the GPL license so instead offers it as an alternative.
And additionally when you export 70% of your manufactured goods to the EU it's kind of dumb to want to have no say in how the EU's inner market evolves which makes me wonder why the British, who depend on the EU for 50% or so of their exports want to leave the EU. It's kind of like robbing yourself of the ability to influence how your country is begin governed by voluntarily relinquishing your right to vote.
Because you're giving up your freedom to manage your own country? Yes, you do get a small stake in where EU is going but it comes at the expense of jumping when Brussels says jump. Just because 75% of Canada's exports go to the US doesn't mean that Canada wants to apply to become the 51st US state and answer to Washington DC. Besides, it doesn't follow from size who needs who, here in Norway I wish we'd exit the EEC and get a free trade agreement like Switzerland, if the EU don't want to offer us a fair deal we could always sell our oil and gas elsewhere. Another example of excessive fear is Schengen, yes it would be bad if we'd need passports to cross into Sweden but it would be horribly expensive for Sweden to build thousands of kilometers of exterior border control too, it's not like we need to beg the EU because it's in their best interest too.
The recognized standards body is the International Astronomical Union and their policy is:
Exoplanets In 2009, the Organizing Committee of IAU Commission 53 Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) on exoplanets discussed the possibility of giving popular names to exoplanets in addition to their existing catalogue designation (for instance HD 85512 b). Although no consensus was reached, the majority was not in favour of this possibility at the time.
However, considering the ever increasing interest of the general public in being involved in the discovery and understanding of the Universe, the IAU decided in 2013 to restart the discussion of the naming procedure for exoplanets and assess the need to have popular names as well. In 2013 the members of Commission 53 will be consulted in this respect and the result of this will be made public on this page.
This is just a company click-baiting by holding naming contests, they have no official standing whatsoever. Is this more dice.com crap?
The more covert you get, the more obvious it is that you were doing it covertly and intentionally. If you were caught sneaking a spy cam into a locker room it's a lot more damning than if you "forgot" to deposit your smart phone since there's so many oblivious people who actually do. Google Glass will be the same, say people at the gym are using it to watch body monitors or follow a fitness schema or record their amounts of exercise or whatever, then they just "forgot" to take it off as they walk through the changing area to their locker. You're of course free to go ballistic but the vast majority will just be people that were exhausted, thoughtless or ignorant of the issue and it will be just a slap on the wrist. It'll to do pointing a camera what cell phones did to carrying a camera, make it totally normal and impossible to ban from most areas.
Apples and oranges, the New York city council operates on a massive body of state and federal laws. And while you may have less regional issues you still need a full body of law whether you're governing 300,000 or 300,000,000. Yes, they're representing only some 319*5,1% = 16-17.000 people but that's not really the point. The point is that they're a sovereign nation, they're not part of the EU so if they want to change copyright law they can. With the Internet it really only takes one nation to make the whole system collapse, there's no way to protect the scarcity of bits if one nation decides to let the printing presses run free. So it's a small victory but a few pebbles can be a great way to start an avalanche.
No, you won't have to upgrade to 13.10 "no matter what". The recommended way to do upgrades is to always go to the next version (as that's what gets the majority of testing), but 13.04 makes no major changes (like replacing upstart) that would prevent it from directly upgrading to anything to which 12.04 or other recent versions could directly upgrade.
The point was that with a nine month support window there won't be any other release than 13.10 released in that window. So it's either that or go unsupported.
You won't 'be screwed" if you have hardware compatibility problems in 13.10; you simply boot an older kernel (since that's where the hardware drivers are). I've done it with several previous alphas - but users are unlikely to discover major problems by the time it gets to a final release
I think if you interpret "hardware compatibility problems" to be anything below the application layer then there's plenty running in userspace that could cause things to not work. And yes, people do get bitten by them from time to time.
I'm not sure why any of this would be an issue anyway: When the OS keeps all your app settings in/home (which you should put on a separate partition), complete re-installs of newer/older versions take no more time than the upgrades.
And nothing ever goes wrong when upgrade scripts don't run and packages get a config file they don't expect. Many of the weirder issues I've experienced the suggested solution was to do a fresh install (copying just documents and data, not all of/home) and usually that works because that's what's been tested.
If somebody were being charged for one crime that probably left evidence on the HDD(kiddie porn, say); would the fact that they know that there is evidence of CC-skimming(but, unlike the kiddie porn, the feds have no circumstantial evidence or other grounds for belief) justify a 5th-amendment refusal to decrypt the volume?
Well first of all if the police only knows that the material possibly or probably exists but not how you're implicated then the 5th should apply, since this whole case revolves around the testimonial value of decrypting the information. But if they find it proven through other evidence that you have the decryption key, then decrypting it doesn't give any additional testimonial evidence. It does cause the involuntary production of evidence, but you can not refuse to give say a DNA sample that would prove your guilt either. And if they first have legitimate reason to use it in one case, then they can use the DNA sample or the pot they found during the search to implicate you in other cases they had no knowledge of before. If you lose the 5th, then really the only thing you're left with is "I don't recall" and see how long you'll stay in prison for contempt of court.
P.S. In order to avoid another defense they will not compel you to provide the decryption key itself, only the decrypted contents so it doesn't help to say the key itself would incriminate you.
Of course if you want to be this much on the bleeding edge it's not $1000 once every five years, it's every time there's something a little bit better and sell the old one. You pay a huge premium for getting *the best* of anything simply because it's the best. It is a lot of chest thumping and boasting that you have the most powerful graphics card around, both by the producers and the buyers. There's a certain "Why?" factor if the person doesn't match the equipment, like the 50yos riding carbon bikes to save one pound while they're twenty pounds overweight.
A robot army that could assemble itself from flat storage - assuming one is operational for the original assembly or hand assembled does sound like something from a sci-fi plot about world domination...
Take the time you think it will take, and then take a step back and ask yourself, "No really, how long will it take?" When you get a number, take another step back and ask yourself, "No, *really*, when a bunch of things go wrong and it takes longer than I expect, how long will it take?" And then treat that time frame as a best-case scenario.
The thing is it's not *that*. First I take how long it should have taken and multiply it up to how long it's going to take. Then I factor in all the other things related to the project that I'm likely to get sucked into while working on it. Then I factor in all the other factors like staff meetings, client down, server down, network down, fire drill and whatnot. Try getting some experience data on how much time you get to spend doing what you're supposed to be doing, you might be surprised. Also if somebody asks you how long it'll take to put a roof on the house, always assume the walls and foundation will need work to not collapse unless you did it yourself. Mysteriously enough I never get to push my deadline despite it turning out to being a stick hut built on quick sand. Never assume that what you're told to do will be what you're doing, then most estimates will fail.
This is pretty much the textbook definition of a good programmer, not a mediocre one.
It could be.. but you can still get stuff like "implement a product filter" with this pseudocode
List<Product> getProducts( string filter ) { List<Product> out; SELECT * FROM products foreach product {
if column 2 match filter then append to out } return out; }
It's to spec, understandable, maintainable yet stupid and fragile. Particularly some rather fresh developers can comment a lot and KISS, but still have a way to go to be good code.
The restaurant owner now has more income, so he maybe buys a nicer car. Or The customer now spends less on food, so now he buys some nicer shoes.
Except both the car and shoes are increasingly made by robots. What you pay for is more and more parts and automated factories, not wages. So that money circulates but eventually usually land in the pockets of one of the 1%ers not in any worker's pocket. The restaurant owner is a classic capitalist, his main income is from owning the restaurant not working there. He buys a car, most of the profit is passed to the car company owners who are also capitalists. They buy themselves a new yacht, with most of the profit passed to the yacht company's owner and so on. Is the pattern starting to be clear now?
Meanwhile, most workers are trapped in a downwards spiral where they go to the robot chef and buy things made in China from Wal*Mart and Amazon because they can't afford more, which of course reduces the need for workers and puts even more pressure on wages. All those people in brick-and-mortar stores got paid wages which they used to spend in the local economy so there's less money to pay waiters and chefs which again have less money to spend in the brick and mortar stores. Instead the big companies are taking all the profit on the way, the profit is not just moved it is removed from the workers.
Socialist types will never understand or accept this, but the market will reach equilibrium. It happens every time, and it has been doing so since time immemorial.
Humans have never had competition like this before, no matter how many jobs mechanization and industrialization has eliminated it has always seemed like there was an infinite number of jobs we'd need people for. With advanced machinery it even seemed we needed more skilled labor to operate it, not less. Except computers and robots are starting to leapfrog us, they do thing autonomously that require less skills or no intervention from us except for the very rare developer, robot designer and repairman. The value of labor might go way down before any equilibrium is reached.
AMD smokes Intel in performance/price for most stuff that can be parallelized. It's only single thread performance where Intel wins.
On CPU prices alone, yes... but they're also struggling on performance/watt which translates into performance/$ both in power supply and cooling, which is a fair bit of the cost if you're running big, massively parallel jobs that engage all the cores over long periods of time. Anandtech simply summarized it like this:
Power consumption is also a big negative for Vishera. The CPU draws considerably more power under load compared to Ivy Bridge, or even Sandy Bridge for that matter.
Every dollar AMD loses on the power bill is of course another dollar Intel can charge extra for a more efficient processor.
AMD has had some great ideas, but they've almost always shorted themselves on the implimentation, leaving the field wide open for Intel to come in with a better offering and take the lion's share of the profit.
Well AMD can't magically just "be big" and even when they were kicking Intel's ass fab capacity means you can't take over this market overnight. Intel could afford to gamble on things like Pentium IV and Itanium, while still working on entirely different lines like Pentium III-M that was the basis for the Core processors and Atom which has denied AMD much revenue on the low end. That is the sort of thing AMD never could afford to do, they had to design a jack-of-all-trades and hope that through Intel's ineptness it turned out a king-of-all-trades. And all other things being equal, Intel poured money into process development, which AMD couldn't keep up with even with massive external investment through the GloFo spin-off.
In short, while it's easy to say AMD should have done better it's hard to say how exactly, they were always dodging punches but sooner or later Intel would score a KO punch like the Intel Core processors, AMD has been dazed and confused ever since. They've been running around the ring bouncing off the ropes but you could tell for each round they've taken more and more of a beating. And right now the market they've been betting on is being eaten up by tablets, look at the revenue figures for AMD. One thing is that they're not profiting, but they're not selling. Revenue way down, inventories going up again despite how much Slashdot praises their APUs.
$10,000 is a fairly minor expense for a medical practice, especially one that, as you say, could easily have been planned for over the past 5 years or so.
But would that benefit the patients in any way? If the medical devices connected to it does the job well and there's no medical reason to or benefit from an upgrade, then I too wouldn't throw $10k after it just to upgrade the OS I'd just firewall it down as much as I could even on the internal network. I've heard this many times about lab equipment, big specialized plotters/printers and various other equipment and they work just fine, just not on a recent OS.
Now assume the average audience is 2 million. Some would be willing to pay, some would not.
You make it sounds like there's two options so they'd be split down the middle. If I think of every TV show which is so reasonably okay I could care to watch an episode, there's only a few favorite series I'd care enough to save. A lot of it is just decent enough to pass the time because I wanted to zone out and there wasn't anything better on. So my estimate for the number of people who'd care to participate in any kind of rescue attempt is maybe 10-20% of the viewers. And then you're starting to hit a place on the price/demand curve where the "casual" fans who'd pay $10 aren't big enough and the blood fans that'd pay $100 aren't many enough. But by all means if you think it's doable then find out exactly how much they'd want before when and put it up as a Kickstarter and we'll see,
This isn't to say that any increase in bus power is bad(given USB's use cases, 'enough power to spin up a 2.5 inch HDD' or 'enough power to charge a smartphone' are pretty useful things.
Charging is at least an operation where you can optimistically use whatever power is available, but that's generally not the norm. At the very least there should be some kind of power notches on the connectors - a device that requires 20W minimum shouldn't physically fit in a regular USB port using the supplied cable.
That would be unconstitutional, federal government cannot force a retailer to collect local taxes.
Why not, specifically? They're explicitly permitted to regulate interstate commerce, and a vendor in one state selling to a customer in another state most certainly sounds like it to me. Remember they can use it in the negative "No interstate commerce is permitted unless the vendor has collected any applicable sales tax of the destination state" so strictly speaking they're not forcing anyone to do anything, it's a condition for doing interstate business. If you don't like it, don't sell outside your state. I doubt you'll get the Supreme Court with you on this one.
On any machine made this century the boot messages should fly past way, way faster than I can read them. If for some reason it hangs at some point during the boot process, then I guess there should be a button to hit or hold (or boot option if you're not doing this physically) to see it but otherwise its just nerd porn. The rest you can show me in a device manager or whatever after I've booted.
Again the fundamental motivation here is truly to kill, to rid the earth of each and every person that disagrees with them.
So because they hate the US they're going to try taking out America three people at a time? It'd take eight hundred 9/11s a year just to keep up with population growth, it doesn't even pass the giggle test. No, at this point they just want the US to butt out so they can have their radical islamist revolutions to themselves, they don't expect you to stop disagreeing just stop daring to speak out or doing anything about it. Yes eventually if they can unite the whole muslim world under a theocratic rule like Iran they'll be coming for the rest of us, but there's not the slightest bit of genocidal aspirations in blowing up a few people. Not even in wacky terrorist world.
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I've done the distance/size check, I don't need an UHDTV from where I'm sitting. There's not content for it anyway. But I would like a 27-30" 3840x2160 monitor for my computer.
Who wants an automobile? The form factor is terrible; the tiny wheels can hardly get through a foot of mud or ford a stream. You have to fill it up with "gas" constantly, instead of simply letting the horses wander around in your pasture.
No, there's simply no future in the automobile, once people try them out and find how limiting they really are.
I heard something extremely similar in a discussion recently about the Tesla Model S, and it was in all seriousness. "foot of mud" and "ford a stream" was replaced with "drive a 1500 mile road trip" and "pull a trailer", replace "gas" with "charging". There was totally no way they could possibly have a future once people found out how limiting they really are. You can people said what you just wrote in full seriousness back in the day.
Assuming you're willing to write special software that'll only see benefit on AMDs APUs, not on Intel nor anything with discrete GPUs. I suppose it's different for the PS4 or Xbox720 where you can assume that everyone that'll use the software will have it, but for most PC software the advantages would have to be very big indeed. If you need tons of shading power it's better to run on discrete GPUs, even with unified memory switching between shaders and cores isn't entirely free so it might not do that much for general computing, you need the right kind of mix. I'm hoping but can't help to feel that AMD is giving up a big market in pursuit of a small market.
I'm sure RMS would like all code to be AGPL licensed since in his mind locking the code up as a service is just another loophole that keep end users away from the four freedoms. He's also smart enough to know that would cause mass abandonment of the GPL license so instead offers it as an alternative.
That mail is just what's in the last RC, which should be very very tiny fixes. The big stuff happened back in the merge window a few months ago.
And additionally when you export 70% of your manufactured goods to the EU it's kind of dumb to want to have no say in how the EU's inner market evolves which makes me wonder why the British, who depend on the EU for 50% or so of their exports want to leave the EU. It's kind of like robbing yourself of the ability to influence how your country is begin governed by voluntarily relinquishing your right to vote.
Because you're giving up your freedom to manage your own country? Yes, you do get a small stake in where EU is going but it comes at the expense of jumping when Brussels says jump. Just because 75% of Canada's exports go to the US doesn't mean that Canada wants to apply to become the 51st US state and answer to Washington DC. Besides, it doesn't follow from size who needs who, here in Norway I wish we'd exit the EEC and get a free trade agreement like Switzerland, if the EU don't want to offer us a fair deal we could always sell our oil and gas elsewhere. Another example of excessive fear is Schengen, yes it would be bad if we'd need passports to cross into Sweden but it would be horribly expensive for Sweden to build thousands of kilometers of exterior border control too, it's not like we need to beg the EU because it's in their best interest too.
The recognized standards body is the International Astronomical Union and their policy is:
Exoplanets
In 2009, the Organizing Committee of IAU Commission 53 Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) on exoplanets discussed the possibility of giving popular names to exoplanets in addition to their existing catalogue designation (for instance HD 85512 b). Although no consensus was reached, the majority was not in favour of this possibility at the time.
However, considering the ever increasing interest of the general public in being involved in the discovery and understanding of the Universe, the IAU decided in 2013 to restart the discussion of the naming procedure for exoplanets and assess the need to have popular names as well. In 2013 the members of Commission 53 will be consulted in this respect and the result of this will be made public on this page.
This is just a company click-baiting by holding naming contests, they have no official standing whatsoever. Is this more dice.com crap?
The more covert you get, the more obvious it is that you were doing it covertly and intentionally. If you were caught sneaking a spy cam into a locker room it's a lot more damning than if you "forgot" to deposit your smart phone since there's so many oblivious people who actually do. Google Glass will be the same, say people at the gym are using it to watch body monitors or follow a fitness schema or record their amounts of exercise or whatever, then they just "forgot" to take it off as they walk through the changing area to their locker. You're of course free to go ballistic but the vast majority will just be people that were exhausted, thoughtless or ignorant of the issue and it will be just a slap on the wrist. It'll to do pointing a camera what cell phones did to carrying a camera, make it totally normal and impossible to ban from most areas.
Apples and oranges, the New York city council operates on a massive body of state and federal laws. And while you may have less regional issues you still need a full body of law whether you're governing 300,000 or 300,000,000. Yes, they're representing only some 319*5,1% = 16-17.000 people but that's not really the point. The point is that they're a sovereign nation, they're not part of the EU so if they want to change copyright law they can. With the Internet it really only takes one nation to make the whole system collapse, there's no way to protect the scarcity of bits if one nation decides to let the printing presses run free. So it's a small victory but a few pebbles can be a great way to start an avalanche.
No, you won't have to upgrade to 13.10 "no matter what". The recommended way to do upgrades is to always go to the next version (as that's what gets the majority of testing), but 13.04 makes no major changes (like replacing upstart) that would prevent it from directly upgrading to anything to which 12.04 or other recent versions could directly upgrade.
The point was that with a nine month support window there won't be any other release than 13.10 released in that window. So it's either that or go unsupported.
You won't 'be screwed" if you have hardware compatibility problems in 13.10; you simply boot an older kernel (since that's where the hardware drivers are). I've done it with several previous alphas - but users are unlikely to discover major problems by the time it gets to a final release
I think if you interpret "hardware compatibility problems" to be anything below the application layer then there's plenty running in userspace that could cause things to not work. And yes, people do get bitten by them from time to time.
I'm not sure why any of this would be an issue anyway: When the OS keeps all your app settings in /home (which you should put on a separate partition), complete re-installs of newer/older versions take no more time than the upgrades.
And nothing ever goes wrong when upgrade scripts don't run and packages get a config file they don't expect. Many of the weirder issues I've experienced the suggested solution was to do a fresh install (copying just documents and data, not all of /home) and usually that works because that's what's been tested.
If somebody were being charged for one crime that probably left evidence on the HDD(kiddie porn, say); would the fact that they know that there is evidence of CC-skimming(but, unlike the kiddie porn, the feds have no circumstantial evidence or other grounds for belief) justify a 5th-amendment refusal to decrypt the volume?
Well first of all if the police only knows that the material possibly or probably exists but not how you're implicated then the 5th should apply, since this whole case revolves around the testimonial value of decrypting the information. But if they find it proven through other evidence that you have the decryption key, then decrypting it doesn't give any additional testimonial evidence. It does cause the involuntary production of evidence, but you can not refuse to give say a DNA sample that would prove your guilt either. And if they first have legitimate reason to use it in one case, then they can use the DNA sample or the pot they found during the search to implicate you in other cases they had no knowledge of before. If you lose the 5th, then really the only thing you're left with is "I don't recall" and see how long you'll stay in prison for contempt of court.
P.S. In order to avoid another defense they will not compel you to provide the decryption key itself, only the decrypted contents so it doesn't help to say the key itself would incriminate you.
Of course if you want to be this much on the bleeding edge it's not $1000 once every five years, it's every time there's something a little bit better and sell the old one. You pay a huge premium for getting *the best* of anything simply because it's the best. It is a lot of chest thumping and boasting that you have the most powerful graphics card around, both by the producers and the buyers. There's a certain "Why?" factor if the person doesn't match the equipment, like the 50yos riding carbon bikes to save one pound while they're twenty pounds overweight.
A robot army that could assemble itself from flat storage - assuming one is operational for the original assembly or hand assembled does sound like something from a sci-fi plot about world domination...
Take the time you think it will take, and then take a step back and ask yourself, "No really, how long will it take?" When you get a number, take another step back and ask yourself, "No, *really*, when a bunch of things go wrong and it takes longer than I expect, how long will it take?" And then treat that time frame as a best-case scenario.
The thing is it's not *that*. First I take how long it should have taken and multiply it up to how long it's going to take. Then I factor in all the other things related to the project that I'm likely to get sucked into while working on it. Then I factor in all the other factors like staff meetings, client down, server down, network down, fire drill and whatnot. Try getting some experience data on how much time you get to spend doing what you're supposed to be doing, you might be surprised. Also if somebody asks you how long it'll take to put a roof on the house, always assume the walls and foundation will need work to not collapse unless you did it yourself. Mysteriously enough I never get to push my deadline despite it turning out to being a stick hut built on quick sand. Never assume that what you're told to do will be what you're doing, then most estimates will fail.
This is pretty much the textbook definition of a good programmer, not a mediocre one.
It could be.. but you can still get stuff like "implement a product filter" with this pseudocode
List<Product> getProducts( string filter ) {
List<Product> out;
SELECT * FROM products
foreach product {
if column 2 match filter then append to out
}
return out;
}
It's to spec, understandable, maintainable yet stupid and fragile. Particularly some rather fresh developers can comment a lot and KISS, but still have a way to go to be good code.
The restaurant owner now has more income, so he maybe buys a nicer car.
Or
The customer now spends less on food, so now he buys some nicer shoes.
Except both the car and shoes are increasingly made by robots. What you pay for is more and more parts and automated factories, not wages. So that money circulates but eventually usually land in the pockets of one of the 1%ers not in any worker's pocket. The restaurant owner is a classic capitalist, his main income is from owning the restaurant not working there. He buys a car, most of the profit is passed to the car company owners who are also capitalists. They buy themselves a new yacht, with most of the profit passed to the yacht company's owner and so on. Is the pattern starting to be clear now?
Meanwhile, most workers are trapped in a downwards spiral where they go to the robot chef and buy things made in China from Wal*Mart and Amazon because they can't afford more, which of course reduces the need for workers and puts even more pressure on wages. All those people in brick-and-mortar stores got paid wages which they used to spend in the local economy so there's less money to pay waiters and chefs which again have less money to spend in the brick and mortar stores. Instead the big companies are taking all the profit on the way, the profit is not just moved it is removed from the workers.
Socialist types will never understand or accept this, but the market will reach equilibrium. It happens every time, and it has been doing so since time immemorial.
Humans have never had competition like this before, no matter how many jobs mechanization and industrialization has eliminated it has always seemed like there was an infinite number of jobs we'd need people for. With advanced machinery it even seemed we needed more skilled labor to operate it, not less. Except computers and robots are starting to leapfrog us, they do thing autonomously that require less skills or no intervention from us except for the very rare developer, robot designer and repairman. The value of labor might go way down before any equilibrium is reached.
AMD smokes Intel in performance/price for most stuff that can be parallelized. It's only single thread performance where Intel wins.
On CPU prices alone, yes... but they're also struggling on performance/watt which translates into performance/$ both in power supply and cooling, which is a fair bit of the cost if you're running big, massively parallel jobs that engage all the cores over long periods of time. Anandtech simply summarized it like this:
Power consumption is also a big negative for Vishera. The CPU draws considerably more power under load compared to Ivy Bridge, or even Sandy Bridge for that matter.
Every dollar AMD loses on the power bill is of course another dollar Intel can charge extra for a more efficient processor.
AMD has had some great ideas, but they've almost always shorted themselves on the implimentation, leaving the field wide open for Intel to come in with a better offering and take the lion's share of the profit.
Well AMD can't magically just "be big" and even when they were kicking Intel's ass fab capacity means you can't take over this market overnight. Intel could afford to gamble on things like Pentium IV and Itanium, while still working on entirely different lines like Pentium III-M that was the basis for the Core processors and Atom which has denied AMD much revenue on the low end. That is the sort of thing AMD never could afford to do, they had to design a jack-of-all-trades and hope that through Intel's ineptness it turned out a king-of-all-trades. And all other things being equal, Intel poured money into process development, which AMD couldn't keep up with even with massive external investment through the GloFo spin-off.
In short, while it's easy to say AMD should have done better it's hard to say how exactly, they were always dodging punches but sooner or later Intel would score a KO punch like the Intel Core processors, AMD has been dazed and confused ever since. They've been running around the ring bouncing off the ropes but you could tell for each round they've taken more and more of a beating. And right now the market they've been betting on is being eaten up by tablets, look at the revenue figures for AMD. One thing is that they're not profiting, but they're not selling. Revenue way down, inventories going up again despite how much Slashdot praises their APUs.
$10,000 is a fairly minor expense for a medical practice, especially one that, as you say, could easily have been planned for over the past 5 years or so.
But would that benefit the patients in any way? If the medical devices connected to it does the job well and there's no medical reason to or benefit from an upgrade, then I too wouldn't throw $10k after it just to upgrade the OS I'd just firewall it down as much as I could even on the internal network. I've heard this many times about lab equipment, big specialized plotters/printers and various other equipment and they work just fine, just not on a recent OS.
Now assume the average audience is 2 million. Some would be willing to pay, some would not.
You make it sounds like there's two options so they'd be split down the middle. If I think of every TV show which is so reasonably okay I could care to watch an episode, there's only a few favorite series I'd care enough to save. A lot of it is just decent enough to pass the time because I wanted to zone out and there wasn't anything better on. So my estimate for the number of people who'd care to participate in any kind of rescue attempt is maybe 10-20% of the viewers. And then you're starting to hit a place on the price/demand curve where the "casual" fans who'd pay $10 aren't big enough and the blood fans that'd pay $100 aren't many enough. But by all means if you think it's doable then find out exactly how much they'd want before when and put it up as a Kickstarter and we'll see,
This isn't to say that any increase in bus power is bad(given USB's use cases, 'enough power to spin up a 2.5 inch HDD' or 'enough power to charge a smartphone' are pretty useful things.
Charging is at least an operation where you can optimistically use whatever power is available, but that's generally not the norm. At the very least there should be some kind of power notches on the connectors - a device that requires 20W minimum shouldn't physically fit in a regular USB port using the supplied cable.
That would be unconstitutional, federal government cannot force a retailer to collect local taxes.
Why not, specifically? They're explicitly permitted to regulate interstate commerce, and a vendor in one state selling to a customer in another state most certainly sounds like it to me. Remember they can use it in the negative "No interstate commerce is permitted unless the vendor has collected any applicable sales tax of the destination state" so strictly speaking they're not forcing anyone to do anything, it's a condition for doing interstate business. If you don't like it, don't sell outside your state. I doubt you'll get the Supreme Court with you on this one.
I take it you speak from experience?
On any machine made this century the boot messages should fly past way, way faster than I can read them. If for some reason it hangs at some point during the boot process, then I guess there should be a button to hit or hold (or boot option if you're not doing this physically) to see it but otherwise its just nerd porn. The rest you can show me in a device manager or whatever after I've booted.
Again the fundamental motivation here is truly to kill, to rid the earth of each and every person that disagrees with them.
So because they hate the US they're going to try taking out America three people at a time? It'd take eight hundred 9/11s a year just to keep up with population growth, it doesn't even pass the giggle test. No, at this point they just want the US to butt out so they can have their radical islamist revolutions to themselves, they don't expect you to stop disagreeing just stop daring to speak out or doing anything about it. Yes eventually if they can unite the whole muslim world under a theocratic rule like Iran they'll be coming for the rest of us, but there's not the slightest bit of genocidal aspirations in blowing up a few people. Not even in wacky terrorist world.