So the most salient features of a democracy fallen into fascism are: 1. groups having more power than individuals 2. having to fill out the religion box on a form 3. everyone belonging to a political group 4. all the different groups claiming their ideology is the best
huh! That doesn't sound bad at all. I wonder why the Nazis got such a bad rap...
"The Power Mac G5's enclosure houses four discrete thermal zones to compartmentalize the primary heat-producing components. Fans in the zones spin at very low speeds, creating an environment that minimizes distraction. Dual 2.7GHz systems also include an innovative closed-loop liquid cooling system that draws away heat quietly and efficiently."
Of course bottlenecks on a PC are everywhere... You are quite correct about CPU power being overrated. I would add that for high end work it matters more what kind of bandwidth and latency you can get from your memory, rather than just size. An interesting example is the PS2, on which arstechnica has a great article. Memory bandwidth/latency is why chips with on-die cache beat the @)#*$)@# out of their predecessors... So if i could get your 4ghz cpu with 512mb of on-die sram i'd take that one:-D
Most of my best comments were written as a result of alcohol... I liked to think seeing://Drunk. fix later. would cheer up those poor TA's miserable lives.
So, by your reasoning, every time the media runs a story about a satelite in orbit, they should also have someone from the Flat-Earth Society on for balance? We might not be able to model the entire atmosphere, but our thermometers work pretty well. Global Warming is a fact: things are getting hotter.
Explain how a satellite launch is a political issue. Also please point out the point at which I stated that it wasn't getting warmer.
As for modeling: asking to model the entire atmosphere before you accept a global warming explanation implicating CO2 levels is like asking for a model of every particle in the solar system before you accept a model of planetary mechanics that implicates gravity. Using the word 'PROVEN' in big letters like that shows that you don't have a strong grip on how science works, or how good public policy is made. Science (and this holds in both Popper's and Kuhn's account) is inherently provisional, and doesn't admit anything resembling capital-P proof, let alone the all-capitalized proof you want.
Apparently you have a tenuous grasp of English in general and hyperbole in particular. I wasn't disputing the CO2 or the heat. My point was that there is not enough data from which to draw a good conclusion. I was addressing a political debate. And as far as public policy goes, when the potential consequences are so catastrophic, and when the system has such a lag in it, it's irresponsible to quibble over absolute proof: by the time the proof comes in, it'll likely be too late to do anything. Good public policy manages risks, and with climate change, the risks involved with twidding our thumbs while we wait for enough evidence to satisfy petrochemical executives are simply too high. There's a clear scientific consensus on the issue. That's all the balance that we need.
Oh by all means let's jump to a conclusion and implement a solution with catastrophic impact before we actually understand the problem or even admit that we may be wrong. But then again, the sky is falling isn't it? It can't possibly be that hard to fix the climate...
No, you should always be balanced. Balanced, as it relates to politics, means that BOTH sides could either be lying or wrong. Last time I checked, not a whole lot has been PROVEN about global warming. Or maybe I'm wrong and we can model the entire atmosphere now?
A game called Age of Empires 2 offended the Saudi Arabian authorities because it showed victorious Muslim armies turning churches into mosques. The game was withdrawn from sale in the kingdom
I was commenting on the FPU performance. Larger Cache will increase the performance regardless of how good the FPU is. I'm not saying it should be disqualified, i'm just saying the FPU doesnt suck on the Athlon.
For one the Xeon has more L2 cache and for another most of the math benchmarks looked to be integer based. The Xeon gets beat in POVray wich is FPU intensive if im am not much mistaken... I think it is unfair to say the FPU on the Xeon is better... I would be nice to see more non-synthetic benchmarks.
If we didn't try to make space accessible to humans would we still have all the benefits from the space program? Comets are great and all, but I don't think there is much about them that applies directly to life here on earth. At least not to the same degree that technology that enables human exploration does.
Gee, maybe if the @#)$&@#ing artists would actually publish the damn lyrics in the CDs that I payed for, maybe I wouldn't go looking on the internet for them!
I suppose they will start including lyrics in the "special edition" CDs... or maybe the fact that I cant tell what the hell they are saying makes it Art.
Meh, I give up, I'm listening to techno from now on... DJ Tiesto doesn't sing much
I don't care how much you spend on computers or what kind they are. If the teachers in the schools cant teach then the kids wont learn. So this is just great, we are going to have a bunch of uneducated kids with expensive laptops. Not that I am cynical or anything...
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And now an AC trolling. Truly all the wonder has gone out of the world!
Something tells me that if they cared about evidence it wouldn't be called faith...
So the most salient features of a democracy fallen into fascism are:
1. groups having more power than individuals
2. having to fill out the religion box on a form
3. everyone belonging to a political group
4. all the different groups claiming their ideology is the best
huh! That doesn't sound bad at all. I wonder why the Nazis got such a bad rap...
Internally the x86 chips are RISC. Turns out that converting the CISC instructions to RISC takes a trival amount of die space.
Maybe you didn't notice this on the apple site:
"The Power Mac G5's enclosure houses four discrete thermal zones to compartmentalize the primary heat-producing components. Fans in the zones spin at very low speeds, creating an environment that minimizes distraction. Dual 2.7GHz systems also include an innovative closed-loop liquid cooling system that draws away heat quietly and efficiently."
yeah those PowerPC's, so cheap and cool...
tldr. you have anything else?
Evidence :)
Good god! I bet FDR created the great depression so that he could take over!
I can't believe I've been so blind...
I make sure to never eat my vegetables!
Inconceivable!
Of course bottlenecks on a PC are everywhere... You are quite correct about CPU power being overrated. I would add that for high end work it matters more what kind of bandwidth and latency you can get from your memory, rather than just size. An interesting example is the PS2, on which arstechnica has a great article. :-D
Memory bandwidth/latency is why chips with on-die cache beat the @)#*$)@# out of their predecessors... So if i could get your 4ghz cpu with 512mb of on-die sram i'd take that one
Most of my best comments were written as a result of alcohol... I liked to think seeing: //Drunk. fix later.
would cheer up those poor TA's miserable lives.
damn. now i wish i hadn't posted so i could have modded this up... but then if i had, would you have posted? :) ah well.
So, by your reasoning, every time the media runs a story about a satelite in orbit, they should also have someone from the Flat-Earth Society on for balance? We might not be able to model the entire atmosphere, but our thermometers work pretty well. Global Warming is a fact: things are getting hotter.
Explain how a satellite launch is a political issue. Also please point out the point at which I stated that it wasn't getting warmer.
As for modeling: asking to model the entire atmosphere before you accept a global warming explanation implicating CO2 levels is like asking for a model of every particle in the solar system before you accept a model of planetary mechanics that implicates gravity. Using the word 'PROVEN' in big letters like that shows that you don't have a strong grip on how science works, or how good public policy is made. Science (and this holds in both Popper's and Kuhn's account) is inherently provisional, and doesn't admit anything resembling capital-P proof, let alone the all-capitalized proof you want.
Apparently you have a tenuous grasp of English in general and hyperbole in particular. I wasn't disputing the CO2 or the heat. My point was that there is not enough data from which to draw a good conclusion. I was addressing a political debate.
And as far as public policy goes, when the potential consequences are so catastrophic, and when the system has such a lag in it, it's irresponsible to quibble over absolute proof: by the time the proof comes in, it'll likely be too late to do anything. Good public policy manages risks, and with climate change, the risks involved with twidding our thumbs while we wait for enough evidence to satisfy petrochemical executives are simply too high. There's a clear scientific consensus on the issue. That's all the balance that we need.
Oh by all means let's jump to a conclusion and implement a solution with catastrophic impact before we actually understand the problem or even admit that we may be wrong. But then again, the sky is falling isn't it? It can't possibly be that hard to fix the climate...
No, you should always be balanced. Balanced, as it relates to politics, means that BOTH sides could either be lying or wrong. Last time I checked, not a whole lot has been PROVEN about global warming. Or maybe I'm wrong and we can model the entire atmosphere now?
A game called Age of Empires 2 offended the Saudi Arabian authorities because it showed victorious Muslim armies turning churches into mosques. The game was withdrawn from sale in the kingdom
*cough*hagia sophia*cough*
I was commenting on the FPU performance. Larger Cache will increase the performance regardless of how good the FPU is. I'm not saying it should be disqualified, i'm just saying the FPU doesnt suck on the Athlon.
For one the Xeon has more L2 cache and for another most of the math benchmarks looked to be integer based. The Xeon gets beat in POVray wich is FPU intensive if im am not much mistaken... I think it is unfair to say the FPU on the Xeon is better...
I would be nice to see more non-synthetic benchmarks.
forgot the 'be' in the title :P
If we didn't try to make space accessible to humans would we still have all the benefits from the space program? Comets are great and all, but I don't think there is much about them that applies directly to life here on earth. At least not to the same degree that technology that enables human exploration does.
oh i don't know... i think i would rather be vaporized than get smallpox
I choose to fight back with an EMP :P
Gee, maybe if the @#)$&@#ing artists would actually publish the damn lyrics in the CDs that I payed for, maybe I wouldn't go looking on the internet for them!
I suppose they will start including lyrics in the "special edition" CDs... or maybe the fact that I cant tell what the hell they are saying makes it Art.
Meh, I give up, I'm listening to techno from now on... DJ Tiesto doesn't sing much
This is great! The only reason I had yahoo as my homepage was for the news. I do all my searching on google so this is a great convenience for me.
I don't care how much you spend on computers or what kind they are. If the teachers in the schools cant teach then the kids wont learn. So this is just great, we are going to have a bunch of uneducated kids with expensive laptops. Not that I am cynical or anything...