Yep, that's why you would like to cache as much in RAM as possible. AMD can help you there.
http://it.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3784&p=15... The Opteron 6100 series offers up to 24 DIMMs slots, the Xeon is “limited” to 18. In many cases this allows the server buyer to achieve higher amount of memory with lower costs.
maybe we should instead focus the FDA on doing something about the "supplement" and "herbal remedy" market that is currently totally uncontrolled.
You're right that ephedrine containing products caused thousands of preventable deaths. However, you're not right to blame the FDA. Sure, the FDA has had numerous failures of science in the service of citizen protection in the past decade, but with regard to dietary supplements their hands are tied by actual legislation. The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 was among the dubious legislative achievements of the Newt Gingrich's Congress. Call on your congress persons to repeal the law that categorizes such supplements as food products. This effectively places the burden of proof on the FDA to prove that an ingredient is unsafe, rather than on the manufacturer to prove than an ingredient is safe.
Read here: http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dietsupp.html... For decades, the Food and Drug Administration regulated dietary supplements as foods, in most circumstances, to ensure that they were safe and wholesome, and that their labeling was truthful and not misleading. An important facet of ensuring safety was FDA's evaluation of the safety of all new ingredients, including those used in dietary supplements, under the 1958 Food Additive Amendments to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). However, with passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), Congress amended the FD&C Act to include several provisions that apply only to dietary supplements and dietary ingredients of dietary supplements. As a result of these provisions, dietary ingredients used in dietary supplements are no longer subject to the premarket safety evaluations required of other new food ingredients or for new uses of old food ingredients. They must, however, meet the requirements of other safety provisions....
A while back, Ars Technica had a good piece: "Why modular Windows will suck for Microsoft and suck for you". This was the persuasive snippet that stuck with me.... The issue is that modularization strikes a blow against the very concept of a platform. When a software developer writes a program for Windows XP, they more or less know what they're going to get... With a modularized Windows, that could fly right out the Window....
As our friend in Redmond, Steve likes to say, "developers, developers, developers, developers...".
Anyhow, the full article is a good read. If nothing else, it serves as some inoculation against the MS PR machine that got its claws into that NYT story.
Our commander in chief said as much in a videoconference with troops in Afghanistan on Mar 13, 2008: ( http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1333111120080313 )... "I must say, I'm a little envious," Bush said. "If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed."
"It must be exciting for you... in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You're really making history, and thanks," Bush said....
A flash file system is a file system designed for storing files on flash memory devices. These are becoming more prevalent as the number of mobile devices is increasing, and the capacity of flash memories catches up with hard drives.
While a block device layer can emulate a disk drive so that a disk file system can be used on a flash device, this is suboptimal for several reasons:
* Erasing blocks: Flash memory blocks have to be explicitly erased before they can be written to. The time taken to erase blocks can be significant, thus it is beneficial to erase unused blocks while the device is idle.
* Random access: Disk file systems are optimized to avoid disk seeks whenever possible, due to the high cost of seeking. Flash memory devices impose no seek latency.
* Wear levelling: Flash memory devices tend to wear out when a single block is repeatedly overwritten; flash file systems are designed to spread out writes evenly.
Log-structured file systems have all the desirable properties for a flash file system. Such file systems include JFFS2 and YAFFS.
They used the same video card on the Intel test rig too. They're just trying to keep as many components as possible in common between the platforms so that the power draw comparisons are more useful.
Not too complicated really. As to why they chose that particular video card, I don't know, but I'd wager that the reviewer just had it on hand.
Yeah, a "horsed carriage" that's ~20x as fast (gigabit) as those new-fangled "horseless" whirligigs (802.11g). If that metaphor was valid, Henry Ford would be remembered only by his neighbors as that crazy anti-semite down the street with the slow contraption that never cought on.
No. Sorry. Try again. Warmer water molecules mean bigger water molecules, which mean bigger oceans. While liquid water is expansive than steam with a rise in temp, it is still slightly "elastic". That factor alone, combined with the rise in sea surface tempurature can account for much of the increase in sea level.
Also, you're forgetting that there are many area that have signifigant stores of ice other than Antactica. Greenland and the Arctic have signifigant glaciers. What's more, being in the Northern Hemisphere where more land lives, they have more idiosyncratic climate patterns because the global pressure bands are disrupted by the effect of land.
If I were AMD, I'd want a pretty dang big settlement. Even then, I might loog twice, because what I'd really want is some sort of injuction-type thing to get these type of actions to stop.
Moderate power for office apps? A Skt 754 Sempron runs circles around an equivilently priced Celeron. This is from a year ago. The margin has only gotten wider since. Next?
"Business application performance... The Sempron 2800+ scores a key victory over the Celeron D here, especially when you consider that the "with IGP" scores represent the most likely configurations for systems based on these value processors. We could almost stop here and say the Sempron has accomplished the bulk of its mission by outpacing the Celeron D in everyday tasks."
Green house efficiency is characterized by the magnitutude and bandwidth of absorption in the infrared spectrum. On a PPM to PPM concentration comparison, Methane is about 22 times more effective at trapping infrared radiation than CO2. That the infrared absorption characteristic is independant of its longevity in the atmosphere. Methane oxidises in the presence of O2 and has residence times measured in decades. CO2 uptake by plants and oceans is much slower, with residence times measured in centuries. Long-term sequestration in carbonate sediments happens on scales measured in millenia.
With a B.S in Earth Science, I know a little about climate change due to increased CO2 concentrations. Let nobody say otherwise, I am very concerned about the effects of climate change. I drive a Toyota Echo, keep my heat at 66, and recycle my aluminum. Let the analogy busting begin...
Mthant =/CO2. Methane is a much more efficient greenhouse gas, and (in the presence of O2) has a much shorter residence time in the atmosphere. Residence times for CO2 are in the hundreds of years. Residence times for methane are below 10 years.
IT's not called global warming. It's called climate change. Precipitation is an element of climate. Additionally, added energy to the system has been modeled to increase extreame weather events.
Yeah. I'm sure that Intel cancelled thier plans to scale up to 4 Ghz just to piss you off.
What are you tired of? Processor speeds are not scaling fast enough for you? During the race to 1Ghz, Intel and AMD scaled FASTER than the doubling indicated by "Moore's Law". If performance scaling has stalled, should you blame some cabal of shadowy figures from AMD, IBM, and Intel, or do you think that they've all three run against some issues between.13 and.09 micron?
Resharpen your Occam's Razor and tell me where it slices.
One of the main antagonists is a human/primate chimera. Also animals staff much of the empire, because the human race is suffering a severe underpopulation problem.
"His work is the very antithesis of tired hackdom. To invent an entire self-consistent cosmology and physics for a $2.50 DAW paperback (THE ZEN GUN, 1983) is one of those noble acts of selfless altruism that keep SF alive. There seems no limit to the man's inventiveness, his pyrotechnic bursts of fresh ideas. To these natural gifts, enough to sustain a dozen lesser writers, he adds an intense dedication to craft that gives his best work its eerie sense of dark complexity." - Bruce Sterling, Cheap Truth
http://www.amazon.com/unicef/ ISBN: 0879978511 Used copies start at ~$4.
It's like the pulp sensabilities of Philip Jose Farmer crossed with the physics mind of Poul Anderson, then hopped up on serious hallucinogens. In short, it's worth the time to track down a copy at your local used book store.
They are targeting LCD TVs. Samsung evaluated the physical needs of the market, and decided that 30 CM deep was what was needed to fit the average space. Plasma and LCD have much different characteristics than a direct-view CRT set:
Price. Try to find a decent looking (720p or 1080i) plasma for less than $2000. Samsung is targeting a ~$1k pricepoint on these new thin(er) CRT sets. LCD Tvs of comparaple size are even pricier.
Lifespan. If I'm going to drop $1-2K on a TV, I want the damn thing to last 10 years. CRTs have proven lifespans measured in the decades. Plasma screens tend to go tits-up all too frequently at the 3-5 year mark. LCD screens (being solid state) should have fine lifespan. Unless the backlight has problems.
Image quality. Plasma screens are very much on par with the image quality of CRTs. Blacks are black and they are very viewable at many angles. LCDs have problems with portraying a truely convincing black, and the viewing angle can be a problem. Direct-view CRTs have the disadvantage of being an analog technology, depending on a decent DAC implementation for digital inputs. However, they give great brightness and viewing angle, with deep blacks. They do need to be calibrated correctly, so the cost of a technician might be factored in. At the very least, a $30 calibration DVD is in order.
It's all about choices folks. I, for one, am looking forward to the pricing pressure this new CRT tech will exert on the market. I still have a SDTV. I'd love to get a decent HD set.
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Yep, that's why you would like to cache as much in RAM as possible. AMD can help you there.
http://it.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3784&p=15 ...
The Opteron 6100 series offers up to 24 DIMMs slots, the Xeon is “limited” to 18. In many cases this allows the server buyer to achieve higher amount of memory with lower costs.
maybe we should instead focus the FDA on doing something about the "supplement" and "herbal remedy" market that is currently totally uncontrolled.
You're right that ephedrine containing products caused thousands of preventable deaths. However, you're not right to blame the FDA. Sure, the FDA has had numerous failures of science in the service of citizen protection in the past decade, but with regard to dietary supplements their hands are tied by actual legislation. The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 was among the dubious legislative achievements of the Newt Gingrich's Congress. Call on your congress persons to repeal the law that categorizes such supplements as food products. This effectively places the burden of proof on the FDA to prove that an ingredient is unsafe, rather than on the manufacturer to prove than an ingredient is safe.
Read here: ... ...
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/dietsupp.html
For decades, the Food and Drug Administration regulated dietary supplements as foods, in most circumstances, to ensure that they were safe and wholesome, and that their labeling was truthful and not misleading. An important facet of ensuring safety was FDA's evaluation of the safety of all new ingredients, including those used in dietary supplements, under the 1958 Food Additive Amendments to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). However, with passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA), Congress amended the FD&C Act to include several provisions that apply only to dietary supplements and dietary ingredients of dietary supplements. As a result of these provisions, dietary ingredients used in dietary supplements are no longer subject to the premarket safety evaluations required of other new food ingredients or for new uses of old food ingredients. They must, however, meet the requirements of other safety provisions.
You know allude to it, but don't post a link? Here, let me fix that for you. NSFW, of course.
http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/2005/3ubuntu.jpg
A while back, Ars Technica had a good piece: "Why modular Windows will suck for Microsoft and suck for you". This was the persuasive snippet that stuck with me. ... ...
The issue is that modularization strikes a blow against the very concept of a platform. When a software developer writes a program for Windows XP, they more or less know what they're going to get...
With a modularized Windows, that could fly right out the Window.
As our friend in Redmond, Steve likes to say, "developers, developers, developers, developers...".
Anyhow, the full article is a good read. If nothing else, it serves as some inoculation against the MS PR machine that got its claws into that NYT story.
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/modular-windows-will-suck.ars
Our commander in chief said as much in a videoconference with troops in Afghanistan on Mar 13, 2008: ...
... in some ways romantic, in some ways, you know, confronting danger. You're really making history, and thanks," Bush said. ...
( http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN1333111120080313 )
"I must say, I'm a little envious," Bush said. "If I were slightly younger and not employed here, I think it would be a fantastic experience to be on the front lines of helping this young democracy succeed."
"It must be exciting for you
What a shame he's otherwise "employed".
( from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system#Flash_file_systems; emphasis is mine)
They used the same video card on the Intel test rig too. They're just trying to keep as many components as possible in common between the platforms so that the power draw comparisons are more useful.
Not too complicated really. As to why they chose that particular video card, I don't know, but I'd wager that the reviewer just had it on hand.
Yeah, a "horsed carriage" that's ~20x as fast (gigabit) as those new-fangled "horseless" whirligigs (802.11g). If that metaphor was valid, Henry Ford would be remembered only by his neighbors as that crazy anti-semite down the street with the slow contraption that never cought on.
Ah. This is obviously some strange usage of the concept of Occam's razor that I hadn't previously been aware of.
No. Sorry. Try again. Warmer water molecules mean bigger water molecules, which mean bigger oceans. While liquid water is expansive than steam with a rise in temp, it is still slightly "elastic". That factor alone, combined with the rise in sea surface tempurature can account for much of the increase in sea level.
Also, you're forgetting that there are many area that have signifigant stores of ice other than Antactica. Greenland and the Arctic have signifigant glaciers. What's more, being in the Northern Hemisphere where more land lives, they have more idiosyncratic climate patterns because the global pressure bands are disrupted by the effect of land.
The dual core parts, code named Toledo and Manchester, are also Rev. E and support SSE3.
If I were AMD, I'd want a pretty dang big settlement. Even then, I might loog twice, because what I'd really want is some sort of injuction-type thing to get these type of actions to stop.
Moderate power for office apps? A Skt 754 Sempron runs circles around an equivilently priced Celeron. This is from a year ago. The margin has only gotten wider since. Next?
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...
http://techreport.com/reviews/2004q3/sempron/inde
July 28, 2004
"Business application performance
The Sempron 2800+ scores a key victory over the Celeron D here, especially when you consider that the "with IGP" scores represent the most likely configurations for systems based on these value processors. We could almost stop here and say the Sempron has accomplished the bulk of its mission by outpacing the Celeron D in everyday tasks."
bleh. Here's the Wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas
Green house efficiency is characterized by the magnitutude and bandwidth of absorption in the infrared spectrum. On a PPM to PPM concentration comparison, Methane is about 22 times more effective at trapping infrared radiation than CO2. That the infrared absorption characteristic is independant of its longevity in the atmosphere. Methane oxidises in the presence of O2 and has residence times measured in decades. CO2 uptake by plants and oceans is much slower, with residence times measured in centuries. Long-term sequestration in carbonate sediments happens on scales measured in millenia.
The wikipedia entry is likely more clear than me.
With a B.S in Earth Science, I know a little about climate change due to increased CO2 concentrations. Let nobody say otherwise, I am very concerned about the effects of climate change. I drive a Toyota Echo, keep my heat at 66, and recycle my aluminum. Let the analogy busting begin...
Mthant =/CO2. Methane is a much more efficient greenhouse gas, and (in the presence of O2) has a much shorter residence time in the atmosphere. Residence times for CO2 are in the hundreds of years. Residence times for methane are below 10 years.
IT's not called global warming. It's called climate change. Precipitation is an element of climate. Additionally, added energy to the system has been modeled to increase extreame weather events.
Yeah. I'm sure that Intel cancelled thier plans to scale up to 4 Ghz just to piss you off.
.13 and .09 micron?
What are you tired of? Processor speeds are not scaling fast enough for you? During the race to 1Ghz, Intel and AMD scaled FASTER than the doubling indicated by "Moore's Law". If performance scaling has stalled, should you blame some cabal of shadowy figures from AMD, IBM, and Intel, or do you think that they've all three run against some issues between
Resharpen your Occam's Razor and tell me where it slices.
Take a look at the historical temperature range for Huntington Beach.
http://www.wunderground.com/NORMS/DisplayNORMS.
Their average monthly temperature never goes below 80F.
Read The Zen Gun.
One of the main antagonists is a human/primate chimera. Also animals staff much of the empire, because the human race is suffering a severe underpopulation problem.
http://www.oivas.com/bjb/zen.html
"His work is the very antithesis of tired hackdom. To invent an entire self-consistent cosmology and physics for a $2.50 DAW paperback (THE ZEN GUN, 1983) is one of those noble acts of selfless altruism that keep SF alive. There seems no limit to the man's inventiveness, his pyrotechnic bursts of fresh ideas. To these natural gifts, enough to sustain a dozen lesser writers, he adds an intense dedication to craft that gives his best work its eerie sense of dark complexity." - Bruce Sterling, Cheap Truth
http://www.amazon.com/unicef/
ISBN: 0879978511
Used copies start at ~$4.
It's like the pulp sensabilities of Philip Jose Farmer crossed with the physics mind of Poul Anderson, then hopped up on serious hallucinogens. In short, it's worth the time to track down a copy at your local used book store.
They are targeting LCD TVs. Samsung evaluated the physical needs of the market, and decided that 30 CM deep was what was needed to fit the average space. Plasma and LCD have much different characteristics than a direct-view CRT set:
Price. Try to find a decent looking (720p or 1080i) plasma for less than $2000. Samsung is targeting a ~$1k pricepoint on these new thin(er) CRT sets. LCD Tvs of comparaple size are even pricier.
Lifespan. If I'm going to drop $1-2K on a TV, I want the damn thing to last 10 years. CRTs have proven lifespans measured in the decades. Plasma screens tend to go tits-up all too frequently at the 3-5 year mark. LCD screens (being solid state) should have fine lifespan. Unless the backlight has problems.
Image quality. Plasma screens are very much on par with the image quality of CRTs. Blacks are black and they are very viewable at many angles. LCDs have problems with portraying a truely convincing black, and the viewing angle can be a problem. Direct-view CRTs have the disadvantage of being an analog technology, depending on a decent DAC implementation for digital inputs. However, they give great brightness and viewing angle, with deep blacks. They do need to be calibrated correctly, so the cost of a technician might be factored in. At the very least, a $30 calibration DVD is in order.
It's all about choices folks. I, for one, am looking forward to the pricing pressure this new CRT tech will exert on the market. I still have a SDTV. I'd love to get a decent HD set.
Amen. Brilliant venting. Wish I had points to join in the inevitable mod-fray.
Is that why Nvidia decided not to include the realtime digital encoding in their latest chipset? Because digital audio is the wave of the PC future?
Take a look at the picture... That screams something a little more than *metro*sexual.
China.