I see the usual Tom's Hardware hyperbole is now corrupting Slashdot's tradition of journalistic integrity.
"Monitors that Bill Gates can't even afford?" Bill Gates can afford anything. Entire WALLS of his 9000 sq ft. house are comprised of monitors. Tom's is a consumer whore site that used to publish half-decent articles. Now all they do is hype and shill products.
Good security fosters good usability, and good usability fosters good security. When either is considered a-holistically, it results in a detrimental relationship to the other. We all need to learn how not to think like a-holes.
and works for both AMD and Intel (and is explicitly marketed as such)
I don't see why AMD would want to do Intel's homework form, especially after Intel has done this to AMD-64. But making it an open standard and not preventing Intel from developing competing, compatible systems would be OK. I doubt if they develop a new form factor that they'd do this, either, but you never know.
As long as the PSU requirements are the same, and they'll fit whatever case I buy, I don't think it matters a whole lot where they place components on the motherboard, as long as it works from the standpoint of their own engineering requirements.
Trying to make compromises so that mobo layouts are identical between AMD-64 and Intel systems is bound to be non-optimal for both, and is thus a pretty pointless endeavor, and thus almost guaranteed to be on the market in the next 12-18 months.
I'm sick of it. Nothing is going to change anyone's mind at this point. I'm going to vote tomorrow, and I hope to god I get hit by a bus as I walk out of the polling place so won't have to live through the next four years.
That's why I said "I think". Too lazy to check every single fact, and hell I was only off by two orders of magnitude.
But it IS possible for something to be a quarter of a billion light-years away. We know that the universe is at least 15 billion years old, because that's the distance of the farthest objects that we've been able to see, and thus that light has traveled 15 billion light years to reach us.
4 years, assuming you can accelerate instantaneously to the speed of light and then stop on a dime, which isn't terribly realistic. Even then, the number of destinations reachable within 100 years of lightspeed travel is comparatively minute.
Even at light speed, it's still 100,000 years to traverse the Milky Way. I think it's something like a quarter of a billion years to Andromeda.
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This is funny, but it's actually on the right track. Rather than developing machines that we can sleep in for long periods of time, we should be looking at modifying humans (genetically or otherwise) so that they can survive a long trip through space. Nature has adapted us to life on Earth, we must adapt ourselves to living in other environments. Best of all would be to transplant our consciousness into durable robotic chassis with interchangeable/hot-swappable components so that we can effectively live forever and survive anywhere.
No problem, just crew all future manned space missions with TV news anchors, lawyers, politicians, and boy bands. No need for return capsules at all, and the earth rids itself of 99% of mind pollution.
My point is that by saying "our technolgy failed in Iraq" and then presenting the result of that failure -- being pitted against superior numbers of the enemy, but omitting the end result -- we win anyway, with only 8 casualties -- is misleading.
And with the war being as politically charged as it is right now, this type of misleading news is not helpful to our country.
Really, the failures of the invasion haven't been military failures. They've been failures in rebuilding, in winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, and in winning the peace.
But anyway, if you look at the military itself as a system of systems, and each of these systems can be thought of a technology, then we have a layered approach to technology. One layer in that system, the newest, didn't perform as well as had been projected.
But that's OK, the other layers were sufficient for decisive victory to take place. The military will learn from this and apply the lessons to the next conflict.
There will never be perfect execution in war -- situations change and the truisms of today will be outdated eventually. The point is to build up your strategy so that it is extremely fault-tolerant.
The TechReview article is titled "How technology failed in Iraq".
The failure? As the/. blurb quotes: "Between 25 and 30 tanks, plus 70 to 80 armored personnel carriers, artillery, and between 5,000 and 10,000 Iraqi soldiers coming from three directions. This mass of firepower and soldiers attacked a U.S. force of 1,000 soldiers supported by just 30 tanks and 14 Bradley fighting vehicles."
The result of this failure? 8 American soldiers wounded in a battle that left a mile to a mile and a half stretch of road toward Baghdad so choked with Iraqi casualties that you couldn't walk without stepping on body parts.
Maybe the intelligence layer failed to warn the US, but that's only one technology. The US tank armor is also a technology, and it held up against direct hits by the Iraqi tanks. US tank rounds blew the Iraqi tanks to smithereens.
The Iraqis got slaughtered, the US took eight wounded, and this is a "failure"? With failure like that, who needs victories?
Surely there's other, better examples where intelligence failures cost the US more, but this ain't it.
Intel is rumored to have begun R&D for HCOS, the Hi-COSt replacement for LCOS. Intel's bean-counters say that the screens will retail for an estimated $250,000, and will be much more profitable than the sub-$2000 LCOS screens.
Ravenloft and Spelljammer were 2nd edition. And yes, it was getting lame at that point. Ahem, relatively speaking.
But 3rd edition was a great revision. The core rules are wonderfully streamlined, yet complex. The system has its flaws and faults still, but melee in 3e was the most managable system of any edition since Basic D&D.
D&D always runs into a problem where in order to keep selling books they have to publish more and more titles, and after a while the well runs dry and they just don't playtest or quality control like they should. But if you stick to the core books and your own house rules, it's a great game.
Moore's law wasn't about clock speeds, it was about the number of transistors that could fit on a die. There's a relationship between the two, obviously, since tinier transistors can flip between states faster, but it's not quite the same thing.
Re-doing the effects shouldn't have a dramatic impact on sequences of events, plot, or character development. Re-do the matte lines, remaster the sound, and LEAVE THE REST THE FUCK ALONE!!!!
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This roach bot should be called the CyberDyne Systems T-1. The First Terminator, a robot designed to infiltrate a population and eliminate it.
Human models should be available in a few decades.
I see the usual Tom's Hardware hyperbole is now corrupting Slashdot's tradition of journalistic integrity.
"Monitors that Bill Gates can't even afford?" Bill Gates can afford anything. Entire WALLS of his 9000 sq ft. house are comprised of monitors. Tom's is a consumer whore site that used to publish half-decent articles. Now all they do is hype and shill products.
The same, unfortunately, is also true of Encyclopedia Britannica, or any other text crafted by the hand of man.
They haven't passed a law yet saying that it's illegal to build a program that pretends to be steam.
Good security fosters good usability, and good usability fosters good security. When either is considered a-holistically, it results in a detrimental relationship to the other. We all need to learn how not to think like a-holes.
and works for both AMD and Intel (and is explicitly marketed as such)
I don't see why AMD would want to do Intel's homework form, especially after Intel has done this to AMD-64. But making it an open standard and not preventing Intel from developing competing, compatible systems would be OK. I doubt if they develop a new form factor that they'd do this, either, but you never know.
As long as the PSU requirements are the same, and they'll fit whatever case I buy, I don't think it matters a whole lot where they place components on the motherboard, as long as it works from the standpoint of their own engineering requirements.
Trying to make compromises so that mobo layouts are identical between AMD-64 and Intel systems is bound to be non-optimal for both, and is thus a pretty pointless endeavor, and thus almost guaranteed to be on the market in the next 12-18 months.
I'm sick of it. Nothing is going to change anyone's mind at this point. I'm going to vote tomorrow, and I hope to god I get hit by a bus as I walk out of the polling place so won't have to live through the next four years.
Who wants to take bets on how long it takes Nintendo to send the 1upkin guy a cease-and-desist?
"... some Yale students show that altering only a single vote per machine would have changed the electoral college outcome of the 2000 election. "
Yeah? Well, George W. Bush and John F. Kerry were some Yale students. I bet they knew this all along. The fix was in from the start.
That's why I said "I think". Too lazy to check every single fact, and hell I was only off by two orders of magnitude.
But it IS possible for something to be a quarter of a billion light-years away. We know that the universe is at least 15 billion years old, because that's the distance of the farthest objects that we've been able to see, and thus that light has traveled 15 billion light years to reach us.
4 years, assuming you can accelerate instantaneously to the speed of light and then stop on a dime, which isn't terribly realistic. Even then, the number of destinations reachable within 100 years of lightspeed travel is comparatively minute.
Even at light speed, it's still 100,000 years to traverse the Milky Way. I think it's something like a quarter of a billion years to Andromeda.
This is funny, but it's actually on the right track. Rather than developing machines that we can sleep in for long periods of time, we should be looking at modifying humans (genetically or otherwise) so that they can survive a long trip through space. Nature has adapted us to life on Earth, we must adapt ourselves to living in other environments. Best of all would be to transplant our consciousness into durable robotic chassis with interchangeable/hot-swappable components so that we can effectively live forever and survive anywhere.
No problem, just crew all future manned space missions with TV news anchors, lawyers, politicians, and boy bands. No need for return capsules at all, and the earth rids itself of 99% of mind pollution.
My point is that by saying "our technolgy failed in Iraq" and then presenting the result of that failure -- being pitted against superior numbers of the enemy, but omitting the end result -- we win anyway, with only 8 casualties -- is misleading.
And with the war being as politically charged as it is right now, this type of misleading news is not helpful to our country.
Really, the failures of the invasion haven't been military failures. They've been failures in rebuilding, in winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, and in winning the peace.
But anyway, if you look at the military itself as a system of systems, and each of these systems can be thought of a technology, then we have a layered approach to technology. One layer in that system, the newest, didn't perform as well as had been projected.
But that's OK, the other layers were sufficient for decisive victory to take place. The military will learn from this and apply the lessons to the next conflict.
There will never be perfect execution in war -- situations change and the truisms of today will be outdated eventually. The point is to build up your strategy so that it is extremely fault-tolerant.
The TechReview article is titled "How technology failed in Iraq".
/. blurb quotes: "Between 25 and 30 tanks, plus 70 to 80 armored personnel carriers, artillery, and between 5,000 and 10,000 Iraqi soldiers coming from three directions. This mass of firepower and soldiers attacked a U.S. force of 1,000 soldiers supported by just 30 tanks and 14 Bradley fighting vehicles."
The failure? As the
The result of this failure? 8 American soldiers wounded in a battle that left a mile to a mile and a half stretch of road toward Baghdad so choked with Iraqi casualties that you couldn't walk without stepping on body parts.
Maybe the intelligence layer failed to warn the US, but that's only one technology. The US tank armor is also a technology, and it held up against direct hits by the Iraqi tanks. US tank rounds blew the Iraqi tanks to smithereens.
The Iraqis got slaughtered, the US took eight wounded, and this is a "failure"? With failure like that, who needs victories?
Surely there's other, better examples where intelligence failures cost the US more, but this ain't it.
Intel is rumored to have begun R&D for HCOS, the Hi-COSt replacement for LCOS. Intel's bean-counters say that the screens will retail for an estimated $250,000, and will be much more profitable than the sub-$2000 LCOS screens.
There's a little Dell kiosk/cart thing in my mall.
It's 68 in here year round. During the summer, if they just set the AC to 74-75 it'd be more comfortable and I could spend less time shivering.
Ravenloft and Spelljammer were 2nd edition. And yes, it was getting lame at that point. Ahem, relatively speaking.
But 3rd edition was a great revision. The core rules are wonderfully streamlined, yet complex. The system has its flaws and faults still, but melee in 3e was the most managable system of any edition since Basic D&D.
D&D always runs into a problem where in order to keep selling books they have to publish more and more titles, and after a while the well runs dry and they just don't playtest or quality control like they should. But if you stick to the core books and your own house rules, it's a great game.
This story hit a few months ago, and was covered on Slashdot.
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Apparently he does this when he appears on CNN's Crossfire.
Hint: They give "Lifetime achievement" awards when they think it's time for you to stop making movies.
Hint 2: This award is being given to him BEFORE the theatrical release of Episode III.
Therefore, I think this Lifetime Award idea has a lot of merit to it...
Moore's law wasn't about clock speeds, it was about the number of transistors that could fit on a die. There's a relationship between the two, obviously, since tinier transistors can flip between states faster, but it's not quite the same thing.
Re-doing the effects shouldn't have a dramatic impact on sequences of events, plot, or character development. Re-do the matte lines, remaster the sound, and LEAVE THE REST THE FUCK ALONE!!!!