I listen to Dave Ramsey who is very anti gold and find the whole concept bizaare.
Gold and bitcoins don't actually produce anything. Investing in a property give you rent as you supply a service. Investing in a company provides you income as that company provides and product or service that other people pay money for
If a few people got rich from either than it is not an investment anymore than casino chips are. Like casino chips they are for betting and speculating. The whole concept of Gold is the government can not do something stupid and it will always retain value.... well people only get rich if it fluctuates. Therefore it is a TERRIBLE currency and negates the whole purpose of bitcoin or gold over a dollar which is stable.
What a dollar doesn't do anything? No shit. It is a currency, not an investment tool.
Chrome is fast and good enough for most folks. People and site owners want functionality. AdBlock really helps with bad scripts. I use the AdBlock browser on my phone occasionally when a site has a horrible script that won't load a site
But what about those of us who build PCs and install OSes to impress ladies? I mean when they come over I always direct them to my computer. Come to think of it I haven't been laid in awhile
Linux, on the other hand, was a buggy piece of crap... You get used to having all the bugs there and I don't know if it's just my perception, but it seems a lot of open source projects don't have nearly enough people squashing bugs. Everyone seems to want to add more features instead of fixing the bugs. I spent some time on a mac and thought I was in heaven, but my wallet wasn't. Windows 10, however... first OS they've done right in a long time.
Which is why I use FreeBSD for server oriented stuff. Many geeks on slashdot attacked Gartner several years back for attacking Linux as not ready for the server. Must be sponsored from Microsoft etc.... but if you look closely at the criteria they asked CIO's what they wanted more. THat was big iron features and world class reliability. Solaris and HP-UX both beat Linux handily before 2005 and FreeBSD still does too with network loads and reliability.
Intel's Itanium was a HPC (high performance computing) architecture meant to compete with IBM's Power and Sun's SPARC. Unfortunately delays and underperformance turned the product into a joke in the chip industry. There was never a road-map or intention to eventually bring it to the desktop as a i386 replacement. AMD saw an opportunity to score a marketing victory by extending i386 to 64bit before Intel did. The main benefit of 64bit is being able to address more memory then the 4GB 32bit registers are limited to. When the Opteron (first AMD64 processor) was released in 2003 the average amount of memory shipped with desktops was just 500Mb. Despite x86-64 underwhelming performance compared to HPC architectures, its cheap price and readily availability made it popular in the Enterprise market eventually killing Intel's own Itanium, all-but killing SPARC and relegating IBM's Power to a niche player
Actually some Pentium's mysteriously had 64 bit support not too lang afterwards. Hmmm
64 bits mean more registers and better performance with extra instructions like SQL databases. It is not just memory limitations as Intel did add PAE in the pentium IV chipset.
The reason for this is simple. HP and Intel wanted ITanium to win at all costs and even crippled the superior Alpha chip and prematurely killed it. It would have been better but the idiots including Fiona have no concept of sunken costs. Shit the fans sounded like a jet engine taking off as Intel clocked the shit out of the Itaniums trying to outdo the 1999 Alpha haha.
Intel had a roadmap and wanted to kill AMD to it's death as they didn't have a licensing agreement for the instructions. Intel had many seminars and by this time we all would be using Itaniums and using x86 only in emulation. Only Intel and HP did. IT was never high performance either. Gee moving the optimizations to software and crippling hardware lowered performance! WHo would have thought?!
How Bob that sounds great. Can you met up on the east coast today so we can close this contract and make millions before a competitor shows up?
A bus is too much too lose. Yes, that was one such crazy scenario, but in business traveling there is a reason CEO's love their corporate jets. Not just to show off but in business many things are deadline driven and very quick access can make you or break you in a complex world
That's because we're hitting multiple problems. We have heat, die size, and electrical limitations(bleed over in the substrates). It means in the end, that having multiple physical cores on one chip is the only direction that things will be going until those other problems can be solved. There's also the other issues with memory across the system bus being too slow and causing problems. HBM solves some of those issues, but it's still too cost prohibitive to use on CPU's at least right now. Where in the case of GPU's it's not.
GPU ram is different than CPU ram for a good reason. THe data is fast but narrow. CPU needs wide loads and ram optimized for that. GDDR 5 is great for a few things fast where the GPU goes massive parallel. BUt it would cripple your i7 easily which needs more bandwidth and lower latency.
Go Google AMD Zen aka Ryzen. Intel has a worthy competitor if true? It's not out yet but was demoed last week beating an Intel broadwell 8 core CPU:-)
Also I am 40. In my 20s AMD made superior x86 chips over Intel! No you did not misread that? Google slashdot pentium IV vs AthlonXP from early last decade for a laugh? The pentium IV sucked! It was hot and single core and had inferior performance over the AthlonXP. AMD also invented 64 bit computing for x86. Intel wanted the horrible Itanic proprietary Mercedes to replace x86. Intel crippled the pentium IV making it just 32 bits and trolled the virtues of lWisc or whatever funny architecture it was for servers.
Thanks AMD for saving x86 and bring us 64 bit computing to mere mortals outside of MDF rooms. Now go kick Intel's ass again?
PS I still support Intel as my virtualization stuff is tuned for their chip. In 2 years that may change with KMS and Hyper-V supporting Ryzen if they hit it big
Samsung which has a stake in global foundaries will break Intel's monopoly over expensive chip fabrication. In fact AMDs new Ryzen x86 chip is built by them and so are their.14 NM GPUs and even Nvidia's. Cell phones beat Intel as a result:-)
So monopoly ride is soon over. ARM is new king nowdays anyway
Whoa man that is soo out of date and uncool in any Silicon Valley coffee shop man.
Put Outlaw Techno Psycho itch on your laptop baby and watch the chicks and groupies sit and watch you code. Erlang is now cool and hip like what rails did to Ruby
The headline is complete bullshit. Can the author not even read? The grid was not penetrated, hacked, or comprimised. No report says it was. This is totally a fabrication from the reporters.
"We detected the malware in a single Burlington Electric Department laptop not connected to our organization’s grid systems."
So other sources say more than just a laptop and last I checked a power station is part of the grid
I gave up on Windows Phone when my 820 died. I didn't want to spend +$500 on a phone with a dead platform?! Not to mention Windows 10 is buggy and horrible on mobile and even desktop compared to 8.1.
I hate Android but love the ecosystem. Got a bloated Android phone. You know what Android reminds me of?
Android == DOS/Windows. Windows Phone == OS/2. Blackberry/Symbian == Unix. IOS === Mac classic. It's like the 1980s and 1990s again. No one likes Windows! But loved the apps and everyone had one so it became standard. OS/2 was technically superior but limited to hardware and was a Johnny come lately from a company with a bad rep:-)
Because winforms in.Net and their MFC counterparts provide a superior desktop experience over mobile phone apps on a desktop.
The whole reason for app stores and universal apps is to make the desktop ecosystem available for Windows Phone so people will buy them.... But here is the problem? There are now more apps on Android today than desktop applications on Windows:-( They lost.
What MS needs to do is focus on media creation by improving visual studio Android tools and cross platform.Net tools for iOS and Android and let Android have the consumption apps. No one uses a PC anymore for Facebook or even going to slashdot ( typing this on my Nexus 6P)
Now MS can remove their cell phones out of the start menu and desktop and bring back aero, menus, skuemirphism, and a consistent UI so we can upgrade past 7.
We all know Windows 8 and 10 bombed because MS crippled them to turn the PC into a cell phone so old people afraid of change would want a Windows phone.
Well sorry for those that said MS had to focus on mobile. It clearly failed.
Modern is out and win32 is back in hopefully very soon
Windows 7 was so awesome... Well for Windows I guess and MS threw it away.
The bsod have a silly scan code WTF and no details. On 7/XP you see something like Nvidia.dll caused X etc. Great so we know whats caused it. Win 10 a silly scan code like I have a scanner on hand and a 0xo457ef7, ox05e. No more details!
At home I have to install the bloated windows SDK just for windbg.Exe. At work I am helpless! God I hate Win 10 in many ways. Fix it
Spearfish and so called drivers that are really malware software that keep re-installing themselves through the Windows Store puts Lenovo in my DO NOT BUY list.
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I listen to Dave Ramsey who is very anti gold and find the whole concept bizaare.
Gold and bitcoins don't actually produce anything. Investing in a property give you rent as you supply a service. Investing in a company provides you income as that company provides and product or service that other people pay money for
If a few people got rich from either than it is not an investment anymore than casino chips are. Like casino chips they are for betting and speculating. The whole concept of Gold is the government can not do something stupid and it will always retain value .... well people only get rich if it fluctuates. Therefore it is a TERRIBLE currency and negates the whole purpose of bitcoin or gold over a dollar which is stable.
What a dollar doesn't do anything? No shit. It is a currency, not an investment tool.
Chrome is fast and good enough for most folks. People and site owners want functionality. AdBlock really helps with bad scripts. I use the AdBlock browser on my phone occasionally when a site has a horrible script that won't load a site
But what about those of us who build PCs and install OSes to impress ladies? I mean when they come over I always direct them to my computer. Come to think of it I haven't been laid in awhile
Put your money where your mouth is. Use Lynx? Most geeks know about it yet it isn't taking the internet over by storm. Why is that?
I am waiting for the MacBook wheel!
That light from over 6,000 years ago hit earth yet the objects are said to be 100 million light years apart?! Impossible
It has more support and no mouse lag. Nvidia for life
I'm new to Linux, and I'm confused about how the kernel relates to systemd. Is the kernel a part of systemd? If they are separate, why?
No it is not!
Read the headline. The kernel is supposed to be small?! Clearly it runs on top of the SystemD OS
Linux, on the other hand, was a buggy piece of crap... You get used to having all the bugs there and I don't know if it's just my perception, but it seems a lot of open source projects don't have nearly enough people squashing bugs. Everyone seems to want to add more features instead of fixing the bugs. I spent some time on a mac and thought I was in heaven, but my wallet wasn't. Windows 10, however... first OS they've done right in a long time.
Which is why I use FreeBSD for server oriented stuff. Many geeks on slashdot attacked Gartner several years back for attacking Linux as not ready for the server. Must be sponsored from Microsoft etc. ... but if you look closely at the criteria they asked CIO's what they wanted more. THat was big iron features and world class reliability. Solaris and HP-UX both beat Linux handily before 2005 and FreeBSD still does too with network loads and reliability.
But we can't talk about that here.
Funny Netmarketshare is showing something different for me. Not that I like WIndows 10 as the best OS ever, but just saying
Intel's Itanium was a HPC (high performance computing) architecture meant to compete with IBM's Power and Sun's SPARC. Unfortunately delays and underperformance turned the product into a joke in the chip industry. There was never a road-map or intention to eventually bring it to the desktop as a i386 replacement. AMD saw an opportunity to score a marketing victory by extending i386 to 64bit before Intel did. The main benefit of 64bit is being able to address more memory then the 4GB 32bit registers are limited to. When the Opteron (first AMD64 processor) was released in 2003 the average amount of memory shipped with desktops was just 500Mb. Despite x86-64 underwhelming performance compared to HPC architectures, its cheap price and readily availability made it popular in the Enterprise market eventually killing Intel's own Itanium, all-but killing SPARC and relegating IBM's Power to a niche player
Actually some Pentium's mysteriously had 64 bit support not too lang afterwards. Hmmm
64 bits mean more registers and better performance with extra instructions like SQL databases. It is not just memory limitations as Intel did add PAE in the pentium IV chipset.
The reason for this is simple. HP and Intel wanted ITanium to win at all costs and even crippled the superior Alpha chip and prematurely killed it. It would have been better but the idiots including Fiona have no concept of sunken costs. Shit the fans sounded like a jet engine taking off as Intel clocked the shit out of the Itaniums trying to outdo the 1999 Alpha haha.
Intel had a roadmap and wanted to kill AMD to it's death as they didn't have a licensing agreement for the instructions. Intel had many seminars and by this time we all would be using Itaniums and using x86 only in emulation. Only Intel and HP did. IT was never high performance either. Gee moving the optimizations to software and crippling hardware lowered performance! WHo would have thought?!
Take the bus? But that might be limiting.
How Bob that sounds great. Can you met up on the east coast today so we can close this contract and make millions before a competitor shows up?
A bus is too much too lose. Yes, that was one such crazy scenario, but in business traveling there is a reason CEO's love their corporate jets. Not just to show off but in business many things are deadline driven and very quick access can make you or break you in a complex world
I can assholes screwing competitors out of contracts and sales opportunities by making sure the other guy doesn't show up for the pitch.
Surprisingly I heard of crazy stuff including geeks taking down wifi hotspots when a competitor comes in for a sale on the road etc.
That's because we're hitting multiple problems. We have heat, die size, and electrical limitations(bleed over in the substrates). It means in the end, that having multiple physical cores on one chip is the only direction that things will be going until those other problems can be solved. There's also the other issues with memory across the system bus being too slow and causing problems. HBM solves some of those issues, but it's still too cost prohibitive to use on CPU's at least right now. Where in the case of GPU's it's not.
GPU ram is different than CPU ram for a good reason. THe data is fast but narrow. CPU needs wide loads and ram optimized for that. GDDR 5 is great for a few things fast where the GPU goes massive parallel. BUt it would cripple your i7 easily which needs more bandwidth and lower latency.
Go Google AMD Zen aka Ryzen. Intel has a worthy competitor if true? It's not out yet but was demoed last week beating an Intel broadwell 8 core CPU :-)
Also I am 40. In my 20s AMD made superior x86 chips over Intel! No you did not misread that? Google slashdot pentium IV vs AthlonXP from early last decade for a laugh? The pentium IV sucked! It was hot and single core and had inferior performance over the AthlonXP. AMD also invented 64 bit computing for x86. Intel wanted the horrible Itanic proprietary Mercedes to replace x86. Intel crippled the pentium IV making it just 32 bits and trolled the virtues of lWisc or whatever funny architecture it was for servers.
Thanks AMD for saving x86 and bring us 64 bit computing to mere mortals outside of MDF rooms. Now go kick Intel's ass again?
PS I still support Intel as my virtualization stuff is tuned for their chip. In 2 years that may change with KMS and Hyper-V supporting Ryzen if they hit it big
Samsung which has a stake in global foundaries will break Intel's monopoly over expensive chip fabrication. In fact AMDs new Ryzen x86 chip is built by them and so are their .14 NM GPUs and even Nvidia's. Cell phones beat Intel as a result :-)
So monopoly ride is soon over. ARM is new king nowdays anyway
It could be worse. Can you imagine a language that would require invisible white spaces as syntax to ever become popular? lol ... Oh shit wait
Whoa man that is soo out of date and uncool in any Silicon Valley coffee shop man.
Put Outlaw Techno Psycho itch on your laptop baby and watch the chicks and groupies sit and watch you code. Erlang is now cool and hip like what rails did to Ruby
The headline is complete bullshit. Can the author not even read? The grid was not penetrated, hacked, or comprimised. No report says it was. This is totally a fabrication from the reporters.
"We detected the malware in a single Burlington Electric Department laptop not connected to our organization’s grid systems."
So other sources say more than just a laptop and last I checked a power station is part of the grid
I gave up on Windows Phone when my 820 died. I didn't want to spend +$500 on a phone with a dead platform?! Not to mention Windows 10 is buggy and horrible on mobile and even desktop compared to 8.1.
I hate Android but love the ecosystem. Got a bloated Android phone. You know what Android reminds me of?
Android == DOS/Windows. Windows Phone == OS/2. Blackberry/Symbian == Unix. IOS === Mac classic. It's like the 1980s and 1990s again. No one likes Windows! But loved the apps and everyone had one so it became standard. OS/2 was technically superior but limited to hardware and was a Johnny come lately from a company with a bad rep :-)
Because winforms in .Net and their MFC counterparts provide a superior desktop experience over mobile phone apps on a desktop.
The whole reason for app stores and universal apps is to make the desktop ecosystem available for Windows Phone so people will buy them. ... But here is the problem? There are now more apps on Android today than desktop applications on Windows :-( They lost.
What MS needs to do is focus on media creation by improving visual studio Android tools and cross platform .Net tools for iOS and Android and let Android have the consumption apps. No one uses a PC anymore for Facebook or even going to slashdot ( typing this on my Nexus 6P)
Great.
Now MS can remove their cell phones out of the start menu and desktop and bring back aero, menus, skuemirphism, and a consistent UI so we can upgrade past 7.
We all know Windows 8 and 10 bombed because MS crippled them to turn the PC into a cell phone so old people afraid of change would want a Windows phone.
Well sorry for those that said MS had to focus on mobile. It clearly failed.
Modern is out and win32 is back in hopefully very soon
Windows 7 was so awesome ... Well for Windows I guess and MS threw it away.
The bsod have a silly scan code WTF and no details. On 7/XP you see something like Nvidia.dll caused X etc. Great so we know whats caused it. Win 10 a silly scan code like I have a scanner on hand and a 0xo457ef7, ox05e. No more details!
At home I have to install the bloated windows SDK just for windbg.Exe. At work I am helpless! God I hate Win 10 in many ways. Fix it
Or after hours trading
Spearfish and so called drivers that are really malware software that keep re-installing themselves through the Windows Store puts Lenovo in my DO NOT BUY list.