ESpically now that people are going for compressed music on portables, there's just no compelling reason to upgrade.
Compressed music on portables is a most regrettable trend. With typical compression levels quality is horrible, worse than even good cassettes from a bygone era. If you are used to listening to a good (and I don't mean 'hi-end') stereo system it is very hard to stomach this stuff, and it is pretty easy to tell the difference between a typical CD and a good SACD or DVD-Audio recording. It reminds me of the days when popular music was mixed and compressed to be played back via AM radio on a cheesy car speaker:-P. The studios even used to set up a car speaker in their mixing environments. There was a time when the CD was the standard, and people used to listen to CDs on portable players and get some kind of reasonable fidelity in a portable format. But the compressed formats have superceded that much to the anguish of anyone who is used to listening to music at higher fidelity levels.
Some day people will look back at the iPod era and wonder why this regression in sound reproduction. They will also regret all the money they spent on compressed download music - which will not be tolerable on better quality hardware.
I am sure that as time goes on DVD will be replaced by something better. BUT consumers will profoundly ignore anything that is engaged in a format war!
It took many years for DVD catalogs to reach their current levels, and there are a number of titles that are still not available in DVD format. Plus a good DVD player looks pretty decent on a HDTV. So there isn't a huge incentive for customers to buy any new HD format. With all this there is little or no incentive for consumers to buy into a new technology - especially if it comes with a price premium.
There is a good chance that a format war will delay the acceptance of HD resolution disks for years. It might even fatally wound the the new formats - like it did with SACD and DVD-AUDIO.
In the meantime people like me are using Netfix instead of buying DVD's - why own something that will eventually become obsolete anyway.
Windows maintains the region change count information, and the region can be set only once.
So this is actually worse than with RPC2 drives where the code can be reset 5 times. My guess this code retention mechanism will be hacked fairly quicky.
Until recently, all humans had been eating 100% organic for many thousands of years, thank you very much.
Until recently the population of the Earth was a few million. Modern agricultural techniques (aka green revolution) were developed as a response to the need to feed populations in the billions. GM will be needed to feed populations in the 8+ billion range.
The dandelion os not native to North America - it was imported from Europe by the Pilgrims who thought of it as useful crop.
Natural selection and transmission of resistance really have nothing to do with GM crops - it is go to happen anyway, whether or not the crop is modified. And of course GM modification for herbicide resistance is only one of the ways that modification is used. GM modification can be used to add new nutritional value or other charactericts as well.
So in reality this article is just a stupid troll, which I guess shouldn't be that surprising given what goes for science reporting in this daya and age.
While crafting a good and sneaky troll it should be kept in mind that the easiest way to screw it up is hugely exaggerating the obvious. I regularly purchase organic food and while I will admint that it is more expensive than the factory made crud, is certainly not 400% more expensive.
One thing that is never discussed and should be is the environmental impact and quality of organically grown food. This stuff has much lower yeild per acre meaning you have to put a lot more land in cultivation (ie cut down forests). Not only this, but the cleanliness of the havested crop is a lot lower due to attack by insects, allowing invasion by fungi and thus contamination by alfatoxins. Not only this, but plants under stress produce their own internal response, phenolic toxins which while never studied in depth would have to be considered undesirable at best. If everybody converted to organic foods the enviromental impact would be horrific, and hundreds of millions of people would die of starvation.
If you can find the software you want I'd suggest you stay with the iSeries. Going to Windows makes you subject to all the problems of a commodity piece of hardware and Microsoft's strange ideas of what makes a good server. The iSeries on the other hand has it's roots in a mainframe world where the hardware and OS all come from the same vendor. The result is a far far more stable system.
There are stories about AS/400s running in offices where an IBM service rep shows up and nobody in the office knows where the machine is - the last person who touched the hardware retired years ago... or even that the machine had been plastered into a closet when the office had been remodeled. These things are designed to run for years continuously without being babied or rebooted. It will make your life much easier.
So what is it going to be in future products? Core Quadro and Core Octo? LOL.
And the seem to be trying to assert trademarks on the words Core and inside? What's that about?
And the Celeron D? I thought that was supposed to be the Deceleron.
Not to mention there are what now something like 5 different laptop CPUs, ten different desktop CPUs, and of course various server CPUslike the Itanic and Itanium and whatever.
I bet their manufacturing and R&D departments are going bonkers, and consumers? How are they going to know what the right thing to buy is?
AMD has it right - Athlon, Sempron, Turion, Opteron. That's all you need - 4 market segments, four names.
No wonder they have been taking market share from Chipzilla.
If you get free electricity and don't mind a lot of fan noise it is great.
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I've had some pretty good luck playing some fairly well scratched up DVDs from Netflix using my 3540. The same DVDs didn't play or skipped in a couple of other players.
More broadly one needs to realize that most of what we accept as truth (and all of science) is actually a set of conclusions reached by inductive logic. Since induction falls apart as soon as a counter example is presented, we are unfortunately subject to attacks by people who propose alternative theories (the world was created complete with fossil record by some deity half an hour ago).
Contextual truth has turned out to be useful in certain fields - mathematics for example is a set of rules which allows you to determine if something is true based on deductive reasoning. Even that is limited however since Goedel showed any formally consistent system contains undecidable questions.
Because of this there has to be a set of principles that can be used to choose between competing inductively based theories. We choose to name one set of such principles science. Another set is called religion. Now the big problem is when you start mixing the two. Then you have corrupted your meme basis and the usefulness of the underlying set of principles is dimished if not destroyed.
This is why religion must not be taught in science class. And yes, ID is most defintely religion.
There is no such thing as scientific law or proven fact in a scientifc context. Science doesn't work that way.
Radiation is naturally occuring and who's to say that god didn't cause the radiation to increase at the right time in the development of say a tadpole to change it to a lizard (or whatever).
Why bother - just create the lizard, and the fossil record too while you are at it POOF!. There is no way to tell what happened, so obviously evolution theroy doesn't mean anything.
The problem - if you are going to accept the existance of an actively interfereing all-powerful diety than absoultely anything is possible. For all we know the universe and all its contents is created one millisecond to the next by this diety, and there is no future or past and there no way of determining if this is going on. Done, finisned. Well, guess what. This is not useful in any way - it doesn't lead to stuff like genetic biology, the understanding of evolution of diseases and medical treatments based on that knowledge. It is utterly stupid. You can have it, I'll take a different approach.
I do not understand why the Intelligent Design theory is being dismissed as the Chrisitian right's agenda only.
Read the court decision in the recent PA trial. This was investigated in court and it was found that "Intelligent Design" is just weasel words for creationism established in order to try an end run around existing court decisions regarding the teaching of creationism in schools. In fact the judge stated that some of the witnesses who tried to claim otherwise probably commited perjury.
What is sad now is that Dover PA has to pay legal costs for this farce. This is going to hurt the education of the children in this small town for years to come. These idiots should be run out of town on a rail.
There is no way to judge what is truth is this context. Talking about truth here is a waste of time and is fuzzy thinking. It is not decidable.
Science gives you the answer that evolution is a principle that you use until something better comes along, 'better' being defined by a set of philisophical principles we call the scientific method. It is the same thing as any other scientific theory. If people stop investigating alternatives it's because they think there are better things to work on, not because there is a big red sign 'TRUTH' on the front of the evolution book. That is very different than in the case of a faith based belief where somebody just says THIS IS THE TRUTH, END OF DISCUSSION.
Intelligent design is a faith based belief that some people accept. A faith based belief is not science - and there is no way to test whether or not it is truth in any way other than somebody believes it to be so. So long as you don't try to say intelligent design is science, and teach children that it is acceptable as a scientific alternative in public schools you can believe it or not according to your particular view and that is fine by me. Personally I have found science to work better but that is just me.
Also, your examples are very bad. The Greeks (from the time of Pliny the Elder) knew enough geometry to realize the Earth was round and actually computed its circumferance. Flat Earth Theory was actually based on Christian religious dogma, a faith-based belief based on some Biblical interpetations of how the Earth had to be shaped. Nobody with any training in mathematics believed it. As far as molecules being the smallest unit of matter, again that was never the case. The definition of molecule includes that it composed of two or more atoms.
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ESpically now that people are going for compressed music on portables, there's just no compelling reason to upgrade.
:-P. The studios even used to set up a car speaker in their mixing environments. There was a time when the CD was the standard, and people used to listen to CDs on portable players and get some kind of reasonable fidelity in a portable format. But the compressed formats have superceded that much to the anguish of anyone who is used to listening to music at higher fidelity levels.
Compressed music on portables is a most regrettable trend. With typical compression levels quality is horrible, worse than even good cassettes from a bygone era. If you are used to listening to a good (and I don't mean 'hi-end') stereo system it is very hard to stomach this stuff, and it is pretty easy to tell the difference between a typical CD and a good SACD or DVD-Audio recording. It reminds me of the days when popular music was mixed and compressed to be played back via AM radio on a cheesy car speaker
Some day people will look back at the iPod era and wonder why this regression in sound reproduction. They will also regret all the money they spent on compressed download music - which will not be tolerable on better quality hardware.
I am sure that as time goes on DVD will be replaced by something better. BUT consumers will profoundly ignore anything that is engaged in a format war!
It took many years for DVD catalogs to reach their current levels, and there are a number of titles that are still not available in DVD format. Plus a good DVD player looks pretty decent on a HDTV. So there isn't a huge incentive for customers to buy any new HD format. With all this there is little or no incentive for consumers to buy into a new technology - especially if it comes with a price premium.
There is a good chance that a format war will delay the acceptance of HD resolution disks for years. It might even fatally wound the the new formats - like it did with SACD and DVD-AUDIO.
In the meantime people like me are using Netfix instead of buying DVD's - why own something that will eventually become obsolete anyway.
This is too dorky for even a geek.
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Debugging is 10x harder than programming, so if you write code at the edge of your abilities there is no way in hell you will be able to debug it.
Then Vista won't run, you won't be able to connect to the Internet*, etc.
This isn't part of Vista as demonstrated today, and most motherboards being sold right now don't include a TPM.
And if I don't turn on the the TPM or use a motherboard without a TPM?
Gotta love those long weekends!
Windows maintains the region change count information, and the region can be set only once.
So this is actually worse than with RPC2 drives where the code can be reset 5 times. My guess this code retention mechanism will be hacked fairly quicky.
I've always wondered how much the interaction with Latin America has to do with this. Some countries like Mexico have higher murder rates than the US.
Look up Norman Borlaug.
Until recently, all humans had been eating 100% organic for many thousands of years, thank you very much.
Until recently the population of the Earth was a few million. Modern agricultural techniques (aka green revolution) were developed as a response to the need to feed populations in the billions. GM will be needed to feed populations in the 8+ billion range.
The dandelion os not native to North America - it was imported from Europe by the Pilgrims who thought of it as useful crop.
Natural selection and transmission of resistance really have nothing to do with GM crops - it is go to happen anyway, whether or not the crop is modified. And of course GM modification for herbicide resistance is only one of the ways that modification is used. GM modification can be used to add new nutritional value or other charactericts as well.
So in reality this article is just a stupid troll, which I guess shouldn't be that surprising given what goes for science reporting in this daya and age.
While crafting a good and sneaky troll it should be kept in mind that the easiest way to screw it up is hugely exaggerating the obvious. I regularly purchase organic food and while I will admint that it is more expensive than the factory made crud, is certainly not 400% more expensive.
One thing that is never discussed and should be is the environmental impact and quality of organically grown food. This stuff has much lower yeild per acre meaning you have to put a lot more land in cultivation (ie cut down forests). Not only this, but the cleanliness of the havested crop is a lot lower due to attack by insects, allowing invasion by fungi and thus contamination by alfatoxins. Not only this, but plants under stress produce their own internal response, phenolic toxins which while never studied in depth would have to be considered undesirable at best. If everybody converted to organic foods the enviromental impact would be horrific, and hundreds of millions of people would die of starvation.
If you can find the software you want I'd suggest you stay with the iSeries. Going to Windows makes you subject to all the problems of a commodity piece of hardware and Microsoft's strange ideas of what makes a good server. The iSeries on the other hand has it's roots in a mainframe world where the hardware and OS all come from the same vendor. The result is a far far more stable system.
There are stories about AS/400s running in offices where an IBM service rep shows up and nobody in the office knows where the machine is - the last person who touched the hardware retired years ago... or even that the machine had been plastered into a closet when the office had been remodeled. These things are designed to run for years continuously without being babied or rebooted. It will make your life much easier.
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I think you are missing the point that Intel is changing the microarchitecture.
THey are shrinking the feature size. All the architecture problems (FSB, 2 cores = 2 dies, etc.) are still there.
That page is 5 years old. I doubt if it is accurate.
Intel Core Solo
Intel had better be ready for a trademark lawsuit - Lucasfilm isn't going to like people using their Solo trademark.
Intel Core Solo and Intel Core Duo
So what is it going to be in future products? Core Quadro and Core Octo? LOL.
And the seem to be trying to assert trademarks on the words Core and inside? What's that about?
And the Celeron D? I thought that was supposed to be the Deceleron.
Not to mention there are what now something like 5 different laptop CPUs, ten different desktop CPUs, and of course various server CPUslike the Itanic and Itanium and whatever.
I bet their manufacturing and R&D departments are going bonkers, and consumers? How are they going to know what the right thing to buy is?
AMD has it right - Athlon, Sempron, Turion, Opteron. That's all you need - 4 market segments, four names.
No wonder they have been taking market share from Chipzilla.
If you get free electricity and don't mind a lot of fan noise it is great.
I've had some pretty good luck playing some fairly well scratched up DVDs from Netflix using my 3540. The same DVDs didn't play or skipped in a couple of other players.
More broadly one needs to realize that most of what we accept as truth (and all of science) is actually a set of conclusions reached by inductive logic. Since induction falls apart as soon as a counter example is presented, we are unfortunately subject to attacks by people who propose alternative theories (the world was created complete with fossil record by some deity half an hour ago).
Contextual truth has turned out to be useful in certain fields - mathematics for example is a set of rules which allows you to determine if something is true based on deductive reasoning. Even that is limited however since Goedel showed any formally consistent system contains undecidable questions.
Because of this there has to be a set of principles that can be used to choose between competing inductively based theories. We choose to name one set of such principles science. Another set is called religion. Now the big problem is when you start mixing the two. Then you have corrupted your meme basis and the usefulness of the underlying set of principles is dimished if not destroyed.
This is why religion must not be taught in science class. And yes, ID is most defintely religion.
If you accept evolution as a scientific law
There is no such thing as scientific law or proven fact in a scientifc context. Science doesn't work that way.
Radiation is naturally occuring and who's to say that god didn't cause the radiation to increase at the right time in the development of say a tadpole to change it to a lizard (or whatever).
Why bother - just create the lizard, and the fossil record too while you are at it POOF!. There is no way to tell what happened, so obviously evolution theroy doesn't mean anything.
The problem - if you are going to accept the existance of an actively interfereing all-powerful diety than absoultely anything is possible. For all we know the universe and all its contents is created one millisecond to the next by this diety, and there is no future or past and there no way of determining if this is going on. Done, finisned. Well, guess what. This is not useful in any way - it doesn't lead to stuff like genetic biology, the understanding of evolution of diseases and medical treatments based on that knowledge. It is utterly stupid. You can have it, I'll take a different approach.
I do not understand why the Intelligent Design theory is being dismissed as the Chrisitian right's agenda only.
Read the court decision in the recent PA trial. This was investigated in court and it was found that "Intelligent Design" is just weasel words for creationism established in order to try an end run around existing court decisions regarding the teaching of creationism in schools. In fact the judge stated that some of the witnesses who tried to claim otherwise probably commited perjury.
What is sad now is that Dover PA has to pay legal costs for this farce. This is going to hurt the education of the children in this small town for years to come. These idiots should be run out of town on a rail.
Being a better theory does not make it true.
There is no way to judge what is truth is this context. Talking about truth here is a waste of time and is fuzzy thinking. It is not decidable.
Science gives you the answer that evolution is a principle that you use until something better comes along, 'better' being defined by a set of philisophical principles we call the scientific method. It is the same thing as any other scientific theory. If people stop investigating alternatives it's because they think there are better things to work on, not because there is a big red sign 'TRUTH' on the front of the evolution book. That is very different than in the case of a faith based belief where somebody just says THIS IS THE TRUTH, END OF DISCUSSION.
Intelligent design is a faith based belief that some people accept. A faith based belief is not science - and there is no way to test whether or not it is truth in any way other than somebody believes it to be so. So long as you don't try to say intelligent design is science, and teach children that it is acceptable as a scientific alternative in public schools you can believe it or not according to your particular view and that is fine by me. Personally I have found science to work better but that is just me.
Also, your examples are very bad. The Greeks (from the time of Pliny the Elder) knew enough geometry to realize the Earth was round and actually computed its circumferance. Flat Earth Theory was actually based on Christian religious dogma, a faith-based belief based on some Biblical interpetations of how the Earth had to be shaped. Nobody with any training in mathematics believed it. As far as molecules being the smallest unit of matter, again that was never the case. The definition of molecule includes that it composed of two or more atoms.