Yeah...printed guns. Such danger. I have a 200 round gas-powered rifle that breaks the sound barrier and has no serial number and it's legal in all 50 states. It fires at 1400FPs and breaks the sound barrier on the way out. It can fire sleeved and tracer rounds...still legal btw. Under $200 too if I'm not mistaken. Semi auto too. 100% off the shelf, unmodified too. Still legal.
I'm from Wisconsin. It was 3 today. Yeah, 3F. I didn't bother to put my 2nd glove on for a run between buildings in the snow in 20 MPH winds because I was eating a donut. I would, I guess, consider that location "cold." We played airsoft one time in -11 real and -28 wind chill temps and it was only a little chilly. I have a feeling Packer fans could still go shirtless in this "coldest location" as long as they had soup or cappuccino in a thermos.
Well I would think you'd get Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen or whatever since it's a hydrocarbon chain but building chains of oil type chemicals is the hard part.
Taking something sensitive and replacing it with something newer but even more sensitive is kinda dumb. Copper has temperature problems but if you simply bend a fiber optic cable too hard, it breaks. I'd say copper wins there. Fiber is thinner and lighter and thus not quite as tough as solid metal too. A squirrel has been known to take down an entire fiber network when a full sized beaver probably couldn't get through a coaxial cable. A moderately sharp butter knife can sever some fiber optic cables and yet you can accidentally run a jigsaw blade into a coaxial cable in a wall and it will likely remain functional. Fiber just isn't good enough to merit replacing copper. Then there's the age-old mother of all reasons which is the repair difficulty and cost of a fiber cable break vs a copper cable break.
"Among those apologists was the EVP of the Association of American Universities, whose press briefing Tuesday took the stance that patents are good for research."
Holy crap I don't even know where to start with that one. First of all, I remember when universities were for teaching. They seem to be under the impression that they're product manufacturers or R&D branches of some non-existent company. I wonder if they have a sign outside the door to the labs at these universities that say "forget teaching students, we need money! Welcome to the R&D Dept."
Oh and here's an idea. If you're doing research and want the final product or some related technology protected, don't let anyone know about it. In other words, don't file a patent. WD40 is not patented. The reason the company stated for that is so it's harder to reverse engineer the formula because if it had a patent, the recipe be out there for everyone to see. Nobody has, to this day, ever successfully figured out how to make a knock off of WD40.
Now the article states that this reduces the ability for 2 different universities to coordinate for fear of ripping the ideas off from each other. How about they either have professors teach students things like for example if they were some sort of university OR they become secret-protecting, profit-driven R&D company that only cares about making a profit off newly developed products. Just pick either one or the other and go with it instead of pretending to be both. Patents + universities don't mix because universities are acting like regular companies when they're not. THAT is the part that doesn't work, not the patent laws themselves.
There's no such thing as DDOS + hiding your tracks. All known proxy and relaying methods are too slow or have safeguards or can be traced back to you anyway.
That's what we need. A multi-thousand KWh device charging at pathetically low efficiency as a gimmick because people are too lazy to touch a cable to a socket. I'm going to take a wild guess that the entire neighborhood better not be using wifi or cell phones either because that level of EM can't possibly fail to affect things.
What is your way of measuring speed that's superior than the rest of the internet then? The FX6300 ties or beats it in every other category and test style imaginable as well.
You're also forgetting that processors are practically a non-issue these days. If you had an i7 system with a 1TB drive and an Athlon X2 AM3 Regor 260 system with an SSD, the AMD system would feel faster doing just about anything realistic like web browsing and opening software. Intel fanboys are just buying high performance chips that are above anything AMD can made for bragging rights and shiny number. In reality, they just built an unbalanced system with too fast of a CPU.
I don't care about principle or theory. They can have 12 cores for all I care. You know why HP has 30+% of the market? Because they're the cheapest because they undercut everyone. That's what consumers buy. If AMD can get X performance for Y price and Intel can't beat them, that's who everyone will buy.
Plus, the i5 is a quad core. The FX6300 gets a passmark rating of around 6400. The i5-3450 gets around 6450 so they're basically the same speed.
The FX is $119 and the i5 is $190.
The FX has a max TDP of 95W and the i5 is 77W and their minimum power states are almost identical.
AMD has a price per performance passmark ratio of 55.63 and Intel's is 12.36. 55.63 beats every Intel chip in existence as well.
There is very little reason to choose the i5 in this match up.
You're missing three important factors. One is that both brands downclock significantly when not in use so they're a lot closer in real world usage than you think on power consumption. Maximum TDP is just that, a maximum. That's why not many servers have AMD chips but as for desktops running normal tasks like web browsing, the CPU is reduced to a lower power state over 90% of the time.
Secondly, if it's not a laptop not many people really care. DVRs sort of make sense because of the actual heat though.
Third, to get a passmark performance rating of say 900, Intel can't do it. They need to add a dedicated GPU that puts the total TDP between the two at above an AMD solution. So AMD is actually more power efficient as a whole solution in some cases. If you want to use your DVR for moderate gaming as well, AMD will output higher performance with less heat.
The current Richland APUs have a native memory controller that runs at 1866MHz so if you put in 9-10-9 RAM of that speed and overclock it a hair, you get graphics performance that ranks at a 6.9-7.0 in the WEI in Win7. REmember, you have to jack up the memory speed since the GPU inside the CPU is using system memory instead of GDDR5. That rating is medium speed for games. So that's around $139 for the top of the line chip and $75 for the RAM.
Now let's look at Intel's solution for a basic gaming or HD video playback style computer. Oh crap, that's still slightly inferior at a modern i3 but whatever, let's go with that for about $140. 1600MHz RAM would be about $60 (both 8GB btw) and now we need an Nvidia GT640 to come close in performance. There goes $80. Intel just got demolished. Anyone building a basic gaming PC for a kid or something or a DVR PC, that's a no brainer. (remember, video encoding + hyperthreading = bad idea).
But wait, there's more! Their 6-core non-APU chip blows away an i3 and some of their i5 processors while costing almost half. So I'd even put one into a high end gaming system with a dedicated graphics card. I really wouldn't go with Intel for anything other than multiple single-core-only processes. Why is anyone still buying Intel?
Asian countries are known for lying about their test scores and faking them to make themselves look better. There are a couple others in there like Turkey that are infamous for doing the same. I don't believe one single word of this entire report.
In other words, you can buy a windows PC then put Linux on it. Unfortunately, it was still designed for Windows so it still won't work 100% as well. The hardware is simply different. Women's brains are wired to be able to jump around from thought to thought and make rapid connections. Men's brains are more suited to focus on one task at a time and sort of put it in a box then move around as a whole. That means men are generally advantageous at focusing deeply on one thing like an unbelievably complex math problem that should probably be done on a calculator instead and women are better are solving abstract riddles and puzzles and mysterious because of their ability to make rapid connections between related thoughts. I know some women that suck at that sort of thing and men that are terrible at focusing on one thing so yeah, other things can change it. But that's what the "hardware" was designed to do regardless of the end result.
In my state and most others, you cannot rent a vehicle that is more than 3 model years old. Because of this and the price they get, any rental agency always has any car for sale at any time. They could sell it on day one and make a profit without ever renting it.
We had a company down the street do our 2 new server builds and setup and conversion and it was 1/4th the cost of a huge one further down the street which was like 1/2 what Cisco wanted. It was about 95% correct so that's pretty good actually. At my other job, I run a computer repair place that also does custom builds and for 20 PCs for a new business branch or something, I give 10 year useable life rated PCs for lower than Dell's prices and nobody can even touch my installation onsite labor charges. That's because I don't have any employees:-P
We were wondering if he was Satoshi...2-3 years ago on the bitcoin forums. It's so comical how the rest of the web is playing catch up and pretending like these are new discoveries.
One uses an indillinx controller and the other uses sandforce so no. Also, "return rate" is just idiots not flashing them. Actual, legitimate failures is impossible to track without mixing dumb people in with it.,
Another mostly one-sided scare story. At least they mentioned that everyone everywhere knows if you use an online wallet service, you'll lose your coins. Stupid people lose any form of currency every day. Bitcoins aren't immune.
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Yeah...printed guns. Such danger. I have a 200 round gas-powered rifle that breaks the sound barrier and has no serial number and it's legal in all 50 states. It fires at 1400FPs and breaks the sound barrier on the way out. It can fire sleeved and tracer rounds...still legal btw. Under $200 too if I'm not mistaken. Semi auto too. 100% off the shelf, unmodified too. Still legal.
I'm from Wisconsin. It was 3 today. Yeah, 3F. I didn't bother to put my 2nd glove on for a run between buildings in the snow in 20 MPH winds because I was eating a donut. I would, I guess, consider that location "cold." We played airsoft one time in -11 real and -28 wind chill temps and it was only a little chilly. I have a feeling Packer fans could still go shirtless in this "coldest location" as long as they had soup or cappuccino in a thermos.
There's a typo in the summary. It's supposed to say Intel isn't making chips cheaper anymore.
Well I would think you'd get Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxygen or whatever since it's a hydrocarbon chain but building chains of oil type chemicals is the hard part.
Taking something sensitive and replacing it with something newer but even more sensitive is kinda dumb. Copper has temperature problems but if you simply bend a fiber optic cable too hard, it breaks. I'd say copper wins there. Fiber is thinner and lighter and thus not quite as tough as solid metal too. A squirrel has been known to take down an entire fiber network when a full sized beaver probably couldn't get through a coaxial cable. A moderately sharp butter knife can sever some fiber optic cables and yet you can accidentally run a jigsaw blade into a coaxial cable in a wall and it will likely remain functional. Fiber just isn't good enough to merit replacing copper. Then there's the age-old mother of all reasons which is the repair difficulty and cost of a fiber cable break vs a copper cable break.
"Among those apologists was the EVP of the Association of American Universities, whose press briefing Tuesday took the stance that patents are good for research."
Holy crap I don't even know where to start with that one. First of all, I remember when universities were for teaching. They seem to be under the impression that they're product manufacturers or R&D branches of some non-existent company. I wonder if they have a sign outside the door to the labs at these universities that say "forget teaching students, we need money! Welcome to the R&D Dept."
Oh and here's an idea. If you're doing research and want the final product or some related technology protected, don't let anyone know about it. In other words, don't file a patent. WD40 is not patented. The reason the company stated for that is so it's harder to reverse engineer the formula because if it had a patent, the recipe be out there for everyone to see. Nobody has, to this day, ever successfully figured out how to make a knock off of WD40.
Now the article states that this reduces the ability for 2 different universities to coordinate for fear of ripping the ideas off from each other. How about they either have professors teach students things like for example if they were some sort of university OR they become secret-protecting, profit-driven R&D company that only cares about making a profit off newly developed products. Just pick either one or the other and go with it instead of pretending to be both. Patents + universities don't mix because universities are acting like regular companies when they're not. THAT is the part that doesn't work, not the patent laws themselves.
There's no such thing as DDOS + hiding your tracks. All known proxy and relaying methods are too slow or have safeguards or can be traced back to you anyway.
That's what we need. A multi-thousand KWh device charging at pathetically low efficiency as a gimmick because people are too lazy to touch a cable to a socket. I'm going to take a wild guess that the entire neighborhood better not be using wifi or cell phones either because that level of EM can't possibly fail to affect things.
Copper can carry gigabit or higher and nobody has fiber optic cabling in their house's walls. So yeah, do that, obviously.
What is your way of measuring speed that's superior than the rest of the internet then? The FX6300 ties or beats it in every other category and test style imaginable as well.
You're also forgetting that processors are practically a non-issue these days. If you had an i7 system with a 1TB drive and an Athlon X2 AM3 Regor 260 system with an SSD, the AMD system would feel faster doing just about anything realistic like web browsing and opening software. Intel fanboys are just buying high performance chips that are above anything AMD can made for bragging rights and shiny number. In reality, they just built an unbalanced system with too fast of a CPU.
I don't care about principle or theory. They can have 12 cores for all I care. You know why HP has 30+% of the market? Because they're the cheapest because they undercut everyone. That's what consumers buy. If AMD can get X performance for Y price and Intel can't beat them, that's who everyone will buy.
Plus, the i5 is a quad core. The FX6300 gets a passmark rating of around 6400. The i5-3450 gets around 6450 so they're basically the same speed.
The FX is $119 and the i5 is $190.
The FX has a max TDP of 95W and the i5 is 77W and their minimum power states are almost identical.
AMD has a price per performance passmark ratio of 55.63 and Intel's is 12.36. 55.63 beats every Intel chip in existence as well.
There is very little reason to choose the i5 in this match up.
You're missing three important factors. One is that both brands downclock significantly when not in use so they're a lot closer in real world usage than you think on power consumption. Maximum TDP is just that, a maximum. That's why not many servers have AMD chips but as for desktops running normal tasks like web browsing, the CPU is reduced to a lower power state over 90% of the time.
Secondly, if it's not a laptop not many people really care. DVRs sort of make sense because of the actual heat though.
Third, to get a passmark performance rating of say 900, Intel can't do it. They need to add a dedicated GPU that puts the total TDP between the two at above an AMD solution. So AMD is actually more power efficient as a whole solution in some cases. If you want to use your DVR for moderate gaming as well, AMD will output higher performance with less heat.
The current Richland APUs have a native memory controller that runs at 1866MHz so if you put in 9-10-9 RAM of that speed and overclock it a hair, you get graphics performance that ranks at a 6.9-7.0 in the WEI in Win7. REmember, you have to jack up the memory speed since the GPU inside the CPU is using system memory instead of GDDR5. That rating is medium speed for games. So that's around $139 for the top of the line chip and $75 for the RAM.
Now let's look at Intel's solution for a basic gaming or HD video playback style computer. Oh crap, that's still slightly inferior at a modern i3 but whatever, let's go with that for about $140. 1600MHz RAM would be about $60 (both 8GB btw) and now we need an Nvidia GT640 to come close in performance. There goes $80. Intel just got demolished. Anyone building a basic gaming PC for a kid or something or a DVR PC, that's a no brainer. (remember, video encoding + hyperthreading = bad idea).
But wait, there's more! Their 6-core non-APU chip blows away an i3 and some of their i5 processors while costing almost half. So I'd even put one into a high end gaming system with a dedicated graphics card. I really wouldn't go with Intel for anything other than multiple single-core-only processes. Why is anyone still buying Intel?
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Asian countries are known for lying about their test scores and faking them to make themselves look better. There are a couple others in there like Turkey that are infamous for doing the same. I don't believe one single word of this entire report.
In other words, you can buy a windows PC then put Linux on it. Unfortunately, it was still designed for Windows so it still won't work 100% as well. The hardware is simply different. Women's brains are wired to be able to jump around from thought to thought and make rapid connections. Men's brains are more suited to focus on one task at a time and sort of put it in a box then move around as a whole. That means men are generally advantageous at focusing deeply on one thing like an unbelievably complex math problem that should probably be done on a calculator instead and women are better are solving abstract riddles and puzzles and mysterious because of their ability to make rapid connections between related thoughts. I know some women that suck at that sort of thing and men that are terrible at focusing on one thing so yeah, other things can change it. But that's what the "hardware" was designed to do regardless of the end result.
Sorry to burst your pretend bubble but: do they have an X and Y chromosome or not? The end.
In my state and most others, you cannot rent a vehicle that is more than 3 model years old. Because of this and the price they get, any rental agency always has any car for sale at any time. They could sell it on day one and make a profit without ever renting it.
We had a company down the street do our 2 new server builds and setup and conversion and it was 1/4th the cost of a huge one further down the street which was like 1/2 what Cisco wanted. It was about 95% correct so that's pretty good actually. At my other job, I run a computer repair place that also does custom builds and for 20 PCs for a new business branch or something, I give 10 year useable life rated PCs for lower than Dell's prices and nobody can even touch my installation onsite labor charges. That's because I don't have any employees :-P
Ford and some others sell thousands of cars directly to nationwide car rental companies in the US by the way, just in case you didn't know that.
We were wondering if he was Satoshi...2-3 years ago on the bitcoin forums. It's so comical how the rest of the web is playing catch up and pretending like these are new discoveries.
Welcome to Oracle! This is not news. In fact, welcome to Oracle, IBM, SAP, and Dell. Am I forgetting anyone?
One uses an indillinx controller and the other uses sandforce so no. Also, "return rate" is just idiots not flashing them. Actual, legitimate failures is impossible to track without mixing dumb people in with it.,
Yeeeeah...they stole all our technology for rockets and everything related to space. I wouldn't consider that catching up.
Another mostly one-sided scare story. At least they mentioned that everyone everywhere knows if you use an online wallet service, you'll lose your coins. Stupid people lose any form of currency every day. Bitcoins aren't immune.