My two work desktops and one home desktop are all AMD FX series. All different but 4-6 cores. All are sufficient to my needs.
However, my new laptop is a core i7-4720HQ, it runs circles around the FXs. So, they are sufficient, but as good 3rd and 4th gen i5s steadily decrease in price, the price/performance ratio swings ever more in intel's favor.
I like AMD. I really do, but they are not in a good spot. I really hope the zen CPUs later this year help stem the bleeding.
While I do not keep up with every changelog, it seams that gaming and video related improvements are all the rage now for the kernel. I have to say I like this and it has been needed for some time. The kernel is here to stay in both handheld devices, embedded set top devices and now consolish and home brew steamboxen. Seeing the OS improve as it pushes into these spaces is a great development.
Welcome to Google One/VR. Over here you can listen to nothing. Over there is the circle of spam. But wait, there's more, one you have a time and or monetary investment we will shit can the project like reader.
Love or hat google, in my experience their ads rarely if ever are spammy, malware laden trash. Meaning they do a fair job of policing tier ad network. If they had a nearly 50% increase in the number of bad ads removed, it stands to reason that the other ad networks may have more (as the spammers know to use them and not Google).
This is why the use of adblockers is exploding. Annoyance is one thing. Outright fraud and malware is another. When maybe 10% or more of ads are dangerous in some way, a person that browses 50 pages in a day, each with multiple ads will be exposed at least once, if not much more often to potential junk.
These aren't just shady overseas viagra and porn sites either, it is coming from mainstream sites. My local news station's website was delivering an ad that targeted nexus users with a scam that replaced their news page.
I am just afraid we will see lot's of good content die with the ad networks.
Want to obfuscate text? Just run it through a language or 5, then back to the original language using something like google translate. No paraphrasing needed.
Tying the knot is a sacred gift ordained by God to be between a man and a woman. Not 'quantum particles' or whatever you heathens call homosexuals now.
Still for rendering tasks, a large part of the bus is needed for moving large textures in and out of memory. While I am not an expert in this field, I do not think may of the other current GPU compute tasks require this memory bandwidth, so as large a bus is not needed.
GPUs for compute tasks do not need the bandwidth that GPUs pushing videos do. Look at and old mining rig using GPUs, you get 16x to 1x cables and stack your compute GPUs.
Hopefully the sales of this will be good enough for them to push the Zen core chips this year. If they come out as expected, they could be a great chip. I have several Bulldozer based machines, and when built they were a good balance of performance for price, but no more. They are really starting to show their age. They have always been spanked by i5 and above Intels, and as new intels continue to come out, prices on one or 2 generation back intels get better and the price difference ceases to be an issue.
So, please AMD, I want to be a fan, give us a good CPU again!
It wouldn't surprise me if the app saves the plaintext somewhere on the filesystem, creates an encrypted copy for mailing, and then just does a soft delete. With SSD/Flash memory write algorithms, it could be a very long time before that gets overwritten.
Incorrect. At least with SSDs (also flash memory), you cannot overwrite an existing block, it has to be erased first. To make sure writes are speedy, the firmware normally actually clear blocks immediately or are queued for rapid deletion during idle time when a file is deleted. This is in contrast to a spinning disk where the entry in the file table is deleted but the blocks remain to be overwritten (or recovered) later.
My shop deals in Samsung ssds. Have not seen any data loss from power failure yet. However we recently saw a custom built serverr with a 1000w gold antec psu not only have PSU failure, but shunt wall voltage down the rail powering data drives. 3 of 5 drives were quite literally smoked.
Ignoring the software is unsafe. If it is like many IOT devices and contains unpatched vulnerabilities that grow over time, and hard coded backdoors, the device is still at risk and provides a foothold into the network it is attached to. If you can just choose not to connect to a network then that is fine, but how long do you think that option will stay for when they want to collect, mine and sell your viewing habits?
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However, my new laptop is a core i7-4720HQ, it runs circles around the FXs. So, they are sufficient, but as good 3rd and 4th gen i5s steadily decrease in price, the price/performance ratio swings ever more in intel's favor.
I like AMD. I really do, but they are not in a good spot. I really hope the zen CPUs later this year help stem the bleeding.
That's because a smart investigator/prosecutor uses the stingray in conjunction with parallel construction. No need to even bring it up then.
Why hello startswithsometrash, fancy seeing you using a crap argument....
Clearly you failed to actually read the article:
If it weren't for your username I'd expect you to be new here.
I would go back and top your first post, but I am out of plutonium. And this Mr. Fusion is just a scam.
Apparently flying cars are a scam too. For 40+ years now.
As long as it looks better than the semi crash seen in the 2nd Matrix. What a suspension of disbelief breaking pile of rubbish that was.
...with one large circular file.
While I do not keep up with every changelog, it seams that gaming and video related improvements are all the rage now for the kernel. I have to say I like this and it has been needed for some time. The kernel is here to stay in both handheld devices, embedded set top devices and now consolish and home brew steamboxen. Seeing the OS improve as it pushes into these spaces is a great development.
Welcome to Google One/VR. Over here you can listen to nothing. Over there is the circle of spam. But wait, there's more, one you have a time and or monetary investment we will shit can the project like reader.
This is why the use of adblockers is exploding. Annoyance is one thing. Outright fraud and malware is another. When maybe 10% or more of ads are dangerous in some way, a person that browses 50 pages in a day, each with multiple ads will be exposed at least once, if not much more often to potential junk.
These aren't just shady overseas viagra and porn sites either, it is coming from mainstream sites. My local news station's website was delivering an ad that targeted nexus users with a scam that replaced their news page.
I am just afraid we will see lot's of good content die with the ad networks.
Want to obfuscate text? Just run it through a language or 5, then back to the original language using something like google translate. No paraphrasing needed.
This kids is why you actually learn Klingon instead of using Bing translate.
Tying the knot is a sacred gift ordained by God to be between a man and a woman. Not 'quantum particles' or whatever you heathens call homosexuals now.
qatlh Hol chenmoH, chonayta' chenmoHta' neHqu'.
Which major enterprise is using Linux on the desktop is I may ask?
Canonical maybe?
Because the marks left by hunting differ from butchering.
Still for rendering tasks, a large part of the bus is needed for moving large textures in and out of memory. While I am not an expert in this field, I do not think may of the other current GPU compute tasks require this memory bandwidth, so as large a bus is not needed.
GPUs for compute tasks do not need the bandwidth that GPUs pushing videos do. Look at and old mining rig using GPUs, you get 16x to 1x cables and stack your compute GPUs.
So, please AMD, I want to be a fan, give us a good CPU again!
It wouldn't surprise me if the app saves the plaintext somewhere on the filesystem, creates an encrypted copy for mailing, and then just does a soft delete. With SSD/Flash memory write algorithms, it could be a very long time before that gets overwritten.
Incorrect. At least with SSDs (also flash memory), you cannot overwrite an existing block, it has to be erased first. To make sure writes are speedy, the firmware normally actually clear blocks immediately or are queued for rapid deletion during idle time when a file is deleted. This is in contrast to a spinning disk where the entry in the file table is deleted but the blocks remain to be overwritten (or recovered) later.
See: http://www.forensicmag.com/art...
My shop deals in Samsung ssds. Have not seen any data loss from power failure yet. However we recently saw a custom built serverr with a 1000w gold antec psu not only have PSU failure, but shunt wall voltage down the rail powering data drives. 3 of 5 drives were quite literally smoked.
Then why are you on slashdot?
This behavior will stop.. this is our internet.
Ignoring the software is unsafe. If it is like many IOT devices and contains unpatched vulnerabilities that grow over time, and hard coded backdoors, the device is still at risk and provides a foothold into the network it is attached to. If you can just choose not to connect to a network then that is fine, but how long do you think that option will stay for when they want to collect, mine and sell your viewing habits?
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Oh and hats, we should have hats....