If this turns out the way it seems from an optimistic reading of the/. post, I think there's absolutely no reason not to recommend an ATI display card anymore. (Well, except for Intel's or VIA's integrated graphics in a non-gaming desk- or laptop.)
Perhaps they aren't as much stupid as they are, well, old. When they were young, teens and twentysomethings, and formed their view of the world, mass communication was done in a fundamentally producer-consumer fashion with radio, television and newspaper. Now there's this new thing, the Intartubes. They see it, they've heard of it.
But they don't really get it. They think it's just another unidirectional mass communication device. Therefore when they hear that "bomb-making instructions are published on the internets!", their first reaction is to do as they would if what they heard had been about traditional mass media: to try and pass a law forbidding said media from passing certain kinds of information. Conveniently forgetting that bomb-making instructions have been available in e.g. universities and libraries for who knows how long.
Old farts they are, and as such will not be able to shackle the intarbutts without the aid of young "in the know" people. Sadly, as the Internet filtering in Saudi-Arabia (put in place by F-Secure, of Finland) shows, money can buy the right kind of people for any kind of task eventually.
Report the facts of the matter to his office. Printed letter form is usually best. Attach your contact info. Notify the shop that you've registered a complaint with the ombudsman's office and/or local trading standards whatchamacallit.
Sometimes the fear of getting a bad rep will set them straight. Other times, they'll decide to tough it out. In any case you're likely to end up having to pay for repairs yourself, even if you're right.
AMD's had I/O performance and memory latency advantages on Intel even before Barcelona though. I suppose Intel will be in even more serious trouble than before in the server space, until it can get its next-generation bus thingy (CSI they called it?) up and running in a year or three. Until then, Intel's stuck in a SMP scaling black hole... and I don't really see Intel coming out with integrated memory controllers and native NUMA like AMD did with their whiz-bang DEC Alpha engineers.
Once Barcelona ramps up, Intel's going to be hard pressed to come up with an advantage besides clock speed for the C2 microarchitecture, given that Barcelona finally ups the SSE units to proper 128-bit wide computation; i.e. none of that splitting of SSE operations into pieces that are executed 2 pairs of operands at a time.
Remember, high-performance floating point is not the mainstream workload that determines the success or failure of a microarchitecture. (Though it is one of the sexier ones.) So no yammering about "absolute performance" there; AMD's previous-gen offerings were crazy fast before the C2D and aren't half bad even after C2D.
They're a formal organization. I'm sure that procedures for altering the organization's charter and associated rules and procedures were laid down first, well before the first standard was considered for publication.
Yes, well. The world, beyond trivial granularities of observation, is complex. It is hardly an explanation's fault that some people do not have the patience to think things through to the point where an intentionally glaze-inducing pile of gobbledygook can be told apart from a view that is consistent with (at least a slice of) observed reality.
I would venture that the effect you describe is due to the same lack of patience and/or simple gumption which leads so many (especially among the younger, more naïve) engineer types to chuck the complex views in favour of the One True "Atlas Shrugged, Rape Me In Your Skyscraper" POV. This bit about not being equipped to deal with complexity, I think, could also be responsible for a fair number of people turning religious, including "rediscovery".
I'm not suggesting that people be taught to memorize elaborate structures harder. But it would hardly kill anyone (except for the more sordid and sadly most common kind of politician -- fortunately they wouldn't be missed) if the ability to structure received information inside one's head were more common.
Sadly most people learn how to not think for themselves from very early on, and from then on actively avoid un-learning it.
Oh come on. You're asking for a citation of a source for the OP's _opinion_, namely the "seem" part.
And that's plainly retarded. Forums do not run according to Wikipedia NPOV/{{citation}} rules.
(My opinion, for what it's worth, is that the libertarian geeks are merely exceptionally vocal, much like religious fanatics are. They have their rock-solid dogma and they'd very much like everyone to subscribe to it, since all critique is by nature "stupid" or "criminal".)
And engineer types are notoriously easy to fool with simplistic explanations of complex matters. Especially when said explanation removes emotional and social aspects from the complex matter, making it attractive in a way that many would not admit even to themselves. Combine this with how the stereotypical geek avoids the physical reality wherever possible (thus leaving him ill-equipped in the sense of proportion department) and boom, there you go.
Thus piles of geeks who think that playground economics explains all aspects of society and should thus be allowed to dominate. "Vote with your wallet" and so forth.
They might be counting all the BSD license variants. You know, the one that, to use, you need to vary so that you change the references to the regents of the university of whatever to your name.
Which would doubtlessly suit a rag called "business week". The article is clearly written from conclusions that predated any research the journalist made, namely that "there's a fuckton of open soursay licenses" and "they're bogging down business, bettar go with proprietary instead".
Another one of these Gedankenexperiments that end up (if they were feasible to implement in the real world) trading time for space. Of course if we're dealing with photons and stuff, that "space" ends up being real, physical space rather than bits in a memory chip somewhere.
Which kind of tells why it's "purely a Gedankenexperiment".
That, or it becomes common knowledge that many cameras sold in Europe without video recording can have it switched on after purchase. Maybe camera shops will do that for you, as a service, along with the firmware upgrade they'll give you when you first purchase the item. Hell, forget about secret codes -- just "forget" to disable video recording in the first firmware upgrade they'll get when they first download images off the camera. (Assuming cameras still do the USB storage device thing. It'd be cruel to force grandma to fiddle with a microSD card after all.)
I mean, most people are perfectly happy with a bleeding pustule in their left buttock as long as they can sort of sit on the right one without _too_ much discomfort. Unless it's well known, they're not going to go seek out extra functionality on a rumour.
I foresee special "EU edition" cameras with the video recording function switched off in firmware so it won't qualify for the tariff. Of course manufacturers will "forget" certain cheat codes in the firmware that will permanently enable said functionality. These codes will of course be mysteriously "leaked" to the internet.
So what can it do? Can it manage memory? What filesystems does it implement? Do you have fork(2) or an equivalent? What about TCP/IP? How are your hardware drivers?
Worse, thoughtcrime as posed by Orwell in "1984" was still a crime that one could be tried for, and thus would in theory have a chance of mounting an effective defense. This "executive order", in sidestepping the justice system, is nothing short of preparations for a dictatorship.
My guess is that there won't be any elections. They'll be thrown out of the window with an executive order. Once that's done, they'll seize the assets of heretic members of the house and the senate and (with the appropriate executive order) chuck those organs of legislative authority out.
Once that's done, they'll dig up Montesquieu's bones, grind them up, pour them into an appropriately shaped hole and proceed to rape the non-living shit out of them.
The conclusions this refers to are the "effective" part. What you quote, therefore, says that since a law based nearly verbatim on the directive has been interpret in this way by a court inside an EU country, that the "it's not an effective measure" thing could be a viable legal strategy once AACS becomes as thoroughly broken as CSS.
That is to say, get your head out of your case law arse already.
I suppose the next thing he'll do is solve the spam problem by a new TLD, and having all _reliable_ e-mail switch over to it overnight. Or perhaps a centralized system for micropayments, without which you couldn't send e-mail! Whee!
All the world's problems solved, long as we don't have to actually run the risk of putting them into practice. Being as clever people debunk them right off the bat. Anyway, it's good for a bit of publicity on the side, especially when F-Secure's real cash cow is their Frankensteinian "virus security" one tenth solution, nine tenths snake oil garbage. Kinda like when Kaspersky Labs puts out utterly bizarre press releases on the Threat Of The Day.
Here's the 6502 version, using a nonstandard syntax for undocumented instructions, and including an extraneous null byte at the end to avoid partial instructions...
ORA #$F9 ORA ($02),Y STA $E374,X LSR-EOR $41D8,Y ; undocumented LSR $C5,X ROR-ADC ($56,X) ; undocumented DEY CPY #$00
Slashdot Mirror
I say again. HOLY FREAKING CRAP.
/. post, I think there's absolutely no reason not to recommend an ATI display card anymore. (Well, except for Intel's or VIA's integrated graphics in a non-gaming desk- or laptop.)
If this turns out the way it seems from an optimistic reading of the
Perhaps they aren't as much stupid as they are, well, old. When they were young, teens and twentysomethings, and formed their view of the world, mass communication was done in a fundamentally producer-consumer fashion with radio, television and newspaper. Now there's this new thing, the Intartubes. They see it, they've heard of it.
But they don't really get it. They think it's just another unidirectional mass communication device. Therefore when they hear that "bomb-making instructions are published on the internets!", their first reaction is to do as they would if what they heard had been about traditional mass media: to try and pass a law forbidding said media from passing certain kinds of information. Conveniently forgetting that bomb-making instructions have been available in e.g. universities and libraries for who knows how long.
Old farts they are, and as such will not be able to shackle the intarbutts without the aid of young "in the know" people. Sadly, as the Internet filtering in Saudi-Arabia (put in place by F-Secure, of Finland) shows, money can buy the right kind of people for any kind of task eventually.
Report the facts of the matter to his office. Printed letter form is usually best. Attach your contact info. Notify the shop that you've registered a complaint with the ombudsman's office and/or local trading standards whatchamacallit.
Sometimes the fear of getting a bad rep will set them straight. Other times, they'll decide to tough it out. In any case you're likely to end up having to pay for repairs yourself, even if you're right.
AMD's had I/O performance and memory latency advantages on Intel even before Barcelona though. I suppose Intel will be in even more serious trouble than before in the server space, until it can get its next-generation bus thingy (CSI they called it?) up and running in a year or three. Until then, Intel's stuck in a SMP scaling black hole... and I don't really see Intel coming out with integrated memory controllers and native NUMA like AMD did with their whiz-bang DEC Alpha engineers.
Once Barcelona ramps up, Intel's going to be hard pressed to come up with an advantage besides clock speed for the C2 microarchitecture, given that Barcelona finally ups the SSE units to proper 128-bit wide computation; i.e. none of that splitting of SSE operations into pieces that are executed 2 pairs of operands at a time.
Remember, high-performance floating point is not the mainstream workload that determines the success or failure of a microarchitecture. (Though it is one of the sexier ones.) So no yammering about "absolute performance" there; AMD's previous-gen offerings were crazy fast before the C2D and aren't half bad even after C2D.
They're a formal organization. I'm sure that procedures for altering the organization's charter and associated rules and procedures were laid down first, well before the first standard was considered for publication.
But for me, it gives me hope.
Yes, well. The world, beyond trivial granularities of observation, is complex. It is hardly an explanation's fault that some people do not have the patience to think things through to the point where an intentionally glaze-inducing pile of gobbledygook can be told apart from a view that is consistent with (at least a slice of) observed reality.
I would venture that the effect you describe is due to the same lack of patience and/or simple gumption which leads so many (especially among the younger, more naïve) engineer types to chuck the complex views in favour of the One True "Atlas Shrugged, Rape Me In Your Skyscraper" POV. This bit about not being equipped to deal with complexity, I think, could also be responsible for a fair number of people turning religious, including "rediscovery".
I'm not suggesting that people be taught to memorize elaborate structures harder. But it would hardly kill anyone (except for the more sordid and sadly most common kind of politician -- fortunately they wouldn't be missed) if the ability to structure received information inside one's head were more common.
Sadly most people learn how to not think for themselves from very early on, and from then on actively avoid un-learning it.
I furthermore propose that he should change his Slashdot username to something implying great enmity to nails.
Oh come on. You're asking for a citation of a source for the OP's _opinion_, namely the "seem" part.
And that's plainly retarded. Forums do not run according to Wikipedia NPOV/{{citation}} rules.
(My opinion, for what it's worth, is that the libertarian geeks are merely exceptionally vocal, much like religious fanatics are. They have their rock-solid dogma and they'd very much like everyone to subscribe to it, since all critique is by nature "stupid" or "criminal".)
And engineer types are notoriously easy to fool with simplistic explanations of complex matters. Especially when said explanation removes emotional and social aspects from the complex matter, making it attractive in a way that many would not admit even to themselves. Combine this with how the stereotypical geek avoids the physical reality wherever possible (thus leaving him ill-equipped in the sense of proportion department) and boom, there you go.
Thus piles of geeks who think that playground economics explains all aspects of society and should thus be allowed to dominate. "Vote with your wallet" and so forth.
They might be counting all the BSD license variants. You know, the one that, to use, you need to vary so that you change the references to the regents of the university of whatever to your name.
Which would doubtlessly suit a rag called "business week". The article is clearly written from conclusions that predated any research the journalist made, namely that "there's a fuckton of open soursay licenses" and "they're bogging down business, bettar go with proprietary instead".
Another one of these Gedankenexperiments that end up (if they were feasible to implement in the real world) trading time for space. Of course if we're dealing with photons and stuff, that "space" ends up being real, physical space rather than bits in a memory chip somewhere.
Which kind of tells why it's "purely a Gedankenexperiment".
lol u tk him 2da bar|?
That, or it becomes common knowledge that many cameras sold in Europe without video recording can have it switched on after purchase. Maybe camera shops will do that for you, as a service, along with the firmware upgrade they'll give you when you first purchase the item. Hell, forget about secret codes -- just "forget" to disable video recording in the first firmware upgrade they'll get when they first download images off the camera. (Assuming cameras still do the USB storage device thing. It'd be cruel to force grandma to fiddle with a microSD card after all.)
I mean, most people are perfectly happy with a bleeding pustule in their left buttock as long as they can sort of sit on the right one without _too_ much discomfort. Unless it's well known, they're not going to go seek out extra functionality on a rumour.
I foresee special "EU edition" cameras with the video recording function switched off in firmware so it won't qualify for the tariff. Of course manufacturers will "forget" certain cheat codes in the firmware that will permanently enable said functionality. These codes will of course be mysteriously "leaked" to the internet.
So what can it do? Can it manage memory? What filesystems does it implement? Do you have fork(2) or an equivalent? What about TCP/IP? How are your hardware drivers?
Shouldn't you invest in a dictionary, son?
How are you going to challenge this "non-law", if your assets are frozen?
Worse, thoughtcrime as posed by Orwell in "1984" was still a crime that one could be tried for, and thus would in theory have a chance of mounting an effective defense. This "executive order", in sidestepping the justice system, is nothing short of preparations for a dictatorship.
My guess is that there won't be any elections. They'll be thrown out of the window with an executive order. Once that's done, they'll seize the assets of heretic members of the house and the senate and (with the appropriate executive order) chuck those organs of legislative authority out.
Once that's done, they'll dig up Montesquieu's bones, grind them up, pour them into an appropriately shaped hole and proceed to rape the non-living shit out of them.
This man clearly doesn't have a biological sister.
You only know 70???
Geez, must be newbie season again.
The conclusions this refers to are the "effective" part. What you quote, therefore, says that since a law based nearly verbatim on the directive has been interpret in this way by a court inside an EU country, that the "it's not an effective measure" thing could be a viable legal strategy once AACS becomes as thoroughly broken as CSS.
That is to say, get your head out of your case law arse already.
A miserable little pile of secrets! But enough talk. Have at you!
I suppose the next thing he'll do is solve the spam problem by a new TLD, and having all _reliable_ e-mail switch over to it overnight. Or perhaps a centralized system for micropayments, without which you couldn't send e-mail! Whee!
All the world's problems solved, long as we don't have to actually run the risk of putting them into practice. Being as clever people debunk them right off the bat. Anyway, it's good for a bit of publicity on the side, especially when F-Secure's real cash cow is their Frankensteinian "virus security" one tenth solution, nine tenths snake oil garbage. Kinda like when Kaspersky Labs puts out utterly bizarre press releases on the Threat Of The Day.
"lol, yanks"
Here's the 6502 version, using a nonstandard syntax for undocumented instructions, and including an extraneous null byte at the end to avoid partial instructions...
ORA #$F9
ORA ($02),Y
STA $E374,X
LSR-EOR $41D8,Y ; undocumented
LSR $C5,X
ROR-ADC ($56,X) ; undocumented
DEY
CPY #$00
I wonder what this code does!