Agreed. Sounds like the dialogue is already off a bit, and I can't see how they're going to work in the Game (with the giant killing Ender over and over). I know technology has advanced since the books writing, but I keep thinking of the Battle Room as an empty gridded holodeck with 'stars' and gates...none of this shiny Apple-store/Tron nonsense. Ditto for the battle "simulations." Sparse military conditions, c'mon! The ansible's bandwidth is surely limited. And, no allusion to Achilles in the trailer if the directors are trying to blend in Bean's perspective from Ender's Shadow...
Also, Harrison Ford doesn't have the gravitas in his voice to pull a narration. Sean Connery...yes.
I will be impressed if they can convince me that Battle School is truly a global endeavor. Ben Kingsley just doesn't look all that Polynesian to me either...
Atom is going to more than just consumer phablet market segments. While you laugh, the roadmap is being laid down way outside the scope you just described.
Might also be that magic 24 fps framerate that UX designers have pegged as the golden standard for smoothness:) But Clover Trail SoCs can have a max CPU freq of 2GHz.
It's possible--Intel and ARM both have SoCs in mobile phones right now, and none of those phones have heatsinks as you've described:) You can run the processors fairly hot, but when you trip a certain thermal limit, CPU throttling will kick in. For the amount of time you can run a processor at 100% speed without throttling, you ought to be able to finish whatever it was that you needed to do...don't loop Dhrystone all day!
Silvermont is a just core (CPU). It sits inside an SoC (system on chip), and your final power figures will still depend on the efficiency of the rest of the SoC (the GPU, the IO interfaces, the memory interfaces, any other dedicated hardware, etc.). And even then, the integration of technology is getting to the point where the SoC's power consumption is only a partially limiting factor in battery life. During lower power states and standby states, the comms units, the display, etc. can all consume way more power than the core.
Your Atom specs are false. The Motorola Razr i (okay, not available in the US because it doesn't have LTE) is shipping with a dual-threaded 2.0 GHz Atom core. The next chips due for the holiday sales season will be dual-core, hyperthreaded, and also spec'ed for 2.0 GHz with LTE. The graphics isn't quite there yet, but the gradual move away from third-party vendors will be a step in the right direction.
I know a guy who tried this out in college. He went nuts after a while and gave it up. Maybe you can maintain this if you live away from society, but as long as you have to do things with normal people, you're not going to be able to entirely live on the Uberman sleep schedule. I don't believe that there AREN'T negative side effects to this anyway...if you believe in evolution, you have to think that it's better to stick with what's come out of the millions of years of natural selection.
you ought to know that no one escapes north korea via the DMZ (c'mon, i mean, there are land mines all over the place). it's common knowledge that the north korean military has that border locked down, and the only thing heading north-to-south across that border is 99.99% motivated by the north korean military. that's why most of the refugees you see coming out of north korea are coming across the chinese border or escaping to various foreign embassies in north korea.
the physical requirements for the astronaut corps are nothing to sneeze at:) they were probably all in good enough shape to play football at the D2 level:)
"Result is that many of the big studios are shutting down as they can't cover costs with production moving to purely PC based setups in many cases."
what are the cost drivers here? digital technology is getting to where studio equipment/time might be the only issue...the publicity networks and everything should be set up already, and scouting for new bands--shoot, i'll be a music critic if i can get a decent (read: not exorbitant) wage out of it. is it the CEOs who are accustomed to multimillion dollar salaries that are afraid of their posh lifestyles going away?
"...studio time and costs grew to ridiculous levels..." labels need to stop screwing over artists. labels should own their own equipment and cooperate with, not coerce, artists. digital technology (for CD-quality sound) should have reduced a ton of time involved in producing a CD. i would almost say the same with post-hoc audio processing technologies.
i would love to pick a record company guy's brain on these sorts of things. any record company want to hire (or take on a volunteer services of) an amateur consultant?:P
well, come to austin, at least, before paint the whole state red. no state income tax, liberal politics in austin, tech jobs, culture, and local eccentricities...all in a laid-back setting. but don't come here since we'd like traffic to get better, not worse.
And in another month, we'll hear Louisiana is suing the automakers over global warming--and Katrina. Ooohh, I wanna get ringside tickets for that bout. L-I-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y. Everyone and their grandma is invited to the class-action suit frenzy.
MIPS isn't such a common architecture to teach students anymore, imho. Most schools teach x86 assembly (Caltech, for one) instead of MIPS assembly. But you may be one of the fortunates who go to school where Hennessy is president, so you may have learned MIPS there =P
what worries me most is power. electrical facilities, substations, and the like are not hardened or secured against terrorist attack. a concerted strike could be crippling, and not just to the average internet user's experience.
this story broke yesterday, and nary a peep was heard here until just now. why bother re-posting it? especially under YRO--this has nothing to do with our rights online. who's in charge of this place anyway...
i'm sure this could find use after particularly rowdy sporting events as well. probably better than tear gas, which takes a while to wear off. euro football hooligans, anyone? i guess some people would prefer to be beaten with riot batons or sprayed with fire hoses.
i think they're forgetting the heavy metals cost of gold, the industrial waste cost of the wafer fab process, the energy it takes to run a whole semiconductor assembly operation, and the huge environmental 'fixed cost' of constructing the buildings that make these processors. i wonder if there are plans to distribute these environmental costs and offset them as well.
but it is a start, and more companies could adopt the same attitude.
I can hear the lawyers for the MPAA, all professional sporting leagues, and network broadcasters sharpening their knives already...this baby has got to be hackable!:D
...is Tom Perkins's ethical behavior. I only hope that when I get to be a director, I would have the cajones to resign rather than to serve under or carry out orders from a boss with a history of such behavior. Well, that and the handwriting on the wall (SEC investigation) might have helped influence his decision. But what a way to go!
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Agreed. Sounds like the dialogue is already off a bit, and I can't see how they're going to work in the Game (with the giant killing Ender over and over). I know technology has advanced since the books writing, but I keep thinking of the Battle Room as an empty gridded holodeck with 'stars' and gates...none of this shiny Apple-store/Tron nonsense. Ditto for the battle "simulations." Sparse military conditions, c'mon! The ansible's bandwidth is surely limited. And, no allusion to Achilles in the trailer if the directors are trying to blend in Bean's perspective from Ender's Shadow...
Also, Harrison Ford doesn't have the gravitas in his voice to pull a narration. Sean Connery...yes.
I will be impressed if they can convince me that Battle School is truly a global endeavor. Ben Kingsley just doesn't look all that Polynesian to me either...
Atom is going to more than just consumer phablet market segments. While you laugh, the roadmap is being laid down way outside the scope you just described.
Looks like AMD's budgeted priority for their marketing staff at the expense of their engineering staff is paying off.
They will converge until one cannibalizes much of the other's market on the power consumption spectrum (guess which).
Might also be that magic 24 fps framerate that UX designers have pegged as the golden standard for smoothness :) But Clover Trail SoCs can have a max CPU freq of 2GHz.
It's possible--Intel and ARM both have SoCs in mobile phones right now, and none of those phones have heatsinks as you've described :) You can run the processors fairly hot, but when you trip a certain thermal limit, CPU throttling will kick in. For the amount of time you can run a processor at 100% speed without throttling, you ought to be able to finish whatever it was that you needed to do...don't loop Dhrystone all day!
Mobile Atoms on the market today (i.e. Medfield) under idle/sleeping conditions are competitive with any ARM processor on the market.
Silvermont is a just core (CPU). It sits inside an SoC (system on chip), and your final power figures will still depend on the efficiency of the rest of the SoC (the GPU, the IO interfaces, the memory interfaces, any other dedicated hardware, etc.). And even then, the integration of technology is getting to the point where the SoC's power consumption is only a partially limiting factor in battery life. During lower power states and standby states, the comms units, the display, etc. can all consume way more power than the core.
I guess this applies to used cars as well. Secondary markets alleviate economic inefficiencies in pricing...goodbye free market?
Your Atom specs are false. The Motorola Razr i (okay, not available in the US because it doesn't have LTE) is shipping with a dual-threaded 2.0 GHz Atom core. The next chips due for the holiday sales season will be dual-core, hyperthreaded, and also spec'ed for 2.0 GHz with LTE. The graphics isn't quite there yet, but the gradual move away from third-party vendors will be a step in the right direction.
I know a guy who tried this out in college. He went nuts after a while and gave it up. Maybe you can maintain this if you live away from society, but as long as you have to do things with normal people, you're not going to be able to entirely live on the Uberman sleep schedule. I don't believe that there AREN'T negative side effects to this anyway...if you believe in evolution, you have to think that it's better to stick with what's come out of the millions of years of natural selection.
shhh, we're trying to make them too overweight to withstand earth gravity...we should also wear placards that say "eat more chikin." oh wait...
you ought to know that no one escapes north korea via the DMZ (c'mon, i mean, there are land mines all over the place). it's common knowledge that the north korean military has that border locked down, and the only thing heading north-to-south across that border is 99.99% motivated by the north korean military. that's why most of the refugees you see coming out of north korea are coming across the chinese border or escaping to various foreign embassies in north korea.
RTFA on north korean.
the physical requirements for the astronaut corps are nothing to sneeze at :) they were probably all in good enough shape to play football at the D2 level :)
"Result is that many of the big studios are shutting down as they can't cover costs with production moving to purely PC based setups in many cases."
:P
what are the cost drivers here? digital technology is getting to where studio equipment/time might be the only issue...the publicity networks and everything should be set up already, and scouting for new bands--shoot, i'll be a music critic if i can get a decent (read: not exorbitant) wage out of it. is it the CEOs who are accustomed to multimillion dollar salaries that are afraid of their posh lifestyles going away?
"...studio time and costs grew to ridiculous levels..." labels need to stop screwing over artists. labels should own their own equipment and cooperate with, not coerce, artists. digital technology (for CD-quality sound) should have reduced a ton of time involved in producing a CD. i would almost say the same with post-hoc audio processing technologies.
i would love to pick a record company guy's brain on these sorts of things. any record company want to hire (or take on a volunteer services of) an amateur consultant?
well, come to austin, at least, before paint the whole state red. no state income tax, liberal politics in austin, tech jobs, culture, and local eccentricities...all in a laid-back setting. but don't come here since we'd like traffic to get better, not worse.
great, so before we could catch them all, they now know to duck underground...?
Don't forget about the "butterfingers" loss of a couple of space station bolts into space and the oxygen machine's 'toxic' irritant spill...
And in another month, we'll hear Louisiana is suing the automakers over global warming--and Katrina. Ooohh, I wanna get ringside tickets for that bout. L-I-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y. Everyone and their grandma is invited to the class-action suit frenzy.
MIPS isn't such a common architecture to teach students anymore, imho. Most schools teach x86 assembly (Caltech, for one) instead of MIPS assembly. But you may be one of the fortunates who go to school where Hennessy is president, so you may have learned MIPS there =P
what worries me most is power. electrical facilities, substations, and the like are not hardened or secured against terrorist attack. a concerted strike could be crippling, and not just to the average internet user's experience.
this story broke yesterday, and nary a peep was heard here until just now. why bother re-posting it? especially under YRO--this has nothing to do with our rights online. who's in charge of this place anyway...
i'm sure this could find use after particularly rowdy sporting events as well. probably better than tear gas, which takes a while to wear off. euro football hooligans, anyone? i guess some people would prefer to be beaten with riot batons or sprayed with fire hoses.
i think they're forgetting the heavy metals cost of gold, the industrial waste cost of the wafer fab process, the energy it takes to run a whole semiconductor assembly operation, and the huge environmental 'fixed cost' of constructing the buildings that make these processors. i wonder if there are plans to distribute these environmental costs and offset them as well.
but it is a start, and more companies could adopt the same attitude.
I can hear the lawyers for the MPAA, all professional sporting leagues, and network broadcasters sharpening their knives already...this baby has got to be hackable! :D
...is Tom Perkins's ethical behavior. I only hope that when I get to be a director, I would have the cajones to resign rather than to serve under or carry out orders from a boss with a history of such behavior. Well, that and the handwriting on the wall (SEC investigation) might have helped influence his decision. But what a way to go!