They are expensive and you have to buy a lot, but they'll do custom. Oracle also buys custom Intel chips. There are limits to what they'll customize, obviously writing a whole new ISA wouldn't be possible (at least not without a shit ton of resources) but they can customize things like cache sizes and configurations.
In terms of clock rate I image what Amazon is doing is more or less having Intel raise the TDP for the chips and run them harder. All the Xeons cap out at about the same TDP for the high end, regardless of core count, so higher core count chips are slower. However with aggressive cooling, you can have a setup that'll cool more than that TDP. So Amazon might contract to Intel to sell them higher rated chips, with the understanding of the increased cooling needs.
Then try not sucking at your job? Seriously, the reason that Uber has been successful vs traditional taxis is because taxi services suck. Their service tends to be sub optimal and they don't make use of modern technology to allow people to hail and pay for their ride. Uber does better in that regard, and so is popular. Cost really is secondary.
Well, same shit with IT work. If you are "Mordoc the Preventer" then ya, you could well be subject to getting replaced with a service (or person) that better meets their needs. However if you stay on top of what your customers need (customers in this case being the people that call you for service) and try to improve things as you can, then you are more likely to be fine.
I haven't been doing IT all that long, about 15 years now, but in that time I've seen what users need and expect change a lot as technology has changed. They still need and want IT, but what they want from them is different. The IT departments they bitch about are the ones who still think it is 1990 and refuse to update the way they do things.
Or at least not all of them. The BTC faithful are really uneducated when it comes to money. Many really thought that Bitcoin would just grow forever. I had one confidently tell me that in two year (this was about 2 years ago) it would be worth over $10,000 per Bitcoin and so on.
So I'm sure there were a fair share of dummies that really did think that magic Bitcoins = tons of interest through some magic method. They thought that normal rules of money didn't apply because this was the Internet, or some such crap.
Different people have different likes and dislikes and we as a society need to accept that. Trying to force kids to like something isn't going to work. Nobody ever had to convince me to like computers, I was fascinated with them from a young age. Likewise nobody had to drive my sister away from computers, she never had any interest in them. It wasn't my parents pushing what we should do, they were extremely good about letting us choose our own path. My mom in particular was big on that since her mother had not let her choose her own career (she was told a teacher or nurse, nothing else). We are just different people, very different despite coming from the same family, yet both very happy in the choices we've made in life.
Computer camps, or any kind of camps, are great for kids that are interested in them. However trying to set something up to force kids to like what you like is doomed to fail. If anything, it'll drive them away. Something can quickly change from "fun" to "work" when you are being forced to do it, rather than allowed to do it, particularly as a child.
China can outright block sites they don't like. France doesn't have the infrastructure to do that, and probably not the laws either. So while Google could have no corporate presence in France, they could still be a usable site in France by virtue of being accessible on the web.
In particular, marketing and communication jobs seem to be popular these days. Now I understand, universities have to market themselves like any other entity, but they take it to stupid extremes.
That's what's going on here, I'm sure. A mouthpeice for the university to talk about how good they are and what they are doing, etc, etc.
I don't think some people understand how much shit like this hurts their argument.This is the kind of thing that scammers and charlatans do. When someone challenges their view they do whatever they can to silence them, very often including trying to abuse the court system.
So when someone advocates using tactics like that, well it makes some people wonder: What do they have to hide? Why are they acting like scammers?
I mean you don't see this with evolution. You don't see people trying to sue creationists, no they just make fun of them and point out how wrong their arguments are.
It is actually a bad thing, overall for Apple. The last thing they want is for every tablet to be an "iPad" because it then makes it much harder to market and differentiate their own products. While I'm sure MS isn't pleased, Apple is likely non to pleased either. Having your brand turned generic isn't something any company wants. Even if you still technically control the trademark, if it is a generic term in the mind of the ordinary person, you've lost.
That being people decide to leave Apple and get something else. Apple's position on the smartphone market is tenuous at best. While there are still enough fans who have to have the latest greatest iGadget, that number has been dropping. Worldwide Android is the big player.
So every time Apple screws people over, it is the kind of thing that'll make more people look to other brands.
Normally if a company makes lots of profit, it gets used in some way. If there isn't a business need for it, it goes out to investors. That is part of the idea of investing: You can get a share of the profits (it isn't the only reason, but one of them). That doesn't happen with Apple. They just hoard all their profits... to what end?
I personally am not sure why their big investors let them get away with it. I would want my cut if I had money in Apple. However for whatever reason investors are fine with them just amassing a big pile of cash that they don't use for anything, and don't pay out.
Unless computers become AIs, they will never be able to deal with fuzzy logic and imprecise specifications. As XKCD said " No language will free you from the burden of having to clarify you ideas."
To make a computer program you have to be able to formalize your ideas and present them in a logical format to the computer. Even when you have lots of tools to make the details easier, the fundamental requirement remains. You have to get the flow of your ideas in to a logical format that can become something an imperative device can execute.
Well, some minds are better at that than others. Some people are not very good at the kind of logic and creativity that programming requires. So they aren't going to become programmers, even if there was some real reason for it.
A rhetorical one, but one you should find out the answer to none the less: What was the repayment rate of the bailout loans?
See it turns out the money wasn't a gift. The government didn't say "here's free money," rather they made loans, acting as the lender of last resort (which is something governments do to stabilize financial systems) but as with any loan, repayment was expected when possible. So go have a look and see what the repayment rate was, I'm not going to ask you to take my word for it, and let us know.
Also, can you point out what law the companies that got bailed out broke?
I mean I can understand that maybe the electronics in cheapass printers aren't the best, and that also maybe they act a bit shady to try and pad margins. However on pro gear, that shouldn't be the case. When you buy a big expensive printer, and its expensive ink, it should use it all.
To HP's credit, their poster printers seem to do that. We have a T920 at work and it drains the cartridges down to nothing. I've cut them open after it was done and it really did get it all. Also, you can swap a cartridge mid print and so long as you are reasonably fast (say less than a minute) it doesn't harm the print quality so you can run them totally dry.
Likewise with regards to 20% that is the level they start to signal low ink, they don't even complain until it is that low.
As far as I am concerned, that is how high end printers should work. The device was expensive as hell, the ink and paper is expensive too, it should get every dollar out of it that can be had.
Unless the devices themselves have some kind of common sync like wordclock or the like, they will drift out of sync. So sync the audio at any given point, it'll be out of sync later. That's why studios have all kind of gear to slave everything to a master clock.
So you either have to have something that can do an advanced auto-sync and make sure the sync gets corrected in multiple places, or you'll need to do it manually. Depending on how long the recording is that may not be too bad and you may not need to adjust it that many times, but it is really all you can do.
Now of course if you gear has some kind of clock input and output you can slave it together, but I'm guessing it doesn't.
Finally your request for Linux stuff makes it really hard. The Linux video editing scene is, well, really really bad. There are no good tools that I've come across. GRanted I haven't looked in awhile but last time I did all I found were things that were incomplete, or buggy, or not very useful (or all 3).
Something like Sony Vegas Movie Studio would do the trick and make it pretty easy to do what you needed manually, but it does cost money and isn't for Linux.
I bought some "Just Mayo" and was a bit annoyed when I tried it and it ended up not being mayonnaise. I'm fine with non-mayo spreads, but be clear about what you are. Their name is misleading IMO and makes you think that it is, well, mayonnaise. If that's the particular flavour you are going for and you get something else, well that annoying.
Seriously dude, if you think Apple "killed the floppy drive and gave us USB" you need to spend less time reading Apple fanboy posts and more time learning a bit about the history of tech and how people work.
With regards to USB, Intel gave us USB. To be more correct Compaq, DEC, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, and Nortel gave us USB. Those are the companies that got together to design it. Intel being the biggest driving force. Intel then implemented USB on its southbridge chipsets, and required that motherboards using them implement the ports.
It did not take off because Apple put it on Macs. That didn't hurt, of course, but had Apple used it and nobody else cards, well it would have languished and died out. It took off because it was a useful port and implemented on everything.
As for floppies, Apple did nothing to kill them. Getting rid of them on Macs only annoyed Mac users and lead to a bunch of USB floppy sales. Floppies died of their own accord as file sizes grew, making them less suitable, and as much better alternatives became affordable, mostly USB flash drives. The vast majority of systems continued to shop with floppy drives for years after Apple "killed" it, defacto evidence they did not in fact "kill" them.
Seriously, fanboys need to stop giving Apple credit for everything under the sun, it just looks silly.
"Oh herbal medicine has been around for thousands of years. Indeed it has and then we tested it all and the stuff that worked became 'medicine' and the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri."
Your statement about pot curing cancer also has to be one of the stupidest, most easily disproven thoughts I've seen in awhile. Turns out that when people get cancer often they need help managing pain and apatite and marijuana DOES help with those, so a good portion use it. Guess what? They don't get cured. I've had two people close to me who got cancer and died, both who use marijuana to manage symptoms.
You dumbass potheads do more harm to getting it legalized than any of your opponents could by making shit up. The more you lie about what it actually does, how it actually works and the actual risks (yes there are risks, everything has risks) the less people are going to listen to you about the real benefits.
The only reason they are making any changes is because the FCC is considering doing something.
As a point for comparison where I live there are two cable providers, Cox and Comcast, covering different parts of the city. Cox has a data cap, but it is 2TB. Also that is a soft cap. If you hit it, nothing happens. They may call and complain at you if you do it too much, but that's all. It is there to try and keep people reasonable, and so they can cut off someone in truly egregious cases (I've never actually heard of anyone getting cut off).
Now somehow both these companies can make money, yet only Comcast charges for overages and yet has much lower caps.
It is just a money grab. While some kind of soft cap or throttling can be needed to make sure people play nice (we can only have Internet fast and cheap if people share, otherwise the backhaul is prohibitively expensive) low hard caps with overage fees are just used to try and make more cash.
Sure, it is done already. Problem is that it is line-of-sight only, easily interrupted by inclement weather, and has worse data rates due to the higher noise level you get as compared to having it in an isolated fibre.
Do those same techniques work on frequencies through all different mediums, or do they only work in the air? (this is a rhetorical question by the way).
Whatever you can get in the air, you can get more in a cable or fibre. Sorry, that is just how it is going to be. Find the fastest wireless technology on the market, and then compare it to what you can get over a copper or fibre. Do it at any given point in history, and you see that it is always behind.
1) A PS3 is not a gaming PC, which is what we are talking about.
2) PCs go in to idle states BY DEFAULT, you have to work to turn them off. My PC, an exceptionally high powered one, idles at about 90 watts. A more normal PC idles at 50 or so. Not turning off, not suspending, not doing anything special. The processors normal C-states and throttling which are enabled by default.
Sorry, but that pesky little Shannon's Law gets in the way. Fibre provides more frequency and better SNR than you'll get in the air, thus more bits. You can't get around physics.
Guy doesn't know anything about what he's talking about.
For one there is the newer thing as you note. Yes, newer stuff is more efficient. At a given performance target (FPS for a given scene complexity, number of MFlops, whatever) newer hardware is better than older stuff. Ok, fine but cost of always upgrading aside (something gamers do more than most people) there is the issue of energy of production. A large amount of human energy use goes in to making the stuff we use. If you want to save energy, a big part of it is buying less shit, trying to make stuff last longer. You don't see that energy cost directly, it is rolled in to the product, but it is very real.
Then there is the fact that, as you note, gamers tend to use better components anyhow. Like the PSU thing. The higher end the gamer, the better the PSU they tend to want and thus the more efficient it tends to be. I personally have an 80 Plus Platinum unit in my system because it was the highest efficiency, best built, longest lasting unit I could get my hands on. It was expensive, way more than most people are willing to pay for a PSU, but as a crazy gamer I'm ok with that.
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They are expensive and you have to buy a lot, but they'll do custom. Oracle also buys custom Intel chips. There are limits to what they'll customize, obviously writing a whole new ISA wouldn't be possible (at least not without a shit ton of resources) but they can customize things like cache sizes and configurations.
In terms of clock rate I image what Amazon is doing is more or less having Intel raise the TDP for the chips and run them harder. All the Xeons cap out at about the same TDP for the high end, regardless of core count, so higher core count chips are slower. However with aggressive cooling, you can have a setup that'll cool more than that TDP. So Amazon might contract to Intel to sell them higher rated chips, with the understanding of the increased cooling needs.
Then try not sucking at your job? Seriously, the reason that Uber has been successful vs traditional taxis is because taxi services suck. Their service tends to be sub optimal and they don't make use of modern technology to allow people to hail and pay for their ride. Uber does better in that regard, and so is popular. Cost really is secondary.
Well, same shit with IT work. If you are "Mordoc the Preventer" then ya, you could well be subject to getting replaced with a service (or person) that better meets their needs. However if you stay on top of what your customers need (customers in this case being the people that call you for service) and try to improve things as you can, then you are more likely to be fine.
I haven't been doing IT all that long, about 15 years now, but in that time I've seen what users need and expect change a lot as technology has changed. They still need and want IT, but what they want from them is different. The IT departments they bitch about are the ones who still think it is 1990 and refuse to update the way they do things.
Or at least not all of them. The BTC faithful are really uneducated when it comes to money. Many really thought that Bitcoin would just grow forever. I had one confidently tell me that in two year (this was about 2 years ago) it would be worth over $10,000 per Bitcoin and so on.
So I'm sure there were a fair share of dummies that really did think that magic Bitcoins = tons of interest through some magic method. They thought that normal rules of money didn't apply because this was the Internet, or some such crap.
Different people have different likes and dislikes and we as a society need to accept that. Trying to force kids to like something isn't going to work. Nobody ever had to convince me to like computers, I was fascinated with them from a young age. Likewise nobody had to drive my sister away from computers, she never had any interest in them. It wasn't my parents pushing what we should do, they were extremely good about letting us choose our own path. My mom in particular was big on that since her mother had not let her choose her own career (she was told a teacher or nurse, nothing else). We are just different people, very different despite coming from the same family, yet both very happy in the choices we've made in life.
Computer camps, or any kind of camps, are great for kids that are interested in them. However trying to set something up to force kids to like what you like is doomed to fail. If anything, it'll drive them away. Something can quickly change from "fun" to "work" when you are being forced to do it, rather than allowed to do it, particularly as a child.
China can outright block sites they don't like. France doesn't have the infrastructure to do that, and probably not the laws either. So while Google could have no corporate presence in France, they could still be a usable site in France by virtue of being accessible on the web.
In particular, marketing and communication jobs seem to be popular these days. Now I understand, universities have to market themselves like any other entity, but they take it to stupid extremes.
That's what's going on here, I'm sure. A mouthpeice for the university to talk about how good they are and what they are doing, etc, etc.
I don't think some people understand how much shit like this hurts their argument.This is the kind of thing that scammers and charlatans do. When someone challenges their view they do whatever they can to silence them, very often including trying to abuse the court system.
So when someone advocates using tactics like that, well it makes some people wonder: What do they have to hide? Why are they acting like scammers?
I mean you don't see this with evolution. You don't see people trying to sue creationists, no they just make fun of them and point out how wrong their arguments are.
This shit needs to stop.
Seriously, people who think that sustained deflation is workable in a currency need to go and take ECON 200 again and l2money.
It is actually a bad thing, overall for Apple. The last thing they want is for every tablet to be an "iPad" because it then makes it much harder to market and differentiate their own products. While I'm sure MS isn't pleased, Apple is likely non to pleased either. Having your brand turned generic isn't something any company wants. Even if you still technically control the trademark, if it is a generic term in the mind of the ordinary person, you've lost.
That being people decide to leave Apple and get something else. Apple's position on the smartphone market is tenuous at best. While there are still enough fans who have to have the latest greatest iGadget, that number has been dropping. Worldwide Android is the big player.
So every time Apple screws people over, it is the kind of thing that'll make more people look to other brands.
Normally if a company makes lots of profit, it gets used in some way. If there isn't a business need for it, it goes out to investors. That is part of the idea of investing: You can get a share of the profits (it isn't the only reason, but one of them). That doesn't happen with Apple. They just hoard all their profits... to what end?
I personally am not sure why their big investors let them get away with it. I would want my cut if I had money in Apple. However for whatever reason investors are fine with them just amassing a big pile of cash that they don't use for anything, and don't pay out.
Unless computers become AIs, they will never be able to deal with fuzzy logic and imprecise specifications. As XKCD said " No language will free you from the burden of having to clarify you ideas."
To make a computer program you have to be able to formalize your ideas and present them in a logical format to the computer. Even when you have lots of tools to make the details easier, the fundamental requirement remains. You have to get the flow of your ideas in to a logical format that can become something an imperative device can execute.
Well, some minds are better at that than others. Some people are not very good at the kind of logic and creativity that programming requires. So they aren't going to become programmers, even if there was some real reason for it.
A rhetorical one, but one you should find out the answer to none the less: What was the repayment rate of the bailout loans?
See it turns out the money wasn't a gift. The government didn't say "here's free money," rather they made loans, acting as the lender of last resort (which is something governments do to stabilize financial systems) but as with any loan, repayment was expected when possible. So go have a look and see what the repayment rate was, I'm not going to ask you to take my word for it, and let us know.
Also, can you point out what law the companies that got bailed out broke?
I mean I can understand that maybe the electronics in cheapass printers aren't the best, and that also maybe they act a bit shady to try and pad margins. However on pro gear, that shouldn't be the case. When you buy a big expensive printer, and its expensive ink, it should use it all.
To HP's credit, their poster printers seem to do that. We have a T920 at work and it drains the cartridges down to nothing. I've cut them open after it was done and it really did get it all. Also, you can swap a cartridge mid print and so long as you are reasonably fast (say less than a minute) it doesn't harm the print quality so you can run them totally dry.
Likewise with regards to 20% that is the level they start to signal low ink, they don't even complain until it is that low.
As far as I am concerned, that is how high end printers should work. The device was expensive as hell, the ink and paper is expensive too, it should get every dollar out of it that can be had.
should be a pretty good hint that you didn't read it and just responded to the title.
He's screwed for what he wants: No cost Linux software that does auto-sync. There is none.
Unless the devices themselves have some kind of common sync like wordclock or the like, they will drift out of sync. So sync the audio at any given point, it'll be out of sync later. That's why studios have all kind of gear to slave everything to a master clock.
So you either have to have something that can do an advanced auto-sync and make sure the sync gets corrected in multiple places, or you'll need to do it manually. Depending on how long the recording is that may not be too bad and you may not need to adjust it that many times, but it is really all you can do.
Now of course if you gear has some kind of clock input and output you can slave it together, but I'm guessing it doesn't.
Finally your request for Linux stuff makes it really hard. The Linux video editing scene is, well, really really bad. There are no good tools that I've come across. GRanted I haven't looked in awhile but last time I did all I found were things that were incomplete, or buggy, or not very useful (or all 3).
Something like Sony Vegas Movie Studio would do the trick and make it pretty easy to do what you needed manually, but it does cost money and isn't for Linux.
I bought some "Just Mayo" and was a bit annoyed when I tried it and it ended up not being mayonnaise. I'm fine with non-mayo spreads, but be clear about what you are. Their name is misleading IMO and makes you think that it is, well, mayonnaise. If that's the particular flavour you are going for and you get something else, well that annoying.
Dangerous levels of Apple fanboyism detected!
Seriously dude, if you think Apple "killed the floppy drive and gave us USB" you need to spend less time reading Apple fanboy posts and more time learning a bit about the history of tech and how people work.
With regards to USB, Intel gave us USB. To be more correct Compaq, DEC, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC, and Nortel gave us USB. Those are the companies that got together to design it. Intel being the biggest driving force. Intel then implemented USB on its southbridge chipsets, and required that motherboards using them implement the ports.
It did not take off because Apple put it on Macs. That didn't hurt, of course, but had Apple used it and nobody else cards, well it would have languished and died out. It took off because it was a useful port and implemented on everything.
As for floppies, Apple did nothing to kill them. Getting rid of them on Macs only annoyed Mac users and lead to a bunch of USB floppy sales. Floppies died of their own accord as file sizes grew, making them less suitable, and as much better alternatives became affordable, mostly USB flash drives. The vast majority of systems continued to shop with floppy drives for years after Apple "killed" it, defacto evidence they did not in fact "kill" them.
Seriously, fanboys need to stop giving Apple credit for everything under the sun, it just looks silly.
"Oh herbal medicine has been around for thousands of years. Indeed it has and then we tested it all and the stuff that worked became 'medicine' and the rest of it is just a nice bowl of soup and some potpourri."
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Your statement about pot curing cancer also has to be one of the stupidest, most easily disproven thoughts I've seen in awhile. Turns out that when people get cancer often they need help managing pain and apatite and marijuana DOES help with those, so a good portion use it. Guess what? They don't get cured. I've had two people close to me who got cancer and died, both who use marijuana to manage symptoms.
You dumbass potheads do more harm to getting it legalized than any of your opponents could by making shit up. The more you lie about what it actually does, how it actually works and the actual risks (yes there are risks, everything has risks) the less people are going to listen to you about the real benefits.
Grow up.
The only reason they are making any changes is because the FCC is considering doing something.
As a point for comparison where I live there are two cable providers, Cox and Comcast, covering different parts of the city. Cox has a data cap, but it is 2TB. Also that is a soft cap. If you hit it, nothing happens. They may call and complain at you if you do it too much, but that's all. It is there to try and keep people reasonable, and so they can cut off someone in truly egregious cases (I've never actually heard of anyone getting cut off).
Now somehow both these companies can make money, yet only Comcast charges for overages and yet has much lower caps.
It is just a money grab. While some kind of soft cap or throttling can be needed to make sure people play nice (we can only have Internet fast and cheap if people share, otherwise the backhaul is prohibitively expensive) low hard caps with overage fees are just used to try and make more cash.
Sure, it is done already. Problem is that it is line-of-sight only, easily interrupted by inclement weather, and has worse data rates due to the higher noise level you get as compared to having it in an isolated fibre.
Do those same techniques work on frequencies through all different mediums, or do they only work in the air? (this is a rhetorical question by the way).
Whatever you can get in the air, you can get more in a cable or fibre. Sorry, that is just how it is going to be. Find the fastest wireless technology on the market, and then compare it to what you can get over a copper or fibre. Do it at any given point in history, and you see that it is always behind.
There's a reason for that, and I gave the reason.
1) A PS3 is not a gaming PC, which is what we are talking about.
2) PCs go in to idle states BY DEFAULT, you have to work to turn them off. My PC, an exceptionally high powered one, idles at about 90 watts. A more normal PC idles at 50 or so. Not turning off, not suspending, not doing anything special. The processors normal C-states and throttling which are enabled by default.
3) You can turn your PC off. I do.
No.
Long answer?
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Sorry, but that pesky little Shannon's Law gets in the way. Fibre provides more frequency and better SNR than you'll get in the air, thus more bits. You can't get around physics.
Guy doesn't know anything about what he's talking about.
For one there is the newer thing as you note. Yes, newer stuff is more efficient. At a given performance target (FPS for a given scene complexity, number of MFlops, whatever) newer hardware is better than older stuff. Ok, fine but cost of always upgrading aside (something gamers do more than most people) there is the issue of energy of production. A large amount of human energy use goes in to making the stuff we use. If you want to save energy, a big part of it is buying less shit, trying to make stuff last longer. You don't see that energy cost directly, it is rolled in to the product, but it is very real.
Then there is the fact that, as you note, gamers tend to use better components anyhow. Like the PSU thing. The higher end the gamer, the better the PSU they tend to want and thus the more efficient it tends to be. I personally have an 80 Plus Platinum unit in my system because it was the highest efficiency, best built, longest lasting unit I could get my hands on. It was expensive, way more than most people are willing to pay for a PSU, but as a crazy gamer I'm ok with that.
Guy is just an idiot.