i have an octocore cpu for my main desktop, and the way windows makes it work is they park half the processors and randomly decides which ones to run and which to 'park' as you use it. it uses a larger die than old pcs with single core designs. it also uses less power than many computers i've owned, it idles including display power at 125 watts. and because of cpu parking it doesn't use more power unless you're really using a task that can utilize the full cpu on all 8 cores. it really is quite fast and has a very fast gpu too.
actually the ones i burn outlived all my pressed discs. all but 10 of 450 discs. hell they outlived the hardware they were burned on. and i got a pressed disc that delaminated in the box. i don't even store the media in dark airconditioned rooms if the heat is too high i have a window unit, but if it's below 75 i and my media tolerate it. i also know another guy who has at least as many discs with as little bitrot. 2-5 years hahaha i still have vhs tapes that never demagnatized or whatever they were supposed to do. though i am on my last vhs player. though to be honest we lost a few home movies when i converted them to dvd. i also had a vhs fail on me durring that painful process of digitizing data. i guess i am one of the luckies who don't lose files to bitrot. but i don't know a single person who has lost vast swathes of data because their only backup was optical (to be fair i use external hdds, flash media, and optical backups)
out of 450 discs burned since 4x cd-rs with gold/green era media i have lost data on less than 10 discs if you throw in failed verifed it's higher, but then that is what a tray cycle verify is for. it's actually better than my legacy pressed discs which are mostly games and cd magazines which have had a higher failure rate since my current computer can't play the games properly anymore. how did they survive so long? and the 10 failures were single track rot where the media failed partially from undetected failure to keep a discs writing layer sterile. i was still running a 486 when i got the first cd burner, and mp3s were the first files i ever put on a disc. so do i have magical powers that my optical media doesn't fail automatically after 10 years? nope, i even store the burned media on the spindles i bought them on except movie archives which get cd carry case with dust protection liners. my vhs tapes from that era aren't degraded either, though i am down to my last vhs player.
i use optical media for all the things it does best, like movies. i use flash media and drives for portability but since windows virus are transfered over usb drives i don't use flash for surgically sterile introduction of files. cd-r are the best for that. though i don't keep discs if they've touched a suspect system i was trying to recover files. i also only trust windows burned media on a linux or freebsd system where i can scan it (think vm) prior to restoring it.
yeah but fansubs are a community of people who have more time than money and they allow more people to enjoy the artwork, and in the case of anime it can resurect anime from the dead and give it new life, and are supposed to stop sharing when the official usa launch is announced. basically fansubs are unpaid critics of anime and do a better job letting their community know which anime to buy when it hits. fansubs are not restricted to the anime fans, and there are torrenters who ignore the 'until usa launch' but in general fansub communities are a good thing for most studios, the movies tolerated fan subs because nobody wanted to be the first to be making enemies among vocal fans of their products. but technically yes, fansubs are 'piracy' of content. but if you want to mention it, everything from tapes, cds, radios, dvds, blurays, vhs, betamax, tivo, piratebay etc all make piracy easy, which is why copyright is an epic fail. everything the customer wants to do with the technology is 'bad' and there is no way to stop someone from learning how to get access if they are determined not to pay. how much of microsofts user base use pirating tools? who made the most money off this? how much overlap in technology is there between 'real' users vs piracy? it is not easy.
"There is no way that anybody can read them." tell that to a linux kernel, i'm running a vm with several cores and 7233 bogomips. 7 billion instructions per second that is suitably fast enough to read and understand the meaning of the words spewing out of Washington.
i read the fine article and he was working on software that finds flaws called a fuzzer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing with the eminent arrival of computer intelligence software that automatically detects and rewrites zero day exploits is soon at hand. then it will be systemically used against everyone at the speed of light to all spheres with computers on them thorough the entire galaxy. just look at modern game engines, if a simple chip or two lets you run a complex 3-d world with billions of operations, well imagine the same machine taking control of computers of all types.. and deciding if those machines can still operate... i for one welcome our new robotic overlords as long as i can play planetary annihilation.
i know quite a few people who use noscript. they all swear by it, and when forced to live without it they get cranky. an you better believe if a hacker could hack them they would because they have high social networking groups and if malware got on their feed many many people would blindly follow the link and then blame the people i know (sorta know acquaintances really)
'Or are you too dumb not to question why a company that makes the CPUs and retina displays for Apple can't use them in their own product line."
first off there are patents, which both accuse the other of violating, next of all there is the fact that ios doesn't come with 'knowing' how to make the parts, which you claim samsung doesn't know despite making them. of course the agreement to not reuse apple tech is needed because well we all know how the government feels about patents and trademarks. especially in china where most of apple's product line is made...
personally i call prior art, on tablets as st tng used them heavily...
i loved total annihilation i am ok with supreme commander and am looking forward to planetary annihilation. though i won't pay $90 to have alpha access. especially since the youtube bloggers seem to crash in their demos of the game.
i require medication as i have a mental illness, and while the meds make me able to do some things better, the illness had me convinced that there was a virus and i couldn't detect it. at the time i could only sell it... to appease my paranoia.
a 50 gb bluray is a little over 10 4.7 gb dvds. if you're playing $20 for 100, that is paying $2 for the same storage as 1 $3.6 bluray dl because of how close the bluray pits are, a 6x burn is about an hour for a dual layer, more if verification of burn is done. and btw single layer blurays (25gb) are $30 for 25 discs or $1.2 per media http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817130156 that is $2.4 per 50 gb worth of data, or 4 cents more per dvd in terms of storage cost. and dvds have delamination issues while bluray has it's layers at the bottom of the disc. allowing a standard cdr style blank. i said it was affordable and it is i didn't say it was cheaper rather that it is affordable. well worth it trying to find files on a spindle of dvds when a fraction of the plastic can hold way more data per resource. but 9 nm laser media is impressive if it gets developed and works as promised.
so many people bash ati but i ran a gaming rig for 5 trouble free years though eventually when i was convinced it was viraly infected (despite concrete proof of it being fine) so i sold it. problem fixed. i had previously dealt with 2-3 ati aiw cards that the systems installed in them became 'obsolete' never any crash issues. i bought one asus nvidia card and the heatsink wasn't even touching the gpu bolted on the card. cause everyone was saying 'go nvidia' the 5 year fine system was the one that got the ati gpu because asus doesn't warrenty their products. sick that people think it is such a great company when you can't even rma devices. though i did forgive nvidia, but never asus they burned me twice on hardware and there will never be a third time.
the license for renting movies out is not that simple.
i have seen highly compressed discs that fit 4 movies a single layer dvd in theory a dual layer bluray can do better by 9x or 36 movies if this new disc is 1 petabyte is equal to 20,971.52 dual layer bluray or 754,974.72 high compression movies per disc. full hd obviously isn't nearly as many movies from tfa 50,000. for 4k, 300gb is a normal encode size for a 90 minute movie so 3,500 movies per petabyte. still not bad. but lets face it, this technology won't pan out, who is going to compress 1 petabyte of movies besides pirates and archivers hoping to preserve the past. optical media has annoying problems with archive if dust scratches or media rot occur and you were using a single optical backup you could lose a lot of movies with ease. i lost a small segment of my music (classical from pressed cds) and when i checked the backup there was damage to the media and i lost a few songs. also i've noticed that burned cdr like for linux aren't guaranteed to work if you order from cheap disc burning operations.
so i think the only way this tech is going to fly is if someone invests into doing it. and without a demo unit it's not going to fly, too many scams in optical disc storage
some people want the whole cookie isle instead of one bag of cookies. i will explain. home computers have changed a lot of things, i remember i was not rich enough to buy games (barely paid rent) so i rented them, but i really wanted something nobody had introduced then, unlimited game rentals for a flat fee. today we have a legal option like gamefly who offers to sell pc and console games by download, with certain titles as 'unlimited play' the drm is still in the games though. and since some of that calls home once installed its an ugly mess still. it is more legal than going on pirate bay and downloading a ton of stuff without permission to do so. i really love gamefly kids don't have to resort to illegal downloads, they don't need mod chips, they don't need emulators, and they don't need to play freemium games(eww) my parents let me buy a magazine for my nintendo playing before we had internet and gamefaqs.com i am sure if tech had evolved faster i would have been aww screw netflix i want gamefly... though now i subscribe to both. so i think gamers want lots of games so they can ignore the dumb ones and find the neat ones worth playing. humble bundle does that nicely as a pay what you want deal there and gamefly for AAA caliber console games cheap with no due dates. and some games on pc by drmed download the whole game. sometmes i see steam games cheaper on gamefly even though for steam games gamefly gives you a redemption code for steam. though some times i wish i had been rich enough to own a copy of every game for a particular console. but i don't need to pirate games now that i have gamefly. and netflix is great, i don't rent or buy movies if it's not special.
"Ionizing radiation includes both subatomic particles of matter moving at relativistic speeds and electromagnetic waves on the short wavelength end of the electromagnetic spectrum. Common particles include alpha particles, beta particles, neutrons, and various other particles such as mesons that constitute cosmic rays.[2][3][1] Electromagnetic waves are ionizing if their wavelength is short enough that the photons have enough energy to ionize. Gamma rays, X-rays, and the upper vacuum ultraviolet part of the ultraviolet spectrum are ionizing, while the lower ultraviolet, visible light (including laser light), infrared, microwaves and radio waves are considered non-ionizing radiation" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionizing_radiation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_radiation_syndrome so an xray weapon would easily be able to cause radiation sickness. while explaining why sunlight can cause sunburn but why beach goers don't all keel over from being in the sunlight. i was surprised that microwaves aren't ionizing rads since they are often referred to as cooking from the insides...it helps that the earth has a magnetic pole since that sweeps away most of the bad radiation, by deflecting it to the poles.
if they cared about safety then this would be possible to implement in NFC mode to the officers laptop, and should not require 'thumbing' through a phone. if a Samsung phone can sync playlists with a tap to initiate NFC then they can use some timestamp and duration logs the phone keeps for billing use.
however they don't care they want cops 'flipping through' phones for innocent seeming uses, to bust people for breaking laws. sorry I don't have a positive stance on this. in a perfect world they would do a lot of things differently. but a society where ads show people using handhelds to sync music, but cannot use the same tech for law enforcement is sad.
just guessing but google search tools send the data in the clear unless you manually type the 'https' for it. oops lotta data being shipped there and as you type one character at a time to any search engine it is going in the clear, and google tries to anticipate your search.
the human brain uses between 12 and 20 watts, despite rumours of some people being 'smarter' than others the hardware varies very little, and it's simply a matter of efficiency at tasks being given to it. so really a 'smart' person isn't 'wired differently' its just they didn't motivate themselves the way people who memorized things in school. and google isn't using hardware that can compete with real nurons. illusionists are so amazing because they know that people are designed to throw away data very fast and see what the illusionist wants them to see rather than what their brains threw away with no reguard to values. i know exactly how stupid people are because i've been there thinking i was smarter because i could do well in school. if we wipe ourselves out i know why, because we couldn't get past thinking ourselves greater than we are.
with a kernel that doesn't support (my) wifi hardware when ubuntu does. lubuntu is plenty light weight for my hardware too. android runs fine on my phone and tablet too, i have a gaming desktop and that is windows 7, but despite steam for linux gaming just isn't the same.
ubuntu is still way better nomatter what distrowatch says.
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i have an octocore cpu for my main desktop, and the way windows makes it work is they park half the processors and randomly decides which ones to run and which to 'park' as you use it. it uses a larger die than old pcs with single core designs. it also uses less power than many computers i've owned, it idles including display power at 125 watts. and because of cpu parking it doesn't use more power unless you're really using a task that can utilize the full cpu on all 8 cores. it really is quite fast and has a very fast gpu too.
actually the ones i burn outlived all my pressed discs. all but 10 of 450 discs. hell they outlived the hardware they were burned on. and i got a pressed disc that delaminated in the box. i don't even store the media in dark airconditioned rooms if the heat is too high i have a window unit, but if it's below 75 i and my media tolerate it. i also know another guy who has at least as many discs with as little bitrot. 2-5 years hahaha i still have vhs tapes that never demagnatized or whatever they were supposed to do. though i am on my last vhs player. though to be honest we lost a few home movies when i converted them to dvd. i also had a vhs fail on me durring that painful process of digitizing data. i guess i am one of the luckies who don't lose files to bitrot. but i don't know a single person who has lost vast swathes of data because their only backup was optical (to be fair i use external hdds, flash media, and optical backups)
out of 450 discs burned since 4x cd-rs with gold/green era media i have lost data on less than 10 discs if you throw in failed verifed it's higher, but then that is what a tray cycle verify is for. it's actually better than my legacy pressed discs which are mostly games and cd magazines which have had a higher failure rate since my current computer can't play the games properly anymore. how did they survive so long? and the 10 failures were single track rot where the media failed partially from undetected failure to keep a discs writing layer sterile. i was still running a 486 when i got the first cd burner, and mp3s were the first files i ever put on a disc. so do i have magical powers that my optical media doesn't fail automatically after 10 years? nope, i even store the burned media on the spindles i bought them on except movie archives which get cd carry case with dust protection liners. my vhs tapes from that era aren't degraded either, though i am down to my last vhs player.
i use optical media for all the things it does best, like movies. i use flash media and drives for portability but since windows virus are transfered over usb drives i don't use flash for surgically sterile introduction of files. cd-r are the best for that. though i don't keep discs if they've touched a suspect system i was trying to recover files. i also only trust windows burned media on a linux or freebsd system where i can scan it (think vm) prior to restoring it.
http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0219-fair-credit-billing here is the link for the laws being violated in your instance.
i noticed alienware has the choice of ubuntu -- alienware is owned by dell and is their 'gaming' model line http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-x51-r2/pd.aspx
yeah but fansubs are a community of people who have more time than money and they allow more people to enjoy the artwork, and in the case of anime it can resurect anime from the dead and give it new life, and are supposed to stop sharing when the official usa launch is announced. basically fansubs are unpaid critics of anime and do a better job letting their community know which anime to buy when it hits. fansubs are not restricted to the anime fans, and there are torrenters who ignore the 'until usa launch' but in general fansub communities are a good thing for most studios, the movies tolerated fan subs because nobody wanted to be the first to be making enemies among vocal fans of their products. but technically yes, fansubs are 'piracy' of content. but if you want to mention it, everything from tapes, cds, radios, dvds, blurays, vhs, betamax, tivo, piratebay etc all make piracy easy, which is why copyright is an epic fail. everything the customer wants to do with the technology is 'bad' and there is no way to stop someone from learning how to get access if they are determined not to pay. how much of microsofts user base use pirating tools? who made the most money off this? how much overlap in technology is there between 'real' users vs piracy? it is not easy.
"There is no way that anybody can read them."
tell that to a linux kernel, i'm running a vm with several cores and 7233 bogomips. 7 billion instructions per second that is suitably fast enough to read and understand the meaning of the words spewing out of Washington.
i read the fine article and he was working on software that finds flaws called a fuzzer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing
with the eminent arrival of computer intelligence software that automatically detects and rewrites zero day exploits is soon at hand. then it will be systemically used against everyone at the speed of light to all spheres with computers on them thorough the entire galaxy. just look at modern game engines, if a simple chip or two lets you run a complex 3-d world with billions of operations, well imagine the same machine taking control of computers of all types.. and deciding if those machines can still operate...
i for one welcome our new robotic overlords as long as i can play planetary annihilation.
i know quite a few people who use noscript. they all swear by it, and when forced to live without it they get cranky. an you better believe if a hacker could hack them they would because they have high social networking groups and if malware got on their feed many many people would blindly follow the link and then blame the people i know (sorta know acquaintances really)
'Or are you too dumb not to question why a company that makes the CPUs and retina displays for Apple can't use them in their own product line."
first off there are patents, which both accuse the other of violating, next of all there is the fact that ios doesn't come with 'knowing' how to make the parts, which you claim samsung doesn't know despite making them. of course the agreement to not reuse apple tech is needed because well we all know how the government feels about patents and trademarks. especially in china where most of apple's product line is made...
personally i call prior art, on tablets as st tng used them heavily...
you apparently don't shop online much because http://3btech.net/deop745smfof3.html is still new xp hardware, albeit a $89 pc.
i loved total annihilation i am ok with supreme commander and am looking forward to planetary annihilation. though i won't pay $90 to have alpha access. especially since the youtube bloggers seem to crash in their demos of the game.
i require medication as i have a mental illness, and while the meds make me able to do some things better, the illness had me convinced that there was a virus and i couldn't detect it. at the time i could only sell it... to appease my paranoia.
a 50 gb bluray is a little over 10 4.7 gb dvds. if you're playing $20 for 100, that is paying $2 for the same storage as 1 $3.6 bluray dl because of how close the bluray pits are, a 6x burn is about an hour for a dual layer, more if verification of burn is done. and btw single layer blurays (25gb) are $30 for 25 discs or $1.2 per media http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817130156 that is $2.4 per 50 gb worth of data, or 4 cents more per dvd in terms of storage cost. and dvds have delamination issues while bluray has it's layers at the bottom of the disc. allowing a standard cdr style blank. i said it was affordable and it is i didn't say it was cheaper rather that it is affordable. well worth it trying to find files on a spindle of dvds when a fraction of the plastic can hold way more data per resource. but 9 nm laser media is impressive if it gets developed and works as promised.
so many people bash ati but i ran a gaming rig for 5 trouble free years though eventually when i was convinced it was viraly infected (despite concrete proof of it being fine) so i sold it. problem fixed. i had previously dealt with 2-3 ati aiw cards that the systems installed in them became 'obsolete' never any crash issues. i bought one asus nvidia card and the heatsink wasn't even touching the gpu bolted on the card. cause everyone was saying 'go nvidia' the 5 year fine system was the one that got the ati gpu because asus doesn't warrenty their products. sick that people think it is such a great company when you can't even rma devices. though i did forgive nvidia, but never asus they burned me twice on hardware and there will never be a third time.
50 gb bluray are affordable. i have a 10 spindle of them they cost $36 or $3.6 per blank http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817607055
the license for renting movies out is not that simple.
i have seen highly compressed discs that fit 4 movies a single layer dvd in theory a dual layer bluray can do better by 9x or 36 movies if this new disc is 1 petabyte is equal to 20,971.52 dual layer bluray or 754,974.72 high compression movies per disc. full hd obviously isn't nearly as many movies from tfa 50,000. for 4k, 300gb is a normal encode size for a 90 minute movie so 3,500 movies per petabyte. still not bad. but lets face it, this technology won't pan out, who is going to compress 1 petabyte of movies besides pirates and archivers hoping to preserve the past. optical media has annoying problems with archive if dust scratches or media rot occur and you were using a single optical backup you could lose a lot of movies with ease. i lost a small segment of my music (classical from pressed cds) and when i checked the backup there was damage to the media and i lost a few songs. also i've noticed that burned cdr like for linux aren't guaranteed to work if you order from cheap disc burning operations.
so i think the only way this tech is going to fly is if someone invests into doing it. and without a demo unit it's not going to fly, too many scams in optical disc storage
eink display ftw? since it's not flickering it cant cause issues. it's cheap enough, but color versions are still in infancy.
some people want the whole cookie isle instead of one bag of cookies. i will explain.
home computers have changed a lot of things, i remember i was not rich enough to buy games (barely paid rent) so i rented them, but i really wanted something nobody had introduced then, unlimited game rentals for a flat fee. today we have a legal option like gamefly who offers to sell pc and console games by download, with certain titles as 'unlimited play' the drm is still in the games though. and since some of that calls home once installed its an ugly mess still. it is more legal than going on pirate bay and downloading a ton of stuff without permission to do so.
i really love gamefly kids don't have to resort to illegal downloads, they don't need mod chips, they don't need emulators, and they don't need to play freemium games(eww)
my parents let me buy a magazine for my nintendo playing before we had internet and gamefaqs.com i am sure if tech had evolved faster i would have been aww screw netflix i want gamefly... though now i subscribe to both.
so i think gamers want lots of games so they can ignore the dumb ones and find the neat ones worth playing. humble bundle does that nicely as a pay what you want deal there and gamefly for AAA caliber console games cheap with no due dates. and some games on pc by drmed download the whole game. sometmes i see steam games cheaper on gamefly even though for steam games gamefly gives you a redemption code for steam.
though some times i wish i had been rich enough to own a copy of every game for a particular console. but i don't need to pirate games now that i have gamefly. and netflix is great, i don't rent or buy movies if it's not special.
"Ionizing radiation includes both subatomic particles of matter moving at relativistic speeds and electromagnetic waves on the short wavelength end of the electromagnetic spectrum. Common particles include alpha particles, beta particles, neutrons, and various other particles such as mesons that constitute cosmic rays.[2][3][1] Electromagnetic waves are ionizing if their wavelength is short enough that the photons have enough energy to ionize. Gamma rays, X-rays, and the upper vacuum ultraviolet part of the ultraviolet spectrum are ionizing, while the lower ultraviolet, visible light (including laser light), infrared, microwaves and radio waves are considered non-ionizing radiation"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionizing_radiation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acute_radiation_syndrome
so an xray weapon would easily be able to cause radiation sickness. while explaining why sunlight can cause sunburn but why beach goers don't all keel over from being in the sunlight. i was surprised that microwaves aren't ionizing rads since they are often referred to as cooking from the insides...it helps that the earth has a magnetic pole since that sweeps away most of the bad radiation, by deflecting it to the poles.
if they cared about safety then this would be possible to implement in NFC mode to the officers laptop, and should not require 'thumbing' through a phone. if a Samsung phone can sync playlists with a tap to initiate NFC then they can use some timestamp and duration logs the phone keeps for billing use.
however they don't care they want cops 'flipping through' phones for innocent seeming uses, to bust people for breaking laws. sorry I don't have a positive stance on this. in a perfect world they would do a lot of things differently. but a society where ads show people using handhelds to sync music, but cannot use the same tech for law enforcement is sad.
just guessing but google search tools send the data in the clear unless you manually type the 'https' for it. oops lotta data being shipped there and as you type one character at a time to any search engine it is going in the clear, and google tries to anticipate your search.
i second the use of a kickstarter group.
the human brain uses between 12 and 20 watts, despite rumours of some people being 'smarter' than others the hardware varies very little, and it's simply a matter of efficiency at tasks being given to it. so really a 'smart' person isn't 'wired differently' its just they didn't motivate themselves the way people who memorized things in school.
and google isn't using hardware that can compete with real nurons. illusionists are so amazing because they know that people are designed to throw away data very fast and see what the illusionist wants them to see rather than what their brains threw away with no reguard to values.
i know exactly how stupid people are because i've been there thinking i was smarter because i could do well in school. if we wipe ourselves out i know why, because we couldn't get past thinking ourselves greater than we are.
with a kernel that doesn't support (my) wifi hardware when ubuntu does. lubuntu is plenty light weight for my hardware too. android runs fine on my phone and tablet too, i have a gaming desktop and that is windows 7, but despite steam for linux gaming just isn't the same.
ubuntu is still way better nomatter what distrowatch says.