You have already been proven wrong multiple times. The passengers of United 93 had just scraps of information about what was likely going to happen to them, yet they chose to try to take back the plane from the hijackers. In both the "shoe bomber" and "underwear bomber" cases, passengers were instrumental in taking out the threat. Most people know now that the most likely outcome of a terrorist taking control of a plane is that they are all going to die, so they will do whatever it takes to prevent that once the threat is identified.
Sure, there are going to be plenty of sheeple who are going to be paralyzed with fear and wet their pants instead of taking action. Those are probably the same ones who thought that having their genitals groped and scanned was going to keep them safe.
Anybody working in IT knows that when we say we don't have enough time, most often we fucking mean it.
The problem is not how we use time, the problem is the goddamn Scotty Effect. Clueless project managers and executives just look at us and assume:
1) We are lying. 2) We are padding our time estimates to look good. 3) It's easier than what we are saying it is 4) IT are a bunch of whiny overpaid bitches and why have we not outsourced this to India yet?
So maybe someone who owns a Kindle or a Nook can answer me something that has bugged me for a while: Why on earth do these things appear to have screensavers? By changing the image when the machine is idle, doesn't a screensaver actually drain the battery where normally there would be no drain at all? Does an e-ink screen really need to be "saved" (i.e. will it burn out/burn in)?
As far as I can tell from my Kindle, there is no need to "save the screen". It is simply providing a visual indication that it has entered a mode where button presses will be ignored - which is nice since a few inadvertent clicks can cause you to lose your place in whatever you are reading. The power consumed to throw up an image when it goes into this state is pretty negligible, and I believe it offsets that by going into a lower power mode for the wireless connection while in this state. The only way to get out of this state is to activate a slider switch, so there's little to no risk of accidentally flipping pages due to it getting jostled around in a backpack.
That said, I really with it had the ability to increase the time-out or disable the screen saver entirely since I use my Kindle for displaying approach plates while flying and it is really aggravating when I'm in the middle of an approach and it decides to show me a picture of Jane Austen instead of the route that I'm flying.
And realistically, wouldn't a paper ballot and a pencil be the first federally certified voting system?
Not really. There was no federal certification program until the EAC and no uniform standards. The states are basically free to make up their own rules. Delaware might decide to require everybody to vote using red crayons and the feds don't have any say.
It's my personal theory that no matter how much scientific evidence is thrown in their face, the right wingers will continue to shut their eyes, plug their ears, and pretend that they can consume as many resources as they want, indefinitely, with no consequences.
The article isn't complaining about anything, it's simply pointing out the obvious: that extracting massive amounts of engery from any terrestrial source is going to have some effect on the Earth's ecosystem.
And yes, humanity is causing an impact on the environment. Duh. That's life on Earth.
IANAE, but maybe their protests that we're destroying the environment has more to do with trying to make sure we manage limited resources so that our way of life won't abruptly run off of the proverbial cliff someday. But no, I'm sure they really just doing it to "derive power" because they personally don't like your way of life. That makes much more sense.
Who cares which is the better Catholic? I thought we were voting for a president, not an altar boy.
Bush has been in office for four years and hasn't saved any fetuses as far as I can tell. However, he has sent many young men and women to their death unnecessarily.
I suppose he might get a chance to replace a supreme court justice if he's re-elected, but the cost to the long-term American economy and foreign relations will be catastrophic.
I'm a registered republican who believes in fiscal discipline, individual liberty, and small government. The current administration is the most fiscally irresponsible, liberty-eroding, and government-increasing group of idiots imaginable. Mortgaging the future of the entire country in the hopes of stacking the supreme court for one issue is foolish.
Try reading the content of his speeches instead of listening to them. He is not stupid, but he is a terrible public speaker and he comes across as such.
That just proves that his speech-writers aren't stupid.
On an on-site call about fifteen years ago, I told a clueless yet very inquisitive (i.e. annoying) lady that the belt had been slipping on her data bus, causing her computer to crash. She was much relieved when I told her it was no problem for me to tighten it back up.
I have no recollection what the real problem was, but whenever her computer would crash after that, she would call and tell me her data belt was slipping again.
For a CMOS-based processor, there are two main components to power: switching and leakage. Switching power generally dominates, though with lower voltage processes, leakage current is getting troublesome.
At any rate, the typical way to calculate power for a processor is using the equation P = C*V^2*f
Where C = the average amount of capacitance that has to switch state (e.g. a 1 switching to a 0) on each cycle, V = the supply voltage, and f = the number of cycles per second (frequency).
So lowering the voltage is a very good way to reduce power on a processor. And yes, this directly causes the amount of current required by the device to be reduced. Your reasoning that lowered voltage might cause reduced battery life is specious.
The problem with lower voltage processes is that the switching times of the transistors slows down dramatically (i.e. it won't run as fast). To combat that, the threshold voltage of the transistors has to be reduced, which increases leakage current exponentially.
Sure it can last. AMD can just buy the capacity they need from Intel since they sure won't be using all of those fabs.
On a more serious note...Intel is going to be in a world of hurt in the next few years. Their design teams are falling apart amidst infighting, politics, and brain drain. I worked there for years and still know tons of people on the lead design teams... most of whom are longing for a job off of the sinking iTanic.
People tend to forget that one solid volcanic eruption puts out more CFCs than all of human industry ever has.
I don't think that's quite accurate. Volcanos can emit quite a bit of HCl and sulfate aerosols. The latter tend to amplify the effects of human-generated CFCs. Check out this link
Intel never released their AudioPort product, which was an MP3 player that connected to your home stereo system to play audio files served up over WiFi or ethernet from a Windows-based server process running on your home PC. It would have been a sweet product if it hadn't been killed during one of Intel's slash-and-burn campaigns.
I managed to get hold of a beta model and tried to set it up at home. The server software running on the PC was flakey at best. It would randomly become unresponsive, making the whole thing pretty useless. The developers obviously never got a chance to really finish the software.
So out came the network traffic analyzer. I figured out that the stereo component was running a Linux image provided from the PC server over BOOTP/TFTP. I don't want to think about how many hours I spent figuring out the sequence of start-up messages required to get the device fully booted. Once it's booted, the protocol for controlling the stereo component is pretty simple: one control channel for sending play/stop requests and a data channel to send the MP3 data for it to decode.
Once I had learned all of that, it was pretty straightforward to set up BOOTP/TFTP on my Linux box and write my own server application which handles the rest of the boot sequence and allows me to send MP3s from my collection to the stereo on command. I've got a Perl script that I can use to talk with my server to send it playlists, sub-trees of my collection, or individual songs.
I've got a cron job running that sends a couple of random songs to my stereo every morning to wake me up. Another cron job plays something out of my "Garbage" collection every Monday night to remind me to take out the trash.
I got tired of always using the command line, so I created a plug-in for XMMS that causes it to send songs to my stereo instead of playing them on my PC.
I'm currently working on a Java-based GUI for it so my wife can control the stereo from her Windows laptop instead of having to bug me to play music for her.
I suppose there's something out there that I could purchase for $200-$300 that would let me do all of this without all of the hassle, but it's been a fun project.
Intel started working on this years ago, but it got hushed up due to political issues between the Itanic team and the Prescott team. It's gotta be Opteron compatible at this point. If Intel management hadn't been stupid, then they could have announced their own x86-64 and put the hurt on AMD. At this point, their only option is to "embrace and extend".
How about some whining from a real hardware designer?
I used to work at Intel designing micros, and I can assure you that there are several highly-qualified and brilliant people in the microprocessor architecture and design teams. Unfortunately, Intel management directed them to trade performance for MHz about seven years ago and now they're finally paying for that foolishness. Lots of really good people have either left the company or drifted away from the project teams to the labs.
Most of the people that I know who work or worked on the Prescott team say that it was probably the worst managed project ever at Intel. Take two (rival) divisions and tell them to work together, combine that with a design-by-committee mentality, and throw in a completely unreasonable schedule (imagine being in "crunch mode" for 2 years straight).
Intel has succeeded in staying ahead by virtue of brute force. They have the resources to make diving save after diving save. The manufacturing and process engineers are unbelievably resourceful. The Northwood team has saved their bacon for the past two years as Prescott has missed deadline after deadline. It will be interesting to see if the behemoth can change its course and use its huge amount of engineering talent more efficiently in the future.
99.2% of Democrats and Republicans put the percent sign after the number. Libertarians point to this as another indication that "both parties are essentially identical".
I fail to see how Itanium could have caused anybody other than Intel that much damage. The thing has already cost them untold millions and how many have they sold? A few thousand? How many people do you know that have one of these. There must be a reason it's called the Itanic inside of Intel.
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I think you meant 50 hours.
You have already been proven wrong multiple times. The passengers of United 93 had just scraps of information about what was likely going to happen to them, yet they chose to try to take back the plane from the hijackers. In both the "shoe bomber" and "underwear bomber" cases, passengers were instrumental in taking out the threat. Most people know now that the most likely outcome of a terrorist taking control of a plane is that they are all going to die, so they will do whatever it takes to prevent that once the threat is identified.
Sure, there are going to be plenty of sheeple who are going to be paralyzed with fear and wet their pants instead of taking action. Those are probably the same ones who thought that having their genitals groped and scanned was going to keep them safe.
Ohhhh... BullSHIT. Total Bullshit.
Anybody working in IT knows that when we say we don't have enough time, most often we fucking mean it.
The problem is not how we use time, the problem is the goddamn Scotty Effect. Clueless project managers and executives just look at us and assume:
1) We are lying.
2) We are padding our time estimates to look good.
3) It's easier than what we are saying it is
4) IT are a bunch of whiny overpaid bitches and why have we not outsourced this to India yet?
5) We spend much of our day reading Slashdot.
Maybe not since Verizon already allows up to four or five devices to share a 3G connection for free if you have one of the newer Palm phones.
So maybe someone who owns a Kindle or a Nook can answer me something that has bugged me for a while: Why on earth do these things appear to have screensavers? By changing the image when the machine is idle, doesn't a screensaver actually drain the battery where normally there would be no drain at all? Does an e-ink screen really need to be "saved" (i.e. will it burn out/burn in)?
As far as I can tell from my Kindle, there is no need to "save the screen". It is simply providing a visual indication that it has entered a mode where button presses will be ignored - which is nice since a few inadvertent clicks can cause you to lose your place in whatever you are reading. The power consumed to throw up an image when it goes into this state is pretty negligible, and I believe it offsets that by going into a lower power mode for the wireless connection while in this state. The only way to get out of this state is to activate a slider switch, so there's little to no risk of accidentally flipping pages due to it getting jostled around in a backpack.
That said, I really with it had the ability to increase the time-out or disable the screen saver entirely since I use my Kindle for displaying approach plates while flying and it is really aggravating when I'm in the middle of an approach and it decides to show me a picture of Jane Austen instead of the route that I'm flying.
Not really. There was no federal certification program until the EAC and no uniform standards. The states are basically free to make up their own rules. Delaware might decide to require everybody to vote using red crayons and the feds don't have any say.
Change the 6 to 255 because that's the year 512 / 2 - 1.
If you go to http://85.255.210.131/ the page says "yes"
So it's YOU who has been calling us over and over again. Please don't call me back until you stop blocking ports.
... then I will leave and find a better government
I don't think that's allowed any more.
Uh, Intel's stock ticker is INTC, and the last six months have been pretty decent.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=INTC&t=6m
Er, that's Bryce Canyon
It's my personal theory that no matter how much scientific evidence is thrown in their face, the right wingers will continue to shut their eyes, plug their ears, and pretend that they can consume as many resources as they want, indefinitely, with no consequences.
The article isn't complaining about anything, it's simply pointing out the obvious: that extracting massive amounts of engery from any terrestrial source is going to have some effect on the Earth's ecosystem.
And yes, humanity is causing an impact on the environment. Duh. That's life on Earth.
IANAE, but maybe their protests that we're destroying the environment has more to do with trying to make sure we manage limited resources so that our way of life won't abruptly run off of the proverbial cliff someday. But no, I'm sure they really just doing it to "derive power" because they personally don't like your way of life. That makes much more sense.
Who cares which is the better Catholic? I thought we were voting for a president, not an altar boy.
Bush has been in office for four years and hasn't saved any fetuses as far as I can tell. However, he has sent many young men and women to their death unnecessarily.
I suppose he might get a chance to replace a supreme court justice if he's re-elected, but the cost to the long-term American economy and foreign relations will be catastrophic.
I'm a registered republican who believes in fiscal discipline, individual liberty, and small government. The current administration is the most fiscally irresponsible, liberty-eroding, and government-increasing group of idiots imaginable. Mortgaging the future of the entire country in the hopes of stacking the supreme court for one issue is foolish.
Try reading the content of his speeches instead of listening to them. He is not stupid, but he is a terrible public speaker and he comes across as such.
That just proves that his speech-writers aren't stupid.
On an on-site call about fifteen years ago, I told a clueless yet very inquisitive (i.e. annoying) lady that the belt had been slipping on her data bus, causing her computer to crash. She was much relieved when I told her it was no problem for me to tighten it back up.
I have no recollection what the real problem was, but whenever her computer would crash after that, she would call and tell me her data belt was slipping again.
For a CMOS-based processor, there are two main components to power: switching and leakage. Switching power generally dominates, though with lower voltage processes, leakage current is getting troublesome.
At any rate, the typical way to calculate power for a processor is using the equation P = C*V^2*f
Where C = the average amount of capacitance that has to switch state (e.g. a 1 switching to a 0) on each cycle, V = the supply voltage, and f = the number of cycles per second (frequency).
So lowering the voltage is a very good way to reduce power on a processor. And yes, this directly causes the amount of current required by the device to be reduced. Your reasoning that lowered voltage might cause reduced battery life is specious.
The problem with lower voltage processes is that the switching times of the transistors slows down dramatically (i.e. it won't run as fast). To combat that, the threshold voltage of the transistors has to be reduced, which increases leakage current exponentially.
Sure it can last. AMD can just buy the capacity they need from Intel since they sure won't be using all of those fabs.
On a more serious note...Intel is going to be in a world of hurt in the next few years. Their design teams are falling apart amidst infighting, politics, and brain drain. I worked there for years and still know tons of people on the lead design teams... most of whom are longing for a job off of the sinking iTanic.
You exploding when the batteries in your transmitter wear out: pretty damn funny.
License plate rules are by state. Here in Oregon you only get six characters plus an optional space. Bleah.
I don't think that's quite accurate. Volcanos can emit quite a bit of HCl and sulfate aerosols. The latter tend to amplify the effects of human-generated CFCs. Check out this link
Intel never released their AudioPort product, which was an MP3 player that connected to your home stereo system to play audio files served up over WiFi or ethernet from a Windows-based server process running on your home PC. It would have been a sweet product if it hadn't been killed during one of Intel's slash-and-burn campaigns.
I managed to get hold of a beta model and tried to set it up at home. The server software running on the PC was flakey at best. It would randomly become unresponsive, making the whole thing pretty useless. The developers obviously never got a chance to really finish the software.
So out came the network traffic analyzer. I figured out that the stereo component was running a Linux image provided from the PC server over BOOTP/TFTP. I don't want to think about how many hours I spent figuring out the sequence of start-up messages required to get the device fully booted. Once it's booted, the protocol for controlling the stereo component is pretty simple: one control channel for sending play/stop requests and a data channel to send the MP3 data for it to decode.
Once I had learned all of that, it was pretty straightforward to set up BOOTP/TFTP on my Linux box and write my own server application which handles the rest of the boot sequence and allows me to send MP3s from my collection to the stereo on command. I've got a Perl script that I can use to talk with my server to send it playlists, sub-trees of my collection, or individual songs.
I've got a cron job running that sends a couple of random songs to my stereo every morning to wake me up. Another cron job plays something out of my "Garbage" collection every Monday night to remind me to take out the trash.
I got tired of always using the command line, so I created a plug-in for XMMS that causes it to send songs to my stereo instead of playing them on my PC.
I'm currently working on a Java-based GUI for it so my wife can control the stereo from her Windows laptop instead of having to bug me to play music for her.
I suppose there's something out there that I could purchase for $200-$300 that would let me do all of this without all of the hassle, but it's been a fun project.
Intel started working on this years ago, but it got hushed up due to political issues between the Itanic team and the Prescott team. It's gotta be Opteron compatible at this point. If Intel management hadn't been stupid, then they could have announced their own x86-64 and put the hurt on AMD. At this point, their only option is to "embrace and extend".
How about some whining from a real hardware designer?
I used to work at Intel designing micros, and I can assure you that there are several highly-qualified and brilliant people in the microprocessor architecture and design teams. Unfortunately, Intel management directed them to trade performance for MHz about seven years ago and now they're finally paying for that foolishness. Lots of really good people have either left the company or drifted away from the project teams to the labs.
Most of the people that I know who work or worked on the Prescott team say that it was probably the worst managed project ever at Intel. Take two (rival) divisions and tell them to work together, combine that with a design-by-committee mentality, and throw in a completely unreasonable schedule (imagine being in "crunch mode" for 2 years straight).
Intel has succeeded in staying ahead by virtue of brute force. They have the resources to make diving save after diving save. The manufacturing and process engineers are unbelievably resourceful. The Northwood team has saved their bacon for the past two years as Prescott has missed deadline after deadline. It will be interesting to see if the behemoth can change its course and use its huge amount of engineering talent more efficiently in the future.
This just in from the polls...
99.2% of Democrats and Republicans put the percent sign after the number. Libertarians point to this as another indication that "both parties are essentially identical".
I fail to see how Itanium could have caused anybody other than Intel that much damage. The thing has already cost them untold millions and how many have they sold? A few thousand? How many people do you know that have one of these. There must be a reason it's called the Itanic inside of Intel.