Didn't you just say that ineffable means that you couldn't figure him out? If so, how can you conclude that "It's a system for self-improvement..."?
I do actually like that explanation, btw.
Regarding the "literal-read weenies," (thanks, I appreciate being insulted because of a difference of opinion) my parents have suggested trying to explain color to a blind person as an analogy. Or that while the Word is true, man writing it down was imperfect, and that regardless, our species just does not grok it.
I have to ask, in all seriousness, where does one go to learn about the current theory of evolution? (and no, I do not mean that as in the "it's just a theory" crap, I mean it in the legitimate scientific way) If I want to find out about the current understanding, where would I go? I could cite several very well respected researchers (multiple Ph.D.s in hard sciences from top universities) to discredit evolution, but that would just get us in another pissing contest starting and ending with you calling me names.
This being/., I'm sure I'll get "Troll" and "Flamebait." You'll have to excuse my cynicism. You started your "Insightful" post by intentionally attacking others, and that seems to be not only common, but accepted and encouraged here.
Then he should have said it was the most populous, not the largest. Sorry, but "largest" has always been used to denote physical size, not population. And no, it wasn't "obvious" what he meant. He was working himself up into a fervor over how great his state is and either forgot "third" or was hoping no one would call him on it (this being Slashdot, I'm inclined to believe the latter).
No. There's a standard of reasonableness that needs to be maintained in all dealings. Frankly, requiring mutilation as a condition of employment is not reasonable, regardless of whether all employers decide they want it. (I'm waiting for someone to bring up Fluorine...) A RFID badge (on a key chain, lapel clip or lanyard) works just fine. Maybe places that have security issues could spend a little time with their employees conveying the importance of security at the site? Or be a little more careful with their hiring practices if they think their employees are selling them out? If a place is so worried about security, maybe they could have other biometric systems in place, such as fingerprint/hand reader, retinal scanners, voice recognition, face recogntion and ???. Yes, any of these systems would probably cost a little more than the RFID implant, but then, none of them would cause any moral debate or force anyone to sacrifice their rights as a condition of employment.
I read your last line, "It should be more like seven, these days." as "It should be more like seven days." I'd be ok with that.:) But seriously, I agree with the technology argument. The more advanced the tech, the easier it is to distribute material and also allows greater profit potential (larger available audience, both in absolute terms from 200+ years ago as well as more people that can be reached). Copyright is a good thing, but it should be shorter today than what the Frounders envisioned.
...looks like shit. There's no other way to put it. It is entire too busy and all the freaking characters look the same. I haven't decided if I'll go see it (I only see 3-4 movies in the theater per year), but not being able to tell what the hell it is that I'm looking at doesn't exactly give me a warm fuzzy. And this from a guy who designs tabletop wargames based on giant robots.
"...If they ever institute software patents here I will continue to ignore them as a form of civil disobedience."
With all due respect, that is not civil disobedience. That's breaking the law. Civil disobedience applies when a law is applied to you and you were forbidden participation in determining whether or not it became a law. See Gandhi. See King. Choosing not to participate in the democratic process does not absolve you of the responsibility of abiding by the outcome. The only reason democracy works is because everyone involved agrees to accept a loss if they believe it was arrived at fairly, ie, they were allowed to vote on it. I think seatbelt laws are stupid. Does that mean I get to ignore them and claim civil disobedience when a cop pulls me over? Of course not. Allowing individuals to choose which laws they will and will not follow leads to anarchy.
That's an interesting take, since the 1997 book "The Making of Starship Troopers" comes right out and says that the movie had nothing to do with the book. They say that the junior hacks...err...screenwriters wanted to do a movie with soldiers and bugs in space but were having a hard time getting funding until someone told them to option RAH's novel. At that point, they got that no-talent jack-ass Verhoeven to sign on, mainly because he wanted to do a WWI movie in space, while at the same time commenting on how bad Nazi's are. That living-abortion-anal-rape-baby of a movie they produced was the end result. Why were there no power suits in the movie? Because of budget. They had their choice, and since the movie was fundamentally about bugs...in space...that's where they went. They did an excellent job missing everything worthwhile from the book. Hell, they could've left out the political commentary and just gone for a nice action movie (with appropriate imagery), but they couldn't even get that right.
BTW, I saw the movie first. It's one of a very small number of movies I've wanted to walk out of.
Amazingly, I've not grown up to be a mass murderer. (In fact, I've never even so much as had a real fight in my life) You're only saying that to throw the authorities off. It won't work bucko, I'm on to you...right after I finish scalping my little brother...
Let me tell you about *my* experience with Imagination Technologies and PowerVR. I (by which I mean as head of the small company I was running at the time) was a big fan of the architecture and had planned on using it and its successors for PC video cards. We also planned what could really only be described as Dreamcast 2 (using an SH-5). There was much talk back and forth and things looked wonderful. Then those larger companies you spoke of previously got interested and I was cut out. I found out by having correspondance halted and getting to read the big announcements on the IT homepage. Several months later, after it was obvious to everyone that those deals had fallen through, Metcalfe contacted me again and tried to ressurrect the deal. Being the last resort for that product line made me really anxious to continue the relationship. Oh, wait...
I'll focus on just one part of your post, the Amiga. The Amiga was a computer, not a game console (except for the CD32, which you didn't mention. And never mind what it was "originally" intended for, since that isn't what actually shipped).
I could waste a lot of time ripping your comments to shreads, but I won't because I have better things to do.
I'll just leave you with this: The demise of the Amiga had nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with a thoroughly corrupt and incompetent management that was utterly incapable of marketing the one product that made them money (the Amiga line) and instead focused on their craptastic PC-compatible offerings at lousy prices.
"They don't care how much power the chip consumes or how much heat it dissipates, they only care about what the average consumer sees as immediate performance. To me, performance can be multiple things and considering that you could fry an egg on my P4 no matter how big the heat sink is... I don't think I'm going to get many years of use out of it. So heat & power consumption are steadily growing concerns of mine. I had an Athlon XP 2800 break after one year of use--last time I use the heat sink that comes with the processor!"
How the hell did this drivel get modded "+5 Insightful"?! No, I'm not going to do your freaking homework for you to provide exact numbers. You clearly haven't been paying attention to what Intel has been doing for the last several years.
In a nutshell, their Israeli team took some ideas from both the P3 and P4 line and came up with the Pentium-M, which was originally for use in notebooks. They realized how effective the architecture was and continued developing it, eventually dropping the P4 line.
It eventually evolved into the Core microarchitecture, the architecture they've been pimping for the past year or so. You know, Core, Core 2, Core 2 Duo, etc.
I strongly recommend taking a look at the thermal characteristics.
...back in high school. I wasn't actually on it, but I had several friends who were. I used to write bills for them.
One in particular mandated that all executions were to be done via electric chair. Since that had the effect of cooking people, we tried to tie it to a feed the homeless person bill.
At one point in the debate, my bill's sponsor said, "And whereas human flesh tastes like pork..." and was promptly interrupted by another of my friends saying, "Point of order, tastes like chicken" (because that was the joke going around then, that everything tasted like chicken).
That started the whole congress off on an argument.
They later passed a resolution that I wasn't allowed to author any more bills.
I hate to say this (no, I'm not being sarcastic, I really do hate having to say this), but marriage for about 5800 of the last 6000 years has in fact had absolutely nothing to do with religion and love and has been about politics and money.
45nm in 2009 33nm in 2012 25nm in 2015 12nm in 2018
I don't remember plans for sub-12nm, but I'd assume it'd be about the same 3-year cycle...
9nm in 2021 6nm in 2024...and that's assuming we don't hit any physical limitations. Power leakage is going to continue to be a major problem for the near future. Intel's 3D transistors should help quite a bit. But we'll see.
Increased supply requires increased production capabilities, which more or less requires a new fab (factory) being built. No, generally you can not just add additional tools to an existing factory. Nor can you just make your workers work harder/faster. Most of the steps in the process are automated and require definite process times. So it's going to cost you. A state of the art fab today runs ~$4-5 Billion. It also takes well over a year to bring it up to full production status (depending on how many tools you have. Intel's Fab 12 had 60 diffusion furnaces, Fab 22 across the street had 38). And that's part of the problem. A fab doesn't make money unless it is running at capacity.
"If you don't call DEC's Alpha chip a 'great commercial success', than what is? Does it still have to be on the market? What chip from the Alpha era is still on the market? They've all been redesigned since."
I'm a huge Alpha proponent, so please understand that when I ask you what the hell you're smoking. Alpha was a monumental "commercial" failure. It was a huge "technological" success, but for many reasons it failed commercially. Heck, Apple sold more G4 Macs in a single quarter than DEC (and Samsung and Mitsubishi) sold Alphas during its entire product life.
The Big-E (my boat) has 8 reactors. That's not because they thought it was a good idea, but because it was a test-bed. Their are several different reactor and steam plants (GE and Westinghouse, different versions of each) on that ship. Those 8 reactors are comparable in output to the 2 used on all the Nimitz class CVNs.
To my knowledge, all US CVNs other than the Enterprise have just 2 reactors. IIRC, subs have just the one (but I wasn't a bubblehead, so don't quote me).
MWt (thermal). Most of the power generated goes to turning the screw(s), and that takes a LOT of power. Their electric output (from the Ships Service Turbo-Generator sets) isn't actually all that impressive (at least, not in terms of their output).
This from a former Navy Nuke. I may hate my government, but I still love my country. So no, I'm not going to give you actual numbers.
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Didn't you just say that ineffable means that you couldn't figure him out? If so, how can you conclude that "It's a system for self-improvement..."?
/., I'm sure I'll get "Troll" and "Flamebait." You'll have to excuse my cynicism. You started your "Insightful" post by intentionally attacking others, and that seems to be not only common, but accepted and encouraged here.
I do actually like that explanation, btw.
Regarding the "literal-read weenies," (thanks, I appreciate being insulted because of a difference of opinion) my parents have suggested trying to explain color to a blind person as an analogy. Or that while the Word is true, man writing it down was imperfect, and that regardless, our species just does not grok it.
I have to ask, in all seriousness, where does one go to learn about the current theory of evolution? (and no, I do not mean that as in the "it's just a theory" crap, I mean it in the legitimate scientific way) If I want to find out about the current understanding, where would I go? I could cite several very well respected researchers (multiple Ph.D.s in hard sciences from top universities) to discredit evolution, but that would just get us in another pissing contest starting and ending with you calling me names.
This being
Then he should have said it was the most populous, not the largest. Sorry, but "largest" has always been used to denote physical size, not population. And no, it wasn't "obvious" what he meant. He was working himself up into a fervor over how great his state is and either forgot "third" or was hoping no one would call him on it (this being Slashdot, I'm inclined to believe the latter).
No. There's a standard of reasonableness that needs to be maintained in all dealings. Frankly, requiring mutilation as a condition of employment is not reasonable, regardless of whether all employers decide they want it. (I'm waiting for someone to bring up Fluorine...) A RFID badge (on a key chain, lapel clip or lanyard) works just fine. Maybe places that have security issues could spend a little time with their employees conveying the importance of security at the site? Or be a little more careful with their hiring practices if they think their employees are selling them out? If a place is so worried about security, maybe they could have other biometric systems in place, such as fingerprint/hand reader, retinal scanners, voice recognition, face recogntion and ???. Yes, any of these systems would probably cost a little more than the RFID implant, but then, none of them would cause any moral debate or force anyone to sacrifice their rights as a condition of employment.
Good enough?
With that confidence marker, Prisoner's Dilemma and game theory immediately springs to mind.
I read your last line, "It should be more like seven, these days." as "It should be more like seven days." I'd be ok with that. :) But seriously, I agree with the technology argument. The more advanced the tech, the easier it is to distribute material and also allows greater profit potential (larger available audience, both in absolute terms from 200+ years ago as well as more people that can be reached). Copyright is a good thing, but it should be shorter today than what the Frounders envisioned.
I stated my reason (it's too freaking busy, everything looks the same) you dickheads. That's not trolling.
...looks like shit. There's no other way to put it. It is entire too busy and all the freaking characters look the same. I haven't decided if I'll go see it (I only see 3-4 movies in the theater per year), but not being able to tell what the hell it is that I'm looking at doesn't exactly give me a warm fuzzy. And this from a guy who designs tabletop wargames based on giant robots.
"...If they ever institute software patents here I will continue to ignore them as a form of civil disobedience."
With all due respect, that is not civil disobedience. That's breaking the law. Civil disobedience applies when a law is applied to you and you were forbidden participation in determining whether or not it became a law. See Gandhi. See King. Choosing not to participate in the democratic process does not absolve you of the responsibility of abiding by the outcome. The only reason democracy works is because everyone involved agrees to accept a loss if they believe it was arrived at fairly, ie, they were allowed to vote on it. I think seatbelt laws are stupid. Does that mean I get to ignore them and claim civil disobedience when a cop pulls me over? Of course not. Allowing individuals to choose which laws they will and will not follow leads to anarchy.
That's an interesting take, since the 1997 book "The Making of Starship Troopers" comes right out and says that the movie had nothing to do with the book. They say that the junior hacks...err...screenwriters wanted to do a movie with soldiers and bugs in space but were having a hard time getting funding until someone told them to option RAH's novel. At that point, they got that no-talent jack-ass Verhoeven to sign on, mainly because he wanted to do a WWI movie in space, while at the same time commenting on how bad Nazi's are. That living-abortion-anal-rape-baby of a movie they produced was the end result. Why were there no power suits in the movie? Because of budget. They had their choice, and since the movie was fundamentally about bugs...in space...that's where they went. They did an excellent job missing everything worthwhile from the book. Hell, they could've left out the political commentary and just gone for a nice action movie (with appropriate imagery), but they couldn't even get that right.
BTW, I saw the movie first. It's one of a very small number of movies I've wanted to walk out of.
Let me tell you about *my* experience with Imagination Technologies and PowerVR. I (by which I mean as head of the small company I was running at the time) was a big fan of the architecture and had planned on using it and its successors for PC video cards. We also planned what could really only be described as Dreamcast 2 (using an SH-5). There was much talk back and forth and things looked wonderful. Then those larger companies you spoke of previously got interested and I was cut out. I found out by having correspondance halted and getting to read the big announcements on the IT homepage. Several months later, after it was obvious to everyone that those deals had fallen through, Metcalfe contacted me again and tried to ressurrect the deal. Being the last resort for that product line made me really anxious to continue the relationship. Oh, wait...
How were you modded "interesting"?
I'll focus on just one part of your post, the Amiga. The Amiga was a computer, not a game console (except for the CD32, which you didn't mention. And never mind what it was "originally" intended for, since that isn't what actually shipped).
I could waste a lot of time ripping your comments to shreads, but I won't because I have better things to do.
I'll just leave you with this: The demise of the Amiga had nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with a thoroughly corrupt and incompetent management that was utterly incapable of marketing the one product that made them money (the Amiga line) and instead focused on their craptastic PC-compatible offerings at lousy prices.
"They don't care how much power the chip consumes or how much heat it dissipates, they only care about what the average consumer sees as immediate performance. To me, performance can be multiple things and considering that you could fry an egg on my P4 no matter how big the heat sink is ... I don't think I'm going to get many years of use out of it. So heat & power consumption are steadily growing concerns of mine. I had an Athlon XP 2800 break after one year of use--last time I use the heat sink that comes with the processor!"
How the hell did this drivel get modded "+5 Insightful"?! No, I'm not going to do your freaking homework for you to provide exact numbers. You clearly haven't been paying attention to what Intel has been doing for the last several years.
In a nutshell, their Israeli team took some ideas from both the P3 and P4 line and came up with the Pentium-M, which was originally for use in notebooks. They realized how effective the architecture was and continued developing it, eventually dropping the P4 line.
It eventually evolved into the Core microarchitecture, the architecture they've been pimping for the past year or so. You know, Core, Core 2, Core 2 Duo, etc.
I strongly recommend taking a look at the thermal characteristics.
...back in high school. I wasn't actually on it, but I had several friends who were. I used to write bills for them.
One in particular mandated that all executions were to be done via electric chair. Since that had the effect of cooking people, we tried to tie it to a feed the homeless person bill.
At one point in the debate, my bill's sponsor said, "And whereas human flesh tastes like pork..." and was promptly interrupted by another of my friends saying, "Point of order, tastes like chicken" (because that was the joke going around then, that everything tasted like chicken).
That started the whole congress off on an argument.
They later passed a resolution that I wasn't allowed to author any more bills.
Good times.
I'm wondering if you read the article? Or are you just intentionally mis-representing things?
Here, I'll help. Here's the quote in its entirety:
"He is also a proponent of gun rights and he personally opposes abortion, though he thinks the matter should be left to the states."
In the future, you may wish to use "..." (elipses) to let people know when you have an agenda to push.
I hate to say this (no, I'm not being sarcastic, I really do hate having to say this), but marriage for about 5800 of the last 6000 years has in fact had absolutely nothing to do with religion and love and has been about politics and money.
"...My wife..."
So you've, uh, *done it*, then? You know? Been with a lady?
What's it like?
IIRC...
...and that's assuming we don't hit any physical limitations. Power leakage is going to continue to be a major problem for the near future. Intel's 3D transistors should help quite a bit. But we'll see.
45nm in 2009
33nm in 2012
25nm in 2015
12nm in 2018
I don't remember plans for sub-12nm, but I'd assume it'd be about the same 3-year cycle...
9nm in 2021
6nm in 2024
Increased supply requires increased production capabilities, which more or less requires a new fab (factory) being built. No, generally you can not just add additional tools to an existing factory. Nor can you just make your workers work harder/faster. Most of the steps in the process are automated and require definite process times. So it's going to cost you. A state of the art fab today runs ~$4-5 Billion. It also takes well over a year to bring it up to full production status (depending on how many tools you have. Intel's Fab 12 had 60 diffusion furnaces, Fab 22 across the street had 38). And that's part of the problem. A fab doesn't make money unless it is running at capacity.
I worked AT (not FOR) Intel for 3 years.
"3 years is about the right amount of time to investigate (reverse engineer, if need be) whether a rival's technology is infringing"
Wait, isn't reverse engineering a DMCA violation? No, I'm not being a snarky bastard.
Mod parent up. I was about to until I realized fscking Slasdot decided I wasn't modding quickly enough and swiped my remaining points. Bastards.
"If you don't call DEC's Alpha chip a 'great commercial success', than what is? Does it still have to be on the market? What chip from the Alpha era is still on the market? They've all been redesigned since."
I'm a huge Alpha proponent, so please understand that when I ask you what the hell you're smoking. Alpha was a monumental "commercial" failure. It was a huge "technological" success, but for many reasons it failed commercially. Heck, Apple sold more G4 Macs in a single quarter than DEC (and Samsung and Mitsubishi) sold Alphas during its entire product life.
Sheesh.
(queue anguish)
Soylent-slick is people! IT'S PEOPLE!
The Big-E (my boat) has 8 reactors. That's not because they thought it was a good idea, but because it was a test-bed. Their are several different reactor and steam plants (GE and Westinghouse, different versions of each) on that ship. Those 8 reactors are comparable in output to the 2 used on all the Nimitz class CVNs.
To my knowledge, all US CVNs other than the Enterprise have just 2 reactors. IIRC, subs have just the one (but I wasn't a bubblehead, so don't quote me).
MWt (thermal). Most of the power generated goes to turning the screw(s), and that takes a LOT of power. Their electric output (from the Ships Service Turbo-Generator sets) isn't actually all that impressive (at least, not in terms of their output).
This from a former Navy Nuke. I may hate my government, but I still love my country. So no, I'm not going to give you actual numbers.