In reality you could spend 3000 (not including steering wheel cover) on a 1998 Honda civic that will get you to work fast or reasonably fast depending on traffic.
I'm not sure what you're saying. If Intel bundles the CPU/GPU/Northbridge and overcharges to cover costs they risk losing business to ATI and vice versa.
If they bundle and sell at a loss, just to force out Nvidia, that would be illegal. Intel is already in trouble in Europe for anti-competitive practices.
You want to talk about Linux drivers? Nvidia's Linux support is about 100x better than ATI's buggy pile. Take it from me you're lucky your ATI card doesn't show random framebuffer corruption, because it always has for me. Now I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but I thought it was common knowledge that Nvidia's drivers are better than ATI.
I don't think they're going to be as open as you might think when they have to compete directly with ATI and Nvidia. If they did so AND managed to produce something better, AMD and ATI could simply copy the fundamentals of their designs. Patents might prevent this, but I am guessing that the GPU sector is a patent minefield right now given how long ATI and Nvidia (who bought whatever 3dfx had from way back) such that Intel would be loathe to start the patent war.
This was addressed in TFA. Currently there is no performance benefit to moving the GPU onto the CPU socket and a few drawbacks including cost and upgrade ability.
For sure a more fundamental change to processor architecture could change this, but Intel isn't presenting it here.
Houses in California are earthquake resistant, by law, and you're not *supposed* to be able to build in wildfire prone areas. You'll notice when they do come, very small numbers of properties are damaged compared to say a hurricane because they're mostly burning empty land.
The fact that the only flood insurance available in NO is government subsidized should give you some indication of relative risk.
So you say spending money on foreign entanglements is a waste, he says spending it on hand outs (my preferred term for entitlements) is a waste. I agree with both of you, and I want my money back.
"He had been engaged in other odd behavior -- chasing down buses, taking down license plate numbers."
"He would hang over the fence and yell at them and do other weird behavior."
Sounds like he was convicted of harassing people with actions, not words. Also of fleeing the country. Whether or not his actions rise to the level of criminal harassment I don't claim to know.
Of course the statute under which he was convicted is stupidly vague and quite unnecessary, as befitting the legislature of California, but it doesn't overtly criminalize speech, and it certainly doesn't override the 1st amendment in any case.
What makes you think he doesn't know? Bush acknowledges no checks or balances on the power of the executive whatsoever. He also doesn't seem to believe in the rights of individuals against government intrusion. When the executive has all the power and the people have no rights, that's pretty much the definition of a police state.
Sure but if you're targeting your plague genetically you only need one shared marker, per plague. If you're talking about creating a disease that target groups are more susceptible to, targeting Africa would be pretty hard.
What you said is fine. What the cartoon implies is that the occupants of North America at a time shortly before the arrival of Europeans are somehow more legitimate than the rest of us. Equating those tribes with the first Americans is a stretch.
Despite the fact that I've been modded troll I'm not trolling.
I don't see a wage distortion wrt teachers. Because it's fairly convenient to be a teacher and a semi-stay at home parent at the same time, there's a lot of people (not just women) who are willing to sacrifice some pay to do that job which brings down the wages for everyone, including those with no children. That's the market at work right there.
Whether that is a Good Thing (tm) is another debate.
I like your sig by the way, but be aware that some people think that any time a black person and chicken appear in the same sentence it's a racist statement. If that's an intentional f-you to PC nannies then bonus points for you.
I'm not opposed to the existence of Unions, just that I don't want to join one. If people want to voluntarily organize against their employer then that's their right. By similar reasoning, I support right to work (see also anecdote below).
There doesn't seem to be a nativist lobby out there for tech workers, which is perhaps why other professions enjoy protections we do not.
Anecdote: my gf was forced to join a union just to get a job; forced to pay into a retirement account she'll never see (since she never intended to stay on long enough to retire) and coerced into striking for a pittance even though money was tight just so "lifers" could get a raise. Of course she stood to gain nothing, because young people don't control the union.
Internship? Entry level position? There's always some stuff you'll need to learn on the job, and as long as you're still of some value while you learn why do it in school instead of on the job?
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In reality you could spend 3000 (not including steering wheel cover) on a 1998 Honda civic that will get you to work fast or reasonably fast depending on traffic.
So you're perfectly willing to run obsolete hardware but running obsolete software is out of the question?
Nvidia has already started to make their devices more flexible with Tesla and whatever they're calling their integrated offering.
I'm not sure what you're saying. If Intel bundles the CPU/GPU/Northbridge and overcharges to cover costs they risk losing business to ATI and vice versa.
If they bundle and sell at a loss, just to force out Nvidia, that would be illegal. Intel is already in trouble in Europe for anti-competitive practices.
You want to talk about Linux drivers? Nvidia's Linux support is about 100x better than ATI's buggy pile. Take it from me you're lucky your ATI card doesn't show random framebuffer corruption, because it always has for me. Now I know the plural of anecdote is not data, but I thought it was common knowledge that Nvidia's drivers are better than ATI.
I don't think they're going to be as open as you might think when they have to compete directly with ATI and Nvidia. If they did so AND managed to produce something better, AMD and ATI could simply copy the fundamentals of their designs. Patents might prevent this, but I am guessing that the GPU sector is a patent minefield right now given how long ATI and Nvidia (who bought whatever 3dfx had from way back) such that Intel would be loathe to start the patent war.
This was addressed in TFA. Currently there is no performance benefit to moving the GPU onto the CPU socket and a few drawbacks including cost and upgrade ability.
For sure a more fundamental change to processor architecture could change this, but Intel isn't presenting it here.
Because this most ancient of /. trolls guarantees a snappy and voluminous response, the very lifeblood of the troll.
Well at least we know McCain will catch him soon.
Houses in California are earthquake resistant, by law, and you're not *supposed* to be able to build in wildfire prone areas. You'll notice when they do come, very small numbers of properties are damaged compared to say a hurricane because they're mostly burning empty land.
The fact that the only flood insurance available in NO is government subsidized should give you some indication of relative risk.
What like the ones that patrol gated communities. Seems to work fine.
Man I need more vacation days.
So what. The Olympics is about finding the best of the best. Who cares what age they are?
The GGP had a much better point about protecting the athletes themselves.
So you say spending money on foreign entanglements is a waste, he says spending it on hand outs (my preferred term for entitlements) is a waste. I agree with both of you, and I want my money back.
Because we implemented it first and it's enshrined in our constitution?
"He had been engaged in other odd behavior -- chasing down buses, taking down license plate numbers."
"He would hang over the fence and yell at them and do other weird behavior."
Sounds like he was convicted of harassing people with actions, not words. Also of fleeing the country. Whether or not his actions rise to the level of criminal harassment I don't claim to know.
Of course the statute under which he was convicted is stupidly vague and quite unnecessary, as befitting the legislature of California, but it doesn't overtly criminalize speech, and it certainly doesn't override the 1st amendment in any case.
This is why Firefox's spell checker sucks.
What makes you think he doesn't know? Bush acknowledges no checks or balances on the power of the executive whatsoever. He also doesn't seem to believe in the rights of individuals against government intrusion. When the executive has all the power and the people have no rights, that's pretty much the definition of a police state.
Sure but if you're targeting your plague genetically you only need one shared marker, per plague. If you're talking about creating a disease that target groups are more susceptible to, targeting Africa would be pretty hard.
Well lawyers can't bill for every single hour they spend in the office. They do try though.
Transmeta was mostly successful at doing the translation of x86 instructions. It didn't prove too profitable.
What you said is fine. What the cartoon implies is that the occupants of North America at a time shortly before the arrival of Europeans are somehow more legitimate than the rest of us. Equating those tribes with the first Americans is a stretch.
Despite the fact that I've been modded troll I'm not trolling.
I don't see a wage distortion wrt teachers. Because it's fairly convenient to be a teacher and a semi-stay at home parent at the same time, there's a lot of people (not just women) who are willing to sacrifice some pay to do that job which brings down the wages for everyone, including those with no children. That's the market at work right there.
Whether that is a Good Thing (tm) is another debate.
I like your sig by the way, but be aware that some people think that any time a black person and chicken appear in the same sentence it's a racist statement. If that's an intentional f-you to PC nannies then bonus points for you.
I'm not opposed to the existence of Unions, just that I don't want to join one. If people want to voluntarily organize against their employer then that's their right. By similar reasoning, I support right to work (see also anecdote below).
There doesn't seem to be a nativist lobby out there for tech workers, which is perhaps why other professions enjoy protections we do not.
Anecdote: my gf was forced to join a union just to get a job; forced to pay into a retirement account she'll never see (since she never intended to stay on long enough to retire) and coerced into striking for a pittance even though money was tight just so "lifers" could get a raise. Of course she stood to gain nothing, because young people don't control the union.
Internship? Entry level position? There's always some stuff you'll need to learn on the job, and as long as you're still of some value while you learn why do it in school instead of on the job?