How exactly did Intel sabotage GCC or sneak in to AMD's offices and break AMD's own compiler?
Oh you mean Intel didn't go out of its way to optimize its compiler for AMD chips? Tough cookies. If AMD is so amazingly great and wants to have "fair competition" here's an idea: Tell those geniuses at AMD to go out and write their own damn compiler for their supposedly "perfect" chips.
Bitching and moaning that Intel's compiler produces perfectly functional code for AMD hardware (it did, BTW, never broke a single program running on AMD hardware) but doesn't optimize for AMD's hardware is sour grapes from a second rate company.
If AMD is so magically "innovative" like all the delusional fanboys still believe, then they can optimize their own hardware and there's no responsibility for Intel to go out and do the work for them.
The real reason that Nvidia is bitching up a storm is that KNL has received a very positive reception in the HPC world.
Oh, and KNL is actually an absolute bargain in comparison to the requirements to get a high-end Pascal system setup, not only because you can buy an entire KNL system (not just a GPU card) starting at only $5000, but because it's self-hosting and doesn't need a high-end Xeon CPU just to feed the GPU. To put it in perspective, you could build a cluster of 26 KNLs for the price of one of those 8-way systems Nvidia is selling.
While not popular since anything pro-Snowden is considered religiously approved on here you have a point.
There's exactly nothing that violates the U.S. Constitution or any other legal or ethical standard* in an intelligence agency using a communications tool that protects the privacy of its users from other intelligence agencies, and leaking out the details is certainly illegal espionage at a minimum and treason at worst.
* I mean real ethical standards, not the made-up delusions of Slashtards who think that literally any attempt by the U.S. to do anything to stop any terrorist or foreign government from doing anything is the greatest crime of all time [incidentally, that standard does not apply to any country other than the U.S.].
Considering Intel bought the company after they had designed these watches and there isn't a single Intel hardware product inside the watches, I'd say this is more indicative of the fact that ARM chips are more than capable of overheating when asked to do too much.
Oh and as a followup: Aren't the same people screaming about Trump being a "traitor" the same ones who claim that the U.S. "deserves it" whenever there's a terrorist attack? How is a little cyber attacking by Russia or China -- both of whom are slobbered over with love by the anti-US crowd -- worse than that?
I can't decide who's stupider: A leftist on here thinking that Trump was serious when he said that or a leftist on here thinking that Hillary was serious when she said she was opposed to TPP (or is she for it again? I can't keep up with her).
That crazy Trump running around blaming the Russians for everything! That guy is completely unhinged and we need a sane establishment-connected candidate like Her Highness Hill --- [whispering] --- Uh.. wait that was Hillary who said that?
Well uh, she's obviously right. There's a vast right wing conspiracy led by the Russkies that's infiltrated all levels of the U.S. Government to stop the most qualified woman on EARTH from being coronated queen of 'Murica! I have in my hand here a list of 47 Russkie agents that are hellbent on subverting Hillary's ascendency to the throne and I propose a witchhunt to ruin their lives!! (in the name of diversity and BLMLGBTQQRSUNVAKEHG rights of course)
Yeah, if that level of granularity was used every time there was a security vulnerability related to software that runs on Windows then it might be relevant.
Not to mention the fact that Ubuntu isn't linux: It's a linux distribution that expressly provides an entire software stack, including the software that got hacked here.
Yes! Thanks to Slashdot's egregious editorial incompetence, we can now accuse Mike Pence of basing his entire life off of the evil evil lie that he's from India.
Here's what Mike Pence said word for word in his so-called "denialist" and "anti-science" article:
This is not to say that smoking is good for you.... news flash: smoking is not good for you. If you are reading this article through the blue haze of cigarette smoke you should quit. The relevant question is, what is more harmful to the nation, second hand smoke or back handed big government disguised in do-gooder healthcare rhetoric.
None of this bad stuff would have happened if that Donald Trump hadn't fooled those idiot 'Muricans into voting to leave the EU!
If there's one thing that's a confirmed fact from reading Slashdot's editorial spin: If you aren't in the EU you might as well kill yourself now because you either live in the utopian paradise of the EU or you live in Somalia and there's literally no shades of gray.
Just look at the third world hellhole that is Switzerland compared to the economic powerhouse of Greece if you don't believe me!
Considering it's already been reported to AMD and that AMD had to write a whole new driver to change the power delivery for the card, I don't have to "prove" anything.
Standards exist for a reason and they are written by people who are a whole lot smarter than arrogant d-bags named "sexconker" who have never designed a single product in their lives but sure have god complexes.
Transient spikes above the average are not the issue here and there's actually a whole different section of the PCIe power specification that deals with the maximum transient spike levels and the maximum allowed rate-of-change in current draw. As long as the transients don't exceed the ratings in the specification they are OK and are to be expected.
The issue here is that on average the Rx 480 was easily drawing well above the limits for a motherboard slot. Over the long-term, this sustained out of spec power draw can cause problems on motherboards, particularly cheap motherboards. When you consider that a low price was a major advertising point on the Rx 480 launch, expecting all of the Rx 480 owners to be running premium X99 motherboards that cost $300+ -- which is exactly what AMD did when demonstrating the Rx 480 on-stage at Computex -- is unrealistic.
The new drivers in the default configuration are still out of spec with PCIe.
The fix that AMD applied is to route more power from the 6-pin PCIe power cable to reduce the power drawn from the motherboard. The motherboard is now supposed to be in-spec (of course, independent testing is necessary) but by defintion the 6-pin PCIe cable, which was already providing more than the specification-rated 75W, is definitely out of spec.
Now as a practical matter, the extra power draw through the 6-pin cable will not cause problems with any halfway decent PSU. However, just saying "oh it won't damage your computer in a practical scenario" is not the same thing as complying with the PCIe specification. Actual compliance with PCIe is required to show the logo on the box and advertise compatibility.
The fact that there is now going to be a non-standard "optional" mode that complies with PCIe is nice, but unless it's the default mode out of the box, it's not enough.
These cards may or may not damage your motherboard, but there is zero doubt that in the default configuration -- not some out of spec hacked BIOS configuration -- they are not compliant with the PCIe standards.
Putting that PCIe logo on the box is therefore deceptive marketing and AMD should be held accountable here.
Also funny how a bitcoin logo is being used in a story about bit torrent.
But that's the technical competence level of the Slashdot "editorial" staff, who once again make the case for why the federal minimum wage should be lowered.
Net Neutrality is a word that's used & abused to mean everything these days, including calls to make it illegal to charge for bandwidth usage (imagine how much Hummer H2 owners would like "gas neutrality" to make sure Prius owners pay just as much as they do).
In this case, it would only really be a violation of a stricter definition of "net neutrality" if there were select content providers that were given unfettered bittorrent access with no limits while other non-preferred sources were being throttled. If you want to throttle the whole stupid protocol to keep the network operating for useful purposes and don't make specific carve-outs for "preferred" users then it's not a violation of net neutrality.
Bear in mind that if you want any throttling of bittorrent to be made illegal, it's hard to see how preventing DDoS attacks at the network level or even filtering Spam could be considered legal.
The Linux Kernel: NOT ENCRYPTED. Go panic now, the world is ending.
In fact, do you know that Linus Torvalds has personally made it possible for the MUTHAFUCKIN NSA to read every single line of source code in the Linux Kernel??
Just think about that the next time "they" tell you that it's OK for your computer to SEND IT'S DAMN IP ADDRESS OUT TO THE INTERNET!
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How exactly did Intel sabotage GCC or sneak in to AMD's offices and break AMD's own compiler?
Oh you mean Intel didn't go out of its way to optimize its compiler for AMD chips? Tough cookies. If AMD is so amazingly great and wants to have "fair competition" here's an idea: Tell those geniuses at AMD to go out and write their own damn compiler for their supposedly "perfect" chips.
Bitching and moaning that Intel's compiler produces perfectly functional code for AMD hardware (it did, BTW, never broke a single program running on AMD hardware) but doesn't optimize for AMD's hardware is sour grapes from a second rate company.
If AMD is so magically "innovative" like all the delusional fanboys still believe, then they can optimize their own hardware and there's no responsibility for Intel to go out and do the work for them.
Poor poor AMD. At least that's what their marketing and PR departments like to say.
A real AMD employee who -- like most of the actual engineers -- no longer works there has a different story though:
http://vrworld.com/2011/06/24/...
The real reason that Nvidia is bitching up a storm is that KNL has received a very positive reception in the HPC world.
Oh, and KNL is actually an absolute bargain in comparison to the requirements to get a high-end Pascal system setup, not only because you can buy an entire KNL system (not just a GPU card) starting at only $5000, but because it's self-hosting and doesn't need a high-end Xeon CPU just to feed the GPU. To put it in perspective, you could build a cluster of 26 KNLs for the price of one of those 8-way systems Nvidia is selling.
http://www.colfax-intl.com/nd/...
have never bought a dev kit in the real world before, and believe me there's a world of difference between these things and a Raspberry Pi.
$369? Intel priced these to move.
While not popular since anything pro-Snowden is considered religiously approved on here you have a point.
There's exactly nothing that violates the U.S. Constitution or any other legal or ethical standard* in an intelligence agency using a communications tool that protects the privacy of its users from other intelligence agencies, and leaking out the details is certainly illegal espionage at a minimum and treason at worst.
* I mean real ethical standards, not the made-up delusions of Slashtards who think that literally any attempt by the U.S. to do anything to stop any terrorist or foreign government from doing anything is the greatest crime of all time [incidentally, that standard does not apply to any country other than the U.S.].
Considering Intel bought the company after they had designed these watches and there isn't a single Intel hardware product inside the watches, I'd say this is more indicative of the fact that ARM chips are more than capable of overheating when asked to do too much.
(With one being batshit crazy, who seems to have conned much of the uneducated portion of the population).
So you've got Hillary covered. What is your criticism of Trump?
Oh and as a followup: Aren't the same people screaming about Trump being a "traitor" the same ones who claim that the U.S. "deserves it" whenever there's a terrorist attack? How is a little cyber attacking by Russia or China -- both of whom are slobbered over with love by the anti-US crowd -- worse than that?
I can't decide who's stupider: A leftist on here thinking that Trump was serious when he said that or a leftist on here thinking that Hillary was serious when she said she was opposed to TPP (or is she for it again? I can't keep up with her).
Because Diversity!
Oh, and because they want the convention to FeelTheBern.
Or is it FeelTheBurn?
That crazy Trump running around blaming the Russians for everything! That guy is completely unhinged and we need a sane establishment-connected candidate like Her Highness Hill --- [whispering] --- Uh.. wait that was Hillary who said that?
Well uh, she's obviously right. There's a vast right wing conspiracy led by the Russkies that's infiltrated all levels of the U.S. Government to stop the most qualified woman on EARTH from being coronated queen of 'Murica! I have in my hand here a list of 47 Russkie agents that are hellbent on subverting Hillary's ascendency to the throne and I propose a witchhunt to ruin their lives!! (in the name of diversity and BLMLGBTQQRSUNVAKEHG rights of course)
If an incompetently configured Microsoft Exchange server is good enough for God-Emperor Hillary then it is good enough for you, peasant!
Yeah, if that level of granularity was used every time there was a security vulnerability related to software that runs on Windows then it might be relevant.
Not to mention the fact that Ubuntu isn't linux: It's a linux distribution that expressly provides an entire software stack, including the software that got hacked here.
The NSA couldn't help.
They were like: GIF "novels"?
MY EYES! THE GOGGLES, THEY DO NOTHING!
After that the NSA respected his privacy by nuking the stored surveillance from orbit.
Yes! Thanks to Slashdot's egregious editorial incompetence, we can now accuse Mike Pence of basing his entire life off of the evil evil lie that he's from India.
Here's what Mike Pence said word for word in his so-called "denialist" and "anti-science" article:
And he was right.
Well they were really hoping Hildabeast* would select the "true" Native American Elizabeth Warren as VP.
* If it's good enough for Michelle Obama, you must be a white-privilege racist to disagree.
None of this bad stuff would have happened if that Donald Trump hadn't fooled those idiot 'Muricans into voting to leave the EU!
If there's one thing that's a confirmed fact from reading Slashdot's editorial spin: If you aren't in the EU you might as well kill yourself now because you either live in the utopian paradise of the EU or you live in Somalia and there's literally no shades of gray.
Just look at the third world hellhole that is Switzerland compared to the economic powerhouse of Greece if you don't believe me!
Considering it's already been reported to AMD and that AMD had to write a whole new driver to change the power delivery for the card, I don't have to "prove" anything.
Standards exist for a reason and they are written by people who are a whole lot smarter than arrogant d-bags named "sexconker" who have never designed a single product in their lives but sure have god complexes.
Transient spikes above the average are not the issue here and there's actually a whole different section of the PCIe power specification that deals with the maximum transient spike levels and the maximum allowed rate-of-change in current draw. As long as the transients don't exceed the ratings in the specification they are OK and are to be expected.
The issue here is that on average the Rx 480 was easily drawing well above the limits for a motherboard slot. Over the long-term, this sustained out of spec power draw can cause problems on motherboards, particularly cheap motherboards. When you consider that a low price was a major advertising point on the Rx 480 launch, expecting all of the Rx 480 owners to be running premium X99 motherboards that cost $300+ -- which is exactly what AMD did when demonstrating the Rx 480 on-stage at Computex -- is unrealistic.
The new drivers in the default configuration are still out of spec with PCIe.
The fix that AMD applied is to route more power from the 6-pin PCIe power cable to reduce the power drawn from the motherboard. The motherboard is now supposed to be in-spec (of course, independent testing is necessary) but by defintion the 6-pin PCIe cable, which was already providing more than the specification-rated 75W, is definitely out of spec.
Now as a practical matter, the extra power draw through the 6-pin cable will not cause problems with any halfway decent PSU. However, just saying "oh it won't damage your computer in a practical scenario" is not the same thing as complying with the PCIe specification. Actual compliance with PCIe is required to show the logo on the box and advertise compatibility.
The fact that there is now going to be a non-standard "optional" mode that complies with PCIe is nice, but unless it's the default mode out of the box, it's not enough.
These cards may or may not damage your motherboard, but there is zero doubt that in the default configuration -- not some out of spec hacked BIOS configuration -- they are not compliant with the PCIe standards.
Putting that PCIe logo on the box is therefore deceptive marketing and AMD should be held accountable here.
Also funny how a bitcoin logo is being used in a story about bit torrent.
But that's the technical competence level of the Slashdot "editorial" staff, who once again make the case for why the federal minimum wage should be lowered.
Net Neutrality is a word that's used & abused to mean everything these days, including calls to make it illegal to charge for bandwidth usage (imagine how much Hummer H2 owners would like "gas neutrality" to make sure Prius owners pay just as much as they do).
In this case, it would only really be a violation of a stricter definition of "net neutrality" if there were select content providers that were given unfettered bittorrent access with no limits while other non-preferred sources were being throttled. If you want to throttle the whole stupid protocol to keep the network operating for useful purposes and don't make specific carve-outs for "preferred" users then it's not a violation of net neutrality.
Bear in mind that if you want any throttling of bittorrent to be made illegal, it's hard to see how preventing DDoS attacks at the network level or even filtering Spam could be considered legal.
The Linux Kernel: NOT ENCRYPTED. Go panic now, the world is ending.
In fact, do you know that Linus Torvalds has personally made it possible for the MUTHAFUCKIN NSA to read every single line of source code in the Linux Kernel??
Just think about that the next time "they" tell you that it's OK for your computer to SEND IT'S DAMN IP ADDRESS OUT TO THE INTERNET!
The black helicopters are coming for me man!!