From what I've seen, unless they are trying to make a peaceful presentation on a college campus that doesn't align 100% with whatever the SJW safe-spacers are agitated about this minute, they won't get banned.
Refuse to call Trump a nazi though? Well in that case, Twitter will make sure you don't go around ruining the first amendment with speech or anything.
I like how they subtly segue from "BETTER THAN CONSOLEZ!!" to VR in such a sneaky markety way.
Considering that there is literally no way that these ARM parts are going to beat a GT4+ Skylake's GPU -- and that the GT4+ Skylake's GPU is going to be trashed as being completely worthless for VR -- I'm not holding my breath.
"It is supposed to be used only for so-called telecommunication surveillance at the source, i.e. to read emails, chats and wiretap phone calls made by the target via his or her computer or smartphone, and not to access files, steal passwords, or set up video or audio surveillance via the device."
Phew, for a second there I thought we'd need to call on the powers of Tim Cook to save us.
This is fine, since they are just spying on mass communications at the flick of a switch instead of trying to access a specific device with full judicial oversight since *that* would be an invasion of privacy!
It's true that Vulkan inherits some things from Mantle (mostly using separate command buffers without global state and dropping the old-school OpenGL graphics context). However, there are also major differences from Mantle including the use of GLSL instead of HLSL (Microsoft's shader langauge) and the SPIR-V intermediate layer is a major part of Vulkan that literally has no equivalent in Mantle.
On top of all that: Mantle only ever existed as a beta-quality driver for Windows. Despite some talk about cross-platform, it never ran under anything other than Windows, and even AMD's new graphics cards like the R9-Fury run *worse* on the old Mantle driver than they do under DX11.
Nvidia also has Linux Vulkan support in its newest beta driver.
AMD... uh... has a beta driver for Windows. Not even an announcement of Linux support. Yeah, so much for AMD having an insurmountable lead or anything.
First of all, any question that is couched in "belief" is basically a religious question, even if it is about a scientific topic.
Second, of all, a vague profession of "belief" in Evolution* is being made into a nonsensical substitute for OMG IF YOU FAIL THIS TEST THEN YOU HAVE REJECTED ALL SCIENCE FOREVER.
Riddle me this, please tell me how failure to profess the politically-correct "belief" in evolution means you can't do any of the following:
* The religion of Global Warming is used as a similar litmus test, although it's now possible even for previously "approved" scientists to be burned at the stake for failing to "believe" in bad Sci-Fi movie of the week apocalyptic global warming.
I see a patent publication, which occurs automatically for practically any U.S. patent unless the patentee expressly requests that the patent not be published and relinquishes the right to file the patent in any country other than the U.S.
As for the rest of the article, I'm not overly interested in the analysis of somebody who doesn't actually know what a patent is.
Hilarious how this so-called "poster" acts all high+mighty pretending to care about consumers vs. big bad Amazon while simultaneously shilling and name-dropping for a competitor of Amazon.
The righteous indignation of the Pot over the Kettle's blackness is truly breathtaking.
" Hackers prefer easy targets and will call off an attack if it is taking too long. "
I'm shocked to hear that criminals using computers are exactly like criminals who have been practicing their trade since probably long before recorded history began.
Totally! If we just elect Bernie then problems like these will be a thing of the past.
Instead of worrying about filing taxes 100% of income goes right to the Feds and every year you can apply to the Federal Government for a welfare package that will be given out based on politically correct preferences regarding race (no whities), gender (no Benjamins for Benjamin unless Benjamin was born Bethany), language & lack of citizenship (Habla Ingles? No Dinero!), and of course, whether or not you used a substantial portion of last year's welfare check to pay off Union "community organizers" Vido & Guido who run Bernie's local chapter of the Revolutionary Guard.
All you need to do is fill out a trivially simple 200 page form in triplicate, get it notarized by an official government agent, send it via certified mail and wait 18 - 24 months. Take that corporations!
And you called out the parent for bullshit? Oh wait, you said the parent had a little bullshit, so I guess you went for the full monty.
Even if Zen actually does what it is supposed to do, there's a very real possibility that AMD won't exist after 2019 when their crippling bond obligations come due.
Anybody who has seen AMD's financials with 6% and 7% interest rates on notes that were issued when the Fed was basically giving money away for free knows that AMD is far, far from "doing just fine." There are plenty of former AMD employees who could tell you that as well.
AMD didn't technically "cut" PCIe lanes since the underlying chip never had the PCIe lanes to begin with. That Athlon is a rebranded version of "Carrizo" that technically launched last year as a soldered-on mobile only part. It's available in a relatively small selection of notebooks but hasn't taken the market by storm.
Anyway, the Athlon part is just Carrizo put into a socket instead of being soldered to a board. Since Carrizo was only a mobile part designed for low-end systems, it never had 16 full lanes of PCIe connectivity to begin with.
Where's the "enthusiasm" over a retread of parts that they launched in 2014 that weren't even very high end [by AMD standards of "high end"] back in 2014?
I don't think you could find anybody who looks at a Core i3 or Pentium -- which compete with these parts on performance and price at much lower power envelopes -- as "enthusiast" parts.
Why is AMD even announcing these parts when they are re-launching what are basically the same 28nm process parts in 3 months with a tweaked memory controller in the AM4 platform?
Then again, dupes of stupid stories have been with Slashdot since the beginning. It kind of makes you wonder what (if anything) the so-called "editors" of this site do other than take kickbacks from the likes of Hassleton and that d-bag over at Forbes.
Then again, there's an important social policy angle to the Slashdot editing "quality": It's a powerful argument that they should be paid less than minimum wage.
Actually, according to them the North Pole really isn't the issue. It's the South Pole that doesn't exist. Instead there's a wall of ice around Antarctica that's guarded by NASA employees to keep people from finding the truth (I'm not actually making that up, unfortunately).
What's all "proprietary" about Intel graphics exactly? Their open source support in the Linux kernel is substantially better than AMD's half-assed "sorta kinda open when we feel like it for obsolete parts" approach.
Another thing about this "open" concept that nobody is really talking about amidst the cheerleading: AMD is trying to push *proprietary* AMD-only hardware features that don't fit very well with current APIs -- and that includes Vulkan, BTW, not just the old APIs.
So what are they doing? They are "open sourcing" a relatively thin layer of code that exposes their proprietary GPU features to work *outside* of any cross-platform APIs.
So basically, they open source some relatively low-value shim code for their hardware so that they have an excuse not to make bug fixes since that's been handed over to the community. Meanwhile, the "open source" AMD product is actually encouraging software developers to write code to *non-standard AMD features* that aren't part of any accepted API that would work across platforms.
Just because some code is open sourced doesn't make it a happy "open" cross-platform experience, and there needs to be a little more critical thought applied to this media event.
It doesn't need "community support" when the "community" is the default version of practically every Linux distro in existence without even requiring the existence of a specialized "community" distro just to support one board. That's what makes it really compelling over a Raspberry Pi (and I was in the very first wave of people who ordered it too).
I'm sure the authors of the article don't know how the management engine works.
But given their level of "competence" I'm sure they don't know how a lot of things work. So what, a piece of technology isn't governed by the level of ignorance of some blogger.
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From what I've seen, unless they are trying to make a peaceful presentation on a college campus that doesn't align 100% with whatever the SJW safe-spacers are agitated about this minute, they won't get banned.
Refuse to call Trump a nazi though? Well in that case, Twitter will make sure you don't go around ruining the first amendment with speech or anything.
I like how they subtly segue from "BETTER THAN CONSOLEZ!!" to VR in such a sneaky markety way.
Considering that there is literally no way that these ARM parts are going to beat a GT4+ Skylake's GPU -- and that the GT4+ Skylake's GPU is going to be trashed as being completely worthless for VR -- I'm not holding my breath.
"It is supposed to be used only for so-called telecommunication surveillance at the source, i.e. to read emails, chats and wiretap phone calls made by the target via his or her computer or smartphone, and not to access files, steal passwords, or set up video or audio surveillance via the device."
Phew, for a second there I thought we'd need to call on the powers of Tim Cook to save us.
This is fine, since they are just spying on mass communications at the flick of a switch instead of trying to access a specific device with full judicial oversight since *that* would be an invasion of privacy!
It's true that Vulkan inherits some things from Mantle (mostly using separate command buffers without global state and dropping the old-school OpenGL graphics context). However, there are also major differences from Mantle including the use of GLSL instead of HLSL (Microsoft's shader langauge) and the SPIR-V intermediate layer is a major part of Vulkan that literally has no equivalent in Mantle.
On top of all that: Mantle only ever existed as a beta-quality driver for Windows. Despite some talk about cross-platform, it never ran under anything other than Windows, and even AMD's new graphics cards like the R9-Fury run *worse* on the old Mantle driver than they do under DX11.
Intel has already published open source Vulkan support in a new Mesa branch: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/m...
Nvidia also has Linux Vulkan support in its newest beta driver.
AMD... uh... has a beta driver for Windows. Not even an announcement of Linux support. Yeah, so much for AMD having an insurmountable lead or anything.
First of all, any question that is couched in "belief" is basically a religious question, even if it is about a scientific topic.
Second, of all, a vague profession of "belief" in Evolution* is being made into a nonsensical substitute for OMG IF YOU FAIL THIS TEST THEN YOU HAVE REJECTED ALL SCIENCE FOREVER.
Riddle me this, please tell me how failure to profess the politically-correct "belief" in evolution means you can't do any of the following:
1. Design nanoscale materials.
2. Detect gravitational waves.
3. Successfully perform brain surgery.
4. Sucessfully launch a spacecraft.
* The religion of Global Warming is used as a similar litmus test, although it's now possible even for previously "approved" scientists to be burned at the stake for failing to "believe" in bad Sci-Fi movie of the week apocalyptic global warming.
Calling somebody up and saying there's a fake bomb isn't that scary. Do they charge extra to pretend it's a real bomb?
I see a patent publication, which occurs automatically for practically any U.S. patent unless the patentee expressly requests that the patent not be published and relinquishes the right to file the patent in any country other than the U.S.
As for the rest of the article, I'm not overly interested in the analysis of somebody who doesn't actually know what a patent is.
Hilarious how this so-called "poster" acts all high+mighty pretending to care about consumers vs. big bad Amazon while simultaneously shilling and name-dropping for a competitor of Amazon.
The righteous indignation of the Pot over the Kettle's blackness is truly breathtaking.
" Hackers prefer easy targets and will call off an attack if it is taking too long. "
I'm shocked to hear that criminals using computers are exactly like criminals who have been practicing their trade since probably long before recorded history began.
Totally! If we just elect Bernie then problems like these will be a thing of the past.
Instead of worrying about filing taxes 100% of income goes right to the Feds and every year you can apply to the Federal Government for a welfare package that will be given out based on politically correct preferences regarding race (no whities), gender (no Benjamins for Benjamin unless Benjamin was born Bethany), language & lack of citizenship (Habla Ingles? No Dinero!), and of course, whether or not you used a substantial portion of last year's welfare check to pay off Union "community organizers" Vido & Guido who run Bernie's local chapter of the Revolutionary Guard.
All you need to do is fill out a trivially simple 200 page form in triplicate, get it notarized by an official government agent, send it via certified mail and wait 18 - 24 months. Take that corporations!
And you called out the parent for bullshit? Oh wait, you said the parent had a little bullshit, so I guess you went for the full monty.
Even if Zen actually does what it is supposed to do, there's a very real possibility that AMD won't exist after 2019 when their crippling bond obligations come due.
Anybody who has seen AMD's financials with 6% and 7% interest rates on notes that were issued when the Fed was basically giving money away for free knows that AMD is far, far from "doing just fine." There are plenty of former AMD employees who could tell you that as well.
AMD didn't technically "cut" PCIe lanes since the underlying chip never had the PCIe lanes to begin with. That Athlon is a rebranded version of "Carrizo" that technically launched last year as a soldered-on mobile only part. It's available in a relatively small selection of notebooks but hasn't taken the market by storm.
Anyway, the Athlon part is just Carrizo put into a socket instead of being soldered to a board. Since Carrizo was only a mobile part designed for low-end systems, it never had 16 full lanes of PCIe connectivity to begin with.
Where's the "enthusiasm" over a retread of parts that they launched in 2014 that weren't even very high end [by AMD standards of "high end"] back in 2014?
I don't think you could find anybody who looks at a Core i3 or Pentium -- which compete with these parts on performance and price at much lower power envelopes -- as "enthusiast" parts.
Why is AMD even announcing these parts when they are re-launching what are basically the same 28nm process parts in 3 months with a tweaked memory controller in the AM4 platform?
To quote the sage words of Peter Griffin: "Oh. My. God. Who. the Hell. Cares."
You wanted the "everything is a file" UNIX approach*.. well, you got it, including the ability to delete *every* file.
Incidentally, while systemd was being blamed for this, the underlying /sysfs structures have zippo to do with systemd, so put down the pitchforks.
* Which has never actually been completely true but is a popular catch phrase.
Then again, dupes of stupid stories have been with Slashdot since the beginning. It kind of makes you wonder what (if anything) the so-called "editors" of this site do other than take kickbacks from the likes of Hassleton and that d-bag over at Forbes.
Then again, there's an important social policy angle to the Slashdot editing "quality": It's a powerful argument that they should be paid less than minimum wage.
Actually, according to them the North Pole really isn't the issue. It's the South Pole that doesn't exist. Instead there's a wall of ice around Antarctica that's guarded by NASA employees to keep people from finding the truth (I'm not actually making that up, unfortunately).
What's all "proprietary" about Intel graphics exactly?
Their open source support in the Linux kernel is substantially better than AMD's half-assed "sorta kinda open when we feel like it for obsolete parts" approach.
Another thing about this "open" concept that nobody is really talking about amidst the cheerleading: AMD is trying to push *proprietary* AMD-only hardware features that don't fit very well with current APIs -- and that includes Vulkan, BTW, not just the old APIs.
So what are they doing? They are "open sourcing" a relatively thin layer of code that exposes their proprietary GPU features to work *outside* of any cross-platform APIs.
So basically, they open source some relatively low-value shim code for their hardware so that they have an excuse not to make bug fixes since that's been handed over to the community. Meanwhile, the "open source" AMD product is actually encouraging software developers to write code to *non-standard AMD features* that aren't part of any accepted API that would work across platforms.
Just because some code is open sourced doesn't make it a happy "open" cross-platform experience, and there needs to be a little more critical thought applied to this media event.
Look, just take a standard keyboard from Germany, walk down the Champs-Ãlysées with it, and I'm sure the French will surrender to it in a very organized fashion.
It doesn't need "community support" when the "community" is the default version of practically every Linux distro in existence without even requiring the existence of a specialized "community" distro just to support one board. That's what makes it really compelling over a Raspberry Pi (and I was in the very first wave of people who ordered it too).
Thank you for having a username that trolls "mdsolar" and his arrogant and obviously bought & paid for trolling.
Yeah, totally made a killing when I bet that the Chiefs would take out the Patriots last week.
All I had to do was apply a few post-game corrections to the score and the money just flowed right in.
Maybe you should actually learn about AMD's product lineup: http://www.anandtech.com/show/...
Yes, in the year 2012 it was a futuristic feature. Then 2013 happened. Where have you been?
I'm sure the authors of the article don't know how the management engine works.
But given their level of "competence" I'm sure they don't know how a lot of things work. So what, a piece of technology isn't governed by the level of ignorance of some blogger.