And a quick walk around the school after it had shut wouldn't have let them discover this without the need for expensive analysis!?
Part of the problem with most managers is that they seem to refuse to go anywhere near the coalface and subsequently rely on spreadsheets and numbers for managing their business. Spending a few days every now and then actually experiencing the business first hand would leave them far better informed and help them become better managers.
I'm sure the >1,000 dead at the IRAs hands consider themselves to be a minimal cost of lives. There is nothing romantic about the IRA, they are thuggish murderous terrorists through and through, every bit as bad as Al Qaeda.
It only needs to be a minority if they're disruptive enough. This is true of almost all crime today, whereby it is only perpetrated by a small minority but the ramifications and ripples for that affect the majority to varying degrees.
Lets say your dog has a car but because he doesn't have opposable thumbs he struggles to use a key. Instead the car is fitted with a dog paw sized keypad that allows him to type an entry code in to gain access to the car and start the engine. Thinking that this setup is the bees knees your dog posts the details of this system on his blog, but includes his key code. Now any other man or his dog who reads this blog post will be able to access your dog's car.
Except Larrabee failed because performance didn't live up to expectations and was a generation behind the best from AMD and nVidia. What this development from AMD allows is much more efficient interaction and sharing of data between a traditional CPU and an on-die GPU through updates to the memory architecture. These memory changes will also allow the parts to take advantage of the very fastest DDR3 memory that current CPUs struggle to fully utilise.
The two most obvious scenarios for this technology are for accelerating traditional problems that take advantage of the existing vector units (SSE, etc.) by utilising the integrated GPU to massively accelerate these programs, and in gaming rigs where there is a discrete GPU the new architecture allows the integrated GPU to share some of the workload. The example given, and one that is increasingly relevant as all games now have physics engines, is for the discrete GPU to concentrate on pushing pixels to the screen and the integrated GPU to be used to accelerate the physics engine.
Is it a game changer? Probably not in the first couple of generations, although it would be a very welcome boost to AMDs platform that could get them back in the game as the preferred CPU maker. But long term Intel will have to come up with an answer to this in some form as programmers get ever more adept at exploiting the GPU for general purpose computing, and changes like those AMD are incorporating into their designs make these techniques ever more powerful and relevant to wider ranges of problems. Adding more x86 cores won't necessarily be the answer.
So then someone invents an iPhone case with an IR filter covering the lens.
No, the only solution is to reverse the system and install IR signals everywhere that you're allowed to take photo's with the camera refusing to take pictures unless you have the express permission of the venues owner.
The reality is that for most companies, particularly startups, you have shit loads of money going away from you... That is why so many fail in their first year.
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Especially as this is going to be the thin end of the wedge. By putting a warning label on it and getting the population to accept that, it then legitimises their complaints and fears about computer games leading to restrictions and bans in the future.
But just think how useful this will be for those who, like me, forget absolutely everything that happens when they go out drinking! And what a cure for beer goggles - think you've met someone you fancy? Managed to get their number? Review the evenings recording and realise the next day that they were one ugly mother... well you get the picture, but now you don't have to meet them a second time to realise just what a mistake you made (you know, the old "hmmm... don't remember them having a beard" thing.)
This is something that I also struggle with, so I'm very interested in any tips 'n' tricks that others can supply. The only useful trick that I've found helpful in the past is to take an iterative approach to the documentation, repeatedly sending drafts to the interested parties and encouraging feedback. Often their problem is that they don't know what they want, only what they don't want - so starting to lay out some options before them helps them make decisions on what they would like to see. Start at a high level, and slowly drill down on the detail - making assumptions where necessary to keep the process moving, but always verifying those assumptions with the interested parties.
Open source is not dead, maybe just a little diluted thanks to some corporates claiming to be "open source" whilst never getting (or deliberately ignoring) the community based principle.
But that may be all it takes. It's not like they're going to suddenly pack up their bags and stop researching this stuff. Each advance only ever buys time before the next advance is required.
For me at least, your first paragraph hits the nail on the head. Climate change is happening - but it has always happened. The arrogance of man is to presume that the current climate is one which would remain stable were it not for our interference. The climate has always changed, it is a dynamic system, and will always change. Why should we presume that the climate that we currently have is the natural balance for the Earth?
It is a complex and ever changing system and our understanding is really very limited. There could be factors at work that come into play as the temperature rises which then tip the Earth back the other way and heading for an ice age.
Why oh why won't Intel spend their research dollars on something useful, like a bus architecture that can actually keep up with present performance levels?
Of course I forgot to mention that Conroe is 32bit, the AMD64 chips are... wait for it... 64 bit! You may not feel that is important, but many readers on this site do.
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Are they really? Conroe has been shown to be quicker in limited tests overseen by Intel. Note that, as far as I am aware, none of the 'independent' testers so far have been responsible for setting up any of the test machines. And while I am sure Intel did not do anything untoward, can you honestly guarantee that absolutely everything is fair and equal in that test?
It's showing the new woodcrest chips to be somewhere between 5 - 15% faster, as opposed to Intels claimed 33%.
Finally, have you considered that AMD may just be working on something new. For a start this is their first AM2 chip, they will surely start ramping the core clock as well as the memory clock soon. And they have kept very quiet about their other future developments, not to mention any process changes (ie. catching up with Intels 65nm lead).
So while Intel may indeed recapture the top performance slot for a while it's likely to be transient until AMD release their next big thing. Which will capture the performance crown for a while until Intel release their next big thing. And so on.
Not only is this chip 32bit only, it's also dual core as opposed to the FX60's single core, its been built on a 65nm process unlike the FX60's 90nm, and the FX60 is actually starting to show it's age a little bit. I big giant "Duh" springs to mind at this point.
Fair enough, but more people would probably argue that 82% of games are not violent in nature. IMHO 82% of games being non-violent is more than adequate, and if those 18% that are happen to be the best sellers then that is due to market forces, and not anything underhand by the producers.
In the UK at least there are also networks of Business Angels. Usually small business owners themselves, with profits from those businesses ready to invest in new ventures. This is something I have looked into, as I plan to be one of those angels in the next year or so as my own business grows.
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And a quick walk around the school after it had shut wouldn't have let them discover this without the need for expensive analysis!?
Part of the problem with most managers is that they seem to refuse to go anywhere near the coalface and subsequently rely on spreadsheets and numbers for managing their business. Spending a few days every now and then actually experiencing the business first hand would leave them far better informed and help them become better managers.
I'm sure the >1,000 dead at the IRAs hands consider themselves to be a minimal cost of lives. There is nothing romantic about the IRA, they are thuggish murderous terrorists through and through, every bit as bad as Al Qaeda.
It only needs to be a minority if they're disruptive enough. This is true of almost all crime today, whereby it is only perpetrated by a small minority but the ramifications and ripples for that affect the majority to varying degrees.
Lets say your dog has a car but because he doesn't have opposable thumbs he struggles to use a key. Instead the car is fitted with a dog paw sized keypad that allows him to type an entry code in to gain access to the car and start the engine. Thinking that this setup is the bees knees your dog posts the details of this system on his blog, but includes his key code. Now any other man or his dog who reads this blog post will be able to access your dog's car.
Except Larrabee failed because performance didn't live up to expectations and was a generation behind the best from AMD and nVidia. What this development from AMD allows is much more efficient interaction and sharing of data between a traditional CPU and an on-die GPU through updates to the memory architecture. These memory changes will also allow the parts to take advantage of the very fastest DDR3 memory that current CPUs struggle to fully utilise.
The two most obvious scenarios for this technology are for accelerating traditional problems that take advantage of the existing vector units (SSE, etc.) by utilising the integrated GPU to massively accelerate these programs, and in gaming rigs where there is a discrete GPU the new architecture allows the integrated GPU to share some of the workload. The example given, and one that is increasingly relevant as all games now have physics engines, is for the discrete GPU to concentrate on pushing pixels to the screen and the integrated GPU to be used to accelerate the physics engine.
Is it a game changer? Probably not in the first couple of generations, although it would be a very welcome boost to AMDs platform that could get them back in the game as the preferred CPU maker. But long term Intel will have to come up with an answer to this in some form as programmers get ever more adept at exploiting the GPU for general purpose computing, and changes like those AMD are incorporating into their designs make these techniques ever more powerful and relevant to wider ranges of problems. Adding more x86 cores won't necessarily be the answer.
So then someone invents an iPhone case with an IR filter covering the lens.
No, the only solution is to reverse the system and install IR signals everywhere that you're allowed to take photo's with the camera refusing to take pictures unless you have the express permission of the venues owner.
Could we also see exploding body panels if they're hit by lightening?
The reality is that for most companies, particularly startups, you have shit loads of money going away from you... That is why so many fail in their first year.
Correct me if I'm wrong but even when you disable cookies the browser typically still allows session cookies to be used. How else would slashdot know you were logged in, for example.
This new legislation also applies to temporary session cookies. Almost every site where users can log in will be using session cookies to enable this.
...a law stopping people from making laws about things they simply do not understand.
Especially as this is going to be the thin end of the wedge. By putting a warning label on it and getting the population to accept that, it then legitimises their complaints and fears about computer games leading to restrictions and bans in the future.
But just think how useful this will be for those who, like me, forget absolutely everything that happens when they go out drinking! And what a cure for beer goggles - think you've met someone you fancy? Managed to get their number? Review the evenings recording and realise the next day that they were one ugly mother... well you get the picture, but now you don't have to meet them a second time to realise just what a mistake you made (you know, the old "hmmm... don't remember them having a beard" thing.)
This is something that I also struggle with, so I'm very interested in any tips 'n' tricks that others can supply. The only useful trick that I've found helpful in the past is to take an iterative approach to the documentation, repeatedly sending drafts to the interested parties and encouraging feedback. Often their problem is that they don't know what they want, only what they don't want - so starting to lay out some options before them helps them make decisions on what they would like to see. Start at a high level, and slowly drill down on the detail - making assumptions where necessary to keep the process moving, but always verifying those assumptions with the interested parties.
Open source is not dead, maybe just a little diluted thanks to some corporates claiming to be "open source" whilst never getting (or deliberately ignoring) the community based principle.
But that may be all it takes. It's not like they're going to suddenly pack up their bags and stop researching this stuff. Each advance only ever buys time before the next advance is required.
For me at least, your first paragraph hits the nail on the head. Climate change is happening - but it has always happened. The arrogance of man is to presume that the current climate is one which would remain stable were it not for our interference. The climate has always changed, it is a dynamic system, and will always change. Why should we presume that the climate that we currently have is the natural balance for the Earth?
It is a complex and ever changing system and our understanding is really very limited. There could be factors at work that come into play as the temperature rises which then tip the Earth back the other way and heading for an ice age.
Wicked... hmmm.... a castle full of nubile virgins all asking me to spank them?
Why oh why won't Intel spend their research dollars on something useful, like a bus architecture that can actually keep up with present performance levels?
Of course I forgot to mention that Conroe is 32bit, the AMD64 chips are... wait for it... 64 bit! You may not feel that is important, but many readers on this site do.
Are they really? Conroe has been shown to be quicker in limited tests overseen by Intel. Note that, as far as I am aware, none of the 'independent' testers so far have been responsible for setting up any of the test machines. And while I am sure Intel did not do anything untoward, can you honestly guarantee that absolutely everything is fair and equal in that test?
Take a look at this article: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2487
It's showing the new woodcrest chips to be somewhere between 5 - 15% faster, as opposed to Intels claimed 33%.
Finally, have you considered that AMD may just be working on something new. For a start this is their first AM2 chip, they will surely start ramping the core clock as well as the memory clock soon. And they have kept very quiet about their other future developments, not to mention any process changes (ie. catching up with Intels 65nm lead).
So while Intel may indeed recapture the top performance slot for a while it's likely to be transient until AMD release their next big thing. Which will capture the performance crown for a while until Intel release their next big thing. And so on.
Not only is this chip 32bit only, it's also dual core as opposed to the FX60's single core, its been built on a 65nm process unlike the FX60's 90nm, and the FX60 is actually starting to show it's age a little bit. I big giant "Duh" springs to mind at this point.
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Fair enough, but more people would probably argue that 82% of games are not violent in nature. IMHO 82% of games being non-violent is more than adequate, and if those 18% that are happen to be the best sellers then that is due to market forces, and not anything underhand by the producers.
That is totally irelevant in this argument - the percentage of top sellers that are M-rated merely reflects market demand.
This is an argument about content publishers producing too many violent games, and that is not supported by the facts in TFA.
In the UK at least there are also networks of Business Angels. Usually small business owners themselves, with profits from those businesses ready to invest in new ventures. This is something I have looked into, as I plan to be one of those angels in the next year or so as my own business grows.