If the two processors are both accessing the same region of memory at the same time, they need to be able to pass the changes back and forth to ensure memory state is consistent. I believe they do it by directly connecting a bunch of PCIe lanes between the processors.
You've got two issues at play here. When you get to the processors with tons of cores, there's often several chips inside the package. A 32 core processor might have 4 chips inside it, each with 8 cores. Those chips need to talk to each other, which takes some lanes. If the motherboard supports multiple sockets, you need lanes connecting the sockets.
Whatever is left after all that can be used by the rest of the motherboard.
You're forgetting that FanGraphs also ran posts showing the times Pitch FX screwed up the most.
The mistake posts were generated by looking at when the Pitch FX data and the calls disagreed. The mistakes go both ways, and you can see some pretty big mistakes in each direction.
The older domed stadiums generally had artificial turf instead of grass. It's a harder surface and pretty rough on player's knees. The ball also bounces differently - it tends not to slow down as much on a bounce.
Tampa's domed stadium has a weird roof, and balls sometimes bounce off the ceiling lighting / support structures.
I think you can build a stadium that solves all the major complaints, but the cost estimates end up about triple the cost of an outdoor stadium, so teams usually just go for the outdoor stadium.
The EU wasn't going to negotiate at all until Article 50 was triggered.
From a US viewpoint, it sounds like the Leave campaign expected to be able to retain all the benefits of being in the EU, while only giving up the parts of membership that they didn't like. And they expected the EU to negotiate on their terms, and give them everything they wanted. And then after the referendum, they found out that's not how the real world works.
I've often felt that the Leave campaign never had any intention of succeeding. Their goals seemed so unrealistic that I assumed their intention was just to create conflict in politics. When they did win the vote, no one really knew how to proceed from there, so they mostly just choose a path of maximum conflict to avoid having to make the hard decisions.
I assume he's talking about the power grabs the state senates did in those two states. When the Republican governors lost their elections, the Republican state senates passed a bunch laws transferring a bunch of power from the governor to the senate. The outgoing governors were happy to sign the bills into law on their last days in office.
Rumor was at the time that there were hardware manufacturers with warehouses full of PC motherboards they couldn't sell "because everyone wanted usb 2.0", so they muscled/bribed the standards committee to rename usb 1.1 off the books so they could empty their warehouses by hustling the public. So many people were posting at the time they couldn't understand how their computer they just built with a "good new usb 2 board" was running slow, where to find drivers to "fix" it, etc. It's easy to see what usb 2.0 was "full of".
Sorry to ruin your bubble here, but there wasn't any malicious intent here.
USB 1.0 defined two speeds - 1.5 Mbps "Low Speed" and 12 Mbps "Full Speed". Things like mice and keyboards used Low Speed, while things like drives used Full Speed.
Originally USB was just intended to replace the mess of accessory ports on a PC - PS/2, serial, parallel, gamepad, etc. After it got popular, they realized they needed a lot more bandwidth and USB 2.0 "High Speed" was created. "Full Speed" vs "High Speed" was certainly awkward, but there were already millions of "Full Speed" devices on the market. USB 3.x "Super Speed" followed from the same thought process.
I have no idea what they're thinking with USB 3.2 tho.
What you want is called Quality of Service (QOS) controls. That's fine. Everyone wants that, because anything realtime breaks without it. Prioritize the data that needs to arrive promptly over the data that doesn't. You get to use the max bandwidth you paid for, and data gets prioritized so the time sensitive data comes through first.
The big ISPs want the right to slow down whatever sites they choose, and demand payment to remove the limits. You might have a 100 Mbps connection, but Netflix is going to be capped at 1 Mbps unless Netflix and/or you pays the ISP to remove the cap. The big ISPs want to be able to go to all the big content providers and demand money from them, making their sites unusable if they don't pay up.
Smartphones were $200 when your carrier subsidized it.
The original iPhone launched at $500 with no subsidizes. The early comparable Android phones were at least that much (I had a Droid, which was $600 unsubsidized). 2 year contracts with subsidized phones were standard though, so you probably paid more like $200 back then.
About 5 years ago the carriers changed the pricing model. Base plan prices went down, and you paid full price for your phone - usually spread out over two years. If you want to use a phone for more than 2 years, you pay less now. If you want to upgrade every 2 years or less, it's a wash.
If you're comparing a Thinkpad and a MacBook, yeah, you'll probably get similar list prices. The big difference is a big Apple sale is a couple hundred dollars off, whereas Lenovo does 20% off sales pretty often, and does 30-35% sales every few months. If you buy on sales, the top of the line Thinkpad is going to be $1000 cheaper than the Macbook.
It's not a hardware design defect, it's a basic fact of how electronics work. It wasn't an issue of *just* CPU usage. As phones got more complex, the difference in power draw between "idle" and "everything in use" became bigger over time. The other big factor is batteries don't work as well in cold weather. The big problem people were seeing was if they used their phones outdoors in winter weather with a bunch of things going at once, the battery couldn't keep up. Stress the phone hard in conditions when the battery won't work well and you get problems.
And they didn't lie about it, they've had a note about it on their support site ever since they launched the fix.
And the fix wasn't a big deal. My 6S used to shut down often in the winter months, even when it was brand new. I haven't had it happen since they issued the fix, and there's been no noticeable impact on performance.
If you're using it in your car, you're almost certainly leaving a cable connected to your car stereo, and just connecting/disconnecting the phone end of it as needed. Get the $10 headphone to lightning adapter, connect it to the wire that's already in your car, and then everything is exactly the same for you. If you want to charge your phone at the same time, you can get a slightly more expensive adapter that adds an extra connector you can use for charging.
The dongle is annoying for people that use one set of headphones with multiple devices, but for something like this where you've got a stationary cable, it's just a minor annoyance that you have to spend a little more.
You're leaving out the part where the UN and most European countries didn't agree with the evidence Bush was presenting.
Iraq had a lot of centrifuges, but they weren't high enough quality to make the weapons being claimed.
There was evidence of Iraq having chemical weapons 15 years prior... but the chemicals had a shelf life of 5 years, so they would have long since degraded.
UN inspectors weren't finding any traces of weapons programs.
Hussein talked a big game, wanting people to believe he had WMDs so that the rest of the world would be too afraid to attack him. Bush bought into the bluff, while most of the rest of the world didn't. The UN wasn't even saying that there definitely weren't weapons - only that they hadn't found any signs of them yet, and wanted more time to keep looking. That was the part that got people most upset about the whole thing. It made the whole thing seem like the decision to go to war was made, then they tried to find an excuse to justify it after.
Destiny 2 is one of the largest games released for the current consoles. The vast, vast majority of PS4 & XB1 games are under 20 GB.
Also don't forget that for large games, both the PS4 & XB1 allow you to start playing before the game is fully installed. I'm not sure what the current limit is, but until fairly recently the limit was a 5 GB downloadable to be playable.
Most people hate how early it gets dark after the change from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time. Most people don't understand the time zones that well and refer to the act of changing the clocks as "Daylight Savings Time".
Permanent Daylight Saving Time is what most people want, but most people don't understand time zones well enough to express the idea properly.
You can get Tivo lifetime subscriptions for I believe the cost of 3 years of service. The boxes last a long time. I used my previous Tivo for about 8 years before I replaced it. It still worked, I just wanted the newer features.
The current Tivos have up to 6 tuners. You can also get Tivo Minis for a one time fee and hook them up to other TVs in your house. They just stream content from the main one. They can even stream live TV. There's no monthly fee on the Mini and you can replace a cablebox with it, so you can definitely save money going this route.
Or do like the rest of us and buy a USB battery pack. You can get one for under $20 that fits in your pocket and can provide a full charge to a phone 4+ times. No need to turn your phone off and take it apart, and it works with all your USB devices.
The slowdown triggers when the power output from the battery drops below a limit. It doesn't just slow down the processor, it can also do things like dim the screen, lower the screen refresh rate, reduce speaker volume, or even disable the camera flash. It's doing these things because if it doesn't, the phone will need more power than the battery can supply, which will trigger the phone to abruptly shut off, regardless of how much charge is left.
The big driver of this wasn't old batteries, but cold weather. Batteries just don't work well in winter weather. There were a ton of brand new iPhone 6S models that were abruptly shutting off and refusing to turn back on when used outside in the winter.
They didn't want people getting stuck outside in the freezing cold unable to use their phones. That's what drove this. My 6S experienced the shutdown problems in the winter plenty of times, even when it was brand new. They stopped after the safeties were added.
You need to really abuse the battery to trigger the slowdown due to age. I had the battery replaced at just under 4 years old, and despite all that use, it still wasn't worn down enough to trigger the slowdown without extreme cold temperatures. They probably expected the vast majority of users to move on to a new phone long before the slowdown got triggered by battery age.
I think it's more that building in the RAM means you have to buy your RAM upgrades from Apple. Without soldered RAM & storage, it's often a lot cheaper to buy computers with the minimum amount of RAM and SSD included, then upgrade it after. Now you're forced to buy what you need directly from Apple. And you're likely to overestimate your needs because you can't change it later. That's several hundred dollars extra profit per system on the high end models.
Today, AMD only outperforms Intel abusively dollar for dollar, and yeah if you need maximum single thread performance you have to go with Intel. That only matters to gamers though, since everything else that needs much performance is multithreaded now.
A lot of tasks are only semi-parallel though. Take building code - you can compile lots of files in parallel, but then you have to link the executable on a single thread. Even though the majority of the work is done across multiple cores, the single core performance can still make a noticeable difference.
Of what's left, most of it is either sports channels or live talk shows. You're going to get natural breaks in those, so advertising isn't unreasonable there.
If you're using it in a car, it's going to be cheaper to get a satellite radio subscription than to get a streaming radio service and a larger data plan. Especially if you take advantage of discounted satellite rates.
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It's much simpler than that. You buy a game physical or digital. Physical gets you a disc or cartridge, digital just a download copy.
If the two processors are both accessing the same region of memory at the same time, they need to be able to pass the changes back and forth to ensure memory state is consistent. I believe they do it by directly connecting a bunch of PCIe lanes between the processors.
You've got two issues at play here. When you get to the processors with tons of cores, there's often several chips inside the package. A 32 core processor might have 4 chips inside it, each with 8 cores. Those chips need to talk to each other, which takes some lanes. If the motherboard supports multiple sockets, you need lanes connecting the sockets.
Whatever is left after all that can be used by the rest of the motherboard.
You're forgetting that FanGraphs also ran posts showing the times Pitch FX screwed up the most.
The mistake posts were generated by looking at when the Pitch FX data and the calls disagreed. The mistakes go both ways, and you can see some pretty big mistakes in each direction.
The older domed stadiums generally had artificial turf instead of grass. It's a harder surface and pretty rough on player's knees. The ball also bounces differently - it tends not to slow down as much on a bounce.
Tampa's domed stadium has a weird roof, and balls sometimes bounce off the ceiling lighting / support structures.
I think you can build a stadium that solves all the major complaints, but the cost estimates end up about triple the cost of an outdoor stadium, so teams usually just go for the outdoor stadium.
The EU wasn't going to negotiate at all until Article 50 was triggered.
From a US viewpoint, it sounds like the Leave campaign expected to be able to retain all the benefits of being in the EU, while only giving up the parts of membership that they didn't like. And they expected the EU to negotiate on their terms, and give them everything they wanted. And then after the referendum, they found out that's not how the real world works.
I've often felt that the Leave campaign never had any intention of succeeding. Their goals seemed so unrealistic that I assumed their intention was just to create conflict in politics. When they did win the vote, no one really knew how to proceed from there, so they mostly just choose a path of maximum conflict to avoid having to make the hard decisions.
I assume he's talking about the power grabs the state senates did in those two states. When the Republican governors lost their elections, the Republican state senates passed a bunch laws transferring a bunch of power from the governor to the senate. The outgoing governors were happy to sign the bills into law on their last days in office.
Rumor was at the time that there were hardware manufacturers with warehouses full of PC motherboards they couldn't sell "because everyone wanted usb 2.0", so they muscled/bribed the standards committee to rename usb 1.1 off the books so they could empty their warehouses by hustling the public. So many people were posting at the time they couldn't understand how their computer they just built with a "good new usb 2 board" was running slow, where to find drivers to "fix" it, etc. It's easy to see what usb 2.0 was "full of".
Sorry to ruin your bubble here, but there wasn't any malicious intent here.
USB 1.0 defined two speeds - 1.5 Mbps "Low Speed" and 12 Mbps "Full Speed". Things like mice and keyboards used Low Speed, while things like drives used Full Speed.
Originally USB was just intended to replace the mess of accessory ports on a PC - PS/2, serial, parallel, gamepad, etc. After it got popular, they realized they needed a lot more bandwidth and USB 2.0 "High Speed" was created. "Full Speed" vs "High Speed" was certainly awkward, but there were already millions of "Full Speed" devices on the market. USB 3.x "Super Speed" followed from the same thought process.
I have no idea what they're thinking with USB 3.2 tho.
What you want is called Quality of Service (QOS) controls. That's fine. Everyone wants that, because anything realtime breaks without it. Prioritize the data that needs to arrive promptly over the data that doesn't. You get to use the max bandwidth you paid for, and data gets prioritized so the time sensitive data comes through first.
The big ISPs want the right to slow down whatever sites they choose, and demand payment to remove the limits. You might have a 100 Mbps connection, but Netflix is going to be capped at 1 Mbps unless Netflix and/or you pays the ISP to remove the cap. The big ISPs want to be able to go to all the big content providers and demand money from them, making their sites unusable if they don't pay up.
Smartphones were $200 when your carrier subsidized it.
The original iPhone launched at $500 with no subsidizes. The early comparable Android phones were at least that much (I had a Droid, which was $600 unsubsidized). 2 year contracts with subsidized phones were standard though, so you probably paid more like $200 back then.
About 5 years ago the carriers changed the pricing model. Base plan prices went down, and you paid full price for your phone - usually spread out over two years. If you want to use a phone for more than 2 years, you pay less now. If you want to upgrade every 2 years or less, it's a wash.
If you're comparing a Thinkpad and a MacBook, yeah, you'll probably get similar list prices. The big difference is a big Apple sale is a couple hundred dollars off, whereas Lenovo does 20% off sales pretty often, and does 30-35% sales every few months. If you buy on sales, the top of the line Thinkpad is going to be $1000 cheaper than the Macbook.
It's not a hardware design defect, it's a basic fact of how electronics work. It wasn't an issue of *just* CPU usage. As phones got more complex, the difference in power draw between "idle" and "everything in use" became bigger over time. The other big factor is batteries don't work as well in cold weather. The big problem people were seeing was if they used their phones outdoors in winter weather with a bunch of things going at once, the battery couldn't keep up. Stress the phone hard in conditions when the battery won't work well and you get problems.
And they didn't lie about it, they've had a note about it on their support site ever since they launched the fix.
And the fix wasn't a big deal. My 6S used to shut down often in the winter months, even when it was brand new. I haven't had it happen since they issued the fix, and there's been no noticeable impact on performance.
If you're using it in your car, you're almost certainly leaving a cable connected to your car stereo, and just connecting/disconnecting the phone end of it as needed. Get the $10 headphone to lightning adapter, connect it to the wire that's already in your car, and then everything is exactly the same for you. If you want to charge your phone at the same time, you can get a slightly more expensive adapter that adds an extra connector you can use for charging.
The dongle is annoying for people that use one set of headphones with multiple devices, but for something like this where you've got a stationary cable, it's just a minor annoyance that you have to spend a little more.
You're leaving out the part where the UN and most European countries didn't agree with the evidence Bush was presenting.
Iraq had a lot of centrifuges, but they weren't high enough quality to make the weapons being claimed.
There was evidence of Iraq having chemical weapons 15 years prior... but the chemicals had a shelf life of 5 years, so they would have long since degraded.
UN inspectors weren't finding any traces of weapons programs.
Hussein talked a big game, wanting people to believe he had WMDs so that the rest of the world would be too afraid to attack him. Bush bought into the bluff, while most of the rest of the world didn't. The UN wasn't even saying that there definitely weren't weapons - only that they hadn't found any signs of them yet, and wanted more time to keep looking. That was the part that got people most upset about the whole thing. It made the whole thing seem like the decision to go to war was made, then they tried to find an excuse to justify it after.
I'm currently typing on a Unicomp Model M that's close to 15 years old. Never had the slightest problem with it.
Destiny 2 is one of the largest games released for the current consoles. The vast, vast majority of PS4 & XB1 games are under 20 GB.
Also don't forget that for large games, both the PS4 & XB1 allow you to start playing before the game is fully installed. I'm not sure what the current limit is, but until fairly recently the limit was a 5 GB downloadable to be playable.
Most people hate how early it gets dark after the change from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time. Most people don't understand the time zones that well and refer to the act of changing the clocks as "Daylight Savings Time".
Permanent Daylight Saving Time is what most people want, but most people don't understand time zones well enough to express the idea properly.
Threadripper doesn't help much when PLAYING games, but it'd be a pretty sweet CPU for COMPILING games.
Tivo runs big sales every couple of months. You can probably get close to half off the price.
You can get Tivo lifetime subscriptions for I believe the cost of 3 years of service. The boxes last a long time. I used my previous Tivo for about 8 years before I replaced it. It still worked, I just wanted the newer features.
The current Tivos have up to 6 tuners. You can also get Tivo Minis for a one time fee and hook them up to other TVs in your house. They just stream content from the main one. They can even stream live TV. There's no monthly fee on the Mini and you can replace a cablebox with it, so you can definitely save money going this route.
Or do like the rest of us and buy a USB battery pack. You can get one for under $20 that fits in your pocket and can provide a full charge to a phone 4+ times. No need to turn your phone off and take it apart, and it works with all your USB devices.
The slowdown triggers when the power output from the battery drops below a limit. It doesn't just slow down the processor, it can also do things like dim the screen, lower the screen refresh rate, reduce speaker volume, or even disable the camera flash. It's doing these things because if it doesn't, the phone will need more power than the battery can supply, which will trigger the phone to abruptly shut off, regardless of how much charge is left.
The big driver of this wasn't old batteries, but cold weather. Batteries just don't work well in winter weather. There were a ton of brand new iPhone 6S models that were abruptly shutting off and refusing to turn back on when used outside in the winter.
They didn't want people getting stuck outside in the freezing cold unable to use their phones. That's what drove this. My 6S experienced the shutdown problems in the winter plenty of times, even when it was brand new. They stopped after the safeties were added.
You need to really abuse the battery to trigger the slowdown due to age. I had the battery replaced at just under 4 years old, and despite all that use, it still wasn't worn down enough to trigger the slowdown without extreme cold temperatures. They probably expected the vast majority of users to move on to a new phone long before the slowdown got triggered by battery age.
I think it's more that building in the RAM means you have to buy your RAM upgrades from Apple. Without soldered RAM & storage, it's often a lot cheaper to buy computers with the minimum amount of RAM and SSD included, then upgrade it after. Now you're forced to buy what you need directly from Apple. And you're likely to overestimate your needs because you can't change it later. That's several hundred dollars extra profit per system on the high end models.
Today, AMD only outperforms Intel abusively dollar for dollar, and yeah if you need maximum single thread performance you have to go with Intel. That only matters to gamers though, since everything else that needs much performance is multithreaded now.
A lot of tasks are only semi-parallel though. Take building code - you can compile lots of files in parallel, but then you have to link the executable on a single thread. Even though the majority of the work is done across multiple cores, the single core performance can still make a noticeable difference.
The music channels don't have advertising.
Of what's left, most of it is either sports channels or live talk shows. You're going to get natural breaks in those, so advertising isn't unreasonable there.
If you're using it in a car, it's going to be cheaper to get a satellite radio subscription than to get a streaming radio service and a larger data plan. Especially if you take advantage of discounted satellite rates.