1. Decoding Divx or similar, even if you re-encoded at 320x240 for the new iPod's (probable) screen size is very processor intensive. That implies power drain 2. Constant HD access. This also implies power drain 3. Power drain implies shorter battery life.
This is why these devices aren't doing video playback yet unless they are quite clunky for the extra battery required. Maybe in a year or two when lower power chips come out, and better compression lowers the HD use.
If he was full of it, he wouldn't have overshot his own exit by 50 miles, have called the police, and so on.
What is so hard to believe about a hard lock in the on-board computer that basically ignored all the controls in the car. He couldn't turn off the car because of the lame ignition system. The only questions were why he didn't brake, or if the car's design didn't take things like this into account, and everything is computer controlled.
I don't know why there is an automatic assumption by some people to assume that someone is lying, or even to believe a large corporation before someone else!
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I was being pessimistic towards AMD so that the Intel fanboys wouldn't leap on me for using 'unrealistic' numbers. Indeed the TDP, being the Thermal Design Power, is just about ensuring that every A64 cooler will work on every A64. I was assuming that the 2.4GHz 130nm A64 processors were near the TDP limit however.
AMD are releasing the 2.6GHz A64FX55 next week. However I've read that it will be using a new TDP level of 104W in many places, and that all >4000+ ranked processors will also be using that rating, mainly because of dual-core next year.
I was talking about 3.4GHz Intel Prescotts, not 3 GHz Prescotts. You will have noticed that their idle Prescott burnt 150W at the wall? Maybe with your components in the system, the A64 system would have burnt 70W at the wall! You've got to compare like with like.
If you hadn't noticed, 2GHz Athlon 64's are taking around 40W max at the moment. But when you push the limits, the power use increases horribly. Intel can't even release 3.6GHz processors in reasonable quantities. Yet with good cooling they can run faster. Therefore the issue is heat, not capability.
Anyway, idle != full power. What does your computer burn at full load, running CPUBurn or something similar?
Intel are kings of heat on the desktop at the moment. AMD are cool in comparison. Pentium-M is Intel's only good product at the moment, and it proves that Intel's 90nm process is fine, but their Prescott design is fatally flawed.
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TDP == Thermal Design Power.
This is the most hottest power consumption that the whole/family/ of AMD processors will ever use (for the time being). As it took ages to break 2.4GHz, I assume that 2.4GHz is kinda close to that TDP measurement (and that 2.6GHz would break it, hence there has been no 2.6GHz Athlon 64/FX yet, but should be soon [next week]).
This processor is 2.2GHz, therefore it would use less energy than a 2.4GHz processor.
Using MagicMaths(tm) I therefore guesstimated REAL power consumption to be sorta close to 89W. Someone else backed me up on the Tech Report thread and said that 76W would be reasonably accurate. And what we are interested in is actual power consumption.
I hope that explains my Englishman's reasoning processesesssess!
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I hope your co-workers are basting you in BBQ sauce in preparation for when you are cooked fully!
151W (idle) * 12 hours * 360 days * 15c/unit = $100 a year extra on your electricity bill BEFORE you factor in the power used in your A/C to remove that heat.
If you are nice and do Folding or SETI or RC72 or whatever it is now, then you're looking at $150 at least.
If you are in an office, you can see how the costs could rapidly ramp up!
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It isn't Equation2 - Equation1, it is Equation2 - KnownPowerConsumptionOfProcessorToGetRestOfSystemP owerConsumption.
Err, except I made a mathematical error below. I'll use a different number to make it clear!
112W * 0.75 = 84W getting to system 179W * 0.75 = 134W (130nm under load, near TDP of 89W, let's assume 76W)
AMD have 35W mobile processors at up to 2GHz now based on the Athlon 64.
And leaving your PC on overnight does make a difference. Lets say you leave it on all the time, but only use it 8 hours a day. Intel P4:
16 hours * 150W (idle, 230W if folding) * 7 * 52 = 870kW (1.3MW) of power consumed more than you need to use.
Now I don't know about your electricity prices, but 15c/unit is $130 a year to run the system without any use ($200 when folding). If you have an overnight cheap electricity rate though it won't be nearly as bad.
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Buy an Intel Prescott based system if you live in the Artic Circle...
Looking at the data in the article, would I be mad in assuming that a 90nm 3500+ uses around 23W in idle mode?
Assuming power supply is 75% efficient:
112W * 0.75 = 84W getting to system 179W * 0.75 = 134W (130nm under load, near TDP of 89W, let's assume 84W)
I suppose that system power usage also drops in idle mode though as well.
Yes, these figures are extremely dodgy and vague and aren't worth much more than the speculation they are. It looks like the 3.4GHz P4 uses over 100W under load though - that is shockingly high.
Corks now mandatory on all firearms. Any firearm that supports removing the cork is now outlawed on the grounds that it is possible to fire a bullet from it, and hence kill someone.
(why a cork? because most DRM is easily worked around anyway in reality, and the first platform I've ever seen the mass application of DRM removal is always Windows)
Quite why the USA has this problem at all is beyond me. The law states quite clearly that just because something/can/ be used for illegal purposes it doesn't make that thing illegal itself. Hell, guns are designed to kill! If they are legal, I can't believe many things can be illegal just because they may be used to break the law.
If someone has a budget for buying CDs/music each year, say $300, then even if they download extra music illegally, no-one is losing out as long as the consumer is still spending what they have budgeted to spend.
Music is a commodity these days. It isn't special like it was in the 50's. People expect music at all hours, but it isn't priced right to meet the current usage of music, so people download the extra music they need to fill in the gap.
I don't see how Microsoft can claim any kind of moral superiority over Apple. Apple at least had the decency to offer reasonably priced legal music quite some time ago. Per-song pricing allows you to take a small risk to discover new music, or just get the 2 good songs on a modern pop album that are any good. MSN Music is a lot more recent.
I can only assume that Microsoft will be designing Media Software that will not play non-MS-approved content. Otherwise how can it tell whether a song you are playing is something you ripped yourself, or downloaded? Surely you could burn a CD and re-rip if Microsoft enforced that type of requirement?
These big companies are only pissed off because online music sharing allows people to discover new music that isn't on the big labels, and then spend money on that music instead of HypedTrash. Most studies show that music purchasing hasn't dropped since file sharing started, at the worst it fluctuated in line with the economy, at best it has actually soared over what it should have been.
Much better than the Quarter VGA that was until recently the standard for PocketPC devices.
Which in turn was a mile ahead of the old 1/12th VGA original PalmOS screen. Now *that* wasn't adequate, although a lot of the apps were designed carefully and the devices were worthwhile.
As for PalmOS 6... I hope it will be shipping in devices soon. I've seen screenshots and it looks rather good.
Do you have any concept of "Consumer Protection" at all?
In the UK, if the EULA/T&Cs can't be read in plain English by someone, i.e., no lawyer speak, then they are practically unenforceable for consumer (not Business however, Business Contracts are binding regardless of the level of lawyerspk) transactions. Also if they take away unreasonable rights of the user, they are unenforceabe (you know the joke about Your first born child, etc, but you get the point).
However you have to consider that if Company released a Product that depends on a (pay for) Service that Company provides, and then someone bypasses the Service aspect, thus getting cheap Product that they can use, that the Company would be pretty pissed off about it all. Still, the Company is to blame, other Companies sell Product with a Minimum Fixed Term Contract for their Services, and this is where Blizzard messed up in my view.
Or should we make law a mandatory subject in school, 4 hours a week from the age of 5 up to 18? We could have a planet of lawyers then. No products though, because we'd all be lawyers, not creators, doctors, artists, cleaners, etc!
I agree that those that are sharing music files are the people to go after.
Of course, if they only accuse you of downloading the music, it'd be cheaper to actually buy the music involved than pay a fine, even if they list 100 albums. Then you can reply and say "but I have all the music legally already, I was merely exercising my fair use rights, and someone had handily encoded it for me". Not that they'd like that argument, they'd argue that you should do it yourself of something.
The issue is that most downloading programs make the song available to upload as well. Which is certainly copyright infringement, you might as well be selling copies on a market stall in the eyes of the law. Dunno about Bittorrent though, you're not sharing entire songs there until you seed as part of the download. If you are downloaded a fair use backup (yeah, yeah, weak argument) then could you claim that it wasn't your fault that other people weren't getting it as a fair use backup?
I do know that once the BMI starts cracking down in this country, my actual music purchases will drop because I won't have a safe way of trying out a lot of a non-mainstream music I like.
Saldy I split up when I was 24, but that was because I didn't have X girlfriends beforehands to learn how to deal with women. That wasn't taken into consideration though:(
Still legally married. As far as I know she's happy, and I'm stuck in a town with no girls chasing goth chicks. Hooray!
Now European nerds can buy geekstuff without paying big taxes when buying outside EU as you don't pay taxes when buying from other European countries.
Err, if the company is still based in the EU then they will have to pay VAT of the rate of the country that the company is based in.
If you buy from outside the EU then you are liable for import duty except for items below a certain value (£25 for UK I think). This is why so many DVD/CD stores are based in Jersey now.
I think I got tha right. I think that the topic should be about avoiding import taxes, not taxes. Anyway, it is just a big advertisement.
Excellent idea. I'd support actually a common API for accessing the information in a layer above the implementation however.
But yes, as most Linux/FreeBSD distros ship with a database of some sort, I don't see why they can't arrange to use one as a centralised data repository for these applications. Doesn't Exchange use MSSQL?
You'd have to get past the multi-user aspect I suppose:) Does MySQL support non-centralised database tables yet? Can I have a per-user repository in ~/.data yet?
At least on Windows the excellent desktop calendar/todo list application Rainlendar can integrate with Outlook's database, and soon iCal.
KDE used to be good as well. KAddressBook or whatever it was called was used by a lot of applications. I wonder if it was updated to hold IM details as well for the KDE IM application. Now they're going all integrated like Evolution though - I hope the individual applications will continue to exist alongside (using the same data, of course!).
Argh! The Calendar has the dreaded "Right Click -> New Appointment/Meeting/Task/..." issue.
I want to click and type in the calendar. That is a basic usability issue. If I can't do that, I'll never use it. Click, Type, drag top or bottom of entry to set duration. Simple.
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It is a nice idea for certain.
1. Decoding Divx or similar, even if you re-encoded at 320x240 for the new iPod's (probable) screen size is very processor intensive. That implies power drain
2. Constant HD access. This also implies power drain
3. Power drain implies shorter battery life.
This is why these devices aren't doing video playback yet unless they are quite clunky for the extra battery required. Maybe in a year or two when lower power chips come out, and better compression lowers the HD use.
If he was full of it, he wouldn't have overshot his own exit by 50 miles, have called the police, and so on.
What is so hard to believe about a hard lock in the on-board computer that basically ignored all the controls in the car. He couldn't turn off the car because of the lame ignition system. The only questions were why he didn't brake, or if the car's design didn't take things like this into account, and everything is computer controlled.
I don't know why there is an automatic assumption by some people to assume that someone is lying, or even to believe a large corporation before someone else!
I was being pessimistic towards AMD so that the Intel fanboys wouldn't leap on me for using 'unrealistic' numbers. Indeed the TDP, being the Thermal Design Power, is just about ensuring that every A64 cooler will work on every A64. I was assuming that the 2.4GHz 130nm A64 processors were near the TDP limit however.
AMD are releasing the 2.6GHz A64FX55 next week. However I've read that it will be using a new TDP level of 104W in many places, and that all >4000+ ranked processors will also be using that rating, mainly because of dual-core next year.
I was talking about 3.4GHz Intel Prescotts, not 3 GHz Prescotts. You will have noticed that their idle Prescott burnt 150W at the wall? Maybe with your components in the system, the A64 system would have burnt 70W at the wall! You've got to compare like with like.
If you hadn't noticed, 2GHz Athlon 64's are taking around 40W max at the moment. But when you push the limits, the power use increases horribly. Intel can't even release 3.6GHz processors in reasonable quantities. Yet with good cooling they can run faster. Therefore the issue is heat, not capability.
Anyway, idle != full power. What does your computer burn at full load, running CPUBurn or something similar?
Intel are kings of heat on the desktop at the moment. AMD are cool in comparison. Pentium-M is Intel's only good product at the moment, and it proves that Intel's 90nm process is fine, but their Prescott design is fatally flawed.
TDP == Thermal Design Power.
/family/ of AMD processors will ever use (for the time being). As it took ages to break 2.4GHz, I assume that 2.4GHz is kinda close to that TDP measurement (and that 2.6GHz would break it, hence there has been no 2.6GHz Athlon 64/FX yet, but should be soon [next week]).
This is the most hottest power consumption that the whole
This processor is 2.2GHz, therefore it would use less energy than a 2.4GHz processor.
Using MagicMaths(tm) I therefore guesstimated REAL power consumption to be sorta close to 89W. Someone else backed me up on the Tech Report thread and said that 76W would be reasonably accurate. And what we are interested in is actual power consumption.
I hope that explains my Englishman's reasoning processesesssess!
I hope your co-workers are basting you in BBQ sauce in preparation for when you are cooked fully!
A64-FX and Opteron indeed do not support Cool 'n' Quiet.
However all desktop A64s do. Including S939 A64s.
Given the former are for servers, workstations and weird people, I think the situation is reasonable.
151W (idle) * 12 hours * 360 days * 15c/unit = $100 a year extra on your electricity bill BEFORE you factor in the power used in your A/C to remove that heat.
If you are nice and do Folding or SETI or RC72 or whatever it is now, then you're looking at $150 at least.
If you are in an office, you can see how the costs could rapidly ramp up!
It isn't Equation2 - Equation1, it is Equation2 - KnownPowerConsumptionOfProcessorToGetRestOfSystemP owerConsumption.
Err, except I made a mathematical error below. I'll use a different number to make it clear!
112W * 0.75 = 84W getting to system
179W * 0.75 = 134W (130nm under load, near TDP of 89W, let's assume 76W)
134W - 76W = 58W Mobo, Gfx, IDE, etc power consumption
84W - 58W = 26W
26W * 0.9 (motherboard VRM efficiency) = 23W
AMD have 35W mobile processors at up to 2GHz now based on the Athlon 64.
And leaving your PC on overnight does make a difference. Lets say you leave it on all the time, but only use it 8 hours a day. Intel P4:
16 hours * 150W (idle, 230W if folding) * 7 * 52 = 870kW (1.3MW) of power consumed more than you need to use.
Now I don't know about your electricity prices, but 15c/unit is $130 a year to run the system without any use ($200 when folding). If you have an overnight cheap electricity rate though it won't be nearly as bad.
Buy an Intel Prescott based system if you live in the Artic Circle ...
Looking at the data in the article, would I be mad in assuming that a 90nm 3500+ uses around 23W in idle mode?
Assuming power supply is 75% efficient:
112W * 0.75 = 84W getting to system
179W * 0.75 = 134W (130nm under load, near TDP of 89W, let's assume 84W)
134W - 84W = 58W Mobo, Gfx, IDE, etc power consumption
84W - 58W = 26W
26W * 0.9 (motherboard VRM efficiency) = 23W
I suppose that system power usage also drops in idle mode though as well.
Yes, these figures are extremely dodgy and vague and aren't worth much more than the speculation they are. It looks like the 3.4GHz P4 uses over 100W under load though - that is shockingly high.
Corks now mandatory on all firearms. Any firearm that supports removing the cork is now outlawed on the grounds that it is possible to fire a bullet from it, and hence kill someone.
/can/ be used for illegal purposes it doesn't make that thing illegal itself. Hell, guns are designed to kill! If they are legal, I can't believe many things can be illegal just because they may be used to break the law.
(why a cork? because most DRM is easily worked around anyway in reality, and the first platform I've ever seen the mass application of DRM removal is always Windows)
Quite why the USA has this problem at all is beyond me. The law states quite clearly that just because something
If someone has a budget for buying CDs/music each year, say $300, then even if they download extra music illegally, no-one is losing out as long as the consumer is still spending what they have budgeted to spend.
Music is a commodity these days. It isn't special like it was in the 50's. People expect music at all hours, but it isn't priced right to meet the current usage of music, so people download the extra music they need to fill in the gap.
I don't see how Microsoft can claim any kind of moral superiority over Apple. Apple at least had the decency to offer reasonably priced legal music quite some time ago. Per-song pricing allows you to take a small risk to discover new music, or just get the 2 good songs on a modern pop album that are any good. MSN Music is a lot more recent.
I can only assume that Microsoft will be designing Media Software that will not play non-MS-approved content. Otherwise how can it tell whether a song you are playing is something you ripped yourself, or downloaded? Surely you could burn a CD and re-rip if Microsoft enforced that type of requirement?
These big companies are only pissed off because online music sharing allows people to discover new music that isn't on the big labels, and then spend money on that music instead of HypedTrash. Most studies show that music purchasing hasn't dropped since file sharing started, at the worst it fluctuated in line with the economy, at best it has actually soared over what it should have been.
Given the size of the screen, Half VGA is good.
... I hope it will be shipping in devices soon. I've seen screenshots and it looks rather good.
Much better than the Quarter VGA that was until recently the standard for PocketPC devices.
Which in turn was a mile ahead of the old 1/12th VGA original PalmOS screen. Now *that* wasn't adequate, although a lot of the apps were designed carefully and the devices were worthwhile.
As for PalmOS 6
Your American laws are retarded.
Do you have any concept of "Consumer Protection" at all?
In the UK, if the EULA/T&Cs can't be read in plain English by someone, i.e., no lawyer speak, then they are practically unenforceable for consumer (not Business however, Business Contracts are binding regardless of the level of lawyerspk) transactions. Also if they take away unreasonable rights of the user, they are unenforceabe (you know the joke about Your first born child, etc, but you get the point).
However you have to consider that if Company released a Product that depends on a (pay for) Service that Company provides, and then someone bypasses the Service aspect, thus getting cheap Product that they can use, that the Company would be pretty pissed off about it all. Still, the Company is to blame, other Companies sell Product with a Minimum Fixed Term Contract for their Services, and this is where Blizzard messed up in my view.
Or should we make law a mandatory subject in school, 4 hours a week from the age of 5 up to 18? We could have a planet of lawyers then. No products though, because we'd all be lawyers, not creators, doctors, artists, cleaners, etc!
I'd hope that the update mechanism was a little more secure than "Hi! I'm the firefox update server, honest!" ...
I agree that those that are sharing music files are the people to go after.
Of course, if they only accuse you of downloading the music, it'd be cheaper to actually buy the music involved than pay a fine, even if they list 100 albums. Then you can reply and say "but I have all the music legally already, I was merely exercising my fair use rights, and someone had handily encoded it for me". Not that they'd like that argument, they'd argue that you should do it yourself of something.
The issue is that most downloading programs make the song available to upload as well. Which is certainly copyright infringement, you might as well be selling copies on a market stall in the eyes of the law. Dunno about Bittorrent though, you're not sharing entire songs there until you seed as part of the download. If you are downloaded a fair use backup (yeah, yeah, weak argument) then could you claim that it wasn't your fault that other people weren't getting it as a fair use backup?
I do know that once the BMI starts cracking down in this country, my actual music purchases will drop because I won't have a safe way of trying out a lot of a non-mainstream music I like.
I married when I was 21 :)
:(
Saldy I split up when I was 24, but that was because I didn't have X girlfriends beforehands to learn how to deal with women. That wasn't taken into consideration though
Still legally married. As far as I know she's happy, and I'm stuck in a town with no girls chasing goth chicks. Hooray!
The only way that Dilbert will grab a girl is in the caveman sense. Perhaps this is his fantasy isolation wing in jail. :)
hahaha, it includes a "kids room" ... like that'll ever happen.
... lol.
And as for the exercise room, yeah right.
Home theatre, yes. Home office, yes. He doesn't need a double bed.
And yes, 6000 sq. ft. in the area of Silicon Valley too
Still, it looks pretty and is more sensible about making areas of the house that will be used rather than not used.
Then simply have a shop style bleepy thing that is set off if one of the RF thingies goes through it!
Or maybe attach the paintings to the walls with something a bit more secure than a nail hehe
Err, if the company is still based in the EU then they will have to pay VAT of the rate of the country that the company is based in.
If you buy from outside the EU then you are liable for import duty except for items below a certain value (£25 for UK I think). This is why so many DVD/CD stores are based in Jersey now.
I think I got tha right. I think that the topic should be about avoiding import taxes, not taxes. Anyway, it is just a big advertisement.
Excellent idea. I'd support actually a common API for accessing the information in a layer above the implementation however.
:) Does MySQL support non-centralised database tables yet? Can I have a per-user repository in ~/.data yet?
But yes, as most Linux/FreeBSD distros ship with a database of some sort, I don't see why they can't arrange to use one as a centralised data repository for these applications. Doesn't Exchange use MSSQL?
You'd have to get past the multi-user aspect I suppose
I agree totally with this.
At least on Windows the excellent desktop calendar/todo list application Rainlendar can integrate with Outlook's database, and soon iCal.
KDE used to be good as well. KAddressBook or whatever it was called was used by a lot of applications. I wonder if it was updated to hold IM details as well for the KDE IM application. Now they're going all integrated like Evolution though - I hope the individual applications will continue to exist alongside (using the same data, of course!).
Argh! The Calendar has the dreaded "Right Click -> New Appointment/Meeting/Task/..." issue.
I want to click and type in the calendar. That is a basic usability issue. If I can't do that, I'll never use it. Click, Type, drag top or bottom of entry to set duration. Simple.