>> Or is there some reason that would make having two 1 GHz cores better than one 2 Ghz core?
I would generally take a 2Ghz core. Not much slower for two tasks, twice as fast at one. The problem is that cpu makers have stopped being able to make cpu's run faster, it's plataued(sp?). More cores will require new software techniques. In theory, you could program certain algorithms so that they increased linearly with each core(not super-linearly as another poster suggested, that doesn't make sense). With good software techniques you could be infact increasing your speed so much that 2x1Ghz = 2Ghz, but that's in the future, In a practical present sense, less switching and having only one cpu doing IO, means a more responsive computer.
This has many interesting implications in software development. As someone that designs algorithms this is something I look forward to with much excitement. I for one welcome our new kilo-core overlords.
seriously, this is why I went back to the 3 at a time plan. The five at a time plan, just didn't seem to get me more movies. Honestly I think a better delivery system is just around the corner though it may remain that way for decades if MPAA keeps it up with the propriatary/drm crap.
>> Judging from several comments here, it sounds like some people are expecting to get a lot MORE than what they paid for - they're expecting to get permanent copies of as many DVDs as they want, by getting the DVD, copying it, and sending it back the next day. I would call that "freeloading," as well as "illegal" and "ruining it for the rest of us."
You really don't have to rent all that much to get throttled. I know from personal experience. I haven't yet figured out how to copy a movie , I just watch them. In fact if I ever did figure out how to copy a movie I would do that because it would mean I send my movies back faster and thus get new ones faster. The reason I like netflix is because they have stuff other places don't. I like to watch alot of old movies and anime, and that usually has plenty of availability.
>> We can only be at war if Congress has issued a formal declaration to that effect
oh yeah, let's argue technicalities. What are you a fucking lawyer? Thank you for the totally irrelevant constitutional lecture I feel smarter already.
What's that place called where we have a bunch of troops deployed? Damn forgot the name. You know the one where some 2000 or so died. Fuck, I can't remember, shit. I know Persia, no that's not it. Help me out here. You know that place where all that equipment that got there with the help of a "defense contracting company". Yeah, I forgot about it too.
>> I was talking about "war". >> You ranted about one war. >> I have to assume you aren't intelligent enough to discern the difference.
And I guess that you are too fucking retarded to realize that during war time when you talk about war 99% of the people will automatically,for some strange reason think you are talking about the current war. Gee, I wonder why that could be.
>> Jesus, do you idiots EVER give it a rest
well, if that isn't a case of a pot and kettle I don't know what is.
>> Shareholders aren't going to make shit if Nintendo alienates it's fan base. If I was a shareholder, I would want the buyout, then I would quickly sell.
>> You would have to be a complete retard to edit database records from a spreadsheet. Especially, considering the limited amount of validation you can enforce with Jet.
I always thought you would have to be a complete retard to trust jet with critical data.
The article is very biased towards nintendo. I found the n64 controller very awckward and bought a playstation instead. Having to hold your two wrists at different angles pointed funny really made my hands sore if I played for any amount of time.
They were wrong about the dual shock controllers. The first version had vibration. The second version had preasure sensitive buttons. That was very usefull in the metal gear games, gt4 etc..
Personally looking forward to their next controller. The nunchuck thing is what I think is the most exciting since you can position your hands in whatever orientation you want.
I thought the gamecube controller felt too small, too light and had a cheap plastic feel to it. I've only bought one console each generation, the next time it's going to be the nintendo.
>> How is this not the same as the magical Apache "patch" which would cure all woes? I don't see how OSS would have changed what happened and how it happened.
Exactly the point moron. M$ always says that it has an advantage in this area.
Only in America is a walk considered excerise. In other parts of the world they call it getting somewhere. Everybody stays in shape differently and they just have to figure out what works for them. Try getting realy excersise where you can feel your heart pumping. As far as being skinny in your 20's anyone can do that.
>> So you were lying when you said that every prediction of string theory has been falsified.
Let me rephrase by what I meant by that. Every prediction unknown at the time when string theory was formulated that was later able to be falsified has been. What then happens is that someone is like, but that only disproves one of the many string theories. Just like the experiment in the article, it can't disprove string theory just one variant. What good is a theory that has this little predictive power?
>>String theory doesn't predict that we should have observed more than 3+1 dimensions. A "valid" string theory could.
>> Its problem is its lack of predictions of things that were not observed at the time of prediction, Exactly. And it's not like we aren't constantly observing things that current theories do not predict. Like that whole speed of light changing, expansion is accelerating.
This reminds of the evolution vs creationism debate. Where general relativity and quantum mechanics represting evolution, and string theory represents creationism. The argument goes something. Since we see gaps in relativity and quantum mechanics, it must mean the other is true. I have not seen any evidence actually suporting string theory, and no one really has. We are not going to build a super colider the size of pluto's orbit.
yeah, we have only observed 3+1 dimensions. From the get go the string theorists had to say. Oh.... those dimensions are to small to see they are invisible dimensions. Yesh right, sounds like religion to me. Other things that it predicts were known about long before string theory.
>> it does make predictions, but not predictions anybody has ever tested.
actually that's the problems with string theory. The theory as a whole makes no predictions. Yeah, certain version of it may make predictions, but there are just about an infinte number of perturbations of the theory. Every prediction that string theory has ever made turned out to be false. However string theorists have just turned around and developed a new version of string theory. It is essentially a theory of nothing.
>> Just because you don't know how to falsify it doesn't mean it's not falsifiable.
If nobody has any idea on how to even begin to falsify it, what's the difference? >>Religion is by definition not falsifiable. String theory by construction is unfalsifiable.
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>> most software isn't bound by processor speed anyway.
I'm sure the software development you do is very boring and will be outsourced.
>> Or is there some reason that would make having two 1 GHz cores better than one 2 Ghz core?
I would generally take a 2Ghz core. Not much slower for two tasks, twice as fast at one. The problem is that cpu makers have stopped being able to make cpu's run faster, it's plataued(sp?). More cores will require new software techniques. In theory, you could program certain algorithms so that they increased linearly with each core(not super-linearly as another poster suggested, that doesn't make sense). With good software techniques you could be infact increasing your speed so much that 2x1Ghz = 2Ghz, but that's in the future, In a practical present sense, less switching and having only one cpu doing IO, means a more responsive computer.
This has many interesting implications in software development.
As someone that designs algorithms this is something I look forward to with much excitement.
I for one welcome our new kilo-core overlords.
ummm .. . . ME TOO!!!
seriously, this is why I went back to the 3 at a time plan. The five at a time plan, just didn't seem to get me more movies. Honestly I think a better delivery system is just around the corner though it may remain that way for decades if MPAA keeps it up with the propriatary/drm crap.
>> Judging from several comments here, it sounds like some people are expecting to get a lot MORE than what they paid for - they're expecting to get permanent copies of as many DVDs as they want, by getting the DVD, copying it, and sending it back the next day. I would call that "freeloading," as well as "illegal" and "ruining it for the rest of us."
You really don't have to rent all that much to get throttled. I know from personal experience. I haven't yet figured out how to copy a movie , I just watch them. In fact if I ever did figure out how to copy a movie I would do that because it would mean I send my movies back faster and thus get new ones faster. The reason I like netflix is because they have stuff other places don't. I like to watch alot of old movies and anime, and that usually has plenty of availability.
>> drained of any profits by freeloaders
yeah, those damn freeloader, actually expecting to get what they paid for. Who do they think they are.
From TFA
emphasis mine. Yeah, in general bacteria and viruses are quite different, in this case it's not a totally off-base speculation.
>> So, you're blaming me for your inability to read for comprehension.
hmm, seams like it was you that lacked the ability to express yourself clearly.
>> Maybe ASK FOR CLARIFICATION next time before you assume things.
perhaps you need to educate yourself on context.
>> We can only be at war if Congress has issued a formal declaration to that effect
oh yeah, let's argue technicalities. What are you a fucking lawyer?
Thank you for the totally irrelevant constitutional lecture I feel smarter already.
What's that place called where we have a bunch of troops deployed? Damn forgot the name. You know the one where some 2000 or so died. Fuck, I can't remember, shit. I know Persia, no that's not it. Help me out here. You know that place where all that equipment that got there with the help of a "defense contracting company". Yeah, I forgot about it too.
>> I was talking about "war".
,for some strange reason think you are talking about the current war. Gee, I wonder why that could be.
>> You ranted about one war.
>> I have to assume you aren't intelligent enough to discern the difference.
And I guess that you are too fucking retarded to realize that during war time when you talk about war 99% of the people will automatically
>> Jesus, do you idiots EVER give it a rest
well, if that isn't a case of a pot and kettle I don't know what is.
>> that the only stakeholders in a corporation that matter are shareholders
God forbid the owners of the company run it.
>> Shareholders aren't going to make shit if Nintendo alienates it's fan base.
If I was a shareholder, I would want the buyout, then I would quickly sell.
>> You would have to be a complete retard to edit database records from a spreadsheet. Especially, considering the limited amount of validation you can enforce with Jet.
I always thought you would have to be a complete retard to trust jet with critical data.
The article is very biased towards nintendo. I found the n64 controller very awckward and bought a playstation instead. Having to hold your two wrists at different angles pointed funny really made my hands sore if I played for any amount of time.
They were wrong about the dual shock controllers. The first version had vibration. The second version had preasure sensitive buttons. That was very usefull in the metal gear games, gt4 etc..
Personally looking forward to their next controller. The nunchuck thing is what I think is the most exciting since you can position your hands in whatever orientation you want.
I thought the gamecube controller felt too small, too light and had a cheap plastic feel to it. I've only bought one console each generation, the next time it's going to be the nintendo.
>> How is this not the same as the magical Apache "patch" which would cure all woes? I don't see how OSS would have changed what happened and how it happened.
Exactly the point moron. M$ always says that it has an advantage in this area.
Only in America is a walk considered excerise. In other parts of the world they call it getting somewhere.
Everybody stays in shape differently and they just have to figure out what works for them.
Try getting realy excersise where you can feel your heart pumping.
As far as being skinny in your 20's anyone can do that.
>> So you were lying when you said that every prediction of string theory has been falsified.
Let me rephrase by what I meant by that.
Every prediction unknown at the time when string theory was formulated that was later able to be falsified has been.
What then happens is that someone is like, but that only disproves one of the many string theories.
Just like the experiment in the article, it can't disprove string theory just one variant.
What good is a theory that has this little predictive power?
>>String theory doesn't predict that we should have observed more than 3+1 dimensions.
A "valid" string theory could.
>> Its problem is its lack of predictions of things that were not observed at the time of prediction,
Exactly.
And it's not like we aren't constantly observing things that current theories do not predict.
Like that whole speed of light changing, expansion is accelerating.
This reminds of the evolution vs creationism debate.
Where general relativity and quantum mechanics represting evolution, and string theory represents creationism.
The argument goes something.
Since we see gaps in relativity and quantum mechanics, it must mean the other is true.
I have not seen any evidence actually suporting string theory, and no one really has.
We are not going to build a super colider the size of pluto's orbit.
>> Ditto for its 11-dimensionality.
yeah, we have only observed 3+1 dimensions. From the get go the string theorists had to say. Oh.... those dimensions are to small to see they are invisible dimensions. Yesh right, sounds like religion to me. Other things that it predicts were known about long before string theory.
>> it does make predictions, but not predictions anybody has ever tested.
actually that's the problems with string theory. The theory as a whole makes no predictions. Yeah, certain version of it may make predictions, but there are just about an infinte number of perturbations of the theory. Every prediction that string theory has ever made turned out to be false. However string theorists have just turned around and developed a new version of string theory. It is essentially a theory of nothing.
ok, so certain versions are falsifiable, the thing as a whole is not.
>> Just because you don't know how to falsify it doesn't mean it's not falsifiable.
If nobody has any idea on how to even begin to falsify it, what's the difference?
>>Religion is by definition not falsifiable.
String theory by construction is unfalsifiable.
so will string theory finally be falsifiable and be more than a religion?
lol
>> Maybe [you freeloading piss monkey who live's in your parents home]
grow up, troll