what makes a 'best' architecture? people bitch about x86 assembly thinking the next thing will be easier to learn. haha... if they haven't learned it by now: give it up!
what is wrong with intel is simple: their new architecture sucks, their business practices suck, their profits suck... hence their stock sucks.
intel switched architecture for the good of their wallet not the consumer. but look at the good side, now intel can blame compiler makers for their lame chip's performance.
phil:)
damn, every other week we hear this crap. maybe the RIAA should push for copyright infringement being a part of anti-terror legislation. send all those illegal 13 year old pirates to guantanemo. copying britney spears is a gateway activity to harder crimes like forgetting to put the toilet seat down.
lets face it these laws were made by big business. my God man where is your testosterone at? where is your sense of adventure? when do those survival of the fittest genes turn on? take that money you're saving for the next back street boys CD and spend it on a stack of CD-R's. get loaded and copy all your friends' music... never buy another CD as long as you live.
that's right compadre, i say screw the RIAA... screw them in the ass with a big stack of CD's full of ripped MP3's of their lousy music.
copy protection schemes? haha. that is a joke right? music will never ever be uncopyable... so get over it RIAA. piracy means nothing. big business could make a law tomorrow to make everyone with the name phil illegal. so what. nobody cares. screw you RIAA and screw the horse you rode into town on... now go change your diapers... they stink.
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brings back memories of school at the medical center. this probably goes under what is called the temporal sensitivity of the human visual system. if you gradually increase the frequency of a blinking light you reach what is called the CFF or critical flicker frequency (or FFF) where the system can no longer detect that the light is flashing (it appears continuous). we got to do all these fun experiments. central vision (foveal cones) has a CFF of 50-70 Hz depending on the lighting conditions (state of adaptation); whereas, peripheral vision (rods) has a CFF of only 15-20 Hz.
another point is that the fovea is not that sensitive to changes in light amplitude (level); whereas, in the periphery small luminance changes can be detected. this accounts for being able to detect the flicker of fluorescent lights out of the corner of your eye... then when viewed fovealy it stops flickering because here it is less sensitive. in summary we can say that peripheral vision fuses at low frequency and that it can detect flicker with small modulation. becoming a doctor was a lot of fun:p.
i want microsoft to be free to rip, er, i mean innovate sun microsystems a new one like they did netscape, ibm, apple, and all the other happy campers. its sorta fun hearing all of them bitching in court: 'waaaa waaaa we can't compete. big bad microsoft beat us up at the playground.' lol.
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what makes a 'best' architecture? people bitch about x86 assembly thinking the next thing will be easier to learn. haha... if they haven't learned it by now: give it up! what is wrong with intel is simple: their new architecture sucks, their business practices suck, their profits suck... hence their stock sucks. intel switched architecture for the good of their wallet not the consumer. but look at the good side, now intel can blame compiler makers for their lame chip's performance. phil :)
damn, every other week we hear this crap. maybe the RIAA should push for copyright infringement being a part of anti-terror legislation. send all those illegal 13 year old pirates to guantanemo. copying britney spears is a gateway activity to harder crimes like forgetting to put the toilet seat down. lets face it these laws were made by big business. my God man where is your testosterone at? where is your sense of adventure? when do those survival of the fittest genes turn on? take that money you're saving for the next back street boys CD and spend it on a stack of CD-R's. get loaded and copy all your friends' music... never buy another CD as long as you live. that's right compadre, i say screw the RIAA... screw them in the ass with a big stack of CD's full of ripped MP3's of their lousy music. copy protection schemes? haha. that is a joke right? music will never ever be uncopyable... so get over it RIAA. piracy means nothing. big business could make a law tomorrow to make everyone with the name phil illegal. so what. nobody cares. screw you RIAA and screw the horse you rode into town on... now go change your diapers... they stink. phil :p
brings back memories of school at the medical center. this probably goes under what is called the temporal sensitivity of the human visual system. if you gradually increase the frequency of a blinking light you reach what is called the CFF or critical flicker frequency (or FFF) where the system can no longer detect that the light is flashing (it appears continuous). we got to do all these fun experiments. central vision (foveal cones) has a CFF of 50-70 Hz depending on the lighting conditions (state of adaptation); whereas, peripheral vision (rods) has a CFF of only 15-20 Hz. another point is that the fovea is not that sensitive to changes in light amplitude (level); whereas, in the periphery small luminance changes can be detected. this accounts for being able to detect the flicker of fluorescent lights out of the corner of your eye... then when viewed fovealy it stops flickering because here it is less sensitive. in summary we can say that peripheral vision fuses at low frequency and that it can detect flicker with small modulation. becoming a doctor was a lot of fun :p.
i want microsoft to be free to rip, er, i mean innovate sun microsystems a new one like they did netscape, ibm, apple, and all the other happy campers. its sorta fun hearing all of them bitching in court: 'waaaa waaaa we can't compete. big bad microsoft beat us up at the playground.' lol.