If there's a solution to the Darfur problem the market will find the best one in the least time. Am I missing a joke? Capitalism has never been a valid substitute for a normal political process. We call that "corruption."
It's not about whether or not Intel thinks AMD's platform is awful, it's about Intel and AMD wanting to set the standard for the next-gen PC architecture.
For years, AMD was an "also available" company. Even with the start of their Athlon series, they were the second choice for PC manufacturers. When they developed and released AMD64-based processors (the first of which being the Sledgehammer and Clawhammer cores), they jumped ahead of Intel and set the standard. Intel lost out on performance markets for a long time after that.
For the past few years, AMD has been the go-to company for performance machines. With Intel's Core Duo line, Intel managed to steal back the performance crown. But the Core Duo was simply an application of AMD's performance design items to the processor line derived from the Pentium Pro. At this point, AMD and Intel are both trying to come up with the next AMD64, the next product enhancement that will blow their competition out of the water for a few years.
And when you're pumping as much money into research as Intel and AMD are, the results will be interesting and profound.
Mine were the same way. I only call them conductive because, within the limits of how LEGOs could be assembled, they may as well have been. (Well, yeah. They had two conductive channels. But still.)
Not LEGOs, per se, but a conductive setting fluid that can be poured or mixed with existing construction materials. Primarily useful for new construction, sure. But with such a beast, you could have an entire wall serve as a touch-sensitive light switch, or a moisture-detecting OSB/electronic hybrid. (Useful for predicting when a floor's rotting out, or when the roof is leaking again.)
The conductive LEGOs are relevant because they moved electrical wiring in LEGO structures from unroutable wiring to a hidden mechanism.
Does anybody else remember the conductive LEGOs introduced with the 9V system? It just seems to me that this, if cheap enough, might be useful in construction environments where wire is difficult or impractical to route.
Depending on its conductivity, it might even be useful for home and industrial high-current applications.
Granted, electrical wiring is a pretty mature field, but I'm sure that something like this opens up possibilities.
We need that about as much as we need to switch to trinary. (It's obvious, after all, that binary is preventing us from making advances in the fields of logic and compression, isn't it?)
No, we'll get a new architecture as soon as we need one. That is to say, once advancing the x86 architecture becomes more expensive than is cost-effective, someone's going to come up with a cheaper replacement that still has room to grow.
Sure, it would be nice if assembler instructions allowed one to designate a destination register, but that isn't really important, or even an area of focus. Code size for desktops, laptops and many embedded applications has become largely irrelevant. Even code efficiency has taken a backseat everywhere but performance data processing applications. Hell, when you've got 3D games being written in managed code, it must be obvious that developers would rather focus on complexity over speed. (Though that might change if the focus continues to shift towards data-driven web applications. Those applications qualify as high performance, and maintaining racks upon racks of servers isn't cheap.)
As I recall, AMD's Athlon beat out the competing Intel processor in per-clock performance, partially as a result of having a more superscalar architecture. It's nice to see that, with the NetBurst architecture dead, Intel's finally taking an approach that's expandable and extensible.
The CPU wars have finally gotten interesting again. I'm going to go grab some popcorn.
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I prefer the Red Alert soundtrack, myself. Or possibly a random waltz through my Amiga music collection.
*sigh*...It's been too long since I could sit down and code something interesting. Summer vacation can't come a moment too soon.
Mod parent "+1 VIM pun".
I can't find the links anymore, but I distinctly recall reading about Google staff spending a weekend working on the content removal.
It was removed weeks ago, back when Viacom asked Google to remove all Viacom content from Youtube.
Of course, Viacom went on to sue Google anyway...
This is true, and I'll have to do.
Also...Do you have any RPG plans this summer?
It's not about whether or not Intel thinks AMD's platform is awful, it's about Intel and AMD wanting to set the standard for the next-gen PC architecture.
For years, AMD was an "also available" company. Even with the start of their Athlon series, they were the second choice for PC manufacturers. When they developed and released AMD64-based processors (the first of which being the Sledgehammer and Clawhammer cores), they jumped ahead of Intel and set the standard. Intel lost out on performance markets for a long time after that.
For the past few years, AMD has been the go-to company for performance machines. With Intel's Core Duo line, Intel managed to steal back the performance crown. But the Core Duo was simply an application of AMD's performance design items to the processor line derived from the Pentium Pro. At this point, AMD and Intel are both trying to come up with the next AMD64, the next product enhancement that will blow their competition out of the water for a few years.
And when you're pumping as much money into research as Intel and AMD are, the results will be interesting and profound.
Mine were the same way. I only call them conductive because, within the limits of how LEGOs could be assembled, they may as well have been. (Well, yeah. They had two conductive channels. But still.)
Not LEGOs, per se, but a conductive setting fluid that can be poured or mixed with existing construction materials. Primarily useful for new construction, sure. But with such a beast, you could have an entire wall serve as a touch-sensitive light switch, or a moisture-detecting OSB/electronic hybrid. (Useful for predicting when a floor's rotting out, or when the roof is leaking again.)
The conductive LEGOs are relevant because they moved electrical wiring in LEGO structures from unroutable wiring to a hidden mechanism.
It could be advantageous. Imagine if all your walls are grounded with a material capable of carrying a high current.
Does anybody else remember the conductive LEGOs introduced with the 9V system? It just seems to me that this, if cheap enough, might be useful in construction environments where wire is difficult or impractical to route.
Depending on its conductivity, it might even be useful for home and industrial high-current applications.
Granted, electrical wiring is a pretty mature field, but I'm sure that something like this opens up possibilities.
I've been humorless all week. It just kinda dried up.
(kudos to anybody who gets that one...)
We need that about as much as we need to switch to trinary. (It's obvious, after all, that binary is preventing us from making advances in the fields of logic and compression, isn't it?)
No, we'll get a new architecture as soon as we need one. That is to say, once advancing the x86 architecture becomes more expensive than is cost-effective, someone's going to come up with a cheaper replacement that still has room to grow.
Sure, it would be nice if assembler instructions allowed one to designate a destination register, but that isn't really important, or even an area of focus. Code size for desktops, laptops and many embedded applications has become largely irrelevant. Even code efficiency has taken a backseat everywhere but performance data processing applications. Hell, when you've got 3D games being written in managed code, it must be obvious that developers would rather focus on complexity over speed. (Though that might change if the focus continues to shift towards data-driven web applications. Those applications qualify as high performance, and maintaining racks upon racks of servers isn't cheap.)
Unlike ultra-long pipelines, wide execution units don't add to instruction latency. Your analogy doesn't follow.
I thought Sony's processor design was awesome, and I still do.
As I recall, AMD's Athlon beat out the competing Intel processor in per-clock performance, partially as a result of having a more superscalar architecture. It's nice to see that, with the NetBurst architecture dead, Intel's finally taking an approach that's expandable and extensible.
The CPU wars have finally gotten interesting again. I'm going to go grab some popcorn.
Please drop me an email regarding that 760XL. I loved that model...
In Quake (and many engines derived from Quake, including Half-Life), if you jump while holding the rotate keys, your trajectory changes in mid-air.
Very useful in low-grav multiplayer environments, of which there was only one. (Ziggurat Vertigo)
Not just battery life and skip protection, but reliability. No moving parts means less damage due to jarring motions.
The friend who praises Vista...well, I don't know why. He seems to think every difference between Vista and XP is a bonus.
But then, he also swallows whole every piece of PR bait he reads.
It's frustrating that my IRL friends all either read Digg or Engadget, or sing the praises of Vista.
Any word on when the updated AMD64 version will come out?
mplayer -ao pcm:file=output.wav 1.vob
:-)
Will rip the audio file from a vob. If the encoded music is part of a vob file, it can be ripped.
Dang...there's a great argument to go out and buy it. I'd love to rip the audio from the VOBs and add it to my playlist.