Hmmm, so Google's plan for electric cars depends on people being completely open with their use of the cars, where the cars are, and basically not only being fully tracked, but also tracking and recording everything in the vicinity of where the car is and has been? And, of course, the government will have full access to the data any time they feel the need.
And this is going to actually take off?
Wow. Google has drunk their own kool-aid for sure, this time.
No, Google has seen how well voluntary crowd sourcing like Waze has completely changed the world of driving directions.
Now that Google owns Waze, they just wants to do the exact same thing, except this time let the computer do the driving. How is that so hard to understand?
People who expect self-driving cars to work better than humans without communicating with each other are just foolish.
Yeah, they guy is obviously ignorant of the world around him. Before the internet, the twitterverse was sated by trash print like The Inquirer.
And before that, writers were paid pennies for crap short stories to fill the pages of industry rags. There was trash out there for any level of intelligence. For every Heinlein contributing to these rags, you had a hundred thousand worthless "writers" filing copy for pay.
Nothing has changed in the CONTENT or PRESENTATION, it's just easier now than it ever was for people to gather and bitch about the shit they read.
I wouldn't say that ATI was a bad purchase, arguably its the only reason AMD is still competitive, and they can leverage that design work into making better desktop chips.
Except that AMD bought ATI during a critical time when they were developing Barcelona, which was one of the major resons it was late and buggy. On the flip side of the coin, the distractions spread to ATI, where it harmed the difficult R600 project, which was late and under-performing.
Later, when AMD got this crazy fixation on developing a BIG CHIP APU, they ignored reality: that the amount of work required to port ATI's graphics libraries from bulk silicon to SOI woould be astronimcal. But they went ahead with Llano anyway, and that chip was over a year late, and a dissapointment. This also delayed Bulldozer by a year (technically two years when you realize that Piledriver was what they were supposed to release).
And then three years later AMD went bulk silicon anyway with the 28nm Kaveri, because everyone else was, and GF couldn't grow as a contract fab without a bulk silicon process. They should have just stuck with Bobcat/Jaguar s their sole APU (built on bulk silicon) until these fab transitions were complete, but no WE NEED SHINY! Throw billions at this to have it early!
So really, the combination of AMD having a distracting new toy in ATI combined with piss-poor management meant AMD was killing themselves even faster than they would have by themselves!
And the reality is that by the time AMD had gotten both it's and ATI's house in order enough to build Bobcat, they could have licensed a core from PowerVR like Intel did for their lowest-power Atom.
Part of the viability of claim-jumping is the notion of getting away with it. At least for the foreseeable future, there will be a lot of eyes on any given asteroid mining operation.
Exactly right. Compared to a claim in the middle of the desert/tundra/mountains in the days before TCP/IP, the amount if eyes on each claim will be simply staggering.
And thanks to the incredibly slow speeds in space, we'd probably have the hot land war that erupts over your asteroid theft over and done with before it ever reaches orbit. Because anything worth spending billions to send a miner out is certainly worth destroying millions of lives defending it!
Right, what's the big deal here? With 10Mbps average, you can more than saturate a crappy mobile CPU chugging while loading a modern javascript webpage. You won't get any faster load times than on Wifi!
I know that I can't tell the difference between 10 and 100 Mbps for basic web browsing, or watching video. So long as you typically get 10 Mbps, is being "slower than other countries" all that bad?
Now, quit your complaining. Both Nvidia and AMD are up against a wall because there's only been one process node shrink since 2011. 14nm is due next year, but until then they had to make magic happen with Maxwell (it's a more efficient architecture, making better use of available compute and memory resources to reduce costs).
That said, the GTX 680 is on the exact same process node as the GTX 960, and it cost $500 on release! So if they can offer nearly the same performance for $200 today, imagine what they can do in a year or two when they actually have a process shrink to work with!
The other absolutely amazing thing they introduced in Windows 95 was the shortcut.
By forcing people to use them, you allowed any combination of multiple links to the same file in any location on your system. It made it so much easier for people to accept a concept like the Start Menu, while the actual programs were stored elsewhere.
It also had the upside of not making it easy to delete or lose files when clicking on or dragging items in the GUI.
Yup, I always ignore Hothardware submissions. I'd mod you up, but they expired yesterday:(
[H]ardOCP has much better methods and much more thorough tests, since they actually try to find the best settings each video card can use. Techreport is also pretty good.
Hothardware used to be good about 10 years ago, but they lost their insight and depth.
Yes, but the point here is, they don't need our help to build "more efficient" supercomputers. If you design your chips to go wide and slow, you can build an efficient architecture on older process nodes. These are wide vector machines just like Intel is shipping; you can determine this from the claimed 140.8 GFLOPs:
1.1 Billion clocks * 2 FPU vector units * 16 cores * 4 instructions/vector unit = 140.8 GFLOPS. Not as wide as the 512-bit vector units in the latest Knights Landing, but really not that far behind.
Since the cost of the processors is invariably out-shined by the cost of the interconnect, which doesn't benefit as much from process shrinks, it's not such an issue dealing with the extra cost of large die processors. So the question is: if China already has supercomputer technology good enough to compete with the world, why can't we make a fast buck selling them more?
Essentially, PCIe is a darn sight faster than SATA, so when you hook up a flash drive to it, it goes at ludicrous speeds.
I see you've been reading the press release.
Do you believe ever piece of BS you read in PR? There's a buttload of crap where that one came from. It's the salesman's job to sell you fancy NEW MOAR BETTER CRAP, so I guess if it's working, he's gonna keep his job:D
And along those same lines, there's not a normal user on earth who can tell the difference between an SATA 6 drive, and the same drive running off PCIe. There's enough 4k I/O operations bandwidth on either interface to satisfy any desktop or light workstation user, but Samsung will tell you proudly how much faster the exact same drive controller and flash hooked up by PCIe!
But the industry has nowhere else to grow except lower prices for higher capacity, so we're all making the transition to M.2 and NVMe JUST TO BLOAT WORTHLESS BENCHMARKS!
Instead of letting NVMe be the thing of servers and high-end workstations, EVERYBODY GETS multi-Gigabit block transfers!
Pretty soon the things will be faster than ram at block transfers, but still too high a latency to actually replace it. But what use is that to anyone, when you're still limited bb the rest of your system that has to process the data?
Basiclly, this is just a bulk transfer rate benchmark of the SSD.
Like most other SSDs, the fastest ones will not actually result in quicker real-world performance, because your brain cannot see the files load on screen any faster.
Enjoy your overpowered 4x PCIe crap. I'll be just fine here with my SATA6 SSD I've had for four years.
Exactly, people din't care about peak LTE speeds going over some insane 300 MBps level. As long as they can get a few MBps to load a webpage as fast as their moble processor (and limited ram) can handle it, they don't care about super-high speeds.
This is why Mediatek became a thing with nothing but 3G parts in China, and it's the same reason why Mediatek's (and Intel, and Samsung) early 4G entry to the market rings the death knell for Qualcomm.
That's why they have introduced the Snapdragon 410 - 4 Cortex A53 processors, a passable GPU with 720p support, and 150Mbps LTE! All selling at a bargain price competitive with all the other entry-level parts.
LTE is not a premium feature anymore, so unless Qualcomm comes up with some other must-have technology, they're going to have to transform their business to work better with commodity margins, or else do like everyone else and start making their own phones?
The reason they could make this happen is because the EU passed a stupid law that says all cars have to be recycled. Before that happened, old cars were taken to the scrapyard to get payment for the salvageable parts, but now people have to pay a hundred quid (according to Clarkson) to have them recycled.
Hence, a sudden infusion of cars that would have otherwise been scrapped. It has no real-world bearing on th e cost of rail versus car transport, just an inconvenient problem created by the meddling EU.
But the thing that really kills any interest from me is that the article author expects that will continue to use 4:2:0 Chroma Subsampling. That to me makes the new increased colorspace worthless, as you won't actually be able to see any of it (small chroma resolution).
I remember being astounded that the original Blu-Ray spec carried-over the 4:2:0 from DVD, and once-again this mess will be propagated further. The smart move would be an upgrade to 4:2:2, which is supported by many high-end camera formats, and looks considerably better.
And it's predecessor, LHX Attack Chopper. Two games that managed full filled-polygon 3D engines on just a 68000 processor (AFAIK there is no coprocesor in the cartridge).
While most ground targets were just boxes, the plane models were surprisingly detailed. Star Fox the first 3D game on consoles? Hah, I was playing F-22 for years before Star Fox came along:D
This case has the best airflow I have ever seen in a MiniITX case that isn't ten feet tall, with three fan settings. The front has two 92mm fans, and the rear has one 140mm exhaust. It cools processor plus graphics card well even on low, and you can't hear anything from further than 3 inches away.
Just add an Intel Core processor, a video card in the GTX 750 Ti range, and you'll have a capable gaming system with silence.
Turn on Power Save mode and turn off Wifi? Check to see if you have any CPU-heavy applications, and force-quit them while not in-use?
Also, the amount of power used depends entirely on how powerful a signal you are getting. For example, my Galaxy S4 typically uses 30-35% battery per-day at normal home/work day, but this last weekend I went up to the middle of nowhere, PA. The house barely got 3G at one bar, and because of the shit signal my phone was down to 30% every night. If your place of work is inside a large building, it can play havoc on your signal.
They are "undervalued" in your eyes. In reality, they get no value because there is no more growth. This is evidenced by the increase in base unemployment since the early 1990s.
While other countries have employment ups and downs, Japan's population has been on a downward spiral because there is no more real growth. Since the 1980s, manufacturing has moved to Korea and China, and there's not enough of a service and tech industry to cover the loss.
So yeah, for the last 20 years those people who have jobs are treated well, and the young people get the finger. Same thing is beginning to happen here in the United States, although not as massive a movement. The Japanese companies are going to either adapt, or crater and then be reborn as fast-and-lean pension-less workhouses like the US.
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No, Google has seen how well voluntary crowd sourcing like Waze has completely changed the world of driving directions.
Now that Google owns Waze, they just wants to do the exact same thing, except this time let the computer do the driving. How is that so hard to understand?
People who expect self-driving cars to work better than humans without communicating with each other are just foolish.
Yeah, they guy is obviously ignorant of the world around him. Before the internet, the twitterverse was sated by trash print like The Inquirer.
And before that, writers were paid pennies for crap short stories to fill the pages of industry rags. There was trash out there for any level of intelligence. For every Heinlein contributing to these rags, you had a hundred thousand worthless "writers" filing copy for pay.
Nothing has changed in the CONTENT or PRESENTATION, it's just easier now than it ever was for people to gather and bitch about the shit they read.
Safer alternative:
http://www.petmd.com/dog/care/...
Dog Benadryl. Will make the dog sleepy with no other side effects. Just have to start small with the dosage, and up it slowly until it's right.
Just use it when the dog is being especially annoying.
Except that AMD bought ATI during a critical time when they were developing Barcelona, which was one of the major resons it was late and buggy. On the flip side of the coin, the distractions spread to ATI, where it harmed the difficult R600 project, which was late and under-performing.
Later, when AMD got this crazy fixation on developing a BIG CHIP APU, they ignored reality: that the amount of work required to port ATI's graphics libraries from bulk silicon to SOI woould be astronimcal. But they went ahead with Llano anyway, and that chip was over a year late, and a dissapointment. This also delayed Bulldozer by a year (technically two years when you realize that Piledriver was what they were supposed to release).
And then three years later AMD went bulk silicon anyway with the 28nm Kaveri, because everyone else was, and GF couldn't grow as a contract fab without a bulk silicon process. They should have just stuck with Bobcat/Jaguar s their sole APU (built on bulk silicon) until these fab transitions were complete, but no WE NEED SHINY! Throw billions at this to have it early!
So really, the combination of AMD having a distracting new toy in ATI combined with piss-poor management meant AMD was killing themselves even faster than they would have by themselves!
And the reality is that by the time AMD had gotten both it's and ATI's house in order enough to build Bobcat, they could have licensed a core from PowerVR like Intel did for their lowest-power Atom.
Exactly right. Compared to a claim in the middle of the desert/tundra/mountains in the days before TCP/IP, the amount if eyes on each claim will be simply staggering.
And thanks to the incredibly slow speeds in space, we'd probably have the hot land war that erupts over your asteroid theft over and done with before it ever reaches orbit. Because anything worth spending billions to send a miner out is certainly worth destroying millions of lives defending it!
Right, what's the big deal here? With 10Mbps average, you can more than saturate a crappy mobile CPU chugging while loading a modern javascript webpage. You won't get any faster load times than on Wifi!
I know that I can't tell the difference between 10 and 100 Mbps for basic web browsing, or watching video. So long as you typically get 10 Mbps, is being "slower than other countries" all that bad?
Yup, these are just faulty GTX 960 cores.
The GTX 970 is just a faulty GTX 980 core.
The GTX 980 Ti is just a faulty Titan X core.
Okay, so you have no idea how to compare performance? Let me show you how easy it is!
The GTX 960 is 60% faster than your GTX 560. Let me tell you how easy it was to figure this out:
1. TechPowerUp review shows GTX 680 7% faster than the GTX 960.
https://www.techpowerup.com/re...
2. Older TechPowerUp review shows GTX 680 70% faster than the GTX 560 Ti.
https://www.techpowerup.com/re...
GTX 960 is 100/107 the speed of the GTX 680 = 0.93
The GTX 680 is 100/59 the speed of the GTX 560 Ti = 1.7
1.7 * 0.93 is almost 60 percent improvement. And that's from a $190 card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
And if you must have more performance, this is over twice as fast as your GTX 560 Ti, and is only $300.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/...
Now, quit your complaining. Both Nvidia and AMD are up against a wall because there's only been one process node shrink since 2011. 14nm is due next year, but until then they had to make magic happen with Maxwell (it's a more efficient architecture, making better use of available compute and memory resources to reduce costs).
That said, the GTX 680 is on the exact same process node as the GTX 960, and it cost $500 on release! So if they can offer nearly the same performance for $200 today, imagine what they can do in a year or two when they actually have a process shrink to work with!
The other absolutely amazing thing they introduced in Windows 95 was the shortcut.
By forcing people to use them, you allowed any combination of multiple links to the same file in any location on your system. It made it so much easier for people to accept a concept like the Start Menu, while the actual programs were stored elsewhere.
It also had the upside of not making it easy to delete or lose files when clicking on or dragging items in the GUI.
Yup, I always ignore Hothardware submissions. I'd mod you up, but they expired yesterday :(
[H]ardOCP has much better methods and much more thorough tests, since they actually try to find the best settings each video card can use. Techreport is also pretty good.
Hothardware used to be good about 10 years ago, but they lost their insight and depth.
Yes, but the point here is, they don't need our help to build "more efficient" supercomputers. If you design your chips to go wide and slow, you can build an efficient architecture on older process nodes. These are wide vector machines just like Intel is shipping; you can determine this from the claimed 140.8 GFLOPs:
1.1 Billion clocks * 2 FPU vector units * 16 cores * 4 instructions/vector unit = 140.8 GFLOPS. Not as wide as the 512-bit vector units in the latest Knights Landing, but really not that far behind.
Since the cost of the processors is invariably out-shined by the cost of the interconnect, which doesn't benefit as much from process shrinks, it's not such an issue dealing with the extra cost of large die processors. So the question is: if China already has supercomputer technology good enough to compete with the world, why can't we make a fast buck selling them more?
Just post other site's actually funny content, or don't post anything until tomorrow.
BRING BACK OMG PONIES!
I see you've been reading the press release.
Do you believe ever piece of BS you read in PR? There's a buttload of crap where that one came from. It's the salesman's job to sell you fancy NEW MOAR BETTER CRAP, so I guess if it's working, he's gonna keep his job :D
This.
And along those same lines, there's not a normal user on earth who can tell the difference between an SATA 6 drive, and the same drive running off PCIe. There's enough 4k I/O operations bandwidth on either interface to satisfy any desktop or light workstation user, but Samsung will tell you proudly how much faster the exact same drive controller and flash hooked up by PCIe!
But the industry has nowhere else to grow except lower prices for higher capacity, so we're all making the transition to M.2 and NVMe JUST TO BLOAT WORTHLESS BENCHMARKS!
Instead of letting NVMe be the thing of servers and high-end workstations, EVERYBODY GETS multi-Gigabit block transfers!
Pretty soon the things will be faster than ram at block transfers, but still too high a latency to actually replace it. But what use is that to anyone, when you're still limited bb the rest of your system that has to process the data?
Basiclly, this is just a bulk transfer rate benchmark of the SSD.
Like most other SSDs, the fastest ones will not actually result in quicker real-world performance, because your brain cannot see the files load on screen any faster.
Enjoy your overpowered 4x PCIe crap. I'll be just fine here with my SATA6 SSD I've had for four years.
Maybe it's because the heart and soul of EA got bored and ditched right there around the early 90s?
That's right before the company became THE MADDEN MACHINE!
Exactly, people din't care about peak LTE speeds going over some insane 300 MBps level. As long as they can get a few MBps to load a webpage as fast as their moble processor (and limited ram) can handle it, they don't care about super-high speeds.
This is why Mediatek became a thing with nothing but 3G parts in China, and it's the same reason why Mediatek's (and Intel, and Samsung) early 4G entry to the market rings the death knell for Qualcomm.
That's why they have introduced the Snapdragon 410 - 4 Cortex A53 processors, a passable GPU with 720p support, and 150Mbps LTE! All selling at a bargain price competitive with all the other entry-level parts.
LTE is not a premium feature anymore, so unless Qualcomm comes up with some other must-have technology, they're going to have to transform their business to work better with commodity margins, or else do like everyone else and start making their own phones?
The reason they could make this happen is because the EU passed a stupid law that says all cars have to be recycled. Before that happened, old cars were taken to the scrapyard to get payment for the salvageable parts, but now people have to pay a hundred quid (according to Clarkson) to have them recycled.
Hence, a sudden infusion of cars that would have otherwise been scrapped. It has no real-world bearing on th e cost of rail versus car transport, just an inconvenient problem created by the meddling EU.
But the thing that really kills any interest from me is that the article author expects that will continue to use 4:2:0 Chroma Subsampling. That to me makes the new increased colorspace worthless, as you won't actually be able to see any of it (small chroma resolution).
I remember being astounded that the original Blu-Ray spec carried-over the 4:2:0 from DVD, and once-again this mess will be propagated further. The smart move would be an upgrade to 4:2:2, which is supported by many high-end camera formats, and looks considerably better.
And it's predecessor, LHX Attack Chopper. Two games that managed full filled-polygon 3D engines on just a 68000 processor (AFAIK there is no coprocesor in the cartridge).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...
While most ground targets were just boxes, the plane models were surprisingly detailed. Star Fox the first 3D game on consoles? Hah, I was playing F-22 for years before Star Fox came along :D
This case has the best airflow I have ever seen in a MiniITX case that isn't ten feet tall, with three fan settings. The front has two 92mm fans, and the rear has one 140mm exhaust. It cools processor plus graphics card well even on low, and you can't hear anything from further than 3 inches away.
Just add an Intel Core processor, a video card in the GTX 750 Ti range, and you'll have a capable gaming system with silence.
That's the first book in the series.
It was made into a film 6 years after the original book, after she had written the second and third books.
Turn on Power Save mode and turn off Wifi? Check to see if you have any CPU-heavy applications, and force-quit them while not in-use?
Also, the amount of power used depends entirely on how powerful a signal you are getting. For example, my Galaxy S4 typically uses 30-35% battery per-day at normal home/work day, but this last weekend I went up to the middle of nowhere, PA. The house barely got 3G at one bar, and because of the shit signal my phone was down to 30% every night. If your place of work is inside a large building, it can play havoc on your signal.
They are "undervalued" in your eyes. In reality, they get no value because there is no more growth. This is evidenced by the increase in base unemployment since the early 1990s.
http://bilbo.economicoutlook.n...
While other countries have employment ups and downs, Japan's population has been on a downward spiral because there is no more real growth. Since the 1980s, manufacturing has moved to Korea and China, and there's not enough of a service and tech industry to cover the loss.
So yeah, for the last 20 years those people who have jobs are treated well, and the young people get the finger. Same thing is beginning to happen here in the United States, although not as massive a movement. The Japanese companies are going to either adapt, or crater and then be reborn as fast-and-lean pension-less workhouses like the US.
In Ada, you can separate numbers with underscores (they are ignored by the compiler). This allows you to create more easily-readable numbers like:
Var := 2#0011_0110#; := 3_295_692_839_298_459
Var
Not sure how many other languages allow this, but it should be every one of them :D