Everybody seems to be bashing this guy as some kind of shill, could some of those same folks please point out some advice that they *would* give credence to?
Congratulations, you just turned a thread about music sharing into an anti-Islamic rant. Perhaps we should invent a new version of Godwin's law just for you.
"The problem is there has not been a properly mastered CD released for nearly a decade so most of you dont have a clue as to what a good one sounds like."
Well, you were doing a good job not sounding like an arrogant audiophile until the very last sentence of your post.
As someone who was recently at the Portland airport and found ALL parking lots (including economy lots) to be completely full because of so many people wanting to take a short-hopper to Seattle, I can tell you that "all transportation between Portland and Seattle" has definitely NOT been cut off. Not even all road transportation between Portland and Seattle. It's just that nobody wants to drive to Yakima, hundreds of miles out of their way, as part of a circuitous detour. So they want to fly instead. This is a major problem for people (like my wife and me) who got caught up in the mess at the airport.
"How do you know when a stream of apparently encrypted data has been decoded anyway?"
Well, in this case it's an audio stream. So if, after decrypting, the voices sound like the teachers in a Charlie Brown movie, then you probably haven't actually decoded it.
"Let me tell you, if Intel had to pay $5,000,000 to the widow of everyone killed by an FDIV bug who would have died 3 weeks later (eg, like a drug company has to do), they would be a lot more conservative about getting chips to market."
Actually, from the public overreaction to FDIV, one would think this is exactly what happened.
"Religion and science have nothing to do with each other and anyone who even suggests that is making a grave mistake and fool out him/herself and the science s/he studies."
Oh right, except for that part where pure science contradicts religion and pure religion discourages science.
By logical extension, pretty soon nobody will be allowed to use cellular phones at sporting events. This means YOU, Captain Retardo with your bluetooth dongle crammed in your ear. You could be giving a play-by-play to somebody outside, who might in turn be BLOGGING the event. For shame!
You may argue the NCAA is within its rights to deny bloggers at sporting events, but this is just another example of a misguided corporation struggling for control over information. But information can't be controlled like the turnstiles to the stadium. So all they've really done is pissed off someone who is just doing their job, and those folks will eventually find someone getting around their restrictions despite the NCAA's greatest efforts.
Here's another take: this is the first time the University of Louisville is making an appearance at the College World Series. Do they really want to tell the local newspaper beat writer, who may be just finally starting to get some Cards fans excited about baseball, that he has to pack it up and not cover the event? What kind of idiots run the NCAA anyway? If they wanted to stir up some kind of stink about the Intertubes, they should have waited until the sports doldrums that start here in a few weeks.
Can you cite sources for your "cutting back on R&D" assertion? All the news I've seen points to reductions in marketing and other staff not directly related to core R&D ("core" in this case meaning core business, not Intel Core).
There are two factors leading to the RIAA's cancellation of this particular circus.
- They have already accomplished the goal of scaring the living daylights out of a customer, and - They appear to have an "abundance of sensitivity" by dropping the case, hopefully negating the negative press that has cropped up around this.
They care nothing for the family involved. They care nothing for the memory of the dead person, who I'm led to believe is a friend of at least one Slashdotter. They care nothing for their customers' wellbeing. And lastly, they care nothing for their artists. All they care about is control and money.
RTFA. Intel is merely telling its customers and potential customers exactly what it would mean if the rumors that were reported by OTHERS actually came to pass. Others in this case being Forbes. Since Intel can point to this article, exactly what kind of complaint would the FCC have?
Jesus. The things that people attribute to AMD's "moral superiority" here on Slashdot... It's astounding.
If AMD does "the right thing" it won't be because of a moral high road. It's because Intel already stepped on a similar PR landmine long ago. Learning from your rival's huge mistakes is not worth high praise. It's just common sense.
The exact method used in K2 is polyalphabetic substitution, known as a "Quagmire III variation" of a Vigenère cipher. The keyed cipheralphabet and plaintext alphabet both use the key of KRYPTOS, and the indicator key is the word ABSCISSA.
And for some reason, every cipher determined by this method comes out "GIGGITY GIGGITY"
Very interesting. Don't they realize that they are at least partly responsible for "big corporate radio" by killing the profitability of indie radio with illegal promotion, i.e. payola?
You are correct that an order-of-magnitude increase in device count can be largely accounted for by increases in cache size, as caches account for the majority of the device count.
However you are erroneously using this fact to somehow indicate that gigantic increases in microarchitectural complexity that have not occurred. They absolutely have, even to well-grounded p6-based architectures like Core Duo. As someone who has worked in pre-silicon verification for microprocessor projects at both of the big players in the x86 world, I can tell assure that pre-silicon (and post-silicon) verification teams are struggling to keep up with complexity. This probably comes as no surprise to anybody who reads Slashdot, even if that person has a software background.
A second point. Physical layout libraries, although they do shorten the design cycle, enable quicker bug fix turnaround and help with backend design, do not reduce logical complexity or improve the verifiability of a processor.
Improved design tools can help, but mostly with smaller design teams like you have for ASICs where the verifier is the designer. In a major microprocessor project, verification engineers can find no substitute for understanding the details. That is hard for any human to do, and it is only getting harder.
Do not fool yourself into minimizing the effect of complexity.
Also, do not fool yourself into thinking that only Intel has sizeable errata sheets. For a long time it was hard to find AMD's equivalent sheets, but they have started being more forthcoming. See Opteron "Revision Guide", which contains the errata sheet. There are some fairly frightening errata in there as well.
In a nutshell, it's a nice way to get "out-of-order and register
renaming for almost free."
Anybody who has studied the p6 architecture knows that it has always featured OOO execution and register renaming. Mod parent down, the linked forum post is completely bunk. "Interesting" isn't nearly as useful as "factual."
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Everybody seems to be bashing this guy as some kind of shill, could some of those same folks please point out some advice that they *would* give credence to?
Who said we're only allowed to like the songs that the record companies release as singles?
I find the defendant NOT ESTHER WILLIAMS
Congratulations for the most creative invocation of Godwin's Law to date.
Congratulations, you just turned a thread about music sharing into an anti-Islamic rant. Perhaps we should invent a new version of Godwin's law just for you.
Kirkland? Awesome, that means it should be available at Costco real soon now.
"The problem is there has not been a properly mastered CD released for nearly a decade so most of you dont have a clue as to what a good one sounds like."
Well, you were doing a good job not sounding like an arrogant audiophile until the very last sentence of your post.
I always thought I might start a plastic surgery clinic called "Breast Buy." You could try that.
As someone who was recently at the Portland airport and found ALL parking lots (including economy lots) to be completely full because of so many people wanting to take a short-hopper to Seattle, I can tell you that "all transportation between Portland and Seattle" has definitely NOT been cut off. Not even all road transportation between Portland and Seattle. It's just that nobody wants to drive to Yakima, hundreds of miles out of their way, as part of a circuitous detour. So they want to fly instead. This is a major problem for people (like my wife and me) who got caught up in the mess at the airport.
"How do you know when a stream of apparently encrypted data has been decoded anyway?"
Well, in this case it's an audio stream. So if, after decrypting, the voices sound like the teachers in a Charlie Brown movie, then you probably haven't actually decoded it.
"Let me tell you, if Intel had to pay $5,000,000 to the widow of everyone killed by an FDIV bug who would have died 3 weeks later (eg, like a drug company has to do), they would be a lot more conservative about getting chips to market."
Actually, from the public overreaction to FDIV, one would think this is exactly what happened.
"People often start speaking of elitism, but what do you call it when a person like you expects everyone else to jump at their demands?"
A customer. Free software still has those, right? Customers? Or is everybody just screwed?
"Religion and science have nothing to do with each other and anyone who even suggests that is making a grave mistake and fool out him/herself and the science s/he studies."
Oh right, except for that part where pure science contradicts religion and pure religion discourages science.
By logical extension, pretty soon nobody will be allowed to use cellular phones at sporting events. This means YOU, Captain Retardo with your bluetooth dongle crammed in your ear. You could be giving a play-by-play to somebody outside, who might in turn be BLOGGING the event. For shame!
You may argue the NCAA is within its rights to deny bloggers at sporting events, but this is just another example of a misguided corporation struggling for control over information. But information can't be controlled like the turnstiles to the stadium. So all they've really done is pissed off someone who is just doing their job, and those folks will eventually find someone getting around their restrictions despite the NCAA's greatest efforts.
Here's another take: this is the first time the University of Louisville is making an appearance at the College World Series. Do they really want to tell the local newspaper beat writer, who may be just finally starting to get some Cards fans excited about baseball, that he has to pack it up and not cover the event? What kind of idiots run the NCAA anyway? If they wanted to stir up some kind of stink about the Intertubes, they should have waited until the sports doldrums that start here in a few weeks.
Can you cite sources for your "cutting back on R&D" assertion? All the news I've seen points to reductions in marketing and other staff not directly related to core R&D ("core" in this case meaning core business, not Intel Core).
There are two factors leading to the RIAA's cancellation of this particular circus.
- They have already accomplished the goal of scaring the living daylights out of a customer, and
- They appear to have an "abundance of sensitivity" by dropping the case, hopefully negating the negative press that has cropped up around this.
They care nothing for the family involved. They care nothing for the memory of the dead person, who I'm led to believe is a friend of at least one Slashdotter. They care nothing for their customers' wellbeing. And lastly, they care nothing for their artists. All they care about is control and money.
No jet pack means not getting home if you inadvertently push yourself away from the space station and into space.
Actually I was thinking that if you push yourself the wrong way, you might find yourself headed home way too quickly.
Only figures... Since most of the money I was supposed to pay my taxes with, I used to buy porn anyway.
RTFA. Intel is merely telling its customers and potential customers exactly what it would mean if the rumors that were reported by OTHERS actually came to pass. Others in this case being Forbes. Since Intel can point to this article, exactly what kind of complaint would the FCC have?
Man... so sites like Anandtech and Tom's are using the company's STOCK as a chip benchmark now? Brutal. Intel can't win for losin'.
Jesus. The things that people attribute to AMD's "moral superiority" here on Slashdot... It's astounding.
If AMD does "the right thing" it won't be because of a moral high road. It's because Intel already stepped on a similar PR landmine long ago. Learning from your rival's huge mistakes is not worth high praise. It's just common sense.
And for some reason, every cipher determined by this method comes out "GIGGITY GIGGITY"
Very interesting. Don't they realize that they are at least partly responsible for "big corporate radio" by killing the profitability of indie radio with illegal promotion, i.e. payola?
You are correct that an order-of-magnitude increase in device count can be largely accounted for by increases in cache size, as caches account for the majority of the device count.
However you are erroneously using this fact to somehow indicate that gigantic increases in microarchitectural complexity that have not occurred. They absolutely have, even to well-grounded p6-based architectures like Core Duo. As someone who has worked in pre-silicon verification for microprocessor projects at both of the big players in the x86 world, I can tell assure that pre-silicon (and post-silicon) verification teams are struggling to keep up with complexity. This probably comes as no surprise to anybody who reads Slashdot, even if that person has a software background.
A second point. Physical layout libraries, although they do shorten the design cycle, enable quicker bug fix turnaround and help with backend design, do not reduce logical complexity or improve the verifiability of a processor.
Improved design tools can help, but mostly with smaller design teams like you have for ASICs where the verifier is the designer. In a major microprocessor project, verification engineers can find no substitute for understanding the details. That is hard for any human to do, and it is only getting harder.
Do not fool yourself into minimizing the effect of complexity.
Also, do not fool yourself into thinking that only Intel has sizeable errata sheets. For a long time it was hard to find AMD's equivalent sheets, but they have started being more forthcoming. See Opteron "Revision Guide", which contains the errata sheet. There are some fairly frightening errata in there as well.
Anybody who has studied the p6 architecture knows that it has always featured OOO execution and register renaming. Mod parent down, the linked forum post is completely bunk. "Interesting" isn't nearly as useful as "factual."