here's the deal. i cannot claim that there was any intention or malcontent involved, more likely incompetence or most likely, apathy. the truth is: dell puts way more emphasis on it's "business" customer support than it's "consumer". if you purchased a "consumer" grade product, but were registered as a business user, guess what? you're going to get better support. this is why you'll hear (mostly) accolades about dell support from business/enterprise customers. The lawsuit was started because of lack of "consumer" support, and rightfully so. granted, the enterprise support was good, but it was a headache even to get that support sometimes. the consumer support was not nearly as importatant to dell as it's enterprise support, and rightfully so. the consumer division has little room for extra revenues (service contracts, etc.) and even lower profit margins. the lawsuit brought by the state of new york was regarding deceptive business practices regarding consumers. *(if)* i worked for dell for about 7 months, and knowing what i know, i would definitely say that they have a case. i'm not going to cite any specific examples, but i'm sure they'll win their case.
and that would be no problem if they were using a GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE to VISUALLY assess and change their subjects. it has everything to do with this story. these people aren't reading bits and bytes to determine what a picture looks like, they're relying on the computer's representation of those bits and bytes as an image to be accurate. not that i RTFA but from what i gather, you could have 2 images on this monitor that looked exactly the same but are different in data and would be displayed differently/more accurately on a different display.
i think you've missed the opening sentence of the OP. [I was reading a military close quarters combat manual and they made reference to a "sixth sense".] not that i read the original material, but from the OP it seems the instructions provided were explicitly given for the express purpose of avoiding the intended victim's "sixth sense." your post takes the OP entirely out of context... not that that makes you any less correct.
actually, polymers are inherently more flexible than other plastics. this may actually make some products more durable. think of it this way: glass = silicon, rubber = polymer. which one breaks easier?
this misses the point entirely though, the main advantage is that the manufacturing process would be theoretically less expensive. much of the cost and difficulty with silicon chips today is involved with the manufacture/conditioning of the silicon wafers. plastics are very cheap these days.
granted, there is (vitrually) no seek time with SSD, but most people think that seek time is synonomous with access time and comparing the access time of a SSD with the seek time of a HDD would be a good way to compare the two.
Well, that's a good question. Today's x86 processors are very complicated and very general purpose. In fact, this very nature is part of what hampers the ability of the big CPU manufacturers to innovate or create large performance gains in new products based on the same technology. If we were to specialize the functions of the processors, it would make it much easier to make advances in a specific area of processing than to make changes to the entire underlying architecture of an x86 type CPU.
Basically what's happening is that we're coming to a point where the bottleneck of the whole shebang is the x86 architecture. By moving computing tasks to more specialized (and inherently more efficient) processors, we avert the entire x86 issue altogether. Intel had originally tried to get around this x86 quandry with the itanium by changing to an entirely different CPU type. This was a great idea but a little ahead of it's time and that's why the AMD64 (x86 32bit with 64 bit extensions) was more successful. The driving force behind this movement was economics, not performance. Otherwise you would have seen the itanium come out on top.
Offloading more processing tasks to other processor types allows putting off the move away from the x86 architecture. The greater advances allowed by specialized processor design combined with the inherent increased efficiency of specialized processing gives you effectively twice the advantage over relying on CPU alone. Add on to that the simplifying of software by offloading software tasks to the new specialized hardware, and you're talking leaps and bounds ahead of CPU alone.
Take for example 3d graphics cards. Even todays fastest CPUs with software rendering come nowhere near the performance of a dedicated GPU. See the point now?:)
"The east Antarctic ice sheet is known as a continental ice sheet since it is supported by land above sea level. Unlike its eastern sister, the western ice sheet is a marine ice sheet which is grounded on bedrock well below sea level."
at one time, i inadvertantly filled a cup that i was using for coffee with iced soda, and the taste was suprisingly good. there was just enough coffee left in the cup to give it a really good flavor. i suggest at least giving this beverage a try if you ever get the chance.
is anyone else here sick of hearing about poker? since when did poker become a 'sport' worthy of taking up VALUABLE TIME on ESPN??? i think i'm going to write my congressman and have him write up a bill that outlaws poker on TV. not that i watch TV much but for every split second that i surf through a channel that has poker showing, i feel that my intelligence has somehow been dulled. i think the next slashdot poll should ask what the best card game is, although everyone knows that sheepshead http://www.sheepshead.org/ is the best!
actually... sometimes the latest bios update is included with driver packages. as far as drivers being set properly...
i took computer classes and knew more than the teachers did:(
if you think about it, human evolution is already being affected. with all the time we spend in-doors/clothed, it's no wonder that we're losing body hair. men that go bald aren't inferior to those with a full head of hair, they're just a little higher up the evolutionary ladder.
Does antimatter exhibit anti-gravitational forces? One thing I've always been facisnated with, is the idea of anti-gravity. The way I see it, if there are north and south polarities with magnets, why can't we find the equivalent repellent gravitational force?
don't you hate it when you're at work, trying to read slashdot while not helping someone, and all of a sudden, you realize you've got a boner? it's really horrible. sitting there wishing your partner were able to sneak into the copy room with you for a quickie?
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here's the deal. i cannot claim that there was any intention or malcontent involved, more likely incompetence or most likely, apathy. the truth is: dell puts way more emphasis on it's "business" customer support than it's "consumer". if you purchased a "consumer" grade product, but were registered as a business user, guess what? you're going to get better support. this is why you'll hear (mostly) accolades about dell support from business/enterprise customers. The lawsuit was started because of lack of "consumer" support, and rightfully so. granted, the enterprise support was good, but it was a headache even to get that support sometimes. the consumer support was not nearly as importatant to dell as it's enterprise support, and rightfully so. the consumer division has little room for extra revenues (service contracts, etc.) and even lower profit margins. the lawsuit brought by the state of new york was regarding deceptive business practices regarding consumers. *(if)* i worked for dell for about 7 months, and knowing what i know, i would definitely say that they have a case. i'm not going to cite any specific examples, but i'm sure they'll win their case.
speaking of educational games, i found that number munchers/decimal munchers was extremely effective in helping me learn :)
and that would be no problem if they were using a GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE to VISUALLY assess and change their subjects. it has everything to do with this story. these people aren't reading bits and bytes to determine what a picture looks like, they're relying on the computer's representation of those bits and bytes as an image to be accurate. not that i RTFA but from what i gather, you could have 2 images on this monitor that looked exactly the same but are different in data and would be displayed differently/more accurately on a different display.
i think you've missed the opening sentence of the OP. [I was reading a military close quarters combat manual and they made reference to a "sixth sense".] not that i read the original material, but from the OP it seems the instructions provided were explicitly given for the express purpose of avoiding the intended victim's "sixth sense." your post takes the OP entirely out of context... not that that makes you any less correct.
i, for one, welcome our new prescient overlords.
i was under the impression that not all plastics qualify as polymers, as not all polymers are plastics. off to wikipedia i go!
actually, polymers are inherently more flexible than other plastics. this may actually make some products more durable. think of it this way: glass = silicon, rubber = polymer. which one breaks easier?
this misses the point entirely though, the main advantage is that the manufacturing process would be theoretically less expensive. much of the cost and difficulty with silicon chips today is involved with the manufacture/conditioning of the silicon wafers. plastics are very cheap these days.
granted, there is (vitrually) no seek time with SSD, but most people think that seek time is synonomous with access time and comparing the access time of a SSD with the seek time of a HDD would be a good way to compare the two.
Well, that's a good question. Today's x86 processors are very complicated and very general purpose. In fact, this very nature is part of what hampers the ability of the big CPU manufacturers to innovate or create large performance gains in new products based on the same technology. If we were to specialize the functions of the processors, it would make it much easier to make advances in a specific area of processing than to make changes to the entire underlying architecture of an x86 type CPU.
:)
Basically what's happening is that we're coming to a point where the bottleneck of the whole shebang is the x86 architecture. By moving computing tasks to more specialized (and inherently more efficient) processors, we avert the entire x86 issue altogether. Intel had originally tried to get around this x86 quandry with the itanium by changing to an entirely different CPU type. This was a great idea but a little ahead of it's time and that's why the AMD64 (x86 32bit with 64 bit extensions) was more successful. The driving force behind this movement was economics, not performance. Otherwise you would have seen the itanium come out on top.
Offloading more processing tasks to other processor types allows putting off the move away from the x86 architecture. The greater advances allowed by specialized processor design combined with the inherent increased efficiency of specialized processing gives you effectively twice the advantage over relying on CPU alone. Add on to that the simplifying of software by offloading software tasks to the new specialized hardware, and you're talking leaps and bounds ahead of CPU alone.
Take for example 3d graphics cards. Even todays fastest CPUs with software rendering come nowhere near the performance of a dedicated GPU. See the point now?
Well, I don't know, but an educated guess would point me to the WESTERN HEMISPHERE...
D =4
Let's find out!
from...
http://www.environmenttimes.net/article.cfm?pageI
complete with illustraed image.
"The east Antarctic ice sheet is known as a continental ice sheet since it is supported by land above sea level. Unlike its eastern sister, the western ice sheet is a marine ice sheet which is grounded on bedrock well below sea level."
at one time, i inadvertantly filled a cup that i was using for coffee with iced soda, and the taste was suprisingly good. there was just enough coffee left in the cup to give it a really good flavor. i suggest at least giving this beverage a try if you ever get the chance.
is anyone else here sick of hearing about poker? since when did poker become a 'sport' worthy of taking up VALUABLE TIME on ESPN??? i think i'm going to write my congressman and have him write up a bill that outlaws poker on TV. not that i watch TV much but for every split second that i surf through a channel that has poker showing, i feel that my intelligence has somehow been dulled. i think the next slashdot poll should ask what the best card game is, although everyone knows that sheepshead http://www.sheepshead.org/ is the best!
actually... sometimes the latest bios update is included with driver packages. as far as drivers being set properly... i took computer classes and knew more than the teachers did :(
if you think about it, human evolution is already being affected. with all the time we spend in-doors/clothed, it's no wonder that we're losing body hair. men that go bald aren't inferior to those with a full head of hair, they're just a little higher up the evolutionary ladder.
Does antimatter exhibit anti-gravitational forces? One thing I've always been facisnated with, is the idea of anti-gravity. The way I see it, if there are north and south polarities with magnets, why can't we find the equivalent repellent gravitational force?
don't you hate it when you're at work, trying to read slashdot while not helping someone, and all of a sudden, you realize you've got a boner? it's really horrible. sitting there wishing your partner were able to sneak into the copy room with you for a quickie?
or is it just me?