"Perhaps you have never been side swiped by someone who failed to stop at a red light or stop sign?"
The cameras/law are unreasonable. I've been caught by the cameras driving through Knoxville, TN going 4-5 MPH rolling through a stop. I had time to slow to ~4 MPH, stay behind the white line while maintaining said speed for a good few seconds. This safe time behind the white stop line was more than ample to check every direction multiple times. I really don't think it makes sense to fine for that.
On the other hand, someone can come to a nearly screeching halt, stop for an unreasonably short time period right at the line, and then speed off past the light, accelerating so fast their tires are just under the screech threshold. This person is somehow considered "safer" than I am under the law, when in fact, my rolling stop is safer. I'm very sorry if you've been sideswiped, but it wasn't because of a rolling stop. It was because of a bad driver.
There are levels of investigation appropriate for various types of posts. For example, if I were submitting a story to Slashdot, I would spend more time looking into things. However, I don't have the time to fully research and vet every little thing I ever link to on the web. Be realistic.
"""So Blizzard are now making it so instead of showing your character on those forums, it'll instead show your real name with the option of attaching your char name too it (no option of not showing your real name).
Now I think it's fairly safe to say that this is perhaps the dumbest idea that anyone has ever had ever.
To alleviate people's concerns, Blizzard employee Bashiok decided to say his real name on the forums, his real name is Micah Whipple
World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums - Will Blues also post with their real names? Post #16
So say hi to Micah Whipple
Address:
473 Avenue B
Lakeport, CA 95453-6032
Phone Number:
(707) 263-0190
Age:
28
Family:
Kimberly K Whipple, age: 54
Jason Stephen Whipple, age 34
It looks like he's staying in the same house as his mother =[
Free People Search | WhitePages
PeopleLookup People Search - Public Records, Background Checks More.
Oh btw, here is his facebook too:
Micah Whipple | Facebook
Music
Honeypie, Closed Heart Surgery, The Sound Of Animals Fighting, White Stripes, Tool Band, Radiohead, Disorient Express, The Mars Volta, The Unhandled Exceptions, As Tall As Lions, The Dear Hunter
Movies
*Big Trouble in Little China*, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Disney Pixar
Television
The Daily Show, Samurai Champloo, Tim and Eric Awesome Show: Great Job!, Freaks and Geeks, 30 Rock, Human Giant
I think we can all see what a great idea this is going to be."""
Not true. AMD's platform is much more forward compatible. AMD chips can now run DDR2 or DDR3 depending on what board it's in (Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3). That means that new AMD chips are compatible with 3 socket generations. Intel boards have nowhere near this broad socket and memory compatibility. Even in the same socket, a new chipset is typically required by Intel for new CPUs. This allows Intel to fake that their socket+platform had a compatibility life of 6+ years, when really, it was more like 1 and a half because they released 4 different chipsets with different support in that time frame.
If you're building your own box, or just want to upgrade later, AMD really gives you a much more flexible route. Here's an example of Intel's mess on their _current_ generation lineup: Core i7 runs on Socket 1156, while a different Core i7 runs on Socket 1366. Socket 1156 is not future-proof and will be dropped in the future. People buying those boards and CPUs might not even notice and will be s.o.l. after the very next generation. That's just silly. AMD's platform is the one with the sane upgrade path. And it's cheaper. I don't get all the AMD hate going around.
I want the second the LaTeX. This is one of the main computer tools I find myself using in every single class, from English, to Physics, to Math, to CS, etc. This is the computer tool that should be taught early and used (if not required) in every course from then on.
I see news of marches by the Iraqi people frequently in the US news
I see news of marches by anti-abortion activists frequently. Clearly that means all Americans are anti-abortion.
Right?
That's interesting... I've never once seen any marches by the Iraqis where they are shouting chants about how much they love us and want us to stay. I must have missed that in the US media, which would have no reason to want to play that sort of thing... I'm sorry, I just don't buy it that the majority of the Iraqi people support our occupation of their sovereign country.
That's always scared me... I know that from one perspective it is a good idea to let people close to the actual situation in Iraq make many of the judgment calls... But, it seems like we're really trusting Petraus (still him?) as the final word on the war. I don't think that's right... It should be the president's call, the people's call, or congress's call. The ending of the war shouldn't be decided by one career general...
say what you like about Dubya, but those bad guys are scared pissly of him because he's a cowboy that'll bomb the crap out them without blinking
A few more terrorists get loose under Obama, a couple tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians are spared due to Obama's "blinking" (read: thinking before bombing/entering war). I call that a net win...
The joke aside... Look, I'm not a foreign policy advisor or anything, but I see news of marches by the Iraqi people frequently in the US news (that already voluntarily censors much of that sort of thing). They want us out of their country badly. If we can't leave, can someone explain to me why not?
I came here to post almost the exact same thing. The story is about a limit to the size of black holes with respect to the ways the universe is expected to have developed. This is not a hard limit on the size but more of an equilibrium thing as the parent mentioned.
Think about this thought experiment:
One finds a black hole and shoots energy into it in the form of light in discrete sized packets or quanta. If the packets are put in faster than the natural blackbody radiation of the black whole releases energy through Hawking radiation, it will grow in size. Since the black body temperature of the hole decreases as it gets larger, it can grow in this way indefinitely. The larger it is, the softer it pushes outwards (w.r.t HR)...
The story is only really talking about matter/gas clouds, EM energy is an entirely different beast.
> and shared memory (unsafe, one process can crash another)
While I don't want to discount your entire post due to one problem, I had to comment on this one. I hear this all the time from people who don't understand that shared memory isn't the same thing as two processing having a totally shared address space. Almost all (if not all) modern operating systems will allow one to share memory in units of pages. Process 1 and Process 2 can both read and write to page A, for example, but Process 2 cannot read or write to Process 1's page B. Shared memory is very fast, easy to use, and very safe (as long as the programmer isn't an idiot). With some well written code, the chances of one process going nutz and crashing the other is very unlikely, as only the shared page could be written to in the first place. Could random data in the shared page from one b0rked process crash another? Possibly, but only in the same way that random trash in a pipe could trash a separate process: if it isn't written right in the first place.
> I'd go as far to say that 99.99% of humanity >thinks that censorship is a good thing as long >as they get to pick what is censored from the >rest.
I think I'm one of the few that would be quite happy to live in a world where there was no censorship of anything, ever. Would the world change in profound ways that destroy many laws and concepts and turn the whole IP world on its head? Sure. After a while the chaos would settle, and, IMHO, the final result would be a much better place in which to live.
The beauty of it (from an engineering point of view) is that every core has been designed with 3 HT links. One goes to the memory, and two connect to other cores. So really, in a four-core system, there is an additional latency because information needs two hops to reach all of the cores. Three cores is the max AMD can do while still keeping latency at its lowest.
AMD's cores (the compute engines inside a single chip package) are NOT connected by HT links. HT links are used for communication with devices OUTSIDE of the chip package, and run at a clockspeed much less than that of the core clock.
AMD's cores are connected by a full speed crossbar switch, much, MUCH faster than HT. Most people really don't get that HT is chip-to-chip or chip-to-chipset, and that AMD has a fullspeed crossbar in the die. To say it one more time: AMD's cores within the same chip are connected at full CPU speed, and every core is exactly two hops to another: core-to-switch-to-core.
> the covered-up TLB bug which prevents reliable virtualization
Where is this FUD comming from? The bug was never covered up. They delayed production for an entire quarter and publicly announced why. All CPUs have errata, and AMD took a huge hit by doing the responsible thing with disclosure and a delay.
Second of all, AMD provided a BIOS patch to motherboard makers that ships with every K10 capable board. If you want to argue the patch degrades performance or bring up the faster B3 revision, fine. However, don't imply AMD's chips can't do virtualization reliably. The patch completely fixes any chance of a crash from the TLB issue.
> Intel currently makes a better processor, plain and simple.
That is true on the high end of the CPU market, as Intel's QX9770 proves with a commanding price of $1,499.99 vs. AMD's top price of around $235 on the Phenom 9850. The problem is your lack of a definition for the word "better." In the dual- tri- and low-end quad-core market, AMD does pretty well with performance/price.
Aircraft deaths do not even make the list. How can something that accounts for less then 0.1% of all accidental deaths be called "unsafe"?
While I find your overall point valid, the above has an easy answer: popularity. It is obviously unsafe to mechanically force the ingestion of 100 pounds of live fire ants... However, this particular act probably accounts for no deaths at all, 0.0%.
1. Windows Vista fully supports hardware accelerated OpenGL;
2. OpenGL applications can benefit from Window Vistas improved graphics resource management;
3. OpenGL performance on Windows Vista is extremely competitive with the performance on Windows XP.
I was under the impression that Vista did not support OpenGL in the true sense of "support". I had heard that Vista emulates all OpenGL calls and turns them into DirectX equivalents. I hear the performance penalty is significant. If I am correct about this, ID may be forced to create a DirectX version if they want any chance of a well performing windows version. Similarly, if they target Mac/*nix, they will be forced into creating an OpenGL version. I think Microsoft intended this, as most companies will not create an OpenGL version, and the effect will be to lock all gaming onto an MS platform.
You could be called correct if the issue was "sockets", but not with "cores". All four cores on AMD's chips are connected to a full-speed, non-blocking crossbar switch, not to mention the full-speed L3 cache. The "hop" issue you describe is not an issue for the cores in a single AMD package.
[. ..]Rick Berman, SVP, GM, Graphics Product Group said the technologies [3GHz Phenom + 2900XT] would be available this fall.
While I didn't hear this directly when listening to the Tech Day presentation, PC-Mag claims to have heard this. While it is true that Barcelona will launch at 2GHz, Phenom will be launched a good few months later. Further, Phenom is simpler, it only has one HT link instead of three, and qualification for desktop chips is much more forgiving than for server processors. I wouldn't be surprised to this by years end. It should compete well with the 3.2GHz Penryn Intel is expected to launch in the same timeframe. See this slide for the only halfway decent becnhmark AMD has posted for the K10-based cores:
In the case of HP, he said, AMD could not even give away a million processors for free, due to the fear of the potential of Intel punishing the PC maker.
If you trust Ruiz, this comment should be all you need to know. If Intel is being such a monopolistic bitch that AMD can't even give away chips to HP, I wonder what other cases are going undocumented. I really hope AMD gets the monetary compensation they deserver, as I promise you that Intel's anti-competitive tactics aren't helping the consumer any.
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"Perhaps you have never been side swiped by someone who failed to stop at a red light or stop sign?"
The cameras/law are unreasonable. I've been caught by the cameras driving through Knoxville, TN going 4-5 MPH rolling through a stop. I had time to slow to ~4 MPH, stay behind the white line while maintaining said speed for a good few seconds. This safe time behind the white stop line was more than ample to check every direction multiple times. I really don't think it makes sense to fine for that.
On the other hand, someone can come to a nearly screeching halt, stop for an unreasonably short time period right at the line, and then speed off past the light, accelerating so fast their tires are just under the screech threshold. This person is somehow considered "safer" than I am under the law, when in fact, my rolling stop is safer. I'm very sorry if you've been sideswiped, but it wasn't because of a rolling stop. It was because of a bad driver.
There are levels of investigation appropriate for various types of posts. For example, if I were submitting a story to Slashdot, I would spend more time looking into things. However, I don't have the time to fully research and vet every little thing I ever link to on the web. Be realistic.
"Do you know what makes you rather pathetic? "
Woa, there! I just posted a link to something I thought was interesting. Wow. I guess that makes me pathetic now...
"""So Blizzard are now making it so instead of showing your character on those forums, it'll instead show your real name with the option of attaching your char name too it (no option of not showing your real name).
Now I think it's fairly safe to say that this is perhaps the dumbest idea that anyone has ever had ever.
To alleviate people's concerns, Blizzard employee Bashiok decided to say his real name on the forums, his real name is Micah Whipple World of Warcraft - English (NA) Forums - Will Blues also post with their real names? Post #16
So say hi to Micah Whipple
Address:
473 Avenue B
Lakeport, CA 95453-6032
Phone Number:
(707) 263-0190
Age:
28
Family:
Kimberly K Whipple, age: 54
Jason Stephen Whipple, age 34
It looks like he's staying in the same house as his mother =[
Free People Search | WhitePages
PeopleLookup People Search - Public Records, Background Checks More.
Oh btw, here is his facebook too:
Micah Whipple | Facebook
Music
Honeypie, Closed Heart Surgery, The Sound Of Animals Fighting, White Stripes, Tool Band, Radiohead, Disorient Express, The Mars Volta, The Unhandled Exceptions, As Tall As Lions, The Dear Hunter
Movies
*Big Trouble in Little China*, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, Disney Pixar
Television
The Daily Show, Samurai Champloo, Tim and Eric Awesome Show: Great Job!, Freaks and Geeks, 30 Rock, Human Giant
I think we can all see what a great idea this is going to be."""
link to very indirect source
"and be less upgradable."
Not true. AMD's platform is much more forward compatible. AMD chips can now run DDR2 or DDR3 depending on what board it's in (Socket AM2/AM2+/AM3). That means that new AMD chips are compatible with 3 socket generations. Intel boards have nowhere near this broad socket and memory compatibility. Even in the same socket, a new chipset is typically required by Intel for new CPUs. This allows Intel to fake that their socket+platform had a compatibility life of 6+ years, when really, it was more like 1 and a half because they released 4 different chipsets with different support in that time frame.
If you're building your own box, or just want to upgrade later, AMD really gives you a much more flexible route. Here's an example of Intel's mess on their _current_ generation lineup: Core i7 runs on Socket 1156, while a different Core i7 runs on Socket 1366. Socket 1156 is not future-proof and will be dropped in the future. People buying those boards and CPUs might not even notice and will be s.o.l. after the very next generation. That's just silly. AMD's platform is the one with the sane upgrade path. And it's cheaper. I don't get all the AMD hate going around.
"I want the second" -> "I want to second"
I want the second the LaTeX. This is one of the main computer tools I find myself using in every single class, from English, to Physics, to Math, to CS, etc. This is the computer tool that should be taught early and used (if not required) in every course from then on.
I see news of marches by anti-abortion activists frequently. Clearly that means all Americans are anti-abortion.
Right?
That's interesting... I've never once seen any marches by the Iraqis where they are shouting chants about how much they love us and want us to stay. I must have missed that in the US media, which would have no reason to want to play that sort of thing... I'm sorry, I just don't buy it that the majority of the Iraqi people support our occupation of their sovereign country.
The only way to win, is not to play.
Parents teach this to their children constantly and yet, as soon as they grow up, they forget.
The US war policy should be very, very, simple. We won't attack you until you attack us or our very close allies.
Bush's "preemptive warfare" policy goes against all common sense and is ruining our country in so many ways...
commanders on the ground over there (Petraus?)
That's always scared me... I know that from one perspective it is a good idea to let people close to the actual situation in Iraq make many of the judgment calls... But, it seems like we're really trusting Petraus (still him?) as the final word on the war. I don't think that's right... It should be the president's call, the people's call, or congress's call. The ending of the war shouldn't be decided by one career general...
say what you like about Dubya, but those bad guys are scared pissly of him because he's a cowboy that'll bomb the crap out them without blinking
A few more terrorists get loose under Obama, a couple tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians are spared due to Obama's "blinking" (read: thinking before bombing/entering war). I call that a net win...
Did we already win?
Mission Accomplished!
The joke aside... Look, I'm not a foreign policy advisor or anything, but I see news of marches by the Iraqi people frequently in the US news (that already voluntarily censors much of that sort of thing). They want us out of their country badly. If we can't leave, can someone explain to me why not?
I came here to post almost the exact same thing. The story is about a limit to the size of black holes with respect to the ways the universe is expected to have developed. This is not a hard limit on the size but more of an equilibrium thing as the parent mentioned.
Think about this thought experiment:
One finds a black hole and shoots energy into it in the form of light in discrete sized packets or quanta. If the packets are put in faster than the natural blackbody radiation of the black whole releases energy through Hawking radiation, it will grow in size. Since the black body temperature of the hole decreases as it gets larger, it can grow in this way indefinitely. The larger it is, the softer it pushes outwards (w.r.t HR)...
The story is only really talking about matter/gas clouds, EM energy is an entirely different beast.
The big question I have is: Have they finally released a 64-bit plugin for 64-bit firefox in Linux?
The stability of wrappers just isn't there yet (neither is the performance). One would think by now they could do a recompile...
> and shared memory (unsafe, one process can crash another)
While I don't want to discount your entire post due to one problem, I had to comment on this one. I hear this all the time from people who don't understand that shared memory isn't the same thing as two processing having a totally shared address space. Almost all (if not all) modern operating systems will allow one to share memory in units of pages. Process 1 and Process 2 can both read and write to page A, for example, but Process 2 cannot read or write to Process 1's page B. Shared memory is very fast, easy to use, and very safe (as long as the programmer isn't an idiot). With some well written code, the chances of one process going nutz and crashing the other is very unlikely, as only the shared page could be written to in the first place. Could random data in the shared page from one b0rked process crash another? Possibly, but only in the same way that random trash in a pipe could trash a separate process: if it isn't written right in the first place.
> I'd go as far to say that 99.99% of humanity
>thinks that censorship is a good thing as long
>as they get to pick what is censored from the
>rest.
I think I'm one of the few that would be quite happy to live in a world where there was no censorship of anything, ever. Would the world change in profound ways that destroy many laws and concepts and turn the whole IP world on its head? Sure. After a while the chaos would settle, and, IMHO, the final result would be a much better place in which to live.
The beauty of it (from an engineering point of view) is that every core has been designed with 3 HT links. One goes to the memory, and two connect to other cores. So really, in a four-core system, there is an additional latency because information needs two hops to reach all of the cores. Three cores is the max AMD can do while still keeping latency at its lowest.
AMD's cores (the compute engines inside a single chip package) are NOT connected by HT links. HT links are used for communication with devices OUTSIDE of the chip package, and run at a clockspeed much less than that of the core clock.
AMD's cores are connected by a full speed crossbar switch, much, MUCH faster than HT. Most people really don't get that HT is chip-to-chip or chip-to-chipset, and that AMD has a fullspeed crossbar in the die. To say it one more time: AMD's cores within the same chip are connected at full CPU speed, and every core is exactly two hops to another: core-to-switch-to-core.
> the covered-up TLB bug which prevents reliable virtualization
Where is this FUD comming from? The bug was never covered up. They delayed production for an entire quarter and publicly announced why. All CPUs have errata, and AMD took a huge hit by doing the responsible thing with disclosure and a delay.
Second of all, AMD provided a BIOS patch to motherboard makers that ships with every K10 capable board. If you want to argue the patch degrades performance or bring up the faster B3 revision, fine. However, don't imply AMD's chips can't do virtualization reliably. The patch completely fixes any chance of a crash from the TLB issue.
> Intel currently makes a better processor, plain and simple.
That is true on the high end of the CPU market, as Intel's QX9770 proves with a commanding price of $1,499.99 vs. AMD's top price of around $235 on the Phenom 9850. The problem is your lack of a definition for the word "better." In the dual- tri- and low-end quad-core market, AMD does pretty well with performance/price.
Aircraft deaths do not even make the list. How can something that accounts for less then 0.1% of all accidental deaths be called "unsafe"?
While I find your overall point valid, the above has an easy answer: popularity. It is obviously unsafe to mechanically force the ingestion of 100 pounds of live fire ants... However, this particular act probably accounts for no deaths at all, 0.0%.
What you just said is so completely wrong [opengl.org] it's not even funny.
...
I'm wrong that "I was under impression X"? Sounds pretty hard to be wrong when all I said was "I think"
Semantics aside, it seems my impression was incorrect: Windows Vista and OpenGL
1. Windows Vista fully supports hardware accelerated OpenGL;
2. OpenGL applications can benefit from Window Vistas improved graphics resource management;
3. OpenGL performance on Windows Vista is extremely competitive with the performance on Windows XP.
I was under the impression that Vista did not support OpenGL in the true sense of "support". I had heard that Vista emulates all OpenGL calls and turns them into DirectX equivalents. I hear the performance penalty is significant. If I am correct about this, ID may be forced to create a DirectX version if they want any chance of a well performing windows version. Similarly, if they target Mac/*nix, they will be forced into creating an OpenGL version. I think Microsoft intended this, as most companies will not create an OpenGL version, and the effect will be to lock all gaming onto an MS platform.
Mod parent down: incorrect.
You could be called correct if the issue was "sockets", but not with "cores". All four cores on AMD's chips are connected to a full-speed, non-blocking crossbar switch, not to mention the full-speed L3 cache. The "hop" issue you describe is not an issue for the cores in a single AMD package.
pcmag.com
.]Rick Berman, SVP, GM, Graphics Product Group said the technologies [3GHz Phenom + 2900XT] would be available this fall.
[. .
While I didn't hear this directly when listening to the Tech Day presentation, PC-Mag claims to have heard this. While it is true that Barcelona will launch at 2GHz, Phenom will be launched a good few months later. Further, Phenom is simpler, it only has one HT link instead of three, and qualification for desktop chips is much more forgiving than for server processors. I wouldn't be surprised to this by years end. It should compete well with the 3.2GHz Penryn Intel is expected to launch in the same timeframe. See this slide for the only halfway decent becnhmark AMD has posted for the K10-based cores:
Slide45
Comments by AMD's Hector Ruiz really struck a cord with me:
www.cbronline.com
In the case of HP, he said, AMD could not even give away a million processors for free, due to the fear of the potential of Intel punishing the PC maker.
If you trust Ruiz, this comment should be all you need to know. If Intel is being such a monopolistic bitch that AMD can't even give away chips to HP, I wonder what other cases are going undocumented. I really hope AMD gets the monetary compensation they deserver, as I promise you that Intel's anti-competitive tactics aren't helping the consumer any.