I could easily find an incident where a human doctor killed one or more patients on accident or on purpose. Shall we ban humans from practicing medicine too?
Well, wait a minute... what is law in the first place, if not a "procedure" for judging real-life situations and doling out punishment? In the good old days, King David would solve problems creatively, e.g. proposing to cut a baby in half if two women claimed to be the mother. But now we have laws, which are supposed to reduce justice to following a set of steps. No current computer technology could hear out complex arguments and decide whether to render a "not guilty" verdict, but sentencing seems simpler yet more arbitrary, so perhaps a "jail calculator" isn't such a terrible idea. I know I wouldn't want to be sentenced by a judge who had a fight with his wife that morning.
That would be a fine objection if there were some new proposed legislation, which there isn't. The article, if you take the time to look at it, is nothing but fearmongering - not "think of the children," but "beware those who cry 'think of the children.'" The whole "issue" is just some group pontificating about something they hope the government doesn't do in the future.
I was referring to ScienceMark results not being included in the "Scaling" graphs at the bottoms of the linked pages. I like those graphs, except I wish they would use cost (in $) as the X axis instead of simply lining up pairs of processors which, as observed above, are not equal in price. But my point is, even if you shift the Intel line to the left one or usually even two notches, it still dominates the AMD line.
Nope, just look at the 4 graphs to compare any pair of processors you like (on 3 different pages:
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At the low end, the E6300 at $190 beat the $187 AMD 4200+ in all tests, and also beat the $253 4600+ in 3 out of 4 (with the 4th test extremely close).
At the midrange, the $360 E6600 beats even the $825 FX-62 in all 4 tests. That is bad, bad, bad for AMD.
At the high end, AMD simply has no answer to the $559 E6700 or the $1075 X6800.
Granted, none of their graphs shows the ScienceMark. But overall the results seem pretty one-sided to me. I'm surprised AMD hasn't dropped prices more.
No. However, no one in the history of the universe who advocated drug legalization has ever made that argument
Didn't you even read the parent post to which we're replying? I quote: "Actually in a rational society the people would just legalize drugs and prostitution and the problem goes away tomorrow."
Gimme a break. I could believe that legalizing weed will not be the end of the world, but crackheads will still be crackheads. You think they're going to get up from the gutter just because they can buy their drugs legally now? Doesn't seem to have cured all the winos.
Really? So you think some rank & file at HP could lie their way to get access corporate email accounts and still keep their job after being caught? Honestly, I would be surprised if they got away with no more than being fired. But Dunn wasn't even fired.
I think the fear can be traced largely back to the discovery of nuclear reactions, and how to cause them. That little discovery did result in the short-term deaths of many (Japanese) people, lead at least once to the near annihilation of the USA (Cuban missile crisis), and dominated the world's political landscape for the next 50 years. And now there's Iran.
Remeber for PC, you have an unlimited beta community.
Yup, even after you go gold. "Sell now, patch later." That's part of why I quit PC gaming.
Online cheating didn't help either, but neither am I willing to let Steam take over my computer. But I don't so much mind DRM in a console, because it doesn't interfere with more important applications.
From what I've heard, I believe there was a plot. I can't speak for their liklihood of success, but I'm glad they were caught. However, the fact is that the plot was uncovered by fellow Muslims who turned in the plotters, because they were concerned about some talk at the mosque. It is they who deserve the credit. When I head of this arrest, I just knew the government would try to credit their most legally questionable tactics for the bust, and here it is.
You mean this? It looks good, though at $50 it costs almost as much as my entire Rio. More power to Apple if people will pay that, but it's too rich for my blood, at least given the alternatives.
I disagree. Corporate governance is important. I'm pretty sure I couldn't get away with what Dunn has done. Now my question is whether my bosses could.
Picture quality is a function of the codec used. Format: irrelevant.
Wrong! All codecs support varying bitrates, and for a given codec a higher bitrate always equals higher picture quality. The point of the physical medium is to hold enough data to support a high bitrate. Blu-Ray holds 66% more than HD-DVD, so it should have a leg up in picture quality.
Anyways, these standards (HD-DVD and Blu-Ray) do not just specify the physical media, they include the codecs as well. But since they support the same codecs, it should come down to capacity.
Doing it that way would definitely be cheaper for Target, and probably cheaper for the disabled, but runs the serious risk of resulting in absolutely no change at all.
So? I get annoyed when a site isn't firefox-compatible (and no, I cannot run MSIE on my Linux computer), but I don't sue people.
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Actually this is a real world question, not so much terrorism but permanant exclusion of felons from voting, since some minority groups lean towards one party more than the other and have high proportions of convicted felons.
I could easily find an incident where a human doctor killed one or more patients on accident or on purpose. Shall we ban humans from practicing medicine too?
Well, wait a minute... what is law in the first place, if not a "procedure" for judging real-life situations and doling out punishment? In the good old days, King David would solve problems creatively, e.g. proposing to cut a baby in half if two women claimed to be the mother. But now we have laws, which are supposed to reduce justice to following a set of steps. No current computer technology could hear out complex arguments and decide whether to render a "not guilty" verdict, but sentencing seems simpler yet more arbitrary, so perhaps a "jail calculator" isn't such a terrible idea. I know I wouldn't want to be sentenced by a judge who had a fight with his wife that morning.
That would be a fine objection if there were some new proposed legislation, which there isn't. The article, if you take the time to look at it, is nothing but fearmongering - not "think of the children," but "beware those who cry 'think of the children.'" The whole "issue" is just some group pontificating about something they hope the government doesn't do in the future.
It's pretty easy to celebrate books that were one banned but no longer challenge today's standards.
As opposed to oil, where each gallon we pump out puts two back into the ground?
The AMD chips did do well on the ScienceMark 2.0.
At the low end, the E6300 at $190 beat the $187 AMD 4200+ in all tests, and also beat the $253 4600+ in 3 out of 4 (with the 4th test extremely close).
At the midrange, the $360 E6600 beats even the $825 FX-62 in all 4 tests. That is bad, bad, bad for AMD.
At the high end, AMD simply has no answer to the $559 E6700 or the $1075 X6800.
Granted, none of their graphs shows the ScienceMark. But overall the results seem pretty one-sided to me. I'm surprised AMD hasn't dropped prices more.
Gimme a break. I could believe that legalizing weed will not be the end of the world, but crackheads will still be crackheads. You think they're going to get up from the gutter just because they can buy their drugs legally now? Doesn't seem to have cured all the winos.
Really? So you think some rank & file at HP could lie their way to get access corporate email accounts and still keep their job after being caught? Honestly, I would be surprised if they got away with no more than being fired. But Dunn wasn't even fired.
I think the fear can be traced largely back to the discovery of nuclear reactions, and how to cause them. That little discovery did result in the short-term deaths of many (Japanese) people, lead at least once to the near annihilation of the USA (Cuban missile crisis), and dominated the world's political landscape for the next 50 years. And now there's Iran.
Online cheating didn't help either, but neither am I willing to let Steam take over my computer. But I don't so much mind DRM in a console, because it doesn't interfere with more important applications.
Not if they really want to displace flash they won't.
the difference is that the anonymizing networks serve no other purpose.
From what I've heard, I believe there was a plot. I can't speak for their liklihood of success, but I'm glad they were caught. However, the fact is that the plot was uncovered by fellow Muslims who turned in the plotters, because they were concerned about some talk at the mosque. It is they who deserve the credit. When I head of this arrest, I just knew the government would try to credit their most legally questionable tactics for the bust, and here it is.
You mean this? It looks good, though at $50 it costs almost as much as my entire Rio. More power to Apple if people will pay that, but it's too rich for my blood, at least given the alternatives.
And if she does get off free, it will raise the odds of the rest of us getting spied on.
What does that matter? Dominance of a shrinking market wouldn't help Apple any more than it helps Palm.
Any MP3 player than includes an FM radio and stopwatch is better than an iPod for me. I also prefer something that uses standard batteries.
I disagree. Corporate governance is important. I'm pretty sure I couldn't get away with what Dunn has done. Now my question is whether my bosses could.
Anyways, these standards (HD-DVD and Blu-Ray) do not just specify the physical media, they include the codecs as well. But since they support the same codecs, it should come down to capacity.