I'm not connected with this site in any way, but I've used info from there to rid myself of 90% of telemarketing calls. And I've had some fun with telemorons in the process.:)
We are using ethernet instead of firewire in very high-end systems, and this will continue and should trickle down to PCs within a few years. It's a revved-up ethernet called InfiniBand ( www.infinibandta.org ).
In general, any RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing device, such as those in Mac and Sun boxen) CPU has fewer stages of logic between registers than a CISC (Complex ISC) CPU (such as x86's). Fewer stages of logic means a higher ratio of wire (metal) to logic gates (silicon) in any given path. Signal propagation delay time in modern semiconductor processes are dominated by wire delays -- silicon gate delays are almost negligible. Also, signal propagation delay time varies with temperature strongly in silicon, but weakly in metal. So temperature effects make a bigger difference to max clock rate on a CISC vs. a RISC. Said differently: there's a smaller window of min/max conditions (PVT = manufacturing Process, Voltage, and Temperature) under which the a RISC CPU will work as intended vs. a CISC CPU.
Note to zealots: this should not be construed as (or used for) taking sides in the inane Mac vs. PC vs. whatever thing. It's about CPU design philosophy and implementation.
The reason Intel (or AMD) sells a CPU as a '1.7GHz' model instead of as a more profitable '2.0GHz' model is that some path of logic between registers in the chip won't work at 2.0GHz under the warranted PVT conditions (for commercial products usually: published MIN-MAX process, +/- 5%, and 0-100 degrees C transistor junction temperature - with a case and built-in cooling that usually allow for -10 to 50 deg C ambient temperature). Cooling (or increasing the volatage -- you can't control the process after the chip is made), is more likely to improve a CISC path than a RISC path (because of the wire to silicon ratio).
So the manufacturer can more easily certify the RISC device for operation at higher clock rates. But that also leaves the user with less room to tinker around, should s/he/it be so inclined.
Sorry for the long post (I've been thinking about this sort of thing in a roundabout and thinly related way for quite some time). Your question fell right in front of my hypno-train.
Are you thinking of Korean mfgs Kia or Hyundai? It's hard to go bankrupt with massive subsidies (at least not until the people paying for the subsidies that the gov't is slinging about run out of cash or tolerance).
Or maybe you're thinking of Saturn (GM), or Lexus (Toyota), or Acura (Honda), or Infiniti (Nissan), . . .
Hmm, come to think of it, I can't really think og any. Which did you have in mind?
Oh, there should indeed be a lawsuit here -- Utah School Board (and anyone else who ever bought DumbFilter) should sue the company for fraud/misrepresenation.
Read the whole shmeal from Utah: DumbFilter Inc. clearly said that every URL was checked by a human before being banned. Utah has some pretty rock-solid evidence that this isn't true, and too many of them to call 'Doh!' on (myschool.edu/~wwager is a gambling site? Can anyone say perl script?)
Thusly busted in their heinous (albeit obvious) lie (how could anyone really believe any company with fewer employees than say, China could have the resources to check all URLs?), the DumbFilter purveyors should have to refund every penny . . .
Wrong. I'm not there simply to work. It's insane to think I could be in one place for so long without a break, which may include surfing for some non-work-related info, ordering a book from Amazon, or ANYTHING the hell else I want that isn't so gratuitously obscene as to offend/harass any co-worker who might drop in and see in on my screen (such as that goatse site). My company (NEC) doesn't have a problem with reaonable personal use of internet, email, etc.
If they did, I'd quit and go work for one of the many competitors who don't. Especially if they used some dumbass filter program that prevented my access to SourceForge or a site even 1/100th as useful (for work, even).
Because I'm treated like a reasonably mature adult, I act like one (or is it the other way around?). Either way, if they tried to filter me, I'd waste lods of time breaking the filter for myself and my co-workers. In the end, I'd cost more than the filter could possible save, I'm sure.
The point that everyone seems to be mssing (and I'm 75% done with a thread full of how to submit a request to help some moron company remove an improperly-banned site), is that the company selling this filter MISREPRESENTED it's product, and should be sued and forced to refund every dollar anyone ever spent on their software.
What boycott? I mean, I boycott these kinds of games myself, but alone and without any fanfare. I just can't get into the RTS thing -- it's just so much click-and-watch.
I play FPS, only, almost exclusively.
I assume there are some RTS-types here, and I wonder -- do you play FPS games also?
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No, they don't. Lightning travels through what was recently air by first breaking the air down into ions, or charged components.
The 'air' itself never conducts electricity. It is changed into something else first.
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I'm not connected with this site in any way, but I've used info from there to rid myself of 90% of telemarketing calls. And I've had some fun with telemorons in the process.
We are using ethernet instead of firewire in very high-end systems, and this will continue and should trickle down to PCs within a few years. It's a revved-up ethernet called InfiniBand ( www.infinibandta.org ).
Much, much less.
In general, any RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing device, such as those in Mac and Sun boxen) CPU has fewer stages of logic between registers than a CISC (Complex ISC) CPU (such as x86's). Fewer stages of logic means a higher ratio of wire (metal) to logic gates (silicon) in any given path. Signal propagation delay time in modern semiconductor processes are dominated by wire delays -- silicon gate delays are almost negligible. Also, signal propagation delay time varies with temperature strongly in silicon, but weakly in metal. So temperature effects make a bigger difference to max clock rate on a CISC vs. a RISC. Said differently: there's a smaller window of min/max conditions (PVT = manufacturing Process, Voltage, and Temperature) under which the a RISC CPU will work as intended vs. a CISC CPU.
Note to zealots: this should not be construed as (or used for) taking sides in the inane Mac vs. PC vs. whatever thing. It's about CPU design philosophy and implementation.
The reason Intel (or AMD) sells a CPU as a '1.7GHz' model instead of as a more profitable '2.0GHz' model is that some path of logic between registers in the chip won't work at 2.0GHz under the warranted PVT conditions (for commercial products usually: published MIN-MAX process, +/- 5%, and 0-100 degrees C transistor junction temperature - with a case and built-in cooling that usually allow for -10 to 50 deg C ambient temperature). Cooling (or increasing the volatage -- you can't control the process after the chip is made), is more likely to improve a CISC path than a RISC path (because of the wire to silicon ratio).
So the manufacturer can more easily certify the RISC device for operation at higher clock rates. But that also leaves the user with less room to tinker around, should s/he/it be so inclined.
Sorry for the long post (I've been thinking about this sort of thing in a roundabout and thinly related way for quite some time). Your question fell right in front of my hypno-train.
Are you thinking of Korean mfgs Kia or Hyundai? It's hard to go bankrupt with massive subsidies (at least not until the people paying for the subsidies that the gov't is slinging about run out of cash or tolerance).
Or maybe you're thinking of Saturn (GM), or Lexus (Toyota), or Acura (Honda), or Infiniti (Nissan), . . .
Hmm, come to think of it, I can't really think og any. Which did you have in mind?
Oh, there should indeed be a lawsuit here -- Utah School Board (and anyone else who ever bought DumbFilter) should sue the company for fraud/misrepresenation. Read the whole shmeal from Utah: DumbFilter Inc. clearly said that every URL was checked by a human before being banned. Utah has some pretty rock-solid evidence that this isn't true, and too many of them to call 'Doh!' on (myschool.edu/~wwager is a gambling site? Can anyone say perl script?) Thusly busted in their heinous (albeit obvious) lie (how could anyone really believe any company with fewer employees than say, China could have the resources to check all URLs?), the DumbFilter purveyors should have to refund every penny . . .
Wrong. I'm not there simply to work. It's insane to think I could be in one place for so long without a break, which may include surfing for some non-work-related info, ordering a book from Amazon, or ANYTHING the hell else I want that isn't so gratuitously obscene as to offend/harass any co-worker who might drop in and see in on my screen (such as that goatse site). My company (NEC) doesn't have a problem with reaonable personal use of internet, email, etc.
If they did, I'd quit and go work for one of the many competitors who don't. Especially if they used some dumbass filter program that prevented my access to SourceForge or a site even 1/100th as useful (for work, even).
Because I'm treated like a reasonably mature adult, I act like one (or is it the other way around?). Either way, if they tried to filter me, I'd waste lods of time breaking the filter for myself and my co-workers. In the end, I'd cost more than the filter could possible save, I'm sure.
The point that everyone seems to be mssing (and I'm 75% done with a thread full of how to submit a request to help some moron company remove an improperly-banned site), is that the company selling this filter MISREPRESENTED it's product, and should be sued and forced to refund every dollar anyone ever spent on their software.
Tell me why I'm wrong.
What boycott? I mean, I boycott these kinds of games myself, but alone and without any fanfare. I just can't get into the RTS thing -- it's just so much click-and-watch.
I play FPS, only, almost exclusively.
I assume there are some RTS-types here, and I wonder -- do you play FPS games also?