The stuff about the human ear was what the OP concluded from his friend's statements, not what his friend said, at least thats what I got out of the post. He ran with something somewhat correct to an entirely incorrect end.
At least, thats what I think his friend said. Think of it this way: I'm being nice to his friend, and very mean to the OP.;)
When whatever component in a computer encounters a "miss" it goes to the layer below that and asks for the data again. You still get your data when a miss occurs, but it takes much longer. When a processor needs some data it goes to cache, if CPU cache doesn't have it, its a miss and it looks at RAM, if RAM doesn't have it its a miss and it goes to the hard drive. Within the hard drive there is a cache, if it isn't in there thats another miss, and then the hard drive spins up and goes to where that piece of data is. 1 in 100 is not that an unreasonable number for any of these steps, but the other number stated by the OP is, so odds are he completely misunderstood what his friend was saying and is not remembering the discussion correctly. Each time there is a miss, your data takes longer to be read by the processor, but the data is not degraded in any way.
You can look it up on wikipedia if you want. (yes, this post is something of a simplification of what really happens, and IANAEE... not yet anyways)
So, is it better to release something while you're getting low yields and have it show up almost nowhere (the case for the first few months of the core 2 release) or to wait until you can actually have a good number on the shelves, and keep pumping them out?
Would you consider the use of hafnium gate dielectrics, amongst other fundamental process changes innovative? To continue with your analogy, the smaller ball may not in and of itself innovative, but if there was an entirely new material holding that ball together, that could certainly be innovative.
It doesn't need to be "critical" so much as "the principal/central office guy thinks its critical" - "I need a cappuccino, NOW" seems to be quite far up this list for admins, I can't imagine where anything computer related would fall.;)
Uh, he said that he didn't show up to teach his class, not that he didn't show up to work. If he is only qualified as a "computer teacher" then odds are he is also a computer tech support person for the district, if its a smaller district, he may be the ONLY person in the district that supports their computers. On days when he was required to be elsewhere during the time of the class due to his primary job duties, then he'd need a sub. At my school we had someone with this role somewhat reverse - he was a teacher (ap compsci and ap calc), but also a tech support person. His duties however were restricted to teacher's personal computers in their classrooms (the computer labs and servers were someone else, but he was also responsible for all the middle and elementary schools that fed to that high school). I can easily see someone with a teaching cert and IT experience being hired on as a part time teacher and a full time IT person - those salaries might add up to a full IT person somewhere else. This is entirely possible if he had the first class of the day at a high school. Of course this person would be on call all the time, and if the servers went down at night and he needed to work through the morning, he'd need a sub for that one class. From the way that school district under funds their support infrastructure, I can see this happening once a month easily.
What do the three laws of robotics have to do a remote controlled gun on wheels? Judging from what they were doing in the video, a soldier would have to be within a few hundred yards of the robot for it to receive commands (no huge transmitter on the robot or on the laptop they were using). This seems like it'd be a great idea in Iraq - breach a door, then send in the bots to check things out while our soldiers say outside in relative safety. (I do wonder about accurately reading the image on the screen during daylight in a desert though - maybe some goggles would be in order?)
Also, looking at the little guy, I have to wonder how it takes a grenade hit... (and whether it could right itself after being tossed on to its side). Seems like a good platform for covering squads with cross fire, and maybe in performing the designated marksman role.
Perhaps in the final election. But, then again, the "final" presidential election is basically a run off. There are currently more than 20 people running for president - that'll be cut down to maybe 5 contenders after the first primary, and then slowly dwindled down to two "serious" candidates (one from each party).
Local elections are crazier. Imagine having all 20 of those people on one ballot, and 5 of them being serious contenders (this isn't too crazy for mayor's race, maybe the numbers a touch high, but I've seen 11 people on a ballot, all republics or democrats). After the first election, if theres no clear plurality, it goes to a run off between two candidates. Multiply this by every elected office in a city, as well as many of them at the state level, and you get some very long and crazy ballots. (and then theres referendums!)
You do not get sunburns from visible light - you get it from ultraviolet radiation. Longer wavelengths of light do not cause burns in that way. Wifi and cell phones operate using between 5 and 6 orders of magnitude longer waves than UV light.
That still doesn't explain how you get different phases out of a DC signal.
I'm assuming they mean something else. Or, more likely, its bullshit like audiophile cables designed to minimize the skin effect, cable burn in devices or power factor correction stuff for your house.
I seriously doubt these things are actually autonomous, given that theres no source in the article and I was under the impression that bomb squad robots are remote controlled. Upon further inspection at Taser International's website shows that this is a "strategic alliance" with a robotics company that may lead to "...remotely controlled or autonomous robotic systems..."
Now, I may be behind on things, but what autonomous robot systems, if any, are in use today with law enforcement? From my knowledge of electrical engineering, I seriously doubt that the word "autonomous" is intended to be in that sentence (ie, it was added by some guy in marketing that didn't know better). I'm sure others here will have more knowledge on this. I really can't think of a situation where current robotics can operate autonomously in a complex, changing situation and was under the impression that all such robots were remote controlled.
No, because that fab has been retooled 3 times since then for billions of dollars. The guys in Taiwan punching out cheap microcontrollers and RAM for your TV, calculators, microwaves and etc are the ones that are going to be on the larger, older processes.
Don't even kid about it. It's a path that once taken will be very hard to revert for AMD. Before you know it they'll outsource the rest of their fab, then sell their design to someone, and all that will be left, is a patent troll.
I doubt they sell their designs. Xilinx seems to be doing ok as an IP firm. They certainly seem to sell plenty of FPGAs (odds are there will be at least one or two Spartan FPGAs in some product in your house/apartment right now). Should also note that a small little company called "nVidia" seems to be doing fine simply designing hardware and contracting out all the production.
There are many firms in the semiconductor world that do not fab their own products, or, when they do have their own fabs, have to outsource much of their fab work to other companies. There are also plenty of companies that do not have any design divisions and simply from others' designs. Samsung, IBM, Infineon (Qimonda), Intel, and several others are all capable of producing products at 90nm and below. Most of them are producing DRAM or Flash, but thats primarily economics. IBM already has close ties with AMD), and if AMD spun off their semiconductor foundries, I bet that IBM would snap them up. While Infineon and Samsung do not build processors at these lower sizes as far as I know (pretty sure its all DRAM), they can retool their existing facilities - AMD/Intel have to do so every time they build a new type of processor or go to a new process anyways.
The main pattern here is that really big companies multinational companies are the ones that are successful at having both design and production. Building semiconductors is a huge logistical undertaking and requires large very expensive facilities and machinery. It would not surprise me at all that for (relatively) smaller companies letting dedicated companies worry about the logistics of this undertaking is far better from a business standpoint than trying to do everything yourself.
The problem with an observational science like geology, astronomy or meteorology is that you have to take what nature gives you. You can't set up a controlled experiment that (fully) tests the real world conditions. When an event occurs you have to take all the measurements you possibly can. Then you sit back go to your (super)computer and your models and try and figure out what happened. Two different groups can approach the same situation from different angles, and can both independently come to different, reasonable, conclusions. In an experimental science like chemistry or particle physics, you'd perform another experiment controlling something thats different in the two models, look at this one's results, and then see how the two hypotheses hold up. You can't do this in an observational science. If we ever get exactly the same situation again, excepting either the dust in the atmosphere or el nino then you could make possibly come to some more concrete conclusions.
In short: this is how science works. Multiple hypotheses for the same event simply mean that we don't have a full understanding of what happened. You need more data, which in an experimental science means more experiments. In an observational science that means sitting back and hoping that mother nature will give you something that will validate/invalidate your hypothesis.
First of all, its Goonswarm is the alliance and Goonfleet is the corp.
CCP, while whining about the posting of all this stuff to slashdot and digg, and then claiming that they've shown all the accusations to be false, is being rather misleading. They've completely ignored one of the very serious accusations (the one that said that players have the msn contact details of devs - sure they had a petition, but 5 minutes turn around on a petition resulting in the dismissal of a volunteer has to be a speed record in the world of MMORPGs), and actually more or less acknowledged the one about rigging story lines. Their defense to the rigging accusation that they didn't know how they were going to rig the ending yet. Uh, yeah, that certainly clears you of the accusations... (to their credit, they have thoroughly dismissed the accusation involving a dev infiltrating a player corp).
The funny thing is that they make a veiled threat of legal action against the somethingawful.com - that'll be quite a sight to see! I can't see CCP coming out on top of that battle. (regardless of whether their lawsuit has any legal merit)
$5.25 for 6 foot cable. See, order of magnitude price difference. The beauty of digital signals is that the signal is not going to be degraded over 6 feet in a home theater setting (or any others for that matter).
I imagine that you were played with. This is how lawyers have to talk to expert witnesses in court - they need to start from some baseline, and work there way down to what they want to know. She was doing exactly the same thing to you - and eventually got to the boundary of your knowledge in the area, showing that you might not be the best witness in that respect. She was practicing. I bet shes one hell of a lawyer at trial, as you fell for this hook line and sinker.
(and perhaps I'm being a touch naive, but I think that this is a bit more likely than not knowing that the earth revolved around the sun)
I might find that plan vaguely feasible if our country was the size of England or something, but Hawaii to DC is a 9000mi round trip (Juneau to DC is "only" 5000mi or so round trip). Do you really want people making that trip once a week for the entire year? I'd probably go crazy, and I imagine most other people would too... Not to mention the logistics of all that...
Oh yeah, also, I assume that the airfare is going to be provided part of the job, right? That salary for a congressman is going to be brought down to nothing after paying for two homes and airfare...
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The stuff about the human ear was what the OP concluded from his friend's statements, not what his friend said, at least thats what I got out of the post. He ran with something somewhat correct to an entirely incorrect end.
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At least, thats what I think his friend said. Think of it this way: I'm being nice to his friend, and very mean to the OP.
When whatever component in a computer encounters a "miss" it goes to the layer below that and asks for the data again. You still get your data when a miss occurs, but it takes much longer. When a processor needs some data it goes to cache, if CPU cache doesn't have it, its a miss and it looks at RAM, if RAM doesn't have it its a miss and it goes to the hard drive. Within the hard drive there is a cache, if it isn't in there thats another miss, and then the hard drive spins up and goes to where that piece of data is. 1 in 100 is not that an unreasonable number for any of these steps, but the other number stated by the OP is, so odds are he completely misunderstood what his friend was saying and is not remembering the discussion correctly. Each time there is a miss, your data takes longer to be read by the processor, but the data is not degraded in any way.
You can look it up on wikipedia if you want.
(yes, this post is something of a simplification of what really happens, and IANAEE... not yet anyways)
40% is roughly the pass percentage on the AP Physics test too. ;)
Actually, to reproduce that failure all you'd have to do is to cut the right high voltage power lines. Our power grid needs some serious upgrades...
All these judges are saying is that violent video games are exactly the same as violent movies.
So, is it better to release something while you're getting low yields and have it show up almost nowhere (the case for the first few months of the core 2 release) or to wait until you can actually have a good number on the shelves, and keep pumping them out?
Would you consider the use of hafnium gate dielectrics, amongst other fundamental process changes innovative? To continue with your analogy, the smaller ball may not in and of itself innovative, but if there was an entirely new material holding that ball together, that could certainly be innovative.
It doesn't need to be "critical" so much as "the principal/central office guy thinks its critical" - "I need a cappuccino, NOW" seems to be quite far up this list for admins, I can't imagine where anything computer related would fall. ;)
Uh, he said that he didn't show up to teach his class, not that he didn't show up to work. If he is only qualified as a "computer teacher" then odds are he is also a computer tech support person for the district, if its a smaller district, he may be the ONLY person in the district that supports their computers. On days when he was required to be elsewhere during the time of the class due to his primary job duties, then he'd need a sub. At my school we had someone with this role somewhat reverse - he was a teacher (ap compsci and ap calc), but also a tech support person. His duties however were restricted to teacher's personal computers in their classrooms (the computer labs and servers were someone else, but he was also responsible for all the middle and elementary schools that fed to that high school). I can easily see someone with a teaching cert and IT experience being hired on as a part time teacher and a full time IT person - those salaries might add up to a full IT person somewhere else. This is entirely possible if he had the first class of the day at a high school. Of course this person would be on call all the time, and if the servers went down at night and he needed to work through the morning, he'd need a sub for that one class. From the way that school district under funds their support infrastructure, I can see this happening once a month easily.
So you can settle trivial arguments with your friends when away from an internet connection, duh!
(Or to always have something to read on your laptop while traveling - this is what I would use it for)
Physical plant is probably the better analogy. ;)
How well can you really understand why a bridge stands up without even Newton's understanding of physics and math?
What do the three laws of robotics have to do a remote controlled gun on wheels? Judging from what they were doing in the video, a soldier would have to be within a few hundred yards of the robot for it to receive commands (no huge transmitter on the robot or on the laptop they were using). This seems like it'd be a great idea in Iraq - breach a door, then send in the bots to check things out while our soldiers say outside in relative safety. (I do wonder about accurately reading the image on the screen during daylight in a desert though - maybe some goggles would be in order?)
Also, looking at the little guy, I have to wonder how it takes a grenade hit... (and whether it could right itself after being tossed on to its side). Seems like a good platform for covering squads with cross fire, and maybe in performing the designated marksman role.
Perhaps in the final election. But, then again, the "final" presidential election is basically a run off. There are currently more than 20 people running for president - that'll be cut down to maybe 5 contenders after the first primary, and then slowly dwindled down to two "serious" candidates (one from each party).
Local elections are crazier. Imagine having all 20 of those people on one ballot, and 5 of them being serious contenders (this isn't too crazy for mayor's race, maybe the numbers a touch high, but I've seen 11 people on a ballot, all republics or democrats). After the first election, if theres no clear plurality, it goes to a run off between two candidates. Multiply this by every elected office in a city, as well as many of them at the state level, and you get some very long and crazy ballots. (and then theres referendums!)
ntfs-3g will run under osx, and there exist ext2/3 drivers for osx. Darwin is just another unix-like - windows is the real problem in the question.
You do not get sunburns from visible light - you get it from ultraviolet radiation. Longer wavelengths of light do not cause burns in that way. Wifi and cell phones operate using between 5 and 6 orders of magnitude longer waves than UV light.
That still doesn't explain how you get different phases out of a DC signal.
I'm assuming they mean something else. Or, more likely, its bullshit like audiophile cables designed to minimize the skin effect, cable burn in devices or power factor correction stuff for your house.
I seriously doubt these things are actually autonomous, given that theres no source in the article and I was under the impression that bomb squad robots are remote controlled. Upon further inspection at Taser International's website shows that this is a "strategic alliance" with a robotics company that may lead to "...remotely controlled or autonomous robotic systems..."
Now, I may be behind on things, but what autonomous robot systems, if any, are in use today with law enforcement? From my knowledge of electrical engineering, I seriously doubt that the word "autonomous" is intended to be in that sentence (ie, it was added by some guy in marketing that didn't know better). I'm sure others here will have more knowledge on this. I really can't think of a situation where current robotics can operate autonomously in a complex, changing situation and was under the impression that all such robots were remote controlled.
No, because that fab has been retooled 3 times since then for billions of dollars. The guys in Taiwan punching out cheap microcontrollers and RAM for your TV, calculators, microwaves and etc are the ones that are going to be on the larger, older processes.
I doubt they sell their designs. Xilinx seems to be doing ok as an IP firm. They certainly seem to sell plenty of FPGAs (odds are there will be at least one or two Spartan FPGAs in some product in your house/apartment right now). Should also note that a small little company called "nVidia" seems to be doing fine simply designing hardware and contracting out all the production.
There are many firms in the semiconductor world that do not fab their own products, or, when they do have their own fabs, have to outsource much of their fab work to other companies. There are also plenty of companies that do not have any design divisions and simply from others' designs. Samsung, IBM, Infineon (Qimonda), Intel, and several others are all capable of producing products at 90nm and below. Most of them are producing DRAM or Flash, but thats primarily economics. IBM already has close ties with AMD), and if AMD spun off their semiconductor foundries, I bet that IBM would snap them up. While Infineon and Samsung do not build processors at these lower sizes as far as I know (pretty sure its all DRAM), they can retool their existing facilities - AMD/Intel have to do so every time they build a new type of processor or go to a new process anyways.
The main pattern here is that really big companies multinational companies are the ones that are successful at having both design and production. Building semiconductors is a huge logistical undertaking and requires large very expensive facilities and machinery. It would not surprise me at all that for (relatively) smaller companies letting dedicated companies worry about the logistics of this undertaking is far better from a business standpoint than trying to do everything yourself.
The problem with an observational science like geology, astronomy or meteorology is that you have to take what nature gives you. You can't set up a controlled experiment that (fully) tests the real world conditions. When an event occurs you have to take all the measurements you possibly can. Then you sit back go to your (super)computer and your models and try and figure out what happened. Two different groups can approach the same situation from different angles, and can both independently come to different, reasonable, conclusions. In an experimental science like chemistry or particle physics, you'd perform another experiment controlling something thats different in the two models, look at this one's results, and then see how the two hypotheses hold up. You can't do this in an observational science. If we ever get exactly the same situation again, excepting either the dust in the atmosphere or el nino then you could make possibly come to some more concrete conclusions.
In short: this is how science works. Multiple hypotheses for the same event simply mean that we don't have a full understanding of what happened. You need more data, which in an experimental science means more experiments. In an observational science that means sitting back and hoping that mother nature will give you something that will validate/invalidate your hypothesis.
First of all, its Goonswarm is the alliance and Goonfleet is the corp.
CCP, while whining about the posting of all this stuff to slashdot and digg, and then claiming that they've shown all the accusations to be false, is being rather misleading. They've completely ignored one of the very serious accusations (the one that said that players have the msn contact details of devs - sure they had a petition, but 5 minutes turn around on a petition resulting in the dismissal of a volunteer has to be a speed record in the world of MMORPGs), and actually more or less acknowledged the one about rigging story lines. Their defense to the rigging accusation that they didn't know how they were going to rig the ending yet. Uh, yeah, that certainly clears you of the accusations... (to their credit, they have thoroughly dismissed the accusation involving a dev infiltrating a player corp).
The funny thing is that they make a veiled threat of legal action against the somethingawful.com - that'll be quite a sight to see! I can't see CCP coming out on top of that battle. (regardless of whether their lawsuit has any legal merit)
$5.25 for 6 foot cable. See, order of magnitude price difference. The beauty of digital signals is that the signal is not going to be degraded over 6 feet in a home theater setting (or any others for that matter).
I imagine that you were played with. This is how lawyers have to talk to expert witnesses in court - they need to start from some baseline, and work there way down to what they want to know. She was doing exactly the same thing to you - and eventually got to the boundary of your knowledge in the area, showing that you might not be the best witness in that respect. She was practicing. I bet shes one hell of a lawyer at trial, as you fell for this hook line and sinker.
(and perhaps I'm being a touch naive, but I think that this is a bit more likely than not knowing that the earth revolved around the sun)
I might find that plan vaguely feasible if our country was the size of England or something, but Hawaii to DC is a 9000mi round trip (Juneau to DC is "only" 5000mi or so round trip). Do you really want people making that trip once a week for the entire year? I'd probably go crazy, and I imagine most other people would too... Not to mention the logistics of all that...
Oh yeah, also, I assume that the airfare is going to be provided part of the job, right? That salary for a congressman is going to be brought down to nothing after paying for two homes and airfare...