A 12ms means that you should be able to handle a 83.3ish refresh without any ghosting (1000 / 12). Not too shabby. Oh course, this is an average, but if you run it at 60hz it should probably be fine under worst case. Of course games are then limited to 60fps, which is fine for me, but some people claim to be able to feel the difference.
Although I am also sceptical, they do mention in the article that the processors would be manufactored at.065 microns. If the manufactoring process was in place I could see the chips becoming a reality...
That is why I highlighted that it is a median, and not a mean. A mean would be greatly effected by the disparity, while a median would be more representitive of the actual average. A median would only be effected if greater then half the population was on the high end of the disparity.
Being a Japanese company, it makes sense that they would measure the height in millimeters. The 2.5 inches thing is a hard drive standard for laptops which would be why they measured that in imperial measurements.
There is a scene near the beginning of Episode 4 where Han is cornered by a bounty hunter named Greedo. In the original movie Han shoots Greedo, Han shoots first. In the modified, re-released movie, Greedo shoots first and Han, defending himself, fires back to kill Greedo.
I guess the basic idea is Lucas didn't want Han looking like a bad guy and a lot of fans got their undees in a bundle about it.
How well a cluster will do depends on the application that it is performing. Some problems can be divided into several small problems with little reliance on other parts of the problem (SETI / Encryption breaking). These things can be easily distributed to hundreds or thousands of "small" boxes for processing and are what a beowulf cluster would be good at.
Other applications require the breakneck interconnect speeds that large Cray / Sun / etc.. build on. When the data being calculated on one CPU requires data from CPU2 to continue its calculations you don't want to have it wait for 100mbit or even 1gbit ethernet speeds. Even quicker interconnects such as SCALI are going to be slowed by PC bus speeds.
Cray fills an important niche for those who can afford it.
Although I personally have nothing against imports I have a feeling that the legality of them might be able to be called into question. I have a feeling that the DMCA could very well be used against you if you were found to be breaking export controls.
If government agencies were competing on a level playing field, then I would agree with you. However, they are regulated and subsidized by the government giving them availability to government bought equipment. They have a great advantage over the private company because of this.
Some might argue that this is why they should be allowed to provide these services (because part of the infastructure already exists). I am pretty sure that I think it should be a free market competition.
You are taking what I said out of context. Obviously the goverment was involved in getting the standard set and allocating the bandwidth. But, they did not force radio stations to stop broadcasting radio and start broadcasting tv. They let market demand push the creation and adaptation of television.
The problem I have now is that the government has mandated that all television broadcasts must switch over to atsc by 2006, mandating both large costs for television stations and consumers.
They did it right back then. Good technology (lasted 50 years), allowed the market, not the government, to push adaptation. Somehow I doubt we will still be using HDTV (at least what the current incarnation is) in 50 years.
From the order page:
The Solaris Operating System (x86 Platform Edition) is pre-installed on the server in 32-bit and 64-bit support will be available soon. Includes software, license and documentation.
I would say that the technology is not so revolutionary. What is neat is that they will be using it to broadcast channels usually only available to cable / dish customers. Nothing new except that, because of no wires to maintain and no satellite to launch, the cost is much cheaper.
Just guessing here, but it will probably stay the same for quite some time. Truthfully, to me, it has already lost meaning as being a floppy and has become the defacto save. If fact, I wouldn't be suprised if it lasts long enough so that most people might not know what the origin of the icon really is...
But is this really Time Warners fault? They are making provisions to comply with a law. Yes, it does not yet apply to them, but there is a good chance that it will and they are preparing for that. Shouldn't the real issue here be with the law, not the company?
Well, unless they took your content, there is a big difference between what happened in the article and what happened to you. One is called competition (you) and the other is theft (article).
If people made money off brand recognition from the domain, you might have a gripe, but as long as they provided their own material, that is buisness for ya.
Anand seems to conclude something a bit different then the submitter:
The comparison we've made here is a very important one; it identifies Intel's strengths and their weaknesses with Xeon, and it crowns Opteron a clear multiprocessor winner. An area that we didn't touch on is cost, which is where AMD truly shines. The Opteron 848 processors we tested are around 1/2 the price of Intel's 2MB L3 Xeon MPs and we have not seen retail data on how expensive the 4MB parts will be.
In a 4-way configuration AMD's Opteron cannot be beat, and thus it is our choice for the basis for our new Forums database server.
Although I hate spyware as much as the next person, I am not so sure that the government should control it. The problem I see with the above is that it defines spyware more by the distribution method then the purpose.
I can definetely see a purpose for software to download updates, patches, etc automatically. Privacy concerns is what spyware is really about.
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I believe the calculation would go as following:
1000 / 25ms = 40 pixel changes per second. Since your refresh rate is probably 60hz or 75hz you might get ghosting under certain conditions...
A 12ms means that you should be able to handle a 83.3ish refresh without any ghosting (1000 / 12). Not too shabby. Oh course, this is an average, but if you run it at 60hz it should probably be fine under worst case. Of course games are then limited to 60fps, which is fine for me, but some people claim to be able to feel the difference.
Although I am also sceptical, they do mention in the article that the processors would be manufactored at .065 microns. If the manufactoring process was in place I could see the chips becoming a reality...
That is why I highlighted that it is a median, and not a mean. A mean would be greatly effected by the disparity, while a median would be more representitive of the actual average. A median would only be effected if greater then half the population was on the high end of the disparity.
Being a Japanese company, it makes sense that they would measure the height in millimeters. The 2.5 inches thing is a hard drive standard for laptops which would be why they measured that in imperial measurements.
Oh, and a link (warning PDF file):
2002 census info
Median (not mean) household income for the USA is around $41,500 or so...
There is a scene near the beginning of Episode 4 where Han is cornered by a bounty hunter named Greedo. In the original movie Han shoots Greedo, Han shoots first. In the modified, re-released movie, Greedo shoots first and Han, defending himself, fires back to kill Greedo.
I guess the basic idea is Lucas didn't want Han looking like a bad guy and a lot of fans got their undees in a bundle about it.
How well a cluster will do depends on the application that it is performing. Some problems can be divided into several small problems with little reliance on other parts of the problem (SETI / Encryption breaking). These things can be easily distributed to hundreds or thousands of "small" boxes for processing and are what a beowulf cluster would be good at.
Other applications require the breakneck interconnect speeds that large Cray / Sun / etc.. build on. When the data being calculated on one CPU requires data from CPU2 to continue its calculations you don't want to have it wait for 100mbit or even 1gbit ethernet speeds. Even quicker interconnects such as SCALI are going to be slowed by PC bus speeds.
Cray fills an important niche for those who can afford it.
Although I personally have nothing against imports I have a feeling that the legality of them might be able to be called into question. I have a feeling that the DMCA could very well be used against you if you were found to be breaking export controls.
If government agencies were competing on a level playing field, then I would agree with you. However, they are regulated and subsidized by the government giving them availability to government bought equipment. They have a great advantage over the private company because of this.
Some might argue that this is why they should be allowed to provide these services (because part of the infastructure already exists). I am pretty sure that I think it should be a free market competition.
Thank goodness someone here understands this. krem81 just made my buddy list.
If you read the article, this actually is a free market decision. The court ruled that government entities were not allowed into the telecom space.
You goofy kids with your "cry Bush". If your house burns down, are you going to blame him too?
You are taking what I said out of context. Obviously the goverment was involved in getting the standard set and allocating the bandwidth. But, they did not force radio stations to stop broadcasting radio and start broadcasting tv. They let market demand push the creation and adaptation of television.
The problem I have now is that the government has mandated that all television broadcasts must switch over to atsc by 2006, mandating both large costs for television stations and consumers.
They did it right back then. Good technology (lasted 50 years), allowed the market, not the government, to push adaptation. Somehow I doubt we will still be using HDTV (at least what the current incarnation is) in 50 years.
Hate to nitpick but...
From the order page: The Solaris Operating System (x86 Platform Edition) is pre-installed on the server in 32-bit and 64-bit support will be available soon. Includes software, license and documentation.
Sun
$3,945.00
2 AMD Opteron Model 242 Processor
2-GB Memory
1 36-GB 10000 RPM Ultra320 SCSI Disk Drive
2 10/100/1000 Ethernet Ports
Sun Solaris 9
I would say that the technology is not so revolutionary. What is neat is that they will be using it to broadcast channels usually only available to cable / dish customers. Nothing new except that, because of no wires to maintain and no satellite to launch, the cost is much cheaper.
Just guessing here, but it will probably stay the same for quite some time. Truthfully, to me, it has already lost meaning as being a floppy and has become the defacto save. If fact, I wouldn't be suprised if it lasts long enough so that most people might not know what the origin of the icon really is...
I believe the poster was referring to this:
End of Online Anonymity in Canada?
But is this really Time Warners fault? They are making provisions to comply with a law. Yes, it does not yet apply to them, but there is a good chance that it will and they are preparing for that. Shouldn't the real issue here be with the law, not the company?
Well, unless they took your content, there is a big difference between what happened in the article and what happened to you. One is called competition (you) and the other is theft (article).
If people made money off brand recognition from the domain, you might have a gripe, but as long as they provided their own material, that is buisness for ya.
Anand seems to conclude something a bit different then the submitter:
The comparison we've made here is a very important one; it identifies Intel's strengths and their weaknesses with Xeon, and it crowns Opteron a clear multiprocessor winner. An area that we didn't touch on is cost, which is where AMD truly shines. The Opteron 848 processors we tested are around 1/2 the price of Intel's 2MB L3 Xeon MPs and we have not seen retail data on how expensive the 4MB parts will be.
In a 4-way configuration AMD's Opteron cannot be beat, and thus it is our choice for the basis for our new Forums database server.
Although I hate spyware as much as the next person, I am not so sure that the government should control it. The problem I see with the above is that it defines spyware more by the distribution method then the purpose.
I can definetely see a purpose for software to download updates, patches, etc automatically. Privacy concerns is what spyware is really about.
Damn my fumble fingers...that should have been:
Linux on ASUS DigiMatrix.