It's not the same thing at all. With PNG8 you are limited to 256 colurs any you will noticable artifacts if you try to convert photos (for example). What webP is like jpeg with alpha transpanrancy
They're not failing just yet. They clawed back some market share this quarter because of the success of fusion. Although AMD can't compete with Intel on CPUs, Intel can't compete with AMD on integrated graphics. Don't know if what will happen when Intel's 3D transistors come out though.
The data in that summary is cherry picked so it doesn't make bad PR for nuclear power. For instance, they are careful not to mention evidence that rector one was damaged by the earthquake even before the tsunami struck:
Actually, it's not possible to bury all the waste. The spent fuel rods have to be actively cooled for decades - they are so hot that the would burn through any container. And It's only possible to "recycle" less than 1% of the fuel rods (i.e the plutonium).
> the wall held most of the water out Well, I don't see it reported anywhere that it held "most of the water out". All it says it that the sea wall was over run. I could just be that they were lucky
So, while fukishima was happening there were 3 other power stations in trouble that no one knew about. There were no news reports about the sea pumps failing in Tokai. Quite amazing that they could surpress the information like this.
> My preferred solution would be to convert the spent fuel rods into a liquid form suitable for use in a molten salt reactor. Only problem is that they don't exist
There's a lot of myths surrounding nuclear recycling. Firstly, only the plutonium can be recycled, which accounts for less than 1% of the spent fuel rod. Most of the waste is uranium and contaminated with gamma emiting isotopes uranium 232 and uranium 234 and too dangerous to handle. Secondly, recycling fuel doesn't make the waste "disappear". MOX fuel is converted to mostly to isotopes of plutonium after been burnt in the reactor and can't be recycled again. Thirdly, producing MOX fuel is an expensive and dirty process. Sellafield and La Hague have to pump out low-level waste into the sea as part of the fabrication process.
> They haven't been making much words about this, though. Odd. Probably because it only works on DX10/11 games. On DX9 games it actually causes it to run *slower*.
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It's not the same thing at all. With PNG8 you are limited to 256 colurs any you will noticable artifacts if you try to convert photos (for example). What webP is like jpeg with alpha transpanrancy
PNG8 = 8 bytes per pixel. So you are limited to 256 colours. If you tried to convert a photo with that you would see noticiable artifacts.
> feeding the most contaminated food materials to people without useful skills
You mean give to the marketing and advertising people? Good idea
> Because you can power off the graphics card and still do 1080p HD video decoding, or play some lower-end games.
I believe that only works with the right CPU / GPU combination and the right OS support
The top model is $750? Couldn't you get a much more powerful ultrabook for that - with a real OS?
Because the modders have a sense of humour?
It may run synthetic benchmarks faster, but real world permormance is a lot slower. I noticed a huge performance improvement when I downgraded to 3.6.
In all fairness, that's a pretty low bar. Nothing to brag about if you say at least you are better that patent trolls
They're not failing just yet. They clawed back some market share this quarter because of the success of fusion. Although AMD can't compete with Intel on CPUs, Intel can't compete with AMD on integrated graphics. Don't know if what will happen when Intel's 3D transistors come out though.
The data in that summary is cherry picked so it doesn't make bad PR for nuclear power.
For instance, they are careful not to mention evidence that rector one was damaged by the earthquake even before the tsunami struck:
http://www.asianewsnet.net/home/news.php?id=18975&sec=1
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-19/fukushima-may-have-leaked-radiation-before-quake.html
Despite that, if Ryanair buys one they will find some way to make the seats uncomfortable.
Actually, it's not possible to bury all the waste. The spent fuel rods have to be actively cooled for decades - they are so hot that the would burn through any container.
And It's only possible to "recycle" less than 1% of the fuel rods (i.e the plutonium).
No nuclear plant would ever get any insurance without a goverment backed cap - this is a simple economic fact.
http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/true-cost-of-nuclear-examined-in-new-study_100002882/
No nuclear plant would ever be constructed without the insurance cap. And that's just one of the many subsidies that nuclear power gets.
What have you been smoking? The only reason nuclear power exists is because of massive government subsidies - http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_and_global_warming/nuclear-power-subsidies-report.html
> the wall held most of the water out
Well, I don't see it reported anywhere that it held "most of the water out". All it says it that the sea wall was over run. I could just be that they were lucky
So, while fukishima was happening there were 3 other power stations in trouble that no one knew about. There were no news reports about the sea pumps failing in Tokai. Quite amazing that they could surpress the information like this.
> she was hit on the shoulder by a piece of what was thought to be the Delta II rocket.
That must have hurt
> The Navy and Marines aim to shift half their energy use from oil, gas and coal by 2020.
Didn't release you could run a F-16 on coal
Well, I would consider that to be a big problem. There are a lot of dx9 games.
What about OpenGL? Does it work with OpenGL?
The second article doesn't mention the crossfire problem, but I assume that is because he only tested with one game
> My preferred solution would be to convert the spent fuel rods into a liquid form suitable for use in a molten salt reactor.
Only problem is that they don't exist
> and if you do you can crossfire it with the cpu contained one
Yes, if you want to make your games run *slower* -as you see if you read the article that you linked to ;)
There's a lot of myths surrounding nuclear recycling.
Firstly, only the plutonium can be recycled, which accounts for less than 1% of the spent fuel rod. Most of the waste is uranium and contaminated with gamma emiting isotopes uranium 232 and uranium 234 and too dangerous to handle.
Secondly, recycling fuel doesn't make the waste "disappear". MOX fuel is converted to mostly to isotopes of plutonium after been burnt in the reactor and can't be recycled again.
Thirdly, producing MOX fuel is an expensive and dirty process. Sellafield and La Hague have to pump out low-level waste into the sea as part of the fabrication process.
> They haven't been making much words about this, though. Odd.
Probably because it only works on DX10/11 games. On DX9 games it actually causes it to run *slower*.