Funny that Apple sell so many retina MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs when they're the most expensive machines you can buy in those form factors. Could it be that a race to the bottom, cutting corners to reduce costs, ISN'T what people want? What happened with Netbooks again?
Really, a football table. Like soccer. You may not like to watch it on TV but it's an excellent way to blow away some cobwebs and unlike most games you do it standing up.
As they should! I always hated being taught out of a book - where's the value-add? The book should be something extra, the professor should cover everything he is going to assess without relying on one.
"whether any Computer Science curriculum gives students the knowledge they need for the working world"
They should not attempt to, any attempt can only fail given the wide variety of areas a CS student can end up working in. A CS course should do two things; test aptitude for the subject and teach students how to learn. Aptitude is tested by the variety of subjects studied - any decent student (and of course prospective employee) primarily learns how to approach problems, and that approach should be expected to continue after the degree is granted. Don't like a particular subject? Most jobs have their fun parts and their not-fun parts too. At the end of it the grades reflect the aptitude and the ability, as they should. Expecting specifics, like ability to write in Ada or Python or C# or Cocoa is only going to work for a select few and fail the rest.
QANTAS? Shit. A fleet of ancient 747s that only just got video on demand, kept running due to inflated prices kept artificially high by excluding competitors from lucrative routes like SYD-LAX - thanks, "free enterprise" Liberal party - and by saturation bombing customers with advertising for crappy stage shows on every flight. They are just lucky that the recent private equity deal fell apart else that protection might have been removed, allowing Singapore to come in and not only to eat their lunch but their morning tea, dinner, breakfast and tiny bags of pretzels also. You think QANTAS is any good? I can understand that view if you are a regular United flyer - 300lb flight attendants FTL! - but don't ever fly Singapore or Emirates, your illusions will be shattered.
BTW, the recent email from QANTAS (yeah I still think of it as an acronym, hence the caps) talks about the Airbus 380 as if it was already here. It's not and I'll believe it when I board one.
Sys-Con is "our" friend only as long as it takes for a hack piece on how wonderful Linux is to be accepted by Slashdot. Then everyone goes and clicks on the link and OMGWTFBBQ there are popups EVERYWHERE! Then Sys-Con makes lots of money from people buying banner ads because of all the traffic.
See how that works? They know how Slashdot works and they know just what buttons to push. Just like Roland Piquepaille.
LOL. And if my father was the Sultan of Brunei, I wouldn't have to work for a living. Let's see what AMD can do before we go and live in fantasyland OK? Because so far they have made some claims that haven't been tested by any third party - so they are unproven, to be far more polite than is really deserved.
Thank you Yagu, well said. Please let's avoid the politically correct approach. "Fixing the problem" by quotas or subsidies won't improve the happiness of women or the quality of the engineering. Motivation has to come from a love of engineering and although it might be interesting to study why it is that women seem to have it in lesser quantity, it isn't a "problem" to be "fixed".
My old Pentium 4 uses less power at idle too. So does my cell phone. Actually, when idling, this glass of water in front of me uses less power than the AMD chip too.
The only meaningful measure of a CPU's power consumption is its performance AND its power consumption under load. A CPU taking twice as long to perform some task but using half as much power is not even equal, because you have to wait. Marketing people may grasp at idle figures when it's the only category they come out on top in. The Core 2 Duo is not only using less power at full load it's getting a shitload more work done. The tests of the AMD 4X4 CPUs released this week show a range of CPUs getting almost as much work done as the competition, but using about double the power - integrated memory controller or not. Sorry, but I don't think even a 45nm shrink can help them there.
I hope AMD come back because competition is good for all of us, I like buying faster and more efficient for cheaper. But they are not in the same ballpark right now, not even playing the same game. They're a year or more away from a return to the glory of the Pentium D/Athlon X2 days.
Why, because you think Intel are going to stand still while AMD move to 65nm? By the time AMD actually ship 65nm, Intel will be shipping 45nm. And I call bullshit on AMD's power claims, at least until independent reviews have verified them. Intel's new core specifically designed for power efficiency and manufactured with a 65nm process uses more power than a 90nm has-been from AMD? Excuse me for feeling skeptical.
Thanks but I have no regrets. U3 software gave me precisely nothing I wanted - and the opt-out approach has made my willingness to give any future incarnation of it even a glance very unlikely indeed.
In some environments that U3 popup every time you insert the drive isn't appropriate. See http://www./ u3.com/uninstall - I like mine much more now it's gone.
For it to miss me I would have had to be there in the first place. Perhaps when people like Theo and RMS are gone... or if they never go, well I won't be heartbroken. Everything I want to do I can do already and I don't have any idealogical problems with programmers making a living by selling closed-source products.
Exactly - Theo the petulant child. People like him are exactly why I don't bother looking into open source further.
There is no reason to post this kind of inflammatory garbage to a public mailing list. There was nothing insulting from Hifn; by definition, Theo is not professional (doesn't get paid for what he does), but professionalism and common courtesy never hurts.
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AMD are in deep shit once Conroe appears in volume, as comparisons have already shown that even an overclocked FX-60 loses badly to Conroe. Oh well, it was a nice couple of years for them.
"I'm sorry, I am a geek, I love science, I love technology and I believe in the empirical method"
No, the rest of your post indicates you do not. You're a "truth is out there", "I want to believe" kind of guy pretending to be rational - just like McKinnon.
For a short time only... Try your tests again after the launch of Conroe - on both server and desktop AMD are in deep shit when Intel's Core stuff is fully rolled out, shortly after July from what I'm reading on the usual sites.
WTF?! Abe's of Maine are (a) nowhere near Maine (b) the archetypal bait & switch crooks. Please, please, go see the feedback page on Photo.net for innumerable Abe's of Maine horror stories. Don't just read the review pages on these guys, they PAY CUSTOMERS 5$ TO GIVE GOOD FEEDBACK! It's well documented on photo.net - be warned!
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Funny that Apple sell so many retina MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs when they're the most expensive machines you can buy in those form factors. Could it be that a race to the bottom, cutting corners to reduce costs, ISN'T what people want? What happened with Netbooks again?
Steam: US$69.99 - still not cheap but that's two cocktails less than EBGames!
So Stephenson's "solomonic gold" may be based in fact?
Really, a football table. Like soccer. You may not like to watch it on TV but it's an excellent way to blow away some cobwebs and unlike most games you do it standing up.
Idiocy. CSIRO is nothing like a patent troll. CSIRO developed the technology...
As they should! I always hated being taught out of a book - where's the value-add? The book should be something extra, the professor should cover everything he is going to assess without relying on one.
"whether any Computer Science curriculum gives students the knowledge they need for the working world"
They should not attempt to, any attempt can only fail given the wide variety of areas a CS student can end up working in. A CS course should do two things; test aptitude for the subject and teach students how to learn. Aptitude is tested by the variety of subjects studied - any decent student (and of course prospective employee) primarily learns how to approach problems, and that approach should be expected to continue after the degree is granted. Don't like a particular subject? Most jobs have their fun parts and their not-fun parts too. At the end of it the grades reflect the aptitude and the ability, as they should. Expecting specifics, like ability to write in Ada or Python or C# or Cocoa is only going to work for a select few and fail the rest.
QANTAS? Shit. A fleet of ancient 747s that only just got video on demand, kept running due to inflated prices kept artificially high by excluding competitors from lucrative routes like SYD-LAX - thanks, "free enterprise" Liberal party - and by saturation bombing customers with advertising for crappy stage shows on every flight. They are just lucky that the recent private equity deal fell apart else that protection might have been removed, allowing Singapore to come in and not only to eat their lunch but their morning tea, dinner, breakfast and tiny bags of pretzels also. You think QANTAS is any good? I can understand that view if you are a regular United flyer - 300lb flight attendants FTL! - but don't ever fly Singapore or Emirates, your illusions will be shattered.
BTW, the recent email from QANTAS (yeah I still think of it as an acronym, hence the caps) talks about the Airbus 380 as if it was already here. It's not and I'll believe it when I board one.
You may have the prices right, but you have no clue of what "equivalent" means in this case. An e4300 shits all over the Athlon 64 x2 3800.
Sys-Con is "our" friend only as long as it takes for a hack piece on how wonderful Linux is to be accepted by Slashdot. Then everyone goes and clicks on the link and OMGWTFBBQ there are popups EVERYWHERE! Then Sys-Con makes lots of money from people buying banner ads because of all the traffic.
See how that works? They know how Slashdot works and they know just what buttons to push. Just like Roland Piquepaille.
LOL. And if my father was the Sultan of Brunei, I wouldn't have to work for a living. Let's see what AMD can do before we go and live in fantasyland OK? Because so far they have made some claims that haven't been tested by any third party - so they are unproven, to be far more polite than is really deserved.
Not surprising the quote was missed since it is misquoted - "Du Hexen Hase" correct, meaning "You Wascally Wabbit".
Yeah, those who can do, those who can't whine about how it wasn't original and anyone could have done it.
Thank you Yagu, well said. Please let's avoid the politically correct approach. "Fixing the problem" by quotas or subsidies won't improve the happiness of women or the quality of the engineering. Motivation has to come from a love of engineering and although it might be interesting to study why it is that women seem to have it in lesser quantity, it isn't a "problem" to be "fixed".
My old Pentium 4 uses less power at idle too. So does my cell phone. Actually, when idling, this glass of water in front of me uses less power than the AMD chip too.
The only meaningful measure of a CPU's power consumption is its performance AND its power consumption under load. A CPU taking twice as long to perform some task but using half as much power is not even equal, because you have to wait. Marketing people may grasp at idle figures when it's the only category they come out on top in. The Core 2 Duo is not only using less power at full load it's getting a shitload more work done. The tests of the AMD 4X4 CPUs released this week show a range of CPUs getting almost as much work done as the competition, but using about double the power - integrated memory controller or not. Sorry, but I don't think even a 45nm shrink can help them there.
I hope AMD come back because competition is good for all of us, I like buying faster and more efficient for cheaper. But they are not in the same ballpark right now, not even playing the same game. They're a year or more away from a return to the glory of the Pentium D/Athlon X2 days.
Why, because you think Intel are going to stand still while AMD move to 65nm? By the time AMD actually ship 65nm, Intel will be shipping 45nm. And I call bullshit on AMD's power claims, at least until independent reviews have verified them. Intel's new core specifically designed for power efficiency and manufactured with a 65nm process uses more power than a 90nm has-been from AMD? Excuse me for feeling skeptical.
I am in Shanghai right now. I can reach bbc.co.uk no problem. What other sites should I try?
Thanks but I have no regrets. U3 software gave me precisely nothing I wanted - and the opt-out approach has made my willingness to give any future incarnation of it even a glance very unlikely indeed.
In some environments that U3 popup every time you insert the drive isn't appropriate. See http://www./ u3.com/uninstall - I like mine much more now it's gone.
For it to miss me I would have had to be there in the first place. Perhaps when people like Theo and RMS are gone... or if they never go, well I won't be heartbroken. Everything I want to do I can do already and I don't have any idealogical problems with programmers making a living by selling closed-source products.
Typical uninformed hand-waving from an AC. Yes, there are controls on certain computer hardware documentation.
Exactly - Theo the petulant child. People like him are exactly why I don't bother looking into open source further.
There is no reason to post this kind of inflammatory garbage to a public mailing list. There was nothing insulting from Hifn; by definition, Theo is not professional (doesn't get paid for what he does), but professionalism and common courtesy never hurts.
Even Shorter Summary:
AMD are in deep shit once Conroe appears in volume, as comparisons have already shown that even an overclocked FX-60 loses badly to Conroe. Oh well, it was a nice couple of years for them.
"I'm sorry, I am a geek, I love science, I love technology and I believe in the empirical method"
No, the rest of your post indicates you do not. You're a "truth is out there", "I want to believe" kind of guy pretending to be rational - just like McKinnon.
For a short time only... Try your tests again after the launch of Conroe - on both server and desktop AMD are in deep shit when Intel's Core stuff is fully rolled out, shortly after July from what I'm reading on the usual sites.
WTF?! Abe's of Maine are (a) nowhere near Maine (b) the archetypal bait & switch crooks. Please, please, go see the feedback page on Photo.net for innumerable Abe's of Maine horror stories. Don't just read the review pages on these guys, they PAY CUSTOMERS 5$ TO GIVE GOOD FEEDBACK! It's well documented on photo.net - be warned!
Phillip was very lucky...