DOH. And if it doesnt consume 1KW, why does it need a 1KW psu? 20% or so headroom are sensible, of course, but 4 opterons dont even burn 300W in worst case situations...
Well, they KNEW there arent any craters, because you cannot seriously detonate a nuke anywhere on the world without it being detected (both by satelites searching for gamma rays and by seismologic shocks that are created)
Well, thats certainly not correct. The internal differences between p6 and k7 are enormous. From microops sheduling (k7 using packed microops, in some kind of on the fly VLIW ) to the execution units (fully piplelined and superscalar FPU, for example, compared the non-fully piplelined scalar one), virtually the only thing thats the same is the fact it eats x86 opcode.
But the fact is that the changes between p6 and the new p-m derivates are VERY much larger than the change from 99s k7 to the latest k8. Just look at a current die-photo of a k8... back in 99, the core transistor count was at the edge of what was possible economically, with l2 cache externally implemented. Nowadays, the nearly unchanged core is just a small lump on the side of the large and not very dense l2 cache-array...
That ars technica article is denial at its best. "intel faster? CANNOT BE!!!111" Sorry, i am as much an AMD fanboy as anybody (hey, their stock financed the car i am driving right now), but besides dual core and adapting sse2/3, VERY little has been done to beef up the aging k8 core (which is byitself also little more than a k7 with on die memory controller). In a race, standing still will only lead to a loss.
Amd just now is in a position where their flagship is in fact a 7 year old core design, they are one die-shrink behind, and their cache technology is about 4 years behind intel (they need twice as much space per Mbyte cache on the same process size, plus are a factor of 4 slower).
Its time for a _real_ K9 just in the same way intel needed something new after netburst.
What you dont consider is that this kind of bandwith exists only virually. Yeah, you say thats you are the only on in your street using that fibre. But how many in your town? How many in your district? use that service? The total international interconnectivity of japan combined couldnt sustain even thousand of those kind of connections anyway. And while internal routing might be less tight, but the end result (when broadly available) will be the same as in hong-kong: your fancy ultra speed "internet" is nothing more than a fast intranet with undersized internet connection.
I think an xp2000 should be enable to push 10 streams via vnware.
I mean, wtf is supposed to take the cpu power? An xp 2000 can compress mp3 in 10 times realtime, for example. Plus in a conference call, you actually send THE SAME to everybody... Mixing audio is quasi cpu free (with less than 50 channels or so) Sending data over the net is nearly cpu-free.
So what needs a dual core cpu for 10 connections? I would understand that for VIDEO streaming, but its simply inconcievable for audio...
Er... "Anisotropic Magnetic Field" has to be the worst offense in terms of technobabble i have seen recently. Newsflash: there are no magnetic monopoles, so EVERY magnetic field is anisotropic...
Why do they keep search records at all? I mean, how does "being big brother" equal "do no evil"? Just because they dont anybody ELSE what they know about you?
Well, just imagine the million tons of titanium, vanadium, nickel, iron, aluminium, ect you will need to build up the kind of space infrastructure needed for that kind of endeavor and it should even itself out quite nicely.
Well, have you considered that "investing" in fabs usually comes with money being spend, which in turn has to be got back somehow?
A modern fab cost 2-3 billion. Thats quite a few $ per cell to get a break even.
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Well, vorbis, vorbis.
The problem with vorbis is that bad marketing meets to late to market.
EVERYBODY has mp3. My discman can read them on cd, my car stereo does, everything. The "free" aspect doesnt matter to the end user, and the bitrate benefits got totally drowned in the storage size inflation... 8 years ago, on a 32Mbyte Rio500, every kb/s counted. By today even flash players have GBs...
And the vidfeo container format suffered from horrible implementations, bugs, the inability to even remotely efficiently _seek_ inside the file and , of course, bad marketing.
Haha. I dont _worry_ about this. I am about 7000km away from any part of american soil:D
Its just a nice thing to show how you could mass-kill people, and how there is NEVER absolute security, no matter how much you push towards a police state.
Do you for example have an idea what kind of carnage you could produce with a simple gasoline truck (like those 1000s that drive everywhere everyday) in a city?
We know that because any current desktop cpu can handle as much audio streams than you can fit in any normally available upload. 5 audio streams was somthing you could be proud of... back when we were all running pentium 133 with 32MB RAM
In fact, it would be an utter shame for skype if this limitation were NOT artificial.
Bussard ramjets are just cool and fine, and i liked the idea, too. But the physics dont work out.
You get at most 2% or so of the mass converted into energy by the fusion process, even if you could fuse everything together perfectly efficient. But once your spaceship is moving quite fast (more than 10% or so of the speed of light), you will need to use more energy to move and collect the particles in your flightpath than you could possibly get by fusing them together.
It just doesnt work out if you look at the big picture.
Well, we have no problem running around in 1G for our whole live... So weeks or months of acceleration wont hurt at all... in fact they would act as a convinient way of creating "artificial gravity" on the ship.
And even 1G adds up after a few days, and in a matter of a few months you are _highly_ relativistic.
Yes, you are the only person to do so. Yes, the normal operation mode is not the bend around the wrist in all direction and ruining it, but rather use the whole lower arm for mouse operation. As therefor is no problem, this mouse design doenst exacerbate (is this a word?) it.
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the 1000W are on the output side, not the input one...
If you mean with "dual redundant 1000W" 2 redundant 500W PSUs, then i agree.
If you mean 2 1000W psus, then you are posting bullshit.
DOH.
And if it doesnt consume 1KW, why does it need a 1KW psu? 20% or so headroom are sensible, of course, but 4 opterons dont even burn 300W in worst case situations...
Well, they KNEW there arent any craters, because you cannot seriously detonate a nuke anywhere on the world without it being detected (both by satelites searching for gamma rays and by seismologic shocks that are created)
Well, thats certainly not correct.
The internal differences between p6 and k7 are enormous.
From microops sheduling (k7 using packed microops, in some kind of on the fly VLIW ) to the execution units (fully piplelined and superscalar FPU, for example, compared the non-fully piplelined scalar one), virtually the only thing thats the same is the fact it eats x86 opcode.
But the fact is that the changes between p6 and the new p-m derivates are VERY much larger than the change from 99s k7 to the latest k8.
Just look at a current die-photo of a k8... back in 99, the core transistor count was at the edge of what was possible economically, with l2 cache externally implemented. Nowadays, the nearly unchanged core is just a small lump on the side of the large and not very dense l2 cache-array...
That ars technica article is denial at its best.
"intel faster? CANNOT BE!!!111"
Sorry, i am as much an AMD fanboy as anybody (hey, their stock financed the car i am driving right now), but besides dual core and adapting sse2/3, VERY little has been done to beef up the aging k8 core (which is byitself also little more than a k7 with on die memory controller).
In a race, standing still will only lead to a loss.
Amd just now is in a position where their flagship is in fact a 7 year old core design, they are one die-shrink behind, and their cache technology is about 4 years behind intel (they need twice as much space per Mbyte cache on the same process size, plus are a factor of 4 slower).
Its time for a _real_ K9 just in the same way intel needed something new after netburst.
What you dont consider is that this kind of bandwith exists only virually.
Yeah, you say thats you are the only on in your street using that fibre.
But how many in your town? How many in your district? use that service?
The total international interconnectivity of japan combined couldnt sustain even thousand of those kind of connections anyway. And while internal routing might be less tight, but the end result (when broadly available) will be the same as in hong-kong: your fancy ultra speed "internet" is nothing more than a fast intranet with undersized internet connection.
I think an xp2000 should be enable to push 10 streams via vnware.
I mean, wtf is supposed to take the cpu power?
An xp 2000 can compress mp3 in 10 times realtime, for example. Plus in a conference call, you actually send THE SAME to everybody...
Mixing audio is quasi cpu free (with less than 50 channels or so)
Sending data over the net is nearly cpu-free.
So what needs a dual core cpu for 10 connections?
I would understand that for VIDEO streaming, but its simply inconcievable for audio...
Er...
"Anisotropic Magnetic Field" has to be the worst offense in terms of technobabble i have seen recently.
Newsflash: there are no magnetic monopoles, so EVERY magnetic field is anisotropic...
Why do they keep search records at all?
I mean, how does "being big brother" equal "do no evil"? Just because they dont anybody ELSE what they know about you?
Well, just imagine the million tons of titanium, vanadium, nickel, iron, aluminium, ect you will need to build up the kind of space infrastructure needed for that kind of endeavor and it should even itself out quite nicely.
Well, smarty, guess what the vertex shaders on the GPU of the PS3 do?
Well, have you considered that "investing" in fabs usually comes with money being spend, which in turn has to be got back somehow?
A modern fab cost 2-3 billion. Thats quite a few $ per cell to get a break even.
Well, vorbis, vorbis.
The problem with vorbis is that bad marketing meets to late to market.
EVERYBODY has mp3. My discman can read them on cd, my car stereo does, everything. The "free" aspect doesnt matter to the end user, and the bitrate benefits got totally drowned in the storage size inflation... 8 years ago, on a 32Mbyte Rio500, every kb/s counted. By today even flash players have GBs...
And the vidfeo container format suffered from horrible implementations, bugs, the inability to even remotely efficiently _seek_ inside the file and , of course, bad marketing.
Yeah, so just post some "hang him higher" shit on slashdot because groupthink will give you karma.
You know, if there is something called justice, its supposed to be dealt by judges and courts, not by you by the reasons of what you dont like
That the person you give access to does something illigal PER DEFAULT.
The real question is just: Does he do a crime i agree with (violating cencorship, warezing, ect), or does he do a crime i dont like (childporn).
Thats just a difference in semantics, as your moral milage may vary.
Because you really want to give your telephone number to people you wouldnt trust not spamming your email account.
Yeah right.
http://nobelprize.org/medicine/laureates/1956/fors smann-lecture.html
Stuff like this really makes the internet shine. Just imagine having to go to an university library to look it up...
Haha. :D
I dont _worry_ about this.
I am about 7000km away from any part of american soil
Its just a nice thing to show how you could mass-kill people, and how there is NEVER absolute security, no matter how much you push towards a police state.
Do you for example have an idea what kind of carnage you could produce with a simple gasoline truck (like those 1000s that drive everywhere everyday) in a city?
We know that because any current desktop cpu can handle as much audio streams than you can fit in any normally available upload.
5 audio streams was somthing you could be proud of... back when we were all running pentium 133 with 32MB RAM
In fact, it would be an utter shame for skype if this limitation were NOT artificial.
My best guess to bring a nuke in would be in a shipping container on a cargo ship.
Mos big and important american cities are on the cost, and the harbour is close enough...
Hm. :D
It needed "a little more work" in 1999, too.
Bussard ramjets are just cool and fine, and i liked the idea, too.
But the physics dont work out.
You get at most 2% or so of the mass converted into energy by the fusion process, even if you could fuse everything together perfectly efficient. But once your spaceship is moving quite fast (more than 10% or so of the speed of light), you will need to use more energy to move and collect the particles in your flightpath than you could possibly get by fusing them together.
It just doesnt work out if you look at the big picture.
Well, we have no problem running around in 1G for our whole live...
So weeks or months of acceleration wont hurt at all... in fact they would act as a convinient way of creating "artificial gravity" on the ship.
And even 1G adds up after a few days, and in a matter of a few months you are _highly_ relativistic.
Yes, you are the only person to do so.
Yes, the normal operation mode is not the bend around the wrist in all direction and ruining it, but rather use the whole lower arm for mouse operation.
As therefor is no problem, this mouse design doenst exacerbate (is this a word?) it.