Biofuel, Money isn't really important in that America has found several ways to basically print a bunch of money without people noticing.
What would matter is if America became an agricultural economy again.
Throwing paper at executives and the middle east is cheaper than having millions of Americans spend their lives growing mulch.
Point two, there are crazy sexy electric cars and putting the peices together (electric/biofuel/solar/lighter vehicles/replacable batteries) would create too many technological races for the Americans to be sure of being competitive in them all.
Most likely countries with strong education systems and good research spending will come out at least on par, with patents that becomes a problem.
While it's true that I'm currently on a 2+ yr CPU upgrade cycle anyone on a short cycle or who really cares about the consumer will be sad if Intel does start selling product at a loss to take over the market.
Remember when Intel decided that they were a monopoly, prices went up and we got brilliant marketting like Centrino as Intel tried to take over other markets.
It's so great when a company does something so well that they decide to give up on doing that and do something useless.
If Intel released an amazing product or innovated in some way to prove they have the better engineers that would be fine.
But dipping into the war chest to break an opponent... that's ugly ugly ugly.
Well at least they didn't triple their marketing budget and try to make AMD disapear.
Hell by the time I buy another cpu maybe Cyrix will be competitive, hell maybe via will have an AWSOME desktop cpu, heck my next video card could be from Savage. Companies are a lot easier to break than they are to start and this kind of crap is tough to condone...
At least if patents were abolished AMD's research might survive.
Ok so the video memory has a bandwidth of 16M/s which is slow, very slow.
Now people are saying that's just the video buffer so it doesn't matter that it's slow going back to the cpu...
But my understanding of the cell design is that it has 7 co-processors and that it's supposed to split all of it's calculations... especially graphical ones.
This parralel processing is what makes the cell teh awsome since each core is actually pretty slow.
Now because the graphics system is tied with the general computing unit it's possible that both will be used concurrently (in fact it seems clear that both will be running through the cell at the same time) now where do these calculations get output to and what are they useful for after they are resolved?
Now obviously I'm not a cpu designer but using the graphical subsytems for general calculations seems to imply that you need to be able to access the results, fast.
Can someone explain why this is wrong? Will the cell be able to write to general memory rather than graphical memory? Will it be able to differentiate between graphical calculations and other calculations?
Will all of the cells graphical output be run through the GPU as well?
It seems like most people's arguements about why this bandwidth thing isn't a big deal hinge on how things were done in the past, meanwhile all the talk about using the cell as a supercomputer outline why it isn't like things that came before.
Everyone who went to kindergarten or grade one remembers extensive lessons on "sharing"... now we've found a way to really share.
I'm not a big fan of debated subjects being taught in school, I think that we'll see greater and greater divergence on copywrite law in the near future.
Canada is quite liberal and would likely have quite liberal copywrite enforcement and IP laws except we are fprced to compete with American research and in fact a large number of U.S. companies have their research labs up here because of the huge number of university grads... (We have so many Grads hired south that the term "Brain Drain" is in common usage.)
I am not a business major, but I was an AMD stock holder from when it was trading at $7.55 to $40.
AMD has been jacking up their prices which we have assumed is simply a response to their higher quality and increased market share but it has done something interesting. AMD is now selling the majority of high end desktop and workstation cpus but they have low marketshare in high end servers and low end desktops.
It would be easy to claim that these are new strategies implemented by Ruiz their new CEO however they would imply a more stock holder less comsumer driven business and AMD's poor marketing (low marketing budget?) and the $100 laptop project seem to rule out this possibility.
If we look back over the history of AMD it becomes interesting to look at chips like the Athlon MP which went through severe price reductions immediately prior to the release of the Opteron.
Implementing dual cpu chipsets on the desktop is likely a strategie implemented imediately before moving their low end to dual core and their high end to a new cpu architecture.
Amd will likely try to match Intel's price and consumer points, low end desktop (with dual core if my predictions about their consumer centric and engineering company bias are correct), high end desktop (catering to the SLI crowd and consolodating on the likely long term presence of socket AM2 (or subsequent sockets, AMD's 754 for an example of a short term socket), workstation (likely with the same socket but with quad core cpus), low end server (Opteron or replacement) and some kind of new high end chip.
The prediction about a new high end chip is based on reduced gap between the current opteron line and the 4x4 system layout.
All of this is very predictive, but based on my studies of AMD's engineering, ethics, and sales history.
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Venue Britain, they are slightly more sane there.
Amir commited fraud, I'm pretty sure his funds should be tied up in a criminal case.
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You can find a desktop PC capable of running Windows XP and with a DVD rom and usb ports for about $50 if you really look but laptops capable of running modern applications (not games of course, or linux) seem to level off around $300-400 (And most of those have garbage batteries).
So people inevitably look on E-Bay...
Ebay could intervene at this point, instead we get to see that E-bay, paypal and indeed this guy's credit card company's policy of buyer protection doesn't work at all.
You can't buy this kind of publicity.
And this guy has opened himself to criminal charges for taking pictures of people without their consent.
Even the Canadian (I don't know about the U.S.) standard postal service has tracking numbers, if you're shipping something provide the tracking # it takes a load off the buyers mind.
Really the technology for this was available to do this in cities with the 802.11b spec if the last mile net connections were actually neutral (which they are supposed to be in most cities).
G seemed like a good spec, obviously it wasn't fast enough to run a corperate or even a power users connection off but if they could have hit the theoretical maximum it would have been fine, these new specs won't allow small deployments which can service many users so they aren't a huge improvement over local wireless points (Also increased security concerns as it's not just neighborhood traffic but potentially whole city traffic which will be available for packet sniffing) it just centralizes a system which is only important if you're commited to an upgrade cycle (Which would actually be nice after we got borked by the western isps).
At some point the range will be there and I really hope they have backwards compatability worked out by then, users don't know anything about the interoperability of the wireless standards and they shouldn't have to.
Also the security standards are pretty stupid as well, routers support wireless security features that don't work AT ALL... why bother!
I think you mean DirectX though ActiveX is also important.
MS is pulling some totally insane stuff with DirectX X so people will be looking for alternatives... I'd like Apple to offer some I like gaming, I hate windows.
The transition to Apple drivers, graphics extensions and hardware, might allow some new players into the graphics market, which is getting really expensive these days.
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I am compiling a database of people who ARE NOT pedophiles.
It will consist of your SIN, bank information, name address, Drivers Licensce etc.
Remember we are only logging people who ARE NOT pedophiles, if you are a pedophile don't submit your information.
All of this is being done to PROTECT THE CHILDREN.
End Transmission.
How about the very real sense of security that comes from living in Canada far away from Hurricanes.
Of course we get blizzards but that's something else entirely.
Don't look at it as Canadians getting to big for their britches look at it as someone steping into the hole that should contain GW.
We'll step in feet first though.
But apparently you can buy up all the naive CIS grads...
There's something about a company laying people off and then making aquisitions, makes one hunger for unions.
Screw that, 300 MPH and an IV that knocks you out.
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People have no right to consciousness
Most driving is single driver no passengers, stick em in a tube knock em out and wake them when they get there.
Work Ethic?
You know how dog pups play fight so they'll know how to hunt and fight later.
The Brazillians love the game, that's why they're good work ethic probably wouldn't help.
Biofuel, Money isn't really important in that America has found several ways to basically print a bunch of money without people noticing.
What would matter is if America became an agricultural economy again.
Throwing paper at executives and the middle east is cheaper than having millions of Americans spend their lives growing mulch.
Point two, there are crazy sexy electric cars and putting the peices together (electric/biofuel/solar/lighter vehicles/replacable batteries) would create too many technological races for the Americans to be sure of being competitive in them all.
Most likely countries with strong education systems and good research spending will come out at least on par, with patents that becomes a problem.
Almost 90% of internet users have heard of Napster.
Maybe 70% have heard of Morpheus.
About 40% Bittorrent, you know it's true you still need to explain bittorrent.
So they win, they think they've found a way to stop people from sharing the FACT that file trading is easy.
In a tiny measure they're right too, file trading won't be as centralized as Napster for a long time.
But in 20 years when they forget about us (like jaywalking) the next tech will be TOUGH to shake.
Intelligently dissecting what in your own manual is BS is what they are looking for in management... could be wrong.
Running ad's against their own sellers?
Or perhaps their search algorithms suck so much they need to use google ad's to provide the best sales advice!
Kudos eBay, you've joined corperate America! You're bitting your own ass!
While it's true that I'm currently on a 2+ yr CPU upgrade cycle anyone on a short cycle or who really cares about the consumer will be sad if Intel does start selling product at a loss to take over the market.
Remember when Intel decided that they were a monopoly, prices went up and we got brilliant marketting like Centrino as Intel tried to take over other markets.
It's so great when a company does something so well that they decide to give up on doing that and do something useless.
If Intel released an amazing product or innovated in some way to prove they have the better engineers that would be fine.
But dipping into the war chest to break an opponent... that's ugly ugly ugly.
Well at least they didn't triple their marketing budget and try to make AMD disapear.
Hell by the time I buy another cpu maybe Cyrix will be competitive, hell maybe via will have an AWSOME desktop cpu, heck my next video card could be from Savage. Companies are a lot easier to break than they are to start and this kind of crap is tough to condone...
At least if patents were abolished AMD's research might survive.
Kerfuffle...
Ok so the video memory has a bandwidth of 16M/s which is slow, very slow.
Now people are saying that's just the video buffer so it doesn't matter that it's slow going back to the cpu...
But my understanding of the cell design is that it has 7 co-processors and that it's supposed to split all of it's calculations... especially graphical ones.
This parralel processing is what makes the cell teh awsome since each core is actually pretty slow.
Now because the graphics system is tied with the general computing unit it's possible that both will be used concurrently (in fact it seems clear that both will be running through the cell at the same time) now where do these calculations get output to and what are they useful for after they are resolved?
Now obviously I'm not a cpu designer but using the graphical subsytems for general calculations seems to imply that you need to be able to access the results, fast.
Can someone explain why this is wrong? Will the cell be able to write to general memory rather than graphical memory? Will it be able to differentiate between graphical calculations and other calculations?
Will all of the cells graphical output be run through the GPU as well?
It seems like most people's arguements about why this bandwidth thing isn't a big deal hinge on how things were done in the past, meanwhile all the talk about using the cell as a supercomputer outline why it isn't like things that came before.
Sad thing, the sad thing is these guys do have a point because of something that isn't talked about much anymore.
They sell their cards used, last generations high end card is better performance than this generations mid range...
If they sell them consistently they are paying approximately the same amount because you can't sell last generations mid range card.
Sad but true... Of course I like to have dozens of systems doing nothing so I need the old hardware but if you don't run servers it doesn't matter.
Everyone who went to kindergarten or grade one remembers extensive lessons on "sharing"... now we've found a way to really share.
I'm not a big fan of debated subjects being taught in school, I think that we'll see greater and greater divergence on copywrite law in the near future.
Canada is quite liberal and would likely have quite liberal copywrite enforcement and IP laws except we are fprced to compete with American research and in fact a large number of U.S. companies have their research labs up here because of the huge number of university grads... (We have so many Grads hired south that the term "Brain Drain" is in common usage.)
Do cryptologists get to look at the gene sequences of these bacteria?
One giant leap for mesh network.
And up skirt stewardess pics!
2 Pencil companies are competing for domination of the pencil market... do you invest?
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Hardware will be commodity, it's inevitable.
AMD was a good investment when their high end 2600+ was $150 and their fabs were taking off.
What if fab technology takes 20 years to go beyond
Cpu manufacturing will be unimportant, designs like software will push the market and it will move slowly.
If you think it's a good investment go invest.
I am not a business major, but I was an AMD stock holder from when it was trading at $7.55 to $40.
AMD has been jacking up their prices which we have assumed is simply a response to their higher quality and increased market share but it has done something interesting. AMD is now selling the majority of high end desktop and workstation cpus but they have low marketshare in high end servers and low end desktops.
It would be easy to claim that these are new strategies implemented by Ruiz their new CEO however they would imply a more stock holder less comsumer driven business and AMD's poor marketing (low marketing budget?) and the $100 laptop project seem to rule out this possibility.
If we look back over the history of AMD it becomes interesting to look at chips like the Athlon MP which went through severe price reductions immediately prior to the release of the Opteron.
Implementing dual cpu chipsets on the desktop is likely a strategie implemented imediately before moving their low end to dual core and their high end to a new cpu architecture.
Amd will likely try to match Intel's price and consumer points, low end desktop (with dual core if my predictions about their consumer centric and engineering company bias are correct), high end desktop (catering to the SLI crowd and consolodating on the likely long term presence of socket AM2 (or subsequent sockets, AMD's 754 for an example of a short term socket), workstation (likely with the same socket but with quad core cpus), low end server (Opteron or replacement) and some kind of new high end chip.
The prediction about a new high end chip is based on reduced gap between the current opteron line and the 4x4 system layout.
All of this is very predictive, but based on my studies of AMD's engineering, ethics, and sales history.
Leetness metric.
Other Players/iTunes and WMplayer
Venue Britain, they are slightly more sane there.
Amir commited fraud, I'm pretty sure his funds should be tied up in a criminal case.
You can find a desktop PC capable of running Windows XP and with a DVD rom and usb ports for about $50 if you really look but laptops capable of running modern applications (not games of course, or linux) seem to level off around $300-400 (And most of those have garbage batteries).
So people inevitably look on E-Bay...
Ebay could intervene at this point, instead we get to see that E-bay, paypal and indeed this guy's credit card company's policy of buyer protection doesn't work at all.
You can't buy this kind of publicity.
And this guy has opened himself to criminal charges for taking pictures of people without their consent.
Even the Canadian (I don't know about the U.S.) standard postal service has tracking numbers, if you're shipping something provide the tracking # it takes a load off the buyers mind.
Creative HD based players all have a problem where they move the headphone connector off the motherboard.
After 6 months the headphones start stuttering and slowly fail. This is due to this problem and can be solved by soldering the wires.
It happened to at least 7 players that I know of and it's a huge problem.
Ipod problems seem worse, but not much worse.
Isn't planned obsolesence fun!
NOT FREE.
'Nuff said.
Government Seizure...
This is so roads can run straight government buildings aren't held up by individuals houses etc.
In such cases the government is supposed to pay you a biut more than your house is worth.
If you driven around Britain you'd understand it takes forever because their roads aren't straight.
I'm surprised you catagorize your rights to money with your right to freedom, in fact I think that's part of the problem.
Really the technology for this was available to do this in cities with the 802.11b spec if the last mile net connections were actually neutral (which they are supposed to be in most cities).
G seemed like a good spec, obviously it wasn't fast enough to run a corperate or even a power users connection off but if they could have hit the theoretical maximum it would have been fine, these new specs won't allow small deployments which can service many users so they aren't a huge improvement over local wireless points (Also increased security concerns as it's not just neighborhood traffic but potentially whole city traffic which will be available for packet sniffing) it just centralizes a system which is only important if you're commited to an upgrade cycle (Which would actually be nice after we got borked by the western isps).
At some point the range will be there and I really hope they have backwards compatability worked out by then, users don't know anything about the interoperability of the wireless standards and they shouldn't have to.
Also the security standards are pretty stupid as well, routers support wireless security features that don't work AT ALL... why bother!
I think you mean DirectX though ActiveX is also important.
MS is pulling some totally insane stuff with DirectX X so people will be looking for alternatives... I'd like Apple to offer some I like gaming, I hate windows.
The transition to Apple drivers, graphics extensions and hardware, might allow some new players into the graphics market, which is getting really expensive these days.
(Lookie I made a comma splice!)