Yes and the performance of atom processors is quite shit because of that.
Only if you don't run enough threads. It's also slow because of low clock speed and limited cache, but hyperthreading recovers much of the performance lost due to in-order execution if you run two threads.
Speaking of pipe dreams, explain why no one in France loses their house due to medical bankruptcies.
Because their costs are offloaded onto others, who lose their house because they can't afford to pay for it after they've paid all the taxes.
Explain why other countries spend 1/3 as much as the U.S. does while receiving better care.
Because they pay doctors less, have no incentive to perform unneccesary procedures becuase they know the insurance will pay for it, and let the old farts die rather than spend hundreds of thousands of dollars keeping them on life support when they're going to die anyway?
Explain why Cuba has comparable health stats to the U.S. while spending less than $300 per patient per year.
Because they're commies and lie all the time to make themselves look good?
From what people who've actually travelled to Cuba have said, they appear to have good healthcare for the 'important people' and 'good luck' healthcare for everyone else.
The other funny part, is true to form, the amazon web page has the tired and stereotypical "woman reading at the beach" photo. Its hard to predict, but if there's one thing this era will be laughed at for, it MIGHT be the "we're gonna get rich by only selling e-readers to women at the beach".
Last I checked, the biggest-seller by far on Kindle was romance novels. So I think it's safe to say that a large fraction of the Kindles sold are used by women on vacations.
Now, gamer rigs are increasingly uncommon, so people aren't targeting them for games.
No, 'gamer rigs' are less common because games are designed for consoles, so there's no need to have a fast PC to run something that was designed for five-year-old console hardware.
The fact that a gaming laptop even exists, when once it did not, should give you pause.
My gaming laptop exists for one reason: consolitis has so crippled PC gaming that even a fairly cheap laptop with discrete graphics can play the game better than a console with a GPU from 2005. If PC games were actually designed for PCs, then it would be a slideshow.
There's no reason to upgrade every year or two like there used to be. That's got to hurt their business even more than tablets and netbooks.
I've built three home PCs in the last three years; two are servers and one's an Xbmc frontend. The low cost of PC components these days means there's no need to have just one.
Here are roughly 1000 cars "stored" underground which are not used for 9h every day. Some people work from 6:00 to roughly 15:00 and the others from 9:00 to roughly 18:00. There is plenty of options to use those cars. Especially if the bank would own them and "rent" them to the employees.
That's great. Except when I want to go shopping at lunch-time or when I have to drive a customer to the airport or when I get a call to say my girlfriend had an asthma attack and I have to collect her from the medical clinic.
Keep in mind: if you have a station where you can charge your car, it is only a little bit more money to be able to uncharge it and feed it to the grid.
Keep in mind: if I've plugged my car into a charging station it's because I want to be sure it's charged the next time I need to use it.
That god damn road they built, they did it just to spite me.
The odd thing is the left like to talk about how wonderful the government is because it builds roads, but then they complain that people drive cars rather than use trains, and demand that said people should be forced out of their cars to combat 'Global Climate Warming Change'.
You failed to address the point he made about the automation of automation. What happens when most jobs are replaced by robots designed by robots?
Until we have AI that's as smart as humans, there will be plenty of jobs for humans to do, so long as they get off their butt and don't sit around complaining about how their super-important job actually turned out to be so simple that a computer can do it better. We've been replacing jobs with 'robots' for decades and we still have more people working than we did when we started to do so.
Once we have AI that's as smart as humans, we're fscked. But that's still probably at least a century away.
this is not 'buggy whip manufacturers'. this is mass unemployment on an unprecedented scale.
I'm sure they said that two hundred years ago when automated looms took over from people working at home by hand. Oddly, there are far more people working today than there were back then.
So even though they literally, by scientific standard, discovered FTL particles, they explicitly state that they don't actually think they did because it disagrees with existing theories. This is *biased* experimental physics.
If relativity is broken, much of modern physics falls apart. Not only that, but we have measured neutrino velocity before to within one part in a few million and they weren't FTL.
So given that, any sensible scientist will say 'here are our results, surely there's something wrong but we can't find it', and I think we can be almost certain that there is indeed something wrong in the measurements. We'll know sooner or later.
I couldn't say why some peoples eyes hurt since that is not my area of expertise but I can tell you that my eyes hurt after reading on my nook color after a couple of hours. I also have a first gen kindle and do not have the same problem with it. I am a software developer and am in front of computer screens all day reading text of monitors without issue.
There's a big difference between reading a book on a monitor and reading bits and pieces of source code; in the former case you start at the beginning and continue reading to the end, in the latter you're moving between sections of code and your eyes aren't just reading non-stop.
Well, unless you get your kicks from reading through 100,000 words of C++ code anyway.
If that's the case, what about power costs and gained IO performance?
I'm curious from someone who works with them in servers.
I would definitely like to replace the SAS drives with SSDs because it would significantly increase database performance. But we'd then have to buy SLC drives to handle the increased write cycles, which were about 4x more expensive last I looked.
Presently, there's a compelling argument in favor of eInk based readers for reading books (but no other function), but it's a tough sell over an iPad or in addition to an iPad in the general market.
Well, duh. If you're buying a $139 e-ink e-reader you can't really expect it to do the same things as a $500 iPad.
And there have been a number of rumours about Amazon releasing a $99 Kindle for the holiday season, though I've no idea whether they're true.
Oh, you meant legal providers. Well, this is kinda like music was in about 1999, maybe a little later... A few crappy proprietary formats, and everyone trading free formats on the net.
All books on Smashwords are DRM-free and many books on Amazon are DRM-free. I was actually surprised when I bought a Kindle book recently and discovered it was DRM-infested, so now I do check before buying them.
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Yes and the performance of atom processors is quite shit because of that.
Only if you don't run enough threads. It's also slow because of low clock speed and limited cache, but hyperthreading recovers much of the performance lost due to in-order execution if you run two threads.
Speaking of pipe dreams, explain why no one in France loses their house due to medical bankruptcies.
Because their costs are offloaded onto others, who lose their house because they can't afford to pay for it after they've paid all the taxes.
Explain why other countries spend 1/3 as much as the U.S. does while receiving better care.
Because they pay doctors less, have no incentive to perform unneccesary procedures becuase they know the insurance will pay for it, and let the old farts die rather than spend hundreds of thousands of dollars keeping them on life support when they're going to die anyway?
Explain why Cuba has comparable health stats to the U.S. while spending less than $300 per patient per year.
Because they're commies and lie all the time to make themselves look good?
From what people who've actually travelled to Cuba have said, they appear to have good healthcare for the 'important people' and 'good luck' healthcare for everyone else.
But Facebook isn't incorporated in Germany, why would they have to abide by German law?
Well, I guess they could ignore it if the managers don't mind being arrested and sent to Germany if they ever travel to the EU.
not correct. you can store content locally. Though, admittedly, 8G is a not a lot of storage.
It's about 50,000 novels in .mobi format. Not so good for video or different e-book formats (e.g. scanned images rather than text).
It basically just competes against the Kindle and the color Nook.
It's a Kindle, and you're surprised that it's aimed at the Kindle market?
The other funny part, is true to form, the amazon web page has the tired and stereotypical "woman reading at the beach" photo. Its hard to predict, but if there's one thing this era will be laughed at for, it MIGHT be the "we're gonna get rich by only selling e-readers to women at the beach".
Last I checked, the biggest-seller by far on Kindle was romance novels. So I think it's safe to say that a large fraction of the Kindles sold are used by women on vacations.
There's no 'you must comply within 40 days unless you're just too busy' exemption in the DPA, is there?
Now, gamer rigs are increasingly uncommon, so people aren't targeting them for games.
No, 'gamer rigs' are less common because games are designed for consoles, so there's no need to have a fast PC to run something that was designed for five-year-old console hardware.
The fact that a gaming laptop even exists, when once it did not, should give you pause.
My gaming laptop exists for one reason: consolitis has so crippled PC gaming that even a fairly cheap laptop with discrete graphics can play the game better than a console with a GPU from 2005. If PC games were actually designed for PCs, then it would be a slideshow.
There's no reason to upgrade every year or two like there used to be. That's got to hurt their business even more than tablets and netbooks.
I've built three home PCs in the last three years; two are servers and one's an Xbmc frontend. The low cost of PC components these days means there's no need to have just one.
I really don't understand what difference it makes to them if the stream end point is my phone or a computer.
They know that people who'll spend $600 on an iPhone won't notice that they're also spending twice as much for their music as someone with a computer.
Here are roughly 1000 cars "stored" underground which are not used for 9h every day. Some people work from 6:00 to roughly 15:00 and the others from 9:00 to roughly 18:00. There is plenty of options to use those cars. Especially if the bank would own them and "rent" them to the employees.
That's great. Except when I want to go shopping at lunch-time or when I have to drive a customer to the airport or when I get a call to say my girlfriend had an asthma attack and I have to collect her from the medical clinic.
Keep in mind: if you have a station where you can charge your car, it is only a little bit more money to be able to uncharge it and feed it to the grid.
Keep in mind: if I've plugged my car into a charging station it's because I want to be sure it's charged the next time I need to use it.
That god damn road they built, they did it just to spite me.
The odd thing is the left like to talk about how wonderful the government is because it builds roads, but then they complain that people drive cars rather than use trains, and demand that said people should be forced out of their cars to combat 'Global Climate Warming Change'.
You failed to address the point he made about the automation of automation. What happens when most jobs are replaced by robots designed by robots?
Until we have AI that's as smart as humans, there will be plenty of jobs for humans to do, so long as they get off their butt and don't sit around complaining about how their super-important job actually turned out to be so simple that a computer can do it better. We've been replacing jobs with 'robots' for decades and we still have more people working than we did when we started to do so.
Once we have AI that's as smart as humans, we're fscked. But that's still probably at least a century away.
Alternatively people could get off their ass and find something to do that isn't so simple that a computer can replace them.
We're heading boldly into a post-capitalist world, where everything is available to everyone at virtually no cost.
LOL. I'll have twelve Ferraris, six aircraft carriers and the USS Enterprise. Oh, and tomorrow I want a space habitat the size of Canada.
this is not 'buggy whip manufacturers'. this is mass unemployment on an unprecedented scale.
I'm sure they said that two hundred years ago when automated looms took over from people working at home by hand. Oddly, there are far more people working today than there were back then.
When high frequency trading finds a way to use this to make more money, you better believe they will make it work.
That'll be fun. You won't even know whether you own a stock until you open the box and look.
So even though they literally, by scientific standard, discovered FTL particles, they explicitly state that they don't actually think they did because it disagrees with existing theories. This is *biased* experimental physics.
If relativity is broken, much of modern physics falls apart. Not only that, but we have measured neutrino velocity before to within one part in a few million and they weren't FTL.
So given that, any sensible scientist will say 'here are our results, surely there's something wrong but we can't find it', and I think we can be almost certain that there is indeed something wrong in the measurements. We'll know sooner or later.
You must be reading the wrong books.
As I said, I check for DRM before buying now, after someone on an earlier Slashdot thread told me how to spot the DRM-infested books.
I couldn't say why some peoples eyes hurt since that is not my area of expertise but I can tell you that my eyes hurt after reading on my nook color after a couple of hours. I also have a first gen kindle and do not have the same problem with it. I am a software developer and am in front of computer screens all day reading text of monitors without issue.
There's a big difference between reading a book on a monitor and reading bits and pieces of source code; in the former case you start at the beginning and continue reading to the end, in the latter you're moving between sections of code and your eyes aren't just reading non-stop.
Well, unless you get your kicks from reading through 100,000 words of C++ code anyway.
If that's the case, what about power costs and gained IO performance?
I'm curious from someone who works with them in servers.
I would definitely like to replace the SAS drives with SSDs because it would significantly increase database performance. But we'd then have to buy SLC drives to handle the increased write cycles, which were about 4x more expensive last I looked.
Presently, there's a compelling argument in favor of eInk based readers for reading books (but no other function), but it's a tough sell over an iPad or in addition to an iPad in the general market.
Well, duh. If you're buying a $139 e-ink e-reader you can't really expect it to do the same things as a $500 iPad.
And there have been a number of rumours about Amazon releasing a $99 Kindle for the holiday season, though I've no idea whether they're true.
Oh, you meant legal providers. Well, this is kinda like music was in about 1999, maybe a little later... A few crappy proprietary formats, and everyone trading free formats on the net.
All books on Smashwords are DRM-free and many books on Amazon are DRM-free. I was actually surprised when I bought a Kindle book recently and discovered it was DRM-infested, so now I do check before buying them.
Users who don't read for more than an hour at a time perhaps.
Or outdoors.