Aside from North Korea, Burma, sub-saharan Africa and the islamic hell holes, I don't think there's a country I'd rather not live in.
Having fled the UK a few years ago, I entirely agree. Fortunately it's bankrupt with no sign of any way out so with any luck it will improve over the next decade or two.
The public is thus getting, by and large, exactly what it has asked for.
I don't know about the last election, but only about 25% of the public voted for Labour over the previous decade and yet they got them anyway.
I don't remember the last time a British government got more than 50% of the votes of people who could be bothered to get up and go to the voting stations, let alone 50% of the available votes.
Once APUs can play games at 1080p with all the eye candy almost no one will buy a separate GPU.
Yeah, because no-one will find a use for all the extra power that a discrete GPU would give you.
The only reason you can play modern games on a PC with a low-end GPU with anything like the graphics you could get from a high-end GPU is that most games have been crippled to be playable on consoles with five-year-old GPUs.
It would seem perverse to have a seperate chip for the FPU these days and I suspect in 5 or 10 years the same will be said for standalone GPUs.
The FPU didn't use 300W.
Putting a high-end GPU onto a CPU would double the cost, require adding a huge memory bus to support the required bandwidth, make it insanely difficult to cool and force you to upgrade the CPU whenever the GPU got too slow for new games.
AMD has been far ahead of Intel in chip design. They have been behind in core design. AMD had gotten rid of the FSB with a NUMA earlier, real quad cores with L3 cache earlier, and properly integrated graphics earlier (Intel's CPU performace goes down quick when the integrated GPU is used in SB).
And in the real world Intel has still been ahead of them for most uses since at least the Core-2.
As for this demo, good luck running your CPU at 1.9V for more than a few weeks.
space is the next financial bubble. we have all this space up there. we can never run out of space in space.
I'm willing to sell you all the space you can cart away for only $10,000 a cubic meter. Get it now before the price doubles: they're not making any more space!
Am-241, while only producing 1/4 the power of Pu-238 for a given volume, will output for centuries with its nearly 500 year half life. Much better for long term missions.
How many 500-year missions does NASA have planned right now?
America probably won't exist in 500 years, let alone NASA.
Adding years adds incentive to create works, probably also beyond 50 years as you say, and that benefits the world so that's good.
Do you really think that when the Rolling Stones were recording their songs in the 60s they were thinking 'you know, if I couldn't rely on copyright protecting my income for the next fifty years I'd just say screw this and go down the pub'?
And it requires using crappy Adobe software and logging into some Adobe account. And it tells the people running the service exactly which books you're reading; the local libraries delete all records of physical borrowing after you return it, do the ebook servers do the same?
From what I understand the local libraries also don't support lending of books from some publishers who wanted to make them buy the ebook again after it's been lent a couple of dozen times.
Authors that sign away their pricing ability without negotiating at least a "don't do stupid pricing that sabotages my career" clause don't have a leg to stand on.
Back in the real world, authors who don't sign away their pricing ability are either self-published or working in Walmart. No publisher who plans to stay in business is going to let the author decide the price to charge for their books.
Authors could have lowered piracy by discounting e-book prices. Instead they made e-books cost equal or higher to paperback prices. Result: massive (deserved) piracy.
Hint: publishers set prices, not authors. I've read several authors complaining about their publishers setting ebook prices higher than paper book prices and annoying their fans.
Bandwith isn't free, servers aren't free, the people to maintain and upgrade them aren't free, the people who go to the publishers and lobby for the content to host in the first place aren't free, and if a business isn't making some profit, they can't (or won't) continue.
A typical ebook is about 500k. The per-book cost is negligible and when you already have a huge server farm the cost of adding a few more servers to store them is in the noise on your budget.
The actual odds for shuttle failure on each launch were calculated to be about 1 in 100
Only after it blew up the first time. Before that the 100,000 number was often quoted; ISTR Feynman referencing it during the Challenger investigation.
The problem is, if you put adequate distance between you and the car in front of you for your rate of speed, another driver sees this as an opportunity to squeeze in, which is arguably *more* dangerous. So even drivers who *know* they're following too close in rush hour don't have much choice.
Used to work when I lived in the UK, where the 'two second rule' was bashed into pretty much everyone when they were learning to drive in the 80s and 90s. I see vastly more idiotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic than I did there, though idiot tailgaters were starting to become common before I left.
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Uhm, something leaving orbit is plummeting through earth's atmosphere at a velocity which almost nothing else can achieve.
Ithacus was intended to launch from aircraft carriers for suborbital troop delivery; I don't know whether it was ever intended to land there:
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/ithacus.htm
Aside from North Korea, Burma, sub-saharan Africa and the islamic hell holes, I don't think there's a country I'd rather not live in.
Having fled the UK a few years ago, I entirely agree. Fortunately it's bankrupt with no sign of any way out so with any luck it will improve over the next decade or two.
The public is thus getting, by and large, exactly what it has asked for.
I don't know about the last election, but only about 25% of the public voted for Labour over the previous decade and yet they got them anyway.
I don't remember the last time a British government got more than 50% of the votes of people who could be bothered to get up and go to the voting stations, let alone 50% of the available votes.
Once APUs can play games at 1080p with all the eye candy almost no one will buy a separate GPU.
Yeah, because no-one will find a use for all the extra power that a discrete GPU would give you.
The only reason you can play modern games on a PC with a low-end GPU with anything like the graphics you could get from a high-end GPU is that most games have been crippled to be playable on consoles with five-year-old GPUs.
It would seem perverse to have a seperate chip for the FPU these days and I suspect in 5 or 10 years the same will be said for standalone GPUs.
The FPU didn't use 300W.
Putting a high-end GPU onto a CPU would double the cost, require adding a huge memory bus to support the required bandwidth, make it insanely difficult to cool and force you to upgrade the CPU whenever the GPU got too slow for new games.
AMD has been far ahead of Intel in chip design. They have been behind in core design. AMD had gotten rid of the FSB with a NUMA earlier, real quad cores with L3 cache earlier, and properly integrated graphics earlier (Intel's CPU performace goes down quick when the integrated GPU is used in SB).
And in the real world Intel has still been ahead of them for most uses since at least the Core-2.
As for this demo, good luck running your CPU at 1.9V for more than a few weeks.
space is the next financial bubble. we have all this space up there. we can never run out of space in space.
I'm willing to sell you all the space you can cart away for only $10,000 a cubic meter. Get it now before the price doubles: they're not making any more space!
Am-241, while only producing 1/4 the power of Pu-238 for a given volume, will output for centuries with its nearly 500 year half life. Much better for long term missions.
How many 500-year missions does NASA have planned right now?
America probably won't exist in 500 years, let alone NASA.
What are the millions of children who want to become Astronauts going to dream about at night?
Kids used to dream about being astronauts when they did exciting stuff. Not so much now they just deliver pizza to the space station.
I doubt that many dream of being train drivers anymore either.
Without a label, how does a recording artist promote his or her music to people who don't listen to Internet radio?
You're right: without a music label you can't possibly make money from playing music. You should give up now.
But I doubt my images of a kid eating Ritz crackers will add to the social narrative....
Did you pay Ritz for the rights to use their crackers in your images?
Adding years adds incentive to create works, probably also beyond 50 years as you say, and that benefits the world so that's good.
Do you really think that when the Rolling Stones were recording their songs in the 60s they were thinking 'you know, if I couldn't rely on copyright protecting my income for the next fifty years I'd just say screw this and go down the pub'?
And it requires using crappy Adobe software and logging into some Adobe account. And it tells the people running the service exactly which books you're reading; the local libraries delete all records of physical borrowing after you return it, do the ebook servers do the same?
From what I understand the local libraries also don't support lending of books from some publishers who wanted to make them buy the ebook again after it's been lent a couple of dozen times.
Which explains why everybody else adopted epubs? Last time I checked, epub came in both DRM and DRM-free flavors.
So does .mobi (the format Kindle uses). I bought my first DRM-ed Kindle book by accident recently and was rather annoyed when I discovered I'd done so.
Authors that sign away their pricing ability without negotiating at least a "don't do stupid pricing that sabotages my career" clause don't have a leg to stand on.
Back in the real world, authors who don't sign away their pricing ability are either self-published or working in Walmart. No publisher who plans to stay in business is going to let the author decide the price to charge for their books.
Authors could have lowered piracy by discounting e-book prices. Instead they made e-books cost equal or higher to paperback prices. Result: massive (deserved) piracy.
Hint: publishers set prices, not authors. I've read several authors complaining about their publishers setting ebook prices higher than paper book prices and annoying their fans.
Bandwith isn't free, servers aren't free, the people to maintain and upgrade them aren't free, the people who go to the publishers and lobby for the content to host in the first place aren't free, and if a business isn't making some profit, they can't (or won't) continue.
A typical ebook is about 500k. The per-book cost is negligible and when you already have a huge server farm the cost of adding a few more servers to store them is in the noise on your budget.
A bad movie? It won best picture.
Yeah, and? It was a war movie directed by a woman.. of course it was going to win awards.
It struggled in the theaters so they are concerned with lost revenue.
Because it was a bad movie.
The actual odds for shuttle failure on each launch were calculated to be about 1 in 100
Only after it blew up the first time. Before that the 100,000 number was often quoted; ISTR Feynman referencing it during the Challenger investigation.
This site is terrible. The user-generated content (comments) used to be worth something, but those are now complete shit as well.
Sadly true. One day soon I shall close my Slashdot tab and never open it again.
But is it worth complaining about?
Yeah, Brakes have a signal. A signal you can't see when the braking car is being tailgated by the H2 in front of you.
If the car in front of you is tailgating the car that's braking, then you'll get plenty of warning when they smash into that car.
So long as you aren't tailgating too, of course.
Troll rating: 1/10. Must try harder next time.
The problem is, if you put adequate distance between you and the car in front of you for your rate of speed, another driver sees this as an opportunity to squeeze in, which is arguably *more* dangerous. So even drivers who *know* they're following too close in rush hour don't have much choice.
Used to work when I lived in the UK, where the 'two second rule' was bashed into pretty much everyone when they were learning to drive in the 80s and 90s. I see vastly more idiotic behaviour on this side of the Atlantic than I did there, though idiot tailgaters were starting to become common before I left.
It allows people like you and me to participate in economic growth.
Translation: it takes your retirement money and hands it to sociopaths, solely because of preferential tax treatment.
Keep your winnings if you win, get your money back if you lose. What a deal for the big firms.
Don't forget 'get bailed out by the taxpayer when you really screw up'.