or maybe, just maybe, based on those pics, the BMW looks like a higher quality car more expensive car, and the Prius looks like a piece of shit econobox. (take a look at the two pics in the article and see if you agree.)
How about picking cars from the same class and comparing them?
Seems like another instance of a "researcher" confusing correlation with causation.
Did anyone notice that the original article read "fuckedcompany" and now it reads "f'dcompany"?
Okay, so you want to make it kid-friendly. um. ok. But, should article posters really be alowed to edit the contents of an article after it has been posted and commented on?
Granted this is a minor modification, but I still find it a bit odd.
Some people seem to think this is some huge conspiracy by Intel against the consumer. Far from it. All of you overclockers should be well versed in the need for adequate cooling for your CPUs. Apply the same cooling procedures to your P4 and it'll run at full speed. Put some old brushless 1500 rpm fan and a crappy heat sink with no thermal compound under it on your chip and it's going to overheat.
Why is it a problem that a chip has a feature built in that slows down the clock speed when it begins to overheat?
Am I missing something here?
Would you rather your poorly cooled, poorly ventalated system go into thermal meltdown?
Is ten years of research really worth a 20% decrease in power consumption and a 15% decrease in overall chip size? I can't see how it could be. Chances are, by the time this technology is ready for prime-time (if ever), chips will be utilizing vastly different technology than they are now.
It's becomming increasingly harder to shrink chip sizes and increase speeds. Even with using different metals such as copper and shrinking trace widths, we are eventually going to hit a brick wall with current technology. After doing so, taking away 15% of the chip complexity is not going to go far in creating the next generation faster chip.
It's time to look to new technologies: carbon nanotubules and buckyballs, quantum computing, etc.
A better use of ICBM's?
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After hearing the semi-recent news of Russians performing long-range test of their old ICBMs, it's good to hear of people finding another use of them rather than blowing up the White House.
People are missing the point here. So P2P will cause a surge in bandwidth usage and connect times? Look at the Internet. It is evolving. Look at bandwidth. Just as any other technology evolves and expands, so does the amount of bandwidth available. Five years ago, how many people had 512Kbps(+) pipes coming into their bedrooms. Not many. Now, cable modem and DSL connections are becoming the norm. Analog connections are certainly still the majority, but look around at the advertisements. Bandwidth is big business. People are demanding more of it. Usage has already been increasing radically. The number of people getting on the 'net is increasing at a phenomenal pace. Just like anything else, the more you sell, the cheaper it gets. The price per amount of bandwidth has plummeted over the years. The consumer costs are not going to go up. With usage and volume ever increasing, the worst that could happen is prices may not fall as radically as they have in the past. Or, you may see less of the $7 Internet access offers. BFD. People will still be willing to pay their $50 a month for their cable modems. The majority of the people out there have jobs and are not savvy enough to schedule downloads all day while they're at work. It's pretty safe to assume that your grandma will not be on Gnutella downloading the latest ICP track. But she'll still like that cable modem because it makes her marthastuart.com pop up quicker..
It'll all be okay. Really.
More of a complementary technology..
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This propulsion technology is obviously not intended to be the sole means to move a vehicle from one location to another. But it is very efficient in long-distance travel.
Just because you have a solar sail to propel you from location A to location B, doesn't mean you cannot also have some sort of fuel based thruster device to maneuver your vehicle at the local space-station dock or whatever.
The strip in the $100 bills is not any type of transmitter, nor an IC.
It is placed there to thwart counterfeiting.
Some have theorized the strip contains a unique alloy which can be tracked in large quantities (read: truckloads) from satellites. How true this is though is anybody's guess.
I, for one, would like to see SGI gain back some of it's now lost market share. SGI used to be a kick ass, progregressive company with state-of-the-art graphics systems. They still are to some extent, but have lost some of the shimmer associated with the Silicon Graphics name.
I'm happy to see their new Intel systems. If you have looked at the specs, you can see they are not your off-the-shelf P-II systems. They are completely custom from the ground up. SGI is just trying to stay competitive. When have you been able to get this type of hardware and support for such a low price? SGI's RxK workstations cost many more times as much as the new Intel boxen.
People need to give SGI a break, wait and see how things pan out for them, and see how their new Intel systems perform before being so critical. I'm certainly interested.
After reading the artist signup contract, it states that the artist grants mp3.com nonexclusive rights to distribute the songs he provides them. The artist retains all rights to the music, and the contract may be terminated at any time.
How would slow light make waking up in the morning easier?
You aren't going to be able to control the speed of the sun's light.
You could set up lights in your room to come on at a set time in the morning, (if it were still dark outside). But that would not benefit from slow light either.. You would have to control the power going to the lighting fixture, not the speed at which the light eminating from the fixture would reach you.
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And your country's fiat currency is not "imaginary?" haha.
Ditto. Works fine for me as well. (Connecting to OpenSSH from a BB Bold running the latest beta of MidpSSH).
The screen font is tiny as hell though!
or maybe, just maybe, based on those pics, the BMW looks like a higher quality car more expensive car, and the Prius looks like a piece of shit econobox. (take a look at the two pics in the article and see if you agree.)
How about picking cars from the same class and comparing them?
Seems like another instance of a "researcher" confusing correlation with causation.
Perhaps he needs no comma. He may be directing other /.'ers to proofread CmdrTaco's posts. In which case, he would be gramatically correct.
Did anyone notice that the original article read "fuckedcompany" and now it reads "f'dcompany"?
Okay, so you want to make it kid-friendly. um. ok. But, should article posters really be alowed to edit the contents of an article after it has been posted and commented on?
Granted this is a minor modification, but I still find it a bit odd.
Some people seem to think this is some huge conspiracy by Intel against the consumer. Far from it. All of you overclockers should be well versed in the need for adequate cooling for your CPUs. Apply the same cooling procedures to your P4 and it'll run at full speed. Put some old brushless 1500 rpm fan and a crappy heat sink with no thermal compound under it on your chip and it's going to overheat.
Why is it a problem that a chip has a feature built in that slows down the clock speed when it begins to overheat?
Am I missing something here?
Would you rather your poorly cooled, poorly ventalated system go into thermal meltdown?
Is ten years of research really worth a 20% decrease in power consumption and a 15% decrease in overall chip size? I can't see how it could be. Chances are, by the time this technology is ready for prime-time (if ever), chips will be utilizing vastly different technology than they are now.
It's becomming increasingly harder to shrink chip sizes and increase speeds. Even with using different metals such as copper and shrinking trace widths, we are eventually going to hit a brick wall with current technology. After doing so, taking away 15% of the chip complexity is not going to go far in creating the next generation faster chip.
It's time to look to new technologies: carbon nanotubules and buckyballs, quantum computing, etc.
After hearing the semi-recent news of Russians performing long-range test of their old ICBMs, it's good to hear of people finding another use of them rather than blowing up the White House.
People are missing the point here. So P2P will cause a surge in bandwidth usage and connect times? Look at the Internet. It is evolving. Look at bandwidth. Just as any other technology evolves and expands, so does the amount of bandwidth available. Five years ago, how many people had 512Kbps(+) pipes coming into their bedrooms. Not many. Now, cable modem and DSL connections are becoming the norm. Analog connections are certainly still the majority, but look around at the advertisements. Bandwidth is big business. People are demanding more of it. Usage has already been increasing radically. The number of people getting on the 'net is increasing at a phenomenal pace. Just like anything else, the more you sell, the cheaper it gets. The price per amount of bandwidth has plummeted over the years. The consumer costs are not going to go up. With usage and volume ever increasing, the worst that could happen is prices may not fall as radically as they have in the past. Or, you may see less of the $7 Internet access offers. BFD. People will still be willing to pay their $50 a month for their cable modems. The majority of the people out there have jobs and are not savvy enough to schedule downloads all day while they're at work. It's pretty safe to assume that your grandma will not be on Gnutella downloading the latest ICP track. But she'll still like that cable modem because it makes her marthastuart.com pop up quicker..
It'll all be okay. Really.
This propulsion technology is obviously not intended to be the sole means to move a vehicle from one location to another. But it is very efficient in long-distance travel.
Just because you have a solar sail to propel you from location A to location B, doesn't mean you cannot also have some sort of fuel based thruster device to maneuver your vehicle at the local space-station dock or whatever.
Wrong-o.
Daisychaining 4 X10 units together would give you effectively 256^4 combinations, not 256*4. 256^4 is 4,294,967,296 codes.
Just a *little* bit more secure than 256.
The strip in the $100 bills is not any type of transmitter, nor an IC.
It is placed there to thwart counterfeiting.
Some have theorized the strip contains a unique alloy which can be tracked in large quantities (read: truckloads) from satellites. How true this is though is anybody's guess.
I, for one, would like to see SGI gain back some of it's now lost market share. SGI used to be a kick ass, progregressive company with state-of-the-art graphics systems. They still are to some extent, but have lost some of the shimmer associated with the Silicon Graphics name.
I'm happy to see their new Intel systems. If you have looked at the specs, you can see they are not your off-the-shelf P-II systems. They are completely custom from the ground up. SGI is just trying to stay competitive. When have you been able to get this type of hardware and support for such a low price? SGI's RxK workstations cost many more times as much as the new Intel boxen.
People need to give SGI a break, wait and see how things pan out for them, and see how their new Intel systems perform before being so critical. I'm certainly interested.
After reading the artist signup contract, it states that the artist grants mp3.com nonexclusive rights to distribute the songs he provides them.
The artist retains all rights to the music, and the contract may be terminated at any time.
Sounds pretty fair, actually.
How would slow light make waking up in the morning easier?
You aren't going to be able to control the speed of the sun's light.
You could set up lights in your room to come on at a set time in the morning, (if it were still dark outside). But that would not benefit from slow light either.. You would have to control the power going to the lighting fixture, not the speed at which the light eminating from the fixture would reach you.