How is this the "mother of all CPU charts" when it leaves out all the dedicated mobile processors? I'd like to know if that Turion 64 laptop I've been looking at will outperform the P4 unit sitting next to it, or what clock speed of Centrino or Pentium-M will beat my two-year-old desktop.
Does anyone know where I could find a chart that compares mobile processors to their desktop equivalents? I really am about to buy a laptop, so it'd be quite helpful.
"The company's first so-called PWRficient chip will feature two processing cores, run at 2GHz and consume on average about 5 watts, thanks to an emphasis on integration and circuit design. At a maximum, it will consume 25 watts, far less than the single-core Power chips that can hit 90 watts found on the market today."
Also, thanks to our patented Vapor-based architecture, we've been able to build our level-2 RAM cache out of a giant cloud of gaseous water! And we've licensed our chips to be in the Phantom Game Console! And they'll even run Duke Nukem Forever! As we speak the SCO group is printing out some infringing Linux code with them to use as evidence in an actual trial!
"He's got a point. Quicktime Pro is a $30 upgrade no user should have to pay for just to do this job"
No kidding. The latest version of QuickTime won't even let you view movies in full-screen mode unless you buy the upgrade. There's a recipe for consumer goodwill.
I think the actual soundtrack would go something like this:
"Mmm, I do love a fine day here in Southern Afghanistan. Hmm, need to shave the camel again, gotta remember that. The poppy crop is blooming nicely, that's nice. Hmm, sounds like a plane is going overhead and-- Aaaah! AIIIGH! My head's on fire, my head's on fire! Man that smarts!" [sound of guy sticking his head up a camel's butt to extinguish his flaming hair]
And yes, I realize this is just an air-to-air point defense mechanism we're talking about, but hey, any excuse to describe people giving burning, first-person rectal exams to camels.
Funny, I think the fact that this is modded up but as yet has no replies indicates that everyone is amused that you responded in Morse, but has no idea what the hell you said.:)
" Get rid of that lousy Skype name and replace it with a quality, easy to remember Google name such as... Orkut?!?"
What's wrong with "Orkut"? It reminds me of Orko from Masters of the Universe when I was a kid. Man, he was the sexiest purple-clad, invisible, floating dwarf *ever*.
"The point of bluffing is to convince the other players that you ARE bluffing when you've actually got a good hand. Then you can milk them for all they've got. If you're bluffing a low hand, you should be prepared to lose. In fact, you should be expecting it."
This is a ridiculous statement. You *might* be able to apply it to limit hold 'em, but certainly not no-limit games. The point of bluffing is to not only make it more difficult for your opponents to put you on a hand, but also (and more importantly, IMHO) to allow you to win pots when you do not have the best hand at the table. This is important in limit hold 'em and critical in no limit. If you think the point of bluffing is just to make you harder to read, I'd love to sit down with you at a table.
"Hate to break it to you but people have not died *because* of this. They died because of a lack of understanding on *their* part.
Yes, I'm sure Vonage (and others) could have put a "hair dryer" style sticker on the top of the ATA that read something like "Warning -- Do not use for 911 calls if you are in danger", but the information (last I looked, anyway) was available as to what happens when you dial 911."
A reasonable point, though it merits mention that Vonage is currently being sued by the state of Texas for intentionally misleading their customers about their 911 coverage.
Personally, I don't see what the problem is with giving them four months to handle the technical aspects of this. They've got everyone's zip code and (I would assume) a directory of each zip code's appropriate 911 response center. How hard is it to make these ends meet? I would think the chick that worked the switchboard at the Mayberry RFD phone company could handle this.
"You need CGI? No. You need expensive sets? No again."
People used to be able to say this type of thing about good movies. Maybe the reason the studios are so worried about losses due to piracy is that it might cause them to have to worry about silly things like artistry and solid writing.:)
How can you send your black children to a white school? You know the white kids are just going to pick on them, call them names, beat them up after class, possibly lynch one of the boys, and generally make their existences a living hell. How could you do that to a child when you know it won't make any difference because the white people will always find a way to keep the negroes down regardless of whether schools are integrated?
"a definite majority of people never see the source to most programs they use."
God knows I sure don't. But that isn't the point, is it? The issue is whether enough white-hat hackers see it that a critical mass of voices is reached when security issues are found. That chorus of community concern is what informs and motivates the developers of open source software to correct security inadequacies in a timely fashion. In a closed source environment, the amount of people who know the code well enough to comment on vulnerabilities is much, much smaller. There are the people who work for the company that made the software, a very few white hats, and a bunch of black hats. When a security issue comes up in a closed source program, there aren't enough positive voices speaking on behalf of the users to alert the authors and demand change.
That is why the open source model is better for security. Not because the developers are necessarily better coders, but because they've chosen to allow their work to be reviewed by any consumer who chooses to do so.
"What was the successor to the CD format? MP3, a lower-quality format, but one that provided a convenience of being able to transmit music over the Internet that no other format had. So convenience won out and people settled for lower quality. The first time I've ever seen that in my life."
This would be a fine point, except for the fact that in most situations, with the speakers and headphones that most people use, the quality of the two formats is almost indistinguishable. The average user has a $300 iPod hooked up to a $15 pair of headphones. The relatively minor difference in quality is going to be muddled over by the poor output of his cans.
Hence mp3 won out because convenience was all that John Q. Public knew to judge by.
"The entire floating ice pack in the arctic could melt and it wouldn't effect the water level one bit. Why? BECAUSE IT'S FLOATING ALREADY."
While I grant you this is true, what I think most concerns people is where the giant ice-shelf-chunks will be floating. Since they're essentially at the North Pole, the only direction in which they can float off is South, where the waters are warmer, and likely to accelerate the melting process. The more ice that melts, the less white surface area on the Earth we have, which means less reflected light energy, which means higher temperatures and more ice melting all over the place (including over land).
"You have a right to do anything that does not harm another. Since they are not even trying to get his money for the show, there's no basis whatever for any claims of monetary losses. The author gains nothing by keeping his work from others, so disseminating it cannot be said to harm him."
Look, I'm no Nazi when it comes to the occasional IP theft. I have been known to use p2p apps from time to time; but what you just wrote is false. When you pirate a copy of something, even when the creator has no plans to try and sell it to you, you're still harming him by eroding his ability to control the distribution of his own work. That's a very important thing in the eyes of musicians, writers and filmmakers.
Also, your assertion that the author is not losing money due to your theft is lost if you consider the fact that he might choose to market his creation to your area at a future time. He has lost potential income, even if it's years before he decides to take action on it.
Like I said, I'm not trying to be self-righteous on this as I've done my own share of downloading, but people who think p2p downloading of things is a purely correct thing to do really need to think about what they're doing a little more.
Isn't this stuttering just the game loading textures into the video card's RAM?
I have an ATI 9700, and when HL2 did its little autoconfiguration of video options, It set me up to have medium texture detail (smaller, less detailed textures resulting in blurry, pixellated walls but consuming less video RAM). I had no problems with stuttering, but I hated the low-detail textures, as they took away from what was supposedly one of the best looking games in history.
So I changed the texture detail to high. And, predictably, whenever I entered a new area within a map (going from an underground tunnel to an outdoor setting, for example), the game paused for a moment as it (I presume) had to pull subway-wall textures out of video memory and put in side-of-house textures. It was annoying, but it seemed a fair trade-off for a better looking game.
I would suggest to anyone who's having this problem, if you have a card with less than 256M of RAM, try setting the texture detail down. It was the source of the stuttering in my case.
This company needs to use something other than GPS to determine the speed of the bike. GPS's method is to collect a location point every few tenths of a second, then add the distance between each of the last twenty points or so and divide by total time. This means that your "speed" is an approximation at best (almost always to low because or curves in the road) and doesn't show double-zero until a few seconds after you've stopped.
I did a fleet management project using GPS-able PDAs in trucks. We had to kill the big spedometer in our interface because the GPS delay caused it to fuck with peoples' heads.
If they're serious about this, they need to either hang a Hall effect sensor on the output shaft of the engine, or tap into the bike's speed sensor line if it has an engine-control processor and then relay that info to the helmet with bluetooth or something. Otherwise it just won't work.
"The French don't owe the US for freeing them from Nazis just like the US doesn't owe the French for their helping hand during the civil war."
Perhaps you're thinking of the Revolutionary War, where America defeated the British with a little help from the French (General Lafeyette is one of only five people named "honorary" American Citizens by our government).
In the Civil War, France did little but avoid buying cotton from the South by producing it themselves. That's hardly altruistic, and by helping the Union they were hurting the other half of America anyway.
I'm not one to trumpet America as a great defender to which the rest of the Western world owes a tremendous debt. However, to suggest that the paltry help supplied by the French in our early history somehow compares to the thousands of Americans who died freeing Paris and Versailles is seriously fucked up.
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"So being able to slow down time and reload a shotgun in less then a second is "realistic"? You need to lay off the pills boy."
Well... Since the last "A" in RIAA stands for America, you probably
wouldn't get sued by the RIAA.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that. It was the MPAA that went after that poor kid in Norway who wrote DeCSS after all. I imagine the RIAA would be eager to make sure that people in all countries that have decent extradition treaties with the US knew they should fear a lawsuit.
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How is this the "mother of all CPU charts" when it leaves out all the dedicated mobile processors? I'd like to know if that Turion 64 laptop I've been looking at will outperform the P4 unit sitting next to it, or what clock speed of Centrino or Pentium-M will beat my two-year-old desktop.
Does anyone know where I could find a chart that compares mobile processors to their desktop equivalents? I really am about to buy a laptop, so it'd be quite helpful.
Just a joke, dude. What is this guy, your cousin or something? :)
"The company's first so-called PWRficient chip will feature two processing cores, run at 2GHz and consume on average about 5 watts, thanks to an emphasis on integration and circuit design. At a maximum, it will consume 25 watts, far less than the single-core Power chips that can hit 90 watts found on the market today."
Also, thanks to our patented Vapor-based architecture, we've been able to build our level-2 RAM cache out of a giant cloud of gaseous water! And we've licensed our chips to be in the Phantom Game Console! And they'll even run Duke Nukem Forever! As we speak the SCO group is printing out some infringing Linux code with them to use as evidence in an actual trial!
"He's got a point. Quicktime Pro is a $30 upgrade no user should have to pay for just to do this job"
No kidding. The latest version of QuickTime won't even let you view movies in full-screen mode unless you buy the upgrade. There's a recipe for consumer goodwill.
I think the actual soundtrack would go something like this:
"Mmm, I do love a fine day here in Southern Afghanistan. Hmm, need to shave the camel again, gotta remember that. The poppy crop is blooming nicely, that's nice. Hmm, sounds like a plane is going overhead and-- Aaaah! AIIIGH! My head's on fire, my head's on fire! Man that smarts!" [sound of guy sticking his head up a camel's butt to extinguish his flaming hair]
And yes, I realize this is just an air-to-air point defense mechanism we're talking about, but hey, any excuse to describe people giving burning, first-person rectal exams to camels.
Funny, I think the fact that this is modded up but as yet has no replies indicates that everyone is amused that you responded in Morse, but has no idea what the hell you said. :)
Curious.
function move_bot(cur_x, cur_y);
... etc ...
{
ASSERT(no_one_is_screaming);
ASSERT(no_one_is_fleeing_in_terror);
ASSERT(no_one_has_been_accidentally_disemboweled)
}
" Get rid of that lousy Skype name and replace it with a quality, easy to remember Google name such as... Orkut?!?"
What's wrong with "Orkut"? It reminds me of Orko from Masters of the Universe when I was a kid. Man, he was the sexiest purple-clad, invisible, floating dwarf *ever*.
"The point of bluffing is to convince the other players that you ARE bluffing when you've actually got a good hand. Then you can milk them for all they've got. If you're bluffing a low hand, you should be prepared to lose. In fact, you should be expecting it."
This is a ridiculous statement. You *might* be able to apply it to limit hold 'em, but certainly not no-limit games. The point of bluffing is to not only make it more difficult for your opponents to put you on a hand, but also (and more importantly, IMHO) to allow you to win pots when you do not have the best hand at the table. This is important in limit hold 'em and critical in no limit. If you think the point of bluffing is just to make you harder to read, I'd love to sit down with you at a table.
" Would be even nicer if i can integrate my yahoo mail too! ;-)"
That's easy. Just create a Gmail account, and set your Yahoo mail to automatically forward everything there.
I like helping people.
"Hate to break it to you but people have not died *because* of this. They died because of a lack of understanding on *their* part.
Yes, I'm sure Vonage (and others) could have put a "hair dryer" style sticker on the top of the ATA that read something like "Warning -- Do not use for 911 calls if you are in danger", but the information (last I looked, anyway) was available as to what happens when you dial 911."
A reasonable point, though it merits mention that Vonage is currently being sued by the state of Texas for intentionally misleading their customers about their 911 coverage.
Personally, I don't see what the problem is with giving them four months to handle the technical aspects of this. They've got everyone's zip code and (I would assume) a directory of each zip code's appropriate 911 response center. How hard is it to make these ends meet? I would think the chick that worked the switchboard at the Mayberry RFD phone company could handle this.
"First things that come to mind are prototyping and education - I'm sure I'm not the only /.er who was taught Pascal at school."
/.er who's pissed that his high school didn't teach its CS classes in C/C++ instead. :)
And I'm sure I'm not the only
"You need CGI? No. You need expensive sets? No again."
:)
People used to be able to say this type of thing about good movies. Maybe the reason the studios are so worried about losses due to piracy is that it might cause them to have to worry about silly things like artistry and solid writing.
Topeka, 1954:
How can you send your black children to a white school? You know the white kids are just going to pick on them, call them names, beat them up after class, possibly lynch one of the boys, and generally make their existences a living hell. How could you do that to a child when you know it won't make any difference because the white people will always find a way to keep the negroes down regardless of whether schools are integrated?
"Cell Phone Virus Threat Overblown"
It's too bad this isn't fark.com so someone could have stuck an [obvious] tag in front of that headline...
Wow! Somebody sure woke on the wrong side of The Channel this morning!
"a definite majority of people never see the source to most programs they use."
God knows I sure don't. But that isn't the point, is it? The issue is whether enough white-hat hackers see it that a critical mass of voices is reached when security issues are found. That chorus of community concern is what informs and motivates the developers of open source software to correct security inadequacies in a timely fashion. In a closed source environment, the amount of people who know the code well enough to comment on vulnerabilities is much, much smaller. There are the people who work for the company that made the software, a very few white hats, and a bunch of black hats. When a security issue comes up in a closed source program, there aren't enough positive voices speaking on behalf of the users to alert the authors and demand change.
That is why the open source model is better for security. Not because the developers are necessarily better coders, but because they've chosen to allow their work to be reviewed by any consumer who chooses to do so.
"What was the successor to the CD format? MP3, a lower-quality format, but one that provided a convenience of being able to transmit music over the Internet that no other format had. So convenience won out and people settled for lower quality. The first time I've ever seen that in my life."
This would be a fine point, except for the fact that in most situations, with the speakers and headphones that most people use, the quality of the two formats is almost indistinguishable. The average user has a $300 iPod hooked up to a $15 pair of headphones. The relatively minor difference in quality is going to be muddled over by the poor output of his cans.
Hence mp3 won out because convenience was all that John Q. Public knew to judge by.
"The entire floating ice pack in the arctic could melt and it wouldn't effect the water level one bit. Why? BECAUSE IT'S FLOATING ALREADY."
While I grant you this is true, what I think most concerns people is where the giant ice-shelf-chunks will be floating. Since they're essentially at the North Pole, the only direction in which they can float off is South, where the waters are warmer, and likely to accelerate the melting process. The more ice that melts, the less white surface area on the Earth we have, which means less reflected light energy, which means higher temperatures and more ice melting all over the place (including over land).
"You have a right to do anything that does not harm another. Since they are not even trying to get his money for the show, there's no basis whatever for any claims of monetary losses. The author gains nothing by keeping his work from others, so disseminating it cannot be said to harm him."
Look, I'm no Nazi when it comes to the occasional IP theft. I have been known to use p2p apps from time to time; but what you just wrote is false. When you pirate a copy of something, even when the creator has no plans to try and sell it to you, you're still harming him by eroding his ability to control the distribution of his own work. That's a very important thing in the eyes of musicians, writers and filmmakers.
Also, your assertion that the author is not losing money due to your theft is lost if you consider the fact that he might choose to market his creation to your area at a future time. He has lost potential income, even if it's years before he decides to take action on it.
Like I said, I'm not trying to be self-righteous on this as I've done my own share of downloading, but people who think p2p downloading of things is a purely correct thing to do really need to think about what they're doing a little more.
Isn't this stuttering just the game loading textures into the video card's RAM?
I have an ATI 9700, and when HL2 did its little autoconfiguration of video options, It set me up to have medium texture detail (smaller, less detailed textures resulting in blurry, pixellated walls but consuming less video RAM). I had no problems with stuttering, but I hated the low-detail textures, as they took away from what was supposedly one of the best looking games in history.
So I changed the texture detail to high. And, predictably, whenever I entered a new area within a map (going from an underground tunnel to an outdoor setting, for example), the game paused for a moment as it (I presume) had to pull subway-wall textures out of video memory and put in side-of-house textures. It was annoying, but it seemed a fair trade-off for a better looking game.
I would suggest to anyone who's having this problem, if you have a card with less than 256M of RAM, try setting the texture detail down. It was the source of the stuttering in my case.
This company needs to use something other than GPS to determine the speed of the bike. GPS's method is to collect a location point every few tenths of a second, then add the distance between each of the last twenty points or so and divide by total time. This means that your "speed" is an approximation at best (almost always to low because or curves in the road) and doesn't show double-zero until a few seconds after you've stopped.
I did a fleet management project using GPS-able PDAs in trucks. We had to kill the big spedometer in our interface because the GPS delay caused it to fuck with peoples' heads.
If they're serious about this, they need to either hang a Hall effect sensor on the output shaft of the engine, or tap into the bike's speed sensor line if it has an engine-control processor and then relay that info to the helmet with bluetooth or something. Otherwise it just won't work.
"The French don't owe the US for freeing them from Nazis just like the US doesn't owe the French for their helping hand during the civil war."
Perhaps you're thinking of the Revolutionary War, where America defeated the British with a little help from the French (General Lafeyette is one of only five people named "honorary" American Citizens by our government).
In the Civil War, France did little but avoid buying cotton from the South by producing it themselves. That's hardly altruistic, and by helping the Union they were hurting the other half of America anyway.
I'm not one to trumpet America as a great defender to which the rest of the Western world owes a tremendous debt. However, to suggest that the paltry help supplied by the French in our early history somehow compares to the thousands of Americans who died freeing Paris and Versailles is seriously fucked up.
"So being able to slow down time and reload a shotgun in less then a second is "realistic"? You need to lay off the pills boy."
Specifically the red pills, I believe.
Well... Since the last "A" in RIAA stands for America, you probably wouldn't get sued by the RIAA.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that. It was the MPAA that went after that poor kid in Norway who wrote DeCSS after all. I imagine the RIAA would be eager to make sure that people in all countries that have decent extradition treaties with the US knew they should fear a lawsuit.