"Your number of physical cores comparison is meaningless, and actual performance benchmarks show that the Core i7 980X is more than twice as fast as the AMD Phenom II X6 1055T. [1]"
Trolling much? Comparing a $200 CPU with a $1,000 CPU isn't really fair, is it? Someone shopping for a $200 CPU isn't going to even consider a $1,000 CPU and vice versa. Might as well compare a $100,000 Porsche Turbo to a $20,000 Ford Focus.
Might want to follow your own link and look at the far right column with the prices and compare it to where the CPU ranks compared to price: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
"AMD's lineup has been relatively stagnant while Intel continued to innovate with Nehalem and Sandy Bridge (due late this year) and the Bulldozer refresh is badly needed to keep in step."
I don't know why I'm bothering to argue with a AC Troll, but here it goes, just in case someone else has the same wrong-thinking.
"No, the materials already exist, they aren't being created. They are being manufactured or otherwise processed, they don't just pop into existence. "
From where, the drywall fairy? If you and 10,000 of your friends build new houses, that's 10,000 orders of drywall for an entire house some manufacture is going to get. Along with 10,000 toilets, 10,000 garage doors, 10,000... you get the idea.
"And the land isn't being "Used Up", it's being occupied. The former word indicates that it will be consumed- it won't, it'll just have a house sitting on it."
LOL that's too stupid to argue... yes, it's being "used up", the 100 acre park is now a subdivision, it's used up, while existing homes sit vacant. Maybe not in the "used up" sense in that energy is only converted, but that forest no longer exists, same as if I drank all the beer my girlfriend would say "You used up all the beer" (not really, this is/., girlfriends are a myth)
"No, not at all. Tearing down an old home and re-using the materials in a new one is like recycling. Buying a home is like having someone give you something, as opposed to destroying it and re-manufacturing the product."
Tear down and re-use what, the roof? The drywall? The floors? You just tore all that down, it's not being reused, it goes in a 30 yard dumpster and is hauled away to a landfill.
"Since the only thing that an old toilet will do in a landfill is sit there, it would be "worse" to continue to waste the extra 2 gallons of fresh water per flush."
Didn't you just contradict yourself? Yes, the toilet is sitting in a landfill, yours and the other 10,000 that people tossed because the new one uses 2 gallons less of water, water that can be completely reclaimed and turned into drinking water. That toilet just sits there forever.
"Every single one of them would be just as much a problem if he were building a regular home."
But isn't building any home not "green".
By building a new home they're creating all new materials and you're using up more land while real estate prices are the lowest they've been in 30 years.
Isn't buying an existing home sort of like recycling? You're taking something that already existed and reusing it, isn't that what recycling is?
And after you have your existing home you don't just rip everything out of it to replace it with "green" materials, you only replace what *needs* to be replaced with green products because by throwing away perfectly good drywall and toilets you're wasting and filling landfills. Sure the existing toilet might flush 3 gallons instead of 1, but what is worse, using an extra 2 gallons of water or a toilet sitting in a landfill?
"The whole journey is 3620km long, and takes about 3 days to drive in normal traffic. Traffic is getting through, it is just running slowly because of road works to widen the road. The delays have been going on for 9 days, but that doesn't mean it is the same cars as 9 days ago."
Huh? Article says: "Thousands of vehicles were bogged down Monday in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam leading to Beijing that has lasted nine days"
Now maybe my reading comprehension sucks, but it sounds to me like there's 60+ miles of traffic and that traffic has been there for 9 days. I understand that a few cars join and other's leave, but it does sound like it's taking days to get through it.
I keep reading story after story of how easily hackable these machines are and my only question is why do they keep making easily hackable machines? Who are the geniuses making a voting machine that can be hacked? Why aren't they contacting these professors and researchers while they're creating the machine and say "Hey you're good at hacking. We're trying to create a voting machine that can not be hacked, can you help us?"
"We collect and SELL over a THOUSAND tonnes of paper products every month.
Things might be different in your area but here our multi-million company is quiet profitable from it."
If companies like yours just somehow gave customers just a FEW DOLLARS a month to recycle then I promise you recycling would increase 10x fold.
"- less than 15 needed for sufficient speeds [nope]"
SATA SDHC RAID spotted: " Impress were able to get a pretty impressive 111.4MB/s read and 55.2MB/s write when combining the device with six Transcend 8GB Class 6 SDHC cards."
While 55MB/s real world speed isn't the "up to 100MB/s" the article claims, that SATA SDHC RAID article is also 2 years old, modern SDHC cards could no doubt close the gap.
- easy to solder on board [nope]
That a feature or bug? I really don't like the idea of hard drives being soldered to motherboards
- wear leveling [nope]
- possibility to do TRIM [nope]
- encryption? [nope]
Article doesn't mention any of those features, I guess you're just assuming this will have all of those because other SSDs you've used had these features?
"- boot (in RAID) [nope]
- no drivers needed (in RAID) [nope]
If the manufacture raided several memory chips at the hardware level, yes you could boot in raid and no drivers would be needed
"- cheaper than the proposed solution (in RAID) [nope]"
Prices have not been announced
"- smaller than the proposed solution (in RAID) [nope]"
If a manufacture took several MicroSDHC cards apart and put them in raid they would be as small as this solution.
"and how many of those would have actually worked out,"
And who said this guy did? He was fired for a reason, and in this case it's because his boss thought he was stealing clients. He had to do something to make his boss believe he would steal clients... and *shock* he did hang on to a bunch of clients and started soliciting them after he was fired.
Guess his boss was right for firing him after all.
I am a "boss" and we do surveys of our customers to see if anyone's soliciting. If someone is I immediately dismiss them but never tell them why, because I don't know if he's soliciting 1 or 20 and I don't want him retaliating against the customer (some people go crazy after getting fired).
Maybe that's what happened in this case, boss got feedback that this guy was soliciting so he was fired and now he feels justified stealing customers because he was fired. He was still wrong for stealing customers.
--Smaller than stamp? Very much so, Check!
--4gb to 64gb? Check!
--100MB/sec read and 160MB/sec write? Hmm... well not by itself, but if you Raid 0 a few MicroSDs it'd probably reach those speeds, and we're hoping the article is correct with the MB term meaning Megabyte and not Megabit because MicroSD's also offer 100 Mbit/s
So while this is announcement is nice, I still feel like they took the same thing we've been using for the past few years, put it in a new box and labeled it as a totally new product.
"As for being "nice enough to hire you", that's bullshit."
Maybe in bizarro world, but here in reality there's dozens of applicants for a single job, not the other way around, unless you're some famous superstar and everyone wants you. So yes he was "nice enough to hire you", because he had dozens of other people he could have hired instead of you.
"Or they could design the train so that people could drive their cars onto it and park.
It'd kill the airlines in a week."
I was thinking the exact same thing. I'd never fly or drive more than 300 miles again and I'd actually take a train for the first time in my life.
This would also help electric cars because you no longer need a car that can drive 400 miles on a tank of gas and be refilled in 5 minutes.
1) Drive electric car 20-50 miles to train
2) drive electric car onto train
3) leave car and go to quarters for sleeping, eating, etc
4) get back in car and depart train to destination
only problem I see is that a boxcar is only about 10 feet wide while a large SUV is closer to 20 feet long so you couldn't drive vehicles on there the easiest way which would be sideways, they'd have to go lengthway like the train. I'm afraid by the time you loaded hundreds of vehicles on the train most people could have already arrived by plane.
Despite your attempt to rationalize it I stll think what you did was wrong. That business owner shelled out a lot of money to start a business and find customers, then he was nice enough to hire you to service those customers. To stab him in the back and steal his customers after you were fired is wrong, even if you didn't deserve to be fired.
So you're required to be nerdy enough to want to enter this this contest and create a demo of your idea, but noob enough to still be running 32-bit? Half of Windows 7 PCs run the 64-bit version
"To reserve a place in the contest and to receive an Adaptive keyboard for development, contestants must submit an entry email to the contest chair no later than August 17th, 2010."
Written words only go so far, we've all gotten texts and emails of things that are suppose to jokes or sarcasm and they just don't convey well when written. With a video you can see all the facial expressions and voice fluctuations that are required to express jokes... or sadness.
Also people tend to put too much thought and time into handwritten stuff. With a video blog she can just babble on about "nothing" (might be nothing now, but after she's gone it might be very important) much easier with no editing.
I agree, but I would take it one step further: a daily video blog for your wife.
Videos of birthdays, vacations and special events only go so far: you've all seen those videos, camera pans over the people and they're all smiling and laughing, but there's no sharing there, no real connection, it's about as generic as can be.
A video blog set to private on Youtube would be perfect. She can just turn on the laptop webcam and talk about whatever she's feeling that day for a few minutes. My wife and I did that awhile ago when we were on a strict diet and it's very interesting to go back now and see how we looked and felt.
"thecarchik writes....A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found a 1.1 percent increase in self-reported obesity....The study estimates that 1 billion extra gallons of fuel were needed"
thecarchik lied to us, because the CDC study doesn't say a word about fuel.
I'm not doubting us being fatter has cost more in fuel consumption just as it no doubt has cost more in health care costs, I'm just saying the that the article is misleading, that claiming this is a CDC study was an attempt to make the story sound far more credible than the real source, a 4 yr old story on entrepreneur.com. The linked article is honest and does say it's not the CDC study, but the Slashdot post directly states the CDC study is responsible.
Slashdot Mirror
"Your number of physical cores comparison is meaningless, and actual performance benchmarks show that the Core i7 980X is more than twice as fast as the AMD Phenom II X6 1055T. [1]"
Trolling much? Comparing a $200 CPU with a $1,000 CPU isn't really fair, is it? Someone shopping for a $200 CPU isn't going to even consider a $1,000 CPU and vice versa. Might as well compare a $100,000 Porsche Turbo to a $20,000 Ford Focus.
Might want to follow your own link and look at the far right column with the prices and compare it to where the CPU ranks compared to price:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
"AMD's lineup has been relatively stagnant while Intel continued to innovate with Nehalem and Sandy Bridge (due late this year) and the Bulldozer refresh is badly needed to keep in step."
AMD just came out with Six-Core processors for $200, how is that stagnant? Intel's only 6-core processor is still $1000
I don't know why I'm bothering to argue with a AC Troll, but here it goes, just in case someone else has the same wrong-thinking.
/., girlfriends are a myth)
"No, the materials already exist, they aren't being created. They are being manufactured or otherwise processed, they don't just pop into existence. "
From where, the drywall fairy? If you and 10,000 of your friends build new houses, that's 10,000 orders of drywall for an entire house some manufacture is going to get. Along with 10,000 toilets, 10,000 garage doors, 10,000... you get the idea.
"And the land isn't being "Used Up", it's being occupied. The former word indicates that it will be consumed- it won't, it'll just have a house sitting on it."
LOL that's too stupid to argue... yes, it's being "used up", the 100 acre park is now a subdivision, it's used up, while existing homes sit vacant. Maybe not in the "used up" sense in that energy is only converted, but that forest no longer exists, same as if I drank all the beer my girlfriend would say "You used up all the beer" (not really, this is
"No, not at all. Tearing down an old home and re-using the materials in a new one is like recycling. Buying a home is like having someone give you something, as opposed to destroying it and re-manufacturing the product."
Tear down and re-use what, the roof? The drywall? The floors? You just tore all that down, it's not being reused, it goes in a 30 yard dumpster and is hauled away to a landfill.
"Since the only thing that an old toilet will do in a landfill is sit there, it would be "worse" to continue to waste the extra 2 gallons of fresh water per flush."
Didn't you just contradict yourself? Yes, the toilet is sitting in a landfill, yours and the other 10,000 that people tossed because the new one uses 2 gallons less of water, water that can be completely reclaimed and turned into drinking water. That toilet just sits there forever.
FTFA:
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/08/23/cannabis-hemp-electric-car-kestrel-motive.html
"a range of 40 to 160 kilometres before needing to be recharged, depending on the type of battery....with a capacity ranging from 4.5 to 17.3 kilowatt hours of energy."
40 km range? 24 miles? That's a golf cart, not a car, will they at least give me a spot to throw a dozen D cells in so I can get home?
Even 160km is only 100 miles, so it's equivalent to the Nissan Leaf but without the big Nissan name behind it.
These cars better at least be cheap.
"Every single one of them would be just as much a problem if he were building a regular home."
But isn't building any home not "green".
By building a new home they're creating all new materials and you're using up more land while real estate prices are the lowest they've been in 30 years.
Isn't buying an existing home sort of like recycling? You're taking something that already existed and reusing it, isn't that what recycling is?
And after you have your existing home you don't just rip everything out of it to replace it with "green" materials, you only replace what *needs* to be replaced with green products because by throwing away perfectly good drywall and toilets you're wasting and filling landfills. Sure the existing toilet might flush 3 gallons instead of 1, but what is worse, using an extra 2 gallons of water or a toilet sitting in a landfill?
Is this thinking wrong?
"The whole journey is 3620km long, and takes about 3 days to drive in normal traffic. Traffic is getting through, it is just running slowly because of road works to widen the road. The delays have been going on for 9 days, but that doesn't mean it is the same cars as 9 days ago."
Huh? Article says: "Thousands of vehicles were bogged down Monday in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam leading to Beijing that has lasted nine days"
Now maybe my reading comprehension sucks, but it sounds to me like there's 60+ miles of traffic and that traffic has been there for 9 days. I understand that a few cars join and other's leave, but it does sound like it's taking days to get through it.
I think it's a trap so we stop fearing them. "We are very simple people with very small (highway). We cannot achieve so much with such small (highway), but you American wow, (highway) so big, so big (highway)!"
I keep reading story after story of how easily hackable these machines are and my only question is why do they keep making easily hackable machines? Who are the geniuses making a voting machine that can be hacked? Why aren't they contacting these professors and researchers while they're creating the machine and say "Hey you're good at hacking. We're trying to create a voting machine that can not be hacked, can you help us?"
I just don't understand, it's like building a car that explodes at the slightest impact and then arresting people that expose it. Wouldn't it be easier just to make a better voting machine?
"We collect and SELL over a THOUSAND tonnes of paper products every month. Things might be different in your area but here our multi-million company is quiet profitable from it."
If companies like yours just somehow gave customers just a FEW DOLLARS a month to recycle then I promise you recycling would increase 10x fold.
Instead the stupid environmental movement makes us pay to recycle. What? Yes, we have to pay to make you more money. What's next, do we have to pay to give blood so the Red Cross can sell the blood?
I will never recycle as long as I have to pay to recycle.
You can steal bikes and money and babies over wifi?!? Who knew?! I'm totally doing that!
"- less than 15 needed for sufficient speeds [nope]"
SATA SDHC RAID spotted: " Impress were able to get a pretty impressive 111.4MB/s read and 55.2MB/s write when combining the device with six Transcend 8GB Class 6 SDHC cards."
While 55MB/s real world speed isn't the "up to 100MB/s" the article claims, that SATA SDHC RAID article is also 2 years old, modern SDHC cards could no doubt close the gap.
- easy to solder on board [nope]
That a feature or bug? I really don't like the idea of hard drives being soldered to motherboards
- wear leveling [nope]
- possibility to do TRIM [nope]
- encryption? [nope]
Article doesn't mention any of those features, I guess you're just assuming this will have all of those because other SSDs you've used had these features?
"- boot (in RAID) [nope]
- no drivers needed (in RAID) [nope]
If the manufacture raided several memory chips at the hardware level, yes you could boot in raid and no drivers would be needed
"- cheaper than the proposed solution (in RAID) [nope]"
Prices have not been announced
"- smaller than the proposed solution (in RAID) [nope]"
If a manufacture took several MicroSDHC cards apart and put them in raid they would be as small as this solution.
"There's a reason why manufacturers don't just put 8 microSD cards together and call it an SSD drive."
Actually that's exactly what they have done: "DIY SSD adapter takes 6 SDHC cards, the cake"
exactly, while werewolves are very much real, although they're not to be feared
"First off, the employer in question was already winding down his business before the whole "someone took my clients!" thing came up."
Then you didn't steal anything since the business was out-of-business.
that was an important part of your story that probably should have been included.
"and how many of those would have actually worked out,"
And who said this guy did? He was fired for a reason, and in this case it's because his boss thought he was stealing clients. He had to do something to make his boss believe he would steal clients... and *shock* he did hang on to a bunch of clients and started soliciting them after he was fired.
Guess his boss was right for firing him after all.
I am a "boss" and we do surveys of our customers to see if anyone's soliciting. If someone is I immediately dismiss them but never tell them why, because I don't know if he's soliciting 1 or 20 and I don't want him retaliating against the customer (some people go crazy after getting fired).
Maybe that's what happened in this case, boss got feedback that this guy was soliciting so he was fired and now he feels justified stealing customers because he was fired. He was still wrong for stealing customers.
only on /. would the same post be Insightful one day and Flamebait the next ;)
How is this much different from a MicroSD?
--Smaller than stamp? Very much so, Check!
--4gb to 64gb? Check!
--100MB/sec read and 160MB/sec write? Hmm... well not by itself, but if you Raid 0 a few MicroSDs it'd probably reach those speeds, and we're hoping the article is correct with the MB term meaning Megabyte and not Megabit because MicroSD's also offer 100 Mbit/s
So while this is announcement is nice, I still feel like they took the same thing we've been using for the past few years, put it in a new box and labeled it as a totally new product.
First I read a few months ago that Australia impounds cars for speeding (even if it's someone else's car) and cars are impounded permanently and auctioned-off (proceeds going to govt of course) making lots of money:
"Car confiscation is big business in Australia. The state of Victoria seized 3437 cars generating $1 million in net revenue between July 2006 and December 2007."
And now they're going after iPhone apps?
What gives Australia? Why do you hate your citizens?
"As for being "nice enough to hire you", that's bullshit."
Maybe in bizarro world, but here in reality there's dozens of applicants for a single job, not the other way around, unless you're some famous superstar and everyone wants you. So yes he was "nice enough to hire you", because he had dozens of other people he could have hired instead of you.
"Or they could design the train so that people could drive their cars onto it and park. It'd kill the airlines in a week."
I was thinking the exact same thing. I'd never fly or drive more than 300 miles again and I'd actually take a train for the first time in my life.
This would also help electric cars because you no longer need a car that can drive 400 miles on a tank of gas and be refilled in 5 minutes.
1) Drive electric car 20-50 miles to train
2) drive electric car onto train
3) leave car and go to quarters for sleeping, eating, etc
4) get back in car and depart train to destination
only problem I see is that a boxcar is only about 10 feet wide while a large SUV is closer to 20 feet long so you couldn't drive vehicles on there the easiest way which would be sideways, they'd have to go lengthway like the train. I'm afraid by the time you loaded hundreds of vehicles on the train most people could have already arrived by plane.
Despite your attempt to rationalize it I stll think what you did was wrong. That business owner shelled out a lot of money to start a business and find customers, then he was nice enough to hire you to service those customers. To stab him in the back and steal his customers after you were fired is wrong, even if you didn't deserve to be fired.
Why is this flamebait? That's what I did, once you click Send it's yours and no one can accuse you of walking out with anything
FTFA:
/.!
http://www.acm.org/uist/uist2010/Student_Contest.html
The current requirements for running the keyboard are below:
1. A computer running Windows Vista or Windows 7. 32-bit only.
So you're required to be nerdy enough to want to enter this this contest and create a demo of your idea, but noob enough to still be running 32-bit? Half of Windows 7 PCs run the 64-bit version
"To reserve a place in the contest and to receive an Adaptive keyboard for development, contestants must submit an entry email to the contest chair no later than August 17th, 2010."
Not much notice
Written words only go so far, we've all gotten texts and emails of things that are suppose to jokes or sarcasm and they just don't convey well when written. With a video you can see all the facial expressions and voice fluctuations that are required to express jokes... or sadness.
Also people tend to put too much thought and time into handwritten stuff. With a video blog she can just babble on about "nothing" (might be nothing now, but after she's gone it might be very important) much easier with no editing.
I agree, but I would take it one step further: a daily video blog for your wife.
Videos of birthdays, vacations and special events only go so far: you've all seen those videos, camera pans over the people and they're all smiling and laughing, but there's no sharing there, no real connection, it's about as generic as can be.
A video blog set to private on Youtube would be perfect. She can just turn on the laptop webcam and talk about whatever she's feeling that day for a few minutes. My wife and I did that awhile ago when we were on a strict diet and it's very interesting to go back now and see how we looked and felt.
"thecarchik writes....A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found a 1.1 percent increase in self-reported obesity....The study estimates that 1 billion extra gallons of fuel were needed"
thecarchik lied to us, because the CDC study doesn't say a word about fuel.
Here's the CDC study, does anyone see anything about fuel? Neither do I.
What the article is really quoting is a 2006 story on Entrepreneur.com titled "economic impact of obesity on automobile fuel consumption" which does conclude that 1 billion extra gallons of fuel were needed, but unfortunately all the references in that article are dead tree so someone would have to go through a lot of effort to fact-check.
I'm not doubting us being fatter has cost more in fuel consumption just as it no doubt has cost more in health care costs, I'm just saying the that the article is misleading, that claiming this is a CDC study was an attempt to make the story sound far more credible than the real source, a 4 yr old story on entrepreneur.com. The linked article is honest and does say it's not the CDC study, but the Slashdot post directly states the CDC study is responsible.
In other words.... it's a trap!