Sad, someone will drop $600 on that board, drop another $2500 on two 6-core Xeon and be the big swinging dick on their forum for the next 3 or 4 years, until everyone's on 24 core cpus for $500, and eventually they'll start laughing at him for wasting 3 grand on just cpus and a motherboard.
"However there is a significant cost difference that must be factored in when deciding 4 vs. 6 cores (at least last I checked, there was a huge price 'upgrade' for equal GHz +2 cores)"
"Well, volunteer rescuers are protected by good samaritan laws - nearly every state has them."
If only you were right"The court ruled 4-3 that only those administering medical care have legal immunity, but not those like Torti, who merely take rescue action. The justices said that the perceived danger to Van Horn in the wrecked car was not "medical." The court majority said the 1980 Emergency Medical Service Act, which Torti's lawyers cited for protection, was intended only to encourage people to learn first aid and use it in emergencies, not to give Good Samaritans blanket immunity when they act negligently."
This article has a lot more information but basically it boils down to the law protecting bystanders providing medical care but not those who attempt to rescue.
it's a real shame, someone could be screaming for help but you have to just watch them burn or risk a million dollar lawsuit.
"Better solution: make better laws, appoint better judges."
It's not the laws, this was a lawsuit that didn't even enter a courtroom. I can sue anyone for anything: if I knew your name and address I could sue you right now for... oh, let's say slander and you'd have to shell out $$$ or be found guilty. Oh sure you could counter sue saying the lawsuit has no basis and might get your money back, but you'd still have to shell out the $$$ first just to go to court.
Legal system is no better: without any proof or evidence at all I could accuse anyone of assault and the police will go arrest them and put them in jail and maybe the next day they could talk to a judge and get out of jail after paying thousands in bail. That's what this women did. She sent fake harassing text messages to herself and her ex-boyfriend was arrested three times before the police finally investigated to see that all the text messages were sent close to where the woman worked. Each time he was arrested he had to pay thousands in bail money and now has a police record for harassment that he has to try and clear up.
"Apple has used so few GPUs... Where does the 9400M and the 320M fall in that list?"
TFA: "Mac Recommended System Requirements:....9600M GT or ATI Radeon® HD 4670 or better"
Usually I'd agree, it can sometimes be hard to figure out if a 4890 is better than a 5750, etc, but in this case they made it pretty clear. A 9400M is not as fast as a 9600M, so while it'll play on minimum it isn't the recommended GPU.
FYI if you ever want to check just google "(BLANK) vs (BLANK)". Chances are you'll find a review comparing the two GPU unless one of them is so old it's not even worth comparing it with the other GPU.
Here's a great example: "PC Recommended System Requirements:... ATI Radeon® HD 3870 or better"
So I googled: Radeon 3870 vs 4770 and found this review which shows the 4770 scoring 30%+ better framerates than the 3870.
Is the download price significantly lower than the retail price? Because if I'm going to spend $60 on a download I might as well just run up to Walmart for their midnight release. Then I get a box and instructions and the full experience of the $100 million spent on development, and if their servers crash from everyone activating the digital copy I'll (hopefully) still be ok.
Plus if I download it I have to wait an extra 12 hours to play: "Will digital copies of StarCraft II be available as soon as the game is released in stores? No. They’ll go on sale slightly later, on 07/27/2010 10:00 AM PDT in North America and Latin America."
Whaa...?? Wait until the following day? This download is sounding worse all the time.
"...and we go release ~70'000 healthy hand nurtured healthy turtles..."
I wondered the same thing, so I went to TFA to look for photos of 70,000 turtles since I figured that'd be pretty cool to see. Most turtles I saw was a dozen, no photos of large hangars full of turtles or hundreds of containers full of eggs or anything, so I'm wondering where the other 69,988 turtles are, or if "70,000" was just the number of turtle eggs usually laid each year and they used that number but have no intention of actually saving 70,000 turtle eggs.
" people should be judged by how they perform their jobs, not on what they do outside of their jobs"
From my experiences with drug users the fact that they use drugs does say a lot about how well they perform their jobs.
Plus, it reflects pretty poorly on the company if you ever get publicly busted for drugs. In a large city no one would notice probably, but in smaller towns every little drug bust shows up in the local newspaper.
I knew you could get high on music! It's those damn Beatles and Rolling Stones again isn't it! In my day we were happy with the waltz and ragtime, now kids are listening to John Lennon and Mick Jagger.
....hey are you listening to me?!..... fine, then get off my lawn!
"I imagine it will be impractical for many devices"
You're right, and the summary is wrong and the article's a bit misleading.
"... will let you connect your laptop to a base station with all kinds of storage controllers, networking controllers, and yes, an external graphics processor."
Sorta... PCIe 16x is 16 GB/s, that's with a big B for bytes. They're hoping for 7Gbps, or 875 MB/s."the spec should move "quickly" to 7Gbps (875MB/s)." That's 1/20th the speed of 16x PCIe. They might be able to do PCIe x1 but that's it.
"A reliable wPCIe connection can be maintained with a
relatively low data rate channel. However, to achieve
meaningful performance between local and remote devices,
the data rate needs to be on the order of 2 Gbps, or that of
a single lane of PCIe. The only practical wireless channel that
can support this capacity is 60 GHz."
So basically this can transfer wirelessly at ~500+ MB/s, so you can have wireless BD-ROM, wireless hard drives, and yes even wireless displays, since it's fast enough to transfer 1080i without any compression, but I'm sorry to dash the hopes of anyone that thought they could someday upgrade their laptop's video card by simply buying a wireless external Radeon HD 5970 or Geforce GTX 480, you will still need a GPU connected by 16x PCIe to process the video and then stream it similar to what OnLive Remote Gaming Service offers now.
"... researchers were able to use IP-mapping services to get a general idea of user's location... Chatroulette is now testing a new feature called Localroulette, which connects people from specific cities with one another."
Congratulations researchers, you've discovered chatroulette's new features.
Please tell me taxpayers didn't pay for this research:( "... researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and McGill University..."
DOH!
they weren't researching anything, network admin probably noticed IP logs of them spending all day on chatroulette and they had to come up with some excuse.
*phone rings*
Person answering: Hello?
Admin: is this the research office of (BLANK)?
"Researcher": Yes it is
Admin: I'm the network admin for (insert "prestigious" university) and we've noticed someone in your office has spent the last 4 months on a website by the name of "chatroulette". Do you know anything about this?
"Researcher": Um.... what's the website?
Admin: Chatroulette
"Researcher":..... no, no doesn't ring a bell
Admin: Well if you notice anyone please let us know. The website is known for inappropriate content (NSFW) and we'll be monitoring the PC logins of the individuals and alert campus security once we know who is visiting the website.
"Researcher": OH Chatroulette! Oh yes I'm very familiar with that website, we're researching it
Admin: Research?
"Researcher": Yes research. We're... um, "probing" it's vulnerabilities, looking for "gaping holes" that "expose" users (chuckle)
Admin: gaping holes?
"Researcher": smiling Yes gaping holes... in security
Admin: Oh i see... well thank you for letting me know, I'll note this in the logs
"Researcher": You do that, have a good afternoon
Admin: You too
"he was unsuccessful in selling it [google.com], even after living in it overnight."
not exactly correct, TFA says it was built on a private vineyard (Denbies Wine Estate) with the understanding that Legoland was going to pay to have it moved. When they found out how much it would cost to move they decided they didn't want it and it was torn down. Article does not say if it was up for sale to anyone other than Legoland.
so she was caught doing something, and now she's going to the press to explain why she shouldn't lose her job, but making it sound like a press release.
This is brilliant! "Don't fire me, use me as an example to show other people what not to do."
If her personal views were racists, would that be ok then? People's "personal views" filter into their work, you can't 100% separate the two anymore than a pothead can fly commercial airplanes.
"'In society there are people you don't like, there are people who are incompetent and there are often people above you in authority who you think are incompetent, and learning that ability to deal with that and, actually surviving that environment can be an advantage.'""
The problem I have with this statement is that as children they might not be able to cope with an incompetent teacher. No only that but these teachers have a large impact on how far you go in life, if a teacher is incompetent and teaches kids incorrectly or causes children to fail that could seriously hurt their chances of succeeding in life.
Her statement is akin to "Every child should have an abusive parent, because when you get in the real world people might hit you and you need to defend yourself." HUH? Every teacher should be as close to perfect as possible, the only thing a incompetent teacher can teach is how to be incompetent and we have too many incompetent people in the world already.
"If you are going further WTF wouldn't you take the train?"
Train?? What train? Where do you live where there's trains everywhere. Most the US lives 100+ miles from a train station.
"Tesla Model S gets 300mi to a charge; Thats Boston to Philadelphia in one go. "
Great, and when you get there you better hope you find a charging station otherwise you're not getting back. Also remember that's "up to 300 miles", just like my laptop is "up to 6 hrs".
"...if I can convince my employer to offer charging in our parking garage... then we'll see infrastructure developed to help support them... Cities will install charging stations in various parking spaces..."
Gee, putting charging stations everywhere doesn't sound expensive, and I suppose they should raise taxes to pay for all of this? No thanks, I'll stick with the series hybrids, and on the rare occasion when I travel over 40 miles and the battery gets low I'll pull in any of the millions of existing gas stations.
Is this bad or livable? From what I recall of first person shooters a 150-200ms lag isn't bad, but your review just gives the raw numbers and never says if the games were still playable or not.
"Electric engines are roughly 3-4 times as efficient as gasoline ones. So you get 3-4 times the effective energy density out of batteries."
Sure, but who wants to buy a car that only gets 100 miles, then needs to be recharged every 50 miles? This might be a good second or third car, but it's not that practical as your main vehicle, and the fact that an electric vehicle must be charged nightly limits it to only being useful to homes with garages.
This is why SUVs have been so popular in the US despite their poor gas mileage. You can fit 5 to 7 adults comfortably and still have room for luggage.
Electric cars will fail, and series hybrids like the Chevy Volt will succeed. When the batteries run low a gas generator keeps the batteries charged enough to power the vehicle. This is brilliant: I get my electric car for my short daily commutes, but I still have gas for those rare times when I need to drive hundreds of miles in a day. I have the best of both worlds with no sacrifices.
"You seem to be under the impression that "identify" implies a requirement of providing valid government-issued ID (e.g. a driver's license). That is not the case."
Stop and identify statutes:
"Some “stop and identify” laws do not require that a detainee identify himself, but allow refusal to do so to be considered along with other factors in determining whether there is probable cause to arrest.... As of January 2010, the validity of a law requiring that a person detained do anything more than state his name has not come before the U.S. Supreme Court."
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"Someone hasn't seen the EVGA SR-2 mobo, yet."
Sad, someone will drop $600 on that board, drop another $2500 on two 6-core Xeon and be the big swinging dick on their forum for the next 3 or 4 years, until everyone's on 24 core cpus for $500, and eventually they'll start laughing at him for wasting 3 grand on just cpus and a motherboard.
Remember quad core cpus just came out 3 years ago and we're already on 12 cores. Does anyone doubt we'll be on 24 or more cores in 3 years?
"However there is a significant cost difference that must be factored in when deciding 4 vs. 6 cores (at least last I checked, there was a huge price 'upgrade' for equal GHz +2 cores)"
Not so: Newegg has the 6 core 2.8ghz AMD 1055T for $200, and Microcenter was recently offering $50 off a 1055T compatible AM3 motherboard when you bought a $200 1055T. The motherboards are only $55 so you're only paying $5 for the board.
So essentially you pay $205 to get a 6-core CPU and a new motherboard. That's a very good price to make the leap to 6-cores.
"Well, volunteer rescuers are protected by good samaritan laws - nearly every state has them."
If only you were right "The court ruled 4-3 that only those administering medical care have legal immunity, but not those like Torti, who merely take rescue action. The justices said that the perceived danger to Van Horn in the wrecked car was not "medical." The court majority said the 1980 Emergency Medical Service Act, which Torti's lawyers cited for protection, was intended only to encourage people to learn first aid and use it in emergencies, not to give Good Samaritans blanket immunity when they act negligently."
This article has a lot more information but basically it boils down to the law protecting bystanders providing medical care but not those who attempt to rescue.
it's a real shame, someone could be screaming for help but you have to just watch them burn or risk a million dollar lawsuit.
"Nobody can figure out that an nVidia 320M is supposed to be better than an nVidia 9400M."
Yes it's very difficult....
1) google "320m vs 9400M"
2) first link: "There aren't any benchmarks out yet for the 320m, but it is better than the 9400m"
requires two steps, that's very hard, nobody could possible figure that out.
"Better solution: make better laws, appoint better judges."
It's not the laws, this was a lawsuit that didn't even enter a courtroom. I can sue anyone for anything: if I knew your name and address I could sue you right now for... oh, let's say slander and you'd have to shell out $$$ or be found guilty. Oh sure you could counter sue saying the lawsuit has no basis and might get your money back, but you'd still have to shell out the $$$ first just to go to court.
Legal system is no better: without any proof or evidence at all I could accuse anyone of assault and the police will go arrest them and put them in jail and maybe the next day they could talk to a judge and get out of jail after paying thousands in bail. That's what this women did. She sent fake harassing text messages to herself and her ex-boyfriend was arrested three times before the police finally investigated to see that all the text messages were sent close to where the woman worked. Each time he was arrested he had to pay thousands in bail money and now has a police record for harassment that he has to try and clear up.
The US legal system is horrible.
"Apple has used so few GPUs... Where does the 9400M and the 320M fall in that list?"
TFA:
"Mac Recommended System Requirements:....9600M GT or ATI Radeon® HD 4670 or better"
Usually I'd agree, it can sometimes be hard to figure out if a 4890 is better than a 5750, etc, but in this case they made it pretty clear. A 9400M is not as fast as a 9600M, so while it'll play on minimum it isn't the recommended GPU.
FYI if you ever want to check just google "(BLANK) vs (BLANK)". Chances are you'll find a review comparing the two GPU unless one of them is so old it's not even worth comparing it with the other GPU.
Here's a great example: "PC Recommended System Requirements:... ATI Radeon® HD 3870 or better"
So I googled: Radeon 3870 vs 4770 and found this review which shows the 4770 scoring 30%+ better framerates than the 3870.
Is the download price significantly lower than the retail price? Because if I'm going to spend $60 on a download I might as well just run up to Walmart for their midnight release. Then I get a box and instructions and the full experience of the $100 million spent on development, and if their servers crash from everyone activating the digital copy I'll (hopefully) still be ok.
Plus if I download it I have to wait an extra 12 hours to play:
"Will digital copies of StarCraft II be available as soon as the game is released in stores?
No. They’ll go on sale slightly later, on 07/27/2010 10:00 AM PDT in North America and Latin America."
Whaa...?? Wait until the following day? This download is sounding worse all the time.
"...and we go release ~70'000 healthy hand nurtured healthy turtles..."
I wondered the same thing, so I went to TFA to look for photos of 70,000 turtles since I figured that'd be pretty cool to see. Most turtles I saw was a dozen, no photos of large hangars full of turtles or hundreds of containers full of eggs or anything, so I'm wondering where the other 69,988 turtles are, or if "70,000" was just the number of turtle eggs usually laid each year and they used that number but have no intention of actually saving 70,000 turtle eggs.
" people should be judged by how they perform their jobs, not on what they do outside of their jobs"
From my experiences with drug users the fact that they use drugs does say a lot about how well they perform their jobs.
Plus, it reflects pretty poorly on the company if you ever get publicly busted for drugs. In a large city no one would notice probably, but in smaller towns every little drug bust shows up in the local newspaper.
I knew you could get high on music! It's those damn Beatles and Rolling Stones again isn't it! In my day we were happy with the waltz and ragtime, now kids are listening to John Lennon and Mick Jagger.
....hey are you listening to me?! ..... fine, then get off my lawn!
"I imagine it will be impractical for many devices"
You're right, and the summary is wrong and the article's a bit misleading.
"... will let you connect your laptop to a base station with all kinds of storage controllers, networking controllers, and yes, an external graphics processor."
Sorta... PCIe 16x is 16 GB/s, that's with a big B for bytes. They're hoping for 7Gbps, or 875 MB/s. "the spec should move "quickly" to 7Gbps (875MB/s)." That's 1/20th the speed of 16x PCIe. They might be able to do PCIe x1 but that's it.
If they would have read the whitepaper that is all explained:
"A reliable wPCIe connection can be maintained with a relatively low data rate channel. However, to achieve meaningful performance between local and remote devices, the data rate needs to be on the order of 2 Gbps, or that of a single lane of PCIe. The only practical wireless channel that can support this capacity is 60 GHz."
So basically this can transfer wirelessly at ~500+ MB/s, so you can have wireless BD-ROM, wireless hard drives, and yes even wireless displays, since it's fast enough to transfer 1080i without any compression, but I'm sorry to dash the hopes of anyone that thought they could someday upgrade their laptop's video card by simply buying a wireless external Radeon HD 5970 or Geforce GTX 480, you will still need a GPU connected by 16x PCIe to process the video and then stream it similar to what OnLive Remote Gaming Service offers now.
"... researchers were able to use IP-mapping services to get a general idea of user's location... Chatroulette is now testing a new feature called Localroulette, which connects people from specific cities with one another."
:( "... researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder and McGill University ..."
..... no, no doesn't ring a bell
Congratulations researchers, you've discovered chatroulette's new features.
Please tell me taxpayers didn't pay for this research
DOH!
they weren't researching anything, network admin probably noticed IP logs of them spending all day on chatroulette and they had to come up with some excuse.
*phone rings*
Person answering: Hello?
Admin: is this the research office of (BLANK)?
"Researcher": Yes it is
Admin: I'm the network admin for (insert "prestigious" university) and we've noticed someone in your office has spent the last 4 months on a website by the name of "chatroulette". Do you know anything about this?
"Researcher": Um.... what's the website?
Admin: Chatroulette
"Researcher":
Admin: Well if you notice anyone please let us know. The website is known for inappropriate content (NSFW) and we'll be monitoring the PC logins of the individuals and alert campus security once we know who is visiting the website.
"Researcher": OH Chatroulette! Oh yes I'm very familiar with that website, we're researching it
Admin: Research?
"Researcher": Yes research. We're... um, "probing" it's vulnerabilities, looking for "gaping holes" that "expose" users (chuckle)
Admin: gaping holes?
"Researcher": smiling Yes gaping holes... in security
Admin: Oh i see... well thank you for letting me know, I'll note this in the logs
"Researcher": You do that, have a good afternoon
Admin: You too
After watching the video I'm going to have to put this in the Do Not Want category.
First, no scrolling.
Second, I still can't get my M$ wireless mice working perfectly, I can only imagine the problems I'd have with this.
I'll stick to my corded MX518 for a few more years, thanks
So what's the DPI on my cupped palm?
"he was unsuccessful in selling it [google.com], even after living in it overnight."
not exactly correct, TFA says it was built on a private vineyard (Denbies Wine Estate) with the understanding that Legoland was going to pay to have it moved. When they found out how much it would cost to move they decided they didn't want it and it was torn down. Article does not say if it was up for sale to anyone other than Legoland.
so she was caught doing something, and now she's going to the press to explain why she shouldn't lose her job, but making it sound like a press release.
This is brilliant! "Don't fire me, use me as an example to show other people what not to do."
If her personal views were racists, would that be ok then? People's "personal views" filter into their work, you can't 100% separate the two anymore than a pothead can fly commercial airplanes.
"'In society there are people you don't like, there are people who are incompetent and there are often people above you in authority who you think are incompetent, and learning that ability to deal with that and, actually surviving that environment can be an advantage.'""
The problem I have with this statement is that as children they might not be able to cope with an incompetent teacher. No only that but these teachers have a large impact on how far you go in life, if a teacher is incompetent and teaches kids incorrectly or causes children to fail that could seriously hurt their chances of succeeding in life.
Her statement is akin to "Every child should have an abusive parent, because when you get in the real world people might hit you and you need to defend yourself." HUH? Every teacher should be as close to perfect as possible, the only thing a incompetent teacher can teach is how to be incompetent and we have too many incompetent people in the world already.
"NYC metro area (NYC, northern new Jersey, eastern CT)"
Oh, you mean where they had the second largest blackout of all time for 48 hours?
"If you are going further WTF wouldn't you take the train?"
Train?? What train? Where do you live where there's trains everywhere. Most the US lives 100+ miles from a train station.
"Tesla Model S gets 300mi to a charge; Thats Boston to Philadelphia in one go. "
Great, and when you get there you better hope you find a charging station otherwise you're not getting back. Also remember that's "up to 300 miles", just like my laptop is "up to 6 hrs".
"...if I can convince my employer to offer charging in our parking garage... then we'll see infrastructure developed to help support them... Cities will install charging stations in various parking spaces..."
Gee, putting charging stations everywhere doesn't sound expensive, and I suppose they should raise taxes to pay for all of this? No thanks, I'll stick with the series hybrids, and on the rare occasion when I travel over 40 miles and the battery gets low I'll pull in any of the millions of existing gas stations.
Is this bad or livable? From what I recall of first person shooters a 150-200ms lag isn't bad, but your review just gives the raw numbers and never says if the games were still playable or not.
"very efficient at annoying the neighbors with the noise. :-)"
It's only used to charge the battery when it runs low so you would use the turbine very rarely.
"Electric engines are roughly 3-4 times as efficient as gasoline ones. So you get 3-4 times the effective energy density out of batteries."
Sure, but who wants to buy a car that only gets 100 miles, then needs to be recharged every 50 miles? This might be a good second or third car, but it's not that practical as your main vehicle, and the fact that an electric vehicle must be charged nightly limits it to only being useful to homes with garages.
This is why SUVs have been so popular in the US despite their poor gas mileage. You can fit 5 to 7 adults comfortably and still have room for luggage.
Electric cars will fail, and series hybrids like the Chevy Volt will succeed. When the batteries run low a gas generator keeps the batteries charged enough to power the vehicle. This is brilliant: I get my electric car for my short daily commutes, but I still have gas for those rare times when I need to drive hundreds of miles in a day. I have the best of both worlds with no sacrifices.
Also series hybrids means we can finally use turbines: gas turbines are the most efficient engine. While a gasoline engine is only 20-30% efficient, a gas turbine is over 80% efficient. In 1999 GM made a EV1 Series hybrid using a turbine generator. The vehicle achieved up to 100mpg while charging the battery using 90s technology and a 220 lbs turbine (modern turbines are much smaller)
In ten years when series hybrids become the norm we'll look at vehicles like the Prius the same way Prius owners look at SUV owners today.
I like the robot idea, but it's a bit slow: At 1:40 it shows the robot fetching a beer in 1 minute, but it's sped up 5x, so it really took 5 minutes to get one beer.
5 minutes to get me a beer? Think I'll just get a dog.
"You seem to be under the impression that "identify" implies a requirement of providing valid government-issued ID (e.g. a driver's license). That is not the case."
Stop and identify statutes:
"Some “stop and identify” laws do not require that a detainee identify himself, but allow refusal to do so to be considered along with other factors in determining whether there is probable cause to arrest.... As of January 2010, the validity of a law requiring that a person detained do anything more than state his name has not come before the U.S. Supreme Court."
Refusing to identify yourself can be a reason for arrest, and the Supreme Court hasn't ruled if you have to offer anymore than your name, although from the video it seems pretty clear he was arrested for not giving his ID.
Think the National Lawyers Guild and ACLU said it best:
"And in any state, police do not always follow the law, and refusing to give your name may make them suspicious and lead to your arrest, so use your judgment."