Two problems with this. First, is Amdahl's law. Colloquially, Amdahl's law debunks the fallacy that if one woman can have a baby in nine months, then nine women can have a baby in one month. Let's say the average game has 75% code that is parallelizable. Quite a feat, to accomplish that. Then by Amdahl's law, you would see a maximum speedup of 2.9 for 8 processors over one processor, assuming all processors were equal (hint: on the cell, 7 of the cores are just fancy FPUs). To compare, you would see a speedup of exactly 2 for a three processor system. A 45% increase in performance for 266% more cores is not a particularly good tradeoff, and this again is assuming that all cores are created equal.
Then, of course, there is memory bandwidth. The Cell has one memory bus to serve eight cores. In addition, local memory bandwidth for read in the Cell is 16MB/s, from Sony's own slides. Thus Sony recommends (on the next slide) to not read from local memory, but to write out to main memory and read from that. So eight cores are going to be constantly contending for the main memory bus. That is a horrible situation in hardware if I've ever seen one.
I don't know exactly what you're doing so I can't say for sure, but if your input is non-DRM then the output will be non-DRM. Tracoding and encoding DRM-free content yeilds a DRM free output file in the release candidate.
You apparently don't understand what is going on here. Suppose you use PGP to have e-mails sent to you encrypted. Then for some reason you lose your private key (say, your computer crashes and you didn't have a backup). Now you can't read any of the e-mails that are sent to you. OMG PGP has taken over your e-mails without your consent!?!?!??!!>!??!
No, you chose to use a technology to have e-mails encrypted, and you lost the key to the data. The entire intent of the method was to prevent someone without the key from having access to the data. If you lose the key, you shouldn't expect to have access to the data, or if you do, you should expect others that don't have they key to have access to the data as well.
The same goes for bitlocker. You have to weigh the risk of your motherboard breaking and you losing all your data against the risk of the data falling into the wrong hands before you decide to encrypt it. Don't cry about Microsoft because the technology is doing exactly what it is supposed to do -- prevent someone without the key from having access to the data.
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Zune Advantages ---------------
Wifi (only cripples media that are already crippled, contrary to popular belief) Bigger screen (3in vs 2 1/2in)
Zune Disadvantages ------------------
Battery life (12 1/2hr vs 14 hr) Big! (70% larger) Interface (questionably. Everyone praises the iPod's clickwheel thing like it was ordained by God, but I find it to be just as annoying as any other player interface for some tasks)
My post had nothing to do with piracy. Those prices are real costs of those media. It clearly costs much more -- assuming manufacturer's bulk rates stay somewhat proportional, about 22 times more -- to produce a game on a blueray disc than on two DVDs.
Wow, sounds like a deal! Instead of paying 35 cents for an extra DVD-R, for a grand total of 70 cents, you can burn your game to a BD-R for $15.99 a pop!
The EC is nothing but a bunch of idiots. The removal of the media player from Windows was a joke -- and note that WMP ~is~ a free download from Microsoft's website. The new regulations -- demanding that Microsoft decrease the security in Windows so that security companies have something more to secure -- is just as much of a joke. The US anti-trust case was more effective than anything the European Commission has done, and that is not saying much.
Geeks trust Google. The average Joe is much more likely to trust Microsoft than Google. Microsoft is continually in Fortune's top 10 for customer admiration.
And what exactly is wrong with being aggressive? That is what drives competition, after all. Are companies supposed to just skip along happily and be friends with one another, never making an effort to undercut, innovate, outproduce and outmaneuver? Indeed, such a world is what anti-trust legislation is REALLY intended to prevent.
Programmer productivity in different languages can be orders of magnitude different.
Most studies show that this is blatantly untrue -- programmer productivity is generally independent of language chosen. In other words, given an 'average' programmer with X years of experience in their language, they will take about the same amount of time to complete a given task in their language.
It was quite likely for a person that lived past the age of 5 or so to live to the same ripe old ages we live to today. Infant and young child death was the major factor in poor life expectancy in 'those times'.
That quote needs some context or it seems like a perfectly reasonable assertion. Ed Whitacre was saying this in the context of charging websites for the "privledge" of allowing their users to connect to said websites.
Oddly enough, helping starving and diseased children in Africa is considered more altruistic than writing yet another GPL'ed text editor. Who would have thought?
Why do you need "high-level content?" If the game was fun to play while you trained to your max level, why not just start up a new character and do it again? If the game was not fun to play while you trained to your max level, how is adding PvP worth the enormous amount of time spent bored while you trained your character? There are already plenty of games out there that are boring, tedious journeys where at the end you just compare e-penises with other players for "fun."
I think there is a flaw in you logic. A->B, therefore Z? (Where A=I choose turkey because I like it, B=probably not a free choice, and Z=Free will is a logical absurdity).
I think the best argument for free will is the fact that we can do things that are very much against what we like or what is good for our own survival. Take suicide, for example. Suicide is fundamentally against any instinct for survival. Yet healthy, reproductively-capable humans commit suicide all of the time. Healthy, reproductively-capable animals other than humans, on the other hand, are understood by the scientific community not to commit suicide. Other animals tend to follow their biological hard-wiring for survival, while humans appear to be able to overcome it -- presumably by choice.
How exactly do you determine what "nice" is, and how do you know that God, if there is one, agrees with your definition? If their is a God, He clearly has a well-defined definition of things that He thinks are 'nice' and things that He thinks are 'not nice' if He is a conscious being. Religion provides an avenue of determining which things go into which box.
If you live in a Western nation, your moral values are probably 98+% influenced by Judeo-Christian moral values (you may take many modern Western moral values for granted, but really it's just been ingrained over generation after generation of a primarily Christian population -- no morals are self-evident). Are these the wrong morals, or the right morals? And what if answering that question correctly has a significant impact of what God thinks of you? Clearly, the situation is not so simple as 'lol let's just be nice.'
Erm... depicting consenting adults performing sexual acts is not necessarily protected speech. I don't know where people come up with these crazy inalienable rights -- somehow, watching people have sex is an inalienable right, and never being offended by anything is an inalienable right. Obscenity is supposed to be decided, as per Miller v California, by the community in which the potential obscenity is distributed. Forcing pornography to be distributed to communities that don't want it is violating their freedom to keep obscenity out of their community.
Your rules, where "any amount of censorship" is not free, are not logically consistant. If nothing is allowed to be censored, then by definition you are removing people's freedom to censor material.
No. My local newspaper purports to be accurate and non-libelous. Wikipedia does not. Wikipedia does not.
Bullshit. They call themselves the "free encyclopedia." Wikipedia itself defines an encyclopedia as "a written compendium of knowledge." Knowledge, by nature, is accurate and non-libelous.
I wasn't trying to get you on a word techincality. A monopoly is not considered wrong by any US law, criminal or civil. The government even establishes monopolies -- for example, the US postal service has a monopoly on domestic mail. What is considered wrong by US law is using a monopoly position to eliminate compitition in a way that harms consumers. Certainly the argument can be made that Microsoft is guilty of this, but there is nothing inherently wrong about Microsoft being a monopoly.
No. There is a definite delay between the time you click a link and the non-MS browser even begins to open.
No, there is not. As soon as I click a link in Outlook, the Mozilla splash screen comes up. More than likely, your computer is slow enough that the time it takes to load Mozilla into memory is noticeable.
Erm... you can't be a "convicted monopolist." Being a monopoly is not a crime. Saying "convicted monopolist" is like saying "convicted software developer."
The company I work for does development in mostly C/C++, and we haven't had a memory leak bug issued in 3.7 years according to our database. If memory leaks are your biggest problem, you probably aren't making effective use of smart pointers and structured allocation/deallocation.
Also, let us not forget that java has memory leaks too and in my opinion they are much less obvious than C++ memory leaks.
Erm... are you just biased against ATI or something? I mean, I am too because their linux drivers are shit, but as far as raw performance (on Windows) goes they're neck-and-neck with nVidia. In fact, I remember reading on several gaming sites that the 360's GPU is slightly more powerful than then PS3's nVidia GPU.
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Then, of course, there is memory bandwidth. The Cell has one memory bus to serve eight cores. In addition, local memory bandwidth for read in the Cell is 16MB/s, from Sony's own slides. Thus Sony recommends (on the next slide) to not read from local memory, but to write out to main memory and read from that. So eight cores are going to be constantly contending for the main memory bus. That is a horrible situation in hardware if I've ever seen one.
Perhaps you should take your own advice. A quaternion is simply another representation of a subclass of 4x4 real matricies.
I don't know exactly what you're doing so I can't say for sure, but if your input is non-DRM then the output will be non-DRM. Tracoding and encoding DRM-free content yeilds a DRM free output file in the release candidate.
You apparently don't understand what is going on here. Suppose you use PGP to have e-mails sent to you encrypted. Then for some reason you lose your private key (say, your computer crashes and you didn't have a backup). Now you can't read any of the e-mails that are sent to you. OMG PGP has taken over your e-mails without your consent!?!?!??!!>!??! No, you chose to use a technology to have e-mails encrypted, and you lost the key to the data. The entire intent of the method was to prevent someone without the key from having access to the data. If you lose the key, you shouldn't expect to have access to the data, or if you do, you should expect others that don't have they key to have access to the data as well. The same goes for bitlocker. You have to weigh the risk of your motherboard breaking and you losing all your data against the risk of the data falling into the wrong hands before you decide to encrypt it. Don't cry about Microsoft because the technology is doing exactly what it is supposed to do -- prevent someone without the key from having access to the data.
Zune Advantages
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Wifi (only cripples media that are already crippled, contrary to popular belief)
Bigger screen (3in vs 2 1/2in)
Zune Disadvantages
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Battery life (12 1/2hr vs 14 hr)
Big! (70% larger)
Interface (questionably. Everyone praises the iPod's clickwheel thing like it was ordained by God, but I find it to be just as annoying as any other player interface for some tasks)
My post had nothing to do with piracy. Those prices are real costs of those media. It clearly costs much more -- assuming manufacturer's bulk rates stay somewhat proportional, about 22 times more -- to produce a game on a blueray disc than on two DVDs.
Wow, sounds like a deal! Instead of paying 35 cents for an extra DVD-R, for a grand total of 70 cents, you can burn your game to a BD-R for $15.99 a pop!
The EC is nothing but a bunch of idiots. The removal of the media player from Windows was a joke -- and note that WMP ~is~ a free download from Microsoft's website. The new regulations -- demanding that Microsoft decrease the security in Windows so that security companies have something more to secure -- is just as much of a joke. The US anti-trust case was more effective than anything the European Commission has done, and that is not saying much.
Geeks trust Google. The average Joe is much more likely to trust Microsoft than Google. Microsoft is continually in Fortune's top 10 for customer admiration.
And what exactly is wrong with being aggressive? That is what drives competition, after all. Are companies supposed to just skip along happily and be friends with one another, never making an effort to undercut, innovate, outproduce and outmaneuver? Indeed, such a world is what anti-trust legislation is REALLY intended to prevent.
It was quite likely for a person that lived past the age of 5 or so to live to the same ripe old ages we live to today. Infant and young child death was the major factor in poor life expectancy in 'those times'.
That quote needs some context or it seems like a perfectly reasonable assertion. Ed Whitacre was saying this in the context of charging websites for the "privledge" of allowing their users to connect to said websites.
Oddly enough, helping starving and diseased children in Africa is considered more altruistic than writing yet another GPL'ed text editor. Who would have thought?
Why do you need "high-level content?" If the game was fun to play while you trained to your max level, why not just start up a new character and do it again? If the game was not fun to play while you trained to your max level, how is adding PvP worth the enormous amount of time spent bored while you trained your character? There are already plenty of games out there that are boring, tedious journeys where at the end you just compare e-penises with other players for "fun."
I think the best argument for free will is the fact that we can do things that are very much against what we like or what is good for our own survival. Take suicide, for example. Suicide is fundamentally against any instinct for survival. Yet healthy, reproductively-capable humans commit suicide all of the time. Healthy, reproductively-capable animals other than humans, on the other hand, are understood by the scientific community not to commit suicide. Other animals tend to follow their biological hard-wiring for survival, while humans appear to be able to overcome it -- presumably by choice.
How exactly do you determine what "nice" is, and how do you know that God, if there is one, agrees with your definition? If their is a God, He clearly has a well-defined definition of things that He thinks are 'nice' and things that He thinks are 'not nice' if He is a conscious being. Religion provides an avenue of determining which things go into which box. If you live in a Western nation, your moral values are probably 98+% influenced by Judeo-Christian moral values (you may take many modern Western moral values for granted, but really it's just been ingrained over generation after generation of a primarily Christian population -- no morals are self-evident). Are these the wrong morals, or the right morals? And what if answering that question correctly has a significant impact of what God thinks of you? Clearly, the situation is not so simple as 'lol let's just be nice.'
Your rules, where "any amount of censorship" is not free, are not logically consistant. If nothing is allowed to be censored, then by definition you are removing people's freedom to censor material.
I wasn't trying to get you on a word techincality. A monopoly is not considered wrong by any US law, criminal or civil. The government even establishes monopolies -- for example, the US postal service has a monopoly on domestic mail. What is considered wrong by US law is using a monopoly position to eliminate compitition in a way that harms consumers. Certainly the argument can be made that Microsoft is guilty of this, but there is nothing inherently wrong about Microsoft being a monopoly.
No, there is not. As soon as I click a link in Outlook, the Mozilla splash screen comes up. More than likely, your computer is slow enough that the time it takes to load Mozilla into memory is noticeable.
Most Mozilla/Firefox vulnerabilities are in plugins anyway, so it wouldn't be anything new.
Erm... you can't be a "convicted monopolist." Being a monopoly is not a crime. Saying "convicted monopolist" is like saying "convicted software developer."
Also, let us not forget that java has memory leaks too and in my opinion they are much less obvious than C++ memory leaks.
Erm... are you just biased against ATI or something? I mean, I am too because their linux drivers are shit, but as far as raw performance (on Windows) goes they're neck-and-neck with nVidia. In fact, I remember reading on several gaming sites that the 360's GPU is slightly more powerful than then PS3's nVidia GPU.