Just because Intel is announcing it now, doesn't mean that Intel wasn't planning it before AMD announced. As features size shrinks, and the GHz war is over, you gotta use the real estate for something. It's kind of a no-brainer to integrate a GPU.
AMD has a history of announcing very early. Intel, on the other hand, has a history of announcing late.
Your wife is an English teacher, and she works less than 50 hours per week? Including grading? Then she must not emphasize writing. My wife is a high school English teacher, and she works at least 50 hours per week.
The summer vacation is a nice benefit, but consider the 2 months teachers get off in the summer is not enough time to get another job. Thus, most single teachers would prefer a longer school year if it meant getting paid that much more.
To quote:
"Sometimes a hacker has a problem, and he thinks to himself 'I know, I'll solve it with a regular expression!'. Now he has two problems." -- Jamie Zawinski
Since Blue-Ray and HD-DVD are going to require HDCP, and not a single Video Card on the market currently supports HDCP (a lot of the chips do, but the cards don't enable it), you'd need to buy a new video card to play the content, anyway.
Not that I support this move. Microsoft is in a strong enough position that they don't have to cave to the MPAA.
Consider if the pope had given the same advice 300 years ago. Should we have obeyed it? Then we would still think the universe was about 6000 years old. We would be in denial about early civilizations, Earth's geological history, even dinosaurs.
One problem I see with using version control on a spreadsheet is that the data is not kept separate from the "code". Thus, every time they update the data in the spreadsheet, they create a new version. That's probably not that interesting or useful. Is there a way (outside of Visual Basic) to separate the data in a spreadsheet from the "code"?
Net Neutrality insists that the internet carriers (mostly ISPs such as Time Warner and AT&T) treat all traffic the same.
The ISPs are proposing a tiered service level (that would violate Net Neutrality), where content providers who want their content to go through a fatter pipe would pay the ISPs for the priviledge. This has a lot of people (including myself) up in arms.
Imagine a scenario where a new, exciting web application appears, but doesn't succeed, because the creators don't have enough money to pay for the preferential treatment, and thus have to go through the ghetto internet. This puts them at a large disadvantage to the already established players.
Another side of the argument: I already pay Time Warner for my internet connection. Now they want to get paid on the backside as well?
Lame all around.
RTFA! The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has assets greater than $29 Billion, and is the largest charity in the world! He already does give a lot to the poor...
From the little information provided in the article, it appears that this takes care of the gate leakage problem, which is great! However, it doesn't address the Source-Drain leakage, which is a larger issue for current process technologies. Gate leakage isn't forseen to be a significant problem until 45nm.
This just tells us that future technologies are not going to have twice the leakage power as current technologies. This doesn't mean that future process technologies are going to have less leakage power than the current ones.
If the new passports are designed to be read by an optical scanner (to get the decryption key) before the RFID is read, why do they need to be contactless?
Seems to me, a contact-based smart card would be a safer, cheaper option. It would also avoid the need for the tinfoil hat.
From TFA:
"Though hydrogen burns cleanly, typically its production is tied to polluting processes, and is accompanied by a net energy loss, requiring more fuel to create than it gives off. Lee's system produces hydrogen cleanly, with no pollution, from energy that is free for the taking - wind.
Their system does not go straight from the turbines to electrolysis, but involves batteries. Though proprietary, Lee said that the process was 'embarrassingly simple.' He is not permitted to elaborate further, but states simply: 'Our new hydrogen system has solved the net energy deficit dilemma.' "
This is the real news here. However, he conveniently can't talk about it. I call BS.
Have you ever heard of the DARPA project called "Total Information Awareness" run by Admiral Pointdexter? Yes, they have the capability to collect this information, and they have the desire. What's stopping the Pentagon? A Congressional Order? Poindexter didn't let one of those stop him during Iran-Contra, why would he let one stop him now?
How about using the bluetooth hack that enables you to listen in on conversations? (not just phone conversations). It was slashdotted a few weeks ago.
If you could hack a bluetooth connection to their cell phone, you could listen to their typing through their cell phone. I wonder what kind of audio quality this method requires?
Looking at the image with the article, this structure appears to be larger than today's transistors. Just about everyone is working on chips at 65nm, and the scale of the image indicates that the structure is approx. 100nm. Am I missing something here?
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This sounds like they are trying to get us to do their editing and fact-checking for them to save them money.
Considering the general quality of commercial software out there, why would the publishing industry want to replicate their(honestly, our) methods?
Visa doesn't even use RSA to exchange master keys between themselves and the manufacturers or between manufacturers and their business partners.
I asked a Visa VP why not, and he told me that they don't trust it. For master key exchange, they mandate that manufacturers split the key into 3 key parts, have them transported by different people (actually carried), and entered manually into the manufacturing terminal that uses an IBM4758 for encryption.
For the record, Visa is very paranoid about encryption security. They don't even trust RSA for key exchange, because you are never guaranteed a prime number.
They've been using Smart Cards in their credit cards in France since before 2000, and I haven't heard a lot of complaints (if anyone has, I'd be interested to hear).
Besides, this will allow a waiter to take a cordless reader to your table to scan your card. Which is the higher security threat, someone who can hack triple DES (and manage to get their hands on rogue hardware), or a waiter earning $3/hour plus tips simply writing down your credit card number when he has it in the back room?
Final point: If your paranoid about someone scanning your credit cards in a crowd, build a Faraday cage into your wallet. I'm sure there would be a hug market for that kind of thing in the "Aluminum Foil Hat" crowd. I'd probably buy one, actually:-)
I wouldn't be surprised if the they buyer turned out to be associated with project entropia. It may in effect be Entropia paying Entropia $26k for some publicity.
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AMD has a history of announcing very early. Intel, on the other hand, has a history of announcing late.
The summer vacation is a nice benefit, but consider the 2 months teachers get off in the summer is not enough time to get another job. Thus, most single teachers would prefer a longer school year if it meant getting paid that much more.
The new IEEE Floating Point standard as proposed (last time I looked at it) is going to require a MAC mode of operation.
To quote: "Sometimes a hacker has a problem, and he thinks to himself 'I know, I'll solve it with a regular expression!'. Now he has two problems." -- Jamie Zawinski
They gave the FAFSA people a list of names, and FAFSA gave them info that was on their application. The poster needs to learn what data mining is.
Not that I support this move. Microsoft is in a strong enough position that they don't have to cave to the MPAA.
Probably more accurately: The Europeans looking to get drunk in an exotic location go someplace closer to Europe (perhaps Minorca?).
The parking lot, while publicly accessible, is not public property.
Consider if the pope had given the same advice 300 years ago. Should we have obeyed it? Then we would still think the universe was about 6000 years old. We would be in denial about early civilizations, Earth's geological history, even dinosaurs.
One problem I see with using version control on a spreadsheet is that the data is not kept separate from the "code". Thus, every time they update the data in the spreadsheet, they create a new version. That's probably not that interesting or useful. Is there a way (outside of Visual Basic) to separate the data in a spreadsheet from the "code"?
Net Neutrality insists that the internet carriers (mostly ISPs such as Time Warner and AT&T) treat all traffic the same. The ISPs are proposing a tiered service level (that would violate Net Neutrality), where content providers who want their content to go through a fatter pipe would pay the ISPs for the priviledge. This has a lot of people (including myself) up in arms. Imagine a scenario where a new, exciting web application appears, but doesn't succeed, because the creators don't have enough money to pay for the preferential treatment, and thus have to go through the ghetto internet. This puts them at a large disadvantage to the already established players. Another side of the argument: I already pay Time Warner for my internet connection. Now they want to get paid on the backside as well? Lame all around.
RTFA! The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has assets greater than $29 Billion, and is the largest charity in the world! He already does give a lot to the poor...
Spoken like a true Star Trek geek...
This just tells us that future technologies are not going to have twice the leakage power as current technologies. This doesn't mean that future process technologies are going to have less leakage power than the current ones.
Intel makes its money by making the same thing, millions of times. Custom chips just don't fit in that equation.
Seems to me, a contact-based smart card would be a safer, cheaper option. It would also avoid the need for the tinfoil hat.
From TFA: "Though hydrogen burns cleanly, typically its production is tied to polluting processes, and is accompanied by a net energy loss, requiring more fuel to create than it gives off. Lee's system produces hydrogen cleanly, with no pollution, from energy that is free for the taking - wind. Their system does not go straight from the turbines to electrolysis, but involves batteries. Though proprietary, Lee said that the process was 'embarrassingly simple.' He is not permitted to elaborate further, but states simply: 'Our new hydrogen system has solved the net energy deficit dilemma.' " This is the real news here. However, he conveniently can't talk about it. I call BS.
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Have you ever heard of the DARPA project called "Total Information Awareness" run by Admiral Pointdexter? Yes, they have the capability to collect this information, and they have the desire. What's stopping the Pentagon? A Congressional Order? Poindexter didn't let one of those stop him during Iran-Contra, why would he let one stop him now?
How about using the bluetooth hack that enables you to listen in on conversations? (not just phone conversations). It was slashdotted a few weeks ago. If you could hack a bluetooth connection to their cell phone, you could listen to their typing through their cell phone. I wonder what kind of audio quality this method requires?
Looking at the image with the article, this structure appears to be larger than today's transistors. Just about everyone is working on chips at 65nm, and the scale of the image indicates that the structure is approx. 100nm. Am I missing something here?
This sounds like they are trying to get us to do their editing and fact-checking for them to save them money. Considering the general quality of commercial software out there, why would the publishing industry want to replicate their(honestly, our) methods?
Visa doesn't even use RSA to exchange master keys between themselves and the manufacturers or between manufacturers and their business partners.
I asked a Visa VP why not, and he told me that they don't trust it. For master key exchange, they mandate that manufacturers split the key into 3 key parts, have them transported by different people (actually carried), and entered manually into the manufacturing terminal that uses an IBM4758 for encryption.
For the record, Visa is very paranoid about encryption security. They don't even trust RSA for key exchange, because you are never guaranteed a prime number. They've been using Smart Cards in their credit cards in France since before 2000, and I haven't heard a lot of complaints (if anyone has, I'd be interested to hear). Besides, this will allow a waiter to take a cordless reader to your table to scan your card. Which is the higher security threat, someone who can hack triple DES (and manage to get their hands on rogue hardware), or a waiter earning $3/hour plus tips simply writing down your credit card number when he has it in the back room? Final point: If your paranoid about someone scanning your credit cards in a crowd, build a Faraday cage into your wallet. I'm sure there would be a hug market for that kind of thing in the "Aluminum Foil Hat" crowd. I'd probably buy one, actually :-)
I wouldn't be surprised if the they buyer turned out to be associated with project entropia. It may in effect be Entropia paying Entropia $26k for some publicity.