Charlie is known for being divulging information about the NVIDIA graphics chip manufacturing defect that affected Dell, HP, Apple and others. NVIDIA kept claiming there was no defect until the hardware manufacturers put them in their place. Like someone else said here, The Inquirer did not sign NDAs, so NVIDIA did not cut him from anything.
There are more people to kill in the UK in the first place. What has IRA done since they supposedly gave up their arms a couple of years ago? ETA actually still bombs people.
When you say that Intel can double cores and vector word length in their next family are you confusing Westmere (which is a tick generation) with it's successor (which will be a tock)?
I am talking about Sandy Bridge since that is the one with AVX. They have demoed systems with it already at IDF. It is supposed to do 256 DP GFLOPS. Intel is also supposedly going to implement Fused Multiply Add sometime after that which will double performance again.
Nehalem can achieve 51 DP GFLOPs. The NVIDIA GT200 can get 77 DP GFLOPs. This Fermi GPU, although a great advance, is available at a time Intel can manufacture CPUs with twice the cores and will double vector word length in their next processor family. So while GPUs have more GFLOPs, it is still not that much of a difference for people who use dual precision.
AMD is bleeding money. It is hard to justify having a separate design team to do a cheap processor like Intel does with Atom. They previously bought the National Semiconductor Geode/Cyrix MediaGX processor line to compete in this segment before Intel even sold Atom. The OLPC XO-1 was the only design win AMD got that I can remember of. They disbanded that team. Intel has money to do several different designs because they are so big and profitable.
It is no standard. PhysX was an API made by a company (Ageia) who wanted to cell physics acceleration cards. Their cards never sold well, but the free beer software libraries were used by a number of people (the libraries supported CPU execution as well). Then NVIDIA bought them and ported the thing to run on their GPUs. So I see this ending up like the 3Dfx Glide API for 3D graphics - some historic games used it, such as Mechwarrior, but no one uses it anymore.
If you go further back in history the Jews are supposed to originate from ancient Sumeria. This is one of the reasons they incorporated the Epic of Gilgamesh into their own mythos. With all historic movements nearly no one is from the place they are at.
AFAIK everyone "knows" Mars has water for yonks... I remember looking at pictures of Mars which showed the white poles saying those were icecaps many years ago.
Of course there was always someone claiming it wasn't water but some other molecule also bearing hydrogen... or something else. I doubt the deniers will stop until someone actually goes there and takes a sample. Then again that does not stop the wackos who claim the Moon landing was faked either...
SNES was superior to Genesis in graphics and sound. Try playing Street Fighter II in both to see what I mean... The limitations of the CPU which could affect 3D games versus the PC and such were solved by adding the SuperFX chip. At the time the SuperFX chip came, other console manufacturers had to scramble to try to duplicate its features somehow.
14 Million Tons of Pig Manure No Hogwash for the Dutch
The Washington Post, August 6, 1987, Edward Cody
The trouble with the Netherlands is pig manure, tons of it. Pig manure is overflowing storage vats. It is seeping into canals. It is polluting underground drinking water. It is even falling from the sky in acid rain. "Pig manure is very aggressive, you might say," remarked Theodore Bruins, a member of the six-man Manure Problem Steering Committee in the Netherlands' southern Brabant Province. The nation has 14.5 million human inhabitants in 16,484 square miles, making it the most densely populated country in Europe. It also has a pig for every person, giving it the world's most...
Cloning has been used in agriculture for thousands of years. Direct genetic modification has not. There's a difference.
Retroviruses did it. Why can't we do it?
But AFAIK margarine did not and has not ever replaced butter on the store shelves in sales, pound for pound (someone with more knowledge than me chime in if I'm wrong, but butter has outsold margarines of any kind in any grocery store I've ever frequented) I can't decide whether you are an idiot or an astroturfer. Flip coin. TUMA
I cannot speak for where you live in. But it used to be the case that people used lard as grease for some cooking and used butter for the rest several decades ago. Most people have replaced lard with margarine. Replacement of butter with margarine for cooking was also fairly widespread.
Replacement of butter with margarine for spreads was a fad. I remember it being fairly common 20 years ago. You can still see some residues of that propaganda today but thankfully few people give it any consideration. I tasted this stuff once when I was a kid (my grandmother was "recommended" to eat this crap by her doctor before the trans-fat scare) then never gave it any further consideration. Butter all the way.
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Charlie is known for being divulging information about the NVIDIA graphics chip manufacturing defect that affected Dell, HP, Apple and others. NVIDIA kept claiming there was no defect until the hardware manufacturers put them in their place. Like someone else said here, The Inquirer did not sign NDAs, so NVIDIA did not cut him from anything.
There are more people to kill in the UK in the first place. What has IRA done since they supposedly gave up their arms a couple of years ago? ETA actually still bombs people.
I fail to see how having the IRA is worse than having ETA.
Spain was also attacked by Al-Qaeda and have ETA bombings every now and then. But they actually care about their tourist industry.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
This is just NVIDIA FUD so people will not buy a competitor's product and wait for their own product instead.
UMD was lame. Why did not they use mini-DVD which you can actually buy off the shelf?
Useful for everything, used in nothing.
When you say that Intel can double cores and vector word length in their next family are you confusing Westmere (which is a tick generation) with it's successor (which will be a tock)?
I am talking about Sandy Bridge since that is the one with AVX. They have demoed systems with it already at IDF. It is supposed to do 256 DP GFLOPS. Intel is also supposedly going to implement Fused Multiply Add sometime after that which will double performance again.
Nehalem can achieve 51 DP GFLOPs. The NVIDIA GT200 can get 77 DP GFLOPs. This Fermi GPU, although a great advance, is available at a time Intel can manufacture CPUs with twice the cores and will double vector word length in their next processor family. So while GPUs have more GFLOPs, it is still not that much of a difference for people who use dual precision.
AMD is bleeding money. It is hard to justify having a separate design team to do a cheap processor like Intel does with Atom. They previously bought the National Semiconductor Geode/Cyrix MediaGX processor line to compete in this segment before Intel even sold Atom. The OLPC XO-1 was the only design win AMD got that I can remember of. They disbanded that team. Intel has money to do several different designs because they are so big and profitable.
Wine basically has a DirectX to OpenGL wrapper.
It is no standard. PhysX was an API made by a company (Ageia) who wanted to cell physics acceleration cards. Their cards never sold well, but the free beer software libraries were used by a number of people (the libraries supported CPU execution as well). Then NVIDIA bought them and ported the thing to run on their GPUs. So I see this ending up like the 3Dfx Glide API for 3D graphics - some historic games used it, such as Mechwarrior, but no one uses it anymore.
Even before there were Maxim guns, Napoleon was promoted for "disbanding" masses of rebels with the use of cannon and grapeshot.
Beginning of the school year? :-)
If you go further back in history the Jews are supposed to originate from ancient Sumeria. This is one of the reasons they incorporated the Epic of Gilgamesh into their own mythos. With all historic movements nearly no one is from the place they are at.
How about Australia and New Zealand before they were colonized then? They were hardly more advanced than Africa and are islands.
I am still waiting for my heads-up-display GPS unit.
I have seen people shave or read the newspaper while driving...
Of course there was always someone claiming it wasn't water but some other molecule also bearing hydrogen... or something else. I doubt the deniers will stop until someone actually goes there and takes a sample. Then again that does not stop the wackos who claim the Moon landing was faked either...
SNES was superior to Genesis in graphics and sound. Try playing Street Fighter II in both to see what I mean... The limitations of the CPU which could affect 3D games versus the PC and such were solved by adding the SuperFX chip. At the time the SuperFX chip came, other console manufacturers had to scramble to try to duplicate its features somehow.
CD vs ROM cartridges depends on what you are measuring. Is it access time or capacity?
Bullshit. Show me one citation that says that natural fertilizers such as animal dung have any connection to acid rain. I dare you.
How about this?:
14 Million Tons of Pig Manure No Hogwash for the Dutch
The Washington Post, August 6, 1987, Edward Cody
The trouble with the Netherlands is pig manure, tons of it. Pig manure is overflowing storage vats. It is seeping into canals. It is polluting underground drinking water. It is even falling from the sky in acid rain. "Pig manure is very aggressive, you might say," remarked Theodore Bruins, a member of the six-man Manure Problem Steering Committee in the Netherlands' southern Brabant Province. The nation has 14.5 million human inhabitants in 16,484 square miles, making it the most densely populated country in Europe. It also has a pig for every person, giving it the world's most ...
Here, read a whole book about it, manure lover.
Retroviruses did it. Why can't we do it?
But AFAIK margarine did not and has not ever replaced butter on the store shelves in sales, pound for pound (someone with more knowledge than me chime in if I'm wrong, but butter has outsold margarines of any kind in any grocery store I've ever frequented) I can't decide whether you are an idiot or an astroturfer. Flip coin. TUMA
I cannot speak for where you live in. But it used to be the case that people used lard as grease for some cooking and used butter for the rest several decades ago. Most people have replaced lard with margarine. Replacement of butter with margarine for cooking was also fairly widespread.
Replacement of butter with margarine for spreads was a fad. I remember it being fairly common 20 years ago. You can still see some residues of that propaganda today but thankfully few people give it any consideration. I tasted this stuff once when I was a kid (my grandmother was "recommended" to eat this crap by her doctor before the trans-fat scare) then never gave it any further consideration. Butter all the way.
Retro-viruses cross DNA between different parts of the natural kingdom in the wild even without human interference.