My problem is more that the press release is putting Moore's Law, which is at best a product life cycle methodology, on the same level as the 22nm process, which is an actual technology for making better/faster/smaller chips.
They put it there so that people who know nothing else can see something familiar in the introductory paragraph. The problem being that they are making the misinformed even more misinformed by using Moore's Law in the wrong context and confusing the issue. Nobody who know better wants to have to explain misconceptions about Moore's Law just because Intel is putting out crappy press releases.
In the Knight's Bridge link, Intel PR references Moore's Law as if it were some method for increasing processing power: "and use Moore's Law to scale to more than 50 Intel cores". Moore's Law is a prediction, not a design method. Sheesh.
Add that to the grammar mistake on the Aubrey Isle image, and you have some pretty bad PR for anyone paying attention.
I have a Dell XPS M1210 on which the service technician didn't make the connection between the heatsink and the GPU when replacing the motherboard.
Once I found out that the overheating GPU was causing the CPU to throttle down, I added a giant blob of silver paste and everything has been happier.
This had especially been a problem when playing flash videos (of Bible stories of course), which quickly overheated the GPU and sent the whole system to 100 MHz. Without having RTFPDF, this sounds suspiciously familiar.
You'd really rather know if your child had an arrhythmia. That way you can take preventive measures so they don't just up and die one day because of it.
As a former soldier, the most successful part of this program will probably be getting new ideas into the hands of the people who write field manuals. Decisions about official policy still must be researched to find out if particular circumstances the soldiers mention are as frequent as they claim, and checked against reality, reason, and military law. Cleaning your weapon with moist towelettes may be great, but it may also corrode the weapon over time. On the other hand, it will help get a wider variety of information in the hands of someone who can put that out to everyone else, because maybe moist towelettes do a great job and nobody was willing to mention it in any official capacity.
The other great thing about this is that it will tell the policy makers all the brain dead stupid shit people are doing, so they can mention a few extra pertinent negatives in the next version of the manual.
It'll be broadcast free over the air. Give each classroom a TV. Why deal with the internet?
A school I have something to do with has projectors in every room. (It is a public charter school)
They bought one ATSC (over the air) tuner for every room. There is no cable, and much less guesswork than relying on their 1.5 T1s or any restreaming. We considered VLC but you need very specific models of tuner cards as far as I can tell.
Even money is that the internet is going to break anyhow, and nobody wants hundreds of kids staring at them like they were idiots. It is worth buying the tuners even if there was a 10% chance streaming would fail, and internal streaming would be a hack.
I'm a fan of iGo from radio shack. Bit expensive, but there are tips for the same charger to charge just about anything.
It takes some physical effort to change the tips, but it can't be beat when traveling. I have chargers for USB, old Motorola, a PDA, Gameboy, iPod, and a GPS receiver, and only need to carry one brick.
Analog sounds about like 3G reception at my house. I had to turn off 3G seeking on my phone for the battery to last for more than a day (it lasts about 5 without 3G), and this is Verizon in a major city. I suspect there are people in the same boat who have to turn off digital these days because the signal is weak and they get more phone time from analog. Then we will eventually switch to 3G and coverage will be even worse than regular digital.
This is a good example of low population density in the rural US making the implementation of some technology more expensive. I wouldn't be surprised if people in rural areas get screwed over in a few more ways to save big companies money.
I worked on a private ambulance in and around Boston, and on non-emergency transports (and even some emergencies) left turns could make the difference between which hospital a patient would go to. Left turns can be huge time wasters. Especially in Boston, this seems to me to be a plan that will be very effective.
This is of course assuming that either hospital would be an appropriate choice for the patient, so don't freak out now. There are at least 4 level 1 trauma centers in Boston as I recall, and a total of about 8 ERs just within Boston proper.
I would say I personally am not obsessed with firewalls per se, I'm obsessed with privacy and security.
The firmware on a firewall also has a much smaller amount of code to debug in order to make sure that it will function properly all the time. I would never assume that my Windows XP machine was properly patched with enough confidence to plug it straight into a cable modem all the time.
I am also not interested in having each computer in my home being identified and tracked individually, and I don't pirate software or download music. As such, even if the need for NAT is removed, I would still be highly interested in purchasing a device to block incoming connections and mask my IP address (maybe by swapping with other devices within my home on certain connections).
Granted this is unfortunate and we should all take notice. There is no doubt about that. However...
This is why I read Fark which, while it has its flaws, tends to mention more serious articles such as this among its more humorous topics.
I am not trying to pick favorites, but anything that makes slashdot more like Fark (certain sets of topics interrupted by general real world news) is not a forward step for slashdot. Slashdot should stick to what it tries to do best. My condolences to anyone related to the submitting or posting of this article who was affected by this tragedy, and to anyone else similarly affected.
I had to buy a new laptop when mine was stolen a few months ago. It was a Dell with one of those free Vista upgrades, but XP installed.
1) There is not reason for me to upgrade. The only thing Vista can possibly do right now is break apps.
2) As the child (I'm 28) of a systems administrator and sometime IT guy, I know it isn't even worth trying to upgrade until at least the first Service Pack, possibly the second.
I know I can't be the only person my age taking computer advice from my mother.
The US Army also puts out a ?monthly preventative maintenace publication in cartoon form. It was kinda crazy to see their sound weapons in cartoon form and wonder if they really did exist. Pretty sure they do.
I run Second Life, which is an online game / community / realtime VR thing. It pulls 100Kbps when it is happy, and 300+Kbps when there is a lot going on. If I run this for 40 hours a month that is 16+GB. I'm sure there are games which want more, and people who run games more often.
I'm also sure the ambitious can make quick work of 500GB, especially with avid co-domestic gamers who also download pr0n.
With winter coming and the price of oil approaching $50, you can now safely turn off your heater and just point the vent of your 6Ghz P4 into the middle of the room...or maybe run a venting system off of it connected to the heat ducts in your house...
What Ars-Fartsica means to say is that he gets electricity in his lease. Ars also likes to heat his room by opening his fridge in the middle of the room.
There is super-pure 99.97% isopropyl alcohol just for cleaning electronics, which is highly recommended.
My uncle sells the Bitrex which they put in 91% isopropyl and less to make it non-tasty, which dries to a white crud and makes things not work. Beware! 91% used to work when it was isopropyl alcohol and water. No longer!
hard drive platters from 10MB hard drives. Big ones. From the drives that were 60 pounds. The platters that are a 9 inches across and weigh half a pound. Made with parts from a 100,000 rpm centrifuge.
The benefit is that when the platter shatters it launches in ALL directions.
And to all you retards, don't even THROW a CD at a solid object near other human beings. CD shards in the eye suck.
The great part about Jill of the Jungle was the gameplay action. Remember Epic Pinball anyone? While neither of those games was all that spiffy, for whatever reason the feel of the controls was quite nice. This too is often lost on more modern games.
Then again I played an N64 for the first time in at least 6 years the other day. The whole 3d control system on those things sucks!
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My problem is more that the press release is putting Moore's Law, which is at best a product life cycle methodology, on the same level as the 22nm process, which is an actual technology for making better/faster/smaller chips.
They put it there so that people who know nothing else can see something familiar in the introductory paragraph. The problem being that they are making the misinformed even more misinformed by using Moore's Law in the wrong context and confusing the issue. Nobody who know better wants to have to explain misconceptions about Moore's Law just because Intel is putting out crappy press releases.
In the Knight's Bridge link, Intel PR references Moore's Law as if it were some method for increasing processing power: "and use Moore's Law to scale to more than 50 Intel cores". Moore's Law is a prediction, not a design method. Sheesh.
Add that to the grammar mistake on the Aubrey Isle image, and you have some pretty bad PR for anyone paying attention.
I have a Dell XPS M1210 on which the service technician didn't make the connection between the heatsink and the GPU when replacing the motherboard.
Once I found out that the overheating GPU was causing the CPU to throttle down, I added a giant blob of silver paste and everything has been happier.
This had especially been a problem when playing flash videos (of Bible stories of course), which quickly overheated the GPU and sent the whole system to 100 MHz. Without having RTFPDF, this sounds suspiciously familiar.
You'd really rather know if your child had an arrhythmia. That way you can take preventive measures so they don't just up and die one day because of it.
I actually found that new kitchen cling wrap stuff quite useful for keeping sand out of my grenade launcher. Perfect wiki material.
The other great thing about this is that it will tell the policy makers all the brain dead stupid shit people are doing, so they can mention a few extra pertinent negatives in the next version of the manual.
I for one hope he is successful so that when SSDs become more affordable, or even the default, Linux will be nicely optimized.
It'll be broadcast free over the air. Give each classroom a TV. Why deal with the internet?
A school I have something to do with has projectors in every room. (It is a public charter school)
They bought one ATSC (over the air) tuner for every room. There is no cable, and much less guesswork than relying on their 1.5 T1s or any restreaming. We considered VLC but you need very specific models of tuner cards as far as I can tell.
Even money is that the internet is going to break anyhow, and nobody wants hundreds of kids staring at them like they were idiots. It is worth buying the tuners even if there was a 10% chance streaming would fail, and internal streaming would be a hack.
I thought the article was all about how we need RAID arrays because just one isn't good enough? Did I miss something?
My semi-cheap fire/water safe with a disconnected backup drive inside beats a RAID array any day.
The fire safe is not that complicated, and I can put in and take out mismatched drives any time without rebuilding.
Also the fire safe is much harder to carry away, not prone to power surges, and much less likely to catch on fire.
I'm a fan of iGo from radio shack. Bit expensive, but there are tips for the same charger to charge just about anything.
It takes some physical effort to change the tips, but it can't be beat when traveling. I have chargers for USB, old Motorola, a PDA, Gameboy, iPod, and a GPS receiver, and only need to carry one brick.
Sweden looks good from reasonable flying height.
Anything lower and I'd expect ghouls and zombies to start leaping out at me.
Analog sounds about like 3G reception at my house. I had to turn off 3G seeking on my phone for the battery to last for more than a day (it lasts about 5 without 3G), and this is Verizon in a major city. I suspect there are people in the same boat who have to turn off digital these days because the signal is weak and they get more phone time from analog. Then we will eventually switch to 3G and coverage will be even worse than regular digital.
This is a good example of low population density in the rural US making the implementation of some technology more expensive. I wouldn't be surprised if people in rural areas get screwed over in a few more ways to save big companies money.
I worked on a private ambulance in and around Boston, and on non-emergency transports (and even some emergencies) left turns could make the difference between which hospital a patient would go to. Left turns can be huge time wasters. Especially in Boston, this seems to me to be a plan that will be very effective.
This is of course assuming that either hospital would be an appropriate choice for the patient, so don't freak out now. There are at least 4 level 1 trauma centers in Boston as I recall, and a total of about 8 ERs just within Boston proper.
I would say I personally am not obsessed with firewalls per se, I'm obsessed with privacy and security.
The firmware on a firewall also has a much smaller amount of code to debug in order to make sure that it will function properly all the time. I would never assume that my Windows XP machine was properly patched with enough confidence to plug it straight into a cable modem all the time.
I am also not interested in having each computer in my home being identified and tracked individually, and I don't pirate software or download music. As such, even if the need for NAT is removed, I would still be highly interested in purchasing a device to block incoming connections and mask my IP address (maybe by swapping with other devices within my home on certain connections).
Granted this is unfortunate and we should all take notice. There is no doubt about that. However...
This is why I read Fark which, while it has its flaws, tends to mention more serious articles such as this among its more humorous topics.
I am not trying to pick favorites, but anything that makes slashdot more like Fark (certain sets of topics interrupted by general real world news) is not a forward step for slashdot. Slashdot should stick to what it tries to do best. My condolences to anyone related to the submitting or posting of this article who was affected by this tragedy, and to anyone else similarly affected.
I had to buy a new laptop when mine was stolen a few months ago. It was a Dell with one of those free Vista upgrades, but XP installed.
1) There is not reason for me to upgrade. The only thing Vista can possibly do right now is break apps.
2) As the child (I'm 28) of a systems administrator and sometime IT guy, I know it isn't even worth trying to upgrade until at least the first Service Pack, possibly the second.
I know I can't be the only person my age taking computer advice from my mother.
Why did you have to go reminding everyone of the law of supply and demand!? Now the first home/office printer will cost $600.
sheesh
For routers themselves, I write the password on the surface of the router itself with my handy alcohol pen. That pretty much solves that problem.
The US Army also puts out a ?monthly preventative maintenace publication in cartoon form. It was kinda crazy to see their sound weapons in cartoon form and wonder if they really did exist. Pretty sure they do.
I run Second Life, which is an online game / community / realtime VR thing. It pulls 100Kbps when it is happy, and 300+Kbps when there is a lot going on. If I run this for 40 hours a month that is 16+GB. I'm sure there are games which want more, and people who run games more often.
I'm also sure the ambitious can make quick work of 500GB, especially with avid co-domestic gamers who also download pr0n.
you know who you are.
With winter coming and the price of oil approaching $50, you can now safely turn off your heater and just point the vent of your 6Ghz P4 into the middle of the room...or maybe run a venting system off of it connected to the heat ducts in your house...
What Ars-Fartsica means to say is that he gets electricity in his lease. Ars also likes to heat his room by opening his fridge in the middle of the room.
There is super-pure 99.97% isopropyl alcohol just for cleaning electronics, which is highly recommended.
My uncle sells the Bitrex which they put in 91% isopropyl and less to make it non-tasty, which dries to a white crud and makes things not work. Beware! 91% used to work when it was isopropyl alcohol and water. No longer!
hard drive platters from 10MB hard drives. Big ones. From the drives that were 60 pounds. The platters that are a 9 inches across and weigh half a pound. Made with parts from a 100,000 rpm centrifuge.
The benefit is that when the platter shatters it launches in ALL directions.
And to all you retards, don't even THROW a CD at a solid object near other human beings. CD shards in the eye suck.
The great part about Jill of the Jungle was the gameplay action. Remember Epic Pinball anyone? While neither of those games was all that spiffy, for whatever reason the feel of the controls was quite nice. This too is often lost on more modern games.
Then again I played an N64 for the first time in at least 6 years the other day. The whole 3d control system on those things sucks!