I thought MIPS was dead. And looking back a lot of architectures has been running out of steam. Motorola 68000, PA-Risc, Digital Alpha to name a few...
Right now there are only three or four architectures that delivers some punch, x86, ARM, Sparc and Itanium. But the last is only alive due to HP and Sparc is kept alive by Oracle so far.
Then there is the point that if the hunted knows that he's discovered then it may be enough for them to call off an attack. So unencrypted may actually serve a purpose.
And when you run encryption there's always one more factor that can go wrong. No picture at all is completely useless.
Any desktop with a decent GPU has more than that already.
But the difference between a desktop and a phone makes it harder to get good performance on the desktop with many cores - it's memory bandwidth that's the bottleneck. On a phone you can dedicate cores to certain well-defined tasks and optimize them for that.
For every interest group when they figure out that they can target "unwanted" groups of people. And imagine what the Nazis of Germany could have done during WWII - a virus designed to kill off everyone that wasn't pure Arian.
If you are going to burn the liquid it really doesn't matter if it's pure ethanol or if you also have some methanol in it. The vehicle burning it won't mind either.
And then after they have been used to produce more ethanol (which probably is contaminated by some other things than ethanol which would make it less pleasurable to drink) the remains can be dried and then burned to produce even more energy - like heat for the distillation. The ashes can then in turn be taken back to the wineyard and used as fertilizer.
Step by step to create the full cycle. And don't forget that the same procedure can be used with other kinds of waste - like what comes from when producing corn, sugar beets, potatoes and almost any type of food. So you will increase the utilization of the crop without really using food for making ethanol.
Just notice that a lot of potential energy is wasted and literally goes down the drain at every household. But it's partly because energy still is too cheap compared to the cost to utilize the energy from waste.
It certainly will make things more interesting - and increased number of cores is the way to go today. Most applications and operating systems will benefit from multiple cores - even though some applications may benefit from additional tuning.
However - most bread&butter applications today runs well on even the cheap processors on the market, it's only when you start to look at things like gaming and advanced processing that you really will benefit from a faster processor. Most computers will be a lot faster when you replace the ordinary hard disk with a SSD. And if you really want some computing power you should look at using GPUs for computing. Sooner or later it's time to get rid of the x86 architecture and look at new ways to raise the performance.
That also means that they are consuming more water than what is replenished each year, which in the long run may be a more important issue than a quake every 25 years or so.
My point was rather that they should have those multi-core processors in the general lineup of processors instead. Not killing the multi-core solutions. I wouldn't mind having a 16 core processor but it's still expensive.
There are other things that can be done too - why not have processors with a mix of 64-bit and 32-bit cores? Not all applications are 64-bit. And maybe see if they can do something that is similar to the hyperthreading that Intel has.
Maybe AMD should look at the product line and see if they can lower the number of models they are presenting. Is it really necessary to have a separate line of server processors?
And when you look at the price/performance ratio AMD is doing well, but that only means that they are more suitable to the mid/low range PC:s.
And it's my computer and if my computer has features that I can't access, disable or modify - like the encryption chip - then I have a problem with that.
If I need to change key depending on OS - then make it easy - like requesting a password for changing to another chain of keys.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was, but doesn't this highlight the fact that the authentication when doing trading may be insufficient?
What if it was some malicious program injected by someone that wanted to create chaos? It would be a mess trying to straighten out who did actually sell and buy what. Smaller things have caused the stock market to have a hiccup.
This highlights the point of having a due process for legal claims - bring your claims to court first and when there's a court order on it then it's time to take down the content.
Searching the web produces some alternatives, and not all are that expensive.
So it may be a good idea to shop around - and also look at sites that aren't specific for the English-speaking, like some sites in Scandinavia where the hearing aids can be priced more reasonably.
The catch is that you should always tune the aid to suit your specific hearing condition.
I agree - a good kit of non-electrical items and a know-how about how to use them. OK, you may want a chronometer running on batteries, but a compass and a sextant should be in the equipment if you plan to cross an ocean.
Add a hand-held GPS powered by lithium batteries in a waterproof box, preferably coupled to a life raft. And extra batteries. That way you will at least be able to get your position the easy way. Emergency flares and glowsticks are also useful.
For what it's worth - Russia is big and strong, and will be a power to count on the coming decades. As long as they keep to economic strength and avoid the military path it's no big problem.
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I thought MIPS was dead. And looking back a lot of architectures has been running out of steam. Motorola 68000, PA-Risc, Digital Alpha to name a few...
Right now there are only three or four architectures that delivers some punch, x86, ARM, Sparc and Itanium. But the last is only alive due to HP and Sparc is kept alive by Oracle so far.
Then there is the point that if the hunted knows that he's discovered then it may be enough for them to call off an attack. So unencrypted may actually serve a purpose.
And when you run encryption there's always one more factor that can go wrong. No picture at all is completely useless.
Or use some old servers - many times an old PIII with Linux is good enough for some low demanding work like being an NTP server.
Any desktop with a decent GPU has more than that already.
But the difference between a desktop and a phone makes it harder to get good performance on the desktop with many cores - it's memory bandwidth that's the bottleneck. On a phone you can dedicate cores to certain well-defined tasks and optimize them for that.
Aber nicht in Deutsch. Arisch!
Where the "y" came from is a mystery.
For every interest group when they figure out that they can target "unwanted" groups of people. And imagine what the Nazis of Germany could have done during WWII - a virus designed to kill off everyone that wasn't pure Arian.
Or Grappa di Frascati! A bit rare on the market.
If you are going to burn the liquid it really doesn't matter if it's pure ethanol or if you also have some methanol in it. The vehicle burning it won't mind either.
And then after they have been used to produce more ethanol (which probably is contaminated by some other things than ethanol which would make it less pleasurable to drink) the remains can be dried and then burned to produce even more energy - like heat for the distillation. The ashes can then in turn be taken back to the wineyard and used as fertilizer.
Step by step to create the full cycle. And don't forget that the same procedure can be used with other kinds of waste - like what comes from when producing corn, sugar beets, potatoes and almost any type of food. So you will increase the utilization of the crop without really using food for making ethanol.
Just notice that a lot of potential energy is wasted and literally goes down the drain at every household. But it's partly because energy still is too cheap compared to the cost to utilize the energy from waste.
It certainly will make things more interesting - and increased number of cores is the way to go today. Most applications and operating systems will benefit from multiple cores - even though some applications may benefit from additional tuning.
However - most bread&butter applications today runs well on even the cheap processors on the market, it's only when you start to look at things like gaming and advanced processing that you really will benefit from a faster processor. Most computers will be a lot faster when you replace the ordinary hard disk with a SSD. And if you really want some computing power you should look at using GPUs for computing. Sooner or later it's time to get rid of the x86 architecture and look at new ways to raise the performance.
That also means that they are consuming more water than what is replenished each year, which in the long run may be a more important issue than a quake every 25 years or so.
Imagine the amount of time you will get on your hands if you don't watch TV at all. My TV hasn't been used for several weeks.
My point was rather that they should have those multi-core processors in the general lineup of processors instead. Not killing the multi-core solutions. I wouldn't mind having a 16 core processor but it's still expensive.
There are other things that can be done too - why not have processors with a mix of 64-bit and 32-bit cores? Not all applications are 64-bit. And maybe see if they can do something that is similar to the hyperthreading that Intel has.
Maybe AMD should look at the product line and see if they can lower the number of models they are presenting. Is it really necessary to have a separate line of server processors?
And when you look at the price/performance ratio AMD is doing well, but that only means that they are more suitable to the mid/low range PC:s.
And it's my computer and if my computer has features that I can't access, disable or modify - like the encryption chip - then I have a problem with that.
If I need to change key depending on OS - then make it easy - like requesting a password for changing to another chain of keys.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was, but doesn't this highlight the fact that the authentication when doing trading may be insufficient?
What if it was some malicious program injected by someone that wanted to create chaos? It would be a mess trying to straighten out who did actually sell and buy what. Smaller things have caused the stock market to have a hiccup.
This highlights the point of having a due process for legal claims - bring your claims to court first and when there's a court order on it then it's time to take down the content.
Same here - and the tool doesn't matter - the experience from old solutions are as valid with new, it's just the building blocks that differs.
And with experience you can do things better.
I agree - someone please mod parent up!
Of course - a Java engine in the browser would do the trick (as someone noted). It has to be a sandbox solution to work well and be secure.
But the current Java plugin solution is a clunky solution.
Looking at it the video is now removed.
If everybody reading this goes in and makes a dislike of that video and others of that so called religion then at least we made a statement.
Searching the web produces some alternatives, and not all are that expensive.
So it may be a good idea to shop around - and also look at sites that aren't specific for the English-speaking, like some sites in Scandinavia where the hearing aids can be priced more reasonably.
The catch is that you should always tune the aid to suit your specific hearing condition.
I agree - a good kit of non-electrical items and a know-how about how to use them. OK, you may want a chronometer running on batteries, but a compass and a sextant should be in the equipment if you plan to cross an ocean.
Add a hand-held GPS powered by lithium batteries in a waterproof box, preferably coupled to a life raft. And extra batteries. That way you will at least be able to get your position the easy way. Emergency flares and glowsticks are also useful.
Shouldn't it be the Arctic Sea?
For what it's worth - Russia is big and strong, and will be a power to count on the coming decades. As long as they keep to economic strength and avoid the military path it's no big problem.
Means that you also have technology to improve the situation on the ground - satellite monitoring is useful for planning and development.
And you also develop technology that has spin-off use on the ground.