Re:Law Enforcement Implications - Uniform
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Heh, yeah, until quite recently the police at my place didn't look that much different from those guys, the main differentiating things being different shoes and more toned down (black...) colors. Plus reflective area with "POLICE" (well, local version of the name). Here are main variants of what I'm talking about. Though lately they got new uniforms...on one hand some elements go "back" in the right direction, on the other it's even more meh, even more like tracksuit
It really isn't so hard, as this one example from just across my border shows... (to be fair even there it's not the norm)
Even worse thing is happening to police cars. The old scheme is very distinct, the new, badly implemented EU guideline is just a silver car with reflective stripe attached... Similar destruction of damn good scheme happened in Germany, though at least their new blue stripe is definatelly wider...
But then you would have a CPU which would use probably two orders of magnitude more energy than its equivalents on the ARM side (the simplest ones, "more" embedded)...while not being a match for top ARMs which do have "full FPU features", including their own kind of vectorisation instructions. Also, the ability to use older processes (while still being very modest with energy) is a major selling point of ARMs; one of the reasons why they are so cheap and can be found everywhere. That last part also wouldn't really go hand-in-hand with only one supplier.
Or perhaps rather a smaller or a different kind of leach, one which you like more...
What, you haven't heard horror stories about PC DRM lately? (not to mention that when it comes to OS and gaming you have basically just one vendor) A lot of Android devices have a problem of not being updated, without much hope for it to ever change...
Re:Buying ARM for a leg?
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Apple To Buy ARM?
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Hard disk controllers, DSL "modems", build in monitor controls, mouse, keyboard, optical drives.
Sure, not all of them might have ARM in your case, but considering that vast majority of PCs has 1 on 2 x86 cores, greater number of ARM ones is easy.
ARM also works on large part of implementation, essentially providing ready core designs for particular manufacuring processes (you can modify them of course)
ARM really shouldn't be killed...too many of our devices depend on their chips (mobile phones are much less than tip of the iceberg); Intel can't really step in quickly - Atoms currently have, at best, an order of magnitude more energy usage (besides, why would Apple enable this opportunity for Intel?). Other embedded manufacturers aren't up to speed, and too many solutions out there depend on ARM to be both possible and affordable, for starters.
Killing ARM would bring, quite frankly, disastrous disruptions. I have very little electronic junk in the room I'm in, and yet still there are ~10 times more ARM cores around me than, say, x86 ones.
Cores which are reliable, affordable, do their job invisibly; cores on which large part of the industry and, heck, humanity depends on.
Re:Buying ARM for a leg?
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Apple To Buy ARM?
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Well, Microsoft are evil.
That said, the summary has gross understatement...it's not just Palm or Android phones, it's essentially all phones. And unspeakable number of other consumer devices (heck, in your PC there are most likely more ARM cores than x86 ones...)
OTOH what Steam could provide is keeping known versions of Linux libs (hey, that includes Winelib;) ), making things much simpler. With the amount of control Valve perhaps has...who knows, perhaps many games ("simpler" ones at the beginning) could be semi-automatically adapted to included version of Wine, too.
I agree that choice of words is important here. Though not in the case of official and carefully balanced stance from PR department, but observing in what way many typical adherents speak. They are where the life of religion happens, not in monasteries, among the clergy or theologians.
And curiously if I hear, say, an encouragement for prayer...from common folks it's virtually always about praying to cross, saints, pope (deceased one) or dead relatives. Even clergy too often does it, though to be fair they are also the only group from which I can hear a construct with through. That tells a great deal how people actually perceive gods (not "how they claim or think they perceive them"...do I really have to say those are two different things?), what they accept (certainly it doesn't feel awkard to them, doesn't conflict with the simplest rules of the language they think in)
That is of course how things are at my place. BTW, there is quite a lot of statues of previous pope here lately...how come I saw people kneeling in front of them? Technically that's a heresy; though "strangely" - accepted. Notice also superfast, bypassing regulations, process of canonization; also out of necessity really, because he's already worshipped (that's even something some of the clergy are openly concerned about now and then), so the vail of legitimacy is necessary. Why the statues are often put in places where he was simply present at the mass? (surely civil engineering, crowd control measures and planned time of day for the mass, all of which strongly influence where the altar and hence the statue will be, don't make a place special...but identical rules of civil engineering, etc. don't apply to statues / it's actually detrimental to put them there in some cases)
Your place might be noticeably different. Though OTOH I have a buddy from one of the strongholds of Orthodox Church, the Ukraine; and he largely agrees with me. Common folks worship many things.
All of this is of course incidental to how large parts of present Christianity evolved also from local, so called "pagan" faiths. Seriously, with the amount of purely local customs which are followed here, virtually all of them coming from my local version of Slavic religion, and with the lack of devotion to Jewish mythology (apart from some basics) or even to commandments really...it's not at all obvious whether local Catholicism is closer to the official one from X century or to local faith from the same time (time of "national baptism"; though of course that's mostly a popular myth in itself, old faith was fairly strong here untill XVI-XVII century) And so many churches and monasteries at the grounds of old places of worship... BTW, you do know that old pantheons usually also had a clear hierarchy, right? Often with one supreme god and many lesser ones (spawned by the higher), all the way down to common souls. Certainly was the case for my place and for places where Orthodoxy now dominates. Heck, we even had different trinity back then - that part stayed, but lesser gods are now Mary, archangles, angels and saints. Also very local ones. Semantics.
I also don't claim that all faithfull do what I described; just that way too significant, for it to be irrelevant, part does so. Yes, you might essentially not do it. But don't automatically transfer that to others (it is made easy by yours and theirs identification as a single group, with strong involvement thrown into the mix - doesn't help making reliable observations in any way)
You're overextending the point. New (and nowadays quite fully backwards compatible) peripheral buses resulting in new cpu socket? Really? RAM is less clear of course, and any "forced" change can be understandable here; but again AMD shows it can easily be done. Remember this isn't black and white, about trying to keep absolute compatibility for as long as possible. Only where it's reasonable. It would be certainly reasonable to expect in the case of TFA. A socket wchich was touted as neccessary for the market (not long after introducing another one), that will live barely more than a year - in light of many murky practices of Intel, does scream that it's intentional obsolescence (why it had to be leaked? Why Intel isn't forthcoming with this information? Could it be that consumers now would prefer something with a little more longevity?...)
Haven't it crossed your mind that what you observe is mostly a peculiarity of your local market? Quite wastefull, all things considered, when comparing with many other places where PCs are bought (ah, but I have to concede it has nothing to do with the issue, just becuase you want it so...)
And I didn't mention motherboard there. It was just mentioning that, apart from swapping the CPU, literal addition of those two parts to empty slots and bay will indeed contribute even more to the new life of any machine (if going from 2 to 4 or 6 cores at higher clockspeed wasn't enough...). But for some reason you needed to twist it in a way that's basically just a total swap comparable to the least ideal situation...
I'm dissapointed you haven't dragged on with "3rd party chipsets = bad". After all, Apple and Intel (sic) certainly didn't know what they're doing...
I suspect you're mostly under certain bias of perception, since those faiths you mentioned are quite distinct and visible to you as a single group. But what South Park does is usually quite general...I don't notice any excessive singling out of Catholicism, even though I could use more of a laugh in this case.
BTW, Catholicism is the largest single demomination in the US, with 25%; that is noticeably more than its share in the world, where it has little below 20%. It and Islam (if taken as a whole...) are two biggest faiths.
Realistically, in the timescale involved, only one type of memory change (which is still ongoing), one which doesn't matter much in context (since even upcoming CPUs from AMD will be able to use old one, and since Intel made clean break together with other important changes). But most importantly nowhere near as problematic as in the old days, with incompatibilities frequently introduced (heck, even modules of hypothetically correct type would often refuse to work...). Both PCIe are fully compatible, and without much difference to the user really (not across one generation). Core 2 & Core i7 - sure, that change was reasonable. But the one from TFA not even close.
Yes, few people upgrade...again, we can't really know what is fully the cause and what is the effect (they don't have to upgrade by themselves, you know; "making computer faster cheaply" is easy to understand). But you have to agree there has been, over the years, quite a lot of waste with thrashing perfectly good machines... (quite recently mostly revolving about low RAM, which was often easily corrected; changing CPU could be often icing on the cake) And where have I said you have to upgrade only the CPU? Sure, throw in more RAM and new HDD, all the better. If you can, of course...
Is "pretty much all non-intel chipsets have been crap" the reason why, until quite recently, Intel has produced motherboards with SiS chipset? Is that why many recent Macs are on non-Intel chipsets and doing fine? (accidentelly, chipsets from a manufacturer which didn't get license extension...)
I suspect that if the goals of any hypothetical Von Neumann probes wouldn't include avoidance of detection (in which case they would be likely Berserks...), we would have noticed by now.
Are you sure they didn't? I would expect there to be quite a lot of papers from them, being part of the general research categories of signal processing, pattern recognition, etc.
But, ironically, conceptualising this great "value giver" lessens the value of ones contributions to humanity or outright to the Universe (to be most encompassing). After all, it doesn't really matter objectivelly...just as long as your deity says it matters (this also depends of course which self-confessed representative of gods you listen to...).
BTW, there were many resurrection deities and gods in human form. Also children of gods living on Earth (or outright gods in human form). Why, out of all those who said they really were them, you would believe only one?
Discussion won't change the fact that, as a group, those who claim to be absolute moral authority and guidance can and do destroy lifes; which pretty much is an antithesis of some of the core things they claim to follow... It's all just unsubstantiated claims.
The original, classic client screensaver was better though:(
And c'mon, are you seriously comparing activity which follows strict, scientific code of conduct to YEC? (the latter have their sources in public domain for few thousand years btw, doesn't help them much) Yes, yes, "but they base their project on dubious promise"...well duh, who is going to get those data for Drake equation?
Yes, the probability of SETI succeeding is very small...and so is, all things taken into consideration, their energy usage. But the overall impact of SETI (in stark contrast to creationists) is very positive - they not only gave us BOINC and generally popularised distributed computing (hence contributed to many "serious" projects), but also...they share the infrastructure with "normal" astronomy and astrophysics! They directly contributed, made astronomical discoveries.
Plus if they were to succeed...that would be something. But for that, the little bit they do must be done by somebody.
I would guess no real means to use that data (heck, even no realistic way of transmitting and storing those amounts) were available to "amators" for most of SETI existence...only lately have bandwiths, storaga and processing capacities of small teams or individuals become meaningful (that said, they waited few years too long)
For a long time you would just get noise from quacks and conspiracy theorists.
"Ovedrive" were a bit of a different case though - not only resulting in somewhat substandard performance, but also ridiculously overpriced (it was cheaper to just get the new mobo & ram...). Now the situation is different, with official Intel "tick tock" approach (it would be easy to anticipate future compatibility for process shrink...), quite stable situation with RAM & interfaces (yes, USB3...still hardly here, and the last version lasted a decade) and processors with 2, 4, and soon more cores.
Of course hardly anyone expects upgrading...but to what extent that's a reason, and to what an effect? Plus if there was hardly any money in chipset business (remember, using obsolete fabs), Intel wouldn't be so agressive in driving out any competition (which already had very little share of Intel platform)
My (at the time) doctor once prescribed me something homeopathic. I've also heard about one quite complicated surgery (of knee?) which gives no better results than placebo. I'm sure there are more examples...
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Heh, yeah, until quite recently the police at my place didn't look that much different from those guys, the main differentiating things being different shoes and more toned down (black...) colors. Plus reflective area with "POLICE" (well, local version of the name). Here are main variants of what I'm talking about. Though lately they got new uniforms...on one hand some elements go "back" in the right direction, on the other it's even more meh, even more like tracksuit
It really isn't so hard, as this one example from just across my border shows... (to be fair even there it's not the norm)
Even worse thing is happening to police cars. The old scheme is very distinct, the new, badly implemented EU guideline is just a silver car with reflective stripe attached...
Similar destruction of damn good scheme happened in Germany, though at least their new blue stripe is definatelly wider...
But then you would have a CPU which would use probably two orders of magnitude more energy than its equivalents on the ARM side (the simplest ones, "more" embedded)...while not being a match for top ARMs which do have "full FPU features", including their own kind of vectorisation instructions. Also, the ability to use older processes (while still being very modest with energy) is a major selling point of ARMs; one of the reasons why they are so cheap and can be found everywhere. That last part also wouldn't really go hand-in-hand with only one supplier.
Or perhaps rather a smaller or a different kind of leach, one which you like more...
What, you haven't heard horror stories about PC DRM lately? (not to mention that when it comes to OS and gaming you have basically just one vendor) A lot of Android devices have a problem of not being updated, without much hope for it to ever change...
Hard disk controllers, DSL "modems", build in monitor controls, mouse, keyboard, optical drives.
Sure, not all of them might have ARM in your case, but considering that vast majority of PCs has 1 on 2 x86 cores, greater number of ARM ones is easy.
ARM also works on large part of implementation, essentially providing ready core designs for particular manufacuring processes (you can modify them of course)
ARM really shouldn't be killed...too many of our devices depend on their chips (mobile phones are much less than tip of the iceberg); Intel can't really step in quickly - Atoms currently have, at best, an order of magnitude more energy usage (besides, why would Apple enable this opportunity for Intel?). Other embedded manufacturers aren't up to speed, and too many solutions out there depend on ARM to be both possible and affordable, for starters.
Killing ARM would bring, quite frankly, disastrous disruptions. I have very little electronic junk in the room I'm in, and yet still there are ~10 times more ARM cores around me than, say, x86 ones.
Cores which are reliable, affordable, do their job invisibly; cores on which large part of the industry and, heck, humanity depends on.
Well, Microsoft are evil.
That said, the summary has gross understatement...it's not just Palm or Android phones, it's essentially all phones. And unspeakable number of other consumer devices (heck, in your PC there are most likely more ARM cores than x86 ones...)
This is one deal which EU might not let through.
So how does that lead to numerous Holy Trinity icons?
OTOH what Steam could provide is keeping known versions of Linux libs (hey, that includes Winelib ;) ), making things much simpler. With the amount of control Valve perhaps has...who knows, perhaps many games ("simpler" ones at the beginning) could be semi-automatically adapted to included version of Wine, too.
I don't think it's a case of distance per se in your case, more very poor line quality at some point...
I agree that choice of words is important here. Though not in the case of official and carefully balanced stance from PR department, but observing in what way many typical adherents speak. They are where the life of religion happens, not in monasteries, among the clergy or theologians.
And curiously if I hear, say, an encouragement for prayer...from common folks it's virtually always about praying to cross, saints, pope (deceased one) or dead relatives. Even clergy too often does it, though to be fair they are also the only group from which I can hear a construct with through. That tells a great deal how people actually perceive gods (not "how they claim or think they perceive them"...do I really have to say those are two different things?), what they accept (certainly it doesn't feel awkard to them, doesn't conflict with the simplest rules of the language they think in)
That is of course how things are at my place.
BTW, there is quite a lot of statues of previous pope here lately...how come I saw people kneeling in front of them? Technically that's a heresy; though "strangely" - accepted. Notice also superfast, bypassing regulations, process of canonization; also out of necessity really, because he's already worshipped (that's even something some of the clergy are openly concerned about now and then), so the vail of legitimacy is necessary. Why the statues are often put in places where he was simply present at the mass? (surely civil engineering, crowd control measures and planned time of day for the mass, all of which strongly influence where the altar and hence the statue will be, don't make a place special...but identical rules of civil engineering, etc. don't apply to statues / it's actually detrimental to put them there in some cases)
Your place might be noticeably different.
Though OTOH I have a buddy from one of the strongholds of Orthodox Church, the Ukraine; and he largely agrees with me. Common folks worship many things.
All of this is of course incidental to how large parts of present Christianity evolved also from local, so called "pagan" faiths. Seriously, with the amount of purely local customs which are followed here, virtually all of them coming from my local version of Slavic religion, and with the lack of devotion to Jewish mythology (apart from some basics) or even to commandments really...it's not at all obvious whether local Catholicism is closer to the official one from X century or to local faith from the same time (time of "national baptism"; though of course that's mostly a popular myth in itself, old faith was fairly strong here untill XVI-XVII century)
And so many churches and monasteries at the grounds of old places of worship...
BTW, you do know that old pantheons usually also had a clear hierarchy, right? Often with one supreme god and many lesser ones (spawned by the higher), all the way down to common souls. Certainly was the case for my place and for places where Orthodoxy now dominates. Heck, we even had different trinity back then - that part stayed, but lesser gods are now Mary, archangles, angels and saints. Also very local ones. Semantics.
I also don't claim that all faithfull do what I described; just that way too significant, for it to be irrelevant, part does so. Yes, you might essentially not do it. But don't automatically transfer that to others (it is made easy by yours and theirs identification as a single group, with strong involvement thrown into the mix - doesn't help making reliable observations in any way)
It's a matter of semantics mostly. What you claim the particular action should be called doesn't fundamentally change what it is.
(and no, not everybody treats photos as telepathic enhancers)
You're overextending the point. New (and nowadays quite fully backwards compatible) peripheral buses resulting in new cpu socket? Really? RAM is less clear of course, and any "forced" change can be understandable here; but again AMD shows it can easily be done. Remember this isn't black and white, about trying to keep absolute compatibility for as long as possible. Only where it's reasonable. It would be certainly reasonable to expect in the case of TFA. A socket wchich was touted as neccessary for the market (not long after introducing another one), that will live barely more than a year - in light of many murky practices of Intel, does scream that it's intentional obsolescence (why it had to be leaked? Why Intel isn't forthcoming with this information? Could it be that consumers now would prefer something with a little more longevity?...)
Haven't it crossed your mind that what you observe is mostly a peculiarity of your local market? Quite wastefull, all things considered, when comparing with many other places where PCs are bought (ah, but I have to concede it has nothing to do with the issue, just becuase you want it so...)
And I didn't mention motherboard there. It was just mentioning that, apart from swapping the CPU, literal addition of those two parts to empty slots and bay will indeed contribute even more to the new life of any machine (if going from 2 to 4 or 6 cores at higher clockspeed wasn't enough...). But for some reason you needed to twist it in a way that's basically just a total swap comparable to the least ideal situation...
I'm dissapointed you haven't dragged on with "3rd party chipsets = bad". After all, Apple and Intel (sic) certainly didn't know what they're doing...
I suspect you're mostly under certain bias of perception, since those faiths you mentioned are quite distinct and visible to you as a single group. But what South Park does is usually quite general...I don't notice any excessive singling out of Catholicism, even though I could use more of a laugh in this case.
BTW, Catholicism is the largest single demomination in the US, with 25%; that is noticeably more than its share in the world, where it has little below 20%. It and Islam (if taken as a whole...) are two biggest faiths.
Nah, I seek medical assistance only when I need to. Last time it was around 2.5 years ago, I believe...
Realistically, in the timescale involved, only one type of memory change (which is still ongoing), one which doesn't matter much in context (since even upcoming CPUs from AMD will be able to use old one, and since Intel made clean break together with other important changes). But most importantly nowhere near as problematic as in the old days, with incompatibilities frequently introduced (heck, even modules of hypothetically correct type would often refuse to work...). Both PCIe are fully compatible, and without much difference to the user really (not across one generation). Core 2 & Core i7 - sure, that change was reasonable. But the one from TFA not even close.
Yes, few people upgrade...again, we can't really know what is fully the cause and what is the effect (they don't have to upgrade by themselves, you know; "making computer faster cheaply" is easy to understand). But you have to agree there has been, over the years, quite a lot of waste with thrashing perfectly good machines... (quite recently mostly revolving about low RAM, which was often easily corrected; changing CPU could be often icing on the cake)
And where have I said you have to upgrade only the CPU? Sure, throw in more RAM and new HDD, all the better. If you can, of course...
Is "pretty much all non-intel chipsets have been crap" the reason why, until quite recently, Intel has produced motherboards with SiS chipset? Is that why many recent Macs are on non-Intel chipsets and doing fine? (accidentelly, chipsets from a manufacturer which didn't get license extension...)
Well, some supposedly Western democracies have laws against "hurting religious feelings"... (the law at my place is worded like that, I kid you not)
I suspect that if the goals of any hypothetical Von Neumann probes wouldn't include avoidance of detection (in which case they would be likely Berserks...), we would have noticed by now.
Are you sure they didn't? I would expect there to be quite a lot of papers from them, being part of the general research categories of signal processing, pattern recognition, etc.
But, ironically, conceptualising this great "value giver" lessens the value of ones contributions to humanity or outright to the Universe (to be most encompassing). After all, it doesn't really matter objectivelly...just as long as your deity says it matters (this also depends of course which self-confessed representative of gods you listen to...).
BTW, there were many resurrection deities and gods in human form. Also children of gods living on Earth (or outright gods in human form). Why, out of all those who said they really were them, you would believe only one?
Discussion won't change the fact that, as a group, those who claim to be absolute moral authority and guidance can and do destroy lifes; which pretty much is an antithesis of some of the core things they claim to follow... It's all just unsubstantiated claims.
The original, classic client screensaver was better though :(
And c'mon, are you seriously comparing activity which follows strict, scientific code of conduct to YEC? (the latter have their sources in public domain for few thousand years btw, doesn't help them much) Yes, yes, "but they base their project on dubious promise"...well duh, who is going to get those data for Drake equation?
Yes, the probability of SETI succeeding is very small...and so is, all things taken into consideration, their energy usage. But the overall impact of SETI (in stark contrast to creationists) is very positive - they not only gave us BOINC and generally popularised distributed computing (hence contributed to many "serious" projects), but also...they share the infrastructure with "normal" astronomy and astrophysics! They directly contributed, made astronomical discoveries.
Plus if they were to succeed...that would be something. But for that, the little bit they do must be done by somebody.
I would guess no real means to use that data (heck, even no realistic way of transmitting and storing those amounts) were available to "amators" for most of SETI existence...only lately have bandwiths, storaga and processing capacities of small teams or individuals become meaningful (that said, they waited few years too long)
For a long time you would just get noise from quacks and conspiracy theorists.
"Ovedrive" were a bit of a different case though - not only resulting in somewhat substandard performance, but also ridiculously overpriced (it was cheaper to just get the new mobo & ram...). Now the situation is different, with official Intel "tick tock" approach (it would be easy to anticipate future compatibility for process shrink...), quite stable situation with RAM & interfaces (yes, USB3...still hardly here, and the last version lasted a decade) and processors with 2, 4, and soon more cores.
Of course hardly anyone expects upgrading...but to what extent that's a reason, and to what an effect? Plus if there was hardly any money in chipset business (remember, using obsolete fabs), Intel wouldn't be so agressive in driving out any competition (which already had very little share of Intel platform)
My (at the time) doctor once prescribed me something homeopathic. I've also heard about one quite complicated surgery (of knee?) which gives no better results than placebo. I'm sure there are more examples...