Considering they recently reported (here at slashdot no less) that a "breakthrough" was made in decrypting AES encryption, which is pretty standard stuff, making the cracking of it twice as easy. However that said, we would probably see the heat death of the universe before that happens using current technology. Or at least several million or billion years (I am being intentionally vague here as what does it matter at these values). That is to say nothing of eventually making quantum computers, or some other magic box that can do it eventually. However the government can take all the super computers of the world, make a big pile of them and set them to the sole task of breaking the encryption on a single machine, now multiple that by a couple of million users, etc...
Not feasible. In reality, most don't use encryption anyway. However if everyone did...
It bothers me that so many of these "matches" even make it to youtube. I mean do people actually watch these 30-50min videos?
Now if a Bar wants to have Starcraft 2 gaming challenge, I'm in! Though I can't see that at any bar hear... As to watching a recorded starcraft 2 match, I don't think so. And if you think that is coming on over Hockey, well some geeks are about to learn a very hard lesson in drinking and tolerance to others.
Got a letter from Cogeco Cable Internet the other day. Was told that not only were they increasing the speed of my service and slightly increasing my bandwidth, that they would also be increasing the cap to which I pay when I go over my actual bandwidth cap from 30$ to 50$.
I see a movement to a model where you have to go over, and all the profit is from making you do so, and charging exorbitant rates at the same time. So while the bandwidth curve of need is an exponential curve of X, the cap curve will be much lower and Y, the shaded difference is all profit at 1.5$ a GB or what ever it is by that point... Because you know that 50$ will become 100$, and then there will be no limit, and cap will be zero GB...
That is where we are headed. That is where the ISP want to go. It seems pretty obvious to me, that they are just doing it in baby steps and small increments so as to not upset anyone or get the rabble all roused up about how much they are getting hosed.
It doesn't make sense. It is like taking two roads to nowhere and connecting them, except they still go nowhere. Both side of the connection are too small of markets to be used for anything. There is barely a connection between Alaska and Canada, let alone the larger market of the rest of the US. So what is the point. It would be like building a multibillion dollar tunnel for the purposes of a few million in trade a year (maybe).
If it was opened up to the rest of Canada and the US, then yes, but now you are talking of even more billions of rail and road. The side benefit would be it would open up those areas for future development. All that said, I would be surprised if ANY of this ever happens in my lifetime.
Considering I wrote documentation for some software called "Pegasus Mail" for a university, I'm pretty sure e-mail was alive and well (as part of my high school co-op program no less).
Not available to normal pleabs maybe, but it was available mostly for education and government uses.
But your right, that was also the time I was still dialing into BBS's with a 2400 baud modem...
The difficulty is I just did a 5 min review of what is out there for SSD, and only OCZ and Intel seem to like to put that in there specifications (none in corsair that I checked), though that could have just been the online store, however every single one that did was MLC, so I am not sure how available SLC is really.
Though there was a neat chart in the toms article that basically shows that SSD failure rate seems to be pretty heavily correlated to capacity size, where the smaller the device, the longer it lasts. So buying the cheaper, smaller unit will actually last longer, so I guess that it just goes to show you should buy within your means.
I read a lot of Science Fiction, and I only know one name.
Looking at the categories, it isn't all that surprising. It looks like the Hugo's is turning out like the Oscars. Name the last 3 Oscars winners in Sound Production, or Visual Editing, or Cinematography, or assistant sandwich maker, etc... Seriously, no one really cares other than best Movie, Best Actor/Actress.
I want to know what book won a Hugo, and maybe the runner ups. I could give a flying frack about short stories, novellas, professional artist?, I don't even know wtf a "Semiprozine" is for gods sake. Fan Artists, and writers? There is an amateur section now?
Anyway it is a bit ridiculous. I am sure the writes/artists like it as more people can say they "won" a "hugo"... but you are just diluting the esteem.
Anybody else remember the stupid cardboard template you would place over top of your keyboard in order to remember the 8 gajillion shortcuts that wordperfect used back in the 1990's?
Personally I think the farther removed we are from that sort of foolishness the better. Not to mention that there is nothing to say that whatever "ctrl-???" will continued to be supported into the future by anything. So, yes teaching that would be stupid, just like teaching computers using the manual of some software... Though some have been built into many thing due to long use like ctrl-C or ctrl-break.... anyway the keyboards are full of legacy garbage.
Though this continues to plague software design... forget a feature... add a shortcut. I was horrified to see just the other day, that in MS Access 2010, someone can hide/show the show freaking navigation pane (you know the little thingy that lets you brows through, tables, queries, reports, forms, modules, everything) using F11. Oh and if you made a DB with a loading form, it is by default hidden. It took me awhile of online searching to find the stupid F11. Now I get to impart this "wisdom" on to every new user of MS Access 2010 I meet who will be calling me and going WTF where are all the tables!
From my understanding of it (which may be incorrect), while SSD's seem to fail a bit more, they do so gradually, over time, at the expense of capacity.
Where as normal physically spinning HDD, tend to suddenly and catastrophically fail, losing all data.
Anyway for what they are currently used for (system drives), and their current capacity (less than 320GB, most being in the 60-120GB) range, they are absurdly easy to back up, who cares if it fails (provided it is still under warranty), replace it and copy your backup back onto it. However backing up those 4 TB of videos on normal HDD can be a mite more difficult.
Anyway, I do agree, that in terms of this article it is moot, as 10% of 70$ bucks is 77$, whereas the SSD will cost you 200$ or whatever. Its an apples to oranges kind of thing. Two different things, used differently.
1) You're limited to the 20$ the tightwad took out. 2) You would have to be able to mug them over and over again until caught 3) Likely the charge is less if you don't actually have to threaten anyone with a knife or gun. 4) You just need the number not the card, but even if you do need it, you can secretly steal it, make a copy and even return it. 5) Its way cooler.
Mythbox? Really. Yeah and if I want to build a file server, I'll just recycle whatever old PC I happen to have kicking around, same goes for web server, etc... or as you say buy a low end solution.
I'll agree with the diminishing returns on a SLI rig. You have to really want to be bleeding edge for that. Adding more, only gives you so much, and even upgrading down the road you are better off likely just buying a newer card than adding another old one (unless you find a used one someplace for stupid cheap or something).
Anyway it is a balance. If you go out and buy a 150$ AMD CPU and then go get yourself a 300-500$ 570, 580 and drop it in. Have fun wasting your money. Also enjoy your load times. Heck even a 225$ 560 Ti would probably be wasted.
Not to mention there are a awful lot of other applications for your computer that ARE CPU dependent, like encoding, decoding, compression, encryption, heck just about anything.
If by "Arm and a Leg" you mean low end system, then no enthusiast worth his salt will give a crap... unless say you can over clock a Core 2 Duo E6300 1.8 Ghz to 3Ghz or something like that. Much like oh I don't know perhaps the Intel Celerons, 433, 466, or 500, but that is going pretty far back in the way back machine.
So yes I agree, you can go by a POS 100$ AMD that will give you more back for your buck than a Intel. Have fun with that. Also go buy a Dell, Hp, or Lenveo while your at it.... If that doesn't work for you, then go to Futureshop or Best Buy.
Bottom line, best CPU on the market value wise (IMO anyway) is the i5 2500k for about 210-215$ depending on where you buy it.
Do not get me wrong. I root for AMD. A lot. I WANT them to be competitive, as they would drive prices down, and improve performance. Now that they have bought up ATI we have the same problem with nVidia (though hard to believe that industry is even less clear). I would love to buy AMD products, but they are lacking. I don't know if AMD is just producing sub par products, or if Intel is just doing a good job of hitting it out of the park over and over again.
Are are a few benchmarks that AMD does a bit better in than others I will admit, they also have a pretty decent server or even business product I hear. However for mainstream enthusiast builders that go out and actually buy retail CPU and motherboards, they haven't even been in the game awhile. The ONLY advantage they have had, is that unlike Intel they haven't changed their socket every single generation, so you can keep the same AM2 board you had for your previous gen AMD, which is nice. Though I hear their next gen is on a new socket, so maybe it will be a big leap, who knows.
I think you are also giving them too much credit so far as control is concerned.
Bottom line it was pretty obvious that many of the areas in Pakistan are part of it in name only, and that the government has very little control or influence.
Most of these are run by the local warlords, who are either terrorists themselves or simply profit off the situation.
I think it is more a situation that Pakistan doesn't really control these regions, and doesn't really want to "poke the bear with a stick", as it could really lead to trouble for them. At the same time, they have to try at least and look strong nationally and assert their sovereignty.
In the end, it is all an act, and I'm pretty sure anyone important in the US is aware of this, which is why they haven't really done anything about it, as it would be pointless.
That's an interesting fantasy world you live in. Say hi to the faeries and unicorns for me.
AMD has not had an advantage since they came out with the Athlon64. It was the last time they had a CPU that beat Intel in performance. Intel came out with "core 2 duo" and AMD has of yet been unable to answer. That was a long time ago.
The ONLY time they have been able to compete even in a cost/performance ratio, is at the low end. Not mid, and not high. Very few enthusiasts are interested in the low end, sub 150$ CPU.
Intel's current offerings of i5 2500k (215$) and i7 2600k (300$) beat the pants off anything AMD has to offer. If you are aware of any review and any store selling an AMD CPU that beats either of those in 50% performance benchmarks, and costs less, post it here and educate me.
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Considering they recently reported (here at slashdot no less) that a "breakthrough" was made in decrypting AES encryption, which is pretty standard stuff, making the cracking of it twice as easy. However that said, we would probably see the heat death of the universe before that happens using current technology. Or at least several million or billion years (I am being intentionally vague here as what does it matter at these values). That is to say nothing of eventually making quantum computers, or some other magic box that can do it eventually. However the government can take all the super computers of the world, make a big pile of them and set them to the sole task of breaking the encryption on a single machine, now multiple that by a couple of million users, etc...
Not feasible. In reality, most don't use encryption anyway. However if everyone did...
Not to mention his swearing in consisted of:
"oh BTW, we're involved in 2 wars you can't get out of, and I basically destroyed the economy. Have fun. k thx bye!"
It bothers me that so many of these "matches" even make it to youtube. I mean do people actually watch these 30-50min videos?
Now if a Bar wants to have Starcraft 2 gaming challenge, I'm in! Though I can't see that at any bar hear... As to watching a recorded starcraft 2 match, I don't think so. And if you think that is coming on over Hockey, well some geeks are about to learn a very hard lesson in drinking and tolerance to others.
So many funny options to insert in there... Something from HAL... Something from SkyNet... something from War Games...
"Launching all orbital missiles, please stand by..."
"I can see my house from here!"
"I'm ALIVE!"
"See the world they said..."
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" bc in space they can't hear you...
"...well its the only way to be sure."
Got a letter from Cogeco Cable Internet the other day. Was told that not only were they increasing the speed of my service and slightly increasing my bandwidth, that they would also be increasing the cap to which I pay when I go over my actual bandwidth cap from 30$ to 50$.
I see a movement to a model where you have to go over, and all the profit is from making you do so, and charging exorbitant rates at the same time. So while the bandwidth curve of need is an exponential curve of X, the cap curve will be much lower and Y, the shaded difference is all profit at 1.5$ a GB or what ever it is by that point... Because you know that 50$ will become 100$, and then there will be no limit, and cap will be zero GB...
That is where we are headed. That is where the ISP want to go. It seems pretty obvious to me, that they are just doing it in baby steps and small increments so as to not upset anyone or get the rabble all roused up about how much they are getting hosed.
It doesn't make sense. It is like taking two roads to nowhere and connecting them, except they still go nowhere. Both side of the connection are too small of markets to be used for anything. There is barely a connection between Alaska and Canada, let alone the larger market of the rest of the US. So what is the point. It would be like building a multibillion dollar tunnel for the purposes of a few million in trade a year (maybe).
If it was opened up to the rest of Canada and the US, then yes, but now you are talking of even more billions of rail and road. The side benefit would be it would open up those areas for future development. All that said, I would be surprised if ANY of this ever happens in my lifetime.
If you count Toronto as part of Canada or not...
I don't know why, but it reminds me of Snow Crash for some reason.
Considering I wrote documentation for some software called "Pegasus Mail" for a university, I'm pretty sure e-mail was alive and well (as part of my high school co-op program no less).
Not available to normal pleabs maybe, but it was available mostly for education and government uses.
But your right, that was also the time I was still dialing into BBS's with a 2400 baud modem...
Paul Hogan.
G'day Mate!
Interesting, new to me.
Here is an article I goggled that seems to explain it pretty well.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/ssd-value-performance,review-1455-5.html
The difficulty is I just did a 5 min review of what is out there for SSD, and only OCZ and Intel seem to like to put that in there specifications (none in corsair that I checked), though that could have just been the online store, however every single one that did was MLC, so I am not sure how available SLC is really.
Though there was a neat chart in the toms article that basically shows that SSD failure rate seems to be pretty heavily correlated to capacity size, where the smaller the device, the longer it lasts. So buying the cheaper, smaller unit will actually last longer, so I guess that it just goes to show you should buy within your means.
I read a lot of Science Fiction, and I only know one name.
Looking at the categories, it isn't all that surprising. It looks like the Hugo's is turning out like the Oscars. Name the last 3 Oscars winners in Sound Production, or Visual Editing, or Cinematography, or assistant sandwich maker, etc... Seriously, no one really cares other than best Movie, Best Actor/Actress.
I want to know what book won a Hugo, and maybe the runner ups. I could give a flying frack about short stories, novellas, professional artist?, I don't even know wtf a "Semiprozine" is for gods sake. Fan Artists, and writers? There is an amateur section now?
Anyway it is a bit ridiculous. I am sure the writes/artists like it as more people can say they "won" a "hugo"... but you are just diluting the esteem.
Anybody else remember the stupid cardboard template you would place over top of your keyboard in order to remember the 8 gajillion shortcuts that wordperfect used back in the 1990's?
Personally I think the farther removed we are from that sort of foolishness the better. Not to mention that there is nothing to say that whatever "ctrl-???" will continued to be supported into the future by anything. So, yes teaching that would be stupid, just like teaching computers using the manual of some software... Though some have been built into many thing due to long use like ctrl-C or ctrl-break.... anyway the keyboards are full of legacy garbage.
Though this continues to plague software design... forget a feature... add a shortcut. I was horrified to see just the other day, that in MS Access 2010, someone can hide/show the show freaking navigation pane (you know the little thingy that lets you brows through, tables, queries, reports, forms, modules, everything) using F11. Oh and if you made a DB with a loading form, it is by default hidden. It took me awhile of online searching to find the stupid F11. Now I get to impart this "wisdom" on to every new user of MS Access 2010 I meet who will be calling me and going WTF where are all the tables!
Define "insane"...
From my understanding of it (which may be incorrect), while SSD's seem to fail a bit more, they do so gradually, over time, at the expense of capacity.
Where as normal physically spinning HDD, tend to suddenly and catastrophically fail, losing all data.
Anyway for what they are currently used for (system drives), and their current capacity (less than 320GB, most being in the 60-120GB) range, they are absurdly easy to back up, who cares if it fails (provided it is still under warranty), replace it and copy your backup back onto it. However backing up those 4 TB of videos on normal HDD can be a mite more difficult.
Anyway, I do agree, that in terms of this article it is moot, as 10% of 70$ bucks is 77$, whereas the SSD will cost you 200$ or whatever. Its an apples to oranges kind of thing. Two different things, used differently.
Would you like to be shot, or tortured and shot?
Um... shot?
Sexual Education!
This was tried a few years ago under the auspices of "Save the children from kiddy porn"...
It didn't fly then, and was defeated.
Now that the Conservatives have a majority, and are making silly decisions in an effort to "look tough on crime"...
I hope it doesn't pass, but if it ever will, now is the time.
1) You're limited to the 20$ the tightwad took out.
2) You would have to be able to mug them over and over again until caught
3) Likely the charge is less if you don't actually have to threaten anyone with a knife or gun.
4) You just need the number not the card, but even if you do need it, you can secretly steal it, make a copy and even return it.
5) Its way cooler.
for all your hacking prosecution needs...
if ever there was a website for the FBI etc... to hack and infiltrate that would be it.
Problem is, you are only going to get the hackers stupid enough to post there, which are likely too stupid too do anything too bad.
Maybe rename it scriptkiddies.com, of course then the FBI would really be all over you...
They fired an employee after getting into an argument with management, didn't take away or change passwords, and also didn't backup their systems.
Sounds to me like the company should be taken to court not just the employee.
Seriously, we treat our employees poorly, we don't take security seriously, and don't believe in backup.
What could possibly go wrong?
Not all games have a GPU bottleneck.
As mentioned we are talking 210-300$ not 1000$.
Mythbox? Really. Yeah and if I want to build a file server, I'll just recycle whatever old PC I happen to have kicking around, same goes for web server, etc... or as you say buy a low end solution.
I'll agree with the diminishing returns on a SLI rig. You have to really want to be bleeding edge for that. Adding more, only gives you so much, and even upgrading down the road you are better off likely just buying a newer card than adding another old one (unless you find a used one someplace for stupid cheap or something).
Anyway it is a balance. If you go out and buy a 150$ AMD CPU and then go get yourself a 300-500$ 570, 580 and drop it in. Have fun wasting your money. Also enjoy your load times. Heck even a 225$ 560 Ti would probably be wasted.
Not to mention there are a awful lot of other applications for your computer that ARE CPU dependent, like encoding, decoding, compression, encryption, heck just about anything.
If by "Arm and a Leg" you mean low end system, then no enthusiast worth his salt will give a crap... unless say you can over clock a Core 2 Duo E6300 1.8 Ghz to 3Ghz or something like that. Much like oh I don't know perhaps the Intel Celerons, 433, 466, or 500, but that is going pretty far back in the way back machine.
So yes I agree, you can go by a POS 100$ AMD that will give you more back for your buck than a Intel. Have fun with that. Also go buy a Dell, Hp, or Lenveo while your at it.... If that doesn't work for you, then go to Futureshop or Best Buy.
Bottom line, best CPU on the market value wise (IMO anyway) is the i5 2500k for about 210-215$ depending on where you buy it.
Do not get me wrong. I root for AMD. A lot. I WANT them to be competitive, as they would drive prices down, and improve performance. Now that they have bought up ATI we have the same problem with nVidia (though hard to believe that industry is even less clear). I would love to buy AMD products, but they are lacking. I don't know if AMD is just producing sub par products, or if Intel is just doing a good job of hitting it out of the park over and over again.
Are are a few benchmarks that AMD does a bit better in than others I will admit, they also have a pretty decent server or even business product I hear. However for mainstream enthusiast builders that go out and actually buy retail CPU and motherboards, they haven't even been in the game awhile. The ONLY advantage they have had, is that unlike Intel they haven't changed their socket every single generation, so you can keep the same AM2 board you had for your previous gen AMD, which is nice. Though I hear their next gen is on a new socket, so maybe it will be a big leap, who knows.
PURPOSELY is a strong word.
I think you are also giving them too much credit so far as control is concerned.
Bottom line it was pretty obvious that many of the areas in Pakistan are part of it in name only, and that the government has very little control or influence.
Most of these are run by the local warlords, who are either terrorists themselves or simply profit off the situation.
I think it is more a situation that Pakistan doesn't really control these regions, and doesn't really want to "poke the bear with a stick", as it could really lead to trouble for them. At the same time, they have to try at least and look strong nationally and assert their sovereignty.
In the end, it is all an act, and I'm pretty sure anyone important in the US is aware of this, which is why they haven't really done anything about it, as it would be pointless.
That's an interesting fantasy world you live in. Say hi to the faeries and unicorns for me.
AMD has not had an advantage since they came out with the Athlon64. It was the last time they had a CPU that beat Intel in performance. Intel came out with "core 2 duo" and AMD has of yet been unable to answer. That was a long time ago.
The ONLY time they have been able to compete even in a cost/performance ratio, is at the low end. Not mid, and not high. Very few enthusiasts are interested in the low end, sub 150$ CPU.
Intel's current offerings of i5 2500k (215$) and i7 2600k (300$) beat the pants off anything AMD has to offer. If you are aware of any review and any store selling an AMD CPU that beats either of those in 50% performance benchmarks, and costs less, post it here and educate me.
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