Nothing "paranormal" about it, it's all perfectly normal as far as the universe is concerned (not to say that the universe is capable of feeling concern)
Paranormal, by definition, is something outside the realm of science. Science, by definition, is phenomenon we're capable of perceiving. I think I've made my point.:) You can argue semantics from "the universe's perspective"... but as far as science is concerned, the only perspective is ours, and our perspective defines the universe.
Strangely enough, I was arguing your POV in my philosophy of religion class a few years ago.
Yes, all of those metrics are great. But where are their reviews/comparisons of the current line up of CPUs? You know... relating to how this whole topic started.
There's lots of nice information on PSUs, fans, cases. That stuff's infinitely helpful, and for that I am indebted to silentpcreview.
You're forgetting that all "physical laws" are determined by our subjective experience of the universe.
If you're willing to venture that the "actual universe" contains a super-set of these laws, then it follows that perhaps none of our scientific findings are "real" in the first place.
So in other words, you have to make the decision: Is our subjectively perceived universe the only way the universe works, or is there something more? If there's something more which we cannot scientifically prove through perception, it does not necessarily correlate that it must be in any way related to the material universe.
To make any sort of paranormal assumptions based upon our current scientific perceptions is a bit... premature. What you're saying, in a very secular way, is that there is a god, and god is a physical law which we cannot perceive. That's no more valid than saying there is a god for which we cannot perceive!
So where was I? Oh yeah... science is not the ultimate answer, but it's the only thing that matters to us as we perceive the world.
Take a look at their latest CPU review article. It only compares the top tier processors. Their "CPUs and Motherboards" page is all... motherboards.
I'm afraid that they just don't receive enough funds/free stuff from manufacturers to do a thorough job.
Everyone on the forums is making a HTPC or a gaming rig. I don't have the patience or time to grep through all of that and abstract the necessary data.
Yeah, I'm being picky. So? Like I said, this was my rant for the day!
If they're laws that we cannot discover, then for all intents and purposes they're not physical laws of the universe. The scientific method does not dabble in things which are not falsifiable.
Qualia are the one thing for which there is no scientific evidence, but everyone knows exists. Maybe someday... but all signs point to no. So that's the only place where I diverge from the materialist standpoint.
While a real recording studio may not care so much about the noise (since they would just move the PC to another room), hobbyists have things a little difference.
Anyway, my NewEgg shipment is already being delivered as we speak, so most of this discussion is moot. You can see more about the actual specifications I was looking for here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1168821&cid=27269123
The point of my main post is... review sites are always geared toward getting the most performance regardless of how loud the computer has to be. In addition, most benchmarks focus on things that are not that important to real people.
Another hiccup in my quest was finding a low-end video card. I wanted a separate video card because recording software/effects/drivers mostly only work in Windows XP 32-bit. Which means I am limited to 4GB ram. Which means I don't want to share memory with the video card.
Well, of course, if you don't want on-board video then you MUST be a gamer seeking maximum performance!! Which means even the lowest low-end cards without fans are going to probably run very hot, raising the temperature of the entire case.
Didn't even know about Atom processors. I just did a quick search and it seems like they're for an entirely different market segment. Although, I'll have to keep that in mind if I ever build a HTPC.
I was specifically looking for a quad core processor with this project, since I need to process effects on multiple audio streams at a time. The actual speed of those cores isn't too important to me as long as they're better than a Pentium 4. I also need relatively quick memory and the bus bandwidth/speed to input multiple audio streams.
Are you kidding? I visit that site every day. While they're great, they don't really have as large of a hardware selection as most review sites. Also, they're still (as you've demonstrated) somewhat geared toward the gamer/overclocker/max performance crowd.
I recently had to make the tough choice of a Phenom 2 vs Intel Core Quad. I went with the Intel because I somehow came to the conclusion that they run cooler.
You see, I'm building a recording PC, so I want to have as few fans as possible. I plan on having a huge heatsink with NO fan. Most reviews, if they focus on heat, focus on the overclocking aspect.
If wattage correlates to heat like I think it does, I may have been better off with a Phenom 2. But, then again, the wattage test was only run during one task in this review. I read another review where it was different.
There just aren't enough review sites out there for... ahem... "grown ups". Maybe I should start one that takes a look at performance with DAWs like REAPER.
In the end, I don't care about best performance per dollar, or wattage per dollar. I care about performance per degree of heat, because heat = noise. Performance of modern CPUs is good enough these days.
Perhaps we are all one consciousness, with infinite viewpoints (from electrons to elephants), exercising free will in unison across infinite universes.
To me, it's obvious that free will doesn't exist. Our brains are made of the same stuff as the rest of the universe, obeying the same laws.
Or so that's how it seems. Perceived reality is not necessarily whole reality, but it's the closest thing we have.
There's no real science that explains how actual perception happens. You can say something's red, you can determine the wavelength that produces red, you can determine the brain process that takes the eye signals and puts them into a picture and recognizes things... but how do you explain actually viewing that picture? It's easy to label animals and other people as machines with inputs and outputs and look-up tables, but what about your personal perception?
There's Paint.NET for mono. I haven't tried it yet, but I should since I just avoid image editing altogether in Linux because I hate dealing with GIMP.
Today's chips, at their core, look a lot like RISC chips. They do a lot of work to hide that, translating x86 ops to native ops. I'd like to see a chip that can run in a x86 'translated' mode and a 'native' RISC mode, much like was done with 32bit/64 bit.
Except wouldn't that potentially be slower? More data would need loading off the disk into memory, and from memory into cache, since the RISC translation is (usually) larger.
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot 'wrong' with IA32, but I'm not so sure it would be worth using a 100% RISC ISA as an alternative. Complex instructions can be beneficial.
I think with Google being the dominant player on the block, Microsoft has been trying a lot of new things. I expect MS to be more and more friendly as the trend continues. Of course, there will always be the bad memories.
It's like they're finally waking up and realizing they can't control the market anymore, so they have to play nice.
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Nothing "paranormal" about it, it's all perfectly normal as far as the universe is concerned (not to say that the universe is capable of feeling concern)
Paranormal, by definition, is something outside the realm of science. Science, by definition, is phenomenon we're capable of perceiving. I think I've made my point. :) You can argue semantics from "the universe's perspective"... but as far as science is concerned, the only perspective is ours, and our perspective defines the universe.
Strangely enough, I was arguing your POV in my philosophy of religion class a few years ago.
Sometimes bias is better than trying to be objective about something completely ridiculous. Call a spade a spade and get it over with.
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Yes, all of those metrics are great. But where are their reviews/comparisons of the current line up of CPUs? You know... relating to how this whole topic started.
There's lots of nice information on PSUs, fans, cases. That stuff's infinitely helpful, and for that I am indebted to silentpcreview.
You're forgetting that all "physical laws" are determined by our subjective experience of the universe.
If you're willing to venture that the "actual universe" contains a super-set of these laws, then it follows that perhaps none of our scientific findings are "real" in the first place.
So in other words, you have to make the decision: Is our subjectively perceived universe the only way the universe works, or is there something more? If there's something more which we cannot scientifically prove through perception, it does not necessarily correlate that it must be in any way related to the material universe.
To make any sort of paranormal assumptions based upon our current scientific perceptions is a bit... premature. What you're saying, in a very secular way, is that there is a god, and god is a physical law which we cannot perceive. That's no more valid than saying there is a god for which we cannot perceive!
So where was I? Oh yeah... science is not the ultimate answer, but it's the only thing that matters to us as we perceive the world.
Take a look at their latest CPU review article. It only compares the top tier processors. Their "CPUs and Motherboards" page is all... motherboards.
I'm afraid that they just don't receive enough funds/free stuff from manufacturers to do a thorough job.
Everyone on the forums is making a HTPC or a gaming rig. I don't have the patience or time to grep through all of that and abstract the necessary data.
Yeah, I'm being picky. So? Like I said, this was my rant for the day!
If they're laws that we cannot discover, then for all intents and purposes they're not physical laws of the universe. The scientific method does not dabble in things which are not falsifiable.
Qualia are the one thing for which there is no scientific evidence, but everyone knows exists. Maybe someday... but all signs point to no. So that's the only place where I diverge from the materialist standpoint.
While a real recording studio may not care so much about the noise (since they would just move the PC to another room), hobbyists have things a little difference.
Anyway, my NewEgg shipment is already being delivered as we speak, so most of this discussion is moot. You can see more about the actual specifications I was looking for here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1168821&cid=27269123
The point of my main post is... review sites are always geared toward getting the most performance regardless of how loud the computer has to be. In addition, most benchmarks focus on things that are not that important to real people.
Another hiccup in my quest was finding a low-end video card. I wanted a separate video card because recording software/effects/drivers mostly only work in Windows XP 32-bit. Which means I am limited to 4GB ram. Which means I don't want to share memory with the video card.
Well, of course, if you don't want on-board video then you MUST be a gamer seeking maximum performance!! Which means even the lowest low-end cards without fans are going to probably run very hot, raising the temperature of the entire case.
Didn't even know about Atom processors. I just did a quick search and it seems like they're for an entirely different market segment. Although, I'll have to keep that in mind if I ever build a HTPC.
I was specifically looking for a quad core processor with this project, since I need to process effects on multiple audio streams at a time. The actual speed of those cores isn't too important to me as long as they're better than a Pentium 4. I also need relatively quick memory and the bus bandwidth/speed to input multiple audio streams.
Are you kidding? I visit that site every day. While they're great, they don't really have as large of a hardware selection as most review sites. Also, they're still (as you've demonstrated) somewhat geared toward the gamer/overclocker/max performance crowd.
I recently had to make the tough choice of a Phenom 2 vs Intel Core Quad. I went with the Intel because I somehow came to the conclusion that they run cooler.
You see, I'm building a recording PC, so I want to have as few fans as possible. I plan on having a huge heatsink with NO fan. Most reviews, if they focus on heat, focus on the overclocking aspect.
If wattage correlates to heat like I think it does, I may have been better off with a Phenom 2. But, then again, the wattage test was only run during one task in this review. I read another review where it was different.
There just aren't enough review sites out there for... ahem... "grown ups". Maybe I should start one that takes a look at performance with DAWs like REAPER.
In the end, I don't care about best performance per dollar, or wattage per dollar. I care about performance per degree of heat, because heat = noise. Performance of modern CPUs is good enough these days.
Oh well, that's my rant of the day.
Perhaps we are all one consciousness, with infinite viewpoints (from electrons to elephants), exercising free will in unison across infinite universes.
To me, it's obvious that free will doesn't exist. Our brains are made of the same stuff as the rest of the universe, obeying the same laws.
Or so that's how it seems. Perceived reality is not necessarily whole reality, but it's the closest thing we have.
There's no real science that explains how actual perception happens. You can say something's red, you can determine the wavelength that produces red, you can determine the brain process that takes the eye signals and puts them into a picture and recognizes things... but how do you explain actually viewing that picture? It's easy to label animals and other people as machines with inputs and outputs and look-up tables, but what about your personal perception?
What? When Microsoft made IE more standards-compliant, everyone was happy even if it broke legacy applications/sites.
You, sir, are making no sense.
If Microsoft broke stuff to make their OS POSIX compliant, we'd all be really happy!
There's Paint.NET for mono. I haven't tried it yet, but I should since I just avoid image editing altogether in Linux because I hate dealing with GIMP.
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/May-15-1.html
So... they're arguing that the only 'competent' juror who may have fallen on their side had he not been showboating... is a Twitter user.
Interesting strategy.
Today's chips, at their core, look a lot like RISC chips. They do a lot of work to hide that, translating x86 ops to native ops. I'd like to see a chip that can run in a x86 'translated' mode and a 'native' RISC mode, much like was done with 32bit/64 bit.
Except wouldn't that potentially be slower? More data would need loading off the disk into memory, and from memory into cache, since the RISC translation is (usually) larger.
Don't get me wrong, there's a lot 'wrong' with IA32, but I'm not so sure it would be worth using a 100% RISC ISA as an alternative. Complex instructions can be beneficial.
Dubai is sinking like a rock lately. Overpriced real estate, overpriced living, with nothing of substance behind it.
http://smashingtelly.com/2009/02/15/bye-bye-dubai/
Well, the Africans are probably already going to hell in that view, so what's the difference?
It could be for a music studio. That doesn't quite explain the soundcard... but hell, throw it in for backup if we're already up to $15,800.
I could easily see a song with 50 tracks with filters needing the horsepower... to run comfortably.
OR you can use speech recognition!!!!!
Actually, I think I already have Google ads blocked...
Will false-positives hurt them more than just adblocking them?
Oh dear. We're going to have another energy crisis when people stop demanding so much fried food.
Me too. I just put a link to it on my staff page at work.
I think with Google being the dominant player on the block, Microsoft has been trying a lot of new things. I expect MS to be more and more friendly as the trend continues. Of course, there will always be the bad memories.
It's like they're finally waking up and realizing they can't control the market anymore, so they have to play nice.
"Fun"? Unix terminals are "fun". Now get the fuck off my lawn!