Remember national debt interest payments go mostly to Americans, who spend and circulate the money and it get taxed back to the government. US savings bonds and treasury bills/notes = national debt. In fact the government itself owns almost half of the debt! And that doesn't include debt owned by local or state governments
without wanting to sound like a flame or anything, is it possible that in the US lecturers just can't be bothered or aren't given the resources to teach their pupils properly and so fall back on textbooks which the money-grabbing publishers are happy to exploit (I've heard tales of unnecessary book-CD bundles etc. all just to inflate prices).
I don't think its the professors not teaching, as much as its the students want an extra offline resource. The professors then suggest a text to compliment their class, but rarely use it. In college I rarely had a class where I needed to purchase the suggested book, my class notes were sufficient. There were books that i purchased as references (corrosion, analytical techniques, heat transport) which I still use years later in my job.
That's a big assumption. AMD has always tried to keep a per-die cost lead on Intel. They do this by keeping their die-size down so that they achieve higher yields. That's why most of AMD's future low-end Athlon 64s have 1/2 as much L2 cache as the Pentium-M or P4 Prescott.
Actually Intel's adoption of 90nm & especially 300mm wafers make most analysts believe they have cheaper production costs. AMD before had smaller die size on athlons to compensate for 200mm wafers, but the athlon64 is 192mm^2, while pentium-m is 82mm^2 and the next gen pentium-m will be 84mm^2.
From this article The low power (35W) AMD64-M only has 512kb of L2 Cache, the 65W versions have 1MB. The other models - 2800+, 3000+, and 3200+ are rated to operate at 65W while the 2700+ is rated to operate at 35W.
The 2700+ processor has 512KB cache while the rest of the models house 1MB cache.
The Athlon 64 mobile 3000+ runs at 65W, the low power 35W A64-M is the 2700+ which has only 512kb of L2 cache, vs the 1MB in the 2800+ and higher. Until benchmarks come out on the 2700+ its apples and oranges comparison
Why does the mhz myth still exist?
Because both AMD & Intel spent millions during the 200MHz-1.2Ghz years telling people clockspeed was everything. Its hard to deprogram people.
The problem is you don't take into account the effect of cutting in half the L2 cache on the A64-mobile. The low power 2700 has 512kb vs 1MB on the 65W brothers
So we should use rocks to detect WIMPs. We can throw them at people and if they run away crying, they can be classified as WIMPS. Then again it could get ugly if the rock detects MaCHOs
Computer Science is great and all, and I'm enjoying it, but I know that a lot of what I'm being taught is pretty useless. Welcome to the difference between science and engineering. It doesn't just apply to CS vs Software E. it applies to all subjects. If you want to understand the theories how reactions work go into chemistry, if you want to design a sulfuric acid plant you do chemical engineering.
How does looking at a paiting of a sunflower, or watching people hit a ball with a stick and run around "enrich our lives and culture"?
Its all a means to entertain ourselves, divert our attention from the stresses of life.
In highschool I took 2 years of calculus courses which in total were far more in depth than what I got my freshman year of college. In college you have 3 hours/week and semesters are shorter. You don't have time to go into as much depth in college, you skim over alot of the material. Alot of people in my transport phenomenon class later in school didn't even the fundamental theorem of calculus (it helps to understand heat/molecular transport when you really understand what is happening when you take a derivative).
There's a certain "aura" around the D&D "lifers" I guess "aura" is a nice way of putting smell. Yes with CRPGs you just don't get that aura of sweaty people crammed in a room for days at one of those gaming conventions.
If you are still alive, and an exact copy of you is made (mind and body). Is that you or a copy of you? Now I distroy the original. Have I killed you or not? Your copy still lives, but you're dead, neh?
You will be sued by the RIAA for making illegal copies of thier copyrighted music (your brain is a music storage device). When you destroy the original you will then be sued for destroying evidence.
Depends, if I used the computer every day then yes it would be worth it. If it just gathered dust then no.
So is answering this question going to lead to any new theories or breakthroughs in the near future? If not then why not wait until it can be done cheaper, or wait until there is some other burning theories that leverage this one validated.
The question isn't whether the experiment should be done, but should it be done *now*. Is it worth 700M to do it *now* compared to 70M in 50 years when it would be cheaper to get high precision instruments and to put things into space.
Yes you are giving Lucas way too much credit. It was great finding out that the Republic Army was clones, then the line in ANH "Aren't you a little short to be a stormtrooper" makes much more sense. Of course Lucas said Storm Troopers weren't clones.
Yes you are correct. Many kids need rewards for their hard work to keep them interested in learning. Paying kids for grades is one way.
The current school system is a babysitting program, with some teaching involved. With the internet those who really care to learn don't have to go to school, they can get much more information than any teacher in school can give them just by logging on. Want to learn about making katanas? In an hour you can have basic info on metallurgy, steel making, importance of folding steel, differences in steel, and basic swordmaking techniques. Rather than having teachers try to cram information down their throat, kids today need guides to help them ask good questions, find information, and interpret it.
you promote those who internalize these attitudes to higher paying management positions
By promoting people to higher pay, you are rewarding them (external motivator). Of course you can't have strictly external motivation for people to be successful, the person has to really want to be sucessful. Managing strictly by external motivation leads to employees giving minimal effort or effort they perceive in direct relation to their reward. Managing strictly by internal motivation alienates the employee since they feel nobody else cares. Of course you have to balance the two. When selecting employees find those with drive and interest in their work, then ensure you reward their accomplishments Parents need to keep their kids when they are young hungering for knowldege, then later when faced with pressures of other activities and influences from friends, keep that desire alive with rewards and payments.
IF capitalism really works, we would have less people in prisons and on welfare in the USA than in the more socialist or communist countries.
Actually the best way to evaluate is by comparing the average standard of living. Looking at prisons fails to take into account cultural differences that are not economic based (ie those in prison because drugs are illegal), and welfare is just a system by which the goverment can redistribute wealth, everybody in socialistic economy is on welfare. Capitalism can only motivate the greedy, and some people just arent selfish enough to be motivated by capitalism. Yes SOME people, however, most people by nature are lazy. They will do least amount of work required. You just can't count on most people going all out unless there is some incentive, and betterment of society as a whole is just too abstract. When we have enough technology where it makes no sense to compete for things like food, shelter, water, etc thats when Capitalism will cease to work as no ones going to choose to compete when they can live for free off the technology.
Yes, and it will be a great revolution for civilization possibly the biggest since the domestication of plants and animals. Both capitalism and socialism are designed as economic systems to distribute limited resources, with this technological revolution there will be infinite resources (relative to human ability to consume) and so no need for capitalism OR socialism. More productive = less labor = less jobs = cheaper products = free products = no need to work.
This is only true if looking at a specific industry. What actually happens in the economy as a whole is you free labor and capital to pursue new industries. Why do you think U.S. jobless rates are ~4-8% for the past 50 years? Industries like information technology didn't exist 25 years ago, new industries=more jobs overall and better standard of living for society If we do work, I don't think most people will need to work 40 hours a week. There will eventually be enough people in this country or in this world that there will not be enough jobs for all of us and temp jobs will be the norm.
Yes and in the 50's they said because of how fast technology was advancing, in the year 2000 we would only have to work 3 days a week. I'd be happy to work less than 50 hours a week... plus I want my flying car!
Once we find out the math people use most in daily life that should be what we teach in school. If we want to learn any other math then we specialize in math and learn it in college or in AP math.
I'm an Engineer, the math I use most is Statistics. I rarely use calculus, does that mean I should not have learned calculus, vector calc, liner algebra? No, I needed those things to understand fundamentally the science I use on a daily basis. The equations I learned in school are basically discriptions of what happens in processes and systems I work with. Understanding and solving those complex integrals and differentials in school gave me insight and lets me understand my experiments and processes.
And complex math is not just the domain of engineering/science. Economics uses algebra and calculus to essentially break things down into simple math equations. Using a math equation is a good way to describe complex systems in business, nature, etc. and can give better perspective and predictions.
We all know any DRM technique can be circumvented given enough time and knowledge. As long as the DRM doesn't intrude on the perceived functionality most people wont notice or care. If as there is a sufficient library of ringtones, most people won't worry that they can't use non-DRM ringtones they find online
Additional features are more a question of timesink vs reward. If average joe can just spend 5 minutes to download a crack program, click a button and DRM is gone he will, but many less will spend time to buy a mod chip on line, disassemble his phone, decipher the diagrams, and hope he doesn't break his $200 phone/CPU/etc.
And then complain when the holes in the road get worse, or their kids lern all there englash skillz plyaing video gamez.
No taxation works in SOME states like Nevada, Florida, Texas where there are alternate things to tax for revenue like gambling and tourism,but it just won't work in most others.
I think the key issue is how do we as a society and as individuals value an idea. Performances are something tangible, $40 you enjoy a concert, but where things break down is how do we value the songwriter who isn't a performer? Do we say there is no value in the song itself, just the performance? Is the genius of Shakespere's plays that we enjoy due to the actors who perform, or because of the ideas in the play itself The key is copyright reform, not abandonment of intellectual property rights. We should protect those who create ideas and prevent others from profiting at their expense, but we also need to balance that with the value of freeing those ideas and letting everybody reinterpret, reproduce, and reinvent them. Copyright is out of hand right now. There should be a limit (not a set limit that keeps getting extended). 20 years should be enough for an artist to profit sufficiently from their work, then allow things to go public and let people expand upon it. Just think geeks everywhere could be creating a new, "better" version of Star Wars:)
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Remember national debt interest payments go mostly to Americans, who spend and circulate the money and it get taxed back to the government. US savings bonds and treasury bills/notes = national debt.
In fact the government itself owns almost half of the debt! And that doesn't include debt owned by local or state governments
without wanting to sound like a flame or anything, is it possible that in the US lecturers just can't be bothered or aren't given the resources to teach their pupils properly and so fall back on textbooks which the money-grabbing publishers are happy to exploit (I've heard tales of unnecessary book-CD bundles etc. all just to inflate prices).
I don't think its the professors not teaching, as much as its the students want an extra offline resource. The professors then suggest a text to compliment their class, but rarely use it. In college I rarely had a class where I needed to purchase the suggested book, my class notes were sufficient. There were books that i purchased as references (corrosion, analytical techniques, heat transport) which I still use years later in my job.
That's a big assumption. AMD has always tried to keep a per-die cost lead on Intel. They do this by keeping their die-size down so that they achieve higher yields. That's why most of AMD's future low-end Athlon 64s have 1/2 as much L2 cache as the Pentium-M or P4 Prescott.
Actually Intel's adoption of 90nm & especially 300mm wafers make most analysts believe they have cheaper production costs. AMD before had smaller die size on athlons to compensate for 200mm wafers, but the athlon64 is 192mm^2, while pentium-m is 82mm^2 and the next gen pentium-m will be 84mm^2.
From this article The low power (35W) AMD64-M only has 512kb of L2 Cache, the 65W versions have 1MB.
The other models - 2800+, 3000+, and 3200+ are rated to operate at 65W while the 2700+ is rated to operate at 35W.
The 2700+ processor has 512KB cache while the rest of the models house 1MB cache.
The Athlon 64 mobile 3000+ runs at 65W, the low power 35W A64-M is the 2700+ which has only 512kb of L2 cache, vs the 1MB in the 2800+ and higher. Until benchmarks come out on the 2700+ its apples and oranges comparison
Why does the mhz myth still exist?
Because both AMD & Intel spent millions during the 200MHz-1.2Ghz years telling people clockspeed was everything. Its hard to deprogram people.
The problem is you don't take into account the effect of cutting in half the L2 cache on the A64-mobile. The low power 2700 has 512kb vs 1MB on the 65W brothers
Yes if you consider less than 1% gain in overall PCs to 14.9%, loss of 3.2% in laptops to 8.4%, and gain of 1.7% to 4.8% of servers huge gains
So we should use rocks to detect WIMPs. We can throw them at people and if they run away crying, they can be classified as WIMPS. Then again it could get ugly if the rock detects MaCHOs
Computer Science is great and all, and I'm enjoying it, but I know that a lot of what I'm being taught is pretty useless.
Welcome to the difference between science and engineering. It doesn't just apply to CS vs Software E. it applies to all subjects.
If you want to understand the theories how reactions work go into chemistry, if you want to design a sulfuric acid plant you do chemical engineering.
How does looking at a paiting of a sunflower, or watching people hit a ball with a stick and run around "enrich our lives and culture"?
Its all a means to entertain ourselves, divert our attention from the stresses of life.
In highschool I took 2 years of calculus courses which in total were far more in depth than what I got my freshman year of college.
In college you have 3 hours/week and semesters are shorter. You don't have time to go into as much depth in college, you skim over alot of the material. Alot of people in my transport phenomenon class later in school didn't even the fundamental theorem of calculus (it helps to understand heat/molecular transport when you really understand what is happening when you take a derivative).
There's a certain "aura" around the D&D "lifers"
I guess "aura" is a nice way of putting smell. Yes with CRPGs you just don't get that aura of sweaty people crammed in a room for days at one of those gaming conventions.
If you are still alive, and an exact copy of you is made (mind and body). Is that you or a copy of you? Now I distroy the original. Have I killed you or not? Your copy still lives, but you're dead, neh?
You will be sued by the RIAA for making illegal copies of thier copyrighted music (your brain is a music storage device). When you destroy the original you will then be sued for destroying evidence.
Depends, if I used the computer every day then yes it would be worth it. If it just gathered dust then no.
So is answering this question going to lead to any new theories or breakthroughs in the near future? If not then why not wait until it can be done cheaper, or wait until there is some other burning theories that leverage this one validated.
The question isn't whether the experiment should be done, but should it be done *now*. Is it worth 700M to do it *now* compared to 70M in 50 years when it would be cheaper to get high precision instruments and to put things into space.
Yes you are giving Lucas way too much credit. It was great finding out that the Republic Army was clones, then the line in ANH "Aren't you a little short to be a stormtrooper" makes much more sense. Of course Lucas said Storm Troopers weren't clones.
Yes you are correct. Many kids need rewards for their hard work to keep them interested in learning. Paying kids for grades is one way.
The current school system is a babysitting program, with some teaching involved. With the internet those who really care to learn don't have to go to school, they can get much more information than any teacher in school can give them just by logging on.
Want to learn about making katanas? In an hour you can have basic info on metallurgy, steel making, importance of folding steel, differences in steel, and basic swordmaking techniques. Rather than having teachers try to cram information down their throat, kids today need guides to help them ask good questions, find information, and interpret it.
you promote those who internalize these attitudes to higher paying management positions
By promoting people to higher pay, you are rewarding them (external motivator). Of course you can't have strictly external motivation for people to be successful, the person has to really want to be sucessful.
Managing strictly by external motivation leads to employees giving minimal effort or effort they perceive in direct relation to their reward. Managing strictly by internal motivation alienates the employee since they feel nobody else cares. Of course you have to balance the two. When selecting employees find those with drive and interest in their work, then ensure you reward their accomplishments
Parents need to keep their kids when they are young hungering for knowldege, then later when faced with pressures of other activities and influences from friends, keep that desire alive with rewards and payments.
IF capitalism really works, we would have less people in prisons and on welfare in the USA than in the more socialist or communist countries.
Actually the best way to evaluate is by comparing the average standard of living. Looking at prisons fails to take into account cultural differences that are not economic based (ie those in prison because drugs are illegal), and welfare is just a system by which the goverment can redistribute wealth, everybody in socialistic economy is on welfare.
Capitalism can only motivate the greedy, and some people just arent selfish enough to be motivated by capitalism.
Yes SOME people, however, most people by nature are lazy. They will do least amount of work required. You just can't count on most people going all out unless there is some incentive, and betterment of society as a whole is just too abstract.
When we have enough technology where it makes no sense to compete for things like food, shelter, water, etc thats when Capitalism will cease to work as no ones going to choose to compete when they can live for free off the technology.
Yes, and it will be a great revolution for civilization possibly the biggest since the domestication of plants and animals. Both capitalism and socialism are designed as economic systems to distribute limited resources, with this technological revolution there will be infinite resources (relative to human ability to consume) and so no need for capitalism OR socialism.
More productive = less labor = less jobs = cheaper products = free products = no need to work.
This is only true if looking at a specific industry. What actually happens in the economy as a whole is you free labor and capital to pursue new industries. Why do you think U.S. jobless rates are ~4-8% for the past 50 years? Industries like information technology didn't exist 25 years ago, new industries=more jobs overall and better standard of living for society
If we do work, I don't think most people will need to work 40 hours a week. There will eventually be enough people in this country or in this world that there will not be enough jobs for all of us and temp jobs will be the norm.
Yes and in the 50's they said because of how fast technology was advancing, in the year 2000 we would only have to work 3 days a week. I'd be happy to work less than 50 hours a week... plus I want my flying car!
Capitalism = external motivator
Communism = internal motivator One looks better morally, one actually works
Once we find out the math people use most in daily life that should be what we teach in school. If we want to learn any other math then we specialize in math and learn it in college or in AP math.
I'm an Engineer, the math I use most is Statistics. I rarely use calculus, does that mean I should not have learned calculus, vector calc, liner algebra? No, I needed those things to understand fundamentally the science I use on a daily basis. The equations I learned in school are basically discriptions of what happens in processes and systems I work with. Understanding and solving those complex integrals and differentials in school gave me insight and lets me understand my experiments and processes.
And complex math is not just the domain of engineering/science. Economics uses algebra and calculus to essentially break things down into simple math equations. Using a math equation is a good way to describe complex systems in business, nature, etc. and can give better perspective and predictions.
We all know any DRM technique can be circumvented given enough time and knowledge.
As long as the DRM doesn't intrude on the perceived functionality most people wont notice or care. If as there is a sufficient library of ringtones, most people won't worry that they can't use non-DRM ringtones they find online Additional features are more a question of timesink vs reward. If average joe can just spend 5 minutes to download a crack program, click a button and DRM is gone he will, but many less will spend time to buy a mod chip on line, disassemble his phone, decipher the diagrams, and hope he doesn't break his $200 phone/CPU/etc.
And then complain when the holes in the road get worse, or their kids lern all there englash skillz plyaing video gamez.
No taxation works in SOME states like Nevada, Florida, Texas where there are alternate things to tax for revenue like gambling and tourism,but it just won't work in most others.
I think the key issue is how do we as a society and as individuals value an idea. Performances are something tangible, $40 you enjoy a concert, but where things break down is how do we value the songwriter who isn't a performer? Do we say there is no value in the song itself, just the performance? Is the genius of Shakespere's plays that we enjoy due to the actors who perform, or because of the ideas in the play itself :)
The key is copyright reform, not abandonment of intellectual property rights. We should protect those who create ideas and prevent others from profiting at their expense, but we also need to balance that with the value of freeing those ideas and letting everybody reinterpret, reproduce, and reinvent them. Copyright is out of hand right now. There should be a limit (not a set limit that keeps getting extended). 20 years should be enough for an artist to profit sufficiently from their work, then allow things to go public and let people expand upon it. Just think geeks everywhere could be creating a new, "better" version of Star Wars