The numbers. RX 480 is 5.7b transistors at 14nm, GTX 1070 is 7.2b at 16nm. Both engineering teams are top in their field, I doubt anybody seriously dropped the ball on architecture. And so far there are no reports of glaring deficiencies of the 14nm process. The nVidia part is clocked 35% higher. So: more transistors, higher clock speed, larger process, but the same or less power consumption? Doesn't add up, not even close. This leaves measurement error or as the likely explanation.
There is no measurement error. This has already been proven by various publications, some measure power on the rails, others power on the socket, you can't mess up that kind of measurement, it is very simple. The RX 480 with less transistors, less clock speed, less performance for most things uses the same power as the GTX 1070, and I am asking why? I guess only insiders would really know why, but my one guess was some sort of issue with the 14nm process, hence my question.
Anybody has any idea whether GloFo's 14nm FinFET has some sort of disadvantage vs TSMC's 16nm? Otherwise it looks quite bad for the AMD engineers when they have to use more power than a much faster GTX 1070 and also max out at around 1.3GHz when nVidia pulls 2GHz... And this is from a longtime AMD/ATI fan, mainly because I attribute to AMD/ATI the fact that through the competition they kept Intel & nVidia coming up with new stuff at decent price points, so it saddens me to see them lagging behind the last few years...
Yeah, but does it have to pilot itself WELL? For example you could have an appropriately named "auto F1-Pilot" that crashes all the time and claim it is modeled after Maldonado... But, yeah, even if airplane autopilots are not exactly "leave it at auto and get a drink while it lands", I can see how many people can get confused with the nomenclature, especially if they try it a few times and it seems to them it is doing well enough. So, another name would be more appropriate...
This plane concept has nothing to do about safety. Fatal crashes are few and fatal crashes where a detaching pod with parachutes would save you are quite rare even among fatal crashes. Bombs, mountain crashes, landing/lift-off crashes etc are unaffected. Which is why it is not the raison d'être of this design. The second part of the summary is the relevant one, it would allow you to change the configuration of the plane by attaching different cargo/passenger/etc pods and even allow pods from different companies on the same plane. But, yeah, it is a far-fetch concept since to take advantage of what feels to me not "revolutionary" benefit, it would require huge infrastructure changes. Nice university project though.
I am very pro solar power, I believe in the appropriate climates we should have most of our power generated from panels, but this is completely idiotic! Plain ol' durable asphalt has the grip required by tyres and can sort of handle the wear and tear from traffic and weather (lasts a few years), why replace it with something fancy? It is a "solution" searching for a problem. What's wrong with putting panels next to/over the road? Oh, that would be too easy and not costly enough huh? Who in their right mind funded this?
No, I don't actually use it. It is in my summer house in Greece and produces about 14MWh per year, which is sold to the electric company. It is not optimally oriented, since it lies flat on a dual-pitched roof, with half the panels facing east and half facing west, but on some summer days I peak at 8.4kWh hourly, which is not bad at all. And I'll throw in a graph I like, a partial (30%) solar eclipse as "seen" by my panels;) (from my eclipse report)
I get a 404 error on the first link. The actual report link is at : http://www.solarcity.com/sites/default/files/reports/SolarCity%20Photovoltaic%20Modules%20with%2035%20year%20Useful%20Life.pdf As for the degradation of panels, I have a 10kW system made of relatively inexpensive Chinese Renesola Virtus II hybrid panels for over 3 years now and I have seen no measurable degradation in performance so far. And I even look at the peak days of month to avoid the issue of daily weather and still it seems the peak has not reduced (rather increased by 1% which should be within the margin of error) in these three years. So there goes two myths my installer told me "you need to pay me to service and wash them every year to maintain peak output" and "output will measurably drop yearly anyway though". No I haven't washed them. So, I don't know if they will continue this trend or will suddenly drop in efficiency, but at least for the first few years they seem stable.
I was rather shocked at the announcement of Chris Evans - I am not British, but I currently live in the UK and he's one of the people on TV here that I don't get at all. Well, I thought, perhaps he is more versatile than I give him credit for? Then I saw them hiring Matt LeBlanc at the last moment, "oh, so he is not more versatile, and they realize it now... uh oh...". In any case I tried watching the premiere with my wife, who is not a big fan of Top Gear, but usually enjoys the good episodes (and is also a big "Friends" fan). Well, she left about 3 minutes into the premiere and I stayed a bit longer but gave up as well after a while... Maybe I'll give it another go next year with another presenter/format (or wait for another car show coming to a streaming service near you, wink, wink...)
According to the article this was not something the driver could see and avoid, and while the autopilot could not see it either, based on the data from this crash it *could* see it the next time. Drivers learn from their own experience and fatal crashes terminate their learning experience, while autopilots learn from ALL autopilots on the road, and there are no "fatalities". Of course it is always the fault of humans in the end, in this case the tractor trailer was not supposed to be there, so we'll only have perfect records when we get rid of all the drivers and have all the cars on autopilot.
I am all for AMD making a comeback (would especially like one in CPUs though) in order to drive competition, but this particular product seems a bit weaker than I'd expect in power consumption, which worries me. At 150W it has about the same power consumption as the much larger and faster nVidia GTX 1070. Unless GloFo's 14nm node has some sort of disadvantage (over the 16nm process nVidia is using), it would seem that AMD's design is not as good, which might mean they will not be competitive enough this round either once their competition releases their mid-range lineup. Which would be quite bad, nVidia, like Intel, tend to keep prices high when they don't have strong competition (and in general I don't like them much - but that might just be me).
What do you mean irony? It is not irony, that's how religion "works", by making a religious state you never actually promote "love". You don't even have to look only at Muslims or even the middle east in general, e.g. in English history there was a lot of bloody fighting between Catholics and Protestants, whoever came into power would chop the heads of several of the opposite sect. And I wouldn't say a Shia Muslim for example would hate a Christian more than they would hate a Sunni Muslim etc.
President Erdogan was able to say this sort of attack could have occurred anywhere.
Well, technically it could have occurred anywhere. But it really helps people to target you if you are working towards a totalitarian state, with an emphasis on religion no less. Also, if you consider an oppressed minority as "terrorists" for long enough, don't be surprised when they start acting like terrorists (although the Kurdish militants usually have government-related targets - so this looks more like the "classic" IS terrorists).
The weakness primarily lies in the absence of X-Rays and deterrent technology on approach.
Yeah, Einstein, and when they target the queues behind those X-Rays machines, we will add new machines at a 5km distance... and when they target THOSE queues, we will....
the more annoying thing is, that for a device this expensive, the warranty is only 1 year long. apple even tried to bring that crap to EU. fortunately, apart from UK, the whole EU has 2 year warranty on everything.
And you didn't realize that EU citizens are paying for an extended warranty?
Apple's probably one of the best examples as their "EU Tax" is low - take the US model, add AppleCare (to satisfy EU warranty), add in the requisite VAT (20-25%) and convert to Euros, and you come out pretty close to the cost in Europe.
No, in this case you are mistaken. For a few years Apple denied this second year of warranty in Europe and the prices were exactly the same as after they were forced to advertise and honor it. Nothing changed. This is because Apple prices have nothing to do with actual cost.
Now, for other manufacturers it might apply of course.
Actually, there are good things that are better accelerated as well, and some silent movies come to mind. For example I was re-watching one of my favorite silent films, Buster Keaton's "The General" on DVD and I found out that PowerDVD (this was at around 2003) could play back 25% faster with sound, which made the film even funnier!
All this crap just because tax preparation companies throw lobbying money to keep the current system. Most Americans would not need to actually file for taxes, the IRS already has all the data it needs, but noooo we have to keep an obsolete industry going no matter the cost...
I've been reading about this electronic shifter issue for some time before Anton's unfortunate death and I could not understand the insistence of Chrysler to keep at it for years when there were over 100 documented crashes and so many complaints. Sure, I understand that it doesn't actually fail, it is user error, but if you have to (literally) put bells and whistles in place to warn drivers they have selected the wrong position, you should realize that you are doing something wrong. Additionally, it must cost a lot more than the simple mechanical stick that everybody knows how to use, so there should be some important reason to put it in cars, and yet I haven't come across any praise for it in reviews etc. Are there people who look for it when buying a car? I would expect not, while an electronic shifter might appeal to someone buying a manual transmission car (yeah, electronic shift like formula-1 baby!), we are talking about automatic transmission here, the only job of the stick is to switch modes unambiguously (and preferably fast - it is always one movement with the standard stick, it could be multiple as I understand it with the electronic type). In the end, when you've "dumbed-down" (not necessarily in a bad sense) driving with an auto transmission, you shouldn't expect having no problems when you change something as basic as that. Unless I've missed something and it is an option on Chrysler cars, not the standard shifter. Otherwise, I don't get it...
Agh, what does that even mean? "View all the light"? Do you have any idea how things work? For example mirrors. There doesn't exist a material that can reflect all wavelengths of the EM spectrum. You are familiar with the common "silvery" mirrors right? While we can make them good at reflecting the visible spectrum (that's why there are is no color tinge in their view), the farther you go into IR territory the worse they get. If you are interested in the IR you can optimize a mirror for IR reflectivity, but at the same time you start losing at the shorter visible wavelengths. Have you noticed that the James Webb telescope mirrors are gold? The reason is they don't reflect blue! So it is not a matter of sensors but of material limitations, you have to optimize your optical instrument for the EM range that interests you and it will suck outside of this range, so there is no point in adding sensors to record crap. That's why engineers and scientists design these things instead of/. smart-asses...
And don't forget that the EU will have to give them a pretty louse "exit package", or risk making exiting the EU "appealing" to others. So, the "negotiations" won't go smoothly, and the UK will probably end up with worse deals than other non-EU countries - even if the EU itself might be losing on them.
Another interesting thing is to note that young people overwhelmingly voted "remain" (it was about 75-25 in the 18-24 category), when the most "leave" votes were in the 65+ category (60-40). So the UK will leave due to the votes of people who won't be part of the non-EU future (for long at least)...
The summary made no sense at all. Also, it seems there seems to be at least one party that bought DELL stock AFTER the announcement, registering an objection to the sale and hoping to get such a settlement if the sale went through. I don't know either whether it is reasonable that SPL has to pay those who were opposed, but it makes no sense to me that they should pay those who bought after there was news of the acquisition attempt.
My sister came back from the states with an IBM PS/2 in 1992, which was my first ever contact with a PC (or home computer in general - except a couple of Captain Blood sessions with a friend's Amiga). I quickly discovered it can play games and that you had to learn a bit of DOS to get many of them to play and while looking into this DOS thing I came across QBASIC. It had a function reference so I taught myself, my first notable programs being a game (a bit like gorilla, but with tanks viewed overhead) and a simple solar system simulator, both of which, quite predictably, were using a lot of GOTO statements. Oh, and no subs, I found out about those a little later (the QBASIC help was not a teaching tool). It's been about 20 years since I last touched BASIC, but I have fond memories;)
The app emits a high-frequency ultrasound tone from the device's existing microphone
I checked, for once it is not an error in the summary, the error is in the actual article.
Anyway, it should be "speaker", the microphone is used to pick up the sound to detect any tone shifts that would indicate pressure on the phone. I highly doubt that this is not very dependent on the construction of the phone, but who am I to doubt "batphone" technology...
For me, it would be fine for it to be illegal, if they gave you a generous discount over the printed version. I mean they could tell you this book is $10 in the paper book form, part of which has to cover printing/distribution etc, and this book you will own completely and can do as you please with including selling or lending. Then, the same book is $2 in e-book form, but you don't actually outright own it, so you can't sell it. Something like that would be fine with me. As it is now, they tell you the e-book is also $10, but at the same time try to restrict what you can do with it.
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If the first & second AC was the same and legitimate, he sure as hell has regretted not signing-in right about now!
The numbers. RX 480 is 5.7b transistors at 14nm, GTX 1070 is 7.2b at 16nm. Both engineering teams are top in their field, I doubt anybody seriously dropped the ball on architecture. And so far there are no reports of glaring deficiencies of the 14nm process. The nVidia part is clocked 35% higher. So: more transistors, higher clock speed, larger process, but the same or less power consumption? Doesn't add up, not even close. This leaves measurement error or as the likely explanation.
There is no measurement error. This has already been proven by various publications, some measure power on the rails, others power on the socket, you can't mess up that kind of measurement, it is very simple. The RX 480 with less transistors, less clock speed, less performance for most things uses the same power as the GTX 1070, and I am asking why? I guess only insiders would really know why, but my one guess was some sort of issue with the 14nm process, hence my question.
Anybody has any idea whether GloFo's 14nm FinFET has some sort of disadvantage vs TSMC's 16nm? Otherwise it looks quite bad for the AMD engineers when they have to use more power than a much faster GTX 1070 and also max out at around 1.3GHz when nVidia pulls 2GHz...
And this is from a longtime AMD/ATI fan, mainly because I attribute to AMD/ATI the fact that through the competition they kept Intel & nVidia coming up with new stuff at decent price points, so it saddens me to see them lagging behind the last few years...
Yeah, but does it have to pilot itself WELL?
For example you could have an appropriately named "auto F1-Pilot" that crashes all the time and claim it is modeled after Maldonado...
But, yeah, even if airplane autopilots are not exactly "leave it at auto and get a drink while it lands", I can see how many people can get confused with the nomenclature, especially if they try it a few times and it seems to them it is doing well enough. So, another name would be more appropriate...
This plane concept has nothing to do about safety. Fatal crashes are few and fatal crashes where a detaching pod with parachutes would save you are quite rare even among fatal crashes. Bombs, mountain crashes, landing/lift-off crashes etc are unaffected. Which is why it is not the raison d'être of this design. The second part of the summary is the relevant one, it would allow you to change the configuration of the plane by attaching different cargo/passenger/etc pods and even allow pods from different companies on the same plane. But, yeah, it is a far-fetch concept since to take advantage of what feels to me not "revolutionary" benefit, it would require huge infrastructure changes. Nice university project though.
I am very pro solar power, I believe in the appropriate climates we should have most of our power generated from panels, but this is completely idiotic! Plain ol' durable asphalt has the grip required by tyres and can sort of handle the wear and tear from traffic and weather (lasts a few years), why replace it with something fancy? It is a "solution" searching for a problem. What's wrong with putting panels next to/over the road? Oh, that would be too easy and not costly enough huh? Who in their right mind funded this?
No, I don't actually use it. It is in my summer house in Greece and produces about 14MWh per year, which is sold to the electric company. ;) (from my eclipse report)
It is not optimally oriented, since it lies flat on a dual-pitched roof, with half the panels facing east and half facing west, but on some summer days I peak at 8.4kWh hourly, which is not bad at all.
And I'll throw in a graph I like, a partial (30%) solar eclipse as "seen" by my panels
I get a 404 error on the first link. The actual report link is at : http://www.solarcity.com/sites/default/files/reports/SolarCity%20Photovoltaic%20Modules%20with%2035%20year%20Useful%20Life.pdf
As for the degradation of panels, I have a 10kW system made of relatively inexpensive Chinese Renesola Virtus II hybrid panels for over 3 years now and I have seen no measurable degradation in performance so far. And I even look at the peak days of month to avoid the issue of daily weather and still it seems the peak has not reduced (rather increased by 1% which should be within the margin of error) in these three years. So there goes two myths my installer told me "you need to pay me to service and wash them every year to maintain peak output" and "output will measurably drop yearly anyway though". No I haven't washed them. So, I don't know if they will continue this trend or will suddenly drop in efficiency, but at least for the first few years they seem stable.
I was rather shocked at the announcement of Chris Evans - I am not British, but I currently live in the UK and he's one of the people on TV here that I don't get at all. Well, I thought, perhaps he is more versatile than I give him credit for? Then I saw them hiring Matt LeBlanc at the last moment, "oh, so he is not more versatile, and they realize it now... uh oh...". In any case I tried watching the premiere with my wife, who is not a big fan of Top Gear, but usually enjoys the good episodes (and is also a big "Friends" fan). Well, she left about 3 minutes into the premiere and I stayed a bit longer but gave up as well after a while... Maybe I'll give it another go next year with another presenter/format (or wait for another car show coming to a streaming service near you, wink, wink...)
According to the article this was not something the driver could see and avoid, and while the autopilot could not see it either, based on the data from this crash it *could* see it the next time. Drivers learn from their own experience and fatal crashes terminate their learning experience, while autopilots learn from ALL autopilots on the road, and there are no "fatalities".
Of course it is always the fault of humans in the end, in this case the tractor trailer was not supposed to be there, so we'll only have perfect records when we get rid of all the drivers and have all the cars on autopilot.
I am all for AMD making a comeback (would especially like one in CPUs though) in order to drive competition, but this particular product seems a bit weaker than I'd expect in power consumption, which worries me. At 150W it has about the same power consumption as the much larger and faster nVidia GTX 1070. Unless GloFo's 14nm node has some sort of disadvantage (over the 16nm process nVidia is using), it would seem that AMD's design is not as good, which might mean they will not be competitive enough this round either once their competition releases their mid-range lineup. Which would be quite bad, nVidia, like Intel, tend to keep prices high when they don't have strong competition (and in general I don't like them much - but that might just be me).
What do you mean irony? It is not irony, that's how religion "works", by making a religious state you never actually promote "love". You don't even have to look only at Muslims or even the middle east in general, e.g. in English history there was a lot of bloody fighting between Catholics and Protestants, whoever came into power would chop the heads of several of the opposite sect. And I wouldn't say a Shia Muslim for example would hate a Christian more than they would hate a Sunni Muslim etc.
President Erdogan was able to say this sort of attack could have occurred anywhere.
Well, technically it could have occurred anywhere. But it really helps people to target you if you are working towards a totalitarian state, with an emphasis on religion no less. Also, if you consider an oppressed minority as "terrorists" for long enough, don't be surprised when they start acting like terrorists (although the Kurdish militants usually have government-related targets - so this looks more like the "classic" IS terrorists).
The weakness primarily lies in the absence of X-Rays and deterrent technology on approach.
Yeah, Einstein, and when they target the queues behind those X-Rays machines, we will add new machines at a 5km distance... and when they target THOSE queues, we will....
And you didn't realize that EU citizens are paying for an extended warranty?
Apple's probably one of the best examples as their "EU Tax" is low - take the US model, add AppleCare (to satisfy EU warranty), add in the requisite VAT (20-25%) and convert to Euros, and you come out pretty close to the cost in Europe.
No, in this case you are mistaken. For a few years Apple denied this second year of warranty in Europe and the prices were exactly the same as after they were forced to advertise and honor it. Nothing changed. This is because Apple prices have nothing to do with actual cost.
Now, for other manufacturers it might apply of course.
Actually, there are good things that are better accelerated as well, and some silent movies come to mind. For example I was re-watching one of my favorite silent films, Buster Keaton's "The General" on DVD and I found out that PowerDVD (this was at around 2003) could play back 25% faster with sound, which made the film even funnier!
It also seems you are very proficient in duplicate troll-posting. Kudos.
All this crap just because tax preparation companies throw lobbying money to keep the current system. Most Americans would not need to actually file for taxes, the IRS already has all the data it needs, but noooo we have to keep an obsolete industry going no matter the cost...
I've been reading about this electronic shifter issue for some time before Anton's unfortunate death and I could not understand the insistence of Chrysler to keep at it for years when there were over 100 documented crashes and so many complaints. Sure, I understand that it doesn't actually fail, it is user error, but if you have to (literally) put bells and whistles in place to warn drivers they have selected the wrong position, you should realize that you are doing something wrong. Additionally, it must cost a lot more than the simple mechanical stick that everybody knows how to use, so there should be some important reason to put it in cars, and yet I haven't come across any praise for it in reviews etc. Are there people who look for it when buying a car? I would expect not, while an electronic shifter might appeal to someone buying a manual transmission car (yeah, electronic shift like formula-1 baby!), we are talking about automatic transmission here, the only job of the stick is to switch modes unambiguously (and preferably fast - it is always one movement with the standard stick, it could be multiple as I understand it with the electronic type). In the end, when you've "dumbed-down" (not necessarily in a bad sense) driving with an auto transmission, you shouldn't expect having no problems when you change something as basic as that.
Unless I've missed something and it is an option on Chrysler cars, not the standard shifter. Otherwise, I don't get it...
Agh, what does that even mean? "View all the light"? Do you have any idea how things work? For example mirrors. There doesn't exist a material that can reflect all wavelengths of the EM spectrum. You are familiar with the common "silvery" mirrors right? While we can make them good at reflecting the visible spectrum (that's why there are is no color tinge in their view), the farther you go into IR territory the worse they get. If you are interested in the IR you can optimize a mirror for IR reflectivity, but at the same time you start losing at the shorter visible wavelengths. Have you noticed that the James Webb telescope mirrors are gold? The reason is they don't reflect blue! /. smart-asses...
So it is not a matter of sensors but of material limitations, you have to optimize your optical instrument for the EM range that interests you and it will suck outside of this range, so there is no point in adding sensors to record crap.
That's why engineers and scientists design these things instead of
And don't forget that the EU will have to give them a pretty louse "exit package", or risk making exiting the EU "appealing" to others. So, the "negotiations" won't go smoothly, and the UK will probably end up with worse deals than other non-EU countries - even if the EU itself might be losing on them.
Another interesting thing is to note that young people overwhelmingly voted "remain" (it was about 75-25 in the 18-24 category), when the most "leave" votes were in the 65+ category (60-40). So the UK will leave due to the votes of people who won't be part of the non-EU future (for long at least)...
Well, he does have an atomic mass unit named after him, not to mention 4 prominent characters in the best Franco-Belgian western comic book...
The summary made no sense at all.
Also, it seems there seems to be at least one party that bought DELL stock AFTER the announcement, registering an objection to the sale and hoping to get such a settlement if the sale went through. I don't know either whether it is reasonable that SPL has to pay those who were opposed, but it makes no sense to me that they should pay those who bought after there was news of the acquisition attempt.
My sister came back from the states with an IBM PS/2 in 1992, which was my first ever contact with a PC (or home computer in general - except a couple of Captain Blood sessions with a friend's Amiga). I quickly discovered it can play games and that you had to learn a bit of DOS to get many of them to play and while looking into this DOS thing I came across QBASIC. It had a function reference so I taught myself, my first notable programs being a game (a bit like gorilla, but with tanks viewed overhead) and a simple solar system simulator, both of which, quite predictably, were using a lot of GOTO statements. Oh, and no subs, I found out about those a little later (the QBASIC help was not a teaching tool). It's been about 20 years since I last touched BASIC, but I have fond memories ;)
The app emits a high-frequency ultrasound tone from the device's existing microphone
I checked, for once it is not an error in the summary, the error is in the actual article.
Anyway, it should be "speaker", the microphone is used to pick up the sound to detect any tone shifts that would indicate pressure on the phone. I highly doubt that this is not very dependent on the construction of the phone, but who am I to doubt "batphone" technology...
For me, it would be fine for it to be illegal, if they gave you a generous discount over the printed version. I mean they could tell you this book is $10 in the paper book form, part of which has to cover printing/distribution etc, and this book you will own completely and can do as you please with including selling or lending. Then, the same book is $2 in e-book form, but you don't actually outright own it, so you can't sell it.
Something like that would be fine with me. As it is now, they tell you the e-book is also $10, but at the same time try to restrict what you can do with it.