Something that I don't see other posters mention is that the design of many parts of the CPU are hand-tweaked down to the transistor level exactly for this purpose - low heat, high frequency. GPU's are designed in a larger scale, which is logical if you remember that if you exclude the cache, the CPU is a much simpler (in transistor count) than a GPU, when GPU generations occur much more often and differ more from one to the other. So, you have a fraction of the CPU design cycle to incorporate a radically different feature set, there is no time for the same kind of tweaks - if you end up with very low clock speeds you can still parallelize some more.
No, I am talking about automated street cameras that no-one watches and the footage that normally gets deleted after a few days. That is the sort of cameras they were talking about in Greece, which I would not claim is good for crime prevention, but it could be a tool for apprehending criminals after the fact. And it is the sort of camera I don't have a problem with. I would of course be against any sort of warrant-less tracking or wiretapping or watching people in private areas, however I don't really mind being recorded in public areas.
You are referring to US practices when the article is about Greece, where for example the "Personal Data Protection Authority" has power over courts & the Police. So far they have disallowed cameras from being used at streets, deny requests even by embassies for outside cams, do not allow cameras in schools (they say have private guards if you want to thinkofthechildren). Sorry but all links are in Greek.
Personally, I'd rather there were cameras in public places, since that might allow the very ineffective Greek police to catch a bad guy or two once in a while. I mean, they ARE public areas, if you want privacy stay in your hut.
And to make it clear, in Greece as in most other countries outside the US, "terrorism" is no excuse for anything, certainly not for the police. The "you are subject to search" big-brotheresque messages I hear every day in the NYC subway are not common in other countries, which is why I hate it that such things are taken for granted here. Yeah, for our protection. Right.
I have a BlacX Sata dock and a few disks for backup etc, so I love these things. However, I have only 2 and none of the dozen disks I have bought the last year or so has come into one, and I haven't seen them sold anywhere... If anyone knows where we can get some of these... The silicone protectors that are sold in newegg etc are not the same thing, they don't cover the entire disk for storage.
Funny, but I do get the feeling this is close to what happened. I mean, 1/3rd got their wives pregnant, so, logic dictates, they must had stopped taking their shots at some point and had to be excluded from the sample.
I've got one of those Zenit's with the 300mm Helios lens and sniper mount. Here is an example shot of the Orion Nebula and here is comet Hale-Bopp. Both were made in a light-polluted city (Athens), shot through a cheap lens and scanned with a crappy scanner, so don't expect quality.
Dear God. You compare "A brief history of time" to "Principia" and "On the Origin of Species"??? "A brief history of time" is an excellent read, however it is a "popular science" book that contains the minimum possible amount of physics and math. For, say, lawyers or doctors I guess it is as "scientific" as they can go with physics, but that in no way can make it a "classic book of science". I considered it a light (and very amusing) read when I was 14 when, in contrast, Newton's proofs were still a challenge to read much later.
Well, how about going further back. Copernicus is quite "modern" I would say. He himself had read the work of Aristarchus from the 3rd century BC entitled "On sizes and distances", which not only proposes the heliocentric theory, but even does calculations on the sizes and distances (didn't expect that?) of the Sun and the Moon. Allow me to note here that although the heliocentric theory was not accepted by many in ancient Greece, the fact that the earth and the heavenly bodies were spheres was common knowledge from the 5th/4th century BC. In fact by the 3rd century BC they knew the radius within 10%. So sad that all this knowledge was lost for centuries... Anyway, another classic book that is almost a century older than Aristarchus' book is Aristotle's "Physica" (or "Physics"). Aristotle wrote on many subjects (e.g. politics, ethics, physics etc) and his works an all fields were considered the definitive works of the era. I know you said science, but I thought I should also mention the oldest Science-Fiction book I have read, which is Lucian's "True Story" or "True History" (the Greek word is the same for both, in any case the title has the same effect). The two science books I mentioned are not that easy reads, however this one is a very amusing book from the 2nd century AD. I mean it has battles on the Moon, what else do you want!
There is no "andros". There is a modern Greek word "andras" for man, but the origin of android is the ancient Greek form alpha, nu, eta, rho, pronounced "aneer", which can also mean "human", essentially making android the same as anthropoid, with the former being used in sci-fi and the latter in biology etc.
Now, androgynoid is indeed rather interesting as something that would specifically refer to a hermaphrodite anthropoid (applicable to a shemale-pleasurebot for example). You can also have a specifically female form which would be a "gynecoid" or "gynaikoid" depending on how you would convert the Greek gamma, ypsilon, nu, alpha, iota, kappa prefix.
And once more, could you people stop saying there is a Greek word "Andros" that means man? There is an island in the Aegean called Andros and there is a modern greek word "andras" whose genitive case (meaning "of a man") in the obsolete "katharevousa" form is "andros" (but with the accent on the o), but that is not what you refer to.
As someone with decent knowledge of ancient Greek I should set the record straight, since the other corrections are not entirely correct themselves. Firstly, you cannot trace the root of android to a compound word. Androgynous is indeed both male and female, however only the first word of the compound is present in "android", so for people who know greek your post came out as very silly. So, the correct root is (sorry no utf8 on/.) alpha, nu, eta, rho, pronounced "aneer" which means man. From that root you get the prefix "andro-". When I say the root means man, I mean it in almost every sense. So, while the most common usage of the word was man as opposed to woman or wife, it could also be used as man as opposed to, say, god (and man as opposed to child, but I digress). So it could be used as "human". The suffix is of course from the greek "eidos", meaning a species or a category sharing a specific form etc. This noun is derived from the verb "eido" (epsilon iota delta omega), whose prefix in most tenses becomes "id-" (iota delta), hence the latin derived prefix that got in the word android. I guess that pretty much covers it.
First of all, it is just a show, don't worry about such things. Secondly, even if you do want to address the issue logically, you are missing the actual problem. You see, there would be no problem for a Klingon to figure out that a human is using the Klingon language - for once his lips would match his friggin' words!!! The problem is when they are not speaking the native tongue of the listener - hellooo Jackie Chan of the 80's!!!
You have no idea what anti-trust is all about, do you? First of all, the rebates were not to all computer makers, they were to computer makers who would not carry AMD. So, if you were a computer maker that wanted to carry Intel, and you WOULD want to carry Intel since they were a near monopoly and for one reason or the other many of your clients would ask for Intel, then you would be at a price disadvantage if you also wanted to carry AMD. Secondly, Intel was making enough money having most of the desktop market, yet AMD was gaining server market share with superior server products, so Intel tried to remove the competition from that market by going below cost until the competition was done. So, it is not "illegal" when there are two companies on fair competition, size (actually market penetration) is indeed a factor and that is why there are anti-trust laws, which try to protect the consumer. Let me give you an example in the US. I have heard cases where small ISP's started offering better/faster service than the large Cable providers in some areas. The Cable provider would suddenly undercut the small ISP by pricing at a loss at that specific area of service (which was only a fraction of the provider's total service so no real financial harm), which would force the small ISP close down. After that the prices were restored to even higher levels than before. So there are similar below-cost anti-trust laws like the EU, but sometimes companies get around them by claiming "limited time special deals" etc So, do you think that Intel would keep selling below cost after AMD was done for? I am old enough to remember very well how much Intel CPU's used to cost before AMD started being competitive. Do you?
You can certainly screw it up if you do it yourself, for example you could forget the signal directional markings and then the signal would not know which way to go. Why do you think there are Ethernet cables at $500/1.5m? You think respectable companies are just trying to steal your money?
Right, the low population density myth. I have been trying for the last 2 years to get a decent connection in 4 locations in NYC. Two in Manhattan (ZIP 10023 & 10010) one in Brooklyn (11209) and one in Queens (11105). No fiber available in any of these places. Only options: DSL 3/768 for $35/month or Cable 5/512 for $60/month. I repeat, 512kbps upload at 60 friggin' dollars a month. IN THE MIDDLE OF NYC. Yeah, the problem is population density. Since last year the Manhattan location got another option! ADSL2 with a maximum at 12/2 - woohoo. Strange that they don't go up to 24Mbit like in Europe, but anyway 12 should be plenty so I called (no prices at that point on the Speakeasy website). They gave me the low price of just : $180/MONTH!!! Ok, it came with static IP but then they also said I was close to 3 miles away from their center (I think even before taking into account that I am on the 48th floor) so I shouldn't expect anything close to 12Mbit ( although I would be paying for that)... Interestingly, friends in rather sparsely populated areas of Long Island have been enjoying FiOS for 3-4 years now, so I take offense at that BS about the US population density.
Nope it is not only about the company. If a bank accidentally puts $1 million in your account and you go to Vegas, you WILL go to jail. It was not your money and you knew it. If a brokerage puts $1 million in your account by accident and you gamble it away (What do you think the stock market is?), you are also liable. Now the $19.99 fee is pretty bad tactic on their part (although possibly technically correct) and I suspect they might at least remove that to alleviate some of the bad publicity. But they quite screwed themselves; for example I would certainly not trust them with my money on hearing this event, and I suspect many other people won't either. Having said that, I still maintain it was mostly the customer's fault. If the system gave them the choice to buy stocks like "Bear Sterns", "Lehman Brothers" or "Cyberdyne Systems", it would obviously have been a joke, but that was not the case. People gambled with money which they knew they did not have. Period.
First of all, it obviously WAS an honest mistake. Even if they millions showing up as "buying power" were intended as a joke, the fact that the system allowed them to be used for actual purchases, most certainly was a mistake. Now, when you have a brokerage account and are trading stocks, you should know what you are doing and be responsible for your actions. So, when you see several million in you account, you should know as much to not start investing them. If it is not your money, at best it will be considered a margin trade which has to abide to SEC mandated rules. IIRC on a margin trade you have to have equity worth 25% (or whatever the figure is) of the security that you acquired on margin. Otherwise the broker has to automatically sell to cover. If you don't know things like that, you should not be trading at the stock market.
I am kind of older school than most other posts I see above. Elite 2 was an amazing game, in just a 3.5" floppy you had a whole galaxy to explore. Exploring this vast galaxy was made easier by a few interesting bugs. The best one was that while you had a jump drive capable of around 10 ly jumps (it's been a while, but it was around there), the lengths were not held in a large enough variable, so if you found a target that was a bit over 655.36 * n light years away, you could jump to it! Obviously with just two jumps you could go to any star you wished! Then you had another kind of glitch where you found two planets (or was it even on the same planet, just different traders it's been a really long time...) where you could do a trade with ridiculous margins, making loads of money in a few minutes...
Is "C" really liable for damages on property that they bought in good faith? No. They can be sued. They will probably agree to remove the copyrighted images and turn over the contact information "B".
And surrender any income they had from the property, right?
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Yep. Due to a display bug (no, I am not using IE), I thought my post's parent was replying to http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1234861&cid=27973513
Yep, impeccable detective work, superb analytic skills, rare insight. DHS material. Let us marvel at it again:
IF the tape is real it COULD mean SERIOUS DOO-DOO.
Something that I don't see other posters mention is that the design of many parts of the CPU are hand-tweaked down to the transistor level exactly for this purpose - low heat, high frequency. GPU's are designed in a larger scale, which is logical if you remember that if you exclude the cache, the CPU is a much simpler (in transistor count) than a GPU, when GPU generations occur much more often and differ more from one to the other. So, you have a fraction of the CPU design cycle to incorporate a radically different feature set, there is no time for the same kind of tweaks - if you end up with very low clock speeds you can still parallelize some more.
No, I am talking about automated street cameras that no-one watches and the footage that normally gets deleted after a few days. That is the sort of cameras they were talking about in Greece, which I would not claim is good for crime prevention, but it could be a tool for apprehending criminals after the fact. And it is the sort of camera I don't have a problem with. I would of course be against any sort of warrant-less tracking or wiretapping or watching people in private areas, however I don't really mind being recorded in public areas.
You are referring to US practices when the article is about Greece, where for example the "Personal Data Protection Authority" has power over courts & the Police. So far they have disallowed cameras from being used at streets, deny requests even by embassies for outside cams, do not allow cameras in schools (they say have private guards if you want to thinkofthechildren). Sorry but all links are in Greek.
Personally, I'd rather there were cameras in public places, since that might allow the very ineffective Greek police to catch a bad guy or two once in a while. I mean, they ARE public areas, if you want privacy stay in your hut.
And to make it clear, in Greece as in most other countries outside the US, "terrorism" is no excuse for anything, certainly not for the police. The "you are subject to search" big-brotheresque messages I hear every day in the NYC subway are not common in other countries, which is why I hate it that such things are taken for granted here. Yeah, for our protection. Right.
And of course we know that from the gps tracking provided by the Wisconsin police dept.
I have a BlacX Sata dock and a few disks for backup etc, so I love these things. However, I have only 2 and none of the dozen disks I have bought the last year or so has come into one, and I haven't seen them sold anywhere... If anyone knows where we can get some of these... The silicone protectors that are sold in newegg etc are not the same thing, they don't cover the entire disk for storage.
You are forgetting the floor. It is obvious he works at the Luxor.
Funny, but I do get the feeling this is close to what happened. I mean, 1/3rd got their wives pregnant, so, logic dictates, they must had stopped taking their shots at some point and had to be excluded from the sample.
I've got one of those Zenit's with the 300mm Helios lens and sniper mount. Here is an example shot of the Orion Nebula and here is comet Hale-Bopp. Both were made in a light-polluted city (Athens), shot through a cheap lens and scanned with a crappy scanner, so don't expect quality.
Dear God. You compare "A brief history of time" to "Principia" and "On the Origin of Species"???
"A brief history of time" is an excellent read, however it is a "popular science" book that contains the minimum possible amount of physics and math. For, say, lawyers or doctors I guess it is as "scientific" as they can go with physics, but that in no way can make it a "classic book of science". I considered it a light (and very amusing) read when I was 14 when, in contrast, Newton's proofs were still a challenge to read much later.
Well, how about going further back. Copernicus is quite "modern" I would say. He himself had read the work of Aristarchus from the 3rd century BC entitled "On sizes and distances", which not only proposes the heliocentric theory, but even does calculations on the sizes and distances (didn't expect that?) of the Sun and the Moon.
Allow me to note here that although the heliocentric theory was not accepted by many in ancient Greece, the fact that the earth and the heavenly bodies were spheres was common knowledge from the 5th/4th century BC. In fact by the 3rd century BC they knew the radius within 10%. So sad that all this knowledge was lost for centuries...
Anyway, another classic book that is almost a century older than Aristarchus' book is Aristotle's "Physica" (or "Physics"). Aristotle wrote on many subjects (e.g. politics, ethics, physics etc) and his works an all fields were considered the definitive works of the era.
I know you said science, but I thought I should also mention the oldest Science-Fiction book I have read, which is Lucian's "True Story" or "True History" (the Greek word is the same for both, in any case the title has the same effect). The two science books I mentioned are not that easy reads, however this one is a very amusing book from the 2nd century AD. I mean it has battles on the Moon, what else do you want!
That particular comment obviously did not refer to you, but all your post ancestors. Hence the plural ;)
See: here, but to sum up:
There is no "andros". There is a modern Greek word "andras" for man, but the origin of android is the ancient Greek form alpha, nu, eta, rho, pronounced "aneer", which can also mean "human", essentially making android the same as anthropoid, with the former being used in sci-fi and the latter in biology etc.
Now, androgynoid is indeed rather interesting as something that would specifically refer to a hermaphrodite anthropoid (applicable to a shemale-pleasurebot for example). You can also have a specifically female form which would be a "gynecoid" or "gynaikoid" depending on how you would convert the Greek gamma, ypsilon, nu, alpha, iota, kappa prefix.
And once more, could you people stop saying there is a Greek word "Andros" that means man? There is an island in the Aegean called Andros and there is a modern greek word "andras" whose genitive case (meaning "of a man") in the obsolete "katharevousa" form is "andros" (but with the accent on the o), but that is not what you refer to.
As someone with decent knowledge of ancient Greek I should set the record straight, since the other corrections are not entirely correct themselves. Firstly, you cannot trace the root of android to a compound word. Androgynous is indeed both male and female, however only the first word of the compound is present in "android", so for people who know greek your post came out as very silly. /.) alpha, nu, eta, rho, pronounced "aneer" which means man. From that root you get the prefix "andro-". When I say the root means man, I mean it in almost every sense. So, while the most common usage of the word was man as opposed to woman or wife, it could also be used as man as opposed to, say, god (and man as opposed to child, but I digress). So it could be used as "human".
So, the correct root is (sorry no utf8 on
The suffix is of course from the greek "eidos", meaning a species or a category sharing a specific form etc. This noun is derived from the verb "eido" (epsilon iota delta omega), whose prefix in most tenses becomes "id-" (iota delta), hence the latin derived prefix that got in the word android. I guess that pretty much covers it.
First of all, it is just a show, don't worry about such things.
Secondly, even if you do want to address the issue logically, you are missing the actual problem.
You see, there would be no problem for a Klingon to figure out that a human is using the Klingon language - for once his lips would match his friggin' words!!!
The problem is when they are not speaking the native tongue of the listener - hellooo Jackie Chan of the 80's!!!
You have no idea what anti-trust is all about, do you?
First of all, the rebates were not to all computer makers, they were to computer makers who would not carry AMD. So, if you were a computer maker that wanted to carry Intel, and you WOULD want to carry Intel since they were a near monopoly and for one reason or the other many of your clients would ask for Intel, then you would be at a price disadvantage if you also wanted to carry AMD.
Secondly, Intel was making enough money having most of the desktop market, yet AMD was gaining server market share with superior server products, so Intel tried to remove the competition from that market by going below cost until the competition was done.
So, it is not "illegal" when there are two companies on fair competition, size (actually market penetration) is indeed a factor and that is why there are anti-trust laws, which try to protect the consumer.
Let me give you an example in the US. I have heard cases where small ISP's started offering better/faster service than the large Cable providers in some areas. The Cable provider would suddenly undercut the small ISP by pricing at a loss at that specific area of service (which was only a fraction of the provider's total service so no real financial harm), which would force the small ISP close down. After that the prices were restored to even higher levels than before. So there are similar below-cost anti-trust laws like the EU, but sometimes companies get around them by claiming "limited time special deals" etc
So, do you think that Intel would keep selling below cost after AMD was done for? I am old enough to remember very well how much Intel CPU's used to cost before AMD started being competitive. Do you?
You can certainly screw it up if you do it yourself, for example you could forget the signal directional markings and then the signal would not know which way to go. Why do you think there are Ethernet cables at $500/1.5m? You think respectable companies are just trying to steal your money?
Right, the low population density myth. I have been trying for the last 2 years to get a decent connection in 4 locations in NYC. Two in Manhattan (ZIP 10023 & 10010) one in Brooklyn (11209) and one in Queens (11105). No fiber available in any of these places. Only options: DSL 3/768 for $35/month or Cable 5/512 for $60/month. I repeat, 512kbps upload at 60 friggin' dollars a month. IN THE MIDDLE OF NYC. Yeah, the problem is population density.
Since last year the Manhattan location got another option! ADSL2 with a maximum at 12/2 - woohoo. Strange that they don't go up to 24Mbit like in Europe, but anyway 12 should be plenty so I called (no prices at that point on the Speakeasy website). They gave me the low price of just : $180/MONTH!!! Ok, it came with static IP but then they also said I was close to 3 miles away from their center (I think even before taking into account that I am on the 48th floor) so I shouldn't expect anything close to 12Mbit ( although I would be paying for that)...
Interestingly, friends in rather sparsely populated areas of Long Island have been enjoying FiOS for 3-4 years now, so I take offense at that BS about the US population density.
Hey! It's not Vista's fault if you went cheap and only installed 2GB of RAM.
Hey, what about the last one???
Nope it is not only about the company. If a bank accidentally puts $1 million in your account and you go to Vegas, you WILL go to jail. It was not your money and you knew it.
If a brokerage puts $1 million in your account by accident and you gamble it away (What do you think the stock market is?), you are also liable.
Now the $19.99 fee is pretty bad tactic on their part (although possibly technically correct) and I suspect they might at least remove that to alleviate some of the bad publicity. But they quite screwed themselves; for example I would certainly not trust them with my money on hearing this event, and I suspect many other people won't either.
Having said that, I still maintain it was mostly the customer's fault. If the system gave them the choice to buy stocks like "Bear Sterns", "Lehman Brothers" or "Cyberdyne Systems", it would obviously have been a joke, but that was not the case. People gambled with money which they knew they did not have. Period.
First of all, it obviously WAS an honest mistake. Even if they millions showing up as "buying power" were intended as a joke, the fact that the system allowed them to be used for actual purchases, most certainly was a mistake.
Now, when you have a brokerage account and are trading stocks, you should know what you are doing and be responsible for your actions. So, when you see several million in you account, you should know as much to not start investing them. If it is not your money, at best it will be considered a margin trade which has to abide to SEC mandated rules. IIRC on a margin trade you have to have equity worth 25% (or whatever the figure is) of the security that you acquired on margin. Otherwise the broker has to automatically sell to cover. If you don't know things like that, you should not be trading at the stock market.
I am kind of older school than most other posts I see above. Elite 2 was an amazing game, in just a 3.5" floppy you had a whole galaxy to explore. Exploring this vast galaxy was made easier by a few interesting bugs. The best one was that while you had a jump drive capable of around 10 ly jumps (it's been a while, but it was around there), the lengths were not held in a large enough variable, so if you found a target that was a bit over 655.36 * n light years away, you could jump to it! Obviously with just two jumps you could go to any star you wished! Then you had another kind of glitch where you found two planets (or was it even on the same planet, just different traders it's been a really long time...) where you could do a trade with ridiculous margins, making loads of money in a few minutes...
Is "C" really liable for damages on property that they bought in good faith? No. They can be sued. They will probably agree to remove the copyrighted images and turn over the contact information "B".
And surrender any income they had from the property, right?