By using them, you're essentially paying to silence your conscience Deal!
Though in all honesty, I buy from them, not to silence my conscience, but rather because it is safer (legally and malware wise) than P2P and vastly more usable than iTunes (seeing as all but one of my music players are !iPods).
What's more, I've bought nearly my entire library from them because it was cheaper for me to trade money than time. I have >500 CDs and I estimate that ripping and cataloging the library would have taken me about 100 hours of my time. In 100 hours I make more money after tax than it costs to buy from AllOfMP3. -nB
Cibachrome. The one and only paper print that can produce a dMax of 3.9. Alas, it is horrifically expensive, and I know of only a couple of print houses in the world that still do it (not sure if the "paper" is even still made). -nB
Nah, Suing is for ametures. Once you go pro you get in government and censer your opposition. (case in point the censorship of dissenting opinions about global warming, just in case someone thought I was trying to troll)
Hence why I initially asked about fast RAID Vs Audio playback performance. Just like a relative of the GP said, I'm not buying/pirating Vista just to find out. Too much work and I'm not downing my server over a bug I'll likely never encounter. -nB
Not likely, as on the forums many users report multicore systems being nearly completely idle. Unless the box is phoning home, but even then that should only amount to your broadband speed being absent from the total. Anything that would rob 95% of your TCP stacks should show up as heavy CPU usage. I'm betting money on the PCI handler for the audio being borked. -nB
WTF? How on earth does the sound and network subsystem overlap? PCI resource scheduler issue? I'd love to see Disk I/O on a fast RAID Vs sound usage... -nB
I used the boxed heatsink & fan that came with my 6750. Other than being an AMD, what does this CPU offer anyway? I mean a 200MHz bump is not going to improve performance that much, and now AMD is where Intel was: hot. Heat is bad. I'll be the first to admit that I am in the Intel camp (have been since the 80386DX days), but as someone responsible to their customers I've recommended AMD as a viable alternative to many people. In this case I see no compelling reason to recommend it. -nB
I should have clarified "in no cost effective way" Also, the heat physics still applies. The P4 never used stacked transistors. All if the MCdTe to Si and InGaAs to Si are extremely low power applications, usually used at LN2 temperatures (especially the Mercad). -nB
Do you know how much it costs to produce a single wafer? 200mm for recipe #xxxx (not telling either) $1070/wafer (assuming lots of 25 wafers), rush job on I helped AMD track down an issue (no I am not going to say which issue) Hint? Etch, doping, poly?
(I think that they had a yield of ~10% Pffft. Worst product ever: Codename was SH (or SH II, don't quite remember). A step silicon had a severe issue, yield of 2%. B step solved the issue and projected yield to 95+%. Then the bottom fell out of the dot com market and the projected demand fell so badly that the decision was made to sort and dice the A step wafers and sell the good 2%. That was projected to meet all demand for the lifespan of the product. Ouch.
The best way, IMHO, is to build a two-layer chip - one layer being RAM, the other being the CPU cores Both those require transistors. You can not stack transistors with any current process technology, physics gets in the way. A chip is basically built as follows
metal poly metal poly Si Where the poly is the insulator and metal is the same as traces on a PCB. Just like you can not place components in the middle of a PCB you can not place transistors on top of the metal, it would require a second silicon layer that you could dope transistors into. While there are some technologies (SOI for example) that may allow this in theory, you start to run into other issues like trying to punch through the insulator in specific areas and with high precision (neither of which is easy), heat dissipation (transistors are transistors, and switching produces heat, doesn't matter if it's an ALU or a SRAM). And finally before someone suggests using the other side of the wafer, how do you connect the two sides? A wafer is *very* thick in the scale we are discussing. It would be like mining a hole through the earth. More useful would perhaps be distributing L0 cache (register memory) a little more liberally in key areas of the processor, but then addressing gets in the way. In theory having a MCM (multi chip module) with Cache - Processor - Cache so there is ample L3 cache running at core/4 clock may help, but costs get prohibitive.
There is no really good solution to moving data around once you start getting to these kinds of density. Eventually wire delay may be the limiting factor to CPU throughput. -nB
How is Intel being anticompetitive? I highly doubt they would sit on a process till AMD is out with a new product. The road to marketshare is not to wait for your competitor, it is to get your product out as far ahead as possible. Given the options I believe Intel is likely still working out some non-trivial (i.e. no microcode workaround) issues in the 45nM process before releasing. Which sounds more plausible? * Intel sits on a new process, risking sanctions, not making money (actually losing money given the cost of running a fab), just to beat AMD at their launch. * Intel has some bugs to work out, and does not want to relive a PPro style recall for _any_ reason as that would be disaster.
I did a CBA for someone wanting WiFi and it turned out vastly cheaper to offer it free. With free WiFi you can use low end APs and if something goes wrong just swap them out. Free tends to mute customer complaints as they deep down understand the "get what you pay for" adage. In addition you no longer have to maintain a validation server, billing, etc. Free with rate limiting* per MAC worked like a charm and the business didn't look like they were being stingy. -nB
* was entirely free, but a few campers with torrents, etc. choked the connection to the ISP, once we introduced rate limiting that solved our problem. Regular web users don't notice, and the torrents now are almost unusable. Sure you could install a pair of PCcard NICs in addition to the built in WiFi and get 3x connection speed, but that's a lot of work, with little reward. -nB
they didn't predict it (or, if they did, failed to act on that prediction) They did predict it, and did act on the prediction, else youtube would not be able to move as much data in a month as the whole internet did in a year in 2000. They under predicted the growth curve though. -nB
I realize it's likely cost prohibitive, but from what I've seen of Mr (Dr, Sir?) Hawkings kit, the UI is very intuitive, especially for the portions where you're not trying to build a sentence (or a speech for that matter). You look at what you want to say and if you either blink or hover long enough the computer says it. It'd make yes/no I hurt, etc. questions a cakewalk.
@ spineboy Assuming these are *not* cheap, how much is too much (IYHO) before a hospital would not buy them to have on hand in cases like this? AFAIK they are not even available as even a specialty item, but it got me thinking...
I understand, I've been that passionate about things before myself (see my sig). your sig is good enough to get the point across, heck, put a tinyurl link in there with links to all the relevant content.
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Three options:
o No filtering o Use moderate filtering o Use strict filtering
This being /. and all my first thought was "little friend" == penis. only about 5 seconds later did I realize the movie line.
Though in all honesty, I buy from them, not to silence my conscience, but rather because it is safer (legally and malware wise) than P2P and vastly more usable than iTunes (seeing as all but one of my music players are !iPods).
What's more, I've bought nearly my entire library from them because it was cheaper for me to trade money than time. I have >500 CDs and I estimate that ripping and cataloging the library would have taken me about 100 hours of my time. In 100 hours I make more money after tax than it costs to buy from AllOfMP3.
-nB
Cibachrome. The one and only paper print that can produce a dMax of 3.9.
Alas, it is horrifically expensive, and I know of only a couple of print houses in the world that still do it (not sure if the "paper" is even still made).
-nB
I just went with http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=39mm%5E3+in+f eet%5E3&btnG=Search (0.000001377272) .001377ft^3
Move the decimal over three places and you get
"If that were so (and the wiki pages on economics suggest it's not possible)"
It *is* possible, though highly improbable. Zero fucks up lots of equations though.
-nB
Nah, Suing is for ametures. Once you go pro you get in government and censer your opposition. (case in point the censorship of dissenting opinions about global warming, just in case someone thought I was trying to troll)
Hat, coat, door, ass, out. Got it.
I think what will determine *this* market will be burners. Whoever has the cheapest burner^Wmedia first will cause a move to their format
Fixed that for you.
I'll pay a 50% premium on a burner if the media is 50% cheaper.
Yes, but...
The president can be told "you don't want to ask about that sir" and maintain plausible deniability, which is sometimes important.
Hence why I initially asked about fast RAID Vs Audio playback performance.
Just like a relative of the GP said, I'm not buying/pirating Vista just to find out. Too much work and I'm not downing my server over a bug I'll likely never encounter.
-nB
Lots, much of it, and many respectively.
Once MIT gets their glass plate collection on-line, expect even more discoveries.
-nB
Not likely, as on the forums many users report multicore systems being nearly completely idle. Unless the box is phoning home, but even then that should only amount to your broadband speed being absent from the total. Anything that would rob 95% of your TCP stacks should show up as heavy CPU usage. I'm betting money on the PCI handler for the audio being borked.
-nB
WTF?
How on earth does the sound and network subsystem overlap?
PCI resource scheduler issue? I'd love to see Disk I/O on a fast RAID Vs sound usage...
-nB
I used the boxed heatsink & fan that came with my 6750.
Other than being an AMD, what does this CPU offer anyway? I mean a 200MHz bump is not going to improve performance that much, and now AMD is where Intel was: hot. Heat is bad. I'll be the first to admit that I am in the Intel camp (have been since the 80386DX days), but as someone responsible to their customers I've recommended AMD as a viable alternative to many people. In this case I see no compelling reason to recommend it.
-nB
You are now my hero
I should have clarified "in no cost effective way"
Also, the heat physics still applies. The P4 never used stacked transistors. All if the MCdTe to Si and InGaAs to Si are extremely low power applications, usually used at LN2 temperatures (especially the Mercad).
-nB
Worst product ever:
Codename was SH (or SH II, don't quite remember). A step silicon had a severe issue, yield of 2%. B step solved the issue and projected yield to 95+%. Then the bottom fell out of the dot com market and the projected demand fell so badly that the decision was made to sort and dice the A step wafers and sell the good 2%. That was projected to meet all demand for the lifespan of the product.
Ouch.
-nB
A chip is basically built as follows metal
poly
metal
poly
Si Where the poly is the insulator and metal is the same as traces on a PCB. Just like you can not place components in the middle of a PCB you can not place transistors on top of the metal, it would require a second silicon layer that you could dope transistors into.
While there are some technologies (SOI for example) that may allow this in theory, you start to run into other issues like trying to punch through the insulator in specific areas and with high precision (neither of which is easy), heat dissipation (transistors are transistors, and switching produces heat, doesn't matter if it's an ALU or a SRAM). And finally before someone suggests using the other side of the wafer, how do you connect the two sides? A wafer is *very* thick in the scale we are discussing. It would be like mining a hole through the earth.
More useful would perhaps be distributing L0 cache (register memory) a little more liberally in key areas of the processor, but then addressing gets in the way. In theory having a MCM (multi chip module) with Cache - Processor - Cache so there is ample L3 cache running at core/4 clock may help, but costs get prohibitive.
There is no really good solution to moving data around once you start getting to these kinds of density. Eventually wire delay may be the limiting factor to CPU throughput.
-nB
How is Intel being anticompetitive?
I highly doubt they would sit on a process till AMD is out with a new product. The road to marketshare is not to wait for your competitor, it is to get your product out as far ahead as possible. Given the options I believe Intel is likely still working out some non-trivial (i.e. no microcode workaround) issues in the 45nM process before releasing.
Which sounds more plausible?
* Intel sits on a new process, risking sanctions, not making money (actually losing money given the cost of running a fab), just to beat AMD at their launch.
* Intel has some bugs to work out, and does not want to relive a PPro style recall for _any_ reason as that would be disaster.
-nB
I did a CBA for someone wanting WiFi and it turned out vastly cheaper to offer it free. With free WiFi you can use low end APs and if something goes wrong just swap them out. Free tends to mute customer complaints as they deep down understand the "get what you pay for" adage. In addition you no longer have to maintain a validation server, billing, etc. Free with rate limiting* per MAC worked like a charm and the business didn't look like they were being stingy.
-nB
* was entirely free, but a few campers with torrents, etc. choked the connection to the ISP, once we introduced rate limiting that solved our problem. Regular web users don't notice, and the torrents now are almost unusable. Sure you could install a pair of PCcard NICs in addition to the built in WiFi and get 3x connection speed, but that's a lot of work, with little reward.
-nB
-nB
I realize it's likely cost prohibitive, but from what I've seen of Mr (Dr, Sir?) Hawkings kit, the UI is very intuitive, especially for the portions where you're not trying to build a sentence (or a speech for that matter). You look at what you want to say and if you either blink or hover long enough the computer says it. It'd make yes/no I hurt, etc. questions a cakewalk.
@ spineboy
Assuming these are *not* cheap, how much is too much (IYHO) before a hospital would not buy them to have on hand in cases like this? AFAIK they are not even available as even a specialty item, but it got me thinking...
-nB
It's much worse than that:
meet the new AT&T, the old SBC.
-nB
SBC's employees refer to the company as Sodomized By Cowboys.
I understand, I've been that passionate about things before myself (see my sig).
your sig is good enough to get the point across, heck, put a tinyurl link in there with links to all the relevant content.