I think I would have securely deleted it, then reported that I was trying to download some music and it was a CP site, report it that way. Likely it is a techonophobe ruling that because it was on your PC then you intentionally put it there. By saying you saw it elsewhere you are dutifully reporting it as mandated while not admitting that you were in possession. I doubt they'd make the connection that to see it you copied it at least to your browser cache. -nB
Yes it does help. I think they were stupid for spinning off GF in the first place, but, since they have, sloughing off the rest is a good thing. They now can shop around (within some limits*) for who has the best/most compatible with their design process at a given node. So at 45nM they may use UMC, while at 32 nM they stay with GF and for 22nM they go to TSMC. -nB
*Limits: good luck getting IBM or Intel to fab their chips IMHO.
Hence storage in a Mu Metal case. Flash is hurt by charged particles, so a high enough energy particle striking anything you store it in can cause a secondary spray, which will affect the flash. HDDs are magnetic, so the secondary spary issue is not as bad. The magnetic field is blocked by a suitably designed Mu case.
Flash is certainly the least immune as it relies on stored charge and a CME chucks tons of charge at the the earth. Phase change memory is robust against such events, but is still in its infancy as a technology. I would go with platter HDDs stored in Mu metal boxes as the most likely to survive.
A generator and my PCs would keep me happy. I have 12 TB of data (reference material, masters thesis, e-books, etc.) that should suffice while the internet rebuilds... -nB
I'll abort the singularity by returning us to irrationality by either taking the sqrt of -1 or calling you both asshats with about as much justification as the police often use in the debated dispersal orders;)
My wife was stopped for blowing a stop sign. Funny thing is that the cop had their priority lights on prior to her pulling up to the limit line, and she stopped and tried to see what was going on before continuing. Hmmmm... I think is is more common with City PDs than HP or Sherrifs though. They need to raise capitol for the city.
No screenshots from me (would violate NDA), but there is a tile you can launch that brings up the classic desktop. So your average user experience will be boot to metro, click this tile, now start working. -nB
No, you can't. You can launch a desktop tile and bring up a standard desktop UI, but you can not disable metro. If you have found a way to do so, please let me know, as I've been trying for several weeks now, as it interferes with some of my automated test regressions. -nB
Is AMD really doing that badly? Seriously I am out of the loop from an AMD perspective*, but I assumed they were still rocking the cost/performance on the low end of the CPU ranges, and was hoping this would allow them to push into the mid-range i5 territory. -nB
*all I work on at work & at home is Intel stuff, so I don't have any relevant AMD info.
I'm a diehard Intel Fanboi. My last AMD was an 80286, I owned an AMD80386DX40, but never used it (acquired it at a swap meet after the P60's had just launched). Prescott had a use case where it outperformed AMD, but it was very narrow, if your load was highly predictive and did not cause cache misses or branch prediction failures, it owned the AMD. Sadly every workload except straight up numerical number crunching was not so good. I used my 3.6GHz P4 for transscoding video. It was the first machine that I owned where I could encode faster than real time (i.e. movie is 60 min, I could encode in 50).
I really hope this pans out for AMD and brings them a little up into Intel's game. While as you said there has only been one time where AMD flat out bested Intel, there have been several cases where AMD has nailed a particular segment: * Low cost many cores (data compute clusters). * Low cost reasonable performance for most end user loads. * Downright cheap CPU for entry machines. Every time they've done something they have forced Intel to step up to that segment and improve. In this case I hope to see not the high spec CPU improvement, but rather the mid-range CPU segment get a very low power option. Somewhere in the i5 equivalent range, but giving desktop performance while sipping mobile levels of power. It would make building a poor man's compute cluster more feasible from a power and cooling standpoint. -nB
sure they are still issues, but in addressing the GGP of GHz not meaning squat, GHz still matters. If cost/power/threadcount/and per clock average performance are all the same which would you rather have? 3.67GHx or 4Ghz (~10% higher)? -nB
for a single executing thread of a specific bit width GHz means everything. The trick is can they scale it to multiple cores/threads, while lowering their power to match Intel's performance/Watt at the high end of the compute arena. If they can do that they will once again pull in DC customers. -nB
Actually using the FPGA PCIe card as a combo accelerator/authenticator is not half bad an idea. The free version can do all this in SW and not have the routines available the rely on the FPGA, the paid version has the FPGA which co-processes the advanced routines. Sure, in theory you could crack it, but then you have to run on the CPU, and the FPGA will be faster. Should make an incentive to buy the SW, so you can get the accelerator. Also, from a pragmatic point of view, if you're getting some custom HW for that $10K then it is a little more palatable. -nB
Actually one of the most common reasons (in retail at least) for.99,.98,.97 price suffixes is to bin things together, and to help salespeople identify things that the retailer wants sold. Where I managed for a while (a national camera chain),.99 was the high margin items,.98 was the low margin items,.97 was the manufacturer promotion items, and.95 was the discontinued and clearance items. As a salesperson you knew the folling to be true: $x.99 == good commission $x.98 == crap commission, worth selling unless you could bundle on a few.99 items $x.97 == crap commission, but the manufacturer would provide a "spiff" to offset that $x.95 == sell it. there was a bonus to get rid of stuff that was disco'd. Don't bother trying to special order it though, because if the warehouse still had any it wouldn't have this price code. If you need to discount it further to sell it, do it. -nB
Then they are lying. The have developed a sterile seed product (the terminator gene). They never commercialized it, but develop it, they did. I wish they commercialized it, then the tainted crops issue would be a 3 generation problem, then over. Gen 1 taints Gen 2, figure about half the crops fail to sprout to gen 3. By gen 3 the genes are so diluted that it is a non issue, maybe 1% of your seed doesn't sprout after that. -nB
Honestly? Really? I don't know any doctor that would refuse to help a patient that they knew wouldn't be able to pay if it really was a life or death thing. Now if it is a big scar Vs. little scar issue, or possibly even a this bone won't set right, maybe, but your money or your life? no. Not even taking into account the legality of withholding life saving treatment (not all countries have a law like that on the books).
When it comes to children the doctors I know are even more lenient with the money issue. -nB
I do not think you are the target problem group here. I assume you are talking about an egg albumen allergy, since most vaccines are made that way, with a few made in horse serum.
I have an albumen allergy in my gene pool, so we were very cautious about vaccinating my children. Thankfully it appears they do not have the allergy. That said, I do not like the vaccine regimen used in the US, where we combine many different vaccines into one shot MMR, DTaP|DTP so I opted out of the traditional vaccination program. I discussed this at length with the pediatrician, and gave my reasoning for it (too much to hit a young immune system at once with, etc.). In the end, while it means more shots, she agreed, and my kids received their vaccines over a prolonged period. Their reactions were almost non existent, whereas with normal shots a high fever is common, as is other flu like symptoms for a couple days.
As to those who do not get vaccines for no good reason (parent, has a good reason) all I have to say is this: If you accept *every single case* of something bad that happened to a child that *anyone* attributed to a vaccine (Autism, severe reaction causing brain damage, death, etc.) at face value and compare that to the infant and childhood mortality prior to these vaccines being widely available it is still beneficial from a risk perspective to get your children vaccinated. If you remove just the obvious nutjob correlations of vaccine related issues then the risk to reward ratio is so big that the bad stuff is lost in sampling noise. -nB
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I think I would have securely deleted it, then reported that I was trying to download some music and it was a CP site, report it that way. Likely it is a techonophobe ruling that because it was on your PC then you intentionally put it there.
By saying you saw it elsewhere you are dutifully reporting it as mandated while not admitting that you were in possession. I doubt they'd make the connection that to see it you copied it at least to your browser cache.
-nB
Yes it does help.
I think they were stupid for spinning off GF in the first place, but, since they have, sloughing off the rest is a good thing. They now can shop around (within some limits*) for who has the best/most compatible with their design process at a given node. So at 45nM they may use UMC, while at 32 nM they stay with GF and for 22nM they go to TSMC.
-nB
*Limits: good luck getting IBM or Intel to fab their chips IMHO.
Hence storage in a Mu Metal case.
Flash is hurt by charged particles, so a high enough energy particle striking anything you store it in can cause a secondary spray, which will affect the flash. HDDs are magnetic, so the secondary spary issue is not as bad. The magnetic field is blocked by a suitably designed Mu case.
Flash is certainly the least immune as it relies on stored charge and a CME chucks tons of charge at the the earth.
Phase change memory is robust against such events, but is still in its infancy as a technology.
I would go with platter HDDs stored in Mu metal boxes as the most likely to survive.
A generator and my PCs would keep me happy. I have 12 TB of data (reference material, masters thesis, e-books, etc.) that should suffice while the internet rebuilds...
-nB
I'll abort the singularity by returning us to irrationality by either taking the sqrt of -1 or calling you both asshats with about as much justification as the police often use in the debated dispersal orders ;)
My wife was stopped for blowing a stop sign.
Funny thing is that the cop had their priority lights on prior to her pulling up to the limit line, and she stopped and tried to see what was going on before continuing. Hmmmm...
I think is is more common with City PDs than HP or Sherrifs though.
They need to raise capitol for the city.
Nope, no love on the last developer build. :(
Maybe on this release, but not on mine
As far as I've found, it's every time, but in this comment: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2700079&cid=39200483 someone posed an unverified reg key that will disable it. Here's to hoping...
No screenshots from me (would violate NDA), but there is a tile you can launch that brings up the classic desktop.
So your average user experience will be boot to metro, click this tile, now start working.
-nB
No, you can't.
You can launch a desktop tile and bring up a standard desktop UI, but you can not disable metro.
If you have found a way to do so, please let me know, as I've been trying for several weeks now, as it interferes with some of my automated test regressions.
-nB
Is AMD really doing that badly?
Seriously I am out of the loop from an AMD perspective*, but I assumed they were still rocking the cost/performance on the low end of the CPU ranges, and was hoping this would allow them to push into the mid-range i5 territory.
-nB
*all I work on at work & at home is Intel stuff, so I don't have any relevant AMD info.
I'm a diehard Intel Fanboi. My last AMD was an 80286, I owned an AMD80386DX40, but never used it (acquired it at a swap meet after the P60's had just launched).
Prescott had a use case where it outperformed AMD, but it was very narrow, if your load was highly predictive and did not cause cache misses or branch prediction failures, it owned the AMD. Sadly every workload except straight up numerical number crunching was not so good. I used my 3.6GHz P4 for transscoding video. It was the first machine that I owned where I could encode faster than real time (i.e. movie is 60 min, I could encode in 50).
I really hope this pans out for AMD and brings them a little up into Intel's game. While as you said there has only been one time where AMD flat out bested Intel, there have been several cases where AMD has nailed a particular segment:
* Low cost many cores (data compute clusters).
* Low cost reasonable performance for most end user loads.
* Downright cheap CPU for entry machines.
Every time they've done something they have forced Intel to step up to that segment and improve.
In this case I hope to see not the high spec CPU improvement, but rather the mid-range CPU segment get a very low power option. Somewhere in the i5 equivalent range, but giving desktop performance while sipping mobile levels of power.
It would make building a poor man's compute cluster more feasible from a power and cooling standpoint.
-nB
sure they are still issues, but in addressing the GGP of GHz not meaning squat, GHz still matters. If cost/power/threadcount/and per clock average performance are all the same which would you rather have? 3.67GHx or 4Ghz (~10% higher)?
-nB
for a single executing thread of a specific bit width GHz means everything.
The trick is can they scale it to multiple cores/threads, while lowering their power to match Intel's performance/Watt at the high end of the compute arena. If they can do that they will once again pull in DC customers.
-nB
it's all vaporware till they ship, and it works.
if they pull it off though, might give Intel a run for their money again, it's about time!
My green-wing Macaw's name is Bert...
Not that it's relevant other than this being a story about a parrot and you signing as Bert.
I was genuinely sad when Alex died. He was an amazing animal.
Actually using the FPGA PCIe card as a combo accelerator/authenticator is not half bad an idea.
The free version can do all this in SW and not have the routines available the rely on the FPGA, the paid version has the FPGA which co-processes the advanced routines. Sure, in theory you could crack it, but then you have to run on the CPU, and the FPGA will be faster. Should make an incentive to buy the SW, so you can get the accelerator. Also, from a pragmatic point of view, if you're getting some custom HW for that $10K then it is a little more palatable.
-nB
$x.98 == crap commission, worth selling unless you could bundle on a few .99 items
I accidentally a word there... *Not* worth selling
Actually one of the most common reasons (in retail at least) for .99, .98, .97 price suffixes is to bin things together, and to help salespeople identify things that the retailer wants sold. .99 was the high margin items, .98 was the low margin items, .97 was the manufacturer promotion items, and .95 was the discontinued and clearance items. .99 items
Where I managed for a while (a national camera chain),
As a salesperson you knew the folling to be true:
$x.99 == good commission
$x.98 == crap commission, worth selling unless you could bundle on a few
$x.97 == crap commission, but the manufacturer would provide a "spiff" to offset that
$x.95 == sell it. there was a bonus to get rid of stuff that was disco'd. Don't bother trying to special order it though, because if the warehouse still had any it wouldn't have this price code. If you need to discount it further to sell it, do it.
-nB
Actually dimes are the least useful of the common change denominations.
5 pennies to a nickel
5 nickels to a quarter
4 quarters to a dollar.
Just eliminate the dime all together. That should save more than making pennies and nickels cheaper.
-nB
There's no shortage... :(
Just come to NorCal, where we have enough methylated Amphetamine Salts for everyone who wants some.
-nB
Then they are lying.
The have developed a sterile seed product (the terminator gene). They never commercialized it, but develop it, they did.
I wish they commercialized it, then the tainted crops issue would be a 3 generation problem, then over.
Gen 1 taints Gen 2, figure about half the crops fail to sprout to gen 3. By gen 3 the genes are so diluted that it is a non issue, maybe 1% of your seed doesn't sprout after that.
-nB
Honestly? Really?
I don't know any doctor that would refuse to help a patient that they knew wouldn't be able to pay if it really was a life or death thing. Now if it is a big scar Vs. little scar issue, or possibly even a this bone won't set right, maybe, but your money or your life? no. Not even taking into account the legality of withholding life saving treatment (not all countries have a law like that on the books).
When it comes to children the doctors I know are even more lenient with the money issue.
-nB
I do not think you are the target problem group here. I assume you are talking about an egg albumen allergy, since most vaccines are made that way, with a few made in horse serum.
I have an albumen allergy in my gene pool, so we were very cautious about vaccinating my children. Thankfully it appears they do not have the allergy. That said, I do not like the vaccine regimen used in the US, where we combine many different vaccines into one shot MMR, DTaP|DTP so I opted out of the traditional vaccination program. I discussed this at length with the pediatrician, and gave my reasoning for it (too much to hit a young immune system at once with, etc.). In the end, while it means more shots, she agreed, and my kids received their vaccines over a prolonged period. Their reactions were almost non existent, whereas with normal shots a high fever is common, as is other flu like symptoms for a couple days.
As to those who do not get vaccines for no good reason (parent, has a good reason) all I have to say is this:
If you accept *every single case* of something bad that happened to a child that *anyone* attributed to a vaccine (Autism, severe reaction causing brain damage, death, etc.) at face value and compare that to the infant and childhood mortality prior to these vaccines being widely available it is still beneficial from a risk perspective to get your children vaccinated. If you remove just the obvious nutjob correlations of vaccine related issues then the risk to reward ratio is so big that the bad stuff is lost in sampling noise.
-nB
And this illustrates (a touch harshly) why I need lessons...