Ok, but that's different from "bank cards have no protection". Yeah, it's more inconvenient than a credit card being stolen, but you do get your money back. And, while you're waiting for the money to be returned, use your credit card:).
Except, that such an algorithm would blow the stack. Even a tiny region on the screen has thousands of pixels - can your compiler handle thousands of layers of function calls?
and remember, there are a lot of people who use debit cards, debit cards directly charge a bank account, and you don't have protection.
What bank are you with? My debit card was somehow duplicated (since I never lost mine, it was still in my wallet) and used to withdraw money in another city, far away from me. My bank canceled my debit card, gave me a new one, and gave me the money back. It was pretty much the same experience as when my credit card number was stolen.
All ASIC companies do this on large chips or else they'd be throwing away too many chips to be profitable.
That is selling your broken ASICs as a lower-performing part, which isn't what is done for workstation market. Yes, there are low end consumer ASICs which are the same as the workstation ASIC but with some broken shaders/pixel pipelines, but the higher end consumer cards have all the same features as the workstation ones. The workstation ASICs could be screened for higher V/T margins, but that won't be important to most users.
When you're talking about processor cores, caches, even shader units, you're talking about large chunks of a die that will have a large enough failure rate to matter. When you're talking about the little features that are made available in the workstation markets, they are too small for the failed parts to matter in the big picture. It would cost you more to bin those 0.1% of the parts than you would get by selling them to consumer market.
Absolutely not. It is always the same chip. The board itself could be different by having more ram, sometimes the clocking is different, and the drivers are very different. But, that's it. The actual ASIC is the same, for each and every workstation card.
Judging from your UID, you're one of them:). Otherwise you'd understand that short-range gigabit wireless has nothing to do with broadband speeds in US. One solves a problem of home/office LAN connection, and the other is a problem of delivering much higher bandwidths over much larger distances to whole neighbourhoods, towns, and even cities. Even if every one of us walked around with a gigabit wireless router in our pockets, we'd still have the problem of handling all that bandwidth on the next hop.
And when it rains, sidewalks are wet. That's also a valid point, but it has nothing to do with the topic! What the hell does US broadband capability have to do with with a group working on short-range gigabit wifi?
Well, what can you do, people don't like ads. People have tried software that supports itself with ads, and it generally didn't work out. People would rather pay $20/$30 and have a better experience.
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But viewing the bite-size videos (how about a single overview, rather than having to keep clicking for a snippet on each feature?), I didn't see anything useful -- only a lot of integration with Google Search.
I wish some people would just download Chrome and give it a shot instead of theorizing about why it's broken based on "bite-size videos", and then comment. There's nothing useful to *see*, really, it's a browser with a simpler UI. There's no integration with Google Search, nothing that Firefox doesn't have as well, anyway. But, it's so damn fast, very noticeably faster than Firefox, and you'd see that if you just took the time to try it.
It's also more stable by design, but that will take some time to really appreciate (or realize that it's a bogus claim).
It's damn fast, I love that. I can't completely switch until some of the basic plug-ins start appearing, but I'm willing to give it a good shot because I haven't seen a browser this fast... ever. (Maybe IE3, which appeared super fast compared to the late Netscape... when it didn't crash)
It's co-existing with Firefox right now. Chrome work, Firefox at home. Let's see who wins...:)
That day would also spell the end of the web. Most sites exist because of ad revenue, you know.
No, it'll just spell the end of advertising on the web. People still need their information and their web sites, they just might have to pay for it.
Re:A couple of annoying things I've found so far
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The other thing that I personally find a bit annoying is that if you don't put http:/// in front of or / after a url that is within one of your search domains, it automatically assumes that you want to search the web for that
It will also say something like "Did you actually want to go to http://domain/ instead?", and if you say yes, then it will go there in the future.
I think I still prefer a separate search box, but let's see what I think after a few weeks. For now, I just love the speed and I'm willing to live without all the funky add-ons I have on Firefox for a little bit...
Intel has money to burn, so they can afford prime-time TV commercials... The question is -- is the return on investment worth it? Your average Joe will buy whatever Dell/HP offers them in the right price range. The ones who are looking for a specific CPU are generally informed enough not to be swayed by TV commercials.
Because modern video cards have more and more support for hardware encoding and decoding of video. While the support for encoding is only starting to show up, the hardware decoding makes a big difference in previewing HD video in real time with little CPU usage.
What about it? HD editing doesn't use a fast CPU.. it's disk I/O bound entirely.
Well, that's just not even close to truth. I wouldn't even know where to start to refute that... I guess googling for bitrates of common HD video formats, and looking at CPU benchmarks doing some video encoding will be a good start in getting a little more informed on this topic.
Minimum system requirement means the game will not die on you when you run it, not that it will be playable in any reasonable sense:). Recommended system requirements is what is, well, recommended in order to properly play the game.
Plays all the games I want without a prob and is more than fast enough to run any none game app.
*Any* app? Try getting an HD camcorder and editing some video of your kid/dog/girlfriend/fish and see how well your PC does. It's easy to make generalizations about other people based on personal experience. Resist the urge to do it.
The Rush Hour expansion pack added a bunch of good stuff, but didn't go far enough in my opinion... Dealing with traffic in SimCity has always been the most interesting part of the game to me, it's the only part where you have to really plan things out. Some road options were very limited, and some public transportation elements hardly ever got used even when they seem like they should've been...
Yeah, I'd love SimRoad! It's too bad that all these sim games are going towards simplicity instead of more depth... first the Railroads, then Societies, then the new Civ... they are trying to appeal to the casual gamer, but the casual gamer has long left the PC gaming.
It's funny, we now have the computer power to do much more in-depth simulations, but we're not using it!:( I guess we still have GalCiv 2 to play, at least.
The article hardy complains about the crashes, it just says that you probably don't want to install it on your desktop, but try it with a live CD instead (and never mentions the crashes again). The summary, as usual, is a little misleading.
I mean it only makes sense that the large company employing the best engineers in the world would risk everything
Risk everything? How's this risking everything? Google's worth $170B, if they lose this case and have to pay $1B (unlikely that the penalty for stealing some minor software idea will be that large), they will be mighty annoyed, but that's about it. They'll have to make a press release about how they don't accept the verdict, they didn't do anything wrong, but want to put the case behind them and pay... and will move on.
Don't mark up my grammar, don't suggest what sites I might be trying to visit. Just let me handle it and stay out of my face.
I don't really get this... it's only "suggesting" what you're probably trying to type. If you prefer to just type out the whole url yourself, it's not going to stop you or overwrite it with their suggestion. They are just there for convenience -- if the algorithm is good enough, it will actually save you typing at least some of the time, and will never require you to type more than if it weren't there.
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Ok, but that's different from "bank cards have no protection". Yeah, it's more inconvenient than a credit card being stolen, but you do get your money back. And, while you're waiting for the money to be returned, use your credit card :).
That's a troll, right?
What bank are you with? My debit card was somehow duplicated (since I never lost mine, it was still in my wallet) and used to withdraw money in another city, far away from me. My bank canceled my debit card, gave me a new one, and gave me the money back. It was pretty much the same experience as when my credit card number was stolen.
That is selling your broken ASICs as a lower-performing part, which isn't what is done for workstation market. Yes, there are low end consumer ASICs which are the same as the workstation ASIC but with some broken shaders/pixel pipelines, but the higher end consumer cards have all the same features as the workstation ones. The workstation ASICs could be screened for higher V/T margins, but that won't be important to most users.
When you're talking about processor cores, caches, even shader units, you're talking about large chunks of a die that will have a large enough failure rate to matter. When you're talking about the little features that are made available in the workstation markets, they are too small for the failed parts to matter in the big picture. It would cost you more to bin those 0.1% of the parts than you would get by selling them to consumer market.
Absolutely not. It is always the same chip. The board itself could be different by having more ram, sometimes the clocking is different, and the drivers are very different. But, that's it. The actual ASIC is the same, for each and every workstation card.
They take spelling, too.
Judging from your UID, you're one of them :). Otherwise you'd understand that short-range gigabit wireless has nothing to do with broadband speeds in US. One solves a problem of home/office LAN connection, and the other is a problem of delivering much higher bandwidths over much larger distances to whole neighbourhoods, towns, and even cities. Even if every one of us walked around with a gigabit wireless router in our pockets, we'd still have the problem of handling all that bandwidth on the next hop.
And when it rains, sidewalks are wet. That's also a valid point, but it has nothing to do with the topic! What the hell does US broadband capability have to do with with a group working on short-range gigabit wifi?
Well, what can you do, people don't like ads. People have tried software that supports itself with ads, and it generally didn't work out. People would rather pay $20/$30 and have a better experience.
I wish some people would just download Chrome and give it a shot instead of theorizing about why it's broken based on "bite-size videos", and then comment. There's nothing useful to *see*, really, it's a browser with a simpler UI. There's no integration with Google Search, nothing that Firefox doesn't have as well, anyway. But, it's so damn fast, very noticeably faster than Firefox, and you'd see that if you just took the time to try it.
It's also more stable by design, but that will take some time to really appreciate (or realize that it's a bogus claim).
But, speed... you see that right away.
It's damn fast, I love that. I can't completely switch until some of the basic plug-ins start appearing, but I'm willing to give it a good shot because I haven't seen a browser this fast... ever. (Maybe IE3, which appeared super fast compared to the late Netscape... when it didn't crash)
It's co-existing with Firefox right now. Chrome work, Firefox at home. Let's see who wins... :)
No, it'll just spell the end of advertising on the web. People still need their information and their web sites, they just might have to pay for it.
It will also say something like "Did you actually want to go to http://domain/ instead?", and if you say yes, then it will go there in the future.
I think I still prefer a separate search box, but let's see what I think after a few weeks. For now, I just love the speed and I'm willing to live without all the funky add-ons I have on Firefox for a little bit...
Intel has money to burn, so they can afford prime-time TV commercials... The question is -- is the return on investment worth it? Your average Joe will buy whatever Dell/HP offers them in the right price range. The ones who are looking for a specific CPU are generally informed enough not to be swayed by TV commercials.
Because modern video cards have more and more support for hardware encoding and decoding of video. While the support for encoding is only starting to show up, the hardware decoding makes a big difference in previewing HD video in real time with little CPU usage.
Well, that's just not even close to truth. I wouldn't even know where to start to refute that... I guess googling for bitrates of common HD video formats, and looking at CPU benchmarks doing some video encoding will be a good start in getting a little more informed on this topic.
Minimum system requirement means the game will not die on you when you run it, not that it will be playable in any reasonable sense :). Recommended system requirements is what is, well, recommended in order to properly play the game.
And, BioShock is already a year old game!
*Any* app? Try getting an HD camcorder and editing some video of your kid/dog/girlfriend/fish and see how well your PC does. It's easy to make generalizations about other people based on personal experience. Resist the urge to do it.
You can watch the high-res version on Vimeo:
http://www.vimeo.com/1450211?pg=embed&sec=1450211&hd=1
The Rush Hour expansion pack added a bunch of good stuff, but didn't go far enough in my opinion... Dealing with traffic in SimCity has always been the most interesting part of the game to me, it's the only part where you have to really plan things out. Some road options were very limited, and some public transportation elements hardly ever got used even when they seem like they should've been...
Yeah, I'd love SimRoad! It's too bad that all these sim games are going towards simplicity instead of more depth... first the Railroads, then Societies, then the new Civ... they are trying to appeal to the casual gamer, but the casual gamer has long left the PC gaming.
It's funny, we now have the computer power to do much more in-depth simulations, but we're not using it! :( I guess we still have GalCiv 2 to play, at least.
I second that! Those buttons take up so much space, and totally feel out of place with the minimalistic UI that surrounds it!
The article hardy complains about the crashes, it just says that you probably don't want to install it on your desktop, but try it with a live CD instead (and never mentions the crashes again). The summary, as usual, is a little misleading.
And a 80GB "regular" HD is $39. $500 vs. $39 does seem very expensive to me.
Risk everything? How's this risking everything? Google's worth $170B, if they lose this case and have to pay $1B (unlikely that the penalty for stealing some minor software idea will be that large), they will be mighty annoyed, but that's about it. They'll have to make a press release about how they don't accept the verdict, they didn't do anything wrong, but want to put the case behind them and pay... and will move on.
I don't really get this... it's only "suggesting" what you're probably trying to type. If you prefer to just type out the whole url yourself, it's not going to stop you or overwrite it with their suggestion. They are just there for convenience -- if the algorithm is good enough, it will actually save you typing at least some of the time, and will never require you to type more than if it weren't there.