"and kids can go to non-government schools."
can they?
and are you really saying the US can't do public schools while every developed nation on the planet can?
it's a direct observable historic fact. intel was scaring away investors from AMD as far back as the k6 and k7 days leading directly to AMD not being able to start construction of a second factory until after the launch of the k8. had Intel played fair AMD would have had 2 factories up and running for the k8 and would have easily been able to acquire 40% marketshare.
the market today would have have looked extremely different had that been the case.
that's a easy answer: when performance no longer goes up when you change the ID to 'genuine intel'.
changing that id should have NO effect on performance. the fact that it does is a CLEAR indication intel does things with the compiler it shouldn't be doing.
and you don't think that AMD would have been in a much strong position in terms of R&D if intel hadn't ruined their day continuously from say the k6 onward? intel is DIRECTLY responsible for AMD not being able to take full advantage of their success with the k8. their lack of production capacity can be directly related to intel scaring away investors because of their stranglehold on the OEM market.
2006 is long LONG after intel's abuse started. none of you are looking back far enough to see the real causes, and the extent of intel's abuse and damage to the PC market.
for example intel was already scaring away investors at AMD in the days of the k6 and k7 because of their stranglehold on the OEM market. that lead directly to AMD not being able to get the money needed to start construction on a second factory and that meant that they didn't have a second factory up and running by the time they got to the k8.
if AMD had been able to get the money for that second factory in time the market today would look VERY different. paying to much for ATI wouldn't have been anywhere near the problem that it was, and the phenom and phenom 2's would have easily been much better design because the far better R&D budget that would have been possible with a 40% market share instead of the 20% they got with the k8. even a 3d fab would have been in the cards.
hell, with 2 or 3 fab's they would have been able to spend far more one new process technology and could have closed the gat with intel in terms of process technology, and they wouldn't (necessarily) have been stuck at 32/28nm when intel's got 14nm. that would have made them much more competitive even if they had released bulldozer exact as it is today.
"little more than strong hints in need of further investigation"
i believe you got this quit wrong.
there is uncertainty true. but man made climate change is a undeniable fact.
the only uncertainty is in how much of one. and preparing for the worst case scenario for that seems only prudent to me.
specially considering that this issue can be fixed for pretty much chump change now compared to what it could cost in the future.
we'll probably just deny it and say that we are and whine about our lack of population density making it hard to build more infrastructure.
What part about that is untrue though?
People love to bring up Japan and South Korea and how fast their infrastructure is, but I don't see why it is not valid to bring up the disparities in size and population density.
South Korea is about the size of Kentucky with much higher population density and Japan is 90% of the size of California with roughly about %50 more population density.
Our Internet here is made up a number of competing telecoms and transit/peering agreements work great..... but when you have to keep putting fiber runs that are longer than the entire countries of South Korea and Japan why is it any big surprise that bandwidth costs more in the US?
sorry but those costs are only a tiny tiny fraction of the cost of internet connections. and south korea for example has nothing to link up to at all without expensive undersea cables linking it to Japan Europe and the US.
your real problem is a lack of competition at the last mile. What you have a many regional mini-monopolies
you have a choice of what? 2, maybe 3 ISP? on ADSL i have so many choices i dont even know them all, but i could name 8 big ones off the top of my head available nation wide.
on cable you only have one (for the moment) but with the competition from ADSL they are kept reasonably honest. al thou now that they have speeds for up to 120/10 (close to 10 times whats achievable on average on ADSL) that could change of course.
why do we have so many? because the government stepped in and forced network operators to allow 3de parties on their network at reasonable rates.
result : we (the Netherlands) are position 8, without a large amount of fibre connections
compare that to Belgium. slight smaller country, similar wealth and population density. they are next to the US on the ranking. their government didn't step in, their speeds are much slower and maybe more importantly they still have (strict) download limits which we haven't had, (not even for the cheapest connection) for years.
provided the level of technology hasn't gone down too far, or has sufficient recovered after a doomsday event, I'm guessing figuring how to read the dots of those disks isn't going to be all that much of a problem.
provided they printen a ascii table on one side, it should be all set.
open source alternatives?
dont know what card you got but with the release of alot of specs of ATI cards the open sources drivers have been growing up fast.
CUDA and PhysicX are propitiatory follies from the past that are about to go extinct.
DX11 comput-shaders and/or OpenCL takes over their jobs but on a platform that supports all (graphics) hardware.
that doesn't change the fact that their 360 decision made a loss this year, which is was the auther of hte article was point too. which you should have know if you'd read a bit more carefully.
so... who was the retard?
the point is that any game of even reasonable complexity (in gameplay) wont work on a console. they tried with supreme commander, which is a great game on the PC, and failed miserably. most other strategy-games i like to pay wont even make the attempt.
the ones that are successful on the console are so simplified that i have no interest in them.
the other genre i like to play are shooters, but those just dont work without a mouse.they need to be simplified, slowed down, and have auto aim added to them(auto-aim? * shudder* why buy a game only to have the computer play the game for you?)
the only genre i like that would work on consoles would be adventures, but those are pretty scarce.
im sorry but then you did it wrong.
my 5+ year old PC has had 3 upgrades for in total 300 dollars, including a new CPU and videocard (and the old one is still happy in my brothers PC... and the one before that in the PC of my GF.
that is easily less the the cost of live or a HD monitor back then.
I'm not including the price of a monitor when I compare the costs of PC and 360.
then maybe you should. unless you live alone, using the living room monitor is not going to cut it.
How much is an additional controller for PC?
who need a controler on his PC? controlers are bad uhmkay
i have 10 fingures, so why are controllers designer so i have to use 80% of the buttons with just 20% of my fingers?
Never needed one of those.
great you saved 60 dollars. thats 1 game.
and besides i need a PC anyway, and im probably not the only one, so lets take 400 off that 1200 quoted above.
btw, besides 3 upgrades my PC is a year older then the 360, and still plays the latest games.
it didn't cost 1200 dollars in the first place, and has had 1 cpu upgrade to a dual core for about 120 dollars, a extra gig of ram for 50, and a hd4870 for 200 dollars.
so far i've been able to talk everybody into installing it within a pretty reasonable time. got almost 20PC's in there now, and only 2 are mine
the main drawback is having them log into my account, but i just change the pass, get them to installed it and change it back again. its just a minor inconveniences, specially compared to having to go over there.
actualy the amount of solar energie that makes it down to the earth has droped by 25% in some places. and on the whole is definatly lower.
yet temperatures have stayed roughtly the same.
you are aware of the fackt that the regeneration is a slow process? its not instaheal. a fatal wond will still kill it just as eazyaly.
it wont be able to heal faster just heal more of its body.
its exectly the same mechanism most reptiles have.
and mamels still have part of that same mechanism in tackt. we still signal cells to start the regeneration, we just dont have cells that can respond to the call anymore.
apperently the gene that is resposable for creating those cells is turned on again in these mice.
stemcell research is based on the same signals btw. and so humans still have the signal too.
a bit of GM and we too can grow back a arm! or whatever else you lost.
that only for use of the highway's.
they work there because there is only a limited nummer of places to get on and off.
it wont work in say the city as you'd need one of those portals at every crossing. FAR to costly.
BUT a great idea they can borrow of the netherlands would be increase tax on gas.
OOOOW i can see the californians revolting allready.
but really, that way you tax for milage, AND you actualy reward ppl that got a more fuel efficent car.
to me, that seems like the fairest way to get the tax money needed, while keeping the city smog down a bit and cutting down on use of a finite resource.
it also gives people more insentive to get a fuel efficent car stead of another 3 ton SUV they drive around empty all day exept for the driver.
(you'll note i did not mention nature or polution (exept smog) in this whole post. so even for anti-tree-huggers a fuel efficient car could make sence
the black hole presumed to be at the center of our galaxy has probably swallowed a huge amount of stars by now, so its gravity pull will be MUCH larger then even the largest know starts.
as for the slingshot effect.
as something small(er) gets pulled toward something heavy its increasing speed all the time.
by the time the small object has reached the heavyer object and is about to do a orbit like turn its speed has become so great that it shots away from the heavy object at great speed because of the centrifugal force.
they use the same techniek to give space probes some extra speed inside our solar system, aspecialy if they are going for the planets on the outside of our system.
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that's why most distributions do this for you.
"and kids can go to non-government schools." can they? and are you really saying the US can't do public schools while every developed nation on the planet can?
it's a direct observable historic fact. intel was scaring away investors from AMD as far back as the k6 and k7 days leading directly to AMD not being able to start construction of a second factory until after the launch of the k8. had Intel played fair AMD would have had 2 factories up and running for the k8 and would have easily been able to acquire 40% marketshare. the market today would have have looked extremely different had that been the case.
they realized their mistake right away, which is why they started zen in 2012, right after launching bulldozer.
that's a easy answer: when performance no longer goes up when you change the ID to 'genuine intel'. changing that id should have NO effect on performance. the fact that it does is a CLEAR indication intel does things with the compiler it shouldn't be doing.
and you don't think that AMD would have been in a much strong position in terms of R&D if intel hadn't ruined their day continuously from say the k6 onward? intel is DIRECTLY responsible for AMD not being able to take full advantage of their success with the k8. their lack of production capacity can be directly related to intel scaring away investors because of their stranglehold on the OEM market.
2006 is long LONG after intel's abuse started. none of you are looking back far enough to see the real causes, and the extent of intel's abuse and damage to the PC market. for example intel was already scaring away investors at AMD in the days of the k6 and k7 because of their stranglehold on the OEM market. that lead directly to AMD not being able to get the money needed to start construction on a second factory and that meant that they didn't have a second factory up and running by the time they got to the k8. if AMD had been able to get the money for that second factory in time the market today would look VERY different. paying to much for ATI wouldn't have been anywhere near the problem that it was, and the phenom and phenom 2's would have easily been much better design because the far better R&D budget that would have been possible with a 40% market share instead of the 20% they got with the k8. even a 3d fab would have been in the cards. hell, with 2 or 3 fab's they would have been able to spend far more one new process technology and could have closed the gat with intel in terms of process technology, and they wouldn't (necessarily) have been stuck at 32/28nm when intel's got 14nm. that would have made them much more competitive even if they had released bulldozer exact as it is today.
"little more than strong hints in need of further investigation" i believe you got this quit wrong. there is uncertainty true. but man made climate change is a undeniable fact. the only uncertainty is in how much of one. and preparing for the worst case scenario for that seems only prudent to me. specially considering that this issue can be fixed for pretty much chump change now compared to what it could cost in the future.
What part about that is untrue though?
People love to bring up Japan and South Korea and how fast their infrastructure is, but I don't see why it is not valid to bring up the disparities in size and population density.
South Korea is about the size of Kentucky with much higher population density and Japan is 90% of the size of California with roughly about %50 more population density.
Our Internet here is made up a number of competing telecoms and transit/peering agreements work great..... but when you have to keep putting fiber runs that are longer than the entire countries of South Korea and Japan why is it any big surprise that bandwidth costs more in the US?
sorry but those costs are only a tiny tiny fraction of the cost of internet connections. and south korea for example has nothing to link up to at all without expensive undersea cables linking it to Japan Europe and the US. your real problem is a lack of competition at the last mile. What you have a many regional mini-monopolies you have a choice of what? 2, maybe 3 ISP? on ADSL i have so many choices i dont even know them all, but i could name 8 big ones off the top of my head available nation wide. on cable you only have one (for the moment) but with the competition from ADSL they are kept reasonably honest. al thou now that they have speeds for up to 120/10 (close to 10 times whats achievable on average on ADSL) that could change of course. why do we have so many? because the government stepped in and forced network operators to allow 3de parties on their network at reasonable rates. result : we (the Netherlands) are position 8, without a large amount of fibre connections compare that to Belgium. slight smaller country, similar wealth and population density. they are next to the US on the ranking. their government didn't step in, their speeds are much slower and maybe more importantly they still have (strict) download limits which we haven't had, (not even for the cheapest connection) for years.
provided the level of technology hasn't gone down too far, or has sufficient recovered after a doomsday event, I'm guessing figuring how to read the dots of those disks isn't going to be all that much of a problem. provided they printen a ascii table on one side, it should be all set.
its encoded in English (and maybe German, French, Spanish and Chinese)? and on paper maybe? or maybe a clay tablet. or a golden one.
open source alternatives? dont know what card you got but with the release of alot of specs of ATI cards the open sources drivers have been growing up fast.
CUDA and PhysicX are propitiatory follies from the past that are about to go extinct. DX11 comput-shaders and/or OpenCL takes over their jobs but on a platform that supports all (graphics) hardware.
that doesn't change the fact that their 360 decision made a loss this year, which is was the auther of hte article was point too. which you should have know if you'd read a bit more carefully. so... who was the retard?
easily fixed with a ~120 dollar graphics card.
the point is that any game of even reasonable complexity (in gameplay) wont work on a console. they tried with supreme commander, which is a great game on the PC, and failed miserably. most other strategy-games i like to pay wont even make the attempt. the ones that are successful on the console are so simplified that i have no interest in them. the other genre i like to play are shooters, but those just dont work without a mouse.they need to be simplified, slowed down, and have auto aim added to them(auto-aim? * shudder* why buy a game only to have the computer play the game for you?) the only genre i like that would work on consoles would be adventures, but those are pretty scarce.
im sorry but then you did it wrong. my 5+ year old PC has had 3 upgrades for in total 300 dollars, including a new CPU and videocard (and the old one is still happy in my brothers PC... and the one before that in the PC of my GF. that is easily less the the cost of live or a HD monitor back then.
Not if you're playing Modern Warfare 2 =P
ooo 1 game, great argument there.
I'm not including the price of a monitor when I compare the costs of PC and 360.
then maybe you should. unless you live alone, using the living room monitor is not going to cut it.
How much is an additional controller for PC?
who need a controler on his PC? controlers are bad uhmkay i have 10 fingures, so why are controllers designer so i have to use 80% of the buttons with just 20% of my fingers?
Never needed one of those.
great you saved 60 dollars. thats 1 game.
and besides i need a PC anyway, and im probably not the only one, so lets take 400 off that 1200 quoted above. btw, besides 3 upgrades my PC is a year older then the 360, and still plays the latest games. it didn't cost 1200 dollars in the first place, and has had 1 cpu upgrade to a dual core for about 120 dollars, a extra gig of ram for 50, and a hd4870 for 200 dollars.
actually osram makes all 3 technologies.. and a few more.
so far i've been able to talk everybody into installing it within a pretty reasonable time. got almost 20PC's in there now, and only 2 are mine the main drawback is having them log into my account, but i just change the pass, get them to installed it and change it back again. its just a minor inconveniences, specially compared to having to go over there.
they are looking at boobies. why else?
actualy the amount of solar energie that makes it down to the earth has droped by 25% in some places. and on the whole is definatly lower. yet temperatures have stayed roughtly the same.
you are aware of the fackt that the regeneration is a slow process? its not instaheal. a fatal wond will still kill it just as eazyaly. it wont be able to heal faster just heal more of its body. its exectly the same mechanism most reptiles have. and mamels still have part of that same mechanism in tackt. we still signal cells to start the regeneration, we just dont have cells that can respond to the call anymore. apperently the gene that is resposable for creating those cells is turned on again in these mice. stemcell research is based on the same signals btw. and so humans still have the signal too. a bit of GM and we too can grow back a arm! or whatever else you lost.
that only for use of the highway's. they work there because there is only a limited nummer of places to get on and off. it wont work in say the city as you'd need one of those portals at every crossing. FAR to costly. BUT a great idea they can borrow of the netherlands would be increase tax on gas. OOOOW i can see the californians revolting allready. but really, that way you tax for milage, AND you actualy reward ppl that got a more fuel efficent car. to me, that seems like the fairest way to get the tax money needed, while keeping the city smog down a bit and cutting down on use of a finite resource. it also gives people more insentive to get a fuel efficent car stead of another 3 ton SUV they drive around empty all day exept for the driver. (you'll note i did not mention nature or polution (exept smog) in this whole post. so even for anti-tree-huggers a fuel efficient car could make sence
the black hole presumed to be at the center of our galaxy has probably swallowed a huge amount of stars by now, so its gravity pull will be MUCH larger then even the largest know starts. as for the slingshot effect. as something small(er) gets pulled toward something heavy its increasing speed all the time. by the time the small object has reached the heavyer object and is about to do a orbit like turn its speed has become so great that it shots away from the heavy object at great speed because of the centrifugal force. they use the same techniek to give space probes some extra speed inside our solar system, aspecialy if they are going for the planets on the outside of our system.