Oh FCOL, who the fuck moderated this as troll - c'mon - play nicely here - over the last few days it seems that a metric fuckton of non-troll and/or non-flamebait posts have been modded most unfairly. Who the hell is getting modpoints these days?
Well consider. He gets his news from sites that hate the Republicans. They all spun this story as 'peaceful protestors arrested by fascist cops'. Anyone that posted stuff that agreed got modded up. Anyone that posted stuff that disagreed got modded down. Inconvenient facts like the affidavit may appear and vex the hivemind, but some karmawhore will quickly appear and explain them away.
Chomsky would be fascinated by the way these 'anarchists' manufacture consent.
Yeah, if you want to sift through endless home-made garbage just to find that one low-quality movie to watch over 20 parts within a 2-day window before it's taken down for "various reasons".
There are plenty of good speed runs, which are more entertaining than modern Hollywood bullshit anyway.
LOL!
The endless home made garbage is just a cover. Your supposed to rip the pirated content encoded steganographically in it and the inane comments using a script.
Or did you think everyone else is really watching ~~PrincessPunkX~~ make funny faces for ten minutes? Hell no, decode the most recent thousand of her comments and you get the final season of Battlestar Galactica.
At least here in the usa, his desire is already fulfilled, just the manufacturers haven't caught on yet wiht their box labeling. You see, here in the USA, the maximum device lifetime of any device is 7 years. No manufacturer is expected by law to make any device that lasts longer than that, and they are legally allowed to call any device that is expected to last 7 years of normal service "lifetime" and other BS keywords, that could easily encompass "infinite writes". Because you see, these SSD drives can already perform 7 years of normal usage. That right there qualifies as "infinite writes". Thank goodness noone told the marketing folks tho.
When you throw away your devices and replace them with newer ones, this is not called execution, it is called retirement.
Reports have come out about violent protest. First, I want to talk about the facts related to this:
Actual incidents are often exaggerated or fabricated. For instance, in the case of the home raids things like paint, bottles, and rags were labeled as "the ingredients for making Molotov cocktails". Iâ(TM)m sure every reader of this post has sufficient ingredients to make a Molotov cocktail. Also, many people have hatchets, bricks, and other materials. Buckets of urine were particularly attention-grabbing, but the only reason for these was that one of the houses had a broken toilet. The police interpretation of the confiscated material is not credible.
There have also been reports of violence at the protests themselves. First it should be noted that there are no reports of police or bystanders being injured. I personally find it is hard to classify property damage as "violence". If you don't include property damage then there doesn't seem to be much evidence of violence.
Protest is confrontational. Some will suggest that protesters should obey police in all situations. They suggest that protesters should obey all laws and only protest where permitted. They suggest protesters should not be disruptive of anyone else. The result would not be protest. In cases like the RNC, where extensive planning was in place to counter protest, non-confrontational protest means protesting according to someone elseâ(TM)s plans, someone who has no desire for the protest to succeed in any way. Once you confront the police, there will be violence â" usually by the police. And sure, you can stand with a flower in your hand and get a face full of pepper spray, and of course many people choose that course. Itâ(TM)s a noble choice, but I canâ(TM)t fault people for making other tactical decisions.
Another protesting tactic is the "black bloq", typically a group of people who try to attract the attention of the police, often through property damage. If the police have nothing better to do, then why not pin down the peaceful protesters and direct them where they can make the least impact? People in the black bloq will try to keep this from happening. Itâ(TM)s unlikely they were at all successful at the RNC as it was so thoroughly militarized. You could debate whether this is a good strategy (and there is lots of debate about this), but probably few people outside activists have any idea that there even is any underlying strategy.
Also, if you wonder why protesters, especially the anarchists, dress the way they do, it is primarily defensive. If you are going to get teargassed and peppersprayed does wearing a handkerchief seem so odd? And if they are tracking people to preemptively arrest, all the more reason to be as anonymous as possible.
So he says the police did find buckets of urine and Molotov cocktail components but they were there for legitimate reasons. And he admits "black bloq" anarchists damage property, which is true.
which is not. You can't make Molotovs out of paint either. But amongst all the spin and lies to get his sister off the hook he does admit the police found the stuff your affidavit says they were searching for.
The affidavit paints a picture of a group that recruited participants from 67 cities and was intent on creating havoc.
According to the document:
* The RNC Welcoming Committee held two "pReNC" gatherings, one from Aug. 31 through Sept. 1, 2007, and another on May 3. At the first, 150 to 200 people - including one of the informants - talked about tactics to "shut down the RNC." At the second, St. Paul was divided into seven sectors for various anarchist groups to claim.
* The affidavit also talked about an "action camp" held July 31 to Aug. 3 at Lake Geneva, Minn.
* "An individual by the name of 'Henry' told the action camp group that he was throwing a liquid-filled balloon and that members of the group should stay away from the area... because it would be very dangerous," the document said.
* Another person talked about using large puppets to conceal and transport Molotov cocktails, bricks, caltrops (devices used to stop buses and other vehicles), shields and lockboxes, the affidavit said. They also planned to throw marbles under the horses of the mounted patrol to trip the horses.
I like this bit
On Tuesday, District Judge Kathleen Gearin denied an emergency motion brought by eight plaintiffs - including at least one of those arrested - to have some of the items seized by police returned to them.
"Who should we return the urine to?" Gearin asked.
In addition to buckets of urine, investigators seized homemade devices used to disable buses and other vehicles, weapons, gas masks, flammable liquids and rags that could be used to make Molotov cocktails, computer storage devices, documents, pamphlets and banners. Some materials, such as banners and signs, were returned Monday for demonstrators to use during the protest marches. Albert Goins Sr., attorney for the plaintiffs, said they are likely to file an emergency appeal to get the rest of it back.
So the evil government did infiltrate the group and seized a bunch of stuff. But they gave back banners and signs. Then the group complained they needed the Molotov cocktails, balloons full of dangerous chemicals, bricks, caltrops, marbles and buckets of urine back!
Who should we return the urine to indeed.
Look at this pictures of 'anarchists' attacking an RNC delegates
Sales in the first half of 2008 are up 3.3% compared with the same period last year, thanks to the increased level of consumer choice provided by high-definition formats, the BVA said, adding that Blu-ray Discs are up 506% year to date and have a 1.2% share in the total market.
In the US it's doing better, but it's still only 5%
But here's where the bad news starts. Nielsen just released its most recent Blu-ray vs. DVD disc sales figures, and if you're a Blu fan, the numbers are daunting. For the week ending April 13, DVD enjoyed a whopping 95 percent of the total disc sales market, leaving a paltry five percent for Blu-ray. Ouch.
I haven't seen any BluRay players or disks in Taiwan or Korea. Loads of upsampling DVDs and massive LCD screens though. I can see it ending up like Laserdisk - high quality but low volume and expensive.
Actually MLC flash for flash drives is awesomely cheap 32Gb 4Gx8 MLC averages at $6.30. So $1.57 per GB. So a drive to hold a movie would be worth $16.
But it's still much more expensive than a pressed DVD.
Flash will kill hard disks in notebooks at these prices though.
Samsung have much more interest in hyping displays because they are one of the main display manufacturers. BluRay is a Sony thing that Samsung and a load of other people license.
Pressed DVDs probably cost pennies to make, BluRay is a bit more expensive but in the long run the disks will be as cheap as DVDs. Flash drives cost about $7 per GB. A DVD movie is currently 5-9 GB. Blu Ray is 25-50GB. I think optical media will be around for a while. Though I'm not sure about BluRay, I suspect that for most people DVDs are good enough.
Which is funny considering that he began his post by making a snarky comment about the other poster's crappy hardware, implying that the whole process really does take only 6 seconds on his uber box of DRM doom.
True hackers don't have fast computers, they have a stasis generator in their chairs.
you will want to rip with settings that give you about 3.2gig because the film was created on very low grade film it cant be compressed hard without artifacts
Software translation has serious problems. Fetching code and executing it in hardware will always be more efficient than running it through a translator, because the translation code itself takes up space in the cache, execution time and memory bandwidth.
If the Risc chip were faster than a comparable x86 it might be tolerable, but this Risc chip isn't. It's comparable to a R16000, a 2002 vintage superscalar MIPS processor. Intel and AMD chips have six years of microarchitectural innovation and are built on better fab plants.
What's interesting about it is that modern x86 chips actually don't execute x86 instructions in their pipelines, they have a hardware decode unit which transforms x86 to some internal format, probably Risc or VLIW. In fact this is what killed Risc. This use of 'decoupled architectures' in x86 is really what killed Risc.
Initially the cost of the hardware decode unit was rather steep
The P6â(TM)s CISC handicap shows in two places. Despite the similar microarchitectures, the P6 requires nearly twice as many logic transistors as the MIPS chip; the extra logic handles x86 decode, uop translation, and the foibles of the x86 instruction set. Since both chips have similar die size and transistor budgets, the R10000 is able to include four times as much on-chip cache as the P6, improving performance on many programs. Second, the first P6 will run at 133 MHz, while the R10000 is expected to achieve 200 MHz using a similar manufacturing process. To come even this close in clock speed, Intel uses a very deep pipeline, a concept that MIPS tried and rejected for the R10000. The deeper pipeline has greater branch penalties, sapping performance. And, of course, the higher clock speed gives the R10000 an intrinsic performance advantage. As a result, the MIPS chip should achieve at least 50% better integer performance than the P6.
At this point, decoupled x86 needed twice as many transistors for the core excluding caches because of the hardware decode. It also ran at a slower clock rate.
But in a modern x86 like Core2 the extra decoding compared to Risc is actually quite a small percentage of the total die size and therefore chip cost. Intel have done very well with clock speed too, outpacing Risc chips.
I suspect that Risc was good initially because you could execute instructions with a small and therefore fast block of logic because the instructions were very well matched to the pipeline. MIPS after all stood for "Microprocessor without interlocked pipeline stages". Branch delays, exposed to the programmer, were a natural consequence of the way the pipeline worked. But later superscalarar, out of order chips with register renaming are much less well suited to classic Risc instruction sets. E.g. a once cycle branch delay is not natural in a two way superscalar chip. Register renaming and out of order execution require loads of hardware whether you have a Risc chip or a Cisc one.
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Opera has let you drag tabs between browser windows for ages.
Oh, never mind.
That's why it's here. We don't know. It's up to us geeks to philosophize.
We're like dust in the wind, dude.
Dust.
Wind.
Dude.
I love this comment
Why not just cut the bullshit, mix it all together and label it "Bachelor Chow"?
Oh FCOL, who the fuck moderated this as troll - c'mon - play nicely here - over the last few days it seems that a metric fuckton of non-troll and/or non-flamebait posts have been modded most unfairly. Who the hell is getting modpoints these days?
Mod Parent down
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Well consider. He gets his news from sites that hate the Republicans. They all spun this story as 'peaceful protestors arrested by fascist cops'. Anyone that posted stuff that agreed got modded up. Anyone that posted stuff that disagreed got modded down. Inconvenient facts like the affidavit may appear and vex the hivemind, but some karmawhore will quickly appear and explain them away.
Chomsky would be fascinated by the way these 'anarchists' manufacture consent.
Maybe you should write slashdot an email to complain.
Yeah, if you want to sift through endless home-made garbage just to find that one low-quality movie to watch over 20 parts within a 2-day window before it's taken down for "various reasons".
There are plenty of good speed runs, which are more entertaining than modern Hollywood bullshit anyway.
LOL!
The endless home made garbage is just a cover. Your supposed to rip the pirated content encoded steganographically in it and the inane comments using a script.
Or did you think everyone else is really watching ~~PrincessPunkX~~ make funny faces for ten minutes? Hell no, decode the most recent thousand of her comments and you get the final season of Battlestar Galactica.
At least here in the usa, his desire is already fulfilled, just the manufacturers haven't caught on yet wiht their box labeling. You see, here in the USA, the maximum device lifetime of any device is 7 years. No manufacturer is expected by law to make any device that lasts longer than that, and they are legally allowed to call any device that is expected to last 7 years of normal service "lifetime" and other BS keywords, that could easily encompass "infinite writes". Because you see, these SSD drives can already perform 7 years of normal usage. That right there qualifies as "infinite writes". Thank goodness noone told the marketing folks tho.
When you throw away your devices and replace them with newer ones, this is not called execution, it is called retirement.
By what WITCHCRAFT would thou know the article contents?
This guy is the brother of Monica Bicking, one of the RNC 8
http://mugshot.org/visit?post=yBnDZHTk35dZWx
Violence?
Reports have come out about violent protest. First, I want to talk about the facts related to this:
Actual incidents are often exaggerated or fabricated. For instance, in the case of the home raids things like paint, bottles, and rags were labeled as "the ingredients for making Molotov cocktails". Iâ(TM)m sure every reader of this post has sufficient ingredients to make a Molotov cocktail. Also, many people have hatchets, bricks, and other materials. Buckets of urine were particularly attention-grabbing, but the only reason for these was that one of the houses had a broken toilet. The police interpretation of the confiscated material is not credible.
There have also been reports of violence at the protests themselves. First it should be noted that there are no reports of police or bystanders being injured. I personally find it is hard to classify property damage as "violence". If you don't include property damage then there doesn't seem to be much evidence of violence.
Protest is confrontational. Some will suggest that protesters should obey police in all situations. They suggest that protesters should obey all laws and only protest where permitted. They suggest protesters should not be disruptive of anyone else. The result would not be protest. In cases like the RNC, where extensive planning was in place to counter protest, non-confrontational protest means protesting according to someone elseâ(TM)s plans, someone who has no desire for the protest to succeed in any way. Once you confront the police, there will be violence â" usually by the police. And sure, you can stand with a flower in your hand and get a face full of pepper spray, and of course many people choose that course. Itâ(TM)s a noble choice, but I canâ(TM)t fault people for making other tactical decisions.
Another protesting tactic is the "black bloq", typically a group of people who try to attract the attention of the police, often through property damage. If the police have nothing better to do, then why not pin down the peaceful protesters and direct them where they can make the least impact? People in the black bloq will try to keep this from happening. Itâ(TM)s unlikely they were at all successful at the RNC as it was so thoroughly militarized. You could debate whether this is a good strategy (and there is lots of debate about this), but probably few people outside activists have any idea that there even is any underlying strategy.
Also, if you wonder why protesters, especially the anarchists, dress the way they do, it is primarily defensive. If you are going to get teargassed and peppersprayed does wearing a handkerchief seem so odd? And if they are tracking people to preemptively arrest, all the more reason to be as anonymous as possible.
So he says the police did find buckets of urine and Molotov cocktail components but they were there for legitimate reasons. And he admits "black bloq" anarchists damage property, which is true.
http://img70.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo03ws9.jpg
He denies that police were attacked
http://img510.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo07xh5.jpg
http://img372.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo06tb3.jpg
or bystanders
http://img70.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo05qi8.jpg
which is not. You can't make Molotovs out of paint either. But amongst all the spin and lies to get his sister off the hook he does admit the police found the stuff your affidavit says they were searching for.
Not all activists are the same though. If you look at the recent activists arrested before the RNC they were planning some serious shit -
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/09/02/anarchists_republican_convention.html
The affidavit paints a picture of a group that recruited participants from 67 cities and was intent on creating havoc.
According to the document:
* The RNC Welcoming Committee held two "pReNC" gatherings, one from Aug. 31 through Sept. 1, 2007, and another on May 3. At the first, 150 to 200 people - including one of the informants - talked about tactics to "shut down the RNC." At the second, St. Paul was divided into seven sectors for various anarchist groups to claim.
* The affidavit also talked about an "action camp" held July 31 to Aug. 3 at Lake Geneva, Minn.
* "An individual by the name of 'Henry' told the action camp group that he was throwing a liquid-filled balloon and that members of the group should stay away from the area ... because it would be very dangerous," the document said.
* Another person talked about using large puppets to conceal and transport Molotov cocktails, bricks, caltrops (devices used to stop buses and other vehicles), shields and lockboxes, the affidavit said. They also planned to throw marbles under the horses of the mounted patrol to trip the horses.
I like this bit
On Tuesday, District Judge Kathleen Gearin denied an emergency motion brought by eight plaintiffs - including at least one of those arrested - to have some of the items seized by police returned to them.
"Who should we return the urine to?" Gearin asked.
In addition to buckets of urine, investigators seized homemade devices used to disable buses and other vehicles, weapons, gas masks, flammable liquids and rags that could be used to make Molotov cocktails, computer storage devices, documents, pamphlets and banners. Some materials, such as banners and signs, were returned Monday for demonstrators to use during the protest marches. Albert Goins Sr., attorney for the plaintiffs, said they are likely to file an emergency appeal to get the rest of it back.
So the evil government did infiltrate the group and seized a bunch of stuff. But they gave back banners and signs. Then the group complained they needed the Molotov cocktails, balloons full of dangerous chemicals, bricks, caltrops, marbles and buckets of urine back!
Who should we return the urine to indeed.
Look at this pictures of 'anarchists' attacking an RNC delegates
http://img70.imageshack.us/my.php?image=photo05qi8.jpg
These people are more like the brownshirts breaking up their opponents meetings than hippies.
Just because Aptitude works doesn't mean there's any MIPS packages to download.
True, but all it takes is a source repository, a cross compiler, and a huge botnet to turn things around.
Fix the compile errors and win an ipod?
Globally BluRay is nowhere near there.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/film/news/e3i9a3650f4bf2de2993bbb018678714194
Sales in the first half of 2008 are up 3.3% compared with the same period last year, thanks to the increased level of consumer choice provided by high-definition formats, the BVA said, adding that Blu-ray Discs are up 506% year to date and have a 1.2% share in the total market.
In the US it's doing better, but it's still only 5%
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/17789
But here's where the bad news starts. Nielsen just released its most recent Blu-ray vs. DVD disc sales figures, and if you're a Blu fan, the numbers are daunting. For the week ending April 13, DVD enjoyed a whopping 95 percent of the total disc sales market, leaving a paltry five percent for Blu-ray. Ouch.
I haven't seen any BluRay players or disks in Taiwan or Korea. Loads of upsampling DVDs and massive LCD screens though. I can see it ending up like Laserdisk - high quality but low volume and expensive.
Whiy not ? That might be their response to China's threat :)
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/03/1437254
Quite possibly. Intel have put up a page on being lead free too
http://www.intel.com/technology/silicon/leadfree.htm
I misread http://www.dramexchange.com/
Actually MLC flash for flash drives is awesomely cheap 32Gb 4Gx8 MLC averages at $6.30. So $1.57 per GB. So a drive to hold a movie would be worth $16.
But it's still much more expensive than a pressed DVD.
Flash will kill hard disks in notebooks at these prices though.
DVDA is great. It's like having two CD quality tracks rammed into each ear.
Samsung have much more interest in hyping displays because they are one of the main display manufacturers. BluRay is a Sony thing that Samsung and a load of other people license.
That's it! This is the last time. I'm changing my settings to ignore articles posted by timothy. I suggest you do the same.
This reminds me of my friend Lurleen telling everyone she will leave her boyfriend Stylar every few months.
Pressed DVDs probably cost pennies to make, BluRay is a bit more expensive but in the long run the disks will be as cheap as DVDs. Flash drives cost about $7 per GB. A DVD movie is currently 5-9 GB. Blu Ray is 25-50GB. I think optical media will be around for a while. Though I'm not sure about BluRay, I suspect that for most people DVDs are good enough.
We'll just feed viagra and MDMA to the dolpins near the coast.
...in the matrix
There is a glitch...
Which is funny considering that he began his post by making a snarky comment about the other poster's crappy hardware, implying that the whole process really does take only 6 seconds on his uber box of DRM doom.
True hackers don't have fast computers, they have a stasis generator in their chairs.
you will want to rip with settings that give you about 3.2gig because the film was created on very low grade film it cant be compressed hard without artifacts
So shooting on low quality film is a form of DRM?
Software translation has serious problems. Fetching code and executing it in hardware will always be more efficient than running it through a translator, because the translation code itself takes up space in the cache, execution time and memory bandwidth.
If the Risc chip were faster than a comparable x86 it might be tolerable, but this Risc chip isn't. It's comparable to a R16000, a 2002 vintage superscalar MIPS processor. Intel and AMD chips have six years of microarchitectural innovation and are built on better fab plants.
What's interesting about it is that modern x86 chips actually don't execute x86 instructions in their pipelines, they have a hardware decode unit which transforms x86 to some internal format, probably Risc or VLIW. In fact this is what killed Risc. This use of 'decoupled architectures' in x86 is really what killed Risc.
Initially the cost of the hardware decode unit was rather steep
E.g.
http://studies.ac.upc.edu/ETSETB/SEGPAR/microprocessors/pentium2%20(mpr).pdf
The P6â(TM)s CISC handicap shows in two places. Despite the similar microarchitectures, the P6 requires nearly twice as many logic transistors as the MIPS chip; the extra logic handles x86 decode, uop translation, and the foibles of the x86 instruction set. Since both chips have similar die size and transistor budgets, the R10000 is able to include four times as much on-chip cache as the P6, improving performance on many programs. Second, the first P6 will run at 133 MHz, while the R10000 is expected to achieve 200 MHz using a similar manufacturing process. To come even this close in clock speed, Intel uses a very deep pipeline, a concept that MIPS tried and rejected for the R10000. The deeper pipeline has greater branch penalties, sapping performance.
And, of course, the higher clock speed gives the R10000 an intrinsic performance advantage. As a result, the MIPS chip should achieve at least 50% better integer performance than the P6.
At this point, decoupled x86 needed twice as many transistors for the core excluding caches because of the hardware decode. It also ran at a slower clock rate.
But in a modern x86 like Core2 the extra decoding compared to Risc is actually quite a small percentage of the total die size and therefore chip cost. Intel have done very well with clock speed too, outpacing Risc chips.
I suspect that Risc was good initially because you could execute instructions with a small and therefore fast block of logic because the instructions were very well matched to the pipeline. MIPS after all stood for "Microprocessor without interlocked pipeline stages". Branch delays, exposed to the programmer, were a natural consequence of the way the pipeline worked. But later superscalarar, out of order chips with register renaming are much less well suited to classic Risc instruction sets. E.g. a once cycle branch delay is not natural in a two way superscalar chip. Register renaming and out of order execution require loads of hardware whether you have a Risc chip or a Cisc one.
So back when Intel convinced Compaq that switching to Mips processors was a bad idea, it turns out they were right.