It's nice to see somebody doing the decent thing for once. Much better to put the thing out there and use it to sell some next-gen graphics cards instead of spending years trying to "win" via lock-in-and-lawyers.
If only people like the RIAA could see a similar light.
Makes no difference. Intel will always be able to compete with NVIDIA on price and NVIDIA CPUs don't have the brand name to gain more than minority share (except among gamers, where NVIDIA won't be able to compete on performance).
Intel is the *only* company with the ability to integrate Northbridge, graphics, etc. into their CPUs, thus massively lowering the cost of motherboards.
You may not like them, but Intel's position is more than safe.
I bet nobody would be on the girl's side if they'd found a couple of wraps of heroin in her underwear (heck, this story probably wouldn't even be in the news)
The old "well it's only a theory" thing is getting rather old. It didn't work a hundred years ago, it doesn't work today.
The mapping of genomes is pretty much the final proof that evolution has taken place. It might have been 'guided' by an invisible supreme being but that's a matter for philosophers.
OTOH I'm pretty sure such a being wouldn't really be interested in the sex lives of every last human on the planet. And why does he only seem to cure diseases which statistically can spontaneously cure themselves, never the amputations?
One badly edited, self-contradicting book which was written thousands of years ago and thinks that bats are actually birds and all the species of the world live within walking distance of one guy's back garden.
Evidence for evolution:
Several hundred billion tons of it - just go out digging in your garden and you'll find some. Nothing we can find, no fossil, no genome mapping, nothing we do contradicts it (and there's plenty of people trying).
Me? I say teach all theories on an equal footing, including the Viking, Roman, Mayan, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Middle Earth, and, yes, the Christian.
But... I have a feeling they'll be just as much against my teaching method as they are against the teaching of evolution.
At the lowest level, using spinlocks instead of mutexes means threads can come back to life faster after being stalled. Whether this would make a noticable difference or not is debatable.
And yes, the returns diminish very quickly. More than four cores is very unlikely to make much difference to an operating system and office/productivity apps. Very few tasks are generally scalable.
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How would "moving to the cloud" (assuming it works) reduce the $25 million development costs?
I've had a lot more success with Microsoft's RAM tester, free download here: http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp
See, good things do come out of Redmond!
It's nice to see somebody doing the decent thing for once. Much better to put the thing out there and use it to sell some next-gen graphics cards instead of spending years trying to "win" via lock-in-and-lawyers.
If only people like the RIAA could see a similar light.
> before AMD or Intel do something similar
Um, Intel has already done something similar and the machines are available today.
http://www.google.es/search?q=N280
And the next generation will be available before Xmas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverthorne_(CPU)#Future
A single-chip solution for netbooks, combined with Intel's fabrication processes, means NVIDIA won't be anywhere close in the foreseeable future.
Makes no difference. Intel will always be able to compete with NVIDIA on price and NVIDIA CPUs don't have the brand name to gain more than minority share (except among gamers, where NVIDIA won't be able to compete on performance).
Intel is the *only* company with the ability to integrate Northbridge, graphics, etc. into their CPUs, thus massively lowering the cost of motherboards.
You may not like them, but Intel's position is more than safe.
Intel is the market leader in graphics (with as much market share as NVIDIA and ATI combined).
High end graphics cards get a lot of attention in the press but they don't really sell very many.
You're supposed to say it with an Irish accent: Whale oil be damned!
Just think of how many Xterms you can open on that machine!
Or.... you could do like this guy and make a RAID with 24 SSDs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs
You'd get 6Tb of storage for half the cost of the machine in the article... much more useful, no UPS needed.
Why are well-fed whales a bad thing?
The Atari ST ran an awful lot of music studios in the 1980s.
And what's so special about AmigaOS? It was terrible. Name one good Amiga Application.
PS: None of the Amiga games/demos used the OS for anything. They either ignored it or dumped it to gain some extra RAM.
I bet nobody would be on the girl's side if they'd found a couple of wraps of heroin in her underwear (heck, this story probably wouldn't even be in the news)
But "he" is an all-powerful miracle worker. Is restoring a limb beyond his powers?
Also false.
Humans have known the earth was round since about the time they started organizing themselves.
Around 240 BC the Greeks could even tell you how big it was (with an error of a couple of percent).
I'll show you my proof if you'll show me yours....
The old "well it's only a theory" thing is getting rather old. It didn't work a hundred years ago, it doesn't work today.
The mapping of genomes is pretty much the final proof that evolution has taken place. It might have been 'guided' by an invisible supreme being but that's a matter for philosophers.
OTOH I'm pretty sure such a being wouldn't really be interested in the sex lives of every last human on the planet. And why does he only seem to cure diseases which statistically can spontaneously cure themselves, never the amputations?
Evidence for creationism:
Evidence for evolution:
Me? I say teach all theories on an equal footing, including the Viking, Roman, Mayan, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Middle Earth, and, yes, the Christian.
But... I have a feeling they'll be just as much against my teaching method as they are against the teaching of evolution.
Why couldn't the bat signal be a user pref?
Isn't giving options and remembering things what computers are supposed to be good at?
How can it "crash to the ground" and "land softly" all in the same paragraph...?
At the lowest level, using spinlocks instead of mutexes means threads can come back to life faster after being stalled. Whether this would make a noticable difference or not is debatable.
And yes, the returns diminish very quickly. More than four cores is very unlikely to make much difference to an operating system and office/productivity apps. Very few tasks are generally scalable.
Yep. Not being able to block googleanalytics.com is a deal breaker. Wonder when they'll add it...?
The middle east has an awful lot of empty space and sunlight - ideal for algae farms.
Yeah, I wonder what they could do to survive if algae farms become a primary source of energy.
Great idea! Let's make a bacteria that can eat all the plants!!
The person responsible for this needs to be taken out back for a "talking to".