"Do yourself and your friends a favor - buy 10 $3 HDMI cables from monoprice.com the next time you need just one cable. Then, whenever you hear about a friend or coworker buying anything HDTV related, offer them one of your monoprice cables for $6 - you'll double your money and your friend will save $20."
Usually, I just give my friends the $3 cables or if I'm in hard times, I give them the cable for $4 to include price of shipping.
The article is confusing ACP for TDP. The 6-core is NOT "inside 40 watts", it's inside 60 watts TDP. Moreover, AMD is getting killed in energy efficiency if you look at the standard benchmarks such as SPECpower. The âoelow powerâ AMD chips consumer more power on average than Intelâ(TM)s highest wattage highest performance CPU parts.
So my mother pays $20/month for basic DSL access. Does that mean she is entitled to the same "treatment" as someone paying $35 per month?
I pay $50 per month for shared bandwidth server colocation. Does that mean my traffic gets treated the same as the guy paying $200 per month? Does that mean I am entitled to deliver the same amount of video as YouTube.com because we're all supposed to be treated equally? You do understand that nearly all on-demand video is served from private CDN capacity right?
I hate WASD, I like ESDF because it's more natural to type there with that little notch under your index finger so you know where you are. This sensitivity feature would be great with games. They should extend it beyond just run versus walk and have variable speeds. The only problem is that it will get tiresome if you had to push the W or E key hard just to run forward.
There are multiple channels coming over cable. For DOCSIS 1.1 (most implementations in the country today), it's one 6 MHz channel. In 3 years when most cable broadband deployments will be DOCSIS 3.0, it will be two or four or more 6 MHz channels.
An analog TV channel takes 6 MHz, or you can fit 2 proper digital HD channels or 3 overcompressed HD channels. Digital voice from your cable provider uses a separate channel for reliability and it has allowed Cable companies to take significant telephony market share from the Telecom operators.
Voice and Video isn't on same channel as Data. Gigaom is just reading controversy where there is none. Video and telephony infrastructure operate on private channels on private infrastructure.
As with anything, there are good and bad think tanks just like there are good and bad research groups. There are good think tanks which might occasionally have bad employees that take shortcuts. The reputable ones at least get their key facts and figures correct and properly attributed. The best thing to do is to read every report whether it comes from a think tank, an academic institution, or the government with a critical eye. This is what peer review is.
And Brazil is chopping down virgin forests to grow
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And Brazil is chopping down virgin forests to grow more biofuel in the name of saving the environment. Just wonderful.
HDMI 1.3 supports 10 Gbps I believe. That might not be enough for 2160-60P and you'll need 12 Gbps. If we have to support 48 bits per pixel, then make that 24 Gbps.
There is a charter school in Oakland with nearly all minority kids (mostly black) that do better than schools comprised mostly of while kids in wealthier districts. The same can be said of Catholic schools comprised of mostly inner city black kids. My point is that race really isn't the issue although there is a serious problem within popular black culture. But if the school has zero tolerance for disruptive children and they enforce a strict learning environment, you can teach children of any race to do well.
Add a cheap 3.5" hard drive and a 1 GB DIMM for $50 and you got yourself a killer computer for $200 that well exceeds his previous hardware.
If you are worried about the thing failing, buy him a spare system for another $200 and load an exact mirror image on the system with all the software ready to go. Backup all the data to the SD flash memory slot and just move that SD card to the spare if you need to use it.
You've used a little more than $400 and you're saving him money on power costs.
The entry was written as rest of the world still struggling with pathetic 3G/4G hundred megabit speeds while "Europe" pushes ahead with 12.5 Gbps.
There are multiple problems with this statement.
1. "Europe" isn't doing the research, some European researchers are.
2. It's not a valid comparison of technologies.
You're making it sound like I'm bashing Europe when I've said no such thing. Europe (along with the US and many other countries produces very good research. I didn't even mention godlessness and you don't even know who I am or what my religious beliefs (or lack thereof) are to be making that type of insinuation.
The article is comparing 4G performance at 150 Mbps using only 20 MHz of spectrum to to millimeter wave technology which uses tens of GHz for line-of-sight application for multi gigabit links. Then it suggest that the rest of the world is lagging because of this bogus comparison. OK, maybe it's not just US bashing, but it's bashing the rest of the world.
4G is a mobile solution where the signal is radiated every direction and cells get blanketed by signals that are useful to mobile devices. Millimeter wave is a point-to-point technology that requires a clear line of sight and should be compared to free space optic laser solutions. You so much as block the beam with a tree branch and it doesn't work.
Can we try to get some quality reporting on slashdot? We have plenty of experts in this community and headlines like these need to get slapped down. We don't need another clueless USA bashing headline.
Just because they perceive there to be extra capacity doesn't mean there is. Whenever you use additional TCP connections, you take bandwidth at the expense of everyone else because TCP (Jacobson's algorithm) rations on a per-flow basis and not a per-user basis. http://formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/170/Default.aspx
Environmentalists should care about miles per BTU. If you only care about dollars, then it should be miles per dollar traveled. Dollars per gallon don't really tell you anything.
Depends on how you drive and whether you ride the breaks. I drove my normal car for 80K miles and I barely needed to replace the breaks. I'm one of those people that don't follow too closely and I ease up on gas when I see a red light coming up in the distance so I let wind and engine compression slow me down. If I'm going down a long mountain, I put it in 3rd or 2nd gear and let engine compression control my speed rather than trying to use the breaks for something they're not designed to do. Breaks are not supposed to be used for slowing you down; they're designed for stopping.
Also, you need to factor in the brutal cost of changing the battery in hybrid cars. It's a LOT more money than breaks.
All sales taxes are regressive. All corporate taxes or "wind fall" taxes end up being sales taxes. Sales taxes punish the poor as a larger percentage of their income. Yet it is funny how people who always claim to be protectors of the poor end up being the ones who punish them the most.
Pretty much any corporate tax is effectively a sales tax on consumers. If you sell a widget for $10 and the government taxes you an extra $2 to sell it, you're going to sell it for $12 to stay afloat.
But half of American banks forced HTTP login http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=201. Then there's the fact that people never manually type in HTTPS and they rely on an auto redirect, but the redirect could be intercepted and changed to HTTP. The solution requires a modification of web browsers and DNS to automatically enforce HTTP policy because people will ignore HTTP 100 out of 100 times and they will ignore fake certificate warnings 199 out of 200 times. EV is not the solution to this problem because it still relies on the human to make the decision on security.
Exactly, it's economically feasible to be humane
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"Reform happened because it became economically feasible, thanks to capital investment that increased the productivity of labor."
We would like to think that we ended slavery and nasty labor conditions because we've grown more humane and ethical. The reality is that the wind sail put the galley slave out out commission because it was cheaper to buy and maintain the sails than it is to maintain the slaves. It's cheaper to use machines to use slaves or underpaid workers to mine.
I always laugh at those star trek or scifi shows where some advanced race is using living slaves to work hard labor. It hadn't occurred to the writers that even in the complete absence of ethics, it just makes no sense to use humans to do brute labor.
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As annoying as Heidi is, it's difficult to characterize her looks the way you just did. She is undeniably beautify.
Usually, I just give my friends the $3 cables or if I'm in hard times, I give them the cable for $4 to include price of shipping.
The article is confusing ACP for TDP. The 6-core is NOT "inside 40 watts", it's inside 60 watts TDP. Moreover, AMD is getting killed in energy efficiency if you look at the standard benchmarks such as SPECpower. The âoelow powerâ AMD chips consumer more power on average than Intelâ(TM)s highest wattage highest performance CPU parts.
So my mother pays $20/month for basic DSL access. Does that mean she is entitled to the same "treatment" as someone paying $35 per month? I pay $50 per month for shared bandwidth server colocation. Does that mean my traffic gets treated the same as the guy paying $200 per month? Does that mean I am entitled to deliver the same amount of video as YouTube.com because we're all supposed to be treated equally? You do understand that nearly all on-demand video is served from private CDN capacity right?
I hate WASD, I like ESDF because it's more natural to type there with that little notch under your index finger so you know where you are. This sensitivity feature would be great with games. They should extend it beyond just run versus walk and have variable speeds. The only problem is that it will get tiresome if you had to push the W or E key hard just to run forward.
There are multiple channels coming over cable. For DOCSIS 1.1 (most implementations in the country today), it's one 6 MHz channel. In 3 years when most cable broadband deployments will be DOCSIS 3.0, it will be two or four or more 6 MHz channels.
An analog TV channel takes 6 MHz, or you can fit 2 proper digital HD channels or 3 overcompressed HD channels. Digital voice from your cable provider uses a separate channel for reliability and it has allowed Cable companies to take significant telephony market share from the Telecom operators.
Voice and Video isn't on same channel as Data. Gigaom is just reading controversy where there is none. Video and telephony infrastructure operate on private channels on private infrastructure.
As with anything, there are good and bad think tanks just like there are good and bad research groups. There are good think tanks which might occasionally have bad employees that take shortcuts. The reputable ones at least get their key facts and figures correct and properly attributed. The best thing to do is to read every report whether it comes from a think tank, an academic institution, or the government with a critical eye. This is what peer review is.
And Brazil is chopping down virgin forests to grow more biofuel in the name of saving the environment. Just wonderful.
HDMI 1.3 supports 10 Gbps I believe. That might not be enough for 2160-60P and you'll need 12 Gbps. If we have to support 48 bits per pixel, then make that 24 Gbps.
Uncompressed video is 3 Gbps, you need it for wireless HDMI.
There is a charter school in Oakland with nearly all minority kids (mostly black) that do better than schools comprised mostly of while kids in wealthier districts. The same can be said of Catholic schools comprised of mostly inner city black kids. My point is that race really isn't the issue although there is a serious problem within popular black culture. But if the school has zero tolerance for disruptive children and they enforce a strict learning environment, you can teach children of any race to do well.
$150 gets you a super low power device that hovers around 24 watts.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856167032
Add a cheap 3.5" hard drive and a 1 GB DIMM for $50 and you got yourself a killer computer for $200 that well exceeds his previous hardware.
If you are worried about the thing failing, buy him a spare system for another $200 and load an exact mirror image on the system with all the software ready to go. Backup all the data to the SD flash memory slot and just move that SD card to the spare if you need to use it.
You've used a little more than $400 and you're saving him money on power costs.
The entry was written as rest of the world still struggling with pathetic 3G/4G hundred megabit speeds while "Europe" pushes ahead with 12.5 Gbps.
There are multiple problems with this statement.
1. "Europe" isn't doing the research, some European researchers are.
2. It's not a valid comparison of technologies.
You're making it sound like I'm bashing Europe when I've said no such thing. Europe (along with the US and many other countries produces very good research. I didn't even mention godlessness and you don't even know who I am or what my religious beliefs (or lack thereof) are to be making that type of insinuation.
The article is comparing 4G performance at 150 Mbps using only 20 MHz of spectrum to to millimeter wave technology which uses tens of GHz for line-of-sight application for multi gigabit links. Then it suggest that the rest of the world is lagging because of this bogus comparison. OK, maybe it's not just US bashing, but it's bashing the rest of the world.
4G is a mobile solution where the signal is radiated every direction and cells get blanketed by signals that are useful to mobile devices. Millimeter wave is a point-to-point technology that requires a clear line of sight and should be compared to free space optic laser solutions. You so much as block the beam with a tree branch and it doesn't work. Can we try to get some quality reporting on slashdot? We have plenty of experts in this community and headlines like these need to get slapped down. We don't need another clueless USA bashing headline.
Just because they perceive there to be extra capacity doesn't mean there is. Whenever you use additional TCP connections, you take bandwidth at the expense of everyone else because TCP (Jacobson's algorithm) rations on a per-flow basis and not a per-user basis.
http://formortals.com/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/170/Default.aspx
Environmentalists should care about miles per BTU. If you only care about dollars, then it should be miles per dollar traveled. Dollars per gallon don't really tell you anything.
Depends on how you drive and whether you ride the breaks. I drove my normal car for 80K miles and I barely needed to replace the breaks. I'm one of those people that don't follow too closely and I ease up on gas when I see a red light coming up in the distance so I let wind and engine compression slow me down. If I'm going down a long mountain, I put it in 3rd or 2nd gear and let engine compression control my speed rather than trying to use the breaks for something they're not designed to do. Breaks are not supposed to be used for slowing you down; they're designed for stopping.
Also, you need to factor in the brutal cost of changing the battery in hybrid cars. It's a LOT more money than breaks.
Battery replacements are horrendous for the environment and they're expensive.
Per kilogram of fuel is variable. It's distance traveled per unit of energy that matters.
All sales taxes are regressive. All corporate taxes or "wind fall" taxes end up being sales taxes. Sales taxes punish the poor as a larger percentage of their income. Yet it is funny how people who always claim to be protectors of the poor end up being the ones who punish them the most.
Pretty much any corporate tax is effectively a sales tax on consumers. If you sell a widget for $10 and the government taxes you an extra $2 to sell it, you're going to sell it for $12 to stay afloat.
But half of American banks forced HTTP login http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=201. Then there's the fact that people never manually type in HTTPS and they rely on an auto redirect, but the redirect could be intercepted and changed to HTTP. The solution requires a modification of web browsers and DNS to automatically enforce HTTP policy because people will ignore HTTP 100 out of 100 times and they will ignore fake certificate warnings 199 out of 200 times. EV is not the solution to this problem because it still relies on the human to make the decision on security.
See http://www.circleid.com/posts/20090219_https_web_hijacking/
"Reform happened because it became economically feasible, thanks to capital investment that increased the productivity of labor."
We would like to think that we ended slavery and nasty labor conditions because we've grown more humane and ethical. The reality is that the wind sail put the galley slave out out commission because it was cheaper to buy and maintain the sails than it is to maintain the slaves. It's cheaper to use machines to use slaves or underpaid workers to mine.
I always laugh at those star trek or scifi shows where some advanced race is using living slaves to work hard labor. It hadn't occurred to the writers that even in the complete absence of ethics, it just makes no sense to use humans to do brute labor.