Who's responsible if your child has a bad reaction to the vaccine and dies or is permanently disabled?
The national vaccine injury compensation fund. The US decided that vaccines were so important that if there was an injury due to a vaccine for some reason (and though rare, they do happen), it was better to create a general fund to pay for those injuries than to allow the vaccine manufactures to be sued and potentially be put out of business by an adverse legal decision. This helps ensure that there will continue to be a supply of vaccines available without having to set up nationalized manufacturing facilities (which incidentally you would not be able to sue unless the government explicitly gave you permission. How likely do you think that would be?).
The "ultra-low power" 2 core Haswell has a 35 w power budget.
There are many Haswell processors below 25W TDP, in fact that list is made up of most of the actual "ultra-low power" ones (U and Y branded). ARK will list every Haswell processor for you. Do they make lots of processors that draw more than 25W? Sure, but the trend has been flat or downward since the Core 2 release while providing more processing power (so regularly improving performance per watt). If they were binning to throw away anything over 25W they'd just end up with a lot of waste throwing away "bad" parts that work just fine in an environment that isn't that power constrained, like my local desktop. I know my processor is 84W because I wanted good performance when needed and for a desktop that level of power draw just isn't that relevant. When it's not working, it idles about the same as one of the better power bins.
You didn't say when you bought them, just "recently". That's entirely why I responded actually, your anecdote sounded so off. The PC market has certainly slowed down, but calling a computer purchase that's more than 1 year old (and is probably 2-3 years old) "recent" seems a pretty big stretch to me, especially when you say:
Why blow $1000 on a really nice new laptop when they're either not much better than what you already own...
The answer is that they really are better and faster (and better battery life and...) than what you bought because some other, non-CPU component is what's making that difference. That's the same reason as why people are switching out their HDDs in their desktops for SSDs (I recently did this very thing and put a SSD into my desktop). It's not compute power they're looking for but faster IO. Your response admits the same thing.
Using an SSD instead of a hard drive is definitely another game-changing option
So which is it, a current laptop with an SSD is not much better than what you currently own or a game-changer? At the $1000 price point you mention you certainly can find laptops with SSDs.
I've owned two fairly new laptops recently, one with an AMD A8-4500M ($400) and one with an Intel Core i7-2630QM ($830).
...but even the i7 up to Sandy Bridge is, in my experience, not much better than equivalent higher-end chips in laptops made four years ago
An I7-2630QQM is a 3 year old sandy bridge chip, it launched Q1'11. I don't know why you would expect 3 year old chips to be much faster than 4 year old chips, especially if you bought it recently. I mean, there are 2 generation of newer Intel processors out, and have been since Q2'13. Heck, if there's a 2 1/2-3 year old chip in the laptop when you bought it the manufacturer is probably doing other stupid things that were contemporary at the time like putting 5400 rpm drives in the laptop and less than 4 gig of RAM at which point it wouldn't be any surprise that it's slower than expected.
Most of how a computer feels isn't from how fast the CPU is for most tasks anymore, it's about having sufficient RAM and fast enough disk (usually an SSD) to not have to wait long for data to load. That's is a big part of the reason why so many people say that CPUs are fast enough now. The number of problems that are computationally constrained is much smaller than it used to be, especially for the typical laptop user. If you were upgrading today and looking for something faster (and for $830 I'd hope you could do better than a 3 year old chip), I'd say to look for something with an SSD. At $830 you can probably find one and at $1000 you certainly could, and it'll feel faster and have better battery life to boot.
The only thing the Razr i beats the Razr M on is the Sunspider benchmark, which has been optimized for x86 processors since it's inception. By every other metric it is inferior
And battery life, where it gets about an extra hour of active battery, and a significantly longer standby. You know, that thing Intel's obviously going to suck at because it only produces high power chips, right? You don't think it's at all interesting that a 32nm x86 chip draws less power than a 28nm ARM chip with similar performance? I'm sure that Intel's process is better (Has anyone else shipped product with high-K metal gates yet?) , but I'd say that's a pretty big indication that the tables are turning on ARM.
The decoder things drives me nuts. People are arguing that something that, generously, might be.1% of the die is the huge power hog. Really? It's got relatively high power consumption and you can't turn it off sure, but this is hardly the thing driving your overall power envelope.
Power consumption on Intel processors has been far behind ARM processors because the engineering tradeoffs made for x86 processors always assumed a desktop environment
While that was true, you might check out how the Razr i (which has an Intel chip) compares to the Razr m (snapdragon). They're nearly identical phones by the same manufacturer, and the Intel chip performs better than the snapdragon and has better battery life. Here's Engadget's review. Maybe someday the "x86 is horribly power inefficient because of a huge decoder" meme will finally die.
Actually, windows 7 has a feature called "Problem Steps Recorder" that essentially does that. It takes a screenshot on every click to show people exactly how you're using the GUI, and as the name implies it was meant to record the steps to a bug/error. It will let you record anything you do on your computer though so it can also (and is at the company I work at) used to make training on how to use a particular piece of software. Microsoft has a page with more about it here. I've done the equivalent before taking screenshots myself to post as a cheatsheet on how to do something on training wikis, PSR just makes it incredibly easy.
I'm confused. This is a solved problem already. You go to the new carrier and say "Hi, I'd like to open a new account and keep my current number" and they make that happen. In fact, I just did this a few months ago when combining wireless accounts with my wife. I kept my Maryland number and she kept her Oregon number and I was the one who changed carriers. You can keep your current number, even when crossing geos and changing carriers. I think they did at one point pitch a fit about this, but no longer.
Your definition of a free market is the commonly accepted one by economists and that you will find in economic texts. (I knew my econ degree was good for something).
There are very few benchmarks where the Phenom II beats an i7.
Anandtech's benchmarks show this. Google for pretty much any Phenom II review and you'll see that. They're decent chips, and very competitive given their cost. The absolute highest performing however...
That not quite true. The options were converted to restricted Apple stock for the same value as the options were currently worth. If the options had been granted later, presumably he would have been given a lot less restricted stock than he otherwise was. The Washington Post had an article about it on January 11th.
So you're correct that he never exercised the options, but he gained in a big way when they were converted to a restricted stock grant of their approximate value.
My search turned up the same document. It's the third one listed. It's dated 2007-02-02. Also you can see it on that page if you scroll down to the bottom, where they have a modified date.
Thanks for that insightful interjection into the summary kdawson!/sarcasm
I suppose you could, but people are going to give you funny looks. The chipset does support things for the cpu. It might have a memory management unit (like in the case of chipsets for Intel cpus), it might have graphics (if you have onboard, it's a part of the chipset. AMD has hyped up their Fusion project which will include some sort of graphics core on the die. It's been suggested before but iirc no one has finished the design and brought it to market), and of course there's an I/O hub.
"Barcelona" chipset should be 40% faster than "Clovertown,"
You'd think since the blog got right that Barcelona is the upcoming processor from AMD, and since Clovertown is a processor codename from Intel, that the summary could have gotten it right too. Do submitters not read the articles either anymore?
Enron got in to trouble because they were booking sales on unshipped product. THe wayapple is looking at this put in enron accounting terms would look something like this. 1) holding company owned by enron agrees to buy 10 barrels of oil from enron. 2) enron books the sale even though they just paid themsleves 3) but they don't book the liability because they just deliver 9 barrels of oil and defer delivery of the tenth to a later date. Here apple is scared that they will get flagged for booking the sale of an incomplete product. I don't really see how this applies but I can see why they are paranoid.
That sounds exactly like what has happened to apple, except in reverse. Apple advertised a product with some set of features x. But now it turns out they really shipped x+1 and just turned it off in software. I'm not sure of any way to squint at Apple's promotional materials from when these products were sold and somehow think people got less than what they were promised, which is where you would have a problem with Sarbanes/Oxley. It's much closer to say, a baker being in violation of S/O because you ordered a dozen donuts and he gave you thirteen (the proverbial baker's dozen). And what about other hardware companies? If turning things on after selling a product is illegal, HP in the story above this (about having VT turned off and now they're releasing a new bios to enable it) would be violating S/O and I can't imagine their lawyers haven't given this just as much thought as Apple's. This charging five bucks so as not to be in violation of S/O seems to be pretty far fetched to me.
A basic server, costing about $4k (nothing fancy), running 24x7x365.25 at about 300Watts, will use 18408.6 KWH in one year. At $0.07/KWH, thats $1288.60 per year just to power the box.
It took me forever to figure out what was wrong with this. I knew your numbers didn't add up but I couldn't put my finger on it until I realized you multiplied out exactly what people say when they mean constant uptime. The problem of course, is that it should be 300(watts)*24(hours/day)x365(days/year) or 24(hours/day)x7(days/week)x52(weeks/year) to get the power used in a year. You end up with 2628 KWH a year. At $0.07/KWH you get $183.96 which is much more reasonable. Not something I'd ignore as a business with hundreds of machines, but not a quart of the cost of the machine itself either.
As my chemistry teacher always used to tell me, UNITS! It's all about keeping proper track of your units!
"They did not supply us with any information to allow us to identify a specific problem, so we initiated an internal audit," Apple spokesman, Anuj Nayar, told Macworld. "Today's update preemptively strengthens our drivers against potential vulnerabilities, and while it addresses issues found internally by Apple, we are open to hearing from security researchers on how to improve security on the Mac."
(Emphasis mine)
Talk about trying to weasel out of things. It was either a vulnerability, or it wasn't and didn't need patching. They patched it. It was a vulnerability. And gosh, doesn't that sound exactly like what SecureWorks said was the problem with a large number of drivers. Malformed packets that could allow you to launch processes with system access. Nope. Couldn't possibly be the same thing at all.
Doing a quick google scholar search for lindzen + "iris effect" comes up with two articles of his that have been cited quite a few times. The first article is a pdf that says it was printed in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, but he's probably talking about the second hit which was printed in the Journal of Climate. Sadly, my institution of higher education doesn't subscribe to that journal so I don't have access to the relevant article. Searching farther down in the hits and searching with first name and initials provides similar results, including some rebuttal articles but no reference to where or if the rebuttals were printed.
As far as taking the article with a grain of salt I agree, but then I do that with all articles I read, especially editorials. Unfortunately, print publications have yet to providing relevant links in their online content which would allow them to keep their word count down and in line with the print publication while providing extra information for online readers.
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Who's responsible if your child has a bad reaction to the vaccine and dies or is permanently disabled?
The national vaccine injury compensation fund. The US decided that vaccines were so important that if there was an injury due to a vaccine for some reason (and though rare, they do happen), it was better to create a general fund to pay for those injuries than to allow the vaccine manufactures to be sued and potentially be put out of business by an adverse legal decision. This helps ensure that there will continue to be a supply of vaccines available without having to set up nationalized manufacturing facilities (which incidentally you would not be able to sue unless the government explicitly gave you permission. How likely do you think that would be?).
The "ultra-low power" 2 core Haswell has a 35 w power budget.
There are many Haswell processors below 25W TDP, in fact that list is made up of most of the actual "ultra-low power" ones (U and Y branded). ARK will list every Haswell processor for you. Do they make lots of processors that draw more than 25W? Sure, but the trend has been flat or downward since the Core 2 release while providing more processing power (so regularly improving performance per watt). If they were binning to throw away anything over 25W they'd just end up with a lot of waste throwing away "bad" parts that work just fine in an environment that isn't that power constrained, like my local desktop. I know my processor is 84W because I wanted good performance when needed and for a desktop that level of power draw just isn't that relevant. When it's not working, it idles about the same as one of the better power bins.
Bennett Haselton is the new Roland Piquepaille. As if once wasn't enough.
You didn't say when you bought them, just "recently". That's entirely why I responded actually, your anecdote sounded so off. The PC market has certainly slowed down, but calling a computer purchase that's more than 1 year old (and is probably 2-3 years old) "recent" seems a pretty big stretch to me, especially when you say:
Why blow $1000 on a really nice new laptop when they're either not much better than what you already own...
The answer is that they really are better and faster (and better battery life and...) than what you bought because some other, non-CPU component is what's making that difference. That's the same reason as why people are switching out their HDDs in their desktops for SSDs (I recently did this very thing and put a SSD into my desktop). It's not compute power they're looking for but faster IO. Your response admits the same thing.
Using an SSD instead of a hard drive is definitely another game-changing option
So which is it, a current laptop with an SSD is not much better than what you currently own or a game-changer? At the $1000 price point you mention you certainly can find laptops with SSDs.
I've owned two fairly new laptops recently, one with an AMD A8-4500M ($400) and one with an Intel Core i7-2630QM ($830).
...but even the i7 up to Sandy Bridge is, in my experience, not much better than equivalent higher-end chips in laptops made four years ago
An I7-2630QQM is a 3 year old sandy bridge chip, it launched Q1'11. I don't know why you would expect 3 year old chips to be much faster than 4 year old chips, especially if you bought it recently. I mean, there are 2 generation of newer Intel processors out, and have been since Q2'13. Heck, if there's a 2 1/2-3 year old chip in the laptop when you bought it the manufacturer is probably doing other stupid things that were contemporary at the time like putting 5400 rpm drives in the laptop and less than 4 gig of RAM at which point it wouldn't be any surprise that it's slower than expected.
Most of how a computer feels isn't from how fast the CPU is for most tasks anymore, it's about having sufficient RAM and fast enough disk (usually an SSD) to not have to wait long for data to load. That's is a big part of the reason why so many people say that CPUs are fast enough now. The number of problems that are computationally constrained is much smaller than it used to be, especially for the typical laptop user. If you were upgrading today and looking for something faster (and for $830 I'd hope you could do better than a 3 year old chip), I'd say to look for something with an SSD. At $830 you can probably find one and at $1000 you certainly could, and it'll feel faster and have better battery life to boot.
taxes were considerably higher by percentage in the 50's
Taxes were higher but but revenue was the same.
The only thing the Razr i beats the Razr M on is the Sunspider benchmark, which has been optimized for x86 processors since it's inception. By every other metric it is inferior
And battery life, where it gets about an extra hour of active battery, and a significantly longer standby. You know, that thing Intel's obviously going to suck at because it only produces high power chips, right? You don't think it's at all interesting that a 32nm x86 chip draws less power than a 28nm ARM chip with similar performance? I'm sure that Intel's process is better (Has anyone else shipped product with high-K metal gates yet?) , but I'd say that's a pretty big indication that the tables are turning on ARM.
The decoder things drives me nuts. People are arguing that something that, generously, might be .1% of the die is the huge power hog. Really? It's got relatively high power consumption and you can't turn it off sure, but this is hardly the thing driving your overall power envelope.
Power consumption on Intel processors has been far behind ARM processors because the engineering tradeoffs made for x86 processors always assumed a desktop environment
While that was true, you might check out how the Razr i (which has an Intel chip) compares to the Razr m (snapdragon). They're nearly identical phones by the same manufacturer, and the Intel chip performs better than the snapdragon and has better battery life. Here's Engadget's review. Maybe someday the "x86 is horribly power inefficient because of a huge decoder" meme will finally die.
That's not a sandy bridge die shot. See those 2 bars that say QPI? It's nehalem. http://download.intel.com/pressroom/kits/corei7/images/Nehalem_Die_callout.jpg
Show me the equivalent of that for any GUI too.
Actually, windows 7 has a feature called "Problem Steps Recorder" that essentially does that. It takes a screenshot on every click to show people exactly how you're using the GUI, and as the name implies it was meant to record the steps to a bug/error. It will let you record anything you do on your computer though so it can also (and is at the company I work at) used to make training on how to use a particular piece of software. Microsoft has a page with more about it here. I've done the equivalent before taking screenshots myself to post as a cheatsheet on how to do something on training wikis, PSR just makes it incredibly easy.
I'm confused. This is a solved problem already. You go to the new carrier and say "Hi, I'd like to open a new account and keep my current number" and they make that happen. In fact, I just did this a few months ago when combining wireless accounts with my wife. I kept my Maryland number and she kept her Oregon number and I was the one who changed carriers. You can keep your current number, even when crossing geos and changing carriers. I think they did at one point pitch a fit about this, but no longer.
Your definition of a free market is the commonly accepted one by economists and that you will find in economic texts. (I knew my econ degree was good for something).
There are very few benchmarks where the Phenom II beats an i7. Anandtech's benchmarks show this. Google for pretty much any Phenom II review and you'll see that. They're decent chips, and very competitive given their cost. The absolute highest performing however...
That not quite true. The options were converted to restricted Apple stock for the same value as the options were currently worth. If the options had been granted later, presumably he would have been given a lot less restricted stock than he otherwise was. The Washington Post had an article about it on January 11th.
So you're correct that he never exercised the options, but he gained in a big way when they were converted to a restricted stock grant of their approximate value.
My search turned up the same document. It's the third one listed. It's dated 2007-02-02. Also you can see it on that page if you scroll down to the bottom, where they have a modified date.
Thanks for that insightful interjection into the summary kdawson! /sarcasm
I suppose you could, but people are going to give you funny looks. The chipset does support things for the cpu. It might have a memory management unit (like in the case of chipsets for Intel cpus), it might have graphics (if you have onboard, it's a part of the chipset. AMD has hyped up their Fusion project which will include some sort of graphics core on the die. It's been suggested before but iirc no one has finished the design and brought it to market), and of course there's an I/O hub.
A processor line is typically called a family.
FTFS:
You'd think since the blog got right that Barcelona is the upcoming processor from AMD, and since Clovertown is a processor codename from Intel, that the summary could have gotten it right too. Do submitters not read the articles either anymore?
That sounds exactly like what has happened to apple, except in reverse. Apple advertised a product with some set of features x. But now it turns out they really shipped x+1 and just turned it off in software. I'm not sure of any way to squint at Apple's promotional materials from when these products were sold and somehow think people got less than what they were promised, which is where you would have a problem with Sarbanes/Oxley. It's much closer to say, a baker being in violation of S/O because you ordered a dozen donuts and he gave you thirteen (the proverbial baker's dozen). And what about other hardware companies? If turning things on after selling a product is illegal, HP in the story above this (about having VT turned off and now they're releasing a new bios to enable it) would be violating S/O and I can't imagine their lawyers haven't given this just as much thought as Apple's. This charging five bucks so as not to be in violation of S/O seems to be pretty far fetched to me.
It took me forever to figure out what was wrong with this. I knew your numbers didn't add up but I couldn't put my finger on it until I realized you multiplied out exactly what people say when they mean constant uptime. The problem of course, is that it should be 300(watts)*24(hours/day)x365(days/year) or 24(hours/day)x7(days/week)x52(weeks/year) to get the power used in a year. You end up with 2628 KWH a year. At $0.07/KWH you get $183.96 which is much more reasonable. Not something I'd ignore as a business with hundreds of machines, but not a quart of the cost of the machine itself either.
As my chemistry teacher always used to tell me, UNITS! It's all about keeping proper track of your units!
Talk about trying to weasel out of things. It was either a vulnerability, or it wasn't and didn't need patching. They patched it. It was a vulnerability. And gosh, doesn't that sound exactly like what SecureWorks said was the problem with a large number of drivers. Malformed packets that could allow you to launch processes with system access. Nope. Couldn't possibly be the same thing at all.
Doing a quick google scholar search for lindzen + "iris effect" comes up with two articles of his that have been cited quite a few times. The first article is a pdf that says it was printed in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, but he's probably talking about the second hit which was printed in the Journal of Climate. Sadly, my institution of higher education doesn't subscribe to that journal so I don't have access to the relevant article. Searching farther down in the hits and searching with first name and initials provides similar results, including some rebuttal articles but no reference to where or if the rebuttals were printed.
As far as taking the article with a grain of salt I agree, but then I do that with all articles I read, especially editorials. Unfortunately, print publications have yet to providing relevant links in their online content which would allow them to keep their word count down and in line with the print publication while providing extra information for online readers.