you're doing something wrong with your gpu drivers if your CPU can't keep up with the blu-ray stream. My netbook with an Intel z520 Atom (1.3ghz single core) cpu and GMA500 graphics card can stream my 1080p rip over my '11g wireless no problem.
I used to not approve, until I actually looked at how other countries have it.
A lot of businesses choose to operate in the US BECAUSE we have the best IP protection around. Not saying it's PERFECT and there are definitely problems (patent thicket no doubt), but it's still the safest for businesses. Many European countries, for example, have what basically amounts to a stronger copyright law. For those aware of the details of IP protection, this is obviously not enough.
There are other benefits to being in the US, but businesses are simply risk minimizers about these things. If you're operating in China you run a very large risk of one of your workers handing the design documents over to his neighbor, who can undercut your price because he didn't foot any of the R&D cost.
Besides, it would behoove us to protect our country's post-industrial/manufacturing industry. If you can't enforce who takes your products and who doesn't (because most of the capital cost is for a "digital" product (thinking design documents here in a PDF)), then you can't afford to produce those things. If you develop a kick-butt iPod competitor in China, you'll never gain any traction in the market because you won't have the resources or political clout to keep someone who got a hold of your design documents from producing the thing you just designed.
Grass is always greener, but rest assured the other guys have their share of weeds, too.
Er. TFA say the offer is 400p a share. Currently they trade at around 250p a share. This represents a 60% premium. Given that ARM is very close to its 52 week high, at 400p it's a no-brainer for the shareholders.
Really, I don't understand how paper money still exists.
So you do not have to have your own credit card swiping machine and an account with a processor to sell something on craigslist.
Much of Europe is in the dark ages as well, few places take credit and of the places that do most of them tack on a 3% merchant fee. They also tend (Italy most of all) to be fussy about splitting checks and are too bothered to do so, so they make you just give it to them in cash if you're eating out together. Gratuity is factored in so they don't care about serving you. disclaimer: we weren't interested in spending 30 euros on meals, we wanted to spend 10 euros, so that's probably why service sucked. In contrast, there are a number of places I can go in America to eat for $10 and service is great.
I want cheap good, why should I care? That is their fight not mine.
if there is no God and we all are just a chance-blip on the radar of life, then you should not care, because the universe does not care whether anyone lives or dies or whether we as a species live or die.
same way it happened in Europe, the production must first move to skilled labor so that the workers gain bargaining power (ie it costs the company money to educate a new worker).
there's many ways in which it's better. -clean, running water -roof over your head -bed to sleep on -not ricing the fields 12h/day.
You also get cash for doing this which you can save to spend on medical expenses. It's a minor improvement, and like in the industrial revolution, hopefully chinese workers will gain bargaining power when their labor becomes skilled (and the worker thus has bargaining power and can form unions).
I mean there are forums dedicated to computer hardware and computer building and a lot of us do this and none of us have experienced any problems. By "lots of us" I mean there's about 100, and none that got theirs to unlock and pass stress tests have experienced other issues. And so we are certain that AMD bins these perfectly functional quad chips down.
Don't forget this stuff has happened in every country that has been through an industrial revolution. Thankfully, China is going through theirs in 25 years, when it took us/Great Britain much longer.
But that doesn't change the fact that we should fight against this. Walmart could lead the way, considering the massive volume they require, to manufacturing shop reform.
I love how its always a necessity for 'poor students' to have these high-end rigs to play games. Stop wasting mummy and daddys money on your toys.
eh, mom/dad haven't given me any money. This is the cheapest hobby there is. Try living for 5 years without a car and see how humbling it is. Building your own computer can be done on $500 from job money. It also is what keeps me motivated to study my electrical engineering.
Those are great points and that's a great idea. But even those competence systems won't tell you if they're a hard worker and how capable they are of teaching themselves new things. Nor will it tell you how determined they are to succeed.
In short, you need people you can trust that have morals (ie, that aren't spending 6 hours a day figuring out how to get away with 2 hours of work) and that you can teach.
Yes, it's about staying ahead of the curve. That curve will eventually shift to the MS program, and then everybody's going to have to have PhD. But we can't play this game forever, and company's can't afford to pay the salaries people who took on this debt for the education need to pay it all off. So eventually I think they'll short-circuit and go straight to highschool students again. How would you get someone to skip college? Become known for running your company for the benefit of the employees, not for the benefit of the company. Then people won't have a problem with skipping their degree-- if they know that they'll have a job if they continue to work hard, then they won't ever need to that B.S. degree-- because they won't be leaving your company, ever.
Further, frankly I didn't need chemistry and Calculus I-III & DiffEq to help me design circuits or code.
Um, if you think you don't need differential equations to design circuits, I can only conclude you know nothing about designing circuits.
Sheesh you guys fail at reading comprehension. Of course you need it for designing certain circuits. The point is, I'm not doing that for a living. And if I were, I was going to have relearn it all anyways because it was years ago that I took DiffEq.
I know why they CAN be needed but the point I'm making is we're wasting all these resources educating everybody in a million things they don't need. My career path is now set in embedded software and in 3 years I'm going to need to relearn everything anyways if I have to use it. It's been a wasted journey all for a sheet of paper that says I can teach myself what I need to know. And that will have to change.
and I've been running this chip for 8 months computer on all the time no problems. 95 was not the only stress test I gave it.
There's really no reason for me to not be running it unlocked. I haven't had any problems thus far and it wasn't worth the extra $100 for another core at the time (poor student here). Since I haven't had any problems thus far, I'm not going to have any for the next 2 years either, and if I do have a problem oh well big deal. I would have harddrive corruption issues by now if there were a problem, and I was prepared to reformat if necessary.
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you're doing something wrong with your gpu drivers if your CPU can't keep up with the blu-ray stream.
My netbook with an Intel z520 Atom (1.3ghz single core) cpu and GMA500 graphics card can stream my 1080p rip over my '11g wireless no problem.
only on slashdot.
Q: "how many hours does the average American watch TV a day? "
A: "According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day"
They should be locked up for that.
if we locked them up, then what would we do to the criminals?
so you're doing what on slashdot? :P
What's that? Sorry didn't hear you the first time.
Sure I've got no problem with that.
Math algorithms are not patentable. Software implementations of them applied to something physical apparently are.
Genes no question, shouldn't be.
I used to not approve, until I actually looked at how other countries have it.
A lot of businesses choose to operate in the US BECAUSE we have the best IP protection around.
Not saying it's PERFECT and there are definitely problems (patent thicket no doubt), but it's still the safest for businesses. Many European countries, for example, have what basically amounts to a stronger copyright law. For those aware of the details of IP protection, this is obviously not enough.
There are other benefits to being in the US, but businesses are simply risk minimizers about these things. If you're operating in China you run a very large risk of one of your workers handing the design documents over to his neighbor, who can undercut your price because he didn't foot any of the R&D cost.
Besides, it would behoove us to protect our country's post-industrial/manufacturing industry. If you can't enforce who takes your products and who doesn't (because most of the capital cost is for a "digital" product (thinking design documents here in a PDF)), then you can't afford to produce those things. If you develop a kick-butt iPod competitor in China, you'll never gain any traction in the market because you won't have the resources or political clout to keep someone who got a hold of your design documents from producing the thing you just designed.
Grass is always greener, but rest assured the other guys have their share of weeds, too.
well, it was obvious he didn't think much of us, we were cheap-ass Americans that couldn't afford to spend more.
as I already mentioned, the FPU is fine...
Er. TFA say the offer is 400p a share. Currently they trade at around 250p a share. This represents a 60% premium. Given that ARM is very close to its 52 week high, at 400p it's a no-brainer for the shareholders.
I, however, don't really think that Apple is going to buy ARM. The Inquirer has a very good analysis of why not here: http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1602331/apple-arm
huh?
So you do not have to have your own credit card swiping machine and an account with a processor to sell something on craigslist.
Much of Europe is in the dark ages as well, few places take credit and of the places that do most of them tack on a 3% merchant fee.
They also tend (Italy most of all) to be fussy about splitting checks and are too bothered to do so, so they make you just give it to them in cash if you're eating out together. Gratuity is factored in so they don't care about serving you.
disclaimer: we weren't interested in spending 30 euros on meals, we wanted to spend 10 euros, so that's probably why service sucked. In contrast, there are a number of places I can go in America to eat for $10 and service is great.
Trivia question: can you guess which bill is carried the most?
Wrong, it's actually the $100 bill. Because everyone likes to look like a pimp/hi-roller/badass.
I want cheap good, why should I care? That is their fight not mine.
if there is no God and we all are just a chance-blip on the radar of life, then you should not care, because the universe does not care whether anyone lives or dies or whether we as a species live or die.
same way it happened in Europe, the production must first move to skilled labor so that the workers gain bargaining power (ie it costs the company money to educate a new worker).
there's many ways in which it's better.
-clean, running water
-roof over your head
-bed to sleep on
-not ricing the fields 12h/day.
You also get cash for doing this which you can save to spend on medical expenses. It's a minor improvement, and like in the industrial revolution, hopefully chinese workers will gain bargaining power when their labor becomes skilled (and the worker thus has bargaining power and can form unions).
I mean there are forums dedicated to computer hardware and computer building and a lot of us do this and none of us have experienced any problems. By "lots of us" I mean there's about 100, and none that got theirs to unlock and pass stress tests have experienced other issues. And so we are certain that AMD bins these perfectly functional quad chips down.
Don't forget this stuff has happened in every country that has been through an industrial revolution. Thankfully, China is going through theirs in 25 years, when it took us/Great Britain much longer.
But that doesn't change the fact that we should fight against this. Walmart could lead the way, considering the massive volume they require, to manufacturing shop reform.
yours is but mine isn't!
I love how its always a necessity for 'poor students' to have these high-end rigs to play games. Stop wasting mummy and daddys money on your toys.
eh, mom/dad haven't given me any money. This is the cheapest hobby there is. Try living for 5 years without a car and see how humbling it is. Building your own computer can be done on $500 from job money. It also is what keeps me motivated to study my electrical engineering.
no, there's no risk to this.
you're a 5xxxxx UID and don't know what a rant is? it's a fuss.
Those are great points and that's a great idea.
But even those competence systems won't tell you if they're a hard worker and how capable they are of teaching themselves new things. Nor will it tell you how determined they are to succeed.
In short, you need people you can trust that have morals (ie, that aren't spending 6 hours a day figuring out how to get away with 2 hours of work) and that you can teach.
"masters thesis was just a bunch of BS"
I see what you did there ;)
Yes, it's about staying ahead of the curve. That curve will eventually shift to the MS program, and then everybody's going to have to have PhD. But we can't play this game forever, and company's can't afford to pay the salaries people who took on this debt for the education need to pay it all off. So eventually I think they'll short-circuit and go straight to highschool students again. How would you get someone to skip college? Become known for running your company for the benefit of the employees, not for the benefit of the company. Then people won't have a problem with skipping their degree-- if they know that they'll have a job if they continue to work hard, then they won't ever need to that B.S. degree-- because they won't be leaving your company, ever.
Um, if you think you don't need differential equations to design circuits, I can only conclude you know nothing about designing circuits.
Sheesh you guys fail at reading comprehension. Of course you need it for designing certain circuits. The point is, I'm not doing that for a living. And if I were, I was going to have relearn it all anyways because it was years ago that I took DiffEq.
I know why they CAN be needed but the point I'm making is we're wasting all these resources educating everybody in a million things they don't need. My career path is now set in embedded software and in 3 years I'm going to need to relearn everything anyways if I have to use it. It's been a wasted journey all for a sheet of paper that says I can teach myself what I need to know. And that will have to change.
and I've been running this chip for 8 months computer on all the time no problems.
95 was not the only stress test I gave it.
There's really no reason for me to not be running it unlocked. I haven't had any problems thus far and it wasn't worth the extra $100 for another core at the time (poor student here). Since I haven't had any problems thus far, I'm not going to have any for the next 2 years either, and if I do have a problem oh well big deal. I would have harddrive corruption issues by now if there were a problem, and I was prepared to reformat if necessary.