Umm, how is this insightful? Is this 1995, when AMD chips were cheaper than Intel chips? Regardless of this price cut Intel CPU's have been less expensive than AMD CPU's for some time, for the most part.
Hey, fuckhole, we haven't been hit by an asteroid in the last 2 years either. All Hail Lord Bush and his effective management of NASA! They have saved our collective asses from the impending asteroid threat!
Wait, here's another one, you fucking dipshit. Clinton was a much better President, we _never_ had any terrorist attacks under him! Ergo, Clinton's national security policy was much better than Bush's. So was Jimmy Carter's. All Hail Jimmy Carter!
That incompetent bumbling fuck Bush can't even catch a god damn cave dwelling numbnuts like Bin Ladin. Bin Ladin is laughing at us because he's won - he's still free, and our country is no longer managing to hang on to the ideals it used to cling to so dearly.
Terrorism is not preventable, and it's not even scary. I'll take the odds. First, your use of "99.9+%" of Americans is its own form of exaggeration. Second, Americans are soft and weak and so afraid of losing their fucking SUV, 60" TV, and fat easy life that they're easy to manipulate into a state of unmitigated fear.
No matter what we do, some nutcase can always get ahold of some explosives and walk into a crowded club. Or walk into a buffet and sprinkle poison on all the food. Or just buy a shotgun and go shoot a few dozen people in a building somewhere.
It starts with monitoring the metadata only (who called who, when). Then comes monitoring the content. Then comes the cameras on public streets. Who knows what comes next.
So just because you're a whimpering, scared pussy (this _is_ a playground, after all) doesn't mean the rest of us have to be. I'm not afraid of terrorism, and fuck those of you who are so afraid of it you're willing to trust a provably corrupt government to invade your privacy.
Jose Padilla was (more or less) sent to Gitmo. He may not have been physically there, but they sure as hell disappeared him without any kind of due process.
That case in itself should have lead to federal prosecution of anyone involved in his illegal detainment.
You don't listen, do you?
OK - let's simplify this.
Situation A: Evil Cane Baron pays Poor Slave $1 a day (pennies a day..come on)
Situation B: Evil Cane Baron goes out of business or hires fewer Poor Slaves. Poor Slave gets $0 a day.
Explain to me with your Leninist theories how situation B is _better_ than situation A?
You're confusing two concepts.
Prior art - you're doing something stupid and obvious and making a silly patent.
First to (file|invent) - who gets a patent based on filing/invention date.
These are inherently contradictory, of course, since if I invent something first and you patent it, I can claim prior art. So first-to-file is a ludicrous idea.
Nice try. In fact, NTP's patents are laughable. They obviously thought they could convince everyone by making them ridiculously inscrutable and verbose. You can't patent "email forwarding through an electronic device" - it's been done for ages.
Not hard to understand, put a little thought into it.
What happens when already struggling theaters have less attendance? They go out of business, and then your choices to go to a theater are far more limited, especially in non metro areas.
Not that I care, I'd just as soon watch it on my 60" TV, but that's one argument you could make for this being bad for (some) consumers.
This is insightful? "It's illegal!".
Bullshit. A web browser is far more afield for them than OS stability/security tools, and they ended up having no legal issues due to IE - it's still in the OS.
You're simply retarded, there will be and can be no legal challenge to this, and if anyone brings one they will lose, badly.
And you seem to forget monopoly laws (which are ridiculous when applied to intellectual property, but thats beside the point) are intended to protect consumers, not businesses. You're going to have an uphill battle convincing anyone that this hurts consumers now, or in the future.
Yeah, this one is Funny, if by Funny you mean ridiculous.
The Intel chip beat AMD's fastest processor out _now_ (it's not an X2, asshole), including overclocking. Should they have sent a time macihne into the future to bring back AMD's chip from 4 months (not 6 months) in the future?
AM2 will not perform better than the current s939 boards. The best AMD will do in the next 4 months is release a clock speed bump and minor enhancements, you're looking at a 10% improvement at _best_. The Intel chip runs 200MHz less speed, uses less power, and will still be considerably faster.
But hang on to your excuses, if they comfort you.
Why isn't this little turd in prison? Are our authorities that FUCKING lazy that they can't track down and arrest some little punk like this who's engaging in thousands of counts of criminal tresspass?
What the FUCK?
Wow. Usually I would make sure I know what I'm talking about before referring to people as morons or PHB's.
You really have no idea what an AJAX page is, do you? You seriously think it's related to PHP and server side scripting? Maybe you're trolling, if so - good one.
You do realize that your entire system is compromized (especially one a single-user system) if some malicious entity gets access to your home dir, right?
Here's a hint, and is but a single simple-minded example of how I can rock your world if I get access to your home directory:
Do you always run '/bin/su' when you use su, or sudo, or whatever? Do you always give the explicit path to anything that asks for your root password? How do you know that the "Incorrect login" error you get from the login process is _really_ from the login process and not your login scripts?
Basically, you're screwed if someone gets access to your home dir and you have and use the root password.
Haha, give me a break dude. Nice gamble that I am an idiot who will say "Gee, he knows stuff!".
Yes, I've programmed in asm, though not for like 10 years, like the rest of the civilized world.
ASM has a very very narrow usage domain, so it's hardly a compelling benefit that you (mistakenly) think asm on x86-64 would be somehow better than on x86-32.
I assume you're referring to the additional registers, which is simply a small performance boon for some types of applications, and does not "help with asm". It's still just x86 plus wider and more registers.
So the asm thing is retarded. Now, the extra registers will provide a marginal performance benefit with an optimizing compiler, but the benefit will be less than, say, simply adding 200MHz to the chip.
I love how fanbois take every opportunity to make a 32-bit processor look "obsolete".
The fact is that very few desktop users need more than 4G memory, or more than 3G per process. That number is dwindlingly small for laptop users.
But hey, if you want to be a charter member of the "64 is twice as big as 32!" school of idiocy, I've got a Nintendo 64 that will kick the crap out of your cheesy old 32-bit XBox.
Give me a break, 99.9% of laptop users won't need more than 4G of memory (or 2G per process) until well after 2008 or 2009 at the earliest. A 64-bit CPU is a ridiculous gimmick for a laptop.
Incorrect. They have moved to an architecture with shorter pipelines, meaning lower frequencies are required for the same perormance. They have also added advanced features to turn off unused sections of the chip.
Please try to keep up.
Damn, you _hammered_ that strawman! You lined it up, and you punched it right in the face!
You said "Look, there's a strawman, he says all these people on SlashDot are Intel fanboys saying AMD sucks!". Then, you punched the strawman in the nose.
Get a fucking grip, retard. Everybody knows AMD has better performance and thermal characteristics compared to the P4. So your claim that everybody is saying otherwise is laughable.
Now, you may be confusing comments about the new Core Duo chips, which do perform as well or better and run cooler, with the old P4 chips. Anyone claiming Intel chips are thermally advantaged is talking about these, and not the P4 - or they're retarded.
Actually, this isn't true. A 1080i signal, properly interlaced, will be loslessly weaved into 1080p that is identical to the original 1080p signal.
The only thing 1080p input is useful for on a TV, assuming it does proper cadence detection and deinterlacing (which the Sony SXRD does, for example) is for gaming, where you may want 60 frames per second.
I'm not worried at all about interlacing artifacts on my TV coming from Blu-Ray over 1080i, they won't exist. Judder is another matter, due to 60Hz scan rate versys 24.x frame rate.
*cough*retard*cough*
You seem to be confusing the "I build a machine and buy my motherboard from newegg" market with the "I run a multimillion dollar business and I buy real server hardware".
ASRock, indeed.
"vapourware" doesn't mean what you think it does.
Vaorware is something that has been promised to be revolutionary, but which has missed schedule repeatedly to the point where people are starting to believe a.) it won't deliver its promises, and b.) it may never even be released.
I love how it's now come to mean "anything that's been announced and not released yet".
Actually, that is the free market.
You're (through witless sarcasm) implying you want socialism. Here's your little joke properly worded
1) Make inferior product
2) Whine to politicians
3) Sue over a monopoly that by definition doesn't exist
4) Get pro-linux nerds (who also can't compete, on the desktop) all worked up and indignant on your side
5) Post to SlashDot so your fellow geeky dweebs can get all worked up
6) Win lawsuit
7) Profit!
Which one?
On the one hand, you can share your knowledge for free and take the risk that someone else will claim your "knowledge", on the other you can share what you've discovered and people will call you a hypocrite.
I'd take that Hobson's choice anytime.
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Umm, how is this insightful? Is this 1995, when AMD chips were cheaper than Intel chips? Regardless of this price cut Intel CPU's have been less expensive than AMD CPU's for some time, for the most part.
Wait, here's another one, you fucking dipshit. Clinton was a much better President, we _never_ had any terrorist attacks under him! Ergo, Clinton's national security policy was much better than Bush's. So was Jimmy Carter's. All Hail Jimmy Carter!
That incompetent bumbling fuck Bush can't even catch a god damn cave dwelling numbnuts like Bin Ladin. Bin Ladin is laughing at us because he's won - he's still free, and our country is no longer managing to hang on to the ideals it used to cling to so dearly.
No matter what we do, some nutcase can always get ahold of some explosives and walk into a crowded club. Or walk into a buffet and sprinkle poison on all the food. Or just buy a shotgun and go shoot a few dozen people in a building somewhere.
It starts with monitoring the metadata only (who called who, when). Then comes monitoring the content. Then comes the cameras on public streets. Who knows what comes next.
So just because you're a whimpering, scared pussy (this _is_ a playground, after all) doesn't mean the rest of us have to be. I'm not afraid of terrorism, and fuck those of you who are so afraid of it you're willing to trust a provably corrupt government to invade your privacy.
Jose Padilla was (more or less) sent to Gitmo. He may not have been physically there, but they sure as hell disappeared him without any kind of due process. That case in itself should have lead to federal prosecution of anyone involved in his illegal detainment.
You don't listen, do you? OK - let's simplify this. Situation A: Evil Cane Baron pays Poor Slave $1 a day (pennies a day..come on) Situation B: Evil Cane Baron goes out of business or hires fewer Poor Slaves. Poor Slave gets $0 a day. Explain to me with your Leninist theories how situation B is _better_ than situation A?
You're confusing two concepts. Prior art - you're doing something stupid and obvious and making a silly patent. First to (file|invent) - who gets a patent based on filing/invention date. These are inherently contradictory, of course, since if I invent something first and you patent it, I can claim prior art. So first-to-file is a ludicrous idea.
Nice try. In fact, NTP's patents are laughable. They obviously thought they could convince everyone by making them ridiculously inscrutable and verbose. You can't patent "email forwarding through an electronic device" - it's been done for ages.
Not hard to understand, put a little thought into it. What happens when already struggling theaters have less attendance? They go out of business, and then your choices to go to a theater are far more limited, especially in non metro areas. Not that I care, I'd just as soon watch it on my 60" TV, but that's one argument you could make for this being bad for (some) consumers.
This is insightful? "It's illegal!". Bullshit. A web browser is far more afield for them than OS stability/security tools, and they ended up having no legal issues due to IE - it's still in the OS. You're simply retarded, there will be and can be no legal challenge to this, and if anyone brings one they will lose, badly. And you seem to forget monopoly laws (which are ridiculous when applied to intellectual property, but thats beside the point) are intended to protect consumers, not businesses. You're going to have an uphill battle convincing anyone that this hurts consumers now, or in the future.
Yeah, this one is Funny, if by Funny you mean ridiculous. The Intel chip beat AMD's fastest processor out _now_ (it's not an X2, asshole), including overclocking. Should they have sent a time macihne into the future to bring back AMD's chip from 4 months (not 6 months) in the future? AM2 will not perform better than the current s939 boards. The best AMD will do in the next 4 months is release a clock speed bump and minor enhancements, you're looking at a 10% improvement at _best_. The Intel chip runs 200MHz less speed, uses less power, and will still be considerably faster. But hang on to your excuses, if they comfort you.
Why isn't this little turd in prison? Are our authorities that FUCKING lazy that they can't track down and arrest some little punk like this who's engaging in thousands of counts of criminal tresspass? What the FUCK?
Yeah, I was surprised too.. Maybe they didn't know the SXRD is just a fancy name for "Sony LCOS".
Wow. Usually I would make sure I know what I'm talking about before referring to people as morons or PHB's. You really have no idea what an AJAX page is, do you? You seriously think it's related to PHP and server side scripting? Maybe you're trolling, if so - good one.
You do realize that your entire system is compromized (especially one a single-user system) if some malicious entity gets access to your home dir, right? Here's a hint, and is but a single simple-minded example of how I can rock your world if I get access to your home directory: Do you always run '/bin/su' when you use su, or sudo, or whatever? Do you always give the explicit path to anything that asks for your root password? How do you know that the "Incorrect login" error you get from the login process is _really_ from the login process and not your login scripts? Basically, you're screwed if someone gets access to your home dir and you have and use the root password.
Haha, give me a break dude. Nice gamble that I am an idiot who will say "Gee, he knows stuff!". Yes, I've programmed in asm, though not for like 10 years, like the rest of the civilized world. ASM has a very very narrow usage domain, so it's hardly a compelling benefit that you (mistakenly) think asm on x86-64 would be somehow better than on x86-32. I assume you're referring to the additional registers, which is simply a small performance boon for some types of applications, and does not "help with asm". It's still just x86 plus wider and more registers. So the asm thing is retarded. Now, the extra registers will provide a marginal performance benefit with an optimizing compiler, but the benefit will be less than, say, simply adding 200MHz to the chip.
Intel's power leakage is high? Why is it that the Duo uses less power when under stress than say an X2 does at idle?
I love how fanbois take every opportunity to make a 32-bit processor look "obsolete". The fact is that very few desktop users need more than 4G memory, or more than 3G per process. That number is dwindlingly small for laptop users. But hey, if you want to be a charter member of the "64 is twice as big as 32!" school of idiocy, I've got a Nintendo 64 that will kick the crap out of your cheesy old 32-bit XBox.
Give me a break, 99.9% of laptop users won't need more than 4G of memory (or 2G per process) until well after 2008 or 2009 at the earliest. A 64-bit CPU is a ridiculous gimmick for a laptop.
Incorrect. They have moved to an architecture with shorter pipelines, meaning lower frequencies are required for the same perormance. They have also added advanced features to turn off unused sections of the chip. Please try to keep up.
Damn, you _hammered_ that strawman! You lined it up, and you punched it right in the face!
You said "Look, there's a strawman, he says all these people on SlashDot are Intel fanboys saying AMD sucks!". Then, you punched the strawman in the nose.
Get a fucking grip, retard. Everybody knows AMD has better performance and thermal characteristics compared to the P4. So your claim that everybody is saying otherwise is laughable.
Now, you may be confusing comments about the new Core Duo chips, which do perform as well or better and run cooler, with the old P4 chips. Anyone claiming Intel chips are thermally advantaged is talking about these, and not the P4 - or they're retarded.
Actually, this isn't true. A 1080i signal, properly interlaced, will be loslessly weaved into 1080p that is identical to the original 1080p signal. The only thing 1080p input is useful for on a TV, assuming it does proper cadence detection and deinterlacing (which the Sony SXRD does, for example) is for gaming, where you may want 60 frames per second. I'm not worried at all about interlacing artifacts on my TV coming from Blu-Ray over 1080i, they won't exist. Judder is another matter, due to 60Hz scan rate versys 24.x frame rate.
*cough*retard*cough* You seem to be confusing the "I build a machine and buy my motherboard from newegg" market with the "I run a multimillion dollar business and I buy real server hardware". ASRock, indeed.
"vapourware" doesn't mean what you think it does. Vaorware is something that has been promised to be revolutionary, but which has missed schedule repeatedly to the point where people are starting to believe a.) it won't deliver its promises, and b.) it may never even be released. I love how it's now come to mean "anything that's been announced and not released yet".
Actually, that is the free market. You're (through witless sarcasm) implying you want socialism. Here's your little joke properly worded 1) Make inferior product 2) Whine to politicians 3) Sue over a monopoly that by definition doesn't exist 4) Get pro-linux nerds (who also can't compete, on the desktop) all worked up and indignant on your side 5) Post to SlashDot so your fellow geeky dweebs can get all worked up 6) Win lawsuit 7) Profit!
Which one? On the one hand, you can share your knowledge for free and take the risk that someone else will claim your "knowledge", on the other you can share what you've discovered and people will call you a hypocrite. I'd take that Hobson's choice anytime.