The "megahertz race" was a monster of their own creation. The Pentium 4 was a misstep, changing the design to allow higher clock rates with less processing per cycle.
Would you rather have an engine that puts out redlines at 6,000 or 12,000 RPM? I forgot to mention, the 6,000 RPM motor is a 5 liter V8, the 12,000 RPM motor is a 60 CC weedwacker motor.
Water torture: they question whether or not water torture can be used to extract quality information from detainees.
Otter ping pong: they test whether otters play a form of ping pong with bundles of leaves and mud.
Live power lines: they test the danger of downed power lines.
Cement build up: they question whether solidified cement can be removed from a cement truck using dynamite.
Plywood fight: they test the myth that a kick can do more harm than a piece of plywood wielded as a weapon.
As Adam would say: Wrong, wrong, wrongity wrong.
Water torture: Kari, Scotty, Grant and Tory see how long they can withstand drops of water hitting them on the head while restrained. Nothing at ALL about "quality information".
Otter ping-pong: Footage of Adam being told that it is illegal to harm marine animals in the area they are shooting, followed by an otter stealing and playing with a ping-pong ball from the sunken ship they're trying to raise. The crew freaks out thinking that the otter will somehow kill itself with the ball.
Live power lines: They test the myth that you can get 'free' power from high voltage transmission lines by using a coil of wire near the live lines to generate current via induction.
Cement build up: More footage from the "Remove cement with dynamite" myth where they tell Tory to get in the truck full of hardened cement and remove it by hand. After an hour he's gotten less than a 5 gallon pail of broken cement, and looks ready to die.
Plywood flight: There was a planned 3rd flight by an intern who chickened out at the top of the tower and eventually refused to try jumping down a zip line with a sheet of plywood.
Good lord, for someone with so much know-it-all attitude, that was pretty awful guesswork. Thanks for playing, feel free to try again next week.
I'm thinking that Slashdot editors should be required to have at least one grammar or spelling problem in every story. It'll take all the fun out of it for the spelling Nazis. Although I suppose it could lead to anti-spelling Nazis if an editor forgets to include a mistake...
not to mention that the sun will probably be on its last leg by then....
I find your faith in our civilization... disturbing. The Sun's got about 4.5 - 5 billion more years till red giant shenanigans. I have no doubt society as we know it will be wiped out one way or another long before then. But still, I'm sure humans will make a good run.
I call BS. I remember the days before good search engines (remember Webcrawler cira 1996?). It was near impossible to find what you were looking for in a reasonable amount of time.
Without search engines most content on the internet wouldn't be seen by anyone.
What if the data is wrong? I mean, could I claim the first compiled database of xyz, populate it with random data, get it copyrighted and then "really" populate it at my leisure?
Thanks to Hollywood, I now know that the end result of "nature getting pissed" will be 3 gigantic ice hurricanes which move entirely independent of the earths rotation, freezing anything underneath instantly, and the only way to avoid these are to flee down south.
Or just build a fire. Everyone knows killer frost from blizzard-icanes can be stopped in their tracks by a nice cozy fire.
I swear that movie killed a 12 pack's worth of brain cells.
And the business model of cell phones is to sell them at cost (or a loss) and make it up on the service. If Apple is just making the phone, it'll cost a premium (a BIG premium) over the phones offered from the provider.
Actually wild board can be disturbingly muscular and agile. One was shot near where I live a few weeks back, the guy who shot it said he watched it jump barbed wire fences without even breaking stride(!) Looking at a pig in a pen it's hard to imagine, but I guess they're about 2/3rds muscle... if they actually used it.
That's brilliant! Now... to figure out how to say "Grant all control of the country to me forever" with the acronym of "GODBLESSAMERICA". The paper the bill will be written on will have to also have a waving U.S. flag. And maybe a bald eagle. Or a bald eagle CARRYING a waving flag. And the Statue of Liberty in there somewhere too.
we're going to do whatever it takes to get them. Like that's a bad thing.
Yeah, "whatever it takes" can neeeever go wrong.
In other news, at a press conference today President Bush made this statement: "We need to get serious about fighting the terrorists. Because of information obtained from classified sources that indicates terrorists are planning to subvert the 2006 elections, I am declaring myself 'El-Presidente for Life' to thwart the terrorist plans of subversion." El-Presidente Bush then announced that starting tomorrow all media outlets will only be allowed to report stories after verification from the newly formed Department of Truth.
Well, in the article, they mentioned using data mining to find when the word "jihad" was used in a conversation
So if I call a buddy on a cell phone and start chanting "jihad jihad jihad jihad, Allah akbar! durka durka jihad" I can expect a visit from some black unmarked SUVs? Land of the Free* indeed.
*Note: freedom is forfeit if suspected of wrongdoings, or thinking of wrongdoings.
It IS faster than the Intel processor! It just doesn't "completely blow away" the Intel CPU. The submitter is asking how AMD can dare to charge more than the Intel product because it's only somewhat faster.
Well, since Intel's "branding" is worth jack more than AMD's these days, charging slightly more for slightly better performance seems to make sense.
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Yes, but if online sales also include 'naked' chips I'm willing to bet far more AMD processors get sold to homebuilders than Intel...
The "megahertz race" was a monster of their own creation. The Pentium 4 was a misstep, changing the design to allow higher clock rates with less processing per cycle.
Would you rather have an engine that puts out redlines at 6,000 or 12,000 RPM? I forgot to mention, the 6,000 RPM motor is a 5 liter V8, the 12,000 RPM motor is a 60 CC weedwacker motor.
Water torture: they question whether or not water torture can be used to extract quality information from detainees.
Otter ping pong: they test whether otters play a form of ping pong with bundles of leaves and mud.
Live power lines: they test the danger of downed power lines.
Cement build up: they question whether solidified cement can be removed from a cement truck using dynamite.
Plywood fight: they test the myth that a kick can do more harm than a piece of plywood wielded as a weapon.
As Adam would say: Wrong, wrong, wrongity wrong.
Water torture: Kari, Scotty, Grant and Tory see how long they can withstand drops of water hitting them on the head while restrained. Nothing at ALL about "quality information".
Otter ping-pong: Footage of Adam being told that it is illegal to harm marine animals in the area they are shooting, followed by an otter stealing and playing with a ping-pong ball from the sunken ship they're trying to raise. The crew freaks out thinking that the otter will somehow kill itself with the ball.
Live power lines: They test the myth that you can get 'free' power from high voltage transmission lines by using a coil of wire near the live lines to generate current via induction.
Cement build up: More footage from the "Remove cement with dynamite" myth where they tell Tory to get in the truck full of hardened cement and remove it by hand. After an hour he's gotten less than a 5 gallon pail of broken cement, and looks ready to die.
Plywood flight: There was a planned 3rd flight by an intern who chickened out at the top of the tower and eventually refused to try jumping down a zip line with a sheet of plywood.
Good lord, for someone with so much know-it-all attitude, that was pretty awful guesswork. Thanks for playing, feel free to try again next week.
Who cares?
Well, obviously he does, since Cyric here is a world renown expert on everything and anything. Gosh, if someone would only give him his own show.
At least they encourage viewers to THINK and not take everything at face value. That alone makes it more useful than 99% of the crap on TV.
Bought and paid for. Maybe with a money bag overflowing as the icon?
I'm thinking that Slashdot editors should be required to have at least one grammar or spelling problem in every story. It'll take all the fun out of it for the spelling Nazis. Although I suppose it could lead to anti-spelling Nazis if an editor forgets to include a mistake...
not to mention that the sun will probably be on its last leg by then....
I find your faith in our civilization... disturbing. The Sun's got about 4.5 - 5 billion more years till red giant shenanigans. I have no doubt society as we know it will be wiped out one way or another long before then. But still, I'm sure humans will make a good run.
I call BS. I remember the days before good search engines (remember Webcrawler cira 1996?). It was near impossible to find what you were looking for in a reasonable amount of time.
Without search engines most content on the internet wouldn't be seen by anyone.
Somehow I think the Star Wars Imperial March would be appropriate...
Or how about "Ame®i©a"?
What if the data is wrong? I mean, could I claim the first compiled database of xyz, populate it with random data, get it copyrighted and then "really" populate it at my leisure?
Thanks to Hollywood, I now know that the end result of "nature getting pissed" will be 3 gigantic ice hurricanes which move entirely independent of the earths rotation, freezing anything underneath instantly, and the only way to avoid these are to flee down south.
Or just build a fire. Everyone knows killer frost from blizzard-icanes can be stopped in their tracks by a nice cozy fire.
I swear that movie killed a 12 pack's worth of brain cells.
And the business model of cell phones is to sell them at cost (or a loss) and make it up on the service. If Apple is just making the phone, it'll cost a premium (a BIG premium) over the phones offered from the provider.
No, seriously, it was a feral male pig. Not some new uberspecies. And it was jumping fences... Like I said, disturbing.
Well, 38 amps at 12 volts. Your oven is 60 amps at 220 volts.
Actually wild board can be disturbingly muscular and agile. One was shot near where I live a few weeks back, the guy who shot it said he watched it jump barbed wire fences without even breaking stride(!) Looking at a pig in a pen it's hard to imagine, but I guess they're about 2/3rds muscle... if they actually used it.
That's brilliant! Now... to figure out how to say "Grant all control of the country to me forever" with the acronym of "GODBLESSAMERICA". The paper the bill will be written on will have to also have a waving U.S. flag. And maybe a bald eagle. Or a bald eagle CARRYING a waving flag. And the Statue of Liberty in there somewhere too.
we're going to do whatever it takes to get them. Like that's a bad thing.
Yeah, "whatever it takes" can neeeever go wrong.
In other news, at a press conference today President Bush made this statement: "We need to get serious about fighting the terrorists. Because of information obtained from classified sources that indicates terrorists are planning to subvert the 2006 elections, I am declaring myself 'El-Presidente for Life' to thwart the terrorist plans of subversion." El-Presidente Bush then announced that starting tomorrow all media outlets will only be allowed to report stories after verification from the newly formed Department of Truth.
Well, in the article, they mentioned using data mining to find when the word "jihad" was used in a conversation
So if I call a buddy on a cell phone and start chanting "jihad jihad jihad jihad, Allah akbar! durka durka jihad" I can expect a visit from some black unmarked SUVs? Land of the Free* indeed.
*Note: freedom is forfeit if suspected of wrongdoings, or thinking of wrongdoings.
What?? Are you saying reporters should cite sources and report facts? What are you, some kind of Commie pinko terrorist?
You need to keep hitting it faster and faster until you finally reach escape velocity.
They do hold screenings in theaters for members. The DVDs are for members who can't make it to the screening.
It's OSX only because it requires the Powerbook's drop sensors. What would be the point of a Win32 version?
It IS faster than the Intel processor! It just doesn't "completely blow away" the Intel CPU. The submitter is asking how AMD can dare to charge more than the Intel product because it's only somewhat faster.
Well, since Intel's "branding" is worth jack more than AMD's these days, charging slightly more for slightly better performance seems to make sense.