IIRC the 35mm film that most movies are shot on have resolution to spare for HD, the issue is always scanning them in at that resolution but it can be done.
Am I the only one in the world who likes the idea of a protective case? It's apart of the original Blu-Ray standard. I HATE my movies skipping especially when I rent them. I don't care if it adds to the production cost, pass it along to me and instead of having to treat my movie collection like my Grandma Treats her damn China I can pay a measly $.50 and have my cake, est it, and crap it out... all WITHOUT scratches!
I don't thing he invested in the stock, he purchasd a portion of the 600 Million in corporate bonds (like savings bonds but with an interest rate dependent upon their credit rating and higher than T bills etc.) that Red Hat Issued this year.
The return is not dependent upon their stock in that case.
100 million is almost exactly 1% of the money that Michael Dell has invested in this holding company. I have larger percentages invested in single companies in my portfolio and I mostly invest in Mutual funds.
if your RTA it sounds like his investment company reviewed the market, found a solid invtestment choice based upon the principals that he specified, and, likely with his approval, invested less than 1% of the money he had with them (not even all of his wealth) in that company.
They're not going to discuss his reasoning but it likely says alot of red hat's market capitalization, nothing more.
It's an interactive chart of all major processors available now and plenty that aren't available, it's a good idea to compare what you might have not and what an upgrade could do for you.
I'm relieve to see at least one thing out of this launch, and I would hope that other companies would do as much. AMD has clearly defined their rollout process so there will be no confusions and hopefully no false expectations.
They even give dates, if they can keep to those dates then we might actually have a product launch that doesn't antagonize the community with accusations of a 'paper launch'.
I'd like to see more companies be more upfront about this.
I couldn't agree more. I get so tired of the "You're being paranoid" responses when you try and oppose something that on the surface seems reasonable. The creep effect of censorships is the most difficult thing to overcome.
You would think that federal funding for a project like this would be easy to obtain. It would be a new form of electronic warfare, but I can see potential backlash against the providers.
Consider this:
If the US were to set up this access free of charge for what ammounts to anti-propaganda purposes what happens to public perception of the US the first time the government of said country chops someone's head off for accessing it?
I'm just speculating here but probably for the same reason that Cache's that are asynchronous inevitablye perform poorer than those that are synchronous.
Data that moved from one register into another part of the pipeline operating at a much higher frequency would then eventually have to leave this higher clocked space into the register again. Thus, the high clocked registers would process data much faster than it could be fed, and would spit it out much faster than the rest of the chip registers could accept it.
I can already see one way around that (that being having more pipes out than in) but from a cost benefit analysis, you just end up building a Cell type CPU eventually (with different speed FPU's etc instead of SPE's), and that seems to be where their going, multiple general purpose cores, then eventually specific purpose cores.
Kind of like having the math co-processor on the board, and then eventually moving it onto the chip. Who says you can't put the next big thing (maybe the PPU) on the chip as just another core!
AMD's labeling scheme is particuarly interesting in this respect, they are positioning every one of their Dual Core products above every single one of their single core products. The last consumer single core product (exclusing the FX) is the 4000+... every single chip above that, and for the foreseeable future, will be dual core.
The 4000+ just dropped in price, presumably in anticipation of pricing the dual cores above that. That they offer single threaded performance that isn't too much further below their single core counterparts (AMD seems to have dual core at higher relative frequency to their single core products than intel) and multithreaded content that isn't constrained by the north bridge memory bandwidth (hypertransport seems very long sighted now) makes it a viable option even for those who use primarily single threaded apps, i.e. games.
I would get a dual 2.2 GHZ A64 machine over a single 2.6GH A64 machine if the price were comparable, informed consumers will likely do the same, but the number of informed consumers buying computers is compartively small.
To the person who said marketing wins, you're right, and everything I just typed doesn't really mean al that much.
Intel and AMD's approach to the dual Core (and to chip production in general since the A64) producion has one fundamental difference that will shape their incomes and profit margins.
AMD produces their chips Top down, they introduce dual core in the professional space first. In this case the 8xx series, then 2xx then finally 1xx and the desktop space. This allows them to take advantage of the increased profit margins and lower volume of the professional space. While their chip producion is ramping up they don't have to worry about demand outstripping supply. Thus they maximize their profit on their smaller fabrication abilities. The con to this is market penetration is smaller and validation "should" take longer.
Intel OTOH goes bottom up (and don't get me started on whether the pentium D is really dual core) producing first their desktop chips, and then when they're properly validated and their market presence and fab capabilities have been fully leveraged, then they move the chips into the professional realm, this allows the to maximize their profits as a fab that caters to volume.
Declaring a winner at this point is silly, as neither one has actually completed their cycle let alone vanquished the other.
I seem to recall the statistics that compare the gross of the Video Game industry to the other media biz also included sales of hardware.
In other words, not just the sale of the content, but of the consoles etc.
Can you imagine if the Movie industry included in their revenue the sale of DVD players, TV's, Tivo's etc... the comparison isn't perfectly accurate but there you have it.
Rhetorical: Why is the next Xbox debuting on MTV?
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If the 18-34 male gamer demo is so well established why doesn't a TV channel exist that captures this demo better than MTV?
It seems the answer is pretty simple...
Those people spend their time online... (that's right you guessed it) playing games. When they're watching TV they don't generally care to watch non-interactive media discussing their interactive media. The medium is, while not exactly flawed, inadequate to transmit the content that this demo finds appealing.
Thus... they're most likely watching Music Videos, Car shows on TLC, or (like me, I definately fall in that demo) stuck with American Idol because they're not always the one with the controller.
It seems like the operative word of the day would be 'Budget Constraints'... at least in reference to the time frame under which they're operating. I would suspect that in relative terms the 6.6 billion dollars that they've been allocated over the next several years to accomplish there is substantially less than was spent to reach the moon the first time, hence the extended time frame.
I think everyone's gut instinct is that it should be cheaper and easier, but increased complexity and mission objectives means greater potential for failure (anyone ever wonder why the shuttle still used 8086 processors for their main systems and didn't upgrade every cycle?) the increased failure potential can only be aleviated by increased testing, and endlessly self perpetuating cycle that doesn't seem likely to come to any conclusion soon.
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IIRC the 35mm film that most movies are shot on have resolution to spare for HD, the issue is always scanning them in at that resolution but it can be done.
Am I the only one in the world who likes the idea of a protective case? It's apart of the original Blu-Ray standard. I HATE my movies skipping especially when I rent them. I don't care if it adds to the production cost, pass it along to me and instead of having to treat my movie collection like my Grandma Treats her damn China I can pay a measly $.50 and have my cake, est it, and crap it out... all WITHOUT scratches!
I don't thing he invested in the stock, he purchasd a portion of the 600 Million in corporate bonds (like savings bonds but with an interest rate dependent upon their credit rating and higher than T bills etc.) that Red Hat Issued this year.
The return is not dependent upon their stock in that case.
100 million is almost exactly 1% of the money that Michael Dell has invested in this holding company. I have larger percentages invested in single companies in my portfolio and I mostly invest in Mutual funds.
if your RTA it sounds like his investment company reviewed the market, found a solid invtestment choice based upon the principals that he specified, and, likely with his approval, invested less than 1% of the money he had with them (not even all of his wealth) in that company.
They're not going to discuss his reasoning but it likely says alot of red hat's market capitalization, nothing more.
"Jedi Business, go back to your drinks"
Is that why I keep getting SPAM trying to sell me and Ultra-Fast Wide pipeline?
The best example of what you're looking at that i've found is at http://www23.tomshardware.com/index.html
It's an interactive chart of all major processors available now and plenty that aren't available, it's a good idea to compare what you might have not and what an upgrade could do for you.
"If you build it, someone will buy it."
Hmm.... I think I messed that quote up somehow...
I'm relieve to see at least one thing out of this launch, and I would hope that other companies would do as much. AMD has clearly defined their rollout process so there will be no confusions and hopefully no false expectations.
1. Announcement
2. Technical Preview (benchmarks Appear)
3. Launch (OEM Availability)
4. Ramp-up and Reseller Availability
They even give dates, if they can keep to those dates then we might actually have a product launch that doesn't antagonize the community with accusations of a 'paper launch'.
I'd like to see more companies be more upfront about this.
I couldn't agree more. I get so tired of the "You're being paranoid" responses when you try and oppose something that on the surface seems reasonable. The creep effect of censorships is the most difficult thing to overcome.
if you think it's all hooey read up about the Alien and Sedition Act of 1798 http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/milestones/se dition/
One of the first laws our country ever passed made unpopular political speech illegal...
You would think that federal funding for a project like this would be easy to obtain. It would be a new form of electronic warfare, but I can see potential backlash against the providers.
Consider this:
If the US were to set up this access free of charge for what ammounts to anti-propaganda purposes what happens to public perception of the US the first time the government of said country chops someone's head off for accessing it?
Quote "Many noted that the censorship "only" affected political information, but that business could be conducted online unimpeded. "
It seems a little naive to believe that Business and Politics are not intertwined. I realize that wasn't the intent of that statement but even so...
I'm just speculating here but probably for the same reason that Cache's that are asynchronous inevitablye perform poorer than those that are synchronous.
Data that moved from one register into another part of the pipeline operating at a much higher frequency would then eventually have to leave this higher clocked space into the register again. Thus, the high clocked registers would process data much faster than it could be fed, and would spit it out much faster than the rest of the chip registers could accept it.
I can already see one way around that (that being having more pipes out than in) but from a cost benefit analysis, you just end up building a Cell type CPU eventually (with different speed FPU's etc instead of SPE's), and that seems to be where their going, multiple general purpose cores, then eventually specific purpose cores.
Kind of like having the math co-processor on the board, and then eventually moving it onto the chip. Who says you can't put the next big thing (maybe the PPU) on the chip as just another core!
one word... headache!
AMD's labeling scheme is particuarly interesting in this respect, they are positioning every one of their Dual Core products above every single one of their single core products. The last consumer single core product (exclusing the FX) is the 4000+... every single chip above that, and for the foreseeable future, will be dual core.
The 4000+ just dropped in price, presumably in anticipation of pricing the dual cores above that. That they offer single threaded performance that isn't too much further below their single core counterparts (AMD seems to have dual core at higher relative frequency to their single core products than intel) and multithreaded content that isn't constrained by the north bridge memory bandwidth (hypertransport seems very long sighted now) makes it a viable option even for those who use primarily single threaded apps, i.e. games.
I would get a dual 2.2 GHZ A64 machine over a single 2.6GH A64 machine if the price were comparable, informed consumers will likely do the same, but the number of informed consumers buying computers is compartively small.
To the person who said marketing wins, you're right, and everything I just typed doesn't really mean al that much.
Intel and AMD's approach to the dual Core (and to chip production in general since the A64) producion has one fundamental difference that will shape their incomes and profit margins.
AMD produces their chips Top down, they introduce dual core in the professional space first. In this case the 8xx series, then 2xx then finally 1xx and the desktop space. This allows them to take advantage of the increased profit margins and lower volume of the professional space. While their chip producion is ramping up they don't have to worry about demand outstripping supply. Thus they maximize their profit on their smaller fabrication abilities. The con to this is market penetration is smaller and validation "should" take longer.
Intel OTOH goes bottom up (and don't get me started on whether the pentium D is really dual core) producing first their desktop chips, and then when they're properly validated and their market presence and fab capabilities have been fully leveraged, then they move the chips into the professional realm, this allows the to maximize their profits as a fab that caters to volume.
Declaring a winner at this point is silly, as neither one has actually completed their cycle let alone vanquished the other.
I seem to recall the statistics that compare the gross of the Video Game industry to the other media biz also included sales of hardware.
In other words, not just the sale of the content, but of the consoles etc.
Can you imagine if the Movie industry included in their revenue the sale of DVD players, TV's, Tivo's etc... the comparison isn't perfectly accurate but there you have it.
Grumpy Gamer has a nice article on it, for those who want the link http://grumpygamer.com/5378171If the 18-34 male gamer demo is so well established why doesn't a TV channel exist that captures this demo better than MTV?
It seems the answer is pretty simple...
Those people spend their time online... (that's right you guessed it) playing games. When they're watching TV they don't generally care to watch non-interactive media discussing their interactive media. The medium is, while not exactly flawed, inadequate to transmit the content that this demo finds appealing.
Thus... they're most likely watching Music Videos, Car shows on TLC, or (like me, I definately fall in that demo) stuck with American Idol because they're not always the one with the controller.
It seems like the operative word of the day would be 'Budget Constraints'... at least in reference to the time frame under which they're operating. I would suspect that in relative terms the 6.6 billion dollars that they've been allocated over the next several years to accomplish there is substantially less than was spent to reach the moon the first time, hence the extended time frame. I think everyone's gut instinct is that it should be cheaper and easier, but increased complexity and mission objectives means greater potential for failure (anyone ever wonder why the shuttle still used 8086 processors for their main systems and didn't upgrade every cycle?) the increased failure potential can only be aleviated by increased testing, and endlessly self perpetuating cycle that doesn't seem likely to come to any conclusion soon.