The demand for engineers will rise. People who can assemble and repair simple (relatively) electronics and get power, heating, filtration and essentials working will be important.
Maybe so but I'd love to see the planning meeting.
Engineer 1: Lets build a 64 bit 1Ghz CPU. Engineer 2: Then lets build a supercomputer out of 10,000 of them. Marketing: 10,000 CPUs.. hmm.. Lets call it the Darwin 6,000!.
To function properly IPTV services often require new content agreements and distribution models in order to become economically viable.
Translation: They're going to be trying to charge IPTV services like iplayer, youtube for non-throttled access to their customers.
Giving ISPs some flexible to do this, while not impeding standard access, may be needed. However, its success still rests upon content providers wanting to play ball.
Translation: We'll ignore any attempts to shake down IPTV providers.
Meanwhile most ISPs remain fearful of the problems that could result if they were to penalise popular internet sites or services too aggressively.
Translation: By ALL doing it, content providers will have no choice but to pay.
I have to say that so far I'm very impressed. Once I'd moved the tabs and buttons back to where I like them it was great. Memory usage is much better and the speed compared to 3.x is incredible. Sync is nice as you can run your own server.
I prefer the old buttons and liked having a status bar but i'm sure somebody will create add-ons to fix that.
Its not that PCs make consoles out of date really. The higher cost of the more powerful consoles required MS & Sony to subsidize the initial cost and to justify it by making them seem a longer term investment. PCs are very easily upgradable.
I'd bet that the next gen MS console will be a MIPS/ARM CPU system with GPU modules that can be upgraded. It'll run WindowsEntertainmentOS (a combination of WindowsMediaPlayer, DirectX and Windows 8/9). It'll be like a PC but locked down so the media/games industry won't moan too much. People are only just buying 1080p now. PCs took a big step backwards when LCDs became dominant. CRT monitors had much higher resolutions.
In the future you wont buy games you'll buy game engines then 'rent' the level/texture/map data which is only available via a steam-like streaming service. It'll kill most piracy and that hated second-hand games market. They might allow games to be sold but only if they get a percentage.
"1080p" isn't that impressive of a resolution for PC games.
Exactly but because most newer games are made with 'console capable' engines designed to run on 1080p you'll see less and less games making use of the extra power PCs have (especially as not everyone has higher spec pcs). The same is true for console games with most games being designed for xbox360 capabilities and not as much effort into improving that for ps3 gameplay.
Its not entirely a bad thing as there is a very small chance some of that effort might be re-channelled into improving gameplay and not just louder/prettier cutscenes and quick time events. Probably not but I can dream.
Didn't their licenses expire on some bus or other preventing them from making chipsets for intel CPUs? The press release I saw said the recent $1.5b deal excluded certain chipsets. They probably aren't too interested in making AMD chipsets these days. Large racks of MIPS/ARM CPU & Fermi GPU systems makes sense to me. Top-end graphics cards will die off soon thanks to consoles & hollywood. Even multi-monitor gaming wont slow that by much. In a generation or two even low-end graphics cards will probably have the power to play 1080p games at full detail.
All Nvidia has to do is come back with a $800 card with two 580s on it to decimate AMD's nuts in return. Is this *really* all that amazing?
Thats the 590. Its out in a week or two.
It makes me laugh that most sites reviewed it on a single screen system, most at 1080p. Most of the current top-end cards can easily do modern games at maximum detail even on 30" screens. These kinds of cards are only really worth it for multi-monitor gaming. The problem is 3 x 30" screens starts to fill that 2GB of video memory quite quickly.
I hope the 7990 has better memory use. Use HyperTransport or some kind of NUMA setup and let the GPUs access all the memory.
I've been in a similar situation for years. I now have scientific proof that my being 'the most indecisive person people have ever met' isn't my fault... I think.
Make no mistake, they will close every loophole they can, any way they can.
The only way they can is to buy new laws (like DMCA/ACTA) then sue them out of existence. The other methods don't work. Linking this to copyright infringement to piracy to drug dealers/terrorism/whatever doesn't work. All the FBI notices & stupid unskippable adverts dont work.
It does? Maybe you need better cables. There doesn't seem to be any real difference to me unless you freeze-frame and compare artefacts and if you're doing that then you're missing the point of watching it.
While I'll admit HD might look a little nicer the difference between HD and SD matters very little to me. If its a good film the picture quality wont matter that much. The first time I watched The Matrix was a a pirated VCD where the quality was so bad that you couldn't even see most of the action and effects. The picture quality didn't matter as the film itself was engrossing. Since then I've since bought it three times.
I didn't RTFA but I'm guessing the wear levelling on SSDs messes up the 'every sector' part. Some sectors get wiped multiple times while others dont get touched. Writing all zeros is also bad as the magnetic fields from previous data can still be read (not easily but it is possible). Most modern secure wipes do multiple runs of all zeros, all ones and random data many times.
I thought the GPL only required you to make the source code available. Mozilla doesn't have a source code archive next to it's Download/Install buttons for Firefox/Thunderbird etc.
I believe that there were even a number of cases where a given studio's legal arm ended up DMCA-takedowning the material that the same studio's PR arm was putting up, and then accusing youtube of a sinister role in contributory infringement...
Yes that came out recently as a result of the YouTube vs Viacom (ongoing?) court case.
It is free for now ONLY for internet videos offered for no charge. Products and services other than Internet Broadcast AVC Video continue to be royalty-bearing.
Not just the cost of the plant itself. Getting the fuel will get more and more difficult/expensive.
There is around 50 years of fuel in the reserves at current usage levels. Uranium from seawater requires 5300 cubic metres of water to be processed per second continuously to supply one reactor. Uranium from granite requires a block 100 metres wide, 100 metres high and three kilometres long each year, for one reactor.
While the equivalent cost of nuclear plants spent on solar would produce around 35% less energy once it is built the running and maintenance costs are orders of magnitude lower. With solar there is no need to store waste and the fuel is free to collect.
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The demand for engineers will rise. People who can assemble and repair simple (relatively) electronics and get power, heating, filtration and essentials working will be important.
Was he Kang or Kodos?
Maybe so but I'd love to see the planning meeting.
Engineer 1: Lets build a 64 bit 1Ghz CPU.
Engineer 2: Then lets build a supercomputer out of 10,000 of them.
Marketing: 10,000 CPUs.. hmm.. Lets call it the Darwin 6,000!.
FTFA:
To function properly IPTV services often require new content agreements and distribution models in order to become economically viable.
Translation: They're going to be trying to charge IPTV services like iplayer, youtube for non-throttled access to their customers.
Giving ISPs some flexible to do this, while not impeding standard access, may be needed. However, its success still rests upon content providers wanting to play ball.
Translation: We'll ignore any attempts to shake down IPTV providers.
Meanwhile most ISPs remain fearful of the problems that could result if they were to penalise popular internet sites or services too aggressively.
Translation: By ALL doing it, content providers will have no choice but to pay.
Some sites I visit often took a few seconds to create menus and are almost instant now. Its probably more to do with JavaScript speed though.
Much better. Thank you.
I have to say that so far I'm very impressed. Once I'd moved the tabs and buttons back to where I like them it was great. Memory usage is much better and the speed compared to 3.x is incredible. Sync is nice as you can run your own server.
I prefer the old buttons and liked having a status bar but i'm sure somebody will create add-ons to fix that.
Its not that PCs make consoles out of date really. The higher cost of the more powerful consoles required MS & Sony to subsidize the initial cost and to justify it by making them seem a longer term investment. PCs are very easily upgradable.
I'd bet that the next gen MS console will be a MIPS/ARM CPU system with GPU modules that can be upgraded. It'll run WindowsEntertainmentOS (a combination of WindowsMediaPlayer, DirectX and Windows 8/9). It'll be like a PC but locked down so the media/games industry won't moan too much. People are only just buying 1080p now. PCs took a big step backwards when LCDs became dominant. CRT monitors had much higher resolutions.
In the future you wont buy games you'll buy game engines then 'rent' the level/texture/map data which is only available via a steam-like streaming service. It'll kill most piracy and that hated second-hand games market. They might allow games to be sold but only if they get a percentage.
"1080p" isn't that impressive of a resolution for PC games.
Exactly but because most newer games are made with 'console capable' engines designed to run on 1080p you'll see less and less games making
use of the extra power PCs have (especially as not everyone has higher spec pcs). The same is true for console games with most games being
designed for xbox360 capabilities and not as much effort into improving that for ps3 gameplay.
Its not entirely a bad thing as there is a very small chance some of that effort might be re-channelled into improving gameplay and not just louder/prettier
cutscenes and quick time events. Probably not but I can dream.
Didn't their licenses expire on some bus or other preventing them from making chipsets for intel CPUs? The press release I saw said the recent $1.5b deal excluded certain chipsets. They probably aren't too interested in making AMD chipsets these days. Large racks of MIPS/ARM CPU & Fermi GPU systems makes sense to me. Top-end graphics cards will die off soon thanks to consoles & hollywood. Even multi-monitor gaming wont slow that by much. In a generation or two even low-end graphics cards will probably have the power to play 1080p games at full detail.
I passed around the word that I'll charge £20-30 an hour
I do that whenever I get a marketing phone call. I just refuse to listen until they tell me where to send the invoice.
Its also fun to inform call centre staff you are also recording this call for training and/or legal reasons.
All Nvidia has to do is come back with a $800 card with two 580s on it to decimate AMD's nuts in return. Is this *really* all that amazing?
Thats the 590. Its out in a week or two.
It makes me laugh that most sites reviewed it on a single screen system, most at 1080p. Most of the current top-end cards can easily do modern games at maximum detail even on 30" screens. These kinds of cards are only really worth it for multi-monitor gaming. The problem is 3 x 30" screens starts to fill that 2GB
of video memory quite quickly.
I hope the 7990 has better memory use. Use HyperTransport or some kind of NUMA setup and let the GPUs access all the memory.
When all you have is horse bones you either retire and live of the millions you already made or sell horse nuggets.
I've been in a similar situation for years. I now have scientific proof that my being 'the most indecisive person people have ever met' isn't my fault... I think.
Make no mistake, they will close every loophole they can, any way they can.
The only way they can is to buy new laws (like DMCA/ACTA) then sue them out of existence.
The other methods don't work. Linking this to copyright infringement to piracy to drug dealers/terrorism/whatever doesn't work.
All the FBI notices & stupid unskippable adverts dont work.
It does? Maybe you need better cables. There doesn't seem to be any real difference to me unless you
freeze-frame and compare artefacts and if you're doing that then you're missing the point of watching it.
While I'll admit HD might look a little nicer the difference between HD and SD matters very little to me.
If its a good film the picture quality wont matter that much. The first time I watched The Matrix was a
a pirated VCD where the quality was so bad that you couldn't even see most of the action and effects.
The picture quality didn't matter as the film itself was engrossing. Since then I've since bought it three
times.
I didn't RTFA but I'm guessing the wear levelling on SSDs messes up the 'every sector' part. Some sectors get wiped multiple
times while others dont get touched. Writing all zeros is also bad as the magnetic fields from previous data can still be read
(not easily but it is possible). Most modern secure wipes do multiple runs of all zeros, all ones and random data many times.
I thought the GPL only required you to make the source code available. Mozilla doesn't have a source code archive next to it's Download/Install buttons for Firefox/Thunderbird etc.
Harassing Assange Might Make Exposers Reconsider
I believe that there were even a number of cases where a given studio's legal arm ended up DMCA-takedowning the material that the same studio's PR arm was putting up, and then accusing youtube of a sinister role in contributory infringement...
Yes that came out recently as a result of the YouTube vs Viacom (ongoing?) court case.
It is free for now ONLY for internet videos offered for no charge.
Products and services other than Internet Broadcast AVC Video continue to be royalty-bearing.
http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20News%20List/Attachments/231/n-10-08-26.pdf
Not just the cost of the plant itself. Getting the fuel will get more and more difficult/expensive.
There is around 50 years of fuel in the reserves at current usage levels.
Uranium from seawater requires 5300 cubic metres of water to be processed per second continuously to supply one reactor.
Uranium from granite requires a block 100 metres wide, 100 metres high and three kilometres long each year, for one reactor.
While the equivalent cost of nuclear plants spent on solar would produce around 35% less energy once it is built the running and maintenance costs are orders of magnitude lower. With solar there is no need to store waste and the fuel is free to collect.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-climate_change_debate/2587.jsp
Didn't they do this to Cnet for a year after they published images of the CEO's house?
or he'll just be shouting "Bananas! Bananas! Bananas! Bananas! Bananas!".
Shouldn't that be deckchair engineers?