Or antidepressants. They are well known for curbing obsessive/compulsive and addictive behaviors that have no drug component to them. One could talk to a pharmacologist about it.
I was saying it in relation to GGGP. If what you are saying is valid for Palin, why not Obama? You could argue that you're being general, but not in relation to the GGGP post.
Unrelated sidenote: I like the "A+ Schools for B students" list. Good way to get in if you weren't the luckiest person in your high school or just had a tough time with your GPA.
"Not being heard of before" was one of Obama's problems too. At least he was relatively unknown compared to McCain. While were' making assumptions, I'm going to assume you support Obama. What makes his inexperience any less questionable than Palin's?
The only way you can really defend yourself is if you back down from the argument that a formerly unknown person is automatically bad.
You claim to be rational, but in reality you're appealing to rationality.
Well, until serial memory goes mainstream, there's no way you'll get the bandwidth that you're getting now with massively wide memory buses. And those buses require lots and LOTS of pins.
So it's just too expensive. Then there's the issue of some GPUs being much more complex than others, having different bus widths, different controllers, etc...I'm not saying it couldn't be done, but it wouldn't be economical and the signal integrity would be slightly less, artificially lowering top speed.
There was one card that had two MXM connectors on it, and you could plug one or two mobile GPUs into it. MSI made it, I think. AFAIK it never shipped.
Fair enough. Too bad your experience with them wasn't the best. I may have just lucked out with my earlier boards (Apollo pro and super 7 MVP chipsets that didn't seem to have any problems.)
Complete opposite experience here. I admit I haven't used the old slot A KX1xx athlon chipsets KT133/A or the original KT266, but I've run several motherboards on the Apollo Pro 133, KT266A, KT333 and KT400, and haven't had any problems. I even ran several of them overclocked, on XP, 2000, and Linux. In fact, the machine I'm typing this on is a KT400 with 1GB RAM and a 2GHz Athlon XP running vista, with no stability issues whatsoever, it's a bit slow but I put a lot of load on it and there are server apps running in the background too.
The KT266A board that I had (Epox 8KHA+) was one of the fastest boards I ever owned, for its time. And it never had any problems, even overclocked.
I can understand that people have had issues with several VIA chipset revisions. But they were in many instances a lot better than the alternatives. They were much better than intel during the i820 fiasco and have always been somewhat better than AMD's native chipsets (until the K8 chipsets that is).
In fact, until nVidia came along with the nforce, they really were the only option for athlons. I'll admit that the nForce/2 offered some stiff competition and was good, and that nVidia eventually did usurp via with the nForce3 Ultra and beyond.
You speak as someone who has limited anecdotal experience with a few via chipsets. Well, here I'm offering mine, with a few facts to back it up, as well as the experiences and opinions of many I've met over the years.
VIA definitely played an important role in the game. For one, they were partially responsible for the Athlon's ascendancy. And second, they provided competition for Intel's chipsets when those were lacking. It is sad to see them exit the business.
Well, that was mainly in response to the GGP's post, which was addressing GGGP's accusation that most laws these days are bought and paid for. Yes, there is a balance, but that balance was created eons ago before the days of rampant lobbying. The fact is that it is eroding faster than anyone can see. An eroding balance is not a balance. And claiming it is is in a way arguing that everything's fine.
You fail to see the "equivalent horsepower" side of the coin. A Pentium 2 or so that consumes 100W out of the wall is going to be a lot more energetically wasteful than the modern-day ARM chip of equivalent horsepower that draws a few watts, if less. Even a current atom or core 2 processor downclocked to levels where it has the same computational power will consume much less energy.
Modern systems consume a large amount of energy because power and cooling technology has advanced and downsized, and manufacturers have found a way to exploit this. Process technology, etc. allow for computers that consume a lot of power, while being exponentially more powerful. They would not be nearly as powerful if they only required passive cooling. It's truly the definition of pushing the envelope, and in its wake are some still powerful enough chips that consume next to no power.
Funny thing is, it maintains that reputation, even through "democratic" Russia. Look at how inflammatory that news article is. Really, I'm not sure if the great grandparent's post is a troll or a shill, or simply blinded by the propaganda.
Right. Like the extension of copyright terms into the stratosphere. Like the inability to copy parts of a DVD for fair usage. Like the current DRM'd media fiasco. That sure as heck sounds "balanced."
Then there are the issues of media sharing and how it has often benefited artists, but not middlemen. This is a complex issue, because it is technically illegal, but people have done it dating back to the 60's with sharing phonograph records and tapes, and recording things off radio, and I guarantee you certain bands would not be as popular if that were not the case.
How about this: Admit that the system is unbalanced in favor of one party instead of posting that "everything's fine" on Slashdot. "People making copyrighted work are humans too"...nice red herring that adds nothing to the discussion.
What I don't get is why everyone is so afraid of this globalization. The global economy has benefitted from the US-China economic trade. And god forbid if anyone knew our "secrets!" Come on. The fact is if these things are widely known, then the knowledge is less likely to be lost forever if one country falls.
Global cooling wasn't even as much of an accepted idea in the scientific community as it was hyped in the media.
The dramatic rise in CO2 levels over the last 50+ years relative to the millennia before is new, troubling, widely accepted, and most likely anthropogenic.
It is overwhelmingly likely that anthropogenic distortion of greenhouse gases is happening, and that subsequent ill effects will follow.
Believe what you want to believe, but don't ignore the existence of testable, empirical evidence. You can wax lyrical all day long about "holes" or some such in evolutionary theory, but how nonporous is your "theory?"
Alternate theories are fine, as long as they are scientific. But until you shore up some cold hard evidence marking evolution incorrect, don't deny it as the most correct theory at present.
What this school board is doing is akin to saying the theory of the earth being flat deserves as much attention and recognition as that of the earth being spheroidal. This is underhanded, misleading, and just plain wrong.
You nailed it bro. Sensationalist journalism combined with science is good for neither the image of journalism nor science. This piece is no better than fluff that has been disproven since the dawn of not only statistical genetics, but statistical analysis in general.
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Or antidepressants. They are well known for curbing obsessive/compulsive and addictive behaviors that have no drug component to them. One could talk to a pharmacologist about it.
I was saying it in relation to GGGP. If what you are saying is valid for Palin, why not Obama? You could argue that you're being general, but not in relation to the GGGP post.
Yeah but I got modded funny so whatever.
People Generally consider GB and Ireland to be part of Europe, much as many in GB/Ir would like to disagree.
Unrelated sidenote: I like the "A+ Schools for B students" list. Good way to get in if you weren't the luckiest person in your high school or just had a tough time with your GPA.
"Not being heard of before" was one of Obama's problems too. At least he was relatively unknown compared to McCain. While were' making assumptions, I'm going to assume you support Obama. What makes his inexperience any less questionable than Palin's?
The only way you can really defend yourself is if you back down from the argument that a formerly unknown person is automatically bad.
You claim to be rational, but in reality you're appealing to rationality.
You sure you can't just send it in and they'll see latent problems there? You could also 'make' it permanently broken and send it in....
Well, until serial memory goes mainstream, there's no way you'll get the bandwidth that you're getting now with massively wide memory buses. And those buses require lots and LOTS of pins.
So it's just too expensive. Then there's the issue of some GPUs being much more complex than others, having different bus widths, different controllers, etc...I'm not saying it couldn't be done, but it wouldn't be economical and the signal integrity would be slightly less, artificially lowering top speed.
There was one card that had two MXM connectors on it, and you could plug one or two mobile GPUs into it. MSI made it, I think. AFAIK it never shipped.
Actually, I think it explains well to people who might not get the joke right away, but go ahead and mod redundant everyone...
undid moderation. wanted to mod funny but modded informative
Fair enough. Too bad your experience with them wasn't the best. I may have just lucked out with my earlier boards (Apollo pro and super 7 MVP chipsets that didn't seem to have any problems.)
Complete opposite experience here. I admit I haven't used the old slot A KX1xx athlon chipsets KT133/A or the original KT266, but I've run several motherboards on the Apollo Pro 133, KT266A, KT333 and KT400, and haven't had any problems. I even ran several of them overclocked, on XP, 2000, and Linux. In fact, the machine I'm typing this on is a KT400 with 1GB RAM and a 2GHz Athlon XP running vista, with no stability issues whatsoever, it's a bit slow but I put a lot of load on it and there are server apps running in the background too.
The KT266A board that I had (Epox 8KHA+) was one of the fastest boards I ever owned, for its time. And it never had any problems, even overclocked.
I can understand that people have had issues with several VIA chipset revisions. But they were in many instances a lot better than the alternatives. They were much better than intel during the i820 fiasco and have always been somewhat better than AMD's native chipsets (until the K8 chipsets that is).
In fact, until nVidia came along with the nforce, they really were the only option for athlons. I'll admit that the nForce/2 offered some stiff competition and was good, and that nVidia eventually did usurp via with the nForce3 Ultra and beyond.
You speak as someone who has limited anecdotal experience with a few via chipsets. Well, here I'm offering mine, with a few facts to back it up, as well as the experiences and opinions of many I've met over the years.
VIA definitely played an important role in the game. For one, they were partially responsible for the Athlon's ascendancy. And second, they provided competition for Intel's chipsets when those were lacking. It is sad to see them exit the business.
Well, that was mainly in response to the GGP's post, which was addressing GGGP's accusation that most laws these days are bought and paid for. Yes, there is a balance, but that balance was created eons ago before the days of rampant lobbying. The fact is that it is eroding faster than anyone can see. An eroding balance is not a balance. And claiming it is is in a way arguing that everything's fine.
You fail to see the "equivalent horsepower" side of the coin. A Pentium 2 or so that consumes 100W out of the wall is going to be a lot more energetically wasteful than the modern-day ARM chip of equivalent horsepower that draws a few watts, if less. Even a current atom or core 2 processor downclocked to levels where it has the same computational power will consume much less energy.
Modern systems consume a large amount of energy because power and cooling technology has advanced and downsized, and manufacturers have found a way to exploit this. Process technology, etc. allow for computers that consume a lot of power, while being exponentially more powerful. They would not be nearly as powerful if they only required passive cooling. It's truly the definition of pushing the envelope, and in its wake are some still powerful enough chips that consume next to no power.
Funny thing is, it maintains that reputation, even through "democratic" Russia. Look at how inflammatory that news article is. Really, I'm not sure if the great grandparent's post is a troll or a shill, or simply blinded by the propaganda.
Right. Like the extension of copyright terms into the stratosphere. Like the inability to copy parts of a DVD for fair usage. Like the current DRM'd media fiasco. That sure as heck sounds "balanced."
Then there are the issues of media sharing and how it has often benefited artists, but not middlemen. This is a complex issue, because it is technically illegal, but people have done it dating back to the 60's with sharing phonograph records and tapes, and recording things off radio, and I guarantee you certain bands would not be as popular if that were not the case.
How about this: Admit that the system is unbalanced in favor of one party instead of posting that "everything's fine" on Slashdot. "People making copyrighted work are humans too"...nice red herring that adds nothing to the discussion.
Linking to Pravda...now that's CERTAINLY an unbiased source.
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What I don't get is why everyone is so afraid of this globalization. The global economy has benefitted from the US-China economic trade. And god forbid if anyone knew our "secrets!" Come on. The fact is if these things are widely known, then the knowledge is less likely to be lost forever if one country falls.
And an effectively oil-backed currency is different how?
What a woman does with her body is none of the State's business. A child inside her body is not a separate person until born.
Global cooling wasn't even as much of an accepted idea in the scientific community as it was hyped in the media.
The dramatic rise in CO2 levels over the last 50+ years relative to the millennia before is new, troubling, widely accepted, and most likely anthropogenic.
It is overwhelmingly likely that anthropogenic distortion of greenhouse gases is happening, and that subsequent ill effects will follow.
Believe what you want to believe, but don't ignore the existence of testable, empirical evidence. You can wax lyrical all day long about "holes" or some such in evolutionary theory, but how nonporous is your "theory?"
Alternate theories are fine, as long as they are scientific. But until you shore up some cold hard evidence marking evolution incorrect, don't deny it as the most correct theory at present.
What this school board is doing is akin to saying the theory of the earth being flat deserves as much attention and recognition as that of the earth being spheroidal. This is underhanded, misleading, and just plain wrong.
If most Microsoft products were also-rans, the market would reflect that.
You nailed it bro. Sensationalist journalism combined with science is good for neither the image of journalism nor science. This piece is no better than fluff that has been disproven since the dawn of not only statistical genetics, but statistical analysis in general.