Problem with fair use is that it's a very vague concept (at least in the USA) to begin with. RIAA is even claiming that it's not a right, but an affirmative defense. So anybody can claim that X is not a fair use of Y without committing perjury in any way.
The amount of mercury in an average person's mouth (because of amalgam fillings, still widely used) is far larger than in the lightbulbs in one's house.
They want to sell audiobooks and make some *extra* money from that avenue, too... Problem for them though, it's highly unlikely that it'll stand in court.
The shitstorm may be bad for them, but it'll likely be far worse for AMD to begin with. This is perhaps the best time for them to outspend AMD in research.
Benchmarks are pretty much the only reliable performance measure these days (e.g., SPEC CPU). Frequency is only part of the equation - best example these days is an Atom processor running at the same frequency as a Celeron and being 2-3x slower.
Also, while the vast majority of server apps work well on multi-core, desktop apps aren't quite there yet.
Except that actual processor speed went off Moore's curve a while back... While transistor densities have gone up (mostly) according to schedule, actual processor speed has not.
Your argument is good, and AFAIK processor makers use it to a certain extent, it's just that the percentages are a bit smaller.
IMHO, what they really need is a good P2P protocol to handle streaming media. Storage is not nearly as much of a problem as the bandwidth required. A 1 TB hdd can be had for 100$. 5-way replication - 500$. Still peanuts compared to the cost of actually serving it.
Well, the plastic stuff will actually melt. However, for the drives themselves it's sufficient for the temperature to get to the Curie point. That's the temperature at which ferromagnetism stops.
I mean, WTF? Many people regard RAID as something magical that will keep their data no matter what happens. Well... it's not.
Furthermore, for many enterprise applications disk size is not the main concern, but rather I/O throughput and reliability. Few need 7 disks of 2 TB in RAID5.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
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Was highly innovative (i.e., use x86 as a "bytecode" and translate it on the fly into VLIW instructions). Many architects got excited about it, but (sadly) it didn't deliver. In the end, the "classic" out-of-order approach of PII/Opteron won.
In the end it all comes down to two things: a) overall performance + energy consumption. b) manufacturing yield. Even if you do a) right, you still need b). IMO Transmeta didn't have either.
They do what they preach. Galactic Civilizations I, II and their expansions were always released like that, and they were highly successful.
I really don't see the "wishful thinking" part. Their model actually works. People who pirate aren't gonna be stopped by copy protections. The only effect those protections have is to annoy the hell out of the paying customers.
The reverse isn't true though, because factorization is in NP, but is not NP-complete (it hasn't been shown to be).
I wouldn't worry too much about quantum computers yet. You need several order of magnitude more qubits than what can currently be implemented (barely double-digit), and you need much longer coherence times (perhaps in the order of tens of milliseconds).
I thought that the Thera/Santorini epic eruption is a cataclysm that could well be associated with the fall of Atlantis (after all, it marked the beginning of the end for the Minoan civilization).
It was a couple of times larger than Krakatoa/1883 (albeit smaller than Tambora/1815)
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Problem with fair use is that it's a very vague concept (at least in the USA) to begin with. RIAA is even claiming that it's not a right, but an affirmative defense. So anybody can claim that X is not a fair use of Y without committing perjury in any way.
The amount of mercury in an average person's mouth (because of amalgam fillings, still widely used) is far larger than in the lightbulbs in one's house.
Do you actually have some data (specific to proper SSDs) to support this statement?
If they're good enough for Databases (frequent writes), they should be just fine for devel.
OTOH, You should be a lot more concerned about losing data because of a) software bugs or b) mechanical failures in a conventional drive
the histones within the reproductive cells to be modified though?
I can totally picture how this could happen for conventional non-reproductive cell division, but that generally doesn't affect at all offsprings.
I'm not saying that you're wrong, I'm just really wondering how that's happening.
They want to sell audiobooks and make some *extra* money from that avenue, too ... Problem for them though, it's highly unlikely that it'll stand in court.
The shitstorm may be bad for them, but it'll likely be far worse for AMD to begin with. This is perhaps the best time for them to outspend AMD in research.
Benchmarks are pretty much the only reliable performance measure these days (e.g., SPEC CPU). Frequency is only part of the equation - best example these days is an Atom processor running at the same frequency as a Celeron and being 2-3x slower.
Also, while the vast majority of server apps work well on multi-core, desktop apps aren't quite there yet.
Except that actual processor speed went off Moore's curve a while back ... While transistor densities have gone up (mostly) according to schedule, actual processor speed has not.
Your argument is good, and AFAIK processor makers use it to a certain extent, it's just that the percentages are a bit smaller.
IMHO, what they really need is a good P2P protocol to handle streaming media. Storage is not nearly as much of a problem as the bandwidth required. A 1 TB hdd can be had for 100$. 5-way replication - 500$. Still peanuts compared to the cost of actually serving it.
Well, the plastic stuff will actually melt. However, for the drives themselves it's sufficient for the temperature to get to the Curie point. That's the temperature at which ferromagnetism stops.
A 200$ netbook is coming soon and it will run Ubuntu.
And yeah, 200$ not 400$ via "buy two donate one".
That's what I thought too, until I read Suetonius' Twelve Caesars... The amount of trash in it makes it particularly entertaining.
Granted, 4.3.2 is pretty cool, but AFAIK it's not revolutionary wrt earlier 4.* releases
I mean, WTF? Many people regard RAID as something magical that will keep their data no matter what happens. Well ... it's not.
Furthermore, for many enterprise applications disk size is not the main concern, but rather I/O throughput and reliability. Few need 7 disks of 2 TB in RAID5.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'
Was highly innovative (i.e., use x86 as a "bytecode" and translate it on the fly into VLIW instructions). Many architects got excited about it, but (sadly) it didn't deliver. In the end, the "classic" out-of-order approach of PII/Opteron won.
In the end it all comes down to two things: a) overall performance + energy consumption. b) manufacturing yield. Even if you do a) right, you still need b). IMO Transmeta didn't have either.
They still use patent threats and indemnification as a way to scare companies off Linux distributions.
They do what they preach. Galactic Civilizations I, II and their expansions were always released like that, and they were highly successful.
I really don't see the "wishful thinking" part. Their model actually works. People who pirate aren't gonna be stopped by copy protections. The only effect those protections have is to annoy the hell out of the paying customers.
LOLCode | yes
Turing machine descriptions | yes
But if Factorization is NP-complete, then immediately QP (Quantum Polynomial) is the same as NP. So it does matter.
I wouldn't worry too much about quantum computers yet. You need several order of magnitude more qubits than what can currently be implemented (barely double-digit), and you need much longer coherence times (perhaps in the order of tens of milliseconds).
Captain Obviousman.
It was a couple of times larger than Krakatoa/1883 (albeit smaller than Tambora/1815)
SCO who?