Point #3 is misleading. "Paper Launches" are common in the industry. It's not an nvidia or fermi-specific thing.
Point #4 is just bogus. There will be plenty of people who'll buy these chips.
Also, prices are likely to fall on these chips, which will cause Radeons to fall as well. And it's not going to take that long.
I suggest everyone go check out HardOCP's GF100 review for a real-world analysis, rather than 4 trollish bulletpoints.
Same as it always has been. The driver they discontinued never supported it anyways. You must be thinking of their proprietary driver (you know... the one that actually supports 3D)
Nor will they remember the days when they didn't have to replace their harddrive every 5 years because it ran out of rewrite cycles and the capacity started shrinking.
If you wanted true freedom you shouldn't've used code licensed under the GPL. The GPL's interpretation of "freedom" is freedom for EVERYONE, not just for YOU. So while you have free use of the code in question, everyone else has free use of any changes you may make to it. The idea is that if we leave it up to peoples' good wills to ensure freedom, we'll all live in slavery, so we'll legally force everyone to let everyone else be free. Seems to be working out OK.
Am I the only one who's perfectly fine with two analog sticks and a bunch of buttons? Maybe it's sort of neat to be able to wave a wand around and have stuff happen on the screen, but until they get to a point where your "aim" or "cursor" or whatever is precisely where you're pointing, count me out. I want more precision than a wiimote can provide, and I want action games (think Call of Duty), not games built around some gimmick (Wario Ware or whatever the hell they call it).
Guess I'm just not their target market.
True but they're designed for entirely different workloads. The Niagara series of processors is designed toward large numbers of not-particularly-intensive tasks such as serving web pages and such. Power7 and Nehalem-EX are targeted more toward processing-power-intensive tasks which are still parellizable.
I'm not sure it ultimately matters why it loads slowly. Safari is a great browser, and I don't think anyone is trying to take that away from it by saying that it loads slowly, but in the final analysis, you probably want a browser that loads as quickly as possible. In fact, I think the only browser that there was a negative attitude toward at all was IE (with good reason, imo). For the most part, they just presented their findings and let it go at that.
Because, in general, you don't only want a video stream. You want to be able to bundle multiple streams together (usually of different types, eg an audio stream and a video stream). Vorbis, for example, is audio. Theora would be video. Ogg (the container) exists to bundle them together into a single file, so you can have a movie and sound with it.
Methinks you're confused about something. fdisk doesn't have anything to do with DOS partition tables. fdisk manipulates the MBR, which is required to locate partitions (of any sort) on the disk, unless you're using an OS/BIOS combination that supports GPTs, which is hardly widespread at this point.
Little different from swapping between a low-power "integrated" GPU and a high-performance discrete GPU, which is what I read the article to say this technology does.
I suggest you look into the Revelation Space series, by Alastair Reynolds. A rather fascinating set of reading, and could make excellent films, if done properly.
So we've got these standards and limits on the amounts of toxic chemicals we allow into our drinking water (and thus bodies), and we build a little bit of extra "caution" in, to make EXTRA sure that we don't accidentally poison ourselves... and then our public officials ignore these limits and standards because they're "cautious"? Really now?
NRC spokeswoman should be given a hands-on lesson in why we include safety padding in these matters.
Not only is it not particularly hoppy, it has a pretty significant rice content. If anything, bud is hop-flavored rice alcohol. This being said, it's still my favorite mass market beer.
OpenSSH indeed supports Blowfish. You can also configure which algorithms it will accept, and which it will indicate preference for in the KEXINIT. That being said, it's silly to assume that Blowfish is less likely to be subject to buffer overflows or stack bugs than AES. AES is (to my knowledge) the most commonly used crypto algorithm for SSH, and likely has more eyes looking at it, etc etc.
I also tend to believe that if there were a buffer overflow bug in OpenSSH, we'd know about it.
ssh-agent is run on your local machine, not the server. Additionally, the server only stores the public key, the private key is also stored on your local machine. So unless they're ssh-ing FROM your system to another system, you can't "borrow" their key. And if they ARE doing that, then they were fucked to begin with and this discussion is so pointless I question why you even brought it up.
Did any of your bugs evolve to the point where they learned during the course of their lifespan, as opposed to genetic learning/memory? What I mean is, did your bugs know not to collide (for instance) because they saw another bug get killed by colliding, or were the genetic markers that predisposed bugs to collide with things removed from the genome over time?
I ask this because while robots evolving is neat, I don't see what path it would follow to producing any real "AI" in the sense of something recognizable as being human-like. This sort of thing would seem appropriate to producing hordes of nanorobots that do specific tasks, but not individual nanorobots that would be able to figure out how to do arbitrary tasks.
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I just went to that address and there was definitely no sexy girl zipping up her pants. Just some old fat balding guy. I want my money back.
Point #3 is misleading. "Paper Launches" are common in the industry. It's not an nvidia or fermi-specific thing.
Point #4 is just bogus. There will be plenty of people who'll buy these chips.
Also, prices are likely to fall on these chips, which will cause Radeons to fall as well. And it's not going to take that long.
I suggest everyone go check out HardOCP's GF100 review for a real-world analysis, rather than 4 trollish bulletpoints.
Same as it always has been. The driver they discontinued never supported it anyways. You must be thinking of their proprietary driver (you know... the one that actually supports 3D)
Nor will they remember the days when they didn't have to replace their harddrive every 5 years because it ran out of rewrite cycles and the capacity started shrinking.
So you'd pay hooker rates, just to play STO with someone? I smell a market here.
If you wanted true freedom you shouldn't've used code licensed under the GPL. The GPL's interpretation of "freedom" is freedom for EVERYONE, not just for YOU. So while you have free use of the code in question, everyone else has free use of any changes you may make to it. The idea is that if we leave it up to peoples' good wills to ensure freedom, we'll all live in slavery, so we'll legally force everyone to let everyone else be free. Seems to be working out OK.
Am I the only one who's perfectly fine with two analog sticks and a bunch of buttons? Maybe it's sort of neat to be able to wave a wand around and have stuff happen on the screen, but until they get to a point where your "aim" or "cursor" or whatever is precisely where you're pointing, count me out. I want more precision than a wiimote can provide, and I want action games (think Call of Duty), not games built around some gimmick (Wario Ware or whatever the hell they call it). Guess I'm just not their target market.
I think he's looking for a solution to his inability to hear things (including his wife), not for ways to get a job despite his condition.
It was a little up in the air there for awhile!
Didn't you hear? They're just "demo units"... ;) riiiiiiiight
True but they're designed for entirely different workloads. The Niagara series of processors is designed toward large numbers of not-particularly-intensive tasks such as serving web pages and such. Power7 and Nehalem-EX are targeted more toward processing-power-intensive tasks which are still parellizable.
I'm not sure it ultimately matters why it loads slowly. Safari is a great browser, and I don't think anyone is trying to take that away from it by saying that it loads slowly, but in the final analysis, you probably want a browser that loads as quickly as possible. In fact, I think the only browser that there was a negative attitude toward at all was IE (with good reason, imo). For the most part, they just presented their findings and let it go at that.
Because, in general, you don't only want a video stream. You want to be able to bundle multiple streams together (usually of different types, eg an audio stream and a video stream). Vorbis, for example, is audio. Theora would be video. Ogg (the container) exists to bundle them together into a single file, so you can have a movie and sound with it.
Methinks you're confused about something. fdisk doesn't have anything to do with DOS partition tables. fdisk manipulates the MBR, which is required to locate partitions (of any sort) on the disk, unless you're using an OS/BIOS combination that supports GPTs, which is hardly widespread at this point.
Yeah, but if everyone drives cars, it's a win, cuz then the terrists can't crash the planes into buildings.
Little different from swapping between a low-power "integrated" GPU and a high-performance discrete GPU, which is what I read the article to say this technology does.
I suggest you look into the Revelation Space series, by Alastair Reynolds. A rather fascinating set of reading, and could make excellent films, if done properly.
So we've got these standards and limits on the amounts of toxic chemicals we allow into our drinking water (and thus bodies), and we build a little bit of extra "caution" in, to make EXTRA sure that we don't accidentally poison ourselves... and then our public officials ignore these limits and standards because they're "cautious"? Really now?
NRC spokeswoman should be given a hands-on lesson in why we include safety padding in these matters.
Not only is it not particularly hoppy, it has a pretty significant rice content. If anything, bud is hop-flavored rice alcohol. This being said, it's still my favorite mass market beer.
OpenSSH indeed supports Blowfish. You can also configure which algorithms it will accept, and which it will indicate preference for in the KEXINIT. That being said, it's silly to assume that Blowfish is less likely to be subject to buffer overflows or stack bugs than AES. AES is (to my knowledge) the most commonly used crypto algorithm for SSH, and likely has more eyes looking at it, etc etc. I also tend to believe that if there were a buffer overflow bug in OpenSSH, we'd know about it.
ssh-agent is run on your local machine, not the server. Additionally, the server only stores the public key, the private key is also stored on your local machine. So unless they're ssh-ing FROM your system to another system, you can't "borrow" their key. And if they ARE doing that, then they were fucked to begin with and this discussion is so pointless I question why you even brought it up.
Did any of your bugs evolve to the point where they learned during the course of their lifespan, as opposed to genetic learning/memory? What I mean is, did your bugs know not to collide (for instance) because they saw another bug get killed by colliding, or were the genetic markers that predisposed bugs to collide with things removed from the genome over time? I ask this because while robots evolving is neat, I don't see what path it would follow to producing any real "AI" in the sense of something recognizable as being human-like. This sort of thing would seem appropriate to producing hordes of nanorobots that do specific tasks, but not individual nanorobots that would be able to figure out how to do arbitrary tasks.
... but that doesn't change the fact that most websites suck when viewed on an 800x480 screen.
Mod parent up. Just because a (possibly improperly tuned) computer model say something happens doesn't "conclusively" show anything.
If wiki is to be believed, 3 x 2.5gbit/sec (List of Transatlantic cables and The one that makes a stop in Iceland)