Well VIA are not really performance CPU's. There are more for application that are size/power sensitive IIRC. The idea of using the phrase "two party system" is that voting for the independants does not get them into power. That is we have a market dominated by just 2 players. Really just one major player with a significant other.
We just got a 150 000 euro cluster from IBM. The options were intel or AMD.
I program 98% in java. What cost/performance option is there that not x86? The Cells are comming, but how well do the JIT perform on them? There was the PowerPC etc with apple. But now thats gone too.
He said they are getting less and less helpfull. Which is not the same as "just as bad".
Dam I really think it would be better if we didn't have a "two party system" in the x86 field. A third (or fourth) vendor would be nice. But given the high barrier to entry, its not going to happen anytime soon.
This is all true, and AMD have had problems in the past. Though it does seem to be more of a Intel problem. There bugs tend to be worse and intel tend to be worse at letting everyone know. IMO anyway.
Don't get me wrong, I have had my fair share of intel machines. I *almost* got a duo this time around. But a store special on a AMD X2 was just too good to pass up.
What -could- be considered shocking is that they'd litter their own skies with junk debris, thus making it harder for them (and everyone else) to use space in the future. Perhaps not. Both the former USSR and the US have tested anti-satelite missiles.
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a bunch of self-important people that touts their own (and each other) horns and manage to convince some gullible people that their opinion is any better than the guy [on the] next seat on the bus. Thanks.
The problem with DRM is that it is as much about vendor lock in as it is about content protection. Ironicly is works far better as a vendor locking method than a content control method. M$ will be reluctant to provide licenses for GPL type code for obvious reasons. However they seem to be more open to licenseing there DRM than apple is.
At the rate technology is progressing, somebody with a HD projector, a HD camcorder and a few extra lenses and filters will be able to do an analog capture that easily satisfies the average guy with a 50" LCD display. This would not be required. Now the frequencys are pretty high, but not out of the range of modern hobby electronics. I can use my own A/D converters on the raw signal. Somewhere in *any* complient HD system there will be the raw signal. Sometimes the raw digital signal --game over. But even if its analog I can get very fast 8-16 bit flash A/D converters. I can make up some sigma delta coverters, I can run the thing many times to fill errors etc. Getting something thats close will be easy. And then game over.
But i think people are missing why its game over. Because I went digital to analog to digital. I only need to do this *once* I get no futher quality reduction when I copy it. Now i can make copies of copies..... The lost from one analog step is not much. For most people thay wouldn't be able to tell the difference (aka not a handy cam rip here). Note that the grenral qualtiy of 700MB moive is totaly below VHS is some cases and yet they are by far the most common bit torrent size. 4.3 gig rips are ok most of the time... But this is DVD quality. Getting that from a bluRay would be easy.
the police won't come after you like they do in Europe. WTF? They don't come after you in the EU either. You should cheak you "facts" before you mouth off dribble like that. Dam even the Nazi groups are only fined sometimes, and most think that the nazi groups should be made legal now. As a result they get pretty much left to themselfs, more or less. Of course the genral public are agaist the ideas of these groups and are not affraid to show it, but thats not the same as ilegal.
The US is not the [only] free country of the world. Wake up.
To bad you didn't stop to ask if thats what he did and if they are happy with linux. If folk will still ask him about it, then the others clearly have no problem with linux.
We had to convert a office to linux/OO. So we did and everyone complained that it was too hard to learn. One of the managers thought it was M$ new offering and told them that. They stoped complaining..... Yea most folk write emials and letters. Perhaps look at some web sites and play some games (like klines). They don't need anything complicated. When OO doen't open a word file properly they don't really notice, because Office does that too.
I have nothing agaist sony and find some sony products good value for money compared to the competion. It was just the example at hand. Although I did forget the DVD/BluRay rootkit devlopment overheads.;)
Yea, first theres all the Sony Sound Stuido(TM) Fees, followed by the high cost of Sony Cameras and of course the editiong and mastering with the Sony Edtition Station Pro(TM). There was the hugh cost of Marketing from Sony Marketing and then there was all these licence fees for Blu-Ray mastering and DVD mastering (A Sony subsidary company). We havn't even talked about the cost of film (Sony Colour Tech) or film duplication (Sony Film Distrabution) and don't get me started on the Sony Legal deparment overheads or the realvent fees to MPAA/RIAA. And we don't even have a soundtrack yet.
People don't understand the high cost of movie production and distrabution.
Some jornals state that only 1 int 5 submitted papers gets published. Science and Nature are a lot worse. I have yet to have a paper rejected, but many of my friends have been rejected more than once and often without good reason IMO. The rejection rate is a *lot* higer than 1 in 500. Probably closer to 1 out of 2 accross the board.
But I think we aggree, climate science is very political at this point in time. Lets hope it get a little bit more sensable in the future.
And I forgot on the last reply to say: Sorry, You do know what you are talking about.
if you think that articles won't be published in climatology journals simply because they don't support AGW, then I would argue that it's probably your own bias leading you to that belief. I don't think. I know. This is not something I made up. I'm in a completly different department now because of the "funding" shift. Maybe you havn't been in science long enough yet, but the idea that scientist are not subject to popular theroies at the expense of others flys in the face of history. Scientist are people and its a few who sit on some funding board and decide what gets funded and what does not, what gets published what does not. If you have had a few papers published, great, but reveiwers are far from neutral if you disagree with there thinking on the matter, in *any* field.
Climate is one of those areas where you simply cannot model everything yet. So there always some "grounds" to reject papers, something that was not modeled, some assumption that was not taken into account, some parameter that should have been a different value. It happens in most fields. And Climate science is no exception.
This is a known problem with the peer review/publish or perish system. But I don't know a better system for jornals, to filter out much of the crap that could get into jornals (Hell there is already a lot of bad science published. Look at the retractions in Science and Nature).
But i assure you there are a some good papers that never got through that would at least bring a little reality into to the predictive ablity of our models. There is even more that just won't ever be writen, because its a lot of effort for little reward.
These scientists are not paid more if they find that global warming is anthropogenic than if they find that it's not. If you think otherwise, you're drinking the Crichton kool-aid, and are subscribing to the biggest conspiracy theory of them all. You have no idea what you are talking about. In science you must publish. Our grant will *NOT* be renewned if we don't publish enough at the end of the 2 year funding round (and that means find a new job). Some results are easy to publish others are not. It is almost imposable to publish climate stuides that show anything other than the excepted dogma that we caused most of the warming. Many good scientisit from the field that I know have left becuase of this.
Sun Tze talks about it. Its been documented in the past, and would be considered a pretty starndard "intel" method. Its in countless books (The Patrician in the Discworld series for example needed weaker encryption so that others could "crack" his messages from the clacks.... ). However I really doubt it in this case. Simply because I really don't think the information is all that informative or usefull.
Well I'm talking about folks that already use linux as there main OS, and only run windows for a few key applications. In this case Photoshop. But I would agree with your observation in general. But then again, we don't have a windows machine anywhere in our office.
There are a *lot* of gimp users that I know of that would switch 100% to PhotoShop if it was released on Linux, gimp is only used to avoid switching back to windows. $2500 is not much compared to a salary. I also aggree with some of the above comments. For a large majorty of people Gimp would be fine as they don't use any of the photoshop fetures anyway.
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They didn't offer anything but x86, and this *was* IBM.
Well VIA are not really performance CPU's. There are more for application that are size/power sensitive IIRC. The idea of using the phrase "two party system" is that voting for the independants does not get them into power. That is we have a market dominated by just 2 players. Really just one major player with a significant other.
We just got a 150 000 euro cluster from IBM. The options were intel or AMD.
I program 98% in java. What cost/performance option is there that not x86? The Cells are comming, but how well do the JIT perform on them? There was the PowerPC etc with apple. But now thats gone too.
He said they are getting less and less helpfull. Which is not the same as "just as bad".
Dam I really think it would be better if we didn't have a "two party system" in the x86 field. A third (or fourth) vendor would be nice. But given the high barrier to entry, its not going to happen anytime soon.
This is all true, and AMD have had problems in the past. Though it does seem to be more of a Intel problem. There bugs tend to be worse and intel tend to be worse at letting everyone know. IMO anyway.
Don't get me wrong, I have had my fair share of intel machines. I *almost* got a duo this time around. But a store special on a AMD X2 was just too good to pass up.
Thank God I got a AMD this time around.
I stoped using Cedega a while back, because it was just easier to get most games going under pure Wine.
The problem with DRM is that it is as much about vendor lock in as it is about content protection. Ironicly is works far better as a vendor locking method than a content control method. M$ will be reluctant to provide licenses for GPL type code for obvious reasons. However they seem to be more open to licenseing there DRM than apple is.
But i think people are missing why its game over. Because I went digital to analog to digital. I only need to do this *once* I get no futher quality reduction when I copy it. Now i can make copies of copies..... The lost from one analog step is not much. For most people thay wouldn't be able to tell the difference (aka not a handy cam rip here). Note that the grenral qualtiy of 700MB moive is totaly below VHS is some cases and yet they are by far the most common bit torrent size. 4.3 gig rips are ok most of the time... But this is DVD quality. Getting that from a bluRay would be easy.
The US is not the [only] free country of the world. Wake up.
It depends on how hot the daugter is.
To bad you didn't stop to ask if thats what he did and if they are happy with linux. If folk will still ask him about it, then the others clearly have no problem with linux.
We had to convert a office to linux/OO. So we did and everyone complained that it was too hard to learn. One of the managers thought it was M$ new offering and told them that. They stoped complaining..... Yea most folk write emials and letters. Perhaps look at some web sites and play some games (like klines). They don't need anything complicated. When OO doen't open a word file properly they don't really notice, because Office does that too.
I have nothing agaist sony and find some sony products good value for money compared to the competion. It was just the example at hand. Although I did forget the DVD/BluRay rootkit devlopment overheads. ;)
Yea, first theres all the Sony Sound Stuido(TM) Fees, followed by the high cost of Sony Cameras and of course the editiong and mastering with the Sony Edtition Station Pro(TM). There was the hugh cost of Marketing from Sony Marketing and then there was all these licence fees for Blu-Ray mastering and DVD mastering (A Sony subsidary company). We havn't even talked about the cost of film (Sony Colour Tech) or film duplication (Sony Film Distrabution) and don't get me started on the Sony Legal deparment overheads or the realvent fees to MPAA/RIAA. And we don't even have a soundtrack yet.
People don't understand the high cost of movie production and distrabution.
Some jornals state that only 1 int 5 submitted papers gets published. Science and Nature are a lot worse. I have yet to have a paper rejected, but many of my friends have been rejected more than once and often without good reason IMO. The rejection rate is a *lot* higer than 1 in 500. Probably closer to 1 out of 2 accross the board.
But I think we aggree, climate science is very political at this point in time. Lets hope it get a little bit more sensable in the future.
And I forgot on the last reply to say: Sorry, You do know what you are talking about.
Climate is one of those areas where you simply cannot model everything yet. So there always some "grounds" to reject papers, something that was not modeled, some assumption that was not taken into account, some parameter that should have been a different value. It happens in most fields. And Climate science is no exception.
This is a known problem with the peer review/publish or perish system. But I don't know a better system for jornals, to filter out much of the crap that could get into jornals (Hell there is already a lot of bad science published. Look at the retractions in Science and Nature).
But i assure you there are a some good papers that never got through that would at least bring a little reality into to the predictive ablity of our models. There is even more that just won't ever be writen, because its a lot of effort for little reward.
Sun Tze talks about it. Its been documented in the past, and would be considered a pretty starndard "intel" method. Its in countless books (The Patrician in the Discworld series for example needed weaker encryption so that others could "crack" his messages from the clacks.... ). However I really doubt it in this case. Simply because I really don't think the information is all that informative or usefull.
Well I'm talking about folks that already use linux as there main OS, and only run windows for a few key applications. In this case Photoshop. But I would agree with your observation in general. But then again, we don't have a windows machine anywhere in our office.
mmm thats a good point. I made the assumption that a company would be paying for it in which case the salary still dominates costs.
There are a *lot* of gimp users that I know of that would switch 100% to PhotoShop if it was released on Linux, gimp is only used to avoid switching back to windows. $2500 is not much compared to a salary. I also aggree with some of the above comments. For a large majorty of people Gimp would be fine as they don't use any of the photoshop fetures anyway.
A very nicely picked cherry.
Well I didn't RTA, but that sounds pretty bad since a nominal effecincy figure for fuel cell is around 70%.