You are actually applying a lot of ill intent here where they are just using a standard business practice among both GPU and CPU companies. The majority of the chips come from the same production line. Chips that fail QA on a certain % of their CUDA cores are "binned down" to consumer level chips. This allow them to recoup costs and provide an adequate supply of pro chips while keeping prices relatively low.
There does come a time though later in their production cycle where the production line begins to be well tuned and provides a high yield of pro level chips that surpasses the demand for those chips, in that case the vendor just sets the core count to what is required and ships to match demand.
No real ill intent here just good business practice, you are paying for what is promised to you, and if you find a way to re-enable the extra hardware so be it. This was done in many quadro/geforce cards in the past.
I'd like to recommend mailvelope It's a plug-in based solution that works for all popular webmail clients. It's ease of use and integration makes using encrypted mail, and key handling easy.
I've had great success with mailvelope plug-in https://www.mailvelope.com/hel... it has support for firefox and chrome. It makes PGP encrypting mail secure and integrates well with existing mail accounts rather seamlessly. I'm a longtime user of PGP and mail encryption and this was one of the first times I've seen it done correctly and easy to use.
Yes they are, I tried to illustrate it. Think of when the quota if fulfilled; I have a job pool of 20 jobs. So far I have filled 10 slots with mails and 5 with females. In order to follow the quota I would have to auto select 5 women, regardless of the qualifications of the remaining male/female applicants.
If any of those 5 remaining slots were better suited by male applicants (by qualifications or other quantifiable metrics) they were turned down as a result of discrimination.
Nice ad hominem...
The fact that a gender is referenced as a qualifying factor in this program is sexist. What you fail to understand is WHY slashdot has such issues here. The typical geek loves strict definitions. They hate when labels and identifiers are only applied when the arguing party feels they benefit them.
Except that forced quotas are sexist, once the "quota" for either side is full and you deny entrance to the next applicant based on their gender, you are discriminating.
The GP use's two different terms in his subject and body. You do correctly match them up, they may not in fact discriminate in admittance, but the labeling and marketing is sexist.
Only to those they distribute the binaries too, if they ask for it. It doesn't mean they have to put it on the open internet.
Actually it does (well putting it on the open internet would be the cheapest way to) as per section 3.b.
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
Essentially if they distribute binary code containing GPL derivative they must provide source to 3rd parties that request it.
And that case is exactly what I was talking about. The GPL'ed sections that they are using, use of those parts mandates that any changes they make to them are released along with binary release.
And thanks for the compliment, yea I know the parts under CDDL we might not see for a long time. I'm just concerned with the community contributed GPL portions that exist. The memo indicated that a portion of the desktop environment uses these.
We will distribute updates to approved CDDL or other open source-
licensed code following full releases of our enterprise Solaris
operating system.
Would be hard to chastise them though as they should have released the code before any actions could be taken. Though it bothers me that the intent is to delay source release for a market edge.
High end science alot of times is taking the data, stewing on it, making a guess, then trying to find proof. He made a guess, was confident in it, but it fell through. I'd bet that it's less that he wants to admit he was wrong (although he's not hiding the fact) and more that the geek in him is excited about the way that it is, and he wants to talk about it.
As you mentioned though, the fact that he's not anoyed/silent about being wrong pays tribute to his charecter
This is just a new spin on embrace and extend. Just this time, MS/SUN want to embrace the hardware platform and DRM/proprietary interfaces. And slowly through attrition push out free/non-os-dependent hardware.
hmmm on 2nd thought not just Embrace and Extend but add in a dash of Bundling as well.
As soon as MS/SUN feels they have a majority of the hardware "sales" they will discontinue the standalone licenses of the OS or offer it at an exorbant price.
Is it just me or are they really not afraid of the anti-trust laws?
I agree, EQ(most MMORPG's) do create an environment where you feel compelled to play, and I believe that if they didn't they wouldn't succeed in the market. As unhealthy as it is why would developers not make a game that requires long term commitments.
What MMORPGS's do provide that sets them apart from most venues that "online friends" meet is that they provide a structured environment for activities and goals that people can achieve. Unlike most single player games most MMORPG's don't have a final objective (winning) and much like real life, personal satisfaction is gained through friendships/achieving goals that you set for yourself.
Although I agree with you that everquest can have a profound hold on people, I will have to disaggree with your assertion that, thease people are missing out with his "friends".
He may very well have taken events with his guild("clan") very seriously. Thease are people that he talks to and hangs out with more than likely every day. They are just as much friends to him as the people that he meets face to face in real life. In fact people seem to open up more to people (for better or worse) online. The impersonnality of the interface, tends to lend itself to a letting down of embarrasement and shyness.
You taunt him for fearing for missing out on something with his clan but would you feel the same if he was planning on going to a concert or amusement park with you and took great care to make it?
Being integrated with the motherboard doesn't make a performance difference on any board I've ever seen. It still goes over the PCI bus, it's just not using a slot. Creating a separate bus just for the ethernet port would be too expensive.
Not really if the motherboard chipset was designed from the get go to support somthing like that, it was mentioned earlier in the posts about the Intel i875 as well as the nForce3 based systems.
I've used both of thease trackballs and they greatly limit carpal tunnel damage. Logitech and also Shudder Microsoft
Both reduce the amount of wrist movement, I use the MS one at home and an older version of the one shown from logitech at work.
I've had the problem too. This was the first time I had tried to download a standard, and I was surprised that they charge a fee for it. How do they expect it to be a standard and charge such inappropriate amounts for it.
Nice to see someone up at this hour though, dfelznic
Starcraft still worked on Client Server model. One of the players was the server, if he dropped the game closed... although this was transparent to the user. Diablo 1 operated on much the same principle but made provisions for transfering the responsibility of being the server to one of the clients if the server left the game.
IMHO it's not a very bad idea. As long as you have user consent and the processing is done at a low priority level. It could become a very symbiotic relationship between ISP and users.
I think that just because a technology is over hyped, doesn't diminish from it's usefulness.
P2P that is being used now (napster, etc) may very well retain the client server distinction, but the role of the server has changed, instead of being the place of operations and storage, it directs connections of the clients and allows them to carry on their own mini-Client/Server relationship.
I agree with you that this isn't of the most importance. But money and legal attension usually follows the hype. The very fact that it is over hyped may make it more important in the future.
Currently most of the P2P work has been volunteer oriented, and for a humanitarian goal (SETI and protein folding/medical research), but I can see how this will be commercialized in the future. I would even reason that "free" ISP's such as juno, netzero, and others, could make use this technology to pay for their service instead of the banner ads that they currently sport.
Whether this is a good or bad thing I'm not sure.
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There does come a time though later in their production cycle where the production line begins to be well tuned and provides a high yield of pro level chips that surpasses the demand for those chips, in that case the vendor just sets the core count to what is required and ships to match demand.
No real ill intent here just good business practice, you are paying for what is promised to you, and if you find a way to re-enable the extra hardware so be it. This was done in many quadro/geforce cards in the past.
I'd like to recommend mailvelope It's a plug-in based solution that works for all popular webmail clients. It's ease of use and integration makes using encrypted mail, and key handling easy.
I would have gotten first post but I hit the backspace
I've had great success with mailvelope plug-in https://www.mailvelope.com/hel... it has support for firefox and chrome. It makes PGP encrypting mail secure and integrates well with existing mail accounts rather seamlessly. I'm a longtime user of PGP and mail encryption and this was one of the first times I've seen it done correctly and easy to use.
Yes they are, I tried to illustrate it. Think of when the quota if fulfilled; I have a job pool of 20 jobs. So far I have filled 10 slots with mails and 5 with females. In order to follow the quota I would have to auto select 5 women, regardless of the qualifications of the remaining male/female applicants. If any of those 5 remaining slots were better suited by male applicants (by qualifications or other quantifiable metrics) they were turned down as a result of discrimination.
Nice ad hominem... The fact that a gender is referenced as a qualifying factor in this program is sexist. What you fail to understand is WHY slashdot has such issues here. The typical geek loves strict definitions. They hate when labels and identifiers are only applied when the arguing party feels they benefit them.
Except that forced quotas are sexist, once the "quota" for either side is full and you deny entrance to the next applicant based on their gender, you are discriminating.
The GP use's two different terms in his subject and body. You do correctly match them up, they may not in fact discriminate in admittance, but the labeling and marketing is sexist.
That was my first though, anything that restricts to either sex for a non-anatomical reason is inherently sexist.
Only to those they distribute the binaries too, if they ask for it. It doesn't mean they have to put it on the open internet.
Actually it does (well putting it on the open internet would be the cheapest way to) as per section 3.b.
Essentially if they distribute binary code containing GPL derivative they must provide source to 3rd parties that request it.
And that case is exactly what I was talking about. The GPL'ed sections that they are using, use of those parts mandates that any changes they make to them are released along with binary release.
And thanks for the compliment, yea I know the parts under CDDL we might not see for a long time. I'm just concerned with the community contributed GPL portions that exist. The memo indicated that a portion of the desktop environment uses these.
We will distribute updates to approved CDDL or other open source- licensed code following full releases of our enterprise Solaris operating system.
Would be hard to chastise them though as they should have released the code before any actions could be taken. Though it bothers me that the intent is to delay source release for a market edge.
Very true,
High end science alot of times is taking the data, stewing on it, making a guess, then trying to find proof. He made a guess, was confident in it, but it fell through. I'd bet that it's less that he wants to admit he was wrong (although he's not hiding the fact) and more that the geek in him is excited about the way that it is, and he wants to talk about it.
As you mentioned though, the fact that he's not anoyed/silent about being wrong pays tribute to his charecter
DeVoiD
This is just a new spin on embrace and extend. Just this time, MS/SUN want to embrace the hardware platform and DRM/proprietary interfaces. And slowly through attrition push out free/non-os-dependent hardware.
hmmm on 2nd thought not just Embrace and Extend but add in a dash of Bundling as well.
As soon as MS/SUN feels they have a majority of the hardware "sales" they will discontinue the standalone licenses of the OS or offer it at an exorbant price.
Is it just me or are they really not afraid of the anti-trust laws?
I agree, EQ(most MMORPG's) do create an environment where you feel compelled to play, and I believe that if they didn't they wouldn't succeed in the market. As unhealthy as it is why would developers not make a game that requires long term commitments.
What MMORPGS's do provide that sets them apart from most venues that "online friends" meet is that they provide a structured environment for activities and goals that people can achieve. Unlike most single player games most MMORPG's don't have a final objective (winning) and much like real life, personal satisfaction is gained through friendships/achieving goals that you set for yourself.
Although I agree with you that everquest can have a profound hold on people, I will have to disaggree with your assertion that, thease people are missing out with his "friends".
He may very well have taken events with his guild("clan") very seriously. Thease are people that he talks to and hangs out with more than likely every day. They are just as much friends to him as the people that he meets face to face in real life. In fact people seem to open up more to people (for better or worse) online. The impersonnality of the interface, tends to lend itself to a letting down of embarrasement and shyness.
You taunt him for fearing for missing out on something with his clan but would you feel the same if he was planning on going to a concert or amusement park with you and took great care to make it?
Not really if the motherboard chipset was designed from the get go to support somthing like that, it was mentioned earlier in the posts about the Intel i875 as well as the nForce3 based systems.
I've used both of thease trackballs and they greatly limit carpal tunnel damage.
Logitech and also Shudder Microsoft
Both reduce the amount of wrist movement, I use the MS one at home and an older version of the one shown from logitech at work.
Nice to see someone up at this hour though, dfelznic
Starcraft still worked on Client Server model. One of the players was the server, if he dropped the game closed... although this was transparent to the user. Diablo 1 operated on much the same principle but made provisions for transfering the responsibility of being the server to one of the clients if the server left the game.
IMHO it's not a very bad idea. As long as you have user consent and the processing is done at a low priority level. It could become a very symbiotic relationship between ISP and users.
P2P that is being used now (napster, etc) may very well retain the client server distinction, but the role of the server has changed, instead of being the place of operations and storage, it directs connections of the clients and allows them to carry on their own mini-Client/Server relationship.
I agree with you that this isn't of the most importance. But money and legal attension usually follows the hype. The very fact that it is over hyped may make it more important in the future.
SETI could very well be considered P2P, because both you and the SETI "servers" are acting as both a client and a server.
Currently most of the P2P work has been volunteer oriented, and for a humanitarian goal (SETI and protein folding/medical research), but I can see how this will be commercialized in the future. I would even reason that "free" ISP's such as juno, netzero, and others, could make use this technology to pay for their service instead of the banner ads that they currently sport. Whether this is a good or bad thing I'm not sure.