Recent content by Afti

I have to agree that on the whole, assuming the team doing the government-use fork is competent (admittedly a sizable assumption!), this is one of the less-stupid things our government has done. Regular security updates to the mainline you can analyze and integrate, and since you have the source...

Question- wouldn't it be possible to name the child Dovahkiin, take advantage of Bethesda's offer, and then change the name easily enough? Besides, he has Tom to go by. Not seeing a huge issue.

I'm not big on entitlement programs- but prices are as high as they are in large part because local governments are enforcing cable monopolies. This is a Band-Aid, no question about that, but it's at least a marginal improvement.

Die shrink Phenom II and glue on some more cache while they stick Bulldozer back in the oven, until it's actually an improvement over the old architecture.

Earlier in development, it was stated that Bulldozer would see an IPC improvement over Thuban; had this been the case, even with the chip failing to hit the intended clocks the released product would be in a better situation. What flaws in the design or manufacturing process would you attribute...

I certainly hope he's a troll, and not someone who expects Bulldozer to magically become competitive with Sandy Bridge- or Thuban, for that matter.

Yes, says me- who else am I going to speak for, Martha Stewart? Based on every available benchmark- Bulldozer is slow, hot, and power-hungry. It's not a good CPU, period.

The problem is that if Bulldozer winds up competing at the ~$175 price range, it's already failed. AMD has put too much into stressing the power of Bulldozer, and that's going to bite them in the ass now, with severe effects on their brand.

I'm serious. If they couldn't fix the chip, AMD should not have put it out on the market. Bulldozer is a bad product, being sold as the best AMD has to offer. It's going to do a number on the brand- and the FX brand is most certainly dead now. Some of the technologies here are interesting! The...

Well, sure- but the fact remains that the resolution of WW1 pretty much doing as much as possible to give the Germans a reason to be upset was essential to the Nazi rise to power. The Nazis could have come to power; the Communists could have come to power- but either one would be doing that by...

The Nazis were able to come about because of the way World War 1 was resolved- the armistice was great for the Allies, less so for Germany. The situation was ideal for a propagandist to exploit.

If it's like the reference 5xxx series, the purpose of the plastic shroud is to control the flow of air; it's not just a decorative thing. It's why the egg-shaped Juniper cooler has a slight performance difference from the first one. I wouldn't advise removing the shroud, as such; the cooler is...

The money is to be found in mining. As supplies of valuable minerals become more scarce on Earth, these other, untouched planets will look far more attractive. Eventually, as the minerals become more expensive and the technology needed for space travel less so (after factoring in the...

Not really- this furthers AMD's ability to compete in the low-end. They didn't need too much help there, though, considering the pricing of Intel's low-end chips; all this does is reinstate their dominance in an area they already traditionally hold. It speaks nothing for how AMD will do in the...

Makes sense from a marketing standpoint- to a non-technical consumer, the kind who buys this card from Best Buy at all, the kind who has the Geek Squad install it, 2GB > 1GB. Bigger numbers are better, right? It just lets them attach a longer shelf life to the chips that VisionTek already...