That's known now but it sounds like Google wasn't removing videos for having fake viewers before. So it's unlikely his competitors would have been artificially inflating the number of views before this announcement since it seems that would have just made his videos seem more popular with no downside.

It could be worse than that if those videos were in the programs where the poster is paid for the # of views. In that case they would have defrauded both the advertisers and Google/Youtube. That could lead to criminal charges if Google wants to press the issue.

But that is accepted practice in the UK. In any case HP had two accounting firms involved in auditing Autonomy plus their own management team. If they didn't realize what Autonomy was doing and why then they can only blame themselves and their accounting firms. (Assuming they didn't see it and tell HP about it. Which isn't likely.)

You mean like Alec Baldwin?

As that same picture isn't part of the original story I choose to believe that's a bit of creative editing by the NY Daily News. Nothing makes an article like this even scarier than adding in a nice picture of lots of unlabeled containers in a basement next to something odd that is cooking away. It doesn't help that the picture is labeled with the generic title of explosives.jpg http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1223534.1355938579!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/explosives.jpg

It all depends on the settings that you use. I'm sure that if Scott Wasson turned down a few of the eye candy options just a bit and re-ran the tests he wouldn't see the same issues. So if you don't turn on all the eye candy (I usually don't) you may never see this issue.

The problem is that you are talking about the frame rate per second. The issue is that the high latency frame rate may only occur for a few frames. So the FPS might still be high for that second but the hitch in the frame rate would be noticeable to a viewer. That's why the Tech Report is including both the FPS rate and the 99th% percentile rate. So you can see if the frame rate is good enough as well as what the maximum delay you might see from frame to frame.

Of course this is all being done with very high resolution for the most part (using one of those high res Korean monitors) so it is possible that just turning down the resoution to 1920x1080 or turning off some of the eye candy could get rid of any delay in delivering frames. Also this is probably just a driver issue and with this being widely discussed AMD will fix it soon.

You might find one one my desk where it has served me reliably for years. Not everyone has dumped all of the CRTs for that new-fangled LCD madness. ;)

They can't buy the x86 license. If AMD gets bought out by another company then the x86 license goes away, as I understand it. It might be doable if an individual or some investment firm bought AMD (depending on the contract) but it won't happen if someone like Samsung bought AMD.

And you need to wear a mask or hood so that no one can see your face. After this is Cisco so they must have hidden cameras all over the building.

I think it is reasonable that you student ID card doesn't count as valid ID since it doesn't have your state of residence listed. So if you could use your student ID you could be from out of state (and be paying out of state tuition) and vote in the GA election, plus you could vote in your home state. So they don't allow that form of ID to be used to vote.

I wouldn't be surprised if that is true in all states since they face the same issue with knowing which students are actually considered residents of that state versus being out of state students attending college in the state.