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Joined 7 years ago
Joined 7 years ago
I used to do design/permitting for fiber networks and going around DOD areas/Fiber was always fun. You wind up having to submit your routes, and get vague feedback as to what you need to move, but never how far away/etc. Usually your best bet is to just go to the other side of the road if possible.
For whatever it's worth, it feels like GloFo has had various process issues for a -long- time. While there were issues with the Bulldozer design itself from a deep pipeline perspective etc, the other factor in it's lukewarm lifetime (especially the first couple gens) was issues with GloFo's processes even back then. I know some of that was that they were trying to gear more towards bulk silicon vs CPUs but I think there were other issues too.
A college friend works for my state's gaming commission. During a 'drinking talk' about digital signatures, she told me an interesting part of her job; not just going through the slot machines and validating the payout settings, but also checking the EEProms MD5 Hash* to make sure that it was in a list of 'approved' code hashes.
* - This was 15 years ago, I -really- hope they use something better nowadays.
Not a perfect solution but sometimes perfect is the enemy of good.
As for why it wasn't remastered at 4k, let alone 1080p back then, my guess is that the cost of rendering CG above DVD resolutions was a major factor.
For example, Intel '10nm' is actually pretty close to TSMC '7nm' as far as Transistor density, and at '10nm' is clearly superior from a density standpoint [0],[1].
However Intel has had trouble with their own 7nm node while TSMC is now at '5nm'.
[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_nm_process#10_nm_process_no... [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_nm_process#7_nm_process_node...
Could help lower the number of GH issues that are filed because people don't read said docs...
Most folks go with the 4 door option, so that's what dealers tend to stock, so you don't see them often.
Make of that what you will.