We've had a steady stream of multi-core guests here at Stanford lecturing on the horror and panic in the industry about multi-core, and how the world is ending. I've seen Intel guys practically shit themselves on stage, they are so terrified we can't find them a new killer multi-core app in time. That's BS. OK so it's a hour lecture, maybe two if you're not that fast. Parallel/SMP is not that hard, you just have to be careful and follow one rule, and it's not even a hard rule. There are even software tools to check you followed the rule!
But that's not the problem...
The problem is, a multi-year old desktop PC is still doing IM, email, web surfing, Excel, facebook/myspace, and even video playing fast enough a new one won't "feel" any faster once you load up all the software, not one bit. For everyone but the hardcore momma's basement dwelling gamers, the PC on your home/work desk is already fast enough. All the killer apps are now considered low-CPU, bandwidth is the problem.
Now sure, I use 8-core systems at the lab, and sit on top of the 250k-node Folding@home so it sounds like I've lost my mind, but you know what, us super/distributed computing science geeks are still 0% of the computer market if you round. (and we'll always need every last TFLOP of computation on earth, and still need more)
That's it. Simple. Sweet. And a REAL crisis - but only to the bottom line. The market has nowhere to go but lower wattage lower cost systems which means lower profits. Ouch.
If you're old enough to remember Star Wars coming out, you're too old to think anything right now except "30 years, wow I'm old". If thoughts of action figures pop into your mind, or if you're still living in your mom's basement, SEEK THERAPY IMMEDIATELY.
Actually they work damn hard to make sure no smart people gets into the country legally. Meanwhile 10-30M Mexicans with no high school diploma are here and nobody cares.
Good thing too, else no one would cut our lawn, or anyone else's lawn in California.
How do you build an advertising economy when the number can't be trusted?
There's a sucker born every minute. Customers and advertisers both. Google proves it every day. Even the price comparison sites are becoming bogus.
Widget online: $3 Shipping & "handling": $25 Markup for the ad we had to buy to get you here: $47 On sale at the local mall: $2
Now that Google is taking over the entire ad space, it's one simple entry in the ad blocking software to eliminate most ads. Get Adblock properly configured and you'll rarely if ever see an ad.
Most RAID systems or databases (and even most filesystems) are using block sizes FAR larger then 4k already.
The still tiny 4k is only used because Intel and most other VM paging systems all use 4k. I haven't run a machine with paging turned on in years tho, I don't think most people do since RAM is so cheap.
I wasn't aware there were still IM clients that didn't have video anymore. Nice to see gTalk catching up to ~2003 I suppose. Odd that with an army of PhD's, Google seems to have to buy all their tech elsewhere and is still years behind.
Doesn't anyone else think this is a little strange?
Awesome, now I need my laptop to work, the projector to be in a good mood, _AND_ an internet connection... in a place i've probably never been until the presentation.
Please fill in the following for before writing any reviews:
DX9 support: [ ] DX10 support: [ ] Wattage: ______ Wattage: ______ (the real number this time) Plays a game my 4 year old card cannot play just fine [ ]
Since there is currently no game you can check off that last box for, and the wattages are complete shit, we can all just completely IGNORE ATI and nVidia until they get a F'ing clue about making cards for anything but 40 year old virgins still living in their parents basements.
Both google and doubleclick are blocked by every ad blocking piece of software, and i'd bet noone reading/. or their friends or family members has seen either type of ad in years.
ISPs will be forced by the P2P use to charge by the GB. They have no other way to avoid making their service useless to everyone else, just visit any campus to see a useless network in action. Its just the reality of life, not that all the P2P users give a damn so long as they can get their movies
I'd bet the pricing will be about $9/600MB, making it cheaper to goto the movies then to download them.
But, as a bonus, all those bots will get huge bills and people will finally have a reason to remove them. And the net will be fast as hell for the rest of us.
There isn't much point with average GPA's going up 0.1/year in HS and colleges, everyone has to be given an A or they will sue the school. A single "B" can mean having to goto community college since everyone else has a 4.0 and there is a 137-way tie for valedictorian. Just write your name on the paper and get your A.
Does it matter if all the jobs you need a 3rd grade education for are all going to Asia? Probably not. And since many of those jobs are in copying/counterfeiting copying that term paper is just practice! *laughs*
If they map it, the WiFi guys know where to drop in a next-gen WiFi (WiMax?) node for a couple hundred bucks and take 100% of the market.
And if you need to know before buying a house (something noone with a brain would do until the housing market bottoms out in 3 years) just goto the local school, ask the science teacher if they teach creationism. If they do, you're NEVER GETTING BROADBAND.
"However, multi-threaded development has been notoriously hard to do.
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Noone I've ever met thinks this is even a tiny bit difficult. Maybe the problem is that there are not yet compilers AT ALL for these new chips? Nah, blame multithreading!
The NYSE and NASDAQ heads are whining almost daily about how all the big IPO's are now in London. The IPO is where the US brokers get the chance to screw the company of millions or billions, and funnel it to their friends, so this is really hurting them badly.
So yes, they are effectively shutout. No US company can seriously compete with China cooking the books as hard as they can even without SOX, SOX just adds to the pain by killing the cooks.
The reaction to SOX here in the US has been to take companies private, or list in London instead of New York. The costs of SOX alone are easily enough to force you out of business if your competitors aren't burdened with SOX.
I'm kinda surprised that Japan would be similarly desperate to rid itself of publicly traded companies.
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We've had a steady stream of multi-core guests here at Stanford lecturing on the horror and panic in the industry about multi-core, and how the world is ending. I've seen Intel guys practically shit themselves on stage, they are so terrified we can't find them a new killer multi-core app in time. That's BS. OK so it's a hour lecture, maybe two if you're not that fast. Parallel/SMP is not that hard, you just have to be careful and follow one rule, and it's not even a hard rule. There are even software tools to check you followed the rule!
But that's not the problem...
The problem is, a multi-year old desktop PC is still doing IM, email, web surfing, Excel, facebook/myspace, and even video playing fast enough a new one won't "feel" any faster once you load up all the software, not one bit. For everyone but the hardcore momma's basement dwelling gamers, the PC on your home/work desk is already fast enough. All the killer apps are now considered low-CPU, bandwidth is the problem.
Now sure, I use 8-core systems at the lab, and sit on top of the 250k-node Folding@home so it sounds like I've lost my mind, but you know what, us super/distributed computing science geeks are still 0% of the computer market if you round. (and we'll always need every last TFLOP of computation on earth, and still need more)
That's it. Simple. Sweet. And a REAL crisis - but only to the bottom line. The market has nowhere to go but lower wattage lower cost systems which means lower profits. Ouch.
The problem is... many of have been doing this for YEARS now. VM's are not new.
:)
I look forward to busting patents with prior art
If you're old enough to remember Star Wars coming out, you're too old to think anything right now except "30 years, wow I'm old". If thoughts of action figures pop into your mind, or if you're still living in your mom's basement, SEEK THERAPY IMMEDIATELY.
It was a movie, and a good one, but move on!
Actually they work damn hard to make sure no smart people gets into the country legally. Meanwhile 10-30M Mexicans with no high school diploma are here and nobody cares.
Good thing too, else no one would cut our lawn, or anyone else's lawn in California.
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Thats all great, really.
But the number one thing they will realize, is that if you working at home works, someone working in India for 1/6 the wage will work just as well.
Don't be stupid people, if your boss is letting you telecommute, they are just beta testing offshoring.
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How do you build an advertising economy when the number can't be trusted?
There's a sucker born every minute. Customers and advertisers both. Google proves it every day. Even the price comparison sites are becoming bogus.
Widget online: $3
Shipping & "handling": $25
Markup for the ad we had to buy to get you here: $47
On sale at the local mall: $2
Now that Google is taking over the entire ad space, it's one simple entry in the ad blocking software to eliminate most ads. Get Adblock properly configured and you'll rarely if ever see an ad.
Another tech solution to a social problem.
I sense a get rich quick scam in there somewhere, otherwise why make up BS like that?
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Way to jump on the bandwagon other people have to beg and plead you to join. Sweet political move, now people think this was your idea!
This guy is 100% politics as usual.
Most RAID systems or databases (and even most filesystems) are using block sizes FAR larger then 4k already.
The still tiny 4k is only used because Intel and most other VM paging systems all use 4k. I haven't run a machine with paging turned on in years tho, I don't think most people do since RAM is so cheap.
I'm sure the CIA will call the FTC and make this all OK. Worry not. It's double-plus good.
It's well known the CIA is woven deep into Google, and frankly if they weren't we'd have to fire the whole CIA for incompetence.
I wasn't aware there were still IM clients that didn't have video anymore. Nice to see gTalk catching up to ~2003 I suppose. Odd that with an army of PhD's, Google seems to have to buy all their tech elsewhere and is still years behind.
Doesn't anyone else think this is a little strange?
Awesome, now I need my laptop to work, the projector to be in a good mood, _AND_ an internet connection... in a place i've probably never been until the presentation.
Things are hard enough as it is, but good grief!
Please fill in the following for before writing any reviews:
DX9 support: [ ]
DX10 support: [ ]
Wattage: ______
Wattage: ______ (the real number this time)
Plays a game my 4 year old card cannot play just fine [ ]
Since there is currently no game you can check off that last box for, and the wattages are complete shit, we can all just completely IGNORE ATI and nVidia until they get a F'ing clue about making cards for anything but 40 year old virgins still living in their parents basements.
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Nah, Google is a CIA house... so no NSA allowed.
Both google and doubleclick are blocked by every ad blocking piece of software, and i'd bet noone reading /. or their friends or family members has seen either type of ad in years.
Why the heck do we care?
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97% of science news reporting is complete crap.
/. is sorta a news site, I made sure to get it wrong here.
It's actually 99%, but since
ISPs will be forced by the P2P use to charge by the GB. They have no other way to avoid making their service useless to everyone else, just visit any campus to see a useless network in action. Its just the reality of life, not that all the P2P users give a damn so long as they can get their movies
I'd bet the pricing will be about $9/600MB, making it cheaper to goto the movies then to download them.
But, as a bonus, all those bots will get huge bills and people will finally have a reason to remove them. And the net will be fast as hell for the rest of us.
There isn't much point with average GPA's going up 0.1/year in HS and colleges, everyone has to be given an A or they will sue the school. A single "B" can mean having to goto community college since everyone else has a 4.0 and there is a 137-way tie for valedictorian. Just write your name on the paper and get your A.
Does it matter if all the jobs you need a 3rd grade education for are all going to Asia? Probably not. And since many of those jobs are in copying/counterfeiting copying that term paper is just practice! *laughs*
More wattage, more cooling, more noise = more speed?
Amazing!!! Congratulations, the marketing industry has clearly found your testosterone, and billed you for it.
How about more articles on the nice low wattage small and quiet machines? Unless you can beat a Mac Mini just don't bother.
No. You can however donate to the Pande group at Stanford if you need a writeoff :)
http://folding.stanford.edu/donate/
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You may think you've integrated your work and you life, but if you have that's because you don't yet a have a life.
You think you do, but someday you'll finally have one and look back and wonder what the hell you were thinking.
And don't forget the sunscreen.
If they map it, the WiFi guys know where to drop in a next-gen WiFi (WiMax?) node for a couple hundred bucks and take 100% of the market.
:)
And if you need to know before buying a house (something noone with a brain would do until the housing market bottoms out in 3 years) just goto the local school, ask the science teacher if they teach creationism. If they do, you're NEVER GETTING BROADBAND.
Everything else should be OK
"However, multi-threaded development has been notoriously hard to do.
if ( statement.agree() )
leave_slashdot_now();
Noone I've ever met thinks this is even a tiny bit difficult. Maybe the problem is that there are not yet compilers AT ALL for these new chips? Nah, blame multithreading!
The NYSE and NASDAQ heads are whining almost daily about how all the big IPO's are now in London. The IPO is where the US brokers get the chance to screw the company of millions or billions, and funnel it to their friends, so this is really hurting them badly.
So yes, they are effectively shutout. No US company can seriously compete with China cooking the books as hard as they can even without SOX, SOX just adds to the pain by killing the cooks.
The reaction to SOX here in the US has been to take companies private, or list in London instead of New York. The costs of SOX alone are easily enough to force you out of business if your competitors aren't burdened with SOX.
I'm kinda surprised that Japan would be similarly desperate to rid itself of publicly traded companies.