The numbers are correct, the GP post reported them incorrectly. The net profit is down 90%. Not gross profit. Not revenue. He made it sound as if Intel was selling 90% less stuff, when in reality it's closer to about 10% less.
If Intel's revenue were 1/10th of what it was last quarter,(something like armageddon occured) they'd probably be negotiating plans to try to liquidate their assests.
In Soviet Russia, ALL work gets paid (useless or not)...not that your work is useless. If people are looking at it and using it and telling you to publish, you should probably do it if you want the money. If your writing was utter trash and you tried to publish it (or it actaully got published) then you wouldn't get paid for poor quality work.
The idea that you get a tax rebates for voluntarily working on something is interesting, but do taxpayers want to pay for this kind of work?
I would like to know what others think about this as I just graduated (today, in fact) form school with a CS degree. I was pondering doing some OSS work to get some experience in some form of team-ish software development. It would be nice if I could make money from the gov't for that.
I don't think there is any debate at all, RayTracing is by far superior, there is just the problem of computing power.
People fail to realize that rasterization is required for raytracing to work. Rasterization is the process taking some object or model that is precisely defined and placing it on a screen made of components. Because of this ailiasing occurs. What's good at removing something ugly like aliasing? Current videocards. Even if ray-tracing were to be dominant, you still need a processor to handle aliasing. Ray tracing could handle the modeling aspect, (including shadows and reflections, etc...) but the rasterization still has to occur. Unless, of course, you are using vector displays:p
Somehow, reading that comment gave me my boss' perspective of things. I think I'll just make my own flash games from now on, if I want to keep doing that sorta thing.:p
In my opinion (not my expert opinion, though) but I find that a computer setup that is perfectly ergonomic is the best investment. The way I have this setup is that I can sit still in the same position for 12 hours a day every day without any aches or pains or numbness or soreness or anything like that. And having the monitor high up enough has really improved my posture and made using this less painful.
Of course, now the problem is that I can sit at my comptuer 12 hours a day, every day, and sometimes I do this.:(
I'm sorry to yell. But where exactly do you think coal and oil and natural gas come from?
So I question what makes termal different from nuclear, and then you go on to say that solar is the same as thermal? I don't understand how I warrant this response. There's that, and the fact that there are countless chemicals and processes and stuff involved in creating fossil fuels, in solar power we're just directly harnessing the sun's rays. So I guess if you ignore those things then "thermal" and "solar" are the same. I wasn't even questioning where the fossil fuels come from, and you come in and try to make me look like a jackass like I was questioning it.
So isn't all power solar by your argument? That's what I was kind of getting at. So why would you yell? did you even read what I wrote?
Transistors are rediculously cheap when you look at the variable cost of producing them. But when you look at the cost of the manufacturing plants to produce them the price is just skyrocketing. I wouldn't be surprised if Intel funded some of this research or will look to doing it themselves within the next 20 years.
if that trend continues and Intel (or other semis) can cough up enough cash I could imagine them making chips out in space, at least for research purposes. (to start) Sure, you deal with radiation and maybe meteors and space junk. But having an earthquake-free, flood-free, zero-g lab would probably help provide us with some new insights into making more resilient, better peroming transistors and microchips.
to the battery of your electric car/mower/series of tubes
from summary:
Instead of replacing all our expensive cars with even more expensive hybrids or electric cars, his suggestion is to use a cheap drop-in replacement for gasoline called Swift Fuel. It is derived from Ethanol, but doesn't require any modification to older cars to prevent corrosion. It can be mixed with gasoline in any amount and can even be distributed using the same network as gasoline, including being pumped in the same pipes and shipped in the same trucks. It is truly a drop-in replacement for gas, and it is real.
Solar energy, whether directly converted to electricity with panels or used in a novel solar-powered plants, is decentralized, clean, uses existing infrastructure, and uses electricity as it's delivery medium which is the only transmission system which doesn't move even a single atom after the line is in place.
Panels need to be made, and that creates pollution. Semiconductors aren't all to nice to the environment. And with regards to using existing infrastructure, yes it does. But the panels themselves and the wiring they need is new infrastructure. Another problem with electricity is that you lose a lot of power over transmission.
There are three choices when it comes to energy given our current technology: thermal, nuclear, and solar.
This selection seems a little arbitrary. Coal and oil and gas are thermal, I suppose. But how is nuclear much different? It does the whole heating up water and turbine spinning thing, too. And it's also extracted from the Earth. What happened to wind generators or tidal power generators?
Game play: The activities require a little mouse work on various situations. Drop dead is like Tetris, with mostly dead and twisted bodies for the pieces. Some pieces are not dead yet and you have to kill them or force them to go on their way into the puzzle. Burn the witch tests your ability to remember and repeat the multicolored flames and accompanying screams of witch burnings in order in a game which only partially resembles Simon.
Sure, it'd be much better to have our rivers catching on fire and our utilities run by multinational corporations...
I didn't say that the complete opposite of socialism was the correct answer to our problems. To think that would be silly. Irrational, if you will. And to assume that's what I meant when I said what I had said would be silly. I didn't say an alternative solution to socialism would solve all our problems. I was insinuating that socialism isn't the end-all be-all solution to all our problems in these areas, and many people have the dogmatic belief that it is so.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
That was my only post on slashdot in many weeks or months, and it only contained the word once. I don't know where you get the idea that before these two posts that I kept using the word.
I don't know how many people born in 1985 are posting on slashdot (most of us aren't cynnical enough yet) but the 1990's mathematics joke isn't really that funny. These are the kinds of questions we were asked, in all seriousness. I'm also the first year generation of students in that new cirriculum in Ontario that a poster above described.
In my pre-internet days, I was a math genious. The books at the library sucked,(90% fantasy novels) and I mention pre-internet days because had I internet access, I would have been learning the stuff on my own. I had always asked for more advanced work to expose myself to what was coming up, and to see if I could learn it. I was scorned for not behaving like the rest of the kids and not coloring in the plants that were printed onto the edges of my spelling test.
To rant some more... My generation consists of people who were brainwashed to believe any disruption of environment is evil, and socialism is the cure to all societal/governmental/economical ills.
It sucks. Luckily, that school system failed me. I came out with the ability to rationalize, and I've helped several of my friends see the light and be less dogmatic in the beleifs they taught us were absolute.
Making sure my child can attain proper a understanding of things will be a primary concern of mine if I'm ever a parent. (that'll might change by then, but what the hell) I just wouldn't want any kid to suffer schooling the way I did.
I haven't had a virus or Trojan or anything like that in over 5 years. Just stay behind a firewall and tweak a few things (disable a few services, turn off activeX, put an admin password) and everything works dandy. If you actually look at where security breaches happen for XP, just about all of them happen in those 3 things I mentioned. It's not that had to keep the machine safe if you know how to operate it.
I always argue with my friend about animal rights.
Me: Can bees vote? Steve: No, they're not men. Me: Can half-man half-bees vote? Steve: No, they're too bee. Me: Can 90% man 10% bee vote? : : : and so on
I don't have an answer for this, but I can't stad vegans so it's hard to take a safe stance. I guess I should do what maddox does and take a non-safe stance: Man-Bee can vote but I can kill him and eat him if I choose.:)
...to distribute the low-cost laptop computers originally intended for developing nations to needy students here in the United States.
Wouldn't it have made sense for him to have started in America, seeing as the education system is similar to that in quality of the systems in the developing nations?:p
I've been doing too much reading lately.
I noticed that "IsupposeIshouldbehappyyoudidn'ttypeotalloutlikethis" had a typo within a split second.
I think you mean IsupposeIshouldbehappyyoudidn'ttypeitalloutlikethis.
Ever see Brain Candy by kids in the hall? In the movie, a happy pill gets invented and becomes the newest craze. No side effects, and it works by making you relive your happiest experience. Eventually, people get addicted and become happy, brain-dead zombies. Why bother to do anything if you're always happy?
Or at the very least, everyone can have their own Bat Signal Device. Or project a 500' Goatse on a downtown sky scraper. I don't see how this can possibly go wrong.
If you can't think outside the box, you aren't a skilled thinker. And if you aren't a skilled thinker, you aren't a skilled problem solver. And if you aren't a skilled problem solver, you aren't a good solution provider.
So in order to be a good IT solution provider, you have to be able to think outside the box to begin with. You had to learn things and think in new and strange ways to get there, why can't that continue in your job/career?
"if you build enough tools that they can use, they will come"
I've seen so many failed projects happen simply because there was no interest, despite the fact there was plenty of capital investment.
I think things should start with an idea and a goal as opposed to "hey, lets spend a ton of time and energy making this rnadom thing and seeing what happens" It could work for science experiments and I think it's a great thing to do on the small scale, but why take 2 on business meetings in the virtual world?
How about their plans with second life? Has that fallen through? How is this any better?
We go into 3D worlds to provide a sense of space and dimensionality. Works great for games, or going on adventures in a contrived world. One must not forget that most communication, face-to-face, is non-verbal. 3D environments, in my opinion do not provide enough capability to show this facet of communication anywhere near proper. So how would this exactly provide a better place for meetings?
Maybe if it was a group of engineers that said "hey, this would be a really cool idea and help us communicate ideas faster and clearer" then I'd be more sold.
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The numbers are correct, the GP post reported them incorrectly. The net profit is down 90%. Not gross profit. Not revenue. He made it sound as if Intel was selling 90% less stuff, when in reality it's closer to about 10% less.
If Intel's revenue were 1/10th of what it was last quarter,(something like armageddon occured) they'd probably be negotiating plans to try to liquidate their assests.
In Soviet Russia, ALL work gets paid (useless or not) ...not that your work is useless. If people are looking at it and using it and telling you to publish, you should probably do it if you want the money. If your writing was utter trash and you tried to publish it (or it actaully got published) then you wouldn't get paid for poor quality work.
The idea that you get a tax rebates for voluntarily working on something is interesting, but do taxpayers want to pay for this kind of work?
I would like to know what others think about this as I just graduated (today, in fact) form school with a CS degree. I was pondering doing some OSS work to get some experience in some form of team-ish software development. It would be nice if I could make money from the gov't for that.
Hmm... This gives me an idea. What if we just sold videogames to loners? Then we wouldn't need copy protection! :D
in soviet mexico, lower class chips upper class!
People fail to realize that rasterization is required for raytracing to work. Rasterization is the process taking some object or model that is precisely defined and placing it on a screen made of components. Because of this ailiasing occurs. What's good at removing something ugly like aliasing? Current videocards. Even if ray-tracing were to be dominant, you still need a processor to handle aliasing. Ray tracing could handle the modeling aspect, (including shadows and reflections, etc...) but the rasterization still has to occur. Unless, of course, you are using vector displays :p
Thank you.
Somehow, reading that comment gave me my boss' perspective of things. I think I'll just make my own flash games from now on, if I want to keep doing that sorta thing. :p
In my opinion (not my expert opinion, though) but I find that a computer setup that is perfectly ergonomic is the best investment. The way I have this setup is that I can sit still in the same position for 12 hours a day every day without any aches or pains or numbness or soreness or anything like that. And having the monitor high up enough has really improved my posture and made using this less painful.
Of course, now the problem is that I can sit at my comptuer 12 hours a day, every day, and sometimes I do this. :(
So I question what makes termal different from nuclear, and then you go on to say that solar is the same as thermal? I don't understand how I warrant this response. There's that, and the fact that there are countless chemicals and processes and stuff involved in creating fossil fuels, in solar power we're just directly harnessing the sun's rays. So I guess if you ignore those things then "thermal" and "solar" are the same. I wasn't even questioning where the fossil fuels come from, and you come in and try to make me look like a jackass like I was questioning it.
So isn't all power solar by your argument? That's what I was kind of getting at. So why would you yell? did you even read what I wrote?
Transistors are rediculously cheap when you look at the variable cost of producing them. But when you look at the cost of the manufacturing plants to produce them the price is just skyrocketing. I wouldn't be surprised if Intel funded some of this research or will look to doing it themselves within the next 20 years.
cost of fabircation plants with time: http://www.icknowledge.com/economics/fab_costs.html
if that trend continues and Intel (or other semis) can cough up enough cash I could imagine them making chips out in space, at least for research purposes. (to start) Sure, you deal with radiation and maybe meteors and space junk. But having an earthquake-free, flood-free, zero-g lab would probably help provide us with some new insights into making more resilient, better peroming transistors and microchips.
from summary:
Solar energy, whether directly converted to electricity with panels or used in a novel solar-powered plants, is decentralized, clean, uses existing infrastructure, and uses electricity as it's delivery medium which is the only transmission system which doesn't move even a single atom after the line is in place.Panels need to be made, and that creates pollution. Semiconductors aren't all to nice to the environment. And with regards to using existing infrastructure, yes it does. But the panels themselves and the wiring they need is new infrastructure. Another problem with electricity is that you lose a lot of power over transmission.
There are three choices when it comes to energy given our current technology: thermal, nuclear, and solar.This selection seems a little arbitrary. Coal and oil and gas are thermal, I suppose. But how is nuclear much different? It does the whole heating up water and turbine spinning thing, too. And it's also extracted from the Earth. What happened to wind generators or tidal power generators?
You sir, shall stand corrected: http://www.thecomputershow.com/computershow/reviews/pythonholygrail.htm
Game play: The activities require a little mouse work on various situations. Drop dead is like Tetris, with mostly dead and twisted bodies for the pieces. Some pieces are not dead yet and you have to kill them or force them to go on their way into the puzzle. Burn the witch tests your ability to remember and repeat the multicolored flames and accompanying screams of witch burnings in order in a game which only partially resembles Simon.
I didn't say that the complete opposite of socialism was the correct answer to our problems. To think that would be silly. Irrational, if you will. And to assume that's what I meant when I said what I had said would be silly. I didn't say an alternative solution to socialism would solve all our problems. I was insinuating that socialism isn't the end-all be-all solution to all our problems in these areas, and many people have the dogmatic belief that it is so.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.That was my only post on slashdot in many weeks or months, and it only contained the word once. I don't know where you get the idea that before these two posts that I kept using the word.
I don't know how many people born in 1985 are posting on slashdot (most of us aren't cynnical enough yet) but the 1990's mathematics joke isn't really that funny. These are the kinds of questions we were asked, in all seriousness. I'm also the first year generation of students in that new cirriculum in Ontario that a poster above described.
In my pre-internet days, I was a math genious. The books at the library sucked,(90% fantasy novels) and I mention pre-internet days because had I internet access, I would have been learning the stuff on my own. I had always asked for more advanced work to expose myself to what was coming up, and to see if I could learn it. I was scorned for not behaving like the rest of the kids and not coloring in the plants that were printed onto the edges of my spelling test.
To rant some more... My generation consists of people who were brainwashed to believe any disruption of environment is evil, and socialism is the cure to all societal/governmental/economical ills.
It sucks. Luckily, that school system failed me. I came out with the ability to rationalize, and I've helped several of my friends see the light and be less dogmatic in the beleifs they taught us were absolute.
Making sure my child can attain proper a understanding of things will be a primary concern of mine if I'm ever a parent. (that'll might change by then, but what the hell) I just wouldn't want any kid to suffer schooling the way I did.
I haven't had a virus or Trojan or anything like that in over 5 years. Just stay behind a firewall and tweak a few things (disable a few services, turn off activeX, put an admin password) and everything works dandy. If you actually look at where security breaches happen for XP, just about all of them happen in those 3 things I mentioned. It's not that had to keep the machine safe if you know how to operate it.
What is it that prompted people to even install SP3?
I ran with no service pack at all for years and had no problems. I only went to SP2 for USB 2.0 functionality.
Whatever happened to "if it ain't broke don't fix it"?
I'm kind of a scientist and I kind of believe that astrology might have some truth to it. Is spiritualism of any kind NOT for scientists?
New Material Can Selectively Capture CO2
What if it goes on strike and chooses not to capture CO2?
I always argue with my friend about animal rights.
:)
Me: Can bees vote?
Steve: No, they're not men.
Me: Can half-man half-bees vote?
Steve: No, they're too bee.
Me: Can 90% man 10% bee vote?
:
:
:
and so on
I don't have an answer for this, but I can't stad vegans so it's hard to take a safe stance. I guess I should do what maddox does and take a non-safe stance: Man-Bee can vote but I can kill him and eat him if I choose.
Wouldn't it have made sense for him to have started in America, seeing as the education system is similar to that in quality of the systems in the developing nations? :p
There are still newspapers?
I've been doing too much reading lately. I noticed that "IsupposeIshouldbehappyyoudidn'ttypeotalloutlikethis" had a typo within a split second. I think you mean IsupposeIshouldbehappyyoudidn'ttypeitalloutlikethis.
Ever see Brain Candy by kids in the hall? In the movie, a happy pill gets invented and becomes the newest craze. No side effects, and it works by making you relive your happiest experience. Eventually, people get addicted and become happy, brain-dead zombies. Why bother to do anything if you're always happy?
Or a device to point at helicopters!
If you can't think outside the box, you aren't a skilled thinker. And if you aren't a skilled thinker, you aren't a skilled problem solver. And if you aren't a skilled problem solver, you aren't a good solution provider.
So in order to be a good IT solution provider, you have to be able to think outside the box to begin with. You had to learn things and think in new and strange ways to get there, why can't that continue in your job/career?
"if you build enough tools that they can use, they will come"
I've seen so many failed projects happen simply because there was no interest, despite the fact there was plenty of capital investment.
I think things should start with an idea and a goal as opposed to "hey, lets spend a ton of time and energy making this rnadom thing and seeing what happens" It could work for science experiments and I think it's a great thing to do on the small scale, but why take 2 on business meetings in the virtual world?
How about their plans with second life? Has that fallen through? How is this any better?
We go into 3D worlds to provide a sense of space and dimensionality. Works great for games, or going on adventures in a contrived world. One must not forget that most communication, face-to-face, is non-verbal. 3D environments, in my opinion do not provide enough capability to show this facet of communication anywhere near proper. So how would this exactly provide a better place for meetings?
Maybe if it was a group of engineers that said "hey, this would be a really cool idea and help us communicate ideas faster and clearer" then I'd be more sold.