So the worker costs $90/day instead of $90/hr. Then $90/y is still peanuts, as in less than half a percent.
plus TCO issues like the cost of someone like me to install it, configure it, get the rest of the IT backend stuff setup to work with it, and test that all the corporate shitty enterprise software still works)
Read the topic. It's not about the cost of upgrading: They are going to do that anyway. It's about the fact that they can only do that for free for a limited period of time.
So this is a complete non-problem. OS cost $90 p/y, Person operating the PC cost $90/h. So why again is this the OS cost a problem ?
Reminds me of the HHG quote: "If a sentient being is to survive in a universe this big, one thing it cannot afford to have, is a sense of proportion.
How else would we do it without consuming the same amount of electricity?
With a dedicated super computer ? A dedicated super computer is likely to consume a lot less energy per FLOP than your average home PC.
Would be interesting to see how GPGPU performance per watt compared to top500 super computers...
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Anjuta yet. I've tried it a couple of years back and found it quite usable. It may not be as sophisticated as MSVS or Eclipse, but is somewhat like dev-cpp, which has been mentioned. The latter being for Windows, I wonder what platform/. posters actually use/develop for !
I don't understand why these satellites collided in the first place. I understand NASA tracks pretty much all objects larger than a bolt in orbit. Why wasn't the collisision predicted and prevented ? The Iridium satellite was still active as I understand it, so it must have had some capability still to avoid the collision. Can someone enlighten me here ?
I don't check in things that I don't think are stable.
OK, but that may not be sufficient. When a bugfix is needed to an existing release, your changes are probably unwanted even when they are stable. e.g. because you changes are not yet described in the manual that came with the release.
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Holy shit!! Niburu is coming!
I thought we were going to be eaten by a giant mutant star goat or something like that...
I have pretty much no knowledge about dinosaurs [...] Elephants can't run. They can walk a bit faster. But to say they are fast is a exaggeration
You don't know anything about elephants either, do you ?
You won't keep up with an (african) elephant that is "walking a bit faster" ! See e.g. here.
And your common sense isn't all that common to me. I fail to see why the fact that an elephant may not be that fast means that a t-rex was slow. For one, an elephant probably doesn't need speed, while a t-rex being a predator would most likely have benefited from it and thus also developed it.
Thanks for this information. If it is, like you suggest, apparently quite likely that the first launches will not be successful, I don't really understand why they're already putting in a (valuable ?) payload...
Your analogies are completely senseless. They concern other types of craft in other times.
3 failures out of 3 tries is just an extremely bad track record, period.
[...]entire sourceforge is being punished because of actions of some idiot who decided to tie his political grievances into [...] That's because of the (idiocy of) the chinese, not of the guy who states a political opinion, wouldn't you say ?
You should blame the chinese for such a ridiculous response rather than someone who makes a statement in a world where one hopes there is still some freedom of speech.
Otherwise I agree with you that it not desirable to mix software development and politics into one project for obvious reasons.
I have the impression that the graphics cards only do single precision floating point math, just like the CELL. Makes sense since both were developed for gaming, and single precision is sufficient for graphics. For many scientific problems however, double precision is a must have. I guess that's one reason why GPU based systems aren't in the.
I wish people were more explicit about what kind of FLOP they are talking about when claiming TeraFLOPs performance.
If the only reason to refuse them access is that you "don't like the idea", you should come up with a proper reason you feel that way, and if you can't, you should change your opinion There's a good deal wrong with that statement. It supposes that you can always come up with a good reason for something that you feel is wrong. This totally ignores something that is called 'intuition'. And though intuition is unpopular in business because it is unpredictable and hard to grasp, it will help you with making good IT decisions more than you know -- with making any decision as a matter of fact --. The more experience you have, the more so.
What is it about my desktop that isn't "ready for the desktop"? Example: I'm running ubuntu 7.10
Webcam was not supported (logitech)
Sound stopped working after plugging in a webcam
Encrypted DVD won't play
Black windows appear when many windows are open. (nvidia)
Touchpad on laptop doesn't work properly (alps)
And the list goes on. In general whatever hardware I get I have to worry whether it is supported on Linux.
I managed to solve all of the above issues, but for a regular user that's too much trouble if they can get it done at all.
Yes, Linux needs better marketing; Yes, it needs better support, but the bottomline is: IT JUST ISN'T READY.
there won't be a big demand for uber-multicore CPUs if the programming models don't drastically improve. And those innovations need to happen now to be ready in time for CPUs of 5 years from now. Software always lags behind hardware development. The 80386 was launched in 1986. Useful 32 bit code only arrived in the 90's. Starting software innovations now, for CPU's that will only be available in 5 years isn't very feasible or even useful.
surfing + E8 = theory of everything. We know that surfing isn't a theory of everything. If surfing is not, then E8 must be. Nah, that would mean that surfing is nothing... That can't be right.
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"The People's Biometrics of India" ? Taken ? Oh well....
Why, Lord, Oh why are blocks defined by indentation!
Better question: Why not ?
I suppose you indent your code anyway. In that case, the braces, begin..ends and whatnots are only syntax clutter.
plus TCO issues like the cost of someone like me to install it, configure it, get the rest of the IT backend stuff setup to work with it, and test that all the corporate shitty enterprise software still works)
Read the topic. It's not about the cost of upgrading: They are going to do that anyway. It's about the fact that they can only do that for free for a limited period of time.
So this is a complete non-problem. OS cost $90 p/y, Person operating the PC cost $90/h. So why again is this the OS cost a problem ? Reminds me of the HHG quote: "If a sentient being is to survive in a universe this big, one thing it cannot afford to have, is a sense of proportion.
How else would we do it without consuming the same amount of electricity?
With a dedicated super computer ? A dedicated super computer is likely to consume a lot less energy per FLOP than your average home PC.
Would be interesting to see how GPGPU performance per watt compared to top500 super computers...
Indeed. We can't even protect our own planet's historical sites, lets get some perpective on what's important . . .
Maybe that's his point. Space, or the moon in this case, may be an opportunity to get it *right* this time.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Anjuta yet. I've tried it a couple of years back and found it quite usable. It may not be as sophisticated as MSVS or Eclipse, but is somewhat like dev-cpp, which has been mentioned. The latter being for Windows, I wonder what platform /. posters actually use/develop for !
Re:Of course we don't need running shoes
Neither did it have tarmac in mind.
It's already happened several times, actually.
42 times, most likely.
Considering your logic, he's already ahead of one !
I don't understand why these satellites collided in the first place. I understand NASA tracks pretty much all objects larger than a bolt in orbit. Why wasn't the collisision predicted and prevented ? The Iridium satellite was still active as I understand it, so it must have had some capability still to avoid the collision. Can someone enlighten me here ?
I don't check in things that I don't think are stable.
OK, but that may not be sufficient. When a bugfix is needed to an existing release, your changes are probably unwanted even when they are stable. e.g. because you changes are not yet described in the manual that came with the release.
Holy shit!! Niburu is coming!
I thought we were going to be eaten by a giant mutant star goat or something like that...
I have pretty much no knowledge about dinosaurs [...] Elephants can't run. They can walk a bit faster. But to say they are fast is a exaggeration
You don't know anything about elephants either, do you ?
You won't keep up with an (african) elephant that is "walking a bit faster" ! See e.g. here.
And your common sense isn't all that common to me. I fail to see why the fact that an elephant may not be that fast means that a t-rex was slow. For one, an elephant probably doesn't need speed, while a t-rex being a predator would most likely have benefited from it and thus also developed it.
Thanks for this information. If it is, like you suggest, apparently quite likely that the first launches will not be successful, I don't really understand why they're already putting in a (valuable ?) payload...
Your analogies are completely senseless. They concern other types of craft in other times.
3 failures out of 3 tries is just an extremely bad track record, period.
You're asking /. readers for advice on reading material for your children ? Are you sure ? There's still time to save them...
You should blame the chinese for such a ridiculous response rather than someone who makes a statement in a world where one hopes there is still some freedom of speech.
Otherwise I agree with you that it not desirable to mix software development and politics into one project for obvious reasons.
I have the impression that the graphics cards only do single precision floating point math, just like the CELL. Makes sense since both were developed for gaming, and single precision is sufficient for graphics. .
For many scientific problems however, double precision is a must have. I guess that's one reason why GPU based systems aren't in the
I wish people were more explicit about what kind of FLOP they are talking about when claiming TeraFLOPs performance.
- Webcam was not supported (logitech)
- Sound stopped working after plugging in a webcam
- Encrypted DVD won't play
- Black windows appear when many windows are open. (nvidia)
- Touchpad on laptop doesn't work properly (alps)
And the list goes on. In general whatever hardware I get I have to worry whether it is supported on Linux.I managed to solve all of the above issues, but for a regular user that's too much trouble if they can get it done at all. Yes, Linux needs better marketing; Yes, it needs better support, but the bottomline is: IT JUST ISN'T READY.
In fact 120W is rather poor. A reasonably fit person will easily produce 200W, while professional cyclists will output 500W or more...