Which is a load of hooey because any interested patent owner can trivially decompile it. And sorry, if it looks like a big ugly mess of assembler to you, that's your problem.
You know how I can tell you wouldn't know an XOR from your own ASS?
I truly don't understand what the big deal is. Just open up your damn specifications already.
The big deal is the army of patent trolls who will jump out of the bushes with baseball bats the minute NVIDIA or any other major GPU manufacturer publishes a full set of register-level specifications.
Don't like it? Write your congressman. NVIDIA can do nothing to help.
There was actually some pretty good writing in there.
This. There was some damn good writing in Playboy back in the day. They published long articles, stories, and interviews by prominent (and soon-to-be-prominent) writers and commentators, on subjects of genuine cultural significance.
Nothing will convince you of the devolution of society more effectively than comparing a current issue of Playboy with one from the mid-1960s. I recommend against doing that unless you just want to spend the rest of the day depressed.
No, CL is not popular because "it works." CL is popular because of network effects. They had first-mover advantage, and the resulting network effect was impossible to compete with.
See eBay for another example of a ridiculously-broken user experience that nevertheless cannot be disrupted by a superior implementation alone.
Given that they are now a top-100 site, or close to it, it would be pretty stupid to infer anything about Reddit's current user base from the tactics they used in their first few weeks.
I'm a good programmer, but I still learn things about C++ after using it for *20* years.
Pascal, on the other hand, can be comprehended in its entirety in a long weekend.
I'd have no problem with an ad for a high-level position that required 5+ years experience with C++, but it would indeed be silly to demand that for Pascal/Delphi programmers.
They don't use band-aids. The controls for these studies are whatever the best existing treatment is. The study succeeds if it outperforms the current gold standard.
Out of curiosity, have you tried watching 24 fps back-to-back with a high frame rate viewing yet? Perhaps not everyone experiences the problem.
Oh, I'm not denying that there is a legitimate problem -- the soap-opera effect is real enough. I'm not optimistic that the new Hobbit films will win many converts. But there have been more drastic changes in the history of cinematography. (How 'uncanny' did the first talkies sound, for example?)
Directors and cinematographers will eventually learn to deal with the challenges of the new 48 fps regime. As usual, some will screw it up, while others will use it to elevate the art. New cinematic tricks and postprocessing techniques will emerge, perhaps entirely new styles.
It's safe to say that fifty years from now, 24 fps movies will look as clunky and awkward to our descendants as they do to me right now.
Point being, I don't think you want China, Russia, or even the EU exerting any degree of control over the architecture and operation of the Internet, much less the UN. Administrative bodies with strong ties to a country with constitutionally-guaranteed freedom of speech are needed.
Higher frame rates are inevitable; we're just going to have to get used to them. Everything you cite with respect to the LotR scene is purely psychological conditioning in action. The transition to 48 FPS may be jarring and harmful to suspension of disbelief at first, but it still needs to happen, because 24 FPS sucks ass.
If we had always seen films at 48 FPS and someone came around suggesting that they would look better or more "cinematic" in 24 FPS, we'd laugh them out of the room.
Of course, pretty much everything on the Internet, except for some 20-year-old papers on particle physics from CERN, is there because somebody in the USA wanted it.
.... you need to understand that attacking or insulting NVIDIA will not help. The reason that they don't release more source code or internal details about their chipsets can be summed up in one word: patents. The more details they release, the more they risk being bushwhacked by either patent trolls or well-funded competitors.
To bring about change, all you can do is write your Congressman, minister of Parliament, or other legislator and explain that patents are a historical artifact that, while always of debatable value to society, demonstrably do more harm than good in a modern, fast-paced technological environment.
When geeks, gamers, and other people who are interested in technology buy from Sony, it's like when a wealthy, 80-year-old Jewish businessman goes to a high-priced dominatrix who will dress up in an SS uniform, shove a ball gag in his mouth, and...
.... well, no, that doesn't explain it either. Never mind.
Anyone else got any ideas as to why people keep giving their money to these jackasses?
The instruction decoder is such an absurdly tiny part of a modern CPU that it really doesn't matter. CISC often has the ultimate advantage simply because it makes better use of the code cache.
Q: I'm single and I just want a smartphone, that's it. The cheapest Shared Everything plan looks pretty expensive at $90 per month, and that's with just 1 gigabyte of data. Is there no alternative?
A: There's one cheaper plan, intended for first-time smartphone buyers. It gives you unlimited calling and texting, and just 300 megabytes of data per month. If you're frugal with data usage, that will get you by. It costs $80 per month.
If USA Today is making that up, as you claim elsewhere, they have one hell of a lawsuit coming from Verizon. They would have yanked the quoted text the second someone told them how badly they'd gotten it wrong. Why is it still up there?
Curiosity is the biggest Hail Mary play since Cassini/Huygens. It is already going to take either divine intervention or help from the Martians to get that thing down right side up and in one piece. So this doesn't sound like too big a risk, considering everything else that they've had to account for.
But is there seriously no other company in the industry competent enough to step into a market and kick everyone in the ass in the way Apple has been doing?
Apparently not. From my reading of the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, who appears to be a detached, more-or-less objective outsider with no dog in the fight, it appears that media industry executives really are the overpaid imbeciles that we've always suspected they were. Or, more accurately and less facetiously, they're the laziest fuckers this side of Mars.
On both the production and distribution side, the media companies are run by overgrown fratboys who could just as easily have gone into fast food franchising or insurance underwriting. Without some messianic figure to tell them where to go, what to do, how to do it, and how to zip their pants up when they're done, they really are completely hopeless. You can count on these people to behave self-destructively in the absence of adult supervision.
It apparently took every hand-waving, smoke-blowing, reality-distorting trick in Jobs's repertoire to get the music people on board with iTunes, and to keep Disney from destroying Pixar. Tim Cook is OK at the business of running Apple, but he is no Steve Jobs, and it's not clear who is going to pull the media companies' asses out of the fire this time.
For a while I thought Reed Hastings might be the one to step in and drive the necessary changes. But he's more like Steve the Grey than Steve the White. Jeff Bezos? Who knows.
How does that work? The MAFIAA will just subpoena the VPN provider to get your subscriber info, so you've only added one minor step to their legal workflow. Their "local jurisdiction" apparently ends at the border of the Oort cloud.
In fact, you may actually be saving them some work, if the VPN provider is hosting a lot of piratically-inclined users. One subpoena could get them n subscriber records in that case.
I hope you're right. However, Larry Ellison won't see it your way. He will see it more in terms of (legally speaking), "Oh, it's on now, bitches."
So we'll have to wait for the appeals process to run its course. I wouldn't be surprised if Ellison is at least as good at prolonging the inevitable as, say, Darl McBride.
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I couldn't agree more. In fact, every "negative" review I've heard/read has come down to unrealistic expectations of what a device with these specs can do.
Maybe somebody should tell the Raspberry Pi people. As the author of the review repeatedly points out, he did nothing but evaluate the manufacturer's own claims.
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Which is a load of hooey because any interested patent owner can trivially decompile it. And sorry, if it looks like a big ugly mess of assembler to you, that's your problem.
You know how I can tell you wouldn't know an XOR from your own ASS?
I truly don't understand what the big deal is. Just open up your damn specifications already.
The big deal is the army of patent trolls who will jump out of the bushes with baseball bats the minute NVIDIA or any other major GPU manufacturer publishes a full set of register-level specifications.
Don't like it? Write your congressman. NVIDIA can do nothing to help.
There was actually some pretty good writing in there.
This. There was some damn good writing in Playboy back in the day. They published long articles, stories, and interviews by prominent (and soon-to-be-prominent) writers and commentators, on subjects of genuine cultural significance.
Nothing will convince you of the devolution of society more effectively than comparing a current issue of Playboy with one from the mid-1960s. I recommend against doing that unless you just want to spend the rest of the day depressed.
No, CL is not popular because "it works." CL is popular because of network effects. They had first-mover advantage, and the resulting network effect was impossible to compete with.
See eBay for another example of a ridiculously-broken user experience that nevertheless cannot be disrupted by a superior implementation alone.
Given that they are now a top-100 site, or close to it, it would be pretty stupid to infer anything about Reddit's current user base from the tactics they used in their first few weeks.
I'm a good programmer, but I still learn things about C++ after using it for *20* years.
Pascal, on the other hand, can be comprehended in its entirety in a long weekend.
I'd have no problem with an ad for a high-level position that required 5+ years experience with C++, but it would indeed be silly to demand that for Pascal/Delphi programmers.
They don't use band-aids. The controls for these studies are whatever the best existing treatment is. The study succeeds if it outperforms the current gold standard.
Smashing the statue is the only right thing to do here. Building another, smaller one doesn't help.
Out of curiosity, have you tried watching 24 fps back-to-back with a high frame rate viewing yet? Perhaps not everyone experiences the problem.
Oh, I'm not denying that there is a legitimate problem -- the soap-opera effect is real enough. I'm not optimistic that the new Hobbit films will win many converts. But there have been more drastic changes in the history of cinematography. (How 'uncanny' did the first talkies sound, for example?)
Directors and cinematographers will eventually learn to deal with the challenges of the new 48 fps regime. As usual, some will screw it up, while others will use it to elevate the art. New cinematic tricks and postprocessing techniques will emerge, perhaps entirely new styles.
It's safe to say that fifty years from now, 24 fps movies will look as clunky and awkward to our descendants as they do to me right now.
Point being, I don't think you want China, Russia, or even the EU exerting any degree of control over the architecture and operation of the Internet, much less the UN. Administrative bodies with strong ties to a country with constitutionally-guaranteed freedom of speech are needed.
Higher frame rates are inevitable; we're just going to have to get used to them. Everything you cite with respect to the LotR scene is purely psychological conditioning in action. The transition to 48 FPS may be jarring and harmful to suspension of disbelief at first, but it still needs to happen, because 24 FPS sucks ass.
If we had always seen films at 48 FPS and someone came around suggesting that they would look better or more "cinematic" in 24 FPS, we'd laugh them out of the room.
China and Russia will veto anything the USA wants
Of course, pretty much everything on the Internet, except for some 20-year-old papers on particle physics from CERN, is there because somebody in the USA wanted it.
.... you need to understand that attacking or insulting NVIDIA will not help. The reason that they don't release more source code or internal details about their chipsets can be summed up in one word: patents. The more details they release, the more they risk being bushwhacked by either patent trolls or well-funded competitors.
To bring about change, all you can do is write your Congressman, minister of Parliament, or other legislator and explain that patents are a historical artifact that, while always of debatable value to society, demonstrably do more harm than good in a modern, fast-paced technological environment.
When geeks, gamers, and other people who are interested in technology buy from Sony, it's like when a wealthy, 80-year-old Jewish businessman goes to a high-priced dominatrix who will dress up in an SS uniform, shove a ball gag in his mouth, and...
Anyone else got any ideas as to why people keep giving their money to these jackasses?
The instruction decoder is such an absurdly tiny part of a modern CPU that it really doesn't matter. CISC often has the ultimate advantage simply because it makes better use of the code cache.
How do you reconcile your statement with the Q&A from the article?
If USA Today is making that up, as you claim elsewhere, they have one hell of a lawsuit coming from Verizon. They would have yanked the quoted text the second someone told them how badly they'd gotten it wrong. Why is it still up there?
Curiosity is the biggest Hail Mary play since Cassini/Huygens. It is already going to take either divine intervention or help from the Martians to get that thing down right side up and in one piece. So this doesn't sound like too big a risk, considering everything else that they've had to account for.
But is there seriously no other company in the industry competent enough to step into a market and kick everyone in the ass in the way Apple has been doing?
Apparently not. From my reading of the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson, who appears to be a detached, more-or-less objective outsider with no dog in the fight, it appears that media industry executives really are the overpaid imbeciles that we've always suspected they were. Or, more accurately and less facetiously, they're the laziest fuckers this side of Mars.
On both the production and distribution side, the media companies are run by overgrown fratboys who could just as easily have gone into fast food franchising or insurance underwriting. Without some messianic figure to tell them where to go, what to do, how to do it, and how to zip their pants up when they're done, they really are completely hopeless. You can count on these people to behave self-destructively in the absence of adult supervision.
It apparently took every hand-waving, smoke-blowing, reality-distorting trick in Jobs's repertoire to get the music people on board with iTunes, and to keep Disney from destroying Pixar. Tim Cook is OK at the business of running Apple, but he is no Steve Jobs, and it's not clear who is going to pull the media companies' asses out of the fire this time.
For a while I thought Reed Hastings might be the one to step in and drive the necessary changes. But he's more like Steve the Grey than Steve the White. Jeff Bezos? Who knows.
I wouldn't count on anything to change soon.
How does that work? The MAFIAA will just subpoena the VPN provider to get your subscriber info, so you've only added one minor step to their legal workflow. Their "local jurisdiction" apparently ends at the border of the Oort cloud.
In fact, you may actually be saving them some work, if the VPN provider is hosting a lot of piratically-inclined users. One subpoena could get them n subscriber records in that case.
I hope you're right. However, Larry Ellison won't see it your way. He will see it more in terms of (legally speaking), "Oh, it's on now, bitches."
So we'll have to wait for the appeals process to run its course. I wouldn't be surprised if Ellison is at least as good at prolonging the inevitable as, say, Darl McBride.
It's useful if you want to sue people for stealing your patented copyrighted proprietary implementation of "if / elseif / else."
Beyond that, well....
So you are saying that industrial and other economic activity by rich economies isn't the major source of environmental degradation? Really?
You know how I can tell you're not very familiar with the former Soviet republics?
Some people seem to be expecting a low-cost general purpose device
Gee, I can't imagine where they could have gotten that impression.
This just in: Marketing is important. It should not be left as an afterthought or as a secondary task for developers, any more than product development should be done by marketdroids in their spare time. Ric Romero has more at 11.
I couldn't agree more. In fact, every "negative" review I've heard/read has come down to unrealistic expectations of what a device with these specs can do.
Maybe somebody should tell the Raspberry Pi people. As the author of the review repeatedly points out, he did nothing but evaluate the manufacturer's own claims.