Very much depends on the application that's running, most modern
code is still not written to use multiple CPUs. In order to use the power
of all the core, you need to have the task to be done, seperated into
batches that are queued ready to be processed by which ever of
the cores is available at any one time. But some tasks just don't
parallelise in that way. When it comes to gaming however 3d rendering
and collision detection are the main bottlenecks, and these are both highly
paralleliseable is if extra cores don't speed it up, its because the
programmers haven't caught up with the chip yet.
In Acting role for an Iconic Hero, which will likely run continuously for
years, but he thinks (vainly) that hollywood is crying out for actor,
Leaving early would wreck his career not advance it.
Nicely rendered, main ship (was it blender), but well the hell
is the fire button, (z who uses z). C64 level games on 2010 computer,
except the C64 could scroll smoothly, so could a spectrum, why
does a browser have a problem, netscape 3 had layers and a timer event
didn't it. Bring back Java applets for this
sort of stuff. Oh, and have those enemy waves move a bit.
Defender was so much better. Remind me, what was the
amiga Defender clone, with the giant skull, now that was
a game.
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blog, HP had published
an academic paper about combining a data-center and farm, using biomass for local farms to power the servers
in your server farm. Note however that transmission line and contenting to a the grid, don't cost very much in
terms of efficiency (1 per cent, probably), or electricity price rate (is biomass cheaper than wind or sun, right now? varies
with the weather doesn't it).
Zinc is the more electropositive element, so the potato
acid, will bind to the zinc, forming a salt. The copper
would remain unaffected. But yes, the zinc would
have to be replaced. Most of the energy in the
battery would have come from the process of
smelting zinc ore.
I remember Occam I learned it back in 1993, it was designed to power specialized
multi-CPU machines, transputers, microprocessor with dedicated high speed serial
connects to there peer microprocessors. The company that made the transputer INMOS went
burst, and disappeared into Olivetti and the transputer was never seen again. I'm surprised
that Occam is still going after all this time. It wasn't a bad language and had parallelism
as a very low level, which would make it useful for graphics programming or matrix maths,
where you could split a for loop over multiple processors, were the answers where independent
of result for other indexes.
The situation described by the paper, don't allow changing of the inertial mass, only
a measurement of it, separate to the gravitational mass, so you won't be able to
use it to create such perpetual motion machines. Further any difference in inertial
mass and gravitational mass, will only appear in measurement of averages of
observables of the particles. A semi-classical measurement of how the centre of
mass of the particle, will still obey newtons rules, thus CoM will move with
a common mass for inertial and gravitational movements, however other measurement
like how the uncertainty in the position of particle changes, will allow a measurement
of some combination of the too different masses.
Personally with work, I find its the would be having to work extra hours, unpaid overtime that
would get me down. Our questioner has had to switch into a more technical role, which he's
assumes should be better paid. That's moving up in the CV would, which would be a plus to
me, now if he has to work longer hours, because of his extra responsibility that would suck.
Its likely to take years for his extra responsibility to turn into extra pay, but at least it is moving
upwards.
You never see the singularity supposed at the middle of a black hole. A black hole, is normally defined by its event horizon
a spherical (spheroidal for a spinning) hole, region light can't escape from. A black hole can have spin and charge, because
these are both universally conversed quantities.
If there charging for the movie, I think they should donate to
the software developers, for writing the software to make it
possible.
On thing about open software is that it can't pay for marketing
so the rule, free for those you know, very expensive to everyone
else applies.
We can't observe outside of light cone of course, but we can assume that
matter obeys physically law, continuing in at the same speed unless something
else makes it stop. Cosmology takes as a assumption that the universe is
smooth and obeys the same laws of physics over its history. Given that, we
can predict that the matter outside are light core, (further away than we can
see), is still expanding, and nothing has happened to chance this, because
nothing has happened nearby to change the local expansion.
We measure the expansion of the universe, by the red shift of the late from galaxies. If we look at nearby galaxies
(but outside our supercluster), we find there are still moving away, so the universe is still expanding. If fact the
results of detailed measurements of galaxies red shifts and distances, show that the in fact the universe if
not only still expanding, but that the expansion is speeding up despite the attraction of gravity. Sciencist have
had to investigate the mysterious substance called dark energy, which is causing this acceleration of the
expansion of the universe.
Yes please, lets turn all the screen output to XML, before turning it back to screen
output, because XML, is so cool. That would be so much faster than streaming X11 (not).
What about Interviews, being a geek, I give terrible interview. I also
seem to sit with bored interviewers, and try and catch there interest
something that oft seem impossible.
Extremely, an whole organism has spywear put thoughtout its IT infrastructure, reporting to one central server that could be compromised to do, lord knows what harm.
I bet many of you have never done any real floating point work.
I cut my teeth learning how floating point was implemented from
the ZX spectrum ROM disassembly, used so many numerical recipies
code for my Physics PhD, entered the world of programming for
a living, and sadly never had touch maths commercially again. Most
computer job I see advertised, seem to think that A-level maths is
as hard as it gets. Enough moaning.
As a programmer, the one most important thing you need to know
about floating point is never test for equality (even with zero), almost define how
near the answer need be, and test against that.
double a,b;
double epsilon = 1.0d-10;
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None of there games are HTML5, says so in the comments.
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Except of course, the cells will get covered and scratched by the sand storms.
They'll have to pay people to keep the cells clean uncovered and well polished.
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FDA rules are pretty strong, but it would be very easy to sell snake oil cures otherwise.
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I remember Occam I learned it back in 1993, it was designed to power specialized multi-CPU machines, transputers, microprocessor with dedicated high speed serial connects to there peer microprocessors. The company that made the transputer INMOS went burst, and disappeared into Olivetti and the transputer was never seen again. I'm surprised that Occam is still going after all this time. It wasn't a bad language and had parallelism as a very low level, which would make it useful for graphics programming or matrix maths, where you could split a for loop over multiple processors, were the answers where independent of result for other indexes.
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Watch the device driver support, I port a cheap Net cam, only to find it didn't support Linux or XP 64 which are all I use. The cam was useless to me.
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As a programmer, the one most important thing you need to know about floating point is never test for equality (even with zero), almost define how near the answer need be, and test against that. double a,b; double epsilon = 1.0d-10;
if (a==b){ // Bad practice
if ( abs(a-b) .lt. epsilon){ // Better practice
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