I use credit cards for all my purchases and get around $300/year back in rewards. On top of that, all my purchases have additional protections provided by the credit card company. Further, not a single person is liable for any fraudulent charges made on a credit card. I'm having a hard time seeing your point.
The Titan line is marketed by NVidia for gaming. Compound this with the fact that the Titan line does not come with workstation drivers and that cheaper alternatives exist for workstation GPUs (dedicated to GPGPU mind you), and it makes no sense to try to argue that the Titan line was not meant for gaming.
Are you purposely playing dumb about contractual obligations and unions? A strong union means two things; every employee is under contract which means you can only fire under agreed upon terms (yes in America a valid contract is legally binding, you can't just ignore it and fire people at will), and if you fire one person outside these terms you have a strong chance of having all your teachers walk off the job (which is unacceptable for most school districts).
You have to remember that a large part of the fault is the government. A company driven by a legal obligation to maximize profits who is ran by countless people will do what it can to make a profit. It's up to the government to regulate and create a situation where a company operates in a manner acceptable to most, otherwise a company is almost obligated to maximize their profits.
The only dramatic difference is the GPU, where the PS4 has 33% more streaming processors. That alone makes all other performance factors moot. It's a big deal.
You really don't need atomic operations until you get into multi-core programming (this is so that you are guaranteed to instantly change a value before another core reads/writes to it). Even the C++ standard doesn't guarantee atomic operations unless you explicitly declare a variable atomic.
People don't realize that the next epidemic will be obesity. Its effects are dramatic and very harmful to health and it's only a matter of time before technology makes food sufficiently cheap for everyone.
For those who aren't aware, he is talking about the Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam and power station in the world built at a cost of $26 billion. China could do it if they wanted, it's just a matter of whether it's worth it to them.
By far the most important factor in performance. You don't realize how much you need an SSD until you go into your Downloads folder and try to load a list of thousands of files. Now try moving them.
Marriage is too closely tied to religion and culture. It needs to be completely left up to people to decide on their own. The government needs to institute support for only civil unions with no restrictions on anyone, and leave "Marriage" up to individuals to do on their own, in a way not recognized nor controlled by the government.
It's not different than a CEO stepping down for being a racist. Companies are more than making money, they have an image and if the CEO harms that image, that is a legitimate reason to criticize and try to have him step down. God bless America where we are allowed to protest in this manner.
We're already writing short programs with voice statements in Siri. We can already produce very complex C programs using only flow charts in LabView. I'd say it's optimistic but very much a real possibility.
I disagree, at least as a broad generalization you may or may not be trying to state. Programming has many different levels and many different languages dependent on what you are doing. Ironically one of the most engineering oriented programming platforms, LabView, does exactly what you argue against, using flowcharts and "blockbox" processes to program your hardware. Using high level language and strong abstraction and avoiding re-inventing the wheel when applicable is essential to saving programming time and reducing mistakes, especially emphasizing not needing to know how it is implemented but just the interface. I love programming in Assembly and implementing everything from scratch for certain embedded projects while for GUI programming the last thing I want to do is go through and have to have an unnecessarily deep understanding of the inner workings of something I will never need to know. Obviously being too abstract, forcing things together in the wrong manner, or being overly in-depth can occur, but it's wrong to make a blanket statement about needing to understand in detail every single tool you use beyond what you need to know. There is a reason why you don't learn how to make a car in order to drive it, or that a carpenter doesn't need to know the physics behind a motor to use a drill.
I worked at a place where they had a SMD (tiny electronic components) placement machine that used 98. It didn't connect to the internet and only accepted tab deliminated placement files. Running 98 in this situation is completely acceptable.
You have to remember that Intel and AMD work inside a very limited silicon die area. It would be trivial for them to make a 100 core CPU if they wanted, but the performance would drastically go down. It all comes down to core quantity versus core performance (to put things in perspective, even an ancient single core celeron from the early 2000s would outperform a parallax 8 core cpu).
As far as why the Arduino made such a splash, that's because Atmel microcontrollers come with heavy peripheral support, heavy documentation, and a fantastic support for hobbyists through their free IDEs. Atmel is a big corporation that still pushes hard for hobbyist adoption.
The only reason you saw phenomenal speed increases on single cores in the past was because we were no where near the frequency barrier. Going from 200 to 400MHz was extremely easy compared to 4GHz to 8GHz, which isn't even possible except in exotic conditions.
64 bit is advantageous since you're no longer running under the WOW64 emulation layer (all Windows 32 bit programs run under this emulator on 64 bit Windows). The overhead isn't large, but it does exist. There are few reasons not to just run native.
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I use credit cards for all my purchases and get around $300/year back in rewards. On top of that, all my purchases have additional protections provided by the credit card company. Further, not a single person is liable for any fraudulent charges made on a credit card. I'm having a hard time seeing your point.
The Titan line is marketed by NVidia for gaming. Compound this with the fact that the Titan line does not come with workstation drivers and that cheaper alternatives exist for workstation GPUs (dedicated to GPGPU mind you), and it makes no sense to try to argue that the Titan line was not meant for gaming.
Are you purposely playing dumb about contractual obligations and unions? A strong union means two things; every employee is under contract which means you can only fire under agreed upon terms (yes in America a valid contract is legally binding, you can't just ignore it and fire people at will), and if you fire one person outside these terms you have a strong chance of having all your teachers walk off the job (which is unacceptable for most school districts).
http://livingwage.mit.edu/plac... For 1 adult it says the living wage is $9.64 in Seattle Washington...?
There are always new parts coming soon, you eventually have to pull the trigger and buy at some point.
Serving and brewing temperatures are not the same...
You have to remember that a large part of the fault is the government. A company driven by a legal obligation to maximize profits who is ran by countless people will do what it can to make a profit. It's up to the government to regulate and create a situation where a company operates in a manner acceptable to most, otherwise a company is almost obligated to maximize their profits.
The only dramatic difference is the GPU, where the PS4 has 33% more streaming processors. That alone makes all other performance factors moot. It's a big deal.
>The sight of it tends to make software developers run in terror. That's because it has very little to do with software programming.
You really don't need atomic operations until you get into multi-core programming (this is so that you are guaranteed to instantly change a value before another core reads/writes to it). Even the C++ standard doesn't guarantee atomic operations unless you explicitly declare a variable atomic.
People don't realize that the next epidemic will be obesity. Its effects are dramatic and very harmful to health and it's only a matter of time before technology makes food sufficiently cheap for everyone.
For those who aren't aware, he is talking about the Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam and power station in the world built at a cost of $26 billion. China could do it if they wanted, it's just a matter of whether it's worth it to them.
What a thought provoking and insightful comment you've made.
Don't forget the Ford stamping plant in Woodhaven.
By far the most important factor in performance. You don't realize how much you need an SSD until you go into your Downloads folder and try to load a list of thousands of files. Now try moving them.
Doubling your money just once is very difficult, good luck doing it 10 times in a row. An amazing annual return is considered > 10%.
What's the point of the battery then?
Marriage is too closely tied to religion and culture. It needs to be completely left up to people to decide on their own. The government needs to institute support for only civil unions with no restrictions on anyone, and leave "Marriage" up to individuals to do on their own, in a way not recognized nor controlled by the government.
It's not different than a CEO stepping down for being a racist. Companies are more than making money, they have an image and if the CEO harms that image, that is a legitimate reason to criticize and try to have him step down. God bless America where we are allowed to protest in this manner.
We're already writing short programs with voice statements in Siri. We can already produce very complex C programs using only flow charts in LabView. I'd say it's optimistic but very much a real possibility.
I disagree, at least as a broad generalization you may or may not be trying to state. Programming has many different levels and many different languages dependent on what you are doing. Ironically one of the most engineering oriented programming platforms, LabView, does exactly what you argue against, using flowcharts and "blockbox" processes to program your hardware. Using high level language and strong abstraction and avoiding re-inventing the wheel when applicable is essential to saving programming time and reducing mistakes, especially emphasizing not needing to know how it is implemented but just the interface. I love programming in Assembly and implementing everything from scratch for certain embedded projects while for GUI programming the last thing I want to do is go through and have to have an unnecessarily deep understanding of the inner workings of something I will never need to know. Obviously being too abstract, forcing things together in the wrong manner, or being overly in-depth can occur, but it's wrong to make a blanket statement about needing to understand in detail every single tool you use beyond what you need to know. There is a reason why you don't learn how to make a car in order to drive it, or that a carpenter doesn't need to know the physics behind a motor to use a drill.
I worked at a place where they had a SMD (tiny electronic components) placement machine that used 98. It didn't connect to the internet and only accepted tab deliminated placement files. Running 98 in this situation is completely acceptable.
You have to remember that Intel and AMD work inside a very limited silicon die area. It would be trivial for them to make a 100 core CPU if they wanted, but the performance would drastically go down. It all comes down to core quantity versus core performance (to put things in perspective, even an ancient single core celeron from the early 2000s would outperform a parallax 8 core cpu). As far as why the Arduino made such a splash, that's because Atmel microcontrollers come with heavy peripheral support, heavy documentation, and a fantastic support for hobbyists through their free IDEs. Atmel is a big corporation that still pushes hard for hobbyist adoption.
The only reason you saw phenomenal speed increases on single cores in the past was because we were no where near the frequency barrier. Going from 200 to 400MHz was extremely easy compared to 4GHz to 8GHz, which isn't even possible except in exotic conditions.
64 bit is advantageous since you're no longer running under the WOW64 emulation layer (all Windows 32 bit programs run under this emulator on 64 bit Windows). The overhead isn't large, but it does exist. There are few reasons not to just run native.