It seems to me that if we finally stopped trying to eek out every last ounce of power from a specific technology that the industry might finally have a chance to mature to an unprecedented level.
I mean, lets say things just suddenly stop and say 10ghz is the max chip speed and every other thing intel tries explodes the chip within 10 seconds. So maybe intel folds because of that (I'm a bad american... I really don't care about a companies right to profit. (i also have corporate grammar)) But some other chip maker can then take this speed limit and generate a process to develop that chip for extremely low level costs. Or maybe other people come along and argue for power and heat friendly chips which are only slightly less than the upper bounds.
Then us software people start to run out of the excuse of "Hey, you should upgrade, then it'll run faster." And we can get down to the business of making the software just work correctly without having to worry about the next big thing we should be taking advantage of (sadly Game devs are still screwed for many more years.) We might even take the time to build software to eek out every possible advantage from the cpu... you know... back like we did when we thought 640k would be enough for anybody.
Then give it a few years... say 50. And suddenly bio computing or quantum computing takes shape and a new industry of chip design is born and bolsters us into the next phase... but in the meantime we've done a good job of building a nice little base in the phase we are in. Use it as a benchmark against the designs of the next phase.
I guess I don't see hitting this wall a bad thing. It seems that knowing there's a wall in front of you stimulates more in trying to get around the wall than seeing an endless open field does in making you feel like you might as well just sit down and take a breather.
Proof by contradiction, obviously! The premise that he is a "math person" must necessarily be wrong. Mathematicians are *never* inconsistent... just incomplete occasionally.
Man... with all these "Luke, I am your father" posts, it would appear Amidala really got around. Did they have paternity tests in "Long ago" and "Far, far away?"
I'm sure there's a naked and petrified somewhere in there... but I refuse, I tell you!
Computers need HCI in order to make them accessible to laymen. If we let engineers run things... well we have linux... but different than law, people have the choice to use windows or macintosh instead. They aren't required to use the operating system made by engineers for engineers (and even then at least the linux people are making an effort to make the computer more accessible.)
A law which the layman doesn't understand, makes it that much easier for those who do to control the layman. Yes, it doesn't really happen that people are getting thrown in jail for every little infraction, but if you piss off the legal class... it becomes that much easier to throw a ton of bricks on your head. And even better because everyone else involved in putting a brick on you, is "just doing their job, sir."
So yeah, its good to have people who know how to write a good law, but lets try to keep it from being "by lawyers, for lawyers."
I thought I remembered hearing something about an argument between people of the time as to whether Mercury and Venus were in front of or behind the Sun when circling the Earth. Something leads me to believe that the first time the transit was correctly viewed was before Copernicus and may have helped him in proving that the Sun was the center of rotation and not the Earth.
Furthering your number 2. I took calculus twice that way, and breezed through it with an A in college. My highschool class had helped considerably. Not only that but it was an easier semester (even though it was loaded with 18 credits) and immediately my GPA had a big step up (college GPA being sadly way important than I think is necessary, but still... I'm a computer scientist... I know how to play games). A lot of schools will let you skip calc one and possibly even calc two. I don't recommend it unless you are more than a little confident (cocky) about your ability.
I think that applies to all of academics. 10% of the people are doing real work, the other 90% are just trying to get published. (Speaking from the other 90%:)
Wow! http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/Pamphlet_ BW_Web.pdf... there really is an interweb. I always thought that was a joke making fun of people who don't know what the hell they are doing and shouldn't be involved with technology, not the US government.
The reason I think this is true: back when all mathematicians only had Roman Numerals, the process for explaining how to multiple 3-digit numbers was extremely opaque, and it was nearly impossible to describe how to do long division. Now we can teach 3rd/4th graders how to do it before they watch "Barney".
As with everything pretty much. You have to understand it before you can express it simply. Just because the "smart guys" don't express it simply yet, doesn't mean they should just give it up. They still understand it better than most everyone else. Chomsky understands linguistics better then most people understand it, and at the moment most people who study linguistics are probably able to understand Chomsky as though he were talking to a child. Someday they will figure it. Sorta, but then it'll evolve into something more complicated so the linguistics we know now will be expressible simply, but something else far more interesting will be difficult to express and only the enlightened will be able to express it at all.
While the company insists this would not affect its prior guidance for revenues of $22 million to $25 million, it does seem strange that a public company would have problems with what looks to be a relatively routine process. For short sellers, this is a textbook clue that there may be internal disarray or perhaps, even some finagling.
I especially like that last sentence. I wonder what the SEC's term for finagling is.
4. You can have multiple instances of meshes. This means you can take one model, run a few vertex programs on it, and store each result seperately. Saves alot of time later.
This is really sweet. There's any number of times I've wanted to store one shader in the light and one on the mesh and just combine them. it looks like this would allow you to run through once with the light shader and then run through on a second pass with your stored mesh on the specific mesh shader. Unless I'm misinterpreting (if I am... someone please make this happen... it'd make writing the shaders *so* much easier)
6. Frame buffer current pixel value reads. This has been a developer request for a long time. It's not mandatory in the spec, but it can be used for all sorts of stuff. Basicly the GPU can read the current value in the framebuffer into the pixel pipeline without needing to maintain a second copy. This will both save alot of memory and allow you to do things such as light accumulation more efficiently.
Its a kind of nice. SCO seems to be making this "GPL test in court" thing easy. They're really on our side the whole time, just martyring themselves to do it. Any future challenger of the GPL will have to face up to the idea of "pulling a SCO" regardless of the merit of their case. And this case will yield a precedence in favor of the GPL. Its like SCO is our best friend all along, they just have to play the bad guy until after the case is won, and their business is crumbled, and Darl spends time in prison on investor fraud. Also, I'd like to thank Ally McBeal for my law degree.:)
That's insane. I heard cars with people speeding in them has killed children. Children!! We need to put Driver Road Management systems into all vehicles! Why would you even want to have a car that can go over 50 mph anyway? Only criminals want to go fast and do it to kill children.
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Isn't that the purpose of (good) proof-reading?
2nd order cardinality.
Yeah ... there are. Although many of us are not nearly as succesful or talented :)
I mean, lets say things just suddenly stop and say 10ghz is the max chip speed and every other thing intel tries explodes the chip within 10 seconds. So maybe intel folds because of that (I'm a bad american... I really don't care about a companies right to profit. (i also have corporate grammar)) But some other chip maker can then take this speed limit and generate a process to develop that chip for extremely low level costs. Or maybe other people come along and argue for power and heat friendly chips which are only slightly less than the upper bounds.
Then us software people start to run out of the excuse of "Hey, you should upgrade, then it'll run faster." And we can get down to the business of making the software just work correctly without having to worry about the next big thing we should be taking advantage of (sadly Game devs are still screwed for many more years.) We might even take the time to build software to eek out every possible advantage from the cpu ... you know ... back like we did when we thought 640k would be enough for anybody.
Then give it a few years... say 50. And suddenly bio computing or quantum computing takes shape and a new industry of chip design is born and bolsters us into the next phase... but in the meantime we've done a good job of building a nice little base in the phase we are in. Use it as a benchmark against the designs of the next phase.
I guess I don't see hitting this wall a bad thing. It seems that knowing there's a wall in front of you stimulates more in trying to get around the wall than seeing an endless open field does in making you feel like you might as well just sit down and take a breather.
Proof by contradiction, obviously! The premise that he is a "math person" must necessarily be wrong. Mathematicians are *never* inconsistent... just incomplete occasionally.
Well, how else would you cushion the blow? Giant balloon thingies?
words change meaning ... AI now means this, and cognitive science means what you are going for.
I'm sure there's a naked and petrified somewhere in there... but I refuse, I tell you!
Computers need HCI in order to make them accessible to laymen. If we let engineers run things... well we have linux... but different than law, people have the choice to use windows or macintosh instead. They aren't required to use the operating system made by engineers for engineers (and even then at least the linux people are making an effort to make the computer more accessible.)
A law which the layman doesn't understand, makes it that much easier for those who do to control the layman. Yes, it doesn't really happen that people are getting thrown in jail for every little infraction, but if you piss off the legal class... it becomes that much easier to throw a ton of bricks on your head. And even better because everyone else involved in putting a brick on you, is "just doing their job, sir."
So yeah, its good to have people who know how to write a good law, but lets try to keep it from being "by lawyers, for lawyers."
Its really not that much different than feeding the troops. Its one thing to run out of fuel. Its even worse to run out of food.
I thought I remembered hearing something about an argument between people of the time as to whether Mercury and Venus were in front of or behind the Sun when circling the Earth. Something leads me to believe that the first time the transit was correctly viewed was before Copernicus and may have helped him in proving that the Sun was the center of rotation and not the Earth.
That's about $125 for a large person. That's *way* cheaper than southwest airlines.
Oh no ... now I gotta hold my breath.
Furthering your number 2. I took calculus twice that way, and breezed through it with an A in college. My highschool class had helped considerably. Not only that but it was an easier semester (even though it was loaded with 18 credits) and immediately my GPA had a big step up (college GPA being sadly way important than I think is necessary, but still... I'm a computer scientist... I know how to play games). A lot of schools will let you skip calc one and possibly even calc two. I don't recommend it unless you are more than a little confident (cocky) about your ability.
wow ... even after all these years on slashdot... I still get surprised when I find myself saying "Gee, I thought I was the only one..."
I think that applies to all of academics. 10% of the people are doing real work, the other 90% are just trying to get published. (Speaking from the other 90% :)
I'd hire him. :)
Wow! http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/Pamphlet_ BW_Web.pdf ... there really is an interweb. I always thought that was a joke making fun of people who don't know what the hell they are doing and shouldn't be involved with technology, not the US government.
The reason I think this is true: back when all mathematicians only had Roman Numerals, the process for explaining how to multiple 3-digit numbers was extremely opaque, and it was nearly impossible to describe how to do long division. Now we can teach 3rd/4th graders how to do it before they watch "Barney".
As with everything pretty much. You have to understand it before you can express it simply. Just because the "smart guys" don't express it simply yet, doesn't mean they should just give it up. They still understand it better than most everyone else. Chomsky understands linguistics better then most people understand it, and at the moment most people who study linguistics are probably able to understand Chomsky as though he were talking to a child. Someday they will figure it. Sorta, but then it'll evolve into something more complicated so the linguistics we know now will be expressible simply, but something else far more interesting will be difficult to express and only the enlightened will be able to express it at all.
That rocks.
I especially like that last sentence. I wonder what the SEC's term for finagling is.
This is really sweet. There's any number of times I've wanted to store one shader in the light and one on the mesh and just combine them. it looks like this would allow you to run through once with the light shader and then run through on a second pass with your stored mesh on the specific mesh shader. Unless I'm misinterpreting (if I am ... someone please make this happen... it'd make writing the shaders *so* much easier)
6. Frame buffer current pixel value reads. This has been a developer request for a long time. It's not mandatory in the spec, but it can be used for all sorts of stuff. Basicly the GPU can read the current value in the framebuffer into the pixel pipeline without needing to maintain a second copy. This will both save alot of memory and allow you to do things such as light accumulation more efficiently.
mixmode is dead!!! long live framebuffer reads.
Its a kind of nice. SCO seems to be making this "GPL test in court" thing easy. They're really on our side the whole time, just martyring themselves to do it. Any future challenger of the GPL will have to face up to the idea of "pulling a SCO" regardless of the merit of their case. And this case will yield a precedence in favor of the GPL. Its like SCO is our best friend all along, they just have to play the bad guy until after the case is won, and their business is crumbled, and Darl spends time in prison on investor fraud. Also, I'd like to thank Ally McBeal for my law degree. :)
Be specific! Its a bitch.
That's insane. I heard cars with people speeding in them has killed children. Children!! We need to put Driver Road Management systems into all vehicles! Why would you even want to have a car that can go over 50 mph anyway? Only criminals want to go fast and do it to kill children.