Well... There's 2 ways of looking at it. Either the GPU and the CPU will be merged into one beast, or there will be further segregating of tasks. In terms of price, what's more efficient: Having 1 chip that can do everything (Picture a 128 core CPU, that has different cores optimized for different tasks. So 32 cores optimized for floating point processes, 32 for vector processes and 64 for "generic computing") or having multiple chips that are each fully optimized for their task. Actually, now that I think about it, I'd probably say both. Economy computers would be based off the "Generic" cpu, whereas performance computers and servers would have add-in modules that let you tailor the hardware more towards the task at hand. So the motherboard could get an additional 8 sockets (similar to DIMM sockets) that would let you plug in different modules. So if you need to do graphics heavy processing (video games, movie rendering, etc) you'd add 8 GPU modules to the motherboard. If you needed floating point capacity, you'd add 8 FPU modules... Etc... The advantage of doing it that way over the current PCIe method, is that you get to skip the southbridge (So these modules would have full speed access to system memory, hardware and each other). Of course, there are a lot of hurdles to implementing such a thing...
I am not an engineer, these are just thoughts that rolled off my head...
I think it would be even more useful if it offered an LCD (OLED perhaps?) screen instead of "just" a keyboard (Although it would negatively effect battery life). Then imagine the possibilities. You could configure it as a keyboard, as a "mouse", or even as a dedicated input panel (think something analogous to a Point Of Sale keyboard, where you can use icons instead of just "keys"). I would personally be able to find uses on a desktop, laptop and a cellphone (Although I don't think I'd carry around a second input device for my cellphone)...
So if you're in presentation mode (Paired with PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress), it could switch to having 5 or 6 buttons (Prev Slide, Next Slide, Exit, etc) instead of --just-- using mouse gestures or keyboard interaction.
The hardware rundown even sounds identical to the Motorola Droid (Hardware keyboard, volume rocker, power button, camera button, 5mp camera, flash)... Not saying that it's an uncommon configuration, but given that they compared it to the iPhone and NexusOne, what about comparing it to the other flagship Android device (the one that's the most popular in the USA)?
Well, it depends on which kind of drone you're talking about. If it's the military drone, then yes it would be more than likely a moot point. But if you're talking about a battery powered drone, it won't have the same kind of armor (it doesn't have the power to support that much weight and still have a useful payload). I would think small arms would be particularly effective, since such a cheap drone would likely fly low and slow...
And every single one of them is turned off by default... You need to explicitly start each one. Granted, that's not perfect (at least in terms of this article's context), but it's far better than launching each as a service automatically and sharing folders/file unknown to the user...
Well, you could do the delay as a function of throttle position. From what I understand about heal-toe breaking, you're not at full throttle, but at some portion of full. So you could say implement a timeout, that would be infinite (basically never timeout) at 0% throttle, and 0 at full throttle, but decreases as the throttle position goes up. So at 25% throttle, it may be a 2 second timeout, but at 75% it would be 0.25 second...
What I find amazing is that you can't even put the transmission in neutral (says another post in this article). That NEEDS to be fixed. Bash Chevy all you want, but at least their automatic transmissions have mechanical bypasses for Neutral (It opens a dump valve that releases the clutches regardless of the electronically controlled shifter)... I wouldn't drive a car without a mechanical disconnect somewhere in the line...
What do you want to bet that when the bank "closed" the account they didn't cut the guy a check for the contents?
That would be theft, and they would be criminally liable for it. What I bet happened, is that they said "Your business doesn't agree with our TOS because of questionable content, so we don't want you as a customer" which is fully within their rights as long as that TOS policy was spelled out in advance, and received a copy. Either way, this guy MAY have a claim if he can justify that his business did not violate TOS. But it's prob easier to just open up another account at another bank and be rid of it all...
saying the firm and the White House lacked a clear vision and goal for the program
I thought NASA's mission was to explore space? The goal would then be furthering our knowledge about the universe. Sure, they may be lacking in short term goals, but they most definitely have a long term one...
It's more of a factor of if people want to use it than if the developer wants to use it. If this thing really takes off, you'd be hurting your own business by not using it. So the only way to win all around and stay independent, is for this to not take off. And I think the likelihood of that happening is quite high... Seriously, at what point do you just make a universal "app store". Something like what Tucows used to be, but with an installer on the desktop where the site handles all the payments. Is it a good idea? I don't know. Would I use it? Probably not...
It wasn't "just some guy". It was someone in a position of authority whom the people (by proxy of elected officials) have allowed to retain the position of authority...
The bit you quote is in reference to the existence of the Copernicium element, not that Uranium is the heaviest naturally occurring element...
With a nucleus containing 112 protons - 20 more than uranium, the heaviest of the naturally occurring elements - it will be the weightiest atom whose existence has been confirmed so far.
Notice the em dashes? They delineate the parts of the sentence... So, way to go quoting information out of context in an attempt to prove an irrelevant point... Thanks for trying...
Actually, a lot more than you'd think. First, there's the analyzing of Emission Spectrum from distant worlds and stars. Second, there have been several probes to the moon, mars and other celestial bodies that have attempted to (and some succeeded) look at and identify the chemical makeup of what it was looking at. Third (as if that wasn't enough) we have theoretical physicists that can (and do) calculate the makeup of the rest of the known (and known) universe. So surely it does matter to SOME people...
20 more than uranium, the heaviest of the naturally occurring elements
Minor quibble... it's the heavies of the naturally occurring elements on Earth. Heaver elements usually require different conditions (higher energy levels, gravity differences, etc) that can be found on earth. But there's nothing to say they can't be found elsewhere...
It's already done. The source code is the law, and as such is concrete (well, an instance of it is anyway). The problem is, the compiler consists of judges. And they can optimize your incarceration in many new and innovative ways...
The company elected to self-publish the book, and without an ISBN number. Consequently, none of the major online booksellers in the United States make the book available. Prospective buyers anywhere in the world must order the book from the publisher, and wait for it to be shipped from Freiburg, Germany.
That's not a viable solution, because perhaps, someday very soon (on an interplanetary scale at least) we'll want to send something into space... The better alternative would be to put it into a degrading orbit, and let it burn up in the atmosphere or crash into the ocean. Then, you could create an autonomous robot to go out an collect the "small" debris (and incapacitated objects) that are out there, and send them into a degrading orbit. At least we'd be able to predict some cool shooting stars!
To me, at least from your brief review, it sounds like the book tries to do too much. I mean performance, site design (conversion rates, branding, etc) and interface design (the actual flow and feel of the site) all in one book? Each topic could have a library written on it by itself (and --coincidentally-- has)...
In today's age, I much prefer in-depth books that go deep into a single subject to books that try to broach many. The reason for that is simple. I can learn a little about a lot of things online for free. To get a really in-depth on a particular subject help to truly understand the subject, not just "learn" it... JMHO...
I wasn't alive for the WW2 era fascism. And perhaps I'm not as up on international politics as I should be... If there are other events just as bad as this in recent history (as you imply), then I would be ashamed of that as well. I just didn't know about that before now... Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
Even at that, more than 2 or 3 years, and I call troll. Either that, or incompetent leadership. Can you say that a negotiation that lasted for presumably as much as 6 to 10 years broke down initiating this suit? Plus, they filed suits against multiple parties. If they did one today, and another in 6 months than your theory would be much more plausible. But as it appears now, I can't see how it can be anything but "troll".
"Innovate" an interesting idea, patent it, and do nothing with it
Wait for others to independently develop the same idea, and do nothing about it
Wait for others' products to launch, and do nothing about it
Wait for others' products to gain market penetration, then sue their asses off for infringement
Profit
If there's a better definition of a troll, I don't know what it is...
Technically that's true, but I think the implication is false. To me at least, you statement implies that they "cheated" (knowingly infringed). Multiple people can come up with strikingly similar results from completely different angles (with respect to algorithms especially). The first is by definition innovation. Wouldn't the second still be innovation (so long as they didn't know about the first)? Sure, the results are very similar to the first, but the method used was genuine. So I believe both can be classified as innovation. If the second knew of the first, then it's no longer innovation and could possibly become innovation at that part. It's not how the system works, but perhaps it should be (Otherwise you reward the first to develop, and penalize --perhaps unjustifiably-- all others... Just my $0.02
I agree, but not because they are suing for patent violation. I agree, because they waited almost 10 years to enforce this patent. Why the wait? Presumably these companies were in violation for longer than just the past year or 2. And it's not like they can say that they "just found out that they existed"...
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Well... There's 2 ways of looking at it. Either the GPU and the CPU will be merged into one beast, or there will be further segregating of tasks. In terms of price, what's more efficient: Having 1 chip that can do everything (Picture a 128 core CPU, that has different cores optimized for different tasks. So 32 cores optimized for floating point processes, 32 for vector processes and 64 for "generic computing") or having multiple chips that are each fully optimized for their task. Actually, now that I think about it, I'd probably say both. Economy computers would be based off the "Generic" cpu, whereas performance computers and servers would have add-in modules that let you tailor the hardware more towards the task at hand. So the motherboard could get an additional 8 sockets (similar to DIMM sockets) that would let you plug in different modules. So if you need to do graphics heavy processing (video games, movie rendering, etc) you'd add 8 GPU modules to the motherboard. If you needed floating point capacity, you'd add 8 FPU modules... Etc... The advantage of doing it that way over the current PCIe method, is that you get to skip the southbridge (So these modules would have full speed access to system memory, hardware and each other). Of course, there are a lot of hurdles to implementing such a thing...
I am not an engineer, these are just thoughts that rolled off my head...
I think it would be even more useful if it offered an LCD (OLED perhaps?) screen instead of "just" a keyboard (Although it would negatively effect battery life). Then imagine the possibilities. You could configure it as a keyboard, as a "mouse", or even as a dedicated input panel (think something analogous to a Point Of Sale keyboard, where you can use icons instead of just "keys"). I would personally be able to find uses on a desktop, laptop and a cellphone (Although I don't think I'd carry around a second input device for my cellphone)...
So if you're in presentation mode (Paired with PowerPoint or OpenOffice Impress), it could switch to having 5 or 6 buttons (Prev Slide, Next Slide, Exit, etc) instead of --just-- using mouse gestures or keyboard interaction.
The hardware rundown even sounds identical to the Motorola Droid (Hardware keyboard, volume rocker, power button, camera button, 5mp camera, flash)... Not saying that it's an uncommon configuration, but given that they compared it to the iPhone and NexusOne, what about comparing it to the other flagship Android device (the one that's the most popular in the USA)?
Well, it depends on which kind of drone you're talking about. If it's the military drone, then yes it would be more than likely a moot point. But if you're talking about a battery powered drone, it won't have the same kind of armor (it doesn't have the power to support that much weight and still have a useful payload). I would think small arms would be particularly effective, since such a cheap drone would likely fly low and slow...
And every single one of them is turned off by default... You need to explicitly start each one. Granted, that's not perfect (at least in terms of this article's context), but it's far better than launching each as a service automatically and sharing folders/file unknown to the user...
Well, you could do the delay as a function of throttle position. From what I understand about heal-toe breaking, you're not at full throttle, but at some portion of full. So you could say implement a timeout, that would be infinite (basically never timeout) at 0% throttle, and 0 at full throttle, but decreases as the throttle position goes up. So at 25% throttle, it may be a 2 second timeout, but at 75% it would be 0.25 second...
What I find amazing is that you can't even put the transmission in neutral (says another post in this article). That NEEDS to be fixed. Bash Chevy all you want, but at least their automatic transmissions have mechanical bypasses for Neutral (It opens a dump valve that releases the clutches regardless of the electronically controlled shifter)... I wouldn't drive a car without a mechanical disconnect somewhere in the line...
I think what was the important part is WHAT data do they have about you...
That would be theft, and they would be criminally liable for it. What I bet happened, is that they said "Your business doesn't agree with our TOS because of questionable content, so we don't want you as a customer" which is fully within their rights as long as that TOS policy was spelled out in advance, and received a copy. Either way, this guy MAY have a claim if he can justify that his business did not violate TOS. But it's prob easier to just open up another account at another bank and be rid of it all...
I thought NASA's mission was to explore space? The goal would then be furthering our knowledge about the universe. Sure, they may be lacking in short term goals, but they most definitely have a long term one...
I don't know. Why don't you go try it, and let us know how that goes ;-)
It's more of a factor of if people want to use it than if the developer wants to use it. If this thing really takes off, you'd be hurting your own business by not using it. So the only way to win all around and stay independent, is for this to not take off. And I think the likelihood of that happening is quite high... Seriously, at what point do you just make a universal "app store". Something like what Tucows used to be, but with an installer on the desktop where the site handles all the payments. Is it a good idea? I don't know. Would I use it? Probably not...
It wasn't "just some guy". It was someone in a position of authority whom the people (by proxy of elected officials) have allowed to retain the position of authority...
I never said it was GOOD code. It is syntactically correct, and as such would qualify for the analogy...
Notice the em dashes? They delineate the parts of the sentence... So, way to go quoting information out of context in an attempt to prove an irrelevant point... Thanks for trying...
Actually, a lot more than you'd think. First, there's the analyzing of Emission Spectrum from distant worlds and stars. Second, there have been several probes to the moon, mars and other celestial bodies that have attempted to (and some succeeded) look at and identify the chemical makeup of what it was looking at. Third (as if that wasn't enough) we have theoretical physicists that can (and do) calculate the makeup of the rest of the known (and known) universe. So surely it does matter to SOME people...
Minor quibble... it's the heavies of the naturally occurring elements on Earth. Heaver elements usually require different conditions (higher energy levels, gravity differences, etc) that can be found on earth. But there's nothing to say they can't be found elsewhere...
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/assistant/editorial_1666.shtm
It's already done. The source code is the law, and as such is concrete (well, an instance of it is anyway). The problem is, the compiler consists of judges. And they can optimize your incarceration in many new and innovative ways...
That's not a viable solution, because perhaps, someday very soon (on an interplanetary scale at least) we'll want to send something into space... The better alternative would be to put it into a degrading orbit, and let it burn up in the atmosphere or crash into the ocean. Then, you could create an autonomous robot to go out an collect the "small" debris (and incapacitated objects) that are out there, and send them into a degrading orbit. At least we'd be able to predict some cool shooting stars!
To me, at least from your brief review, it sounds like the book tries to do too much. I mean performance, site design (conversion rates, branding, etc) and interface design (the actual flow and feel of the site) all in one book? Each topic could have a library written on it by itself (and --coincidentally-- has)...
In today's age, I much prefer in-depth books that go deep into a single subject to books that try to broach many. The reason for that is simple. I can learn a little about a lot of things online for free. To get a really in-depth on a particular subject help to truly understand the subject, not just "learn" it... JMHO...
I wasn't alive for the WW2 era fascism. And perhaps I'm not as up on international politics as I should be... If there are other events just as bad as this in recent history (as you imply), then I would be ashamed of that as well. I just didn't know about that before now... Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
If there's a better definition of a troll, I don't know what it is...
Technically that's true, but I think the implication is false. To me at least, you statement implies that they "cheated" (knowingly infringed). Multiple people can come up with strikingly similar results from completely different angles (with respect to algorithms especially). The first is by definition innovation. Wouldn't the second still be innovation (so long as they didn't know about the first)? Sure, the results are very similar to the first, but the method used was genuine. So I believe both can be classified as innovation. If the second knew of the first, then it's no longer innovation and could possibly become innovation at that part. It's not how the system works, but perhaps it should be (Otherwise you reward the first to develop, and penalize --perhaps unjustifiably-- all others... Just my $0.02
I agree, but not because they are suing for patent violation. I agree, because they waited almost 10 years to enforce this patent. Why the wait? Presumably these companies were in violation for longer than just the past year or 2. And it's not like they can say that they "just found out that they existed"...