Anyone who develops a software is for making profit by selling the software. Patents put research in stall because any new idea always comes from another ideas.
It is a good time to stop watching TV to start new hobbies.
Re:Incorrect about Moore's law
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That's right. As the distance between transistors reduces, the clock speed can be increased and usually that increases the raw power of the microprocessor. That was the main tendency with desktop processors during the 80s and 90s. The other question is what to do with more transistors if you don't want to make them cheaper.
Now manufactures have reached a point of overheating the processors making microprocessors over 4GHz almost impractical because of power loses and the difficulties of cooling them. That's why now they are concentrating efforts to increase the number of CPUs running in parallel. Nevertheless having more than 6 processors does not achieve better performances with sequential codes, (I don't remember whose law is this) making this approach also impractical.
Personally I will like to star seeing processors more efficient that not require fans to cooling them making noiseless (I miss that aspect of my old 486).
Ignore Linux and gaming. The highly immediately pragmatic stand, probably what you would justify. The question here becomes are you forced up the upgrade trail by Vista? A weaker, yet not currently aggravating stance is to at least boycott Vista and tell microsoft you won't pay, and by extension boycotting games if they make DirectX 10 a requirement, hardware if they fail to provide XP drivers, etc. Yeah! I want to develop a game using OpenGl 3.0 instead DirectX 10. But.. Oh wait! Where is OpenGl 3.0?
You have a confusion here. One think is multithreading and another think is parallel computing. You can create two, three, four threads in your application without problems to take advantage of two or four core. But, how you take advantange of a processor of 128 cores (like actual graphic cards) and 1.024 cores? MPI is only used for sharing information between nodes in a cluster, but sharing information in one processor between multiple cores is very different. The programming model is just very different between parallel and secuential programming because in parallel programming you have to avoid conflicts beween threads and more important there is no way that you can define in C/C++ or Fortran one segment code that will work in parallel/atomic or define levels of cache. But to understand all of this you have to program in languages like Cuda, Sequoia
On the other hand, I is also important that the language of my choice should have a wondeful IDE with an integrated debugger, wonderful and tested libraries with nice GUIs, and a wonderful Linux-Windows-Mac interoperability.
Why wasting explosives to firing an uranium bullet? It is cheaper if the suicide hit the uranium with a hammer until it explodes. Don't forget to smile before the blast.
if you could get a computation to figure out the mass and molecular composition of an object, disassembly of the mass>turn into energy>transmit energy>translate into mass>re-assemble.
Theoretically it should be doable although highly intensive energy wise (not worth it). BUT i would think at that point it would just be easier (and possible) to create the object from stored mass by just using a molecular blueprint that could be transmitted. (replicators?)
Well not exactly. There is some extrange property at quatum level that is related with the correlation. Somehow, particles has some information about other particles that has been interacted. This is related with the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epr_paradox If you do what yo suggest, the correlation is destroyed and the particle is never the same. It is almost imposible to reproduce the correlation, because you will need a quantum computer with 2^100 q-bits to calculate the correlation for just 100 elemental particles. So, there is not enought universe to create a quantum computer that reproduce all the quantum possible states for something like you and me.
Yes. In fact as you will discover soon, it is not possible to move matter through time only information. I am physically in the future, but I am able to write in Slashdot through a quantum synchronization. You will be surprise how many aliens and people from the future are writing in Slashdot.:)
People in the U.S. are, generally, very ignorant about the corruption in the U.S. government.
You are wrong. Most American citizens are fully aware about government corruption.
The U.S. do not have a problem with Iran, except for the problems the U.S. government makes.
The only problem with Iran is that they swore the destruction of the US and Israel and now they want an atomic bomb. Great!
The U.S. government is manipulated by Cheney and others to use taxpayer's money to get control of oil, so that oil prices will rise.
Do you ever believe that Iraq is invaded just for spreading the liberty and the democracy? Don't be so naïve. We are a capitalism country! If I expend billions in an Army I want something in return! I will be disappointed if after expending billions of taxpayer's money and peoples live the US Army is not used to defend the American industry and economy around the globe.
The U.S. government has invaded at least 24 countries since the Second World War, and is responsible for the deaths of perhaps 11 million people. All of that violence was done for profit for people who were already rich. People who have been born in wealthy families often feel that it is their right to kill other people.
And don't forget all the countries before WWII! Well in none of those countries I still see a waving American flag if it is not in the US embassy.
I'm very much in love with the U.S., and want to see better government.
Me too, but I have been in Saudi Arabia and when I came back I kissed the US floor. Nevertheless I prefer most of European countries for living. We must learn from good examples to improve our way of live. Don't look to the Middle East. These are full of bad examples.
After a century of war and hatred, Native Americans were just exterminated and the last survivors finally just surrender in 1832. The difference with Canada is in some point of their history someone made a wrong turn.
But unlike Palestinians there were no political powers that used its cause for political claims.
The Palestinian cause was feed with hatred to influence the people and claim political power in the same way as Hitler uses the hatred against judies to gain political power.
The EU hardly go back to the union process because of the USA. There are other superpowers in the horizon that are coming from Asia. Nevertheless, it exist the possibility that the EU could enter into a political fragmentation in the same way as Yugoslavia and grow like a cancer. But this are for internal political issues, not because the USA. Don't belive that your are the center of the world.
This are measures that have nothing about the nation security but as a pretext. The real objective is to control the movement of the people and the illegal immigrants. In the last decade, the country has been invaded with delinquents, chicanos, arabs and communisms. We have to do something to preserve the purity of the American way of life. Your country will appreciate any collaboration.
Yes, we have to show the bird certificate that has no picture and hardly demonstrate anything but somebody has ever existed. I propose to ask for more papers from your work, your college, your family, your vaccine card and any document that could identify you to any political movement will be usefull. Including some interrogatories will be nice, too.
It is imperative to tackle the movement of the people. The national security will appreciate your collaboration.
And what is the medicine against that bee venom that will save the American liberties before the whole system collapses?
Maybe the paranoid reaction is a symptom of immunodeficiency. Spain and the UK have been also objectives of terrorism attacks, but their liberties haven't suffer too much because the have lived the terrorism during decades.
We all already know that Vista sucks since it was released. Is there something new? And I always have both Linux and Windows in my computer and I use both. Maybe I am only thinking on using less the Windows or maybe erase it if it becomes too clumsy, but not for now.
Are you guys realise that in every discussion about the theory of the evolution it always leads to a discussion about the nature of the Heavens? Evolution is scientific fact that is comes from the rational understanding of the universe from the left side of the brain while the concept of something divine is an emotional human understanding of the universe that comes from the rigth side of the brain. I don't think that those concepts are incompatibles. Both aspects differences us from a gorilla.
So the question is not if you believe in the evolution, but if you are left brained or right brained.
Umm! I have another idea.
Subliminal advertisements in the music stream.
It will be totally legal because the mp3 file was pirate.
A good way to include hide messages about the delictive act to share the music.
As a social safety service for the goberments to 'educate' the people and they sure will pay.
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Anyone who develops a software is for making profit by selling the software. Patents put research in stall because any new idea always comes from another ideas.
Is it waterproof?
It is a good time to stop watching TV to start new hobbies.
That's right. As the distance between transistors reduces, the clock speed can be increased and usually that increases the raw power of the microprocessor. That was the main tendency with desktop processors during the 80s and 90s. The other question is what to do with more transistors if you don't want to make them cheaper.
Now manufactures have reached a point of overheating the processors making microprocessors over 4GHz almost impractical because of power loses and the difficulties of cooling them. That's why now they are concentrating efforts to increase the number of CPUs running in parallel. Nevertheless having more than 6 processors does not achieve better performances with sequential codes, (I don't remember whose law is this) making this approach also impractical.
Personally I will like to star seeing processors more efficient that not require fans to cooling them making noiseless (I miss that aspect of my old 486).
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Matlab? You meaned CUDA...
:)
But here there is a plugin for matlab
Enjoy! http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html
You have a confusion here. One think is multithreading and another think is parallel computing. You can create two, three, four threads in your application without problems to take advantage of two or four core. But, how you take advantange of a processor of 128 cores (like actual graphic cards) and 1.024 cores? MPI is only used for sharing information between nodes in a cluster, but sharing information in one processor between multiple cores is very different. The programming model is just very different between parallel and secuential programming because in parallel programming you have to avoid conflicts beween threads and more important there is no way that you can define in C/C++ or Fortran one segment code that will work in parallel/atomic or define levels of cache. But to understand all of this you have to program in languages like Cuda, Sequoia
Think in parallel my friend!
And everybody has fogotten D? The most versatile an powerful of all languages?
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/
On the other hand, I is also important that the language of my choice should have a wondeful IDE with an integrated debugger, wonderful and tested libraries with nice GUIs, and a wonderful Linux-Windows-Mac interoperability.
Why wasting explosives to firing an uranium bullet? It is cheaper if the suicide hit the uranium with a hammer until it explodes. Don't forget to smile before the blast.
live fast, eat chips, big ones are the best and avoid the gosh with ugly faces
Well not exactly. There is some extrange property at quatum level that is related with the correlation.
Somehow, particles has some information about other particles that has been interacted. This is related with the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epr_paradox
If you do what yo suggest, the correlation is destroyed and the particle is never the same.
It is almost imposible to reproduce the correlation, because you will need a quantum computer with 2^100 q-bits to calculate the correlation for just 100 elemental particles.
So, there is not enought universe to create a quantum computer that reproduce all the quantum possible states for something like you and me.
Yes. In fact as you will discover soon, it is not possible to move matter through time only information. I am physically in the future, but I am able to write in Slashdot through a quantum synchronization. :)
You will be surprise how many aliens and people from the future are writing in Slashdot.
Well, not exacto at all. I came from the future through a space-time-warp made with a positronic-bubble. The future-English is spoken in this way.
All we have to know about mater-space-time is in the series documental Star-Trek.
You are wrong. Most American citizens are fully aware about government corruption.
The U.S. do not have a problem with Iran, except for the problems the U.S. government makes.
The only problem with Iran is that they swore the destruction of the US and Israel and now they want an atomic bomb. Great!
The U.S. government is manipulated by Cheney and others to use taxpayer's money to get control of oil, so that oil prices will rise.
Do you ever believe that Iraq is invaded just for spreading the liberty and the democracy? Don't be so naïve. We are a capitalism country!
If I expend billions in an Army I want something in return! I will be disappointed if after expending billions of taxpayer's money and peoples live the US Army is not used to defend the American industry and economy around the globe.
The U.S. government has invaded at least 24 countries since the Second World War, and is responsible for the deaths of perhaps 11 million people. All of that violence was done for profit for people who were already rich. People who have been born in wealthy families often feel that it is their right to kill other people.
And don't forget all the countries before WWII! Well in none of those countries I still see a waving American flag if it is not in the US embassy.
I'm very much in love with the U.S., and want to see better government.
Me too, but I have been in Saudi Arabia and when I came back I kissed the US floor. Nevertheless I prefer most of European countries for living. We must learn from good examples to improve our way of live. Don't look to the Middle East. These are full of bad examples.
After a century of war and hatred, Native Americans were just exterminated and the last survivors finally just surrender in 1832.
The difference with Canada is in some point of their history someone made a wrong turn.
But unlike Palestinians there were no political powers that used its cause for political claims.
The Palestinian cause was feed with hatred to influence the people and claim political power in the same way as Hitler uses the hatred against judies to gain political power.
The EU hardly go back to the union process because of the USA. There are other superpowers in the horizon that are coming from Asia.
Nevertheless, it exist the possibility that the EU could enter into a political fragmentation in the same way as Yugoslavia and grow like a cancer.
But this are for internal political issues, not because the USA. Don't belive that your are the center of the world.
This are measures that have nothing about the nation security but as a pretext.
The real objective is to control the movement of the people and the illegal immigrants.
In the last decade, the country has been invaded with delinquents, chicanos, arabs and communisms.
We have to do something to preserve the purity of the American way of life.
Your country will appreciate any collaboration.
...Resistance is futile...
Yes, we have to show the bird certificate that has no picture and hardly demonstrate anything but somebody has ever existed. I propose to ask for more papers from your work, your college, your family, your vaccine card and any document that could identify you to any political movement will be usefull. Including some interrogatories will be nice, too.
It is imperative to tackle the movement of the people. The national security will appreciate your collaboration.
And what is the medicine against that bee venom that will save the American liberties before the whole system collapses?
Maybe the paranoid reaction is a symptom of immunodeficiency.
Spain and the UK have been also objectives of terrorism attacks, but their liberties haven't suffer too much because the have lived the terrorism during decades.
We all already know that Vista sucks since it was released. Is there something new?
And I always have both Linux and Windows in my computer and I use both.
Maybe I am only thinking on using less the Windows or maybe erase it if it becomes too clumsy, but not for now.
Are you guys realise that in every discussion about the theory of the evolution it always leads to a discussion about the nature of the Heavens? Evolution is scientific fact that is comes from the rational understanding of the universe from the left side of the brain while the concept of something divine is an emotional human understanding of the universe that comes from the rigth side of the brain.
I don't think that those concepts are incompatibles. Both aspects differences us from a gorilla.
So the question is not if you believe in the evolution, but if you are left brained or right brained.
Our brain has evolved in this way...
Umm! I have another idea.
Subliminal advertisements in the music stream.
It will be totally legal because the mp3 file was pirate.
A good way to include hide messages about the delictive act to share the music.
As a social safety service for the goberments to 'educate' the people and they sure will pay.
Oohh!
Profit!
Buwahaha!
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