But only one thread may use the context at a time. Multiple threads may use the same context, but not at the same time. DX11 gets around this by having separate command queues for each additional thread, but only one primary context.
Each thread can write to its own queue without blocking, which OpenGL can not do.
We may not need blackholes to explain things, but they do exist.
You talk about how strong these electric and magnetic forces are compared to gravity, yet even in our local solar system, gravity is almost the sole force to govern our orbits. Gravity over-whelms the other forces so much so that all we need is Kepler's laws to extremely accurately model our orbits.
Not to mention that electrical and magnetic forces can be distorted and routed along their medium, which makes it incredibly weak for large distances, even compared to gravity. Actually, gravity is the driving force for many of our electric fields. Two galaxies getting pulled by gravity into each other drives some of the largest electric fields, but these electric fields cannot be stronger than gravity since these fields get their energy from the kinetic energy of the galaxies falling into each other.
What do you think creates the magnetic field of the Sun? It's rotation. What do you think causes its rotation? The matter that spiraled in on itself as gravity attracted that atoms together. So how much energy can the Sun put out from its magnetic field? None more than the energy given to it from gravity.
Lucky for you that against both the electric force caused by ions repelling and the expansion force caused by a vacuum and heat, gravity was able to overcome the both of them and condense our gas cloud into a star.
There is so much wrong with what is above that I don't know where to start
All so-called "discoveries" of black holes are attributed to their supposedly enormous gravitational effects on their surroundings, but they never themselves have been found.
Entirely wrong. Not even theoretically wrong, just factually wrong. Blackholes have been discovered and proven beyond a doubt.
All this radiation involves the electric force and has nothing to do with gravity. Scientists have postulated that there should be gravity waves and have spent gobs of money to try and detect these, but so far that has been money wasted since they have not found such waves.
How are these two subject related? The first part is correct, but then the second part is completely unrelated, like it's trying to make me think the second part can't be true because of the first part. Gravity waves have not been detected directly, but that have been detected indirectly with a 99.9% confidence based on watching the orbital decay of binary neutron stars.
I have no problem entertaining ideas that could be possible, but what you just posted has factual inaccuracies and assumptions, while what seems to be attempts to confuse the reader into linking unrelated subjects,
In order to accept a a wildly new idea, its abstract idea must not conflict with anything that is known to be true. Example. Gravity waves may not be not be real, but something similar to them must be real because we see orbital degradation of binary neutron stars that match the the math near perfectly. Gravity waves are the best option currently, but if you think you can explain it at even a hypothetical abstract level using electrical forces, go right ahead. I am open to any ideas that can pass at least a sanity check.
You should have seen Charter drop prices from $75/m to $30/m within 3 days of another ISP announcing fiber. Too bad the naked 30Mb was only for new customers and for me to get the deal, I would have to bundle in a ton of extra channels and phone and a 2 year contract with a $300 cancellation fee.
You should check out those newer batteries that are being developed that can charge/discharge 10x-100x faster than current lead acid and can store 10x-100x the amount of energy while weighing less. The actually have working versions, they're just expensive and not quite safe, but they are "working".
If new electric cars go from 60 miles between 8 hour recharges to 600-6000 miles between 8 hour recharges, it won't be so bad. I just can't wait to see how they plan to create charging stations that can handle that kind of current.
They're not taxing the CO2 in the fuel yet. If someone ruined my property because of pollution, I would want to be compensated, same thing for people using fossil fuels. Once fossil fuels start to reflect their "real" costs, then the prices will be more competitive.
Boeing Co., the world’s largest aerospace company, plans to deliver its first commercial scale high-efficiency solar-power cells for Earth-based electricity production in January.
The concentrating photovoltaic cells, developed by Boeing’s Spectrolab unit for satellites and the International Space Station, can convert as much as 39.2 percent of sunlight into electricity, Chicago-based Boeing said today in a statement.
The income to taxes paid ratio ignores that cost of living which messes things up.
We should just have a flat tax of (Tax Rate)*(Income - NationalMedian(Cost Of Living))
Cost of living needs to be adjusted to reflect Rent, Food, Basic Clothing, Child Care, Transportation, Energy, Medical, Education, Communications(basic phone/internet), etc etc. Stuff that anyone in modern society needs to not only survive but also remain competitive. Anything less and you get perpetual poverty as children grow up with parents working 80hr/week, education goes into the crapper and crime shoots up.
Absolutely all types of 'social welfare' systems should be annihilated
When people are unemployed and have no money, they will turn to crime to stay alive. Then we will put them into jail/prison where is costs more than welfare.
The basic idea of welfare helps stop that, but it is a system that is easily misused.
But they make up for it with horrible other taxes that more than make up the difference, but then have worse basic services for the things they didn't tax.
The only reason I use checks anymore is because of mistakes made by others. I have "saved" a few hundred dollars in the past few years because some business claimed I didn't pay my bill on time, and the only thing linking me to them was a check with a note saying something like "gas bill".
When I pay electronically, it does not show up as the business charging me, it shows up as whichever credit-card processing system they use. And unless I want to take them to court to get a warrant to force the other company to disclose who charged, I would still have to pay the bill. The burden of proof of payment is on me and electronic withdraws are borderline useless to figure out who is was.
If your bill is going up every month, that is not from newer tech, but from greed. $20/month(plus inflation) will cover all infrastructure costs for most lightly-populated cities.
If you bill is going up faster than 4%/year, your ISP is making bank. Assuming your standard large incumbent ISP.
Sub 1% unemployment in my section of the computer industry. I was getting bombarded with job requests for the past few years, but they've let up as I kept telling them that I enjoy my current job.
I'm torn between troll and funny. Something about spending charity money, for an Opensource project that gets most of its support from volunteers, on marketing seems funny.
Slashdot Mirror
So when a catastrophic event occurs that turns the Earth into an asteroid belt, your plan is to adapt?
Yep, use VPNs with Google Fiber. But I also don't trust my VPN provider, so I VPN to yet another VPN. ad infinitum
But only one thread may use the context at a time. Multiple threads may use the same context, but not at the same time. DX11 gets around this by having separate command queues for each additional thread, but only one primary context.
Each thread can write to its own queue without blocking, which OpenGL can not do.
We may not need blackholes to explain things, but they do exist.
You talk about how strong these electric and magnetic forces are compared to gravity, yet even in our local solar system, gravity is almost the sole force to govern our orbits. Gravity over-whelms the other forces so much so that all we need is Kepler's laws to extremely accurately model our orbits.
Not to mention that electrical and magnetic forces can be distorted and routed along their medium, which makes it incredibly weak for large distances, even compared to gravity. Actually, gravity is the driving force for many of our electric fields. Two galaxies getting pulled by gravity into each other drives some of the largest electric fields, but these electric fields cannot be stronger than gravity since these fields get their energy from the kinetic energy of the galaxies falling into each other.
What do you think creates the magnetic field of the Sun? It's rotation. What do you think causes its rotation? The matter that spiraled in on itself as gravity attracted that atoms together. So how much energy can the Sun put out from its magnetic field? None more than the energy given to it from gravity.
Lucky for you that against both the electric force caused by ions repelling and the expansion force caused by a vacuum and heat, gravity was able to overcome the both of them and condense our gas cloud into a star.
All so-called "discoveries" of black holes are attributed to their supposedly enormous gravitational effects on their surroundings, but they never themselves have been found.
Entirely wrong. Not even theoretically wrong, just factually wrong. Blackholes have been discovered and proven beyond a doubt.
All this radiation involves the electric force and has nothing to do with gravity. Scientists have postulated that there should be gravity waves and have spent gobs of money to try and detect these, but so far that has been money wasted since they have not found such waves.
How are these two subject related? The first part is correct, but then the second part is completely unrelated, like it's trying to make me think the second part can't be true because of the first part. Gravity waves have not been detected directly, but that have been detected indirectly with a 99.9% confidence based on watching the orbital decay of binary neutron stars.
I have no problem entertaining ideas that could be possible, but what you just posted has factual inaccuracies and assumptions, while what seems to be attempts to confuse the reader into linking unrelated subjects,
In order to accept a a wildly new idea, its abstract idea must not conflict with anything that is known to be true. Example. Gravity waves may not be not be real, but something similar to them must be real because we see orbital degradation of binary neutron stars that match the the math near perfectly. Gravity waves are the best option currently, but if you think you can explain it at even a hypothetical abstract level using electrical forces, go right ahead. I am open to any ideas that can pass at least a sanity check.
We were limited to 33.6Kb because modems had to interface with one of the many T1 channels. DSL by-passes the T1 and can use a more modern Layer 1.
You should have seen Charter drop prices from $75/m to $30/m within 3 days of another ISP announcing fiber. Too bad the naked 30Mb was only for new customers and for me to get the deal, I would have to bundle in a ton of extra channels and phone and a 2 year contract with a $300 cancellation fee.
When I started reading /., there were links to Ars talking about how CPU pipelines and cache levels work.
You should check out those newer batteries that are being developed that can charge/discharge 10x-100x faster than current lead acid and can store 10x-100x the amount of energy while weighing less. The actually have working versions, they're just expensive and not quite safe, but they are "working".
If new electric cars go from 60 miles between 8 hour recharges to 600-6000 miles between 8 hour recharges, it won't be so bad. I just can't wait to see how they plan to create charging stations that can handle that kind of current.
They're not taxing the CO2 in the fuel yet. If someone ruined my property because of pollution, I would want to be compensated, same thing for people using fossil fuels. Once fossil fuels start to reflect their "real" costs, then the prices will be more competitive.
Boeing Co., the world’s largest aerospace company, plans to deliver its first commercial scale high-efficiency solar-power cells for Earth-based electricity production in January.
The concentrating photovoltaic cells, developed by Boeing’s Spectrolab unit for satellites and the International Space Station, can convert as much as 39.2 percent of sunlight into electricity, Chicago-based Boeing said today in a statement.
Never said it would be cheap.
Pretty sure you're right in that he meant neutrons. Neutrinos will pass through almost anything, so no worry about them "tearing up" anything.
The income to taxes paid ratio ignores that cost of living which messes things up.
We should just have a flat tax of (Tax Rate)*(Income - NationalMedian(Cost Of Living))
Cost of living needs to be adjusted to reflect Rent, Food, Basic Clothing, Child Care, Transportation, Energy, Medical, Education, Communications(basic phone/internet), etc etc. Stuff that anyone in modern society needs to not only survive but also remain competitive. Anything less and you get perpetual poverty as children grow up with parents working 80hr/week, education goes into the crapper and crime shoots up.
Absolutely all types of 'social welfare' systems should be annihilated
When people are unemployed and have no money, they will turn to crime to stay alive. Then we will put them into jail/prison where is costs more than welfare.
The basic idea of welfare helps stop that, but it is a system that is easily misused.
But they make up for it with horrible other taxes that more than make up the difference, but then have worse basic services for the things they didn't tax.
We pay a higher tax rate.
The only reason I use checks anymore is because of mistakes made by others. I have "saved" a few hundred dollars in the past few years because some business claimed I didn't pay my bill on time, and the only thing linking me to them was a check with a note saying something like "gas bill".
When I pay electronically, it does not show up as the business charging me, it shows up as whichever credit-card processing system they use. And unless I want to take them to court to get a warrant to force the other company to disclose who charged, I would still have to pay the bill. The burden of proof of payment is on me and electronic withdraws are borderline useless to figure out who is was.
There are more and more options for fiber in the USA now. You may need to move, but there are options and in places with typically good job markets.
If your bill is going up every month, that is not from newer tech, but from greed. $20/month(plus inflation) will cover all infrastructure costs for most lightly-populated cities.
If you bill is going up faster than 4%/year, your ISP is making bank. Assuming your standard large incumbent ISP.
I see they're cheaper than a bucket of neutrons.
I PAY for cable and I STILL get commercials?
So you pay to access your web pages?
Sub 1% unemployment in my section of the computer industry. I was getting bombarded with job requests for the past few years, but they've let up as I kept telling them that I enjoy my current job.
I think PC-BSD has support to setting up a ZFS boot on fresh install, while allowing a naked FreeBSD install.
I'm torn between troll and funny. Something about spending charity money, for an Opensource project that gets most of its support from volunteers, on marketing seems funny.
He made fun of a common troll/spam. I love it.