I remember quite well my reaction to the Speed Racer trailer as I've seen it yesterday evening (before Iron Man which is okay: entertaining as expected): my first reactions were: uh, what is speed racer? and the scenario looks awfully dumb!
People don't talk much in theater in France so I don't know what the other thought but I predict that this movie will be a vast failure in France: the CG is nothing special, it's too dumb for adults and doesn't appear to be funny enough for children..
>Kudos to HP for supporting "true" R&D. They most definitely will be reaping the benefits of this one for years to come.
*Maybe*. Having a working device is only one part of the game, being able to mass produce it cheaply is the other part, there's plenty of cool gizmos which we aren't able to mass produce so they go nowhere..
>The software stack may be questionable, but the hardware is brilliant.
Agreed but the problem is that the OLPC will be much more useful to children when the software and documents will be ready, for example having good e-manuals on their native language available on the local server.
Yes, glad that journalist stopped to say 'faster clock' == more powerful comparing different CPU architecture especially since this Power CPU use 'in order' retirement for integer operations which can reduce the performance of the CPU compared to an Out of Order CPU (OOO)..
>I close the suspect tab and everything's back to normal.
And how do you know which is the suspect tab? Sometimes it's quite hard to say..
I like multiple tab instead of multiple window but due to poorly architected software we have lost quite a few things in the process: CPU abuse indication, crash resistance, freeze.. When one of the multiple window had an issue, it was easy to see which one was the culprit and kill it, unfortunately with tab it's harder because in many software this freeze the whole window, which is a sign of a fundamentally flawd architecture: each tab should be as independent from the other as possible and the browser would just mix tab. Same thing for plugins, they should be in other processes and a crash of a plugin shouldn't crash the whole browser..
>We should always remember that English is one of the hardest languages in the world to learn;
I don't think that it's possible to classify languages this way: as a French, I think that learning English is easier for me than learning Chinese (didn't try to learn Chinese though), for a Japanese it's probably the reverse..
Plus there's the difference about speaking and reading/writing: it's unbelievable the amount of efforts that people in Asia need to spend just to learn the various kanji, it's as if we were doing math with roman numbers..
If I understood correctly this is not about single wafer design but exactly the opposite: regaining the speed of 'single wafer design' with multiple chips by using optical communications between chips increasing the inter-chips bandwidth (normally intra-chip bandwith is much higher than inter-chip bandwith so this is a bottleneck).
Of course, but the issue is with the 5% remaining and the way the silent majority treats them.
I would like more criticism of those who answer to drawings or writings with death threats or violance from the 'remaining 95%'.
Also there's more than 95% of muslim which live in countries where 'muslim laws' applies and let's say that those law are not very tolerant.. So unfortunately, it isn't only a case of the 5% wackos..
He didn't RTFA: the news here is that B and B+ decay on a different rate NOT that there was a difference between B and anti-B decay which was the expected (and seen) behaviour so why is he moderated insightful??
[[Agh. I mean, that's really, really bad engineering. You don't engineer things with the assumption that everything will work. You engineer them to fail gracefully when everything that can go wrong does go wrong. And preferably with margin.]]
[sarcarsm] Yeah right, that's why we're *all* using ECC memory and RAID disks and using off-site backup, everywhere sure! [/sarcarsm]
More seriously users assess the failure cost, price, performance tradeoffs and choose accordingly to their needs: no need to over-engineer everything.. So this solution could be very useful in many situation.
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The reviewer said 'Neglected since the era of E. E. "Doc" Smith, the space opera is back.' which made me laugh: Lois Mc Master Bujold many Hugos for its Miles Vorkosigan serie is a proof that the space opera is fine thanks.
And I would add that for me, Lois Mc Master Bujold is as good as Isaac Asimov when she write SF: the whole Vorkosigan serie is very good..
>Transmetta had radically better power consumption for a while
Thet had low power consumption yes, but the review also said that their performances weren't that good.. So was their performance/power good enough or not?
>>"And some atheists have dogma too" there fixed for you. > In composition, the word "some" in that context is an empty word, because that's what the sentence already meant. But I appreciate your desire for specificity.
I thought that saying 'atheists have' meant 'all atheists have' not 'some' but English is my second language, so I probably made a mistake..
>What few people realize, is that the earth can support more people than what is commonly called the "carrying capacity" - temporarily.
Uh? Why do you claim that few people realize this? It's quite obvious, except that of course the "carrying capacity" depends a lot on the technology and the way of living of the people..
[cut] >some will be average (like France which can keep the lights up with nuclear power, but has a huge 3rd-world immigration problem on the other hand
This show quite well your bias: the 'immigration problem' in France is not a huge problem, it is a problem mainly because our society isn't well adaptated for this, not because there is a ressource issue: we have lots of (unused) fields to grow food..
"And some atheists have dogma too" there fixed for you.
I note that in your example of nonreligious dogma, the abortion example was quite contrived: 'unnatural' isn't much of a justification! So apparently it isn't that easy to find nonreligions dogma..
[[I am hopeful that mankind can avoid ending up like in 1984, for the simple reason that the same technology that enables today's widespread spying by our government on its own citizens can also be leveraged to help us keep tabs on them.]]
Maybe, but if Rodney King is any indication (I wouldn't know truly as being not American I didn't really follow the news on this problem), it took a riot before the policemen were fairly judged, so I wouldn't be TOO optimistic.
The dev of Dragonfly BSD has switched its aim from being 'a better way to do SMP' to 'SSI clustering' so I doubt that Dragonfly BSD is going to compete with FreeBSD in SMP scalability anytime soon if ever.
>The fact that ndiswrapper loads and runs non-GPL code doesn't make it non-GPL, but it certainly makes the kernel in which it is running not GPLONLY.
Several drivers in the Linux kernels also loads BLOB which are not GPL, but AFAIK noone has requested that those drivers remove the GPLONLY tags, or is the difference is in the "running" part ?
[[Drivers aren't in the kernel and aren't trusted, although drivers that can do DMA still present a security problem. This is a problem with insecure PC hardware; IBM mainframe channels have DMA that goes through MMU checking. That could be fixed, especially since most new peripherals are on USB or FireWire ports. Add-on boards are on the way out.]]
Well given that one recently disclosed vulnerability[1] is caused by FireWire which can access all the memory (the report is for Windows but as far as I understand, there's the same issue for Linux, MacOSX..), I don't think that FireWire solve the 'DMA hole'.
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And in French 'un billion' is one million million so this is a very annoying 'faux ami' which can be the source of confusion..
I remember quite well my reaction to the Speed Racer trailer as I've seen it yesterday evening (before Iron Man which is okay: entertaining as expected): my first reactions were: uh, what is speed racer? and the scenario looks awfully dumb!
People don't talk much in theater in France so I don't know what the other thought but I predict that this movie will be a vast failure in France: the CG is nothing special, it's too dumb for adults and doesn't appear to be funny enough for children..
>Kudos to HP for supporting "true" R&D. They most definitely will be reaping the benefits of this one for years to come.
*Maybe*. Having a working device is only one part of the game, being able to mass produce it cheaply is the other part, there's plenty of cool gizmos which we aren't able to mass produce so they go nowhere..
>Why would one even want to have a GPU on the same die as the CPU?
Think about low end computers, IMHO putting the GPU in the same die as the CPU will provide better performance/cost than embedded in the motherboard.
And a huge number of computers have integrated video so this is an important market too.
>The software stack may be questionable, but the hardware is brilliant.
Agreed but the problem is that the OLPC will be much more useful to children when the software and documents will be ready, for example having good e-manuals on their native language available on the local server.
And this will take many years to have..
Yes, glad that journalist stopped to say 'faster clock' == more powerful comparing different CPU architecture especially since this Power CPU use 'in order' retirement for integer operations which can reduce the performance of the CPU compared to an Out of Order CPU (OOO)..
*Sigh*, I wish this was true..
>I close the suspect tab and everything's back to normal.
And how do you know which is the suspect tab?
Sometimes it's quite hard to say..
I like multiple tab instead of multiple window but due to poorly architected software we have lost quite a few things in the process: CPU abuse indication, crash resistance, freeze..
When one of the multiple window had an issue, it was easy to see which one was the culprit and kill it, unfortunately with tab it's harder because in many software this freeze the whole window, which is a sign of a fundamentally flawd architecture: each tab should be as independent from the other as possible and the browser would just mix tab.
Same thing for plugins, they should be in other processes and a crash of a plugin shouldn't crash the whole browser..
>We should always remember that English is one of the hardest languages in the world to learn;
I don't think that it's possible to classify languages this way: as a French, I think that learning English is easier for me than learning Chinese (didn't try to learn Chinese though), for a Japanese it's probably the reverse..
Plus there's the difference about speaking and reading/writing: it's unbelievable the amount of efforts that people in Asia need to spend just to learn the various kanji, it's as if we were doing math with roman numbers..
A better link providing more information:
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/24/sun-silicon-photonics-macro
If I understood correctly this is not about single wafer design but exactly the opposite: regaining the speed of 'single wafer design' with multiple chips by using optical communications between chips increasing the inter-chips bandwidth (normally intra-chip bandwith is much higher than inter-chip bandwith so this is a bottleneck).
> Apparently you already have made up your mind that it will be an '[...] inflamatory, hatefull [sic] movie
Talk about selective quoting.. Who moderated this up?
The GP said 'Even if', so he's mind is not already set as you're saying.
I despise religions but that's not a reason to make false statement with 'selective' quotings.
Of course, but the issue is with the 5% remaining and the way the silent majority treats them.
I would like more criticism of those who answer to drawings or writings with death threats or violance from the 'remaining 95%'.
Also there's more than 95% of muslim which live in countries where 'muslim laws' applies and let's say that those law are not very tolerant.. So unfortunately, it isn't only a case of the 5% wackos..
Can someone downgrade the parent?
He didn't RTFA: the news here is that B and B+ decay on a different rate NOT that there was a difference between B and anti-B decay which was the expected (and seen) behaviour so why is he moderated insightful??
*Sigh*
[[Agh. I mean, that's really, really bad engineering. You don't engineer things with the assumption that everything will work. You engineer them to fail gracefully when everything that can go wrong does go wrong. And preferably with margin.]]
[sarcarsm]
Yeah right, that's why we're *all* using ECC memory and RAID disks and using off-site backup, everywhere sure!
[/sarcarsm]
More seriously users assess the failure cost, price, performance tradeoffs and choose accordingly to their needs: no need to over-engineer everything..
So this solution could be very useful in many situation.
The reviewer said 'Neglected since the era of E. E. "Doc" Smith, the space opera is back.' which made me laugh: Lois Mc Master Bujold many Hugos for its Miles Vorkosigan serie is a proof that the space opera is fine thanks.
And I would add that for me, Lois Mc Master Bujold is as good as Isaac Asimov when she write SF: the whole Vorkosigan serie is very good..
>No, far, far, from integrated garbage. Larrabee will actually have uses as a supercomputer CPU:
Yes, if AVX includes 256bit = 4*64 FPU calculations with reasonable performance, I can imagine many computer scientist drooling over this..
>Transmetta had radically better power consumption for a while
Thet had low power consumption yes, but the review also said that their performances weren't that good..
So was their performance/power good enough or not?
I don't know: does someone have figures?
>>"And some atheists have dogma too" there fixed for you.
> In composition, the word "some" in that context is an empty word, because that's what the sentence already meant. But I appreciate your desire for specificity.
I thought that saying 'atheists have' meant 'all atheists have' not 'some' but English is my second language, so I probably made a mistake..
>What few people realize, is that the earth can support more people than what is commonly called the "carrying capacity" - temporarily.
Uh? Why do you claim that few people realize this?
It's quite obvious, except that of course the "carrying capacity" depends a lot on the technology and the way of living of the people..
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>some will be average (like France which can keep the lights up with nuclear power, but has a huge 3rd-world immigration problem on the other hand
This show quite well your bias: the 'immigration problem' in France is not a huge problem, it is a problem mainly because our society isn't well adaptated for this, not because there is a ressource issue: we have lots of (unused) fields to grow food..
>And atheists have dogma too.
"And some atheists have dogma too" there fixed for you.
I note that in your example of nonreligious dogma, the abortion example was quite contrived: 'unnatural' isn't much of a justification!
So apparently it isn't that easy to find nonreligions dogma..
[[I am hopeful that mankind can avoid ending up like in 1984, for the simple reason that the same technology that enables today's widespread spying by our government on its own citizens can also be leveraged to help us keep tabs on them.]]
Maybe, but if Rodney King is any indication (I wouldn't know truly as being not American I didn't really follow the news on this problem), it took a riot before the policemen were fairly judged, so I wouldn't be TOO optimistic.
>The Cult Information Centre describes it as such:
>It uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate and retain its members
Religions don't need to do that: they teach to children: it's much more easy to influence children than adults, but I don't think that it is better..
>It forms an elitist totalitarian society.
Well the vatican looks to me as fitting this description.
>Its founder leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable and has charisma.
A good definition of the pope job, he's not the founder but he has the same role.
The people who thinks that modern religions aren't very dangerous should try to think as if they were gay, what would you think about religions?
The dev of Dragonfly BSD has switched its aim from being 'a better way to do SMP' to 'SSI clustering' so I doubt that Dragonfly BSD is going to compete with FreeBSD in SMP scalability anytime soon if ever.
>The fact that ndiswrapper loads and runs non-GPL code doesn't make it non-GPL, but it certainly makes the kernel in which it is running not GPLONLY.
Several drivers in the Linux kernels also loads BLOB which are not GPL, but AFAIK noone has requested that those drivers remove the GPLONLY tags, or is the difference is in the "running" part ?
[[Drivers aren't in the kernel and aren't trusted, although drivers that can do DMA still present a security problem. This is a problem with insecure PC hardware; IBM mainframe channels have DMA that goes through MMU checking. That could be fixed, especially since most new peripherals are on USB or FireWire ports. Add-on boards are on the way out.]]
Well given that one recently disclosed vulnerability[1] is caused by FireWire which can access all the memory (the report is for Windows but as far as I understand, there's the same issue for Linux, MacOSX..), I don't think that FireWire solve the 'DMA hole'.
[1]:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/04/1258210