>if it's just shipping it all to France, where they are disposing of the waste quite handily,
Sigh, instead of making uninformed comment like this, would it kill you to research the topic first? A few facts: - France has currently *zero* long term storage location: our politicians weren't able to pick one (the not in my backyard effect). - Sure we have a good processing factory which is able to process the radioactive waste, it doesn't make radioactivity magically disappear and the 'waste from the waste' is sent back to the orginating country.
Bah, his theory is that raytracing being more "correct", you can change an environement without having the handmade effects breaking down.
But that's just wishful thinking IMHO: the raytracers which are fast enough for realtime rendering precompute a lot of things so they work only on static or mostly static environements..
>These CPUs consume between 80 and 120 watts of power. The reduced power versions use only 50. >By way of comparison, the 1 GHz AMD Geode runs on about 1 watt of power, and ARM processors can get by for even less.
And? You forgot the other part of the comparison: the performance part, otherwise an unplugged CPU used 0W (and no a clockspeed is not a performance indicator).
>We could double the throughput of DDR SDRAM by simply demultiplexing the address and data busses
Which would have a significant cost as the number of pin in the CPU package, trace on the motherboard,etc would have to be increased.
I disagree with the moderator that the parent (assuming that he's right when he says that OpenBSD project doesn't audit X) is flamebait: not auditing X is perfectly reasonable for a server usage, but of course not for workstation/desktop usage.
So indeed securing a desktop PC is *much* harder than securing a server: you cannot assume that the user know how is working the PC and there are much more software installed, etc.
>this will free up developers to work on other things instead of 'getting the shadows right'.
Uhm, no, I doubt that these 'real-time' rays tracers do environement mapping, so they will give 'hard shadows' which are still incorrect, so they will still have to work on them to get them right..
One downside of many ray-tracer is that they work better on static environement so the eye-candy has a price..
While I'm not supporting the abuses of tasering which happen in the USA, somehow comparing the use of taser in the USA to the USSR or China 'population control' method is just wrong.
You do remember that both of these countries also used to send people dying in the gulags by the metric ton??
>Call me stupid, but the Linux desktop already crawls.
True, BeOS desktop was much reactive than Linux's distrib desktop are now even on less powerful computer , but the question is: is-it due to the kernel or to the userspace environement & applications? You say that this is the kernel, have you got proof?
2seconds to open a tab: I bet that you're using FF.. Newsflash: it's FF which is slow and this is not Linux related: on Windows I've replaced it by Opera because it's slowness annoyed me.
[[Has anyone ever considered the theory that the universe is not only ever expanding but also ever recreating in the middle?]]
Yes, such theory was proposed, and it was found incompatible with our observations.
[[Also shouldn't we be able to tell where the middle of the universe is by obsering in which direction we can see the farthest]]
In current 'big bang' theory, there is no middle: the best analogy is that of an infinite cake expanding (like inside an oven), it has no center, yet it grows.
What MediaDefender does is making the download of real files difficult by seeding false files and gathering data on downloaders for statistics and maybe also for prosecution.
A client wants to know if the lawsuit stopped people from downloading so they provide statistics to see by how much, how is-it 'ripping off their client'?
Seems to me, that what you're saying is that the mix of whitespace and tab is a problem, not the the whitespace == indentation, wouldn't it be better if Python disallowed tab for indentation?
>>It's because Ruby doesn't have ridiculous idiosyncrasies that the original programmer isn't willing to change. Matz seems to have an open mind about improving Ruby.
It depends: see Unicode for example, AFAIK Python's support is still better, it's a point where Ruby should have evolved faster..
>>You can add or change functions or data of a running object or a running function. From outside the object or functionor thread, even! It's cool! It's l33t!
Well if memory serves, researchers managed to build 'good' performance (half the C performance in some benchmarks) for Self which was quite dynamic language (a prototype based language in fact), thought I don't know if it supported threads..
He said that 'self == whitespace indentation' whereas for me I see that as exactly the oposite: - using whitespace for indention remove 'visual noise' at the cost of 'language magic' - using self adds 'visual noise' with the (dubious IMHO) benefit of language 'simplicity'.
IMHO removing self would be a big plus for Python, sure self makes things more explicit but if developers really wanted to use explicit language, they would stay with C instead of using Python, Ruby..
>> Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
Your sig is stupid, Occam's razor just say that you have to justify anything added to the 'simplest explanation', if you don't do this *then* you accept blindly that Gods and the like exist (which is stupid from a logical point of view)..
>In general, homeopathy is essentially tolerated, and as the article humorously points out, it tends to not do much harm because things are dilute.
Well, it shouldn't be as a child, I was given an homeopathic 'cure' against asthma, which did of course nothing and only several years after this my parents went to see a real doctor when it was clear that homeopathy didn't work, sure real doctors didn't have a cure for asthma but ventoline helps a lot.
So for several years I didn't have any real drugs because our society tolerates homeopathy, as 'they don't harm'!! Who are you kidding?
>The problem is that ECC memory costs more, simply because there is 12.5% more memory.
The big issue is that ECC memory doesn't cost only 12.5% more than regular memory, otherwise you'd see that lots of knowledgeable (or correctly guided) people would buy ECC.
>They've released the specs, this doesn't mean anything yet.
No, it means a lot: an opportunity is there, but it's true the driver will take some time.
>People forget just how complex graphics cards are.
Why are you generalising? I remember that the Free driver for the 7900 wasn't that great.. Let's study the reasons: - people didn't really care about 3D as it was mostly useful for games only: this is not true anymore as X over OpenGL is the new fad. - specs were limited and available under a NDA only: the scope and quality of the specs remain to be seen but AMD has made the good decision of dropping the NDA, so there's hope. - drivers are complex: sure the 3D part is still complex (and even more now), but most people care about having a working 2D driver first during the installation, something which isn't always working now with Linux.
In the operation 'we will write driver for you if you open the spec', there are 76 developers who registered, I don't know how many want/can work on the AMD 2D/3D drivers, but these kind of figures tend to make me optimistic..
Funny you said: [[The problem with QNX was that commercial license fees were very high; that's why I never played with it.]] and [[But I'll always be sad that QNX never found a following among common PC users which it surely would have if the marketplace were driven by technical excellence instead of various sordid realities.]]
Sordid realities like price maybe? Due! Microsoft has it right: start with a low cost OS, grabe a huge marketshare and *then* you can increase the price and getting huge profits!
>I think we're long overdue for an architecture change, by the way.
Well, many competitors have tried and failed: the weight of the installed codebase is too much.
> Can't we just start transitioning out of x86? It's well past its limits -- a Core 2 Duo generates a TON of heat, compared to an equivalent POWER chip.
Proof? Remember that Apple moved from PPC to x86 because IBM wasn't able to make a good CPU for laptops.
I don't like x86 ISA either, but it killed every other ISA in the PC and small server domain, and I wouldn't be surprised if x86 starts dominating the high-end embedded products either, so don't hold your breath for the transition out of x86.
>>Now look back at Europe in the middle ages, just handfulls of generations ago when humans were about 80% of our current average height.
Uh? It seems as if you're suggesting that these guys were different from us, only the living conditions (and the lack of medical knowledge) made them smaller for example, otherwise they were 100% identical to us.
maxwell demon's reply is correct, I would add: only the first measurement is of the spin is entangled, the measurement destroy the non-local interaction (for the spin).
Plus, when you check the spin what you get is a 50% UP and 50% DOWN, so say you force the spin the end (A) to change, how do you know on the other end (B) that the UP/DOWN value is the result of the interaction you made at (A)? You don't unless you compare the value found at (A) and (B) and to compare the value at both ends, you need to communicate so its means the correlation cannot be made faster than the speed of light..
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>if it's just shipping it all to France, where they are disposing of the waste quite handily,
Sigh, instead of making uninformed comment like this, would it kill you to research the topic first?
A few facts:
- France has currently *zero* long term storage location: our politicians weren't able to pick one (the not in my backyard effect).
- Sure we have a good processing factory which is able to process the radioactive waste, it doesn't make radioactivity magically disappear and the 'waste from the waste' is sent back to the orginating country.
Bah, his theory is that raytracing being more "correct", you can change an environement without having the handmade effects breaking down.
But that's just wishful thinking IMHO: the raytracers which are fast enough for realtime rendering precompute a lot of things so they work only on static or mostly static environements..
>These CPUs consume between 80 and 120 watts of power. The reduced power versions use only 50.
>By way of comparison, the 1 GHz AMD Geode runs on about 1 watt of power, and ARM processors can get by for even less.
And? You forgot the other part of the comparison: the performance part, otherwise an unplugged CPU used 0W (and no a clockspeed is not a performance indicator).
>We could double the throughput of DDR SDRAM by simply demultiplexing the address and data busses
Which would have a significant cost as the number of pin in the CPU package, trace on the motherboard,etc would have to be increased.
I disagree with the moderator that the parent (assuming that he's right when he says that OpenBSD project doesn't audit X) is flamebait: not auditing X is perfectly reasonable for a server usage, but of course not for workstation/desktop usage.
So indeed securing a desktop PC is *much* harder than securing a server: you cannot assume that the user know how is working the PC and there are much more software installed, etc.
>this will free up developers to work on other things instead of 'getting the shadows right'.
Uhm, no, I doubt that these 'real-time' rays tracers do environement mapping, so they will give 'hard shadows' which are still incorrect, so they will still have to work on them to get them right..
One downside of many ray-tracer is that they work better on static environement so the eye-candy has a price..
While I'm not supporting the abuses of tasering which happen in the USA, somehow comparing the use of taser in the USA to the USSR or China 'population control' method is just wrong.
You do remember that both of these countries also used to send people dying in the gulags by the metric ton??
Interesting, apparently the I/O scheduler has some issue..
>Call me stupid, but the Linux desktop already crawls.
True, BeOS desktop was much reactive than Linux's distrib desktop are now even on less powerful computer , but the question is: is-it due to the kernel or to the userspace environement & applications?
You say that this is the kernel, have you got proof?
2seconds to open a tab: I bet that you're using FF..
Newsflash: it's FF which is slow and this is not Linux related: on Windows I've replaced it by Opera because it's slowness annoyed me.
[[Has anyone ever considered the theory that the universe is not only ever expanding but also ever recreating in the middle?]]
Yes, such theory was proposed, and it was found incompatible with our observations.
[[Also shouldn't we be able to tell where the middle of the universe is by obsering in which direction we can see the farthest]]
In current 'big bang' theory, there is no middle: the best analogy is that of an infinite cake expanding (like inside an oven), it has no center, yet it grows.
Sigh, I wonder how this got moderated insightful?
What MediaDefender does is making the download of real files difficult by seeding false files and gathering data on downloaders for statistics and maybe also for prosecution.
A client wants to know if the lawsuit stopped people from downloading so they provide statistics to see by how much, how is-it 'ripping off their client'?
Seems to me, that what you're saying is that the mix of whitespace and tab is a problem, not the the whitespace == indentation, wouldn't it be better if Python disallowed tab for indentation?
>>It's because Ruby doesn't have ridiculous idiosyncrasies that the original programmer isn't willing to change. Matz seems to have an open mind about improving Ruby.
It depends: see Unicode for example, AFAIK Python's support is still better, it's a point where Ruby should have evolved faster..
Nobody said that self can be removed, just that it could be hidden (mostly), as Ruby or the other language do..
In the same way space based indentation doesn't remove indentation but it 'hides' it mostly.
>>You can add or change functions or data of a running object or a running function. From outside the object or functionor thread, even! It's cool! It's l33t!
Well if memory serves, researchers managed to build 'good' performance (half the C performance in some benchmarks) for Self which was quite dynamic language (a prototype based language in fact), thought I don't know if it supported threads..
Am-I the only one to find that nonlocal is ugly?
:= 0 #declaration
Granted, its use should be pretty rare so that's not a big deal.
Myself I would have used Limbo's notation for declaration:
def Parent():
v
v = 5 #assignment
def Child():
v += 1
Child()
But I know that Pythoners don't like variable declaration..
He said that 'self == whitespace indentation' whereas for me I see that as exactly the oposite:
- using whitespace for indention remove 'visual noise' at the cost of 'language magic'
- using self adds 'visual noise' with the (dubious IMHO) benefit of language 'simplicity'.
IMHO removing self would be a big plus for Python, sure self makes things more explicit but if developers really wanted to use explicit language, they would stay with C instead of using Python, Ruby..
Uh, you know I don't care about karma bonus and the like..
>> Occam's razor is the blind faith in the natural selection of least resistance and in universal oversimplification. -- EF
Your sig is stupid, Occam's razor just say that you have to justify anything added to the 'simplest explanation', if you don't do this *then* you accept blindly that Gods and the like exist (which is stupid from a logical point of view)..
>In general, homeopathy is essentially tolerated, and as the article humorously points out, it tends to not do much harm because things are dilute.
Well, it shouldn't be as a child, I was given an homeopathic 'cure' against asthma, which did of course nothing and only several years after this my parents went to see a real doctor when it was clear that homeopathy didn't work, sure real doctors didn't have a cure for asthma but ventoline helps a lot.
So for several years I didn't have any real drugs because our society tolerates homeopathy, as 'they don't harm'!! Who are you kidding?
[[whether or not it will have 3G]]
(sarcasm)Yeah, like Apple would piss off all the americans by providing a 3G iPhone to UK user first!
(/sarcasm)
*Sigh*
>The problem is that ECC memory costs more, simply because there is 12.5% more memory.
The big issue is that ECC memory doesn't cost only 12.5% more than regular memory, otherwise you'd see that lots of knowledgeable (or correctly guided) people would buy ECC.
>They've released the specs, this doesn't mean anything yet.
No, it means a lot: an opportunity is there, but it's true the driver will take some time.
>People forget just how complex graphics cards are.
Why are you generalising? I remember that the Free driver for the 7900 wasn't that great..
Let's study the reasons:
- people didn't really care about 3D as it was mostly useful for games only: this is not true anymore as X over OpenGL is the new fad.
- specs were limited and available under a NDA only: the scope and quality of the specs remain to be seen but AMD has made the good decision of dropping the NDA, so there's hope.
- drivers are complex: sure the 3D part is still complex (and even more now), but most people care about having a working 2D driver first during the installation, something which isn't always working now with Linux.
In the operation 'we will write driver for you if you open the spec', there are 76 developers who registered, I don't know how many want/can work on the AMD 2D/3D drivers, but these kind of figures tend to make me optimistic..
Funny you said:
[[The problem with QNX was that commercial license fees were very high; that's why I never played with it.]]
and
[[But I'll always be sad that QNX never found a following among common PC users which it surely would have if the marketplace were driven by technical excellence instead of various sordid realities.]]
Sordid realities like price maybe?
Due! Microsoft has it right: start with a low cost OS, grabe a huge marketshare and *then* you can increase the price and getting huge profits!
>I think we're long overdue for an architecture change, by the way.
Well, many competitors have tried and failed: the weight of the installed codebase is too much.
> Can't we just start transitioning out of x86? It's well past its limits -- a Core 2 Duo generates a TON of heat, compared to an equivalent POWER chip.
Proof? Remember that Apple moved from PPC to x86 because IBM wasn't able to make a good CPU for laptops.
I don't like x86 ISA either, but it killed every other ISA in the PC and small server domain, and I wouldn't be surprised if x86 starts dominating the high-end embedded products either, so don't hold your breath for the transition out of x86.
>>Now look back at Europe in the middle ages, just handfulls of generations ago when humans were about 80% of our current average height.
Uh? It seems as if you're suggesting that these guys were different from us, only the living conditions (and the lack of medical knowledge) made them smaller for example, otherwise they were 100% identical to us.
maxwell demon's reply is correct, I would add: only the first measurement is of the spin is entangled, the measurement destroy the non-local interaction (for the spin).
Plus, when you check the spin what you get is a 50% UP and 50% DOWN, so say you force the spin the end (A) to change, how do you know on the other end (B) that the UP/DOWN value is the result of the interaction you made at (A)?
You don't unless you compare the value found at (A) and (B) and to compare the value at both ends, you need to communicate so its means the correlation cannot be made faster than the speed of light..