You're kidding, right? US citizens pay for more drug R&D than the rest of the world combined. It's a large part of why medical care is growing at ~2x inflation.
You failed to notice that the parent said cutting edge treatments. Treatments != drugs. Develop a drug and everyone who uses it pays you big $$$ for 20 years. When you develop a treatment everyone else can use that same treatment method without paying you a dime.
It also comes from the US hospitals being very conservative when it comes to offering new procedures.
But, but, duriing the health care "debate" we were told that all inovation came from the wonderful free market American system and the socilist eurofags would be screwed if they couldn't steal American ideas.
I'm so confused.
The ruling class is desperate to keep you in your place. Primarily, that means keeping the USA a non-socialist corporate paradise. Make sense now?
wait a minute. My wife is pregnant at 10 weeks. We went for a 7 week checkup and the heartbeat had already formed and was beating 167 bpm. Also the head and brain was forming, feet and arms as stubs. Are you telling me this isn't a living person?
Yes. There are many non-person living things on this planet that have a heartbeat, head, brain, arms, feet, etc. A mouse for example. Your blob of living stuff isn't even up to mouse standards at the moment though. It's totally unable to live on it's own. It's sub-mouse.
You can't see this obvious fact because you and your wife's brains are broken. It happens to all parents. Logic and reason are completely absent when children are involved. Evolution likes it that way. That's good for kids because you people mindlessly sacrifice for them so they can grow big and strong, but it's bad for society as a whole because the lot of you are one big EPIC FAIL when it comes to matters of public policy that involve reproduction.
I agree that Obama is a fuckwad. He's basically a moderate Republican. Is he better than another GW Bush? I think so. That's not a very difficult standard to reach.
The point is to ruin him. The point is saddle him with so much debt that he'll never pay it off. The point is to make him suffer so much that for the rest of his life that his expressions of clinical depression serve as a warning to the rest of the world. This isn't about restitution. These corps know they'll never see 10% of all the damages awarded to them. It's about ruining enough lives that "fear will keep the local systems in line".
Ruining some kid's life for sharing a few tracks might dissuade some people from filesharing. For others it merely confirms that the entire music industry is a heartless, corrupt piece of shit. Those people will never give a single dollar to the industry ever again in any form. Some people don't back down and get back in line when challenged. They find their confidence and resolve increased. Those people will likely be inspired by this outcome to share even more RIAA music, fucking them as hard as possible at every chance they get.
Short answer: It doesn't work that way. Programs can only be split over multiple cores if they are designed to use those cores.
That's only true for some languages. Programs written in pure functional languages such as Haskell absolutely can be split across multiple cores by the compiler/runtime without being designed to be "multithreaded."
Not all cores are created equal. You cannot compare core count and ghz of one processor to those of another. An i5 2600 gets a lot more stuff done in X clock cycles than an arm core does.
The raytracing application is merely a demo. Real applications in the near term will take advantage of the fact that all of the cores on Intel's accelerator card are x86 compatible. The cores on a Nvidia graphics card are not x86 cores and probably never will be.
With lots of x86 cores you can do interesting things like implement drivers that make your multi-core accelerator card visible to your OS as if they were real CPU cores. Imagine that you have Chrome open with 100 tabs. Chrome runs each tab in a separate process. Your Intel accelerator card with 50-256 x86 cores could be used to run Chrome processes, one process per core. All of a sudden your main CPU is no longer bogged down running flash and background javascript crap for each of your 100 open tabs.
Over the long term, moores law suggests that these Intel x86 accelerator cards will have enough cores and fast enough cores to do graphics acceleration for games that is good enough and fast enough. Eventually, all of these multitudes of cores will come standard inside every Intel cpu, no "accelerator card" needed. Intel has done exactly this with current gpu technology on their current line of processors. Their graphics performance is sufficient for everyone except serious gamers.
You're statement is meaningless. What core are you talking about? A PIII core? An Atom core? A core on your shiny new i5 2600? The cores in Knights Whatever aka Larabee are nowhere near as powerful as the cores in your current desktop cpu.
Freedom of expression is not a goal in itself, although lots of people seem to have lost the bigger picture there. Freedom of expression exists because it is required to keep a society balanced, this kind of 'expression' doesn't really help towards that goal.
Who the hell are you or anyone else to decide the "goal" of freedom of expression for every person in a society?
Rose colored glasses much? The general population is 0.01% white hat and 99.99% black hat. The cool thing about humans...they use ingenious psychological tricks on themselves so that they can ignore reality and logic when it's needed. One of the places humans need to toss objectivity and logic is when evaluating Self, close family, and close friends. Once logic and objectivity are out of the picture it's perfectly possible to believe that you, your family, and your friends are all good people; it's those OTHER assholes who are fucking things up.
The reality is that very nearly everyone is one of the assholes.
What about all those pesky European wars that the Popes instigated between Catholic and non-Catholic countries? Are you claiming that those Popes were only pretending to be religious?
If you play right, life gets easier and easier, after college.
I don't know which life you're playing. College was by far the easiest time of my life and, yes, I did go to a "tough" school.
My ideal life would consist of nothing but college. Imagine a entire lifetime where all that's expected of you is learning cool stuff and hooking up with 20 year olds!
In big cities it's not uncommon to wait 4-6 hours for an emergency consult, unless you roll in on an ambulance with a severed limb...
We have that in the US too. My medium sized city has a few of the best hospitals in country. Unless you're bleeding severely, giving birth, or having a heart attack you can count on a multi-hour wait at the emergency room. The only different thing from Canada is that patients get to walk out with fat bill. Something minor runs hundreds. Something major costs thousands.
We already have a language like that, its called 'C'.
Why not assembly? C is a very minor step up from a good macro assembler. It's great for embedded work, DSP work (audio, video, etc), device drivers, and kernels but it seriously sucks ass for nearly everything else.
The big problem with C is not "too much thinking." That's the favorite strawman used against people who cirticize C. The real problems with C are that it's hopelessly verbose and the standard library sucks.
If you can't bring yourself to live under a virtual machine then check out one of the modern compiled languages. There are a ton of them. Haskell, D, Go, Ocaml,Lisp, ML,...
Wait till everything you want to put into a release is stable and tested and you will be obsolete
You and I have very different definitions of obsolete. A few months old is not obsolete in my world, hell even a year isn't obsolete.
It depends completely what you do with your PC. Most people need the latest browser version of their choice and that's about it. People who are into writing software using open source libraries and "alternative" languages usually find that they need the absolute latest versions of everything. Sometimes we even have to grab unreleased development code via git or svn and compile against that.
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I would sooner burn X dollars a month than fund Apple's shitty business practices. Same goes for Sony.
You're kidding, right? US citizens pay for more drug R&D than the rest of the world combined. It's a large part of why medical care is growing at ~2x inflation.
You failed to notice that the parent said cutting edge treatments. Treatments != drugs. Develop a drug and everyone who uses it pays you big $$$ for 20 years. When you develop a treatment everyone else can use that same treatment method without paying you a dime.
It also comes from the US hospitals being very conservative when it comes to offering new procedures.
But, but, duriing the health care "debate" we were told that all inovation came from the wonderful free market American system and the socilist eurofags would be screwed if they couldn't steal American ideas.
I'm so confused.
The ruling class is desperate to keep you in your place. Primarily, that means keeping the USA a non-socialist corporate paradise. Make sense now?
wait a minute. My wife is pregnant at 10 weeks. We went for a 7 week checkup and the heartbeat had already formed and was beating 167 bpm. Also the head and brain was forming, feet and arms as stubs. Are you telling me this isn't a living person?
Yes. There are many non-person living things on this planet that have a heartbeat, head, brain, arms, feet, etc. A mouse for example. Your blob of living stuff isn't even up to mouse standards at the moment though. It's totally unable to live on it's own. It's sub-mouse.
You can't see this obvious fact because you and your wife's brains are broken. It happens to all parents. Logic and reason are completely absent when children are involved. Evolution likes it that way. That's good for kids because you people mindlessly sacrifice for them so they can grow big and strong, but it's bad for society as a whole because the lot of you are one big EPIC FAIL when it comes to matters of public policy that involve reproduction.
Nah, he just adds another room, you insensitive clod!
OP is obviously female. 100% wireless, rugs, professional installers...
I agree that Obama is a fuckwad. He's basically a moderate Republican. Is he better than another GW Bush? I think so. That's not a very difficult standard to reach.
The point is to ruin him. The point is saddle him with so much debt that he'll never pay it off. The point is to make him suffer so much that for the rest of his life that his expressions of clinical depression serve as a warning to the rest of the world. This isn't about restitution. These corps know they'll never see 10% of all the damages awarded to them. It's about ruining enough lives that "fear will keep the local systems in line".
Ruining some kid's life for sharing a few tracks might dissuade some people from filesharing. For others it merely confirms that the entire music industry is a heartless, corrupt piece of shit. Those people will never give a single dollar to the industry ever again in any form. Some people don't back down and get back in line when challenged. They find their confidence and resolve increased. Those people will likely be inspired by this outcome to share even more RIAA music, fucking them as hard as possible at every chance they get.
Short answer: It doesn't work that way. Programs can only be split over multiple cores if they are designed to use those cores.
That's only true for some languages. Programs written in pure functional languages such as Haskell absolutely can be split across multiple cores by the compiler/runtime without being designed to be "multithreaded."
Not all cores are created equal. You cannot compare core count and ghz of one processor to those of another. An i5 2600 gets a lot more stuff done in X clock cycles than an arm core does.
Because the US military has such a stellar track record in guerrilla style conflicts, right?
This is a troll, right? Nobody is this dumb, are they?
Most people are that dumb. That why we have policies in place that virtually guarantee that shit like this happens.
The raytracing application is merely a demo. Real applications in the near term will take advantage of the fact that all of the cores on Intel's accelerator card are x86 compatible. The cores on a Nvidia graphics card are not x86 cores and probably never will be.
With lots of x86 cores you can do interesting things like implement drivers that make your multi-core accelerator card visible to your OS as if they were real CPU cores. Imagine that you have Chrome open with 100 tabs. Chrome runs each tab in a separate process. Your Intel accelerator card with 50-256 x86 cores could be used to run Chrome processes, one process per core. All of a sudden your main CPU is no longer bogged down running flash and background javascript crap for each of your 100 open tabs.
Over the long term, moores law suggests that these Intel x86 accelerator cards will have enough cores and fast enough cores to do graphics acceleration for games that is good enough and fast enough. Eventually, all of these multitudes of cores will come standard inside every Intel cpu, no "accelerator card" needed. Intel has done exactly this with current gpu technology on their current line of processors. Their graphics performance is sufficient for everyone except serious gamers.
You're statement is meaningless. What core are you talking about? A PIII core? An Atom core? A core on your shiny new i5 2600? The cores in Knights Whatever aka Larabee are nowhere near as powerful as the cores in your current desktop cpu.
Freedom of expression is not a goal in itself, although lots of people seem to have lost the bigger picture there. Freedom of expression exists because it is required to keep a society balanced, this kind of 'expression' doesn't really help towards that goal.
Who the hell are you or anyone else to decide the "goal" of freedom of expression for every person in a society?
Rose colored glasses much? The general population is 0.01% white hat and 99.99% black hat. The cool thing about humans...they use ingenious psychological tricks on themselves so that they can ignore reality and logic when it's needed. One of the places humans need to toss objectivity and logic is when evaluating Self, close family, and close friends. Once logic and objectivity are out of the picture it's perfectly possible to believe that you, your family, and your friends are all good people; it's those OTHER assholes who are fucking things up.
The reality is that very nearly everyone is one of the assholes.
I'm pretty sure the ROI on blowing up brown people is terrible.
Not when they have a lot of oil.
What about all those pesky European wars that the Popes instigated between Catholic and non-Catholic countries? Are you claiming that those Popes were only pretending to be religious?
Wow, that is probably the best comment I've ever seen on Slashdot, ever.
What do you propose we do about said drunk drivers? It's not like it's legal to do so. Should be try prohibition again?
You joke but that is EXACTLY what a large contingent of anti-drunk driving activists desire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-prohibitionism
If you play right, life gets easier and easier, after college.
I don't know which life you're playing. College was by far the easiest time of my life and, yes, I did go to a "tough" school.
My ideal life would consist of nothing but college. Imagine a entire lifetime where all that's expected of you is learning cool stuff and hooking up with 20 year olds!
In big cities it's not uncommon to wait 4-6 hours for an emergency consult, unless you roll in on an ambulance with a severed limb...
We have that in the US too. My medium sized city has a few of the best hospitals in country. Unless you're bleeding severely, giving birth, or having a heart attack you can count on a multi-hour wait at the emergency room. The only different thing from Canada is that patients get to walk out with fat bill. Something minor runs hundreds. Something major costs thousands.
Is there even one mature language that runs on Parrot? (not brainfuck, etc.)
No. :D
We already have a language like that, its called 'C'.
Why not assembly? C is a very minor step up from a good macro assembler. It's great for embedded work, DSP work (audio, video, etc), device drivers, and kernels but it seriously sucks ass for nearly everything else.
The big problem with C is not "too much thinking." That's the favorite strawman used against people who cirticize C. The real problems with C are that it's hopelessly verbose and the standard library sucks.
If you can't bring yourself to live under a virtual machine then check out one of the modern compiled languages. There are a ton of them. Haskell, D, Go, Ocaml,Lisp, ML, ...
Here's your ppa:ui-edgers wish: https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3
I absolutely love Gnome 3 (which is not the same thing as Unity). You can even flip a switch and make Gnome 3 look just like Gnome 2.
Wait till everything you want to put into a release is stable and tested and you will be obsolete
You and I have very different definitions of obsolete. A few months old is not obsolete in my world, hell even a year isn't obsolete.
It depends completely what you do with your PC. Most people need the latest browser version of their choice and that's about it. People who are into writing software using open source libraries and "alternative" languages usually find that they need the absolute latest versions of everything. Sometimes we even have to grab unreleased development code via git or svn and compile against that.