My favorite feature, though, is scatter/gather support for SIMD. Scatter/gather is very important because up until now loading memory from several locations for SIMD use has been a pain in the ass involving costly shuffles and often requires you to load more than you actually immediately wanted, possibly forcing you to spill registers.
Scattter/Gather will never be as efficient as aligned sequential reads and writes, so all this has bought you is a bit more efficiency on already highly inefficient data layouts.
I see this problem time and again, where a programmer that just doesnt get it is trying to use SSE in sub-optimal ways and then only getting marginal performance improvements over their non-SSE code. It turns into one big waste of time and effort. Essentially, if your data is AoS instead of SoA, then you've already decided that you never want to be highly efficient and layouts that need Scatter/Gather are even worse than AoS layouts.
Are you seriously suggesting that invading the sanctity of the body is in the same category as taking a close-up picture of their eyes?
The fact that you had to really dress up the surgery thing with "invasion" and "sanctity" tells us that even you know that the argument you are trying to make doesnt stand on its own, that it needs some help and you gave it every bit of the help you possibly could.
The Bill of Rights actually says very little about the right to privacy.
It doesnt have to. It is not an enumeration of your rights.
The fact that you think that it is proves the point that somewhere between my generation and yours, they started filling heads with complete shit about what the constitution is and is not.
What's more, the article says that all of the students went through the program, but you're telling me that there were no students at all that objected? I find it hard to believe that there were high school students involved and no one said "no".
I dont find it so surprising. My generation is quite alarmed about things that the following generation is not alarmed about. This is so because the generations after mine were conditioned in ways that my generation was not. Likely my generation accepts things that the previous generation was alarmed about but we too didnt listen.
If you never had an absolute right to something, do you miss it?
Lets get right into the thick of the current erosion:
If you never lived in a world where the IRS didnt go after those opposed to the erosion of liberty...
If you never lived in a world where the federal government didn't spy on and invade the privacy of an unfriendly press...
If you never lived in a world where you had an absolute right to a firearm...
This isnt how life works. You dont just get to declare things. You wrote 8 sentences, beginning here, but not even for a moment did you even pretend to justify this idea that there is a gain.
Second, these things are extremely expensive to install (especially if they're not immediately next to major power lines). We're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars.
If it only cost hundreds of thousands, great!
However, it seems to me that you don't even have a basic understanding of construction costs.
Of course, if someone steals my laptop while I'm logged in, unless he drags it away from under my hands, he'll be presented with the screen saver's password screen
So he boots a linux live CD and then proceeds to rape your drive for all its got.
Probably 20 years ago they werent expected to use hand sanitizers, but now they are.
In the environment that I work (a casino), there is frequent contact with chips, cards, and money that have been handled by large numbers of people over short periods of time so illnesses frequently spread. Of course its recommended that dealers and floor/pit men regularly use hand sanitizers throughout their shift, but if you've ever tried to regularly used hand sanitizer then you would know that you cant regularly used hand sanitizer without fucking up the skin on your hands.
Sure, because free pop/imap services are so hard to come by....
If you use gmail only with a pop/imap client, then you are a complete idiot for volunteering to let Google read your emails. The majority of people, the ones that use the web interface, at least get something back in return that you willingly do not get back.
Thanks for explaining to us how big of a google tool you are.
...and the semicolons that are nearly universally found right before newlines? Thats less typing?
Tell me sir, how good are most compilers for languages that use semicolons at figuring out what the problem is when a semicolon is missing?
This is the major flaw of the C-style syntax, not the curly braced blocks. If A often comes before B, then the semantics of A are clearly less than ideal, especially when B is then always treated as not existing at all.
If this was your kid and she got bullied so bad she killed herself what would you do?
I might turn myself into the authorities for negligent homicide on the grounds that I raised my child so badly that they killed themselves over what are quite clearly self-esteem issues.
If they don't want to deal w/ Italian law then they're free to prohibit people in Italy from using Facebook.
While this is technically true, italy is also free to prohibit its citizens from using facebook.
Where do you honestly think the responsibility should exist?
Seems to me that expecting me to prevent people from country X from accessing my site hosted in my home country of Y, just because country X has issues with its content, is a extremely onerous expectation to be applying to me.
I would argue that any sort of law enforcement in site owners on such matters is completely bankrupt of morality.
When there was NEVER $6 billion in profit to make back without knocking Sony or Nontendo out and gaining back control.
As far as gamers are concerned, Nintendo *DID* get knocked out of the console market. While they had considerable success with the Wii, it wasn't at their competitors expense. Nintendo had to create a new far more casual market in order to continue doing business.
Perhaps. Pretty much any time I am doing some SSE coding I am thinking to myself "wouldnt it be nice of these registers were wider.. why doesn't someone in the x86 market just go ahead and make huge vector registers at least for addition, multiplication, and shifting" and then I realize that that is in fact where the APU's are at right now.. and think to myself "geeze I should be doing OpenCL not this hand-crafted SSE shit"
It depends on what are you doing. If you have relatively short term project (say less than couple of years) you are right.
I've got to take issue with this statement. Anything that takes over a couple years probably should not be started on new silicon as it doesnt make sense to start them yet due to Moores law. The guy that starts the same project a year from now using the same amount of money that you used will beat you to the final calculation and get the hookers and blow that you thought that you deserved.
The only time it makes sense is when the hardware is otherwise at end of life, that there is no longer an initial investment to get started, and there is unlikely to be anyone else willing to tackle the project anytime soon.
..and by ugly you mean the greatest (most versatile) addressing modes of any currently produced CPU's?
The x86 addressing modes are so powerful that they even created an instruction to leverage the addressing generation logic without accessing memory...
The fact is that neither RISC nor CISC is best, that a hybrid of the two is best. The problem with the RISC camp is that they cant make it hybrid while still being RISC, while the CISC camp hybridized long ago and even remained entirely compatible while doing it.
Yeah except what she says agrees with my experiences. I am not obese, but I am larger than thin. Bit of a beer belly.
Last time I went to the doctor it was because I came down with some pink eye. Guess what we mostly talked about?
Hint: It wasnt about what was ailing me. She might of had to do research into methods of reducing or eliminating my risk of getting pink eye, which is actually common in my industry. Research is hard. Repeating what she told the last patient? Thats easy...
The primary goal of our treatment plan is often to get them to lose weight to cure their hypertension and type 2 diabetes. It's not a bias if you see the same patient in clinic every few months for years and they continue to gain weight and ignore your recommendations.
So the first them they visit, you arent a complete asshole about their weight? Just when its been years?
Yeah.. thats what I thought.. you are a complete asshole about their weight from day 1.
Slashdot Mirror
There's no point in throttling the CPU manually. It'll automatically start throttling itself when it gets too hot (105C or higher).
WHATS THAT? I CAN"T HEAR YOU OVER THE FAN. CAN YOU PLEASE REPEAT YOURSELF?
The reason people underclock is temperature, but the symptom they are trying to eliminate is the noise.
It's also only in $400+ mobile i7s.
Intel fanboys never want to discuss price, at least not really. Sometimes they pretend, but never want to make an honest price bin comparison.
My favorite feature, though, is scatter/gather support for SIMD. Scatter/gather is very important because up until now loading memory from several locations for SIMD use has been a pain in the ass involving costly shuffles and often requires you to load more than you actually immediately wanted, possibly forcing you to spill registers.
Scattter/Gather will never be as efficient as aligned sequential reads and writes, so all this has bought you is a bit more efficiency on already highly inefficient data layouts.
I see this problem time and again, where a programmer that just doesnt get it is trying to use SSE in sub-optimal ways and then only getting marginal performance improvements over their non-SSE code. It turns into one big waste of time and effort. Essentially, if your data is AoS instead of SoA, then you've already decided that you never want to be highly efficient and layouts that need Scatter/Gather are even worse than AoS layouts.
Are you seriously suggesting that invading the sanctity of the body is in the same category as taking a close-up picture of their eyes?
The fact that you had to really dress up the surgery thing with "invasion" and "sanctity" tells us that even you know that the argument you are trying to make doesnt stand on its own, that it needs some help and you gave it every bit of the help you possibly could.
The Bill of Rights actually says very little about the right to privacy.
It doesnt have to. It is not an enumeration of your rights.
The fact that you think that it is proves the point that somewhere between my generation and yours, they started filling heads with complete shit about what the constitution is and is not.
Things change.
You were conditioned to not be alarmed and to make excuses. This is an excuse, and you are not alarmed.
Will you ever think for yourself?
What's more, the article says that all of the students went through the program, but you're telling me that there were no students at all that objected? I find it hard to believe that there were high school students involved and no one said "no".
I dont find it so surprising. My generation is quite alarmed about things that the following generation is not alarmed about. This is so because the generations after mine were conditioned in ways that my generation was not. Likely my generation accepts things that the previous generation was alarmed about but we too didnt listen.
If you never had an absolute right to something, do you miss it?
Lets get right into the thick of the current erosion:
If you never lived in a world where the IRS didnt go after those opposed to the erosion of liberty...
If you never lived in a world where the federal government didn't spy on and invade the privacy of an unfriendly press...
If you never lived in a world where you had an absolute right to a firearm...
Of course there is gain
This isnt how life works. You dont just get to declare things. You wrote 8 sentences, beginning here, but not even for a moment did you even pretend to justify this idea that there is a gain.
Second, these things are extremely expensive to install (especially if they're not immediately next to major power lines). We're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars.
If it only cost hundreds of thousands, great!
However, it seems to me that you don't even have a basic understanding of construction costs.
You should trust that you have properly configured the systems security settings to prevent issues
a) No, you should not trust that you have configured anything properly.
b) Doesn't solve the problem even if you could trust yourself.
The best security only comes when you dont trust anything, even yourself. It is only then that you can make proper decisions...
Of course, if someone steals my laptop while I'm logged in, unless he drags it away from under my hands, he'll be presented with the screen saver's password screen
So he boots a linux live CD and then proceeds to rape your drive for all its got.
Probably 20 years ago they werent expected to use hand sanitizers, but now they are.
In the environment that I work (a casino), there is frequent contact with chips, cards, and money that have been handled by large numbers of people over short periods of time so illnesses frequently spread. Of course its recommended that dealers and floor/pit men regularly use hand sanitizers throughout their shift, but if you've ever tried to regularly used hand sanitizer then you would know that you cant regularly used hand sanitizer without fucking up the skin on your hands.
The point of gmail is email. Free email, frankly.
Sure, because free pop/imap services are so hard to come by....
If you use gmail only with a pop/imap client, then you are a complete idiot for volunteering to let Google read your emails. The majority of people, the ones that use the web interface, at least get something back in return that you willingly do not get back.
Thanks for explaining to us how big of a google tool you are.
...and the semicolons that are nearly universally found right before newlines? Thats less typing?
Tell me sir, how good are most compilers for languages that use semicolons at figuring out what the problem is when a semicolon is missing?
This is the major flaw of the C-style syntax, not the curly braced blocks. If A often comes before B, then the semantics of A are clearly less than ideal, especially when B is then always treated as not existing at all.
If this was your kid and she got bullied so bad she killed herself what would you do?
I might turn myself into the authorities for negligent homicide on the grounds that I raised my child so badly that they killed themselves over what are quite clearly self-esteem issues.
If they don't want to deal w/ Italian law then they're free to prohibit people in Italy from using Facebook.
While this is technically true, italy is also free to prohibit its citizens from using facebook.
Where do you honestly think the responsibility should exist?
Seems to me that expecting me to prevent people from country X from accessing my site hosted in my home country of Y, just because country X has issues with its content, is a extremely onerous expectation to be applying to me.
I would argue that any sort of law enforcement in site owners on such matters is completely bankrupt of morality.
When there was NEVER $6 billion in profit to make back without knocking Sony or Nontendo out and gaining back control.
As far as gamers are concerned, Nintendo *DID* get knocked out of the console market. While they had considerable success with the Wii, it wasn't at their competitors expense. Nintendo had to create a new far more casual market in order to continue doing business.
Idiot. You picked just about the worst example of socialism going right in this modern age... besides ourselves.
Perhaps. Pretty much any time I am doing some SSE coding I am thinking to myself "wouldnt it be nice of these registers were wider.. why doesn't someone in the x86 market just go ahead and make huge vector registers at least for addition, multiplication, and shifting" and then I realize that that is in fact where the APU's are at right now.. and think to myself "geeze I should be doing OpenCL not this hand-crafted SSE shit"
It depends on what are you doing. If you have relatively short term project (say less than couple of years) you are right.
I've got to take issue with this statement. Anything that takes over a couple years probably should not be started on new silicon as it doesnt make sense to start them yet due to Moores law. The guy that starts the same project a year from now using the same amount of money that you used will beat you to the final calculation and get the hookers and blow that you thought that you deserved.
The only time it makes sense is when the hardware is otherwise at end of life, that there is no longer an initial investment to get started, and there is unlikely to be anyone else willing to tackle the project anytime soon.
..and by ugly you mean the greatest (most versatile) addressing modes of any currently produced CPU's?
The x86 addressing modes are so powerful that they even created an instruction to leverage the addressing generation logic without accessing memory...
The fact is that neither RISC nor CISC is best, that a hybrid of the two is best. The problem with the RISC camp is that they cant make it hybrid while still being RISC, while the CISC camp hybridized long ago and even remained entirely compatible while doing it.
Yeah except what she says agrees with my experiences. I am not obese, but I am larger than thin. Bit of a beer belly.
Last time I went to the doctor it was because I came down with some pink eye. Guess what we mostly talked about?
Hint: It wasnt about what was ailing me. She might of had to do research into methods of reducing or eliminating my risk of getting pink eye, which is actually common in my industry. Research is hard. Repeating what she told the last patient? Thats easy...
Reality.
Maybe you should take the time to learn something about data mining before acting like you know something about data.
Only a man with an entire Payless of shoes shoved up his ass could be demented enough to think that dislike of gross corruption is party driven.
Thats who you are talking to, though, He is party-driven rather than ethics-driven.
The primary goal of our treatment plan is often to get them to lose weight to cure their hypertension and type 2 diabetes. It's not a bias if you see the same patient in clinic every few months for years and they continue to gain weight and ignore your recommendations.
So the first them they visit, you arent a complete asshole about their weight? Just when its been years?
Yeah.. thats what I thought.. you are a complete asshole about their weight from day 1.