The government has the right to regulate light bulbs because the use of electricity has very significant negative externalities, which no one is paying for.?
openFOAM is far too advanced for a basic intro to CFD.
If you're hell-bent on introducing CFD in software form, you might be best off writing a simple fluid simulator and wrapping it with OpenGL or something. If you do incompressible flow with a simple structured mesh and a few editable parameters, you could probably be done in a few hours. And if you can't.. well, perhaps you aren't the right person to introduce such an advanced topic to highschoolers:)
The volume of transactions on eBay makes it difficult for police to prosecute specific cases for a variety of reasons, but the most common is manpower and the issue of jurisdiction. However, when police have a well-publicized instance a crime occurring in a specific area with already known suspects (in your case, the police would have needed to attempt to find the person whose phone was lost before proceeding) with key details being admitted by the suspect prior to the involvement of police, then you can damn well bet that there's going to be action. To think otherwise is simply naive.
You feel that prosecuting someone who knew full well that they were committing a felony is akin to an Apple police state? That's a foolish correlation. 'Journalists' don't have any more protection from criminal charges than does the common Joe - and if this case is what makes it clear, then great. Most journalism students get a course in law during their studies as it pertains to their professional; bloggers don't. That doesn't make give bloggers a carte blanche to break laws in pursuit of their stories.
I'm all for being a social animal, but every now and then I like to retreat to my own private world and enjoy a game crafted around the single player experience.
It was my understanding that this came at the tail end of a 2-hour podcast by a community manager who sounded decidedly unsure of what he was talking about.
Any chance this whole bruhaha is a misunderstanding?
I just don't see a way for OnLive to guarantee any sort of decent QoS over the Internet, but I think it's doable if their business model is instead to license their tech to ISPs who then in turn solicit customers. How many of us have > 20ms pings to our ISP? I'd wager not many. Combine that with the size of a typical pipe between an ISP and a consumer, and it's probably entirely doable.
Either that, or they hope to score a buyout from one of the big guys before their VCs realize they've bought into vapourware.
Consider how often 'PLAYSTATION 3' is rendered as plain text and how many times it's rendered as an image or texture. Changing something like that late in the game can be tough as nails when you think about all the places it may be referenced.
Why the hell do you need an 'incentive' to do what, in your opinion, is the 'right thing'? If it's so right in your opinion, why do you need a reward for doing it?
3. I'd be more worried about other students. Your professors probably have a sweet deal. At my school, it meant 6-figure salary and teaching 0-1 classes per semester and spending the rest of one's time investigating what they found interesting. Why would they leave that for the competition of free enterprise?
They don't need to leave their post to pursue private enterprise. Nearly every prof at a decent CS department will have an outside gig of some sort - some of them being highly profitable.
This isn't necessarily relevant to your job, but one of my favorite utilities for LCD displays is to report CPU usage by core and allocated/remaining RAM. It's not something that can be easily accessed while doing full-screen stuff and it's ridiculously useful (or maybe just informative).
most gamers would rather build their own gaming rigs, especially those willing to do triple or quad SLi, watercooling, etc.
'most gamers' is a heck of a generalization.
While I've known several people that do that, I know an equal number that have more money than brains and simply purchased one of those custom beasts and then added their own tweaks.
I work for an engineering firm that is constantly running numerical analysis as part of our primary business. We run about 500 Linux boxes (with varying numbers of cores) arranged into multiple clusters. Our desktops run Windows.
Our pre-processing tools are Windows-based and our post-processing tools are Windows-based. Institutional knowledge/experience and mature tools means that this isn't going to change. Our in-house solvers are Linux-based not by choice, but because Microsoft doesn't offer a cost-effective solution for running our simulations on Windows boxes.
Even though we've developed utilities to make the process as smooth as possible, having Linux as part of the process chain is still an enormous pain and one we'd like to resolve. We've been watching Windows HPC with interest and can only hope for the price point to become reasonable.
Although Windows remains in poor regard with many here, there are many companies in the business of engineering simulation that would happily welcome Windows HPC.
Try this. Divide 700 billion by 300 million and then divide 2 billion by 300 million. Thats what a drop in the bucket means.
I'm trying to follow your logic here, so please bear with me: You're saying that the only expenses worth examining are those that are relatively large? If that's the case, what's the magic number that is sufficiently relatively large that at which point people are allowed to start caring? I don't know about you, but $2b is still a metric fuckton of money to me and many orders of magnitude more than I'll ever see. $700b is just that much larger still.
How do you think the government got into its present fiscal mess? By spending $700b on one item or by spending $1b on each of thousands of projects? Hint: The correct answer would be both.
Commencement of vigilance shouldn't have a price tag attached to it.
Again, let me reiterate for the record: I like NASA. I'm all about taking a few minutes off of work to watch a shuttle launch or tuning in to see those nifty pictures being beamed back from Mars. So my beef isn't about the amount of money that NASA gets or doesn't; My beef is when people consider a government expense to be beyond scrutiny because other, bigger numbers are being batted around. What is so wrong with demanding that tax dollars are spent wisely?
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The government has the right to regulate light bulbs because the use of electricity has very significant negative externalities, which no one is paying for.?
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openFOAM is far too advanced for a basic intro to CFD. If you're hell-bent on introducing CFD in software form, you might be best off writing a simple fluid simulator and wrapping it with OpenGL or something. If you do incompressible flow with a simple structured mesh and a few editable parameters, you could probably be done in a few hours. And if you can't.. well, perhaps you aren't the right person to introduce such an advanced topic to highschoolers :)
The volume of transactions on eBay makes it difficult for police to prosecute specific cases for a variety of reasons, but the most common is manpower and the issue of jurisdiction. However, when police have a well-publicized instance a crime occurring in a specific area with already known suspects (in your case, the police would have needed to attempt to find the person whose phone was lost before proceeding) with key details being admitted by the suspect prior to the involvement of police, then you can damn well bet that there's going to be action. To think otherwise is simply naive.
You feel that prosecuting someone who knew full well that they were committing a felony is akin to an Apple police state? That's a foolish correlation. 'Journalists' don't have any more protection from criminal charges than does the common Joe - and if this case is what makes it clear, then great. Most journalism students get a course in law during their studies as it pertains to their professional; bloggers don't. That doesn't make give bloggers a carte blanche to break laws in pursuit of their stories.
I'm not sure that many people want to be seen grabbing publicity by showing their ignorance of a topic.
Copying a work during the renaissance was just a bit trickier than clicking a link on rapidshare :)
I'm all for being a social animal, but every now and then I like to retreat to my own private world and enjoy a game crafted around the single player experience.
It was my understanding that this came at the tail end of a 2-hour podcast by a community manager who sounded decidedly unsure of what he was talking about. Any chance this whole bruhaha is a misunderstanding?
I just don't see a way for OnLive to guarantee any sort of decent QoS over the Internet, but I think it's doable if their business model is instead to license their tech to ISPs who then in turn solicit customers. How many of us have > 20ms pings to our ISP? I'd wager not many. Combine that with the size of a typical pipe between an ISP and a consumer, and it's probably entirely doable. Either that, or they hope to score a buyout from one of the big guys before their VCs realize they've bought into vapourware.
Consider how often 'PLAYSTATION 3' is rendered as plain text and how many times it's rendered as an image or texture. Changing something like that late in the game can be tough as nails when you think about all the places it may be referenced.
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Sounds a bit like the government in Atlas Shrugged.. you know, how laws were made to be broken so the government would have something on you.
Why the hell do you need an 'incentive' to do what, in your opinion, is the 'right thing'? If it's so right in your opinion, why do you need a reward for doing it?
They'll simply impose a 'content' tax on ISPs and then funnel part of that money to 'artists' like the copyright board does with the piracy tax.
You sure that one didn't get up and walk from your garage into your computer room? :)
Why bother trying to protect those that Darwin should be claiming? Even if we somehow warn them suitably, they'll just be taken in by the next scam.
Let them deal with their own problems.
You don't need your idea approved by Microsoft to begin development - just enough cash to buy a dev kit and proof that your company can hack it.
You *do* need approval to publish, but that's not what you stated.
3. I'd be more worried about other students. Your professors probably have a sweet deal. At my school, it meant 6-figure salary and teaching 0-1 classes per semester and spending the rest of one's time investigating what they found interesting. Why would they leave that for the competition of free enterprise?
They don't need to leave their post to pursue private enterprise. Nearly every prof at a decent CS department will have an outside gig of some sort - some of them being highly profitable.
This isn't necessarily relevant to your job, but one of my favorite utilities for LCD displays is to report CPU usage by core and allocated/remaining RAM. It's not something that can be easily accessed while doing full-screen stuff and it's ridiculously useful (or maybe just informative).
most gamers would rather build their own gaming rigs, especially those willing to do triple or quad SLi, watercooling, etc.
'most gamers' is a heck of a generalization. While I've known several people that do that, I know an equal number that have more money than brains and simply purchased one of those custom beasts and then added their own tweaks.
I work for an engineering firm that is constantly running numerical analysis as part of our primary business. We run about 500 Linux boxes (with varying numbers of cores) arranged into multiple clusters. Our desktops run Windows.
Our pre-processing tools are Windows-based and our post-processing tools are Windows-based. Institutional knowledge/experience and mature tools means that this isn't going to change. Our in-house solvers are Linux-based not by choice, but because Microsoft doesn't offer a cost-effective solution for running our simulations on Windows boxes.
Even though we've developed utilities to make the process as smooth as possible, having Linux as part of the process chain is still an enormous pain and one we'd like to resolve. We've been watching Windows HPC with interest and can only hope for the price point to become reasonable.
Although Windows remains in poor regard with many here, there are many companies in the business of engineering simulation that would happily welcome Windows HPC.
Try this. Divide 700 billion by 300 million and then divide 2 billion by 300 million. Thats what a drop in the bucket means.
I'm trying to follow your logic here, so please bear with me: You're saying that the only expenses worth examining are those that are relatively large? If that's the case, what's the magic number that is sufficiently relatively large that at which point people are allowed to start caring? I don't know about you, but $2b is still a metric fuckton of money to me and many orders of magnitude more than I'll ever see. $700b is just that much larger still.
How do you think the government got into its present fiscal mess? By spending $700b on one item or by spending $1b on each of thousands of projects? Hint: The correct answer would be both.
Commencement of vigilance shouldn't have a price tag attached to it.
Again, let me reiterate for the record: I like NASA. I'm all about taking a few minutes off of work to watch a shuttle launch or tuning in to see those nifty pictures being beamed back from Mars. So my beef isn't about the amount of money that NASA gets or doesn't; My beef is when people consider a government expense to be beyond scrutiny because other, bigger numbers are being batted around. What is so wrong with demanding that tax dollars are spent wisely?