What are you talking about? We are talking about Javascript!! The new messiah of programming languages! Everything will be implemented in javascript. Even the linux kernel is being reimplemented in this highly productive language! Javascript saves baby dolphin and prevent dictators to take over. How can you not love it?
There are multiple effects. First I believe people are reading less books at all. Then all the classics that are often mandatory for school education are commonly found for free (and legally) on the internet. That certainly hurts book stores significantly. Also the e-book effect bring less people in store. That probably decrease the amount of sales in "crap magazines" or other books that you only buy because you see it. Amazon is killing stores by making book delivery the day after for free. It happened to me that I bought a book online at 2pm while being at the pool and got in front of my door at 10am the day after.
I'll feel nostalgic about book store, but I perfectly understand that they need to go away as they are highly inefficient compared to more modern techniques like buying book online or buying e-books.
Yeah, there is nothing wrong with amdahl's law. People that need to care about it clearly understand what it means. That is to say, when you increase parallelism, sequential parts become bottlenecks. You need to reengineer the problem/algorithm/architecture around that new bottleneck.
You know, I wrote a paper on SpMV for Xeon Phi and I got quite a lot of people from all over the world asking me for clarification and for code. So it seems to be quite widespread. You can actually buy some online, Google points to several vendors.
"in order to discourage folks from porting big science applications to CUDA"
There are two things wrong with this statement. First of all, I do not think scientist are discourage from giving a shot to CUDA. Just check any scientific conference and you'll see GPU and CUDA everywhere. Actually we see so much GPU programming that it is getting boring. Also porting to CUDA is difficult and alien for most people. If we can get similar performance using programming model people are used to, how is that not a good thing? What is so good about CUDA? It is just pretty much the only way to get good performance out of NVIDIA gpus.
The tradeoff between performance, hardware cost and developper cost is a difficult tradeoff. I say let's throw them all in the arena and see what stands.
Disclaimer: my research is supported by both Intel and NVIDIA.
also, you can easily set up git repository over ssh. My team is sharing code repositories that way, flag the repository group shared and install a hook that fix permissions after upload. And here you go, you have all the git repositories you need for most things.
Though, I assume that OP was talking about more than just the git repositories themselves, but also bug report, automatic deployments, code reviews, commit messages,... They can be hacked on top of git as well, but that is getting boring.
well, you get to start somewhere, isn't it? Removing the data from machines you do not control to machine that you control is bound to make it harder for them. They could use zero-day exploits but they will need to put have some form of access to that particular machine. If the machine is properly firewall or configured it would still be difficult to access it.
The problem is not really that they are listening to everybody now. The problem is that they would log everything that is being said or done. Later on, if you become a "problem" to them, they could start charging you with ridiculous past illegal activities you had.
-"I am not arresting you because you are protesting drone strikes against an american target... I am arresting you because you smoked some weed 2 years ago (There are pictures of that on facebook and phones call logs where you admit it). Also you jaywaled 10 times in the last 6 month (recorded by your google glasses). I see that you also bought stuff from amazon and did not fill for sales tax, that's a tax fraud. Also you drove your car on june 3rd without insurance, It had expired on the 2nd and was renewed on the 4th, so here goes your driving licence. Your protest of the drone strikes? That's protected by the first amendment, I would not dare touching that. Too bad you'll have to protest in prison..."
I feel like that type of law aims at reducing the number of people that get into accidents. If you ticket (or jail) people AFTER the accident, I do not think people would care as much and do it by themself. Once you are dead, you don't care about getting a ticket.
If you applied that to speeding, there are many cases where I could speed safely, but I do not because I need to keep my driving license. My judgement of when it is safe to speed or not is certainly not perfect, and that would make the road more dangerous.
Well, as far as I know, this is only the second study that consider hand-free texting. So i'd say, I will only be convinced myself after a couple more.
Good try but batman does not scale. You essentially need an arp table (or whatever the terminology in batman is) which is as large as the number of entities in the network [1]. Batman is essentially a broadcast based protocol: It will congest the network extremely fast. It probably wont scale to city scale. Note that I am not sure there is a good scalable existing answer to adhoc mesh routing.
I was always wondering how you achieve routing and addressing in a completely adhoc network. Let us assume that my whole city put their wireless access point in ad hoc mode even on the same SSID or whatever. How do you achieve any form of coherent addressing and routing ? You do not want to follow the ethernet technique with huge arp tables, devices are never going to be have enough memory to store such huge tables. Routing will be completely inneficient. Any idea?
(Note: I am not an american citizen and my understanding of the american legal system is therefore limited)
Constitutional rights in the USA should be absolute. Decrypting an hard drive should or should not be covered by the fifth amendment. New evidence should not change its constitutionality because a judge changed his/her mind. I believe that hard disk encryption is too important in too many cases to let a "local" judge decide whether it is constitutional or not. American citizens (or whatever representative has that power) should ask the supreme court to decide on that matter.
Actually, I believe offloading the game to the cloud can do much better than increasing the amount of CPU power for the AI. It allows you to create the largest collection of gamelogs ever. Properly analysing the gaming pattern could lead to a self improving AI. Then you could test the qualities of the AI against real player to make sure your predictions are correct. The potential is huge, "will it be realized?" is a different story of course.
Every great infrastructure ends up being used massively for stupid reason. 90% of postal mail I receive is spam, but 10% is important. (YMMV). The same goes with internet.
Drop the social network crap and funny cat pictures, and you will find again what you are looking for in the internet: a large base of knowledge and communication between people. My four most visited website are: slashdot, jeuxvideo.com (a french video game website), wikipedia and arxiv. And personnaly, I feel just fine about the internet.
But if the users run their application on their own device and never report back to Central Command, how are we supposed to sell them ads and know when they brush their teeth? What you suggest is unacceptable, we'll just claim it is not scalable to do that. And in fact, it is true, it does not scale out amount of profit.
I concur with your analysis. I loved the wii and still play it frequently. I was naturally interested in the wii U. The Rayman demo sold me to it. So I thought I'd buy them both at the same time in february. Except the game was delayed to september. I checked out other games on the system and honestly, there are maybe 3 games currently released I'd like to play. Meanwhile, I'll keep on playing the wii...
Actually the opposite might work too. If bittorrent becomes a favorite distribution protocol for FOSS, that might push ISPs into being more tolerant toward it.
Convenience is a real problem as well. I live in an appartment and the complex is not equipped with electric car charger. So having an electric car (or hybrid) is a real problem. (Though there is a charger in the garage at work.)
"So, they get a bunch of young smart people in a room with some smarmy guy and maybe bimbos? maybe energy drinks? Then they just ask "Hey, give us some ideas so we can become rich!" Then the smartest idea guy, gets like a t-shirt and maybe like an X-box or something?"
You know you are on slashdot, when you put bimbos in the room and the best reward you can think of are t-shirts and X-boxes...
What you say is definitively true. But that is not the point of the article, the point is to verify that the vast majority of experts believes (base don their study) that global warming is man made. Yet everybody you talk to tends to say to "experts are still debating". Well, with these numbers they are not still debating, they are pretty much convinced.
Yet, they might be wrong. But policies have to be made based on experts opinion. And that opinion is not properly represented in the media.
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What are you talking about? We are talking about Javascript!! The new messiah of programming languages! Everything will be implemented in javascript. Even the linux kernel is being reimplemented in this highly productive language! Javascript saves baby dolphin and prevent dictators to take over. How can you not love it?
There are multiple effects.
First I believe people are reading less books at all.
Then all the classics that are often mandatory for school education are commonly found for free (and legally) on the internet. That certainly hurts book stores significantly.
Also the e-book effect bring less people in store. That probably decrease the amount of sales in "crap magazines" or other books that you only buy because you see it.
Amazon is killing stores by making book delivery the day after for free. It happened to me that I bought a book online at 2pm while being at the pool and got in front of my door at 10am the day after.
I'll feel nostalgic about book store, but I perfectly understand that they need to go away as they are highly inefficient compared to more modern techniques like buying book online or buying e-books.
Yeah, there is nothing wrong with amdahl's law. People that need to care about it clearly understand what it means. That is to say, when you increase parallelism, sequential parts become bottlenecks. You need to reengineer the problem/algorithm/architecture around that new bottleneck.
"Xeon Phi = unavailable vaporware"
You know, I wrote a paper on SpMV for Xeon Phi and I got quite a lot of people from all over the world asking me for clarification and for code. So it seems to be quite widespread. You can actually buy some online, Google points to several vendors.
"in order to discourage folks from porting big science applications to CUDA"
There are two things wrong with this statement. First of all, I do not think scientist are discourage from giving a shot to CUDA. Just check any scientific conference and you'll see GPU and CUDA everywhere. Actually we see so much GPU programming that it is getting boring.
Also porting to CUDA is difficult and alien for most people. If we can get similar performance using programming model people are used to, how is that not a good thing? What is so good about CUDA? It is just pretty much the only way to get good performance out of NVIDIA gpus.
The tradeoff between performance, hardware cost and developper cost is a difficult tradeoff. I say let's throw them all in the arena and see what stands.
Disclaimer: my research is supported by both Intel and NVIDIA.
also, you can easily set up git repository over ssh. My team is sharing code repositories that way, flag the repository group shared and install a hook that fix permissions after upload. And here you go, you have all the git repositories you need for most things.
Though, I assume that OP was talking about more than just the git repositories themselves, but also bug report, automatic deployments, code reviews, commit messages, ... They can be hacked on top of git as well, but that is getting boring.
well, you get to start somewhere, isn't it? Removing the data from machines you do not control to machine that you control is bound to make it harder for them. They could use zero-day exploits but they will need to put have some form of access to that particular machine. If the machine is properly firewall or configured it would still be difficult to access it.
The problem is not really that they are listening to everybody now. The problem is that they would log everything that is being said or done. Later on, if you become a "problem" to them, they could start charging you with ridiculous past illegal activities you had.
-"I am not arresting you because you are protesting drone strikes against an american target... I am arresting you because you smoked some weed 2 years ago (There are pictures of that on facebook and phones call logs where you admit it). Also you jaywaled 10 times in the last 6 month (recorded by your google glasses). I see that you also bought stuff from amazon and did not fill for sales tax, that's a tax fraud. Also you drove your car on june 3rd without insurance, It had expired on the 2nd and was renewed on the 4th, so here goes your driving licence. Your protest of the drone strikes? That's protected by the first amendment, I would not dare touching that. Too bad you'll have to protest in prison..."
I feel like that type of law aims at reducing the number of people that get into accidents. If you ticket (or jail) people AFTER the accident, I do not think people would care as much and do it by themself. Once you are dead, you don't care about getting a ticket.
If you applied that to speeding, there are many cases where I could speed safely, but I do not because I need to keep my driving license. My judgement of when it is safe to speed or not is certainly not perfect, and that would make the road more dangerous.
Well, as far as I know, this is only the second study that consider hand-free texting. So i'd say, I will only be convinced myself after a couple more.
Good try but batman does not scale. You essentially need an arp table (or whatever the terminology in batman is) which is as large as the number of entities in the network [1]. Batman is essentially a broadcast based protocol: It will congest the network extremely fast. It probably wont scale to city scale. Note that I am not sure there is a good scalable existing answer to adhoc mesh routing.
[1] http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki/FAQ#How-big-networks-does-batman-adv-support
I was always wondering how you achieve routing and addressing in a completely adhoc network. Let us assume that my whole city put their wireless access point in ad hoc mode even on the same SSID or whatever. How do you achieve any form of coherent addressing and routing ? You do not want to follow the ethernet technique with huge arp tables, devices are never going to be have enough memory to store such huge tables. Routing will be completely inneficient.
Any idea?
(Note: I am not an american citizen and my understanding of the american legal system is therefore limited)
Constitutional rights in the USA should be absolute. Decrypting an hard drive should or should not be covered by the fifth amendment. New evidence should not change its constitutionality because a judge changed his/her mind. I believe that hard disk encryption is too important in too many cases to let a "local" judge decide whether it is constitutional or not. American citizens (or whatever representative has that power) should ask the supreme court to decide on that matter.
Actually, I believe offloading the game to the cloud can do much better than increasing the amount of CPU power for the AI. It allows you to create the largest collection of gamelogs ever. Properly analysing the gaming pattern could lead to a self improving AI. Then you could test the qualities of the AI against real player to make sure your predictions are correct. The potential is huge, "will it be realized?" is a different story of course.
But the fact that Eric Schmidt acknowledges it is news.
Every great infrastructure ends up being used massively for stupid reason. 90% of postal mail I receive is spam, but 10% is important. (YMMV). The same goes with internet.
Drop the social network crap and funny cat pictures, and you will find again what you are looking for in the internet: a large base of knowledge and communication between people. My four most visited website are: slashdot, jeuxvideo.com (a french video game website), wikipedia and arxiv. And personnaly, I feel just fine about the internet.
But if the users run their application on their own device and never report back to Central Command, how are we supposed to sell them ads and know when they brush their teeth?
What you suggest is unacceptable, we'll just claim it is not scalable to do that. And in fact, it is true, it does not scale out amount of profit.
I concur with your analysis. I loved the wii and still play it frequently. I was naturally interested in the wii U. The Rayman demo sold me to it. So I thought I'd buy them both at the same time in february. Except the game was delayed to september. I checked out other games on the system and honestly, there are maybe 3 games currently released I'd like to play. Meanwhile, I'll keep on playing the wii...
Actually the opposite might work too. If bittorrent becomes a favorite distribution protocol for FOSS, that might push ISPs into being more tolerant toward it.
Convenience is a real problem as well. I live in an appartment and the complex is not equipped with electric car charger. So having an electric car (or hybrid) is a real problem. (Though there is a charger in the garage at work.)
maybe you can combine the two obssession into... dildo-bayonettes
I purchased a car recently, and purchase price was not my concern. Total cost of ownership, convenience were my concern.
The same way banks do. By lending money to somebody else.
"So, they get a bunch of young smart people in a room with some smarmy guy and maybe bimbos? maybe energy drinks?
Then they just ask "Hey, give us some ideas so we can become rich!" Then the smartest idea guy, gets like a t-shirt and maybe like an X-box or something?"
You know you are on slashdot, when you put bimbos in the room and the best reward you can think of are t-shirts and X-boxes...
Thanks to both of you for this interview!
Who is your favorite vampire ?
What you say is definitively true. But that is not the point of the article, the point is to verify that the vast majority of experts believes (base don their study) that global warming is man made. Yet everybody you talk to tends to say to "experts are still debating". Well, with these numbers they are not still debating, they are pretty much convinced.
Yet, they might be wrong. But policies have to be made based on experts opinion. And that opinion is not properly represented in the media.