You answered the "how" question, but not the "why" question. Sure, PCIe might have enough bandwidth to handle the communication, but WHY would you want to go to the trouble of moving the GPU to the monitor?
You seem to think that the CPU sends a bunch of simple commands to the GPU, and the GPU turns those commands into complex graphical images. That's true, but only for a very narrow set of applicatoins. Much of what a GPU does in gaming is paint surfaces using images and / or videos. Very often, a full HD video is used to "paint" a 3D surface that may end up occupying only a few hundred pixels of actual screen real estate. Multiplying this effect by the many surfaces that require painting for a realistic 3D experience, and you end up transferring far more pixel bytes across your connection, than the resulting pixels would require.
There's a reason Oculus Rift refuses to support Apple hardware. Maybe this type of thinking from Apple explains why they have become frustrated.
The GPU needs to communicate closely with the CPU. It needs to have access to huge amounts of data. Never mind the pixels involved in a 5K display. The GPU has to take many inputs that would likely be much higher total resolution, and digest them into a 5K output. There's a reason the GPU is tightly integrated with the mother board. It seems to me that moving it to the monitor would be like tying one hand behind your back, when it comes to performance.
The failing is mine however, as while I can't understand what patents try to say it seems plenty of other people can.
I don't know about that. Years ago, my company decided to patent something I had worked on. Even I can't understand the language of the patent that has my own name on it! I know what it is because I worked on it. But could I build it based on the description in the patent? Probably not.
Sure, a $35,000 robot could run the fry station. At the McDonald's where my teenage son works, they already have a robot that prepares drinks for drive-thru customers. But they still need 2-3 employees to work drive-thru.
Those who cry that robots will soon take over all our jobs, forget just how many jobs there are in even a single McDonald's store. Taking orders, making shakes, fries, sandwiches, washing dishes, cleaning floors and restrooms (theoretically, at least), taking out trash, filtering fry oil, restocking condiments, baking cookies, and on and on. These $35,000 robots can each take over a single job. But they aren't as versatile as a human being, who can switch from job to job as needed.
Automation is hard and expensive. It will be quite a while before McDonald's no longer needs teenage employees.
Why do we need a device to set on the counter? Can't we just as easily set a smartphone on the counter and do the same thing? Maybe this is aimed at people who refuse to buy a smartphone.
Google voice search is already better than Cortana or Siri. Sure, Siri has more personality and has a sense of humor. Cortana can't even boast that. But if you want to find out something, Google voice search is much better at answering many kinds of questions, and at understanding context. The same questions put to Cortana or Siri just return a list of search results.
Maybe I'm different from other Slashdot readers, but I'm looking forward to using Google Assistant, at least on my phone. No, I won't go buy the dedicated device.
If you have to ask where to get that kind of job, you're certainly not in the market for such a job.
But you're right, "hard work" as most people understand it, isn't what gets you a big CEO job. It's results. Can you run a company? Can you run a large team of any kind?
Yes, one could argue that Merissa Mayer hasn't gotten results for Yahoo. But that would be overlooking the fact that she started with a dying company. No, it's not robust, but it does look like she'll be able to get someone to pay millions for the company, problems and all. Can you do that?
I'm not sure tablets are a passing fad. It might be more that everybody who wants one, has one, and most of them still work fine. My 1st gen Nexus 7 still does everything it needs to do. Why should I buy another one?
Still, you're right, the future is somewhere else. Tablets are becoming a commodity.
Greece has been known for its generous social programs. It might not have actually been a basic income, but close to it. It couldn't figure out how to stay afloat and pay for all the freebies.
It's kind of ironic that a man responsible for the finances of a bankrupt country would be giving financial advice to other countries that are doing much better!
Yes of course, even the summary explains that this is based on RFID tag technology. What's new here is the end-user programmability of these chips to do things OTHER than just respond with a fixed ID.
Arduino and Raspberry Pi aren't interesting because they do something new. They are limited in power and capabilities. What they do deliver is a significant amount of computing power at a very low cost and very small size.
While I don't see RFID-powered computers taking over the smarphone space, I do see the potential for many clever implementations we haven't even thought of yet.
Assuming the number is accurate, that would be about 0.06% of facebook users.
But what these people apparently don't realize is, that as soon as they log in, all anonymity is gone. Do they really think facebook doesn't communicate things like IP address or geolocation data, regardless of whether the communication goes through TOR? Even if that fails, it's really hard to escape the power of facebook's data analytics. They probably can identify you by that alone.
The woman is the CEO of the company making this so-called anti-aging treatment. AND she located the company outside the US to escape FDA requirements that a therapy be proven to be safe and effective. Could it be true? Maybe, but it looks more like snake oil to me.
Costco sells the same hearing aids that you get for $5,000 at an audiologist, but they charge less than $1,000 for them. Consumer Reports recommends considering Costco as an alternative to the high prices normally charged by audiologists.
Typing, even on a touch device, makes you appear distracted, even if you aren't. By contrast, writing notes by hand reinforces that your are listening to what is being said.
After writing my notes on a notepad, if I want to keep them, I take a picture so I have an electronic copy.
Why would anyone need more than 640K of RAM on a computer? Why would anyone need a color monitor? Why would anyone want to connect PCs using a LAN? Why would anyone want to connect to "The Internet"? Why would anyone want to use a mouse instead of a keyboard?
I've heard all of these questions asked, in all seriousness, by people in the computer industry.
Who knows why! But I'll bet somebody will come along and do something really cool with this brain-control interface.
No, it's not even possible. After decades of trying, we haven't even been able to get rid of coal yet!
There are a lot of people who make a lot of money on oil. There are entire countries that depend on oil for their budgets. They aren't going to go away without a fight.
The average age of cars on the road today is more than 11 years old. Even if car makers stopped making gas-powered cars today, it would be more than ten years before people switched to some other power source.
It takes years and billions of dollars to build new power plants. Do they really think these will all be scrapped and rebuilt in a decade?
Clearly, these think-tank people need to get out of their tank and look out the window. Their ideas are not based on reality.
Perhaps Mr. Greninger should just keep his enthusiasm for science, and his willingness to teach young people, to himself. Then who would benefit?
I didn't have the fortune of having this man in my life as a student, but I did have a retired friend in the early 1980s who was a computer enthusiast. He purchased an early Apple II, and invited me, a high school student, to come over to learn how to use his new toy. That was when I knew what I would be doing with my life.
These students are receiving a wonderful gift from Mr. Greninger. It would be great if everybody had the same benefit, but we don't. It's too bad there aren't more passionate people who are willing to inspire high school students. Instead of complaining about those who are missing out, how about let's get up off our rears and look for ways to inspire the young people who are in our own lives!
The need for automated deployment isn't going anywhere. The bigger your site, the more important it is to have automation in place. It doesn't matter whether you are running on servers in the next room, or on Amazon, you still have to have a reliable deployment mechanism, unless you can tolerate prolonged outages. DevOps might be called something else, but it's not going away.
This is a classic case of name dropping to make the software seem more amazing than it actually is.
Lots of students in art classes can copy the work of a famous painter, and even imitate the style. Some can even do so convincingly. But that doesn't make the student a "new Rembrandt," in fact, most such students will never be recognized as brilliant. There is much more to being a master artist than just imitating the style of a great painter.
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You answered the "how" question, but not the "why" question. Sure, PCIe might have enough bandwidth to handle the communication, but WHY would you want to go to the trouble of moving the GPU to the monitor?
You seem to think that the CPU sends a bunch of simple commands to the GPU, and the GPU turns those commands into complex graphical images. That's true, but only for a very narrow set of applicatoins. Much of what a GPU does in gaming is paint surfaces using images and / or videos. Very often, a full HD video is used to "paint" a 3D surface that may end up occupying only a few hundred pixels of actual screen real estate. Multiplying this effect by the many surfaces that require painting for a realistic 3D experience, and you end up transferring far more pixel bytes across your connection, than the resulting pixels would require.
There's a reason Oculus Rift refuses to support Apple hardware. Maybe this type of thinking from Apple explains why they have become frustrated.
The GPU needs to communicate closely with the CPU. It needs to have access to huge amounts of data. Never mind the pixels involved in a 5K display. The GPU has to take many inputs that would likely be much higher total resolution, and digest them into a 5K output. There's a reason the GPU is tightly integrated with the mother board. It seems to me that moving it to the monitor would be like tying one hand behind your back, when it comes to performance.
The failing is mine however, as while I can't understand what patents try to say it seems plenty of other people can.
I don't know about that. Years ago, my company decided to patent something I had worked on. Even I can't understand the language of the patent that has my own name on it! I know what it is because I worked on it. But could I build it based on the description in the patent? Probably not.
Sure, a $35,000 robot could run the fry station. At the McDonald's where my teenage son works, they already have a robot that prepares drinks for drive-thru customers. But they still need 2-3 employees to work drive-thru.
Those who cry that robots will soon take over all our jobs, forget just how many jobs there are in even a single McDonald's store. Taking orders, making shakes, fries, sandwiches, washing dishes, cleaning floors and restrooms (theoretically, at least), taking out trash, filtering fry oil, restocking condiments, baking cookies, and on and on. These $35,000 robots can each take over a single job. But they aren't as versatile as a human being, who can switch from job to job as needed.
Automation is hard and expensive. It will be quite a while before McDonald's no longer needs teenage employees.
Why do we need a device to set on the counter? Can't we just as easily set a smartphone on the counter and do the same thing? Maybe this is aimed at people who refuse to buy a smartphone.
Google voice search is already better than Cortana or Siri. Sure, Siri has more personality and has a sense of humor. Cortana can't even boast that. But if you want to find out something, Google voice search is much better at answering many kinds of questions, and at understanding context. The same questions put to Cortana or Siri just return a list of search results.
Maybe I'm different from other Slashdot readers, but I'm looking forward to using Google Assistant, at least on my phone. No, I won't go buy the dedicated device.
I'll bet there are still people using AOL too!
Instead of people filling up at the next station they come across, some guy has to drive everywhere to fill up one customer at a time.
You don't know my father-in-law. He'll drive for miles to find gas that's 5 cents cheaper!
If you have to ask where to get that kind of job, you're certainly not in the market for such a job.
But you're right, "hard work" as most people understand it, isn't what gets you a big CEO job. It's results. Can you run a company? Can you run a large team of any kind?
Yes, one could argue that Merissa Mayer hasn't gotten results for Yahoo. But that would be overlooking the fact that she started with a dying company. No, it's not robust, but it does look like she'll be able to get someone to pay millions for the company, problems and all. Can you do that?
I'm not sure tablets are a passing fad. It might be more that everybody who wants one, has one, and most of them still work fine. My 1st gen Nexus 7 still does everything it needs to do. Why should I buy another one?
Still, you're right, the future is somewhere else. Tablets are becoming a commodity.
Greece has been known for its generous social programs. It might not have actually been a basic income, but close to it. It couldn't figure out how to stay afloat and pay for all the freebies.
It's kind of ironic that a man responsible for the finances of a bankrupt country would be giving financial advice to other countries that are doing much better!
Yes of course, even the summary explains that this is based on RFID tag technology. What's new here is the end-user programmability of these chips to do things OTHER than just respond with a fixed ID.
Arduino and Raspberry Pi aren't interesting because they do something new. They are limited in power and capabilities. What they do deliver is a significant amount of computing power at a very low cost and very small size.
While I don't see RFID-powered computers taking over the smarphone space, I do see the potential for many clever implementations we haven't even thought of yet.
Assuming the number is accurate, that would be about 0.06% of facebook users.
But what these people apparently don't realize is, that as soon as they log in, all anonymity is gone. Do they really think facebook doesn't communicate things like IP address or geolocation data, regardless of whether the communication goes through TOR? Even if that fails, it's really hard to escape the power of facebook's data analytics. They probably can identify you by that alone.
We already knew we are inside a simulation, sitting on Captain Picard's desk on the Enterprise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The woman is the CEO of the company making this so-called anti-aging treatment. AND she located the company outside the US to escape FDA requirements that a therapy be proven to be safe and effective. Could it be true? Maybe, but it looks more like snake oil to me.
Costco sells the same hearing aids that you get for $5,000 at an audiologist, but they charge less than $1,000 for them. Consumer Reports recommends considering Costco as an alternative to the high prices normally charged by audiologists.
http://www.consumerreports.org...
Typing, even on a touch device, makes you appear distracted, even if you aren't. By contrast, writing notes by hand reinforces that your are listening to what is being said.
After writing my notes on a notepad, if I want to keep them, I take a picture so I have an electronic copy.
Why would anyone need more than 640K of RAM on a computer?
Why would anyone need a color monitor?
Why would anyone want to connect PCs using a LAN?
Why would anyone want to connect to "The Internet"?
Why would anyone want to use a mouse instead of a keyboard?
I've heard all of these questions asked, in all seriousness, by people in the computer industry.
Who knows why! But I'll bet somebody will come along and do something really cool with this brain-control interface.
No, it's not even possible. After decades of trying, we haven't even been able to get rid of coal yet!
There are a lot of people who make a lot of money on oil. There are entire countries that depend on oil for their budgets. They aren't going to go away without a fight.
The average age of cars on the road today is more than 11 years old. Even if car makers stopped making gas-powered cars today, it would be more than ten years before people switched to some other power source.
It takes years and billions of dollars to build new power plants. Do they really think these will all be scrapped and rebuilt in a decade?
Clearly, these think-tank people need to get out of their tank and look out the window. Their ideas are not based on reality.
Perhaps Mr. Greninger should just keep his enthusiasm for science, and his willingness to teach young people, to himself. Then who would benefit?
I didn't have the fortune of having this man in my life as a student, but I did have a retired friend in the early 1980s who was a computer enthusiast. He purchased an early Apple II, and invited me, a high school student, to come over to learn how to use his new toy. That was when I knew what I would be doing with my life.
These students are receiving a wonderful gift from Mr. Greninger. It would be great if everybody had the same benefit, but we don't. It's too bad there aren't more passionate people who are willing to inspire high school students. Instead of complaining about those who are missing out, how about let's get up off our rears and look for ways to inspire the young people who are in our own lives!
I'd gladly pay double the current price for Netflix.
Don't say that out loud please, they might hear you!
The need for automated deployment isn't going anywhere. The bigger your site, the more important it is to have automation in place. It doesn't matter whether you are running on servers in the next room, or on Amazon, you still have to have a reliable deployment mechanism, unless you can tolerate prolonged outages. DevOps might be called something else, but it's not going away.
There's always Eclipse, if you really want an open source IDE for Android. Ugh.
crunchy on the outside, but soft and chewy on the inside!
This is a classic case of name dropping to make the software seem more amazing than it actually is.
Lots of students in art classes can copy the work of a famous painter, and even imitate the style. Some can even do so convincingly. But that doesn't make the student a "new Rembrandt," in fact, most such students will never be recognized as brilliant. There is much more to being a master artist than just imitating the style of a great painter.