Only a limited subset of balls are actually spherical. Using a sphere packing algorithm to determine how many rugby balls to pack into a cylinder is going to give the wrong answer. To add further confusion, some spherical balls can be deflated (soccer balls for example), and some balls (like squash balls) are actually squishy. So i'd say 'spheres' is a more accurate description myself....
We have a name for them, 'euro-sceptics', and there is a surprising number of them sadly.... although they usually don't have guns, and most are atheist.
We have UKIP, a fringe political party that stands on UK independence. It's position is that the Europe Union is a waste of time (which obviously explains why the party leader is a member of the European parliament ????).
We have the BNP, a fringe political party that just wants 'johnny foreigner' to 'go back where he came from'.
We have the EDL. They can't string a coherent sentence together, so I'm not exactly sure what they stand for.
We have the tories (kinda like the UK's version of the GOP), the current ruling party. They pretty much match the stereotype of the 'arrogant, elitist, snobby, englishman...'. One of their election pledges was that they'd hold a referendum on whether we should leave the EU. They've since back tracked on that.
Whilst those earthquakes were relatively small in a global sense, they aren't that small for a country that is not straddling any major fault lines. If I was living somewhere near the San Andreas fault, I probably wouldn't want someone fracking anywhere near by. A small earthquake there, would probably be a few orders of magnitude larger than the largest earth quakes we can get here in the UK.
I find it hard to believe that people assume it's the kids doing all the purchasing. If someone is willing to pay a £45 a month line rental for an iPhone, then a couple of quid here and there for an app store purchase (or an in game purchase), isn't that much of a stretch. Whilst you might hear a number of scare stories about children running up bills on their parents phones, the stories you won't hear, are from those individual 'whales' that actually make freemium a profitable business model.
Be very glad you aren't on the ground floor. That's the bit where all the bricks get squished by the weight of the pyramid above. Much better to be at the top methinks, a much better view from up there I'd imagine.....
As for the "gambling" namecalling, you're retarded. I bet you lose your ass in Vegas. Hint: You earn some profit in a fast moving market, you store that profit in a more stable market, continue "investing" with only the profits; Lather, rinse repeat. It works for the Stock Market (your 401k is our life raft), it works for Gambling, it works for Bitcoin too... DUMBASS.
I see. So your money making scheme works like this:
1. You take some of your money.
2. You gamble it in Vegas
3. You inevitably win
4. You transfer the money to the bank afterwards.
5. Profit.
Yup. That is some faultless logic right there. Absolutely no point of failure to be found in that scheme at all. So tell me.... Have you considered selling your home to invest the money in bitcoins? After all, it's only dumbasses that would fail step 3 right?
Read the technical docs on arm. It continually states that the new architecture was designed specifically to address needs within their current market sectors (eg mobile devices). Nowhere does it make any reference to high density servers, let alone desktops. The article uses a single quote that 'ARM' said it will enable it to take on the server market, and yet it does not cite the individual who has said that. If the article said "Joe Bloggs, senior tech foo-whatever-job @ ARM said...", then I might be inclined to believe it. As it is, it just looks like lazy journalism.
An atom-processing rack is pretty much stillborn in any industry that requires double precision computations - it's just far too slow. It would appear (according to the ARM docs on the architecture) that they have been working on vectorised double precision support. Assuming that the speeds aren't as bad as the ATOM (i.e. a few cycles per instruction, rather than a few hundred), I'd be expecting an ARM rack to be a much more marketable concept than an Atom version.
Arm still has quite a long way to go until it can compete with xeon, but then again, the GPU has shown us that gaffa taping a few hundred simple cores together can produce a computational monster. However, something tells me they probably aren't that interested in that market. They're most likely just trying to safeguard their position in the mobile market with a low cost, quad core 64bit CPU. I somehow suspect that any concept of ARM 'taking on' the xeon is nothing more than slashdot rhetoric.
It's not lazy. It's called "using a build tool" (unity build being one such example). Combining multiple cpp files into a single compilation unit as part of your build process is a huge optimization. But note that I say as "part of your build process", and not "restrict your working process to a single cpp file".
oh right, well i guess you're just one of those 'can't win, don't try' people.
No, he's a business man. He made no attack on Blackberry, he merely said that if the projected sales figures come out with a loss, or a minimal return, it is simply too risky to consider investing money to pay for the development. For exactly the same product on iPhone, that analysis may come back with a higher rate of return on investment. No I'm all for doing crazy code projects on a whim they might break even, but sadly, the recession means we have to be a lot more careful with our investors money these days.
too bad you don't get to see your idiocy pointed out to you then, everyone else can though:P
There was nothing idiotic in the guys comments. There were sound business guidelines to make sure you can keep paying the rent at the end of the month, and if you're lucky, take the kids somewhere nice on holiday.
Apparently BlackBerry Instant Messaging is more popular than SMS in some parts of the UK and Europe
For the price of 2 months of an iPhone contract, you can buy a pay-as-you-go blackberry which has free messaging to other blackberry phones. This has made it very popular with the less well off in society (because you don't need to buy any credit to keep in touch). Unfortunately for Blackberry, they accidentally became the main organisational framework for the UK rioters this summer as a direct result. All publicity is good publicity as they say. Although in this case, a picture of a chav with blackberry in hand, smashing into a shop to nick a pair of Nike's, probably doesn't do any good for Blackberry at the high end of the market.
Of course it's a waste. The result (by definition) is always inaccurate - so why bother? You know, there are some very good reasons why mathematicians use the symbol for Pi. Allowing an idiot Ham operator to burn the worlds resources for a useless result, is not one of them. Ask a mathematician if he'd like to calculate with an accurate symbol, or an inaccurate number requiring several hundred petabytes of data storage; which do you think he/she will go for?
And for calling me an 'idiot' for complaining about CO2? Screw you. I will not turn in my geek card for this. This guy has done *NOTHING* of merit. I will applaud new advances in human knowledge, but I will not applaud someone for running a for loop longer than the last guy did.
What do the UK, US, germany, Japan, and Canada all have in common? That's right, they all have polar bears.
What do Ghana, Zimbabwe, and Afghanistan have in common? That's right, no polar bears at all.
So as you can see, countries with polar bears are developed, those without are less developed. Q.E.D. Canada is a developed country because it has polar bears.
Correct. It just prevents them being made cheaper, and denies US car companies the same level of competitiveness as non-US companies in the global marketplace.
I'm from the UK, and I produce software used by US companies to provide services for their customers. Now, you can go ahead and apply tariffs to the work that I do, and that is fine with me. It's not like those US customers of ours have alternatives to choose from (we're highly specialised). All you are proposing is a tax to ensure that our US customers become less competitive than companies from Asia and Europe. If a company is no longer competitive, it quickly ceases to be viable. I'd imagine most, if not all of our US clients, would either relocate outside the US, or they'd simply cut their losses and close up shop. Either way, it won't actually affect the company I work for that much - apart from removing the need to deal with US patents of course!
On a more practical note, where would you plan to draw a line with this tariff? If producing code cheaply outside the US is to be restricted (but please do remember that outsourcing is also done for reasons of expertise), how would you apply this tariff to work done for free? (eg OSS?). Would you *really* want to be the only economy in the world where you HAD to actually pay for using linux? An economy where using MS access becomes cheaper than using SQL? An economy where installing firefox becomes more expensive than using IE? I suspect the answer might be 'no'.....
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Only a limited subset of balls are actually spherical. Using a sphere packing algorithm to determine how many rugby balls to pack into a cylinder is going to give the wrong answer. To add further confusion, some spherical balls can be deflated (soccer balls for example), and some balls (like squash balls) are actually squishy. So i'd say 'spheres' is a more accurate description myself....
Hmm. That's got me thinking. Can you make cider from fermented iPads?
We have a name for them, 'euro-sceptics', and there is a surprising number of them sadly.... although they usually don't have guns, and most are atheist.
We have UKIP, a fringe political party that stands on UK independence. It's position is that the Europe Union is a waste of time (which obviously explains why the party leader is a member of the European parliament ????).
We have the BNP, a fringe political party that just wants 'johnny foreigner' to 'go back where he came from'.
We have the EDL. They can't string a coherent sentence together, so I'm not exactly sure what they stand for.
We have the tories (kinda like the UK's version of the GOP), the current ruling party. They pretty much match the stereotype of the 'arrogant, elitist, snobby, englishman...'. One of their election pledges was that they'd hold a referendum on whether we should leave the EU. They've since back tracked on that.
Whilst those earthquakes were relatively small in a global sense, they aren't that small for a country that is not straddling any major fault lines. If I was living somewhere near the San Andreas fault, I probably wouldn't want someone fracking anywhere near by. A small earthquake there, would probably be a few orders of magnitude larger than the largest earth quakes we can get here in the UK.
Seems to be working well enough to type on?
ducks aren't going to shoot you if you flip on a flashlight.
You're doing it wrong. Turn your flashlight on, point it at a duck, walk towards them, and knock them over the head with it.
I find it hard to believe that people assume it's the kids doing all the purchasing. If someone is willing to pay a £45 a month line rental for an iPhone, then a couple of quid here and there for an app store purchase (or an in game purchase), isn't that much of a stretch. Whilst you might hear a number of scare stories about children running up bills on their parents phones, the stories you won't hear, are from those individual 'whales' that actually make freemium a profitable business model.
Be very glad you aren't on the ground floor. That's the bit where all the bricks get squished by the weight of the pyramid above. Much better to be at the top methinks, a much better view from up there I'd imagine.....
As for the "gambling" namecalling, you're retarded. I bet you lose your ass in Vegas. Hint: You earn some profit in a fast moving market, you store that profit in a more stable market, continue "investing" with only the profits; Lather, rinse repeat. It works for the Stock Market (your 401k is our life raft), it works for Gambling, it works for Bitcoin too... DUMBASS.
I see. So your money making scheme works like this:
1. You take some of your money.
2. You gamble it in Vegas
3. You inevitably win
4. You transfer the money to the bank afterwards.
5. Profit.
Yup. That is some faultless logic right there. Absolutely no point of failure to be found in that scheme at all. So tell me.... Have you considered selling your home to invest the money in bitcoins? After all, it's only dumbasses that would fail step 3 right?
There are plenty of undetected stories about undetected hacks. You should try undetecting them sometime!
I was half expecting "posted from my iPhone" at the end of that comment....
Read the technical docs on arm. It continually states that the new architecture was designed specifically to address needs within their current market sectors (eg mobile devices). Nowhere does it make any reference to high density servers, let alone desktops. The article uses a single quote that 'ARM' said it will enable it to take on the server market, and yet it does not cite the individual who has said that. If the article said "Joe Bloggs, senior tech foo-whatever-job @ ARM said...", then I might be inclined to believe it. As it is, it just looks like lazy journalism.
He was just confusing the 68k with the 6502. Probably.
An atom-processing rack is pretty much stillborn in any industry that requires double precision computations - it's just far too slow. It would appear (according to the ARM docs on the architecture) that they have been working on vectorised double precision support. Assuming that the speeds aren't as bad as the ATOM (i.e. a few cycles per instruction, rather than a few hundred), I'd be expecting an ARM rack to be a much more marketable concept than an Atom version.
Arm still has quite a long way to go until it can compete with xeon, but then again, the GPU has shown us that gaffa taping a few hundred simple cores together can produce a computational monster. However, something tells me they probably aren't that interested in that market. They're most likely just trying to safeguard their position in the mobile market with a low cost, quad core 64bit CPU. I somehow suspect that any concept of ARM 'taking on' the xeon is nothing more than slashdot rhetoric.
Not so much removing, more like obscuring with a sphere....
It's not lazy. It's called "using a build tool" (unity build being one such example). Combining multiple cpp files into a single compilation unit as part of your build process is a huge optimization. But note that I say as "part of your build process", and not "restrict your working process to a single cpp file".
That sounds like a punchline to a joke involving bono and a pony.
oh right, well i guess you're just one of those 'can't win, don't try' people.
No, he's a business man. He made no attack on Blackberry, he merely said that if the projected sales figures come out with a loss, or a minimal return, it is simply too risky to consider investing money to pay for the development. For exactly the same product on iPhone, that analysis may come back with a higher rate of return on investment. No I'm all for doing crazy code projects on a whim they might break even, but sadly, the recession means we have to be a lot more careful with our investors money these days.
too bad you don't get to see your idiocy pointed out to you then, everyone else can though :P
There was nothing idiotic in the guys comments. There were sound business guidelines to make sure you can keep paying the rent at the end of the month, and if you're lucky, take the kids somewhere nice on holiday.
Apparently BlackBerry Instant Messaging is more popular than SMS in some parts of the UK and Europe
For the price of 2 months of an iPhone contract, you can buy a pay-as-you-go blackberry which has free messaging to other blackberry phones. This has made it very popular with the less well off in society (because you don't need to buy any credit to keep in touch). Unfortunately for Blackberry, they accidentally became the main organisational framework for the UK rioters this summer as a direct result. All publicity is good publicity as they say. Although in this case, a picture of a chav with blackberry in hand, smashing into a shop to nick a pair of Nike's, probably doesn't do any good for Blackberry at the high end of the market.
computing Pi (and e and...) is NEVER a waste!
Of course it's a waste. The result (by definition) is always inaccurate - so why bother? You know, there are some very good reasons why mathematicians use the symbol for Pi. Allowing an idiot Ham operator to burn the worlds resources for a useless result, is not one of them. Ask a mathematician if he'd like to calculate with an accurate symbol, or an inaccurate number requiring several hundred petabytes of data storage; which do you think he/she will go for?
And for calling me an 'idiot' for complaining about CO2? Screw you. I will not turn in my geek card for this. This guy has done *NOTHING* of merit. I will applaud new advances in human knowledge, but I will not applaud someone for running a for loop longer than the last guy did.
Come freeze your balls off and see for yourself.
No thanks, I'd just spend too much time looking at the empty space where my balls used to sit.......
What do the UK, US, germany, Japan, and Canada all have in common? That's right, they all have polar bears.
What do Ghana, Zimbabwe, and Afghanistan have in common? That's right, no polar bears at all.
So as you can see, countries with polar bears are developed, those without are less developed. Q.E.D. Canada is a developed country because it has polar bears.
Dont they have undersea fiber connections to the country, and DSL and stuff?
Yup, it runs under the Canadian ocean which entirely separates the continent of the USA from the continent of canada.
Or even dialup?
This is no time for pizza.
Why would half the country use only Satellite as thier Internet connection?
Because the other half are running away from man eating polar bears.
It doesn't make our cars more expensive
Correct. It just prevents them being made cheaper, and denies US car companies the same level of competitiveness as non-US companies in the global marketplace.
I'm from the UK, and I produce software used by US companies to provide services for their customers. Now, you can go ahead and apply tariffs to the work that I do, and that is fine with me. It's not like those US customers of ours have alternatives to choose from (we're highly specialised). All you are proposing is a tax to ensure that our US customers become less competitive than companies from Asia and Europe. If a company is no longer competitive, it quickly ceases to be viable. I'd imagine most, if not all of our US clients, would either relocate outside the US, or they'd simply cut their losses and close up shop. Either way, it won't actually affect the company I work for that much - apart from removing the need to deal with US patents of course!
On a more practical note, where would you plan to draw a line with this tariff? If producing code cheaply outside the US is to be restricted (but please do remember that outsourcing is also done for reasons of expertise), how would you apply this tariff to work done for free? (eg OSS?). Would you *really* want to be the only economy in the world where you HAD to actually pay for using linux? An economy where using MS access becomes cheaper than using SQL? An economy where installing firefox becomes more expensive than using IE? I suspect the answer might be 'no'.....