Otherwise they would have to provide free access to the framebuffer with hundreds of threads or cores.
I'm only just now starting out in CUDA development... but that is what the CUDA developers are aiming for next. Right now they're just allocating chunks of GPU memory for vectors/structs/etc.. but I'm fairly sure we'll get FB access in the near future.
Uhm... but the difference between 30 mpg and 50 mpg easily makes up the difference in fuel costs... I owned a VM tdi and easily got 50 mpg on the highway.
Out of a thousand miles, you'd buy 20 gallons versus 33 gallons (assuming 30 mpg gas and 50 mpg diesel). The price difference (even using the inaccurate figure of $1.50 more per gallon means you save about $10 dollars. For a more reasonable 5% difference in price, means you save about $35 per 1000 miles total.
Anyway, I'm sure you can find plenty situations in which the diesel looses... but for the average consumer a diesel car will be cheaper to operate... it certainly was in my case.
Now someone needs to sell a diesel minivan... parents are the most cost-conscience group I know.
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During the celebrations last night it was said to be sometime in the next few weeks
It was fascinating and exciting - a huge amount of clapping and nerd hopping.
My biggest problem was the number of people who kept turning their cams/mics on during the teleconference.
It says.. "Black Hole/Stranglet CRASH button - In case of imminent world destruction, break glass and press CMS ABORT button" (Yes, that's really in the LHC control room LOL)
"Stupid profits" doesn't even begin to describe the heap of cash that American telecom companies make.
AT&T recently (2008, 2nd quarter) pulled in 30 Billion in revenue, with a "tax cooked" 3.7 billion profit.
And let me tell you - they're not spending 30 billion for three months of people, trucks, and wire.
Australia gets the shaft because they have to peer with THESE SAME COMPANIES... Apparently someone in Australia wizened up over there and many companies are now building a cable directly to the USA - so they can negotiate their own agreements. The build cost is fixed and the bandwidth can be bought in the US at competitive prices.
Yeah, but if the choice is Biden's boot-to-the-head or singing "I'm going to let it shine..." then I'd take the damn song.
McCain's choice is almost surreal - it's totally calculated and I'm sure someone on both sides with a lot of statistics experience and Matlab was up late one night running numbers.
Hey Slashdot - how about getting an interview with one of THOSE guys - the ones running candidate probabilities on beowulf clusters??
If you really need the FLOPS - you'd do it too. I'm working on a project now that requires 9k of custom hardware acceleration. I'm already spec'ing the next gen product to run on a $100 video card in the next year or two.
I really doubt I would spec this product... though... it looks like a great addition to some evil genius collection though! Would look nice next to the sharks-n-lasers tank!!
Nope - Enron is not the same thing at all. Purposefully misleading customers and investors, hiding money & business dealings, and cooking the books are not the same thing.
I have worked at 4 different startup companies and I can say without a doubt that unless you've got GOBS of money, five years head start, and amazing brains - DON'T introduce rigid software engineering until after you ship product - and then only slowly. Or if you feel the need to do so - spit your team into research & product teams. That way you can have something to follow your launch that doesn't blow up in a reasonable amount of time.
The problem is that the market won't wait for you. I know it's not fair - but there's plenty of dudes with a "Cobol for Dummies" in their lap beating you to the market. And if that product is good enough then you loose. No matter how good, fast, stable and clean your code is.
There is a window of opportunity for every product - and once it passes you're stuck with dead weight.
I think a main reason homeschooling is so attractive to many people is because this gives them the ability to do exactly this: raise their kids with a restricted information set so the kids will be much less likely to make choices the parents don't like.
Aren't ALL children raised this way? I mean - I haven't seen many books called "Johnny goes to Dahlmer's for dinner."
The fact is that many - if not most parents try to put off exposure to violence, sexualization, and dirty language as long as possible. With the sludge-pool of modern communication (internet, TV, radio, press) and the spineless education system we have built - I have a great admiration for those who choose homeschooling.
I worry about homeschoolers that never introduce these things to their kids, though. It's one thing to decide when and where to expose them to the world - it's an entirely different (and wrong) approach to hide them from the world. At some point they need to be able to deal with these issues - they're part of human nature and have been for millennia.
Well, roughly 12 years ago I was in the data archiving business, and I remember that NASA generated 1.2TB of space data per day. This doesn't include engineering, life sciences, analyzers, contractors, etc... I can only imagine that this has risen astronomically (hahaha) in these last few years.
I've ready recently that NASA aims to keep about 40 petabytes of recent data online & nearline. If you put it all together, I'm fairly sure that "tons" is probably an apt measure - most certainly if we're talking drives, tapes, storage, and machines.
Thanks for the info. I happen to enjoy the light space coverage myself - I don't have the time to watch the missions, and there is literally tons of info generated by NASA per day.
Well, I do cross development between Linux, (some) Mac, and Windows - and there is virtually zero demand (percentage wise) for Vista in the enterprise software space.
I think the things that drive people from Vista are: 1. Too many versions... you feel cheated getting the "low end" version on a nice new box. 2. Driver support - slowly getting fixed here, but for a long time things just "didn't work". Like my Printer, Scanner, and Monitor. Or, if they did work - they worked at a reduced functionality, were buggy, or didn't give the same "feel" as before. 3. It was late, it was rushed, all the reviews complained of problems people aren't going to pay to deal with.
The thing is this - people are happy because their setup WORKS. You sit down, you print. You write. You blog. You watch a movie. You game. It works.
Trust me - this counts for a lot. I've bought Mac for the past year for this very reason... it works. It may not be the best, or the fastest, or feature filled - but damn if I can't just sit down and do what I want, without pain.
I felt originally that Vista came with restrictions, lack of drivers, new interfaces, and DOESN"T JUST WORK. It was a total non-sale.
I feel that Vista has probably surpassed most of these issues in the past few months now - but the label sticks regardless.
Hell, Microsoft could probably slap a Vista 2009 sticker over the box and do a lot better.
You forgot to mention the big Java one - where all memory on the heap is allocated executable and class libraries are "speed loaded" through a memmap to a disk file.
This, combined with the javascript heap spray, should most certainly work, IMHO, on Firefox, and likely Linux as well.
The stated problem is that plugins have a lot of control over memory (even if only statistically probably).
The current copyright law is: *Everything you create is owned by you. Publishing it on paper, online, or some public place largely grants you the rights to it. If you don't publish it - you'd better be very careful and gather NDA's as you go. *If someone else has a registered copyright - that trumps your ownership.
The internet we use today is totally different from 1969 (or 1981, or 1991). The internet evolves Darwin style already. Who uses DecNET or Banyan Vines? How about uunet, gated, gopher, or telnet?
It's gone, baby, gone.
Hell - we're having enough trouble replacing a simply-ass DNS server... who can imagine a peaceful replacement of entire the Internet (other than power-hungry numbnuts?)
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I'm still working on my blind hem...
Regardless - sewing & clothmaking are the foundations of modern computers! It was one of the first programmable machines in the world.
The Jacquard loom in fact was invented 30 years before Babbage's Analytical Machine.
No... he meant $700 bucks, punk. Now pay up. We'll be back next week for the next payment.
It's good to be a Banksta, yo!
Thar she blows, ye scalleywag... doewn beluw deck she's spewin colder then the centre o' hell.
Mark me wards... there's trouble brewing... somethin strange and black. Beware, I say... beware!!!
Sounds like he grew up the day after he put the bottle down. Hopefully he doesn't miss his childhood later.
I'm sure we can find lots of examples either way... we can agree that those diesel engines were rotten though.
Otherwise they would have to provide free access to the framebuffer with hundreds of threads or cores.
I'm only just now starting out in CUDA development... but that is what the CUDA developers are aiming for next. Right now they're just allocating chunks of GPU memory for vectors/structs/etc.. but I'm fairly sure we'll get FB access in the near future.
That's because most of the auto companies simply tacked on diesel components to an existing gas engine back in the day.
Pathetic compression ratios doomed these engines, in addition to the poor quality of the components utilized.
Uhm... but the difference between 30 mpg and 50 mpg easily makes up the difference in fuel costs... I owned a VM tdi and easily got 50 mpg on the highway.
Out of a thousand miles, you'd buy 20 gallons versus 33 gallons (assuming 30 mpg gas and 50 mpg diesel). The price difference (even using the inaccurate figure of $1.50 more per gallon means you save about $10 dollars. For a more reasonable 5% difference in price, means you save about $35 per 1000 miles total.
Anyway, I'm sure you can find plenty situations in which the diesel looses... but for the average consumer a diesel car will be cheaper to operate... it certainly was in my case.
Now someone needs to sell a diesel minivan... parents are the most cost-conscience group I know.
During the celebrations last night it was said to be sometime in the next few weeks
It was fascinating and exciting - a huge amount of clapping and nerd hopping.
My biggest problem was the number of people who kept turning their cams/mics on during the teleconference.
LHC has all the latest safety systems... in the event of an actual black hole or strangelet event...
they simply full the lever and hit the button!!
It says.. "Black Hole/Stranglet CRASH button - In case of imminent world destruction, break glass and press CMS ABORT button"
(Yes, that's really in the LHC control room LOL)
No... think of two cars going near the speed of light... :-P
"Stupid profits" doesn't even begin to describe the heap of cash that American telecom companies make.
AT&T recently (2008, 2nd quarter) pulled in 30 Billion in revenue, with a "tax cooked" 3.7 billion profit.
And let me tell you - they're not spending 30 billion for three months of people, trucks, and wire.
Australia gets the shaft because they have to peer with THESE SAME COMPANIES... Apparently someone in Australia wizened up over there and many companies are now building a cable directly to the USA - so they can negotiate their own agreements. The build cost is fixed and the bandwidth can be bought in the US at competitive prices.
What more is there to find - other than faster and cheaper cracking machines? It's not being worked on at the moment, IIRC.
Yeah, but if the choice is Biden's boot-to-the-head or singing "I'm going to let it shine..." then I'd take the damn song.
McCain's choice is almost surreal - it's totally calculated and I'm sure someone on both sides with a lot of statistics experience and Matlab was up late one night running numbers.
Hey Slashdot - how about getting an interview with one of THOSE guys - the ones running candidate probabilities on beowulf clusters??
Hell - you could put the sharks IN the computer!! How fun!
If you really need the FLOPS - you'd do it too. I'm working on a project now that requires 9k of custom hardware acceleration. I'm already spec'ing the next gen product to run on a $100 video card in the next year or two.
I really doubt I would spec this product... though... it looks like a great addition to some evil genius collection though! Would look nice next to the sharks-n-lasers tank!!
Nope - Enron is not the same thing at all. Purposefully misleading customers and investors, hiding money & business dealings, and cooking the books are not the same thing.
I have worked at 4 different startup companies and I can say without a doubt that unless you've got GOBS of money, five years head start, and amazing brains - DON'T introduce rigid software engineering until after you ship product - and then only slowly. Or if you feel the need to do so - spit your team into research & product teams. That way you can have something to follow your launch that doesn't blow up in a reasonable amount of time.
The problem is that the market won't wait for you. I know it's not fair - but there's plenty of dudes with a "Cobol for Dummies" in their lap beating you to the market. And if that product is good enough then you loose. No matter how good, fast, stable and clean your code is.
There is a window of opportunity for every product - and once it passes you're stuck with dead weight.
I think a main reason homeschooling is so attractive to many people is because this gives them the ability to do exactly this: raise their kids with a restricted information set so the kids will be much less likely to make choices the parents don't like.
Aren't ALL children raised this way? I mean - I haven't seen many books called "Johnny goes to Dahlmer's for dinner."
The fact is that many - if not most parents try to put off exposure to violence, sexualization, and dirty language as long as possible. With the sludge-pool of modern communication (internet, TV, radio, press) and the spineless education system we have built - I have a great admiration for those who choose homeschooling.
I worry about homeschoolers that never introduce these things to their kids, though. It's one thing to decide when and where to expose them to the world - it's an entirely different (and wrong) approach to hide them from the world. At some point they need to be able to deal with these issues - they're part of human nature and have been for millennia.
Well, roughly 12 years ago I was in the data archiving business, and I remember that NASA generated 1.2TB of space data per day. This doesn't include engineering, life sciences, analyzers, contractors, etc... I can only imagine that this has risen astronomically (hahaha) in these last few years.
I've ready recently that NASA aims to keep about 40 petabytes of recent data online & nearline. If you put it all together, I'm fairly sure that "tons" is probably an apt measure - most certainly if we're talking drives, tapes, storage, and machines.
And if you don't believe me... then just google "ton of data" site:nasa.gov They confirm my suspicions!!
Thanks for the info. I happen to enjoy the light space coverage myself - I don't have the time to watch the missions, and there is literally tons of info generated by NASA per day.
Well, I do cross development between Linux, (some) Mac, and Windows - and there is virtually zero demand (percentage wise) for Vista in the enterprise software space.
I think the things that drive people from Vista are:
1. Too many versions... you feel cheated getting the "low end" version on a nice new box.
2. Driver support - slowly getting fixed here, but for a long time things just "didn't work". Like my Printer, Scanner, and Monitor. Or, if they did work - they worked at a reduced functionality, were buggy, or didn't give the same "feel" as before.
3. It was late, it was rushed, all the reviews complained of problems people aren't going to pay to deal with.
The thing is this - people are happy because their setup WORKS. You sit down, you print. You write. You blog. You watch a movie. You game. It works.
Trust me - this counts for a lot. I've bought Mac for the past year for this very reason... it works. It may not be the best, or the fastest, or feature filled - but damn if I can't just sit down and do what I want, without pain.
I felt originally that Vista came with restrictions, lack of drivers, new interfaces, and DOESN"T JUST WORK. It was a total non-sale.
I feel that Vista has probably surpassed most of these issues in the past few months now - but the label sticks regardless.
Hell, Microsoft could probably slap a Vista 2009 sticker over the box and do a lot better.
You forgot to mention the big Java one - where all memory on the heap is allocated executable and class libraries are "speed loaded" through a memmap to a disk file.
This, combined with the javascript heap spray, should most certainly work, IMHO, on Firefox, and likely Linux as well.
The stated problem is that plugins have a lot of control over memory (even if only statistically probably).
And still provides no proof whatsoever.
The current copyright law is:
*Everything you create is owned by you. Publishing it on paper, online, or some public place largely grants you the rights to it. If you don't publish it - you'd better be very careful and gather NDA's as you go.
*If someone else has a registered copyright - that trumps your ownership.
The internet we use today is totally different from 1969 (or 1981, or 1991). The internet evolves Darwin style already. Who uses DecNET or Banyan Vines? How about uunet, gated, gopher, or telnet?
It's gone, baby, gone.
Hell - we're having enough trouble replacing a simply-ass DNS server... who can imagine a peaceful replacement of entire the Internet (other than power-hungry numbnuts?)
Adenosine triphosphate, of course!!