Can't think of a running example but what about an animal that has evolved to be flat as possible for camouflage reasons? The Horned Lizard comes to mind. That thing just looks like it could glide if you threw it but it never evolved that shape by gliding.
It's ~AU$80 for the 100/10 plan. They just listed the slowest and most limited plan in the article for some reason. And paying about 3 times more for things is unfortunately common in Australia.
Considering it was performed on earth they simply went faster than the speed of light in a given gravity well (namely earths gravity well). (Note: Speed of light "In a given medium" isn't as applicable as neutrino waveforms aren't refracted like light is in water for example. When people say speed of light in water is 75% of the speed of light in a vacuum this isn't really due to photons slowing down, it's just due to water messing with the waveform of light. Which isn't really applicable to neutrinos which pass through things more readily, nor is it indicative of any universal speed limit. It's simply light refracting in certain mediums.)
So anyway they went faster than expected in Earths gravity well.
Which still raises a rather simple explanation similar to what you were getting at. They shot neutrinos through a part of the earth that was somewhat hollow (lowering the local gravity field and raising the apparent speed to an outside observer).
Well of course the Android doesn't have an NX client. It doesn't even use the X Windows system. It uses a custom, single purpose Java based Windowing system. Hell, it doesn't even have a full set of GNU libraries. Way to make porting a bitch. Googles determination to butcher the standard Linux way of doing things is pretty obvious. I mean what's this "Jailbreaking Android phones" I keep hearing about? Why would a supposedly completely open phone need to be jailbroken? Try searching "Jailbreaking N900". What's your first result? "How to use the N900 to jailbreak a PS3".
Security questions are only meant to enable a password reminder to a known email address. The only reason they even bother having any question at that stage is so that random 3rd parties don't spam you password reminders to your email account.
It's actually something Slashdot doesn't have. Third parties on Slashdot can spam you password reminders due to the lack of a simple security question.
I know a ton of people who got hit by that in the 90's. It would usually hide in the system BIOS but it also was capable of hiding in the firmware of CD drives. Yamaha CD-ROM drives were vulnerable and in fact were shipped from the factory with the virus lurking in the drives firmware.
The allocation/deallocation advantages that GC languages have can be given to C++ through techniques such as memory pools.
It's actually something seen on the all too common "hey this code is faster in Java than C++" examples that you see from time to time. They will be allocating and de-allocating many small objects. Without using a memory pool the C++ code will be slower whilst the Java program which internally uses a memory pool through its garbage collector will be faster. Of course, if you use a memory pool in C++ you get the benefits the GC language has.
It's pretty much what this Google test shows. If you write C++ with optimisation techniques it will be quicker. There really isn't be any scenario where GC languages have a performance advantage unless you haven't optimised properly. After all the Java VMs that execute Java Bytecode such as Hotspot are themselves written in C or C++. You could simply copy their optimisation in your C++ code and be equal in the worst case.
Whether or not the extra hassle of writing in optimised C++ rather than a garbage collected language is worth it is a different matter entirely though. I'm just pointing out that a GC language should never be faster than optimised C or C++. Google's test demonstrates that.
You're are correct, SSDs don't have any issues with read/write cycles. But this following line is hilarious;
put your page file on a RAM drive
Think about it. You're talking about creating a virtual hard drive using RAM which is used to store page files that you don't want in RAM.
Just turn your page files off altogether. In this scenario there's no disadvantage to doing so. The total available RAM (real+page file) will be the same either way and you save yourself from going through a completely pointless layer of indirection.
I think with true CPU integration you wouldn't even have the kernels. You'd be branching and looping on the CPU and then calling the individual GPU instructions right then and there. I mean sure, the kernels cut down on CPU to GPU traffic but the kernels themselves wouldn't need to exist if it weren't for the need to cut down on CPU to GPU traffic.
As for synergy, totally agreed. I see the Cell as a decent attempt to get there. A few more SPEs and it might have been able to match the throughput of a GPU.
One day I'll have my dream CPU. It'll do branching like an x86 and I'll be crunching through arrays in a single cycle:)
That's a good point although they are currently doing fusion as a shared memory architecture anyway. So they aren't really targeting the high end which is what needs more than your typical dual-channel DDR3 bandwidth.
What about merging the instruction sets of the GPU and CPU?
I understand that the GPU part will still need its own registers but I see no reason that the instruction sets can't be merged. Meaning the GPU and CPU share cache and doing a graphics type operation on some piece of data is just a CPU instruction away (as opposed to an interrupt+bus transaction).
Yeah, there really isn't much different in the 400 and 500 series. I think this list shows it the best - Link
eg. The GT530 is the GT430. Not just like it, it is the same card. Futher down the list in the mobile series the 540M is the 435M just clocked a bit higher. etc. It's pretty much the same for the entire 500 series range. It's internally the same as the 400 series. Minor improvements if any.
What interesting is that often the same 500 series card has a higher sub-model number than the equivalent 400 series edition. So you might think the 540M would be miles ahead of the 435M but in reality there's not much difference at all.
In all seriousness yes, we need some more violent games here. Letting off steam by playing some Mortal Kombat would be great.
Unfortunately we can't do that here in Australia as that game, along with many others has been banned by censors who have played the game and determined that anyone who plays it will become insane (I guess they might have a point in a way).
I was thinking the exact opposite. The game is too simple. There are just variations on combat missions to perform. There's no option to protect Somalian fisheries from the foreign trawlers that have taken advantage of the lack of government. There's no option to investigate foreign vessels dumping toxic materials in Somali waters.
Basically the game has no way to long term plan. Instead it's all about finding ways to "kill em faster than they can be made". An approach that's never worked.
The "hahaha communism has never worked so we shouldn't even consider adopting communist features" attitude is stupid. Pure capitalism would also be a complete failure (if it ever existed), that doesn't mean you shouldn't adopt capitalist features to your government.
Adopting parts of communism and the parts of capitalism works. It creates societies with extremely high living standards. The highest in the world as a matter of fact.
So yes, pure communism is a failure. Pure capitalism is also a failure. But a country with communist and capitalist elements to it rocks. We get the American style system but if we fail to succeed in the capitalist system there's this safety net of a communist style system.
A dose of 5 rem will be accumulated in the first 17 years of life and about 25 rem in a lifetime of 80 years. ...
So in 5 hours or so in the suppression chanmber you would get a years dose of radiation. Mind you, it would be worse in the reaction zone of a coal-fired power station.
5 hours would get you 17 years of radiation as per your own post. Where'd you get one year from?
If you hate region locking you made the right move. The region locking of Starcraft 2 takes it to insane levels. eg. If you make a map using the in-built editor you can only upload it to your region!
So those of us in the more obscure regions simply aren't allowed to play the custom maps made by people in other regions.
So far in this thread it seems to be all negative but i have to say i love Wikipedia. Whenever i want to quickly find something out about a topic i'll go to the Wikipedia page first. Sure i'll need to take everything with a grain of salt and follow it up further but in general the articles are a great introduction to any topic.
They are clearly doing something right. Perhaps many of these people claiming things along the lines "arrogant bastards reverted my edits. I know better than them! I'm an academic!" are themselves the arrogant bastards?
All i can say is that Wikipedia works. I personally would never have contributed if contributions weren't easy to make. So to add barriers that force people to show academic credentials (which i do have mind you) would simply discourage people from adding to articles that clearly need some help.
That article certainly you linked to doesn't say this isn't so. It doesn't say there isn't 1,000mSv/h of radiation in certain regions of the reactor. In fact it really says nothing at all that's relevant to this slashdot submission.
The article linked to in this slashdot submission states there's 1,000mS/h being experienced in areas right next to the reactor, it provides sources. It goes on to state "It's not going to be anything like Chernobyl". It seems matter of fact. The quotes and statements in the article actually come from "Richard Lahey, who was head of safety research for boiling-water reactors at General Electric when the company installed the units at Fukushima". I don't see the hysteria here.
I'm seeing so much propaganda and to be honest it's equally bad. Sure Greenpeace guys can be dicks about nuclear power. We all know that. But there's a certain element here who are being equal and opposite dicks. They don't cancel each other out either. We just get tons of dicks.
I imagine he got the point of the book. The movie is better because, whether intentionally or not, it completely turned Heinlein's message on its head by taking it to such a ridiculous extreme it became satire.
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Can't think of a running example but what about an animal that has evolved to be flat as possible for camouflage reasons? The Horned Lizard comes to mind. That thing just looks like it could glide if you threw it but it never evolved that shape by gliding.
You could just rent such a server in this day and age. An Amazon quadruple extra large instance should do the job. $2 an hour.
It's ~AU$80 for the 100/10 plan. They just listed the slowest and most limited plan in the article for some reason. And paying about 3 times more for things is unfortunately common in Australia.
$20 a kilo for bannanas anyone?
Considering it was performed on earth they simply went faster than the speed of light in a given gravity well (namely earths gravity well). (Note: Speed of light "In a given medium" isn't as applicable as neutrino waveforms aren't refracted like light is in water for example. When people say speed of light in water is 75% of the speed of light in a vacuum this isn't really due to photons slowing down, it's just due to water messing with the waveform of light. Which isn't really applicable to neutrinos which pass through things more readily, nor is it indicative of any universal speed limit. It's simply light refracting in certain mediums.)
So anyway they went faster than expected in Earths gravity well.
Which still raises a rather simple explanation similar to what you were getting at. They shot neutrinos through a part of the earth that was somewhat hollow (lowering the local gravity field and raising the apparent speed to an outside observer).
Plenty of Android phones have to be jailbroken. Here's the first Google result for android jailbreaking. A complex set of tutorials to get root access on Android.
The N900 has root access out of the box. Here's the first Google result for N900 jailbreaking. A tutorial on how to use the N900 to jailbreak other devices.
Well of course the Android doesn't have an NX client. It doesn't even use the X Windows system. It uses a custom, single purpose Java based Windowing system. Hell, it doesn't even have a full set of GNU libraries. Way to make porting a bitch. Googles determination to butcher the standard Linux way of doing things is pretty obvious. I mean what's this "Jailbreaking Android phones" I keep hearing about? Why would a supposedly completely open phone need to be jailbroken? Try searching "Jailbreaking N900". What's your first result? "How to use the N900 to jailbreak a PS3".
Fuck Android. Long live the N900!
Security questions are only meant to enable a password reminder to a known email address. The only reason they even bother having any question at that stage is so that random 3rd parties don't spam you password reminders to your email account.
It's actually something Slashdot doesn't have. Third parties on Slashdot can spam you password reminders due to the lack of a simple security question.
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News Corp was already pushing this storey as if they are victims, I see no good from actually giving them something to claim victimisation over.
So he can create a credit card skimmer? That was my first thought anyway.
You've never heard of CIH then?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_(computer_virus)
I know a ton of people who got hit by that in the 90's. It would usually hide in the system BIOS but it also was capable of hiding in the firmware of CD drives. Yamaha CD-ROM drives were vulnerable and in fact were shipped from the factory with the virus lurking in the drives firmware.
The allocation/deallocation advantages that GC languages have can be given to C++ through techniques such as memory pools.
It's actually something seen on the all too common "hey this code is faster in Java than C++" examples that you see from time to time. They will be allocating and de-allocating many small objects. Without using a memory pool the C++ code will be slower whilst the Java program which internally uses a memory pool through its garbage collector will be faster. Of course, if you use a memory pool in C++ you get the benefits the GC language has.
It's pretty much what this Google test shows. If you write C++ with optimisation techniques it will be quicker. There really isn't be any scenario where GC languages have a performance advantage unless you haven't optimised properly. After all the Java VMs that execute Java Bytecode such as Hotspot are themselves written in C or C++. You could simply copy their optimisation in your C++ code and be equal in the worst case.
Whether or not the extra hassle of writing in optimised C++ rather than a garbage collected language is worth it is a different matter entirely though. I'm just pointing out that a GC language should never be faster than optimised C or C++. Google's test demonstrates that.
The N900 has top. Nobody bought it.
You're are correct, SSDs don't have any issues with read/write cycles. But this following line is hilarious;
put your page file on a RAM drive
Think about it. You're talking about creating a virtual hard drive using RAM which is used to store page files that you don't want in RAM.
Just turn your page files off altogether. In this scenario there's no disadvantage to doing so. The total available RAM (real+page file) will be the same either way and you save yourself from going through a completely pointless layer of indirection.
I think with true CPU integration you wouldn't even have the kernels. You'd be branching and looping on the CPU and then calling the individual GPU instructions right then and there. I mean sure, the kernels cut down on CPU to GPU traffic but the kernels themselves wouldn't need to exist if it weren't for the need to cut down on CPU to GPU traffic.
As for synergy, totally agreed. I see the Cell as a decent attempt to get there. A few more SPEs and it might have been able to match the throughput of a GPU.
One day I'll have my dream CPU. It'll do branching like an x86 and I'll be crunching through arrays in a single cycle :)
That's a good point although they are currently doing fusion as a shared memory architecture anyway. So they aren't really targeting the high end which is what needs more than your typical dual-channel DDR3 bandwidth.
What about merging the instruction sets of the GPU and CPU?
I understand that the GPU part will still need its own registers but I see no reason that the instruction sets can't be merged. Meaning the GPU and CPU share cache and doing a graphics type operation on some piece of data is just a CPU instruction away (as opposed to an interrupt+bus transaction).
Yeah, there really isn't much different in the 400 and 500 series. I think this list shows it the best - Link
eg. The GT530 is the GT430. Not just like it, it is the same card. Futher down the list in the mobile series the 540M is the 435M just clocked a bit higher. etc. It's pretty much the same for the entire 500 series range. It's internally the same as the 400 series. Minor improvements if any.
What interesting is that often the same 500 series card has a higher sub-model number than the equivalent 400 series edition. So you might think the 540M would be miles ahead of the 435M but in reality there's not much difference at all.
In all seriousness yes, we need some more violent games here. Letting off steam by playing some Mortal Kombat would be great.
Unfortunately we can't do that here in Australia as that game, along with many others has been banned by censors who have played the game and determined that anyone who plays it will become insane (I guess they might have a point in a way).
I was thinking the exact opposite. The game is too simple. There are just variations on combat missions to perform. There's no option to protect Somalian fisheries from the foreign trawlers that have taken advantage of the lack of government. There's no option to investigate foreign vessels dumping toxic materials in Somali waters.
Basically the game has no way to long term plan. Instead it's all about finding ways to "kill em faster than they can be made". An approach that's never worked.
The "hahaha communism has never worked so we shouldn't even consider adopting communist features" attitude is stupid. Pure capitalism would also be a complete failure (if it ever existed), that doesn't mean you shouldn't adopt capitalist features to your government.
Adopting parts of communism and the parts of capitalism works. It creates societies with extremely high living standards. The highest in the world as a matter of fact.
I live in a country with such a mix of communist and capitalist features. Nationalised health care, nationalised education, government assigned jobs for those who can't get a job otherwise, communist style housing for the less fortunate and soon a new nationalised broadband network all running alongside the capitalist parts of the economy. The current party in government here, the Australia Labor party, is a member of the socialist international movement> . A movement which is in power in Australia and Norway. Nations that rate higher on standard of living charts that the un-socialist USA.
So yes, pure communism is a failure. Pure capitalism is also a failure. But a country with communist and capitalist elements to it rocks. We get the American style system but if we fail to succeed in the capitalist system there's this safety net of a communist style system.
A dose of 5 rem will be accumulated in the first 17 years of life and about 25 rem in a lifetime of 80 years.
...
So in 5 hours or so in the suppression chanmber you would get a years dose of radiation. Mind you, it would be worse in the reaction zone of a coal-fired power station.
5 hours would get you 17 years of radiation as per your own post. Where'd you get one year from?
If you hate region locking you made the right move. The region locking of Starcraft 2 takes it to insane levels. eg. If you make a map using the in-built editor you can only upload it to your region!
So those of us in the more obscure regions simply aren't allowed to play the custom maps made by people in other regions.
So far in this thread it seems to be all negative but i have to say i love Wikipedia. Whenever i want to quickly find something out about a topic i'll go to the Wikipedia page first. Sure i'll need to take everything with a grain of salt and follow it up further but in general the articles are a great introduction to any topic.
They are clearly doing something right. Perhaps many of these people claiming things along the lines "arrogant bastards reverted my edits. I know better than them! I'm an academic!" are themselves the arrogant bastards?
All i can say is that Wikipedia works. I personally would never have contributed if contributions weren't easy to make. So to add barriers that force people to show academic credentials (which i do have mind you) would simply discourage people from adding to articles that clearly need some help.
That article certainly you linked to doesn't say this isn't so. It doesn't say there isn't 1,000mSv/h of radiation in certain regions of the reactor. In fact it really says nothing at all that's relevant to this slashdot submission.
The article linked to in this slashdot submission states there's 1,000mS/h being experienced in areas right next to the reactor, it provides sources. It goes on to state "It's not going to be anything like Chernobyl". It seems matter of fact. The quotes and statements in the article actually come from "Richard Lahey, who was head of safety research for boiling-water reactors at General Electric when the company installed the units at Fukushima". I don't see the hysteria here.
I'm seeing so much propaganda and to be honest it's equally bad. Sure Greenpeace guys can be dicks about nuclear power. We all know that. But there's a certain element here who are being equal and opposite dicks. They don't cancel each other out either. We just get tons of dicks.
I imagine he got the point of the book. The movie is better because, whether intentionally or not, it completely turned Heinlein's message on its head by taking it to such a ridiculous extreme it became satire.