If you ever read the LLVM/Clang Dev Lists you'd know they are releasing the stack for their Linux Community Drivers with OpenCL 1.x full support. They are cleaning up the code and the dump will soon begin.
WiFi isn't everywhere. But it's at a hell of a lot more places than ethernet. Last time I used ethernet was 2009.
Are you saying that Laptop should be held up thickness wise, at the point where the body can accomodate an RJ45?
The minority of people that are still ufing ethernet for laptops need to carry an ethernet cable with them anyway. It's no hardship to them to take a cable with a dongle in instead. Meanwhile the majority who use WiFi now get a better laptop.
2009? Then you must not work for any Corporation in the Globe.
I'll take an ethernet dongle and smile if it's attached to a 15.4" laptop with a 2880x1800 screen.
I won't. I'd have bought one if they kept the former thickness, included upgrade options to AMD 7770M and 32GB of RAM with an HDD, instead of just a damn SSD drive only, not GigE and a heat dissipation ceiling limited Nvidia 650M.
What? That's patently absurd. It may be available at the office or at home, but anywhere else you're at least as likely to have wireless, and in many, many places, it's your only option.
The hotel I stayed at last week only had wireless.
The restaurants I ate at had only wireless.
My local coffee shop only has wireless.
Remember, the common image of the Apple user is of the screenplay writer sitting at Starbucks. Ethernet does no good in that scenario.
Most work on a laptop is done at work or at a home office, not sipping overpriced coffee chatting with friends remotely at some other coffee shop while you look cute around a bunch of strangers in the coffee shop you currently occupy. It was a bad design trade off that cut off GigE and better GPGPU options. Ivy needs to be reigned in.
Seems like a reasonable thing to want in a laptop. If I wanted a machine that did everything at any cost.. I'd get a desktop.
Lift a dumbell larger than 10lbs. Do it routinely and you'll discover the previous version of the Macbook Pro was highly portable. They have now reached their theoretical thin limits and it's a waste of time.
The physical parts may cost less to put the NIC on the motherboard, but in something as space-tight as the MacBook Pro, the space savings probably outweigh it.
This is where Ivy's design pisses me off. The previous revision was think enough and light enough an 8 year could carry around and not whine about the weight. To scale it down even more is nothing more than bragging rights in the form of mental masturbation. I don't give 2 shits that this laptop got thinner. It was already thin enough without compromising on GPGPU options. They couldn't put in high end options because of heat dissipation issues, but Ivy got his razor thin look. Wee ha!
He's an amazing programmer that has done more than his fare share of contributing to the world of computer graphics. In a world where everyone is fighting tooth and nail trying to enforce copyrights and patents, he simply released the full source codes to the programs he wrote. That is altruism at its best and for that he is on the very top of my list of awesome programmers.
What the hell are you babbling about? He's not Ed Catmull or dozens of other brilliant mathematicians, engineers, etc., who have extend theoretical Computer Graphics and GPU/GPGPU designs to make John's games more bit depth, and photorealistic shaders, etc. He's not writing the OpenGL Spec or OpenCL, or contributing to programming languages new features getting approved.
What has he actually brought to the World of Computer Graphics, other than demand improvements in OpenGL and DirectX for him to leverage?
Seriously, every time I hear what Carmack is up to Im never disappointed. I hope to emulate his productivity one day. Also with respect to VR, I wish him luck. VR has always been a bitch and I doubt it'll be easy. Though he could potentially push id toward devqeloping VR for the military and thus keeping id above water.
Outside of Computer Games, please list all these successes. John has money to waste so it seems.
Blue Origin and their SSTO nonsense should have never received a dime of public money to begin with.
So you think the DC-X program was a terrible waste of tax dollars? Why are you upset that a private company without tax dollars is furthering the research into that flight concept and propulsion system?
Furthermore, do you even have a clue what part of the CCDev program that Blue Origin is even doing, what their spacecraft actually is supposed to look like, or how it is going to get into orbit much less return to the Earth? If you did, you wouldn't have made such a stupid statement presuming something that wasn't even true.
*Hint* -- Blue Origin proposed to use the Lockheed-Martin Atlas V for the launch of its spacecraft under CCDev. They aren't even planning on flying their own hardware for the first stage or two.
Without tax payer dollars, from the beginning, Boeing, United Airlines, McDonnell Douglass, Lockheed Martin, etc., never exists. These ``leave it to private enterprise'' stalwarts seem to ignore history. Really big ideas require national support. Unless you have a company with the funding like Apple willing to fund billions nothing will evolve in space without the US Government.
It just works. No fuss. No insanity. Just panels and file managers and not a lot else that I don't care for. These monolithic desktop environments developed by mental patients are a bad thing!
I'm on Debian Sid and running GNOME 3.4.2 and KDE 4.8.3 officially released from Debian.
Science is all about a systematic way to study testable things and make predictions about them, so a definitely untestable idea isn't a scientific theory. It might be a hypothesis, or an interpretation, or any number of other things, but it is not a theory.
An example of something that is not scientific at all is this: "The Flying Spaghetti Monster created everything instantaneously 10 minutes ago, including all evidence of things before and all your memories." Whether or not it is true, it is completely untestable and science will therefore say nothing about it.
Untested and untestable are two entirely different concepts. Untested implied we can test it and have to do so. Untestable implies we are presently incapable of testing the idea.
Wait, when was this? I've been here since 99. From day one it was sensationalist stories about Microsoft, verbal fellatio for Linux and Mozilla, and people falling into a big dog-pile to make the first "this is not news!!!" comment.
Either I missed a very very brief period in Slashdot's history or somebody's looking back with rose-colored glasses.
You'd be surprised how much/. decayed from its inception in 1997 to 1999.
To hear about a young man on a path to providing joy and happiness to millions, only to lose his way and become a business executive. Where did we fail you Steve. You clearly had the potential. Antisocial, poor hygiene, you had all the traits of a budding young geek. Then somewhere a terrible turn south. Perhaps we'll never know.
Every one of those bohemians from his early days all became wealthy, yet he was one of the only ones who actually lived as minimal a lifestyle as possible with all of his wealth. Steve was all about cutting edge style even when he was managing an Apple orchard for a hedonist later turned Copper Mogul and Conservative dick head, while up in Oregon.
Steve JOBS came up with the Apple II? I don't think so.
Steve Wozniak is on record stating that Steve designed the layout of everything on the Apple II down to how to layout the ICs. Wozniak could have cared less but saw the merit in Steve's constant design critique to make things organized, minimalistic and right down to the look of the inside of cases not to be nothing but some piece of crap sheet metal cover, ala today's typical PC Clone shell.
It's real simple: You won't get authorization for launch in any air space and it's easy to get the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch to shut it down.
Seeing as an ideal Carnot Cyle is 50% theoretical this claim of 50% is just a typical 50% increase over a currently 17-22% efficient engine. It's not that impressive. The fact they haven't married a composite block with the heat capacity of ceramics without it's brittle nature to double or triple the heat internally to more efficiently use the fuel dumped is more a business decision than an engineering decision. They've demonstrated since the 1990 DoE Challenge of producing 90+ mpg engine designs and not one of them has ever come to market because they legally aren't required to do so.
...because if HP instead had a liberal democrat for a CEO, they would suddenly once again become a vibrant, thriving company due to having no shame to tap into an endless supply of government money just like GM.
Works for Apple. Yes, Steve Jobs was a staunch Liberal. So is Steve Wozniak. Besides Eisenhower [who taxed corporations and the wealthy in high numbers] not a single Republican President has ever balanced the budget once. But in reality, HP cannot find Hewlett or Packard with their technical prowess and ability to find skill to rebuild HP in its current form. HP is better of breaking up into several corporations and selling off some of the units, fire all the MBA hats making decisions and take 18 months to rebuild and retool their direction with technical talent.
Mostly true, but critically what is lacking is the temperance the Founders placed in the Constitution and expected guidance of this through the Amendent process for they realized that Man's ability to evolve technologically would far exceed any fantasies they imagined and therefore the idea we can arm ourselves like Transformers which nut jobs proclaim is their right would most certainly have never been implied from the Founders. The right to bear arms, first and foremost was a means to allow the citizenry the right to provide food on the table, to protect against trespassers on their land and person; and finally to come to a call for duty with arms ready because the Founders could have never foreseen modern society and it's economic systems so never imagined governments there to protect 300 million plus citizens.
Look at AMDs client roadmap for 2012 and 2013. Did you see the recent Trinity benchmarks? Sucky CPU, decent GPU. Well look at the roadmap, those Piledriver cores are all you're going to get in AMDs "high-end" all the way through 2013. I'm sure you'll get more power in a cell phone or tablet format, but if you just want CPU power and don't care that it burns 100W because it's plugged to the wall then the future is mostly depressing. To use a car analogy, lower MPGs are great but it's not exactly what's going to get cheers from the Top Gear crowd. Sure a good soccer mom car sells and it's the same for CPUs, but they don't excite anybody.
You write like a clueless shill. More and more consumer software will be leveraging the design of once Bulldozer, now replaced by Piledriver which is much improved. Even the FOSS world has a lead on the Windows world when it comes to Concurreny Development. LLVM/Clang/Libc++/Compiler-RT/LLDB/Libclc and more are being optimized with target hardware from AMD, ARM, Nvidia, Intel and much more to take advantage of their various design tradeoffs. AMD bit the bullet and in the next 12 months it will heavily pay off. More and more of those tests are useless as applications work to task both the multicore CPUs and the Streams/Cores on GPGPUs from AMD, Nvidia and ImgTec. GCN architecture from AMD will be releasing it's 8000 series shortly and once again leap frog Nvidia, but will come with OpenCL 2.0 support and fully optimized. It's just up to user space apps to work with AMD ala Adobe, GIMP, Blender and Handbrake to leverage it all.
Woz is pretty much a failure as a business owner. Yes, he's an engineering titan, a legend even, but why he should be taken seriously in a domain where he has an awful track record is beyond me.
Kinda like the Greek government asking Mario Batalli for financial advice...
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I suppose you're not into OpenCL, right?
Here are two successful examples: Clang and OpenCL.
If you ever read the LLVM/Clang Dev Lists you'd know they are releasing the stack for their Linux Community Drivers with OpenCL 1.x full support. They are cleaning up the code and the dump will soon begin.
Sounds like a console chip to me.
We have a winner!!!!
WiFi isn't everywhere. But it's at a hell of a lot more places than ethernet. Last time I used ethernet was 2009.
Are you saying that Laptop should be held up thickness wise, at the point where the body can accomodate an RJ45?
The minority of people that are still ufing ethernet for laptops need to carry an ethernet cable with them anyway. It's no hardship to them to take a cable with a dongle in instead. Meanwhile the majority who use WiFi now get a better laptop.
2009? Then you must not work for any Corporation in the Globe.
I'll take an ethernet dongle and smile if it's attached to a 15.4" laptop with a 2880x1800 screen.
I won't. I'd have bought one if they kept the former thickness, included upgrade options to AMD 7770M and 32GB of RAM with an HDD, instead of just a damn SSD drive only, not GigE and a heat dissipation ceiling limited Nvidia 650M.
Ethernet is ubiquitous!
What? That's patently absurd. It may be available at the office or at home, but anywhere else you're at least as likely to have wireless, and in many, many places, it's your only option.
The hotel I stayed at last week only had wireless.
The restaurants I ate at had only wireless.
My local coffee shop only has wireless.
Remember, the common image of the Apple user is of the screenplay writer sitting at Starbucks. Ethernet does no good in that scenario.
Most work on a laptop is done at work or at a home office, not sipping overpriced coffee chatting with friends remotely at some other coffee shop while you look cute around a bunch of strangers in the coffee shop you currently occupy. It was a bad design trade off that cut off GigE and better GPGPU options. Ivy needs to be reigned in.
Thinner => Lighter / Smaller => More portable
Seems like a reasonable thing to want in a laptop. If I wanted a machine that did everything at any cost.. I'd get a desktop.
Lift a dumbell larger than 10lbs. Do it routinely and you'll discover the previous version of the Macbook Pro was highly portable. They have now reached their theoretical thin limits and it's a waste of time.
The physical parts may cost less to put the NIC on the motherboard, but in something as space-tight as the MacBook Pro, the space savings probably outweigh it.
This is where Ivy's design pisses me off. The previous revision was think enough and light enough an 8 year could carry around and not whine about the weight. To scale it down even more is nothing more than bragging rights in the form of mental masturbation. I don't give 2 shits that this laptop got thinner. It was already thin enough without compromising on GPGPU options. They couldn't put in high end options because of heat dissipation issues, but Ivy got his razor thin look. Wee ha!
He's an amazing programmer that has done more than his fare share of contributing to the world of computer graphics. In a world where everyone is fighting tooth and nail trying to enforce copyrights and patents, he simply released the full source codes to the programs he wrote. That is altruism at its best and for that he is on the very top of my list of awesome programmers.
What the hell are you babbling about? He's not Ed Catmull or dozens of other brilliant mathematicians, engineers, etc., who have extend theoretical Computer Graphics and GPU/GPGPU designs to make John's games more bit depth, and photorealistic shaders, etc. He's not writing the OpenGL Spec or OpenCL, or contributing to programming languages new features getting approved.
What has he actually brought to the World of Computer Graphics, other than demand improvements in OpenGL and DirectX for him to leverage?
Seriously, every time I hear what Carmack is up to Im never disappointed. I hope to emulate his productivity one day. Also with respect to VR, I wish him luck. VR has always been a bitch and I doubt it'll be easy. Though he could potentially push id toward devqeloping VR for the military and thus keeping id above water.
Outside of Computer Games, please list all these successes. John has money to waste so it seems.
Blue Origin and their SSTO nonsense should have never received a dime of public money to begin with.
So you think the DC-X program was a terrible waste of tax dollars? Why are you upset that a private company without tax dollars is furthering the research into that flight concept and propulsion system?
Furthermore, do you even have a clue what part of the CCDev program that Blue Origin is even doing, what their spacecraft actually is supposed to look like, or how it is going to get into orbit much less return to the Earth? If you did, you wouldn't have made such a stupid statement presuming something that wasn't even true.
*Hint* -- Blue Origin proposed to use the Lockheed-Martin Atlas V for the launch of its spacecraft under CCDev. They aren't even planning on flying their own hardware for the first stage or two.
Without tax payer dollars, from the beginning, Boeing, United Airlines, McDonnell Douglass, Lockheed Martin, etc., never exists. These ``leave it to private enterprise'' stalwarts seem to ignore history. Really big ideas require national support. Unless you have a company with the funding like Apple willing to fund billions nothing will evolve in space without the US Government.
It just works. No fuss. No insanity. Just panels and file managers and not a lot else that I don't care for. These monolithic desktop environments developed by mental patients are a bad thing!
I'm on Debian Sid and running GNOME 3.4.2 and KDE 4.8.3 officially released from Debian.
An untested idea isn't science?
Science is all about a systematic way to study testable things and make predictions about them, so a definitely untestable idea isn't a scientific theory. It might be a hypothesis, or an interpretation, or any number of other things, but it is not a theory.
An example of something that is not scientific at all is this: "The Flying Spaghetti Monster created everything instantaneously 10 minutes ago, including all evidence of things before and all your memories." Whether or not it is true, it is completely untestable and science will therefore say nothing about it.
Untested and untestable are two entirely different concepts. Untested implied we can test it and have to do so. Untestable implies we are presently incapable of testing the idea.
Help restore /. to it's former nerd news glory..
Wait, when was this? I've been here since 99. From day one it was sensationalist stories about Microsoft, verbal fellatio for Linux and Mozilla, and people falling into a big dog-pile to make the first "this is not news!!!" comment.
Either I missed a very very brief period in Slashdot's history or somebody's looking back with rose-colored glasses.
You'd be surprised how much /. decayed from its inception in 1997 to 1999.
To hear about a young man on a path to providing joy and happiness to millions, only to lose his way and become a business executive. Where did we fail you Steve. You clearly had the potential. Antisocial, poor hygiene, you had all the traits of a budding young geek. Then somewhere a terrible turn south. Perhaps we'll never know.
Every one of those bohemians from his early days all became wealthy, yet he was one of the only ones who actually lived as minimal a lifestyle as possible with all of his wealth. Steve was all about cutting edge style even when he was managing an Apple orchard for a hedonist later turned Copper Mogul and Conservative dick head, while up in Oregon.
I'm going to be a billionaire!
Definitely not a writer.
Steve JOBS came up with the Apple II? I don't think so.
Steve Wozniak is on record stating that Steve designed the layout of everything on the Apple II down to how to layout the ICs. Wozniak could have cared less but saw the merit in Steve's constant design critique to make things organized, minimalistic and right down to the look of the inside of cases not to be nothing but some piece of crap sheet metal cover, ala today's typical PC Clone shell.
You gonna come up here and get us, NASA?
Yeah, I didn't THINK so.
It's real simple: You won't get authorization for launch in any air space and it's easy to get the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch to shut it down.
Git'em, Sammy!
Suck on it Sammy!
Seeing as an ideal Carnot Cyle is 50% theoretical this claim of 50% is just a typical 50% increase over a currently 17-22% efficient engine. It's not that impressive. The fact they haven't married a composite block with the heat capacity of ceramics without it's brittle nature to double or triple the heat internally to more efficiently use the fuel dumped is more a business decision than an engineering decision. They've demonstrated since the 1990 DoE Challenge of producing 90+ mpg engine designs and not one of them has ever come to market because they legally aren't required to do so.
...because if HP instead had a liberal democrat for a CEO, they would suddenly once again become a vibrant, thriving company due to having no shame to tap into an endless supply of government money just like GM.
Works for Apple. Yes, Steve Jobs was a staunch Liberal. So is Steve Wozniak. Besides Eisenhower [who taxed corporations and the wealthy in high numbers] not a single Republican President has ever balanced the budget once. But in reality, HP cannot find Hewlett or Packard with their technical prowess and ability to find skill to rebuild HP in its current form. HP is better of breaking up into several corporations and selling off some of the units, fire all the MBA hats making decisions and take 18 months to rebuild and retool their direction with technical talent.
Mostly true, but critically what is lacking is the temperance the Founders placed in the Constitution and expected guidance of this through the Amendent process for they realized that Man's ability to evolve technologically would far exceed any fantasies they imagined and therefore the idea we can arm ourselves like Transformers which nut jobs proclaim is their right would most certainly have never been implied from the Founders. The right to bear arms, first and foremost was a means to allow the citizenry the right to provide food on the table, to protect against trespassers on their land and person; and finally to come to a call for duty with arms ready because the Founders could have never foreseen modern society and it's economic systems so never imagined governments there to protect 300 million plus citizens.
Look at AMDs client roadmap for 2012 and 2013. Did you see the recent Trinity benchmarks? Sucky CPU, decent GPU. Well look at the roadmap, those Piledriver cores are all you're going to get in AMDs "high-end" all the way through 2013. I'm sure you'll get more power in a cell phone or tablet format, but if you just want CPU power and don't care that it burns 100W because it's plugged to the wall then the future is mostly depressing. To use a car analogy, lower MPGs are great but it's not exactly what's going to get cheers from the Top Gear crowd. Sure a good soccer mom car sells and it's the same for CPUs, but they don't excite anybody.
You write like a clueless shill. More and more consumer software will be leveraging the design of once Bulldozer, now replaced by Piledriver which is much improved. Even the FOSS world has a lead on the Windows world when it comes to Concurreny Development. LLVM/Clang/Libc++/Compiler-RT/LLDB/Libclc and more are being optimized with target hardware from AMD, ARM, Nvidia, Intel and much more to take advantage of their various design tradeoffs. AMD bit the bullet and in the next 12 months it will heavily pay off. More and more of those tests are useless as applications work to task both the multicore CPUs and the Streams/Cores on GPGPUs from AMD, Nvidia and ImgTec. GCN architecture from AMD will be releasing it's 8000 series shortly and once again leap frog Nvidia, but will come with OpenCL 2.0 support and fully optimized. It's just up to user space apps to work with AMD ala Adobe, GIMP, Blender and Handbrake to leverage it all.
Woz is pretty much a failure as a business owner. Yes, he's an engineering titan, a legend even, but why he should be taken seriously in a domain where he has an awful track record is beyond me.
Kinda like the Greek government asking Mario Batalli for financial advice...
Titan? You lavish too generously.