Well stated, but expect every ignoramous proclaiming a Ph.D in the US Constitution to proclaim Washington a traitor if it means the government is spying on their militia plans because we all know those who have the biggest bomb shelters during the Cold War era were typically the last person you'd want near you.
It seems clear that they're doing it to us non-Americans even more. While that might be no immediate problem to US representatives who only have their own electorates to worry about, the damage to the US reputation abroad has already started.
Already started? The US's reputation in the rest of the world has been taking considerable damage for years now. This recent stuff has certainly been doing a lot more damage, but their reputation being damaged isn't exactly a new development.
Horse shit. The US reputation has been considerably restored. What's taking damage is the fact that the entire G20 is spying on its citizenries because you a-hole terrorist factions, no matter where you are and your asinine religious zealotry abounds like to blow shit up and take innocent people with you as if that some how is going to stop any G20 nation from taking the one commodity you possess: Oil. I personally can't wait for Green Tech to take over. We can all move onward without having to spend trillions on fuel from people who can't stand us as much as we can't stand them. Perhaps then people can honestly come to peace accords and start to learn from one another, instead of wasting the patience of nations just to toot around town wherever they live.
``You truly appreciate object oriented code when you do GUI programming in a good Microsoft language.''
Tell the kid to learn ObjC/Cocoa. Then you will learn the notion of quality OOA/OOD and world-class OO Tools for UI design. Better yet, tell them to find a copy of NeXTSTEP, put it in a VM and dig for the old NeXT Dev Manuals.
The funny thing is, Hollywood may come to the conclusion that there is a direct relationship between how crappy a movie is and how well it does.
Although this is not a set-in-stone relationship (I'm looking at you, Jon Carter); the general rule of thumb is, the crapper a movie is, as determined by RottenTomatoes/MetaCritic, the worse it does over the long run.
And Pacific Rim, by the way, is NOT a flop, at least not yet. It's made $175 million, and it's budget was $180 million.
HTML 5 isn't driving embedded platforms. It's enabling a bridge between platforms when all you need is a two lane bridge. Platforms like iOSOS X are a four lane juggernaut with HTML 5 being the bridge to allow off-platform users a glimpse via iCloud. The iWorks suite added to iCloud is not as fast as native, nor will it ever be. But in a pinch, when you lack iOS and OS X you have that bridge. Apple will extend those hooks to allow one to access their ecosystem, in a sandbox, from anywhere with this HTML 5 set of standards. Then when you get into the Ecosystem you don't care to get out of it. Making you more productive while making the bumps in the road smooth is how Apple will win.
Try this case in California, Washington, NY, Oregon, or practically any non-southern State and the moment Zimmerman ignored Law Enforcement telling him not to persue what he considered a suspect and Zimmerman is in prison for 25 to life. Florida is about to see a complete gutting of many asinine laws by the DOJ and if you think Florida won't flip blue people who vote GOP are about to see how this self-described neighborhood watch will be a spear for 2014. Florida is always a clusterfuck in elections. This time it's going to be an angry mob dragging their friends to the polls to get change. The verdict was a pile of shit the moment it was read. The guy persued what he considered a suspect: He's not law enforcement. He's not authorized by the State to stalk anyone. He is a perpetrator who got off. He got away with murder.
I prefer a mission to Europa that includes a submarine to go into the water below the ice to take pics of the little fishies (if any). Yes, Europa is ****far more difficult**** than Mars. But a Mars sample would be cool, will provide excellent comparison to Martian meteoroids from Antartica. Now if we can also send somebody beyond LEO, then we can say (in the words of one of controllers at Houston MOCR after Apollo 8 TLI), "Finally we get to go someplace!"
I prefer building a base on the Moon, then Mars and then we can jump to Europa.
We just solved the Roman Concrete formula. One down. But seriously, Javascript by definition isn't concerned with tighly managed edge-cases and memory leaks by design. Those are left to the architect who is designing their code; and by that I mean modifying millions of pre-existing javascript code that is in itself often poorly optimized code.
I seriously doubt most CS majors today have to get knee deep into Assembly and C programming. Most programs opt for C++ and Java while leveraging their respective garbage collection designs. Hopefully, we see Universities and even High schools requiring C/C++/ObjC with LLVM/Clang/LLDB and Compiler-RT when learning their respective languages. I could give a rat's ass about Java.
And C is virtually unreadable to anyone brought up with Smalltalk and Ada, so what's your fucking point? It takes something like three days maximum to get used to prefix notation, so learn it if you want to use the tool, and get over with your irrational and insubstantial syntax preferences.
No one brought up with Smalltalk hasn't been brought up without C. Ada, perhaps, but then again anyone taught Ada was exposed to Fortran and most likely moved to C, which once again predates effing ADA and SMALLTALK. You were far better off with PASCAL as an example.
Really? The bulk of advertisement revenue for profits is coming from the embedded world, not Web Browsing. More to the point, whether this person likes it or not they don't control the design models of WebKit, Blink, etc. This will not kill advertising.
No you should not know basic programming upon exiting high school. You should be required to have taken up to Calculus II and Linear Algebra with Physics, Chemistry and Biology if you plan to go to a university and be in the applied sciences. Learning programming is far less important.
Apple has two major 20nm/14nm FinFET Fab giants to choose from without taking it in the rear from Intel, while dictating their designs. Sorry, but Intel will never get Apple's embedded space manufacturing.
If the refactor is done properly I don't think the OpenCL acceleration would be necessary. Heck, 1-2-3 running on a 486 was pretty speedy.
I'd love to tie in R/Octave and do Numerical Analysis with Calc, so that OpenCL would be very handy indeed, seeing as it uses the CPU/GPGPUs and any other processor/co-processor like DSPs.
Calc is based on object oriented design from 20 years ago when developers thought that a cell should be an object and that creates a huge number of problems around doing things efficiently.
The problem isn't that Calc is object-oriented but was designed such that many things depended on the spreadsheet cell.
OOA/OOD isn't the problem. It's the team of architects who came up with their design using OOA/OOD that is the problem. Lighthouse Design using NeXT's MVC paradigms had Quantrix and Parasheet, Diagram!, Tasmaster, Concurrence [precursor to Keynote] and more. Some of the architects are at Apple and have been working on iWorks.
Actually, the UI for Lotus Improv was quite nice and won some awards.
Its (spiritual) successor, Quantrix Financial Modeler seems to be selling well enough, even w/ a $1,495 price point.
I wish that Flexisheet (an opensource take on this sort of thing) would get more traction.
Correct and Improv was written specifically for NeXTSTEP which made it possible to do what it did. Improv fell apart and couldn't replicate the same MVC frameworks of ObjC/NeXTSTEP on Windows. Quantrix Financial Modeler was purchased and was also originally on NeXTSTEP. I used both at NeXT.
The lost GDP in Salmon exports outweighs the Power exports in Washington State: Grand Coulee's primarily provides power to the US Government facilities, not anyone in Washington State. It also provides power to Arizona. People buy power from Bonneville Power in Washington State. The return of proper salmon runs will currently add > $4 Billion in GDP.
Sorry, but gas mileage has not sored due to well written, but complex code. It has gotten of the ground [sored my ass] due to forced regulations. The Department of Energy asked every major auto manufacture in 1990 to be part of a DoE Engine efficiency project where everyone must submit a 90mpg automobile. They all did it. Not a single one exists on the market to this day. How come? They weren't forced to release them. They didn't reach improved Carnot engine cycles because of some embedded system: they used different composite materials in the engine block allowing doubling and more heat to burn the fuel more efficiently. End of story.
$2B in debt, $1B cash, lost $600M last year, sales dropped 30% last year. They have no assets (spun off their manufacturing facilities). If the next gen consoles do not sell well because of casual / tablet gaming and potential Apple TV games, AMD will be bankrupt in one year and shuttering in two. Spending money on open source drivers is a long term investment - it's not going to get them an additional $600M in revenue next year (>2M additional graphics cards or >5M systemic wins) when PC sales are on the decline.
Right and within 1 year the number of GPGPUs sold via their custom APUs inside Consoles with be 6:1 to 10:1 of your sales. They are in the new Wii, PS4 and XBox. They're expanding their small-to-mid-tier server footprint [beginning to own that space] and with more and more laptops using AMD APUs will begin to own that space. Their partnership with ARM will make them an attractive provider for future Smart TVs, and other embedded products not even yet projected out. AMD is going to be in the black very shortly.
http://www.istockanalyst.com/finance/story/6474155/3-v-checking-fbr-capital-markets-5-50-advanced-micro-devices-inc-amd-price-target
``Later in the report, Rolland added, `Whereas four months ago many investors were questioning AMD as an ongoing entity, today, we believe financial stability has been secured by next-gen gaming APU wins, with potential upside driven by new initiatives like SeaMicro. While AMD's recent woes remain fresh in mind, the business looks as though it has stabilized for now, and cash levels should remain sufficient for the near future.'
Obviously, investors are attracted by the possibility of a 35.8% return within a 12 month timeframe. If Rolland is correct, that's sort of like having your own ATM. Let's examine Advanced Micro Devices' five-year history for price-to-book (P/B), price-to-sales (P/S), and trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) to see if the analyst's price-tag is realistic.
While we have this AMD conversation, the street values the company at 6.98 times its book value; whereas, competitor Intel Corporation (INTC) trades with a P/B value of 2.34. To get to $5.50 based on the current book value of $0.58 per share, AMD would trade at 9.48 times book, well above the five year average of 4.78, but below the max of 17.06.
Since Wall Street expects AMD to lose $0.25 per share in 2013, we'll have to work with 2014's consensus profit estimate of $0.04 for our P/E analysis. A price-target of $5.50 requires a P/E of 137.5; whew, feeling a little light headed from the high altitude. How about you? It is dizzying as AMD's highest P/E in the last five-years has been 22.07. Five-fifty seems to be a little out-of-reach based on P/E. "
Laced with broad strokes of bs like any other zealot they come out in droves to defend their brand. Nvidia CUDA is a dead end future. The LLVM/Clang driver Target for the R600/future AMD set up will make AMD Radeon/FirePro solutions on Linux/FreeBSD rock solid in the next 6 months. Nvidia continues to ignore reality: OpenGL/OpenCL are married together. APU designs are the future and having a crappy OpenCL presence far behind AMD is the reason Apple dumped Nvidia from now on.
You don't really think that the gigantic Utah Data Center was created to store a few thousand phone conversations, do you? Nope. I suspect that the NSA is storing ALL electronic communications such as phone and email from everyone in US. It might examine only a few thousand by hand, but it is all being recorded.
Only an idiot thinks the US can have datacenters large enough to record every single conversation, email content and video phone conversation on a daily basis, never mind the personnel when the State and Federal Government have downsized personnel by several million positions.
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Clearly you are not a Mechanical/Electrical or Chemical Engineer.
Well stated, but expect every ignoramous proclaiming a Ph.D in the US Constitution to proclaim Washington a traitor if it means the government is spying on their militia plans because we all know those who have the biggest bomb shelters during the Cold War era were typically the last person you'd want near you.
It seems clear that they're doing it to us non-Americans even more. While that might be no immediate problem to US representatives who only have their own electorates to worry about, the damage to the US reputation abroad has already started.
Already started? The US's reputation in the rest of the world has been taking considerable damage for years now. This recent stuff has certainly been doing a lot more damage, but their reputation being damaged isn't exactly a new development.
Horse shit. The US reputation has been considerably restored. What's taking damage is the fact that the entire G20 is spying on its citizenries because you a-hole terrorist factions, no matter where you are and your asinine religious zealotry abounds like to blow shit up and take innocent people with you as if that some how is going to stop any G20 nation from taking the one commodity you possess: Oil. I personally can't wait for Green Tech to take over. We can all move onward without having to spend trillions on fuel from people who can't stand us as much as we can't stand them. Perhaps then people can honestly come to peace accords and start to learn from one another, instead of wasting the patience of nations just to toot around town wherever they live.
You don't like Gates but wish programmers looked towards more "Great Masters?" Bill Gates was a Great Master Programmer.
Paul Allen was the tech brains of MS, not Bill Gates.
I laughed when you wrote,
Tell the kid to learn ObjC/Cocoa. Then you will learn the notion of quality OOA/OOD and world-class OO Tools for UI design. Better yet, tell them to find a copy of NeXTSTEP, put it in a VM and dig for the old NeXT Dev Manuals.
The funny thing is, Hollywood may come to the conclusion that there is a direct relationship between how crappy a movie is and how well it does.
Although this is not a set-in-stone relationship (I'm looking at you, Jon Carter); the general rule of thumb is, the crapper a movie is, as determined by RottenTomatoes/MetaCritic, the worse it does over the long run.
And Pacific Rim, by the way, is NOT a flop, at least not yet. It's made $175 million, and it's budget was $180 million.
That $175 million comes from a claim off BoxOfficemojo.com which when looking at the Foreign value of > $110 million doesn't add up in their own listing of totals: http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=intl&id=pacificrim.htm
HTML 5 isn't driving embedded platforms. It's enabling a bridge between platforms when all you need is a two lane bridge. Platforms like iOSOS X are a four lane juggernaut with HTML 5 being the bridge to allow off-platform users a glimpse via iCloud. The iWorks suite added to iCloud is not as fast as native, nor will it ever be. But in a pinch, when you lack iOS and OS X you have that bridge. Apple will extend those hooks to allow one to access their ecosystem, in a sandbox, from anywhere with this HTML 5 set of standards. Then when you get into the Ecosystem you don't care to get out of it. Making you more productive while making the bumps in the road smooth is how Apple will win.
Try this case in California, Washington, NY, Oregon, or practically any non-southern State and the moment Zimmerman ignored Law Enforcement telling him not to persue what he considered a suspect and Zimmerman is in prison for 25 to life. Florida is about to see a complete gutting of many asinine laws by the DOJ and if you think Florida won't flip blue people who vote GOP are about to see how this self-described neighborhood watch will be a spear for 2014. Florida is always a clusterfuck in elections. This time it's going to be an angry mob dragging their friends to the polls to get change. The verdict was a pile of shit the moment it was read. The guy persued what he considered a suspect: He's not law enforcement. He's not authorized by the State to stalk anyone. He is a perpetrator who got off. He got away with murder.
Now show a 6 Degree of Freedom, 4 bar linkage in Kinematics.
I prefer a mission to Europa that includes a submarine to go into the water below the ice to take pics of the little fishies (if any). Yes, Europa is ****far more difficult**** than Mars. But a Mars sample would be cool, will provide excellent comparison to Martian meteoroids from Antartica. Now if we can also send somebody beyond LEO, then we can say (in the words of one of controllers at Houston MOCR after Apollo 8 TLI), "Finally we get to go someplace!"
I prefer building a base on the Moon, then Mars and then we can jump to Europa.
We just solved the Roman Concrete formula. One down. But seriously, Javascript by definition isn't concerned with tighly managed edge-cases and memory leaks by design. Those are left to the architect who is designing their code; and by that I mean modifying millions of pre-existing javascript code that is in itself often poorly optimized code.
I seriously doubt most CS majors today have to get knee deep into Assembly and C programming. Most programs opt for C++ and Java while leveraging their respective garbage collection designs. Hopefully, we see Universities and even High schools requiring C/C++/ObjC with LLVM/Clang/LLDB and Compiler-RT when learning their respective languages. I could give a rat's ass about Java.
And C is virtually unreadable to anyone brought up with Smalltalk and Ada, so what's your fucking point? It takes something like three days maximum to get used to prefix notation, so learn it if you want to use the tool, and get over with your irrational and insubstantial syntax preferences.
No one brought up with Smalltalk hasn't been brought up without C. Ada, perhaps, but then again anyone taught Ada was exposed to Fortran and most likely moved to C, which once again predates effing ADA and SMALLTALK. You were far better off with PASCAL as an example.
And people wonder how come getting a Ph.D in CS versus Mechanical Engineering, EE, ChemE, Physics, etc., is a circle jerk waste of time.
Really? The bulk of advertisement revenue for profits is coming from the embedded world, not Web Browsing. More to the point, whether this person likes it or not they don't control the design models of WebKit, Blink, etc. This will not kill advertising.
No you should not know basic programming upon exiting high school. You should be required to have taken up to Calculus II and Linear Algebra with Physics, Chemistry and Biology if you plan to go to a university and be in the applied sciences. Learning programming is far less important.
Apple has two major 20nm/14nm FinFET Fab giants to choose from without taking it in the rear from Intel, while dictating their designs. Sorry, but Intel will never get Apple's embedded space manufacturing.
Witch hunt? Thanks for the laugh.
If the refactor is done properly I don't think the OpenCL acceleration would be necessary. Heck, 1-2-3 running on a 486 was pretty speedy.
I'd love to tie in R/Octave and do Numerical Analysis with Calc, so that OpenCL would be very handy indeed, seeing as it uses the CPU/GPGPUs and any other processor/co-processor like DSPs.
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Calc is based on object oriented design from 20 years ago when developers thought that a cell should be an object and that creates a huge number of problems around doing things efficiently.
The problem isn't that Calc is object-oriented but was designed such that many things depended on the spreadsheet cell.
OOA/OOD isn't the problem. It's the team of architects who came up with their design using OOA/OOD that is the problem. Lighthouse Design using NeXT's MVC paradigms had Quantrix and Parasheet, Diagram!, Tasmaster, Concurrence [precursor to Keynote] and more. Some of the architects are at Apple and have been working on iWorks.
Actually, the UI for Lotus Improv was quite nice and won some awards.
Its (spiritual) successor, Quantrix Financial Modeler seems to be selling well enough, even w/ a $1,495 price point.
I wish that Flexisheet (an opensource take on this sort of thing) would get more traction.
Correct and Improv was written specifically for NeXTSTEP which made it possible to do what it did. Improv fell apart and couldn't replicate the same MVC frameworks of ObjC/NeXTSTEP on Windows. Quantrix Financial Modeler was purchased and was also originally on NeXTSTEP. I used both at NeXT.
The lost GDP in Salmon exports outweighs the Power exports in Washington State: Grand Coulee's primarily provides power to the US Government facilities, not anyone in Washington State. It also provides power to Arizona. People buy power from Bonneville Power in Washington State. The return of proper salmon runs will currently add > $4 Billion in GDP.
Sorry, but gas mileage has not sored due to well written, but complex code. It has gotten of the ground [sored my ass] due to forced regulations. The Department of Energy asked every major auto manufacture in 1990 to be part of a DoE Engine efficiency project where everyone must submit a 90mpg automobile. They all did it. Not a single one exists on the market to this day. How come? They weren't forced to release them. They didn't reach improved Carnot engine cycles because of some embedded system: they used different composite materials in the engine block allowing doubling and more heat to burn the fuel more efficiently. End of story.
$2B in debt, $1B cash, lost $600M last year, sales dropped 30% last year. They have no assets (spun off their manufacturing facilities). If the next gen consoles do not sell well because of casual / tablet gaming and potential Apple TV games, AMD will be bankrupt in one year and shuttering in two. Spending money on open source drivers is a long term investment - it's not going to get them an additional $600M in revenue next year (>2M additional graphics cards or >5M systemic wins) when PC sales are on the decline.
Right and within 1 year the number of GPGPUs sold via their custom APUs inside Consoles with be 6:1 to 10:1 of your sales. They are in the new Wii, PS4 and XBox. They're expanding their small-to-mid-tier server footprint [beginning to own that space] and with more and more laptops using AMD APUs will begin to own that space. Their partnership with ARM will make them an attractive provider for future Smart TVs, and other embedded products not even yet projected out. AMD is going to be in the black very shortly.
Laced with broad strokes of bs like any other zealot they come out in droves to defend their brand. Nvidia CUDA is a dead end future. The LLVM/Clang driver Target for the R600/future AMD set up will make AMD Radeon/FirePro solutions on Linux/FreeBSD rock solid in the next 6 months. Nvidia continues to ignore reality: OpenGL/OpenCL are married together. APU designs are the future and having a crappy OpenCL presence far behind AMD is the reason Apple dumped Nvidia from now on.
You don't really think that the gigantic Utah Data Center was created to store a few thousand phone conversations, do you? Nope. I suspect that the NSA is storing ALL electronic communications such as phone and email from everyone in US. It might examine only a few thousand by hand, but it is all being recorded.
Only an idiot thinks the US can have datacenters large enough to record every single conversation, email content and video phone conversation on a daily basis, never mind the personnel when the State and Federal Government have downsized personnel by several million positions.