Paul Allen was the technical brains behind Microsoft. The OP commentary on Gates abusing the system until it became illegal is well known. He is not a visionary. He is a business man.
Games like Hearts, Spades, Pinochle and more is what made Yahoo Games so popular for so many years. They were extremely social as everyone chats to each other while taking their turn.
The interaction even in such basic times created groups of friends on quests to raise their levels and use their imaginations. Games like Farmtown, Farmville, etc., are dull as hell.
Because large government programs always run on time and on budget.
The irony that you're missing is this is a Private Corporation who can't get it's crap together and complete a Public Works project, on time and within the budget constraints. So much for the private sector. Perhaps we can stop these broad brush strokes and come to reality, by focusing on efficiency and the quality of solution [public or private] in joint partnerships, instead of the same toothless talking points. We call that growing up.
Missus? Quick glance had me adding an e on the end for misuse instead of the actual `Misses' you were trying to convey, or more commonly convey as the Mrs.
ispc is a new compiler for "single program, multiple data" (SPMD) programs. Under the SPMD model, the programmer writes a program that mostly appears to be a regular serial program, though the execution model is actually that a number of program instances execute in parallel on the hardware. (See a more detailed example that illustrates this concept.) ispc compiles a C-based SPMD programming language to run on the SIMD units of CPUs; it frequently provides a a 3x or more speedup on CPUs with 4-wide SSE units, without any of the difficulty of writing intrinsics code.
There were a few principles and goals behind the design of ispc:
To build a small C-like language that would deliver excellent performance to performance-oriented programmers who want to run SPMD programs on the CPU.
To privide a thin abstraction layer between the programmer and the hardware—in particular, to have an execution and data model where the programmer can cleanly reason about the mapping of their source program to compiled assembly language and the underlying hardware.
To make it possible to harness the computational power of the SIMD vector units without the extremely low-programmer-productivity activity of directly writing intrinsics.
To explore opportunities from close coupling between C/C++ application code and SPMD ispc code running on the same processor—to have lightweight funcion calls betwen the two languages, to share data directly via pointers without copying or reformating, and so forth.
ispc is an open source compiler with a BSD license. It uses the remarkable LLVM Compiler Infrastructure for back-end code generation and optimization and is hosted on github. It supports Windows, Mac, and Linux, with both x86 and x86-64 targets. It currently supports the SSE2 and SSE4 instruction sets, though support for AVX should be available soon.
and most likely deceased. Not to be mean, but the guy keeps adjusting his time frames sooner rather than later. Unless there is some massive push for I-Robot the idea we all used robots for our physical chores can never happen when people need to earn a living, and no we aren't all going to be dealing with Future Crime either.
Sorry, but AMD is hard at work with LLVM/Clang support and OpenCL support into LLVM to make third parties applications leverage the most out of their solutions. It's a wise move.
I would love to compile my open source windows binaries with intel's compiler, however it is unclear how I am supposed to get it for free, and old versions i have found for free fail to compile my programs.
Then compile against LLVM/Clang Trunk. The LLVM 3.0 release is nearing and is has come a long way in a short period of time.
I prefer the new proposal on the table by a Democrat. Eliminate all Income Taxes and move to a 1% Transactional Tax. Every actual transaction in the US would be charged 1% and sent to the Government. In 2010 the total assets transacted in the US was $900 Trillion. Put a 1% transaction tax on all of it and you fund the Government with $9 Trillion. If you spend $10 million for a home, you send the Government 1%. No hiding of funds. You push money off shore the government takes 1% of it from the transaction. Any and all transaction taxed at 1%. It's not bad for day to day living. It sure would counter all the loopholes. Everyone of those loopholes is a transaction. 1% goes to the Government. Every stock trade is a transaction. 1% goes to the Government.
It's the WSJ. They continue to not understand technologies until the successes are entrenched and then the proclaim to revise history and tell the world how ahead of the curve their analysts were for x, y, and z. They are crap.
I have visited OSNews a few times, and the readership there is decent, albeit not as good as slashdot. However, when it comes to news about Microsoft, I definitely prefer reading the articles and comments there. Slashdot has too many trolls, $hills and fanbois. Not everybody mind you, but it's not as easy to find unbiased opinions.
OSNews is nothing but a cesspool of wannabe tech know-it-all tools who like Slashdot despise Apple's successes and are tired of everyone slamming Windows, but at the same time keep proclaiming Linux will finally have it's break out year, Qt is the shit of all shit, Gnome isn't cool anymore, and with all that self-proclaimed genius they represent nothing in the real world.
I agree with this in general.
For anyone with an iphone, the new HTML5 version of the FT.com (financial times) app is very very good. It is better than the old iphone app, and I imagine they can use the HTML5 version across iOS/Android/Blackberry.
If it's better it's not because HTML5 and Javascript offer better solutions. That was a conscious choice by FT and no one truly gives a crap.
Already done. The new iPhone is getting lots of sharing functionality. Some of it may be Facebook powered, for now. But Apple can go to Twitter, Flickr, or iCloud. And Steve Jobs has a reputation for being just a little paranoid and vindictive.
I respect Facebook. They have done wonderful things with about 300 engineers. But I'm not sure they can go toe to toe with a giant like Apple.
With 300 Engineers they gave us a Facebook which isn't much functionality. NeXT gave us NeXTStation, NeXTCube, NeXTStep/Openstep User/Developer, EOF, WeObjects, Openstep for Windows, PDO/D'OLE, and much more with less Engineers. A glorified Social Networking Project is respected only due to the massive amounts of people once using AOL switching to Facebook. That's not impressive. People go where the free food is found. Costco has a lot of freeloaders eating up all the samples. Should I be impressed?
I can't believe that in the mid-80s classes in Basic, the IBM PC, Apple II and even C programming were available in high school. Today? Not a chance. The same downsizing of the traditional trades was another idiotic maneuver.
This has the potential to make Global Warming so much worse. Lets assume global warming is real and we're headed for a maunder minimum level of hibernation. The expected temperature increases are pretty similar to the temperature drops associated with the last major minimum. It would convince people that global warming was all a big sham or even a blessing, and in the short term the blessing idea wouldn't even be totally incorrect, since the effects of a half century long solar minimum would almost certainly be at least as devastating to civilization as global warming.
But, that means that in 50-70 years, when the little ice age ends, we could be faced with the full force of global warming in less than a decade, instead of spread out over the course of half a century. It would be even more so to late to do anything about it, short of geoengineering at a massive scale, and even I, techno-optimist that I am, have difficulty accepting the idea that we'll be able to accurately manipulate the kinds of energy needed to alter the Earth's climate in a controlled way.
Global Warming/Climate Change is not about the Earth being at all time record temps and therefore when it cools all is okay. Call it Global Heat Redistribution because all the Climate Patterns are changing. It's the Change that is screwing with the Earth's general climate patterns. Sudden drops in electromagnetic energy from the Sun will provide a rapid shift in those Climate Patterns, once again, and during the change the Earth will take a beating. Repeat and rinse. Our increasing of pollution that weakens our Atmosphere makes the impact of such drastic shifts more of a reality, not less.
...and let me first say, I don't like Apple, don't like their snobbish, and inferior (imho) interfaces, their lock-in, and their outrageous prices.
However...
Apple, though I don't agree with how they do it, are able to bring together X, Y, and Z in a one of the most fascinatingly memetic way that touches something in a global manner. They are not innovators, because they don't own X, Y, or likely Z either. They design in such a way as to make people say, "What an innovation!" Yet, they are looking at the same X, Y, and Z as before. Mozart didn't invent musical instruments, he simply mastered their use and composition.
But there is a price. Mozart didn't get free pianos or violins simply because he knew how to use them. We shouldn't assume that because Apple uses a technology better that they invented or even improved it. And, in their defense, maybe they fell into the same fallacy of "I use it best, I should therefore not be bound to pay or give others credit." Unfortunately, this is much like those of us (and I do mean myself in that "us") who love FOSS and bristle that we have to actually "pay" for code sometimes.
Two paragraphs of back handed bull shit. Bravo! Now get back to the end of the line.
Heh.
I don't think I have the gene to see ads. Blacked out of my consciousness like crying kids on a cross-country flight.
Oddly, I tend to avoid buying anything with a label, and remove the ones I do notice. Maybe I have an anti-ad gene?
If you took off the labels can you still name the brand? if so, why label? If not, why pay a premium?
Within a generation, it'll be in the same class as FORTRAN - only used to support legacy apps.
No. FORTRAN was replaced. You can do anything you could do in FORTRAN in more modern languages (like C, for instance). However, you cannot write operating systems in Java. I don't think there's any replacement on the near horizon that fills C's low-level niche.
I can see the use of C and C++ in most applications decreasing, although not when speed or performance is more critical than the expense of extra labor.
FORTRAN is making a comeback especially seeing as how phenomenal its uses in the Applied Sciences needing Numerical Analysis [Yes, C is it's bride in this area] but FORTRAN was designed from the ground up for such work.
Remember when it used to be first, by a huge margin?
C is still more wisely used by a huge margin. Just because you "enterprise" developers don't use it (despite the infrastructure of your managed languages being written in C and C++) doesn't change that.
Within a generation, it'll be in the same class as FORTRAN - only used to support legacy apps.
Yeah right. What are you going to write your kernels in? What are you going to use for those millions if not billions of microcontrollers that will still be in use that can't run a JVM? What exactly are you going to write your VMs and interpreters in? Right, they will have to be written in a C or C++ and assembly.
Let's add that C99 and C2003 for OpenCL and C++ latest standard with all you mentioned and OpenCL will only expand.
The only quiet nature of it is that the Press calls it that due to Apple not broadcasting it's policies as front page news. The Developers all know about it and it didn't sneak up on us.
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Paul Allen was the technical brains behind Microsoft. The OP commentary on Gates abusing the system until it became illegal is well known. He is not a visionary. He is a business man.
Games like Hearts, Spades, Pinochle and more is what made Yahoo Games so popular for so many years. They were extremely social as everyone chats to each other while taking their turn.
The interaction even in such basic times created groups of friends on quests to raise their levels and use their imaginations. Games like Farmtown, Farmville, etc., are dull as hell.
Because large government programs always run on time and on budget.
The irony that you're missing is this is a Private Corporation who can't get it's crap together and complete a Public Works project, on time and within the budget constraints. So much for the private sector. Perhaps we can stop these broad brush strokes and come to reality, by focusing on efficiency and the quality of solution [public or private] in joint partnerships, instead of the same toothless talking points. We call that growing up.
Missus? Quick glance had me adding an e on the end for misuse instead of the actual `Misses' you were trying to convey, or more commonly convey as the Mrs.
I always prefer the use of spectrum even over the use of gamut. Less confusion.
Don't you just love the bs spread about Apple and this GCD just takes the cake in absurdity.
It's simply not possible for a company the size of Apple to not engage in patents, even if they do suck.
However, it's entirely possible for a company the size of Apple to not offensively use its patents, yet Apple does.
One has to defend them from infringements upon their research or they lose them. Grow up.
and most likely deceased. Not to be mean, but the guy keeps adjusting his time frames sooner rather than later. Unless there is some massive push for I-Robot the idea we all used robots for our physical chores can never happen when people need to earn a living, and no we aren't all going to be dealing with Future Crime either.
Sorry, but AMD is hard at work with LLVM/Clang support and OpenCL support into LLVM to make third parties applications leverage the most out of their solutions. It's a wise move.
I would love to compile my open source windows binaries with intel's compiler, however it is unclear how I am supposed to get it for free, and old versions i have found for free fail to compile my programs.
Then compile against LLVM/Clang Trunk. The LLVM 3.0 release is nearing and is has come a long way in a short period of time.
I prefer the new proposal on the table by a Democrat. Eliminate all Income Taxes and move to a 1% Transactional Tax. Every actual transaction in the US would be charged 1% and sent to the Government. In 2010 the total assets transacted in the US was $900 Trillion. Put a 1% transaction tax on all of it and you fund the Government with $9 Trillion. If you spend $10 million for a home, you send the Government 1%. No hiding of funds. You push money off shore the government takes 1% of it from the transaction. Any and all transaction taxed at 1%. It's not bad for day to day living. It sure would counter all the loopholes. Everyone of those loopholes is a transaction. 1% goes to the Government. Every stock trade is a transaction. 1% goes to the Government.
It's the WSJ. They continue to not understand technologies until the successes are entrenched and then the proclaim to revise history and tell the world how ahead of the curve their analysts were for x, y, and z. They are crap.
I have visited OSNews a few times, and the readership there is decent, albeit not as good as slashdot. However, when it comes to news about Microsoft, I definitely prefer reading the articles and comments there. Slashdot has too many trolls, $hills and fanbois. Not everybody mind you, but it's not as easy to find unbiased opinions.
OSNews is nothing but a cesspool of wannabe tech know-it-all tools who like Slashdot despise Apple's successes and are tired of everyone slamming Windows, but at the same time keep proclaiming Linux will finally have it's break out year, Qt is the shit of all shit, Gnome isn't cool anymore, and with all that self-proclaimed genius they represent nothing in the real world.
I agree with this in general. For anyone with an iphone, the new HTML5 version of the FT.com (financial times) app is very very good. It is better than the old iphone app, and I imagine they can use the HTML5 version across iOS/Android/Blackberry.
If it's better it's not because HTML5 and Javascript offer better solutions. That was a conscious choice by FT and no one truly gives a crap.
Already done. The new iPhone is getting lots of sharing functionality. Some of it may be Facebook powered, for now. But Apple can go to Twitter, Flickr, or iCloud. And Steve Jobs has a reputation for being just a little paranoid and vindictive.
I respect Facebook. They have done wonderful things with about 300 engineers. But I'm not sure they can go toe to toe with a giant like Apple.
With 300 Engineers they gave us a Facebook which isn't much functionality. NeXT gave us NeXTStation, NeXTCube, NeXTStep/Openstep User/Developer, EOF, WeObjects, Openstep for Windows, PDO/D'OLE, and much more with less Engineers. A glorified Social Networking Project is respected only due to the massive amounts of people once using AOL switching to Facebook. That's not impressive. People go where the free food is found. Costco has a lot of freeloaders eating up all the samples. Should I be impressed?
I can't believe that in the mid-80s classes in Basic, the IBM PC, Apple II and even C programming were available in high school. Today? Not a chance. The same downsizing of the traditional trades was another idiotic maneuver.
This has the potential to make Global Warming so much worse. Lets assume global warming is real and we're headed for a maunder minimum level of hibernation. The expected temperature increases are pretty similar to the temperature drops associated with the last major minimum. It would convince people that global warming was all a big sham or even a blessing, and in the short term the blessing idea wouldn't even be totally incorrect, since the effects of a half century long solar minimum would almost certainly be at least as devastating to civilization as global warming.
But, that means that in 50-70 years, when the little ice age ends, we could be faced with the full force of global warming in less than a decade, instead of spread out over the course of half a century. It would be even more so to late to do anything about it, short of geoengineering at a massive scale, and even I, techno-optimist that I am, have difficulty accepting the idea that we'll be able to accurately manipulate the kinds of energy needed to alter the Earth's climate in a controlled way.
Global Warming/Climate Change is not about the Earth being at all time record temps and therefore when it cools all is okay. Call it Global Heat Redistribution because all the Climate Patterns are changing. It's the Change that is screwing with the Earth's general climate patterns. Sudden drops in electromagnetic energy from the Sun will provide a rapid shift in those Climate Patterns, once again, and during the change the Earth will take a beating. Repeat and rinse. Our increasing of pollution that weakens our Atmosphere makes the impact of such drastic shifts more of a reality, not less.
...and let me first say, I don't like Apple, don't like their snobbish, and inferior (imho) interfaces, their lock-in, and their outrageous prices.
However...
Apple, though I don't agree with how they do it, are able to bring together X, Y, and Z in a one of the most fascinatingly memetic way that touches something in a global manner. They are not innovators, because they don't own X, Y, or likely Z either. They design in such a way as to make people say, "What an innovation!" Yet, they are looking at the same X, Y, and Z as before. Mozart didn't invent musical instruments, he simply mastered their use and composition.
But there is a price. Mozart didn't get free pianos or violins simply because he knew how to use them. We shouldn't assume that because Apple uses a technology better that they invented or even improved it. And, in their defense, maybe they fell into the same fallacy of "I use it best, I should therefore not be bound to pay or give others credit." Unfortunately, this is much like those of us (and I do mean myself in that "us") who love FOSS and bristle that we have to actually "pay" for code sometimes.
Two paragraphs of back handed bull shit. Bravo! Now get back to the end of the line.
Yeah, go ahead and form your "union". You will quickly find out just how replaceable you are.
More to the point, California is a right to work state. It's a waste of his time.
Heh. I don't think I have the gene to see ads. Blacked out of my consciousness like crying kids on a cross-country flight. Oddly, I tend to avoid buying anything with a label, and remove the ones I do notice. Maybe I have an anti-ad gene? If you took off the labels can you still name the brand? if so, why label? If not, why pay a premium?
fnjord!
Within a generation, it'll be in the same class as FORTRAN - only used to support legacy apps. No. FORTRAN was replaced. You can do anything you could do in FORTRAN in more modern languages (like C, for instance). However, you cannot write operating systems in Java. I don't think there's any replacement on the near horizon that fills C's low-level niche. I can see the use of C and C++ in most applications decreasing, although not when speed or performance is more critical than the expense of extra labor.
FORTRAN is making a comeback especially seeing as how phenomenal its uses in the Applied Sciences needing Numerical Analysis [Yes, C is it's bride in this area] but FORTRAN was designed from the ground up for such work.
Remember when it used to be first, by a huge margin?
C is still more wisely used by a huge margin. Just because you "enterprise" developers don't use it (despite the infrastructure of your managed languages being written in C and C++) doesn't change that.
Within a generation, it'll be in the same class as FORTRAN - only used to support legacy apps.
Yeah right. What are you going to write your kernels in? What are you going to use for those millions if not billions of microcontrollers that will still be in use that can't run a JVM? What exactly are you going to write your VMs and interpreters in? Right, they will have to be written in a C or C++ and assembly.
Let's add that C99 and C2003 for OpenCL and C++ latest standard with all you mentioned and OpenCL will only expand.
The only quiet nature of it is that the Press calls it that due to Apple not broadcasting it's policies as front page news. The Developers all know about it and it didn't sneak up on us.