Agreed, yet his anti-colleges and universities speaks from a liberal arts major espousing the virtues of being deeply knowledgeable by just reading books. Sorry, but the Hard Sciences need labs, mentoring, professorships, research and more.
Sorry about that douche bag. I could care less but then again you have the nut sack of worm who cannot be bothered to use their own profile to comment.
Dual GPU solutions are so pointless, a waste of money for little performance gain, that doesn't even work in some games.
Think OpenCL. I could careless about Streams or CUDA. But I do care about OpenCL/OpenGL and the Engineering worlds. Games will get it sooner rather than later why OpenCL will thrive.
ATI is right up there in performance when compared to it's rival Nvidia GPU's. The problem is, Intel's Core i7 blows anything AMD has out of the water. Even the aging Intel quad-cores rival with AMD's brand new Phenom 2's.
ATI isn't quite up there with nVidia for performance. The 4950 and 4750x2 of ATI struggle to compete with the GTX285 & GTX295 offerings of nVidia, but the ATI cards are cheaper. And while the Phenom II is behind the i7 in performance, it's also cheaper - especially when you factor in the cost of motherboard into the equation (i7 motherboards are almost exclusively expensive "enthusiast" setups).
So... You get what you pay for really.
Nvidia is pushing CUDA first, OpenCL second. AMD is moving Streams to second and OpenCL to first. I find AMD using their brains and Nvidia pissin' up a rope.
Stop hiring Education Majors to teach The Hard Sciences. Unless you include Historical Curriculum of famous and infamous Scientists into your early days of learning the Hard Sciences will forever be a mystery.
If you want a kid to know Euclidean Plane Geometry you better make ``The Elements Books I-XIII'', by Euclid part of the curriculum early on and gradually bring into view the history of its making followed by the actually application.
The same goes for Physics with Newton, Robert Boyle, Euler, etc.
Hell, I'm just getting all the backlog history of these giants and I'm a M.E. It would have made my days far more enriching to know how they came up with this crap outside of the Calculus derived explanations. I love Mathematics and it's endless Engineering Applications [mainly because I could always visualize their application--something innate and not taught] but reading the greats memoirs and more makes it come together.
Instead of just History over political events we need History over Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, EE, ME, CE, etc.
You don't suddenly become educated in Paleontology without first knowing it's foundation, heavily grounded in History. Hell even Fine Arts requires a massive background in the history of the fields pioneers.
then I'll pass. The upcoming ATi updates are rolling in OpenCL which allows for us to have cross-compilation even if Nvidia thinks everyone's gung-ho about CUDA.
...right... everything was peaches and cream under Clinton... he didn't have any unemploment issues, he didn't pass legislation that setup the housing crisis. Nope, lalalalalalALLALA "I'm not hearing you!!! LALALALALA"
Obama has spent more money and created a larger debt in 6 MONTHS that every other President before him. He has tossed out the law, dismantled private industry, and removing the rights of the individual and the States by expanding Federal control to unprecedented levels. Yet whenever I bring up those facts, I'm am retorted with "Bush lied, people died" or someother stupid catch phrase... you guys simply cannot let go of your irrational hate.
Well here is a new phrase for ya... "Obama Lied, the Republic Died".
Do you even grasp the concept of inflation? Do you fantasize that we can get 1900 prices in the 21st century while maintaining our current salaries? Dream on. Bush had a surplus and drove us into a trench. You expect us to get out of a trench by waiting? Dream on.
Or, for a more recent example, Democrats bringing up Bush whenever Obama is being criticized.
One involved 8 years of prosperity and stabilization around the globe with a blowjob wedge issue.
The second involved 8 years of chaos, global instability, pockets of illegal prosperity with a Trust me and God bless America sock puppet hopin' to get a blow job for his wedge issue and not Torture, Massive Debt, Hate from Allies around the Globe, on and on and on.
I'll take a guy gettin' his nut off and doing the job over that douche of an alternative.
I don't think so. Specifically:
"It will be months before anyone has general utility of the API."
And I agree with that. Science and Engineering require that applications are correct, that APIs have been tested and retested, formally verified where possible, etc. As much as it'd be great to see these APIs picked up quickly by Mathematica and the lot, it will probably be at least a year before we see it.
The content production market can move faster because they don't require the same levels of precision and accuracy, and they generally have more coders actively working at any given time.
September 2009. OpenCL API for OS X 10.6 will hit the general market.
Nvidia is testing their API like Apple as we converse.
AMD/ATi are doing the same with Streams Clients and actually releasing GPGPUs with OpenCL ready.
IBM is getting their structure in order as well.
Smartphone Graphics leader, Imagination Technologies, is testing as well on Linux, WindowsCE and Symbian.
This is a short list, but far from complete of what's happening.
I'm with you on this. I still have dreams of finally getting my hands on a '67 Nova SS fuel prices be damned.
I'll even smuggle in Tetra-ethyl lead if I have to.
-nB
Seriously? I was thinking of Super Sport. Should all those classic car collectors crap themselves a pile of guilt because you go straight to Weisswurst or Die every time SS follow one another?
Only a mental moron thinks 666 means Satan. Even a Rabbi will laugh their ass off on that butchered Qabalistic interpretation.
Hell they might even mock you and say, ``Stay back you devil's advocate!''
Grow up. This Satan fallacy for the past 2,000 plus years has got to be the greatest one-trick lie ever spread.
Seriously? I'm 40 and you're 35. I cut my teeth on Fortran with GOTO and line numbers, not BASIC. Then again, I graduated in Mechanical Engineering and when I graduated the dipsh*ts interviewing me wished up one side and down the other that I had C Programming. Well back to degree two, Computer Science, and then they discussed, ``If only you had Java programming''--this was 1996. Luckily, NeXT wasn't big on Java and were smart enough to hire by one's extensive background and ability to engage in person.
The absolute most useless and strange question I got [from an ex-Microsoft guy starting his own company] was, ``Given an infinite amount of rope while standing at the Equator you have a 20 foot hole with a 20 foot span to cross and you are required to get across to the Northern Hemisphere. How would you solve this problem.?
The CTO asked me to review my answers and asked, ``How come you didn't think of climbing down the channel/canal and just walk around the Equator until it was filled up like a Yo-Yo?
My response, ``I figured, as a trained M.E. that K.I.S.S. applies here and just taking this infinite amount of rope and filling in a gap of rope 20 feet deep and 20ft across takes far less time to get to the other side, don't you?''
His response, ``You're the first person to ever answer the question that way.''
My response, ``Who thought of the Yo-Yo answer as a reasonable or expected answer?''
His response, ``I did.''
Uncomfortable moment with me breaking it to the notion that different minds will solve the same problem in different ways.
Needless to say, he was embarrassed in never thinking of the simple solution and I didn't get the job.
All I thought of after walking out, ``What a freakin' moron. Walk around the globe. Yeah, that's practical.''
Then I thought it must be a Microsoft thing which then spawned a comparison between colleagues of the dumbest questions ever asked in an interview.
My next favorite was the douche bag at Real Networks who thought he'd ask me a Kinematics question and seeing as he didn't have a Mechanical Engineering degree didn't understand my answer for it didn't coincide with the one he saw in a book.
I'm glad I didn't get that job, though I did end up interviewing for two weeks for an SQA job that ended with the CTO asking me all about QuickTime and Apple Engineering--none of which I cared to share with him.
I'm glad doing my own consulting and phasing more into Mechanical Engineering projects is coming full circle. There are too many business nobs with no Science running Software Companies.
Like hell Mozilla is hidden as Safari. WebKit is nothing like Gecko. And don't throw BS at it with KHTML/KJS is WebKit. WebKit dwarfs KHTML/KJS in depth and breadth. It's only now that QtWebKit is being merged into KDELIBS. How pathetic is that?
I'm truly looking forward to LyX 2.0 when it arrives soon. 1.6.3 is already solid, but 2.0 with XeTeX should really help it go far in expanding it's adoption. Kile 2.1 is almost here, then there is already TeXShop, TeXMaker and now TeXWorks to leverage.
Electrical Engineers don't take Heat Transfer. They would have taken Analog Circuits, Power Systems and more, but not Heat Transfer. Heat Transfer is reserved for Mechanical & Material Science Engineering.
Engineers use i as well to represent the imaginary part of a constant. Then when it comes to Vectors they use i, j and k when dealing with Forces that have both a scalar and vector component to them.
Wrong. I was citing the fact that Calculus I, II and III however you slice it is still freakin' Calculus that was presented by Newton, Leibniz, Euler and more.
Advanced fields of Calculus that extend beyond that base is still unique to their respective discipline.
Programming in C/C++/ObjC/Python/, etc., are solving the same problems but different pros/cons to their language design. The Laws of Mechanics can have 50 different programming languages thrown at it to solve them, but they don't change. They aren't solving the problem by becoming an Engineering discipline. The field of Heat Transfer has a specific set of applied physics and mathematics to solve myriad types of black body problems. You have immutable laws you work within to solve these problems.
Software Art Programming is all it will ever be because instead of 50 branches of Calculus [evolved over the advancements of Science and Mathematics] we have 50 Programming languages being applied to 50 branches of Calculus not because its sound, but because new languages are created by developers who would rather start a new language to compensate for the deficiency of another language(s) than to work in large groups of committees to make previously existing languages more complete.
We don't just like C and we don't just like Smalltalk so we get C++, ObjC. We don't like those so we get D, but we also get Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Java, etc, etc.
As someone pointed out, Fortran is far more precise than even C for Numerical Analysis, but I doubt you'll find students today screaming to learn it.
Software Engineering is Software Programming.
It's foundation is driven by Commerce and the Internet far more than anyone ever anticipated. It's created nothing but a long list of skill lists that must be had now or your avenues for work are quickly pinched off. Becoming an Engineer you won't be starting off on Games with real Physics, Flight Simulators, etc. You'll be a grunt. Yet, as a grunt you know your education is grounded in hundreds of years of proven Science. In programming, you are constantly seeing new fads in languages and marketing driving where your skills need to evolve. It's not an Engineering Discipline. It's a life where you make money Consulting and having to reinvent the wheel quite often.
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Agreed, yet his anti-colleges and universities speaks from a liberal arts major espousing the virtues of being deeply knowledgeable by just reading books. Sorry, but the Hard Sciences need labs, mentoring, professorships, research and more.
Sorry about that douche bag. I could care less but then again you have the nut sack of worm who cannot be bothered to use their own profile to comment.
Dual GPU solutions are so pointless, a waste of money for little performance gain, that doesn't even work in some games.
Think OpenCL. I could careless about Streams or CUDA. But I do care about OpenCL/OpenGL and the Engineering worlds. Games will get it sooner rather than later why OpenCL will thrive.
ATI is right up there in performance when compared to it's rival Nvidia GPU's. The problem is, Intel's Core i7 blows anything AMD has out of the water. Even the aging Intel quad-cores rival with AMD's brand new Phenom 2's.
ATI isn't quite up there with nVidia for performance. The 4950 and 4750x2 of ATI struggle to compete with the GTX285 & GTX295 offerings of nVidia, but the ATI cards are cheaper. And while the Phenom II is behind the i7 in performance, it's also cheaper - especially when you factor in the cost of motherboard into the equation (i7 motherboards are almost exclusively expensive "enthusiast" setups).
So... You get what you pay for really.
Nvidia is pushing CUDA first, OpenCL second. AMD is moving Streams to second and OpenCL to first. I find AMD using their brains and Nvidia pissin' up a rope.
Stop hiring Education Majors to teach The Hard Sciences. Unless you include Historical Curriculum of famous and infamous Scientists into your early days of learning the Hard Sciences will forever be a mystery.
If you want a kid to know Euclidean Plane Geometry you better make ``The Elements Books I-XIII'', by Euclid part of the curriculum early on and gradually bring into view the history of its making followed by the actually application.
The same goes for Physics with Newton, Robert Boyle, Euler, etc.
Hell, I'm just getting all the backlog history of these giants and I'm a M.E. It would have made my days far more enriching to know how they came up with this crap outside of the Calculus derived explanations. I love Mathematics and it's endless Engineering Applications [mainly because I could always visualize their application--something innate and not taught] but reading the greats memoirs and more makes it come together.
Instead of just History over political events we need History over Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, EE, ME, CE, etc.
You don't suddenly become educated in Paleontology without first knowing it's foundation, heavily grounded in History. Hell even Fine Arts requires a massive background in the history of the fields pioneers.
Java? Ruby? Python? ObjC? Do I need to go on to include the massive depth and breath that Apache 2 covers to even make this remotely worth comparing?
You must be a Maddog 20/20 kinda guy.
Not going to point out that you're just being a dick for no reason. Nope. Won't bother to do so.
Oh, well. They must've fixed something important in 4.x. Well, good to know. Even though I'm not switching to KDE4, still no OS X xtyle menus there...
It's called merging parts of WebKit into Kdelibs.
then I'll pass. The upcoming ATi updates are rolling in OpenCL which allows for us to have cross-compilation even if Nvidia thinks everyone's gung-ho about CUDA.
...right... everything was peaches and cream under Clinton... he didn't have any unemploment issues, he didn't pass legislation that setup the housing crisis. Nope, lalalalalalALLALA "I'm not hearing you!!! LALALALALA" Obama has spent more money and created a larger debt in 6 MONTHS that every other President before him. He has tossed out the law, dismantled private industry, and removing the rights of the individual and the States by expanding Federal control to unprecedented levels. Yet whenever I bring up those facts, I'm am retorted with "Bush lied, people died" or someother stupid catch phrase... you guys simply cannot let go of your irrational hate. Well here is a new phrase for ya... "Obama Lied, the Republic Died".
Do you even grasp the concept of inflation? Do you fantasize that we can get 1900 prices in the 21st century while maintaining our current salaries? Dream on. Bush had a surplus and drove us into a trench. You expect us to get out of a trench by waiting? Dream on.
Correction: WebKit and QtWebKit, respectively.
Or, for a more recent example, Democrats bringing up Bush whenever Obama is being criticized.
One involved 8 years of prosperity and stabilization around the globe with a blowjob wedge issue.
The second involved 8 years of chaos, global instability, pockets of illegal prosperity with a Trust me and God bless America sock puppet hopin' to get a blow job for his wedge issue and not Torture, Massive Debt, Hate from Allies around the Globe, on and on and on.
I'll take a guy gettin' his nut off and doing the job over that douche of an alternative.
I don't think so. Specifically: "It will be months before anyone has general utility of the API." And I agree with that. Science and Engineering require that applications are correct, that APIs have been tested and retested, formally verified where possible, etc. As much as it'd be great to see these APIs picked up quickly by Mathematica and the lot, it will probably be at least a year before we see it. The content production market can move faster because they don't require the same levels of precision and accuracy, and they generally have more coders actively working at any given time.
September 2009. OpenCL API for OS X 10.6 will hit the general market.
Nvidia is testing their API like Apple as we converse.
AMD/ATi are doing the same with Streams Clients and actually releasing GPGPUs with OpenCL ready.
IBM is getting their structure in order as well.
Smartphone Graphics leader, Imagination Technologies, is testing as well on Linux, WindowsCE and Symbian.
This is a short list, but far from complete of what's happening.
BFD.
I'm with you on this. I still have dreams of finally getting my hands on a '67 Nova SS fuel prices be damned. I'll even smuggle in Tetra-ethyl lead if I have to. -nB
Definitely a cool vehicle.
Seriously? I was thinking of Super Sport. Should all those classic car collectors crap themselves a pile of guilt because you go straight to Weisswurst or Die every time SS follow one another?
Only a mental moron thinks 666 means Satan. Even a Rabbi will laugh their ass off on that butchered Qabalistic interpretation.
Hell they might even mock you and say, ``Stay back you devil's advocate!''
Grow up. This Satan fallacy for the past 2,000 plus years has got to be the greatest one-trick lie ever spread.
Seriously? I'm 40 and you're 35. I cut my teeth on Fortran with GOTO and line numbers, not BASIC. Then again, I graduated in Mechanical Engineering and when I graduated the dipsh*ts interviewing me wished up one side and down the other that I had C Programming. Well back to degree two, Computer Science, and then they discussed, ``If only you had Java programming''--this was 1996. Luckily, NeXT wasn't big on Java and were smart enough to hire by one's extensive background and ability to engage in person.
The absolute most useless and strange question I got [from an ex-Microsoft guy starting his own company] was, ``Given an infinite amount of rope while standing at the Equator you have a 20 foot hole with a 20 foot span to cross and you are required to get across to the Northern Hemisphere. How would you solve this problem.?
The CTO asked me to review my answers and asked, ``How come you didn't think of climbing down the channel/canal and just walk around the Equator until it was filled up like a Yo-Yo?
My response, ``I figured, as a trained M.E. that K.I.S.S. applies here and just taking this infinite amount of rope and filling in a gap of rope 20 feet deep and 20ft across takes far less time to get to the other side, don't you?''
His response, ``You're the first person to ever answer the question that way.''
My response, ``Who thought of the Yo-Yo answer as a reasonable or expected answer?''
His response, ``I did.''
Uncomfortable moment with me breaking it to the notion that different minds will solve the same problem in different ways.
Needless to say, he was embarrassed in never thinking of the simple solution and I didn't get the job.
All I thought of after walking out, ``What a freakin' moron. Walk around the globe. Yeah, that's practical.''
Then I thought it must be a Microsoft thing which then spawned a comparison between colleagues of the dumbest questions ever asked in an interview.
My next favorite was the douche bag at Real Networks who thought he'd ask me a Kinematics question and seeing as he didn't have a Mechanical Engineering degree didn't understand my answer for it didn't coincide with the one he saw in a book.
I'm glad I didn't get that job, though I did end up interviewing for two weeks for an SQA job that ended with the CTO asking me all about QuickTime and Apple Engineering--none of which I cared to share with him.
I'm glad doing my own consulting and phasing more into Mechanical Engineering projects is coming full circle. There are too many business nobs with no Science running Software Companies.
Like hell Mozilla is hidden as Safari. WebKit is nothing like Gecko. And don't throw BS at it with KHTML/KJS is WebKit. WebKit dwarfs KHTML/KJS in depth and breadth. It's only now that QtWebKit is being merged into KDELIBS. How pathetic is that?
AmiPro and that's just on Windows platforms. NeXTSTEP had OpenWrite, CedarWord, Pages.app long before Pages.app for iWorks to name 4 more.
Yes, for sure, give LyX a try.
I'm truly looking forward to LyX 2.0 when it arrives soon. 1.6.3 is already solid, but 2.0 with XeTeX should really help it go far in expanding it's adoption. Kile 2.1 is almost here, then there is already TeXShop, TeXMaker and now TeXWorks to leverage.
Electrical Engineers don't take Heat Transfer. They would have taken Analog Circuits, Power Systems and more, but not Heat Transfer. Heat Transfer is reserved for Mechanical & Material Science Engineering.
Engineers use i as well to represent the imaginary part of a constant. Then when it comes to Vectors they use i, j and k when dealing with Forces that have both a scalar and vector component to them.
Wrong. I was citing the fact that Calculus I, II and III however you slice it is still freakin' Calculus that was presented by Newton, Leibniz, Euler and more.
Advanced fields of Calculus that extend beyond that base is still unique to their respective discipline.
Programming in C/C++/ObjC/Python/, etc., are solving the same problems but different pros/cons to their language design. The Laws of Mechanics can have 50 different programming languages thrown at it to solve them, but they don't change. They aren't solving the problem by becoming an Engineering discipline. The field of Heat Transfer has a specific set of applied physics and mathematics to solve myriad types of black body problems. You have immutable laws you work within to solve these problems.
Software Art Programming is all it will ever be because instead of 50 branches of Calculus [evolved over the advancements of Science and Mathematics] we have 50 Programming languages being applied to 50 branches of Calculus not because its sound, but because new languages are created by developers who would rather start a new language to compensate for the deficiency of another language(s) than to work in large groups of committees to make previously existing languages more complete.
We don't just like C and we don't just like Smalltalk so we get C++, ObjC. We don't like those so we get D, but we also get Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, Java, etc, etc.
As someone pointed out, Fortran is far more precise than even C for Numerical Analysis, but I doubt you'll find students today screaming to learn it.
Software Engineering is Software Programming.
It's foundation is driven by Commerce and the Internet far more than anyone ever anticipated. It's created nothing but a long list of skill lists that must be had now or your avenues for work are quickly pinched off. Becoming an Engineer you won't be starting off on Games with real Physics, Flight Simulators, etc. You'll be a grunt. Yet, as a grunt you know your education is grounded in hundreds of years of proven Science. In programming, you are constantly seeing new fads in languages and marketing driving where your skills need to evolve. It's not an Engineering Discipline. It's a life where you make money Consulting and having to reinvent the wheel quite often.
Top portion of a thunder/cloud houses the highest levels of electric potential and thus the worst place to fly.