Well, unlike Jobs, Linus is creating/maintaining/guarding some of the most important code in the world... which is *free*. He can dick it up all he wants I say.
He doesn't create shit without a job and funding; and like Jobs business leaders with vision make it possible.
You don't get pebble bed based nuclear reactors on regular scale but somehow we're going to get home based nuclear power and let the local electrician get new certification in stalling a nuclear bomb in your home? Sorry, but I'll take a mixed-use solution with Solar and Wind for a thousand, Alex.
Secondly, another difference favoring Bitcoin mining on AMD GPUs instead of Nvidia's is that the mining algorithm is based on SHA-256, which makes heavy use of the 32-bit integer right rotate operation. This operation can be implemented as a single hardware instruction on AMD GPUs (BIT_ALIGN_INT), but requires three separate hardware instructions to be emulated on Nvidia GPUs (2 shifts + 1 add). This alone gives AMD another 1.7x performance advantage (~1900 instructions instead of ~3250 to execute the SHA-256 compression function).
For GPU programming I've enjoyed Nvidia's CUDA package greatly over wrangling OpenCL that Radeon relies on.
You're living on borrowed time with CUDA. The entire industry has already moved to OpenCL and it will only expand when all the heavy Engineering and Science vendors are fully on-board. When Ansys 14.5 already moved to OpenCL for its latest release you know such a conservative corporation is one of the last to make the transition.
FX-8350 is compared to the i5 3570 for Non-multithreaded applications. It surpasses the i7 3770 in multi-threaded applications; and when thrown in with a paired up GPGPU from AMD with code leveraging OpenCL 1.2 is kicks the holy shit out of Intel's equivalent offerings.
8 *Bulldozer* cores, which makes it comparable to an i5 - mid-level for gaming. And underclocked to 2GHz - so maybe more like an i3. Which makes it...
It's not Bulldozer. It's the Jaguar architecture which is the successor to Piledriver for Embedded SoC. This one is a custom SoC as it has not the requisite 2-4 cores but 8 cores with a strapped on 7800 GPGPU on it using a shared 8GB DDR5 set up.
That's a Mac thing. Any program that uses Apple's built-in printer dialog can do it. So handy!
It's not Apple's Built-in printer dialog that makes Save As PDF possible. It's the fact that Apple's Display Engine is Display PDF as a replacement to Display Postscript after Adobe wouldn't drop the $10/OS license attributed to NeXTSTEP/Openstep when we merged with Apple. So Grafanino, Barnes and others rewrote the damn thing in Display PDF. They extended services to it via the Preview application and other APIs for 3rd parties to leverage, including the slowly evolving Printer Dialogue UI.
That is simply not happening this decade. The jump in required computing power is ridiculous, while the current "fake lighting" is almost good enough. At the same time, you can't really utilize the current GPU types efficiently for real time lighting because that's simply not what they're optimized for.
Agreed. Wake me when BTO systems from Newegg or custom systems from Apple have options to install 256 or 512 GB of DDR4 RAM, not to mention the SDRAM designers have shrunken the die size down for a single stick to support 64 or 128 GB of ram. We already know Motherboard manufacturers aren't going to dedicate more room for RAM Slots and the Bus architectures needed for this future will have to be a whole new beast.
True, not to mention with C11 you get Unicode and much more. C resurgence as a popular language is widely quantifiable. Perl as a dying language is widely quantifiable.
I've always loved these thought experiments, carving up the world into new and improved political alignments. This stemmed from encountering C. Etzel Pearcy's proposed 38 State map published in the 1975 People's Almanac; his notions of a better functioning nation arising from a more equitable distribution of state alignments really had an impact on me, growing up as I did on the mostly barren east side of Oregon, and listening to my elders constantly complaining about getting shafted via taxes by the moneygrubbers in Portland/Salem/Eugene. The Almanac also featured another new map of the US, with 22 states I think; can't find any info about it at the moment though.
Also an interesting read was Joel Garreau's book The Nine Nations of North America, which was more about the cultural mass regions that make up the continent.
Grew up in Eastern Wa where the same clap trap bs stories abou being shafted by state funds reside to this day. My favorite is the present whining about not getting allocated road funds while lobbying the state to gut business taxes and eliminate individual taxes. Complete moronville.
More like,"Hi there! This is Bippy, your personal interactive video helper! I see you have your pants off! Would you like me to open a Spice subscription for you? I already have all of your personal and billing information available, I just need your verbal acknowledgement."
How about, in a huskier female voice:
``Welcome to the Spice Channel Trial Package deep immersion experience. Just sit back and relax as our girls blast you off. Let us know how you like it and we'll make sure your service is uninterrupted.''
On the lower part of the screen is a Question Mark.
`Hi. My name is Bippy and welcome to your subscription to the free Spice Adult immersion experience. If any time before this free trial is over you are not happy with this service please feel free to contact me and I'll walk you through on how to cancel your subscription.''
In the lower corner in fine print, ``All subscriptions are presumed active unless otherwise specifically deselected by walking through the deactivation of subscription survey required before we remove this service from your account.''
Meanwhile, you're too busy with your pants down to notice or care until you get a bill with some interesting surcharges on your television service package, during the second month and first day after you never cancelled your free trial subscription.
What exactly would you consider a better technology?
Pure HTML is nothing more than an SGML derivative, like XML, and for the use of formatting, is not bad.
CSS, as a way of taking some of the ambiguity and potential for different interpretations on formatting, is also not bad.
JavaScript... OK, yeah, this language could be better. It has a lot of nifty features that can do more harm than good, and is missing one or two nice features (like good type identification, rather than prototype checking, which can have quirks in different browsers).
Everything else is a non-standard and/or proprietary add-on.
Can you think of a better alternative out there that fulfills all the same needs? About the only thing I can think of doing to improve it is replace JavaScript with python (mostly to fix the missing features), Java or C# - and then tweak CSS and HTML a bit to add a few extra features.
By the way, the needs of HTML, as far as I can observe:
To present data on a wide variety of systems, where presenting the data accurately is more important than minor (and even major) variances in formatting, as may be called for by the platform presenting the document(s).
Considering the Browser is written in C/C++ I think a standard Media Library fully open in C/C++ with clean hooks via HTML 5 and it's Media methodology would be just fine.
p>No CAT Scan, MRI or Cancer drugs would have been invented without patents to give the inventors time to make their years of investment back by a period of exclusivity.
Really? Most fundamental medical advances are created in academia, mostly with public money. Many companies just take the relatively small step to a commercial product. William H. Oldendorf would have done his pioneering work on the CAT scan, whether there was a patent system or not. Indeed, looking at his wikipedia biography, he worked in public institutions for most of his life.
Most of the companies are LLC partnerships developed by the faculties at the Universities who then hire business staff to help run their inventions. It's a synergy of public/private cooperation. Get it? The OP talking about MRI can however thank Particle Physics and Particle Accelerators for the reason MRI, CAT Scans, and the like along with thousands of other advances needed as building blocks to solve a big science idea, for their existence.
There was no market 10,000 years ago. There were warlords who phasing from hunter/gatherer to agriculture most definitely didn't implement free market ideas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_millennium_BC
cash and put it to advancing applied sciences to better the nation. We piss billions down the drain marketing to morons and yet whine about spending billions on DARPA, DoE and whatnot. This county is truly too stupid for its own well-being.
You lost me at ``Most scientists are not programmers...'' schtick. Whether it was my Mechanical Engineering professors fluent in ADA, C, Fortran, C++ or Pascal or my EE professors in the same, to my Mathematics Professors all in the same, not a single CS Professor could hold a candle to them, unless we started dicking around with LISP, SmallTalk or VisualBasic for shits and giggles. In fact, they became proficient in these languages because they had to write custom software to model nonlinear-dynamic systems. Perhaps in the post 2000 era scientist group we have Matlab/Octave/R/Python lovers but the old school folks are hardcore in their knowledge of those languages.
Rarely does one find an expert in software development who is an expert in any Engineering, Physics or Mathematics field of research.
It's a couple of Supply Side Neo-con economists who were against Stimulus and Pro-Austerity talking about economic equilibrium as if Economies are in a fixed sphere with a fixed about of water that given enough release of pressure we level out and stabilize. Their applications are absurdly shallow and small in scale, which is ironic for two macroeconomic theorists. The best news is that the overwhelming majority of global economists think they're full of crap.
There are industries where a severely limited patent system makes sense. Any industry that's too tightly regulated by government, so that barrier to entry is impossible, like pharma or telecom. Of course you could solve the same problem by pealing back the red tape as well. Competition in the free and open market is the only thing that truly breeds innovation. No free market, no competition. It's easy.
You live in a deluded fantasy that free market and zero regulation means honest brokers and business ventures. Grow up and get passed Friedman's fallacy along with Ayn Rand.
No you don't. That's Keynesian nonsense. Corporations that are poorly managed need to go bankrupt and the burden should not be placed on the tax payers. Yes, some people will lose their jobs. That's called life, sometimes it happens. The worst thing you can do is paper over it just to make everyone happy. Another company that is better managed will move in to fill the void, they always do.
Now that executives of major corporations know they can rely on Uncle Sam to bail them out for making big mistakes (and they won't even go to jail if they commit massive fraud like the banking scandals of the last decade), there is no incentive for them to not take big gambles and otherwise behave more recklessly than they would if there were actual consequences.
I stopped reading at the jab towards Keynes. Please can someone put a literal bullet into the ideas of non-Keynesian Economics already. Friedman's asinine approaches to economic theory are the very reason we keep dipping into recessions and if left unchecked, great depressions.
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Hey genius, every platform is responsible for porting WebKit to their API needs and platform. It requires work.
This experiment will be over in 9 months without a large infusion of capital.
Good thing that Google is giving Mozilla $300 million/year then
That's not large. That covers operations and salaries with current R&D.
This experiment will be over in 9 months without a large infusion of capital.
Well, unlike Jobs, Linus is creating/maintaining/guarding some of the most important code in the world... which is *free*. He can dick it up all he wants I say.
He doesn't create shit without a job and funding; and like Jobs business leaders with vision make it possible.
You don't get pebble bed based nuclear reactors on regular scale but somehow we're going to get home based nuclear power and let the local electrician get new certification in stalling a nuclear bomb in your home? Sorry, but I'll take a mixed-use solution with Solar and Wind for a thousand, Alex.
This is the explanation I've been given for the disparity between Nvidia and AMD: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Why_a_GPU_mines_faster_than_a_CPU#Why_are_AMD_GPUs_faster_than_Nvidia_GPUs.3F Specifically:
For GPU programming I've enjoyed Nvidia's CUDA package greatly over wrangling OpenCL that Radeon relies on.
You're living on borrowed time with CUDA. The entire industry has already moved to OpenCL and it will only expand when all the heavy Engineering and Science vendors are fully on-board. When Ansys 14.5 already moved to OpenCL for its latest release you know such a conservative corporation is one of the last to make the transition.
Time makes an ass out of us all, but today, just you.
FX-8350 is compared to the i5 3570 for Non-multithreaded applications. It surpasses the i7 3770 in multi-threaded applications; and when thrown in with a paired up GPGPU from AMD with code leveraging OpenCL 1.2 is kicks the holy shit out of Intel's equivalent offerings.
8 *Bulldozer* cores, which makes it comparable to an i5 - mid-level for gaming. And underclocked to 2GHz - so maybe more like an i3. Which makes it...
It's not Bulldozer. It's the Jaguar architecture which is the successor to Piledriver for Embedded SoC. This one is a custom SoC as it has not the requisite 2-4 cores but 8 cores with a strapped on 7800 GPGPU on it using a shared 8GB DDR5 set up.
http://images.anandtech.com/doci/5503/Screen%20Shot%202012-02-01%20at%202.14.03%20PM.png
That's a Mac thing. Any program that uses Apple's built-in printer dialog can do it. So handy!
It's not Apple's Built-in printer dialog that makes Save As PDF possible. It's the fact that Apple's Display Engine is Display PDF as a replacement to Display Postscript after Adobe wouldn't drop the $10/OS license attributed to NeXTSTEP/Openstep when we merged with Apple. So Grafanino, Barnes and others rewrote the damn thing in Display PDF. They extended services to it via the Preview application and other APIs for 3rd parties to leverage, including the slowly evolving Printer Dialogue UI.
That is simply not happening this decade. The jump in required computing power is ridiculous, while the current "fake lighting" is almost good enough. At the same time, you can't really utilize the current GPU types efficiently for real time lighting because that's simply not what they're optimized for.
Agreed. Wake me when BTO systems from Newegg or custom systems from Apple have options to install 256 or 512 GB of DDR4 RAM, not to mention the SDRAM designers have shrunken the die size down for a single stick to support 64 or 128 GB of ram. We already know Motherboard manufacturers aren't going to dedicate more room for RAM Slots and the Bus architectures needed for this future will have to be a whole new beast.
Still can't match the power of the AMD FirePro S10000; and AMD's strategy for HSA Computing is where industry is headed.
...perl...cleaner code...
True, not to mention with C11 you get Unicode and much more. C resurgence as a popular language is widely quantifiable. Perl as a dying language is widely quantifiable.
I've always loved these thought experiments, carving up the world into new and improved political alignments. This stemmed from encountering C. Etzel Pearcy's proposed 38 State map published in the 1975 People's Almanac; his notions of a better functioning nation arising from a more equitable distribution of state alignments really had an impact on me, growing up as I did on the mostly barren east side of Oregon, and listening to my elders constantly complaining about getting shafted via taxes by the moneygrubbers in Portland/Salem/Eugene. The Almanac also featured another new map of the US, with 22 states I think; can't find any info about it at the moment though.
Also an interesting read was Joel Garreau's book The Nine Nations of North America, which was more about the cultural mass regions that make up the continent.
Grew up in Eastern Wa where the same clap trap bs stories abou being shafted by state funds reside to this day. My favorite is the present whining about not getting allocated road funds while lobbying the state to gut business taxes and eliminate individual taxes. Complete moronville.
More like,"Hi there! This is Bippy, your personal interactive video helper! I see you have your pants off! Would you like me to open a Spice subscription for you? I already have all of your personal and billing information available, I just need your verbal acknowledgement."
How about, in a huskier female voice:
``Welcome to the Spice Channel Trial Package deep immersion experience. Just sit back and relax as our girls blast you off. Let us know how you like it and we'll make sure your service is uninterrupted.''
On the lower part of the screen is a Question Mark.
`Hi. My name is Bippy and welcome to your subscription to the free Spice Adult immersion experience. If any time before this free trial is over you are not happy with this service please feel free to contact me and I'll walk you through on how to cancel your subscription.''
In the lower corner in fine print, ``All subscriptions are presumed active unless otherwise specifically deselected by walking through the deactivation of subscription survey required before we remove this service from your account.''
Meanwhile, you're too busy with your pants down to notice or care until you get a bill with some interesting surcharges on your television service package, during the second month and first day after you never cancelled your free trial subscription.
What exactly would you consider a better technology?
Pure HTML is nothing more than an SGML derivative, like XML, and for the use of formatting, is not bad. CSS, as a way of taking some of the ambiguity and potential for different interpretations on formatting, is also not bad. JavaScript... OK, yeah, this language could be better. It has a lot of nifty features that can do more harm than good, and is missing one or two nice features (like good type identification, rather than prototype checking, which can have quirks in different browsers).
Everything else is a non-standard and/or proprietary add-on.
Can you think of a better alternative out there that fulfills all the same needs? About the only thing I can think of doing to improve it is replace JavaScript with python (mostly to fix the missing features), Java or C# - and then tweak CSS and HTML a bit to add a few extra features.
By the way, the needs of HTML, as far as I can observe: To present data on a wide variety of systems, where presenting the data accurately is more important than minor (and even major) variances in formatting, as may be called for by the platform presenting the document(s).
Considering the Browser is written in C/C++ I think a standard Media Library fully open in C/C++ with clean hooks via HTML 5 and it's Media methodology would be just fine.
p>No CAT Scan, MRI or Cancer drugs would have been invented without patents to give the inventors time to make their years of investment back by a period of exclusivity.
Really? Most fundamental medical advances are created in academia, mostly with public money. Many companies just take the relatively small step to a commercial product. William H. Oldendorf would have done his pioneering work on the CAT scan, whether there was a patent system or not. Indeed, looking at his wikipedia biography, he worked in public institutions for most of his life.
Most of the companies are LLC partnerships developed by the faculties at the Universities who then hire business staff to help run their inventions. It's a synergy of public/private cooperation. Get it? The OP talking about MRI can however thank Particle Physics and Particle Accelerators for the reason MRI, CAT Scans, and the like along with thousands of other advances needed as building blocks to solve a big science idea, for their existence.
There was no market 10,000 years ago. There were warlords who phasing from hunter/gatherer to agriculture most definitely didn't implement free market ideas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_millennium_BC
cash and put it to advancing applied sciences to better the nation. We piss billions down the drain marketing to morons and yet whine about spending billions on DARPA, DoE and whatnot. This county is truly too stupid for its own well-being.
You lost me at ``Most scientists are not programmers...'' schtick. Whether it was my Mechanical Engineering professors fluent in ADA, C, Fortran, C++ or Pascal or my EE professors in the same, to my Mathematics Professors all in the same, not a single CS Professor could hold a candle to them, unless we started dicking around with LISP, SmallTalk or VisualBasic for shits and giggles. In fact, they became proficient in these languages because they had to write custom software to model nonlinear-dynamic systems. Perhaps in the post 2000 era scientist group we have Matlab/Octave/R/Python lovers but the old school folks are hardcore in their knowledge of those languages.
Rarely does one find an expert in software development who is an expert in any Engineering, Physics or Mathematics field of research.
Create something worth copyrighting. Then bitch about it being too long under your legal protection. Just Do It.
It's a couple of Supply Side Neo-con economists who were against Stimulus and Pro-Austerity talking about economic equilibrium as if Economies are in a fixed sphere with a fixed about of water that given enough release of pressure we level out and stabilize. Their applications are absurdly shallow and small in scale, which is ironic for two macroeconomic theorists. The best news is that the overwhelming majority of global economists think they're full of crap.
There are industries where a severely limited patent system makes sense. Any industry that's too tightly regulated by government, so that barrier to entry is impossible, like pharma or telecom. Of course you could solve the same problem by pealing back the red tape as well. Competition in the free and open market is the only thing that truly breeds innovation. No free market, no competition. It's easy.
You live in a deluded fantasy that free market and zero regulation means honest brokers and business ventures. Grow up and get passed Friedman's fallacy along with Ayn Rand.
Sell the first N pages for $0.01 per page or whatever, but the last chapter is $2.00 per page.
I could see that working for mystery novels...
Really? That scheme would result in one action: hardbound books and paperback sales through the roof.
No you don't. That's Keynesian nonsense. Corporations that are poorly managed need to go bankrupt and the burden should not be placed on the tax payers. Yes, some people will lose their jobs. That's called life, sometimes it happens. The worst thing you can do is paper over it just to make everyone happy. Another company that is better managed will move in to fill the void, they always do. Now that executives of major corporations know they can rely on Uncle Sam to bail them out for making big mistakes (and they won't even go to jail if they commit massive fraud like the banking scandals of the last decade), there is no incentive for them to not take big gambles and otherwise behave more recklessly than they would if there were actual consequences.
I stopped reading at the jab towards Keynes. Please can someone put a literal bullet into the ideas of non-Keynesian Economics already. Friedman's asinine approaches to economic theory are the very reason we keep dipping into recessions and if left unchecked, great depressions.