Gee, Logic and Reason, where are you at? The top three were driven primarily out of the hate for Religion. Yes, Religion for or against it has been the biggest pain in the ass for Humanity.
I know I just wrote a thread on permits and their abuses, but I've got to say that as an Engineer and whose done Construction, this permit issue has truly been long overdue: If construction would f'n stick to code we wouln't be in such a pisser of a situation. Give'em an inch and they'll take a mile.
psst. Phil, I'm here to put a lean on your house for not being up-to-code and not having the inspector authorize your house addition.
Yo! That gas insert is also illegal and could create a fire hazzard. I'm going to have to file a report which will be added to your credit rating and be a black mark for any future additions.
In case you find this unreasonable, feel free to file a brief and ask for a mediation hearing. If you don't comply and violate any future home maintenance fixes I'm authorized to reposess your home.
What I'd give for all the f'n cars to be blown up, if it meant I didn't have to read another moronic Car Analogy and how it relates to the Internet, Operating System Design, Pedophiles, Pornography, RIAA and fill in the blank.
Next you're going to blame some phantom act of God because some douchebag didn't build their house up to code and therefore those that do must see their Insurance Premiums go up, ``for the greater good.''
... are truly delusional. This notion we all want to put our corporate documents, small business docs and more on Google's dime shows a glaring weakness in Google's strategy.
With Web Services available for companies to easily develop their own Corporate presences, it makes more sense to have WebDAV services for clients on your own sites, virtually deployed around the nation in various data centers to then route to the closest path possible. Let's not forget that 90% of the Industry doesn't need the "global reach" of Google since most of their clients are local.
Fortunately and unfortunately, 99.9% of the world population has no grasp of the fields of Engineering and their given purposes. As long as they can transmit flesh over RF frequencies along with short-hand scribble their days are fulfilled.
See my post elsewhere in this thread, but this isn't true: if you read the Fomalhaut paper (as opposed to the PR), they're unsure quite what mix of reflected starlight, thermal self-emission, and additional reflected light from a circumplanetary disk makes up the light seen from Fomalhaut b, at both visible and IR wavelengths.
These objects are actually more similar than they are different, in my opinion.
As for HST still being king, well, yes and no: depends on what you're after. Ground-based AO has caught up and exceeded HST in some domains already, while HST still wins in others. Ultimately we need ground- and space-based telescopes to get the most complete view: today it's HST and the 8-10m telescopes, tomorrow it's JWST and the 30-40m extremely large telescopes.
I somehow imagine that if they replaced Hubble with a current cousin in technological advances the King's cousin would reign supreme, across all fields of imagery.
Too bad we had to put so much into Iraq when just one month of cost could do wonders for earth orbiting telescopic research.
Until someone supports statements with quantitative analysis to back up their generalities, I'll keep moving them into the "no" column, regardless of party affiliation.
You're correct. Anyone who pisses away their time on Word or Writer and not using stuff like Kile, LyX 1.6, TeXShop or other editors with LaTeX and XeTeX deserve to have their dissertations look like s***. I'm writing 2 novels in LaTeX and their is now way in hell I'd use Word or Writer to attempt it.
I'm editing classics of literature as well with one over 5,000 pages. There is no way in hell I'm going to deal with the intricacies necessary for consistent formatting and not use LaTeX. If you think it takes much time to learn LaTeX than to muck with formatting issues with such large projects than you've never written anything over 20 pages in your entire life.
Guess what CUDA and Stream have been designed for? Yes: for programming the hardware. What you suggest is pure insanity. NEVER EVER touch hardware directly from an userland app. And once you start writing a kernel module, you end up with something like CUDA/Stream anyway.
I am a coder, and quite frankly I couldn't care less about nvidia drivers being closed source. They are MUCH better than the ATI ones, especially in the OpenGL department. nvidia whipped up a beta GL 3.0 driver in less than a month since GL3 specs were released. ATI? Nope. New standardized feature X is added to the registry. nvidia adds it pretty quickly; ATI adds it months, even years later. nvidia drivers are also pretty robust; I can bombard them with faulty OpenGL code, and they remain standing. With ATI's fglrx, even CORRECT code can cause malfunctioning.
THESE are the things I care about. Not the license.
No offense, but ATi is working on being first to be OpenCL and OpenGL 3.0 compliant. Good luck on nvidia getting off it's ass which is evident by their desperate CUDA push.
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Gee, Logic and Reason, where are you at? The top three were driven primarily out of the hate for Religion. Yes, Religion for or against it has been the biggest pain in the ass for Humanity.
Can't we all just get along?
I know I just wrote a thread on permits and their abuses, but I've got to say that as an Engineer and whose done Construction, this permit issue has truly been long overdue: If construction would f'n stick to code we wouln't be in such a pisser of a situation. Give'em an inch and they'll take a mile.
psst. Phil, I'm here to put a lean on your house for not being up-to-code and not having the inspector authorize your house addition.
Yo! That gas insert is also illegal and could create a fire hazzard. I'm going to have to file a report which will be added to your credit rating and be a black mark for any future additions.
In case you find this unreasonable, feel free to file a brief and ask for a mediation hearing. If you don't comply and violate any future home maintenance fixes I'm authorized to reposess your home.
Have a nice day.
He's up for US Attorney General and can't have his cover blown?
What I'd give for all the f'n cars to be blown up, if it meant I didn't have to read another moronic Car Analogy and how it relates to the Internet, Operating System Design, Pedophiles, Pornography, RIAA and fill in the blank.
Next you're going to blame some phantom act of God because some douchebag didn't build their house up to code and therefore those that do must see their Insurance Premiums go up, ``for the greater good.''
Please don't procreate.
That's nice. Compare surfing the Internet to a bus full of school kids. Great analogy there champ!
Hail to the Discordian in us All!
Imagine the power of effect vs. affect. Wars have been started over less, I tell ya!
... are truly delusional. This notion we all want to put our corporate documents, small business docs and more on Google's dime shows a glaring weakness in Google's strategy.
With Web Services available for companies to easily develop their own Corporate presences, it makes more sense to have WebDAV services for clients on your own sites, virtually deployed around the nation in various data centers to then route to the closest path possible. Let's not forget that 90% of the Industry doesn't need the "global reach" of Google since most of their clients are local.
Fortunately and unfortunately, 99.9% of the world population has no grasp of the fields of Engineering and their given purposes. As long as they can transmit flesh over RF frequencies along with short-hand scribble their days are fulfilled.
NVIDIA's Tesla products all support single precision IEEE-754 floating point, and their 10-series supports double precision.
Nvidia is moving to OpenCL compliance, as well.
See my post elsewhere in this thread, but this isn't true: if you read the Fomalhaut paper (as opposed to the PR), they're unsure quite what mix of reflected starlight, thermal self-emission, and additional reflected light from a circumplanetary disk makes up the light seen from Fomalhaut b, at both visible and IR wavelengths.
These objects are actually more similar than they are different, in my opinion.
As for HST still being king, well, yes and no: depends on what you're after. Ground-based AO has caught up and exceeded HST in some domains already, while HST still wins in others. Ultimately we need ground- and space-based telescopes to get the most complete view: today it's HST and the 8-10m telescopes, tomorrow it's JWST and the 30-40m extremely large telescopes.
I somehow imagine that if they replaced Hubble with a current cousin in technological advances the King's cousin would reign supreme, across all fields of imagery.
Too bad we had to put so much into Iraq when just one month of cost could do wonders for earth orbiting telescopic research.
What came to my mind were a type of Killer Tomato plant that vaporizes waste.
"Can you hear me now? Good!"
Whales: ``We fart in your general direction! Take that you human scumb!''
Tsunami sized fart bubble cripples sub, news at Eleven!
and not just on TV.
Hmm.. 3 days.. Well, that is 72 hours. Can make quite a few movies to cover 72 hours.
An epic fantasy shot in the style of 24. I do not know if I should be horrified or intrigued.
Don't forget those commercial breaks cue-in sound effects. That would truly be the icing on the cake.
Count three in the "no" column.
Until someone supports statements with quantitative analysis to back up their generalities, I'll keep moving them into the "no" column, regardless of party affiliation.
Count two in the "no" column.
You're correct. Anyone who pisses away their time on Word or Writer and not using stuff like Kile, LyX 1.6, TeXShop or other editors with LaTeX and XeTeX deserve to have their dissertations look like s***. I'm writing 2 novels in LaTeX and their is now way in hell I'd use Word or Writer to attempt it.
I'm editing classics of literature as well with one over 5,000 pages. There is no way in hell I'm going to deal with the intricacies necessary for consistent formatting and not use LaTeX. If you think it takes much time to learn LaTeX than to muck with formatting issues with such large projects than you've never written anything over 20 pages in your entire life.
meaning you can code directly the hardware
Guess what CUDA and Stream have been designed for? Yes: for programming the hardware. What you suggest is pure insanity. NEVER EVER touch hardware directly from an userland app. And once you start writing a kernel module, you end up with something like CUDA/Stream anyway.
I am a coder, and quite frankly I couldn't care less about nvidia drivers being closed source. They are MUCH better than the ATI ones, especially in the OpenGL department. nvidia whipped up a beta GL 3.0 driver in less than a month since GL3 specs were released. ATI? Nope. New standardized feature X is added to the registry. nvidia adds it pretty quickly; ATI adds it months, even years later. nvidia drivers are also pretty robust; I can bombard them with faulty OpenGL code, and they remain standing. With ATI's fglrx, even CORRECT code can cause malfunctioning.
THESE are the things I care about. Not the license.
No offense, but ATi is working on being first to be OpenCL and OpenGL 3.0 compliant. Good luck on nvidia getting off it's ass which is evident by their desperate CUDA push.
Yes, AMD's Stream technology. I don't think it is used as much as CUDA in practice.
Soon to be supplanted by OpenCL as being OpenCL compliant.
I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of my awesome Barack Obama firefox theme.
I was told not only were my taxes and mortgage going to be covered, but I have a Chicago prostitute allowance for towing the line.
From the latest version in Debian KDE 4.1.3 running Amarok one thought comes to mind: it's an absolute abortion.
My Swedish vibrator still doesn't have Linux drivers
Note: Human operator not included.