It's a bit more complicated than that, I'm afraid.
For example, the number of pipelines is important. For example, Athlons have nine (or did at one point, I haven't looked at this one specifically). 3 x86 decoders, 3 fp, and 3 int. A P4 has six. 1 x86 decoder, 2 fp, and 3 int.
What that means, is that an Athlon performs ~9 operations per cycle, or 9 * 2.8 Ghz = ~25.2 billion instructions per second, and the intel would do 6 * 3.8Ghz = ~22.8. Those are very, very rough estimates.
Of course, those numbers actually depend on what instructions are actually sent (if you send all integer instructions, the P4 would come out ahead, etc.)
There's more too. The amount of cache effects how often the pipes are used (more cache, less pipe usage, is less waiting, which is faster). The size of the pipes is important (you may be doing more per cycle, but the cycles take longer). How well they can estimate future instructions, etc. Lots and lots of other things too.
So basically, the Ghz of the processor doesn't mean a whole lot. There's a lot more to take into consideration.
Yeah, the fees shocked me the first couple of times. They sound okay in thoery, but when they actually hit, you realize how bad they are.
I hope this works out, but I'm wondering how long it will take to become widespread. I'm not really sure how much I would use it. I mean, I use it for a couple of small sites, and donations, but other than that it's pretty much just for eBay. Oh well, I'm sure someone will find a good use for it.
I'm amazed Google is going with something that can't be in Beta.
And then, what, pray tell, is the fraction equivalent of 0.0625? I mean, you've seen that 0.25 is 1/4 so many times that you must OBVIOUSLY also be able give me 0.0625 using only that knowledge.
The point isn't about memorizing something that you have seen before that others have already figured out. It's about being able to take something that you HAVEN'T seen, and getting an answer.
You may not need them, but you've been taught a method to use. You're not showing that you know that 0.25 == 1/4, but that you know how to use the method you were taught, even on simple examples.
It's similar to Nvidia selling Ultras that didn't pass the test as GT models, while a few tweaks can unlock it. It's also similar to AMD having a few jumpers unbridged on the chip that a pencil can bridge. I understand why hardware manufacturers take shortcuts like this and ultimately it benefits the company as well as the end user. However, for a software company to do this is questionable.
Not really. When you unlock the extra pipes on the GTs, you're likely to get graphical glitches. You might get lucky, but NVidia can't really be expected to sell defective equipment.
As it currently stands, I have more games for my PS2, but most of them have very little replayability.
My gamecube gets the most play time, because the games can be played over and over and they're still great.
And my Xbox... Well, sometimes I still play Halo. Not very often. It's good for large multiplayer games of Halo, but that's pretty much the only game worth touching on the Xbox. My Halo box usually just gets used as a crappy dvd player.
It puts a little red icon in the upper right-hand corner when an update is available. You click on it to get the newest version. It does this for me on both Windows and Linux.
Speaking as someone with his masters in CS, a CS degree is for research, not the so-called real world work.
Your specific points: - compiler theory: Leave this to the compiler makers. Seriously, when was the last time you altered the source of your compiler to make it more efficient? And for a company project, it's going to be more important to make your code modular and maintainable than super-tweaked-assembler-efficient.
- relational model: This is probably the one you've hit the nail with. While not strictly necessary, it can solve headaches later. But it is also probably the easiest to pick up on your own, and you'll get decent at it while working anyway.
- discrete maths Basically useless. They're necessary for a good foundation in CS theory (ie, more research) but for actual work, your language and toolset are going to force this sort of thing on you anyway.
- data structure basics: You can't work without these, and they're easy to learn. You can't have work experience without knowing these, and they're easy to get from a book.
- algorithms: Most likely, you're going to get these on the job. Sure, school will teach you some, but not all of them. The only type I can think of coming up frequently are graph algorithms anyway.
As to learning / using what came before: You're going to be using specific toolsets and libraries. That's half the fun of code reuse. And if you don't have one readily available, you're going to find one if at all possible. Otherwise, you're reinventing the wheel whether you went to school or not.
Real-world experience is very important, for real-world work, and a degree will be useful, but is not necessary.
Saying you NEED a CS degree to program is like saying you need a mechanical engineering degree to put together a toy rocking horse that you bought your children for Christmas. I know it's not a great analogy, but it's the best I can think of for now.
He was purchased and assimilated by Gandhi during the great French Borg wars, and later Gandhi Luther King Jr. was bought out by Microsoft in 1812 for their revolutionary new version of Windows due out sometime in 2015.
Sheesh. Don't they teach history in schools anymore?
Where I live, the dialup+extra line is about $24/month cheaper than the lowest broadband.
I can get a second phone line for $6/month, but broadband prices here are insane. And you can only get it in two towns in a 70 mile radius from here. The cheapest I can get from my ISP (the only one around with broadband) is 256/128, for $40/month.
However, it merely states that if you have been forced to stop distributing the code, that you cannot distribute the binaries. Presumably, the only time this would come up would be a situation in which you've already been stopped from distributing anyway.
It isn't imposing anything that is, as the grandparent post stated, "capable of preventing research, development, and progress in some fields".
However, the GPL 3 is supposed to address IP and patents. I'm curious to see how that turns out.
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It's a bit more complicated than that, I'm afraid.
For example, the number of pipelines is important. For example, Athlons have nine (or did at one point, I haven't looked at this one specifically). 3 x86 decoders, 3 fp, and 3 int. A P4 has six. 1 x86 decoder, 2 fp, and 3 int.
What that means, is that an Athlon performs ~9 operations per cycle, or 9 * 2.8 Ghz = ~25.2 billion instructions per second, and the intel would do 6 * 3.8Ghz = ~22.8. Those are very, very rough estimates.
Of course, those numbers actually depend on what instructions are actually sent (if you send all integer instructions, the P4 would come out ahead, etc.)
There's more too. The amount of cache effects how often the pipes are used (more cache, less pipe usage, is less waiting, which is faster). The size of the pipes is important (you may be doing more per cycle, but the cycles take longer). How well they can estimate future instructions, etc. Lots and lots of other things too.
So basically, the Ghz of the processor doesn't mean a whole lot. There's a lot more to take into consideration.
Yeah, the fees shocked me the first couple of times. They sound okay in thoery, but when they actually hit, you realize how bad they are.
I hope this works out, but I'm wondering how long it will take to become widespread. I'm not really sure how much I would use it. I mean, I use it for a couple of small sites, and donations, but other than that it's pretty much just for eBay. Oh well, I'm sure someone will find a good use for it.
I'm amazed Google is going with something that can't be in Beta.
Simple. Once you've taken your photo, carve your information into the hillside in very large letters.
The birth of a new distribution!
And then, what, pray tell, is the fraction equivalent of 0.0625? I mean, you've seen that 0.25 is 1/4 so many times that you must OBVIOUSLY also be able give me 0.0625 using only that knowledge.
The point isn't about memorizing something that you have seen before that others have already figured out. It's about being able to take something that you HAVEN'T seen, and getting an answer.
You may not need them, but you've been taught a method to use. You're not showing that you know that 0.25 == 1/4, but that you know how to use the method you were taught, even on simple examples.
It's similar to Nvidia selling Ultras that didn't pass the test as GT models, while a few tweaks can unlock it. It's also similar to AMD having a few jumpers unbridged on the chip that a pencil can bridge. I understand why hardware manufacturers take shortcuts like this and ultimately it benefits the company as well as the end user. However, for a software company to do this is questionable.
Not really. When you unlock the extra pipes on the GTs, you're likely to get graphical glitches. You might get lucky, but NVidia can't really be expected to sell defective equipment.
"Then the gay actavists get involved and want to teach tolerance. So much for taking the kid to church and trying to teach them good values."
How are those conflicting? Tolerance is a bad thing? I could swear that book, what was it... The Bible, was all for it. That Jesus guy, I think.
I want to know where the hell teachers are making $80k+.
I've suddenly got an overwhelming desire to start teaching.
Depends on what part. In most of Missouri, it isn't pronounced that way.
I hear it with the A far more from others, from out of state.
Yeah, that's how I've always heard it, too, although others have stated it as con-FUZ-eld.
But then, I'm from Missouri too.
I've heard confuzzled for as long as I can remember.
Honestly, I had the same reaction with "ginormous" before. That was new to me.
The games do make a difference...
As it currently stands, I have more games for my PS2, but most of them have very little replayability.
My gamecube gets the most play time, because the games can be played over and over and they're still great.
And my Xbox... Well, sometimes I still play Halo. Not very often. It's good for large multiplayer games of Halo, but that's pretty much the only game worth touching on the Xbox. My Halo box usually just gets used as a crappy dvd player.
EDT is basically EST.
t imezones/na/edt.html
Eastern Daylight Time (UCT -4)
http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/
That's rather interesting. Although I don't find that the banning of any euphoric drug is odd.
Euphoria is dangerous! Secretly banned in the US!
We have the right to the pursuit of happiness, not happiness. The goverment thinks that if we find it, we'll revolt. Down with the man!
Or something. I forgot where this was going.
It puts a little red icon in the upper right-hand corner when an update is available. You click on it to get the newest version. It does this for me on both Windows and Linux.
Seems simple enough to me.
Immoral? No. Hypocritical? Maybe.
Doesn't matter. It's competing against Apple, so you have to switch to Apple fanboy mode.
Really, we need some official rules on how to post.
Here's how you rate the people/organizations posted though:
1) Apple
2) Garage / Lego nerds
4) Everyone not on this list
5) US Government
6) RIAA/MPAA
7) Yakov Smirnoff
Or something.
Speaking as someone with his masters in CS, a CS degree is for research, not the so-called real world work.
Your specific points:
- compiler theory: Leave this to the compiler makers. Seriously, when was the last time you altered the source of your compiler to make it more efficient? And for a company project, it's going to be more important to make your code modular and maintainable than super-tweaked-assembler-efficient.
- relational model: This is probably the one you've hit the nail with. While not strictly necessary, it can solve headaches later. But it is also probably the easiest to pick up on your own, and you'll get decent at it while working anyway.
- discrete maths
Basically useless. They're necessary for a good foundation in CS theory (ie, more research) but for actual work, your language and toolset are going to force this sort of thing on you anyway.
- data structure basics:
You can't work without these, and they're easy to learn. You can't have work experience without knowing these, and they're easy to get from a book.
- algorithms:
Most likely, you're going to get these on the job. Sure, school will teach you some, but not all of them. The only type I can think of coming up frequently are graph algorithms anyway.
As to learning / using what came before: You're going to be using specific toolsets and libraries. That's half the fun of code reuse. And if you don't have one readily available, you're going to find one if at all possible. Otherwise, you're reinventing the wheel whether you went to school or not.
Real-world experience is very important, for real-world work, and a degree will be useful, but is not necessary.
Saying you NEED a CS degree to program is like saying you need a mechanical engineering degree to put together a toy rocking horse that you bought your children for Christmas. I know it's not a great analogy, but it's the best I can think of for now.
He meant zero?
Or do you mean (N! - (N - 1)!) ?
That still sounds wrong though. Maybe something more like N^2 - N.
Martin Luther King Jr. day.
He was purchased and assimilated by Gandhi during the great French Borg wars, and later Gandhi Luther King Jr. was bought out by Microsoft in 1812 for their revolutionary new version of Windows due out sometime in 2015.
Sheesh. Don't they teach history in schools anymore?
I got one, Firefox 1.0 on Linux. Although because of one of my extensions it loaded in a tab in the background, so I didn't notice it at first.
Nice big ad with a target to try and shoot at President Bush with.
Depends on where you are at.
Where I live, the dialup+extra line is about $24/month cheaper than the lowest broadband.
I can get a second phone line for $6/month, but broadband prices here are insane. And you can only get it in two towns in a 70 mile radius from here. The cheapest I can get from my ISP (the only one around with broadband) is 256/128, for $40/month.
I tried this once, too, because of games. However, I couldn't find the triangle button on the damned thing and it took me too long to respond.
I stand corrected.
However, it merely states that if you have been forced to stop distributing the code, that you cannot distribute the binaries. Presumably, the only time this would come up would be a situation in which you've already been stopped from distributing anyway.
It isn't imposing anything that is, as the grandparent post stated, "capable of preventing research, development, and progress in some fields".
However, the GPL 3 is supposed to address IP and patents. I'm curious to see how that turns out.