Bleeding edge Javascript "compilers" are now fast enough to run some elementary code.
Great, how about they move to real programming languages and compilers instead? I don't want to need a supercomputer to run Javascript code that would run as fine with a proper programming language on a computer from 1980.
Except Larrabee failed because performance didn't live up to expectations and was a generation behind the best from AMD and nVidia.
The original plan was to release a 32-core Larrabee in 2009, with a maximum theoritical performance of 2 TFlops. That's more than the most powerful nvidia card available today. And unlike a GPU, you could actually reach that performance, since it's a real x86-compatible CPU you have full access to, with intrinsincs similar to that of SSE (Larrabee is pretty much the ideal SIMD ISA -- much better than SSE or AVX) available on regular compilers. It also doesn't contain hardcoded fixed-function pipelines, which is a good thing.
What this development from AMD allows is much more efficient interaction and sharing of data between a traditional CPU and an on-die GPU through updates to the memory architecture. These memory changes will also allow the parts to take advantage of the very fastest DDR3 memory that current CPUs struggle to fully utilise.
Larrabee uses a high-bandwidth ring bus to communicate between cores, like the Cell architecture; that has been proven to be a very good design, and Intel adds cache-coherency hierarchy on top of it so that all cores see the same shared memory.
When a guy breaks into your house and steals your belongings, "Hey, he had a lousy alarm system and was gone over Labor Day Weekend, he was asking for it!"
Actually, if you leave your house unprotected and someone steals your belongings, you cannot claim money from your insurance. So insurance companies use the same logic.
Funnily enough, despite the prices of Apple products being higher in euros than they are in dollars (even though the dollar is barely 0.7 euro), it will be cheaper to import an unlocked one from Europe.
Because, believe it or not, but in most European countries, tie-in sale is forbidden by law (though an exclusivity period of up to six months is allowed).
You seem to have a completely distorted idea of what programming is. It has nothing to do with knowing the different kinds of USB plugs. It's knowing how to describe a calculation so that it can be automated by a machine.
This is not what an ATM is for. It should just be a machine where you put your card, input the amount of cash you want, get your cash and go. Doing anything else just causes queues and annoyances.
Pay your bills on the Internet like normal people. Or better yet use automatic debit so that you don't have to waste time taking care of such things.
This was to be expected, the way they handle memory is completely broken. They're in C++, they should use RAII and exceptions.
Instead they code like in C (with returns everywhere and no mean to clean up everything) but with a Java-like OO model that relies on garbage collection.
You do realize it takes at least 5 years just to get something patented? So by the time your thing is patented, and you've paid up to $100,000 to do so worldwide, it's not worth anything anymore?
Maybe it you just used the default settings instead of incorrectly trying to tinker with stuff, it would work for you as it works for everybody else? I have no problem with Gnome 2 nor KDE4, be it on ATI or Nvidia cards.
Now it is widely known that some ATI cards were only well-supported by fglrx and fglrx dropped support for them (ATI's decision), so if you're using one of those (like the Radeon 9800 Pro) you're better off buying a new one if you're using Linux. But the nvidia drivers usually work flawlessly and they don't drop mid-old cards like this.
Because reading a digital copy sucks compared to the real thing? It might be ok for books (assuming you have e-ink), but certainly not ok for fullcolor high-resolution comic books. The only good thing you can do with your digital copy is print it with a high-resolution printer, which is probably going to cost you more than buying a real copy directly. Cool be useful if you're abroad though.
The media is so sensationalist that it managed to make people seriously believe that nuclear plants were very dangerous, to the point of forcing Germany, the main power behind the EU, to throw its economy and society down the gutter, depend more on other countries, and pollute more?
Yes, you're right, science is pure evil, "scientists" want to make life better so as to better corrupt and control people. Don't fall for this temptation, son, and help us kill the heretics that defy our mother nature!
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Bleeding edge Javascript "compilers" are now fast enough to run some elementary code.
Great, how about they move to real programming languages and compilers instead?
I don't want to need a supercomputer to run Javascript code that would run as fine with a proper programming language on a computer from 1980.
The original plan was to release a 32-core Larrabee in 2009, with a maximum theoritical performance of 2 TFlops. That's more than the most powerful nvidia card available today.
And unlike a GPU, you could actually reach that performance, since it's a real x86-compatible CPU you have full access to, with intrinsincs similar to that of SSE (Larrabee is pretty much the ideal SIMD ISA -- much better than SSE or AVX) available on regular compilers.
It also doesn't contain hardcoded fixed-function pipelines, which is a good thing.
Larrabee uses a high-bandwidth ring bus to communicate between cores, like the Cell architecture; that has been proven to be a very good design, and Intel adds cache-coherency hierarchy on top of it so that all cores see the same shared memory.
They already have Larrabee, which is pretty much the same thing but far better.
Actually, if you leave your house unprotected and someone steals your belongings, you cannot claim money from your insurance. So insurance companies use the same logic.
There are already tons of such tools, most of which are not tied to specific architectures, operating systems, or compilers.
Really, why would you go Microsoft on this at all? Clusters and supercomputers usually don't even run Windows at all.
We have the same shit in France, but they're so pathetic we can at least make fun of them.
Funnily enough, despite the prices of Apple products being higher in euros than they are in dollars (even though the dollar is barely 0.7 euro), it will be cheaper to import an unlocked one from Europe.
Because, believe it or not, but in most European countries, tie-in sale is forbidden by law (though an exclusivity period of up to six months is allowed).
You seem to have a completely distorted idea of what programming is.
It has nothing to do with knowing the different kinds of USB plugs. It's knowing how to describe a calculation so that it can be automated by a machine.
It's essentially applied math.
They probably wanted to play Skyrim early.
This is not what an ATM is for. It should just be a machine where you put your card, input the amount of cash you want, get your cash and go.
Doing anything else just causes queues and annoyances.
Pay your bills on the Internet like normal people. Or better yet use automatic debit so that you don't have to waste time taking care of such things.
This was to be expected, the way they handle memory is completely broken.
They're in C++, they should use RAII and exceptions.
Instead they code like in C (with returns everywhere and no mean to clean up everything) but with a Java-like OO model that relies on garbage collection.
You do realize it takes at least 5 years just to get something patented?
So by the time your thing is patented, and you've paid up to $100,000 to do so worldwide, it's not worth anything anymore?
Nice.
$249 in the US, JPY24,980 in Japan, and EUR249 in Europe
Hasn't anyone told them that $1 != 1€ != ¥100 ?
Maybe it you just used the default settings instead of incorrectly trying to tinker with stuff, it would work for you as it works for everybody else?
I have no problem with Gnome 2 nor KDE4, be it on ATI or Nvidia cards.
Now it is widely known that some ATI cards were only well-supported by fglrx and fglrx dropped support for them (ATI's decision), so if you're using one of those (like the Radeon 9800 Pro) you're better off buying a new one if you're using Linux.
But the nvidia drivers usually work flawlessly and they don't drop mid-old cards like this.
Because reading a digital copy sucks compared to the real thing?
It might be ok for books (assuming you have e-ink), but certainly not ok for fullcolor high-resolution comic books. The only good thing you can do with your digital copy is print it with a high-resolution printer, which is probably going to cost you more than buying a real copy directly. Cool be useful if you're abroad though.
The media is so sensationalist that it managed to make people seriously believe that nuclear plants were very dangerous, to the point of forcing Germany, the main power behind the EU, to throw its economy and society down the gutter, depend more on other countries, and pollute more?
Nice.
Yes, you're right, science is pure evil, "scientists" want to make life better so as to better corrupt and control people.
Don't fall for this temptation, son, and help us kill the heretics that defy our mother nature!
Isn't that the definition of terrorists?
A good engineer makes that in under 10 years.
Actually, it's French, not Latin.
is all it is
Of course they can, the US do whatever they fucking want. It's as if the world is theirs to rule to them.
The common process is for one applied mathematician to write the algorithm in Matlab, then 15 people to convert it to optimized C++/CUDA.
Surely you can see the point in making Matlab faster, or for automated generation tools.
Facial mocap were already used in Heavy Rain.
As a result the game cost a fortune since they basically had actors acting the whole game.
Isn't satirical work basically the definition of fair use?