4x speedup is nothing. Using the GPU correctly should bring much higher speedups. That kind of gain could simply be obtained by optimizing the CPU code.
Lastly, my Wi-Fi broke upon upgrading (BCM4322). I had to do some command line modprobe stuff to get it back running. Not a Unity issue, but still annoying, and hurts usability.
That's nothing compared to the driver problems with vista or seven.
Lets have a system where the professor is rewarded for doing their own research, rather than their ability to write grants and farm out the work to their subjugated minions.
Did you mean to say, "let's have a system where no research is actually done"? Important research cannot be done alone. And doing research with several people working on your projects requires receiving grants to be able to pay them. Doing all the paperwork to get those grants (which is not something we can get rid of) means that's the researcher won't have much time to actually do research, indeed. But usually he still has enough time to explain his vision to the people working with him, and that's enough to get things done.
This is not US-specific, it's like that in all western countries.
And it's actually meant to be that way. The academic world is the only place where fundamental research can be done, since the private sector has no interest in research that do not have direct applications.
If you want to do practical research, work as a R&D engineer in the private sector.
I often find myself writing a script directly in my terminal, without going through a text editor. A simple for i in `find the_files_i_want_to_do_something_with | preprocess_the_input`; do what_I_want_to_do_on_those_files $i; done. In this particular, I'm just using the shell I happen to be running (bash). I don't have to care about compatibility. Whatever works to get my job done is enough.
Actually, whenever I want to write a re-usable script, I write it in Python.
There's just no way any MMO is going to "beat" World of Warcraft
As far as I'm concerned, any MMO is better than WoW. I never got why people liked it so much. It's the most terrible one I've ever played. It's pure grinding, has little to no character customization, uninteresting classes that are all the same, very poor graphics... It's like an old school MMORPG but without the roleplaying nor the old-school feel.
More importantly, how can the city hall allow to marry someone if they're already listed as married to someone else? It's the city hall that is wrong here, not the person...
The Cell is a mini vector processor cluster which is not completely unlike graphics cards and was, at the time it was released, more powerful than them. You had the usual C/C++ toolchain available, and it was a fairly simple architecture to use compared to a GPU (and even compared to an x86 -- SIMD is simpler on the Cell than on x86).
Yet it was a failure, because game developers were completely unable to use it. Game development is a quick and dirty process, and they need to be multi-platform to sell more. There is no time to learn the specifics of a platform and designing your game to exploit it. That's why they prefer having one API to rule them all (DirectX).
Even within the whole of the Ubisoft studios, there are only a couple of people capable of getting near 80% of the Cell processing power.
Why would you want a tasteless Guinness Draught when you can get a Guinness Original, which has a much richer taste? The latter also doesn't have that nitrogen thing.
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The EU isn't a country.
And China getting past Japan must be pretty recent.
Huh? Aren't they the second richest country in the world?
4x speedup is nothing. Using the GPU correctly should bring much higher speedups.
That kind of gain could simply be obtained by optimizing the CPU code.
I assume it's powered by HDMI.
That's nothing compared to the driver problems with vista or seven.
AFAIK it only works with fingers.
Did you mean to say, "let's have a system where no research is actually done"?
Important research cannot be done alone. And doing research with several people working on your projects requires receiving grants to be able to pay them. Doing all the paperwork to get those grants (which is not something we can get rid of) means that's the researcher won't have much time to actually do research, indeed. But usually he still has enough time to explain his vision to the people working with him, and that's enough to get things done.
This is not US-specific, it's like that in all western countries.
And it's actually meant to be that way. The academic world is the only place where fundamental research can be done, since the private sector has no interest in research that do not have direct applications.
If you want to do practical research, work as a R&D engineer in the private sector.
That just made me rofl
It's more "let's copy Windows and Mac OS X" than anything else.
But I, for one, find the Mac OS X UI unusable, and Windows is getting worse with every new version.
It seems like they're trying to turn the desktop into some media experience rather than a tool to do things with.
Not all scripts are meant to be re-usable.
I often find myself writing a script directly in my terminal, without going through a text editor. A simple for i in `find the_files_i_want_to_do_something_with | preprocess_the_input`; do what_I_want_to_do_on_those_files $i; done.
In this particular, I'm just using the shell I happen to be running (bash). I don't have to care about compatibility. Whatever works to get my job done is enough.
Actually, whenever I want to write a re-usable script, I write it in Python.
The subject of a message counts as a headline to me.
it's not unusual for headlines to be verbless.
see subject.
Creator of Islam. Embrace, extend, and extinguish.
See subject.
AMD/ATI doesn't even work, so you can't even compare it.
As far as I'm concerned, any MMO is better than WoW. I never got why people liked it so much. It's the most terrible one I've ever played.
It's pure grinding, has little to no character customization, uninteresting classes that are all the same, very poor graphics...
It's like an old school MMORPG but without the roleplaying nor the old-school feel.
640km should be enough for everybody
Wasn't he fat?
I'm not sure I trust a thin man to be a good geek.
There is no need to pick, mass works for everything.
Is the only thing you can really conclude from the psychology map.
More importantly, how can the city hall allow to marry someone if they're already listed as married to someone else?
It's the city hall that is wrong here, not the person...
The Cell is a mini vector processor cluster which is not completely unlike graphics cards and was, at the time it was released, more powerful than them.
You had the usual C/C++ toolchain available, and it was a fairly simple architecture to use compared to a GPU (and even compared to an x86 -- SIMD is simpler on the Cell than on x86).
Yet it was a failure, because game developers were completely unable to use it. Game development is a quick and dirty process, and they need to be multi-platform to sell more. There is no time to learn the specifics of a platform and designing your game to exploit it.
That's why they prefer having one API to rule them all (DirectX).
Even within the whole of the Ubisoft studios, there are only a couple of people capable of getting near 80% of the Cell processing power.
Why would you want a tasteless Guinness Draught when you can get a Guinness Original, which has a much richer taste?
The latter also doesn't have that nitrogen thing.