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  1. Re:Yesno? on Computing a Cure For HIV · · Score: 1

    Indeed, the GPU constrained programming model is ill-suited for this, but a Xeon Phi isn't. And the next-gen Xeon Phi will have very low latency networking on board, too.

    My bad about tori, the supercomputers I have had access to lately were all fat tree.

  2. Re:/Very/ different hardware on Computing a Cure For HIV · · Score: 1

    It's not that specialized. It's just plenty of DSPs strapped together on a torus.
    Unlike what wikipedia claims, you could probably achieve comparable performance using a more classical and general-purpose supercomputer setup with GPU or Xeon Phi accelerators, provided the network topology is well tuned to address this sort of communication scheme (most recent supercomputers don't use tori)

  3. lots of other many-core processors on Researchers Unveil Experimental 36-Core Chip · · Score: 1

    There are hundreds of processors with 64 cores or more, each of them claiming to have solved the scalability problem.

  4. Re:Administrators on Teaching College Is No Longer a Middle Class Job · · Score: 1

    I wonder why those ancient greeks would think of the way Philosophy is taught today, which unfortunately is just learning to know and revere what renowned philosophers have written rather than thinking for yourself.

  5. Being 30 and 40 on Age Discrimination In the Tech Industry · · Score: 1

    You want to hire people that are between 30 and 40.
    They usually are young enough to be dynamic but old enough to be sufficiently experimented.

  6. Re:Overclocking is Recommended? on Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Steps Up Its Game & Runs Much Faster · · Score: 1

    There is a high quality proprietary driver made by NVIDIA.
    This is about an alternative open-source driver made by hobbyists which is much slower than the real thing.

  7. Re: Nice looking bike... on Harley-Davidson Unveils Their First Electric Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    When people say "going faster than 80", then refer to 150 a bit later down the text, they don't mean 81. They mean a value that is significantly higher than 80.

  8. Re: Nice looking bike... on Harley-Davidson Unveils Their First Electric Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    Countries that use kilometres are irrelevant. People don't talk about "going faster than 80mph" there.
    Moreover 130km/h (which is the speed limit in France, and one of the highest speed limits) is 81mph. That's hardly higher.
    Apparently most of the freeways in the US have a limit of 70mph, with some exceptions that go up to 85. That's hardly much more than 80.

  9. Re: Nice looking bike... on Harley-Davidson Unveils Their First Electric Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    You forgot to specify where.

    Roads.

  10. Re: Nice looking bike... on Harley-Davidson Unveils Their First Electric Motorcycle · · Score: 1

    Going beyond 80mph is illegal.

  11. Re: The real question in my mind on Test: Quantum Or Not, Controversial Computer No Faster Than Normal · · Score: 2

    Even with ten million you can't make a processor better than a i7.

  12. Re:Water on mars for self-sustaining city on Elon Musk: I'll Put a Human On Mars By 2026 · · Score: 1

    And what do you think plants make oxygen out of? CO2.

  13. Re: Controversy? on Was Watch Dogs For PC Handicapped On Purpose? · · Score: 1

    Soccer was never widely used in England, even if it was coined there.

  14. Re:Water on mars for self-sustaining city on Elon Musk: I'll Put a Human On Mars By 2026 · · Score: 1

    The atmosphere has CO2, which can be broken into graphite and oxygen. Of course, this process requires a lot of energy (otherwise we'd be doing it to fix our pollution problems here on Earth).

    Otherwise there is also some water in the soil, too, not just hydrogen.

  15. Re:Water on mars for self-sustaining city on Elon Musk: I'll Put a Human On Mars By 2026 · · Score: 2

    You can extract hydrogen from the soil.
    You can then mix it with oxygen to get water.

  16. Re: Controversy? on Was Watch Dogs For PC Handicapped On Purpose? · · Score: 1

    All nations around the world use football to refer to what you call soccer.
    The US is the only exception worldwide, they should just get in line with the normal usage.

  17. Re: 4GB RAM on SteamBoy Machine Team Promises a Portable Console for Valve's Steam Games · · Score: 1

    You do realize 99% of games are built for 32-bit right?

  18. Re: Just run it on OpenBSD, for crying out loud. on The Nightmare On Connected Home Street · · Score: 1

    It's not any more work than installing OpenBSD

  19. Re: Just run it on OpenBSD, for crying out loud. on The Nightmare On Connected Home Street · · Score: 2

    Most software on embedded devices is just Linux open-source software repurposed with a shitty UI on top.

  20. Re: Just run it on OpenBSD, for crying out loud. on The Nightmare On Connected Home Street · · Score: 1

    Any POSIX-compatible software that you build and run yourself?

  21. Re: This is what happens on The Nightmare On Connected Home Street · · Score: 1

    Just keep expanding outside of Earth. Problem solved.

  22. Re: Just run it on OpenBSD, for crying out loud. on The Nightmare On Connected Home Street · · Score: 1

    It doesn't really matter what the operating system is if the security bug is inside the software you need to run.

  23. Re: Good bye source compatibility on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 1

    Your app will sell if it does something useful.
    Only superficial people care about looks.

  24. Re: Good bye source compatibility on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 1

    And most apps are useless crapware.

  25. Re: Good bye source compatibility on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 1

    The OS is but a tool to help you build your application, not something you must constrain yourself to.