There is pretty good hard data that says.. HTML rendering is embarrassingly parallel... thus Mozilla is working on Servo.
That is 99% of computer use right there... parallel is here to stay and knowing the web it will get vastly more parallel once a browser engine is out there that can do it.
Linux Workstation: 16cores = way faster builds than 4 cores. CAD workstation: I imagine alot of geometry processing is parallelized... the less waiting the better (either format conversion or generating demo videos etc.. eat up alot of CPU) Video workstation: Thats just a blatantly obvious use for multiple cores... Linux HTPC: I wanna transcode stuff fast... more cores Linux Gaming: These days using at least 4 cores is getting more common...
Things that I often seen that are *broken* for instance 200Mb work documents that hang the entire system when you scroll (yes windows thats bad). Linux isn't much better though disk IO starvation is a long time pet peeve there... 4 cores is the wrong place to draw the line currently maybe 6-8 cores + improved disk IO would be a realistic ideal these days.
Granted alot of programs will *ought* to run just fine on my Sparcstation LX @ 50Mhz and 128Mb ram... but that isn't the future unless we have a nuclear apocalypse. Also, there is a good chance that alot of my cores will sit ide even so power management is better than it used to be and more cores can improve latency because now I have more available CPU time even though the individual cores are probably slower. Overall thats is a good tradeoff.
I believe that was very very much the case when I entered college a few years ago... but once I hit the job market it was more like %70.Net and the rest were a mix with Java holding a big chunk of the remainder at the top and Python rising in usage.
I like to keep my options open though... and Java is the clear choice for a multiplatform language. I live within driving distance of a banking center and a few research areas as well as the automotive industry so its not like I didn't have a selection. Obviously you get more options if you have more experience than just a college degree. But other options were limited to replacing people that have left companies/gotten hit by buses etc.. I really don't see java being in the growth part of the equation at best Oracle is squeezing the life out of it bit by bit.
Of course! Research going on in these areas is great and hopefully these sorts of tests become more bearable for women however.
Also I wonder whatever happed to terrahertz scanners that were all the rage a few years back among researchers? They were supposed to be the holy grail of imaging etc.. supposedly as good as an MRI + CAT scan. Apparently these are used in airports... but you just don't hear a whole lot about the tech like a few years ago....
I ran ROS on a Pandaboard running Gentoo/Linux ARM just fine over 2 years ago... the main problem was the pandaboard lacked the processing oomp for alot of things. We were looking at doing 3d SLAM but the fact is I am not sure even the latest ARM boards are up to that... in the end we scalled back our goals to more resonalbe levels. This just makes it officially supported there isn't much effort involved other than possibly actively getting more packages working as my testing was limited to most base packages and not some of the more exotic ones.
Android isn't really appropriate for robots... sure it will work but you'd be better off with Linux IMO, Android focuses on Dalvik/ART whereas Linux supports C/++ Python and Lisp natively which is what ROS runs on, and if you want an interface just write one in QT or Mono/Winforms etc.... since both are cross platform.
I think one thing that would make using ROS alot easier is a tool to develop robot models graphically... as far as can tell they still require that you write the joint transforms manually which is quite hard to get right.
Yep... the bearded ones are Unix engineers and Perl hackers... O.o and Emacs users of course on the other hand I envision Vim users to look like nerdy versions of patrick stewart (mostly the shiny head)
Yeah,I agree... But at the same time also think that the things that may the USA truly great may still stand a chance. I mean the things you list are side effects of "America".. the freedom and liberty enjoyed for the last 15-20 coon ages is what has made the country great. Sure we have our rough spots but people eventually come around and remember what being American is all about.... adversity fosters it!
Not really... Integrated GPU. The GPU on your core2 is in the chipset which will blow a few more watts than the 10watts difference to the Haswell. So overall the Haswell will probably win in overall at the wall power measurements.
The "superiority" of X86 had nothing to do with the demise/back burnering of other architectures.
Just about every processor arch has been maimed by confrontation on a marketing front... Alpha, Sparc, Power, Arm.... the ones that have survived have regulated themselves to niche markets (in the case of ARM a really really big niche) so they don't have to do battle with Intel and AMDs marketing and established user base.
I don't know about the rest but Sparc has backward compatibility that rivals Intel's as well as good performance.
If you use data at all on your device even with marginal usage otherwise like me... (I go through 500Mb every few days) then Ting is not for you.... so I'll stick with the $50 tmobile "unlimited plan"
Apparently I'm part of the 2%....:/ some people have pointed out rebublic cellular to me as well but the gottcha there is that you have to use a provided phone and you can't tether at all ever.
The free data roaming only applies to contract plans... the month to month pre payed plans do not count!
I learned this the hardware on a trip to Brazil... I think texts were 25 cent each and like $2 a min calling or something like that. That said T-mobile is the one of the best value plans around... and I have noticed the HSPA coverage is improving in my area (Charlotte/Gastonia,NC).
It is a Linux Handheld... if it runs on Arm Linux you can run it on this.
A friend of mine has one.. and it seems to perform decently. The biggest thing is the controllers which make it a clear winner over a phone for gaming. There are native games as well as emulators. You can also run chat programs etc.. nearly anything you could run on a desktop with 512Mb ram.
Allwinner is the king of tablets... http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1287293
The Cubieboard is also a popular RPi alternative with faster CPU (and sweet sweet SATA:D ) and such for similar price.
In my opinion Allwinner is more credible than HP these days since they actually seem to believe in their own market... whereas HP is practically at the point of execs jumping out of windows (Or the modern equivalent of selling the company out for peanuts).
It isn't specific to any single group of paleontologists. The theory is that scientists like to name dinosaurs, so whenever they find one that looks a bit different they make up a new name rather than trying to figure out if it is just another development stage of a previously discovered dinosaur. This is perfectly understandable taking human nature into consideration.
There is a TED talk by Jack Horner that covers the topic. http://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_shape_shifting_dinosaurs
Jack explains how he has proven than many differently named dinosaurs are acutally the same... he also explains a bit of the thoght process that causes this to happen.
That was true about 5 years ago in my area... There used to be a payphone at the local community college as well and one at McDonalds now all of them are gone.
Actually you are right... he killed off most of the opportunity for integrating other language engines. He had a strong hand in steering the web down the road of madness that it is currently on. Sure there is alot of cool stuff it brings us but there are also giant flaws that are tied directly to javascript and basically being stuck with it.
There are quite a few alternatives now that might actually be better.. Lua for instance has one of the fastest and smallest jit engines around. You have to admit it would be nice to have other options for writing client side code in...
Not just the other Unixlike BSDs.. for instance Haiku OS has a quite mature port of the FreeBSD drivers even WPA support and it works on my fairly new laptop (Its a common Intel card.... but the fact that it works is great).
The code is here: http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/libs/compat
If their goal was to just land in the water that would make alot of sense... except they eventually intend to land on the ground which might possibly be cheaper since no retrieval from the ocean would be required and they don't have to worry about salt water corrosion.
I'm not sure why you get the impression that that soft touchdown in saltwater is the goal... it isn't it is just a safety precaution at this point.
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There is pretty good hard data that says.. HTML rendering is embarrassingly parallel... thus Mozilla is working on Servo.
That is 99% of computer use right there... parallel is here to stay and knowing the web it will get vastly more parallel once a browser engine is out there that can do it.
I did read it... but he did say 4 cores is enough for most people and I refuted that.
Even though largely in the context of his rant... he is correct. That single statement is rather horrendous.
1 core even is "enough" for most tasks... however it doesn't give the best experience no one wants to wait on thier computer more than necessary.
It already is wrong...
Linux Workstation: 16cores = way faster builds than 4 cores.
CAD workstation: I imagine alot of geometry processing is parallelized... the less waiting the better (either format conversion or generating demo videos etc.. eat up alot of CPU)
Video workstation: Thats just a blatantly obvious use for multiple cores...
Linux HTPC: I wanna transcode stuff fast... more cores
Linux Gaming: These days using at least 4 cores is getting more common...
Things that I often seen that are *broken* for instance 200Mb work documents that hang the entire system when you scroll (yes windows thats bad). Linux isn't much better though disk IO starvation is a long time pet peeve there... 4 cores is the wrong place to draw the line currently maybe 6-8 cores + improved disk IO would be a realistic ideal these days.
Granted alot of programs will *ought* to run just fine on my Sparcstation LX @ 50Mhz and 128Mb ram... but that isn't the future unless we have a nuclear apocalypse. Also, there is a good chance that alot of my cores will sit ide even so power management is better than it used to be and more cores can improve latency because now I have more available CPU time even though the individual cores are probably slower. Overall thats is a good tradeoff.
It was a pretty cool episode... gives you better background on Travis since he grew up on those ships..
Why in the sky was there even an ISS in the first place ?
... I'm sure someone else can even improve on it lol
It rhyms even
I believe that was very very much the case when I entered college a few years ago... but once I hit the job market it was more like %70 .Net and the rest were a mix with Java holding a big chunk of the remainder at the top and Python rising in usage.
I like to keep my options open though... and Java is the clear choice for a multiplatform language. I live within driving distance of a banking center and a few research areas as well as the automotive industry so its not like I didn't have a selection. Obviously you get more options if you have more experience than just a college degree. But other options were limited to replacing people that have left companies/gotten hit by buses etc.. I really don't see java being in the growth part of the equation at best Oracle is squeezing the life out of it bit by bit.
Of course! Research going on in these areas is great and hopefully these sorts of tests become more bearable for women however.
Also I wonder whatever happed to terrahertz scanners that were all the rage a few years back among researchers? They were supposed to be the holy grail of imaging etc.. supposedly as good as an MRI + CAT scan. Apparently these are used in airports... but you just don't hear a whole lot about the tech like a few years ago....
Its chicken breast tissue.... thats just blatant click bait. However you want to look at it.
I ran ROS on a Pandaboard running Gentoo/Linux ARM just fine over 2 years ago... the main problem was the pandaboard lacked the processing oomp for alot of things. We were looking at doing 3d SLAM but the fact is I am not sure even the latest ARM boards are up to that... in the end we scalled back our goals to more resonalbe levels. This just makes it officially supported there isn't much effort involved other than possibly actively getting more packages working as my testing was limited to most base packages and not some of the more exotic ones.
Android isn't really appropriate for robots... sure it will work but you'd be better off with Linux IMO, Android focuses on Dalvik/ART whereas Linux supports C/++ Python and Lisp natively which is what ROS runs on, and if you want an interface just write one in QT or Mono/Winforms etc.... since both are cross platform.
I think one thing that would make using ROS alot easier is a tool to develop robot models graphically... as far as can tell they still require that you write the joint transforms manually which is quite hard to get right.
Yep... the bearded ones are Unix engineers and Perl hackers... O.o and Emacs users of course on the other hand I envision Vim users to look like nerdy versions of patrick stewart (mostly the shiny head)
Yeah,I agree... But at the same time also think that the things that may the USA truly great may still stand a chance. I mean the things you list are side effects of "America" .. the freedom and liberty enjoyed for the last 15-20 coon ages is what has made the country great. Sure we have our rough spots but people eventually come around and remember what being American is all about.... adversity fosters it!
Not really... Integrated GPU. The GPU on your core2 is in the chipset which will blow a few more watts than the 10watts difference to the Haswell. So overall the Haswell will probably win in overall at the wall power measurements.
The "superiority" of X86 had nothing to do with the demise/back burnering of other architectures.
Just about every processor arch has been maimed by confrontation on a marketing front... Alpha, Sparc, Power, Arm.... the ones that have survived have regulated themselves to niche markets (in the case of ARM a really really big niche) so they don't have to do battle with Intel and AMDs marketing and established user base.
I don't know about the rest but Sparc has backward compatibility that rivals Intel's as well as good performance.
If you use data at all on your device even with marginal usage otherwise like me... (I go through 500Mb every few days) then Ting is not for you.... so I'll stick with the $50 tmobile "unlimited plan"
.... :/ some people have pointed out rebublic cellular to me as well but the gottcha there is that you have to use a provided phone and you can't tether at all ever.
Apparently I'm part of the 2%
You think you have problems... the UI on this site is so screwed up now I can't get to the settings page to switch it to something else!
The free data roaming only applies to contract plans... the month to month pre payed plans do not count!
I learned this the hardware on a trip to Brazil... I think texts were 25 cent each and like $2 a min calling or something like that. That said T-mobile is the one of the best value plans around... and I have noticed the HSPA coverage is improving in my area (Charlotte/Gastonia,NC).
She is a legend that is what she is... there are videos over on on the late night shows online as well that are quite entertaining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-vcErOPofQ
It is a Linux Handheld... if it runs on Arm Linux you can run it on this.
A friend of mine has one.. and it seems to perform decently. The biggest thing is the controllers which make it a clear winner over a phone for gaming. There are native games as well as emulators. You can also run chat programs etc.. nearly anything you could run on a desktop with 512Mb ram.
Allwinner is the king of tablets ... http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1287293
:D ) and such for similar price.
The Cubieboard is also a popular RPi alternative with faster CPU (and sweet sweet SATA
In my opinion Allwinner is more credible than HP these days since they actually seem to believe in their own market... whereas HP is practically at the point of execs jumping out of windows (Or the modern equivalent of selling the company out for peanuts).
It isn't specific to any single group of paleontologists. The theory is that scientists like to name dinosaurs, so whenever they find one that looks a bit different they make up a new name rather than trying to figure out if it is just another development stage of a previously discovered dinosaur. This is perfectly understandable taking human nature into consideration.
... he also explains a bit of the thoght process that causes this to happen.
There is a TED talk by Jack Horner that covers the topic. http://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_shape_shifting_dinosaurs
Jack explains how he has proven than many differently named dinosaurs are acutally the same
That was true about 5 years ago in my area... There used to be a payphone at the local community college as well and one at McDonalds now all of them are gone.
Its too bad Captain America has all of it...
Actually you are right... he killed off most of the opportunity for integrating other language engines. He had a strong hand in steering the web down the road of madness that it is currently on. Sure there is alot of cool stuff it brings us but there are also giant flaws that are tied directly to javascript and basically being stuck with it.
There are quite a few alternatives now that might actually be better.. Lua for instance has one of the fastest and smallest jit engines around. You have to admit it would be nice to have other options for writing client side code in...
Not just the other Unixlike BSDs .. for instance Haiku OS has a quite mature port of the FreeBSD drivers even WPA support and it works on my fairly new laptop (Its a common Intel card.... but the fact that it works is great).
The code is here: http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/src/libs/compat
If their goal was to just land in the water that would make alot of sense... except they eventually intend to land on the ground which might possibly be cheaper since no retrieval from the ocean would be required and they don't have to worry about salt water corrosion.
I'm not sure why you get the impression that that soft touchdown in saltwater is the goal... it isn't it is just a safety precaution at this point.