On so many levels !!
first of all - The title of the Electrolysis page clearly mentions using multiple processes - where the heck did anyone mention multi-threading?
Secondly - multi-threading is not the same as running on different processors. You can potentially split a program into user level threads just to simplify code.
Third - firefox already supports multi-threading. The only problem is that threads are still connected to the same PID and killing that in windows/linux/mac will kill all threads along with it.
The original article states they are starting from a chromium base. That may be the reason for speedup in Java scripts test ?
I noticed that Verizon became pretty aggressive and anti-AT&T in their campaigns recently. I am sure that helped the sales of Droids too considering that Iphones are only available on AT&T.
Tall buildings, by that I mean more that 50 storeys of livable/workable space pose very different challenges. They can house lot more people/offices/homes. How many parking lots does it have ? What about hospitals ? playgrounds ? schools ? Designing elevators for them itself takes an entire fleet of engineers. Is designing taller buildings better in general ? What about security features ? Fire exits ? These are pretty interesting things to look at I am interested in finding out how the architects in Dubai dealt with those issues.
I mean, we could something that connect the high traffic areas in the East Coast and California. This has 2 benefits. Reducing pollution from all the cars that it takes out of the roads and lesser dependence on the airlines that seem to have become so unreliable. Atleast we wont have so many baggage payments to make.
It is expected. Privacy does not work well with any social networking website. If you get on to a social networking website, they want you to make friends, more friends than you normally have. The more you network, the more they make money out of it. Its like the stock market, they dont like money at one place. It needs to keep rolling.
The trick to maintaining social networking websites is how little privacy can you maintain while keeping the website relatively safe and secure for users and increase opportunities for people to network. And they can do this only by exposing as much information about people as possible.
So there is an weird and funny effect here. Apparently a lot of the google suggestions are funny and it may be because when people search for something and something else comes up which is funny, they wanna go look at it. This way the funny result keeps climbing the rankings. At some point the result for what are these strawberries doing on my nipples was not the number 1 result, but it seems funny and so people end up clicking on it and this is how its become number 1.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/3558343796/
Case closed.
Dashboard is just a collection of all account information at one place pretty much. If someone can crack into your dashboard, they can crack anywhere gmail, picasa and get anything anyway.
Dashboard in that sense is not a security hole.
Doing something that makes firefox addons compatible with Chrome ? I mean its so fast, even if the addons slow it down somewhat it may still be faster than firefox.
I thought the whole idea behind calculating these carbon footprints was to show how humans have changed the environment and how living things that need it ( yes others too ) are going to have problems. Why calculate the carbon footprint for pets ? They are the ones that will get affected by any environmental changes too. Maybe the title should have been how pet food factories are not green or something.
Otherwise I can start calculating the carbon footprint of my cute neighbor and...
There is also something more to than just weak infrastructure and that is weak implementation. This may be due to inexperience, corruption, ignorance, etc.
I would imagine in developing nations/developed nations, once a project is started, they use the best tech, knowledge from previous projects etc to the fullest degree coupled with the fact that such nations are also less likely to be corrupt, the project itself proceeds faster and ends faster resulting in lower costs that can be pushed to the customer. On the other side, in India for example when they started to build the indigenous aircraft, they missed their deadline by 5 years, its still not done ( supposed to be done by 2004 I think) and overshot their budget by a few billion dollars. Its just an example of how projects are handled differently in different nations. Such inefficient execution can also increase the price of the end product.
So many new articles in the past weeks about new arms, legs, hearts (maybe/hopefully )etc, at what point will the concept of death change ? How much time do we have before all our parts can be replaced and we can be immortal overloads eating junk food all day.
Effectively dividing tasks among CPUs is not the issue here. They want to benchmark the GPU and they wanna make sure you don't enable optimizations that are targeted specifically for the benchmark which Intel was doing shamelessly.
Its funny that Intel simply creates an INF file and uses those to detect apps and optimize for performance. I mean, if you are detecting a file name and enabling performance optimizations, why not detect the app behaviour itself and make the optimizations generic ? Clearly you know the app behaviour and you know the performance optimizations work. This seem to me a case where people were asked to ship it out fast and instead of taking the time to plug the optimization into the tool, they just made it a hack. A really bad one too!!!
Believe it or not, headhunters do this all the time. There are also these so called "consultants" that make you take an online certification exam and provide you with answers and then claim you as an expert in that area. This is disgusting, but true.
Coming back to your case, in my opinion, you should
1) Get away from this guy, he is dishonest. When you go to another place, make sure you tell them that you would not like your resume altered to the point that it is incorrect/dishonest.
2) There are professional resume makers out there. Some of them are very expensive, some are reasonable. Maybe you could use their services to improve your resume and try to look for jobs yourself. There are a number of websites out there that collate job openings from other websites , this way you can see a lot of openings on one site. Job searching is pretty advanced now and its not too hard to look for positions , even contract positions by yourself.
Given that it is supposed to hit in 2036, isn't it too early to be able make accurate predictions ? I mean, I am sure these predicted probabilities will keep changing as it gets closer ( assuming its headed in our direction right now ). I mean, who knows if the path of the asteroid may deviate a little bit due to gravitational pull of different planets/stars etc
I thought with the I-pod touch, Apple will slowly phase out Nanos. Why dont they make Ipod-touch slimmer like the nano ?
Id love to have an mp3 player that can let me check email.
I will never get an mp3 player that can charge an arm and a leg to make phone calls.
So IBM first tried to buy SUN, but then realizes that SUN is losing business anyway and gives up on the offer. This further screws SUN up. SUN stocks fell 22% that day on news of the failed takeover. Now, because of the delay in the Oracle acquisition, IBM is trying to make hay in the sun (pun not intended) by going after as many SUN customers as possible. This is just a ruthless business strategy by IBM. Instead of buying a troubled company and getting their customers, they waited to make their situation worse and then started luring clients away and all this with no money down. Bravo!!
Focused energy beam coming down from space is called a Lightning Strike !
Nature already figured out all fuel transportation issues and devised lightning for us:)
People who are heavily into technology often lack common sense. --> No, the statement lacks common sense. It should be re-written as - People who use technology even when not required lack common sense. People who are heavily into technology are the among the most brilliant. But I agree to the parent. Giving a phone to a 4 year old can be ok if it is controlled. Its not the fault of the technology. Its the misuse that is to be stopped.
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On so many levels !! first of all - The title of the Electrolysis page clearly mentions using multiple processes - where the heck did anyone mention multi-threading? Secondly - multi-threading is not the same as running on different processors. You can potentially split a program into user level threads just to simplify code. Third - firefox already supports multi-threading. The only problem is that threads are still connected to the same PID and killing that in windows/linux/mac will kill all threads along with it. The original article states they are starting from a chromium base. That may be the reason for speedup in Java scripts test ?
I noticed that Verizon became pretty aggressive and anti-AT&T in their campaigns recently. I am sure that helped the sales of Droids too considering that Iphones are only available on AT&T.
Tall buildings, by that I mean more that 50 storeys of livable/workable space pose very different challenges. They can house lot more people/offices/homes. How many parking lots does it have ? What about hospitals ? playgrounds ? schools ? Designing elevators for them itself takes an entire fleet of engineers. Is designing taller buildings better in general ? What about security features ? Fire exits ? These are pretty interesting things to look at I am interested in finding out how the architects in Dubai dealt with those issues.
I mean, we could something that connect the high traffic areas in the East Coast and California. This has 2 benefits. Reducing pollution from all the cars that it takes out of the roads and lesser dependence on the airlines that seem to have become so unreliable. Atleast we wont have so many baggage payments to make.
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/12/16/intel-responds-to-ftc-suit/
subscription to slashdot ? that science enough for ya ?
It is expected. Privacy does not work well with any social networking website. If you get on to a social networking website, they want you to make friends, more friends than you normally have. The more you network, the more they make money out of it. Its like the stock market, they dont like money at one place. It needs to keep rolling. The trick to maintaining social networking websites is how little privacy can you maintain while keeping the website relatively safe and secure for users and increase opportunities for people to network. And they can do this only by exposing as much information about people as possible.
So there is an weird and funny effect here. Apparently a lot of the google suggestions are funny and it may be because when people search for something and something else comes up which is funny, they wanna go look at it. This way the funny result keeps climbing the rankings. At some point the result for what are these strawberries doing on my nipples was not the number 1 result, but it seems funny and so people end up clicking on it and this is how its become number 1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/torley/3558343796/ Case closed.
Dashboard is just a collection of all account information at one place pretty much. If someone can crack into your dashboard, they can crack anywhere gmail, picasa and get anything anyway. Dashboard in that sense is not a security hole.
Doing something that makes firefox addons compatible with Chrome ? I mean its so fast, even if the addons slow it down somewhat it may still be faster than firefox.
How about non-stop playing gory video clips of people dying in car crashes? We could throw in some screams as well.
I thought the whole idea behind calculating these carbon footprints was to show how humans have changed the environment and how living things that need it ( yes others too ) are going to have problems. Why calculate the carbon footprint for pets ? They are the ones that will get affected by any environmental changes too. Maybe the title should have been how pet food factories are not green or something. Otherwise I can start calculating the carbon footprint of my cute neighbor and...
There is also something more to than just weak infrastructure and that is weak implementation. This may be due to inexperience, corruption, ignorance, etc. I would imagine in developing nations/developed nations, once a project is started, they use the best tech, knowledge from previous projects etc to the fullest degree coupled with the fact that such nations are also less likely to be corrupt, the project itself proceeds faster and ends faster resulting in lower costs that can be pushed to the customer. On the other side, in India for example when they started to build the indigenous aircraft, they missed their deadline by 5 years, its still not done ( supposed to be done by 2004 I think) and overshot their budget by a few billion dollars. Its just an example of how projects are handled differently in different nations. Such inefficient execution can also increase the price of the end product.
So many new articles in the past weeks about new arms, legs, hearts (maybe/hopefully )etc, at what point will the concept of death change ? How much time do we have before all our parts can be replaced and we can be immortal overloads eating junk food all day.
Why are we talking about fingerprinting with these 2 words ?
Effectively dividing tasks among CPUs is not the issue here. They want to benchmark the GPU and they wanna make sure you don't enable optimizations that are targeted specifically for the benchmark which Intel was doing shamelessly.
Its funny that Intel simply creates an INF file and uses those to detect apps and optimize for performance. I mean, if you are detecting a file name and enabling performance optimizations, why not detect the app behaviour itself and make the optimizations generic ? Clearly you know the app behaviour and you know the performance optimizations work. This seem to me a case where people were asked to ship it out fast and instead of taking the time to plug the optimization into the tool, they just made it a hack. A really bad one too!!!
Believe it or not, headhunters do this all the time. There are also these so called "consultants" that make you take an online certification exam and provide you with answers and then claim you as an expert in that area. This is disgusting, but true. Coming back to your case, in my opinion, you should 1) Get away from this guy, he is dishonest. When you go to another place, make sure you tell them that you would not like your resume altered to the point that it is incorrect/dishonest. 2) There are professional resume makers out there. Some of them are very expensive, some are reasonable. Maybe you could use their services to improve your resume and try to look for jobs yourself. There are a number of websites out there that collate job openings from other websites , this way you can see a lot of openings on one site. Job searching is pretty advanced now and its not too hard to look for positions , even contract positions by yourself.
Given that it is supposed to hit in 2036, isn't it too early to be able make accurate predictions ? I mean, I am sure these predicted probabilities will keep changing as it gets closer ( assuming its headed in our direction right now ). I mean, who knows if the path of the asteroid may deviate a little bit due to gravitational pull of different planets/stars etc
I was talking about the Iphone which is Ipod + Ipod-touch + phone calls
I thought with the I-pod touch, Apple will slowly phase out Nanos. Why dont they make Ipod-touch slimmer like the nano ? Id love to have an mp3 player that can let me check email. I will never get an mp3 player that can charge an arm and a leg to make phone calls.
So IBM first tried to buy SUN, but then realizes that SUN is losing business anyway and gives up on the offer. This further screws SUN up. SUN stocks fell 22% that day on news of the failed takeover. Now, because of the delay in the Oracle acquisition, IBM is trying to make hay in the sun (pun not intended) by going after as many SUN customers as possible. This is just a ruthless business strategy by IBM. Instead of buying a troubled company and getting their customers, they waited to make their situation worse and then started luring clients away and all this with no money down. Bravo!!
This is where I should go to write my thesis then Do we get slashdot there ? or is that considered not calm ?
Focused energy beam coming down from space is called a Lightning Strike ! Nature already figured out all fuel transportation issues and devised lightning for us :)
People who are heavily into technology often lack common sense. --> No, the statement lacks common sense. It should be re-written as - People who use technology even when not required lack common sense. People who are heavily into technology are the among the most brilliant. But I agree to the parent. Giving a phone to a 4 year old can be ok if it is controlled. Its not the fault of the technology. Its the misuse that is to be stopped.