Research REQUIRES failure. SUCESS requires failure.
This is very true, but this type of failure should be deemed unacceptable by any reasonable person. This is the NASA equivalent of accidentally filling your car with diesel instead of gasoline. Or doing an 'rm -rf *' in your home directory. It's completely boneheaded and shouldn't be accepted by anyone.
I'm not a mean guy, and I don't hope that anyone at NASA loses their job over this, but I think a little bit of preventive ridicule is in order. I earned myself some nasty comments when I deleted a bunch of important (but thankfully, backed up) data with a braindead command, and I think I'm the better for it now.
Conservatism in the US is on the rise because it is fashionable. It's the cool thing to do. It's the pendulum swinging back (come on, we knew it had to happen). In another 20 years, people will get bored with it, and we'll swing back toward liberalism again.
There are a small number of real whack-jobs for whom this conservative boom will be a great advantage. They'll be able to get their insane, extremist messages out because they aren't as relatively "extreme" anymore. But the same goes for the left as well as the right. We used to have nutjobs from Greenpeace on the evening news. Now we have religious nutjobs.
I don't fret about it, because it's all hollow anyway. Nobody on either side really believes anything they say, they are simply following the herd.
You completely missed my point. What about people who live permanently in the US, pay taxes and participate in society, but for whatever reason (perhaps conflicts regarding dual-citizenship) they choose not to become citizens?
As I start to hire the people I need, I will make sure to hire American Citizens in the U.S.A.
Permanent residency without citizenship isn't good enough? My fiancee plans to live here the rest of her life, but she's not a citizen. I guess you wouldn't hire her?
I can understand wanting to keep jobs within the country, and give them to people who live here and spend their money and lives here. But there are people who fit those qualifications who aren't necessarily citizens. Denying those people jobs is simply racist, IMO.
You can't be a "programmer" and also be "self-employed"?
No, you can't. There is a distinction between a programmer and a software engineer.
A programmer writes whatever the engineer tells him/her to write. An engineer actually designs the thing. If you are self employed, you are, by definition, a "software engineer," not a programmer, because you are doing design.
It would be like being a self-employed secretary. Yeah, you perform your own secretarial duties for yourself, but you wouldn't refer to yourself as a "secretary." A secretary, by definition, follows someone else's orders.
And if you had a PhD in politics (hell, had you taken a single high school class) you would know that the President can't just magically enact whatever the hell he wants to.
Consider that all economic bills must originate in the House. Further, consider that the House is a Republican house at the moment. Thus, any bills authorizing spending would have to have strong REPUBLICAN support to pass.
Oh, and I suppose you have no good explanation why it's appropriate to simply overlook the billions upon billions that Bush has wasted in Iraq.
Obviously current games wouldn't run. But if Windows supported PPC, and people started actually using it, don't you think game companies would start writing games for it? They'd be stupid not to.
What could possibly be an advantage to doing this?
Because I like running Linux on PPC.
In case the connection isn't obvious, let me spell it out:
I want to have Windows and Linux. I want Windows because of games. I want to run Linux on PPC because, well, it just rocks on PPC. But that means, I need two seperate boxes. If Windows could run on PPC, I could have a single box that dual booted Linux and Windows.
So yes, I think Windows on PPC would kick ass, but for a very indirect reason. (Obviously, Microsoft probably wouldn't care much about this reason:-)
PPC is a vastly better platform for Linux than Intel is. I say this as a programmer, not a user. Being able to run Windows on PPC would mean that instead of having a seperate Windows gaming box and a PPC Linux box, I could just dual boot and save myself some money.
In case anybody doesn't understand the "paranoia" comment, there is a common saying at Intel (I believe put forth by Andy Grove himself) that "Only the paranoid survive."
Voltage is a difference in potential; what's moving is, in fact, the electromagnetic field
Considering that the electric field is just the product of charge with the negative gradient of voltage, it's completely accurate to say that "voltage" is what is traveling down the wire. It's equally accurate to say that the field is traveling. Both statements are fine.
What is not correct is to say the electrons are moving at that speed.
millibyte= 1/1000 of 8bits...? there is not such a thing and you know it
Wrong. Read up about information theory. Information quantities of fractions of a bit are perfectly meaningful and are used heavily in fields like data compression and artificial intelligence.
There is no physical device which can hold a fraction of a bit, but the concept of fractional bits is perfectly valid and highly useful.
No. It is the electric field which travels at nearly the speed of light, not the electrons themselves.
Imagine a train on a track. The cars of the train are electrons. I push one end of the train. Almost instantly, the other end of the train moves. The signal propagated at nearly the speed of light. But how fast are the train cars (the electrons) moving? Perhaps only centimeters per second.
In fact, that's how fast electrons move through wires. Barely even centimeters per second. However, as one electron moves, its electric field pushes another nearby electron, that one moves and pushes another, etc etc, and the "pushing," in other words, the electric field, travels at nearly the speed of light.
Intel has always known that. Do you think they're smart enough to design the stupid things but not understand what actually makes a chip fast?
Intel has historically marketed its chips on the basis of megahertz, and it has pushed the consumer industry toward measuring chips by that metric. They can do this because their manufacturing techniques have always been above par, and they can bump the number higher and higher in response to competition.
Now, they are finally hitting a barrier where it is difficult to continue increasing the clock. They realize that this will be a marketing disaster, so they have preemptively started a campaign to wean customers away from megahertz.
Intel has definitely realized something, but it isn't that "Megahertz != Performance." A fourth year undergrad EE student can tell you that. What they've realized is that they won't be able to duke it out with AMD and other competitors on a playing field defined by megahertz, so they are switching to a different playing field.
Above all, it is the consumer who is an idiot for buying into Intel's (extremely effective) megahertz marketing campaign.
It's silly for people to think that clock speed doesn't matter, why else would people go through the trouble of overclocking their systems?
Yes, obviously if you increase the clock speed of a particular chip that chip will run faster. Duh. If you push the accelerator of a car further to the floor, the car goes faster. Your point? My Honda still gets better mileage than your Suburban.
You can't use megahertz to compare different chips, such as PPC vs. P4. It's a bullshit metric, and that's why it's worthless.
Intel should just bite the bullet and spend some more R&D on alternative active cooling solutions like liquid.
For fuck's sake, why don't you just go down to the beach and club a seal? Intel should be working on making their chips more energy efficient, not ignoring the massive amounts of waste heat and spending development money on idiot liquid cooled solutions. I mean COME ON. Liquid cooling is for things like GIANT PULSE LASERS and other exotic equipment that must be kept extremely cool. The fact that people are using it on microprocessors means that there is something fundamentally very, VERY wrong.
Liquid cooling isn't cool. Not only is it stupid, it indicates your lack of regard for the environment.
Perhaps doing some work increasing the L1 cache sizes would be beneficial.
This is essentially the only thing you've said that makes sense.
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This is very true, but this type of failure should be deemed unacceptable by any reasonable person. This is the NASA equivalent of accidentally filling your car with diesel instead of gasoline. Or doing an 'rm -rf *' in your home directory. It's completely boneheaded and shouldn't be accepted by anyone.
I'm not a mean guy, and I don't hope that anyone at NASA loses their job over this, but I think a little bit of preventive ridicule is in order. I earned myself some nasty comments when I deleted a bunch of important (but thankfully, backed up) data with a braindead command, and I think I'm the better for it now.
Quit biting. The idiot is doing what he does best. Forget him.
I don't think he's outside his rights, if that's the way he wants to operate, I just think he's an asshole for it.
Conservatism in the US is on the rise because it is fashionable. It's the cool thing to do. It's the pendulum swinging back (come on, we knew it had to happen). In another 20 years, people will get bored with it, and we'll swing back toward liberalism again.
There are a small number of real whack-jobs for whom this conservative boom will be a great advantage. They'll be able to get their insane, extremist messages out because they aren't as relatively "extreme" anymore. But the same goes for the left as well as the right. We used to have nutjobs from Greenpeace on the evening news. Now we have religious nutjobs.
I don't fret about it, because it's all hollow anyway. Nobody on either side really believes anything they say, they are simply following the herd.
You completely missed my point. What about people who live permanently in the US, pay taxes and participate in society, but for whatever reason (perhaps conflicts regarding dual-citizenship) they choose not to become citizens?
You might want to think carefully about your answer.
Permanent residency without citizenship isn't good enough? My fiancee plans to live here the rest of her life, but she's not a citizen. I guess you wouldn't hire her?
I can understand wanting to keep jobs within the country, and give them to people who live here and spend their money and lives here. But there are people who fit those qualifications who aren't necessarily citizens. Denying those people jobs is simply racist, IMO.
Jesus, only a grade schooler would make such an argument.
I hereby coin pclminion's law: Referring to a movie or "documentary" as evidence to back a point immediately loses you the argument.
Nope. A painter is not somebody who creates works of art. That's an artist. It's a very important distinction, and it exists here too.
Even if you are told "write this", you still design the code that will perform that action.
No. You write the code that obviously must be written. It's like moving boxes around. There's no mystery, you simply need to buckle down and do it.
How would the minimum wage have anything to do with it? How many programmers do you know that work for absolute minimum wage?
No, you can't. There is a distinction between a programmer and a software engineer.
A programmer writes whatever the engineer tells him/her to write. An engineer actually designs the thing. If you are self employed, you are, by definition, a "software engineer," not a programmer, because you are doing design.
It would be like being a self-employed secretary. Yeah, you perform your own secretarial duties for yourself, but you wouldn't refer to yourself as a "secretary." A secretary, by definition, follows someone else's orders.
Consider that all economic bills must originate in the House. Further, consider that the House is a Republican house at the moment. Thus, any bills authorizing spending would have to have strong REPUBLICAN support to pass.
Oh, and I suppose you have no good explanation why it's appropriate to simply overlook the billions upon billions that Bush has wasted in Iraq.
Obviously current games wouldn't run. But if Windows supported PPC, and people started actually using it, don't you think game companies would start writing games for it? They'd be stupid not to.
Because I like running Linux on PPC.
In case the connection isn't obvious, let me spell it out:
I want to have Windows and Linux. I want Windows because of games. I want to run Linux on PPC because, well, it just rocks on PPC. But that means, I need two seperate boxes. If Windows could run on PPC, I could have a single box that dual booted Linux and Windows.
So yes, I think Windows on PPC would kick ass, but for a very indirect reason. (Obviously, Microsoft probably wouldn't care much about this reason :-)
PPC is a vastly better platform for Linux than Intel is. I say this as a programmer, not a user. Being able to run Windows on PPC would mean that instead of having a seperate Windows gaming box and a PPC Linux box, I could just dual boot and save myself some money.
In case anybody doesn't understand the "paranoia" comment, there is a common saying at Intel (I believe put forth by Andy Grove himself) that "Only the paranoid survive."
Voltage is a difference in potential; what's moving is, in fact, the electromagnetic field
Considering that the electric field is just the product of charge with the negative gradient of voltage, it's completely accurate to say that "voltage" is what is traveling down the wire. It's equally accurate to say that the field is traveling. Both statements are fine.
What is not correct is to say the electrons are moving at that speed.
Wrong. Read up about information theory. Information quantities of fractions of a bit are perfectly meaningful and are used heavily in fields like data compression and artificial intelligence.
There is no physical device which can hold a fraction of a bit, but the concept of fractional bits is perfectly valid and highly useful.
No. It is the electric field which travels at nearly the speed of light, not the electrons themselves.
Imagine a train on a track. The cars of the train are electrons. I push one end of the train. Almost instantly, the other end of the train moves. The signal propagated at nearly the speed of light. But how fast are the train cars (the electrons) moving? Perhaps only centimeters per second.
In fact, that's how fast electrons move through wires. Barely even centimeters per second. However, as one electron moves, its electric field pushes another nearby electron, that one moves and pushes another, etc etc, and the "pushing," in other words, the electric field, travels at nearly the speed of light.
This is an extremely common misconception.
Intel has historically marketed its chips on the basis of megahertz, and it has pushed the consumer industry toward measuring chips by that metric. They can do this because their manufacturing techniques have always been above par, and they can bump the number higher and higher in response to competition.
Now, they are finally hitting a barrier where it is difficult to continue increasing the clock. They realize that this will be a marketing disaster, so they have preemptively started a campaign to wean customers away from megahertz.
Intel has definitely realized something, but it isn't that "Megahertz != Performance." A fourth year undergrad EE student can tell you that. What they've realized is that they won't be able to duke it out with AMD and other competitors on a playing field defined by megahertz, so they are switching to a different playing field.
Above all, it is the consumer who is an idiot for buying into Intel's (extremely effective) megahertz marketing campaign.
That's what a law is, in the context of science. An observation that holds universally true.
It's silly for people to think that clock speed doesn't matter, why else would people go through the trouble of overclocking their systems?
Yes, obviously if you increase the clock speed of a particular chip that chip will run faster. Duh. If you push the accelerator of a car further to the floor, the car goes faster. Your point? My Honda still gets better mileage than your Suburban.
You can't use megahertz to compare different chips, such as PPC vs. P4. It's a bullshit metric, and that's why it's worthless.
Intel should just bite the bullet and spend some more R&D on alternative active cooling solutions like liquid.
For fuck's sake, why don't you just go down to the beach and club a seal? Intel should be working on making their chips more energy efficient, not ignoring the massive amounts of waste heat and spending development money on idiot liquid cooled solutions. I mean COME ON. Liquid cooling is for things like GIANT PULSE LASERS and other exotic equipment that must be kept extremely cool. The fact that people are using it on microprocessors means that there is something fundamentally very, VERY wrong.
Liquid cooling isn't cool. Not only is it stupid, it indicates your lack of regard for the environment.
Perhaps doing some work increasing the L1 cache sizes would be beneficial.
This is essentially the only thing you've said that makes sense.
And 3.7 inches would be a gigantic die size.
Have a nice, NICE day, idiots.