one of the Beetles died that way, jumping off a pier at low tide in a area with unusually low, low tides.
If you are referring to the band The Beatles, then no current or former member of the Beatles has ever died jumping off a pier into low tide. Stuart Stutcliffe died of a brain hemorrhage (not resulting from diving off a pier), George Harrison died of cancer, John Lennon was shot to death, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and Pete Best are all still alive.
The real Paul McCartney died that way, the one you know as Paul McCartney now is just an imposter.
nVidia is violating somebody's patents. I don't know which ones. They don't know which ones. It's really not possible for them to know which patents they're violating, and it could be that they're actually not violating anything, but it's probably a safe bet that they are. That's how broken our patent system is.
The flip side of this is, whoever holds those patents that nVidia is violating also doesn't know that nVidia is violating their patents. However, if nVidia were to release the specifications and source code that we all want them to, it might become easier for somebody to recognize that nVidia has unknowingly violated their patent, at which point nVidia might be very screwed. Or maybe not, who the hell knows? In any case, a series of patent infringement lawsuits could be very very bad, and could potentially destroy the company. The only defense nVidia has against this is 1) building up a patent warchest of their own, so that if somebody sues them, nVidia can look for patents they own that the other company is violating and work out a trade, and 2) shrouding their hardware in mystery, so nobody knows how it works and therefore nobody can figure out if it's infringing on someone's patent or not. Note that #1 is not possible against a patent troll that doesn't actually produce anything, so #2 is really all they've got.
Keep in mind that has not stopped AMD from releasing a ton of specs and docs and nobody has come forward over the years to sue AMD over their releases. Nvidia is just being stupid at this point and time.
AMD will most likely be stuck at the niche they are now, at least as long as they stick with the faildozer "half a core" design so that just leaves Intel and ARM and with the money, the fabs, and the R&D budget that Intel has i think it'd be crazy to call it for ARM at this stage of the game.
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Its not a half a core its a full core with a shared FPU/SIMD unit, if you think that Bulldozer is just half a core than what do you call most CPUs since before the i586 era that had no FPUs? What is my 68020 in my Macintosh is not really a chip/core/cpu? Most arm chips have no fpu either so do they count as core/cpus?
Just another step in the plan to screw Nokia the same way they did Sendo. Nokia is so fucking stupid for trusting Microsoft, after all history repeats its self.
Sound works fine on FreeBSD, no need for ugly hacks like PulseAudio, just in-kernel low-latency sound mixing and a full OSS4 implementation, complete with per-application volume controls, surround sound, and all of the features you'd expect of a modern operating system.
That's one thing the BSD's got right. However Linux had an old and unmaintainable version of OSS, so ALSA had to kill it off in Kernel. PulseAudio is a nasty bloated buggy piece of crap, even old ESD works far better IMHO.
So the same guy that made system boot configuration and init scripts a huge pain in the ass with systemd is also responsible for screwing up our sound support? Somehow I am not surprised by this....
We Christians LOVE this idea! Imagine if early Christians had helicopter technology when Christ died. Joseph of Arimathea could have made the body of Christ into an aviation miracle! Imagine a flying dead Jesus going around Jerulselem after the crucifixion, it would have converted many people, perhaps even the Pharasies and Pilate too.
1) It compiles slower than clang at -O0 2) It produces slower code than clang at -O3 and -Os 3) It's error and warning messages are not as good 4) It's not as modular as clang, which can be used in parts, to produce useful tools like CSA 5) The GPL.
Got facts to back this up? Every benchmark I have seen as showed GCC producing faster code than Clang on 90% of the time, Phoronix benchmarks has in the last week showed this to be true.
300 microns: the movie Starring Gerard Butler as the voice of Bacterionidas and Michael Fassbender as Infectillios with Lena Headey as Queen Gorgorrhea and Rodrigo Santoro as X3/rX35 the God-Virus Featuring amazing microscopy effects which seamlessly switch between 4000x 10,000x and 16,000x views in mid action sequence! Coming this summer!
Why would anyone sane go though such a process to make something you brought and supposedly own work? It would be like me calling the builder of my home for permission to change my living room around.
You people will never realize that American-manufactured goods were once the best there were. They were durable, they actually weren't that expensive, and you could trust them.
Any facts or figures to back up this hyperbole of a statement ?
Good work digging up all the graphs where Bulldozer manages to get between the i5 and the i7 (which, based on its price point *it damn well should*, being priced half way between the two). Unfortunately, while you've dug up a nice bunch of places it just about holds its own, there many times more where the Sandy Bridge chip eats it for breakfast, including heavily multithreaded work. As I said above – Bulldozer is good at very multithreaded integer work, and pretty much nothing else.
GNOME is a perfect study in how not to architect a software system. Everything about it is wrong.
The first mistake they made was trying to cobble half-assed object-oriented support onto C, rather than just using C++ or Objective-C. Everything about GObject is stupid and counterproductive. It makes writing code a real pain in the ass, since you need to use typecasting macros all over the place. Worse, this sort of code promotes library design that's slow and inefficient. To make it even worse, this style of C code is so convoluted that it is not optimized well by compilers, resulting in binaries that are far slower than they should be.
It basically goes totally downhill after that. This bullshit with GPU acceleration being required in the first place, and then this additional bullshit involving LLVM, is yet another in a long list of flaws and horrible decisions.
I encourage all of the developers that I mentor to use GNOME and to get a good look at its internals. I just make sure that they know not to do what GNOME has done. By seeing the mistakes firsthand, it's less likely that they'll repeat them in the future with the software that they create.
I stayed with Windows 2000 for the longest because XP's UI was beyond ugly. Not until you could get the Media Center themes that it became a good looking UI and I finally settled on XP.
OK, this is Slashdot but 1 MEP suggests something, and it becomes "EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer". No one is debating anything !! (Unless TFA says more: it is currently Slashdotted.)
Its only takes one stupid idea to get a big enough following, especially with the "Think of the children" crowd and then boom its LAW!
QNX was a fast and fun OS when I ran it back around 2002/2003 but damn it was buggy and unstable mess, I could crash by playing a mp3 or make the file system do a little bit of work. It sucked on my desktop.
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one of the Beetles died that way, jumping off a pier at low tide in a area with unusually low, low tides.
If you are referring to the band The Beatles, then no current or former member of the Beatles has ever died jumping off a pier into low tide. Stuart Stutcliffe died of a brain hemorrhage (not resulting from diving off a pier), George Harrison died of cancer, John Lennon was shot to death, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and Pete Best are all still alive.
The real Paul McCartney died that way, the one you know as Paul McCartney now is just an imposter.
I'm pretty sure they made cars that wouldn't stop and then blamed the drivers for driver error while hiding the source code for about 5 years.
Which ended up being totally not true at all. Just another story the media made up to fill time in the 24 hour news cycle to scare people....
ATI has not been around since 2006 and died as a brand 2 years ago.
nVidia is violating somebody's patents. I don't know which ones. They don't know which ones. It's really not possible for them to know which patents they're violating, and it could be that they're actually not violating anything, but it's probably a safe bet that they are. That's how broken our patent system is.
The flip side of this is, whoever holds those patents that nVidia is violating also doesn't know that nVidia is violating their patents. However, if nVidia were to release the specifications and source code that we all want them to, it might become easier for somebody to recognize that nVidia has unknowingly violated their patent, at which point nVidia might be very screwed. Or maybe not, who the hell knows? In any case, a series of patent infringement lawsuits could be very very bad, and could potentially destroy the company. The only defense nVidia has against this is 1) building up a patent warchest of their own, so that if somebody sues them, nVidia can look for patents they own that the other company is violating and work out a trade, and 2) shrouding their hardware in mystery, so nobody knows how it works and therefore nobody can figure out if it's infringing on someone's patent or not. Note that #1 is not possible against a patent troll that doesn't actually produce anything, so #2 is really all they've got.
Keep in mind that has not stopped AMD from releasing a ton of specs and docs and nobody has come forward over the years to sue AMD over their releases. Nvidia is just being stupid at this point and time.
AMD will most likely be stuck at the niche they are now, at least as long as they stick with the faildozer "half a core" design so that just leaves Intel and ARM and with the money, the fabs, and the R&D budget that Intel has i think it'd be crazy to call it for ARM at this stage of the game.
Its not a half a core its a full core with a shared FPU/SIMD unit, if you think that Bulldozer is just half a core than what do you call most CPUs since before the i586 era that had no FPUs? What is my 68020 in my Macintosh is not really a chip/core/cpu? Most arm chips have no fpu either so do they count as core/cpus?
Stop trolling...
This looks like the start of the extinguish phase of Microsoft's plan.
As a Finn I am really fucking pissed off at Elop and the Nokia board who let this happen.
As a half Finn I concur, Nokia should of not made a deal with the devil, now its time to reap the rewards of being blind and/or stupid.
Just another step in the plan to screw Nokia the same way they did Sendo. Nokia is so fucking stupid for trusting Microsoft, after all history repeats its self.
Sound works fine on FreeBSD, no need for ugly hacks like PulseAudio, just in-kernel low-latency sound mixing and a full OSS4 implementation, complete with per-application volume controls, surround sound, and all of the features you'd expect of a modern operating system.
That's one thing the BSD's got right. However Linux had an old and unmaintainable version of OSS, so ALSA had to kill it off in Kernel. PulseAudio is a nasty bloated buggy piece of crap, even old ESD works far better IMHO.
So the same guy that made system boot configuration and init scripts a huge pain in the ass with systemd is also responsible for screwing up our sound support? Somehow I am not surprised by this....
Amen!
We Christians LOVE this idea! Imagine if early Christians had helicopter technology when Christ died. Joseph of Arimathea could have made the body of Christ into an aviation miracle! Imagine a flying dead Jesus going around Jerulselem after the crucifixion, it would have converted many people, perhaps even the Pharasies and Pilate too.
Stolen from a poster on yahoo news.
Still trying convince us that they really landed on the moon. NASA likes to play pretend more than a class of preschoolers.
j/k
1) It compiles slower than clang at -O0
2) It produces slower code than clang at -O3 and -Os
3) It's error and warning messages are not as good
4) It's not as modular as clang, which can be used in parts, to produce useful tools like CSA
5) The GPL.
Got facts to back this up? Every benchmark I have seen as showed GCC producing faster code than Clang on 90% of the time, Phoronix benchmarks has in the last week showed this to be true.
Evolution is still a theory. And a fact. The terms aren't exclusive.
Evolution is as much a fact as Santa having workshop in the north pole is a fact.
Evolution is a widely believed theory but a fact it is not!
300 microns: the movie
Starring Gerard Butler as the voice of Bacterionidas
and Michael Fassbender as Infectillios
with Lena Headey as Queen Gorgorrhea
and Rodrigo Santoro as X3/rX35 the God-Virus
Featuring amazing microscopy effects which seamlessly switch between 4000x 10,000x and 16,000x views in mid action sequence!
Coming this summer!
"Tonight, we dine in the lower digestive tract!"
Bravo Sir, Bravo!
Why would anyone sane go though such a process to make something you brought and supposedly own work? It would be like me calling the builder of my home for permission to change my living room around.
Its not a dupe, its a retelling of the story!
Yep. The Great Google Hard Disk Study revealed that no brand was "more reliable" than any other.
Every single manufacturer had troublesome batches and/or models. No brand was immune to this.
FWIW the single biggest factor they found which correlated to failure was heat. If your drive runs hot then expect trouble.
Wow you read that study backwards.
Google found that heat did not play a big as you might assume, and some brands were more reliable but they would not release that information.
http://gizmodo.com/237980/google-teaches-us-five-things-about-hard-drive-death
I think we were as humans and this planet we call Earth, were meant to be here by a higher intelligence.
You people will never realize that American-manufactured goods were once the best there were. They were durable, they actually weren't that expensive, and you could trust them.
Any facts or figures to back up this hyperbole of a statement ?
Good work digging up all the graphs where Bulldozer manages to get between the i5 and the i7 (which, based on its price point *it damn well should*, being priced half way between the two). Unfortunately, while you've dug up a nice bunch of places it just about holds its own, there many times more where the Sandy Bridge chip eats it for breakfast, including heavily multithreaded work. As I said above – Bulldozer is good at very multithreaded integer work, and pretty much nothing else.
Nice Trolling
GNOME is a perfect study in how not to architect a software system. Everything about it is wrong.
The first mistake they made was trying to cobble half-assed object-oriented support onto C, rather than just using C++ or Objective-C. Everything about GObject is stupid and counterproductive. It makes writing code a real pain in the ass, since you need to use typecasting macros all over the place. Worse, this sort of code promotes library design that's slow and inefficient. To make it even worse, this style of C code is so convoluted that it is not optimized well by compilers, resulting in binaries that are far slower than they should be.
It basically goes totally downhill after that. This bullshit with GPU acceleration being required in the first place, and then this additional bullshit involving LLVM, is yet another in a long list of flaws and horrible decisions.
I encourage all of the developers that I mentor to use GNOME and to get a good look at its internals. I just make sure that they know not to do what GNOME has done. By seeing the mistakes firsthand, it's less likely that they'll repeat them in the future with the software that they create.
Mod AC up hes his spot on...
MSE is one the worse AVs for the detection of non english threats, which means its useless.
I stayed with Windows 2000 for the longest because XP's UI was beyond ugly. Not until you could get the Media Center themes that it became a good looking UI and I finally settled on XP.
OK, this is Slashdot but 1 MEP suggests something, and it becomes "EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer". No one is debating anything !! (Unless TFA says more: it is currently Slashdotted.)
Its only takes one stupid idea to get a big enough following, especially with the "Think of the children" crowd and then boom its LAW!
http://groups.google.com/group/android-building/msg/c73c14f9b0dcd15a?pli=1
QNX was a fast and fun OS when I ran it back around 2002/2003 but damn it was buggy and unstable mess, I could crash by playing a mp3 or make the file system do a little bit of work. It sucked on my desktop.