>Software (other than games) that can actually benefit from this type of hardware is scarce and expensive.
Hence it is targeted at the HPC market. My Master's Degree, incidentally, is in HPC... we're quite used to having to deal with weird and flaky hardware and dev environments to get our code to run.
> This $1000 card will probably be in the $5 bargain box at the local computer recycle shop before there is any significant software in widespread use that could put it to good use.
When the Cell processor was in development, it was also predicted that this would happen. As it turns out, yes, SIMD coding was significantly more difficult for development teams to deal with, but there's still a pretty substantial code base for the PS3.
I like it. The sticking point would be how the social cost of different technologies would be calculated, but it internalizes the externalities nicely.
>>>>You harp on deforestation, but it hasn't been a problem here in the US in a century.
>>That is patent bullshit. You have been listening to self-serving assholes. The total mass of trees in the USA is vastly reduced from what it was two hundred years ago
Note how I said a century? No? Too "puckered" to care?
Forest levels in America have been stable for a century.
>As long as we're dicking around with bullshit like cap and trade rather than something meaningful like tax and reforest or hell maybe even enforce existing regulations then that argument is pure fucking bullshit.
Cap and Trade is actually something of a free market solution to CO2 emissions. Instead of the government mandating a fixed reduction per power plant (or whatever), they mandate an overall reduction in CO2, and let the industry itself optimize for the most efficient solutions. It worked quite well at decreasing SO2 (http://www.epa.gov/capandtrade/documents/ctresults.pdf) emissions by about half since 1970.
The issue isn't Cap and Trade, per se, but the blindingly stupid way that Cap and Trade programs (I'm talking Kyoto here) have been designed. Actually, "stupid" implies the design was an accident - Kyoto was broken by design due to a confluence of interests from Britain, Russia, etc., on setting a very poor choice for a start date for quotas - i.e., right before the fall of the USSR.
Tax and reforest, by comparison, IS a stupid plan. It's expensive, it costs water, and only certain tree species are best at fixing CO2. You harp on deforestation, but it hasn't been a problem here in the US in a century.
Your "Enforcing Existing Regulations" plan won't do shit, since we don't have a nationwide CO2 limit in America. Unless you mean signing on to Kyoto, which, as I've said, is a very bad treaty.
>But more of us need to get on board with actually doing something about the problems we know how to solve,
Sure, as long as you're not signing on to an idiotic fix.
>You think the people in Highway are going to be happy being governed by politicians in Oregon that doesn't really care what's going on in a set of islands hundreds of miles away because they massively outnumber them don't need their votes anyways?
You think people in Highway will be happy living in a state called fucking Highway?
You think the people in San Diego will stand to be part of Orange County?
>Maybe because/some of us have normal range of motion that allows us to use all our fingers? Just because you don't know how to move your body properly doesn't mean others are the same.
Did you miss the part where I hit 80WPM?
If you consider that "not moving your body properly", you have insanely high standards for typing speed.
And I've never had a lick of carpal tunnel with my typing method, whereas "proper" typists get it all the time. Sample size of one, I know, but from what my wrists felt like after "properly" typing on the home row, I can see probably cause and effect.
>I almost never use my ring or pinky while typing, on either side.
Ditto. "Proper" typing technique causes extension of fingers that aren't designed for it. I type only with my first two fingers on each hand, and my right thumb. I typed around 80WPM without error in my IRC and MUD days.
I've never understood why someone would type with their ring or pinky fingers. The few times I had teachers try to get me to type "correctly" it hurt immensely.
>I've tried 30" monitors and they were just too big, but for me 2x27" is perfect.
I use a 32" 1080p TV as my desktop monitor. I've been looking to upgrade it to something with more resolution, but you get used to the size. While, yeah, it's far too wide for your needs programming, if you snap your coding window to the left side of the screen, you can snap your documentation on the right side, and skip having to alt-tab back and forth.
The quality of the screen is surprisingly good for a no-name Best Buy brand (better than my Sony monitor, in fact), and it's dirt cheap ($225). Insignia NS-L322Q-10A.
>Seriously, I have trouble believing these "My car is stuck going fast and can't stop!" stories are anything other than failure to understand how to operate your vehicle.
I had a car accelerate out of control under me once. At first, I thought the gas pedal was stuck, so I reached down and pulled it out. No luck. Brakes didn't work.
So I turned off the car and coasted to a stop with my newly non-power brakes slowly pulling me to a stop.
Was on the UCSD campus loop. Pedestrians everywhere. Terrifying.
(The cause was a stuck accelerator cable - it was a known problem with the 80s-era Caprice Classics.)
> From the looks of things, very few who have commented actually watched the video... go figure.
Indeed. They mention natural gas has half the CO2 production of coal. Which is true. They mention we've dumped quite a bit of money into solar company subsidies into solar companies that have gone bankrupt. This is also true. The solar industry is basically entirely based on tax credits right now to make solar cheap. This is also true. (And true for Germany as well.)
But she also says it's not a sustainable business model, and this is only partly true. It's possible that with enough R&D and economies of scale, solar could become comparable in cost. But as of right now, it's still more expensive than gas and coal.
She's being an idiot when she says that Germany gets more sun than the US, but that wasn't really the point of her statement, which was mostly cheerleading natural gas, as Fox is wont to do. (And no, Khayman80, I don't think natural gas is a magic bullet, but it is better than coal. Pretty much everything is better than coal.)
>Without junk mail you'd have to pay the mailman a lot more per envelope. Probably well over $1. Unlike Spam, junk mail PAYS the mailman to walk around to ALL the houses. Right now advertising is probably the only thing making per home delivery profitable.
They could make more money by charging for spam filtering on mailboxes.
I never buy a brand new SSD because it's a total crapshoot if the controller will be homicidal or not, and for a lot of drives, flashing the firmware wipes your drive, which is a PITA to deal with.
So I wait a while, check Newegg reviews (filter down to 1-egg reviews and see if the one-egg reviews are for controller failures or something stupid, like Newegg not shipping the drive on time or whatever).
>I had service with Verizon for quite a while. In the last two areas I've lived, they have the best coverage.
Here, too, plus I travel a lot for work, so I'm stuck with them.
That said, the way they price things out now, I'll never upgrade my phone or plan... switching from my old 3G plan with unlimited data on one line and no data on the other line (wife has a cheap flip phone) to their new plan would entail a 50% greater phone bill, as they charge ridiculous amounts of money for data, and require a $20 monthly surcharge for flip phones.
So, yeah, no thanks. Come back to me when you can meet your 2007 levels of pricing, Verizon.
Did you look at the quotes on Slashdot, instead of your blog that aggregate everything together? Your name appears nowhere in the thread you linked to, and all my conversations were with another individual.
>Obviously they weren't getting the revenue to make it pay off. Courts are not free. No doubt city workers were tired of it too.
More importantly, they were getting their asses handed to them in court, especially after they were caught doing bad things like reducing yellow times in order to boost the number of tickets they issued in San Diego. Judges took a poor view of that, and it proved rather conclusively the machines were about making money instead of improving safety. A judge suspended the program for two years in 2001 after finding the revenue sharing agreement with the vendor was illegal.
San Diego is hardly alone in this scam, though. (http://www.thedailyaztec.com/2012/10/red-light-cameras-lead-to-accidents-and-profits/)
> Defenders of Jones like to pretend he was being spamflooded by FOIA requests, but this is quite simply a lie from people unwilling to admit that "their team" could ever be in the ethical wrong. [ShakaUVM, 2011-10-30]
Which was not written in response to you.
If you think that everything on the internet is about you, you have much bigger problems than I have been giving you credit for.
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>Are you serious about supporting Art Laffer and Bob Inglis? If so, future generations just might have a fighting chance!
Is there some reason why you think their idea is a bad one? I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not.
In all seriousness, any method that properly internalizes the externalities is just.
>Excellent. Let's reach across the aisle
You're assuming... I'm a Democrat?
Interesting.
I'm not a registered Libertarian, but I've voted that way in the last two presidential cycles.
>Software (other than games) that can actually benefit from this type of hardware is scarce and expensive.
Hence it is targeted at the HPC market. My Master's Degree, incidentally, is in HPC... we're quite used to having to deal with weird and flaky hardware and dev environments to get our code to run.
> This $1000 card will probably be in the $5 bargain box at the local computer recycle shop before there is any significant software in widespread use that could put it to good use.
When the Cell processor was in development, it was also predicted that this would happen. As it turns out, yes, SIMD coding was significantly more difficult for development teams to deal with, but there's still a pretty substantial code base for the PS3.
>I'm noting how you're prevaricating by mentioning useless facts.
Naturally you'd say it's useless, since it shows you are full of shit.
Have you ever looked at the math on reforestation as a carbon sink? Be honest. And if you have, where is the land and water going to come from?
The problem with hippie plans like yours is that they assume magic works.
I like it. The sticking point would be how the social cost of different technologies would be calculated, but it internalizes the externalities nicely.
I've proposed similar solutions.
>>>>You harp on deforestation, but it hasn't been a problem here in the US in a century.
>>That is patent bullshit. You have been listening to self-serving assholes. The total mass of trees in the USA is vastly reduced from what it was two hundred years ago
Note how I said a century? No? Too "puckered" to care?
Forest levels in America have been stable for a century.
>As long as we're dicking around with bullshit like cap and trade rather than something meaningful like tax and reforest or hell maybe even enforce existing regulations then that argument is pure fucking bullshit.
Cap and Trade is actually something of a free market solution to CO2 emissions. Instead of the government mandating a fixed reduction per power plant (or whatever), they mandate an overall reduction in CO2, and let the industry itself optimize for the most efficient solutions. It worked quite well at decreasing SO2 (http://www.epa.gov/capandtrade/documents/ctresults.pdf) emissions by about half since 1970.
The issue isn't Cap and Trade, per se, but the blindingly stupid way that Cap and Trade programs (I'm talking Kyoto here) have been designed. Actually, "stupid" implies the design was an accident - Kyoto was broken by design due to a confluence of interests from Britain, Russia, etc., on setting a very poor choice for a start date for quotas - i.e., right before the fall of the USSR.
Tax and reforest, by comparison, IS a stupid plan. It's expensive, it costs water, and only certain tree species are best at fixing CO2. You harp on deforestation, but it hasn't been a problem here in the US in a century.
Your "Enforcing Existing Regulations" plan won't do shit, since we don't have a nationwide CO2 limit in America. Unless you mean signing on to Kyoto, which, as I've said, is a very bad treaty.
>But more of us need to get on board with actually doing something about the problems we know how to solve,
Sure, as long as you're not signing on to an idiotic fix.
>You think the people in Highway are going to be happy being governed by politicians in Oregon that doesn't really care what's going on in a set of islands hundreds of miles away because they massively outnumber them don't need their votes anyways?
You think people in Highway will be happy living in a state called fucking Highway?
You think the people in San Diego will stand to be part of Orange County?
Hah.
The names are the worst part of the proposal.
>Can get a patent on "A thing that does stuff"?
This patent will not cover Windows 8.
>Maybe because/some of us have normal range of motion that allows us to use all our fingers? Just because you don't know how to move your body properly doesn't mean others are the same.
Did you miss the part where I hit 80WPM?
If you consider that "not moving your body properly", you have insanely high standards for typing speed.
And I've never had a lick of carpal tunnel with my typing method, whereas "proper" typists get it all the time. Sample size of one, I know, but from what my wrists felt like after "properly" typing on the home row, I can see probably cause and effect.
>I almost never use my ring or pinky while typing, on either side.
Ditto. "Proper" typing technique causes extension of fingers that aren't designed for it. I type only with my first two fingers on each hand, and my right thumb. I typed around 80WPM without error in my IRC and MUD days.
I've never understood why someone would type with their ring or pinky fingers. The few times I had teachers try to get me to type "correctly" it hurt immensely.
>I've tried 30" monitors and they were just too big, but for me 2x27" is perfect.
I use a 32" 1080p TV as my desktop monitor. I've been looking to upgrade it to something with more resolution, but you get used to the size. While, yeah, it's far too wide for your needs programming, if you snap your coding window to the left side of the screen, you can snap your documentation on the right side, and skip having to alt-tab back and forth.
The quality of the screen is surprisingly good for a no-name Best Buy brand (better than my Sony monitor, in fact), and it's dirt cheap ($225). Insignia NS-L322Q-10A.
>Seriously, I have trouble believing these "My car is stuck going fast and can't stop!" stories are anything other than failure to understand how to operate your vehicle.
I had a car accelerate out of control under me once. At first, I thought the gas pedal was stuck, so I reached down and pulled it out. No luck. Brakes didn't work.
So I turned off the car and coasted to a stop with my newly non-power brakes slowly pulling me to a stop.
Was on the UCSD campus loop. Pedestrians everywhere. Terrifying.
(The cause was a stuck accelerator cable - it was a known problem with the 80s-era Caprice Classics.)
> From the looks of things, very few who have commented actually watched the video... go figure.
Indeed. They mention natural gas has half the CO2 production of coal. Which is true. They mention we've dumped quite a bit of money into solar company subsidies into solar companies that have gone bankrupt. This is also true. The solar industry is basically entirely based on tax credits right now to make solar cheap. This is also true. (And true for Germany as well.)
But she also says it's not a sustainable business model, and this is only partly true. It's possible that with enough R&D and economies of scale, solar could become comparable in cost. But as of right now, it's still more expensive than gas and coal.
She's being an idiot when she says that Germany gets more sun than the US, but that wasn't really the point of her statement, which was mostly cheerleading natural gas, as Fox is wont to do. (And no, Khayman80, I don't think natural gas is a magic bullet, but it is better than coal. Pretty much everything is better than coal.)
>Without junk mail you'd have to pay the mailman a lot more per envelope. Probably well over $1. Unlike Spam, junk mail PAYS the mailman to walk around to ALL the houses. Right now advertising is probably the only thing making per home delivery profitable.
They could make more money by charging for spam filtering on mailboxes.
I never buy a brand new SSD because it's a total crapshoot if the controller will be homicidal or not, and for a lot of drives, flashing the firmware wipes your drive, which is a PITA to deal with.
So I wait a while, check Newegg reviews (filter down to 1-egg reviews and see if the one-egg reviews are for controller failures or something stupid, like Newegg not shipping the drive on time or whatever).
Has been working well for me.
>I had service with Verizon for quite a while. In the last two areas I've lived, they have the best coverage.
Here, too, plus I travel a lot for work, so I'm stuck with them.
That said, the way they price things out now, I'll never upgrade my phone or plan... switching from my old 3G plan with unlimited data on one line and no data on the other line (wife has a cheap flip phone) to their new plan would entail a 50% greater phone bill, as they charge ridiculous amounts of money for data, and require a $20 monthly surcharge for flip phones.
So, yeah, no thanks. Come back to me when you can meet your 2007 levels of pricing, Verizon.
>And one where you can be the evil guy if you actually got your predictions right. (I'm thinking Marx here).
+1 funny
^aggregates
Yep, I always laugh when people claim that governments "are above" monetary interests.
Red light cameras and asset forfeiture are blatant exploitation of the people, at the expense of justice and liberty.
Did you look at the quotes on Slashdot, instead of your blog that aggregate everything together? Your name appears nowhere in the thread you linked to, and all my conversations were with another individual.
>Obviously they weren't getting the revenue to make it pay off. Courts are not free. No doubt city workers were tired of it too.
More importantly, they were getting their asses handed to them in court, especially after they were caught doing bad things like reducing yellow times in order to boost the number of tickets they issued in San Diego. Judges took a poor view of that, and it proved rather conclusively the machines were about making money instead of improving safety. A judge suspended the program for two years in 2001 after finding the revenue sharing agreement with the vendor was illegal.
San Diego is hardly alone in this scam, though. (http://www.thedailyaztec.com/2012/10/red-light-cameras-lead-to-accidents-and-profits/)
Yep. If I think you're not telling the truth, you can trust me to say it to your face. =)
>My point was that the previously mentioned similarity deepens.
You still haven't learned to hyperlink properly.
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Oh. You're accusing me of being some other person you're cyberstalking. Because both of us have accused you of cyberstalking?
Hint: maybe it is not because some paranoid fancy of yours is true, but because you make a habit of cyberstalking people.
I'm not Jane Q. Public. I'm only aware of her because you keep mislinking comments to me about her.
> Defenders of Jones like to pretend he was being spamflooded by FOIA requests, but this is quite simply a lie from people unwilling to admit that "their team" could ever be in the ethical wrong. [ShakaUVM, 2011-10-30]
Which was not written in response to you.
If you think that everything on the internet is about you, you have much bigger problems than I have been giving you credit for.