TRIPS and EDGE are interesting approaches to parallel processing. The thing is, data interdependency is going to make execution speed remain as the trump card for computing. That is to say: you cannot parallelize an algorithm that requires step-by-step completion. EDGE simply identifies, at the compilation level, what parts of a program can be parallelized, based on interdependencies, and then it creates the program based on this in the form of 'hyperblocks'.
If each subsequent step is dependent on the previous step then this by nature makes the program impossible to parallelize. So what we're most likely going to find out is that we'll hit the 'wall' of parallelization in programs in a relatively short period and be back to the familiar place: increasing the clock speed.
NVidia has been really good in the past for me, for drivers, especially compared to ATI. Until recently. I run Vista Ultimate 64 with twin 750GB Seagate HDDs running in RAID 0 via an NVidia raid controller. I used to run with windows update on and set to automatically update at 3AM each day. Until NVidia released new RAID drivers a week or so ago.
I would wake up each morning to find my computer constantly rebooting. It would blue screen and I couldn't even make out the error before it was off the screen. I managed to get Vista running with Last Known Good configuration (amazing to me, I never see this work) and the first time I checked the last update and it was the NVidia RAID drivers. I figured what the hell, maybe it was a fluke.
Well, the third day in a row of finding the computer in this state in the morning and I finally cancelled the RAID driver install. The next morning, the computer was fine.
That is some serious hyperbole comparing it to an IBM PC from 1981. I fail to see the usefulness in it. In fact, it probably distracts people from the real point here, which is that Apple's practices aren't great for business.
[Upon seeing the model of the "Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too"]
"What is this, a center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read if they can't even fit inside the building? The center has to be at least... three times bigger than this!"
I say go for it. Sue the hell out of him, or at least try. Get it while you can. Because after a few more years I'd be willing to bet it's going to be very hard to tell if a player is a bot or is real. Hell, maybe this is a good thing that people are trying to create life-like actions through a bot. Could it lead to more people becoming interested in AI? If the answer is yes, then despite the fact that this bot is grinding "my" mobs (yea right, like I own those mobs anyway), I say keep up the botting. Maybe one of these guys will be a brilliant supergenius who actually does create AI.
Highly unlikely, but romantic and crazy enough that I don't really care.
I didn't read TFA but is it suggesting that a highly advanced technology could be 'easily' counterfeited and delievered to US facilities? Assuming it would take another highly advanced country to do this... Doesn't this really mean war, not terror? If we find out a sovereign nation is attacking us through this channel I would call it war -- even if that means they are knowningly supplying terrorists with the chips instead of directly doing it themselves.
The US DoD depending on the global hardware business is the scariest implication to me.
And one more thing.. this almost sounds like it could be a back door for even stronger DRM technology, embedded in hardware, in our personal computers in the future. SO, how far off base am I this time?
lol... Well the thing is, I think people take the definition of the Singularity too far. All it really claims is we can't possibly understand what comes afterwards. It doesn't say it's good, or bad, or anything. Just that the change is so drastic, so fast, that we can't sit here today and understand it. For example, today I can sit here and tell you that next year there will be an increase in processor power roughly proportionate to Moore's law. We can pretty much apply this to most advances of the forseeable future.
But what happens if someone discovers something that literally changes everything? What if it provides the ability for us to create technologies that today would seem like magic? And what if it happens in a very short time frame? That, my friend, would be the Singularity. Don't get confused, it's not crazy, it's entirely possible.
I personally find the whole idea that any group could control the Internet tantamount to saying that any group can control all religions. No there aren't the same thing, but to me the concept is similar. You might be able to control parts of the net, but as soon as people find out this is the case they will migrate elsewhere. The whole concept of the internet is that it is (relatively) free and is a worldwide community. Thus the only possible policing polity or agency, or what-have-you, would have to be composed of a group representative of the entire world.
Thanks for making my point. We don't know, but they claim they do. That's the only problem I have with the story. If they said "This phase of the universe is now known to be X billion years old" that would be at least acceptable. To say the universe began then IS NOT.
Hence the reason I disagree with the statement that the universe began anywhere near that time. Just because the state of the universe was hot and dense does not mean it began near then. To me, saying it 'began' at all it nonsense.
I wish I could use a single measurement like microwave radiation to tell me that nothing at all existed before 13.73 billion years ago. I wish I could make that leap of logic to say that because of this one measurement we know that this was the beginning of all things. I mean, hey, this measurement points us towards an obvious single point in time... so that point in time must be the first point of all points, because this measurement proves it. Without a doubt.
Yea, I wish I could make that statement. But unfortunately that would be unreasonable. Because even though I can measure background radiation, and that radiation points to a single point in the past, I honestly cannot say for sure that this disproves the possibility of anything coming before.
So where do you draw the line between life and non-life as far as this configuration to perpetuate in time is concerned? If the physical requirements themselves that create life and sustain life weren't also perpetuating through time then life would cease to exist. If the sun didn't perpetually burn, no life on this planet would exist. But then there are other, even higher order pieces that are requirements for those requirements. If hydrogen didn't fuse and release energy while under extreme gravitational pressure the sun wouldn't burn. If gravity didn't pull the hydrogen atoms together they would never be under the pressure to fuse.
Everything around us is integral to our existence. Life is not separate, cannot be divided or compartmentalized away from, or categorized above or beyond the rest of the universe. Only sentient beings have the ability to do that, and it's a romantic pleasure at best.
So becauase one guy dies, and his species lives on for now, that means life finds a way? I guess there's no reason to point out that species go extinct all the time, because you'd just say that a single species is nothing compared to the whole of 'life', and that life will still continue.
Well, that's total bullshit. Read my reply to the other guy... Life doesn't find a way any more than a rock on a beach finds a way. Life exists because the universe, in certain places, is configured for life to exist. Just like in other places the universe is configured for there to be near total emptiness. There is no magical "life force" that gives life some supernatural ability to exist despite what the universe has become or will become. Life simply does not have that power. That power only exists in fairy tales and delusions.
And like the rock on the beach, life will be eroded or destroyed at the whim of the unknown and unpredictable.
"Life always finds a way" is just romantic babble.
First off, they don't explode all at once, they explode tube by tube and the explosions are very small. It takes a fairly powerful direct laser strike to cause this to happen. I.E. a hand-held laser pointed at a plane will be about as useful as shooting a BB gun at it.
Second... I guess you've never heard of... paint.
And finally... not all carbon nanotubes are created equally.
The intent of the statement "life always finds a way" is to say that life inherently will continue to exist or has some ability to control its existence. Yet there is nothing in the universe that promises this is the case. There is no provable living force that guarantees life is going to continue to exist from one moment to the next. Life itself is not separate from the universe, it is part of it, and it is subject to the conditions within it. No life, not even sentient life, can change this essential fact. "Free Will" gives you only the ability to realize the end is coming and try to do something about it... but this only means that you are still operating under exactly, and only, what the universe has given you. Even with free will, sentience, and intelligence you are still going to die no matter what you do, and it might be two seconds from now and you would have no idea. One...Two...
Plants can sense something happening and adjust also, so what makes 'free will' so special? Because we can use our senses and adjust to our surroundings like a plant? How good are we without our senses which operate based on what the universe provides us?
Life doesn't find a way. It simply lives within certain frameworks of existence, and only because those frameworks exist in the first place. Not because life has some supernatural powers and wants to exist...
You're right. So we should stop this research, 'cause the bugs will just get stronger. While we're at it, let's stop improving agriculture, 'cause the Earth is just going to get more populated anyway. In fact, why do anything, we're just going to die anyway.
Personally, I think Ian's statement about life always finding a way is a great movie line... and that's about it. What is life finding a way for? To live, and adapt? So what you're telling me is that life in general finds a way to live, to survive, to adapt. Except that in this context life is finding a way to kill other life... That guy who got a few hundred pounds of T-Rex tooth inserted into his body surely wasn't 'finding a way' to anywhere but being dead. But wait, I thought life always found a way. Shucks, guess not. But it sounded so poetic and beautiful!
But hey, that's a good dramatic hollywood line for ya.
SP1 was waiting for me this morning as well. I haven't yet installed it though. I have Ultimate 64. For me, stability has never been a concern and I am running an overclocked e8400 with 8gb of RAM. The system is very smooth. I haven't had any problems running games.. and the few games that I have run in DX10 are pretty nice looking compared to their DX9 versions. If you read the rhetoric on Slashdot you'll think Vista is a complete failure. I decided to try Vista for this new build, despite reading this rhetoric, because I knew that a great majority of the Slashdot posters who post about a Microsoft product have not in fact used the product. Slashdot readers are actually more herdlike and less independent than one might think.
A couple things worry me regarding the general situation with your post.
1) You claim to have an IQ of 159. Yet you can't be bothered to proofread your post for spelling and grammar. For someone with an IQ of 159 this should take almost no time at all. One explanation, probably the most likely if your IQ is indeed 159, is that you simply don't care. Still, I find this troublesome. 2) The moderators gave you several +1 Funny moderations. I can't tell if they are serious. Are they laughing with you, or at you? I'm going to have to say I feel like it may be the latter.
I'd wager that your IQ of 159 was the result of an online IQ test. Good game sir, well played.
Not to be confused with an 'ultracrapacitor' which is apparently something that exists within the guy in the cubicle next to mine... And let me tell you this: it is *real* vapor ware.
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TRIPS and EDGE are interesting approaches to parallel processing. The thing is, data interdependency is going to make execution speed remain as the trump card for computing. That is to say: you cannot parallelize an algorithm that requires step-by-step completion. EDGE simply identifies, at the compilation level, what parts of a program can be parallelized, based on interdependencies, and then it creates the program based on this in the form of 'hyperblocks'.
If each subsequent step is dependent on the previous step then this by nature makes the program impossible to parallelize. So what we're most likely going to find out is that we'll hit the 'wall' of parallelization in programs in a relatively short period and be back to the familiar place: increasing the clock speed.
NVidia has been really good in the past for me, for drivers, especially compared to ATI. Until recently. I run Vista Ultimate 64 with twin 750GB Seagate HDDs running in RAID 0 via an NVidia raid controller. I used to run with windows update on and set to automatically update at 3AM each day. Until NVidia released new RAID drivers a week or so ago.
I would wake up each morning to find my computer constantly rebooting. It would blue screen and I couldn't even make out the error before it was off the screen. I managed to get Vista running with Last Known Good configuration (amazing to me, I never see this work) and the first time I checked the last update and it was the NVidia RAID drivers. I figured what the hell, maybe it was a fluke.
Well, the third day in a row of finding the computer in this state in the morning and I finally cancelled the RAID driver install. The next morning, the computer was fine.
It was the NVidia drivers... and possibly Vista.
That is some serious hyperbole comparing it to an IBM PC from 1981. I fail to see the usefulness in it. In fact, it probably distracts people from the real point here, which is that Apple's practices aren't great for business.
[Upon seeing the model of the "Derek Zoolander Center For Children Who Can't Read Good And Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too"]
"What is this, a center for ants? How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read if they can't even fit inside the building? The center has to be at least... three times bigger than this!"
I say go for it. Sue the hell out of him, or at least try. Get it while you can. Because after a few more years I'd be willing to bet it's going to be very hard to tell if a player is a bot or is real. Hell, maybe this is a good thing that people are trying to create life-like actions through a bot. Could it lead to more people becoming interested in AI? If the answer is yes, then despite the fact that this bot is grinding "my" mobs (yea right, like I own those mobs anyway), I say keep up the botting. Maybe one of these guys will be a brilliant supergenius who actually does create AI.
Highly unlikely, but romantic and crazy enough that I don't really care.
I didn't read TFA but is it suggesting that a highly advanced technology could be 'easily' counterfeited and delievered to US facilities? Assuming it would take another highly advanced country to do this... Doesn't this really mean war, not terror? If we find out a sovereign nation is attacking us through this channel I would call it war -- even if that means they are knowningly supplying terrorists with the chips instead of directly doing it themselves.
The US DoD depending on the global hardware business is the scariest implication to me.
And one more thing.. this almost sounds like it could be a back door for even stronger DRM technology, embedded in hardware, in our personal computers in the future. SO, how far off base am I this time?
lol... Well the thing is, I think people take the definition of the Singularity too far. All it really claims is we can't possibly understand what comes afterwards. It doesn't say it's good, or bad, or anything. Just that the change is so drastic, so fast, that we can't sit here today and understand it. For example, today I can sit here and tell you that next year there will be an increase in processor power roughly proportionate to Moore's law. We can pretty much apply this to most advances of the forseeable future.
But what happens if someone discovers something that literally changes everything? What if it provides the ability for us to create technologies that today would seem like magic? And what if it happens in a very short time frame? That, my friend, would be the Singularity. Don't get confused, it's not crazy, it's entirely possible.
So, what video game do my brother and I need to be in to get 'launched'?
Check out our first song on YouTube from my sig.
lol.. I just *hope* you are kidding.... and you know what I meant by Singularity.
The Singularity is near.
I repeat, the Singularity is near.
I hope you are all ready.
I personally find the whole idea that any group could control the Internet tantamount to saying that any group can control all religions. No there aren't the same thing, but to me the concept is similar. You might be able to control parts of the net, but as soon as people find out this is the case they will migrate elsewhere. The whole concept of the internet is that it is (relatively) free and is a worldwide community. Thus the only possible policing polity or agency, or what-have-you, would have to be composed of a group representative of the entire world.
And we've all seen the UN.
I find the statement that something should be taken out of the hands of Libertarians to be contradictory and wrong.
Thanks for making my point. We don't know, but they claim they do. That's the only problem I have with the story. If they said "This phase of the universe is now known to be X billion years old" that would be at least acceptable. To say the universe began then IS NOT.
Hence the reason I disagree with the statement that the universe began anywhere near that time. Just because the state of the universe was hot and dense does not mean it began near then. To me, saying it 'began' at all it nonsense.
"from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), which has been surveying the 3K microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang."
Did I miss somewhere where they mentioned they measured something other than microwave radiation?
I wish I could use a single measurement like microwave radiation to tell me that nothing at all existed before 13.73 billion years ago. I wish I could make that leap of logic to say that because of this one measurement we know that this was the beginning of all things. I mean, hey, this measurement points us towards an obvious single point in time... so that point in time must be the first point of all points, because this measurement proves it. Without a doubt.
Yea, I wish I could make that statement. But unfortunately that would be unreasonable. Because even though I can measure background radiation, and that radiation points to a single point in the past, I honestly cannot say for sure that this disproves the possibility of anything coming before.
So where do you draw the line between life and non-life as far as this configuration to perpetuate in time is concerned? If the physical requirements themselves that create life and sustain life weren't also perpetuating through time then life would cease to exist. If the sun didn't perpetually burn, no life on this planet would exist. But then there are other, even higher order pieces that are requirements for those requirements. If hydrogen didn't fuse and release energy while under extreme gravitational pressure the sun wouldn't burn. If gravity didn't pull the hydrogen atoms together they would never be under the pressure to fuse.
Everything around us is integral to our existence. Life is not separate, cannot be divided or compartmentalized away from, or categorized above or beyond the rest of the universe. Only sentient beings have the ability to do that, and it's a romantic pleasure at best.
"This is incomprehensibly awesome."
:)
You seem to be comprehending how awesome it could be quite fine
So becauase one guy dies, and his species lives on for now, that means life finds a way? I guess there's no reason to point out that species go extinct all the time, because you'd just say that a single species is nothing compared to the whole of 'life', and that life will still continue.
Well, that's total bullshit. Read my reply to the other guy... Life doesn't find a way any more than a rock on a beach finds a way. Life exists because the universe, in certain places, is configured for life to exist. Just like in other places the universe is configured for there to be near total emptiness. There is no magical "life force" that gives life some supernatural ability to exist despite what the universe has become or will become. Life simply does not have that power. That power only exists in fairy tales and delusions.
And like the rock on the beach, life will be eroded or destroyed at the whim of the unknown and unpredictable.
"Life always finds a way" is just romantic babble.
First off, they don't explode all at once, they explode tube by tube and the explosions are very small. It takes a fairly powerful direct laser strike to cause this to happen. I.E. a hand-held laser pointed at a plane will be about as useful as shooting a BB gun at it.
Second... I guess you've never heard of... paint.
And finally... not all carbon nanotubes are created equally.
FUD.
The intent of the statement "life always finds a way" is to say that life inherently will continue to exist or has some ability to control its existence. Yet there is nothing in the universe that promises this is the case. There is no provable living force that guarantees life is going to continue to exist from one moment to the next. Life itself is not separate from the universe, it is part of it, and it is subject to the conditions within it. No life, not even sentient life, can change this essential fact. "Free Will" gives you only the ability to realize the end is coming and try to do something about it... but this only means that you are still operating under exactly, and only, what the universe has given you. Even with free will, sentience, and intelligence you are still going to die no matter what you do, and it might be two seconds from now and you would have no idea. One...Two...
Plants can sense something happening and adjust also, so what makes 'free will' so special? Because we can use our senses and adjust to our surroundings like a plant? How good are we without our senses which operate based on what the universe provides us?
Life doesn't find a way. It simply lives within certain frameworks of existence, and only because those frameworks exist in the first place. Not because life has some supernatural powers and wants to exist...
You're right. So we should stop this research, 'cause the bugs will just get stronger. While we're at it, let's stop improving agriculture, 'cause the Earth is just going to get more populated anyway. In fact, why do anything, we're just going to die anyway.
Personally, I think Ian's statement about life always finding a way is a great movie line... and that's about it. What is life finding a way for? To live, and adapt? So what you're telling me is that life in general finds a way to live, to survive, to adapt. Except that in this context life is finding a way to kill other life... That guy who got a few hundred pounds of T-Rex tooth inserted into his body surely wasn't 'finding a way' to anywhere but being dead. But wait, I thought life always found a way. Shucks, guess not. But it sounded so poetic and beautiful!
But hey, that's a good dramatic hollywood line for ya.
SP1 was waiting for me this morning as well. I haven't yet installed it though. I have Ultimate 64. For me, stability has never been a concern and I am running an overclocked e8400 with 8gb of RAM. The system is very smooth. I haven't had any problems running games.. and the few games that I have run in DX10 are pretty nice looking compared to their DX9 versions. If you read the rhetoric on Slashdot you'll think Vista is a complete failure. I decided to try Vista for this new build, despite reading this rhetoric, because I knew that a great majority of the Slashdot posters who post about a Microsoft product have not in fact used the product. Slashdot readers are actually more herdlike and less independent than one might think.
A couple things worry me regarding the general situation with your post.
1) You claim to have an IQ of 159. Yet you can't be bothered to proofread your post for spelling and grammar. For someone with an IQ of 159 this should take almost no time at all. One explanation, probably the most likely if your IQ is indeed 159, is that you simply don't care. Still, I find this troublesome.
2) The moderators gave you several +1 Funny moderations. I can't tell if they are serious. Are they laughing with you, or at you? I'm going to have to say I feel like it may be the latter.
I'd wager that your IQ of 159 was the result of an online IQ test. Good game sir, well played.
Not to be confused with an 'ultracrapacitor' which is apparently something that exists within the guy in the cubicle next to mine... And let me tell you this: it is *real* vapor ware.