Gorilla is two to three times stronger than chemically strengthened versions of ordinary soda-lime glass, even when just half as thick, company scientists say.
So to put that in simpler terms, Gorilla glass is 4 to 6 times stronger than regular glass, at any given thickness.
Why didn't they just say that in the first place?
Probably because it is not that simple. For example, bending resistance is proportional to the third power of thickness.
Let me clarify at this point that organs like these are not particularly rare. They were mass produced in the seventies, and most thrift stores in Sweden have at least one of them on display.
Torvalds represents the Swedish-speaking minority of Finland. Besides, when people say "Scandinavian", they usually refer to the Nordic Countries, which include Denmark, Finland and Iceland in addition to the scritcly defined Scandinavia. These countries are deeply connected in history and culture, for example Finland was a part of Sweden for most of its history.
Good point. If only Microsoft had spent the last decade investing major resources on a platform for developing architecture-independent bytecode.
Then we only have to wait for all major 3rd party applications to be (re-)released in this form. Including games and other performance-sensitive applications.
Or, get stuck in another closed ecosystem, when Windows transitions from x86 to Microsoft's implementation of ARM;)
There are already supercomputers and servers based on POWER, MIPS and many other architectures. Broadly speaking, you can run open source operating systems on any architecture you like, or you can run closed systems on x86. Microsoft has a lot of catching up to do in this sense, but due to closed 3rd party applications, such versatility will never fly. Unless all the closed stuff is released as architecture-independent bytecode.
Atom is just a Xeon with almost everything disabled due to manufacturing issues.
I don't think this the case, they are probably completely different microarchitectures. For starters, Xeon has out-of-order execution while Atom is in-order only.
What we really need is a pair of untinted, polarized glasses that allow you to rotate the lenses to cancel out the reflections on that glossy screen, much like a polarized filter on a camera lens can do.
You do know that LCDs are based on polarization, and using polarized glasses will seriously screw up your view?
But as I said, on the desktop (where the average consumer makes the choice of the platform), people want standard off the shelf components. It is there that Intel is still the king.
Does an average consumer ever choose Linux, or any particular OS for that matter? What about smartphones and other mobile devices? I think many people choose Android without considering the Linux aspect at all.
The point was that Microsoft didn't "remain stuck in the x86 world". The NT line was built on a hardware abstraction layer to allow them to support multiple systems. But it was the general public who didn't want to use anything other than Intel-type CPUs.
That's a very good point, Windows as such is not constrained to x86. But with the "Microsoft world" I mean the whole ecosystem, and most applications are still written for x86 only.
I expect mobile devices to change this slowly, since you cannot practically run x86 on a phone. Another interesting development is Microsoft's.NET, as it would enable applications on multiple architectures to maintain close ties to the Windows monopoly. Of course, this has been tried already with Java, but it has taken fairly closed systems such as Symbian and Android to actually make it work.
Having Windows (with applications) on many architectures would be nice from the point of view driving healthy competition on the hardware side, to the benefit of opensource users as well.
The Windows NT line has run on the Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC architectures. Microsoft dropped support for these a long time ago because hardly anybody used anything other than Intel's offering. More recently, Apple has also chosen to do the same thing and most Linux desktops are x86.
So I guess being able to choose the best/nicest platform doesn't mean you will be any different than Microsoft.
Windows NT on non-x86 is history, but you can install the latest version of Linux on dozens of architectures. Complete distros with all the usual libraries and applications. So this is very, very far from a sensible comparison.
I believe Microsoft deserves some cred, along with certain hardware firms like AMD/Intel, with bringing 64 bit to the fore. Not to mention the PS3 and some Macs being of that architecture too.
Which architecture would that be? PS3 has a 64-bit PowerPC CPU, and so did Power Macs with the G5. Does this have something to do with the 32/64-bit transition in x86?
If you mean 64-bit architectures in general, don't forget the Alpha which was released in 1992.
Of course, despite the bitness upgrade, the closed Microsoft world remains stuck in the x86 world. Meanwhile, others are free to choose the best/nicest platform for the job.
During improvisation, the highly trained music majors used their brains in a way the nonmusicians could not: they deactivated their right-temporoparietal junction. Normally, the r-TPJ reads incoming stimuli, sorting the stream for relevance. By turning that off, the musicians blocked out all distraction. They hit an extra gear of concentration, allowing them to work with the notes and create music spontaneously.
This reminds me of a recent article about lucid dreaming:
People who focus single-mindedly on a task during the day, be it a computer game or playing a musical instrument, are more likely to experience lucid dreams
I'm more a musician than a gamer, but I occasionally play a fast-paced classic such as Llamatron, in order to get into a particular kind of focused mood. For example, after a lazy day, I might use the game to crank up my brain for some academic work that needs to get done. Playing music gets me into a different kind of focus, more relaxed usually, but the end result is mostly the same.
So perhaps creativity has a lot to do with the ability to focus, and it is easy to see why it has become more difficult in the recent decades. The article talks about divergent and convergent thinking, which to me sound like a metacognitive skill, an ability to direct your thinking.
On another note, before reading the article, the summary gave the idea that CQ levels are falling as IQ rises. This was not as straightforward as described in the article, but I still cannot help thinking that people are becoming more computer-like.
ARM systems tend to be systems on chip. AFAIK, the power advantage of Atom is easily negated by its supporting chipset. Look at the huge heatsink on the northbridge of an Atom system, then look at an ARM SoC with on heatsink at all.
Moreover, whereas x86 often provides good performance per watt, ARM tends to have much lower idle consumption, which is pretty important in mobile devices.
AMD Geode is a series of processor models implementing the x86 architecture. ARM is a whole architecture with multiple manufacturers and a bazillion different models. ARM CPUs tend to be extremely power efficient, so they are the natural choice for mobile and many other classes of computers.
In my understanding, "application" means a piece of software with which users interact directly. "Program" means a piece of software in general, even kernels and libraries are programs. As "program" comes from a broader meaning (a set of contents/instructions, a plan) it is not limited to user interaction.
Nevertheless, I keep using the word "program" for applications. Probably because, back in the days of Basic et al, we talked about writing "programs", and "application" was a later term I associate with commercially packaged stuff. Think about saying "I write code" vs. "I am an application developer".
I am a mathematics and science teacher. After my first year in service, I got a capital Sigma on my right arm, and a capital Delta on the left.
I had been thinking about the Sigma tattoo for years, as I used to be in a math society with that name. I also like simple geometric shapes, so equations were out of the question. Sigma and Delta are nice shapes even when you don't think about the math, and they have multiple meanings in sciences. Looking at the front, you see a sum of changes, which is a description of my bottom-up approach to life.
I also agree with some posters that equations may not be valid forever. That is one more reason why I prefer showing a general attitude of mathematical and scientific thinking.
Actually, these are so-called "body tattoos" that should only last a couple of years, but mine have only slightly faded after six. The only difference to "real" tattoos is the depth. At the time, my then-gf was taking such tattoos to sharpen the edges of her "real" tattoos. I figured if you want sharp geometric shapes, they will blur out eventually, so I would have to redo them anyway after some time.
Being at the traditional location between the shoulder and the elbow, these are easy to hide even with many t-shirts. However, I often use shorter sleeved shirts during the summer, and I have zero problems with students and colleagues seeing them.
When I'm downloading a Linux distribution I want throughput.
'Why people think "performace" means "throughput" is something I'll never
understand. Throughput is _always_ secondary to latency, and really only
becomes interesting when it becomes a latency number (ie "I need higher
throughput in order to process these jobs in 4 hours instead of 8" -
notice how the real issue was again about _latency_).'
Sampling rate is a measure of the number of data points per unit time, rather than a description of the analog signal frequency.
44.1k is 44,100 data points per second, 192k is 192,000 points in the same time interval - giving you a more accurate representation of an analog wave.
Please, learn your Nyquist before commenting on this topic.
One way to look at this, without going into Fourier analysis, is to think about overtones. The human hearing limit of about 20 kHz includes overtones. You cannot hear the difference between different waveforms at 20 kHz, because that would include overtones of 40 kHz, 60 kHz, etc.
However, oversampling does have its uses. It compensates for the quantization error, which is inherent when you have "infinitely many" analogue levels, and discrete digital levels. However, the effect is not so great, since doubling the samplerate is equivalent to one bit in sampling levels.
It's available on Gentoo right now, I'm compiling it on x86-64 and ppc32. So not only is the source out there, but people have already tested the build on several architectures.
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Gorilla is two to three times stronger than chemically strengthened versions of ordinary soda-lime glass, even when just half as thick, company scientists say.
So to put that in simpler terms, Gorilla glass is 4 to 6 times stronger than regular glass, at any given thickness.
Why didn't they just say that in the first place?
Probably because it is not that simple. For example, bending resistance is proportional to the third power of thickness.
Let me clarify at this point that organs like these are not particularly rare. They were mass produced in the seventies, and most thrift stores in Sweden have at least one of them on display.
Torvalds represents the Swedish-speaking minority of Finland. Besides, when people say "Scandinavian", they usually refer to the Nordic Countries, which include Denmark, Finland and Iceland in addition to the scritcly defined Scandinavia. These countries are deeply connected in history and culture, for example Finland was a part of Sweden for most of its history.
Good point. If only Microsoft had spent the last decade investing major resources on a platform for developing architecture-independent bytecode.
Then we only have to wait for all major 3rd party applications to be (re-)released in this form. Including games and other performance-sensitive applications.
Or, get stuck in another closed ecosystem, when Windows transitions from x86 to Microsoft's implementation of ARM ;)
There are already supercomputers and servers based on POWER, MIPS and many other architectures. Broadly speaking, you can run open source operating systems on any architecture you like, or you can run closed systems on x86. Microsoft has a lot of catching up to do in this sense, but due to closed 3rd party applications, such versatility will never fly. Unless all the closed stuff is released as architecture-independent bytecode.
Atom is just a Xeon with almost everything disabled due to manufacturing issues.
I don't think this the case, they are probably completely different microarchitectures. For starters, Xeon has out-of-order execution while Atom is in-order only.
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God. And all this time I thought that was an upside down double-u.
"Wc" is probably a better description of the food quality anyway.
I think there's a bit of a disconnect between the first and third words here... ;)
How so? I mean, first you buy some. "Buy some", get it, wink wink nudge nudge say no more? Following that, you steal wool.
After all, you spent all your money on a scantily clad woman, and you figured out she could use some wool to stay warm.
What we really need is a pair of untinted, polarized glasses that allow you to rotate the lenses to cancel out the reflections on that glossy screen, much like a polarized filter on a camera lens can do.
You do know that LCDs are based on polarization, and using polarized glasses will seriously screw up your view?
I did not RTFA, so I presume they will hold the conference by the lower left corner.
So if you use this for a certain OpenGL demo on an external GPU, is that a tempest in a teapot?
But as I said, on the desktop (where the average consumer makes the choice of the platform), people want standard off the shelf components. It is there that Intel is still the king.
Does an average consumer ever choose Linux, or any particular OS for that matter? What about smartphones and other mobile devices? I think many people choose Android without considering the Linux aspect at all.
The point was that Microsoft didn't "remain stuck in the x86 world". The NT line was built on a hardware abstraction layer to allow them to support multiple systems. But it was the general public who didn't want to use anything other than Intel-type CPUs.
That's a very good point, Windows as such is not constrained to x86. But with the "Microsoft world" I mean the whole ecosystem, and most applications are still written for x86 only.
I expect mobile devices to change this slowly, since you cannot practically run x86 on a phone. Another interesting development is Microsoft's .NET, as it would enable applications on multiple architectures to maintain close ties to the Windows monopoly. Of course, this has been tried already with Java, but it has taken fairly closed systems such as Symbian and Android to actually make it work.
Having Windows (with applications) on many architectures would be nice from the point of view driving healthy competition on the hardware side, to the benefit of opensource users as well.
They already use use CUDA.
No, I'm sure Balmer (sic) is completely series.
The Windows NT line has run on the Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC architectures. Microsoft dropped support for these a long time ago because hardly anybody used anything other than Intel's offering. More recently, Apple has also chosen to do the same thing and most Linux desktops are x86.
So I guess being able to choose the best/nicest platform doesn't mean you will be any different than Microsoft.
Windows NT on non-x86 is history, but you can install the latest version of Linux on dozens of architectures. Complete distros with all the usual libraries and applications. So this is very, very far from a sensible comparison.
I believe Microsoft deserves some cred, along with certain hardware firms like AMD/Intel, with bringing 64 bit to the fore. Not to mention the PS3 and some Macs being of that architecture too.
Which architecture would that be? PS3 has a 64-bit PowerPC CPU, and so did Power Macs with the G5. Does this have something to do with the 32/64-bit transition in x86?
If you mean 64-bit architectures in general, don't forget the Alpha which was released in 1992.
Of course, despite the bitness upgrade, the closed Microsoft world remains stuck in the x86 world. Meanwhile, others are free to choose the best/nicest platform for the job.
From the article:
During improvisation, the highly trained music majors used their brains in a way the nonmusicians could not: they deactivated their right-temporoparietal junction. Normally, the r-TPJ reads incoming stimuli, sorting the stream for relevance. By turning that off, the musicians blocked out all distraction. They hit an extra gear of concentration, allowing them to work with the notes and create music spontaneously.
This reminds me of a recent article about lucid dreaming:
People who focus single-mindedly on a task during the day, be it a computer game or playing a musical instrument, are more likely to experience lucid dreams
I'm more a musician than a gamer, but I occasionally play a fast-paced classic such as Llamatron, in order to get into a particular kind of focused mood. For example, after a lazy day, I might use the game to crank up my brain for some academic work that needs to get done. Playing music gets me into a different kind of focus, more relaxed usually, but the end result is mostly the same.
So perhaps creativity has a lot to do with the ability to focus, and it is easy to see why it has become more difficult in the recent decades. The article talks about divergent and convergent thinking, which to me sound like a metacognitive skill, an ability to direct your thinking.
On another note, before reading the article, the summary gave the idea that CQ levels are falling as IQ rises. This was not as straightforward as described in the article, but I still cannot help thinking that people are becoming more computer-like.
ARM systems tend to be systems on chip. AFAIK, the power advantage of Atom is easily negated by its supporting chipset. Look at the huge heatsink on the northbridge of an Atom system, then look at an ARM SoC with on heatsink at all.
Moreover, whereas x86 often provides good performance per watt, ARM tends to have much lower idle consumption, which is pretty important in mobile devices.
AMD Geode is a series of processor models implementing the x86 architecture. ARM is a whole architecture with multiple manufacturers and a bazillion different models. ARM CPUs tend to be extremely power efficient, so they are the natural choice for mobile and many other classes of computers.
In my understanding, "application" means a piece of software with which users interact directly. "Program" means a piece of software in general, even kernels and libraries are programs. As "program" comes from a broader meaning (a set of contents/instructions, a plan) it is not limited to user interaction.
Nevertheless, I keep using the word "program" for applications. Probably because, back in the days of Basic et al, we talked about writing "programs", and "application" was a later term I associate with commercially packaged stuff. Think about saying "I write code" vs. "I am an application developer".
I'm posting this from Firefox 1.1 on an N800. It's slower than the competition, but nothing like 5 minutes to load, it's perfectly usable.
I am a mathematics and science teacher. After my first year in service, I got a capital Sigma on my right arm, and a capital Delta on the left.
I had been thinking about the Sigma tattoo for years, as I used to be in a math society with that name. I also like simple geometric shapes, so equations were out of the question. Sigma and Delta are nice shapes even when you don't think about the math, and they have multiple meanings in sciences. Looking at the front, you see a sum of changes, which is a description of my bottom-up approach to life.
I also agree with some posters that equations may not be valid forever. That is one more reason why I prefer showing a general attitude of mathematical and scientific thinking.
Actually, these are so-called "body tattoos" that should only last a couple of years, but mine have only slightly faded after six. The only difference to "real" tattoos is the depth. At the time, my then-gf was taking such tattoos to sharpen the edges of her "real" tattoos. I figured if you want sharp geometric shapes, they will blur out eventually, so I would have to redo them anyway after some time.
Being at the traditional location between the shoulder and the elbow, these are easy to hide even with many t-shirts. However, I often use shorter sleeved shirts during the summer, and I have zero problems with students and colleagues seeing them.
When I'm downloading a Linux distribution I want throughput.
'Why people think "performace" means "throughput" is something I'll never understand. Throughput is _always_ secondary to latency, and really only becomes interesting when it becomes a latency number (ie "I need higher throughput in order to process these jobs in 4 hours instead of 8" - notice how the real issue was again about _latency_).'
-- Linus Torvalds
Sampling rate is a measure of the number of data points per unit time, rather than a description of the analog signal frequency.
44.1k is 44,100 data points per second, 192k is 192,000 points in the same time interval - giving you a more accurate representation of an analog wave.
Please, learn your Nyquist before commenting on this topic.
One way to look at this, without going into Fourier analysis, is to think about overtones. The human hearing limit of about 20 kHz includes overtones. You cannot hear the difference between different waveforms at 20 kHz, because that would include overtones of 40 kHz, 60 kHz, etc.
However, oversampling does have its uses. It compensates for the quantization error, which is inherent when you have "infinitely many" analogue levels, and discrete digital levels. However, the effect is not so great, since doubling the samplerate is equivalent to one bit in sampling levels.
It's available on Gentoo right now, I'm compiling it on x86-64 and ppc32. So not only is the source out there, but people have already tested the build on several architectures.