I understand that the commercial efforts of Virtualbox and VMware get all the attention, but there is a completely Free alternative in the form of QEMU. Recently I have used its fork KVM, which uses hardware virtualization functions, to run XP under Gentoo, complete with USB passthrough.
Sounds a little like The Gods Themselves by Asimov. A very nice piece of SF, especially if you consider its origins in a casual unscientific remark on Plutonium-186.
I agree with your point, but I still see a problem with the usage of analog vs. digital in this case. It's as if film and digital were the only alternatives and diametric opposites. For example, there have been analog electronic cameras, and there are digital audio formats stored on film.
When you pay for water and electricity, you are actually buying them.
Nonsense! Most of the electrons I buy from the power company are sent back to them. A similar thing happens with water, but at least I can think of it as buying clean water.
My non-solar keyboard has two Ctrl keys. They are placed symmetrically, much like the two Shift keys. Swapping the left Ctrl with Caps Lock would break this symmetry.
Agreed, I think Futurama works best in the short form. The best episodes are like complete mini-movies, and the requisite trimming is probably what made them so good. This also made some of the geeky references more subtle, as you had to be quick to notice them.
One thing that's confused me about Lem's books is the wordplay he does and how the hell anyone can translate that from Polish to English so flawlessly that the alliteration and prefix/suffix work moves from one language to another. Perhaps these two languages are more closely related than I know but I am always impressed with the translations.
I read the Cyberiad as a Polish -> English -> Finnish translation, and nearly killed myself laughing. If the saying that a translation always loses half of the book, is true, then I better not learn Polish.
Yes, the caller is blocked until the function returns, but the function itself is using all available processors and so the caller is blocked for linearly less time. And this is much easier to arrange than having a compiler trying to work out whether it's possible to parallelise an explicit for loop.
You can also have parallelism at the language level. For example, in the following piece of Fortran
A = B * sin(C)
A, B and C can be arrays of the same dimensions. Thus the individual elements
A[i] = B[i] * sin(C[i])
can be executed in parallel, given a capable compiler.
On a reasonably-wide column (30em to 40em, or 60 to 80 characters), your eyes can find the next line while your brain is processing the last words on the current line. Otherwise, hunting for the next line interrupts your train of thought.
Actually, with a reasonably narrow column, an experienced reader can take a line at a single glance, and read through a column without moving their eyes sideways.
AFAIK, Fortran has been a parallel language since '90. Meaning data parallel, in that you can write vector/matrix operations that are explicitly parallel, so the compiler can split these up. So what's new in Fortran 2008 in the parallel sense?
No, but Linux is the only opensource OS where these releases are available. But that is somewhat beside the point, which is the assumed monopoly of x86. The same issue affects both OS X and Linux, so while Mac/PPC people are complaining about the situation, Linux/PPC should complain as well.
However, the opensource bit is important, because the assumed x86 monopoly means that many vendors view Linux as just another x86 binary platform. Which really misses the point of using Linux (as an alternative to the closed OSs) altogether.
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Every time an online discussion resorts to a Hitler analogy, God wins!
Seconded. A PS3 gives much more performance per dollar, and Linux is straightforwardly installed without extra hardware.
10.1) So these two baby seals walk into a club...
Do you always have to be so negative?
I understand that the commercial efforts of Virtualbox and VMware get all the attention, but there is a completely Free alternative in the form of QEMU. Recently I have used its fork KVM, which uses hardware virtualization functions, to run XP under Gentoo, complete with USB passthrough.
Or you can use it as a Cat o' 5 tails. Though it can actually have anything from 4 to 8 tails, depending on how you untwist the pairs.
Sounds a little like The Gods Themselves by Asimov. A very nice piece of SF, especially if you consider its origins in a casual unscientific remark on Plutonium-186.
Let me guess. You are not one of those that scores high
Actually, I am one of those who has sex while under the influence.
I agree with your point, but I still see a problem with the usage of analog vs. digital in this case. It's as if film and digital were the only alternatives and diametric opposites. For example, there have been analog electronic cameras, and there are digital audio formats stored on film.
When you pay for water and electricity, you are actually buying them.
Nonsense! Most of the electrons I buy from the power company are sent back to them. A similar thing happens with water, but at least I can think of it as buying clean water.
Not all BOINC projects are available on all platforms. While the BOINC framework itself is open source, some applications are closed.
That s means something.
FLoating Point Operations Per Something?
If you're worried about that, try a real mindfuck with http://www.climateprediction.net/.
My non-solar keyboard has two Ctrl keys. They are placed symmetrically, much like the two Shift keys. Swapping the left Ctrl with Caps Lock would break this symmetry.
I like Gentoo as well, but I don't get the reference.
Seems like you need to
In Europe, the general emergency call number is 112. I also like Gentoo.
Agreed, I think Futurama works best in the short form. The best episodes are like complete mini-movies, and the requisite trimming is probably what made them so good. This also made some of the geeky references more subtle, as you had to be quick to notice them.
One thing that's confused me about Lem's books is the wordplay he does and how the hell anyone can translate that from Polish to English so flawlessly that the alliteration and prefix/suffix work moves from one language to another. Perhaps these two languages are more closely related than I know but I am always impressed with the translations.
I read the Cyberiad as a Polish -> English -> Finnish translation, and nearly killed myself laughing. If the saying that a translation always loses half of the book, is true, then I better not learn Polish.
Yes, the caller is blocked until the function returns, but the function itself is using all available processors and so the caller is blocked for linearly less time. And this is much easier to arrange than having a compiler trying to work out whether it's possible to parallelise an explicit for loop.
You can also have parallelism at the language level. For example, in the following piece of Fortran
A, B and C can be arrays of the same dimensions. Thus the individual elements
can be executed in parallel, given a capable compiler.
What does basic economics tell about digital goods, as they have an infinite supply and a zero marginal cost of production?
On a reasonably-wide column (30em to 40em, or 60 to 80 characters), your eyes can find the next line while your brain is processing the last words on the current line. Otherwise, hunting for the next line interrupts your train of thought.
Actually, with a reasonably narrow column, an experienced reader can take a line at a single glance, and read through a column without moving their eyes sideways.
Actually, a government-approved Pirate Party should be called Privateer Party :)
AFAIK, Fortran has been a parallel language since '90. Meaning data parallel, in that you can write vector/matrix operations that are explicitly parallel, so the compiler can split these up. So what's new in Fortran 2008 in the parallel sense?
Actually, PPC stands for POWER Performance Computing. Or Particle Projector Cannon in case you're into BattleTech.
BTW, my sig is mostly aimed at people who start their posts like "IANAPPP (I am not a particle projector physicist) but..."
So ... open source is a Linux-only thing?
No, but Linux is the only opensource OS where these releases are available. But that is somewhat beside the point, which is the assumed monopoly of x86. The same issue affects both OS X and Linux, so while Mac/PPC people are complaining about the situation, Linux/PPC should complain as well.
However, the opensource bit is important, because the assumed x86 monopoly means that many vendors view Linux as just another x86 binary platform. Which really misses the point of using Linux (as an alternative to the closed OSs) altogether.