Well, does it run Android? (Google once threatened to sue a robotics company with 'droid' in its name, while the phone OS has nothing to do with robots.)
I agree. It's like complaining that vegans cannot find a perfect replacement for meat, when they are not interested in the taste of dead animals at all.
SIP is a technology, not a service. You need a service provider to connect between landline/cell phones and a SIP client. This is basically what Skype has done, and much more in the way of integration and unification. Then there are practical problems with firewalls, for example. Also, Skype has a single namespace of users, whereas SIP is more like user@server, but this is not really a problem as people can generally remember/bookmark email addresses as well.
There is a GNU project that might provide a good replacement in many ways.
On a side note, my mobile operator has provided a SIP service for many years. It has a landline number to integrate with the phone network (just like skypein/skypeout), with cheaper than normal phone rates, and works with standard SIP clients. Perhaps this is the direction SIP could take more generally, instead of trying to unify everything with one network/provider. Then after a critical mass of users has SIP accounts, they can start calling each other for free.
I only used open source graphics drivers, including Intel's integrated, until about 6 months ago when I needed to run some OpenCL code on a Radeon. There is nothing wrong with Intel graphics and the opensource Radeon drivers, unless you are a gamer or need serious GPGPU power. Both are capable of plenty of 3D, for example molecular modelling in my case.
I am posting this on a Powerbook running Linux, and for some strange reason AMD does not release binary drivers for PPC Linux;) but the opensource Radeon driver is good enough. There are some artefacts in 3D but no serious problems.
Right now, the best bang per buck in parallel computing seems to be found in GPUs. For the price of a PS3 you can buy a few TFLOPS of processing power. For one thing, the PS3 was launched in 2006, so it is hard to compete against modern GPUs. However, the Cell is an interesting piece of hardware in other ways, at least for tinkerers who want something else than a beige x86 box.
Intel decided to move optical interconnects to the cables themselves. Short Thunderbolt cables will be entirely copper; long cables will have an optical transceiver built into each end.
A-ha, that explains why my penis is like a light saber.
True, but my point was that open hardware designs are interesting since you can use FPGAs to play with them. I am personally excited by the possibilities of trying out different designs on my own desktop. The hardware may be slower, but it won't take ages and millions to get a working prototype.
Compared to a vast majority of binary software/drivers out there, AMD graphics drivers are awesome. Maybe Nvidia is simply better for gaming, in that case choose the best tool for the job. For certain integer-heavy number crunching applications, Radeons are currently the best by a wide margin (something like 5x faster at similar price and wattage).
IMHO, AMD also provides decent binary drivers and programming tools. I like to reward AMD for their open-source attitude, but frankly, I am happy running their binaries for video decoding and number crunching, while waiting for the OSS drivers to improve.
I've got the impression that back in the day, around the 18th and 19th century, realism was simply one of the literary genres. You could tell an equally serious and compelling story in the form of fantasy or romance, for example. Then for some reason, realism was singled out as the only serious genre, and thus the definition of literature/fiction was considerably narrowed down.
IMHO, this is a form of being "comfortably numb" and limiting yourself to something familiar. I am already living in a world of boring kitchen-sink realism, and when I go out to the theatre, for example, I expect something more.
Feynman has talked a lot about the importance of openness in science. For example, at the end of "What do you care what other people think?" there is a praise of the scientific method that resonates well with Open Source. Therefore, putting Feynman's work behind the bars of Microsoft is particularly blasphemous.
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Lustig means funny in at least Swedish, and probably in Danish and Norwegian too.
And German, which is the language of the song title in the original post.
The Atom is nice -- I like being able to watch 1080p x264 with a fanless CPU (no GPU decoding). However, this still takes about 10 W including the chipset. ARM CPUs, on the other hand, max out way below one watt, and do not even need heatsinks. This is pretty important in the mobile space. When you look at computational efficienty per watt, ARM is a clean winner, though it does not scale up very well, so this only applies in the low end.
IMHO, ARM processors are already good enough for my "desktop" needs, and for the occasional CPU-heavy work I could use other machines. I'd love to replace the guts in my current Powerbook with an ARM system, since I like to work with a normal keyboard and display, instead of a "mobile" device.
Maybe I'm getting old, I just turned 35. When I say Science Fiction, I mean Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars. Fantasy is Tolkien, Jordan and Feist, Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribean.
I'm 32 and I agree with the general tone of your post, but I wouldn't count Star Wars as science fiction. Merely the setting in outer space involving alien lifeforms does not make the core of the story SF. Some may argue that shows like BSG and Star Trek are not really SF, for similar reasons.
I was just about to say that Fortran (90+) is great for numerical work with its built-in sense of parallelism. For almost everything else, I prefer Python. Right tool for the right job.
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Using a variable-width font and trying to od anything is a freaking nightmare.
Yes, a fixed-width font does make it clearer whether I'm taking 2.0 mg or 0.2 mg of acid.
Well, does it run Android? (Google once threatened to sue a robotics company with 'droid' in its name, while the phone OS has nothing to do with robots.)
I agree. It's like complaining that vegans cannot find a perfect replacement for meat, when they are not interested in the taste of dead animals at all.
SIP is a technology, not a service. You need a service provider to connect between landline/cell phones and a SIP client. This is basically what Skype has done, and much more in the way of integration and unification. Then there are practical problems with firewalls, for example. Also, Skype has a single namespace of users, whereas SIP is more like user@server, but this is not really a problem as people can generally remember/bookmark email addresses as well.
There is a GNU project that might provide a good replacement in many ways.
On a side note, my mobile operator has provided a SIP service for many years. It has a landline number to integrate with the phone network (just like skypein/skypeout), with cheaper than normal phone rates, and works with standard SIP clients. Perhaps this is the direction SIP could take more generally, instead of trying to unify everything with one network/provider. Then after a critical mass of users has SIP accounts, they can start calling each other for free.
I only used open source graphics drivers, including Intel's integrated, until about 6 months ago when I needed to run some OpenCL code on a Radeon. There is nothing wrong with Intel graphics and the opensource Radeon drivers, unless you are a gamer or need serious GPGPU power. Both are capable of plenty of 3D, for example molecular modelling in my case.
I am posting this on a Powerbook running Linux, and for some strange reason AMD does not release binary drivers for PPC Linux ;) but the opensource Radeon driver is good enough. There are some artefacts in 3D but no serious problems.
The bending gestures are really awkward. Touching a screen is a lot more practical than bending it.
Bending is my middle name, you insensitive clod.
Right now, the best bang per buck in parallel computing seems to be found in GPUs. For the price of a PS3 you can buy a few TFLOPS of processing power. For one thing, the PS3 was launched in 2006, so it is hard to compete against modern GPUs. However, the Cell is an interesting piece of hardware in other ways, at least for tinkerers who want something else than a beige x86 box.
Intel decided to move optical interconnects to the cables themselves. Short Thunderbolt cables will be entirely copper; long cables will have an optical transceiver built into each end.
A-ha, that explains why my penis is like a light saber.
It's a typo. It should in fact read "s/news/opinion/;
That's what she sed.
Will you stop grabbing my balls at the airport now?
Yes, but only when you're flying on Pig Airlines, and staying away from the Reality Zone.
True, but my point was that open hardware designs are interesting since you can use FPGAs to play with them. I am personally excited by the possibilities of trying out different designs on my own desktop. The hardware may be slower, but it won't take ages and millions to get a working prototype.
However...open hardware is a fundamentally different thing. No one has chip fabs in their basement.
And the reason is that FPGAs are cheap and much more fun.
Compared to a vast majority of binary software/drivers out there, AMD graphics drivers are awesome. Maybe Nvidia is simply better for gaming, in that case choose the best tool for the job. For certain integer-heavy number crunching applications, Radeons are currently the best by a wide margin (something like 5x faster at similar price and wattage).
IMHO, AMD also provides decent binary drivers and programming tools. I like to reward AMD for their open-source attitude, but frankly, I am happy running their binaries for video decoding and number crunching, while waiting for the OSS drivers to improve.
I've got the impression that back in the day, around the 18th and 19th century, realism was simply one of the literary genres. You could tell an equally serious and compelling story in the form of fantasy or romance, for example. Then for some reason, realism was singled out as the only serious genre, and thus the definition of literature/fiction was considerably narrowed down.
IMHO, this is a form of being "comfortably numb" and limiting yourself to something familiar. I am already living in a world of boring kitchen-sink realism, and when I go out to the theatre, for example, I expect something more.
Feynman has talked a lot about the importance of openness in science. For example, at the end of "What do you care what other people think?" there is a praise of the scientific method that resonates well with Open Source. Therefore, putting Feynman's work behind the bars of Microsoft is particularly blasphemous.
Lustig means funny in at least Swedish, and probably in Danish and Norwegian too.
And German, which is the language of the song title in the original post.
Huh huh, you said "light"
+1, Lustig
Hopefully, we'll be able to get our act together and stop blowing each other up
We also share a common genetic origin with mushrooms.
Which is why mushroom clouds are the natural way of blowing each other up.
The Atom is nice -- I like being able to watch 1080p x264 with a fanless CPU (no GPU decoding). However, this still takes about 10 W including the chipset. ARM CPUs, on the other hand, max out way below one watt, and do not even need heatsinks. This is pretty important in the mobile space. When you look at computational efficienty per watt, ARM is a clean winner, though it does not scale up very well, so this only applies in the low end.
IMHO, ARM processors are already good enough for my "desktop" needs, and for the occasional CPU-heavy work I could use other machines. I'd love to replace the guts in my current Powerbook with an ARM system, since I like to work with a normal keyboard and display, instead of a "mobile" device.
Maybe I'm getting old, I just turned 35. When I say Science Fiction, I mean Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars. Fantasy is Tolkien, Jordan and Feist, Harry Potter and Pirates of the Caribean.
I'm 32 and I agree with the general tone of your post, but I wouldn't count Star Wars as science fiction. Merely the setting in outer space involving alien lifeforms does not make the core of the story SF. Some may argue that shows like BSG and Star Trek are not really SF, for similar reasons.
I'm peddling like hell to run this laptop you insensitive clod.
I know a lot of people need to sell things to make their living, but what kind of electricity are you buying with your hard-earned money?
Because when you put two processors on a single die of silicon, it magically becomes "one processor" with "two cores".
At least ours works with MPI.
I was just about to say that Fortran (90+) is great for numerical work with its built-in sense of parallelism. For almost everything else, I prefer Python. Right tool for the right job.