60 independent cores with general purpose instruction set on the same die with fast interconnect. If you need to pack some parallel speed on and do real work, using a GPU is pissing in the wind. An Intel Phi lets you get the job done.
GPUs do certain things very well, but the odds of your problem mapping well to GPUs is slight.
>After their spirits get broken, the workers actually start functioning as a well-oiled team.
You should know you can learn to work as a well oiled team without breaking anyone's spirits. Usually it involves good communication, clear roles, sensible motivation structures and weeding out the dickheads.
Why does every application writer want to call their product an "Operating System"?
Firefox is not an OS, it's an application. It looks nothing like an OS. It looks like a browser, which is what it is. Android isn't an OS. It's middleware. It's OS is the Linux kernel.
The Linux kernel is an OS. OS/360 is an OS CPM is an OS
You are assuming these things are connected. They are not. The health providers and drug companies charge what they can regardless of what they are charged elsewhere. That's business.
What they can charge (in the US) is high because the ability of the customer to discriminate and choose based on price has been erased by a third party that does the direct paying. Nor is the government mandating prices for health provision universally, they are mandating prices for a minority of customers based on their status as a big customer.
So ban that instead of banning what they did ban, if they need to ban something. Actually they don't need to ban anything. The world will keep running. It's only Florida.
It's not the medicare that is helping lead us towards national bankruptcy, it is the rising cost of healthcare, which is caused by an absence of market competition price regulation and/or governmental price regulation resulting from bad law making regarding prescription drugs, employer based insurance and malpractice.
Medicare is not the tail wagging the dog. The dog is in charge.
>"Potentially" makes them smaller and more power efficient. Or rather "does" but the reporter isn't knowledgeable enough to know one way or another.
No. The reporter is spot on. While in the past doing a simple shrink without redesign or significant relayout would always give power and area savings, the same is no longer true, since energy density and leakage may go up faster than dynamic power goes down. So you may need to re-layout to dilute the heat concentrations and you may find yourself consuming more power.
These days, adding advanced power features to chips is a necessary step to yield the full power and area benefits of denser transistors. Witness the power and area improvements in Haswell over Ivy Bridge, while the process (22nm) stayed fairly constant.
I agree completely. I have no reason to believe that the forces that make silicon valley silicon valley are about to change. Its about the network effect of diverse techy skills and investors all in the same place with high job mobility.
I only visit for business (I live in Oregon so day trips are easy) and the place seems beset with chain restaurants and non chain restaurants that want to be chain restaurants. I don't deny that there might be good restaurants, but they seem inaccessible in the eating times available to me. With better knowlege or research I might be able to find better places, but I've got other things to be getting on with. SF, Portland, Seattle, San Diego and other west coast cities are not like that. I can't comment on LA because I never have a reason to go there.
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60 independent cores with general purpose instruction set on the same die with fast interconnect. If you need to pack some parallel speed on and do real work, using a GPU is pissing in the wind. An Intel Phi lets you get the job done.
GPUs do certain things very well, but the odds of your problem mapping well to GPUs is slight.
>I am an intermediate-level programmer who works mostly in C# NET.
I am so very, very sorry. I hope you find a better job soon.
>After their spirits get broken, the workers actually start functioning as a well-oiled team.
You should know you can learn to work as a well oiled team without breaking anyone's spirits.
Usually it involves good communication, clear roles, sensible motivation structures and weeding out the dickheads.
>Those revelations about the NSA—even if totally unsurprising to the paranoid
Don't those revelations imply that the people labelled as paranoid were in fact not paranoid at all?
A sun 3/60 was a most excellent workstation in the late 80s.
I did my first grep on a 3/60.
Well good luck with that.
Have you considered that it might actually be that simple?
Can you extend this argument to JS+DOM?
No, you can't because DOM is not a thing of beauty.
>I think the main benefit of Javascript,..
No. It's because it's the only client side option in browsers.
I'm not Stallman. I have no beard.
The rest of it is Linux. My Linux box has Firefox running on Linux, but I don't call it Firefox OS.
And that stuff is present in Android and will be present in Firefox OS in the form of Linux.
Open up a bash shell on your android phone. It's Linux. Kernel, libraries and standard executables, all present and correct and Linuxy.
What about the IO subsystem? The memory manager? The filesystem? The boot block?
Firefox OS is a Firefox browser running on Linux with some bits taken from Android.
Why does every application writer want to call their product an "Operating System"?
Firefox is not an OS, it's an application. It looks nothing like an OS. It looks like a browser, which is what it is.
Android isn't an OS. It's middleware. It's OS is the Linux kernel.
The Linux kernel is an OS.
OS/360 is an OS
CPM is an OS
You are assuming these things are connected. They are not.
The health providers and drug companies charge what they can regardless of what they are charged elsewhere. That's business.
What they can charge (in the US) is high because the ability of the customer to discriminate and choose based on price has been erased by a third party that does the direct paying. Nor is the government mandating prices for health provision universally, they are mandating prices for a minority of customers based on their status as a big customer.
So ban that instead of banning what they did ban, if they need to ban something.
Actually they don't need to ban anything. The world will keep running. It's only Florida.
The answer would involve a national health care system, since that what works for cost effectiveness and health outcomes.
And yes, I've lived both in the US and in a country with a national health system (the UK) so I can tell the difference.
Medicare, which begin in 1965, is roughly the same in complexity, and we survived it.
If by "survived it" you mean "It vastly exceeded all cost projections and is helping lead us toward national bankruptcy," then yes.
It's not the medicare that is helping lead us towards national bankruptcy, it is the rising cost of healthcare, which is caused by an absence of market competition price regulation and/or governmental price regulation resulting from bad law making regarding prescription drugs, employer based insurance and malpractice.
Medicare is not the tail wagging the dog. The dog is in charge.
> Intel's high end fabs are tasked to capacity with their own chips near as I know.
Take a drive around Hillsboro and see how much fabbage is going up. They aren't building it to sit around idle.
They are very nice FPGAs too.
>So I should move forward with my plans to transplant Paula Deen's head onto the body of that ripped guy from the Old Spice commercials?
Only if you transplant your head onto Paula Deen's diabetic body.
>"Potentially" makes them smaller and more power efficient. Or rather "does" but the reporter isn't knowledgeable enough to know one way or another.
No. The reporter is spot on. While in the past doing a simple shrink without redesign or significant relayout would always give power and area savings, the same is no longer true, since energy density and leakage may go up faster than dynamic power goes down. So you may need to re-layout to dilute the heat concentrations and you may find yourself consuming more power.
These days, adding advanced power features to chips is a necessary step to yield the full power and area benefits of denser transistors. Witness the power and area improvements in Haswell over Ivy Bridge, while the process (22nm) stayed fairly constant.
Same thing. Apple give TSMC money. TSMC do wafer starts for Apple.
I agree completely. I have no reason to believe that the forces that make silicon valley silicon valley are about to change. Its about the network effect of diverse techy skills and investors all in the same place with high job mobility.
That was me complaining about the restaurants.
I only visit for business (I live in Oregon so day trips are easy) and the place seems beset with chain restaurants and non chain restaurants that want to be chain restaurants. I don't deny that there might be good restaurants, but they seem inaccessible in the eating times available to me. With better knowlege or research I might be able to find better places, but I've got other things to be getting on with. SF, Portland, Seattle, San Diego and other west coast cities are not like that. I can't comment on LA because I never have a reason to go there.