Of course there's overhead. But the elegance and simplicity is well worth it.
You're making the "elegance and simplicity is well worth it"-error of science. Basically it means that in science elegance and simplicity are not unconditionally worth it.
The good thing about a DSP (which is what a GPU is, after a fashion) is that because it is specialised to a single operation, it can be highly optimised and do it much quicker than a general purpose CPU. However the good is also the bad, the DSP is highly specialised and can ONLY do that operation, or at least onyl do it efficiently.
What you are referring to is an ASIC, an Application Specific Integrated Circuit. These realy stomp through data like nothing, are cheap to build but unfortunately expensive to develope, as every bug which would normaly be in software turns out to be hard-circuited so you have to change the circuit design to fix them.
Good for the end user, but going to be a pain in the ass for software developers to take advantage of, is my guess.:-)
Kids, these days! Real developers love a good PITA, their whole life is just a PITA, in fact if you ever see someone on a bike without a seat you can be sure this is either an MFC or Kylix core developer taking his work home.
Sure they can... They offer a "discount" for having the device. Then, oops, rates just went up! But if you have this installed, you get a discount that coincidentally gives you your old rate...
Unless legislative regulation is far more different than I know of* this is something they can't do. There is no possibility for discounts other than a statisticaly significant effect on the damages by such devices. And if there is any they have all the right in the world to do so, IMHO.
Indeed, given that insurance companies can JACK UP your rates beyond your means if you refuse to have one of these things
I don't think they can. Unless the insurance company can prove statisticaly that cars equipped with black boxes cause less damages they can not arbitrarily set the rates up for others.
Insurances must maintain a balance between rates and damages which they can adjust at the policy holder only by statistical information as for example type of car and behaviour as for example prior incidents or limited mileage.
Exactly the same situation here in Germany. Cars get first priority in politics and thus public transportation is a real mess, even though it gets subsidies. For example, although busses sometimes have extra lanes, getting from one point to another by them you need at least twice as much time as with the car, even going by bike is faster.
Not much better with trains either. Although this country has the technology of 250mph maglev and operating 190mph high speed trains you either go by car or by plane for longer trips or you are screwed. They are doing good somewhere in China I heard.
Actualy "Euro" was one of the few words that have a meaning in every single language spoken in the 12 participating countries. And except for greek it's even spelled the same way everywhere. Nothing much else to come up with when looking for a name.
Most probably it is easier for NAFTA with its 3 languages...
I don't exactly know what the u.s. equivalent is, but in Germany there is something called negative Feststellungsklage which means that Suse could apply for a court order declaring that SCOs claims are false and prohibits them to repeat their allegations.
If SCO seeks to achieve a precedent by sueing Suse this might be the appropriate backfire.
No, the majority of german citizens was not nazi, they were just frightened by them. Furtermore Hilter was not elected by the majority of the people.
Hitlers party, the NSDAP, got about 33% of the parliaments seats, when a series of terrorist incidents as for example the Reichstagsbrand and assassinations and arrests of members of the parliament led the parliament to abandon the seperation of powers and declare Hitler as the Führer by enacting the Ermächtigungsgesetz which eventually led to the events known as the Third Reich and WWII.
This is what even professors of history never understood completely, the metamorphosis of a democratic nation to a dictatorship that was officialy legitimated by the parliament.
Replace that with THE ENTIRE FUCKING INTERNET and the sentence is still true!!
Replace that with THE WHOLE FREAKING WORLD and finaly we get somewhere.
Best thing about internet is, unlike the real world you can filter most of the hassles that bother you. Wish I could do that with all the little Madonnas who are having a karaoke competition in my college dorm tonight.
And there is already a nice DTD for documentation called DocBook.
There are also various XSL and DSSSL stylesheets to convert the docbook xml into html, xsl-fo, pdf, latex etc.
Best thing with XML is, you can pack all of the documentation in one single place and create various documentations according to each audience (user, professional user, developer, etc) and language. There is no need to write duplicate informations, you only have to add certain attributes to the xml tags.
There is no eject button on most of the remote controls because by leaving it out the manufacturer can save a cent or so per unit without giving the buyer a valid reason to chose another model.
In the long run every company move can be deducted to money.
This applies to every profession, not only programmers.
Someone who does something because of a reason other than the joy of it is simply a bad employee. (And that's probably why so many lawyers work independently)
I think they refused the passenger to take the foil with 'gunpowder' written on it on board because he might fake a bottle of actual gunpowder and threaten to blow it up in the plane. This is why no toy-weapons are alowed on board, too.
What I meant was that all components of the MS win kernel come from the same source and are de-facto not exchangeable. Technicaly speaking you are of course right, but effectively shell32.dll, kernel32.dll, user32.dll, gdi32.dll are handled as one piece from the application developers and users point of view.
I have to run X->xlib->window manager->windowing library->desktop environment->various daemons just to get a desktop equivalent to Windows 95.
And your problem with it is what? Seems to me like you have an aesthetical problem with it. I think this chain of components is what makes unices so powerful and the lack of it why I dislike MS windows.
It all feels cobbled together to me, and I get sluggish performance.
Just because MS windows has a monolithic kernel/graphics renderer it doesn't mean it isn't cobbled together behind it's surface. X is just open about this from the beginning. Again this seems like you have just an aesthetical problem with this. And regarding the performance, benchmark tests show a negligible difference between X and MS Win, and why give up a pile of advantages just for a few more fps?
Not to mention conflicting interfaces, dependencies, and so forth. You've all heard the standard complaints.
Conflicting dependencies are a completely other field of unix, and dealing with this should be part of another developement.
Remote X is not as widely used as it is endlessly hyped to be. If you want that, use the normal XFree86 project. Linux needs a real, innovative desktop environment. If you really need remote capabilities, can't it be added on or kept as a separate build option?
Oh no, not again. For the last time, the problems of X are not caused by the remote capability unless you show different. And to do that, there is more needed just to say "X has remote capabilities, MS Win has not, X has disadvantages in comparison to MS Win -> X is disadvantaged because of the remote capabilities."
This is so what we need. Starting over. Nobody wants to do it and hides behind the excuse of a veil of "volunteer work" that somehow implies nobody can criticize even if what you put out is inadequate.
No, nobody wants to rewrite X because writing an X-Server is a freaking shitload of work and in every piece of software there are large portions of code which can be reused.
The process of developing is "see problem -> fix problem without causing any new ones", not "see problem -> write a complete new software -> see a quadrillion new problems -> have to handle them first for years -> forget what you were intending to fix at the first place"
xwin is a fork, not a rewrite, and this is good. And please remember that the fork is necessary not for technical reasons but because of the old team refusing to improve their own software!
I'm already afraid of the changes I'm seeing in our government's treatment of us. If it gets too bad, citizens do have the right to revolt,
Don't forget that it's only called revolution afterwards if the citizens actualy succeed with their effort. If not you're in deep shit as the government can call and prosecute you as terrorists as well.
and thanks to our gun laws, we may have the means to do it.
You don't think that a few pumpguns and.44s can impress the national guard, do you? No, the next revolution will have to use other weapons than those toys for grown-ups.
WANTED: Software development engineers and software QA engineers. Require three to five years experience with qubit-based systems (Q#, Qava, etc.).
Interviewer: How many years of experience in quantum programming do you have and in which languages? Applicant: Last time I checked it was 4 years in Q++ and Turbo Q. Interviewer: So you have 4 years of experience in Q++ and Turbo Q? Applicant: To be honest I can't be sure of it anymore. Interviewer: Gnah!
Well, generating tidal energy is like perpetual motion. The Moon orbiting the Earth causes the tides to move, and there are even power plants that generate power from that.
No, the rotation of the earth is slowed down and the distance to the moon is getting bigger with every tide.
Come on people, war hasn't even finished, and all they can think about is US cellphone company's benefits? what about FOOD, WATER, MEDICINE?
Although it may at first glance look preposterous to care about a mobile phone system when rebuilding a demolished country, it is one of the very next steps behind the most elementary ones you mentioned.
Communications are a substantial part of a countrys infratructure, as are roads, ports, etc. They are needed to raise the effectiveness of human work when you are etablishing a system of distribution of goods. Otherwise food, water and medicine may be available, but it is too difficult to transport them, or to know where they are needed.
The important thing is to have this plans ready in time, before they are going to be implemented, because time is of the essence.
Every once in a while a troll needs a mod up for funny, and I think parent is one of them. Especially 'cause my Deutch isn't so good and I only get about half of it makes it even funnier!
Getting all of it, as long as one can extract any meaning at all of this gibberish, makes it a completely unfunny troll.
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Of course there's overhead. But the elegance and simplicity is well worth it.
You're making the "elegance and simplicity is well worth it"-error of science. Basically it means that in science elegance and simplicity are not unconditionally worth it.
The good thing about a DSP (which is what a GPU is, after a fashion) is that because it is specialised to a single operation, it can be highly optimised and do it much quicker than a general purpose CPU. However the good is also the bad, the DSP is highly specialised and can ONLY do that operation, or at least onyl do it efficiently.
What you are referring to is an ASIC, an Application Specific Integrated Circuit. These realy stomp through data like nothing, are cheap to build but unfortunately expensive to develope, as every bug which would normaly be in software turns out to be hard-circuited so you have to change the circuit design to fix them.
Good for the end user, but going to be a pain in the ass for software developers to take advantage of, is my guess. :-)
Kids, these days! Real developers love a good PITA, their whole life is just a PITA, in fact if you ever see someone on a bike without a seat you can be sure this is either an MFC or Kylix core developer taking his work home.
Sure they can... They offer a "discount" for having the device. Then, oops, rates just went up! But if you have this installed, you get a discount that coincidentally gives you your old rate...
Unless legislative regulation is far more different than I know of* this is something they can't do. There is no possibility for discounts other than a statisticaly significant effect on the damages by such devices. And if there is any they have all the right in the world to do so, IMHO.
*I am a European
Indeed, given that insurance companies can JACK UP your rates beyond your means if you refuse to have one of these things
I don't think they can. Unless the insurance company can prove statisticaly that cars equipped with black boxes cause less damages they can not arbitrarily set the rates up for others.
Insurances must maintain a balance between rates and damages which they can adjust at the policy holder only by statistical information as for example type of car and behaviour as for example prior incidents or limited mileage.
Exactly the same situation here in Germany. Cars get first priority in politics and thus public transportation is a real mess, even though it gets subsidies. For example, although busses sometimes have extra lanes, getting from one point to another by them you need at least twice as much time as with the car, even going by bike is faster.
Not much better with trains either. Although this country has the technology of 250mph maglev and operating 190mph high speed trains you either go by car or by plane for longer trips or you are screwed. They are doing good somewhere in China I heard.
Actualy "Euro" was one of the few words that have a meaning in every single language spoken in the 12 participating countries. And except for greek it's even spelled the same way everywhere. Nothing much else to come up with when looking for a name.
Most probably it is easier for NAFTA with its 3 languages...
I don't exactly know what the u.s. equivalent is, but in Germany there is something called negative Feststellungsklage which means that Suse could apply for a court order declaring that SCOs claims are false and prohibits them to repeat their allegations.
If SCO seeks to achieve a precedent by sueing Suse this might be the appropriate backfire.
Just a thought.
No, the majority of german citizens was not nazi, they were just frightened by them. Furtermore Hilter was not elected by the majority of the people.
Hitlers party, the NSDAP, got about 33% of the parliaments seats, when a series of terrorist incidents as for example the Reichstagsbrand and assassinations and arrests of members of the parliament led the parliament to abandon the seperation of powers and declare Hitler as the Führer by enacting the Ermächtigungsgesetz which eventually led to the events known as the Third Reich and WWII.
This is what even professors of history never understood completely, the metamorphosis of a democratic nation to a dictatorship that was officialy legitimated by the parliament.
Replace that with THE ENTIRE FUCKING INTERNET and the sentence is still true!!
Replace that with THE WHOLE FREAKING WORLD and finaly we get somewhere.
Best thing about internet is, unlike the real world you can filter most of the hassles that bother you. Wish I could do that with all the little Madonnas who are having a karaoke competition in my college dorm tonight.
And there is already a nice DTD for documentation called DocBook.
There are also various XSL and DSSSL stylesheets to convert the docbook xml into html, xsl-fo, pdf, latex etc.
Best thing with XML is, you can pack all of the documentation in one single place and create various documentations according to each audience (user, professional user, developer, etc) and language. There is no need to write duplicate informations, you only have to add certain attributes to the xml tags.
What did ZOMBO do to annoy CowbowNeal THAT much?
Hmm...
"Welcome to Zombocom!"
"This is Zombocom!"
"You can do anything... at Zombocom!"
"Anything at all!"
"The only limit is yourself!"
"Anything is possible... at Zombocom!"
"The infinite is possible... at Zombocom!"
"The unattainable is unknown... at Zombocom!"
I think it was letting Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf speak the introduction.
"There are no infidel Americans... at Zombocom!"
There is no eject button on most of the remote controls because by leaving it out the manufacturer can save a cent or so per unit without giving the buyer a valid reason to chose another model.
In the long run every company move can be deducted to money.
This applies to every profession, not only programmers.
Someone who does something because of a reason other than the joy of it is simply a bad employee. (And that's probably why so many lawyers work independently)
German Software maker SAP is renaming their R/3 software to 750iL.
*rimshot*
LiteStep seems more like a replacement of explorer.exe to me.
I think they refused the passenger to take the foil with 'gunpowder' written on it on board because he might fake a bottle of actual gunpowder and threaten to blow it up in the plane. This is why no toy-weapons are alowed on board, too.
Just my idea.
What I meant was that all components of the MS win kernel come from the same source and are de-facto not exchangeable. Technicaly speaking you are of course right, but effectively shell32.dll, kernel32.dll, user32.dll, gdi32.dll are handled as one piece from the application developers and users point of view.
I have to run X->xlib->window manager->windowing library->desktop environment->various daemons just to get a desktop equivalent to Windows 95.
And your problem with it is what? Seems to me like you have an aesthetical problem with it. I think this chain of components is what makes unices so powerful and the lack of it why I dislike MS windows.
It all feels cobbled together to me, and I get sluggish performance.
Just because MS windows has a monolithic kernel/graphics renderer it doesn't mean it isn't cobbled together behind it's surface. X is just open about this from the beginning. Again this seems like you have just an aesthetical problem with this. And regarding the performance, benchmark tests show a negligible difference between X and MS Win, and why give up a pile of advantages just for a few more fps?
Not to mention conflicting interfaces, dependencies, and so forth. You've all heard the standard complaints.
Conflicting dependencies are a completely other field of unix, and dealing with this should be part of another developement.
Remote X is not as widely used as it is endlessly hyped to be. If you want that, use the normal XFree86 project. Linux needs a real, innovative desktop environment. If you really need remote capabilities, can't it be added on or kept as a separate build option?
Oh no, not again. For the last time, the problems of X are not caused by the remote capability unless you show different. And to do that, there is more needed just to say "X has remote capabilities, MS Win has not, X has disadvantages in comparison to MS Win -> X is disadvantaged because of the remote capabilities."
This is so what we need. Starting over. Nobody wants to do it and hides behind the excuse of a veil of "volunteer work" that somehow implies nobody can criticize even if what you put out is inadequate.
No, nobody wants to rewrite X because writing an X-Server is a freaking shitload of work and in every piece of software there are large portions of code which can be reused.
The process of developing is "see problem -> fix problem without causing any new ones", not "see problem -> write a complete new software -> see a quadrillion new problems -> have to handle them first for years -> forget what you were intending to fix at the first place"
xwin is a fork, not a rewrite, and this is good. And please remember that the fork is necessary not for technical reasons but because of the old team refusing to improve their own software!
I'm already afraid of the changes I'm seeing in our government's treatment of us. If it gets too bad, citizens do have the right to revolt,
.44s can impress the national guard, do you? No, the next revolution will have to use other weapons than those toys for grown-ups.
Don't forget that it's only called revolution afterwards if the citizens actualy succeed with their effort. If not you're in deep shit as the government can call and prosecute you as terrorists as well.
and thanks to our gun laws, we may have the means to do it.
You don't think that a few pumpguns and
WANTED: Software development engineers and software QA engineers. Require three to five years experience with qubit-based systems (Q#, Qava, etc.).
Interviewer: How many years of experience in quantum programming do you have and in which languages?
Applicant: Last time I checked it was 4 years in Q++ and Turbo Q.
Interviewer: So you have 4 years of experience in Q++ and Turbo Q?
Applicant: To be honest I can't be sure of it anymore.
Interviewer: Gnah!
Well, generating tidal energy is like perpetual motion. The Moon orbiting the Earth causes the tides to move, and there are even power plants that generate power from that.
No, the rotation of the earth is slowed down and the distance to the moon is getting bigger with every tide.
Come on people, war hasn't even finished, and all they can think about is US cellphone company's benefits? what about FOOD, WATER, MEDICINE?
Although it may at first glance look preposterous to care about a mobile phone system when rebuilding a demolished country, it is one of the very next steps behind the most elementary ones you mentioned.
Communications are a substantial part of a countrys infratructure, as are roads, ports, etc. They are needed to raise the effectiveness of human work when you are etablishing a system of distribution of goods. Otherwise food, water and medicine may be available, but it is too difficult to transport them, or to know where they are needed.
The important thing is to have this plans ready in time, before they are going to be implemented, because time is of the essence.
Every once in a while a troll needs a mod up for funny, and I think parent is one of them. Especially 'cause my Deutch isn't so good and I only get about half of it makes it even funnier!
Getting all of it, as long as one can extract any meaning at all of this gibberish, makes it a completely unfunny troll.