Is this another advert for yet another pay-to-read-and-see-its-bullshit "science" paper ?
This is why science is going all funny as of late and people don't trust "research" much. "Researchers" write papers to make money apparently, so they will write any old crap and call it an amazing discovery !
Researchers, show us something interesting for once, and don't make us pay for it. Information is free you know ?
Who mandated this little time changing circus realize that this WILL NOT provide more sun? people who say "oh we'll sleep an hour longer" or "more sun in the evening!" dont realize this changes nothing in the real world, no matter how many times to adjust a clock time still passes at the same rate (well leaving physics notions aside). As for the energy savings? in a 24h globalized world? what a fucking joke! I work mostly in the eve and I suffer from SAD and this little ritual is just sily beyond words. Stay in summer time (that's what we call it where i live) it is better because its fits more closely to actually "sun time" All this does is show that most people really live rigidly by the human clock and not their natural clock, at the expense, i believe of their mental welbeing. This little ritual, I think, is to stop next year, I really hope so...
Thats the point right there, he turned from programming guru to businessman...
The Linux market is very significant mind you, it is a chicken/egg problem, if there are no games on Linux people will boot in Windows or run Wine, which will make developers think that no one uses Linux when in fact people would gladly play on Linux if it was supported. Any developer with half a brain will understand that.
In fact it seems that most indy game developers have understood that long ago, and it is not harming them in the least (providing linux binaries), on the contrary it is helping them grow very fast.
Now the major game... producing... companies go for familiar and safe, so familiar APIs and the blessings of Microsoft, copy/paste game design, heavy marketing and boom you have another "hit" except not quite so because their new "hit" is the same old thing with more shaders 99% of the time.
I have a policy myself, any game with a native Linux version I buy, the stuff that runs on Windows on pirate and run in Wine, if it doesn't work in Wine I forget about it all together, my time is too precious to spend playing poorly coded games and I need my money to pay for my own expenses and reward developers that actually make an effort.
I don't bother dual booting, my computers have better things to do than reboot all the time.
buuuuuttttt, you dont understaaaaand my DX11 shaders (im not goning to mention that we've seen similar shaders in every game before) are better than all the portability in world! *microsoft fanboi whine*
Game developers have completely lost sight of something very fundamental: is the game fun to play ?
If you want to make technical demos, join the demo scene (in which using DirectX is seen as a bit inferior) If you want to make money, please dont make games, make whatever else, but not games, you are just going to butcher the design in the name of profit. If you want to make fun games, DirectX/OpenGL/NCurses/HTML5/Flash it dont fucking matter. If you want to make scientific apps, OpenGL and OpenCL, DirectX isn't far from fit for such things.
Except it wont be fastest graphic engine in Linux because DirectX will have to be translated to OpenGL and that is a major drawback right there, non portability
The problem here is that they compare two very different things. I feel that computer intelligence will never work if we just aim to copy neural networks; the perspective of the problem is all wrong. You can't have a computer program fake neurons and expect it to go... I think to do AI we must first understand what exactly we are trying to achieve and what makes it possible in the natural world.
No thank lord mine doesn't... but I also use the VPN's DNS so that explains it;-)
All I see is that ISPs are becoming less and less trustworthy and the best way for the tech savvy to be sure they get what they paid for is to setup tunnels and ignore the ISP's "services" and the "routers" they provide.
Never ever use your ISPs DNS. Just drop a bunch of trusted DNS servers in resolv.conf; hell start a collection of them.
Modem/routeurs provided by ISPs are massively crippled, I have one, I hate it but apparenly I'd loose free VoIP if I were to use my own so... I just ignore it as a DNS on my machines and soon ill section it and put my machines behind a real routeur.
They are going to restrict upload rates even more than they already do ?
In most residential internet connections i have seen there is always an obscene limit on upload rate. Take the very idea of ADSL for instance, this stuff was designed so that in the long run you can only download (consume) comfortably. My currently upload rate on my ADSL2 connection is a 10th of my download rate. Why? beats me, and of course if I want to have SDSL it is suddenly much more expensive, I dont really care for 15megs download rate if I am crippled to 800k in upload, this is not my idea of the internet. Id much rather limit my download rate to 8megs and get 8megs upload too which I know is possible but the price tag on that is insane especially considering it is only a matter of reassigning channels on the line. I wish ISPs would give you the option to rearrange said channels as per your requirements.
And now virgin is going to cripple the weak upload rate even more ? What is this a joke ? soon we'll use ADSL/Fiber/Cable (I have seen this sort of crippled upload on cable and fiber, even if there is absolutely no justification for it) for downloads and use a 56k analog line for uploads ?
This is the case in "developed" world as well, people simply can't be arsed to pay for movies, music and so on when they have other more urgent uses for their money (rent, bills etc)
They obviously suffer from "more gear/faster" syndrome where someone with a task that doesn't initially require a fast machine but out of ego/self-importance or high levels of dopamine, think they absolutely require to best in technology to get it done and will go to great length to get new gear for a very unclear advantage.
Come on! its just fucking money, its not rocket science, can do what they do in Excel and that doesn't need super computers; but their self-importance and ego dictates they have to have more and faster. I do not see stock markets as a place requiring top performance IT infrastructe, a decent reliable one yes, but not top notch performance, thats just silly humans can't possibly keep up.
Side note: reminds me of pro-gaming (starcraft etc) where players also seem to think +1ms of lag matters so much they get ragefull if it happens. another example of a hobby where dopamine and adrenaline junkies end up. I can spot them on the street a mile away... Impatient, usually skinny, jittery, never satisfied with what they do...
This is great news this will boost the tech section and especially quantum computing.
But most of all it will be boost help packages to banks and we all know banks have so bad most of their traders cannot afford a 3rd private jet this month.
seriously when are the financialtards going to stop fucking around with everybody else's money ?
As the US has repeatedly demonstrated, the rest of the world is an enemy; an enemy ready to strike at any moment, even the Brits even though they bend over backwards all the time to appease the Americans (at the expense of neglecting their own home continent EUROPE), they are enemies too.
So in this case any information coming out of the US to anywhere in the world is treachery.
Steve Jobs presentation of the iPad2 last night was also aiding the enemy, after all it provides enough information for the Chinese to make copies, potentially loading them with deadly spywares, explosive lithium batteries and what not.
When dealing with paranoids (like Americans are) it is better to not get too involved in their delirium.
This should be a wake up call for people who think their emails really get deleted from gmail and for people foolish enough to trust everything ot a third party company FOR FREE.
Now, I am no fan of so called cloud computing but i understand it can be convinient for many reasons however i think the best way for cloud computing to evolve would be an open model.
Company X is a hosting corp and provides google docs like web based applications. Person Y wants to host documents on the cloud to not have to worry about them being hosted locally. Person Y doesn't completely trust X X proposes the following deal to Y: rent a VPS somewhere, we help/let you set up our web based system for free on it for your documents but in return you have to provide some bandwidth/storage for other people to store their documents.
Or X could even be an opensource solution, and much like jabber people set up servers and other people join whichever server they like and servers are sync'd each storing a fragment of everyone's data, so that no 1 server has the full data set, ideally.
Real cloud computing is P2P based really; Google ain't pure cloud computing and so are most of the other providers out there. Otherwise it is just a very redundant hosting solution.
The gmail problem would have been fixed easily with such a scheme because the redudancy would be on many servers, run by many different people in wide variety of locations.
Of course corporations don't like this idea because they want to sell you fancy hosting solutions that they rebranded "cloud". or provide for free, as per google's case but in return for surrendering your rights to your data.
Paypal cannot by law refuse to do business unless they have a very valid reason that a judge would rule in favor of. also they are in breach of contract.
Live in your happy paypal world and stop harassing the good people that have the courage to trust the likes of you.
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I miss those days when one coder could actually do what the heck they wanted with the hardware.
OpenGL is the way to go, no more porting headaches because of very wide support across platforms.
I find also that OpenGL code tend to be more straightforward and cleaner.
Is this another advert for yet another pay-to-read-and-see-its-bullshit "science" paper ?
This is why science is going all funny as of late and people don't trust "research" much. "Researchers" write papers to make money apparently, so they will write any old crap and call it an amazing discovery !
Researchers, show us something interesting for once, and don't make us pay for it. Information is free you know ?
*laughinggirls.jpg*
He BUYS music! lol
It seems only people who dont know any better buy music nowadays.
Who mandated this little time changing circus realize that this WILL NOT provide more sun? people who say "oh we'll sleep an hour longer" or "more sun in the evening!" dont realize this changes nothing in the real world, no matter how many times to adjust a clock time still passes at the same rate (well leaving physics notions aside).
As for the energy savings? in a 24h globalized world? what a fucking joke!
I work mostly in the eve and I suffer from SAD and this little ritual is just sily beyond words.
Stay in summer time (that's what we call it where i live) it is better because its fits more closely to actually "sun time"
All this does is show that most people really live rigidly by the human clock and not their natural clock, at the expense, i believe of their mental welbeing.
This little ritual, I think, is to stop next year, I really hope so...
Thats the point right there, he turned from programming guru to businessman ...
The Linux market is very significant mind you, it is a chicken/egg problem, if there are no games on Linux people will boot in Windows or run Wine, which will make developers think that no one uses Linux when in fact people would gladly play on Linux if it was supported. Any developer with half a brain will understand that.
In fact it seems that most indy game developers have understood that long ago, and it is not harming them in the least (providing linux binaries), on the contrary it is helping them grow very fast.
Now the major game ... producing... companies go for familiar and safe, so familiar APIs and the blessings of Microsoft, copy/paste game design, heavy marketing and boom you have another "hit" except not quite so because their new "hit" is the same old thing with more shaders 99% of the time.
I have a policy myself, any game with a native Linux version I buy, the stuff that runs on Windows on pirate and run in Wine, if it doesn't work in Wine I forget about it all together, my time is too precious to spend playing poorly coded games and I need my money to pay for my own expenses and reward developers that actually make an effort.
I don't bother dual booting, my computers have better things to do than reboot all the time.
buuuuuttttt, you dont understaaaaand my DX11 shaders (im not goning to mention that we've seen similar shaders in every game before) are better than all the portability in world! *microsoft fanboi whine*
Game developers have completely lost sight of something very fundamental: is the game fun to play ?
If you want to make technical demos, join the demo scene (in which using DirectX is seen as a bit inferior)
If you want to make money, please dont make games, make whatever else, but not games, you are just going to butcher the design in the name of profit.
If you want to make fun games, DirectX/OpenGL/NCurses/HTML5/Flash it dont fucking matter.
If you want to make scientific apps, OpenGL and OpenCL, DirectX isn't far from fit for such things.
I preferred Hitler over Ballmer tbh.
Learn to code and not with GUIs, learn to code in hex.
Except it wont be fastest graphic engine in Linux because DirectX will have to be translated to OpenGL and that is a major drawback right there, non portability
The problem here is that they compare two very different things.
I feel that computer intelligence will never work if we just aim to copy neural networks; the perspective of the problem is all wrong. You can't have a computer program fake neurons and expect it to go...
I think to do AI we must first understand what exactly we are trying to achieve and what makes it possible in the natural world.
No thank lord mine doesn't... ;-)
but
I also use the VPN's DNS so that explains it
All I see is that ISPs are becoming less and less trustworthy and the best way for the tech savvy to be sure they get what they paid for is to setup tunnels and
ignore the ISP's "services" and the "routers" they provide.
It is nice they publish such information but really their limits are ridiculously low...
Never ever use your ISPs DNS. Just drop a bunch of trusted DNS servers in resolv.conf; hell start a collection of them.
Modem/routeurs provided by ISPs are massively crippled, I have one, I hate it but apparenly I'd loose free VoIP if I were to use my own so... I just ignore it as a DNS on my machines and soon ill section it and put my machines behind a real routeur.
They are going to restrict upload rates even more than they already do ?
In most residential internet connections i have seen there is always an obscene limit on upload rate.
Take the very idea of ADSL for instance, this stuff was designed so that in the long run you can only download (consume) comfortably. My currently upload rate on my ADSL2 connection is a 10th of my download rate. Why? beats me, and of course if I want to have SDSL it is suddenly much more expensive, I dont really care for 15megs download rate if I am crippled to 800k in upload, this is not my idea of the internet. Id much rather limit my download rate to 8megs and get 8megs upload too which I know is possible but the price tag on that is insane especially considering it is only a matter of reassigning channels on the line. I wish ISPs would give you the option to rearrange said channels as per your requirements.
And now virgin is going to cripple the weak upload rate even more ? What is this a joke ? soon we'll use ADSL/Fiber/Cable (I have seen this sort of crippled upload on cable and fiber, even if there is absolutely no justification for it) for downloads and use a 56k analog line for uploads ?
Is this truly the internet we want?
It is sad really, but it is american humour for you... Old, repetitive and egocentric.
This is the case in "developed" world as well, people simply can't be arsed to pay for movies, music and so on when they have other more urgent uses for their money (rent, bills etc)
More oil on the fire!
Rotten governments might finally start falling!
They sure are doing everything they can to anger people further.
They obviously suffer from "more gear/faster" syndrome where someone with a task that doesn't initially require a fast machine but out of ego/self-importance or high levels of dopamine, think they absolutely require to best in technology to get it done and will go to great length to get new gear for a very unclear advantage.
Come on! its just fucking money, its not rocket science, can do what they do in Excel and that doesn't need super computers; but their self-importance and ego dictates they have to have more and faster.
I do not see stock markets as a place requiring top performance IT infrastructe, a decent reliable one yes, but not top notch performance, thats just silly humans can't possibly keep up.
Side note: reminds me of pro-gaming (starcraft etc) where players also seem to think +1ms of lag matters so much they get ragefull if it happens. another example of a hobby where dopamine and adrenaline junkies end up. I can spot them on the street a mile away... Impatient, usually skinny, jittery, never satisfied with what they do...
The J00 CPU thats what.
This is great news this will boost the tech section and especially quantum computing.
But most of all it will be boost help packages to banks and we all know banks have so bad most of their traders cannot afford a 3rd private jet this month.
seriously when are the financialtards going to stop fucking around with everybody else's money ?
Paranoid delusions much America?
As the US has repeatedly demonstrated, the rest of the world is an enemy; an enemy ready to strike at any moment, even the Brits even though they bend over backwards all the time to appease the Americans (at the expense of neglecting their own home continent EUROPE), they are enemies too.
So in this case any information coming out of the US to anywhere in the world is treachery.
Steve Jobs presentation of the iPad2 last night was also aiding the enemy, after all it provides enough information for the Chinese to make copies, potentially loading them with deadly spywares, explosive lithium batteries and what not.
When dealing with paranoids (like Americans are) it is better to not get too involved in their delirium.
How can this be rated "insightful"... seriously, this is no better than the comments on FoxNews...
Are the mental capacities of the average american in sharp decline ?
This should be a wake up call for people who think their emails really get deleted from gmail and for people foolish enough to trust everything ot a third party company FOR FREE.
Now, I am no fan of so called cloud computing but i understand it can be convinient for many reasons however i think the best way for cloud computing to evolve would be an open model.
Company X is a hosting corp and provides google docs like web based applications.
Person Y wants to host documents on the cloud to not have to worry about them being hosted locally.
Person Y doesn't completely trust X
X proposes the following deal to Y: rent a VPS somewhere, we help/let you set up our web based system for free on it for your documents but in return
you have to provide some bandwidth/storage for other people to store their documents.
Or X could even be an opensource solution, and much like jabber people set up servers and other people join whichever server they like and servers are sync'd each storing a fragment of everyone's data, so that no 1 server has the full data set, ideally.
Real cloud computing is P2P based really; Google ain't pure cloud computing and so are most of the other providers out there. Otherwise it is just a very redundant hosting solution.
The gmail problem would have been fixed easily with such a scheme because the redudancy would be on many servers, run by many different people in wide variety of locations.
Of course corporations don't like this idea because they want to sell you fancy hosting solutions that they rebranded "cloud". or provide for free, as per google's case but in return for surrendering your rights to your data.
Go go back to live under your rock numbskull.
Paypal cannot by law refuse to do business unless they have a very valid reason that a judge would rule in favor of. also they are in breach of contract.
Live in your happy paypal world and stop harassing the good people that have the courage to trust the likes of you.