Due to the way the X11 server is made in OS X, gimp multiwindow was plain disfunctional in OS X. You had to click a window to give it focus, then select the tool, then clic the image window to give it focus, then apply you tool. Obnoxious at its paroxysm. I have no strong feelings against of for multi window mode in OSes that handle that properly, but most don't...
Everything that's in theater this month is a sequel, prequel, remake, reload, adaptation from a foreign movie... Nobody has any idea in Hollywood ? I'm not even a cinema expert or enthusiast, but I can recognize all remakes from 20 miles away. These are not even from old movies from the 50's in b&w, these are remakes of last's year hit (Spiderman... again?... Srsly ?... ).
And when ping of death got fixed, we just found that other vulnerability in the IP fragmentation stack, when sending two forged IP packets fragmented to be just larger than the MTU when reassembled, all hells were loose. Worked on pretty much anything this one...
Do you have a link proving that he is a "leftish" ? I keep reading that as a casual comment every here and then, but never found a proper source for it. Not that I would believe that Fox News might be at work, but you know, better check anyway...
It is probably very hard for the American public to understand the necessities of racial hatred and murder incitations speech laws. The root of such laws in Europe do not come from royalty slander, as some have postulated here. It comes from the shock of what happened during WW2. In most of Europe, then legal racial hatred speech have driven perfectly normal and decent people to act as monsters, inhuman, immoral mass behavior from the average Joe.
That, was the definite proof that if you let some ideas prosper, some horrible things happen as a result. Call for murder of a human being should be illegal, being the president or not. Call for bullying trough violence elected bodies should also be illegal, as this is a shortcut for particular interests to force their political agenda against the will of the majority. If so many of your presidents got shot dead, it is also because so many speeches inviting to killing are aired, making it "ok" to kill. Finally, you do not need the freedom to call publicly for murder to excerpt control on your government. You can still call for a new constitutional assembly, which is exactly what you are talking about, and is free speech, even if you do not have the right to call for murder.
a mobile equivalent to the company's high-end Radeon HD 6990 PCI Express graphics card design — features 1,120 stream processing units, 56 texture units, 128 Z/stencil ROP units, and 32 color ROP units."
Except that the PCI-E version has more than twice as many stream processors (in the order of 3500), 64 color ROPs and 70% higher memory frequency. This might be the best mobile unit, but the 6990M is not, in any way except its name, something comparable to the HD 6990 PCI-E... It is, in all specifications, at most, half of what the non mobile version is. Marketing... Marketing...
While the overall density is low in the US, there are many completely empty places, and far more 1M+ cities than in Europe. Or said differently, Europe is populated more or less equally in all areas, with a low overall density, except for the few megapoles (London, Paris, Madrid,... ). In the US, some places are plain empty, and most of the population is gathered in cluster around million sized cities. Something like 80% of the US population is urban, hence it should be easier to have 80% of broadband access in the US than it is in Europe, but it is not the case.
There are many explanations, among them, the US have pioneered broadband with the vast deployment of cable technology. This infrastructure is aging and obsoleting, but it is still usable. In the rest of the world, investments have been far more recent (mostly in the 90s), hence better and more recent technology.
This is an obviously abusive contract. I don't know the status in the US, but in the European union, an illegal clause in a contract is not enforceable.
Just commenting on the summary. Why does it propose to replace linpack with Graphpack exactly ? I understand that linpack catches only a subpart of the application workload patterns, but so does graph500. Both are important, and it is not a matter of changing the benchmark, but to complete the benchmark. Fortunately, the HPC Challenge have been around for quite a time, and does exactly that: measuring the machine in a variety of metric, and giving a summary of the capabilities regarding different relevant aspects.
this november's list already reached 2.5Pflops. A machine delivered at 3Pflops in 2 years from now will not even be in the top 10. Long term trend is to reach 5 to 10 Pflops by mid 2012.
http://www.top500.org/list/2010/11/100
The HPC challenge has been available for a long time now. It has never got real attention because people do want a single metric to rank computers and make a classification. If you really want to know if your computer is fit for a particular purpose, you can. Don't blame the top500 for providing what the people want to see.
As a side note, I quite don't see why using accelerators would be "gaming" the top500. This is a very stupid statement, accelerators have a wide range of applications for real science, it is not about getting the biggest number in HPL.
This message written from the premises of the SC meeting.
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Due to the way the X11 server is made in OS X, gimp multiwindow was plain disfunctional in OS X. You had to click a window to give it focus, then select the tool, then clic the image window to give it focus, then apply you tool. Obnoxious at its paroxysm. I have no strong feelings against of for multi window mode in OSes that handle that properly, but most don't ...
Everything that's in theater this month is a sequel, prequel, remake, reload, adaptation from a foreign movie... Nobody has any idea in Hollywood ? I'm not even a cinema expert or enthusiast, but I can recognize all remakes from 20 miles away. These are not even from old movies from the 50's in b&w, these are remakes of last's year hit (Spiderman... again?... Srsly ?... ).
About 12 years ago, or something.
And when ping of death got fixed, we just found that other vulnerability in the IP fragmentation stack, when sending two forged IP packets fragmented to be just larger than the MTU when reassembled, all hells were loose. Worked on pretty much anything this one...
Before we know it, we'll have similar laws in "civilized" countries.
Do you have a link proving that he is a "leftish" ? I keep reading that as a casual comment every here and then, but never found a proper source for it. Not that I would believe that Fox News might be at work, but you know, better check anyway...
It is probably very hard for the American public to understand the necessities of racial hatred and murder incitations speech laws. The root of such laws in Europe do not come from royalty slander, as some have postulated here. It comes from the shock of what happened during WW2. In most of Europe, then legal racial hatred speech have driven perfectly normal and decent people to act as monsters, inhuman, immoral mass behavior from the average Joe. That, was the definite proof that if you let some ideas prosper, some horrible things happen as a result. Call for murder of a human being should be illegal, being the president or not. Call for bullying trough violence elected bodies should also be illegal, as this is a shortcut for particular interests to force their political agenda against the will of the majority. If so many of your presidents got shot dead, it is also because so many speeches inviting to killing are aired, making it "ok" to kill. Finally, you do not need the freedom to call publicly for murder to excerpt control on your government. You can still call for a new constitutional assembly, which is exactly what you are talking about, and is free speech, even if you do not have the right to call for murder.
Saudi Arabia...
a mobile equivalent to the company's high-end Radeon HD 6990 PCI Express graphics card design — features 1,120 stream processing units, 56 texture units, 128 Z/stencil ROP units, and 32 color ROP units." Except that the PCI-E version has more than twice as many stream processors (in the order of 3500), 64 color ROPs and 70% higher memory frequency. This might be the best mobile unit, but the 6990M is not, in any way except its name, something comparable to the HD 6990 PCI-E... It is, in all specifications, at most, half of what the non mobile version is. Marketing... Marketing...
Why?
On the concorde, you'd paid premium class, go at premium speed, but also have premium service. The flight was expensive but exquisite.
The PS3 ? I have some memories that its hypervisor was remotly based on Linux, but I might be mistaken.
What about TV ?
You don't need solar panel, you need a new alternator for your car...
While the overall density is low in the US, there are many completely empty places, and far more 1M+ cities than in Europe. Or said differently, Europe is populated more or less equally in all areas, with a low overall density, except for the few megapoles (London, Paris, Madrid, ... ). In the US, some places are plain empty, and most of the population is gathered in cluster around million sized cities. Something like 80% of the US population is urban, hence it should be easier to have 80% of broadband access in the US than it is in Europe, but it is not the case.
There are many explanations, among them, the US have pioneered broadband with the vast deployment of cable technology. This infrastructure is aging and obsoleting, but it is still usable. In the rest of the world, investments have been far more recent (mostly in the 90s), hence better and more recent technology.
This is an obviously abusive contract. I don't know the status in the US, but in the European union, an illegal clause in a contract is not enforceable.
Just commenting on the summary. Why does it propose to replace linpack with Graphpack exactly ? I understand that linpack catches only a subpart of the application workload patterns, but so does graph500. Both are important, and it is not a matter of changing the benchmark, but to complete the benchmark. Fortunately, the HPC Challenge have been around for quite a time, and does exactly that: measuring the machine in a variety of metric, and giving a summary of the capabilities regarding different relevant aspects.
this november's list already reached 2.5Pflops. A machine delivered at 3Pflops in 2 years from now will not even be in the top 10. Long term trend is to reach 5 to 10 Pflops by mid 2012. http://www.top500.org/list/2010/11/100
The HPC challenge has been available for a long time now. It has never got real attention because people do want a single metric to rank computers and make a classification. If you really want to know if your computer is fit for a particular purpose, you can. Don't blame the top500 for providing what the people want to see. As a side note, I quite don't see why using accelerators would be "gaming" the top500. This is a very stupid statement, accelerators have a wide range of applications for real science, it is not about getting the biggest number in HPL. This message written from the premises of the SC meeting.
Trademark is not copyright. Please stop making a fool of yourself.
You know that all those cards are the 8800GT renamed to not sound outdated ? None is better, they are all the same.
You obviously don't know what you are talking about.
Accounting is the science of making loss out of profits.
Automatic transmission cannot be shifted when the engine is at high rev (especially for electronic controlled gearbox).
Algorithm are not patentable matter in the EU.