That was my initial thought, Kazakstan, Iraq, China, Turkey.
CNC Axis of Evil addition may have been a better name, still I'm sute the US is a big enough market that TROTW doesn't matter too much. (see earlier post about Lord British and EA's marketing stratergy)
That's what you get when you try to mix communism with democracy... (see sig).... A benine dictatorship is the best form of government... Just checkout the house of Lords.
checkout GDAM, you can mix mp3's in real-time etc....
Re:What is an example that can't run in parallel?
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WOW, every transaction in the world runs through a single thread. Must have been a nightmare when we were still using paper.
Re:What is an example that can't run in parallel?
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You can often re-order a problem so that parts of it can be performed in parallel.
Though you may take a bit up-front linear hit (say a matrix inversion!)
Let's say you want to render a page of mixed content,
You could: Render the whole lot as you go or calculate the size and layout of the elements up-front and then render in parallel.
In it's pure form the first is slower if you want to do anything with the content, but the second can't be streamed and has a higher memory overhead &co.
Japan's spending on 'defence' was capped after WWII (somthing like 1% GDP), so instead of the US gun-ho approach Japan is trying to save the world in a more nobal way.
I and proud that the worlds faster computer is the earth simulator
Re:Future of Supercomputing
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People read left to right or right to left (depending on where you come from).
For left to righters.
the bottom right hand of a dialogue is the last bit you read (you expect things to finish there)
So, you read the message and look for the bottom right hand paragraph to see what to do, and are presented with an oddly arainged set of choices. this is bad.
And for my second point, it is always better to cancel and retry than acidently do something. so by your argument cancel should be bottom right.
He is a Muppet. 1: he didn't checkout OpenOffice.org, take a look at Road map. There are quite a few changes going into the DB area of OpenOffice. Including native drivers, so no need for ODBC. 2: He used MYSql and didn't test postgres too. Sure MYSql's fine if you don't want to do anything fancy, but postgres has a far fuller feature set and make for better DB tests. 3: He's got an uncle called Kermit and he likes to sit half way up the stairs.
string thing. the string tempaltes are good, but sloooowww as hell. If you were taught C++ like peeps are taught Java and you've been using std::string in a was that copyies and allocates data all the time then being shown how to use \0 strings will improve you codes memory and speed preformance.
I know people who do C++ 'programming' but wouldn't know how to use structs and function pointers in C to make 'classes'.
Ok, so you can nuke somone. You can develope DU weapons, you can use propaganda, bomb the fuck out of anything you feel like.
But your not allowed to develope 'safe' bio warfair incase someone might develop harmfull bio warfair.
Well, there's not a great point in developing really nasty BIO, it's easy and there's enough of it about.
safe BIO warfair is hard, I used the common cold as an example because it's a pain, you won't be able to do much if you have a nasty cold, but few people die from a cold.
Putting LSD in the water supply would work quite well, it's low toxisity and there ain't no way your going to win if everyones on acid. though thats chemical weapons and we all know how bad they are.
My English, is kinda, well crap and my grammar is poor at the best of times.
My thoughts tend to be more empathetic, for me it's the answer isn't important, it's how you arrived at that answer. Words do not just have 'meaning' they have emotion and history, If I think about it, it can take me as long to work out if a word is correct, as it did to write the while document. (so I kinda go for free flow).
I have thoughts and ideas that are held in abstraction and are more or less impossible to explain because of the complexity surrounding them.
I'm glad my English is so shit, I beleive my thoughts are richer for it.
> (C More or Less) A subject-oriented language (SOL). Each C+- class instance, known as a subject, holds hidden members, known as prejudices, agendas or undeclared preferences, which are impervious to outside messages; as well as public members, known as boasts or claims.
The following C operators are overridden as shown:
> better than
> way better than
forget it
! not on your life
== comparable, other things being equal
!== get a life, guy!
C+- is strongly typed, based on stereotyping and self-righteous logic. The Boolean variables TRUE and FALSE (known as constants in other, less realistic languages) are supplemented with CREDIBLE and DUBIOUS, which are fuzzier than Zadeh's traditional fuzzy categories. All Booleans can be declared with the modifiers strong and weak. Weak implication is said to "preserve deniability" and was added at the request of the DoD to ensure compatibility with future versions of Ada. Well-formed falsehoods (WFFs) are assignment-compatible with all Booleans. What-if and why-not interactions are aided by the special conditional EVENIFNOT X THEN Y.
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Dune, move around locations, talk to people, do a couple of things, open up more locations.
Dune was a clasic adventure game with an odd end game.
anyone remember syndicate, did it hit the shops before Dune 2?
Dune was nothing like Dune 2, it was closer to a clasic adventure game.
That was my initial thought, Kazakstan, Iraq, China, Turkey.
CNC Axis of Evil addition may have been a better name, still I'm sute the US is a big enough market that TROTW doesn't matter too much.
(see earlier post about Lord British and EA's marketing stratergy)
Or....
13.7 billion years old, flat, 4.4% baryons,
95% chance We don't know[what the fuck were talking about].
That's what you get when you try to mix communism with democracy... (see sig)....
A benine dictatorship is the best form of government...
Just checkout the house of Lords.
The people you want to hear will be heard.
checkout GDAM, you can mix mp3's in real-time etc....
WOW, every transaction in the world runs through a single thread.
Must have been a nightmare when we were still using paper.
You can often re-order a problem so that parts of it can be performed in parallel.
Though you may take a bit up-front linear hit (say a matrix inversion!)
Let's say you want to render a page of mixed content,
You could:
Render the whole lot as you go
or
calculate the size and layout of the elements up-front and then render in parallel.
In it's pure form the first is slower if you want to do anything with the content, but the second can't be streamed and has a higher memory overhead &co.
Japan's spending on 'defence' was capped after WWII (somthing like 1% GDP), so instead of the US gun-ho approach Japan is trying to save the world in a more nobal way.
I and proud that the worlds faster computer is the earth simulator
it is a cluster....
640 processor nodes, each consisting of eight vector processors are connected as a high speed interconnection network.
That makes it a cluster (640 processor nodes) of clusters (8 vector processors)
a one of matrix inversion. well parts of it can't be done efficiently in parallel.
Though the resulting matrix would probably be applied accross a lot of data and that can be done in parallel.
A matrix inversion can be done very fast if you have a Very MPP system (say effectivly 2^32 processors!) like a quantum computer.
That's a stupid idea, the ELUA is proof that no one ever reads the message, so reading the buttons would be pointless.
he wants hits, not a /. beating
People read left to right or right to left (depending on where you come from).
For left to righters.
the bottom right hand of a dialogue is the last bit you read (you expect things to finish there)
So, you read the message and look for the bottom right hand paragraph to see what to do, and are presented with an oddly arainged set of choices.
this is bad.
And for my second point, it is always better to cancel and retry than acidently do something. so by your argument cancel should be bottom right.
It is the responsibility of the person devising the contract to ensure that the other party understands that contract.
In therory, all ELUA's would be invalid and you could refuse to pay an irrisposable loan.
but in real life it boils down to:
You know there not mad
and a cooling down period.
Still, I always make sure I don't break the seal, I understand that bit of the ELUA at least.
CowboyNeal is my Sci-Fi channel
He is a Muppet.
1: he didn't checkout OpenOffice.org, take a look at Road map. There are quite a few changes going into the DB area of OpenOffice. Including native drivers, so no need for ODBC.
2: He used MYSql and didn't test postgres too. Sure MYSql's fine if you don't want to do anything fancy, but postgres has a far fuller feature set and make for better DB tests.
3: He's got an uncle called Kermit and he likes to sit half way up the stairs.
Open and Free.
The peoble is English, which is why Software Libre is used.
Open could be Macro or Micro, Microsoft picked the Micro form of open. Open source used the Macro form.
Again free could be Micro (costs nothing) or Macro.
Free in most cases it a myth, that 'free' phone, not free but take out as a tax on you phone bill.
non-subscription TV, is that 'free', nope every time I buy a mars bar I help pay for CNN, there's a TV tax on most food, and I don't even have a TV.
well, I got 10x performance increase changing some std::strings to /0 strings, with borlands STL and the STL that comes with GCC.
I susspect the performance gains were because of the extra overheard of creating objects, extra redirection and abstration.
string thing.
the string tempaltes are good, but sloooowww as hell.
If you were taught C++ like peeps are taught Java and you've been using std::string in a was that copyies and allocates data all the time then being shown how to use \0 strings will improve you codes memory and speed preformance.
I know people who do C++ 'programming' but wouldn't know how to use structs and function pointers in C to make 'classes'.
SFAIK variable scope is a bit weird in ANSI C,
for(int i;...){
}
i=123;
is valid ANSI C (for some strange reason)
for(int i;...){
j
}
j=123;
is not valid
{
for(int i;...){
}
}
i=123;
is not valid
the same is true for if and switch
this is a pain because of reuse.
for(int i;...){
}
for(int i;...){
}
is invalid ANSI C because i is still in scope in the second for loop.
Ok, so you can nuke somone.
You can develope DU weapons,
you can use propaganda, bomb the fuck out of anything you feel like.
But your not allowed to develope 'safe' bio warfair incase someone might develop harmfull bio warfair.
Well, there's not a great point in developing really nasty BIO, it's easy and there's enough of it about.
safe BIO warfair is hard, I used the common cold as an example because it's a pain, you won't be able to do much if you have a nasty cold, but few people die from a cold.
Putting LSD in the water supply would work quite well, it's low toxisity and there ain't no way your going to win if everyones on acid. though thats chemical weapons and we all know how bad they are.
Give a man a gun, or give a man a joint.
For me it's, Language restricts expression.
My English, is kinda, well crap and my grammar is poor at the best of times.
My thoughts tend to be more empathetic, for me it's the answer isn't important, it's how you arrived at that answer. Words do not just have 'meaning' they have emotion and history, If I think about it, it can take me as long to work out if a word is correct, as it did to write the while document. (so I kinda go for free flow).
I have thoughts and ideas that are held in abstraction and are more or less impossible to explain because of the complexity surrounding them.
I'm glad my English is so shit, I beleive my thoughts are richer for it.
> (C More or Less) A subject-oriented language (SOL). Each C+- class instance, known as a subject, holds hidden members, known as prejudices, agendas or undeclared preferences, which are impervious to outside messages; as well as public members, known as boasts or claims.
The following C operators are overridden as shown:
> better than
> way better than
forget it
! not on your life
== comparable, other things being equal
!== get a life, guy!
C+- is strongly typed, based on stereotyping and self-righteous logic. The Boolean variables TRUE and FALSE (known as constants in other, less realistic languages) are supplemented with CREDIBLE and DUBIOUS, which are fuzzier than Zadeh's traditional fuzzy categories. All Booleans can be declared with the modifiers strong and weak. Weak implication is said to "preserve deniability" and was added at the request of the DoD to ensure compatibility with future versions of Ada. Well-formed falsehoods (WFFs) are assignment-compatible with all Booleans. What-if and why-not interactions are aided by the special conditional EVENIFNOT X THEN Y.