Brief strawman, because I know it is coming: At some point on this thread, someone is going to claim "but nothing is REALLY new." That is utter bullshit. Burroughs, Matthews, Glass, O'Nolan, Queneau, Danielewski, etc. have all pushed the envelope far beyond this cliche and invented very new topologies for the "novel" format as recent as the 20th century (granted, some of their experiments aren't particularly accessible, but they are inventing).
Of course, it is a matter of preference and personal taste. But...
I assert that OSC didn't lift a finger to push the genre, he just barfed up the SAME story with the SAME tropes without any new direction, IMHO (sub par by Asimov or Heinlein standards... and how many stories did Heinlein write that emphasized the protagonist's wang?). For a fan to claim it is a masterpiece work of art in general, when they've read maybe 10 books in their life (or 100 sci fi pulp novels) is naive since their POV is so limited.
So I don't have a problem with anyone liking the book, we all like different stuff and I'd be a troll to judge, I DO object to huge praise for something that is really "just average"... IMHO it leads to a race to the bottom everywhere in society.
Rant done.
Now, If you'll excuse me, someone over on Reddit just said that "Thor 2 is going to be the best sci-fi film EVAR!"... i have my evening cut out for me.
I'm in the market for a new car and it is nigh impossible to buy one without a fuckton of useless digital crap.
It is effing stupid because to me the technology is crap, the GUIs are crap, and the functionality is totally unnecessary.
It sucks that every new car appears to be marketed to 15 year olds with ADHD.
So who gives a fuck if the tech is four years old? How about NO years old, just jettison the shit and give me 5 analog dials and a stereo that at least doesn't have a screen saver (and that crashes once a week because the firmware was written by C-minus programmers)./endrant/
And the difference you don't see: none of them said, "Go to war against Saddam."
That. Is. Crucial.
Let me say it again: Not ONE of those people suggested war.
Crap, I'm angry now. Rant... brewing... like... a... word turd...
Every dem on your list agreed Saddam was a dictator, but why don't you dig a little deeper and see that they were actually in agreement with air containment (we patrolled their skies), and trying to make UN inspections work (and trying to get Saddam's allies to pressure him, or to enable the citizens to coup).
So, while plenty of Dems agreed Saddam was a threat, ONLY BUSH & CHENEY decided to cowboy up themselves an irresponsible $6 trillion dollar ten year war for something that was being actively managed for much less money and bloodshed. Remember that. The blame is squarely on Bush.
Gets me out of the office at exactly 5. It's a fun group of people and the workouts are different every time. Can't beat it (I used to run alone and tried going to the gym alone, but without peers and coaches, it was hopeless). It's a good hard sweat done in ~45 minutes. Been at it for 5 years, started at age 34.
There is too little information in the links to make an informed opinion.
The only "fact" in the article is that the # of tickets is triple the population. But that is a useless statement for reasoning: it assumes the borders are sealed and begs the question that speeders can't possibly speed more than once.
IMHO: I think speeding cameras are fine, there just needs to be regulation making sure they are routinely calibrated, and there needs to be a clear and FREE path to contesting the ticket. I've received rightly deserved tickets from speedvans; there's no argument (short of life-threatening emergency) for illegal speeding.
"It beats any processor in the market by order of magnitude."
Actually, Intel Xeon Phi is 1TFLOP DP. 50% of this new Nvidia chip, but not an order of magnitude. Yes, I'm being pedantic.:-) Seems like it has a lot of memory bandwidth 320GB/s @225W, according to wiki.
The last attempt Intel made at a non-x86 architecture was Itanium.
In 1995.
And it wasn't an attempt to ditch x86. The Itanium was a server product from the ground up, and only partially a technology vehicle for VLIW because HP (the partner at the time) largely drove that aspect of the ISA.
This article is pointless. The RISC/CISC debate is moot. Or, more aptly: an academic exercise, free from real-world constraints.
Can someone clarify if the 4.5 TF is single or double? The hardware leads me to believe it is single.
4.5 TF is a huge number for SP, but unless I'm doing the math wrong, their DP flops are really low, less than 2 TLFOP. Single precision is great for games, but dual-precision is generally the supercomputer benchmark (LINPACK).
yeah, nothing teeniebopper about that. not one bit.
serenity: space western with stock characters, wall-to-wall cliches, fancy new space costumes, snarky one-liner soon-to-be-dated sense of humor, and gobs of horrible acting. seriously, you don't wince every damn time zoe tries to reminisce about her past military "skeletons" and it comes out sounding like a monologue of some precocious high-schooler overacting for a lead role in a play?
Good thing this isn't reddit, or you'd find yourself at zero karma.
I learned not to point out the relative lack of talent of J.J. (and Joss) the hard way.
I completely agree with you though.
I don't get it: we've all seen LOST, Cloverfield, Super8, Star Trek... there's no reason for people to not see how mediocre this guy is. Why do they keep giving JJ the prime scifi?
I'll answer my own question: Justin Beiber.
+10 for the Keanu Reeves. "Dangerous Liaisons" should have been enough warning.
In the post-desktop future you'll pay $200 for a physical terminal you can plug into a keyboard & mouse and into your HDMI jumbo OLED TV (e.g., a Mac Mini running VNC), and then pay a fee per month to log in and develop on a remote machine with 100-10,000x more compute speed than any desktop you can buy or build today.
The future is distributed computing. Let someone else pay to maintain the TFLOP hardware.
Amazon already offers this service. I can rent time on linux compute servers that they maintain, just like the mainframe model in the 60's to 90's (I went to RPI and we ran jobs on an MTS mainframe until 1991!!). But you have to run your software. I honestly expect Adobe and Maya to release packages to distributed computing services like this in the near future.
They both make excellent points, and Kurzweil is doing the scientific thing and TRYING.
I can't wait to see the results of his experiment, I'm certain it will get us closer to understanding intelligence even it fails harder than all those pre-Wright Brothers attempts
It sounds like Katz is saying "to hard, goin' home".
Slashdot Mirror
non peak time? if/when netflix goes global there will be no such thing.
Brief strawman, because I know it is coming: At some point on this thread, someone is going to claim "but nothing is REALLY new." That is utter bullshit. Burroughs, Matthews, Glass, O'Nolan, Queneau, Danielewski, etc. have all pushed the envelope far beyond this cliche and invented very new topologies for the "novel" format as recent as the 20th century (granted, some of their experiments aren't particularly accessible, but they are inventing).
Of course, it is a matter of preference and personal taste. But...
I assert that OSC didn't lift a finger to push the genre, he just barfed up the SAME story with the SAME tropes without any new direction, IMHO (sub par by Asimov or Heinlein standards... and how many stories did Heinlein write that emphasized the protagonist's wang?). For a fan to claim it is a masterpiece work of art in general, when they've read maybe 10 books in their life (or 100 sci fi pulp novels) is naive since their POV is so limited.
So I don't have a problem with anyone liking the book, we all like different stuff and I'd be a troll to judge, I DO object to huge praise for something that is really "just average" ... IMHO it leads to a race to the bottom everywhere in society.
Rant done.
Now, If you'll excuse me, someone over on Reddit just said that "Thor 2 is going to be the best sci-fi film EVAR!" ... i have my evening cut out for me.
FTFY:
Ender's game = hunger games for 13 year old boys
Yes I read the book, I thought it was garbage pulp fantasy for those of limited breadth and imagination.
I'm in the market for a new car and it is nigh impossible to buy one without a fuckton of useless digital crap.
It is effing stupid because to me the technology is crap, the GUIs are crap, and the functionality is totally unnecessary.
It sucks that every new car appears to be marketed to 15 year olds with ADHD.
So who gives a fuck if the tech is four years old? How about NO years old, just jettison the shit and give me 5 analog dials and a stereo that at least doesn't have a screen saver (and that crashes once a week because the firmware was written by C-minus programmers). /endrant/
"And if you for an instant believe that women need less than a week to recover from a birth, you clearly do not understand the process."
This is /.
I surmise >90% straight teen male, mostly white ... maybe a little more mature than the reddit demographic, but barely.
Of course they don't understand.
"Dogme 95"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogme_95
I'm such a grumpy old luddite who values plot and acting over just about everything.
I'm a dying breed.
Against: 126 house, 21 senate
Sadly it wasn't 100%, but hey, Southern dems gotta get reelected too, and some believed the Powell/Rice Anthrax/MushroomCloud hype as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Resolution
And the difference you don't see: none of them said, "Go to war against Saddam."
That. Is. Crucial.
Let me say it again: Not ONE of those people suggested war.
Crap, I'm angry now. Rant... brewing... like... a ... word turd...
Every dem on your list agreed Saddam was a dictator, but why don't you dig a little deeper and see that they were actually in agreement with air containment (we patrolled their skies), and trying to make UN inspections work (and trying to get Saddam's allies to pressure him, or to enable the citizens to coup).
So, while plenty of Dems agreed Saddam was a threat, ONLY BUSH & CHENEY decided to cowboy up themselves an irresponsible $6 trillion dollar ten year war for something that was being actively managed for much less money and bloodshed. Remember that. The blame is squarely on Bush.
endrant.
Gets me out of the office at exactly 5. It's a fun group of people and the workouts are different every time. Can't beat it (I used to run alone and tried going to the gym alone, but without peers and coaches, it was hopeless). It's a good hard sweat done in ~45 minutes. Been at it for 5 years, started at age 34.
...imagine what Reddit knows. /shudders/
There is too little information in the links to make an informed opinion.
The only "fact" in the article is that the # of tickets is triple the population. But that is a useless statement for reasoning: it assumes the borders are sealed and begs the question that speeders can't possibly speed more than once.
IMHO: I think speeding cameras are fine, there just needs to be regulation making sure they are routinely calibrated, and there needs to be a clear and FREE path to contesting the ticket. I've received rightly deserved tickets from speedvans; there's no argument (short of life-threatening emergency) for illegal speeding.
on a side note, i love this website:
http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/critdate.htm
it is a huge list of important dates relevant to computer programs, algorithms, and O/Ses.
Thanks for the info.
"It beats any processor in the market by order of magnitude."
Actually, Intel Xeon Phi is 1TFLOP DP. 50% of this new Nvidia chip, but not an order of magnitude. Yes, I'm being pedantic. :-) Seems like it has a lot of memory bandwidth 320GB/s @225W, according to wiki.
The last attempt Intel made at a non-x86 architecture was Itanium.
In 1995.
And it wasn't an attempt to ditch x86. The Itanium was a server product from the ground up, and only partially a technology vehicle for VLIW because HP (the partner at the time) largely drove that aspect of the ISA.
This article is pointless. The RISC/CISC debate is moot. Or, more aptly: an academic exercise, free from real-world constraints.
best reply of 2013 so far.
Can someone clarify if the 4.5 TF is single or double? The hardware leads me to believe it is single.
4.5 TF is a huge number for SP, but unless I'm doing the math wrong, their DP flops are really low, less than 2 TLFOP. Single precision is great for games, but dual-precision is generally the supercomputer benchmark (LINPACK).
Thanks in advance.
dollhouse: corporate engineered re-brainwashed anti-hero jailbait-fetishized assassins.
yeah, nothing teeniebopper about that. not one bit.
serenity: space western with stock characters, wall-to-wall cliches, fancy new space costumes, snarky one-liner soon-to-be-dated sense of humor, and gobs of horrible acting. seriously, you don't wince every damn time zoe tries to reminisce about her past military "skeletons" and it comes out sounding like a monologue of some precocious high-schooler overacting for a lead role in a play?
if all you've ever eaten is velveeta...
FTFY:
"he's currently the best Hollywood teeniebopper action flick screenwriter currently alive."
YOU understand me! /hug
Good thing this isn't reddit, or you'd find yourself at zero karma.
I learned not to point out the relative lack of talent of J.J. (and Joss) the hard way.
I completely agree with you though.
I don't get it: we've all seen LOST, Cloverfield, Super8, Star Trek... there's no reason for people to not see how mediocre this guy is. Why do they keep giving JJ the prime scifi?
I'll answer my own question: Justin Beiber.
+10 for the Keanu Reeves. "Dangerous Liaisons" should have been enough warning.
Actually, in the long run the experts had 2x the returns of the monkeys:
http://www.automaticfinances.com/monkey-stock-picking/
Way to spread misinformation there, cap'n.
Wait, he posed as a friend and convinced 350 women to send nude pictures?
That... that just doesn't seem possible.
My cheese filter is going off.
Here's what I see happening:
In the post-desktop future you'll pay $200 for a physical terminal you can plug into a keyboard & mouse and into your HDMI jumbo OLED TV (e.g., a Mac Mini running VNC), and then pay a fee per month to log in and develop on a remote machine with 100-10,000x more compute speed than any desktop you can buy or build today.
The future is distributed computing. Let someone else pay to maintain the TFLOP hardware.
Amazon already offers this service. I can rent time on linux compute servers that they maintain, just like the mainframe model in the 60's to 90's (I went to RPI and we ran jobs on an MTS mainframe until 1991!!). But you have to run your software. I honestly expect Adobe and Maya to release packages to distributed computing services like this in the near future.
Oh right, he doesn't have one.
They both make excellent points, and Kurzweil is doing the scientific thing and TRYING.
I can't wait to see the results of his experiment, I'm certain it will get us closer to understanding intelligence even it fails harder than all those pre-Wright Brothers attempts
It sounds like Katz is saying "to hard, goin' home".
That sounds like "security through ignorance":
"I don't know who is watching me, ergo, I am safer."
Hmmm....