FIRST... no he dose not prove that you are in the SLOWEST line. He demonstrates that it's most likely that you are NOT IN THE FASTEST LINE. The exact same argument can be used to show that you are likely NOT IN THE SLOWEST line [of course, Slashdot editors and readers have never written any kind of mathematical proof, so the concept of "similarly" is foreign to them].
SECOND... this is elementary probability... barely even high-school level.
Given 3 lines WLOG, randomly choose one there is 1/3 probability that your line is the fastest therefore there is 2/3 probability that your line is not fastest therefore it is more likely that you are not in the fastest line
THIRD... there is nothing ironic about the single queue being fastest. This is obvious to anyone who has even set next to someone who's brother's dog licked someone who accidentally clicked on the wiki page for queuing theory.
I cannot believe that this drivel got posted. Apparently, Slashdot is now for remedial math. AND the poster (and editors) didn't even get it right! Slashdot editors fail remedial math.
I know this site went to shit about 7 or 8 years ago, but all nerd cred is forever lost in my eyes. It is now just for 12 year old mouth breathers who have no idea what they are talking about.
Logging into my account that I created when I officially gave up on this website. I am not going back to routing *.slashdot.org to 0.0.0.0 so that I am never tempted to return here on a lark.
400MHz + 128MB RAM + a few gig storage is perfectly adequate for browsing ebay from the bathtub,
As someone with a laptop with those specs, let me say that they are not adequate. They are downright painful. Let me give you a hint: page page page, swap swap swap. With the current price of RAM, there is no excuse to ship a machine with less than 1GB.
As someone who is partially engineering/analytically minded (but not a great programmer) it amazes me how Google has manged to index so much data, yet at the same time, serve up results in a fraction of a second to so many people.
The issue here really is not about size of the design team, it is about vetting the guy who does it. ( The guy who is in charge of the network for my business is someone who I really know and trust. He was best man at my wedding. )
Should I 'ride the wave' and join the new company and culture, or dust off the old CV/resume?"
1) You should always have an up to date resume. Especially when there is some kind of "restructuring" going on.
2) You can do both. Try on the new company. If you don't like it, you can always leave. You can even spin it to new employers as "I stayed on to ensure a smooth transition" to make you look like a team player. This is a great way to get into a new company without having to wade through the throngs of HR drones trying to screen you out of new-hire interviews.
Jumping ship before the move is kinda dumb -- as long as they don't make you sign anything ridiculous. It could be a much better place. Why would you leave when you don't have a reason to? What would you leave for? An unknown new company? Then you are no better off then where you are right now.
It does nothing to solve the synchronization issues that are the plague of multi-threaded programming, and it makes it all worse by having a very non-uniform memory access model (that hasn't even been abstracted).
The problem with multi-threaded models is that they are fundamentally harder than a single-threaded model. CUDA does nothing to address this, and it makes it even harder by forcing the programmer to worry about what kind of memory they are using and forcing them to move data in and out of the different types of memory manually.
CUDA is only seeing uptake because it is the only game in town, not because it is a good solution.
In 1993, Internet pioneer John Gilmore said "the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it", and we believed him. In 1996, cyberlibertarian John Perry Barlow issued his 'Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace' at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, and online. He told governments: "You have no moral right to rule us, nor do you possess any methods of enforcement that we have true reason to fear."
At the time, many shared Barlow's sentiments. The Internet empowered people. It gave them access to information and couldn't be stopped, blocked or filtered. Give someone access to the Internet, and they have access to everything. Governments that relied on censorship to control their citizens were doomed.
Today, things are very different. Internet censorship is flourishing.
I think that telecom has to be the only private industry that gets upset when its customers want more of its service.
Seriously. Do you think they sit around bemoaning that people want more of their service? Do you think they try to come up with ways to keep people from using their service? That industry is totally run in opposite-land. They need to be stripped of their monopoly status to make them behave like a market driven industry.
The thing is, most PCs have plenty of computing power as a single core system
And 640k ought to be enough for anyone.
I think as time moves on and quad core becomes the "low-end" you will see less demand for higher end hardware.
My last purchase (6 to 8 months ago) was a "low-end" machine. I chose carefully to make sure that it was low-end and not bargain-basement. It has two cores. I don't think it's even possible to buy a single core machine through mainstream channels anymore. Today's low-end (multi-core) is more than adequate for most users to use over the next few (read: four) years.
Unless the next version of Windows requires a core dedicated to the OS or something in the future.
I don't know... a couple of extra bucks multiplied over a million squatted domains might do something. Charging what a domain is worth is probably the only way to stop squatting.
...until some law-abiding citizen going about his lawful business gets stopped and accosted for no reason beyond "the machine said so" during a routine blanket surveillance sweep. Enjoy the slide into a police state.
I went to the link, but it was just an obnoxious video ad. And no, I didn't sit through it.
I know that a lot of the stories on here are ads in disguise, but this one isn't even hiding. I didn't realize that slashdot was an a linking to unabashed ads now.
The point of data mining is that some connections are not obvious at all, pizza and books are legitimate pieces of data from a scientific/statistical point of view.
Yes. So is religion, race, age, gender, political affiliation, sexual preference, skin color, voting history, if you've ever been to a protest rally, if you've ever voiced opposition to a government initiative, and your medical history.
Persecuting someone on those grounds is abhorrent to a free society. People should be examined based on what we reasonably think that they have done, not based on what we statistically infer that they might do.
Exactly. QuickTime for Windows has been installing iTunes by default for quite some time now. The last time I downloaded QuickTime I had to hunt through Apple's site to find the standalone version.
A standalone version of iTunes, or quicktime? I have no interest in quicktime, but I do use iTunes. Is there a standalone iTunes?
The only thing really holding the market back here, in my opinion, is Intel's insistence on marketing inferior products instead of partnering with ATI or NVidia to please their customers.
ATI is owned by AMD now, so there is going to be now Intel partnership with them. NVidia competes with Intel in both the chipset and graphics market, so there's no likely partnership there (unless Intel buys NVidia).
A lot of irregularities have occurred in favour of Microsoft, rules have been bent in favour of Microsoft, my suspicion is this will favour Microsoft.
Of course it will. Microsoft will form a team of consultants available to help anyone change their "against" vote into a "for" vote. If a country that previously voted "for" asks for help, they won't get any.
And that's assuming that the rules will be enforced impartially.
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FIRST... no he dose not prove that you are in the SLOWEST line. He demonstrates that it's most likely that you are NOT IN THE FASTEST LINE. The exact same argument can be used to show that you are likely NOT IN THE SLOWEST line [of course, Slashdot editors and readers have never written any kind of mathematical proof, so the concept of "similarly" is foreign to them].
SECOND... this is elementary probability... barely even high-school level.
Given 3 lines
WLOG, randomly choose one
there is 1/3 probability that your line is the fastest
therefore there is 2/3 probability that your line is not fastest
therefore it is more likely that you are not in the fastest line
THIRD... there is nothing ironic about the single queue being fastest. This is obvious to anyone who has even set next to someone who's brother's dog licked someone who accidentally clicked on the wiki page for queuing theory.
I cannot believe that this drivel got posted. Apparently, Slashdot is now for remedial math. AND the poster (and editors) didn't even get it right! Slashdot editors fail remedial math.
I know this site went to shit about 7 or 8 years ago, but all nerd cred is forever lost in my eyes. It is now just for 12 year old mouth breathers who have no idea what they are talking about.
Logging into my account that I created when I officially gave up on this website. I am not going back to routing *.slashdot.org to 0.0.0.0 so that I am never tempted to return here on a lark.
No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law
400MHz + 128MB RAM + a few gig storage is perfectly adequate for browsing ebay from the bathtub,
As someone with a laptop with those specs, let me say that they are not adequate. They are downright painful. Let me give you a hint: page page page, swap swap swap. With the current price of RAM, there is no excuse to ship a machine with less than 1GB.
As someone who is partially engineering/analytically minded (but not a great programmer) it amazes me how Google has manged to index so much data, yet at the same time, serve up results in a fraction of a second to so many people.
See "map reduce"
The issue here really is not about size of the design team, it is about vetting the guy who does it. ( The guy who is in charge of the network for my business is someone who I really know and trust. He was best man at my wedding. )
What happens when he is hit by a big red bus?
Should I 'ride the wave' and join the new company and culture, or dust off the old CV/resume?"
1) You should always have an up to date resume. Especially when there is some kind of "restructuring" going on.
2) You can do both. Try on the new company. If you don't like it, you can always leave. You can even spin it to new employers as "I stayed on to ensure a smooth transition" to make you look like a team player. This is a great way to get into a new company without having to wade through the throngs of HR drones trying to screen you out of new-hire interviews.
Jumping ship before the move is kinda dumb -- as long as they don't make you sign anything ridiculous. It could be a much better place. Why would you leave when you don't have a reason to? What would you leave for? An unknown new company? Then you are no better off then where you are right now.
If you want a job done right, ...you gotta do it yourself, (and host it on your own servers)
Until your upstream provider cuts you off... or your registrar cancels your domain name... or you get removed from search engines...
you missed one: or ISPs block customers from accessing you.
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CUDA is terrible.
It does nothing to solve the synchronization issues that are the plague of multi-threaded programming, and it makes it all worse by having a very non-uniform memory access model (that hasn't even been abstracted).
The problem with multi-threaded models is that they are fundamentally harder than a single-threaded model. CUDA does nothing to address this, and it makes it even harder by forcing the programmer to worry about what kind of memory they are using and forcing them to move data in and out of the different types of memory manually.
CUDA is only seeing uptake because it is the only game in town, not because it is a good solution.
But does Netcraft confirm it?
In 1993, Internet pioneer John Gilmore said "the net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it", and we believed him. In 1996, cyberlibertarian John Perry Barlow issued his 'Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace' at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, and online. He told governments: "You have no moral right to rule us, nor do you possess any methods of enforcement that we have true reason to fear."
At the time, many shared Barlow's sentiments. The Internet empowered people. It gave them access to information and couldn't be stopped, blocked or filtered. Give someone access to the Internet, and they have access to everything. Governments that relied on censorship to control their citizens were doomed.
Today, things are very different. Internet censorship is flourishing.
Read more at: Internet Censorship.
I think that telecom has to be the only private industry that gets upset when its customers want more of its service.
Seriously. Do you think they sit around bemoaning that people want more of their service? Do you think they try to come up with ways to keep people from using their service? That industry is totally run in opposite-land. They need to be stripped of their monopoly status to make them behave like a market driven industry.
Since that line wasn't in the summary when the article first appeared, I must have remembered it.
Engineers Have a Terrorist Mindset? Jan 29, 2008
Thanks for playing.
And 640k ought to be enough for anyone.
My last purchase (6 to 8 months ago) was a "low-end" machine. I chose carefully to make sure that it was low-end and not bargain-basement. It has two cores. I don't think it's even possible to buy a single core machine through mainstream channels anymore. Today's low-end (multi-core) is more than adequate for most users to use over the next few (read: four) years.
You do not understand how the scheduler works.
"I'm trying to make an Internet on my desktop but I can't get the file to program."
Can those people really manage their own machines?
Yes.
Very easy.
GFE: fingerprint hack.
I don't know... a couple of extra bucks multiplied over a million squatted domains might do something. Charging what a domain is worth is probably the only way to stop squatting.
...until some law-abiding citizen going about his lawful business gets stopped and accosted for no reason beyond "the machine said so" during a routine blanket surveillance sweep. Enjoy the slide into a police state.
I went to the link, but it was just an obnoxious video ad. And no, I didn't sit through it.
I know that a lot of the stories on here are ads in disguise, but this one isn't even hiding. I didn't realize that slashdot was an a linking to unabashed ads now.
Yes. So is religion, race, age, gender, political affiliation, sexual preference, skin color, voting history, if you've ever been to a protest rally, if you've ever voiced opposition to a government initiative, and your medical history.
Persecuting someone on those grounds is abhorrent to a free society. People should be examined based on what we reasonably think that they have done, not based on what we statistically infer that they might do.
A standalone version of iTunes, or quicktime? I have no interest in quicktime, but I do use iTunes. Is there a standalone iTunes?
ATI is owned by AMD now, so there is going to be now Intel partnership with them. NVidia competes with Intel in both the chipset and graphics market, so there's no likely partnership there (unless Intel buys NVidia).
Of course it will. Microsoft will form a team of consultants available to help anyone change their "against" vote into a "for" vote. If a country that previously voted "for" asks for help, they won't get any.
And that's assuming that the rules will be enforced impartially.
Easy evaluation: "Epic fail."
Reasons: "The system was incapable of operating within the evaluation environment."