No, the results are NOT valid, since the back-end code generators on the two compilers are different (GCC/x86, or "i386" as they call it, and whatever they call the PowerPC backend).
It's widely known that Intel C/C++ compiler and even Visual C++ produce far superior code on x86 than GCC - see, for example, this page.
If you buy Pink Floyd, Yes, Dream Theater or Spock's Beard single by single, you're wasting your money.
Now I'm all for choice and less "filler" tracks, but if the trend of selling individual singles stops artists from creating conceptual albums, it will be a great loss for those of use who like their music rich and complex.
The CPU cycles aren't a problem. I'm working on a 2+ GHz CPUs anyway (I wouldn't be able to do my normal job without them), and performing Bayesian classification for 3-4 seconds 10 times a day is not something I'd notice.
I can see however bandwidth possibly becoming a problem, if two years from now I start getting 10x more spam and work on a dialup...
I get 98-98.5% accuracy with POPfile. I get about 200 mails a day, of which around 30% spam. I get about 1 false negative a day, and maybe 2 or 3 false positives a month. It's a personal solution and as such is much more attractive to me than something server-based which has to be installed by a [typically VERY uncooperative] BOFH.
I use it experimentally for general mail classification (business/personal/a variety of mailing lists etc., all in all 7 buckets) on my home machine, and it works fine in these conditions too, although the accuracy is a bit lower (around 95%).
Dude, this is Slashdot, for Chrissake. FBI are the bad guys. The guys hijacking the web servers were just free software guerilla fighters, protecting the right of information to be free!
Sheesh. You mean you prefer Big Brother to take care of this "crime", thus violating your basic civil liberties to get robbed?
What's much more important for personal backup purposes is that it supports its own format,.7z, which provides vastly superior compression ratios in most of the cases.
Concerts? Concerts LOSE money and are mostly there for musicians' own entertainment (small garage bands) or for marketing the albums (huge bands).
I believe William Gibson deserves to be able to have a decent living for the rest of his life off of Neuromancer alone. Ditto for Metallica / "...and Justice for All". Ditto for Warren Spector and the Ion Storm Austin guys and Deus Ex.
So let me ask you, how much oil wells, cornfields or auto factories do each of you own? Unless every American owns tons of natural resources, why do we give up our personal freedom to just go into a field and grab all that we need, fill up the tank or drive the shiny new auto just off the conveyor belt? Sure it matters to rich oil/agro/auto CEOs, but to me and the average person, this only reduces our freedom and well-being.
The ceo of Via, Wen-chi Chen, is a Fundlementist Christian, so as a result this is the name source for many of their products (joshua, sameul, nehemiah).
The 3dmark03 benchmark is cheating in the first place, implementing stencil shadows in two of the game tests in such a braindead manner which no sane programmer would put in an actual game.
It also uses ATI-only pixel shaders 1.4, and reverts to dual-pass on other cards.
Why all this?
NVIDIA isn't on the 3dmark03 beta program (read: didn't pay FutureMark a hefty lump of greenbacks).
NURBS are a major pain in the ass. No one ever got curved surfaces to work OK in a realtime hardware accelerated environment. (NVIDIA's first chip, NV1, comes to mind as the highest-profile flop.)
Development kits are coming out in June
Lemme guess: with documentation in Japanese only for the first 9 months, a buggy as hell port of GCC, no debugger, no profiler and no libs?
Ummm, isn't their some kind of international law for protecting children from intellectual torture? C'mon, it's 10-13, they need a PS2, not apt-get and bootloaders.
Now, if you haven't been following the entire brouhaha, here's a brief recap:
Somebody overhears something about chips sampling and makes the utterly ridiculous assumption that PS3 will launch this year.
Gutter media (like The Inquirer) are all over the story.
Gamer sites don't want to be left behind ("Hey, it may be bullshit, but our readers better read bullshit on our pages than on The Inquirer") and quote each other as authorities.
Everyone with a little insight in the console business and general common sense dismisses the story as crap. General consensus is reached.
Mainstream media picks up the story a week after it's all calmed down, e.g. CNN posts an article of three screenfulls of text which says absolutely nothing.
Slashdot editors decide that any mention of the word "Playstation" on CNN is techno-culture, cyberpunkish, and, most of all, worth posting as news.
Slashdot readers ("commenters") wage a bloody flamefest over "my console is 1337er than yours", mentioning "attention to gameplay", "Microsoft world domination" and "games in ye good olden days" many times without giving a clock cycle to think about what they actually mean. But, hey, that's okay, that's Slashdot!
It's not been scratched, it's waiting for a committee to decide when another committee will meet to reach an agreement on when to plan the first meeting of the EGSC (European Galileo Scheduling Commission).
Nintendo fans starts more and more to look like Amiga and Apple fans: die-hard, holier-than-thou religious extremists claiming their weird, niche stuff is the only good stuff.
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No, the results are NOT valid, since the back-end code generators on the two compilers are different (GCC/x86, or "i386" as they call it, and whatever they call the PowerPC backend).
It's widely known that Intel C/C++ compiler and even Visual C++ produce far superior code on x86 than GCC - see, for example, this page.
Is there any (technical) reason
This maybe a hard concept for most geeks, but there's more to life than technical reasons.
If you buy Pink Floyd, Yes, Dream Theater or Spock's Beard single by single, you're wasting your money.
Now I'm all for choice and less "filler" tracks, but if the trend of selling individual singles stops artists from creating conceptual albums, it will be a great loss for those of use who like their music rich and complex.
And don't even mention "low power consumption". To make up for it's performance this thing would have to generate electricity.
The CPU cycles aren't a problem. I'm working on a 2+ GHz CPUs anyway (I wouldn't be able to do my normal job without them), and performing Bayesian classification for 3-4 seconds 10 times a day is not something I'd notice.
I can see however bandwidth possibly becoming a problem, if two years from now I start getting 10x more spam and work on a dialup...
I get 98-98.5% accuracy with POPfile. I get about 200 mails a day, of which around 30% spam. I get about 1 false negative a day, and maybe 2 or 3 false positives a month. It's a personal solution and as such is much more attractive to me than something server-based which has to be installed by a [typically VERY uncooperative] BOFH.
I use it experimentally for general mail classification (business/personal/a variety of mailing lists etc., all in all 7 buckets) on my home machine, and it works fine in these conditions too, although the accuracy is a bit lower (around 95%).
Dude, this is Slashdot, for Chrissake. FBI are the bad guys. The guys hijacking the web servers were just free software guerilla fighters, protecting the right of information to be free!
Sheesh. You mean you prefer Big Brother to take care of this "crime", thus violating your basic civil liberties to get robbed?
No, it's "alphathumberic".
What's much more important for personal backup purposes is that it supports its own format, .7z, which provides vastly superior compression ratios in most of the cases.
Actually I think the rocket is powered by Open Source. Every time someone releases some new source code, the rocket goes higher and higher.
No, what you're thinking about is a hot air baloon.
Concerts? Concerts LOSE money and are mostly there for musicians' own entertainment (small garage bands) or for marketing the albums (huge bands).
I believe William Gibson deserves to be able to have a decent living for the rest of his life off of Neuromancer alone. Ditto for Metallica / "...and Justice for All". Ditto for Warren Spector and the Ion Storm Austin guys and Deus Ex.
So let me ask you, how much oil wells, cornfields or auto factories do each of you own? Unless every American owns tons of natural resources, why do we give up our personal freedom to just go into a field and grab all that we need, fill up the tank or drive the shiny new auto just off the conveyor belt? Sure it matters to rich oil/agro/auto CEOs, but to me and the average person, this only reduces our freedom and well-being.
...while some of these developers work the rest of their days as data entry or office clerks, even mcdonalds.
Linux: from the people who ask "would you like fries with that?" for a living.
The ceo of Via, Wen-chi Chen, is a Fundlementist Christian, so as a result this is the name source for many of their products (joshua, sameul, nehemiah).
And you're a Fundlementist speller?
The 3dmark03 benchmark is cheating in the first place, implementing stencil shadows in two of the game tests in such a braindead manner which no sane programmer would put in an actual game.
It also uses ATI-only pixel shaders 1.4, and reverts to dual-pass on other cards.
Why all this?
NVIDIA isn't on the 3dmark03 beta program (read: didn't pay FutureMark a hefty lump of greenbacks).
Real-time NURBS rendering
NURBS are a major pain in the ass. No one ever got curved surfaces to work OK in a realtime hardware accelerated environment. (NVIDIA's first chip, NV1, comes to mind as the highest-profile flop.)
Development kits are coming out in June
Lemme guess: with documentation in Japanese only for the first 9 months, a buggy as hell port of GCC, no debugger, no profiler and no libs?
Yeah, sure, and the fact the NVIDIA do all their internal research and development via OpenGL has absolutely nothing to do with keeping OpenGL alive.
Ummm, isn't their some kind of international law for protecting children from intellectual torture? C'mon, it's 10-13, they need a PS2, not apt-get and bootloaders.
Very promising, until you actually try it out. This thing makes *Java* desktop application look nimble, elegant, responsive and well thought out.
Yes, release early, yadda yadda, but this was _too_ early.
The only think that will make me run linux on my xbox is if I can install a working system withou touching a screw driver.
The only thing that will make me run linux on an xbox is if all the second-hand, much more powerful than an Xbox $200 PCs disappear.
I'm fairly certain he could get a job with the Iraqi Information Ministry.
Are you an knee-joirk idioit?
Somebody else is lying, somebody who said just two weeks ago that he won't burn oil wells.
It's not been scratched, it's waiting for a committee to decide when another committee will meet to reach an agreement on when to plan the first meeting of the EGSC (European Galileo Scheduling Commission).
Nintendo fans starts more and more to look like Amiga and Apple fans: die-hard, holier-than-thou religious extremists claiming their weird, niche stuff is the only good stuff.