Oldest example of wheel and axle ca 5100 BC. And it is a safe bet older examples will be found. By the way, the Wikipedia article usefully points out taht the value of a wheel is greatly diminished without well constructed roads to run it on.
I watch birds flying around and realize they don't need anyone or anything to create jobs for them..."
And they can't type, post on Slashdot, discover general relativity or invent the hydrogen bomb. You're right, maybe we should just all be flying dinosaurs and to heck with overachieving.
Apple is very good at recognizing when the time is right to meld multiple innovations into a product.
You mean, Steve Jobs was. Now Apple has lost its mojo and is ruled by beancounters. Apple always envied Microsoft right? Well now Apple gets to follow Microsoft down that same long, rotting tail.
...That's why when I write software that I intend to share, I never use the GPL.
Suit yourself. When I write software that I intend to give to the community, I use the GPL in order to ensure that it stays in the hands of the community. Which after all, often ends better for proprietary interests as well. Sure, somebody might not be able to establish a monopoly peddling a privatized version of my code, but chances are they will benefit from a vibrant community project and make even more money, in a more admirable way.
Whoa, you have issues my friend. Curious: does posting such tripe anonymously make you feel like a bellycrawling scumbag, or did you just get used to it?
In the Microsoft Museum of Epic Fail this surely ranks right up there with leaving the London Stock Exchange twisting in the breeze for a whole day, on one of the busiest trading days of the year. Hmm, or the Navy missile cruiser towed back to port. Or actually too many highly amusing and costly epic fails to even begin to list. Maybe we're just lucky nobody had the bright idea of running Windows at a nuclear reactor. Oh wait.
I'm actually going to call you a cynical self important bellycrawler and this is not rhetoric, it's a fact you went out of your way to demonstrate to the world. Please slither back to somebody who can stand you. Should you deign to provide your real name then I still will not respect you or your unilateral claim to cleverness, but we can take it from there.
AMD did not convert ATI GPUs to AMD process tech either. The discrete GPU parts continued to be made at TSMC, even to this day. The only GPUs which have 'moved' to the same process as AMD CPUs are those which are integrated into AMD's "APU" product lines (CPU+GPU on one die).
And what is not massively significant about that? Plus, even in it's current embattled state, AMD is a larger org with more engineers than ATI ever was. And notice that AMD has gained a significant lead in process size reduction for its GPUs over nVidia, including discrete GPUs. nVidia now has to really blow fuses to even create the appearance of matching Radeon in GPU throughput.
That said, both nVidia and AMD are making great GPU products, no question about it. But I'm strictly AMD until nVidia deigns to reveal its register specs to us little people.
I think you'd be talking minimum 150 months for the single lady, it takes a few months to reset the equipment. Oh, but there are indeed parallel parallel babies in some cases, so maybe that could be compressed.
Eh... The serial path of the program do always dominate as processor count goes to infinite. That's math. Next you'll come arguing that 1 + 1 = 3.
If you haven't seen this effect on your daily life, it is because you don't have enough cores.
Oh wow, you are basically saying your brain doesn't work. Do you know how many parallel processors you have between your ears? If Amdahl's law was actually good computer science, as opposed to merely good math, then your neurons would be spending 100% of their time firing and 0% thinking.
As a useful tool, Amdahl's law occupies roughly the same position in computer science as Li's Copula does in high finance: both mathematically sound and stupidly misguided.
OK, identify yourself, then we will discuss the question of a bet. Until then you are just some random schmuck who feels brave and clever behind a keyboard in his underwear.
Powerful? Check. Quiet? Can't tell the machine is on with a hyper N520 cooler so check.
I have a Killawatt meter on my 4 core Phenom II box right now, it shows 80 watts idle or under load. That's from the wall. It makes me have extreme doubts about the numbers showing in some supposedly reputable tech review sites, that show much higher power consumption numbers. By comparison, the HP 4 core workstation I worked with for a year had big noisy coolers in it. I did not get a chance to measure the power from the wall, but obviously more. So I tend to think that Intel talks power efficiency, while AMD walks the walk. Contrary to "popular" opinion, and I also wonder about just how "popular" that opinion really is. Given the pattern of downmods I see on my positive, factual comments on AMD, it makes me feel that Intel has stooped to paying astroturfers to hang out in community sites.
I don't expect the OS to go free any time soon (it offers too much of a competitive advantage right now) but you can check out the Native SDK is out in beta (beta 3) if that interests you at all.
Unfortunately, QNX does not mean a thing to me in practice unless it gets free. Then it would rock.
BTW, I seriously doubt there is any particular competitive advantage in keeping it closed, whereas there is an obvious advantage in opening it: more developers.
You're welcome to try to change this shitty circumstance in some manner, but in the mean time, single core performance is very important (for many apps).
Sure, just none that I run. What do I care about mainly? Yes, make -j. For that you need cores. Lots of them. Lots of integer cores.
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What is not cutting edge about TSMC?
ca 5100 BC
doesn't appear on that page. Has someone been editing it?
You are correct, I misread. However:
http://ktwop.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/earliest-evidence-of-the-wheel-7500-year-old-toy-car-found/
I just don't accept the authors's thesis, that the wheel was not invented until the bronze age and that it was invented only once.
Oldest example of wheel and axle ca 5100 BC. And it is a safe bet older examples will be found. By the way, the Wikipedia article usefully points out taht the value of a wheel is greatly diminished without well constructed roads to run it on.
I watch birds flying around and realize they don't need anyone or anything to create jobs for them..."
And they can't type, post on Slashdot, discover general relativity or invent the hydrogen bomb. You're right, maybe we should just all be flying dinosaurs and to heck with overachieving.
Don't you have to be a bottom feeding shell corporation with no actual products to be a patent troll?
No, you just have to be a patent troll, and have run out of engineering ideas of your own.
NT was a rehash of VMS of course. MS had to pay for the ability to keep shipping it after all.
LInk, please?
Apple is very good at recognizing when the time is right to meld multiple innovations into a product.
You mean, Steve Jobs was. Now Apple has lost its mojo and is ruled by beancounters. Apple always envied Microsoft right? Well now Apple gets to follow Microsoft down that same long, rotting tail.
Why should Japanese users benefit from a work funded by British taxpayers?
Why should they not, if it costs nothing? Come on, your parochial comment does not look good on you. Fond of shooting puppies as well?
...That's why when I write software that I intend to share, I never use the GPL.
Suit yourself. When I write software that I intend to give to the community, I use the GPL in order to ensure that it stays in the hands of the community. Which after all, often ends better for proprietary interests as well. Sure, somebody might not be able to establish a monopoly peddling a privatized version of my code, but chances are they will benefit from a vibrant community project and make even more money, in a more admirable way.
Whoa, you have issues my friend. Curious: does posting such tripe anonymously make you feel like a bellycrawling scumbag, or did you just get used to it?
Great example, by the way.
On face.
In the Microsoft Museum of Epic Fail this surely ranks right up there with leaving the London Stock Exchange twisting in the breeze for a whole day, on one of the busiest trading days of the year. Hmm, or the Navy missile cruiser towed back to port. Or actually too many highly amusing and costly epic fails to even begin to list. Maybe we're just lucky nobody had the bright idea of running Windows at a nuclear reactor. Oh wait.
It's actually "Don't be evil", which some Googlers seem to interpret as a loophole.
Well of course private money supplies ranks right up there with private militias as a threat to democracy.
I'm actually going to call you a cynical self important bellycrawler and this is not rhetoric, it's a fact you went out of your way to demonstrate to the world. Please slither back to somebody who can stand you. Should you deign to provide your real name then I still will not respect you or your unilateral claim to cleverness, but we can take it from there.
It would be cool if it wasn't from patent troll Frauenhofer and scofflaw Microsoft.
AMD did not convert ATI GPUs to AMD process tech either. The discrete GPU parts continued to be made at TSMC, even to this day. The only GPUs which have 'moved' to the same process as AMD CPUs are those which are integrated into AMD's "APU" product lines (CPU+GPU on one die).
And what is not massively significant about that? Plus, even in it's current embattled state, AMD is a larger org with more engineers than ATI ever was. And notice that AMD has gained a significant lead in process size reduction for its GPUs over nVidia, including discrete GPUs. nVidia now has to really blow fuses to even create the appearance of matching Radeon in GPU throughput.
That said, both nVidia and AMD are making great GPU products, no question about it. But I'm strictly AMD until nVidia deigns to reveal its register specs to us little people.
Wow, more Intel astroturfers with mod points. There is no shame.
I think you'd be talking minimum 150 months for the single lady, it takes a few months to reset the equipment. Oh, but there are indeed parallel parallel babies in some cases, so maybe that could be compressed.
Eh... The serial path of the program do always dominate as processor count goes to infinite. That's math. Next you'll come arguing that 1 + 1 = 3.
If you haven't seen this effect on your daily life, it is because you don't have enough cores.
Oh wow, you are basically saying your brain doesn't work. Do you know how many parallel processors you have between your ears? If Amdahl's law was actually good computer science, as opposed to merely good math, then your neurons would be spending 100% of their time firing and 0% thinking.
As a useful tool, Amdahl's law occupies roughly the same position in computer science as Li's Copula does in high finance: both mathematically sound and stupidly misguided.
OK, identify yourself, then we will discuss the question of a bet. Until then you are just some random schmuck who feels brave and clever behind a keyboard in his underwear.
Powerful? Check. Quiet? Can't tell the machine is on with a hyper N520 cooler so check.
I have a Killawatt meter on my 4 core Phenom II box right now, it shows 80 watts idle or under load. That's from the wall. It makes me have extreme doubts about the numbers showing in some supposedly reputable tech review sites, that show much higher power consumption numbers. By comparison, the HP 4 core workstation I worked with for a year had big noisy coolers in it. I did not get a chance to measure the power from the wall, but obviously more. So I tend to think that Intel talks power efficiency, while AMD walks the walk. Contrary to "popular" opinion, and I also wonder about just how "popular" that opinion really is. Given the pattern of downmods I see on my positive, factual comments on AMD, it makes me feel that Intel has stooped to paying astroturfers to hang out in community sites.
I don't expect the OS to go free any time soon (it offers too much of a competitive advantage right now) but you can check out the Native SDK is out in beta (beta 3) if that interests you at all.
Unfortunately, QNX does not mean a thing to me in practice unless it gets free. Then it would rock.
BTW, I seriously doubt there is any particular competitive advantage in keeping it closed, whereas there is an obvious advantage in opening it: more developers.
It's a tablet, you don't multitask much on it.
Since when?
You're welcome to try to change this shitty circumstance in some manner, but in the mean time, single core performance is very important (for many apps).
Sure, just none that I run. What do I care about mainly? Yes, make -j. For that you need cores. Lots of them. Lots of integer cores.