Poor people also have a habit of buying from rip-off places like Rent-A-Center, where a $300 laptop will probably cost you $1000 in the end. We as a society know the underprivileged make poor financial decisions (or have them thrust upon them by need), yet we still allow the Rent-A-Center and payday and title loan, and check chasing scam companies to prey on them. It's a shame.
Both modern Intel and AMD CPUs come in flavors that include a GPU core. I am currently running a laptop with an AMD E-450 that has a GPU core. Admittedly this core is stripped down, but it is there, and functional, and probably better than many higher end GPUs of 4-6 years ago. There are two other issues surrounding the use of GPUs for processing. One, competing APIs, and two, few programs make use of the availability. I believe some Adobe software (either Premiere or some Photoshop filters) are now written to take advantage of certain brands and models of GPU. There isalso A/V transcoding software that does as well. Why not more? One there used to be no unified API. You had CUDA for Nvidia and Firestream (I think) for AMD/ATI. OpenCL is supported by both, but I do not know if it has limits that the proprietary APIs do not. Second, just as more and more software has been rewritten to take advantage of multiple cores/CPUs (still have a long way to go there), the same will be true of software written to take advantage of GPUs. Not being a programmer (beyond a little scripting) myself, it seems logical that if it has taken this long for programmers (and compilers) to really start to take advantage of 2-8 processors, then learning what tasks can be broken down to several hundred or thousand smaller cores, and how to do it may take a while too. Hell, running a search in regedit in Windows 7 still takes 100% of one core, and only has one thread.
I prefer Sudoku puzzles with only one clue. That way I can finish them any damn way I want. Multiple solutions are my friend. Besides, I am a word geek, not a math geek. Cruciverbalism is my cup of tea (or letters).
The first kernel I compiled was 1.2.10, I know there are people who have here who have been it longer than I, so this is not an ego-trip. I just feel old. I need doctor Carol Marcus to make me.... "Feel young, as when the earth was new."
First, did anyone notice than man HATnet site hasn't been updated since 2006? Hopefully this is because they are doing actual astronomy.
To this layman the current system seems to rely on faster moving large planets.
I am a layman as well, but this system (as well as others) measures the brightness or magnitude of target star(s) over time to detect exoplanets. I would believe one of the methods of verification is to watch for repeatable dips in the magnitude. Otherwise it may just have been a cloud. With infinite targets, limited equipment, and limited time, it makes sense that the faster orbiting larger planets are found first. One, with a fast orbital period, you wouldn't have to wait years for a confirmation, plus larger planets, at least IMHO, would dim their parent star more, making for easier, more reliable detection. What amazes me it that the scopes themselves are just 11m aperture. That is a very small scope, I did not know you could do this kind of survey with that little light gathering power.
Why would you want to avoid Android just because other Android users might make bad choices? Why would you care how easily a clueless user can click on `yes, install some random crap which claims to be a virus-checker`? I don't.
Because the next time that user is going to go to a corporate big brother that filter feeds him what he wants, and in the process that big brother gains more money and power over the free and open solution.
I hate a fucking walled garden as much as the next guy, but this type of shit is why users will stay with one. Not that a walled garden can't be hijacked, hacked, or otherwise messed with, but by and large it is a cleaner place to be. It is a win-win, both or users who can't, won't, or are too dumb to be bothered with learning a little software/hardware safety, and with corporations who thrive on control and stifling competition.
By 2051 the Multinational corporate conglomerates that hold the rights will have paid the politicians and courts to extended it to 3051 or perpetuity. That is if we make it through 2012 first!
As much as we have done with being vocal and boycotting, we will not remember. What I mean is that if/when SOPA passes, we will remember somewhere in the back of our heads who we don't like for supporting it, but when the hot new movie/album/AAA game comes out from a SOPA supporter we will go and get it. Perhaps not for our selves, but when the old battleaxe REALLY wants to see that movie, or little Johnny wants "Battle Company of War Hero Commanders XXVI", we will likely cave. It's the nature of the our society right now. We get inflamed and incensed easily, but we fold and forget as well. Hell, I personally despise the way animals are 'factory farmed', but right now I am unemployed and guess what, I can't afford humanely raised beef or free range eggs, so I get the supermarket brand, knowing in the back of my mind that there is a lot of suffering behind it, but I do it anyway. It is even easier when your moral fiber isn't so outraged. You can't immediately see SOPA supporter on an album cover or cows living up to their necks in shit on a package of ground beef, so out comes the wallet and bye go societies ethics.
I too think it is a good idea. I seem to remember several years ago Verizon putting Wi-fi acces points in their pa phone booths, but they were free only to Vreizon customers.. and there are no phone booths anymore!
Weird.. I submitted this story earlier and it disappeared form the Recent page. I was going for 3 for 3 for my subs, but I guess thats a bust! No hard feelings though!
This is all because of government subsidsy. In the case of corn it keeps the price of corn artificially low and the farmer paid. The problem now is that many subsidies have outlived their usefulness but continue own because of the political clout of the companies/groups recieving them, and right now, the government has little or no money to subsidize other things. To me at least, it would make sense to subsideize a promising technolgy and give it a boost, instead we always cut the new guy, while the old belchers with the power, clout, and money (having extra saved from subsidies helps) get paid.
Not only is he apparently a 'roid abuser, but if you follow the article, he sent an email signed with another persons address! That alone may constitute CRIMINAL charges.
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And yet the food industry and the pharmaceutical industry would have us believe that the overuse of antibiotics is harmless ...cough.
No certificate for you until you figure out why that won't even compile.
loop until realization(errors)==sarcasm
main ()
{
printf )"Hello World! I am now a Software Developer!\n");
}
Congratulations, here is your certificate of completion.
Just like always... the science doesn't quite add up.
The headline should have been: "New CO2 Sequestration Polymer Brings New Meaning to Word Vaporware"
All this extra proof of dark matter is going to prevent me from making the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs. Damn extra mass.
Poor people also have a habit of buying from rip-off places like Rent-A-Center, where a $300 laptop will probably cost you $1000 in the end. We as a society know the underprivileged make poor financial decisions (or have them thrust upon them by need), yet we still allow the Rent-A-Center and payday and title loan, and check chasing scam companies to prey on them. It's a shame.
Both modern Intel and AMD CPUs come in flavors that include a GPU core. I am currently running a laptop with an AMD E-450 that has a GPU core. Admittedly this core is stripped down, but it is there, and functional, and probably better than many higher end GPUs of 4-6 years ago. There are two other issues surrounding the use of GPUs for processing. One, competing APIs, and two, few programs make use of the availability. I believe some Adobe software (either Premiere or some Photoshop filters) are now written to take advantage of certain brands and models of GPU. There isalso A/V transcoding software that does as well. Why not more? One there used to be no unified API. You had CUDA for Nvidia and Firestream (I think) for AMD/ATI. OpenCL is supported by both, but I do not know if it has limits that the proprietary APIs do not. Second, just as more and more software has been rewritten to take advantage of multiple cores/CPUs (still have a long way to go there), the same will be true of software written to take advantage of GPUs. Not being a programmer (beyond a little scripting) myself, it seems logical that if it has taken this long for programmers (and compilers) to really start to take advantage of 2-8 processors, then learning what tasks can be broken down to several hundred or thousand smaller cores, and how to do it may take a while too. Hell, running a search in regedit in Windows 7 still takes 100% of one core, and only has one thread.
I prefer Sudoku puzzles with only one clue. That way I can finish them any damn way I want. Multiple solutions are my friend.
Besides, I am a word geek, not a math geek. Cruciverbalism is my cup of tea (or letters).
And FireFox will be upto 321.6.98
yep you're right.. no hair, no brains, no memory, no women.. life sucks!
The first kernel I compiled was 1.2.10, I know there are people who have here who have been it longer than I, so this is not an ego-trip. I just feel old. I need doctor Carol Marcus to make me .... "Feel young, as when the earth was new."
To this layman the current system seems to rely on faster moving large planets.
I am a layman as well, but this system (as well as others) measures the brightness or magnitude of target star(s) over time to detect exoplanets. I would believe one of the methods of verification is to watch for repeatable dips in the magnitude. Otherwise it may just have been a cloud. With infinite targets, limited equipment, and limited time, it makes sense that the faster orbiting larger planets are found first. One, with a fast orbital period, you wouldn't have to wait years for a confirmation, plus larger planets, at least IMHO, would dim their parent star more, making for easier, more reliable detection. What amazes me it that the scopes themselves are just 11m aperture. That is a very small scope, I did not know you could do this kind of survey with that little light gathering power.
Why would you want to avoid Android just because other Android users might make bad choices? Why would you care how easily a clueless user can click on `yes, install some random crap which claims to be a virus-checker`? I don't.
Because the next time that user is going to go to a corporate big brother that filter feeds him what he wants, and in the process that big brother gains more money and power over the free and open solution.
I hate a fucking walled garden as much as the next guy, but this type of shit is why users will stay with one. Not that a walled garden can't be hijacked, hacked, or otherwise messed with, but by and large it is a cleaner place to be. It is a win-win, both or users who can't, won't, or are too dumb to be bothered with learning a little software/hardware safety, and with corporations who thrive on control and stifling competition.
By 2051 the Multinational corporate conglomerates that hold the rights will have paid the politicians and courts to extended it to 3051 or perpetuity. That is if we make it through 2012 first!
If I try and fail 10 times to get a pirated copy from various sources, do those 10 tries pad the statistics? Hmmmm....
It's only super till the next big thing arrives.
As much as we have done with being vocal and boycotting, we will not remember. What I mean is that if/when SOPA passes, we will remember somewhere in the back of our heads who we don't like for supporting it, but when the hot new movie/album/AAA game comes out from a SOPA supporter we will go and get it. Perhaps not for our selves, but when the old battleaxe REALLY wants to see that movie, or little Johnny wants "Battle Company of War Hero Commanders XXVI", we will likely cave. It's the nature of the our society right now. We get inflamed and incensed easily, but we fold and forget as well. Hell, I personally despise the way animals are 'factory farmed', but right now I am unemployed and guess what, I can't afford humanely raised beef or free range eggs, so I get the supermarket brand, knowing in the back of my mind that there is a lot of suffering behind it, but I do it anyway. It is even easier when your moral fiber isn't so outraged. You can't immediately see SOPA supporter on an album cover or cows living up to their necks in shit on a package of ground beef, so out comes the wallet and bye go societies ethics.
(These cynical ramblings are purely mine own.)
Verizon recently backpedaled on the 2.00 online bill paying fee.
It's nice but does the on screen keyboard support Swype?
(Yes I am being facetious with EXTRA feces).
Dunno what happened to that link.. sorry here is the real original Japanese deal
Here is the original press release (through google translate)
I too think it is a good idea. I seem to remember several years ago Verizon putting Wi-fi acces points in their pa phone booths, but they were free only to Vreizon customers.. and there are no phone booths anymore!
.. I submitted this story earlier and it disappeared form the Recent page. I was going for 3 for 3 for my subs, but I guess thats a bust! No hard feelings though!
Weird
which has contributed to a plunge in prices as government subsidies have been curbed
Corn costs more to produce than we (or ethanol manufacturers) pay for it.
Coal power has higher costs than we see.
This is all because of government subsidsy. In the case of corn it keeps the price of corn artificially low and the farmer paid. The problem now is that many subsidies have outlived their usefulness but continue own because of the political clout of the companies/groups recieving them, and right now, the government has little or no money to subsidize other things. To me at least, it would make sense to subsideize a promising technolgy and give it a boost, instead we always cut the new guy, while the old belchers with the power, clout, and money (having extra saved from subsidies helps) get paid.
Not only is he apparently a 'roid abuser, but if you follow the article, he sent an email signed with another persons address! That alone may constitute CRIMINAL charges.