Are you sure? One volcano dumped a metric buttload of ash into the air in one single eruption (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatau). There is usually more than one eruption per volcano, and more than one volcano active at a time. You should be taking the total worldwide volcano output and not individual eruptions.
Man puts 150 times as much CO2 to atmospheres than all the volcanoes combined, and eruptions cause global cooling due to dimming so your ignorance is clear.
And wasn't there another study that showed that cows produce 40% of the greenhouse gasses in their farts? Shouldn't you be concentrating on wiping out cows, instead of cars.
In australia the agricultural sector with 140 million cows/sheep compared to 100 million american cows. Cause 1/7th of all greenhouse gas emissions in australia. I think from these figures and little commonsense we can deduce that in US the cows are not producing anywhere near that percentage. Here's interesting part, there is research going on that aims reducing emissions of cows and sheep in australia.
Early indications from this research are that it is possible to reduce methane emissions from dairy cows by up to 20 per cent. Much of the energy not lost to methane through this reduction in emissions can be converted to milk production, resulting in up to 1.5 litres of extra milk per cow per day at peak lactation.This provides an economic driver for farmers to adopt new approaches to minimise greenhouse gas emissions.
I have to assume you don't live in the US, or if you do, perhaps it's in a major metropolitan area. You're probably one of those people from Europe, I'll guess the UK for my example, who feels the need to look down his nose at the vast majority of americans who don't use public transport or their own two good legs.
I happen to be one of those Europeans, living a country which population density is far lower than average of united states.
I think MidWest is more densely populated than the area where I live.
In the US, people are very spread out. Our rail system pales to other countries, especially ones with advanced modern rail systems such as Japan. Rail in the US is used mainly for freight shipping between distant parts of the country and not as much for passenger. I know for myself a round-trip train ticket from Albany, NY to NYC would cost around $150. The same trip would be equivilant to about $60 in gas. I'm all for the environment, but the cost of rail is not the way to solve it.
Similar trip in Finland costs 40$ and the railway company is making profits. Its more like we have invested in our railway system so that its efficient. You have invested in your highway system and its still not nearly as efficient as our railways.
The point is, public transport just isn't available in a very large portion of the US. I don't have the option for a bus or train. There isn't one anywhere near my house that would take me to work. A lot of Americans have the same issue. We would use it, if it was around, but it's not. The reason it isn't available is because the geographical distance is just too large to cover with an effective public transport. It's unfortunate, but how it currently is.
Increase costs of gas and it will surface. The geographical distances. Well we have pretty good system here in Finland, and our relative geographical distances are even bigger. It all boils down to 6 dollars/gallon. There is enough demand for public transport at that fuel price to make it feasible to offer bussing lines, in smaller cities, and between smaller cities. Oh and busses/trucks pay less for the fuel due to tax exemptions. Its kind of a reducing the economic impact of the fuel tax, thats one purpose is to cut emissions. Other purpose is decrease those imports.
Its typical that you cannot get everywhere by sitting only one bus, but for cost efficiency, in sparcely populated areas the bus goes to a hub, where more busses go for longer distances.
However, if there would be bussing system in there, the system would be something like, move 20 minutes around suburb picking passangers around stops, and drive 30 directly minutes to NYC location where you can get to subway or get to another bus elsewhere. And then drive back to a suburb and drive along the roads. Or if suburb has enough population have extend the subway line (that travels most of the time at ground level) to suburb, and have a bus collecting people to the subway line. The cost of building the subway line is quite big, but not compared to building a highway, nor compared to return on investment if you get 5$ ticket per trip from tens of thousands of commuters.
As far as I can see there is no Geagraphical reasons for having bad railroad system and bad public transport. Kansas happens to have population density slightly above Finland's. And I'm not talking about how good public transport is in the small area where 50% of Finnish people live but in the rest of the country. So geographics is only an excuse. The real reason for not having cheap, good public transports are more political than geagraphical.
Companies already increase efficiency as much as possible. It's economically smart. They're not running companies because they don't know business you know.
I think the efficiency as terms of CO2 pollution/ product, the companies need little more incentive.
Ok, first off, I reduced my individual emissions. I did this by buying a more efficient air conditioner and improving the insulating quality of my house. In addition, I replaced all of my light bulbs with low wattage, long life bulbs. Why? To save money. I reduced my electrical and natural gas costs by 30% per year. That is the financial incentive Americans need.
Well thats one way to get to kyoto Goals;)
Second, the Kyoto Accords are a socialist mandate to hurt highly industrial countries. Have anyone here seen the amount of pollution in Mexico City? How about mandating a reduction in emissions from third world countries' cars? If the US had decided to follow the Kyoto Protocol, we would be one of the few, because the other countries don't care. What about the pollution causes by burning rainforests for planting crops? And we need to cut back on the emissions from Volcanoes. Those things are worse then coal-fired plants.
The Volcanoes are bad, but they are things that we cannot controll. And the Volcanoes do not add anywhere near the sum of coal fired plants in few near. What Kyoto mandates is overall reduction from developed countries and it CAPs the developing countries pollution to a MUCH smaller per capita than developed countries per capita. What it doesn't mandate is methods each country decides to utilize to get there.
Here's my recommended, method. Put 1$ per gallon extra tax on gas, over what ever gas tax you have now, and some large Tax on COAL. What ever tax gained by that, reduce income by same amount overall. Oh and if electric companies ask permissions to build nuclear plants give them.
How much THAT would reduce emissions? It would increase costs of polluting, while increasing amount of cash people have left after taxes, to chooce where to spend it. The more polluting choices would be eliminated while less polluting choices would be increased. Thats preferred way of dealing with kyoto protocoll in my account. Increase costs of polluting by taxation, while reducing other taxes to compensate.
I'll take that bet, hiring a handful of programmers for 10 years can't be cheap.
The group probably has few programmers many artists, and level designers. And the average salary for everyone is probably about 70k$ if they have standard salary. Then if we assume team size of 25 and developement time of 10 years. We get 17Million. Now if they sell for 49.95 from which the developer gets 20$ cut. Which means that if they sell 1 Million copies they have their costs covered.
And it doesn't mean if its good or bad. Its a legend. I'll probably buy it if they make Linux version, or next computer after its release will come with windows, so that I could dual boot to play it. I might even consider buying it just for decorating my room even if I couldn't run it with my computer.
Its a legend, and there are probably over 100 million gamers all over the world. The minimum sales number for DNF probably is around 20 million copies if they finish it before next Christmas. Think of it. Release it early enough to get it to stores before next Christmass season, or more accurately, early enough that stores could order after first weeks sales enough of them to fill the shelves again, for christmass shoppers.
Get rid of it?! No way! I say improve it. Imagine duct tape combined with this supersuperglue. My God, it'd be like Astroboy and Atlas working together to defeat a common foe!
Imagine someone ductaping your mouth and your hands behind your back. Then imagine that they accidentally used the tape made with this superglue. Oh wait thats impossible, since the moment their finger tips touch the front of the tape trying to open it their fingers are stuck.
By reading as many differing sources as possible, and making your own conclusions.
Here's a good one. If you try to read about everything and as many sources as possible. There is never ending supply of information so. I'd say the import issue isn't of knowing and finding as many news as possible and views about things, but more likely the relevant information since your time is important too.
Do you normally(non moderating) view slashdot at -1 just in case someone posts a view that might be interesting, but modded down by people who don't like his views?
Google was important for finding the most relevant information and not just finding *ALL* information about subject.
I have sometimes ellapset in a non productive state where I read, and read, and read and read interesting things all around internet, but what I read just wasn't usefull for and I have already forgotten it. Sure I might see multiple views on things, but in reality what a waste of time. That DAY could of been spend coding instead, or writing , or studying something I can use in my life. But no, I just was interested in A subject which I could find information from internet. And that subject could of been history of certain period. You wan't to know something reading takes time, and we don't have endless supply of that.
I'm college student N:th year in country where thats free. And I say that the amount of mathematics I've forgotten has really made some of my coding suck. I may be genious in some ways of coding but every now and then I realize that OH I forgot it. Think faster way of computing A^2-B^2.I couldn't optimize that. But someone on slashdot said that its (A-B)*(A+B) and I felt some what embarrased, for not realizing that my self. I may understand computers, I may understand algorithms, I may understand how CPU:s work at low level. But not lacking in simplifying the equations part.
If someone misses point you typicly have 1 multiplier and multiple ALU:s, so getting rid of multiplies is good thing.
As for 3D programmers, [rare breed programmer] you need to do some algorithm manipulation with matrixes, with some zeroelements waiting to be optimized away...
Then there is some financial statistics, people ask you to program correctly. I'd say some math is required for those especially on risk analysis or something like that...
In packing and encrypting some higher mathematics is usefull....
I think mathematics appear in many small questions that programmers are doing, it isn't probably stellar university level mathematics at that point but all the small steps the mathematician do automaticly that matters. You need to practice them enough to make them pretty much automatic for them. It isn't even intellectually challenging mathematical problem. Its in million small places where ALGEBRA matters. And while algebra is pretty common for atleast half the people know how to do it while in school, the ability to do that is pretty rare few years after school. And programmers need to do it without even stopping to think, and just realize how it goes.
You don't realize how important math is for programmers until you have actually seen how LACK of basic mathematic skills have hindered someone. In high school I was in top 1% of this country in math, and even I can see how lack of diciplined practice of mathematics have hindered my programming abilities long after that. And no its not that I couldn't program at all, its more like with little more mathematic skills could help me a lot.
It doesn't really matter how much problem the targetted victim can get for self defence.
What does matter in this question that are potential victims who can kill you or wound you badly, if you try to rob them.
Here's a quote from the link you provided.
Every 13 seconds, an American gun owner uses her or his firearm in defense against a criminal. If you're only counting handguns, it's every 16 seconds. Compare this to the "once every two minutes" that the much-ballyhood Death Clock in New York City's Times Square clicked off an incident of "gun violence."
What does it mean for considering a robbery a nearly zero risk, easy income. Which only a moron wouldn't take that road instead of going for wellfare.
Actually an old friend of mine who went to a community college in Phoenix once told my friends and I something interesting. If you're on the campus computers ther and it determines that you are looking at porn, it will play the following (loud) message on the computer's speakers:
Woohoo! I'm looking at PORN! Yeah, alright! This is great!
I'm just curious. If someone used ssh or remote desktop to connect the machine, and watch porn in the web-browser on that machine, would it be detected, and which speakers would output the message? The guys workstation where he watches it or the poor girls workstations who just happens to sit in front of computer where you have logged in remotely.
Well I don't simply wan't to buy that book. And you probably have mistaken it on SMT which was present in fist silicons but disabled. The link you provided didn't even mention 64 anywhere. But here's a technical paper on how the ALU works in P4.
www.intel.com/technology/itj/q12001/pdf/art_2.pdf
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I don't expect Google to assimilate everything. But their sales is growing fast. There is quite good potential that Google grows to a company with 10Billion yearly profits, for which the sharevalue would be quite reasonable. Giving pretty good return on investment if that happens. And a small chance of growing to a company with more than 15Billion yearly profits. And its pretty certain that Google will be more successfull than Yahoo. But if Google cannot grow to its potential then its probably more successfull company than Yahoo and makes good bucks on advertisement, but nothing great enough to varrant its share value.
Article advocates apple selling OS to standard PC:s
Inorder to sell operating system they would need to price it competively, and make it work with wider variety of PC:s instead of limited number of different systems.
Here's probably how it would look in reality, people who would normally buy apple because of OSX would more often buy OSX and get their PC from some cheaper location. The profit margins for apple computers are good. Then apple would need to multiply its market share in operating systems, in order to get equivalent profits. And I doubt that apple could actually would gain 4x the market share for their OS than what they have with their computers.
Remember supportin more hardware costs them in support and developement.
The unfortunate thing is that a 40 hr/wk job paying $300-$400, or waiting in line all day long or days or weeks for government aid, does not seem like something a smart person would do vs spending 5 to 30 minutes a week scoping out an easy target and make between $200 and $500 by performing a simple theft where the odds of any negative consequences are about 0. An overachiever could work 30 minutes to 2 hours a week and could come out with $2k/wk in high demand stolen goods.
Okay here's an example of easy target. 4 feet 11 inch young girl, looks kind of hippy, but still reasonably wealthy. The mugger would be surprised with his blunt metal object, when the girl draws japanese short sword from her bag. If she for some reason doesn't happen to have that with her, she could simply break his leg with single strong kick.
There are many people who look easy targets but most certainly are VERY deadly. An granny that has revolver in her bag who is really paranoid of muggers can be pretty dangerous target. Then the guy with black suit can be either business man, or FBI.
Of course the skinny guy could be just a blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do. Or some ex martial artist who has forgotten all the non-deadly ways of self defence. [Which happens when you practice the strikes and kicks all the time, while the other techniques less often, the result for that is forgetting the practical self defence is quick but forgetting the deadly strikes takes decades.]
Then there is point of hitting a guy when his brothers with guns are in visible range but at the moment they just leave him alone for doing his computer stuff on the laptop that they know is important for his career, but they could care less about computers.
But suddenly if someone tried to mug their brother...
Odds of negative consequences close to zero. Hell no. I'd say do it often enough and you get the negative consequence that is enough to overcome all the benefits from all the other times. Then there is higher chance of someone taking picture of the event and giving it to police and they find the mugger. Or someone takes picture and vigilantes search you up and sink you to the bottom of the sea.
Wall-mounted shelves are the best thing since crucifixion.
Well I haven't tried the ergonomics posture of crufixion in the office, could you ellaborate more how you are going to accomplish any work if you are so tied up with your posture?
Intel had 64-bit datapaths designed into the Willamette core (NetBurst, Pentium4, whatever) since day one. This is mid-late 90s. They were never utilized until market dynamics forced them to fully implement EMT64 into the ISA.
No they didn't williamette had fast alu:s which where clocked at double speed.
The alu design is pipelined so that it computes loworder 16bits in first cycle and 16bits in 2nd cycle, and all the flag dependencies in in rest cycles.(why 16 bits, instead of 32, the carry forwarding works best at 4 per level so 4x4=16. The alu design made it certain that it wasn't 64bit from the beginning. The prescott gave up the double speed alu:s inorder to facilitate the 64bitness.
This is the one I don't understand. Open standards means equal chance of competition for everyone, even free software developers.
Not in most standardisation bodies. There are fees and royalties in standards. And they are open in sence that *all* can licence it from standard body, for a standard fee. And they probably use patents of dozens of companies. The key advantage of their method of calling standard is that when a submarine patent goes up, the patent owner has option of joining the patent pool instead of suing the hell out of everyone using the standard, and get income through that. And the patent pool in question is such that *all* patents related to standard are included in the license by those who submit the patents, so they practicly give one point for getting lisences for all patents related to standard. Now if the standard has no fees, the patent owners source of income is suing the standard users.
We are in the middle of a format war. Open Standards (as in patent-free, royality-free) are the standards that will foster growth and business oportunities for all.
Problem with that is that really you don't know *ALL* software patent applications related to field that have been submitted. So called open free standard may have patent problems that those who make the standard do not know, and the patent owners could simply wait for a while until starting license their patents, also if other companies would have patents related to the format they could sue too.
For WMV10 having 12 companies owning the patents wasn't Microsoft plans but as they standardized it the patents started to show up in the patents body. Now would you rather pay constant small fee to patents body or buy the license from all 12 companies separately for price each individual company sets. Since you have to avoid *ALL* softwarepatents in the free standard which is practicly impossible. Or have patented every tiny single portion of it and looked carefully that there isn't any point between expired patents and the patents you have issued for someone to sue upon, and then you could submit it to standards body with goal of making it free standard. The problem for free standards is that everything gets patented.
However I doubt Microsoft would sue over free standard due to their monopoly position, but I don't doubt that there is SOMEONE willing to do it, for gaining few extra bucks.
If Dell says Intel in 2003 that they buy only x86-64 supported chips in 2006, while certain portion earlier. Now Intel has two choices, give dell chip they want or let AMD give dell chip they wan't.
Also for popularizing pci-express, if DELL says they are phasing out AGP in favour of pci-express in certain time scale, the gfx-card manufacturers are going to listen very carefully, as the chipset vendors too, since they know that if they don't have product that dell wants to buy the other guys will. And by dell making such decision practicly guarantees a reasonable market to go full production of the new interface.
As far as Blue Ray Disc Vs HD-DVD, if Dell chooces BD, then they will wait until they can get BD in pricepoints that fit the Dell model, and skip the HD-DVD unless the situation becomes such that it's no-brainer to include instead of DVD, and BD would still be too expensive.
But with Dell committed on one side, that side has big edge on PC:s once the prices come down, if there is competition between formats going on anymore, but don't assume dell stays that way if HD-DVD drive costs 20$ while BD costs 300$ . Dell is still volume manufacturer, but BD will be what they prefer if price difference is reasonable, and that whats will be in many peoples machines when the drive isn't too expensive for dell to put as default option in many of their lines.
Anyway, a standard encumbered with patents and royalities defeats some of the purposes of a true open standard in the first place. One being that you do not have a true leveled field of competition.
Actually you do. Only thing that is excluded is those who want to use the standard completely free as in beer...
Two, you need the permition of the one holding the patent to develop an application that utilizes it.
Thats part of the open standard process, anyone gets permission and lisence to the patents for the royalty or lisencing fee, that is equal to all parties lisencing the format.
It is in microsoft's power to not grant permition to legally use its IP.Or to permit it at a high price that would effectively kill the competition.
Which rights they give up in the standardisation process, they need to set the price during the standardization process and cannot suddenly up it, thats if standards body have any reasonable rules. Thats what resolved the DRDRAM vs DDR legal questions, in the end.
The case with wmv is more evil than it not being an open standard though. It is illegally pushed by microsoft, by tying it to windows. Automatically their patent-encumbered standard becomes popular because you can count on it being on 90% of PCs. It's leveraging a monopoly if I ever saw one. But this is a discussion for another thread...
Here's a nice irony, the way it goes, Microsoft may actually end up PAYING more for WMV lisences in future than gaining from them. The royalty fee is predetermined, but how it is split for parties owning the IP isn't, so by joining the standard patent pool companies get access to royalty stream. Provided their IP was accepted by patent body as legimate patent claim on WMV. And the current situatiation is that WMV10 has atleast 12 other companies besides Microsoft.
Being an open standard also does not necessarily imply that no licenses to patent rights are needed to use the standard or that such licenses are available for free. For example, the standards published by the major internationally-recognized standards bodies such as the ITU, ISO, and IEC are ordinarily considered open, but may require patent licensing fees for implementation.
It might be problem for you that open standard isn't free as in beer. But it is still open standard.
>>We use Open standards very much in our everyday life dont we?
>Word, ppt, excel, smb, quicken, asf, wmv
wmv is open standard. Microsoft has submitted it to standards body inorder to get it as one of the codecs in Blue Ray disc standard, and HD-Disc standard.
The normal x86 core is 100 times bigger than the arm core. The reality for long time was that anything as big as arm core was not going to happen with the tools to develope asyncronous chips. Now the tools are good enough to design arm core. Its pretty certain that with existing tools the asyncronous x86 core isn't going to happen. Or it is something like 486. The OoO processing and superscalar design are few things I wouldn't imagine happening in asyncronous circuit any time soon.
Sony does other things than just the playstation consoles, the corporation has over 66 Billion USD worth of sales, the entire console market isn't anywhere near that figure. Also sony corporation happens to have huge assets. As for cash flow statements, sony corporation made quite good operating profit they just invested it. So basicly they are probably not interested in selling their self to microsoft, it would be hostile take over probably. And this kind of buy out is going to be killed by either japanese or american goverment by monopoly issues.
Finally the speaking of weak stock price for sony is *bull*. Check out the 10 year graph, if we ignore the bubble spike the stock is relatively high price.
These fan boys just look the part they understand and assume that part of picture is what matters.
The poster obviosly hasn't design any CPU:s. Nor doesn't know about physics related to semiconductor design. He's programmer who doesn't need to think those things. n^2 or n^3 algorithms (in terms of power and aread) are used in MOST part of the core. So when the guy recommends that in next generation instead of having 4 cores we have single core he suggested that we have one core which is twice as wide as one of those 4 cores. Large fraction of code is pointer chasing, large fraction of code has ILP equal or lower than 1. There just are too many data dependensies.
Just like latency of cache it depends on its size, instead of is it L1 or L2 or whatever. Physics says that the drive strength and distance is important. Same happens inside core, when you have quadrupled the core size you need to drive all the instructions and data around, its like prescott. You spend huge resources moving instructions around in pipeline stages instead of doing computation, and you have to do it since the distance you travel between different parts of cores is so much bigger now. The register renamers take a lot more die area, and have longer latency, so does the out of order queus, then there is latencies between aluinstructions, latencies INSIDE the logic selecting which instruction goes next is growing since number of locations for which each instruction in queu has gone up, and number of instructions in queu has gone up too. The bad part is that the logic isn't linear its n^2 algorithm in terms of width, so its width^2*quedepth. So in his recommendation of doubling he get 8 times the area and power consumption there.
Of course trying to educate masses of programmers is futile attempt here, there is plenty of people who know nothing about the costs of doing something proposing solutions that the people who have designed CPU:s for 20+ years have probably already dismissed because of their infeasibility.
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Man puts 150 times as much CO2 to atmospheres than all the volcanoes combined, and eruptions cause global cooling due to dimming so your ignorance is clear.
And wasn't there another study that showed that cows produce 40% of the greenhouse gasses in their farts? Shouldn't you be concentrating on wiping out cows, instead of cars.
In australia the agricultural sector with 140 million cows/sheep compared to 100 million american cows. Cause 1/7th of all greenhouse gas emissions in australia. I think from these figures and little commonsense we can deduce that in US the cows are not producing anywhere near that percentage. Here's interesting part, there is research going on that aims reducing emissions of cows and sheep in australia.
I happen to be one of those Europeans, living a country which population density is far lower than average of united states. I think MidWest is more densely populated than the area where I live.
In the US, people are very spread out. Our rail system pales to other countries, especially ones with advanced modern rail systems such as Japan. Rail in the US is used mainly for freight shipping between distant parts of the country and not as much for passenger. I know for myself a round-trip train ticket from Albany, NY to NYC would cost around $150. The same trip would be equivilant to about $60 in gas. I'm all for the environment, but the cost of rail is not the way to solve it.
Similar trip in Finland costs 40$ and the railway company is making profits. Its more like we have invested in our railway system so that its efficient. You have invested in your highway system and its still not nearly as efficient as our railways.
The point is, public transport just isn't available in a very large portion of the US. I don't have the option for a bus or train. There isn't one anywhere near my house that would take me to work. A lot of Americans have the same issue. We would use it, if it was around, but it's not. The reason it isn't available is because the geographical distance is just too large to cover with an effective public transport. It's unfortunate, but how it currently is. Increase costs of gas and it will surface. The geographical distances. Well we have pretty good system here in Finland, and our relative geographical distances are even bigger. It all boils down to 6 dollars/gallon. There is enough demand for public transport at that fuel price to make it feasible to offer bussing lines, in smaller cities, and between smaller cities. Oh and busses/trucks pay less for the fuel due to tax exemptions. Its kind of a reducing the economic impact of the fuel tax, thats one purpose is to cut emissions. Other purpose is decrease those imports.
Its typical that you cannot get everywhere by sitting only one bus, but for cost efficiency, in sparcely populated areas the bus goes to a hub, where more busses go for longer distances. However, if there would be bussing system in there, the system would be something like, move 20 minutes around suburb picking passangers around stops, and drive 30 directly minutes to NYC location where you can get to subway or get to another bus elsewhere. And then drive back to a suburb and drive along the roads. Or if suburb has enough population have extend the subway line (that travels most of the time at ground level) to suburb, and have a bus collecting people to the subway line. The cost of building the subway line is quite big, but not compared to building a highway, nor compared to return on investment if you get 5$ ticket per trip from tens of thousands of commuters.
As far as I can see there is no Geagraphical reasons for having bad railroad system and bad public transport. Kansas happens to have population density slightly above Finland's. And I'm not talking about how good public transport is in the small area where 50% of Finnish people live but in the rest of the country. So geographics is only an excuse. The real reason for not having cheap, good public transports are more political than geagraphical.
I think the efficiency as terms of CO2 pollution/ product, the companies need little more incentive.
Well thats one way to get to kyoto Goals ;)
Second, the Kyoto Accords are a socialist mandate to hurt highly industrial countries. Have anyone here seen the amount of pollution in Mexico City? How about mandating a reduction in emissions from third world countries' cars? If the US had decided to follow the Kyoto Protocol, we would be one of the few, because the other countries don't care. What about the pollution causes by burning rainforests for planting crops? And we need to cut back on the emissions from Volcanoes. Those things are worse then coal-fired plants.
The Volcanoes are bad, but they are things that we cannot controll. And the Volcanoes do not add anywhere near the sum of coal fired plants in few near. What Kyoto mandates is overall reduction from developed countries and it CAPs the developing countries pollution to a MUCH smaller per capita than developed countries per capita. What it doesn't mandate is methods each country decides to utilize to get there.
Here's my recommended, method. Put 1$ per gallon extra tax on gas, over what ever gas tax you have now, and some large Tax on COAL. What ever tax gained by that, reduce income by same amount overall. Oh and if electric companies ask permissions to build nuclear plants give them. How much THAT would reduce emissions? It would increase costs of polluting, while increasing amount of cash people have left after taxes, to chooce where to spend it. The more polluting choices would be eliminated while less polluting choices would be increased. Thats preferred way of dealing with kyoto protocoll in my account. Increase costs of polluting by taxation, while reducing other taxes to compensate.
The group probably has few programmers many artists, and level designers. And the average salary for everyone is probably about 70k$ if they have standard salary. Then if we assume team size of 25 and developement time of 10 years. We get 17Million. Now if they sell for 49.95 from which the developer gets 20$ cut. Which means that if they sell 1 Million copies they have their costs covered.
And it doesn't mean if its good or bad. Its a legend. I'll probably buy it if they make Linux version, or next computer after its release will come with windows, so that I could dual boot to play it. I might even consider buying it just for decorating my room even if I couldn't run it with my computer.
Its a legend, and there are probably over 100 million gamers all over the world. The minimum sales number for DNF probably is around 20 million copies if they finish it before next Christmas. Think of it. Release it early enough to get it to stores before next Christmass season, or more accurately, early enough that stores could order after first weeks sales enough of them to fill the shelves again, for christmass shoppers.
Here's a good one. If you try to read about everything and as many sources as possible. There is never ending supply of information so. I'd say the import issue isn't of knowing and finding as many news as possible and views about things, but more likely the relevant information since your time is important too. Do you normally(non moderating) view slashdot at -1 just in case someone posts a view that might be interesting, but modded down by people who don't like his views? Google was important for finding the most relevant information and not just finding *ALL* information about subject. I have sometimes ellapset in a non productive state where I read, and read, and read and read interesting things all around internet, but what I read just wasn't usefull for and I have already forgotten it. Sure I might see multiple views on things, but in reality what a waste of time. That DAY could of been spend coding instead, or writing , or studying something I can use in my life. But no, I just was interested in A subject which I could find information from internet. And that subject could of been history of certain period. You wan't to know something reading takes time, and we don't have endless supply of that.
I'm college student N:th year in country where thats free. And I say that the amount of mathematics I've forgotten has really made some of my coding suck. I may be genious in some ways of coding but every now and then I realize that OH I forgot it. .I couldn't optimize that. But someone on slashdot said that its (A-B)*(A+B) and I felt some what embarrased, for not realizing that my self.
Think faster way of computing A^2-B^2
I may understand computers, I may understand algorithms, I may understand how CPU:s work at low level. But not lacking in simplifying the equations part.
If someone misses point you typicly have 1 multiplier and multiple ALU:s, so getting rid of multiplies is good thing.
As for 3D programmers, [rare breed programmer] you need to do some algorithm manipulation with matrixes, with some zeroelements waiting to be optimized away...
Then there is some financial statistics, people ask you to program correctly. I'd say some math is required for those especially on risk analysis or something like that...
In packing and encrypting some higher mathematics is usefull....
I think mathematics appear in many small questions that programmers are doing, it isn't probably stellar university level mathematics at that point but all the small steps the mathematician do automaticly that matters. You need to practice them enough to make them pretty much automatic for them. It isn't even intellectually challenging mathematical problem. Its in million small places where ALGEBRA matters. And while algebra is pretty common for atleast half the people know how to do it while in school, the ability to do that is pretty rare few years after school. And programmers need to do it without even stopping to think, and just realize how it goes.
You don't realize how important math is for programmers until you have actually seen how LACK of basic mathematic skills have hindered someone. In high school I was in top 1% of this country in math, and even I can see how lack of diciplined practice of mathematics have hindered my programming abilities long after that. And no its not that I couldn't program at all, its more like with little more mathematic skills could help me a lot.
Here's a quote from the link you provided.
What does it mean for considering a robbery a nearly zero risk, easy income. Which only a moron wouldn't take that road instead of going for wellfare.
Woohoo! I'm looking at PORN! Yeah, alright! This is great!
I'm just curious. If someone used ssh or remote desktop to connect the machine, and watch porn in the web-browser on that machine, would it be detected, and which speakers would output the message? The guys workstation where he watches it or the poor girls workstations who just happens to sit in front of computer where you have logged in remotely.
Blood
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Duke Nukem 3D
STARS!
Sid Meyers Civilization 2
M.A.X
Alien Vs. Predator.
Oh. And I haven't used windows for a while
Well I don't simply wan't to buy that book. And you probably have mistaken it on SMT which was present in fist silicons but disabled. The link you provided didn't even mention 64 anywhere. But here's a technical paper on how the ALU works in P4.
www.intel.com/technology/itj/q12001/pdf/art_2.pdf
Here's interesting point.
Sales data:
Google Yahoo
2004 3.1 3.5
Lastyear 6.1 5.3
Q4 05 1.9 1.5
CompanyPrice 122B 44B
I don't expect Google to assimilate everything. But their sales is growing fast. There is quite good potential that Google grows to a company with 10Billion yearly profits, for which the sharevalue would be quite reasonable. Giving pretty good return on investment if that happens. And a small chance of growing to a company with more than 15Billion yearly profits.
And its pretty certain that Google will be more successfull than Yahoo. But if Google cannot grow to its potential then its probably more successfull company than Yahoo and makes good bucks on advertisement, but nothing great enough to varrant its share value.
Article advocates apple selling OS to standard PC:s
Inorder to sell operating system they would need to price it competively, and make it work with wider variety of PC:s instead of limited number of different systems.
Here's probably how it would look in reality, people who would normally buy apple because of OSX would more often buy OSX and get their PC from some cheaper location. The profit margins for apple computers are good. Then apple would need to multiply its market share in operating systems, in order to get equivalent profits. And I doubt that apple could actually would gain 4x the market share for their OS than what they have with their computers.
Remember supportin more hardware costs them in support and developement.
Okay here's an example of easy target. 4 feet 11 inch young girl, looks kind of hippy, but still reasonably wealthy. The mugger would be surprised with his blunt metal object, when the girl draws japanese short sword from her bag. If she for some reason doesn't happen to have that with her, she could simply break his leg with single strong kick.
There are many people who look easy targets but most certainly are VERY deadly. An granny that has revolver in her bag who is really paranoid of muggers can be pretty dangerous target. Then the guy with black suit can be either business man, or FBI.
Of course the skinny guy could be just a blackbelt in Tae Kwon Do. Or some ex martial artist who has forgotten all the non-deadly ways of self defence. [Which happens when you practice the strikes and kicks all the time, while the other techniques less often, the result for that is forgetting the practical self defence is quick but forgetting the deadly strikes takes decades.]
Then there is point of hitting a guy when his brothers with guns are in visible range but at the moment they just leave him alone for doing his computer stuff on the laptop that they know is important for his career, but they could care less about computers. But suddenly if someone tried to mug their brother...
Odds of negative consequences close to zero. Hell no. I'd say do it often enough and you get the negative consequence that is enough to overcome all the benefits from all the other times. Then there is higher chance of someone taking picture of the event and giving it to police and they find the mugger. Or someone takes picture and vigilantes search you up and sink you to the bottom of the sea.
Well I haven't tried the ergonomics posture of crufixion in the office, could you ellaborate more how you are going to accomplish any work if you are so tied up with your posture?
No they didn't williamette had fast alu:s which where clocked at double speed. The alu design is pipelined so that it computes loworder 16bits in first cycle and 16bits in 2nd cycle, and all the flag dependencies in in rest cycles.(why 16 bits, instead of 32, the carry forwarding works best at 4 per level so 4x4=16. The alu design made it certain that it wasn't 64bit from the beginning. The prescott gave up the double speed alu:s inorder to facilitate the 64bitness.
Not in most standardisation bodies. There are fees and royalties in standards. And they are open in sence that *all* can licence it from standard body, for a standard fee. And they probably use patents of dozens of companies. The key advantage of their method of calling standard is that when a submarine patent goes up, the patent owner has option of joining the patent pool instead of suing the hell out of everyone using the standard, and get income through that. And the patent pool in question is such that *all* patents related to standard are included in the license by those who submit the patents, so they practicly give one point for getting lisences for all patents related to standard. Now if the standard has no fees, the patent owners source of income is suing the standard users.
We are in the middle of a format war. Open Standards (as in patent-free, royality-free) are the standards that will foster growth and business oportunities for all.
Problem with that is that really you don't know *ALL* software patent applications related to field that have been submitted. So called open free standard may have patent problems that those who make the standard do not know, and the patent owners could simply wait for a while until starting license their patents, also if other companies would have patents related to the format they could sue too.
For WMV10 having 12 companies owning the patents wasn't Microsoft plans but as they standardized it the patents started to show up in the patents body. Now would you rather pay constant small fee to patents body or buy the license from all 12 companies separately for price each individual company sets. Since you have to avoid *ALL* softwarepatents in the free standard which is practicly impossible. Or have patented every tiny single portion of it and looked carefully that there isn't any point between expired patents and the patents you have issued for someone to sue upon, and then you could submit it to standards body with goal of making it free standard. The problem for free standards is that everything gets patented.
However I doubt Microsoft would sue over free standard due to their monopoly position, but I don't doubt that there is SOMEONE willing to do it, for gaining few extra bucks.
If Dell says Intel in 2003 that they buy only x86-64 supported chips in 2006, while certain portion earlier. Now Intel has two choices, give dell chip they want or let AMD give dell chip they wan't.
Also for popularizing pci-express, if DELL says they are phasing out AGP in favour of pci-express in certain time scale, the gfx-card manufacturers are going to listen very carefully, as the chipset vendors too, since they know that if they don't have product that dell wants to buy the other guys will. And by dell making such decision practicly guarantees a reasonable market to go full production of the new interface.
As far as Blue Ray Disc Vs HD-DVD, if Dell chooces BD, then they will wait until they can get BD in pricepoints that fit the Dell model, and skip the HD-DVD unless the situation becomes such that it's no-brainer to include instead of DVD, and BD would still be too expensive.
But with Dell committed on one side, that side has big edge on PC:s once the prices come down, if there is competition between formats going on anymore, but don't assume dell stays that way if HD-DVD drive costs 20$ while BD costs 300$ . Dell is still volume manufacturer, but BD will be what they prefer if price difference is reasonable, and that whats will be in many peoples machines when the drive isn't too expensive for dell to put as default option in many of their lines.
Actually you do. Only thing that is excluded is those who want to use the standard completely free as in beer...
Two, you need the permition of the one holding the patent to develop an application that utilizes it.
Thats part of the open standard process, anyone gets permission and lisence to the patents for the royalty or lisencing fee, that is equal to all parties lisencing the format.
It is in microsoft's power to not grant permition to legally use its IP.Or to permit it at a high price that would effectively kill the competition.
Which rights they give up in the standardisation process, they need to set the price during the standardization process and cannot suddenly up it, thats if standards body have any reasonable rules. Thats what resolved the DRDRAM vs DDR legal questions, in the end.
The case with wmv is more evil than it not being an open standard though. It is illegally pushed by microsoft, by tying it to windows. Automatically their patent-encumbered standard becomes popular because you can count on it being on 90% of PCs. It's leveraging a monopoly if I ever saw one. But this is a discussion for another thread...
Here's a nice irony, the way it goes, Microsoft may actually end up PAYING more for WMV lisences in future than gaining from them. The royalty fee is predetermined, but how it is split for parties owning the IP isn't, so by joining the standard patent pool companies get access to royalty stream. Provided their IP was accepted by patent body as legimate patent claim on WMV. And the current situatiation is that WMV10 has atleast 12 other companies besides Microsoft.
It might be problem for you that open standard isn't free as in beer. But it is still open standard.
>Word, ppt, excel, smb, quicken, asf, wmv
wmv is open standard . Microsoft has submitted it to standards body inorder to get it as one of the codecs in Blue Ray disc standard, and HD-Disc standard.
The normal x86 core is 100 times bigger than the arm core. The reality for long time was that anything as big as arm core was not going to happen with the tools to develope asyncronous chips. Now the tools are good enough to design arm core.
Its pretty certain that with existing tools the asyncronous x86 core isn't going to happen. Or it is something like 486.
The OoO processing and superscalar design are few things I wouldn't imagine happening in asyncronous circuit any time soon.
Sony does other things than just the playstation consoles, the corporation has over 66 Billion USD worth of sales, the entire console market isn't anywhere near that figure.
Also sony corporation happens to have huge assets. As for cash flow statements, sony corporation made quite good operating profit they just invested it. So basicly they are probably not interested in selling their self to microsoft, it would be hostile take over probably.
And this kind of buy out is going to be killed by either japanese or american goverment by monopoly issues.
Finally the speaking of weak stock price for sony is *bull*. Check out the 10 year graph, if we ignore the bubble spike the stock is relatively high price.
These fan boys just look the part they understand and assume that part of picture is what matters.
The poster obviosly hasn't design any CPU:s. Nor doesn't know about physics related to semiconductor design.
He's programmer who doesn't need to think those things.
n^2 or n^3 algorithms (in terms of power and aread) are used in MOST part of the core. So when the guy recommends that in next generation instead of having 4 cores we have single core he suggested that we have one core which is twice as wide as one of those 4 cores.
Large fraction of code is pointer chasing, large fraction of code has ILP equal or lower than 1. There just are too many data dependensies.
Just like latency of cache it depends on its size, instead of is it L1 or L2 or whatever. Physics says that the drive strength and distance is important. Same happens inside core, when you have quadrupled the core size you need to drive all the instructions and data around, its like prescott. You spend huge resources moving instructions around in pipeline stages instead of doing computation, and you have to do it since the distance you travel between different parts of cores is so much bigger now. The register renamers take a lot more die area, and have longer latency, so does the out of order queus, then there is latencies between aluinstructions, latencies INSIDE the logic selecting which instruction goes next is growing since number of locations for which each instruction in queu has gone up, and number of instructions in queu has gone up too. The bad part is that the logic isn't linear its n^2 algorithm in terms of width, so its width^2*quedepth. So in his recommendation of doubling he get 8 times the area and power consumption there.
Of course trying to educate masses of programmers is futile attempt here, there is plenty of people who know nothing about the costs of doing something proposing solutions that the people who have designed CPU:s for 20+ years have probably already dismissed because of their infeasibility.