Sure, rewriting the code to be more efficient and then throwing in OpenCL acceleration IS a bit of a redneck approach to things, but at the end of the day, why wouldn't you want the metaphorical V10 crammed in to your spreadsheet software? If it can be done gracefully, why not?
Worth mentioning that Good Guy AMD isn't making it proprietary.
For those of us who live next to railroad tracks..
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Car1: Sitting at a red light. So bored!
Car2: @Car1 LOL floored it on the yellow and made it through.
Car1: @Car2 At the next red light with you. Wanna race?
Car3: @Car1 @Car2 Police ahead, don't do it.
TotallyNotPolice: @Car1 @Car2 Ignore him. No police. You should race.
In my short experience of working at a casino as a slot attendant, we've had malfunctions (eg: play button stuck down) that has caused the patron to lose their money. In that case we verify how much they started with and give them a ticket for the original amount (this is customer service, not a legal requirement). Anyone could tell you that if they hit a jackpot (anything above $2,000 or $3,000, can't remember which) while the machine was malfunctioning (as long as it was a legitimate play and not an error), they're not going to want their original credits back. Since it was a malfunction that didn't affect the outcome of the plays, I'm sure the casino would have honored that win. Casinos (or more specifically, the vendors casinos use) will find and fix glitches not only because they still have laws to follow, but also because it isn't hard for them to take all your money legally.
On top of that, most casinos have all plays computed on a server in a back room. Unless you're in Vegas (class 1 machines, iirc), plays are generally not run on the machine you're sitting at. They're just clients that show you what the outcome on the server was. Even if the machine were to somehow have some kind of exploitable glitch, it would not sync up with the server.
Finally, EVERY machine has a disclaimer that says "Malfunction voids all plays and pays". This is the be-all and end-all.
tl;dr: Casinos don't need glitches to take your money.
I got to play with it there. I didn't know I was holding something newsworthy. As a Galaxy S3 (with CM10.1) user, I thought it ran very well considering it was on what appeared to be some older mid-range hardware. Everything seemed quite smooth and snappy.
If I'm not mistaken, the PostgreSQL booth was running some demos on a RasPi and donated 8 of them to the second-day raffle. I bought $10 worth of tickets, but didn't win any.
I use a $10 bluetooth ELM327 adapter and the free version of Torque for Android. It doesn't do any of that chirp stuff, but it easily could with the right software. On top of that, access to ALL sensors and codes.
The video still has to buffer. Super-duper broadband would reduce buffering times, but there is a good point here. As IT at a local ISP, I see a lot of our "super-duper, blow-your-socks-off" connections only average 8-10 Mbps, and that's with a dedicated server on the other end. Downloading things like linux/utility ISOs completely depends on the speed of the server and congestion of the internet in general. Even if one can find multiple mirrors to download from, I find that even torrenting something well seeded like the latest release of Ubuntu will struggle to see over 25 Mbps (although I got lucky when I tested this just now).
That doesn't mean that it's pointless though. A few people watching something in HD can bring down a slower "average" connection and increase latencies. Netflix here, youtube there, and little Billy trying to play "Call of Battlefield 5: Namecalling Warfare" might start to suffer. More bandwidth to spare, the less jitter you have.
Personally, I don't see the need for fiber as a last-mile solution, especially for residential connections. Fiber to your neighborhood with cable or DSL as last mile should be enough for most people, not that it wouldn't be awesome to have. Yes, the want and need for very high speed internet is approaching and yes, it's something to look at in the future when bandwith needs grow, but there's still room for improvement for existing cable/DSL technologies.
Seems like a highly subjective article. Maybe I just work/play with Google Maps too much, but I don't see anything special here. The closest thing I can think of would be that it appears fairly high resolution, but that's nothing to write home (or Slashdot) about.
At least for use in cars, I believe there's still the problem of storing enough of that hydrogen to get any decent range. Nice to hear we're making progress though. Yay humanity!
"Ungoogleable" is (or would have been) an adjective and, more specifically, could cast a negative image on Google since it doesn't imply other search engines wouldn't be able to find it, hence why I think they're making a decently good fuss about it now.
They're complaining that it could be negative. Checking Wikipedia now, "Google" as a verb was discouraged by Google. I'll give you that.
If "Ungoogleable" means it can't be found via search engine, doesn't that imply that if anything can find it, Google can? Also, I didn't hear them complaining when their name started becoming a verb.
Every once in a while, I hear of an owner taking their company's new toy and having a little fun with it. I wish I owned this company just so I could run WCG or Folding@Home on it for a week.
Maybe I could sneak in and add a WCG daemon. I wouldn't be stealing resources, just.. liberating.. idle.. ones.
Going for F/OSS would be more.. mind-expanding to the students, I'll admit, but I'd worry that being unfamiliar with Windows would hurt their chances of being employed. Lifehacker has an interesting pro-Linux article that I agree with, but I feel those skills, despite providing them a much greater understanding of computers in general, would be overwhelming to many and impractical down the road unless they specifically wish to go in to computer sciences. Familiarity with Linux and F/OSS is absolutely a bonus in today's world and should still be encouraged, but I don't think it should come at the expense of Windows/Office if that's what the job market is looking for. In the case of the Lifehacker article, that man's kids (emphasis on "man") will grow up to be badass and I have nothing but respect (and slight jealousy) for his two sons. I doubt they will ever need to worry about familiarity with Windows since they'll most likely know a Linux way around everything (if not always be in a position to dictate which software to use).
Before my karma falls in to oblivion for suggesting Microsoft, yes, you absolutely should teach the students about the open source community and how/why it works and encourage them to be familiar with the open source universe, but try to remember that this isn't about good and evil, this is about preparing the for a world that generally expects Windows.
I was worried until I saw that it would be free-to-play. Now I'm really worried. In my experiences, the F2P model never improved the experience of those who would have normally paid for it. I do understand that the F2P model is more profitable, but, in my opinion, it ruins the game. More of a risk.
Recently, I've tried Simraceway and I don't see how spending hundreds of dollars on cars is better than ~$20 for Gran Turismo. A more well known example, FarmVille eventually only benefited kids with their parents credit cards and no concept of the value of a dollar.
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Sure, rewriting the code to be more efficient and then throwing in OpenCL acceleration IS a bit of a redneck approach to things, but at the end of the day, why wouldn't you want the metaphorical V10 crammed in to your spreadsheet software? If it can be done gracefully, why not?
Worth mentioning that Good Guy AMD isn't making it proprietary.
I think we'll all enjoy 4 seconds of free WiFi.
Because cars should have twitter too.
Car1: Sitting at a red light. So bored!
Car2: @Car1 LOL floored it on the yellow and made it through.
Car1: @Car2 At the next red light with you. Wanna race?
Car3: @Car1 @Car2 Police ahead, don't do it.
TotallyNotPolice: @Car1 @Car2 Ignore him. No police. You should race.
Seriously, science, I love you.
In my short experience of working at a casino as a slot attendant, we've had malfunctions (eg: play button stuck down) that has caused the patron to lose their money. In that case we verify how much they started with and give them a ticket for the original amount (this is customer service, not a legal requirement). Anyone could tell you that if they hit a jackpot (anything above $2,000 or $3,000, can't remember which) while the machine was malfunctioning (as long as it was a legitimate play and not an error), they're not going to want their original credits back. Since it was a malfunction that didn't affect the outcome of the plays, I'm sure the casino would have honored that win. Casinos (or more specifically, the vendors casinos use) will find and fix glitches not only because they still have laws to follow, but also because it isn't hard for them to take all your money legally.
On top of that, most casinos have all plays computed on a server in a back room. Unless you're in Vegas (class 1 machines, iirc), plays are generally not run on the machine you're sitting at. They're just clients that show you what the outcome on the server was. Even if the machine were to somehow have some kind of exploitable glitch, it would not sync up with the server.
Finally, EVERY machine has a disclaimer that says "Malfunction voids all plays and pays". This is the be-all and end-all.
tl;dr: Casinos don't need glitches to take your money.
Twice nothing is still nothing, although getting a 1.5x increase for low-wattage applications is nice to hear.
End result, I'm still going to get people complaining to me that The Sims runs slow. Only difference is it'll be stop-motion instead of slideshow.
Update, it was the "Seattle Postgres Users Group" booth.
I got to play with it there. I didn't know I was holding something newsworthy. As a Galaxy S3 (with CM10.1) user, I thought it ran very well considering it was on what appeared to be some older mid-range hardware. Everything seemed quite smooth and snappy.
If I'm not mistaken, the PostgreSQL booth was running some demos on a RasPi and donated 8 of them to the second-day raffle. I bought $10 worth of tickets, but didn't win any.
I use a $10 bluetooth ELM327 adapter and the free version of Torque for Android. It doesn't do any of that chirp stuff, but it easily could with the right software. On top of that, access to ALL sensors and codes.
Not only that, the GPS in our trucks at work do exactly what this thing does.
It's not new, it's not even a good price.
The video still has to buffer. Super-duper broadband would reduce buffering times, but there is a good point here. As IT at a local ISP, I see a lot of our "super-duper, blow-your-socks-off" connections only average 8-10 Mbps, and that's with a dedicated server on the other end. Downloading things like linux/utility ISOs completely depends on the speed of the server and congestion of the internet in general. Even if one can find multiple mirrors to download from, I find that even torrenting something well seeded like the latest release of Ubuntu will struggle to see over 25 Mbps (although I got lucky when I tested this just now).
That doesn't mean that it's pointless though. A few people watching something in HD can bring down a slower "average" connection and increase latencies. Netflix here, youtube there, and little Billy trying to play "Call of Battlefield 5: Namecalling Warfare" might start to suffer. More bandwidth to spare, the less jitter you have.
Personally, I don't see the need for fiber as a last-mile solution, especially for residential connections. Fiber to your neighborhood with cable or DSL as last mile should be enough for most people, not that it wouldn't be awesome to have. Yes, the want and need for very high speed internet is approaching and yes, it's something to look at in the future when bandwith needs grow, but there's still room for improvement for existing cable/DSL technologies.
That being said, I want it. I want it bad.
Seems like a highly subjective article. Maybe I just work/play with Google Maps too much, but I don't see anything special here. The closest thing I can think of would be that it appears fairly high resolution, but that's nothing to write home (or Slashdot) about.
True. It seems almost everyone confuses "free energy" with "can not see where the energy is coming from".
At least for use in cars, I believe there's still the problem of storing enough of that hydrogen to get any decent range. Nice to hear we're making progress though. Yay humanity!
Someone understands my pain.
Recupero highlights two approaches for improving efficiency: smart standby and dynamic frequency scaling or CPU throttling.
Turning a 1 hour task at 100 watts in to a 2 hour task at 75 watts isn't efficient.
(Sssshhh!)
Myself being a multi-trillionare (in Zimbabwean dollars), I'd like to comment that it may not be hard to surpass some currencies.
"Ungoogleable" is (or would have been) an adjective and, more specifically, could cast a negative image on Google since it doesn't imply other search engines wouldn't be able to find it, hence why I think they're making a decently good fuss about it now.
They're complaining that it could be negative. Checking Wikipedia now, "Google" as a verb was discouraged by Google. I'll give you that.
If "Ungoogleable" means it can't be found via search engine, doesn't that imply that if anything can find it, Google can? Also, I didn't hear them complaining when their name started becoming a verb.
Death Rally was an old favorite of mine. My girlfriend was surprised when I managed to get Secret Agent: The Hunt For Red Rock Rover working on her computer.
Also, Commander Keen. [/disucssion]
Every once in a while, I hear of an owner taking their company's new toy and having a little fun with it. I wish I owned this company just so I could run WCG or Folding@Home on it for a week.
Maybe I could sneak in and add a WCG daemon. I wouldn't be stealing resources, just.. liberating.. idle.. ones.
Going for F/OSS would be more.. mind-expanding to the students, I'll admit, but I'd worry that being unfamiliar with Windows would hurt their chances of being employed. Lifehacker has an interesting pro-Linux article that I agree with, but I feel those skills, despite providing them a much greater understanding of computers in general, would be overwhelming to many and impractical down the road unless they specifically wish to go in to computer sciences. Familiarity with Linux and F/OSS is absolutely a bonus in today's world and should still be encouraged, but I don't think it should come at the expense of Windows/Office if that's what the job market is looking for. In the case of the Lifehacker article, that man's kids (emphasis on "man") will grow up to be badass and I have nothing but respect (and slight jealousy) for his two sons. I doubt they will ever need to worry about familiarity with Windows since they'll most likely know a Linux way around everything (if not always be in a position to dictate which software to use).
Before my karma falls in to oblivion for suggesting Microsoft, yes, you absolutely should teach the students about the open source community and how/why it works and encourage them to be familiar with the open source universe, but try to remember that this isn't about good and evil, this is about preparing the for a world that generally expects Windows.
I was worried until I saw that it would be free-to-play. Now I'm really worried. In my experiences, the F2P model never improved the experience of those who would have normally paid for it. I do understand that the F2P model is more profitable, but, in my opinion, it ruins the game. More of a risk.
Recently, I've tried Simraceway and I don't see how spending hundreds of dollars on cars is better than ~$20 for Gran Turismo. A more well known example, FarmVille eventually only benefited kids with their parents credit cards and no concept of the value of a dollar.
Apple might sue you for leaking their business model.