When you reduce the pipeline from a P4-length to something along the lines of a PowerPC, the mis-prediction penalty is much lower. Also, GPUs on graphics cards already off-load a major chunk of repetitive processing of 3D rendering and 2D video decoding, occasionally video encoding.
The "Cell" architecture does something similar to what you've described - different cells handle different tasks of a multimedia system, say set-top box or Playstation 3. Better statistics modeling is what's needed in terms of branch prediction optimization. The longer a predictor runs a certain type of code, the more it'll learn from its past mistakes, and statistically predict a branch.
When you have a Cell-like architecture, you can have idle CPUs at times, which means instead of trying to predict a particular branch, it has spare power to also execute all alternative branches, and temporarily store the results in a cache. Then once the branching logic chooses a particular scenario, the pre-calculated result will be loaded.
neither Japan nor Korea has a single GSM network, so it's not the "whole world" embraces it. Also, GSM is not an "open" standard - equipment manufacturers still have to pay licensing fees to GSM Consortium.
yeah last week when i was skiing in whistler i actually took a picture of the "Longhorn Saloon", which is conveniently located at the Whistler Village base, within 30 seconds walking from either Whistler or Blackcomb Gondola.
And u'd be surprised, Whistler Blackcomb, being flagship mountains of Intrawest, would allow Microsoft to use their brand new as a codename for new OSes?
On an unrelated note, did you know that on Blackcomb Mountain, there's a sign on the "Blackbomg Glacier Road" trail that has the words "SLOW" and "EXCELerator (2km)" on it? What appropriateness =)
1. UMTS is 3G, not 4G, and even with HSDPA, it's only 14mbps, not 100+ as mentioned
2. The so-called "T-Mobile's GSM" is at the same level as Cingular - both 2.5G (GPRS) based. AT&T has partial 2.75G (EDGE) coverage. Cingular and AT&T both use 850/1900 while T-Mobile is only 1900, but anyone can bring a general tri-band GSM phone between the carriers.
3. VoIP can save only if (a) u have an unlimited data plan, and (b) u're making international calls. With Cingular charging $80 for unlimited data, that's a LOT of domestic calls to make
4. Verizon and Sprint both use Qualcomm's CDMA2000 standard. It's not GSM, but it's not a non "Open Standard" per se.
you really should try benchmarking that on Matlab and Mathematica. You save a lot more time in code development. So then, now you'll have to look at coding time savings vs. runtime savings. I never programmed in Java 5, so I can't speak of it's power. If you need your 1000x1000 matrix so desperately, might as well directly code SSE or Altivec ?
if i were google i'd get my G-Mail out of beta mode before even starting the next project. right now gmail looks more and more like ICQ, which is always in alpha and beta mode. why? cuz they're afraid to support it. so by claiming it's beta, they have every excuse to treat bug-reports are low priority. and look where's ICQ now ? DEAD.
a flop is defined by poor ROI - profit / R&D costs, not by price, future years of support, or simply a "leader" for online multi-player games. if the number of players doesn't mean the financial hurdle, it's a flop. that just simply means that the online-edition of all 3 consoles are way poorly performing, but unlike PS2 or NGC, Microsoft relies heavily on their online revenue. NGC can make a profit just on Mario and Pokemon.
Intel makes a profit on each Itanium chip it makes, but it's a flop because it's profit is too weak for the amount of R&D dumped in by Intel and HP combined.
XBox was such as dismal flop considering how much money Microsoft has put into R&D, as well as Microsoft's marketing power.
For those who argue that first-generation products suffer from lack of name recognition, take a cue from Sony Playstation 1, which came out of nowhere, ruined Sega, and created a severe dent on Nintendo.
And for those trying to compare XBox's flop to Itanium, it's completely different. A brand-new CPU architecture requires an ENTIRE infracstructure to support it, from OS to hardware drivers to sofware and to vendor support, and people tend to suffer from lost-cost syndrome by continuing pouring more money to support their great ol' platform that's been crunching their mission-critical data for years before, and probably years ahead. There's no "prior" investment for a consumer to buy a new console. PS2 claims backward compatability with PS, but honestly, who seriously plays PS games these days (other than the utterly nostalgic). Nintendo Gamecube didn't have backward compatability, but didn't flop.
Investors are not COMPLETE idiots. After the initial hype, people will settle down, and at $200 a share, few other than institutional investors would consider GOOG.
However, with all the hype piled up on Google, and when it's trading at a P/E larger than 100, institutional investors will have a LOT of explaining to do on their proforma on why they invested in GOOG in the first place.
eBay already tanked 18% upon a single quarterly earnings report, and eBay was only trading at maybe P/E of 110.
The 42WE655 you've mentioned is a "LCD Rear Projection TV," not a pure LCD Flat Panel. Usually when we say LCD we refer to flat panels. Rear projection models are way cheaper because they suffer from narrow viewing angles, and increased size/weight compared to flat panels such as Plasma or LCD.
According to SonyStyle.com , the only Sony LCD TV at 42" has an MSRP of USD 9999.99. Is your brother THAT willing to burn money ? Cuz USD 10K can already get him a 62" HDTV Plasma
Sure, I spent USD 1700 (plus tax) on a 22" Samsung LCD TV in June 2004, but I have never regretted my purchase. HDTV is simply gorgeous, and makes viewing TV a pleasure again. CRT-based TVs are heavy, and only the really big ones can do HDTV. I'm spoilt to a point that I think DVDs are low-res.
For those who can afford to buy an LCD, I'd say spend some money and give yourself some peace. With 40+ inches LCD TV launching in the market in 2005, I finally see that LCD will overtake Plasma (at least until OLED, which combines the best of LCD and Plasma)
A person making minimum wage of $5.15/hr for 40hr weeks working every week will earn $10,712 a year, which is below the minimum income tax bracket. Therefore, they won't be paying ANY taxes at all. 6.2% SS and 1.45% Medicare is only charged to those who can afford to pay taxes.
Social welfare sounds like socialism, and extreme socialism would become communism. However, a civilized society tries not to leave people behind. Republicans would love people to believe that free market is good because it makes the rich richer, and the poor poorer, and thus increasing their wealth (and consequently, power).
A purely free market (idealized by republicans) will eliminate the Fed, and eliminate taxes and welfare programs. Inflation can rise randomly, the poor won't be able to catch up to inflation, while the rich can ride the inflation by increasing the rate of return on their investments, thus nullifying inflation's impact on them all-together.
Don't label people communists for nothing. Social programs fare well in Canada and Scandanavia, and we shall take a cue from them instead of resorting to elitist ideologies.
This administration is irnoic - we'll give you tax cuts yet we want to reduce the budget deficit. we want to extend social security's lifespan without increasing taxes or lowering benefits. You can't have the cake and eat it at the same time!!!!
" They suffer the consequences of their inaction and/or ignorance? God forbid we expect people to be responsible for themselves..."
Only an extremely inconsiderate person would think of something like that. MANY people out there make such low wages that they can only afford to SURVIVE paycheck-to-paycheck. it's not their inaction to save, it's their inability to have any leftover to put food on the table without starving, let alone for saving for retirement. before you BS like that, look at the hard-working low-paying workers around you.
Binary XML would be provide a much better transport for binary data when compared to Base64 or even something like QuotedPrintable. Using extra layers on top of XML just to transport binary data is a waste of resources. What we need are fewer but more powerful standards. Binary XML will do JUST that.
Facts are the ones that can be mathematically or scientifically proven. When no one can prove or disprove an idea, but it is the most logical conclusion given observed data, then it's a "theory." Evolution IS a theory. Newtons laws are facts because those are hard proven. Creationism is the least proven item.
It is a cycle. You need to have "faith" to believe the Bible, then you will believe in Creationism. But how can you have a faith in a system to start with where the system doesn't prove?
Christian : Creationism is true Atheist : Prove that Christian : Because the Bible says it Atheist : Can you prove the Bible is true Christian : It must be because God said it Atheist : Prove God exists Christian : I have faith in God, therefore I don't need to prove it to you
this is not about free spech -1. Free speech is the freedom of self-expression. TEACHING creationism is forcing those knowledge onto the students. If a student in Georgia cannot choose whether he wants to be taught creationism or evolution, then the teacher is violating his rights as a student, therefore, freedom of speech no longer applies.
The right to speech freedom cannot be viewed solely independently - other laws have to hold too. Sure you can yell "I will kill you Bush" at the inauguration due to "free speech," but you will be arrested for "conspiracy of murder against the president."
opera runs decent on a PDA because a PDA OS is slimmed down, and much fewer overhead than a mainstream OS such as Windows or MacOS. Businesses and schools that still use 100MHz systems are either too poor to upgrade, or too budget conscious to spend that little money. The gain in productivity in a speedier system far covers the cost of the upgrade. Lately I have yet to see a *respectable* business running a 100Mhz computer.
Opera is a strange browser because it's ad-paid and not 100% free. With IE from the top and Firefox from the bottom I don't see where Opera will survive. Perhaps cell phones and PDAs.
And just how often you need a clustering system to run Firefox? You shouldn't be even using a GUI on a clustering system. Those are for number crunching!
perhaps it is time to replace those 200MHz machines already? 200MHz was the TOP x86 cpu speed back in 1996. It's close to 9 years already. Spend a little money, and give yourself (and your 200MHz system) some peace.
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the iPod mini is priced too close to the next level up (249 vs 299) but with specs much closer to the next level down (1GB flash vs. 4GB hdd).
spending $50 extra bucks (299 vs. 349) just to get a black case/red wheel U2 edition
or spending upwards to 599 for a top model ipod photo
when flash becomes cheaper, a 2GB shuffle at $199 will seriously erode into mini's market share.
what apple needs to do to de-pollute
clarify it's future strategic positioning of how the mini will fit the niche between the mass market flash players and the elitist full-size HDDs
When you reduce the pipeline from a P4-length to something along the lines of a PowerPC, the mis-prediction penalty is much lower. Also, GPUs on graphics cards already off-load a major chunk of repetitive processing of 3D rendering and 2D video decoding, occasionally video encoding.
The "Cell" architecture does something similar to what you've described - different cells handle different tasks of a multimedia system, say set-top box or Playstation 3. Better statistics modeling is what's needed in terms of branch prediction optimization. The longer a predictor runs a certain type of code, the more it'll learn from its past mistakes, and statistically predict a branch.
When you have a Cell-like architecture, you can have idle CPUs at times, which means instead of trying to predict a particular branch, it has spare power to also execute all alternative branches, and temporarily store the results in a cache. Then once the branching logic chooses a particular scenario, the pre-calculated result will be loaded.
$36K per project or per year? Cuz these days, especially if u live in USA or Canada, USD 32K is terribly low salary for a programmer.
Heck, Microsoft pays 50K-60K for an undergrad degree fresh grad.
neither Japan nor Korea has a single GSM network, so it's not the "whole world" embraces it. Also, GSM is not an "open" standard - equipment manufacturers still have to pay licensing fees to GSM Consortium.
yeah last week when i was skiing in whistler i actually took a picture of the "Longhorn Saloon", which is conveniently located at the Whistler Village base, within 30 seconds walking from either Whistler or Blackcomb Gondola.
And u'd be surprised, Whistler Blackcomb, being flagship mountains of Intrawest, would allow Microsoft to use their brand new as a codename for new OSes?
On an unrelated note, did you know that on Blackcomb Mountain, there's a sign on the "Blackbomg Glacier Road" trail that has the words "SLOW" and "EXCELerator (2km)" on it? What appropriateness =)
A few clarifications :
1. UMTS is 3G, not 4G, and even with HSDPA, it's only 14mbps, not 100+ as mentioned
2. The so-called "T-Mobile's GSM" is at the same level as Cingular - both 2.5G (GPRS) based. AT&T has partial 2.75G (EDGE) coverage. Cingular and AT&T both use 850/1900 while T-Mobile is only 1900, but anyone can bring a general tri-band GSM phone between the carriers.
3. VoIP can save only if (a) u have an unlimited data plan, and (b) u're making international calls. With Cingular charging $80 for unlimited data, that's a LOT of domestic calls to make
4. Verizon and Sprint both use Qualcomm's CDMA2000 standard. It's not GSM, but it's not a non "Open Standard" per se.
Perhaps because females on Slashdot aren't anything close to the 50% distribution of the general population =)
you really should try benchmarking that on Matlab and Mathematica. You save a lot more time in code development. So then, now you'll have to look at coding time savings vs. runtime savings. I never programmed in Java 5, so I can't speak of it's power. If you need your 1000x1000 matrix so desperately, might as well directly code SSE or Altivec ?
in Java 5 there's "foreach" ....
seriously, if you have complex formulas, use mathematica. if u have a huge dataset, use SAS. Re-designing wheels in FORTRAN is a waste of R&D
if i were google i'd get my G-Mail out of beta mode before even starting the next project. right now gmail looks more and more like ICQ, which is always in alpha and beta mode. why? cuz they're afraid to support it. so by claiming it's beta, they have every excuse to treat bug-reports are low priority. and look where's ICQ now ? DEAD.
powerbook shuffle ? it loads files randomly? you want an excel and they give you a powerpoint instead ?
a flop is defined by poor ROI - profit / R&D costs, not by price, future years of support, or simply a "leader" for online multi-player games. if the number of players doesn't mean the financial hurdle, it's a flop. that just simply means that the online-edition of all 3 consoles are way poorly performing, but unlike PS2 or NGC, Microsoft relies heavily on their online revenue. NGC can make a profit just on Mario and Pokemon.
Intel makes a profit on each Itanium chip it makes, but it's a flop because it's profit is too weak for the amount of R&D dumped in by Intel and HP combined.
XBox was such as dismal flop considering how much money Microsoft has put into R&D, as well as Microsoft's marketing power.
For those who argue that first-generation products suffer from lack of name recognition, take a cue from Sony Playstation 1, which came out of nowhere, ruined Sega, and created a severe dent on Nintendo.
And for those trying to compare XBox's flop to Itanium, it's completely different. A brand-new CPU architecture requires an ENTIRE infracstructure to support it, from OS to hardware drivers to sofware and to vendor support, and people tend to suffer from lost-cost syndrome by continuing pouring more money to support their great ol' platform that's been crunching their mission-critical data for years before, and probably years ahead. There's no "prior" investment for a consumer to buy a new console. PS2 claims backward compatability with PS, but honestly, who seriously plays PS games these days (other than the utterly nostalgic). Nintendo Gamecube didn't have backward compatability, but didn't flop.
Investors are not COMPLETE idiots. After the initial hype, people will settle down, and at $200 a share, few other than institutional investors would consider GOOG.
However, with all the hype piled up on Google, and when it's trading at a P/E larger than 100, institutional investors will have a LOT of explaining to do on their proforma on why they invested in GOOG in the first place.
eBay already tanked 18% upon a single quarterly earnings report, and eBay was only trading at maybe P/E of 110.
The 42WE655 you've mentioned is a "LCD Rear Projection TV," not a pure LCD Flat Panel. Usually when we say LCD we refer to flat panels. Rear projection models are way cheaper because they suffer from narrow viewing angles, and increased size/weight compared to flat panels such as Plasma or LCD.
According to SonyStyle.com , the only Sony LCD TV at 42" has an MSRP of USD 9999.99. Is your brother THAT willing to burn money ? Cuz USD 10K can already get him a 62" HDTV Plasma
Sure, I spent USD 1700 (plus tax) on a 22" Samsung LCD TV in June 2004, but I have never regretted my purchase. HDTV is simply gorgeous, and makes viewing TV a pleasure again. CRT-based TVs are heavy, and only the really big ones can do HDTV. I'm spoilt to a point that I think DVDs are low-res.
For those who can afford to buy an LCD, I'd say spend some money and give yourself some peace. With 40+ inches LCD TV launching in the market in 2005, I finally see that LCD will overtake Plasma (at least until OLED, which combines the best of LCD and Plasma)
A person making minimum wage of $5.15/hr for 40hr weeks working every week will earn $10,712 a year, which is below the minimum income tax bracket. Therefore, they won't be paying ANY taxes at all. 6.2% SS and 1.45% Medicare is only charged to those who can afford to pay taxes.
Social welfare sounds like socialism, and extreme socialism would become communism. However, a civilized society tries not to leave people behind. Republicans would love people to believe that free market is good because it makes the rich richer, and the poor poorer, and thus increasing their wealth (and consequently, power).
A purely free market (idealized by republicans) will eliminate the Fed, and eliminate taxes and welfare programs. Inflation can rise randomly, the poor won't be able to catch up to inflation, while the rich can ride the inflation by increasing the rate of return on their investments, thus nullifying inflation's impact on them all-together.
Don't label people communists for nothing. Social programs fare well in Canada and Scandanavia, and we shall take a cue from them instead of resorting to elitist ideologies.
This administration is irnoic - we'll give you tax cuts yet we want to reduce the budget deficit. we want to extend social security's lifespan without increasing taxes or lowering benefits. You can't have the cake and eat it at the same time!!!!
" They suffer the consequences of their inaction and/or ignorance? God forbid we expect people to be responsible for themselves..."
Only an extremely inconsiderate person would think of something like that. MANY people out there make such low wages that they can only afford to SURVIVE paycheck-to-paycheck. it's not their inaction to save, it's their inability to have any leftover to put food on the table without starving, let alone for saving for retirement. before you BS like that, look at the hard-working low-paying workers around you.
Itanic sank, and INTELsat tanked, hmmm i'm definitely seeing a pattern
Binary XML would be provide a much better transport for binary data when compared to Base64 or even something like QuotedPrintable. Using extra layers on top of XML just to transport binary data is a waste of resources. What we need are fewer but more powerful standards. Binary XML will do JUST that.
Facts are the ones that can be mathematically or scientifically proven. When no one can prove or disprove an idea, but it is the most logical conclusion given observed data, then it's a "theory." Evolution IS a theory. Newtons laws are facts because those are hard proven. Creationism is the least proven item.
It is a cycle. You need to have "faith" to believe the Bible, then you will believe in Creationism. But how can you have a faith in a system to start with where the system doesn't prove?
Christian : Creationism is true
Atheist : Prove that
Christian : Because the Bible says it
Atheist : Can you prove the Bible is true
Christian : It must be because God said it
Atheist : Prove God exists
Christian : I have faith in God, therefore I don't need to prove it to you
this is not about free spech -1. Free speech is the freedom of self-expression. TEACHING creationism is forcing those knowledge onto the students. If a student in Georgia cannot choose whether he wants to be taught creationism or evolution, then the teacher is violating his rights as a student, therefore, freedom of speech no longer applies.
The right to speech freedom cannot be viewed solely independently - other laws have to hold too. Sure you can yell "I will kill you Bush" at the inauguration due to "free speech," but you will be arrested for "conspiracy of murder against the president."
opera runs decent on a PDA because a PDA OS is slimmed down, and much fewer overhead than a mainstream OS such as Windows or MacOS. Businesses and schools that still use 100MHz systems are either too poor to upgrade, or too budget conscious to spend that little money. The gain in productivity in a speedier system far covers the cost of the upgrade. Lately I have yet to see a *respectable* business running a 100Mhz computer.
Opera is a strange browser because it's ad-paid and not 100% free. With IE from the top and Firefox from the bottom I don't see where Opera will survive. Perhaps cell phones and PDAs.
And just how often you need a clustering system to run Firefox? You shouldn't be even using a GUI on a clustering system. Those are for number crunching!
perhaps it is time to replace those 200MHz machines already? 200MHz was the TOP x86 cpu speed back in 1996. It's close to 9 years already. Spend a little money, and give yourself (and your 200MHz system) some peace.