An example of an application that can take advantage of SIMD is one where the same value is being added to a large number of data points, a common operation in many multimedia applications. One example would be changing the brightness of an image. Each pixel of an image consists of three 8-bit values for the brightness of the red, green and blue portions of the color. To change the brightness, the R G and B values are read from memory, a value is added (or subtracted) from it, and the resulting value is written back out to memory.
With a SIMD processor there are two improvements to this process. For one the data is understood to be in blocks, and a number of values can be loaded all at once. Instead of a series of instructions saying "get this pixel, now get this pixel", a SIMD processor will have a single instruction that effectively says "get all of these pixels" ("all" is a number that varies from design to design). For a variety of reasons, this can take much less time than it would to load each one by one as in a traditional CPU design.
Anyone who believes this mindless pap deserves what they get.
You think our parents deserve crappy software? Not everyone is an engineer. We're supposed to explain the FUD to them carefully, not throw them to the wolves.
[Economists] understanding, though, is much clearer than it was 20 or 30 years ago: co-operation, especially when repeated, can breed reciprocity and trust, to the benefit of all.
I'll take "Things I Learned in Kindergarten" for $100 Alex.
I think the Mozilla model would be just what everyone is looking for. You need to have an entity supporting the open source software, you can't just have a bunch of googly-eyed dreamers writing your bank's software. However, if the project is somehow able to maintain an identity and still be open source, then gosh darnit wouldn't the bank prefer that over a close source competitor?
Your argument is interesting in light of recent firings by employers because employees were smokers- even if they only smoked at home.
Employers have recently tried every carrot they can think of, including cash incentives and IPods, to persuade employees to quit smoking. Now they are trying the stick. Pointing to rising health costs, and to the oversize proportion of insurance claims attributed to smokers, employers around the United States are refusing to hire applicants who smoke, and sometimes they're firing employees who refuse to quit.
Workers fired for smoking at home
The issue is slightly less applicable to blogging, of course, because there are no immediate health effects except for perhaps diminished social life.
Sony said around 24 titles would be available at launch or in the days following, representing all of the industry's major game publishers and genres. Games include "FIFA 2005," "Metal Gear Acid," "Need for Speed Rivals" and "Twisted Metal: Head On."
1. Wal-Mart and Google merge to form a new country 2. Google's CEO buys Canada 3. Google employees start wearing more bling than most rappers 4. Google TV starts broadcasting the Google main page 24/7 5. When wearing Google underwear stops being cool
Before anybody gets up in arms claiming that this is a hideous privacy infringement that is frighteningly Orwellian, let me soothe your tinfoil-infected brain by pointing out the obvious: you're dropping your finger prints all the time on everything you touch! Unless you wear gloves all the time like Jacko or have burned off your fingerprints in some tinfoil-cult ritual this is nothing to worry about.
The preceeding paragraph was of course complete fuckery, because of course this is a terrible idea! I don't even use freaking customer benefits cards because I don't want my purchases tracked to my name. Us slashdotters know how big a database can be, and we also know how easy it is to link databases. Would you feel comfortable with some giant database buried deep within a missile silo that tracks your every purchase, has your dna and fingerprint on file, and is searchable by library book!? Yeah that sounds just freaking dandy.
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You disgust me.
"If you're worth preserving, you will be fine."
My god that's an awesome quote! You can use it anywhere!
Did you see the movie?
We know of at least one black hole whose existence has been repeatedly verified by unsuspecting eyes: Goatse.
My suggested payload: a million billion cows and a million billion cans of beans.
My mother knows when she can't move her Excel spreadsheet from one computer to the next. :)
If I'm not mistaken, wouldn't MMX be an implementation of SIMD?
Anyone who believes this mindless pap deserves what they get.
You think our parents deserve crappy software? Not everyone is an engineer. We're supposed to explain the FUD to them carefully, not throw them to the wolves.
Next up on Slashdot: Linus has people over for tea.
The mechanical engineers in the audience collectively ask, "How many horsepower?"
I think the Mozilla model would be just what everyone is looking for. You need to have an entity supporting the open source software, you can't just have a bunch of googly-eyed dreamers writing your bank's software. However, if the project is somehow able to maintain an identity and still be open source, then gosh darnit wouldn't the bank prefer that over a close source competitor?
I'm sorry but to me there is little distinction between being forced to quit for something you do at home and being outright fired.
If we were talking about the series then my comment is all the more appropriate! The series is not a card game. :P
Is it just me or is that graphic totally unnecessary?
I completely agree with you, I was attempting to put employer power in context.
Or I had no idea what the game was about and I was joking?
Metal Gear Acid: Best Played While Tripping.
When will we know Google has gotten too big?
1. Wal-Mart and Google merge to form a new country
2. Google's CEO buys Canada
3. Google employees start wearing more bling than most rappers
4. Google TV starts broadcasting the Google main page 24/7
5. When wearing Google underwear stops being cool
Very little I would assume. But having fingerprints built into the database just seems a little much don't you think? What's next, a facial mold?
Before anybody gets up in arms claiming that this is a hideous privacy infringement that is frighteningly Orwellian, let me soothe your tinfoil-infected brain by pointing out the obvious: you're dropping your finger prints all the time on everything you touch! Unless you wear gloves all the time like Jacko or have burned off your fingerprints in some tinfoil-cult ritual this is nothing to worry about.
The preceeding paragraph was of course complete fuckery, because of course this is a terrible idea! I don't even use freaking customer benefits cards because I don't want my purchases tracked to my name. Us slashdotters know how big a database can be, and we also know how easy it is to link databases. Would you feel comfortable with some giant database buried deep within a missile silo that tracks your every purchase, has your dna and fingerprint on file, and is searchable by library book!? Yeah that sounds just freaking dandy.
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Did anyone else know that the 'E' in 'EA' stands for monopolistic market failure?