You're thinking about the 900knot/60kft US limit, then. However, if you have the capability of exceeding these, you meet the requirements for exemptions.:-)
See, the majority of GPS chipsets and firmware (and off the shelf units) don't work so hot above certain altitudes and speeds. (as I recall anyway) Reason: Uncle Sam doesn't like people using GPS for ICBM guidance.
The real reason is much more mundane. If they artificially cap the speed at 90mph (150km/h) or so, they can drop the prices on consumer-grade GPS units and make a smaller unit profit on scads more units, without cannibalising sales for the sleek aerospace units, which generate a much larger unit profit on fewer units.
You're somewhat correct. I'm really not satisfied with the optimisation matrix they present at that (pr-heavy) site. The only optimisation flag they used was -O. I'd like to see the impact of the runtime-bbt engine on hairier optimised code. I've not dug deeply enough to find out if other information has been released.
However, this is tangental to the real purpose of Dynamo. It's primarily intended as the second stage of a dynamic instruction translation engine. The fact that they could run native code on it and see performance improvements was a bit of cake.:-)
The performance results of Dynamo were startling. For example, Dynamo 1.0 could take a native PA-8000 SpecInt95 benchmark binary, created by the production HP PA-8000 C compiler using various optimization levels, and sometimes speed it up more than 20% over the original binary running standalone on the PA-8000 machine.
That's binary translation from/to the same machine.
This is basically run-time instruction block reorganization and optimization, which can definitely improve a given binary on a given machine, over compile-time optimizations. Admittedly, a native binary, run through this kind of profile-based optimizer, will probably be faster than a translated-then-optimized binary, but neither you or I can state that with any authority.
Enjoy thinking about the time you've wasted being here, then. Those are minutes (hours, days) you are never going to get back, all squandered on something you hate.
Bet you're really going to feel stupid when you're on your deathbed, just wishing for another few hours of youth, vigor, and health.
Good idea...verify everything you send, just in case you accidentally (ahem) say anything objectionable. It will make legal proceedings against you so much easier, necessitating hiring one of those evil attorney things.
Unless you have a specific reason to prove that you wrote something, don't sign it.
How can somebody make a profit selling below cost at all times?
Sorry if I sound incredibly dumb, but I never got it.
That's how magazines make their money. It really costs a bit more than $3 to get your copy of GQ. The problem is, the advertising-as-publishing-subsidy model has proven not to map very well to online media. However, that's what so many companies based their business model on: someone will be willing to pay for access to twenty million "qualified" customers. Prada pays for advertising access to however many Vogue subscribers, so why the heck won't they pay for the same number of people clicking through to www.ilikeclothes.com?
You can usually find the boxes on ebay for not-too-much money. If you have a Tru64 machine, you can get sort-of support for an SGI Dial and Button box on your machine.
God forbid actually bothering to discuss this with the site owner before posting the article. At least give them the option of mirroring it before the inevitable onslaught.
The company I work for has targeted a product at this very thing. It offers a minimal amount of version control overhead, in addition to team-oriented collaboration, without a lot of the other (features:-)) that one might find with the higher-priced solutions. I won't paste the marketing site in here, but if you just need file-sharing, version control, email notifications, etc., without whiteboarding, chat, workflow, and other distractions, check it out.
Fortunately, I have found a place which doesn't (for a change) operate in perpetual crisis mode, with great pay no less. Also, the company has been around for several years and isn't walking a razor-edge of venture capital and market hiccups to stay in existence.
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You're thinking about the 900knot/60kft US limit, then. However, if you have the capability of exceeding these, you meet the requirements for exemptions. :-)
See, the majority of GPS chipsets and firmware (and off the shelf units) don't work so hot above certain altitudes and speeds. (as I recall anyway) Reason: Uncle Sam doesn't like people using GPS for ICBM guidance.
The real reason is much more mundane. If they artificially cap the speed at 90mph (150km/h) or so, they can drop the prices on consumer-grade GPS units and make a smaller unit profit on scads more units, without cannibalising sales for the sleek aerospace units, which generate a much larger unit profit on fewer units.
You're somewhat correct. I'm really not satisfied with the optimisation matrix they present at that (pr-heavy) site. The only optimisation flag they used was -O. I'd like to see the impact of the runtime-bbt engine on hairier optimised code. I've not dug deeply enough to find out if other information has been released.
:-)
However, this is tangental to the real purpose of Dynamo. It's primarily intended as the second stage of a dynamic instruction translation engine. The fact that they could run native code on it and see performance improvements was a bit of cake.
To quote:
That's binary translation from/to the same machine.
This is basically run-time instruction block reorganization and optimization, which can definitely improve a given binary on a given machine, over compile-time optimizations. Admittedly, a native binary, run through this kind of profile-based optimizer, will probably be faster than a translated-then-optimized binary, but neither you or I can state that with any authority.
Which part? "Expert" and "Visual Basic programmer", or "Visual Basic" and "programmer"? Too many options!
Bet you're really going to feel stupid when you're on your deathbed, just wishing for another few hours of youth, vigor, and health.
Point being: Sign everything!
Good idea...verify everything you send, just in case you accidentally (ahem) say anything objectionable. It will make legal proceedings against you so much easier, necessitating hiring one of those evil attorney things.
Unless you have a specific reason to prove that you wrote something, don't sign it.
If you think about how God would design a chip, obviously God would use curves.
:)
I'm surprised no one told you to look inside your head to see what kind of computer God would design.
How can somebody make a profit selling below cost at all times?
Sorry if I sound incredibly dumb, but I never got it.
That's how magazines make their money. It really costs a bit more than $3 to get your copy of GQ. The problem is, the advertising-as-publishing-subsidy model has proven not to map very well to online media. However, that's what so many companies based their business model on: someone will be willing to pay for access to twenty million "qualified" customers. Prada pays for advertising access to however many Vogue subscribers, so why the heck won't they pay for the same number of people clicking through to www.ilikeclothes.com?
You can usually find the boxes on ebay for not-too-much money. If you have a Tru64 machine, you can get sort-of support for an SGI Dial and Button box on your machine.
They are listening.
God forbid actually bothering to discuss this with the site owner before posting the article. At least give them the option of mirroring it before the inevitable onslaught.
Disclaimer: In case you missed it, I work there.
Some people are doing very interesting things with Blender, which is, ostensibly, a game development modeller and renderer.
Obviously not, unfortunately.
Or for those who have been successful (lucky bastards!) in forgetting they ever had the misfortune of reading it.
Following-up my own post, AND doing so as a result of an unclosed tag.
Are you posting anonymously to keep RMS from trying to cash out early?
Fortunately, I have found a place which doesn't (for a change) operate in perpetual crisis mode, with great pay no less. Also, the company has been around for several years and isn't walking a razor-edge of venture capital and market hiccups to stay in existence.
I think those might be related.
Only females can exploit this hole!*
*Not to be taken out of context
Too late.
I'm hoping you actually got the point, though, amusing as you were.
Jim Allchin, a software designer at Microsoft
ok
So you think Slashdot needs a database of answers to questions which have easy answers?
I think questions that could very easily be solved with a mild application of google don't belong here.
How about closures, then? Recursion was just an example. As an aside, how does C optimise tail recursion?
Just call me Fiddler Crab! :-)