I agree with you that not all natives aren't like the stereotype. But their leaders do not paint them with a fair brush.
It's the same way that most people seem to think Americans are just like Bush. Bush is their leader therefore he represents the country to the world. When native leaders are stealing from their tribesmen, then doing public stunts like this, it's hard to think of the natives in anything but a negative light.
What you're missing here is it isn't racist for me to say "fuck you aboriginal, no more handouts get a fucking job." Because they're not fucking entitled to handouts anymore [or for a LONG LONG TIME] I didn't displace them, I haven't kicked an aboriginal out of their home to live in it. They just think they're entitled to the entire fucking country, but they forget that we conquered, displaced, and finally made peace with them. Deal with it. Where else in the world do people get conquered, then subsidized for their troubles?
And frankly, a kid born today, as a child of aboriginals is not subject to the same hatred and violence from whitemen as they were 300 years ago. They have the same chance to make it, provided they don't VOLUNTARILY live on isolated reserves in the middle of nowhere.
The rest of society seeks gatherings [e.g.cities] to get more chances of advances. What makes them so fucking special. If you want to live in the middle of nowhere, YOU PAY THE PRICE in the form of lower education and earnings potential.
This isn't a general purpose processor. Think "cell processor" on a larger scale. You wouldn't be running your firefox or text editor on this thing. You'd load it up and have it do things like graphics processing, ray tracing, DSP work, chemical analysis, etc...
So stop saying "we already don't have multi-core software now!!!" because this isn't meant for most software anyways.
There is a statute of limitations on most non-violent crimes for a reason. Sorry to burst your bubble, but you can't charge people for theft when the crime was committed years ago. And the land wasn't stolen from these people, it was stolen from their grand-grand-grand-...-grand-grand-grand-parents generation. As Canadians, they have the right to live anywhere, practice whatever religion they want, pursue whatever life they want. They're not forced to live on reserves, they don't have to be isolated from the rest of the world [where jobs are scarce]. They *choose* to do that.
And frankly I don't give a shit. Every other culture in Canada mingles in, does their thing and lives life. Why can't they? It's not like they live traditional lives anyways. They own homes, cars, satellite TV, etc. They drink and abuse their bodies, etc. They just put the face paint and feathers on when their is a camera around so they can milk more money out of the rest of us.
At some point you have to pick yourself up and carry on. Otherwise, your "society" doesn't progress and you become dependent on handouts. I mean what happens when, say, the economy takes a downfall and Canada just decides to cut all aboriginal payments to save money? They'd fucking die is what. So maybe aboriginals should aim to become self-sufficient in their own right.
And I just want to add that not all aboriginals are welfare junkies. I'm sure a decent non-trivial percentage of them are hardworking, good, clean people. But just like the mild mannered quebecer who doesn't fight the bloc quebecois, they're not doing much to stop the arrogant aboriginal chiefs from making asinine demands.
Um I was into mods, s3m, xm, it, and hell a bunch of FM formats too.
They're 99% shit though. At one point I downloaded modarchive.com and ended up with 32000 or so tracker files. As I was playing them I found that maybe 1 in 50 was actually worth a second listen (if that at all). I wouldn't want to listen to most tracker files while working because they're godawful annoying. And the short list of 20-30 really good ones would be too repetitive.
Why people didn't make more classical tracker files I don't know.
My first computer was a C64 btw. So don't brand me as some snot-nosed 13 yr old. Just because there was something before real-life music formats (e.g. vorbis, mp3, aac) doesn't mean it was better.
A lot of those "frills" are taken for granted in the user experience. My OS seems to have a similar response to a 1986 Mac... all while running many tasks at once including media players, file servers, etc, etc, etc.
I want to see that 16MHz 68000 decode an MP3 in realtime [or faster] and have CPU to spare to do anything else.
Yeah, but this is like blaming a 17 yr old German for Nazi war crimes. Doesn't quite work that way. Basically the aboriginals are saying "Tom, you're oppressing me, even though you're only 25, didn't form the land treaties of 300 years ago, you must pay me for your sins.'
Frankly it's a shame we couldn't just wipe them all out. Then we wouldn't have to listen to the bitching of the lower rungs of society.
The comments stem from the fact that the indians are born into a virtual life of privilege. The irony of which is that their own leaders horde the funds given to the bands/tribes and the reserve inhabitants live in squaller.
Frankly, 50% of my blood line comes from the Ukraine, 60 years ago. Why should I pay for indians when it wasn't "my people" who oppressed them?
And therein lies the problem, it's perpetual, at this rate we'll be paying [an ever increasing amount] forever for the sins of the past. To add insult to injury the funds are *not* being used for any good. Indians choose to live in remote areas, to have leaders who steal from their own members, etc. Then they bitch to us that life is too hard.
Well, that's why the rest of us don't live in remote areas, why the rest of us [at least try to] hold our leaders accountable for their actions, etc...
I respect their culture [what little is left] but I despise the fact they think they're entitled to shit all.
Graphics will become outdated? Or you mean the other haters will overhype their 500W GPUs to shadow their other shortcomings? I dunno, I guess I must be the ONLY person who still plays retro games from the 80s and 90s.
Only non-innovators push their GPU strength as the main selling point. Let me guess, the PS4 will consume twice the energy, require it's own air conditioning unit, and be able to render 2600x1400 images at 200fps? OMG CRAZIES!
Bingo. If anything will be the undoing of the Wii it's that. People like you and I who just get frustrated of waiting and buy a different console which is readily available. (or none at all).
And frankly, that we keep having threads about "The wii is dying" kinda makes me think that the others are just scared of the competition so they spread this fud around. The wii is a fine console, both capable of decent graphics and immersive gaming. The only really shitty thing about it [other than the small game library] is that they're impossible to find without entering a waiting list 2 months long.
Section 298 and onward defines Defamatory Libel in the Canadian Code.
So far "linking" to a page that links to a page that publishes libel isn't illegal. So Geist is very safe provided he doesn't publish [or cause to be published] anything libelous on his own.
The paper analogy would be like suing the corner store that sells a newspaper that happen to have carried a libelous story. That wouldn't hold up in court, neither will this.
The point is when you're compiling that you don't how big the loop is. You could add a bunch of tests (if n is larger than 16, 128, 1024, 100000, etc...) but that slows down the code and also makes it huge.
It's not a question of whether you can use parallelism or not. In C, as long as the prescribed behaviour is adhered to, it doesn't matter how it is implemented.
For example, it would be valid for a C compiler to compile to java byte code, and use an interpreter to execute the instructions. So long as the program runs the way the C standard says it should, it's valid (just not efficient).
It's also not practical to spawn a thread [or threads] whenever there might be a bit of parallelism. If you already had a thread launched waiting for some data that's one thing. Consider the following bit.
for (x = 0; x < n; x++) a[x] += b[x];
Which is faster, serial, parallel, vector [e.g. SIMD] or some combination thereof?
Fair enough, but unless you hang out with 60 or so peeps you're not guaranteed to have seen one.
In fact it's even lower if you know couples. In most cases, a couple who is against buying one acts really like an individual. Even if one of them might be tilted towards buying one, they won't.
You realize that a million isn't much right in the grand scheme of populations right?
In the UK, if a million were sold there you'd have a 1/54 chance [or so] of knowing someone who owned a Zune. In Canada, it'd be about 1/32 or so. And given that I don't regularly hang out with 32 peeps [assuming all were sold in Canada though...] it's not surprising me that I haven't seen one.
The only reason you buy thousands of domains is in the hopes that one of them becomes really popular and you can extort^Wscam^Wsell it to someone who will do something with it. I dunno about the rest of you, but when I google for hard to find products and I land on search engine bait websites, I just hit the back button, I don't click on the ads or worse, buy anything from them.
My sarcasm aside, the point is pirating the shows is not the "solution." We can't all do that because they'd stop making them. So instead of "bragging" about how you copy thing without paying for them, like some smartass ignorant jackass, why not stop and think about what you're doing.
If you hate cable/satellite so much, go out and buy DVDs and boxsets. Or rent them, or borrow from friends, etc...
I find that there just isn't enough incentive. Where I live it [Ottawa] it shouldn't be impossible to get 10mbps to each house, yet both large players [Rogers and Bell] don't provide it. They're large enough that "switching to a competitor" is not meaningful. You basically choose between one of them, or dial up [or a dsl reseller but that's just lipstick on a pig].
That isn't saying anything though. What channels do you get? What is your calling plan like? etc...
Most calling plans [in Canada at least] are for unlimited local calls, and you can get various long distance. Vonage for instance [and most voip] is free or next to free for north america long distance. Last time I was in France, I saw calling plan advertisements that didn't include unlimited local calls, for instance.
While I won't defend the companies in the US or Canada [cuz honestly they're probably hording anyways] but we do have more surface area here.
France is a "bit" smaller than Canada, and by bit I mean 14.79x smaller [14.27x smaller than USA]. Obviously it's cheaper to cover France than Canada or the states.
Yeah, you are teh smart, obviously the solution is for nobody to pay for the shows. OMG I wish I could be smart like yous. Can you teaches me these skillz?
Patenting technology [e.g. material sciences] is not the same as software. In software, you're more likely to just adapt from a known source to suit your needs. True innovative [and original] computer algorithms are rare, which is why people oppose software patents. If it were the case that truly original innovations were common in software it would be a different story.
As for material sciences [e.g. making a disc] it could quite possibly not have been obvious that a given composition of alloys make a highly reflective corrosion resistant material. Just because something is computer related doesn't mean it's software. Of course, just because you got a patent for it doesn't mean you deserved it too...
Life's too short to try and follow the low S/N that is corporate software shops. If either side came up with something I found useful [that I couldn't get elsewhere] I'd already be looking for it or know about it.
For example, MSFT says that Vista is a whole new OS [lie] that gives consumers new ways to use their PC [also a lie] and opens up a world of multimedia never before possible [another lie]. They say that the UAC will bring security to the desktop [lie], and that signed drivers protect users [another lie]. Balmer often says he wants developers [lie], etc.
Then you look at the mac. They claim to be hip, but in reality they're just an overpriced gimmick. They claim that multimedia shines on the mac [lie, hint: this isn't 1991, multimedia PCs are just as good, and look at the recent laptop screen fiasco], they claim that their software is basically the only way to organize photos, music and videos [lie], that macs are more "fun" than PCs [lie], etc.
To be honest I just don't see what all the hoopla is about. A custom built or Dell [style] computer is just as good as an expensive apple laptop. Why would I buy a macbook over a cheaper laptop and just install a linux distro myself? Why would I buy a loaded down Vista box when a high quality custom box is the same cost or cheaper and can be loaded with whatever OS distro I want.
They may be big companies but they're totally out of the realm of what I care about in computing. They're not making products [or pricing them] according to the way I [and frankly many of my friends] see the market.
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I agree with you that not all natives aren't like the stereotype. But their leaders do not paint them with a fair brush.
.cities] to get more chances of advances. What makes them so fucking special. If you want to live in the middle of nowhere, YOU PAY THE PRICE in the form of lower education and earnings potential.
It's the same way that most people seem to think Americans are just like Bush. Bush is their leader therefore he represents the country to the world. When native leaders are stealing from their tribesmen, then doing public stunts like this, it's hard to think of the natives in anything but a negative light.
What you're missing here is it isn't racist for me to say "fuck you aboriginal, no more handouts get a fucking job." Because they're not fucking entitled to handouts anymore [or for a LONG LONG TIME] I didn't displace them, I haven't kicked an aboriginal out of their home to live in it. They just think they're entitled to the entire fucking country, but they forget that we conquered, displaced, and finally made peace with them. Deal with it. Where else in the world do people get conquered, then subsidized for their troubles?
And frankly, a kid born today, as a child of aboriginals is not subject to the same hatred and violence from whitemen as they were 300 years ago. They have the same chance to make it, provided they don't VOLUNTARILY live on isolated reserves in the middle of nowhere.
The rest of society seeks gatherings [e.g
Tom
and all that is holy on this sacred Earth ...
This isn't a general purpose processor. Think "cell processor" on a larger scale. You wouldn't be running your firefox or text editor on this thing. You'd load it up and have it do things like graphics processing, ray tracing, DSP work, chemical analysis, etc...
So stop saying "we already don't have multi-core software now!!!" because this isn't meant for most software anyways.
Tom
There is a statute of limitations on most non-violent crimes for a reason. Sorry to burst your bubble, but you can't charge people for theft when the crime was committed years ago. And the land wasn't stolen from these people, it was stolen from their grand-grand-grand-...-grand-grand-grand-parents generation. As Canadians, they have the right to live anywhere, practice whatever religion they want, pursue whatever life they want. They're not forced to live on reserves, they don't have to be isolated from the rest of the world [where jobs are scarce]. They *choose* to do that.
And frankly I don't give a shit. Every other culture in Canada mingles in, does their thing and lives life. Why can't they? It's not like they live traditional lives anyways. They own homes, cars, satellite TV, etc. They drink and abuse their bodies, etc. They just put the face paint and feathers on when their is a camera around so they can milk more money out of the rest of us.
At some point you have to pick yourself up and carry on. Otherwise, your "society" doesn't progress and you become dependent on handouts. I mean what happens when, say, the economy takes a downfall and Canada just decides to cut all aboriginal payments to save money? They'd fucking die is what. So maybe aboriginals should aim to become self-sufficient in their own right.
And I just want to add that not all aboriginals are welfare junkies. I'm sure a decent non-trivial percentage of them are hardworking, good, clean people. But just like the mild mannered quebecer who doesn't fight the bloc quebecois, they're not doing much to stop the arrogant aboriginal chiefs from making asinine demands.
Tom
Um I was into mods, s3m, xm, it, and hell a bunch of FM formats too.
They're 99% shit though. At one point I downloaded modarchive.com and ended up with 32000 or so tracker files. As I was playing them I found that maybe 1 in 50 was actually worth a second listen (if that at all). I wouldn't want to listen to most tracker files while working because they're godawful annoying. And the short list of 20-30 really good ones would be too repetitive.
Why people didn't make more classical tracker files I don't know.
My first computer was a C64 btw. So don't brand me as some snot-nosed 13 yr old. Just because there was something before real-life music formats (e.g. vorbis, mp3, aac) doesn't mean it was better.
Tom
A lot of those "frills" are taken for granted in the user experience. My OS seems to have a similar response to a 1986 Mac ... all while running many tasks at once including media players, file servers, etc, etc, etc.
I want to see that 16MHz 68000 decode an MP3 in realtime [or faster] and have CPU to spare to do anything else.
Yeah, but this is like blaming a 17 yr old German for Nazi war crimes. Doesn't quite work that way. Basically the aboriginals are saying "Tom, you're oppressing me, even though you're only 25, didn't form the land treaties of 300 years ago, you must pay me for your sins.'
Frankly it's a shame we couldn't just wipe them all out. Then we wouldn't have to listen to the bitching of the lower rungs of society.
Tom
The comments stem from the fact that the indians are born into a virtual life of privilege. The irony of which is that their own leaders horde the funds given to the bands/tribes and the reserve inhabitants live in squaller.
Frankly, 50% of my blood line comes from the Ukraine, 60 years ago. Why should I pay for indians when it wasn't "my people" who oppressed them?
And therein lies the problem, it's perpetual, at this rate we'll be paying [an ever increasing amount] forever for the sins of the past. To add insult to injury the funds are *not* being used for any good. Indians choose to live in remote areas, to have leaders who steal from their own members, etc. Then they bitch to us that life is too hard.
Well, that's why the rest of us don't live in remote areas, why the rest of us [at least try to] hold our leaders accountable for their actions, etc...
I respect their culture [what little is left] but I despise the fact they think they're entitled to shit all.
Tom
Graphics will become outdated? Or you mean the other haters will overhype their 500W GPUs to shadow their other shortcomings? I dunno, I guess I must be the ONLY person who still plays retro games from the 80s and 90s.
Only non-innovators push their GPU strength as the main selling point. Let me guess, the PS4 will consume twice the energy, require it's own air conditioning unit, and be able to render 2600x1400 images at 200fps? OMG CRAZIES!
Tom
Bingo. If anything will be the undoing of the Wii it's that. People like you and I who just get frustrated of waiting and buy a different console which is readily available. (or none at all).
And frankly, that we keep having threads about "The wii is dying" kinda makes me think that the others are just scared of the competition so they spread this fud around. The wii is a fine console, both capable of decent graphics and immersive gaming. The only really shitty thing about it [other than the small game library] is that they're impossible to find without entering a waiting list 2 months long.
Tom
Section 298 and onward defines Defamatory Libel in the Canadian Code.
So far "linking" to a page that links to a page that publishes libel isn't illegal. So Geist is very safe provided he doesn't publish [or cause to be published] anything libelous on his own.
The paper analogy would be like suing the corner store that sells a newspaper that happen to have carried a libelous story. That wouldn't hold up in court, neither will this.
Tom
The point is when you're compiling that you don't how big the loop is. You could add a bunch of tests (if n is larger than 16, 128, 1024, 100000, etc...) but that slows down the code and also makes it huge.
Tom
It's not a question of whether you can use parallelism or not. In C, as long as the prescribed behaviour is adhered to, it doesn't matter how it is implemented.
For example, it would be valid for a C compiler to compile to java byte code, and use an interpreter to execute the instructions. So long as the program runs the way the C standard says it should, it's valid (just not efficient).
Tom
Last I checked gdb could debug multi-threaded [process] processes. If you want to step a process you just pick whichever to step.
Tom
It's also not practical to spawn a thread [or threads] whenever there might be a bit of parallelism. If you already had a thread launched waiting for some data that's one thing. Consider the following bit.
for (x = 0; x < n; x++) a[x] += b[x];
Which is faster, serial, parallel, vector [e.g. SIMD] or some combination thereof?
Don't know? Why would your compiler know either?
Tom
Fair enough, but unless you hang out with 60 or so peeps you're not guaranteed to have seen one.
In fact it's even lower if you know couples. In most cases, a couple who is against buying one acts really like an individual. Even if one of them might be tilted towards buying one, they won't.
Tom
Well I dunno about you but when I walk around with my ipod I usually keep it in my pocket.
Tom
You realize that a million isn't much right in the grand scheme of populations right?
In the UK, if a million were sold there you'd have a 1/54 chance [or so] of knowing someone who owned a Zune. In Canada, it'd be about 1/32 or so. And given that I don't regularly hang out with 32 peeps [assuming all were sold in Canada though...] it's not surprising me that I haven't seen one.
Tom
The only reason you buy thousands of domains is in the hopes that one of them becomes really popular and you can extort^Wscam^Wsell it to someone who will do something with it. I dunno about the rest of you, but when I google for hard to find products and I land on search engine bait websites, I just hit the back button, I don't click on the ads or worse, buy anything from them.
Tom
My sarcasm aside, the point is pirating the shows is not the "solution." We can't all do that because they'd stop making them. So instead of "bragging" about how you copy thing without paying for them, like some smartass ignorant jackass, why not stop and think about what you're doing.
If you hate cable/satellite so much, go out and buy DVDs and boxsets. Or rent them, or borrow from friends, etc...
Tom
I find that there just isn't enough incentive. Where I live it [Ottawa] it shouldn't be impossible to get 10mbps to each house, yet both large players [Rogers and Bell] don't provide it. They're large enough that "switching to a competitor" is not meaningful. You basically choose between one of them, or dial up [or a dsl reseller but that's just lipstick on a pig].
Tom
That isn't saying anything though. What channels do you get? What is your calling plan like? etc...
Most calling plans [in Canada at least] are for unlimited local calls, and you can get various long distance. Vonage for instance [and most voip] is free or next to free for north america long distance. Last time I was in France, I saw calling plan advertisements that didn't include unlimited local calls, for instance.
Tom
While I won't defend the companies in the US or Canada [cuz honestly they're probably hording anyways] but we do have more surface area here.
France is a "bit" smaller than Canada, and by bit I mean 14.79x smaller [14.27x smaller than USA]. Obviously it's cheaper to cover France than Canada or the states.
Tom
Yeah, you are teh smart, obviously the solution is for nobody to pay for the shows. OMG I wish I could be smart like yous. Can you teaches me these skillz?
STFU NEWB!
Patenting technology [e.g. material sciences] is not the same as software. In software, you're more likely to just adapt from a known source to suit your needs. True innovative [and original] computer algorithms are rare, which is why people oppose software patents. If it were the case that truly original innovations were common in software it would be a different story.
As for material sciences [e.g. making a disc] it could quite possibly not have been obvious that a given composition of alloys make a highly reflective corrosion resistant material. Just because something is computer related doesn't mean it's software. Of course, just because you got a patent for it doesn't mean you deserved it too...
Tom
Life's too short to try and follow the low S/N that is corporate software shops. If either side came up with something I found useful [that I couldn't get elsewhere] I'd already be looking for it or know about it.
For example, MSFT says that Vista is a whole new OS [lie] that gives consumers new ways to use their PC [also a lie] and opens up a world of multimedia never before possible [another lie]. They say that the UAC will bring security to the desktop [lie], and that signed drivers protect users [another lie]. Balmer often says he wants developers [lie], etc.
Then you look at the mac. They claim to be hip, but in reality they're just an overpriced gimmick. They claim that multimedia shines on the mac [lie, hint: this isn't 1991, multimedia PCs are just as good, and look at the recent laptop screen fiasco], they claim that their software is basically the only way to organize photos, music and videos [lie], that macs are more "fun" than PCs [lie], etc.
To be honest I just don't see what all the hoopla is about. A custom built or Dell [style] computer is just as good as an expensive apple laptop. Why would I buy a macbook over a cheaper laptop and just install a linux distro myself? Why would I buy a loaded down Vista box when a high quality custom box is the same cost or cheaper and can be loaded with whatever OS distro I want.
They may be big companies but they're totally out of the realm of what I care about in computing. They're not making products [or pricing them] according to the way I [and frankly many of my friends] see the market.
Tom