It's fine that cosmic rays aren't correlated with cloud formation, however it's clear that cooling is strongly correlated with low sunspot activity.
So, even if this is not the mechanism, it changes very little. We're still in solar minimum, instead of a peak that was originally predicted for 2006. Not surprisingly, the global climate is also in a cooling trend.
The act simply forces banks to apply their criteria for giving mortgages equally to any prospective borrower.
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The act simply forced banks to loan to those who weren't really qualified. Janet Reno threatened to go after those that didn't.
Aside from that, there was also the practice of selling variable-rate mortgages (as well as even worse products) to "subprime" borrowers who could barely afford the initial payments. So, when property values plummeted, a lot of people couldn't refinance out of their variables or afford them, and that's a huge contributing factor to the ongoing problem.
There's plenty of blame to go around, but the Dems are neck deep in it. FM&FM contributed the most money to Chris Dodd, followed next by 0bama. We'll see what, if anything, he'll do to track down the 'evil-doers'.;-)
As to the draft or other forced conscription, the die are cast, we'll see...
As opposed to the gloriously strong economy and the lack of overseas wars that Republican policies of the last eight years have brought the US?
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The economy was doing well, until oil prices spiked. I'd suggest that lack of domestic oil production is more a Dem failing than Republican, no? The mortgage crisis can likewise be laid largely at the feet of the Dems, especially since Republican leadership had called for more oversight over the government mortgage companies.
As to a "lack of overseas wars", well Iraq is winding down with or without 0bama, and he's vowed to win in Afghanistan. So what's the difference again?
I will tell you that there'll be a tendency for 0bama to get involved in conflict, since he's perceived as weak and inexperienced, both here and abroad. He's going to have to prove himself - and don't forget Biden's moronic comments before the election.
Are you so stupid that you think 0 is a capital o, or is it some kind of pathetic joke?
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Alas, the pathetic joke is the 0bama Presidency. I do retain some hope it won't be an unmitigated disaster.
And why do you think that Democrats cause downturns, we seem to be in one now, with a Republican president for the past eight years, and most of the past two decades, we've had a Republican senate (Although to be honest I think the causes of the current downturn were stupidity on the part of both parties).
The cause of the current crisis (not downturn) can mainly be laid at the feet of the Dems, via the Community Redevelopment Act. Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac (FM&FM) are largely Dem operations. Now that the economy is trashed, don't expect 0bama policies to help - they're rooted in discredited principles.
We've had a Democrat Congress (both houses) for the last two years, so it's hard to lay the crisis at the feet of the Republicans - especially when both Bush and McCain have called for more oversight over FM&FM.
And weirdest of all, what leads you to believe Obama will institute conscription?
The Dems don't like the idea of a professional military, they feel it's not "fair" that everyone not participate. Charlie Rangel called for reinstating the draft in 2006, for instance.
Here's a relevant quote from the 0ne himself, from 9/11/2008:
But it's also important that a president speaks to military service as an obligation not just of some, but of many. You know, I traveled, obviously, a lot over the last 19 months. And if you go to small towns, throughout the Midwest or the Southwest or the South, every town has tons of young people who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thatâ(TM)s not always the case in other parts of the country, in more urban centers. And I think it's important for the president to say, this is an important obligation. If we are going into war, then all of us go, not just some.
How do you send them "all" to war without a draft, exactly? lol
You can read more regarding 0bama's plans for involuntary guvmint service at change.gov. Good luck!
Yeah I thought his knowledge of all 57 states was particularly impressive.
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0bama is only President today because of a fawning press, we can only hope that America won't be permanently ruined. Brace yourselves for a long, nasty economic downturn (Dem economic policies). Also, I hope all you Slashdotties are ready for the draft! lol
The good news is that 0bama will almost certainly be only a single-term President.
So, just as the Earth enters a significant cooling trend (~20-30 years of cooling, at least) we should consider something to make it cool even faster?
It's my opinion, after considerable research, that we don't yet know enough to make long-term climate predictions, MUCH LESS BASE POLICY ON THOSE PREDICTIONS!
It's disheartening that both US Presidential candidates have bought into the CAGW hype for the time being...
We're already looking at significant global cooling for several decades down the road, let's hope it's not going to be a new Maunder Minimum type event...
You never hear much about the undersea volcanism in the Arctic. There've been several major eruptions since the late nineties. One would think that might contribute to melting, I'd at least like to see some analysis. It may just be a "who knows" since estimating the magma outflow might be hard.
Not really, most GPUs are MMIO devices anyways. All you would need is a smart memory crossbar which redirects memory access to the GPU's memory to the internal GPU instead of over the memory bus.
Hypertransport.
Since AMD processors already have internal memory controllers, it's entirely possible to do this and avoid any off-chip accesses.
The thing to do would be to give the GPU it's own memory controller and Hypertransport access to fast graphics memory. Then, what you'd have eliminated is "slow" transfers over the PCI 3.0 bus, instead using Hypertransport directly for all graphics traffic. Graphics memory could remain dedicated graphics memory (at least in high-end systems).
That said, I agree with what others are saying, this thing will compete with your CPU for memory bandwidth. However, I suspect the reason for this is more so to get power consumption down, not performance up.
Whether or not it competes for main memory bandwidth is entirely implementation dependent. Given how NVIDIA continues to eat AMD/ATIs lunch on performance, this had better be a performance oriented initiative. Batching graphics data across Hypertransport sure seems like a step in the right direction.
If you read the article (shocking idea I know) you'll see NVIDIA is working on a solution where a more efficient on-board or on-chip GPU can take over when heavy 3D lifting isn't needed. A 'greener' GPU architecture, in other words.
Army and Navy will want botnets too!
Seriously, cyber warfare will be a big issue of two high-tech countries ever go to war against each other again...;-)
As Predator drones have proven, an unmanned vehicle is capable of friendly fire, but the decision to engage will always be made by a human operator.
I guess they haven't looked at the new South Korean sentry robots, which will have an autonomous fire mode.
I personally don't see a big technical hurdle with fully autonomous battle robots, but I'm sure there'll be a big psychological hurdle.;-)
It seems there'd be some fairly easy to achieve modes, from "kill anything that moves", "kill every adult that moves" to "order any humans to halt and remain still, and if they don't kill them", to "get a human in the loop if a target is
seen". I expect "arms in the air" would still be an easily recognizable surrender gesture.
Big mistake: believing anything in a Micheal Moore movie without serious fact checking.
The Tomahawks, JDAMs, and laser guided bombs all work pretty much as advertised. Tomahawk TERCOM and GPS navigation is very precise.
As a matter of fact, Tomahawks are one of the first fully autonomous "robotic" vehicles to have attack capability. There's a variation that can be programmed to attack three separate geographically diverse targets with bomblets, then do a terminal KE attack against a final target, all without human intervention.
So, any concern over autonomous robots attacking humans is a bit late, not to mention the nuke-carrying variety.;-)
Too many people these days have little or no exposure to C++, and never learn how programming in the absence of garbage collection works. It is especially problematic in our research labs, where computationally complex problems must be solved with very fast code, but the people writing it get completely confused by pointers and memory management. Worse is when a proof-of-concept is distributed, with horrible bugs and completely incomprehensible code.
The problem is you have people (probably engineers or scientists) programming in C++. Time to reinvent FORTRAN (he says sarcastically).
Hint: People programming mathematical algorithms should be insulated from memory management and the underlying computer architecture.
"It's extremely popular in some market segments and I'd bet most of those Java programming jobs are for people who write apps for Java app servers, not swing apps for desktop or mobile use. If we're going to talk about Java I think it's important to make such distinctions."
OK, you'd "bet".
On the other hand I'm quite sure that significant numbers of those jobs for for Swing (desktop) or J2ME (handset) development. J2ME has been quite a success, probably the majority of phone apps have been developed using it. Also don't forget that Blackberry is programmed exclusively in Java.
Swing, while not great for mass-market apps, is suitable for custom in-house apps for business. That's where the majority of Swing development is right now. Personally, I'd look at SWT for a desktop app.
Yes everyone learns it, but aside from a few web apps no one uses it.
Says falcon5768, who's an authority because of...?
As opposed to monster.com, where "Java developer" returns "> 5000" hits, "C++ developer returns 2457 hits, "Perl developer" which returns 1134 hits, or "Python developer" which returns 300?
Java is undoubtedly the most widely used language for current development. So much for "no one".
It's really not too bad, just not ideal for the highest performance and real time niches. Even so, gcj (for instance) comes close.
Disagree: An Obama nomination will bring out a massive number of young voters who didn't register in time for the primaries who happen to be BLACK.
It will be countered by the anti-Obama reaction (read: racism) among Hispanics, who also like McCain for his involvement with the attempted amnesty bill. I believe Hispanics are now a bigger voting block than Blacks.:-)
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So, even if this is not the mechanism, it changes very little. We're still in solar minimum, instead of a peak that was originally predicted for 2006. Not surprisingly, the global climate is also in a cooling trend.
Talk about inconvenient...
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The act simply forced banks to loan to those who weren't really qualified. Janet Reno threatened to go after those that didn't.
Aside from that, there was also the practice of selling variable-rate mortgages (as well as even worse products) to "subprime" borrowers who could barely afford the initial payments. So, when property values plummeted, a lot of people couldn't refinance out of their variables or afford them, and that's a huge contributing factor to the ongoing problem.
There's plenty of blame to go around, but the Dems are neck deep in it. FM&FM contributed the most money to Chris Dodd, followed next by 0bama. We'll see what, if anything, he'll do to track down the 'evil-doers'. ;-)
As to the draft or other forced conscription, the die are cast, we'll see...
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The economy was doing well, until oil prices spiked. I'd suggest that lack of domestic oil production is more a Dem failing than Republican, no? The mortgage crisis can likewise be laid largely at the feet of the Dems, especially since Republican leadership had called for more oversight over the government mortgage companies.
As to a "lack of overseas wars", well Iraq is winding down with or without 0bama, and he's vowed to win in Afghanistan. So what's the difference again?
I will tell you that there'll be a tendency for 0bama to get involved in conflict, since he's perceived as weak and inexperienced, both here and abroad. He's going to have to prove himself - and don't forget Biden's moronic comments before the election.
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Alas, the pathetic joke is the 0bama Presidency. I do retain some hope it won't be an unmitigated disaster.
And why do you think that Democrats cause downturns, we seem to be in one now, with a Republican president for the past eight years, and most of the past two decades, we've had a Republican senate (Although to be honest I think the causes of the current downturn were stupidity on the part of both parties).
The cause of the current crisis (not downturn) can mainly be laid at the feet of the Dems, via the Community Redevelopment Act. Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac (FM&FM) are largely Dem operations. Now that the economy is trashed, don't expect 0bama policies to help - they're rooted in discredited principles.
We've had a Democrat Congress (both houses) for the last two years, so it's hard to lay the crisis at the feet of the Republicans - especially when both Bush and McCain have called for more oversight over FM&FM.
And weirdest of all, what leads you to believe Obama will institute conscription?
The Dems don't like the idea of a professional military, they feel it's not "fair" that everyone not participate. Charlie Rangel called for reinstating the draft in 2006, for instance.
Here's a relevant quote from the 0ne himself, from 9/11/2008:
But it's also important that a president speaks to military service as an obligation not just of some, but of many. You know, I traveled, obviously, a lot over the last 19 months. And if you go to small towns, throughout the Midwest or the Southwest or the South, every town has tons of young people who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thatâ(TM)s not always the case in other parts of the country, in more urban centers. And I think it's important for the president to say, this is an important obligation. If we are going into war, then all of us go, not just some.
How do you send them "all" to war without a draft, exactly? lol
You can read more regarding 0bama's plans for involuntary guvmint service at change.gov. Good luck!
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0bama is only President today because of a fawning press, we can only hope that America won't be permanently ruined. Brace yourselves for a long, nasty economic downturn (Dem economic policies). Also, I hope all you Slashdotties are ready for the draft! lol
The good news is that 0bama will almost certainly be only a single-term President.
It's my opinion, after considerable research, that we don't yet know enough to make long-term climate predictions, MUCH LESS BASE POLICY ON THOSE PREDICTIONS!
It's disheartening that both US Presidential candidates have bought into the CAGW hype for the time being...
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There, fixed it. (Removed the 'covertly', the strike tag doesn't seem to be working.)
To hear NObama tell it, he'd unilaterally disarm. Oh, that is until he changed his position lately.
McCain/Palin '08!
Yes, it seems likely that we're beginning a significant cooling event. We'll see how much longer the current minimum drags on. It's sure not over yet!
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/joes-blog/sunspots_may_vanish_by_2015/
We're already looking at significant global cooling for several decades down the road, let's hope it's not going to be a new Maunder Minimum type event...
I expect it to be a cold winter this year.
Hypertransport.
Since AMD processors already have internal memory controllers, it's entirely possible to do this and avoid any off-chip accesses.
The thing to do would be to give the GPU it's own memory controller and Hypertransport access to fast graphics memory. Then, what you'd have eliminated is "slow" transfers over the PCI 3.0 bus, instead using Hypertransport directly for all graphics traffic. Graphics memory could remain dedicated graphics memory (at least in high-end systems).
That said, I agree with what others are saying, this thing will compete with your CPU for memory bandwidth. However, I suspect the reason for this is more so to get power consumption down, not performance up.
Whether or not it competes for main memory bandwidth is entirely implementation dependent. Given how NVIDIA continues to eat AMD/ATIs lunch on performance, this had better be a performance oriented initiative. Batching graphics data across Hypertransport sure seems like a step in the right direction.
If you read the article (shocking idea I know) you'll see NVIDIA is working on a solution where a more efficient on-board or on-chip GPU can take over when heavy 3D lifting isn't needed. A 'greener' GPU architecture, in other words.
3G 8 GB iPhone at $199!!!
Christians have engaged in war for centuries, it's a well-established tradition. ;-)
"Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords." - Ben Franklin
Oh, and by the way, for the most part Bush has done a fine job. You'll regret it if a Dem is elected.
Army and Navy will want botnets too! Seriously, cyber warfare will be a big issue of two high-tech countries ever go to war against each other again... ;-)
I'm waiting for Apple's lawyers to arrive with the attitude of a school of hungry piranha any time now...
I guess they haven't looked at the new South Korean sentry robots, which will have an autonomous fire mode.
I personally don't see a big technical hurdle with fully autonomous battle robots, but I'm sure there'll be a big psychological hurdle. ;-)
It seems there'd be some fairly easy to achieve modes, from "kill anything that moves", "kill every adult that moves" to "order any humans to halt and remain still, and if they don't kill them", to "get a human in the loop if a target is seen". I expect "arms in the air" would still be an easily recognizable surrender gesture.
Sure. They are called "autopilots". lol
The Tomahawks, JDAMs, and laser guided bombs all work pretty much as advertised. Tomahawk TERCOM and GPS navigation is very precise.
As a matter of fact, Tomahawks are one of the first fully autonomous "robotic" vehicles to have attack capability. There's a variation that can be programmed to attack three separate geographically diverse targets with bomblets, then do a terminal KE attack against a final target, all without human intervention.
So, any concern over autonomous robots attacking humans is a bit late, not to mention the nuke-carrying variety. ;-)
First sign of a problem... ;-)
Too many people these days have little or no exposure to C++, and never learn how programming in the absence of garbage collection works. It is especially problematic in our research labs, where computationally complex problems must be solved with very fast code, but the people writing it get completely confused by pointers and memory management. Worse is when a proof-of-concept is distributed, with horrible bugs and completely incomprehensible code.
The problem is you have people (probably engineers or scientists) programming in C++. Time to reinvent FORTRAN (he says sarcastically).
Hint: People programming mathematical algorithms should be insulated from memory management and the underlying computer architecture.
Correct, but "x-lang developer" should give consistent results across substitutions...as you noticed, wider searches lead to less meaningful results.
OK, you'd "bet".
On the other hand I'm quite sure that significant numbers of those jobs for for Swing (desktop) or J2ME (handset) development. J2ME has been quite a success, probably the majority of phone apps have been developed using it. Also don't forget that Blackberry is programmed exclusively in Java.
Swing, while not great for mass-market apps, is suitable for custom in-house apps for business. That's where the majority of Swing development is right now. Personally, I'd look at SWT for a desktop app.
On the other hand "visual basic developer" returns 2719, which is lower than I would have expected.
Says falcon5768, who's an authority because of...?
As opposed to monster.com, where "Java developer" returns "> 5000" hits, "C++ developer returns 2457 hits, "Perl developer" which returns 1134 hits, or "Python developer" which returns 300?
Java is undoubtedly the most widely used language for current development. So much for "no one".
It's really not too bad, just not ideal for the highest performance and real time niches. Even so, gcj (for instance) comes close.
It will be countered by the anti-Obama reaction (read: racism) among Hispanics, who also like McCain for his involvement with the attempted amnesty bill. I believe Hispanics are now a bigger voting block than Blacks. :-)