this would make benchmarking pretty simple too. instead of crap like "3dnow optimized read modify store blah blah executes in x milliseconds" vs. "sse2 optimized blah shit fuck executed in y milliseconds" you'd just have amd executes 10000 specific_api_function per second vs. intel executes 8000 specific_api_function per second
Instead of a cpu crunching thru simple instructions we should have seperate dedicated processing units that implement standard apis.
Just like a gpu handles opengl/directx maybe have an spu that is optimized for string processing (search replace sort concat etc) and an api designed to expose those common string functions.. say opensl or directsex. similar units for math, ui elements, misc utility stuff etc etc
what do you ever use the instructions directly for anyways? if your coding in asm chances are your just trying to optimize some more complicated method. I'd rather use an api and leave it to the cpu manufacturer to optimize their implementation.
check out the guy that tied 50 vibrating sticks to a coffee can lid description of his robot.. this is like my junior highschool science fair
Individuals become the cause of the whole and at the same time are caused by the whole. Identity is constructed through interaction from contact with others within a collective and through a relationship with a specific environment. Observations of the ways objects in groups, or singular units, behave relative to their surroundings are a great fascination to me. The works often simulate naturally occurring functions or motions. Despite the fact that each unit within a collective group is constructed to identical specifications, they behave in subtly distinctive ways. Acting upon their limited "free will", these individual mechanisms can choose to orient themselves relative to their surroundings based on various stimuli. Individual mechanisms, which arrange themselves in an organic configuration, can be seen to represent particles in a state of disbursement, an active insect colony, or a crowd of people displacing one another.
Documentation of this activity in real time or as trace evidence of a specific interaction with other elements and environmental stimuli serves as a emphasis of these mechanisms' organic-like behavior.
50 drones consists of 50 individual aluminum and PVC units, which vibrate and interact with each other. This interaction creates spastic unpredictable behavior and a persistent buzzing noise. Each unit is tethered by a 120-inch cord that supplies it with power and limits the units' movement to a confined area. The piece is on a timer that allows it to run continuously for five minutes every hour.
to me it sounds like an optimized implementation of existing tech.. something best applied to switches/routers nic drivers etc. ie a firmware update or something. we could all benefit from this, but it will probably be patented and sold to big companies so that they are the only ones who can stream movies:\
Ever since i did the 3.0 conversion, i've been learning how to launch my q/m times, i had never gone to the track before my bore out. After bustin some 1.13 60ft times, i'm pullin 8's. Sometimes i unload in third, because my NOS is acting up. One time i actually blew the welds on the intake, and me my friend Dom had to rip apart the block and also replace the piston rings that I fried. It was actually fun, because theres just something about an engine that just calms me down. Hell yah is everybody ready for RACEWARS???
the software industry isn't going to be able to write code to utilize that speed
I have a question for all the people who keep saying today's software can't utilize a 4~5ghz cpu.. where are you guys getting this great software that is so optimized that it couldn't run faster even with a faster cpu?
-1 troll whatever but the statement is so stupid I can't stand it!
I don't think ati's "optimization" was something like if mul,add,add,div -> mul,add,div,add
it was more likely if ->
everbody keeps saying its just like an optimizing compiler.. if that were the case why would ati be removing it asap? they could simply say that the optimization they added benefits more apps than 3dmark but its simply not true
the eyestrain, and being limited to 60 sync'd frames per second. its sad when someone is like "I'm getting 300fps in quake3", then you look at their monitor and they're obviously running 60hz.. then you say something like "too bad your only seeing 60 of them". then they go "what are you talking about?", then you realize the xp refresh bug can be a bitch and answer "nevermind.. 300fps, cool"
wouldn't a small blackhole just be a small piece of dark matter? I dont think you can call it a black hole until its own gravity becomes strong enough so that light cannot escape it.
this is a stupid idea.. people could just scalp the cheap early-buy tickets at the door the night of the movie.
also, byop byos?? I avoid edwards cinemas cuz they dont have hot tomales, but no soda? im way too lazy to stop off and get my own soda on the way to the theater i'd rather pay the $2.75 for a medium coke (no I dont care for the 64oz for only a quarter more) im happy to pay the inflated price for snacks and drinks and you should be happy to charge me for it
why do current theaters only fill 20% of the seats? because they're so fucking small! nobody wants to sit in the seat next to some stranger, nobody wants to sit in the seat next to the seat next to some stranger because the seats are so freggin tiny you'll still be sitting too close
same problem the seats are too close together.. nobody wants to sit directly behind or infront of some stranger. and wtf is up with the seats 2 feet away from the screen
and having one line for all the different movies is stupid, you should buy your ticket at the entrance of the theater your movies playing in.. that way you dont get assholes waiting in line then deciding what movie they want to see at the window because they just found out the movie they wanted to see is sold out because the person in front of them wasted all sorts of time trying to decide what movie to see because the movie they wanted to see was sold out
Once you accept the idea of the multiverse, and that some universes will have immense potentiality for complexity, it's a logical consequence that in some of those universes there will be the potential to simulate parts of themselves, and you may get sort of infinite regress, so we don't know where reality stops and where the minds and ideas take over, and we don't know what our place is in this grand ensemble of universes and simulated universes.
the only thing to 'accept' of the multiverse is the inability to comprehend infinite. a dimensional barrier is the simplest most effective barrier there is because between the seperated entities lays infinite. as a human, knowing its there is the best you can do
you missed the key when you tried to copy the article and when you pasted it was this architect conversation still on your clipboard. you pasted and hit enter too quickly to realize your mistake and now you karma will suffer the consequences. we do not tolerate mistakes
the concious mind is the greatest known thing on the planet.
what you perseve to be your concious mind is simply the serial-narrative congitive interpretation of the system of cause and effect in which you live. being in charge of your own destiny is only the perspective your given.
Slashdot Mirror
10 PRINT TIME$
20 FOR I=1 TO 9999
30 NEXT I
40 PRINT TIME$
compiling...
warnings (1) empty for loop removed
this would make benchmarking pretty simple too. instead of crap like "3dnow optimized read modify store blah blah executes in x milliseconds" vs. "sse2 optimized blah shit fuck executed in y milliseconds" you'd just have amd executes 10000 specific_api_function per second vs. intel executes 8000 specific_api_function per second
Instead of a cpu crunching thru simple instructions we should have seperate dedicated processing units that implement standard apis.
Just like a gpu handles opengl/directx maybe have an spu that is optimized for string processing (search replace sort concat etc) and an api designed to expose those common string functions.. say opensl or directsex. similar units for math, ui elements, misc utility stuff etc etc
what do you ever use the instructions directly for anyways? if your coding in asm chances are your just trying to optimize some more complicated method. I'd rather use an api and leave it to the cpu manufacturer to optimize their implementation.
check out the guy that tied 50 vibrating sticks to a coffee can lid description of his robot.. this is like my junior highschool science fair
Individuals become the cause of the whole and at the same time are caused by the whole. Identity is constructed through interaction from contact with others within a collective and through a relationship with a specific environment.
Observations of the ways objects in groups, or singular units, behave relative to their surroundings are a great fascination to me. The works often simulate naturally occurring functions or motions. Despite the fact that each unit within a collective group is constructed to identical specifications, they behave in subtly distinctive ways. Acting upon their limited "free will", these individual mechanisms can choose to orient themselves relative to their surroundings based on various stimuli. Individual mechanisms, which arrange themselves in an organic configuration, can be seen to represent particles in a state of disbursement, an active insect colony, or a crowd of people displacing one another.
Documentation of this activity in real time or as trace evidence of a specific interaction with other elements and environmental stimuli serves as a emphasis of these mechanisms' organic-like behavior.
50 drones consists of 50 individual aluminum and PVC units, which vibrate and interact with each other. This interaction creates spastic unpredictable behavior and a persistent buzzing noise. Each unit is tethered by a 120-inch cord that supplies it with power and limits the units' movement to a confined area. The piece is on a timer that allows it to run continuously for five minutes every hour.
to me it sounds like an optimized implementation of existing tech.. something best applied to switches/routers nic drivers etc. ie a firmware update or something. we could all benefit from this, but it will probably be patented and sold to big companies so that they are the only ones who can stream movies :\
hah goto hell
Ana('s) Log-hole!
Ever since i did the 3.0 conversion, i've been learning how to launch my q/m times, i had never gone to the track before my bore out. After bustin some 1.13 60ft times, i'm pullin 8's. Sometimes i unload in third, because my NOS is acting up. One time i actually blew the welds on the intake, and me my friend Dom had to rip apart the block and also replace the piston rings that I fried. It was actually fun, because theres just something about an engine that just calms me down. Hell yah is everybody ready for RACEWARS???
chromatron
http://silverspaceship.com
the software industry isn't going to be able to write code to utilize that speed
I have a question for all the people who keep saying today's software can't utilize a 4~5ghz cpu.. where are you guys getting this great software that is so optimized that it couldn't run faster even with a faster cpu?
-1 troll whatever but the statement is so stupid I can't stand it!
wolfenstein and doom were shareware
I don't think ati's "optimization" was something like if mul,add,add,div -> mul,add,div,add
it was more likely if ->
everbody keeps saying its just like an optimizing compiler.. if that were the case why would ati be removing it asap? they could simply say that the optimization they added benefits more apps than 3dmark but its simply not true
the eyestrain, and being limited to 60 sync'd frames per second. its sad when someone is like "I'm getting 300fps in quake3", then you look at their monitor and they're obviously running 60hz.. then you say something like "too bad your only seeing 60 of them". then they go "what are you talking about?", then you realize the xp refresh bug can be a bitch and answer "nevermind.. 300fps, cool"
wouldn't a small blackhole just be a small piece of dark matter? I dont think you can call it a black hole until its own gravity becomes strong enough so that light cannot escape it.
this is a stupid idea.. people could just scalp the cheap early-buy tickets at the door the night of the movie.
also, byop byos?? I avoid edwards cinemas cuz they dont have hot tomales, but no soda? im way too lazy to stop off and get my own soda on the way to the theater i'd rather pay the $2.75 for a medium coke (no I dont care for the 64oz for only a quarter more) im happy to pay the inflated price for snacks and drinks and you should be happy to charge me for it
why do current theaters only fill 20% of the seats? because they're so fucking small! nobody wants to sit in the seat next to some stranger, nobody wants to sit in the seat next to the seat next to some stranger because the seats are so freggin tiny you'll still be sitting too close
same problem the seats are too close together.. nobody wants to sit directly behind or infront of some stranger. and wtf is up with the seats 2 feet away from the screen
and having one line for all the different movies is stupid, you should buy your ticket at the entrance of the theater your movies playing in.. that way you dont get assholes waiting in line then deciding what movie they want to see at the window because they just found out the movie they wanted to see is sold out because the person in front of them wasted all sorts of time trying to decide what movie to see because the movie they wanted to see was sold out
Yes, it's getting better with more and more people working on something at once
no its getting worse with more and more people working on something at once. the best programs are those written by one person from scratch
Once you accept the idea of the multiverse, and that some universes will have immense potentiality for complexity, it's a logical consequence that in some of those universes there will be the potential to simulate parts of themselves, and you may get sort of infinite regress, so we don't know where reality stops and where the minds and ideas take over, and we don't know what our place is in this grand ensemble of universes and simulated universes.
the only thing to 'accept' of the multiverse is the inability to comprehend infinite. a dimensional barrier is the simplest most effective barrier there is because between the seperated entities lays infinite. as a human, knowing its there is the best you can do
you missed the key when you tried to copy the article and when you pasted it was this architect conversation still on your clipboard. you pasted and hit enter too quickly to realize your mistake and now you karma will suffer the consequences. we do not tolerate mistakes
the concious mind is the greatest known thing on the planet.
what you perseve to be your concious mind is simply the serial-narrative congitive interpretation of the system of cause and effect in which you live. being in charge of your own destiny is only the perspective your given.
silly human
how does a challenge/response system solve anything? a spambot can answer the challenge just the same as a human would
Games lubricate the body and mind
as long as retards still need to check email and put text overlays in their home made pornos
I think a developers productivity has less to do with the language hes using and more to do with how much experience he has with that language