And how big were the textures? Raw computational performance is one thing but the often overlooked issue is memory bandwidth. GPUs don't access memory the same was as CPUs. It's harder to work with and not as efficient for general purpose computing as a CPU's multiple levels of caches, but it has much higher bandwidth.
NVIDIA already sells cards with >1GB of memory. Try rendering a scene at 60FPS when you have 1GB of textures and geometry data.
Insightful? We had the discussion you were asking for yesterday. Just because all you're interested in is one facet of IE8 doesn't mean every discussion should revolve around that single aspect.
Raise your hand if you remember Slashdot falling over itself to talk about how crappy XP was with its activation, and Fisher Price UI, or how it required a shockingly large amount of ram to run well (256MB). Or when Windows 2000 was released, and everybody was obsessed with the supposed 24,000 bugs (from a leaked memo), and that it was the worst Microsoft OS ever.
I bought a laptop a few months ago with Vista on it. I can't help but wonder if the majority of people bitching about Vista have even used it.
From the DMCA, takedown notices must include
512(c)(3)(vi) A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
However, the letter posted in TFA doesn't look like a DMCA takedown notice. It looks like just a warning about acceptable use policy infringements. If they'd been DMCA notices then Comcast would apparently be committing perjury.
Bhopal was 50.1% owned by an Indian government-run company, and operated by that company. The accident was caused by changes to the plant's design demanded by the local government, and the mismanagement of the plant (by the local government). Its sister plant in the US (owned and operated by Union Carbide) notably did not have any similar accidents.
Truly spoken by someone who has never used Notes.
Is there no sanctuary left from this monstrosity?
Precedent already in MGM vs. MP3.com
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The parent poster is right. This issue was already decided in UMG vs. MP3.com, the case about whether My.MP3.com was legal or not. The judge decided that MP3.com was in violation of copyrights, and that its use was NOT fair, since it was copying entire works and doing so for commercial purposes. This is a pretty clear precedent. Using Google Print may be fair use, but operating Google Print is not: Google is copying entire works for commercial purposes.
Google's lawyers must be hitting the bong if they think they'll win any case brought against them. The precedent is clear.
People have been building quantum computers for years now. The biggest ones these days (around 14-qubits) are NMR quantum computers, although that technique appears to have scalability issues.
Seems to me that this is only news since they plan on selling quantum-CPU time.
The light will redshift on each bounce. Each red-shift is a little bit of energy lost. Red light is less energetic than blue light, and thus will provide less impulse over time due to the continuous red-shift.
I just grabbed the WebCore source code and in short, no, they aren't. So technically Apple is in violation of the LGPL (section 2b) and as such their license to distribute, link with, etc.... KHTML is automatically terminated (section 8).
noexec is pointless in Linux (as is removing the execute flag). As long as the file can be read it can be executed -- you just manually call the loader to run the program (i.e./lib/ld-linux.so.2/what/ever/program/you/want).
The French reactors are all 30 year old American designs. The difference is in France the politicians have managed it well, so there's not the same irrational public fear.
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And how big were the textures? Raw computational performance is one thing but the often overlooked issue is memory bandwidth. GPUs don't access memory the same was as CPUs. It's harder to work with and not as efficient for general purpose computing as a CPU's multiple levels of caches, but it has much higher bandwidth.
NVIDIA already sells cards with >1GB of memory. Try rendering a scene at 60FPS when you have 1GB of textures and geometry data.
Funniest thing I've read on /. all week.
Whatever happened to the right tool for the right job? Screw iTunes and buy DRM-free music from Amazon.
Download the new version? Cisco released a Vista VPN client almost a year ago.
Insightful? We had the discussion you were asking for yesterday. Just because all you're interested in is one facet of IE8 doesn't mean every discussion should revolve around that single aspect.
I bought a laptop a few months ago with Vista on it. I can't help but wonder if the majority of people bitching about Vista have even used it.
However, the letter posted in TFA doesn't look like a DMCA takedown notice. It looks like just a warning about acceptable use policy infringements. If they'd been DMCA notices then Comcast would apparently be committing perjury.
That's the Quadro FX 5600. It's the new benchmark in high-performance GPGPU and graphics. They cost about $4000 a pop though. :-)
Bhopal was 50.1% owned by an Indian government-run company, and operated by that company. The accident was caused by changes to the plant's design demanded by the local government, and the mismanagement of the plant (by the local government). Its sister plant in the US (owned and operated by Union Carbide) notably did not have any similar accidents.
Truly spoken by someone who has never used Notes. Is there no sanctuary left from this monstrosity?
The parent poster is right. This issue was already decided in UMG vs. MP3.com, the case about whether My.MP3.com was legal or not. The judge decided that MP3.com was in violation of copyrights, and that its use was NOT fair, since it was copying entire works and doing so for commercial purposes. This is a pretty clear precedent. Using Google Print may be fair use, but operating Google Print is not: Google is copying entire works for commercial purposes.
Google's lawyers must be hitting the bong if they think they'll win any case brought against them. The precedent is clear.
People have been building quantum computers for years now. The biggest ones these days (around 14-qubits) are NMR quantum computers, although that technique appears to have scalability issues.
Seems to me that this is only news since they plan on selling quantum-CPU time.
The light will redshift on each bounce. Each red-shift is a little bit of energy lost. Red light is less energetic than blue light, and thus will provide less impulse over time due to the continuous red-shift.
It's the sound of me not buying one of those DVD players. Woosh.
You're right! Pi is 10! (in base Pi)
I haven't found any file in WebCore with dates of change listed.
Someone hold me, I'm scared...
I just grabbed the WebCore source code and in short, no, they aren't. So technically Apple is in violation of the LGPL (section 2b) and as such their license to distribute, link with, etc.... KHTML is automatically terminated (section 8).
noexec is pointless in Linux (as is removing the execute flag). As long as the file can be read it can be executed -- you just manually call the loader to run the program (i.e. /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /what/ever/program/you/want).
The French reactors are all 30 year old American designs. The difference is in France the politicians have managed it well, so there's not the same irrational public fear.
But let's not forget newspapers make their money off the ads.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but why does the Kenney Space Centre need a robotic tomato harvestor? Are these mutant space tomatos?
The parent has the amount of explosives wrong. ~2000 tons of TNT and another ~2000 tons of other explosives.
You're off by an order of magnitude. Win2K is closer to 30 million lines of code, by most reports.