Like the US government? Enron, Diebold, secret energy council meetings?
Yes. Like Food for Oil and all the "humanitarian aid" to African nations, etc.
financially bankrupt
No doubt not helped by the fact that the US owes it millions of dollars. And isn't the US running the largest spending deficit in world history?
Yes. Like paying the USA for being the majority (if not all) the support/logistics for any operation that's ever undertaken by the UN.
incapable of acting when it is most needed
Like the US government during Katrina, you mean?
Yes. Like the UN without the USA doing the work that the UN desires to be done.
Sorry, the UN is worse than the US how, exactly?
Not only is the UN corrupt (at least as much as the USA Government), they are powerless because no other country steps up to the plate sufficiently when the UN requests action in *anything*. Add that to suddenly giving power (Veto power, none-the-less) to any/all governing issues with the Internet by giving power to the UN. Giving France, China, and Russia (all of whom have displayed tendencies to just want to throw kinks in plans in the past) veto power and control over the Internet.
It's quite obvious why the USA would not want to give up control, regardless of what anyone else thinks would "be best".
That's what I found... After you do the quests a few times, get a few characters to 40+, there's nothing left in the game but grinding... grinding faction, grinding PvP, grinding high end instances. The sad thing was that it took me 8 months to realize it before I cancelled my account.
Me too. I played WoW for about eight months, got into a guild doing MC and all that and just got bored. The quest system is great, no doubt, but after I hit 60, there was nothing else to do but grind MC/ZG/etc. So, I made another toon and leveled it to 60 in between grinding the high end stuff... then another in between grinding the high end stuff... then cancelled my subscription. I had a toon of every class to at least 40 in just a few months just out of boredom. Although the quests are great, when you get out of your newbie area, all the paths merge, so after about level 20, you're doing the same quests over again so even that gets old.
I played EQ for five years prior. At least you had the races to get at content to keep the game somewhat interesting... plus SOE introduced expansion material every six months or so in an attempt to keep it from getting stale. These days, I play Eve Online (have been for about 9 months now).
I have no intention of buying or playing BC (or WoW ever again, actually).
The missions are in the game just to fill time and give you an easy/safe way to make money. The real game is in lowsec space. If you didn't spend any time in lowsec space, you didn't play the game at all.
The piece does a good job talking about development for different environments then the one that you are programming in.
So... talk about development for a bunch of programming environments then get specific about the one I'm programming in? How does he know which one I have?
Double-clicking on what you wanna copy, plus middle-click to copy would surely be a lot faster than reading and typing (and it avoids typos!). Just my 2cts.
Yes, but if you can type (you're a touch typist), you can read one screen and type on the other at the same time *and* you don't have to move your hand from the keyboard, fiddle around with the mouse, then move your hand back to the keyboard again. Obviously, this depends on the amount of text that you want to replicate... much more than a line of text and it's faster for me to use the mouse to sweep-copy-move-paste as well but for something like 20 characters, I'm faster typing it.
Also, it may be faster to actually use keyboard shortcuts than to use the mouse. Alt-tab, control-A, control-c, alt-tab, control-v and I've just copied an entire document from one application to another, for example, which, for me at least, would be much, much faster than using a mouse to do the same thing.
I think it's going to be worse, but similar, yes. With Microsoft releasing the XBox360 "early" and the Wii coming out now, Sony had no choice but to launch now, even though they really wanted to launch in 2007 so they could take advantage of 60nm and maybe 45nm processes for Cell as well as full production Blue-Ray. This was also timed well with the Blue-Ray expected rollout so there'll be a bit of competition for supplying the PS3 and the set-top BR players. Of course, no one could have foreseen the battery issues...
Plus, all the recent changes to the PS3 in a "keeping up with the Joneses" with Wii (controller) and XBox (Live)... Sony is under huge pressure to deliver a product that will even partially work a year earlier than they wanted.
If they can really pull it off, the PS3 should go down in history as one of the greatest product pull-offs.
With software, there's always something else you must do to try to fix a problem.
There, fixed that for you. The same is true of proprietary of F/OSS. At some point, support will either give you an answer or it will say there is no solution, then you are back to the point above. Just throwing the problem over the wall to support doesn't get your application/product finished and working. With support (either kind of software), you have someone you can have searching for an answer to your problem in parallel with your efforts without having to task another of your resources to do it. Perhaps it is a known bug or something or is a frequently encountered issue and there's a canned answer.
And to that... he was stating an observation about the economics of ICs.... Intel could jump to 45 a lot sooner than they did by spending more money, the other side is that if they come out with 45nm too soon, they won't recoup their costs of the 65nm process because people won't buy the 65nm and wait for the 45nm (for example). So, "Moore's Law" is actually better thought of as "Moore's Observations of the Economics of the IC market".
It's also quite likely that if there is any concurrent alien civilization at all capable of receiving our signals, they are millions of years old and have no interest in colonizing earth (because otherwise, they would have done so). It's just as likely that intelligent species, as a rule, exist as technologically advanced species for only a few hundred to a few thousand years, in which case there are not going to be any concurrent alien civilizations capable of receiving our signals.
That's the good thing about 'averages'. You never know. We could have received extraterrestrial signals back in the 1950s but we didn't know what to look for or record them or even how to decode them so we missed them. I agree with you, though, the odds of a concurrent civilization to ours is fairly remote. However, what if it takes as long as Earth has been around, on average, for intelligent life to come about? That would make it more likely, I'd think, for concurrent civilizations to exist since all of the ecosystems started at 'nearly' the same time. As far as making 'rules' of how long technologically advanced species are around for... I don't know how we make a 'rule' for something we've never witnessed or experienced... only speculated about.
Yup, there are cases where you can get superlinear speedup for exactly that reason. If you have data that can be split evenly among all cores (with little communication and little sharing), eventually you can add enough cores (and cache) to hold all the data in cache memory across all the cores.
"Embarassingly Parallel" are the types of applications that are trivially parallelizable... ray tracing and many other video effects are also of this category, which is why video cards get faster and faster (look at the number of raster/pixel units and how each generation of video card has more and more).
Actually... almost all of Google's software is more research based since they are kind of exploring a new space -- large search engine with ancilliary functionality built around it. Just about everything they do is a research topic and not necessarily a product delivery. They have some competition in the search engine world but their momentum is huge (people just go to Google by default) so they have the luxury to work in this mode. If there were more serious competition and more market striation, they'd (have to) tighten up a bit.
Basically, they work this way because they can. It's really nice to be able to do so. They can get some great creative thinking going.
Why oh why won't Intel spend their research dollars on something useful, like a bus architecture that can actually keep up with present performance levels?
Considering the current performance level is defined by a system with an FSB (the Core 2 Duo), you statement is odd... Why won't Intel spend their research dollars on something useful, like a bus architecture that can actually keep up with itself?
/sarcasm-on Odd how this mimics real life./sarcasm-off
Since designs are just intellectual property (both in this game and in the real world), what does it say about things in the real world that are IP, like OSS and music? Can the same 'arguments' be used for both? Example: The designers are just selling IP. If someone copies their work, how is that depriving them of anything?
Fair enough. I, for a while, and friends of mine, even now, went the other direction and have switched over to virtual machines for work. The base OS no longer matters as long as it can run VMWare. The entire development environment is a virtual machine on an external HDD. The virtual machine workspace gives a number of benefits, such as a standard configuration and toolsets without worrying about what's underneath it. If something bad happens, you reset it back to the starting snapshot. You can have backups of the entire system and can easily hand one over to a new employee, for example.
Sounds fairly interesting. I would think it'd be fairly fun to rewrite it without having to worry about 64K segment limitations and a standard GUI framework (or you could abstract even that or use one of the abstraction libraries like GTK+ or something). Lots of your game rules and such would probably pull over cleanly since they probably don't use anything machine specific.
I almost never write something and not have many ideas of how I'd do it better after I finished. Just think of all the newer/better ideas that you could put into it to make it more to your liking:)
And in the meantime, take huge hits to productivity and lose pretty most of the games. Sure... stick it to Microsoft and, for the next few years, increase your frustration level and decrease your productivity because you won't be able to do the things that you're used to doing or need to do. Or, use WINE and virtualization to "almost" stick it to Microsoft... since you'll still be using Microsoft stuff, just in WINE or virtualized.
What has what you find to interest you have anything to do with what you're doing in school or even *in* school? I started messing with computers long before there was a class for it in highschool. I read SciFi and Fantasy for pleasure and not because we were reading it in English classes. I read encyclopedias for fun when I was in grade school and not because teachers gave even similar assignments. At the time, I didn't know what I was doing was "learning outside of class"... it was just fun and I enjoyed it. By the way, I graduated highschool in 1986 and was in gradeschool in the 1970s. I guess not having a Nintendo in my room probably helped me branch out more and discover other interests.
So, you were bored because you sat around and waited to be given tasks by your teachers? Lots of my friends were fairly bored with high school as well but seemed to find plenty of other stuff to be doing that didn't involve sitting in front of a Nintendo. We had computers and taught ourselves how to program and do all sorts of other things. When we took the computer programming classes our high school offered, our teacher *knew* that our group knew more about it than he did so he let us do what we wanted (as long as it wasn't disruptive) and basically made us assistants for the rest of the class. We all persued interested outside of class that weren't given to us by our teachers.
So what do they think of you, Linux, and OSS in general when they get home and realize they can't install that new game for themselves (or their kids) or that app they use at work or similar things? Do you think they come away from it with a good view of OSS/Linux?
Yep. I agree with you 100%. Wierd Al is one of our (the geek world) friends. He has released a number of songs in unencumbered mp3 format for free download for starters. He's fairly good with the lingo and I wouldn't doubt that he's a true geek like many of us. Hurting your own is definitely *not* cool.
Brown color is the highly touted "Theft prevention mechanism". After all, who is going to steal a *brown* one (assuming someone would buy a brown one... maybe they'll buy it just because it won't get stolen and it'll be the most popular model! 3. PROFIT!)
When you compare the $200 AMD to the $200 Intel, not only are they neck-and-neck, but in certain benchmarks, the AMD comes out on top.
Imagine that.
Yeah, imagine marketing assigning price points to comparable products. Who woulda thought?;)
But yes, now is a great time for consumers of processors.
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Yep. I like them both and they both have very different styles. Sir David Attenborough was a scientist. His documentaries are all about observation and being on the outside looking in, very clinical and scientific. Steve Irwin's were about being in there with whatever it was, more like showing that they are in our world and we are in theirs (and we have to deal with it and respect them), not something that's just observed from a distance and studied.
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Yes. Like Food for Oil and all the "humanitarian aid" to African nations, etc.
Yes. Like paying the USA for being the majority (if not all) the support/logistics for any operation that's ever undertaken by the UN.
Yes. Like the UN without the USA doing the work that the UN desires to be done.
Not only is the UN corrupt (at least as much as the USA Government), they are powerless because no other country steps up to the plate sufficiently when the UN requests action in *anything*. Add that to suddenly giving power (Veto power, none-the-less) to any/all governing issues with the Internet by giving power to the UN. Giving France, China, and Russia (all of whom have displayed tendencies to just want to throw kinks in plans in the past) veto power and control over the Internet.
It's quite obvious why the USA would not want to give up control, regardless of what anyone else thinks would "be best".
That's what I found... After you do the quests a few times, get a few characters to 40+, there's nothing left in the game but grinding... grinding faction, grinding PvP, grinding high end instances. The sad thing was that it took me 8 months to realize it before I cancelled my account.
Me too. I played WoW for about eight months, got into a guild doing MC and all that and just got bored. The quest system is great, no doubt, but after I hit 60, there was nothing else to do but grind MC/ZG/etc. So, I made another toon and leveled it to 60 in between grinding the high end stuff... then another in between grinding the high end stuff... then cancelled my subscription. I had a toon of every class to at least 40 in just a few months just out of boredom. Although the quests are great, when you get out of your newbie area, all the paths merge, so after about level 20, you're doing the same quests over again so even that gets old.
I played EQ for five years prior. At least you had the races to get at content to keep the game somewhat interesting... plus SOE introduced expansion material every six months or so in an attempt to keep it from getting stale. These days, I play Eve Online (have been for about 9 months now).
I have no intention of buying or playing BC (or WoW ever again, actually).
The missions are in the game just to fill time and give you an easy/safe way to make money. The real game is in lowsec space. If you didn't spend any time in lowsec space, you didn't play the game at all.
So... talk about development for a bunch of programming environments then get specific about the one I'm programming in? How does he know which one I have?
Yes, but if you can type (you're a touch typist), you can read one screen and type on the other at the same time *and* you don't have to move your hand from the keyboard, fiddle around with the mouse, then move your hand back to the keyboard again. Obviously, this depends on the amount of text that you want to replicate... much more than a line of text and it's faster for me to use the mouse to sweep-copy-move-paste as well but for something like 20 characters, I'm faster typing it.
Also, it may be faster to actually use keyboard shortcuts than to use the mouse. Alt-tab, control-A, control-c, alt-tab, control-v and I've just copied an entire document from one application to another, for example, which, for me at least, would be much, much faster than using a mouse to do the same thing.
I think it's going to be worse, but similar, yes. With Microsoft releasing the XBox360 "early" and the Wii coming out now, Sony had no choice but to launch now, even though they really wanted to launch in 2007 so they could take advantage of 60nm and maybe 45nm processes for Cell as well as full production Blue-Ray. This was also timed well with the Blue-Ray expected rollout so there'll be a bit of competition for supplying the PS3 and the set-top BR players. Of course, no one could have foreseen the battery issues...
Plus, all the recent changes to the PS3 in a "keeping up with the Joneses" with Wii (controller) and XBox (Live)... Sony is under huge pressure to deliver a product that will even partially work a year earlier than they wanted.
If they can really pull it off, the PS3 should go down in history as one of the greatest product pull-offs.
With software, there's always something else you must do to try to fix a problem.
There, fixed that for you. The same is true of proprietary of F/OSS. At some point, support will either give you an answer or it will say there is no solution, then you are back to the point above. Just throwing the problem over the wall to support doesn't get your application/product finished and working. With support (either kind of software), you have someone you can have searching for an answer to your problem in parallel with your efforts without having to task another of your resources to do it. Perhaps it is a known bug or something or is a frequently encountered issue and there's a canned answer.
And to that... he was stating an observation about the economics of ICs.... Intel could jump to 45 a lot sooner than they did by spending more money, the other side is that if they come out with 45nm too soon, they won't recoup their costs of the 65nm process because people won't buy the 65nm and wait for the 45nm (for example). So, "Moore's Law" is actually better thought of as "Moore's Observations of the Economics of the IC market".
It's also quite likely that if there is any concurrent alien civilization at all capable of receiving our signals, they are millions of years old and have no interest in colonizing earth (because otherwise, they would have done so). It's just as likely that intelligent species, as a rule, exist as technologically advanced species for only a few hundred to a few thousand years, in which case there are not going to be any concurrent alien civilizations capable of receiving our signals.
That's the good thing about 'averages'. You never know. We could have received extraterrestrial signals back in the 1950s but we didn't know what to look for or record them or even how to decode them so we missed them. I agree with you, though, the odds of a concurrent civilization to ours is fairly remote. However, what if it takes as long as Earth has been around, on average, for intelligent life to come about? That would make it more likely, I'd think, for concurrent civilizations to exist since all of the ecosystems started at 'nearly' the same time. As far as making 'rules' of how long technologically advanced species are around for... I don't know how we make a 'rule' for something we've never witnessed or experienced... only speculated about.
Yup, there are cases where you can get superlinear speedup for exactly that reason. If you have data that can be split evenly among all cores (with little communication and little sharing), eventually you can add enough cores (and cache) to hold all the data in cache memory across all the cores.
"Embarassingly Parallel" are the types of applications that are trivially parallelizable... ray tracing and many other video effects are also of this category, which is why video cards get faster and faster (look at the number of raster/pixel units and how each generation of video card has more and more).
The first place I saw widgets in reference to GUI objects was in XWindows which was around 1987-88.
Actually... almost all of Google's software is more research based since they are kind of exploring a new space -- large search engine with ancilliary functionality built around it. Just about everything they do is a research topic and not necessarily a product delivery. They have some competition in the search engine world but their momentum is huge (people just go to Google by default) so they have the luxury to work in this mode. If there were more serious competition and more market striation, they'd (have to) tighten up a bit.
Basically, they work this way because they can. It's really nice to be able to do so. They can get some great creative thinking going.
Why oh why won't Intel spend their research dollars on something useful, like a bus architecture that can actually keep up with present performance levels?
Considering the current performance level is defined by a system with an FSB (the Core 2 Duo), you statement is odd... Why won't Intel spend their research dollars on something useful, like a bus architecture that can actually keep up with itself?
/sarcasm-on /sarcasm-off
Odd how this mimics real life.
Since designs are just intellectual property (both in this game and in the real world), what does it say about things in the real world that are IP, like OSS and music? Can the same 'arguments' be used for both? Example: The designers are just selling IP. If someone copies their work, how is that depriving them of anything?
Fair enough. I, for a while, and friends of mine, even now, went the other direction and have switched over to virtual machines for work. The base OS no longer matters as long as it can run VMWare. The entire development environment is a virtual machine on an external HDD. The virtual machine workspace gives a number of benefits, such as a standard configuration and toolsets without worrying about what's underneath it. If something bad happens, you reset it back to the starting snapshot. You can have backups of the entire system and can easily hand one over to a new employee, for example.
Sounds fairly interesting. I would think it'd be fairly fun to rewrite it without having to worry about 64K segment limitations and a standard GUI framework (or you could abstract even that or use one of the abstraction libraries like GTK+ or something). Lots of your game rules and such would probably pull over cleanly since they probably don't use anything machine specific.
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I almost never write something and not have many ideas of how I'd do it better after I finished. Just think of all the newer/better ideas that you could put into it to make it more to your liking
And in the meantime, take huge hits to productivity and lose pretty most of the games. Sure... stick it to Microsoft and, for the next few years, increase your frustration level and decrease your productivity because you won't be able to do the things that you're used to doing or need to do. Or, use WINE and virtualization to "almost" stick it to Microsoft... since you'll still be using Microsoft stuff, just in WINE or virtualized.
What has what you find to interest you have anything to do with what you're doing in school or even *in* school? I started messing with computers long before there was a class for it in highschool. I read SciFi and Fantasy for pleasure and not because we were reading it in English classes. I read encyclopedias for fun when I was in grade school and not because teachers gave even similar assignments. At the time, I didn't know what I was doing was "learning outside of class"... it was just fun and I enjoyed it. By the way, I graduated highschool in 1986 and was in gradeschool in the 1970s. I guess not having a Nintendo in my room probably helped me branch out more and discover other interests.
So, you were bored because you sat around and waited to be given tasks by your teachers? Lots of my friends were fairly bored with high school as well but seemed to find plenty of other stuff to be doing that didn't involve sitting in front of a Nintendo. We had computers and taught ourselves how to program and do all sorts of other things. When we took the computer programming classes our high school offered, our teacher *knew* that our group knew more about it than he did so he let us do what we wanted (as long as it wasn't disruptive) and basically made us assistants for the rest of the class. We all persued interested outside of class that weren't given to us by our teachers.
So what do they think of you, Linux, and OSS in general when they get home and realize they can't install that new game for themselves (or their kids) or that app they use at work or similar things? Do you think they come away from it with a good view of OSS/Linux?
Yep. I agree with you 100%. Wierd Al is one of our (the geek world) friends. He has released a number of songs in unencumbered mp3 format for free download for starters. He's fairly good with the lingo and I wouldn't doubt that he's a true geek like many of us. Hurting your own is definitely *not* cool.
Brown color is the highly touted "Theft prevention mechanism". After all, who is going to steal a *brown* one (assuming someone would buy a brown one... maybe they'll buy it just because it won't get stolen and it'll be the most popular model! 3. PROFIT!)
When you compare the $200 AMD to the $200 Intel, not only are they neck-and-neck, but in certain benchmarks, the AMD comes out on top.
;)
Imagine that.
Yeah, imagine marketing assigning price points to comparable products. Who woulda thought?
But yes, now is a great time for consumers of processors.
Yep. I like them both and they both have very different styles. Sir David Attenborough was a scientist. His documentaries are all about observation and being on the outside looking in, very clinical and scientific. Steve Irwin's were about being in there with whatever it was, more like showing that they are in our world and we are in theirs (and we have to deal with it and respect them), not something that's just observed from a distance and studied.