Wild children (I believe there's another name) walk upright. These are children who were lost extremely young and raised themselves in the wild. As I said I walk upright, but I think I remember reading that they have nothing against all fours either if the situation is helped by it (moving quickly in the woods, up a hill, etc). Once domesticated (er wait we say civilized when it's humans, don't we?) wild children have very strange habits, such as hording fluids.
This stuff is just awesome to think about. Here's some rambling. If anything makes sense I'd appreciate some feedback.
I hold that quantum theory is entirely a guess based on possibilities because we currently cannot (and perhaps never can) get true facts on the matter so that real analysis cannot be done. I don't know if anyone has any objections to this but I'm not sure if people realize it.
Take any level of physics, and only allow yourself to view it from a level above. You can come up with some good guesses as to how things will work which might have a very high degree of accuracy even 100%, but you are really just guessing. A simple example is that modern theory states that any two solid objects can pass through each other without interfering with each other at all-- it's just extremely improbable.
As a parallel: If you look at any scene in a 2 dimensional perspective you'll see objects passing through each other all the time (behind and in front although to 2d it's the same space). Now if the universe was 2d we could say that everything exists on the same 2d plane and any objects passing through each other is known to be impossible, but we know there's a 3rd dimension so to us it's entirely possible, even though everything in that universe is on the same plane. Well everything in this universe is in the same space, that is, they are all on the same 4th, 5th, 6th etc dimensional coordinates-- but that can just as easily change.
A 1 dimensional basic has 2 points connected by one line.
A 2 dimensional basic has 3 points, connected by three lines, encompassing one face.
A 3 dimensional basic has 4 points, connected by six lines, encompassing four faces, containing one space.
Guesses? A 4 dimensional basic has (5?) points, connected by (10?) lines, encompassing (5?) faces, containing (3?) spaces, bounding 1 thingy?
I know I'm not the only person who has tried to mentally vision higher order shapes!
Surely you jest! If a Klingon bird of prey can fly in an atmosphere so easily (Voyage Home?) what's keeping a.. oh wait real life... Well at least they'd be better than whomever tries a Death Star mod.
I was recently involved in a conversation about the usefulness of dual core machines as home machines. The typical home machine is only really giving focus to one CPU intensive program at a time, max. Intel and AMD are obviously moving in that direction (and it doesn't stop at dual-core) and the reason is a little surprising. According to an Instat article published recently, Intel is doing it to overcome leakage current / power. As technology gets progressively better, leakage power has become progressively worse. I do not understand how designing machines with two cores is supposed to help this. Even when one core is not in operation leakage will still occur (thus leakage).
Oh excuse me, please give me a dollar figure that Heinz (his wife) has donated to his campaign? Oh wait, that'd be zero. What was that about-- his wife's wealth mattering? He mortgaged his house to pay for his campaign. Why'd he do that?
As for your random bush pandering, I'll just kindly ask you to stop spreading such propaganda. If I were as wealthy as bush (table turning, eh?) I'd have as many personal references as he does praising me so deeply. It's too bad that his service can't be proven since the Pentagon "accidentally" destroyed his files..
Also I thank you for using such a subjective tone in your message.. I'd hate for someone to confuse you with someone with actual information. You could anchor Fox News.
Correct me if I'm wrong (which I'm not), but he married her after being elected, so there goes that nugget. I'm trying to look up the wealth John Kerry has which is not tied to his wife (or his previous wife). It doesn't look like that much. His grandfather committed suicide while he had a large amount of debt so that sure didn't help. His father married a Forbes (rich) but worked as a government worker and volunteer. His first wife was wealthy, but it's doubtful he received much of anything when they split (not public information). Kerry's mother recently died (2002?) and he inherited less than $10 million which is a good deal of money, but no where near the amount so claimed now.
Kerry and Teresa's combined worth is about $1 billion, not billions. It should be noted that his time in the military was voluntary (and he actually showed up too). So yes he personally is rich, but not nearly as rich as republicans would like people to believe. If you combine his wealth with his wife's, then yes he's very rich indeed. Sorry I know I shouldn't let facts get in the way of a good argument but I couldn't help myself.
Funny you should ask. Two/Three years ago my group helped Microsoft put on a little show. Then they had a raffle for free Visual Studio.NET, Windows XP Professional, and Office XP suites. The problem? They raffled the software not the licenses. So we had a bunch of people with Microsoft software and no right to use it. Not like that's any different than anyone else mind you.
The solution to cooling is to use less power in the first place. As technology increases were using less power to do the same amount-- however we're doing more with every processor so power consumption is going up. My personal feeling is that I'd be willing for my laptop to lag an entire 1 ghz or more behind the crowd so that it may utilize the latest technology for power benefits over performance.
While perhaps not directly related there must be a strong correlation between energy used and heat dissipated (for a given technology). One thing I'm a fan of is on the fly clock adjustment. I may want my laptop to run without a fan (that is, say 15 dB or less if on) for one to several hours. I don't expect a lot of performance but then again I wouldn't need it.
On a side note I think it'd be really nifty if someone put the original pentium 1 design into the latest technology generation just to see how fast it could be clocked. Maybe also see how many you can fit on one die. I'd say to make it work too but that'd take a few months...
Ok so a corporation is allowed to sponsor a candidate running for an office (aka buying votes)-- so they already have more of a voice in the government than your average person-- but they don't have to pay taxes. And this sits fine with you?
My view is corporations have far too many rights, and those rights are actively overly exploited in this country. The voice of a few top brass in a corporation is not the view of the thousands of employees under them, however it carries the weight of it when said in the name of the corporation. This is very wrong.
I just wanted to point out you mentioned GCC. Sadly GCC is about the worst compiler in existence for performance. The top compiler is infact the Intel compiler in part because it knows about unpublished instructions. Have fun reading the code it generates.
On the subject of G5s being faster, there are a whole host of differences between G5's and P4's. You can't just pick one difference and claim that's the reason.
I do agree with one point you made. Compilers don't use every opcode available. In fact a study was done around the time RISC was getting popular that stated something like 20% of the x86 opcodes have never been used. That's pretty mind numbing.
CISC chips run instructions simultaneously and out of order as well. Instructions executing on a single clock depends on the instruction. Multiply? Divide? Load? Store? Don't think so.
RISC chips being faster than a CISC chip running at the same clock? Sorry, but no. That's completely unrealistic statement.
RISC and CISC offer no final advantage over the other, so the one that dominated is the one that was here first.
Quick examples: RISC use less power because it has less logic? No, it needs to run at a higher frequency to maintain the same speed as a slower CISC.
RISC is easier to program? Depends on the person. A compiler can take advantage of large instructions very well which are hardware optimized.
RISC easier to develop/manage? I'll say yes for RISC on this one. There's simply less logic on the chip so less logical errors possible. There's plenty more cache which can break but broken parts can be fused off.
RISC is physically smaller? No. RISC needs a higher clock frequency because many more instructions need to be executed. The result of this is that a much larger instruction cache is needed on chip.
I don't remember every comparison but it pretty much comes out that neither is better than the other. That being said RISC is better than x86. Everything is better than x86. However CISC vs RISC is much harder to judge. Having done x86, 68k, and MIPS I must say that RISC is a pleasure.
I agree with you up to a point. That point is that it won't be released for two weeks! Give them time! Not only are we expecting them to pump out two websites (doom3 and ua-corp) don't forget they only finished the PC IBM compatible game, not the OSX, Mac, Linux, or X-Box games.
One thing in common between bowling, swimming, golf, etc, is that you can compare your score to someone who played a week, month or years ago and it can still be a valid comparison. You obviously can't compare your score in hockey to a different team's on a different day. I'll use this to say that swimming, cycling, track, bowling, golf (etc) are alike in that any competition that does exist is passive (except cheating). However since I don't consider bowling or golf a sport I don't consider competition to be a factor.
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I don't know... do you want to raise animals that are constantly blowing eachother up?
I still wear pants, but they're very old technology.
Buying a computer with Linux on it then reformating and installing Windows makes me a sa-a-a-a-ad panda.
Wild children (I believe there's another name) walk upright. These are children who were lost extremely young and raised themselves in the wild. As I said I walk upright, but I think I remember reading that they have nothing against all fours either if the situation is helped by it (moving quickly in the woods, up a hill, etc). Once domesticated (er wait we say civilized when it's humans, don't we?) wild children have very strange habits, such as hording fluids.
Sorry-- how many volkswagon beetles is that?
Does anybody want a peanut?
This stuff is just awesome to think about. Here's some rambling. If anything makes sense I'd appreciate some feedback.
I hold that quantum theory is entirely a guess based on possibilities because we currently cannot (and perhaps never can) get true facts on the matter so that real analysis cannot be done. I don't know if anyone has any objections to this but I'm not sure if people realize it.
Take any level of physics, and only allow yourself to view it from a level above. You can come up with some good guesses as to how things will work which might have a very high degree of accuracy even 100%, but you are really just guessing. A simple example is that modern theory states that any two solid objects can pass through each other without interfering with each other at all-- it's just extremely improbable.
As a parallel: If you look at any scene in a 2 dimensional perspective you'll see objects passing through each other all the time (behind and in front although to 2d it's the same space). Now if the universe was 2d we could say that everything exists on the same 2d plane and any objects passing through each other is known to be impossible, but we know there's a 3rd dimension so to us it's entirely possible, even though everything in that universe is on the same plane. Well everything in this universe is in the same space, that is, they are all on the same 4th, 5th, 6th etc dimensional coordinates-- but that can just as easily change.
A 1 dimensional basic has 2 points connected by one line.
A 2 dimensional basic has 3 points, connected by three lines, encompassing one face.
A 3 dimensional basic has 4 points, connected by six lines, encompassing four faces, containing one space.
Guesses? A 4 dimensional basic has (5?) points, connected by (10?) lines, encompassing (5?) faces, containing (3?) spaces, bounding 1 thingy?
I know I'm not the only person who has tried to mentally vision higher order shapes!
"Turning into" implies that it wasn't previously.
Surely you jest! If a Klingon bird of prey can fly in an atmosphere so easily (Voyage Home?) what's keeping a.. oh wait real life... Well at least they'd be better than whomever tries a Death Star mod.
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I was recently involved in a conversation about the usefulness of dual core machines as home machines. The typical home machine is only really giving focus to one CPU intensive program at a time, max. Intel and AMD are obviously moving in that direction (and it doesn't stop at dual-core) and the reason is a little surprising. According to an Instat article published recently, Intel is doing it to overcome leakage current / power. As technology gets progressively better, leakage power has become progressively worse. I do not understand how designing machines with two cores is supposed to help this. Even when one core is not in operation leakage will still occur (thus leakage).
Oh excuse me, please give me a dollar figure that Heinz (his wife) has donated to his campaign? Oh wait, that'd be zero. What was that about-- his wife's wealth mattering? He mortgaged his house to pay for his campaign. Why'd he do that?
As for your random bush pandering, I'll just kindly ask you to stop spreading such propaganda. If I were as wealthy as bush (table turning, eh?) I'd have as many personal references as he does praising me so deeply. It's too bad that his service can't be proven since the Pentagon "accidentally" destroyed his files..
Also I thank you for using such a subjective tone in your message.. I'd hate for someone to confuse you with someone with actual information. You could anchor Fox News.
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Correct me if I'm wrong (which I'm not), but he married her after being elected, so there goes that nugget. I'm trying to look up the wealth John Kerry has which is not tied to his wife (or his previous wife). It doesn't look like that much. His grandfather committed suicide while he had a large amount of debt so that sure didn't help. His father married a Forbes (rich) but worked as a government worker and volunteer. His first wife was wealthy, but it's doubtful he received much of anything when they split (not public information). Kerry's mother recently died (2002?) and he inherited less than $10 million which is a good deal of money, but no where near the amount so claimed now.
Kerry and Teresa's combined worth is about $1 billion, not billions. It should be noted that his time in the military was voluntary (and he actually showed up too). So yes he personally is rich, but not nearly as rich as republicans would like people to believe. If you combine his wealth with his wife's, then yes he's very rich indeed. Sorry I know I shouldn't let facts get in the way of a good argument but I couldn't help myself.
Funny you should ask. Two/Three years ago my group helped Microsoft put on a little show. Then they had a raffle for free Visual Studio .NET, Windows XP Professional, and Office XP suites. The problem? They raffled the software not the licenses. So we had a bunch of people with Microsoft software and no right to use it. Not like that's any different than anyone else mind you.
I'll burn down the building...
I believe you have my stapler?
The solution to cooling is to use less power in the first place. As technology increases were using less power to do the same amount-- however we're doing more with every processor so power consumption is going up. My personal feeling is that I'd be willing for my laptop to lag an entire 1 ghz or more behind the crowd so that it may utilize the latest technology for power benefits over performance.
While perhaps not directly related there must be a strong correlation between energy used and heat dissipated (for a given technology). One thing I'm a fan of is on the fly clock adjustment. I may want my laptop to run without a fan (that is, say 15 dB or less if on) for one to several hours. I don't expect a lot of performance but then again I wouldn't need it.
On a side note I think it'd be really nifty if someone put the original pentium 1 design into the latest technology generation just to see how fast it could be clocked. Maybe also see how many you can fit on one die. I'd say to make it work too but that'd take a few months...
Ok so a corporation is allowed to sponsor a candidate running for an office (aka buying votes)-- so they already have more of a voice in the government than your average person-- but they don't have to pay taxes. And this sits fine with you?
My view is corporations have far too many rights, and those rights are actively overly exploited in this country. The voice of a few top brass in a corporation is not the view of the thousands of employees under them, however it carries the weight of it when said in the name of the corporation. This is very wrong.
I just wanted to point out you mentioned GCC. Sadly GCC is about the worst compiler in existence for performance. The top compiler is infact the Intel compiler in part because it knows about unpublished instructions. Have fun reading the code it generates.
On the subject of G5s being faster, there are a whole host of differences between G5's and P4's. You can't just pick one difference and claim that's the reason.
I do agree with one point you made. Compilers don't use every opcode available. In fact a study was done around the time RISC was getting popular that stated something like 20% of the x86 opcodes have never been used. That's pretty mind numbing.
CISC chips run instructions simultaneously and out of order as well. Instructions executing on a single clock depends on the instruction. Multiply? Divide? Load? Store? Don't think so.
RISC chips being faster than a CISC chip running at the same clock? Sorry, but no. That's completely unrealistic statement.
RISC and CISC offer no final advantage over the other, so the one that dominated is the one that was here first.
Quick examples: RISC use less power because it has less logic? No, it needs to run at a higher frequency to maintain the same speed as a slower CISC.
RISC is easier to program? Depends on the person. A compiler can take advantage of large instructions very well which are hardware optimized.
RISC easier to develop/manage? I'll say yes for RISC on this one. There's simply less logic on the chip so less logical errors possible. There's plenty more cache which can break but broken parts can be fused off.
RISC is physically smaller? No. RISC needs a higher clock frequency because many more instructions need to be executed. The result of this is that a much larger instruction cache is needed on chip.
I don't remember every comparison but it pretty much comes out that neither is better than the other. That being said RISC is better than x86. Everything is better than x86. However CISC vs RISC is much harder to judge. Having done x86, 68k, and MIPS I must say that RISC is a pleasure.
Thank you. In just four hours, I'll know your joy. No wait five hours.
Dehacked is going to work, right? Don't tell me I've been holding on to WinTex for nothing.
Last I checked it was Tool. You did listen to the sample theme song, right?
I agree with you up to a point. That point is that it won't be released for two weeks! Give them time! Not only are we expecting them to pump out two websites (doom3 and ua-corp) don't forget they only finished the PC IBM compatible game, not the OSX, Mac, Linux, or X-Box games.
I disagree.
One thing in common between bowling, swimming, golf, etc, is that you can compare your score to someone who played a week, month or years ago and it can still be a valid comparison. You obviously can't compare your score in hockey to a different team's on a different day. I'll use this to say that swimming, cycling, track, bowling, golf (etc) are alike in that any competition that does exist is passive (except cheating). However since I don't consider bowling or golf a sport I don't consider competition to be a factor.