Yeah, I cant wait until everyone is constantly running unrecycled water through thier computers
Easy fix - use the waste water from your liquid cooler to fill the water heater. Of course, now you have to keep the reservoir clean, unless you like bathing in bacteria.
When they say 18 exabytes, they're talking base-10, otherwise they would have used the "gibi-" equivalent (exibytes?)
If they meant base10, they should have used existing conventions (10^x) rather than trying to shoehorn this kibi stuff into usage. Common usage is that an exabyte is 2^60 bytes. Nobody in there right mind uses exibyte for that. The standard is something that NIST is trying to force on the community without any sort of support - they're exceeding their mandate.
A lot of 32 bit processors already have a 64 bit data bus right now. This is for example the case for the Intel 32 bit processors. So loading an entity bigger than 32 bit is not an issue.
This is not relevant to the instruction stream - you still need two load instructions. Actual bus widths are not visible to executing code - it's simply there to improve bandwidth.
Ever been to Africa? How is 32C on an avarage winter's afternoon for you?
Which part? Africa has pretty much every environment present on the planet (possibly excluding tundra). If Ghana is 32C in December, I'd expect it to be about 34C in July.
If I bought a 64 bit system, simply because it's the "Best", but only got 1GB of RAM, I have less useful memory, because the pointers take up all of my physical RAM. Do the architects of these systems take this into account?
Umm, duh? You increase your footprint by a small amount (say 10%) to get access to a flat 16EB address space. With memory running $200/G for the good stuff, why not?
Ah well, I guess we can't expect claimed anti-racists to really live up to it, can we?
In case you haven't noticed, there's been a blood feud between arabs and jews for a good 500 years. Why must pointing out that a hate-filled book about arabs was written by a jew be racist? Next you're going to call me racist for saying that black people are resistant to malaria.
It is antisemite to condemn the killing of Palestinians while not looking at the killing of Israelis. It is perhaps not antisemite, but at least an unacceptable generalization and a proof of ignorance to talk about the conflict in the West Bank referring to "The Jews".
Maybe you'd be happier if we referred to the two sides as Palestinians and Isrealis. At any rate, it's disingenuous to criticize the gp post for being one sided while remaining silent on the one sided coverage that the Israelis get in the USA.
i just moved from a school teaching C/PASCAL to a school teaching C++/VB.Net, and ill give you 2 guesses which one provides more technological advantages.
What makes you think it matters? If you're halfway bright, then you can pick up whatever languages you like. At my college, we were expected to do just that.
Non-uniformed soldiers (assassins, spies) are not subject to any such protections.
So sorry mr guerilla fighter - you're only trying to defend your homeland (which doesn't even have a standing army right now, not to mention a central government), but you don't have a uniform (that we recognize), so we can do whatever we like with you, should you be captured. Wouldn't it be nice if, instead of being legalistic about the convention, we applied common sense to the situation? It's not like these Afghans were caught trying to infiltrate an Army base.
Could you get a job programming in this kind of environment? Tens of thousands of people in China could. Chinese programmers are routinely expected to master 10000 characters (and combinations) to be literate, then they're expected to master 10000 english words and grammar constuctions, and master complex programming languages.
Judging from the code I've had to maintain that was originally written by a chinese guy, there aren't that many people who could do what you say. Who would want to anyway? It's not like anybody could handle a program composed of 10,000 independent pieces.
Americans complain about having to master dribble like C++.
Well, yeah. C++ is a lot harder to master than something simple like Chinese (simple grammar, lots of characters). After all, if you screw up a sentence in Chinese, the other guy giggles and life goes on. Good luck getting something like that past a compiler.
The rules were clearly flawed, but you can't change the rules during the game if you want the game to be fair.
From the perspective of the disenfranchised voters, that's exactly what happened. They registered, nothing showed up in the mail, but when they went to vote, they were told they couldn't. What reasonable person expects to have to check and recheck that they can actually vote?
I note that despite your spin LePore was in fact a Dem during the years in question. Additionally, the ballot in quesiton was both published in local newspapers before the election and had the usual mandated period for review and approval. No one complained. No one whined until the count came up close.
You can declare yourself as anything at all. All it affects is your ability to vote in primaries. I would argue that her loyalties haven't changed all that much in the past decade.
It seems Florida's election running machinery, which is largely run Democrats by the way, would rather make up some labyrinthine system that people can't understand, screw the whole thing up and then blame Republicans when they can't change their stupid rules mid-game. That's what they did in 2000 anyway. How hard is it to make a simple voting procedure?
Pop quiz: Who is the governor of Florida? Who runs the election system? Who illegaly DQ'ed 50,000 ex felons in 2000 and attempted to do the same for 2004?
Of course this can only add to the image that most people already have of geeks being condescending towards anybody that doesn't understand what they are doing. The actual article linked from Infoworld only adds to this image.
Bullshit. This is somebody trying to shift blame away from themselves. The fact is, these poll machines are woefully inadequate and crap is flying. This e-voting crap just isn't going to work.
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Yeah, I cant wait until everyone is constantly running unrecycled water through thier computers
Easy fix - use the waste water from your liquid cooler to fill the water heater. Of course, now you have to keep the reservoir clean, unless you like bathing in bacteria.
Because bigger pointers eat more cache, and external memory bandwidth is already the biggest performance bottleneck in most systems.
If it's a big deal for you, just run as a 32 bit process (you can do that). You just won't get the 16EB goodness that comes with running 64 bit.
When they say 18 exabytes, they're talking base-10, otherwise they would have used the "gibi-" equivalent (exibytes?)
If they meant base10, they should have used existing conventions (10^x) rather than trying to shoehorn this kibi stuff into usage. Common usage is that an exabyte is 2^60 bytes. Nobody in there right mind uses exibyte for that. The standard is something that NIST is trying to force on the community without any sort of support - they're exceeding their mandate.
IA64 (Itanium) has 64 bit instructions, *but* each can hold up to 3 opcodes.
No, it has 41 bit instructions, packaged 3 at a time, with metadata about concurrency and crap.
They should make the G5 powerbooks have a teflon underside. "Turn it over, and you can cook dinner".
That's all well and good until some tool uses a metal spatula on it. At least frying pans are cheap.
A lot of 32 bit processors already have a 64 bit data bus right now. This is for example the case for the Intel 32 bit processors. So loading an entity bigger than 32 bit is not an issue.
This is not relevant to the instruction stream - you still need two load instructions. Actual bus widths are not visible to executing code - it's simply there to improve bandwidth.
Ever been to Africa? How is 32C on an avarage winter's afternoon for you?
Which part? Africa has pretty much every environment present on the planet (possibly excluding tundra). If Ghana is 32C in December, I'd expect it to be about 34C in July.
If I bought a 64 bit system, simply because it's the "Best", but only got 1GB of RAM, I have less useful memory, because the pointers take up all of my physical RAM. Do the architects of these systems take this into account?
Umm, duh? You increase your footprint by a small amount (say 10%) to get access to a flat 16EB address space. With memory running $200/G for the good stuff, why not?
Ah well, I guess we can't expect claimed anti-racists to really live up to it, can we?
In case you haven't noticed, there's been a blood feud between arabs and jews for a good 500 years. Why must pointing out that a hate-filled book about arabs was written by a jew be racist? Next you're going to call me racist for saying that black people are resistant to malaria.
It is antisemite to condemn the killing of Palestinians while not looking at the killing of Israelis. It is perhaps not antisemite, but at least an unacceptable generalization and a proof of ignorance to talk about the conflict in the West Bank referring to "The Jews".
Maybe you'd be happier if we referred to the two sides as Palestinians and Isrealis. At any rate, it's disingenuous to criticize the gp post for being one sided while remaining silent on the one sided coverage that the Israelis get in the USA.
Its about time RPI was number one in something other than student depression and nothing to do around campus! Go Shirley!
Every so often I think about going back to Troy for my MS/PhD. Then I read a post like this and remember why I left it in the first place.
As an RPI student (3 running PC's and a few not-currently-running in my room right now)
What, is the heat borked in you dorm?
i just moved from a school teaching C/PASCAL to a school teaching C++/VB.Net, and ill give you 2 guesses which one provides more technological advantages.
What makes you think it matters? If you're halfway bright, then you can pick up whatever languages you like. At my college, we were expected to do just that.
Maybe they can stop sending be letters begging for cash. I've still got student loans, for crying out loud!
It's a rear projector - I shudder to consider the weight of a 47" crt.
Considering most HD sets aren't the maximum 1080i, what is your point?
My (relatively) cheap Toshiba from 3 yeaars ago is 1080i. What's your point?
Non-uniformed soldiers (assassins, spies) are not subject to any such protections.
So sorry mr guerilla fighter - you're only trying to defend your homeland (which doesn't even have a standing army right now, not to mention a central government), but you don't have a uniform (that we recognize), so we can do whatever we like with you, should you be captured. Wouldn't it be nice if, instead of being legalistic about the convention, we applied common sense to the situation? It's not like these Afghans were caught trying to infiltrate an Army base.
I'd like to see those idiots get tickets for being a nuisance.
I'd like to see drivers arrested for nearly killing guys on bikes.
It makes much more sense to assume the system was broken (which is undeniable) than some villianous scheme to disenfranchise blacks.
Except that there's ample evidence for malice too. Like you say, the system's screwed, but at least some of it is probably intentional.
Could you get a job programming in this kind of environment? Tens of thousands of people in China could. Chinese programmers are routinely expected to master 10000 characters (and combinations) to be literate, then they're expected to master 10000 english words and grammar constuctions, and master complex programming languages.
Judging from the code I've had to maintain that was originally written by a chinese guy, there aren't that many people who could do what you say. Who would want to anyway? It's not like anybody could handle a program composed of 10,000 independent pieces.
Americans complain about having to master dribble like C++.
Well, yeah. C++ is a lot harder to master than something simple like Chinese (simple grammar, lots of characters). After all, if you screw up a sentence in Chinese, the other guy giggles and life goes on. Good luck getting something like that past a compiler.
The rules were clearly flawed, but you can't change the rules during the game if you want the game to be fair.
From the perspective of the disenfranchised voters, that's exactly what happened. They registered, nothing showed up in the mail, but when they went to vote, they were told they couldn't. What reasonable person expects to have to check and recheck that they can actually vote?
I note that despite your spin LePore was in fact a Dem during the years in question. Additionally, the ballot in quesiton was both published in local newspapers before the election and had the usual mandated period for review and approval. No one complained. No one whined until the count came up close.
You can declare yourself as anything at all. All it affects is your ability to vote in primaries. I would argue that her loyalties haven't changed all that much in the past decade.
It seems Florida's election running machinery, which is largely run Democrats by the way, would rather make up some labyrinthine system that people can't understand, screw the whole thing up and then blame Republicans when they can't change their stupid rules mid-game. That's what they did in 2000 anyway. How hard is it to make a simple voting procedure?
Pop quiz: Who is the governor of Florida? Who runs the election system? Who illegaly DQ'ed 50,000 ex felons in 2000 and attempted to do the same for 2004?
Journalism" these days (and perhaps always?) is a whole lot of sensationalism.
Nah, journalism deserves respect. The problem is that it's very rare these days.
Of course this can only add to the image that most people already have of geeks being condescending towards anybody that doesn't understand what they are doing. The actual article linked from Infoworld only adds to this image.
Bullshit. This is somebody trying to shift blame away from themselves. The fact is, these poll machines are woefully inadequate and crap is flying. This e-voting crap just isn't going to work.