Nuclear and electric cars? I still say that cars are a huge waste and that smart city planning and effective mass transportation can do way more than electric cars could ever do.
I'm writing a scientific library that is supposed to scale for many many cores. Using a mutex lock is not an option. Unfortunately right now I am spending all my time trying to figure out how to get compare and swap working on all the different platforms. I am saddened to see the lack of support since this is such a fundamental operation. Also, the whole 32 vs 64-bit thing adds more pain because of pointer size.
I was thinking of heterogeneous cores more along the lines of Big + Fast mixed in with Small + Low Power. Both would have a nearly identical instruction set.
To me your story sounded a lot like this one. He even introduces a new vocabulary with words like double think.
His mind slid away into the labyrinthine world of doublethink. To know
and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling
carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which
cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of
them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim
to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the
guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then
to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and
then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process
to the process itself. That was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to
induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of
the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word
'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.
Similar situation as you. I have an ibook g4 and leopard is quite a bit snappier than tiger. My biggest concern was ram usage. Leopard actually uses less. Spotlight is now fast enough for me to use as an app loader.
CPU economics are all about yields. They will design a chip, say with 8 cores. Some of the cores might have manufacturing problems so they disable them. The chips with all 8 working cores cost more while the chips with 4 or 6 working cores cost less.
Back in the "olden" days of two years ago the same would happen but with clock speed. The chips that could clock higher without problems got sold as the 1800+ while ones that failed under testing at higher frequencies would get sold as 1600+.
Chips use so much power that if all circuits were enabled for any given period of time the whole chip would fry. We already disable/undervolt quite a lot. There are chips out there already where entire cores get shut off.
Many of us "millenials" may want more from our job. Is this entirely unreasonable? No. Because we have university degrees. Our parents generation often did not. We do not go into large debt and spend years getting educated in order to start out at the bottom. But there seems to be this sort of race to the bottom. Masters is the new bachelors.
In canada we have a piece of paper with a check box for each candidate. They manually count it and results are known by the end of the evening. Recounts are done by the next day. Not expensive, not confusing, it leaves a paper trail, and it is as physically secure as any computer box could ever get.
Does the source material contain those high frequencies? And secondly.. we can sample it at 98KHz and using the magic of DSP we can make a damned near ideal low-pass if we really needed one.
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Anyone wanna guess how long their server will last before melting?
Nuclear and electric cars? I still say that cars are a huge waste and that smart city planning and effective mass transportation can do way more than electric cars could ever do.
Good thing grub has a countdown timer. It'll go nicely with the squiggly letters and picture of a penguin wearing an eye-patch.
If I had a lot of money like google does then I would fund just enough work to keep the joke alive :D
The .net is a really solid platform but i'm under no illusion that "compile once and run everywhere" will ever happen.
I'm writing a scientific library that is supposed to scale for many many cores. Using a mutex lock is not an option. Unfortunately right now I am spending all my time trying to figure out how to get compare and swap working on all the different platforms. I am saddened to see the lack of support since this is such a fundamental operation. Also, the whole 32 vs 64-bit thing adds more pain because of pointer size.
I was thinking of heterogeneous cores more along the lines of Big + Fast mixed in with Small + Low Power. Both would have a nearly identical instruction set.
I've been using the 64-bit version on linux for about 3 years now. News to me it doesn't work!
The undocumented part means that firefox developers can't use it.
Everyone should tag this karma. Cause and effect at its very best.
I heard MS's two biggest customers were the US government and the UK government. Clearly they need support from governments.
If dust is a problem why don't they attach a brush to it or something.
Luckily, it's all vbscript!
And it's employees like these that make us think that microsoft has its head up its ass.
win32 is a horrible horrible library and the documentation absolutely sucks.
Firefox3 has a shiny new garbage collector. They've pretty much found all the leaks using it too.
I don't download music illegally. How will my $5 go to my favourite indie artists.
To me your story sounded a lot like this one. He even introduces a new vocabulary with words like double think.
Similar situation as you. I have an ibook g4 and leopard is quite a bit snappier than tiger. My biggest concern was ram usage. Leopard actually uses less. Spotlight is now fast enough for me to use as an app loader.
CPU economics are all about yields. They will design a chip, say with 8 cores. Some of the cores might have manufacturing problems so they disable them. The chips with all 8 working cores cost more while the chips with 4 or 6 working cores cost less.
Back in the "olden" days of two years ago the same would happen but with clock speed. The chips that could clock higher without problems got sold as the 1800+ while ones that failed under testing at higher frequencies would get sold as 1600+.
Chips use so much power that if all circuits were enabled for any given period of time the whole chip would fry. We already disable/undervolt quite a lot. There are chips out there already where entire cores get shut off.
Many of us "millenials" may want more from our job. Is this entirely unreasonable? No. Because we have university degrees. Our parents generation often did not. We do not go into large debt and spend years getting educated in order to start out at the bottom. But there seems to be this sort of race to the bottom. Masters is the new bachelors.
Should I mod you as funny?
In canada we have a piece of paper with a check box for each candidate. They manually count it and results are known by the end of the evening. Recounts are done by the next day. Not expensive, not confusing, it leaves a paper trail, and it is as physically secure as any computer box could ever get.
Yay for electric heat and radiators.
Does the source material contain those high frequencies? And secondly.. we can sample it at 98KHz and using the magic of DSP we can make a damned near ideal low-pass if we really needed one.