...when people like google start to say that they're interested in anything other than increasing performance.
I realize it's their job to look out for their bottom line, but a scientific revolution is occuring now because cheap, high-performance commodity parts can be joined into the time-old slashdot favorite, the beowolf. When companies start saying they are interested in anything other than increasing performance, it hurts this trend. If the next generation of commodity chips stagnate WRT performance, scientists are screwed.
Where I work, we had about ~10 processors available locally for research until we got a beowolf cluster - it was just too expensive to get many more - now we have 48. And they're all damned fast.
You business types may not have realized it, but you helped subsidize science as intel, amd, and the lot competed to make the next record-breaking processor.
...or does anyone else think that many of the people he was talking about (the evil emailers) were slashdot regulars?
A lot of the topics seemed to mesh with the discussion around his previous column.
Nobody here would be rude, would they?
How is the anti-hydrogen stored? Unike the charged anti-particles generally made, I don't see how atoms can be stored because due to their neutrality, a magnetic field doesn't contain them. Any physicist care to explain?
Every code that we use that has been purchased from an outside vendor uses FORTRAN for the actual number crunching. C is generally only used in data analysis after the fact and visualization. AMBER, Gaussian, NWChem, GAMESS-US, GAMESS-UK, you name it - FORTRAN is still the standard.
1. I'd not worry about the GPL fork issue. Even if it happens, who cares. That's the beauty of the GPL. If you were planning on releasing your code to the community (via the GPL or however) anyway, you obviously want others to benefit from your code. And a seperate project shouldn't stop you from fulfilling your goals (presumably the other project forked because of incompatable goals - so no overlap).
2. You might check out Guido van Rossum's approach to maintaining Python [python.org] His style seems to be what you want to do, and I think it's safe to say that python is a sucess (no script-wars flames please).
No, it does not (now) have national implications. Even a federal court outside of the ninth circuit can ignore this ruling. Only when (if?) this is brought before the supreme court would it have truly national implications.
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...when people like google start to say that they're interested in anything other than increasing performance.
I realize it's their job to look out for their bottom line, but a scientific revolution is occuring now because cheap, high-performance commodity parts can be joined into the time-old slashdot favorite, the beowolf. When companies start saying they are interested in anything other than increasing performance, it hurts this trend. If the next generation of commodity chips stagnate WRT performance, scientists are screwed.
Where I work, we had about ~10 processors available locally for research until we got a beowolf cluster - it was just too expensive to get many more - now we have 48. And they're all damned fast.
You business types may not have realized it, but you helped subsidize science as intel, amd, and the lot competed to make the next record-breaking processor.
...or does anyone else think that many of the people he was talking about (the evil emailers) were slashdot regulars? A lot of the topics seemed to mesh with the discussion around his previous column. Nobody here would be rude, would they?
Would they?
Huh?
...but I dont understand something about this.
How is the anti-hydrogen stored? Unike the charged anti-particles generally made, I don't see how atoms can be stored because due to their neutrality, a magnetic field doesn't contain them. Any physicist care to explain?
This is not quite as bad as the others, because the constitution specifically allows habeas corpus to be suspended during a crisis.
Every code that we use that has been purchased from an outside vendor uses FORTRAN for the actual number crunching. C is generally only used in data analysis after the fact and visualization. AMBER, Gaussian, NWChem, GAMESS-US, GAMESS-UK, you name it - FORTRAN is still the standard.
:).
That said, everything I write is in C
Men are from mars, but venus is a volcanically active hell-hole. ;-)
...and finally the Bush administration says something I can agree with without reservations.
I almost feel like I have responsible representation.
....it would be out of the kettle and into the fire, I'm afraid.
1. I'd not worry about the GPL fork issue. Even if it happens, who cares. That's the beauty of the GPL. If you were planning on releasing your code to the community (via the GPL or however) anyway, you obviously want others to benefit from your code. And a seperate project shouldn't stop you from fulfilling your goals (presumably the other project forked because of incompatable goals - so no overlap). 2. You might check out Guido van Rossum's approach to maintaining Python [python.org] His style seems to be what you want to do, and I think it's safe to say that python is a sucess (no script-wars flames please).
No, it does not (now) have national implications. Even a federal court outside of the ninth circuit can ignore this ruling. Only when (if?) this is brought before the supreme court would it have truly national implications.
And google's page is refreshingly simple w/o ads or extra garbage.