Why the insults? I'm perfectly aware that circumvention is only necessary because of Sony asshattery, but as of *now* you can get a machine with firmware up to 3.41 and jailbreak it. Initial booting of linux has happened and I would expect in a few weeks or a couple of months to see it made relatively simple.
How about just being selfish and pretty amoral? I bet a lot of folks could do that. It's not plotting-to-take-over-the-world villainry, but it's not good either.
On further reading - not two PPC cores, one core with two threads using a similar (but possibly superior) technology to hyperthreading.
But yeah, essentially your short description there is correct.
Also I've looked at the top 500 list - The cell, though not the variant in the playstation, is in Roadrunner. Roadrunner is the third fastest computer on the planet.
It's a new processor architecture, IBM and Sony (and possibly others) had a hand in it. Effectively two "Power" cores and a bunch of vector processing units. It's supposed to be very very good for vector operations. For a while (a few years back now) the world's most powerful supercomputer was a machine composed of nodes containing two cell processors and an Opteron each.
It's different to other parallelisation strategies as the vector units (SPU/SPEs) allow you to parallelise stuff at an operation level, unlike just stuffing more cores into the box which is the intel/PC strategy. For games and graphics this it thought to be good, hence its inclusion in the playstation 3. It's also supposed to be good for scientific computing.
I guess you could think of it as somewhere between a CPU and a GPU, or a hybrid of the two approaches.
Umm no. Check your figures before calling people out like that. The worldwide smartphone market is led by Nokia, then RIM, then Android, then Apple, with windows mobile pulling in only 5% of sales.
And given Nokia has apparently been actually losing market share in recent years, any assertion of information on the state of either sales or install base that misses them out is just plain false.
I don't see windows mobile making a splash myself. Everyone and their grandmother now loves iPhones, and android has taken a lot of the geeks and the 'I don't like apple' types. Outside of the US of A Nokia still rule the roost.
You could (AFAICT) use HD-DVD formatting on a dual layer DVD to get 9.4 GB of HD format data on it, that's about it. HD-DVD proper used a blue laser to achieve higher data density.
The format war was a fix anyway, with a lot of companies in both camps and the end of the war negotiated in the boardroom, not fought out in the open market.
Higher capacity and higher transfer speed do not an inferior product make. The geek world preferred HDDVD because it had no region coding and no BD+. These are good reasons but do not mean an inferior format.
Sony were not the only ones pushing at and it probably won out as much because of its stronger DRM provisions as anything else.
I agree that it's not very sony-like to team up with anyone. Besides which they already have a successful (though not major market share) phone division. And somewhere in Sony, someone has figured out that if they put a PSP emulator/interpreter/whatever on to an android phone then people will find a way to rip it off, use it on other devices and pirate the games.
Good old K5. Like the last light from a sputtering, guttering, dying candle, there are still a few posts there and a few people hanging around. Unfortunately, also like said light, it's of little use to anyone.
I've always used that in logging output because it sorts nicely. However I believe in most of the non-US, western world dd/mm/yy is used to specify the date. No idea about the far east or anywhere else.
Anyway, for once we Brits and you Americans can agree it's 10/10/10
"Recreational drugs and alcohol serve to suppress coherent cognitive awareness. "
Err, what about those folks that take stimulants?
Drugs are all really, really different.
"Coherent people can produce brilliantly creative works. Incoherent people sometimes do. Hence random."
Yeah. everything written by people who've never used drugs is golden and a hit every time, unlike those stupid stoners who only turn out something amazing 50% of the time...
Do you know how much artistic/creative crap is turned out by the people of this planet?
I'm not arguing that drugs make people more creative, I have a lot of doubts about that. Certainly not more productive. But you might want to check your argument there.
The real question is if Marijuana was legal what will be the increase in use... Now how will that effect the productivity and profitability the the US Economy
That's not the real question.
The real question is how can the current illegal status be justified, for something that does relatively little harm to the user, none to anyone else and yet can currently land them with a criminal record for possession, maybe even jail time. Fuck the economics, it's freedom and how we construct law we're talking about.
Speeding doesn't seem to be such a hot-button political topic, or at least no politician will touch it.
But it does seem to need some attention. For instance, would people be more willing to observe the lower, residential speed limits more thoroughly if they weren't subjected to really rather low highway/interstate speeds?
A little like the drug debate, when popular opinion is that your law and associated warnings of harm are bullshit in one area (weed), people will tend to disbelieve pretty much everything you have to say, even where the advice is pertinent and the dangers very real (heroin), and it also decreases the level of trust in government in general.
Yes, and in places where serious percentages of the population have been involved in mass, discriminatory crime, have you not noticed that they try to go in for reconciliation commissions? Trying to repair and understand whatever it is that caused the damage?
Or do you think they lock up the 'bad' 50% of the population?
"10,000 people a day, hell, significantly more than that, are robbed a day... in real life. Should we ignore those robbers?"
Are they? In one country, France?
I think that's hugely out of proportion with reality there yourself. From what stats I've been able to find, France suffers from about 65 robberies per day.
If it was as large as 10,000 per day then a serious look would be needed at why it was happening. Not with a view to legalising robbery, but with a view to changing something about society, because that level of crime would be a symptom of something being *very* wrong.
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Why the insults? I'm perfectly aware that circumvention is only necessary because of Sony asshattery, but as of *now* you can get a machine with firmware up to 3.41 and jailbreak it. Initial booting of linux has happened and I would expect in a few weeks or a couple of months to see it made relatively simple.
How about just being selfish and pretty amoral? I bet a lot of folks could do that. It's not plotting-to-take-over-the-world villainry, but it's not good either.
I don't think a good proportion of us would go that far.
Give me superman-like powers and I'd be trying to drastically change the world, not protect it.
Oh sure, but if your aim is to try out cell programming, then that's pretty much your only option at present!
It would probably be better to try using CUDA and your graphics card...
On further reading - not two PPC cores, one core with two threads using a similar (but possibly superior) technology to hyperthreading.
But yeah, essentially your short description there is correct.
Also I've looked at the top 500 list - The cell, though not the variant in the playstation, is in Roadrunner. Roadrunner is the third fastest computer on the planet.
Get PS3 with 3.41 or earlier firmware -> Jailbreak -> install linux.
Profit?
(actually linux for jailbroken ps3s is in the very early stages, but I'm sure it'll get there.
You've really missed hearing about Cell?
It's a new processor architecture, IBM and Sony (and possibly others) had a hand in it. Effectively two "Power" cores and a bunch of vector processing units. It's supposed to be very very good for vector operations. For a while (a few years back now) the world's most powerful supercomputer was a machine composed of nodes containing two cell processors and an Opteron each.
It's different to other parallelisation strategies as the vector units (SPU/SPEs) allow you to parallelise stuff at an operation level, unlike just stuffing more cores into the box which is the intel/PC strategy. For games and graphics this it thought to be good, hence its inclusion in the playstation 3. It's also supposed to be good for scientific computing.
I guess you could think of it as somewhere between a CPU and a GPU, or a hybrid of the two approaches.
Umm no. Check your figures before calling people out like that. The worldwide smartphone market is led by Nokia, then RIM, then Android, then Apple, with windows mobile pulling in only 5% of sales.
And given Nokia has apparently been actually losing market share in recent years, any assertion of information on the state of either sales or install base that misses them out is just plain false.
Eh, not so much - you might want to take a look at the pie chart here
Nokia still capture 40% of the market with Symbian.
You point still stands though I suppose. But the order is -
1. Symbian
2. RIM
3. Android
4. iOS
I hope they're paying you well.
I don't see windows mobile making a splash myself. Everyone and their grandmother now loves iPhones, and android has taken a lot of the geeks and the 'I don't like apple' types. Outside of the US of A Nokia still rule the roost.
Good luck with that.
Err, where do you get the red laser thing from?
You could (AFAICT) use HD-DVD formatting on a dual layer DVD to get 9.4 GB of HD format data on it, that's about it. HD-DVD proper used a blue laser to achieve higher data density.
The format war was a fix anyway, with a lot of companies in both camps and the end of the war negotiated in the boardroom, not fought out in the open market.
Inferior?
Higher capacity and higher transfer speed do not an inferior product make. The geek world preferred HDDVD because it had no region coding and no BD+. These are good reasons but do not mean an inferior format.
Sony were not the only ones pushing at and it probably won out as much because of its stronger DRM provisions as anything else.
I agree that it's not very sony-like to team up with anyone. Besides which they already have a successful (though not major market share) phone division. And somewhere in Sony, someone has figured out that if they put a PSP emulator/interpreter/whatever on to an android phone then people will find a way to rip it off, use it on other devices and pirate the games.
Maybe the coffee. I don't smoke weed.
That's no vontsira. It's a space station.
Are you suggesting that 1 in 2 works produced by a stoned human being are considered above average artistic or creative quality?
Oh hell no, that was just thrown in there for no real reason.
OTOH, are we talking the average as-in median? In which case, probably, sure. Just like half of all human artistic output is above and half is below.
Ha.
Good old K5. Like the last light from a sputtering, guttering, dying candle, there are still a few posts there and a few people hanging around. Unfortunately, also like said light, it's of little use to anyone.
I still pop in once in a while.
You're right, it's changed since I started reading it (a long time before I signed up to comment!)
It's now rare to have a debate amongst subject-matter experts, and more common to have arguments between the ill-informed.
Or maybe I'm just succumbing to nostalgia. It has changed around here though. Where is the place that is now what slashdot was?
I've always used that in logging output because it sorts nicely. However I believe in most of the non-US, western world dd/mm/yy is used to specify the date. No idea about the far east or anywhere else.
Anyway, for once we Brits and you Americans can agree it's 10/10/10
"Recreational drugs and alcohol serve to suppress coherent cognitive awareness. "
Err, what about those folks that take stimulants?
Drugs are all really, really different.
"Coherent people can produce brilliantly creative works. Incoherent people sometimes do. Hence random."
Yeah. everything written by people who've never used drugs is golden and a hit every time, unlike those stupid stoners who only turn out something amazing 50% of the time...
Do you know how much artistic/creative crap is turned out by the people of this planet?
I'm not arguing that drugs make people more creative, I have a lot of doubts about that. Certainly not more productive. But you might want to check your argument there.
The real question is if Marijuana was legal what will be the increase in use... Now how will that effect the productivity and profitability the the US Economy
That's not the real question.
The real question is how can the current illegal status be justified, for something that does relatively little harm to the user, none to anyone else and yet can currently land them with a criminal record for possession, maybe even jail time.
Fuck the economics, it's freedom and how we construct law we're talking about.
Yup, and it'll probably be in a treaty about fisheries. Or corn subsidies.
Aww, how cute, he thought the government were fighting for his rights and then gave in!
Quite the opposite dear fellow, they were trying to shaft you with an even bigger rod and haven't managed to get their way 100%. Yet.
Speeding doesn't seem to be such a hot-button political topic, or at least no politician will touch it.
But it does seem to need some attention. For instance, would people be more willing to observe the lower, residential speed limits more thoroughly if they weren't subjected to really rather low highway/interstate speeds?
A little like the drug debate, when popular opinion is that your law and associated warnings of harm are bullshit in one area (weed), people will tend to disbelieve pretty much everything you have to say, even where the advice is pertinent and the dangers very real (heroin), and it also decreases the level of trust in government in general.
Yes, and in places where serious percentages of the population have been involved in mass, discriminatory crime, have you not noticed that they try to go in for reconciliation commissions? Trying to repair and understand whatever it is that caused the damage?
Or do you think they lock up the 'bad' 50% of the population?
"10,000 people a day, hell, significantly more than that, are robbed a day... in real life. Should we ignore those robbers?"
Are they? In one country, France?
I think that's hugely out of proportion with reality there yourself. From what stats I've been able to find, France suffers from about 65 robberies per day.
If it was as large as 10,000 per day then a serious look would be needed at why it was happening. Not with a view to legalising robbery, but with a view to changing something about society, because that level of crime would be a symptom of something being *very* wrong.