Raytracing is an example of an embarrassingly parallel vector math problem. It's not the only such example nor the only use these cards are being put to. They're being used in thermodynamic, aerodynamic and hydrodynamic modelling of systems for computer design, for mineral exploration, for climate modelling. It would not surprise me if NASA has a cluster with them for certain space physics applications. No doubt for financial modelling too.
The point of displaying the cards doing real-time 1080p raytracing of a classic game is to shock and awe some of us geeks who understand the scale of this application. It's pretty extreme scale computation for a single PC at this point in technology history.
Intel could put add some people to this project with less geek and more art it's true, if they want the maximum emotional impact from the gamer contingent. But those folks from Illumination Entertainment and Weta Digital are awfully hard to get, even on loan.
These are not laptop nor desktop chips and won't ever be barring some crazy improvements in power consumption before we hit the minimum node size available on silicon. That doesn't mean this work doesn't need to be done.
By "counterfeit" he means "generic" - or worse, the exact same legitimate medicine in the same packages from the same factory once exported and sold abroad for less than the US price and then re-imported.
If you don't like the terms don't use the service. Nobody's putting a gun to your head and making you use Google+. They didn't sneak a change of terms in on you here. Nobody lied to you. They didn't cheat you. They didn't steal from you.
Lots of people couldn't access data or services that were hosted in Azure. The UK government for one, who had just migrated to Office 365 a few weeks ago. The Daily Show for another. Many others are reported. We're going to have news about these failures for weeks. Many millions of dollars were lost by services hosted in the Azure cloud that were down all day today for Leap Day - perhaps a billion dollars or more of sales. Everyone affected has a huge loss of face they're going to have to recover gradually over time, so the losses compound.
Azure service management is still down over 24 hours after onset of the incident (link in TFS). They'll stand it up again eventually but they haven't yet. This is bad but it's not "lost data" bad yet. It's not "Danger" bad yet. Over the next few days we'll find out what actual data loss occurred, what transactions in flight were lost, which hosted databases were munged. Most simple hosting customers will be unaffected and they will skew the results so that Microsoft can say "only a few customers had severe issues." Though the prime enterprise customers with 10,000-100,000 users were totally hosed because they were most active, they're only one customer each so their customer count doesn't count in the PR scheme.
The biggest loss is the loss of confidence. Azure hadn't failed this badly in public before and now it has. This is the failbar other services will have to get over to differentiate their service and some hosted cloud providers are now breathing a sigh of relief because this is a really low bar. "We haven't failed this bad yet!" will be their advertising slogan. When pressured for a competitive argument against Azure they're going to ask: "On Leap Day then what?" That's the five word closing argument for a whole lot of cloud services tomorrow.
Azure becomes the "Azure screen of death." Ironically, Azure is the color of a cloudless sky. Perhaps the name is prophetic.
Seriously, you're not going to win this one. Get your own Internet. And by all means invest in the offshore VPN service too, so you can find out what the real Internet is like behind the Great Firewall of America because that's where we're going now too.
It's neat to know that you and the CEO showed up both on slashdot and reddit directly to clear the air. Obviously there are steps to take, not only with this individual video but to investigate other videos also mistakenly so labeled, and to preventing a recurrence.
Content rights are becoming a much more passionate issue than in years past - particularly with rights holders pushing for criminal punishments for things that were civil matters previously and clawing back the public domain in copyright extensions. And then there's the whole SOPA/PIPA "Free speech and due process are unnecessary inducements to theft" nonsense.
Good luck getting this right. I'm willing to believe you guys are going to give it a fair try, and not join the pitchforks and torches brigade just yet. You've earned a little harmless poking fun for a while though, even if you fix it quick.
Q: Who owns the copyright on "Twitter"? - A: Rumblefish!
Keep thinking that Billy. You are #winning. You have Adonis DNA. Don't ever change.
and only had 1 piece of malware in a year.
Only one? A high achievement that. I congratulate you on your skill and good fortune. You must be especially prudent about clicking on unfamiliar links and opening emails from strangers.
Not much surprise there. Intel contribute a lot of development effort to Linux. Android is the marketing name of a customised version of Java on Linux. Should not be a surprise that Intel went down this road. You are right, this is a good thing and I also hope they are successful with it.
Android is not "a customized version of Java". Please avoid confusing people with this phrasing as Java is a trademark owned by Oracle and Oracle is trying to say that Android is Java when it's not so as to get billions of dollars out of Google and incidentally kill Android. The word "Java" by itself is taken to mean an operating environment similar to the Android operating environment, but they are separately sourced and not the same thing.
Android is an operating system that uses the Linux kernel. It uses a virtual machine system called Dalvik which is incompatible with Java virtual machines and bytecode applications. Android runs programs typically written in the Java Programming Language (the free language specification, not the copyrighted operating environment) but these programs are compiled to Java operating environment-incompatible Davik bytecode and linked to non-Java Android libraries. Android uses certain public Application Programming Interfaces in common with Java, for the convenience and familiarity of developers.
Android also runs native applications written in C, C++ and a number of other programming languages linked both against the Android libraries and other development libraries in the "Native Development Kit". Android has some similarities to Java, as Linux has some similarities to Unix - but Android is not, has never been, and will never be "Java" any more than Linux has ever been or ever will be "Unix".
Oh yeah. Microsoft Office runs like a gazelle on lightweight hardware like the new ARM tablets and smartbooks and Intel's new Haswell. Except it doesn't. Have you never heard the term "Intel giveth; Microsoft taketh away."?
EG/Splashtop isn't necessary. Neither is Windows. Putting a dual-boot with Windows and Linux is a non-starter. Linux with LibreOffice is more than sufficient - and so is Android with the various office packages available. iOS with its office apps too. If you must use Microsoft's battery and memory sucking OS to work with its deliberately incompatible file formats and hideously insecure methods you can do it remotely through Citrix, OnLive Desktop, or oddly enough - another product called "Splashtop". Among other ways. Redmond products should be put in an inescapable jail or "glove box" so as not to contaminate your honest work and spread until you can't use anything but Redmond products.
Don't know what to say about the "rip off Windows" comment. That's so backwards it's impossible to address.
Linux is a kernel, not an OS. I hear it started the year with a quarter billion units in current use and looks to double that this year. By the end of next year it should have Windows systems easily outnumbered at that rate of growth. I don't see how contaminating it with Windows is going to improve that rate. We're going mobile, apps are going all-web and cloud-based for the most part. It seems the days of Windows Native apps owning the world is coming to an end. Even Microsoft is abandoning them.
Sure there's a solution. Abolish copyright. It no longer serves its purpose and should be discarded. That's what you do with things that are used up: discard them.
In the last 1200 years people have become more mobile. Back then in addition to suffering drought they were also surrounded by territorial cannibalistic slave-taking peoples with significant cultural differences and a lack of diversity appreciation training.
Microsoft stock astounding 14 year run of logarithmic growth ended December 1999 at the beginning of the "dot bomb" era when all technology stocks took a huge hit. Bill Gates stepped down as CEO in January of 2000, giving the seat to Steve Ballmer. Microsoft started paying dividends in February 2003, and regular quarterly dividends the following August. The November dividend that year was a biggie special: $3.08 per share, probably because Congress passed a special law for dividend income. Their share price has been fairly flat ever since 2003, except for a spike on the launch of Windows 7 at the end of 2007 and a big dip for the market crash of 2008. It's currently trading at share prices first achieved in 1998. I once added up all the dividends they've paid ever, and it doesn't amount to much relative to inflation over those 13 years - and certainly not so excluding that one-time biggie bonus dividend. The stock has now been flat or down for almost as long as it was a growth stock.
Bill Gates has been steadily selling off his holdings of Microsoft stock for many years, and may soon become a less-than-10-percent owner of shares of the company which changes the status of the company in significant ways. The beneficiary of these sales has been Mr. Gates' personal wealth and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation trust - which has an investment portfolio but does not hold Microsoft stock.
The divestment of such a large holder has some impacts on the stock price. At some point in the future if Mssrs. Gates and Ballmer cease divesting in the stock the market for the shares may see a more normal reflection of profits in the share price.
The optimal price of the iPad hardware is less than what Apple is asking for it.
If this was true they would not be having trouble keeping them in stock. It's easy enough to say based on the BOM cost, but the small city it takes to assemble the components doesn't just spring suddenly into being and it doesn't just go away when you're done. It's plant & equipment that must be accounted for somehow.
They could definitely buy Intel if they were willing to take on some debt as well. They are currently debt-free and the world is full of bankers who would love to lend them money.
Well for one thing a trademark remains valid as long as it's still used. In the US copyrights expire in a mere 120 years - until the day comes that the term is further extended.
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Raytracing is an example of an embarrassingly parallel vector math problem. It's not the only such example nor the only use these cards are being put to. They're being used in thermodynamic, aerodynamic and hydrodynamic modelling of systems for computer design, for mineral exploration, for climate modelling. It would not surprise me if NASA has a cluster with them for certain space physics applications. No doubt for financial modelling too.
The point of displaying the cards doing real-time 1080p raytracing of a classic game is to shock and awe some of us geeks who understand the scale of this application. It's pretty extreme scale computation for a single PC at this point in technology history.
Intel could put add some people to this project with less geek and more art it's true, if they want the maximum emotional impact from the gamer contingent. But those folks from Illumination Entertainment and Weta Digital are awfully hard to get, even on loan.
These are not laptop nor desktop chips and won't ever be barring some crazy improvements in power consumption before we hit the minimum node size available on silicon. That doesn't mean this work doesn't need to be done.
The scaling with 8 cards is very near linear. These cards are going to be great if we ever see them at retail.
They'll still be there. They'll just be offline. Where they're safe.
By "counterfeit" he means "generic" - or worse, the exact same legitimate medicine in the same packages from the same factory once exported and sold abroad for less than the US price and then re-imported.
If you don't like the terms don't use the service. Nobody's putting a gun to your head and making you use Google+. They didn't sneak a change of terms in on you here. Nobody lied to you. They didn't cheat you. They didn't steal from you.
Nicely done!
Lots of people couldn't access data or services that were hosted in Azure. The UK government for one, who had just migrated to Office 365 a few weeks ago. The Daily Show for another. Many others are reported. We're going to have news about these failures for weeks. Many millions of dollars were lost by services hosted in the Azure cloud that were down all day today for Leap Day - perhaps a billion dollars or more of sales. Everyone affected has a huge loss of face they're going to have to recover gradually over time, so the losses compound.
Azure service management is still down over 24 hours after onset of the incident (link in TFS). They'll stand it up again eventually but they haven't yet. This is bad but it's not "lost data" bad yet. It's not "Danger" bad yet. Over the next few days we'll find out what actual data loss occurred, what transactions in flight were lost, which hosted databases were munged. Most simple hosting customers will be unaffected and they will skew the results so that Microsoft can say "only a few customers had severe issues." Though the prime enterprise customers with 10,000-100,000 users were totally hosed because they were most active, they're only one customer each so their customer count doesn't count in the PR scheme.
The biggest loss is the loss of confidence. Azure hadn't failed this badly in public before and now it has. This is the failbar other services will have to get over to differentiate their service and some hosted cloud providers are now breathing a sigh of relief because this is a really low bar. "We haven't failed this bad yet!" will be their advertising slogan. When pressured for a competitive argument against Azure they're going to ask: "On Leap Day then what?" That's the five word closing argument for a whole lot of cloud services tomorrow.
Azure becomes the "Azure screen of death." Ironically, Azure is the color of a cloudless sky. Perhaps the name is prophetic.
We don't chare if the scheduler gets stressed out. We didn't have to design him.
Seriously, you're not going to win this one. Get your own Internet. And by all means invest in the offshore VPN service too, so you can find out what the real Internet is like behind the Great Firewall of America because that's where we're going now too.
It's neat to know that you and the CEO showed up both on slashdot and reddit directly to clear the air. Obviously there are steps to take, not only with this individual video but to investigate other videos also mistakenly so labeled, and to preventing a recurrence.
Content rights are becoming a much more passionate issue than in years past - particularly with rights holders pushing for criminal punishments for things that were civil matters previously and clawing back the public domain in copyright extensions. And then there's the whole SOPA/PIPA "Free speech and due process are unnecessary inducements to theft" nonsense.
Good luck getting this right. I'm willing to believe you guys are going to give it a fair try, and not join the pitchforks and torches brigade just yet. You've earned a little harmless poking fun for a while though, even if you fix it quick.
Q: Who owns the copyright on "Twitter"? - A: Rumblefish!
Keep thinking that Billy. You are #winning. You have Adonis DNA. Don't ever change.
and only had 1 piece of malware in a year.
Only one? A high achievement that. I congratulate you on your skill and good fortune. You must be especially prudent about clicking on unfamiliar links and opening emails from strangers.
Not much surprise there. Intel contribute a lot of development effort to Linux. Android is the marketing name of a customised version of Java on Linux. Should not be a surprise that Intel went down this road. You are right, this is a good thing and I also hope they are successful with it.
Android is not "a customized version of Java". Please avoid confusing people with this phrasing as Java is a trademark owned by Oracle and Oracle is trying to say that Android is Java when it's not so as to get billions of dollars out of Google and incidentally kill Android. The word "Java" by itself is taken to mean an operating environment similar to the Android operating environment, but they are separately sourced and not the same thing.
Android is an operating system that uses the Linux kernel. It uses a virtual machine system called Dalvik which is incompatible with Java virtual machines and bytecode applications. Android runs programs typically written in the Java Programming Language (the free language specification, not the copyrighted operating environment) but these programs are compiled to Java operating environment-incompatible Davik bytecode and linked to non-Java Android libraries. Android uses certain public Application Programming Interfaces in common with Java, for the convenience and familiarity of developers.
Android also runs native applications written in C, C++ and a number of other programming languages linked both against the Android libraries and other development libraries in the "Native Development Kit". Android has some similarities to Java, as Linux has some similarities to Unix - but Android is not, has never been, and will never be "Java" any more than Linux has ever been or ever will be "Unix".
Oh yeah. Microsoft Office runs like a gazelle on lightweight hardware like the new ARM tablets and smartbooks and Intel's new Haswell. Except it doesn't. Have you never heard the term "Intel giveth; Microsoft taketh away."?
EG/Splashtop isn't necessary. Neither is Windows. Putting a dual-boot with Windows and Linux is a non-starter. Linux with LibreOffice is more than sufficient - and so is Android with the various office packages available. iOS with its office apps too. If you must use Microsoft's battery and memory sucking OS to work with its deliberately incompatible file formats and hideously insecure methods you can do it remotely through Citrix, OnLive Desktop, or oddly enough - another product called "Splashtop". Among other ways. Redmond products should be put in an inescapable jail or "glove box" so as not to contaminate your honest work and spread until you can't use anything but Redmond products.
Don't know what to say about the "rip off Windows" comment. That's so backwards it's impossible to address.
Linux is a kernel, not an OS. I hear it started the year with a quarter billion units in current use and looks to double that this year. By the end of next year it should have Windows systems easily outnumbered at that rate of growth. I don't see how contaminating it with Windows is going to improve that rate. We're going mobile, apps are going all-web and cloud-based for the most part. It seems the days of Windows Native apps owning the world is coming to an end. Even Microsoft is abandoning them.
On a related note, Intel's first smartphone runs... Android. Apparently Intel has finally got the memo. I wish them luck.
This was actually a wild bird doing a cover of Burr Dee's breakout hit "twitter tweet". But still a copyright violation.
Sure there's a solution. Abolish copyright. It no longer serves its purpose and should be discarded. That's what you do with things that are used up: discard them.
In the last 1200 years people have become more mobile. Back then in addition to suffering drought they were also surrounded by territorial cannibalistic slave-taking peoples with significant cultural differences and a lack of diversity appreciation training.
Microsoft stock astounding 14 year run of logarithmic growth ended December 1999 at the beginning of the "dot bomb" era when all technology stocks took a huge hit. Bill Gates stepped down as CEO in January of 2000, giving the seat to Steve Ballmer. Microsoft started paying dividends in February 2003, and regular quarterly dividends the following August. The November dividend that year was a biggie special: $3.08 per share, probably because Congress passed a special law for dividend income. Their share price has been fairly flat ever since 2003, except for a spike on the launch of Windows 7 at the end of 2007 and a big dip for the market crash of 2008. It's currently trading at share prices first achieved in 1998. I once added up all the dividends they've paid ever, and it doesn't amount to much relative to inflation over those 13 years - and certainly not so excluding that one-time biggie bonus dividend. The stock has now been flat or down for almost as long as it was a growth stock.
Bill Gates has been steadily selling off his holdings of Microsoft stock for many years, and may soon become a less-than-10-percent owner of shares of the company which changes the status of the company in significant ways. The beneficiary of these sales has been Mr. Gates' personal wealth and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation trust - which has an investment portfolio but does not hold Microsoft stock.
The divestment of such a large holder has some impacts on the stock price. At some point in the future if Mssrs. Gates and Ballmer cease divesting in the stock the market for the shares may see a more normal reflection of profits in the share price.
The optimal price of the iPad hardware is less than what Apple is asking for it.
If this was true they would not be having trouble keeping them in stock. It's easy enough to say based on the BOM cost, but the small city it takes to assemble the components doesn't just spring suddenly into being and it doesn't just go away when you're done. It's plant & equipment that must be accounted for somehow.
ARM Holdings is not as big a company as you might think even with its $12B market cap. Its P/E is 70 - against Apple's P/E of 14.
They could definitely buy Intel if they were willing to take on some debt as well. They are currently debt-free and the world is full of bankers who would love to lend them money.
If you have to deliberately install it, it's neither a virus nor a worm. It's an app.
Well for one thing a trademark remains valid as long as it's still used. In the US copyrights expire in a mere 120 years - until the day comes that the term is further extended.
This heresy is not even close to the full Zombocom experience. The audio even stops after a while.