Because if they don't do it somebody else will, and all that that implies.
So the question is when... I give it 48 months from today.
BTW, a mix of specialty cores could be better... RNG, RISC, CISC, low power supervisor to control the rest, media processor, physics engine, three or four GPUs...
If you must design in a limit, the limit should be absurdly huge so as to avoid the challenges that arise from re-designing all of the systems that come to rely on that limit.
To give some examples of what goes wrong when you ignore ALT: The IBM PC was able to address the absurdly huge limit of 640K of RAM. Microsoft Excel to this day cannot address more than 65,000 rows in a single spreadsheet, which is nowhere near enough for high finance and some datalogging applications. The maximum addressable drive (partition) size used to be 8GB. Oh, and we're going to run out of IPV4 addresses right about the time my refrigerator needs a static IP to host my lettucecam.
I don't agree with you much, but your post was well thought out and written.
The teacher's union in my state opposes standards based testing. Specifically they oppose mandated testing of all students for the knowlege and skills expected of a student who has spent twelve years in public school, and required for graduation from high school. The reason for their objection is clear. In the first round of testing, with several years to prepare, half of the students failed each of the three components of the test, so the vast majority of the students failed at least one of the three mandatory components.
Teacher pay needs reforms. If a person goes $250,000 into debt to get an advanced degree and teaching certificate in the hope of securing a job that pays $40,000 a year in an economy where the tiniest shack costs $500,000, it is unreasonable to expect them to be proficient in math. If you hire such people as math instructors, you should not be surprised their students fail to learn. That said, teachers' unions need to stop fighting real reforms like testing, teacher certification, background checks and required curricula.
Parents also need to be more realistic. The most I hope for my kids in public school is that they learn how not to get caught. I've already taught them to question the motivations of the teachers and the school board on some subjects. At home they can learn useful things like history and chemistry and civics in an environment that's less likely to get them killed or arrested. It is a pleasant surprise when their public school delivers above expectations, but not a frequent one.
Even math can be perverted to promote social issues in the phrasing of sample problems and I've seen this done in the math books the kids bring home. It's sick, really, that even math can't be left without banging a social drum.
I do agree that all their textbooks have only poor content. That's why I select carefully the extra books to give them a broader view.
Once you buy a development product it turns out you need a toolkit, and a subscription to their support group. And a new version of the product. Oh, and before you do anything useful you have to buy their entire range of development products, subscriptions, and services because the feature you must have to solve the problem is lost in the Redmond version of RPM Dependency Hell.
Of course, the system is so thoroughly integrated that your output will run in Windows only, ever.
Before you finish, of course, you'll need to re-up everything again because of version creep, or a library vulnerability.
And naturally it will turn out that several showstoppers will prevent you from completion because they rely on submarine IP from developers lost in the void, or an interface to a driver that's mysteriously under NDA.
If you miraculously complete, and your product is popular, you will be invited to Redmond to participate in a fruitless discussion about licensing your IP. Strangely, similar software with 80% of the functionality will be included with the next version of Office.
Take another look at all the in-house software projects developed with the Redmond stack you've ever seen. Was even one ever current, feature complete and reliable? I thought not.
Be wary. Wars are waged more over competition for resources than any other reason.
No, wars are mostly waged for control over the lives of men, sadly by using the controlled men as weapons. Resources, diplomatic gaffes, cultural differences and religion are only excuses -- except that religion is just another way men control the lives of other men.
G.P. post is also wrong. Moving away from the city will not solve all of a drug addict's problems. It will however prevent him from being vaporized by the asteroid/nuclear weapon/etc that strikes the city shortly thereafter, if he moves far enough, much to the detriment of the surviving gene pool.
The scale of disaster that Stephen Hawking is talking about is escaping you hand-wringers. Is there a mathematician among you to explain this to his slower brethren?
With all that suffering going on, there will still be humans. The question "How does the Human race survive the next 100 years" isn't addressed in your post.
Properly speaking, if there are 30 billion suffering starving plague infested anarchist cannibals left on an overheated Earth after the 100 years, the problem is solved.
The odds of mankind being wiped out in the next 36K days is very small. Of course significant fractions can be slain by plague, pestilence, war, famine, weather (Natural and otherwise), earthquakes, volcanos nuclear war, rodeo clowns, feral cats and a host of other ills. We could lose five nines of us in a single day and still have a plague of humans that would repeat our folly. Any lesser disaster and the extant crowd would just increase reproduction to make up for the loss.
That said, eventually something definitely will destroy the ability of humans to reside on the earth. It's not just likely, it's certain. The only certain hope for the persistence of the race is...
Redundant offsite backups. Duh.
The nihilist in me says let it go.
My inner optimist makes me tell my kids: "There's going to be a starship. You want to be on it."
My Motorola cable box/dvr crashes about twice a month. On the menu it says "Microsoft enhanced". When playing recorded TV, the sound or video often won't start, and I have to stop the video and start it again, sometimes several times, before it will play. The hard drive is only 120GB, and I can't replace it with a larger one. It has I/O for USB, firewire and other interfaces, which are unusable because they are not supported by the software in the box.
It's neat how you guys insert a few spelling and grammar errors to make it look like you're from the sticks or whatever. Just the homey touch to make these slashdot geeks think your remarks are genuine.
So, do they teach you guys that in Bangalore, or are you posting from Microsoft's new campus in Mumbai?
For the record, all day today KIRO was running a piece about how reprobates have been running an open air crack cocaine market across the street from the King County courthouse in Seattle (this state's largest city) for years, and even they (one of the largest radio stations in the state) couldn't get police to respond. Note to furriners: the sale and use of crack cocaine is prohibited in the US.
I am curious about what offended our state representatives more... that their sponsors the tribal casinos weren't getting a cut or that the state wasn't getting a share. They're certainly pleased to pander to habitual gamblers with scratch tickets and lotto in every convenience store, gas station and grocery in the state. They get a cut of every bottle (or glass!) of alcohol. Certainly they make more bucks off of a pack of cigarettes than the farmer who grew the tobacco, or anybody else who touched it before it arrived at the consumer -- tax is > 50Pct.
Certainly it wasn't the cops, who must use care now only to pull over offenders driving later model cars so as to not overburden the Justice Profit Center with an excess of violators who can't pay their fines.
Yes, that's Washington - the state where you're safe from online gaming and you can't buy Sudafed because you might make meth with it, but you can sell meth, crack, heroin and Ecstasy with impunity in the Junior High School because there's no profit in arresting you. Click it or ticket. Fines are double in work zones. Thanx.
It would be more honest to put a menu on the state house: Calendar days: $50K, Minor issues: $500k. Major Issues: $4M. Public/Private partnerships like ballparks or public transit: Profit sharing whatever we can fleece the taxpayer for. No law too unenforceable, no cause to liberal. It's for our children, dammit! Won't anyone think of the children?
Do I sound bitter? Yes. My son really deserves an "Alex recognition day" on the state calendar, but where am I gonna get $50K?
As to AMD doing a submarine on ATI chipsets, that would be braindead. It makes so much better sense to just make the chipsets that support Intel chips more expensive. Then every time Intel nets $30 on a processor, you net $30 on a chipset. And you get market preference by being the CPU with the cheaper average motherboard. Add to that: open the interface and you win in serverland where Linux is king. Add the synergy (yes, I know... ) possible from leveraging (yes...) the chipset interface to the CPU (oh, God, I can't believe I'm writing this), and you get an unstoppable mix.
It makes too much sense to be true, and that's why I have to say... it's not.
"On May 5, 1970, over 1,000 protestors came together on I-5, blocking southbound lanes, to speak out against the US's invasion of Cambodia, and the death of four Kent State antiwar protestors, shot by members of the National Guard." - http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_ id=2271
March 2, 2003: Peace activists took to the streets by the thousands yesterday in cities from Olympia to Bellingham as well as several locations in Seattle. Spurred by the first salvos in Iraq that pierced the uncertainty about what for months has been a potential war, yesterday's rallies had a decidedly more aggressive tenor than those just a few days earlier.... In Bellingham, 300 to 500 peace activists made their way onto Interstate 5, temporarily blocking freeway traffic for two miles in either direction. - http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/113604_wpeace2 1.shtml
April 30, 2004: LOS ANGELES -- Independent truckers protested mounting diesel fuel prices Friday by abandoning trucks in rush-hour traffic on one of the region's busiest freeways and staging rallies at two of the largest ports on the West Coast. - http://www.nbc4.tv/traffic/3255276/detail.html
March 27, 2006: LOS ANGELES -- More than 36,000 students from throughout Los Angeles County skipped classes and marched through streets and on various freeways Monday to protest an immigration bill being debated in Congress. - http://www.nbc4.tv/news/8289535/detail.html
Now which issue was it that you deem unworthy? Was it one of these? Your advice to protestors to be forgettable seems unlikely to bring attention to their cause -- something that was achieved by the disruptive, dangerous and memorable protests above. With the exception of the truckers opposed to $2.50/gal gas, the protesters seem to achieved both national attention and lasting results: Seattle is certainly never going to host the WTO again. Congress is working on the immigration law as I type this. We all know how Cambodia worked out (a sad story, that. By getting their way the nonviolent protestors indirectly killed about 1/4th of all Cambodian men, women and children. A heavy burden for people of conscience. *). Perhaps you could offer something more helpful. Are you by chance a protest organizer? Do you have a history of success in nonviolent promotion of social change? If so, the organization is almost certainly eager to have your contribution.
* - The Khmer Rouge regime is remembered mainly for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people (from an estimated 1972 population of 7.1 million), through execution, starvation and forced labor. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge
I think my point is that protestors should be tolerated as much as possible, but they should be reminded be careful which causes they take up.
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Don't forget to disconnect the off switch. Darned users get energy conscious from time to time.
That leaves you 45sq ft, which is a nice space for a cot when you need quiet time. It sounds like you're going to need a lot of quiet time.
So the question is when... I give it 48 months from today.
BTW, a mix of specialty cores could be better... RNG, RISC, CISC, low power supervisor to control the rest, media processor, physics engine, three or four GPUs...
To give some examples of what goes wrong when you ignore ALT: The IBM PC was able to address the absurdly huge limit of 640K of RAM. Microsoft Excel to this day cannot address more than 65,000 rows in a single spreadsheet, which is nowhere near enough for high finance and some datalogging applications. The maximum addressable drive (partition) size used to be 8GB. Oh, and we're going to run out of IPV4 addresses right about the time my refrigerator needs a static IP to host my lettucecam.
The teacher's union in my state opposes standards based testing. Specifically they oppose mandated testing of all students for the knowlege and skills expected of a student who has spent twelve years in public school, and required for graduation from high school. The reason for their objection is clear. In the first round of testing, with several years to prepare, half of the students failed each of the three components of the test, so the vast majority of the students failed at least one of the three mandatory components.
Teacher pay needs reforms. If a person goes $250,000 into debt to get an advanced degree and teaching certificate in the hope of securing a job that pays $40,000 a year in an economy where the tiniest shack costs $500,000, it is unreasonable to expect them to be proficient in math. If you hire such people as math instructors, you should not be surprised their students fail to learn. That said, teachers' unions need to stop fighting real reforms like testing, teacher certification, background checks and required curricula.
Parents also need to be more realistic. The most I hope for my kids in public school is that they learn how not to get caught. I've already taught them to question the motivations of the teachers and the school board on some subjects. At home they can learn useful things like history and chemistry and civics in an environment that's less likely to get them killed or arrested. It is a pleasant surprise when their public school delivers above expectations, but not a frequent one.
Even math can be perverted to promote social issues in the phrasing of sample problems and I've seen this done in the math books the kids bring home. It's sick, really, that even math can't be left without banging a social drum.
I do agree that all their textbooks have only poor content. That's why I select carefully the extra books to give them a broader view.
Who just released low-power processors for servers?
Really, democracy is simple once you understand the flow of moneyvation.
This used to frustrate me too. I wrote a longish jounal article with enough detail to do what you want. It's here: http://ask.slashdot.org/~symbolset/journal/134087
Once you buy a development product it turns out you need a toolkit, and a subscription to their support group. And a new version of the product. Oh, and before you do anything useful you have to buy their entire range of development products, subscriptions, and services because the feature you must have to solve the problem is lost in the Redmond version of RPM Dependency Hell.
Of course, the system is so thoroughly integrated that your output will run in Windows only, ever.
Before you finish, of course, you'll need to re-up everything again because of version creep, or a library vulnerability.
And naturally it will turn out that several showstoppers will prevent you from completion because they rely on submarine IP from developers lost in the void, or an interface to a driver that's mysteriously under NDA.
If you miraculously complete, and your product is popular, you will be invited to Redmond to participate in a fruitless discussion about licensing your IP. Strangely, similar software with 80% of the functionality will be included with the next version of Office. Take another look at all the in-house software projects developed with the Redmond stack you've ever seen. Was even one ever current, feature complete and reliable? I thought not.
No, wars are mostly waged for control over the lives of men, sadly by using the controlled men as weapons. Resources, diplomatic gaffes, cultural differences and religion are only excuses -- except that religion is just another way men control the lives of other men.
G.P. post is also wrong. Moving away from the city will not solve all of a drug addict's problems. It will however prevent him from being vaporized by the asteroid/nuclear weapon/etc that strikes the city shortly thereafter, if he moves far enough, much to the detriment of the surviving gene pool.
The scale of disaster that Stephen Hawking is talking about is escaping you hand-wringers. Is there a mathematician among you to explain this to his slower brethren?
Properly speaking, if there are 30 billion suffering starving plague infested anarchist cannibals left on an overheated Earth after the 100 years, the problem is solved.
A large surplus of young males with stifled biological imperatives is a dangerous thing.
That said, eventually something definitely will destroy the ability of humans to reside on the earth. It's not just likely, it's certain. The only certain hope for the persistence of the race is...
Redundant offsite backups. Duh.
The nihilist in me says let it go.
My inner optimist makes me tell my kids: "There's going to be a starship. You want to be on it."
Both Windows ME users switched to Mac years ago.
It has finally occurred to Microsoft that in this market they can buy market share, and get a good return on their investment.
Harry Wilfong and his wife Sally are pleased to announce the acceptance of their zygote Pete Wilfong to Harvard.
My Motorola cable box/dvr crashes about twice a month. On the menu it says "Microsoft enhanced". When playing recorded TV, the sound or video often won't start, and I have to stop the video and start it again, sometimes several times, before it will play. The hard drive is only 120GB, and I can't replace it with a larger one. It has I/O for USB, firewire and other interfaces, which are unusable because they are not supported by the software in the box.
So, do they teach you guys that in Bangalore, or are you posting from Microsoft's new campus in Mumbai?
You can be confident a major nuisance will be gaining momentum on June 30, 2006, just in time to ruin your major US holiday weekend.
For the record, all day today KIRO was running a piece about how reprobates have been running an open air crack cocaine market across the street from the King County courthouse in Seattle (this state's largest city) for years, and even they (one of the largest radio stations in the state) couldn't get police to respond. Note to furriners: the sale and use of crack cocaine is prohibited in the US.
I am curious about what offended our state representatives more... that their sponsors the tribal casinos weren't getting a cut or that the state wasn't getting a share. They're certainly pleased to pander to habitual gamblers with scratch tickets and lotto in every convenience store, gas station and grocery in the state. They get a cut of every bottle (or glass!) of alcohol. Certainly they make more bucks off of a pack of cigarettes than the farmer who grew the tobacco, or anybody else who touched it before it arrived at the consumer -- tax is > 50Pct.
Certainly it wasn't the cops, who must use care now only to pull over offenders driving later model cars so as to not overburden the Justice Profit Center with an excess of violators who can't pay their fines.
Yes, that's Washington - the state where you're safe from online gaming and you can't buy Sudafed because you might make meth with it, but you can sell meth, crack, heroin and Ecstasy with impunity in the Junior High School because there's no profit in arresting you. Click it or ticket. Fines are double in work zones. Thanx.
It offends me that I live in the state that reelected Baghdad Jim http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/903913/po sts after this piece ran.
It would be more honest to put a menu on the state house: Calendar days: $50K, Minor issues: $500k. Major Issues: $4M. Public/Private partnerships like ballparks or public transit: Profit sharing whatever we can fleece the taxpayer for. No law too unenforceable, no cause to liberal. It's for our children, dammit! Won't anyone think of the children?
Do I sound bitter? Yes. My son really deserves an "Alex recognition day" on the state calendar, but where am I gonna get $50K?
For the buyer's sake I hope it's a stolen laptop 'cuz we're going to be hearing about this one for a long time.
What this page needs are some ads to defer the poster's server costs.
Seriously, either ATI or NVidia works.
As to AMD doing a submarine on ATI chipsets, that would be braindead. It makes so much better sense to just make the chipsets that support Intel chips more expensive. Then every time Intel nets $30 on a processor, you net $30 on a chipset. And you get market preference by being the CPU with the cheaper average motherboard. Add to that: open the interface and you win in serverland where Linux is king. Add the synergy (yes, I know... ) possible from leveraging (yes...) the chipset interface to the CPU (oh, God, I can't believe I'm writing this), and you get an unstoppable mix.
It makes too much sense to be true, and that's why I have to say... it's not.
'taint gonna happen.
All of them?
Indoor work with no heavy lifting.
<snip> That's a good sig.
"On May 5, 1970, over 1,000 protestors came together on I-5, blocking southbound lanes, to speak out against the US's invasion of Cambodia, and the death of four Kent State antiwar protestors, shot by members of the National Guard." - http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_ id=2271
March 2, 2003: Peace activists took to the streets by the thousands yesterday in cities from Olympia to Bellingham as well as several locations in Seattle. Spurred by the first salvos in Iraq that pierced the uncertainty about what for months has been a potential war, yesterday's rallies had a decidedly more aggressive tenor than those just a few days earlier. ... In Bellingham, 300 to 500 peace activists made their way onto Interstate 5, temporarily blocking freeway traffic for two miles in either direction. - http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/113604_wpeace2 1.shtml
November 30, 1999: WTO - http://www.urban75.com/Action/seattle.html
April 30, 2004: LOS ANGELES -- Independent truckers protested mounting diesel fuel prices Friday by abandoning trucks in rush-hour traffic on one of the region's busiest freeways and staging rallies at two of the largest ports on the West Coast. - http://www.nbc4.tv/traffic/3255276/detail.html
March 27, 2006: LOS ANGELES -- More than 36,000 students from throughout Los Angeles County skipped classes and marched through streets and on various freeways Monday to protest an immigration bill being debated in Congress. - http://www.nbc4.tv/news/8289535/detail.html
Find more here: http://www.google.com/search?q=freeway+protest
Now which issue was it that you deem unworthy? Was it one of these? Your advice to protestors to be forgettable seems unlikely to bring attention to their cause -- something that was achieved by the disruptive, dangerous and memorable protests above. With the exception of the truckers opposed to $2.50/gal gas, the protesters seem to achieved both national attention and lasting results: Seattle is certainly never going to host the WTO again. Congress is working on the immigration law as I type this. We all know how Cambodia worked out (a sad story, that. By getting their way the nonviolent protestors indirectly killed about 1/4th of all Cambodian men, women and children. A heavy burden for people of conscience. *). Perhaps you could offer something more helpful. Are you by chance a protest organizer? Do you have a history of success in nonviolent promotion of social change? If so, the organization is almost certainly eager to have your contribution.
* - The Khmer Rouge regime is remembered mainly for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people (from an estimated 1972 population of 7.1 million), through execution, starvation and forced labor. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge
I think my point is that protestors should be tolerated as much as possible, but they should be reminded be careful which causes they take up.