I wouldn't call it a joke, just being glib and facetious.
I'm not normally one to complain about the stupidity, relevance or obviousness (or google-it-yourself) of ask-slashdot questions but this one is little more than fodder for some sony/microsoft bashing. There are such things as stupid questions, so I gave it a stupid answer.
p.s. while both consoles use the powerpc the xbox has a fused dot product operation (a=b*c+d*e). Thats one floating point variance I can think of, I'm sure there are others.
IEEE rounding is different between x86 and powerpc. x86 CPUs use an 80 bit internal representation. Those bits remain as long as the data resides in a register. Also the powerPC floating point offers a fused multiply accumulate operation (one instruction can do x+y*z) that can produce different rounding results. Knowing x86 they probably have it but its addition varies between architectures.
This is being compared to portland cement. Just to pull numbers out of my butt, if the production of one ton of portland cement releases 6 tons of CO2, then one ton of this new cement (which use 3/4 tons less than portland) will release 5.25 tons of CO2.
Ah yes, why do xyz when abc would be so much magically better? Because people are always tackling problems from all sides.
A quick googling tells me that cement production requires baking the stuff at 2700F so I presume abc would mean either: a) Get rid of the need to bake it at such a temperature. b) Generate that heat with a different method.
Not to say that A is impossible but it sounds like a really hard problem. If someone solves it they deserve their billion dollars.
And B is also hard because I suspect the best way to generate 2700 degrees is with fire. At this point I'm too lazy to google how high electricy->heat conversion can go (especially for the scales that a cement production plant needs) Any experts out there?
By being a billionaire he is famous and under the peer pressure from the rest of society to be a philanthropist. If he wasn't giving away his money he'd go down in history as as the biggest scrooge to ever walk the earth.
Also each of those multi-millionaire's probably has to cover the cost of living some extravagant lifestyle. So if that billionaire has a lifestyle 1000 * millionaire's lifestyle, then yes, it is better to have one billionaire.
Where exactly in the constitution is that a mandated power of the federal govt?
Not that I'm for nanny states but I do appreciate that the federal government has entities like the FDA that make sure the food I eat is most likely safe.
if you are poor, you can be paid a lot less to do the same job than someone less motivated and in a better socioeconomic position
I've been to India twice this year (for a total of 10 weeks) to work with HCL engineers. They are definitely not poor and live very good lives. A substantial number of them have been to the U.S. on work visas (they love wallmart) and when I asked which country they prefer they all like India better. Which flabbergasts me because in Chennai even the natives don't drink the tap water. But home is home.
Any society has class stratification. It is the lowest class that determines the cost of many basic goods. My impression is that India's massive underclass keeps the cost of living down, which allows the next higher class to also live cheaply.
Do they also give you jtag access to the HW the minute the polls close to download its programming? So that you can disassemble it and compare it to the binary of the compiled source.
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The code you link to has a sign extension bug. You need to use the unsigned right shift, which moves zeros into the most significant bits:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/op3.html
I wouldn't call it a joke, just being glib and facetious.
I'm not normally one to complain about the stupidity, relevance or obviousness (or google-it-yourself) of ask-slashdot questions but this one is little more than fodder for some sony/microsoft bashing. There are such things as stupid questions, so I gave it a stupid answer.
p.s. while both consoles use the powerpc the xbox has a fused dot product operation (a=b*c+d*e). Thats one floating point variance I can think of, I'm sure there are others.
Two replies to that post and both are discussing the gaming implications? Honestly I was explaining x86 vs powerpc, nothing more or less.
I'll agree floating point error accumulations should be easy to compensate for. But its not a problem I've ever had to work on.
woosh went over your heads. A silly question got a glib answer.
IEEE rounding is different between x86 and powerpc. x86 CPUs use an 80 bit internal representation. Those bits remain as long as the data resides in a register. Also the powerPC floating point offers a fused multiply accumulate operation (one instruction can do x+y*z) that can produce different rounding results. Knowing x86 they probably have it but its addition varies between architectures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiply-accumulate
PS3s are big endian machines.
Xbox 360s are little endian.
Q.E.D They can't talk to each other.
What the hell is with this obsession of low digit user ID's ?
p.s. since the summary terms it "carbon negative" those numbers probably aren't the best...
This is being compared to portland cement. Just to pull numbers out of my butt, if the production of one ton of portland cement releases 6 tons of CO2, then one ton of this new cement (which use 3/4 tons less than portland) will release 5.25 tons of CO2.
Ah yes, why do xyz when abc would be so much magically better? Because people are always tackling problems from all sides.
A quick googling tells me that cement production requires baking the stuff at 2700F so I presume abc would mean either:
a) Get rid of the need to bake it at such a temperature.
b) Generate that heat with a different method.
Not to say that A is impossible but it sounds like a really hard problem. If someone solves it they deserve their billion dollars.
And B is also hard because I suspect the best way to generate 2700 degrees is with fire. At this point I'm too lazy to google how high electricy->heat conversion can go (especially for the scales that a cement production plant needs) Any experts out there?
Sounds like a solution looking for a problem.
Congratulations, You know what 'cervicovaginal tissues' means.
Is a class action lawsuit #2 or #3 ?
I was presuming a boycott would involve the current product at hand. Its a tad hard to boycott Sony Entertainment if you own a PS3.
Read the summary?
How do you boycott something when the advertisements show up several months after you've bought it?
OMG!!! 3 people jump ship from a bought out company!!
By being a billionaire he is famous and under the peer pressure from the rest of society to be a philanthropist. If he wasn't giving away his money he'd go down in history as as the biggest scrooge to ever walk the earth.
Also each of those multi-millionaire's probably has to cover the cost of living some extravagant lifestyle. So if that billionaire has a lifestyle 1000 * millionaire's lifestyle, then yes, it is better to have one billionaire.
100 hours a week? That is a great way to do faulty engineering.
If I knew my car was designed by engineers who worked that much I'd get rid of it.
Methinks the previous poster was referring to society not evolution.
I have a loose definition of safe? I still cook my food.
Not that I'm for nanny states but I do appreciate that the federal government has entities like the FDA that make sure the food I eat is most likely safe.
would the analagy work better if they were selling power across state lines?
I've been to India twice this year (for a total of 10 weeks) to work with HCL engineers. They are definitely not poor and live very good lives. A substantial number of them have been to the U.S. on work visas (they love wallmart) and when I asked which country they prefer they all like India better. Which flabbergasts me because in Chennai even the natives don't drink the tap water. But home is home.
Any society has class stratification. It is the lowest class that determines the cost of many basic goods. My impression is that India's massive underclass keeps the cost of living down, which allows the next higher class to also live cheaply.
Do they also give you jtag access to the HW the minute the polls close to download its programming? So that you can disassemble it and compare it to the binary of the compiled source.