In 2006 I submitted this (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=183461&cid=15153431):
"Researchers in the parallel processing community have been using Amdahl's Law and Gustafson's Law to obtain estimated speedups as measures of parallel program potential. In 1967, Amdahl's Law was used as an argument against massively parallel processing. Since 1988 Gustafson's Law has been used to justify massively parallel processing (MPP). Interestingly, a careful analysis reveals that these two laws are in fact identical. The well publicized arguments were resulted from misunderstandings of the nature of both laws.
This paper establishes the mathematical equivalence between Amdahl's Law and Gustafson's Law. We also focus on an often neglected prerequisite to applying the Amdahl's Law: the serial and parallel programs must compute the same total number of steps for the same input. There is a class of commonly used algorithms for which this prerequisite is hard to satisfy. For these algorithms, the law can be abused. A simple rule is provided to identify these algorithms.
We conclude that the use of the "serial percentage" concept in parallel performance evaluation is misleading. It has caused nearly three decades of confusion in the parallel processing community. This confusion disappears when processing times are used in the formulations. Therefore, we suggest that time-based formulations would be the most appropriate for parallel performance evaluation."
This is a problem for Apple, not Samsung. Really. Even if Samsung made the phone, the Samsung Galaxy S3 and Samsung S4 have a popularity which beats anything currently made by Apple.
Why is it a problem for Apple even if Samsung made the phone? Because Galaxy S3 is already an oldish model and Galaxy S4 doesn't have it, and the error can be fixed via an update if it eventually will be seen as a serious nuisance.
Apple has many issues. Even the minor bugs on their main phone competitor Samsung may set the Apple crowds' pubic hair on fire.
All Microsoft phones are still missing in action at the time of writing.
I'm actually running Debian with Sid installed (I would be running Ubuntu if it wasn't for the delay between their respective releases) . Its kind of sad that Ubuntus main benefit (since Debian experimental releases are too wild) is that its everything you like about Debian Sid....great support; almost cutting edge, with backported fixes for stability(although not as Stable as Debian stable... but that is not cutting edge) with some sensible defaults...because it is basically Debian Sid.
Hell I quite like the fact that users tried to make Debian pretty (and fast).But the move towards recreating elements rather than *selecting* popular ones (Mer seriously) like say KDE 4.8 Oxygen, is going to hurt them. I hope they have success with Qt... where I think KDE (and all the other garbage...like a new package manager) might be a better fit.
So yeah not obligatory...I'm using it with KDE now, and accept other roots when I use that (and GNU/Linux)
Not is someone could go about producing a rolling (cutiing edge) GNU/Linux release (with an enormous rescue me button) then I would look forward to it.
Why not use a computer model? There has been very large money already spent on nuclear explosion simulators. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and other places have the computing expertise. Why would anyone use the real thing today? It is so unpredictable, you cannot calculate on it very well ad hoc. In a simulator you can at least determine how much unpredictable you want.
Is it the Ubuntu guys who don't get it, or is it me?
Canonical taps Debian every six months and then add their own extras like brown colors and Unity. Then comes Mint and flavors both Debian and Ubuntu with mint.
But, in the meantime Debian changes, too. So, when Canonical or the Mint girls come back to the mothership there has been a number of changes, being more up-to-date than either of the children.
Is it the Ubuntu guys who don't get it, or is it just me?
Rare?! If only one in a million fits, that would be an enormous amount of habitable planets!
They had examined 900 in detail and and already concluded that a few might fit. Well, it sounds more like one in a hundred, which then would be even more GREAT!
In the Czech Republic and Slovakia, it is standard that mothers stay at home for 3 years after a child's birth, which may extend with additional children[citation needed]. Mothers can decide to take 2, 3 or 4 years of maternity leave. It is also possible for the fathers to take the leave instead of the mothers but it is not common. For the whole period mothers are supported by the state[citation needed]. In Slovakia the standard duration of parental leave is 3 years; for a child with a disability it is up to 6 years. The state pays support of 256 Euros per month for the child's first 2 years, reducing to 164.22 Euros per month thereafter. A similar model is also used in Austria where mothers can choose between 1 and 3 years.
Sweden provides working parents with an entitlement of 16 months paid leave per child at 80 percent pay, the cost being shared between employer and the state. To encourage greater paternal involvement in child-rearing, 2 months out of the 16 is reserved for the "minority" parent, in practice usually the father, and some Swedish political parties on the political left argue for legislation to oblige families to divide the 16 months equally between both parents. Norway has similarly generous leave. In Estonia mothers are entitled to 18 months of paid leave, starting up to 70 days before due date. Fathers are entitled to paid leave starting from the third month after birth (paid leave is however available to only one parent at a time).
"“The most important and most revolutionizing part of this camera is to bend electronics onto a curved surface,” said Jianliang Xiao, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at CU-Boulder and co-lead author of the study."
So, electronics have not been bent like this before, whether for optronics or otherwise? Maybe it is too obvious, in hindsight.
is that the matte wins in the long run. Shiny new object turn matte, and aging people's eyes can't tell the difference, and Ra's shine is for all practical purposes eternal.
"In Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruled that independent political expenditures by corporations and unions are protected under the First Amendment and not subject to restriction by the government. The Court therefore struck down a ban on campaign expenditures by corporations and unions that applied to non-profit corporations like Planned Parenthood and the National Rifle Association, as well as for-profit corporations like General Motors and Microsoft."
"At first ALH84001 was misclassified, so it wasn't until 1993 that researchers even realized the rock came from Mars. That was interesting enough, because at the time fewer than a dozen Martian meteorites were known to science. But ALH84001 also turned out to be much more ancient than the other known Martian meteorites. At 4.5 billion years old, it dates from a period of Martian history when liquid water — a requirement for the presence of life — probably existed at the now barren planet's surface. It made sense to ask: Could there be fossils of ancient Martian microbes, or maybe traces of them, preserved in the cracks and pore spaces of ALH84001? The NASA scientists proffered four reasons to support their view that the answer to that question is "Yes."" http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-08-06-mars-life_x.htm
Sorry to say, the both the life and the Martian origin hypotheses reek of frivolous science and sadly, they stink.
Slashdot Mirror
dribbling the remains of victims cadaver from its lusting mouth?
Still, the firepower may not be enough if you're slow.
Let us hope Oculus is faster at moving on, agressively.
My eyeballs are waiting.
In another paper I saw that Norway+Sweden was next to Colombia and Finland next to Venezuela:
http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/elsevier/baltica-amazonia-and-the-samba-connection-1000-million-years-of-6ICpDpEcbF
The "baltica-amazonia-and-the-samba-connection" :)
This was apparently long _before_ the Gondwana.
There is more to the Earths history than many want to understand.
In 2006 I submitted this (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=183461&cid=15153431):
"Researchers in the parallel processing community have been using Amdahl's Law and Gustafson's Law to obtain estimated speedups as measures of parallel program potential. In 1967, Amdahl's Law was used as an argument against massively parallel processing. Since 1988 Gustafson's Law has been used to justify massively parallel processing (MPP). Interestingly, a careful analysis reveals that these two laws are in fact identical. The well publicized arguments were resulted from misunderstandings of the nature of both laws.
This paper establishes the mathematical equivalence between Amdahl's Law and Gustafson's Law. We also focus on an often neglected prerequisite to applying the Amdahl's Law: the serial and parallel programs must compute the same total number of steps for the same input. There is a class of commonly used algorithms for which this prerequisite is hard to satisfy. For these algorithms, the law can be abused. A simple rule is provided to identify these algorithms.
We conclude that the use of the "serial percentage" concept in parallel performance evaluation is misleading. It has caused nearly three decades of confusion in the parallel processing community. This confusion disappears when processing times are used in the formulations. Therefore, we suggest that time-based formulations would be the most appropriate for parallel performance evaluation."
Maybe it will be helpful gain
Still, what jurisdiction would care?
This is a problem for Apple, not Samsung. Really. Even if Samsung made the phone, the Samsung Galaxy S3 and Samsung S4 have a popularity which beats anything currently made by Apple.
Why is it a problem for Apple even if Samsung made the phone? Because Galaxy S3 is already an oldish model and Galaxy S4 doesn't have it, and the error can be fixed via an update if it eventually will be seen as a serious nuisance.
Apple has many issues. Even the minor bugs on their main phone competitor Samsung may set the Apple crowds' pubic hair on fire.
All Microsoft phones are still missing in action at the time of writing.
Given their origin I'm not surprised...
Jokes aside, I would have expected news like this come from a country with a culture originating in China or the Mediterranean.
Countries with borders facing the North Sea tend to have lower rates of corruption; with France as the pathetic exception.
I'm actually running Debian with Sid installed (I would be running Ubuntu if it wasn't for the delay between their respective releases) . Its kind of sad that Ubuntus main benefit (since Debian experimental releases are too wild) is that its everything you like about Debian Sid....great support; almost cutting edge, with backported fixes for stability(although not as Stable as Debian stable... but that is not cutting edge) with some sensible defaults...because it is basically Debian Sid.
Hell I quite like the fact that users tried to make Debian pretty (and fast).But the move towards recreating elements rather than *selecting* popular ones (Mer seriously) like say KDE 4.8 Oxygen, is going to hurt them. I hope they have success with Qt... where I think KDE (and all the other garbage...like a new package manager) might be a better fit.
So yeah not obligatory...I'm using it with KDE now, and accept other roots when I use that (and GNU/Linux)
Not is someone could go about producing a rolling (cutiing edge) GNU/Linux release (with an enormous rescue me button) then I would look forward to it.
Why not use a computer model? There has been very large money already spent on nuclear explosion simulators. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and other places have the computing expertise. Why would anyone use the real thing today? It is so unpredictable, you cannot calculate on it very well ad hoc. In a simulator you can at least determine how much unpredictable you want.
That was brilliant.
Thanks
Is it the Ubuntu guys who don't get it, or is it me?
Canonical taps Debian every six months and then add their own extras like brown colors and Unity. Then comes Mint and flavors both Debian and Ubuntu with mint.
But, in the meantime Debian changes, too. So, when Canonical or the Mint girls come back to the mothership there has been a number of changes, being more up-to-date than either of the children.
Is it the Ubuntu guys who don't get it, or is it just me?
This is not very new:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/?ref_=ttqt_qt_tt
"a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III"
So where is the news, except the setting?
Good! Rare is many according to the law of big N
Rare?! If only one in a million fits, that would be an enormous amount of habitable planets!
They had examined 900 in detail and and already concluded that a few might fit. Well, it sounds more like one in a hundred, which then would be even more GREAT!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental_leave#Europe
In the Czech Republic and Slovakia, it is standard that mothers stay at home for 3 years after a child's birth, which may extend with additional children[citation needed]. Mothers can decide to take 2, 3 or 4 years of maternity leave. It is also possible for the fathers to take the leave instead of the mothers but it is not common. For the whole period mothers are supported by the state[citation needed]. In Slovakia the standard duration of parental leave is 3 years; for a child with a disability it is up to 6 years. The state pays support of 256 Euros per month for the child's first 2 years, reducing to 164.22 Euros per month thereafter. A similar model is also used in Austria where mothers can choose between 1 and 3 years.
Sweden provides working parents with an entitlement of 16 months paid leave per child at 80 percent pay, the cost being shared between employer and the state. To encourage greater paternal involvement in child-rearing, 2 months out of the 16 is reserved for the "minority" parent, in practice usually the father, and some Swedish political parties on the political left argue for legislation to oblige families to divide the 16 months equally between both parents. Norway has similarly generous leave. In Estonia mothers are entitled to 18 months of paid leave, starting up to 70 days before due date. Fathers are entitled to paid leave starting from the third month after birth (paid leave is however available to only one parent at a time).
From another article on the same topic
http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2013/05/01/insect-eye-inspired-camera-captures-wide-field-view-no-distortion-according
"“The most important and most revolutionizing part of this camera is to bend electronics onto a curved surface,” said Jianliang Xiao, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at CU-Boulder and co-lead author of the study."
So, electronics have not been bent like this before, whether for optronics or otherwise? Maybe it is too obvious, in hindsight.
Let me see those sensors after a few rounds of hammer throwing - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_throw
In one day our fingers could lift an egg, lift a dog, throw a hammer and play basketball. We aren't that bad, really.
The versatility is great and maybe these nanogadgets will be there someday too.
Then it would be too much.
is that the matte wins in the long run. Shiny new object turn matte, and aging people's eyes can't tell the difference, and Ra's shine is for all practical purposes eternal.
Long live the matte screen!
I'm proud that he hit the idiot with the snappiest argument there is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wcrkxOgzhU
All the Buzz Aldrin there is!
Random luck, if you're already an active astronaut.
But that's me
With all that loud screaming allover, the GPL and common sense can't be heard.
Ignorance is bliss and many of these young project leaders probably are just that, plain ignorant.
The American Civil Liberties Union?
http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/aclu-and-citizens-united
"In Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruled that independent political expenditures by corporations and unions are protected under the First Amendment and not subject to restriction by the government. The Court therefore struck down a ban on campaign expenditures by corporations and unions that applied to non-profit corporations like Planned Parenthood and the National Rifle Association, as well as for-profit corporations like General Motors and Microsoft."
LOL
They have no credibility, whatsoever.
Good to see some sense.
I'm also happy that that Russian metor didn't land in North or South Korea.
[I've been on vacation]
Ok, the other one.
Why was it 'misclassified'? What on Earth could have led them to have it 'misclassified'?
In other words, how many minerals on Earth are sufficiently similar to have it misidentified?
Without knowing the answer, I would guess many.
Yes, the life argument was bad, but so were the arguments supporting a Martian origin.
You have been misled in how well supported they are.
"While the claim remains highly controversial" http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8004
"At first ALH84001 was misclassified, so it wasn't until 1993 that researchers even realized the rock came from Mars. That was interesting enough, because at the time fewer than a dozen Martian meteorites were known to science. But ALH84001 also turned out to be much more ancient than the other known Martian meteorites. At 4.5 billion years old, it dates from a period of Martian history when liquid water — a requirement for the presence of life — probably existed at the now barren planet's surface. It made sense to ask: Could there be fossils of ancient Martian microbes, or maybe traces of them, preserved in the cracks and pore spaces of ALH84001? The NASA scientists proffered four reasons to support their view that the answer to that question is "Yes."" http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-08-06-mars-life_x.htm
Sorry to say, the both the life and the Martian origin hypotheses reek of frivolous science and sadly, they stink.