4x data, just compress it a little more aggressively, because those 8x8 pixel blocks will be sooooo zoooomed in, you can compress them quite highly.
Aurgh Jesus fuck NO!!!!! No no no a thousand times NO!
If you compress the video file into the same size, 3840x2160 offers absolutely nothing whatsoever vs 1920x1080 because the information is not there and there's no way around that.
Just to nitpick regarding megapixels - we're long past the point where more megapixels is simply retarded marketoid spiel, since any camera sold based on "Moar Meguhpixelsez!" will not contain a CCD with a good low-noise readout to take advantage of them, or be paired with optics capable of resolving them in the first place.
My $150 point'n'shoot has a 14MP mode. I typically leave it at 6MP, and the optics still clearly cannot resolve per-pixel detail upon inspection.
For future reference, a recipreversexclusion is a number that can only defined as being anything other than itself. An example is the time at which people will arrive at a restaurant - people will arrive at different times, but the only time at which it is absolutely impossible for anyone to show up is the specified one.
According to Rmoney, 500000 a month would be successful.
Of course, Obama is a recipreversexclusion - had the economy created half a million jobs last month, they'd be saying it should create 2 million. No matter what he did or was (allegedly) responsible for, it's wrong.
Much like Libya, when before Obama and NATO intervened the Republicans were screaming that something had to be done. And while the intervention was occurring, they suddenly cared deeply about undeclared wars and demanded he stop. And afterwards, when we were done (in a month, for under a billion dollars, and with none of the men sent to do it suffering so much as a purple nurple) they continued whinging that we never should've intervened in the first place.
And their base believed each of these things in turn, and never saw how ridiculous that is. This exact kind of pattern repeats again, and again, and again. It's been going on for decades. The lack of retrospection and introspection in the Republican party and right-wingers in general never ceases to amaze and/or horrify me. I just don't understand how anyone can listen to someone like Hannity or Glenn Beck and not eventually realize "This person's claims have no relation to what actually happens. This person is never right about anything. I should stop listening to them." Seriously! How the hell does that not happen?
It's very different because you don't need to respond to cyber attacks via conventional means, you hack right back.
Which means it's unbelievably stupid for the West to start this shit since we have literally trillions of dollars of horrifyingly vulnerable technological infrastructure, while the terrorists have jack shit in this regard.
The most horrifying thing of all is, as soon as any of the victims strike back it'll be their excuse to destroy the free and open Internet once and for all.
You know, manufacturing in the US has actually kept going up ever since the 80s. It just doesn't employ anyone any more because it's more cost effective to pay an engineer here to design an automated shop that employs 10 people instead of 500.
You know why they said that? Because no one has been, and no one will be, exposed to a dose of radiation that has acute effects. A total of half a dozen people working directly at the site have been exposed to an amount of radiation (200-400mSv) associated with the first detectable increase in risk for cancer.
Cancer rates near Chernobyl did not stay at average. Cancers of the throat and especially thyroid suddenly became very common for quite a few years in the surrounding areas, as did birth problems (premature, miscarriage, defects).
And does the WHO estimate include the 50% of the liquidators who cleaned it up who are now dead? And the other 50% who are now crippled old men as they turn 45 and 50?
The basic problem, of course, is that if they were to do this out in the open so that people knew what was being monitored and how, they would do something to maintain their privacy and, according to the latest FBI Local Terrorist pamphlet, anyone who is overly concerned about their personal privacy is likely a terrorist.
So far so good...
Add to that anyone who uses cash for their purchases, who questions authority and who claims their rights under the Constitution and you can lock up the majority of the public as local terrorists.
Stay on target, stay on target...
They don't need to be charged, just detained long enough to put them
Uh oh, anomaly detected ahead, hold course...
into one of the hundreds of thousands of pre-made plastic coffins stacked up in FEMA yards for "just such an emergency."
People like you who mock some idiotically shallow view of things you don't understand as a way of reinforcing your fragile ego inspire a mix of anger and pity in those of us who actually do research and design things.
Has it ever occurred to you that maybe there's an actual reason they didn't "simply" aim a THz transmitter at some DNA? Like, "How do you observe what's being done to the DNA, in vitro, without damaging it?" Or, "getting the grants and building the apparatus and developing the techniques to do this would take years, possibly decades?" But of course it hasn't, because that would require you to stop being a snivelling ass and think for 30 seconds.
And not only that, but seriously, what the fuck... Our JOBS are to be in a lab, staring at the screen, poking the deposition chamber, tweaking the laser table, all day, thinking about what we want to find out and how to find it out. Do you seriously think that whatever half-baked ideas floated through your head 10 seconds after reading a random comment on an Internet message board, on a topic you've probably never devoted a second of consideration to before in your life, are going to contain some brilliant insight that's going to leave us all dumbfounded?
Well if they ARE killbots, then we have nothing to fear. All we have to do to defeat them is keep sending human waves until they reach their pre-programmed kill limit and shut down.
How is it possible to build a computer in the 21st century that is incapable of storing and incrementing a handful of integers correctly? I mean, really, it's not a very difficult task when you get down to it. It's so easy even practical, reliable, mass-produced mechanical computers can do it.
It's not just about theoretical FLOPS and main memory bandwidth.
A properly written GPU program is ideally never relying on main memory except to keep a buffer filled - it feeds all its FPUs from shared memory, which can deliver an aggregate bandwidth of TBps to about 750KB (total) of space in a good card.
Every GPU from nVidia for 3 full hardware generations (Since compute architecture 1.3 - 2009 at least, possibly earlier) has had IEEE754 compliant fp32 and fp64 math. I imagine ATI has been compliant for as long also.
It is true that code can be compiled using libraries that deliberately compromise the algorithms for transcendental functions to make them faster, but that's 100% the programmer's fault.
The math units on every nVidia card made since at least late 2009, both single and double precision, are ieee754 compliant. The only excuse for it being wrong is that someone deliberately used the __fast non-primitive operations (sqrt/log/exp & friends), which compromise the algorithms used to compute transcendental operations. The exact extent of the compromise is detailed in the back of the nVidia CUDA guide.
I agree it would be pathetic if this were because someone passed -ffast-math or whatever it is to nvcc.
The overwhelming contribution to radioactivity from Chernobyl is presently Cs-137. Current typical dose rates in the exclusion zone, except in the immediate vicinity of the plant itself, are from 2-20uSv per hour. That would have to decrease by a factor of roughly 100 to return to levels compatible with background (~.1uSv/hr). With a halflife of 30 years, that means a wait of roughly 200 years maximum.
Expect the exclusion zone in almost all of Fukushima to be lifted within 10 years (mainly due to the cesium diffusing into the soil and thereby blocking its own radiation from the air), with all areas except those immediately near the plant within a factor of 2 of original background levels within 60 years.
There are a lot of caveats to achieving the 150+GBps theoretically available on a modern GPU, chiefly among them that all your memory read/write operations must occur in groups of 64 or 128 bytes (you can access 1 byte, but the smallest physical IO transaction is 32B, with 64/128 preferred).
Plus, your GPU doesn't have to deal with some random manufacturer's memory chips hiding behind plug interfaces. If I take 1/3 of the ram out of one of my boxes (the furthest of 3 slots), memory timing magically tightens up and bandwidth goes from 8.5 to 10GBps.
Every card which supports compute architecture 1.3 (-sm13 to nvcc) or later supports ieee754 double precision, i.e. every card made for at least 3 years on a brief check of the wiki table. Your FLOPS may vary though - 2.0 is vastly better than 1.3 in this regard.
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So, in answer to GP's question... no. Absolutely anything the Dems or Reps do is proof that they're all part of the conspiracy.
Any time you catch yourself saying or thinking this - anything that contradicts me is proof I'm right - close the tab and walk away. It means you've fallen into a positive-feedback trap of seeing only what you want to see and as a result are now completely full of shit regarding the topic.
Bit of a false dichotomy going on here. There is a lot of continuum between "no benefits after the first person steals a twinkie" and "removing benefits from proven abusers," between "lie on your tax forms with impunity" and permitting certain abuses to the extent that attacking them has negative cost-benefit ratio, and between "allowing investigators to invade anyone's privacy at a whim" and "not allowing investigators to do anything."
The way to properly run a modern western country is, as usual, a compromise between privacy and the need to investigate fraud and crime. Between social safety nets and not rewarding failure. Between openness and fighting abusers.
Anyone who claims to have a simple answer to a question so vast either a lying charlatan or a fool for believing such an obvious lie.
Plenty of people in America have money before they get sick.
Then if they're not like me and lucky enough to start a job with health coverage two months before appendicitis instead of two months after, they get handed a bill for $20000. Or if it's an actual serious illness, hundreds of thousands. Or millions. Or the private death panel finds out they once had acne when they were 16 and cuts them off because of a "pre existing condition."
Every other developed nation on earth has some form of universal healthcare, and not one of those which has a life expectancy exceeding America's spends half what we do on it. Most of the rest are within a few years, and spend one quarter to one tenth as much. The American model of healthcare is a failure, it's bankrupting us, and it's crippling our economic competitiveness.
That being said, the War on Poverty is probably the only thing that's failed more abysmally than the War on Some Drugs. In no small part because of the latter.
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4x data, just compress it a little more aggressively, because those 8x8 pixel blocks will be sooooo zoooomed in, you can compress them quite highly.
Aurgh Jesus fuck NO!!!!! No no no a thousand times NO!
If you compress the video file into the same size, 3840x2160 offers absolutely nothing whatsoever vs 1920x1080 because the information is not there and there's no way around that.
Just to nitpick regarding megapixels - we're long past the point where more megapixels is simply retarded marketoid spiel, since any camera sold based on "Moar Meguhpixelsez!" will not contain a CCD with a good low-noise readout to take advantage of them, or be paired with optics capable of resolving them in the first place.
My $150 point'n'shoot has a 14MP mode. I typically leave it at 6MP, and the optics still clearly cannot resolve per-pixel detail upon inspection.
This made a lot of sense until you started babbling about porting servers to a freaking tablet. Seriously. That's what machine rooms and WiFi are for.
You fail at H2G2.
For future reference, a recipreversexclusion is a number that can only defined as being anything other than itself. An example is the time at which people will arrive at a restaurant - people will arrive at different times, but the only time at which it is absolutely impossible for anyone to show up is the specified one.
According to Rmoney, 500000 a month would be successful.
Of course, Obama is a recipreversexclusion - had the economy created half a million jobs last month, they'd be saying it should create 2 million. No matter what he did or was (allegedly) responsible for, it's wrong.
Much like Libya, when before Obama and NATO intervened the Republicans were screaming that something had to be done. And while the intervention was occurring, they suddenly cared deeply about undeclared wars and demanded he stop. And afterwards, when we were done (in a month, for under a billion dollars, and with none of the men sent to do it suffering so much as a purple nurple) they continued whinging that we never should've intervened in the first place.
And their base believed each of these things in turn, and never saw how ridiculous that is. This exact kind of pattern repeats again, and again, and again. It's been going on for decades. The lack of retrospection and introspection in the Republican party and right-wingers in general never ceases to amaze and/or horrify me. I just don't understand how anyone can listen to someone like Hannity or Glenn Beck and not eventually realize "This person's claims have no relation to what actually happens. This person is never right about anything. I should stop listening to them." Seriously! How the hell does that not happen?
It's very different because you don't need to respond to cyber attacks via conventional means, you hack right back.
Which means it's unbelievably stupid for the West to start this shit since we have literally trillions of dollars of horrifyingly vulnerable technological infrastructure, while the terrorists have jack shit in this regard.
The most horrifying thing of all is, as soon as any of the victims strike back it'll be their excuse to destroy the free and open Internet once and for all.
You know, manufacturing in the US has actually kept going up ever since the 80s. It just doesn't employ anyone any more because it's more cost effective to pay an engineer here to design an automated shop that employs 10 people instead of 500.
You know why they said that? Because no one has been, and no one will be, exposed to a dose of radiation that has acute effects. A total of half a dozen people working directly at the site have been exposed to an amount of radiation (200-400mSv) associated with the first detectable increase in risk for cancer.
Cancer rates near Chernobyl did not stay at average. Cancers of the throat and especially thyroid suddenly became very common for quite a few years in the surrounding areas, as did birth problems (premature, miscarriage, defects).
And does the WHO estimate include the 50% of the liquidators who cleaned it up who are now dead? And the other 50% who are now crippled old men as they turn 45 and 50?
The basic problem, of course, is that if they were to do this out in the open so that people knew what was being monitored and how, they would do something to maintain their privacy and, according to the latest FBI Local Terrorist pamphlet, anyone who is overly concerned about their personal privacy is likely a terrorist.
So far so good...
Add to that anyone who uses cash for their purchases, who questions authority and who claims their rights under the Constitution and you can lock up the majority of the public as local terrorists.
Stay on target, stay on target...
They don't need to be charged, just detained long enough to put them
Uh oh, anomaly detected ahead, hold course...
into one of the hundreds of thousands of pre-made plastic coffins stacked up in FEMA yards for "just such an emergency."
Shit, shit, abort post, ABORT POST! Emergency reverse!
People like you who mock some idiotically shallow view of things you don't understand as a way of reinforcing your fragile ego inspire a mix of anger and pity in those of us who actually do research and design things.
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Has it ever occurred to you that maybe there's an actual reason they didn't "simply" aim a THz transmitter at some DNA? Like, "How do you observe what's being done to the DNA, in vitro, without damaging it?" Or, "getting the grants and building the apparatus and developing the techniques to do this would take years, possibly decades?" But of course it hasn't, because that would require you to stop being a snivelling ass and think for 30 seconds.
And not only that, but seriously, what the fuck... Our JOBS are to be in a lab, staring at the screen, poking the deposition chamber, tweaking the laser table, all day, thinking about what we want to find out and how to find it out. Do you seriously think that whatever half-baked ideas floated through your head 10 seconds after reading a random comment on an Internet message board, on a topic you've probably never devoted a second of consideration to before in your life, are going to contain some brilliant insight that's going to leave us all dumbfounded?
Because Earth is the cradle of humanity, and children cannot stay in the cradle forever?
Well if they ARE killbots, then we have nothing to fear. All we have to do to defeat them is keep sending human waves until they reach their pre-programmed kill limit and shut down.
How is it possible to build a computer in the 21st century that is incapable of storing and incrementing a handful of integers correctly? I mean, really, it's not a very difficult task when you get down to it. It's so easy even practical, reliable, mass-produced mechanical computers can do it.
It's not just about theoretical FLOPS and main memory bandwidth.
A properly written GPU program is ideally never relying on main memory except to keep a buffer filled - it feeds all its FPUs from shared memory, which can deliver an aggregate bandwidth of TBps to about 750KB (total) of space in a good card.
Every GPU from nVidia for 3 full hardware generations (Since compute architecture 1.3 - 2009 at least, possibly earlier) has had IEEE754 compliant fp32 and fp64 math. I imagine ATI has been compliant for as long also.
It is true that code can be compiled using libraries that deliberately compromise the algorithms for transcendental functions to make them faster, but that's 100% the programmer's fault.
The math units on every nVidia card made since at least late 2009, both single and double precision, are ieee754 compliant. The only excuse for it being wrong is that someone deliberately used the __fast non-primitive operations (sqrt/log/exp & friends), which compromise the algorithms used to compute transcendental operations. The exact extent of the compromise is detailed in the back of the nVidia CUDA guide.
I agree it would be pathetic if this were because someone passed -ffast-math or whatever it is to nvcc.
I only ask because we're deep in Poe's Law territory... please tell us you're joking. Please?
20000 years? Please.
The overwhelming contribution to radioactivity from Chernobyl is presently Cs-137. Current typical dose rates in the exclusion zone, except in the immediate vicinity of the plant itself, are from 2-20uSv per hour. That would have to decrease by a factor of roughly 100 to return to levels compatible with background (~.1uSv/hr). With a halflife of 30 years, that means a wait of roughly 200 years maximum.
Expect the exclusion zone in almost all of Fukushima to be lifted within 10 years (mainly due to the cesium diffusing into the soil and thereby blocking its own radiation from the air), with all areas except those immediately near the plant within a factor of 2 of original background levels within 60 years.
There are a lot of caveats to achieving the 150+GBps theoretically available on a modern GPU, chiefly among them that all your memory read/write operations must occur in groups of 64 or 128 bytes (you can access 1 byte, but the smallest physical IO transaction is 32B, with 64/128 preferred).
Plus, your GPU doesn't have to deal with some random manufacturer's memory chips hiding behind plug interfaces. If I take 1/3 of the ram out of one of my boxes (the furthest of 3 slots), memory timing magically tightens up and bandwidth goes from 8.5 to 10GBps.
Every card which supports compute architecture 1.3 (-sm13 to nvcc) or later supports ieee754 double precision, i.e. every card made for at least 3 years on a brief check of the wiki table. Your FLOPS may vary though - 2.0 is vastly better than 1.3 in this regard.
So, in answer to GP's question... no. Absolutely anything the Dems or Reps do is proof that they're all part of the conspiracy.
Any time you catch yourself saying or thinking this - anything that contradicts me is proof I'm right - close the tab and walk away. It means you've fallen into a positive-feedback trap of seeing only what you want to see and as a result are now completely full of shit regarding the topic.
Bit of a false dichotomy going on here. There is a lot of continuum between "no benefits after the first person steals a twinkie" and "removing benefits from proven abusers," between "lie on your tax forms with impunity" and permitting certain abuses to the extent that attacking them has negative cost-benefit ratio, and between "allowing investigators to invade anyone's privacy at a whim" and "not allowing investigators to do anything."
The way to properly run a modern western country is, as usual, a compromise between privacy and the need to investigate fraud and crime. Between social safety nets and not rewarding failure. Between openness and fighting abusers.
Anyone who claims to have a simple answer to a question so vast either a lying charlatan or a fool for believing such an obvious lie.
Plenty of people in America have money before they get sick.
Then if they're not like me and lucky enough to start a job with health coverage two months before appendicitis instead of two months after, they get handed a bill for $20000. Or if it's an actual serious illness, hundreds of thousands. Or millions. Or the private death panel finds out they once had acne when they were 16 and cuts them off because of a "pre existing condition."
Every other developed nation on earth has some form of universal healthcare, and not one of those which has a life expectancy exceeding America's spends half what we do on it. Most of the rest are within a few years, and spend one quarter to one tenth as much. The American model of healthcare is a failure, it's bankrupting us, and it's crippling our economic competitiveness.
That being said, the War on Poverty is probably the only thing that's failed more abysmally than the War on Some Drugs. In no small part because of the latter.
To start with, p = sqrt(m^2 c^4 + p^2 c^2) = m |v| / sqrt(1 - v^2/c^2)...