Running Crysis at 800 x 600 with the lowest quality settings, an eight-core Core i7 system managed an average frame rate of 7.36fps, compared with 5.17fps from Intel's DirectX 10 integrated graphics.
This is easy to laugh at (and many Slashdotters have done so above) but this move shows Microsoft is seriously looking at the future, and not in a "we need a new Windows that'll actually make some money" kinda way.
Running an 8 core machine just to do CPU based graphics rendering is currently impractical and stupid. But in 5 or 10 years? 8->64 core machines will probably the norm and we'll have more CPU power than we know what to do with (we already do for most users in terms of general processing), so there'll be room for this concept.
The day of many separate pieces of hardware is going to be up sometime in the future, and this is a great step at planning for it. Once you have, say, 100 cores, why not devote a handful to graphics, one to networking, one to IO control.. and effectively have "software as hardware"? Why have a dedicated graphics card *if* the CPU power, technology and bandwidth is there to deal with it in future? At least MS are thinking about something that could be useful 5 years down the line..
I'm not sure that 'hundred' is really defined in the hex world.
Are you assuming there's some semantic difference between the word "hundred" and the decimal value 100? I don't think there is. "Hundred" means the decimal value 100 or 64 in hexadecimal. 0x100 is not "one hundred." It's "two hundred and fifty six." Our language is base 10 for ordinals.
Americans seem to be terrfied of any kind of government provided or subsidised healthcare at any level, almost as if they see it as a "gateway drug" to communism - as comical as that appears to the rest of the world.
They sure do, yet Medicare (a federal organization) already spends the same $ per capita on health care in the US serving only some of the population as the NHS does on serving an entire country!
Americans might be scared of subsidies, yet they're already wasting as much as we do and get very little for it. At least I don't have to pay a single penny if I get injured in a road traffic accident. Sure, I'm paying in taxes, but UK taxes are barely any higher than those in the US except on VAT.
"She's had the same number for over 50 years and doesn't want to change it."
If the Feds can't or won't handle it, what's the best approach here?
Change the number anyway! She doesn't want to change it, much like a lot of us who get joe-jobbed don't want to change our e-mail address, but there's no choice once your number / address / whatever has become tarnished. Some idiot is always going to have that number and be blaming it for their telemarketing woes.
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How is this crap getting posted to a landmark site of the tech industry? We might be able to put up with news making it to Slashdot three days after everywhere else, but these posts are abysmal.
Supposedly it's the first time that an asteroid / meteor has been accurately (well, we'll see on that front!) predicted to enter the atmosphere at a specific time and location.
You're right - regarding identification. Perhaps identification is a poor choice of term here. Using a credit card provides more than identification, it provides a bond. It is possible to fabricate identities, but fabricating bonds are a lot harder.
And whistleblowing, and your credit rating, and protection against "prior restraint", and criticism of those in power, and... oh, wait, those aren't "problems", are they?
If it were necessary to authorize a lot to identify with services, the credit industry would change to accepting it, so no credit rating issue. Prior restraint is an issue whether you're identified or not. Criticism of those in power is legal under the Constitution. Any violation of those principles should be dealt with strongly, except they're currently not anyway because the US legal system is corrupt.
Why would I want to give anyone my credit or debit card number if I wasn't actually buying something from that site at that particular time?
Because you want to use the service?
It has proven necessary to give up privacy in order to develop security. Take flying, for example. You can't fly anonymously - and nowadays (especially) you have to identify yourself multiple times. This can stand for things that are free as well. I'd personally be quite happy to use my credit card to sign up for free things if it eradicated a number of problems, such as spam and service abuse.
"It was preferable not to disturb the W3C ecosystem for building consensus around Web standards."
It seems like this is exactly what they're planning to do. They're not changing W3C, but (and this is from my POV only) this new foundation will certainly disturb the W3C's role.
Since the W3C already exists, and is already headed by TBL, and is already designed to improve the Web, why not give it more funding and extend its remit?
I run the biggest blog in the Ruby space and was recently looking for (paid) writers from the community to help me out. This might be an avenue in the areas where you're proficient. Most top blogs in certain niches would love to have someone dependable and you could earn a few hundred a month for reasonably little work as long as you're already familiar with your area.
The Martin Guitar company is considering whether to file a patent on DRM on its guitar strings - the company notes that "some players" are fitting Martin-manufactured strings to "non-Martin labeled guitars." IT'S AN OUTRAGE!
Disclaimer: The above is not true - except the outrage bit.
Okay, I know this isn't a great precedent, but considering the ribbing Ruby and Rails have gotten for pushing the multiple process model (mostly because Ruby doesn't do OS-level threads, only "green" threads) it's intriguing that it's now becoming en vogue while Ruby is pushing to implement system-level threads in anger!
I don't think that's the popular view. Software development is a form of engineering, which is the process of using technical and scientific principles to produce systems. Engineering is not a craft in the artistic sense.
The one really great thing about Django is that it's consistent. There is usually one way of doing things, instead of a million different ways that apply in different situations.
Consistence is good, but why it "one way of doing things" good in any sense? It's not a good thing in all scientific or artistic disciplines I can think of. There are multiple ways to heal all parts of the body and resolve medical issues, multiple ways to perform the same scientific experiments, multiple ways to build a bridge - why do you want "one way" to do something when it comes to developing software? That sounds like a code style dictatorship..
Yeah, I know that - he was one of the first to get a Mac in the UK, wasn't he? Anyway, yeah - but that manic iPod/Mac buying spree thing you mention is common to most Mac users who have money;-) (I'm a Mac user too!)
Seeing him use a Mac while ranting on about how great open operating systems are, however, is amusing.
Depends on your definition of "important" - important to those ecosystem crossovers, but not necessarily "important to Ruby" generally. It's like asking a quarterback of a college team to talk authoritatively about football. They're gunna have opinions, but you really should be asking a manager of a top team or someone in the Dallas Cowboys or something.
I'd be extremely surprised if Dave Thomas had recommended John Lam as a prime representative of the Ruby community - he has lots of authoritative Rubyists as authors at his publishing company.
Okay, John Lam is doing amazing work and IronRuby will likely be of some importance in the Ruby world one day, but "major player"? Microsoft's a major player generally, but in the Ruby world they are not. There are 1001 more notable people in the Ruby community who probably would have been up for this article - Chad Fowler, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, Matz himself.. They seem to have picked senior figures for all of the other languages (except PHP). CIO.com is not that poorly connected, surely?
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Running Crysis at 800 x 600 with the lowest quality settings, an eight-core Core i7 system managed an average frame rate of 7.36fps, compared with 5.17fps from Intel's DirectX 10 integrated graphics.
This is easy to laugh at (and many Slashdotters have done so above) but this move shows Microsoft is seriously looking at the future, and not in a "we need a new Windows that'll actually make some money" kinda way.
Running an 8 core machine just to do CPU based graphics rendering is currently impractical and stupid. But in 5 or 10 years? 8->64 core machines will probably the norm and we'll have more CPU power than we know what to do with (we already do for most users in terms of general processing), so there'll be room for this concept.
The day of many separate pieces of hardware is going to be up sometime in the future, and this is a great step at planning for it. Once you have, say, 100 cores, why not devote a handful to graphics, one to networking, one to IO control.. and effectively have "software as hardware"? Why have a dedicated graphics card *if* the CPU power, technology and bandwidth is there to deal with it in future? At least MS are thinking about something that could be useful 5 years down the line..
I'm not sure that 'hundred' is really defined in the hex world.
Are you assuming there's some semantic difference between the word "hundred" and the decimal value 100? I don't think there is. "Hundred" means the decimal value 100 or 64 in hexadecimal. 0x100 is not "one hundred." It's "two hundred and fifty six." Our language is base 10 for ordinals.
Americans seem to be terrfied of any kind of government provided or subsidised healthcare at any level, almost as if they see it as a "gateway drug" to communism - as comical as that appears to the rest of the world.
They sure do, yet Medicare (a federal organization) already spends the same $ per capita on health care in the US serving only some of the population as the NHS does on serving an entire country!
Americans might be scared of subsidies, yet they're already wasting as much as we do and get very little for it. At least I don't have to pay a single penny if I get injured in a road traffic accident. Sure, I'm paying in taxes, but UK taxes are barely any higher than those in the US except on VAT.
I bet if you put the specs on eLance, there'd be a company in Romania somewhere bidding to do it for about $427.33, give or take a few dollars :)
"She's had the same number for over 50 years and doesn't want to change it."
If the Feds can't or won't handle it, what's the best approach here?
Change the number anyway! She doesn't want to change it, much like a lot of us who get joe-jobbed don't want to change our e-mail address, but there's no choice once your number / address / whatever has become tarnished. Some idiot is always going to have that number and be blaming it for their telemarketing woes.
How is this crap getting posted to a landmark site of the tech industry? We might be able to put up with news making it to Slashdot three days after everywhere else, but these posts are abysmal.
Dan Grigsby looks at the Android G1 in 5 minutes from an iPhone developer's perspective.
Loren Feldman (1938media) throws in his own snarky-but-entertaining 2 cents.
Supposedly it's the first time that an asteroid / meteor has been accurately (well, we'll see on that front!) predicted to enter the atmosphere at a specific time and location.
You're right - regarding identification. Perhaps identification is a poor choice of term here. Using a credit card provides more than identification, it provides a bond. It is possible to fabricate identities, but fabricating bonds are a lot harder.
And whistleblowing, and your credit rating, and protection against "prior restraint", and criticism of those in power, and... oh, wait, those aren't "problems", are they?
If it were necessary to authorize a lot to identify with services, the credit industry would change to accepting it, so no credit rating issue. Prior restraint is an issue whether you're identified or not. Criticism of those in power is legal under the Constitution. Any violation of those principles should be dealt with strongly, except they're currently not anyway because the US legal system is corrupt.
Why would I want to give anyone my credit or debit card number if I wasn't actually buying something from that site at that particular time?
Because you want to use the service?
It has proven necessary to give up privacy in order to develop security. Take flying, for example. You can't fly anonymously - and nowadays (especially) you have to identify yourself multiple times. This can stand for things that are free as well. I'd personally be quite happy to use my credit card to sign up for free things if it eradicated a number of problems, such as spam and service abuse.
Thanks for that. They say:
"It was preferable not to disturb the W3C ecosystem for building consensus around Web standards."
It seems like this is exactly what they're planning to do. They're not changing W3C, but (and this is from my POV only) this new foundation will certainly disturb the W3C's role.
Since the W3C already exists, and is already headed by TBL, and is already designed to improve the Web, why not give it more funding and extend its remit?
I run the biggest blog in the Ruby space and was recently looking for (paid) writers from the community to help me out. This might be an avenue in the areas where you're proficient. Most top blogs in certain niches would love to have someone dependable and you could earn a few hundred a month for reasonably little work as long as you're already familiar with your area.
The Martin Guitar company is considering whether to file a patent on DRM on its guitar strings - the company notes that "some players" are fitting Martin-manufactured strings to "non-Martin labeled guitars." IT'S AN OUTRAGE!
Disclaimer: The above is not true - except the outrage bit.
Okay, I know this isn't a great precedent, but considering the ribbing Ruby and Rails have gotten for pushing the multiple process model (mostly because Ruby doesn't do OS-level threads, only "green" threads) it's intriguing that it's now becoming en vogue while Ruby is pushing to implement system-level threads in anger!
I don't think that's the popular view. Software development is a form of engineering, which is the process of using technical and scientific principles to produce systems. Engineering is not a craft in the artistic sense.
I don't know how creating software has anything to do with healing bodies or building bridges.
It's a science. Most sciences share a lot of principles - even if applied to different media. Problem solving is a common trait to all sciences.
The one really great thing about Django is that it's consistent. There is usually one way of doing things, instead of a million different ways that apply in different situations.
Consistence is good, but why it "one way of doing things" good in any sense? It's not a good thing in all scientific or artistic disciplines I can think of. There are multiple ways to heal all parts of the body and resolve medical issues, multiple ways to perform the same scientific experiments, multiple ways to build a bridge - why do you want "one way" to do something when it comes to developing software? That sounds like a code style dictatorship..
Yeah, I know that - he was one of the first to get a Mac in the UK, wasn't he? Anyway, yeah - but that manic iPod/Mac buying spree thing you mention is common to most Mac users who have money ;-) (I'm a Mac user too!)
Seeing him use a Mac while ranting on about how great open operating systems are, however, is amusing.
Chrome will have one process per tab as a feature. See here.
Depends on your definition of "important" - important to those ecosystem crossovers, but not necessarily "important to Ruby" generally. It's like asking a quarterback of a college team to talk authoritatively about football. They're gunna have opinions, but you really should be asking a manager of a top team or someone in the Dallas Cowboys or something.
Note that while he's criticizing Apple, there's a MacBook Air sitting on the table to his right with his prompts.
I'd be extremely surprised if Dave Thomas had recommended John Lam as a prime representative of the Ruby community - he has lots of authoritative Rubyists as authors at his publishing company.
John Lam leads the IronRuby team at Microsoft.
Okay, John Lam is doing amazing work and IronRuby will likely be of some importance in the Ruby world one day, but "major player"? Microsoft's a major player generally, but in the Ruby world they are not. There are 1001 more notable people in the Ruby community who probably would have been up for this article - Chad Fowler, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson, Matz himself.. They seem to have picked senior figures for all of the other languages (except PHP). CIO.com is not that poorly connected, surely?