I also like Desireless or Vanessa Paradis. Can't say I remember anything more recent however. Today I mostly listen to J-Pop, used to be Dance, before that it was Heavy Metal, Rock, or Ballads. Then there is classical, uh... Cannot remember any of those being French however. I was mostly surprised at the number of German singers who got popular in the last couple of decades than anything else. I mean BELGIUM has more and better music than the whole of France for crissakes.
If they do it, it will just make more people switch to WebM. Their containers are already well known to suck. Even DivX support Matroska containers and they are in the business of selling a MPEG-4 codec implementation. The sound codec can be Vorbis or FLAC.
The issue is simple. Due to mass production scaling up factors and transport prices it makes sense for the production facilities to be closest to the largest amount of end users as possible. It will come to a point where even if salaries were the same in China it would make less sense to manufacture panels in the US. China is one of the largest nations of the world. So either the US finds niche products they can manufacture and sell, or other high value products, or they will simply have no production left at all. Then if the US ends up being in a war with China, for some reason, just remember what Sherman once said to one of his friends from the South:
...where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth—right at your doors.
The Soviets called their carriers "cruisers" because of a silly clause that no aircraft carrier may cross the Dardanelles Strait and navigate to/from the Black Sea which were like the only warm water ports they had available. If you compare the Admiral Kuznetsov with other aircraft carriers in displacement, length, crew size or aircraft carried you will see it is 2nd only to the US Nimitz supercarrier class.
The Chinese are doing fine with their new destroyers (not quite as good as the latest Western tech but coming close to it). However they have one recycled half-working carrier and their nuclear submarines are complete and utter crap. Their solid SLBM program also seems to be having issues. The US has like a dozen carrier groups which include the fleet auxiliaries besides the carrier itself. The plan (hah) to eventually have 3 carriers in working condition. Probably one per fleet or something close to that. They do have today the two largest naval shipyards in the world, but they still need to crank production up and work on improving their technological base.
They did try using air power to strike the navy using Exocet missiles but it seems their "warranty" expired once they attacked a good friend of France or something like that.
It is even more dangerous when he is working to make our species weaker by reducing the variety of edible foodstuffs we have. Humans seldom excel at anything in the animal kingdom but they are omnivorous and we should keep being that way. In fact we continuously strive to increase the variety and amount of things we can eat rather than otherwise.
Apple doesn't play too lose with marketing statistics? You simply are forgetting the late PowerPC times where a water-cooled Apple system was slower than an air cooled Intel PC.
Chelomei did get Proton (UR-500) working properly and that could have been used to launch a lunar flyby with horrendous risks. Not having the larger launcher (which was repeatedly stalled at the government level because they simply did not want to spend the money on something they perceived as only useful for propaganda) was the issue. Chelomei did propose an alternative to N1 but no one would built it after the Nedelin disaster. Proton was supposed to be among the first in a family of modular rockets which would scale until N1 size (UR-700). Since the Americans got there first and he lost his main political backer Nikita Krushev his rocket did not get built.
There were several Mars exploration plans. Korolev himself considered much the same techniques for propulsion as the people on the other side did: nuclear thermal or nuclear electric. At the time solar panel surface area, or space nuclear reactor dissipation technology were too lousy to make nuclear electric work but he saw it as an option in the longer term. Back in the US several people arrived at much the same conclusions (von Braun, Stuhlinger). Then there were the more far fetched ideas like Orion but that was kind of overkill for just going to Mars. It was more well suited for going to the space beyond Jupiter and perhaps into nearby stars. If you consider space to be divided into regions like cislunar, inside the asteroid belt, beyond the asteroid belt, etc. the technologies most suitable for propulsion change. Solar anything is problematic as you get further away from the Sun you need more surface area to be able to do anything at all.
The Chinese space program proceeds at a snail's pace and as their leaders switch from former military men or engineers, which are practically oriented, to lawyers and the usual fluff, you will stop seeing the pursuit of major infrastructure projects be it in space or at China. They will make Long March 5 and launch their own satellite constellations, build some probes, have their space stations, but anything beyond that is merely the wishes of someone working on a bureau with no real economic control of the country.
They sort of did. The problem was their government infrastructure projects got increasingly more ludicrous and the debt went up until the economy stagnated. They wanted to avoid inflation so much they got into the land of 0% interest rates. Still the Japanese bought many real estate, media corporations and other things in the 80s.
China has so far bought IBM's PC division, tried to purchase a substantial chunk of GM (not authorized by the US Government), purchased several mines, etc. They keep buying more and more stuff. As for the "excess population" you can always start a war with Taiwan, or something.
My guess is that the metalworking was crap. Iron, if it existed, was so low quality you could only store low pressure steam and the machine had a low power to weight ratio.
I would not be surprised if future CPUs omit the 16-bit/8-bit parts altogether (it just add more instruction decoder fluff?). Heck they may even throw away the 32-bit support eventually.
Sandy Bridge has AVX not not FMA3 or FMA4. That is planned for Haswell, unless they managed to sneak it into Ivy Bridge without telling everyone. SB certainly does not have it.
Compiled with a GCC version which does not support FMA, the Intel C++ Compiler, or what?
SQL is mostly about bandwidth or integer performance, TPC-C is bandwidth, in that case it could be the scheduler, or just that the CPU internal paths such that are bandwidth constrained. Heck it could be that the memory is slower, or the disks are worse, or whatever. I've seen vendors smoke the competition in TPC benchmarks by changing the disk array.
The GPUs do more than FP computations. They also do integer. Many of the video compression algorithms work on integer. Its just that you have many more ALUs per mm2 than in a regular CPU.
They are 8 core chips you nitwit. Compare them with an Intel Atom core and tell me which one is more beefed up. This is not a virtual processor like hyperthreading where you only replicate the register file, you have separate ALUs and everything including the L1 caches. Single threaded performance suffered because each of these cores is "two-issue" while the old one was "three-issue" integer core.
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I am one of those old farts which had a C64.
I mostly went to sunsite.unc.edu or funet.fi.
I also like Desireless or Vanessa Paradis. Can't say I remember anything more recent however. Today I mostly listen to J-Pop, used to be Dance, before that it was Heavy Metal, Rock, or Ballads. Then there is classical, uh... Cannot remember any of those being French however. I was mostly surprised at the number of German singers who got popular in the last couple of decades than anything else. I mean BELGIUM has more and better music than the whole of France for crissakes.
It will just be GIF vs PNG all over again. Is Unisys still around?
If they do it, it will just make more people switch to WebM. Their containers are already well known to suck. Even DivX support Matroska containers and they are in the business of selling a MPEG-4 codec implementation. The sound codec can be Vorbis or FLAC.
Microsoft has WMV9 or VC-1 as a fallback while Google has WebM.
The Soviets called their carriers "cruisers" because of a silly clause that no aircraft carrier may cross the Dardanelles Strait and navigate to/from the Black Sea which were like the only warm water ports they had available. If you compare the Admiral Kuznetsov with other aircraft carriers in displacement, length, crew size or aircraft carried you will see it is 2nd only to the US Nimitz supercarrier class.
The Chinese are doing fine with their new destroyers (not quite as good as the latest Western tech but coming close to it). However they have one recycled half-working carrier and their nuclear submarines are complete and utter crap. Their solid SLBM program also seems to be having issues. The US has like a dozen carrier groups which include the fleet auxiliaries besides the carrier itself. The plan (hah) to eventually have 3 carriers in working condition. Probably one per fleet or something close to that. They do have today the two largest naval shipyards in the world, but they still need to crank production up and work on improving their technological base.
They did try using air power to strike the navy using Exocet missiles but it seems their "warranty" expired once they attacked a good friend of France or something like that.
I doubt it would work unless you spent most of your time sleeping or sitting motionless doing nothing at all. Trees do not move much after all.
It is even more dangerous when he is working to make our species weaker by reducing the variety of edible foodstuffs we have. Humans seldom excel at anything in the animal kingdom but they are omnivorous and we should keep being that way. In fact we continuously strive to increase the variety and amount of things we can eat rather than otherwise.
Apple doesn't play too lose with marketing statistics? You simply are forgetting the late PowerPC times where a water-cooled Apple system was slower than an air cooled Intel PC.
Chelomei did get Proton (UR-500) working properly and that could have been used to launch a lunar flyby with horrendous risks. Not having the larger launcher (which was repeatedly stalled at the government level because they simply did not want to spend the money on something they perceived as only useful for propaganda) was the issue. Chelomei did propose an alternative to N1 but no one would built it after the Nedelin disaster. Proton was supposed to be among the first in a family of modular rockets which would scale until N1 size (UR-700). Since the Americans got there first and he lost his main political backer Nikita Krushev his rocket did not get built.
The Chinese space program proceeds at a snail's pace and as their leaders switch from former military men or engineers, which are practically oriented, to lawyers and the usual fluff, you will stop seeing the pursuit of major infrastructure projects be it in space or at China. They will make Long March 5 and launch their own satellite constellations, build some probes, have their space stations, but anything beyond that is merely the wishes of someone working on a bureau with no real economic control of the country.
They sort of did. The problem was their government infrastructure projects got increasingly more ludicrous and the debt went up until the economy stagnated. They wanted to avoid inflation so much they got into the land of 0% interest rates. Still the Japanese bought many real estate, media corporations and other things in the 80s. China has so far bought IBM's PC division, tried to purchase a substantial chunk of GM (not authorized by the US Government), purchased several mines, etc. They keep buying more and more stuff. As for the "excess population" you can always start a war with Taiwan, or something.
The Romans did have water wheels however.
My guess is that the metalworking was crap. Iron, if it existed, was so low quality you could only store low pressure steam and the machine had a low power to weight ratio.
I would not be surprised if future CPUs omit the 16-bit/8-bit parts altogether (it just add more instruction decoder fluff?). Heck they may even throw away the 32-bit support eventually.
Sandy Bridge has AVX not not FMA3 or FMA4. That is planned for Haswell, unless they managed to sneak it into Ivy Bridge without telling everyone. SB certainly does not have it.
It is not irrelevant for video encoding.
Run MechWarrior 3 or MechWarrior 4 Mercenaries. They are better anyway. Many people have run DOSBox in the GP2X which is ARM powered.
SQL is mostly about bandwidth or integer performance, TPC-C is bandwidth, in that case it could be the scheduler, or just that the CPU internal paths such that are bandwidth constrained. Heck it could be that the memory is slower, or the disks are worse, or whatever. I've seen vendors smoke the competition in TPC benchmarks by changing the disk array.
The GPUs do more than FP computations. They also do integer. Many of the video compression algorithms work on integer. Its just that you have many more ALUs per mm2 than in a regular CPU.
They are 8 core chips you nitwit. Compare them with an Intel Atom core and tell me which one is more beefed up. This is not a virtual processor like hyperthreading where you only replicate the register file, you have separate ALUs and everything including the L1 caches. Single threaded performance suffered because each of these cores is "two-issue" while the old one was "three-issue" integer core.