Yet if you read the OpenCL Quick Reference Card there isn't anything there but the C version. It seems kinda like retconning to me. Also, read the original OpenCL version 1.0 specification: https://www.khronos.org/regist... OpenCL consists of an API for coordinating parallel computation across heterogeneous processors; and a cross-platform programming language with a well specified computation environment. The OpenCL standard:.. Utilizes a subset of ISO C99 with extensions for parallelism
Whine in your local California township for them to allow more vertical construction. Good luck.
I once looked at the prices of land in California and it's ungodly expensive unless its someplace deep in the interior. Have you tried this site? It doesn't seem impossible. Some houses cost like $200k. http://www.landwatch.com/
it is NOT okay for common people to rise up against oppression. That can bring up too many uncomfortable comparisons to real events
I guess we can never expect them to make a movie about the downfall of the Qin Empire then. Yet Romance of the Three Kingdoms still seems to be acceptable for public viewing somehow.
I never did get that job, even though my buddy on the inside said he kept trying to push for my hiring. It was never about me not being able to do the work they were hiring for. It was about being judged as not entertaining enough to hang out with socially.
No. Most likely they already had someone they knew lined up for the job and that was just an excuse.
That's funny. I applied for an OpenCL job at RedHat and they didn't even call me back. Then again this is RedHat we are talking about. And while there are some OpenCL jobs, and yes there are few people with the skills, the market is actually so tiny that it isn't that trivial to get a job really.
I've trained at least three people in OpenCL/CUDA at a local college and guess what they aren't working on that either.
Had Sun open sourced Solaris sooner perhaps Linux would never have gotten a foothold in the market. Then again they would have also lost their competitive advantage. So being this late in the game, I think they would have been better off keeping the kernel on internal development, and switching all the tools to as many open source components as they could, much like Apple did.
As long as they designed the hardware to have higher RAS, or density, than what can be achieved with off the shelf x86 solutions, I think they would have had a market. Unfortunately Oracle simply does not understand the hardware market, and late stage Sun didn't understand the market, period.
Oracle should just focus on their services division, like the cloud services, and task their hardware division to produce hardware that works well in that environment, and then sell that product to the wider market to people who prefer to have everything in house.
I have heard of other companies doing this funny accounting and failing before. Typically they do not account for sales they wouldn't do otherwise had the hardware not been there. So they should, IMHO, account for the SPARC hardware sales and services, Solaris OS sales and services, and Solaris OS dependent applications (e.g. Solaris Oracle DB) sales and services which they are in the position of being able to account.
Otherwise they might be cutting something they think doesn't make them a profit, and end up throwing the baby with the bathwater. Fact is hardware today doesn't cost as much as it used to. With 3rd party foundry services, you only need a CPU design team, which can be as few as like a dozen people or even less. Most of the cost will actually be in taping out first silicon, i.e. creating the masks to fab the first prototype, actually.
The issue is: why provide better service for less money when you can just squeeze the customers out of more money with the same infrastructure because of your lovely cable monopoly? It's the same rut which caused the electric power companies in the US in the first half of the XXth century to have pitifully crap service until the US Government got tired of the situation and started the TVA and their ilk.
Linus agrees with me. From the Wikipedia page for HFS+: HFS Plus lacks several features considered staples of modern file systems like ZFS and NTFS. Data checksums is the most routinely cited missing feature. Additionally, the core of the filesystem uses case-insensitive NFD Unicode strings, which led Linus Torvalds to say that "HFS+ is probably the worst file-system ever."
I had to read some more to actually understand WTF this was about. It seems this APFS is some new, flash device optimized, encrypted filesystem for Apple products that is supposed to replace the incredibly crappy HFS+.
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Yet if you read the OpenCL Quick Reference Card there isn't anything there but the C version. It seems kinda like retconning to me.
.. Utilizes a subset of ISO C99 with extensions for parallelism
Also, read the original OpenCL version 1.0 specification:
https://www.khronos.org/regist...
OpenCL consists of an API for coordinating parallel computation across
heterogeneous processors; and a cross-platform programming language with a well
specified computation environment.
The OpenCL standard:
So yep, it's definitively been retconned.
I've heard of guys who just bought a parcel of land and put a 2nd hand trailer on top until they can afford to build a house.
Whine in your local California township for them to allow more vertical construction. Good luck.
I once looked at the prices of land in California and it's ungodly expensive unless its someplace deep in the interior. Have you tried this site? It doesn't seem impossible. Some houses cost like $200k.
http://www.landwatch.com/
Until the machines revolt at least.
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Because of the sucrose in oranges I bet. I assume peach juice would have similar effects assuming you can get it.
it is NOT okay for common people to rise up against oppression. That can bring up too many uncomfortable comparisons to real events
I guess we can never expect them to make a movie about the downfall of the Qin Empire then. Yet Romance of the Three Kingdoms still seems to be acceptable for public viewing somehow.
The problem with GIMP is the tools lack polish. Everything always feels half baked. Inkscape has the same issues only worse.
Fonts and anti-aliasing quality have always been a problem. The tools typically lag behind. One example would be when the healing brush tool came out.
So what's the price of a Raspberry Pi?
The problem with market percentages is that total desktop market size isn't constant either.
Remember xf86config? Then you had to manually edit whatever configuration file that crap generated to *really* get X to work.
I've got bash installed on Android but I kinda see your point.
I never did get that job, even though my buddy on the inside said he kept trying to push for my hiring. It was never about me not being able to do the work they were hiring for. It was about being judged as not entertaining enough to hang out with socially.
No. Most likely they already had someone they knew lined up for the job and that was just an excuse.
Back then people didn't have student loans to pay and jobs did actual on the job training.
Paying more will motivate some people to change employers, but it won't solve the shortage of people with the right skills.
I guess you've never heard of this wonderful thing called the market and supply and demand.
Much like Java is a platform, and a runtime, and a language.
Ok. Wikipedia claims it isn't a language. But I've never seen anyone call "OpenCL C" anything other than OpenCL anywhere.
OpenCL *is* a language. And a lot of other things. Perhaps you're confusing it with CUDA where the language is typically called CUDA C/C++.
Two of them have gone to work on the game industry afterwards.
That's funny. I applied for an OpenCL job at RedHat and they didn't even call me back. Then again this is RedHat we are talking about. And while there are some OpenCL jobs, and yes there are few people with the skills, the market is actually so tiny that it isn't that trivial to get a job really.
I've trained at least three people in OpenCL/CUDA at a local college and guess what they aren't working on that either.
Had Sun open sourced Solaris sooner perhaps Linux would never have gotten a foothold in the market. Then again they would have also lost their competitive advantage. So being this late in the game, I think they would have been better off keeping the kernel on internal development, and switching all the tools to as many open source components as they could, much like Apple did.
As long as they designed the hardware to have higher RAS, or density, than what can be achieved with off the shelf x86 solutions, I think they would have had a market. Unfortunately Oracle simply does not understand the hardware market, and late stage Sun didn't understand the market, period.
Oracle should just focus on their services division, like the cloud services, and task their hardware division to produce hardware that works well in that environment, and then sell that product to the wider market to people who prefer to have everything in house.
I have heard of other companies doing this funny accounting and failing before. Typically they do not account for sales they wouldn't do otherwise had the hardware not been there. So they should, IMHO, account for the SPARC hardware sales and services, Solaris OS sales and services, and Solaris OS dependent applications (e.g. Solaris Oracle DB) sales and services which they are in the position of being able to account.
Otherwise they might be cutting something they think doesn't make them a profit, and end up throwing the baby with the bathwater. Fact is hardware today doesn't cost as much as it used to. With 3rd party foundry services, you only need a CPU design team, which can be as few as like a dozen people or even less. Most of the cost will actually be in taping out first silicon, i.e. creating the masks to fab the first prototype, actually.
The issue is: why provide better service for less money when you can just squeeze the customers out of more money with the same infrastructure because of your lovely cable monopoly? It's the same rut which caused the electric power companies in the US in the first half of the XXth century to have pitifully crap service until the US Government got tired of the situation and started the TVA and their ilk.
Linus agrees with me. From the Wikipedia page for HFS+:
HFS Plus lacks several features considered staples of modern file systems like ZFS and NTFS. Data checksums is the most routinely cited missing feature. Additionally, the core of the filesystem uses case-insensitive NFD Unicode strings, which led Linus Torvalds to say that "HFS+ is probably the worst file-system ever."
I had to read some more to actually understand WTF this was about. It seems this APFS is some new, flash device optimized, encrypted filesystem for Apple products that is supposed to replace the incredibly crappy HFS+.