OpenCL will hopefully help to set a solid ground for GPU and CPU parallel computing, and since it is not technically very different from CUDA, porting existing applications to OpenCL will not be a challenge. Nowadays with current massively parallel technology the hardest part is making the algorithms parallel, not programming any specific device.
I know you are trolling, but actually CUDA applications work better on Linux than on Windows. If you run a CUDA kernel on Windows that lasts longer than 5~6 seconds, your system will hang. The same will happen on Linux but then you can just disable the X server or have one card providing your graphical display and another one as your parallel co-processor.
You were faster than me, I was about to link the paper. IIRC it had something to do with instability for the energy requirements if you take into account not only relativist effects, but also quantum effects. I did not read TFA, but maybe it's just going along with the hype of the new Trek movie.
Why would such technologies require orientation from educators? They are ridiculously easy to use. Most children today are quite comfortable with the Internet, not rarely much more comfortable than their parents and/or teachers. Spending quality school time on teaching a kid how to "tweet" is stupidity.
What would be necessary and even critical is to teach the kids how to NOT use the net and give them a general guidance regarding the web, i.e. how to use a rational judging sense while reading what they have found, how to avoid wasting time while looking for useful blogs and content in general, or even how to improve your productivity by not posting comments on/.;-)
including the conversations you have regarding your findings and the solutions you're offering.
You, sir, has just revealed the fastest way to get canned. I'm not saying it is the wrong thing to do, but I really believe his boss would not appreciate having his words written to stone by an employee. He may even see this as blackmail or something, which would make the case much much worse.
I'm afraid the end users don't have much of a conscious choice once the big companies starts really pushing the Cloud down their throats, since they won't stopping using this or that service because it went Cloud. They may be pissed and all but most will just adapt, as it has been happening already. I personally have serious concerns regarding my critical and sensitive data being stored in a place I can't physically access.
Just because it does not have an MDI it doesn't mean the GUI is bad. Gimp's interface follows a common pattern amongst *nix software -- or what they used to look like.
I was looking forward to SGU since I really enjoy the SG franchise, but I'm afraid the new shows will also be focused on a more mainstream audience. It is not enough put an end to a good thing, they have to ruin it.
Now we need a study (sponsored by Sourceforge, Inc.) confirming that accessing/. and posting comments during your work time insanely increases productivity. My boss would definitely get a copy of such report.
I think it _may_ be effective and increase productivity when you only communicate through IM with coworkers and possibly with clients. Letting "outsiders" IM you when you are working is definitely not productive IMHO (and accessing/. to post comments doesn't get the job done either;-).
He is a murderer, a sociopath and must be imprisoned for life. The fact that he, with others, wrote a decent FS does not shade this ignominious and repulsive crime. I respect his professional work, as most people here do, but I abominate him as a person and in my opinion he must not be allowed to live amongst a civilized society for any longer. You talk about primal and violent reactions, but above all we are rational begins who are aware of what is right and wrong. Maybe we all do have issues regarding social relationship as you state, but this has nothing to do with taking the life of another human being. Nonetheless, I feel very sorrow for him, for his children and for his wife's family.
Oh, and if you do include yourself amongst those who might even consider killing someone over a spurt of fury or over a great disappointment, then you have serious issues my friend. I recommend a group of good mental health professionals.
Yeah, a very significant milestone that was already reported when RC1 was released, not a long time ago. I wonder if the next RCs will be all posted here as well.
News? Sure. Relevant? Not quite. Should be in frontpage? Definitely no.
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Please, Taco... no more idle videos in the frontpage!:(
Second that.
It was very disappointing to see such content in the frontpage. If I wanted to watch stupid videos I'd have gone to Youtube's Most Viewed. Here in/. I would expect to find something a bit less stupid. Quoting the nn newsreader motto: "No news is good news."
Here in Brazil I've seen Ethanol being sold by $0.35/liter (~ $1.32/gallon) to the final consumer. I guess the ethanol industries can produce it by far less than $1/gallon. Here about 80% of our fleet of automobiles are powered by Ethanol (including my car), which is produced using sugar cane.
Nevertheless, the mass cultivation of sugar cane is destroying several other agricultures, mainly in Brazil's South and Southeast regions, besides the fact that the producers and farmers usually burn the unused bagasse (crushed sugar cane) and the crops after harvests, being responsible for Brazil's high position in the rank of top polluters.
I remember watching a movie in which there are small and white public cars available to the public in a parallel universe. It is a pretty shitty made for TV movie though.
Just a few days ago there as brief thread on alt.tv.wonder-years about the math stuff that Danica McKellar did, and then someone came up with a link about the process of naming theorems, where the author cites the "Chayes-McKellar-Winn theorem".
Titles released by Nintendo usually do not have that super-duper-ultra virtual reality and graphics effects, like those for Playstation or X-Box, however, they are FUN. You don't need fancy and world-like effects with physics simulation to enjoy a title, you just need to be entertained by the plot and by the universe it immerses you. Nintendo is an odd company on that issue. I love their titles above all else.
I would not consider only Ocarina of Time as the masterpiece of Nintendo, but it is a hell of a game. Very fair list.
Recently my University bought a supercomputer listed between the top500 computer systems in the world. During a class of Computational Physics, my Professor was commenting this issue and noted that the system was intended to serve about 80 research groups with tasks that demand parallel processing. The reality were much more modest though: only two groups were actually using the system (one of them was my Professor's research group), and of this two groups, only his group were taking advantage of parallel programming techniques to use the system the way it should be used.
He said that a new policy would be implanted, this was about 3 or 4 months ago, so I don't know how it is right now. But this reflects the lack of preparation to use such a system, they've wasted tons of cash with something they don't really know how to use properly.
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OpenCL will hopefully help to set a solid ground for GPU and CPU parallel computing, and since it is not technically very different from CUDA, porting existing applications to OpenCL will not be a challenge. Nowadays with current massively parallel technology the hardest part is making the algorithms parallel, not programming any specific device.
I know you are trolling, but actually CUDA applications work better on Linux than on Windows. If you run a CUDA kernel on Windows that lasts longer than 5~6 seconds, your system will hang. The same will happen on Linux but then you can just disable the X server or have one card providing your graphical display and another one as your parallel co-processor.
You were faster than me, I was about to link the paper. IIRC it had something to do with instability for the energy requirements if you take into account not only relativist effects, but also quantum effects. I did not read TFA, but maybe it's just going along with the hype of the new Trek movie.
Why would such technologies require orientation from educators? They are ridiculously easy to use. Most children today are quite comfortable with the Internet, not rarely much more comfortable than their parents and/or teachers. Spending quality school time on teaching a kid how to "tweet" is stupidity.
What would be necessary and even critical is to teach the kids how to NOT use the net and give them a general guidance regarding the web, i.e. how to use a rational judging sense while reading what they have found, how to avoid wasting time while looking for useful blogs and content in general, or even how to improve your productivity by not posting comments on /. ;-)
including the conversations you have regarding your findings and the solutions you're offering.
You, sir, has just revealed the fastest way to get canned. I'm not saying it is the wrong thing to do, but I really believe his boss would not appreciate having his words written to stone by an employee. He may even see this as blackmail or something, which would make the case much much worse.
I'm afraid the end users don't have much of a conscious choice once the big companies starts really pushing the Cloud down their throats, since they won't stopping using this or that service because it went Cloud. They may be pissed and all but most will just adapt, as it has been happening already. I personally have serious concerns regarding my critical and sensitive data being stored in a place I can't physically access.
Just because it does not have an MDI it doesn't mean the GUI is bad. Gimp's interface follows a common pattern amongst *nix software -- or what they used to look like.
I was looking forward to SGU since I really enjoy the SG franchise, but I'm afraid the new shows will also be focused on a more mainstream audience. It is not enough put an end to a good thing, they have to ruin it.
Best comment I've seen on Slashdot in ages. Too bad I'm running out of mod points.
Now we need a study (sponsored by Sourceforge, Inc.) confirming that accessing /. and posting comments during your work time insanely increases productivity. My boss would definitely get a copy of such report.
I think it _may_ be effective and increase productivity when you only communicate through IM with coworkers and possibly with clients. Letting "outsiders" IM you when you are working is definitely not productive IMHO (and accessing /. to post comments doesn't get the job done either ;-).
He is a murderer, a sociopath and must be imprisoned for life. The fact that he, with others, wrote a decent FS does not shade this ignominious and repulsive crime. I respect his professional work, as most people here do, but I abominate him as a person and in my opinion he must not be allowed to live amongst a civilized society for any longer. You talk about primal and violent reactions, but above all we are rational begins who are aware of what is right and wrong. Maybe we all do have issues regarding social relationship as you state, but this has nothing to do with taking the life of another human being. Nonetheless, I feel very sorrow for him, for his children and for his wife's family.
Oh, and if you do include yourself amongst those who might even consider killing someone over a spurt of fury or over a great disappointment, then you have serious issues my friend. I recommend a group of good mental health professionals.
Yeah, a very significant milestone that was already reported when RC1 was released, not a long time ago. I wonder if the next RCs will be all posted here as well.
News? Sure. Relevant? Not quite. Should be in frontpage? Definitely no.
Please, Taco... no more idle videos in the frontpage! :(
/. I would expect to find something a bit less stupid. Quoting the nn newsreader motto: "No news is good news."
Second that.
It was very disappointing to see such content in the frontpage. If I wanted to watch stupid videos I'd have gone to Youtube's Most Viewed. Here in
For heavy BT users this tactic is very common, provided the file(s) you are willing to download is fairly well available from different sources.
That was damn fast! The discussion should end here.
Here in Brazil I've seen Ethanol being sold by $0.35/liter (~ $1.32/gallon) to the final consumer. I guess the ethanol industries can produce it by far less than $1/gallon. Here about 80% of our fleet of automobiles are powered by Ethanol (including my car), which is produced using sugar cane.
Nevertheless, the mass cultivation of sugar cane is destroying several other agricultures, mainly in Brazil's South and Southeast regions, besides the fact that the producers and farmers usually burn the unused bagasse (crushed sugar cane) and the crops after harvests, being responsible for Brazil's high position in the rank of top polluters.
This is a librarian's worst nightmare.
I remember watching a movie in which there are small and white public cars available to the public in a parallel universe. It is a pretty shitty made for TV movie though.
Just a few days ago there as brief thread on alt.tv.wonder-years about the math stuff that Danica McKellar did, and then someone came up with a link about the process of naming theorems, where the author cites the "Chayes-McKellar-Winn theorem".
Here is the link to the article: http://www.maa.org/devlin/devlin_09_05.html
Titles released by Nintendo usually do not have that super-duper-ultra virtual reality and graphics effects, like those for Playstation or X-Box, however, they are FUN. You don't need fancy and world-like effects with physics simulation to enjoy a title, you just need to be entertained by the plot and by the universe it immerses you. Nintendo is an odd company on that issue. I love their titles above all else.
I would not consider only Ocarina of Time as the masterpiece of Nintendo, but it is a hell of a game. Very fair list.
Recently my University bought a supercomputer listed between the top500 computer systems in the world. During a class of Computational Physics, my Professor was commenting this issue and noted that the system was intended to serve about 80 research groups with tasks that demand parallel processing. The reality were much more modest though: only two groups were actually using the system (one of them was my Professor's research group), and of this two groups, only his group were taking advantage of parallel programming techniques to use the system the way it should be used.
He said that a new policy would be implanted, this was about 3 or 4 months ago, so I don't know how it is right now. But this reflects the lack of preparation to use such a system, they've wasted tons of cash with something they don't really know how to use properly.
Google Labs, yet in its youth, certainly resembles me of the golden yers of the Bell Labs.
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This very same examiner (John Breene) has also granted patents #6944634 (file caching) and #6745181 (query based search).