If we can power more things from DC supplies, then it will be easier to add photovoltaics to our energy supplies. If I could run my house off solar DC it would be more efficient and cheaper than having things go through an inverter just to be transformed back down into some other DC voltage.
To make downconverting easier (DC-DC voltage upconverting equipment is expensive) the common supply will have to be as high voltage as any draw from it. The article talks about 48v distribution, but I was hoping for 24v or 12v since those are more common to get from solar panel systems.
We are a community animal. We really can do more working together than sepearately. I think that radical individualism (libertarians, ayn randies) as a broad philosophy is a recent aberration. If we were really clever we'd resist those who try to divide and conquer. Now if I can just get the idiots on the other side to see it my way we'll all be much better off united under my enlightened ruleleadership.
PPEs are bigger. Also, a dedicated slave processor doesn't have to worry about interrupts and context switches and OS crap, it can spend all its cycles on number crunching. Cell SPEs are all about moving large amounts of data and doing a whole lot of compute on that data. They're simpler and more efficient at what they're designed for.
That must be why I rebelled against the stifiling formalisms thrust upon me in math class. It was easier to find the answer than to go through the theorem and proof steps. Math class took all the fun out of Math.
take out the out-of-style hovering lettering at the top ("the gimp 2.2.10"), take out the two rivots over the mascot's head, and put in odometer dials showing the version number, and some "version" label just above that. since the main (annoying) print of "the gimp" was removed, increase the size 1.5 to 2x on the plain "GIMP" that appears in the dial.
PHP sucks, it's a lousy language with crappy syntax and barely existant error checking. Python is an ok language but its interpreter is slow, and that's coming from a Java guy.
So, in summary, suck it, I'll keep writing Servlets for Tomcat.
California has a similar law requiring the source code involved in voting machines. Diebold was cited or fined or something for having serviced election machines and changing out the software on them to something that was other than what had been submitted. So, an election was run on unverifiable source.
I have to plug Scoop as a pain-in-the-ass powerful chunk of mod_perl that I've set up a few times. It apparently is capable of scaling up pretty well, handling the million+ hit days of dailykos.com
Hope claims that while it is illegal for countries to stake a claim on the moon, it is legal for individuals and corporations to.
To me this statement just smacks of nutty dreams of Libertopia. On the other hand, if they can get there, living on the moon might finally place fanatic Libertarians fully outside of the claw of those hated goverments.
I like how that opener draws parallels between PHP and Microsoft. Both frustrate me by their inferiority and their pervasiveness. I always wonder how something so bad became so popular. It feels like there's just something wrong with the Universe when things like that happen.
I tried PHP a couple times (both my own new stuff and tinkering with downloaded apps like Drupal and Wikimedia), but for anything bigger and more complex than one page, I want Servlets, a real language and a real development environment.
Penny-Arcade vs. Jack Thompson would be fun, but I'd rather see it on The Daily Show or some other venue moderated by Jon Stewart. I also desire a venue that can release the uncensored results of such a meeting.
I was reading some publicly available Apple documentation on the transition to intel style chips, and they included a note that as of June they hadn't finalized their application-binary-interface (ABI) specification for MacOS X on intel. So, maybe it just means they changed the spec and now there's an incompatibility. It would be something most developers would never see, totally taken care of by the compiler, and a make clean and a recompile necessarily fixes everything.
I love conspiracy knotheads. They always ignore evidence that is readily available to them that would disprove their theory immediately.
Huh, that sounds just like a lot of religious beliefs I can think of. Things like creationism ("Intelligent Design"), various points of human nature and the belief that George W Bush is a good president.
Well, rabid mac fanboy antics aside, I bet that this is what Intel showed Apple to lure them into the switch. In a moment of platform agnosticism, I'll be happy if the end result is that I get a crazy fast and wattage efficient computer in 2006.
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If we can power more things from DC supplies, then it will be easier to add photovoltaics to our energy supplies. If I could run my house off solar DC it would be more efficient and cheaper than having things go through an inverter just to be transformed back down into some other DC voltage.
To make downconverting easier (DC-DC voltage upconverting equipment is expensive) the common supply will have to be as high voltage as any draw from it. The article talks about 48v distribution, but I was hoping for 24v or 12v since those are more common to get from solar panel systems.
wax cylinder, vinyl, reel-to-reel, cassette, 8-track, laser disc, 16-bit 44.1 KHz sterio compact disc, MP3, OGG, AAC, DAT, whatever! They're all going the same way, into the past.
We are a community animal. We really can do more working together than sepearately. I think that radical individualism (libertarians, ayn randies) as a broad philosophy is a recent aberration. If we were really clever we'd resist those who try to divide and conquer. Now if I can just get the idiots on the other side to see it my way we'll all be much better off united under my enlightened ruleleadership.
Efficiency and cutting back in every way. A big STFU to all the Hummer owners out there.
And maybe over-population is part of the problem too. Stop screwing around!
PPEs are bigger. Also, a dedicated slave processor doesn't have to worry about interrupts and context switches and OS crap, it can spend all its cycles on number crunching. Cell SPEs are all about moving large amounts of data and doing a whole lot of compute on that data. They're simpler and more efficient at what they're designed for.
> and killed the line
But, with dragonballs, you can ressurect things, right?
That must be why I rebelled against the stifiling formalisms thrust upon me in math class. It was easier to find the answer than to go through the theorem and proof steps. Math class took all the fun out of Math.
About three months ago, they announced the upgraded iMac G5. I bought my iMac G5 on Nov 19, 2005. Less than two months later, it's obsolete.
bitter bitter bitter bitter.
Konfabulator is made. It is cool.
Apple copies it, calling it "Dashboard". Konfabulator is pissed.
Konfabulator is purchased by Yahoo, who rename it "Dashboard".
Stop the world, I wanna get off.
take out the out-of-style hovering lettering at the top ("the gimp 2.2.10"), take out the two rivots over the mascot's head, and put in odometer dials showing the version number, and some "version" label just above that. since the main (annoying) print of "the gimp" was removed, increase the size 1.5 to 2x on the plain "GIMP" that appears in the dial.
PHP sucks, it's a lousy language with crappy syntax and barely existant error checking.
Python is an ok language but its interpreter is slow, and that's coming from a Java guy.
So, in summary, suck it, I'll keep writing Servlets for Tomcat.
California has a similar law requiring the source code involved in voting machines. Diebold was cited or fined or something for having serviced election machines and changing out the software on them to something that was other than what had been submitted. So, an election was run on unverifiable source.
I still say the best solution is to ditch all voting machines and their software because it's cheaper to count elections by hand.
I have to plug Scoop as a pain-in-the-ass powerful chunk of mod_perl that I've set up a few times. It apparently is capable of scaling up pretty well, handling the million+ hit days of dailykos.com
Sounds great, but with everything up and stable at the moment, I'll wait to switch to it when I'm developing something new again.
To me this statement just smacks of nutty dreams of Libertopia. On the other hand, if they can get there, living on the moon might finally place fanatic Libertarians fully outside of the claw of those hated goverments.
I like how that opener draws parallels between PHP and Microsoft. Both frustrate me by their inferiority and their pervasiveness. I always wonder how something so bad became so popular. It feels like there's just something wrong with the Universe when things like that happen.
I tried PHP a couple times (both my own new stuff and tinkering with downloaded apps like Drupal and Wikimedia), but for anything bigger and more complex than one page, I want Servlets, a real language and a real development environment.
Penny-Arcade vs. Jack Thompson would be fun, but I'd rather see it on The Daily Show or some other venue moderated by Jon Stewart. I also desire a venue that can release the uncensored results of such a meeting.
Easy. I argue that voting machines are a waste of money. It would be cheaper to count paper ballots by hand. When we can build super-cheap, super-reliable and super-trustworthy voting machines, then will be the time to move away from paper ballots. I'm a geek who loves the techno-fix for anything else, but it just doesn't make sense for voting.
Maybe someone will get me one. 0:-)
I'd never buy one, but might accept it as a gift.
Oh you're so cynical. Slashdot isn't the sensationalist Faux News of the tech world. Er, I hope it isn't. Is it?
I was reading some publicly available Apple documentation on the transition to intel style chips, and they included a note that as of June they hadn't finalized their application-binary-interface (ABI) specification for MacOS X on intel. So, maybe it just means they changed the spec and now there's an incompatibility. It would be something most developers would never see, totally taken care of by the compiler, and a make clean and a recompile necessarily fixes everything.
Cuz, it looks like people are getting fooled.
Huh, that sounds just like a lot of religious beliefs I can think of. Things like creationism ("Intelligent Design"), various points of human nature and the belief that George W Bush is a good president.
I had some data, I wanted to lay it out graphically, a little perl script to transform it and *poof!* there it was!
Although, batik is a little bit slow. Hmpf. The Adobe plugin is nice though.
So it's good enough for me.
Well, rabid mac fanboy antics aside, I bet that this is what Intel showed Apple to lure them into the switch. In a moment of platform agnosticism, I'll be happy if the end result is that I get a crazy fast and wattage efficient computer in 2006.