LOL, yeah I remember messing about with memmanager and xms. Heck I remember half the games wouldn't work unless you tweeked the memory for each one. I recall setting up batch files for different games to set all the memory correctly before starting the game.
Now I tell steam I want to play a game and it says OK, downloads it, installs it, and plays it. It is truly an age of wonders we live in. Though I have to say the kids of today are getting little from it. I know I got a lot of my early technical experience trying to get games to even run on my 286. (I think it had 4MB of ram and was clocked at something like 3Mhz, though I think it had a "turbo" button to bump it up to 4.5Mhz or something like that. It also had a huge 20MB HD I think. Doom2 was the largest game I owned at 500k I think)
Interesting article, I will have to read it in more detail. It seemed to me that while they were making general comparisons they weren't exactly saying what they were using before. If essentially they were using a single workstation (even if dual quad Xeon 8 core 48GB machine) to do this and then went to a 40 node 8 core per node 2 FPGA per node, and 24GB per node, then yes it is easy to see how they got that 121x faster. (320 cores, 80 FPGAs, and 960GB RAM all working in parallel?)
Which makes me ask the question WTF were they doing using what is essentially a workstation for this and how long did they keep that up? I guess for me the big question, isn't "wow what a great new computer they built" but "what the heck were they thinking before"...
Anyway the article seemed pretty detailed, and I only skimmed it, so who knows.
Your right. But the hair salon doesn't need a BlackBerry either.
I am specifically talking about business that would use a BB, which is the office environment, which is Microsoft.
Anyway I have seen Greek Restaurants use iPads as menu's for customers... There are many uses, just not all that acceptable right now for most office environments.
I was in a meeting the other day, and one of the guys on the conference call wanted to know if we would ever get iPads for use in meetings and presentations and the like. I nearly laughed. Then one of the other guys in the room, says no but we are looking at PlayBooks. I nearly cried.
I do not see business moving to apple any time soon.
The only competitor in the business world I could possibly see are Windows phones. Only because they can use their huge advantage that everyone in buisness uses Microsoft products. However A) They would first have to build, or have built a phone that doesn't suck, and B) watch how they try to grab market share from RIM without getting anti-trust sued into oblivion by RIM.
RIM may just delegate and specialize in business products rather than consumer ones. That would be my advice. Do what you are good at. If at some point you develop some crazy new remarkable technology, then by all means jump back into the consumer market. Until then, stay out of the 800lb gorilla's way.
The funny thing is I just checked, and they only charge GST (Federal) and not PST (Provincial). Which is funny because we now have HST (Harmonized).
So I could see, them getting away before only charging the federal, but now that it is combined? They may be in trouble with Canada as well if anyone bothers to notice...
I thought about me coming from Canada as well might be the cause.
However I thought it interesting that the CFL was the only one that increased. The other one stayed at 1.27$ So unless homedepot is selectively applying Canadian currency or there is a website error, something else is going on. As I said, could be a big US subsidy (that perhaps you don't get if you don't live in the US) is being applied to make them more "competitive"...
Seeing as most of this stuff is likely made in China, perhaps it is just being subsidized to be cheaper.
Or maybe that is it, perhaps the cheap ones come from China and the more expensive ones come from the US, and it is a bid to keep jobs and money in the US, rather than have anything to do with actual energy conservation or pollution control.
Call me cynical, but I usually find these things to be more sideways than straight forward.
Sure I think it is wrong. Not 18 years in Shiv City wrong though.
I wouldn't be thrilled about someone snooping around my computer, or even using my protected network, what is more concern is what they use that information for.
Managers are sick of hearing it will take 5 years to develop and 5 million dollars.
They want it done for next Thursday, for 30,000 dollars. If that entails taking on a bit of risk associated with that, I think most would say "OK cool."...
Many IT shops are bloated and inefficient, and outsource everything really technical to consultant vendors who rip off the business anyway. Take out the middle men, take out the consultant gougers.
Personally for small tasks they seem like an OK solution. However for anything marginally complex, I don't think it is quite there yet. The only thing that Managers might balk at is that they have less control.
Anyway in the end, once things do get complex enough and if cloud starts taking over, the jobs will just move to those companies. Someone has to manage, create, administer this stuff. Which is some respects is a good thing.
I remember my parents had to get a second telephone line because I was on the BBS's so much.
Nothing was worse when someone picked up the phone while you were connected to some BBS door game (tw2002!) and crashed your connection... "ARRRGH MOM!":)
As for how I get my fix, plenty of old hardware lying around (well no more 286's etc...), and plenty of emulators or whatever to play old games... I love how some are being ported to the iPhone, which is nice. Playing old games on my new iPhone I think is my latest nostalgia fix.
Sure I had a TRS80 when I was a kid and a VIC20, but it didn't beat my buddies C64! For me my age of computers started with my first 286, mono monitor, and 2400 baud modem. BBS's and modems (and computer games) are what got me interested in the field to begin with.
Personally I think it is a good thing. If you don't want to be apart of a social network, then don't.
That said I think the whole point of the circles thing in Google+ is that you don't actually have to share everything with everyone. Also the privacy is better. You can do the same in FB, but it is clunky, and the privacy issue is still there.
I don't like the fact that I have to remember two names for some people because they don't want to use their real one.
Yeah pretty scary. I think what pushes it over the top for me is the fact that he tries to abuse the judicial system to get his revenge. I think it just that the same system came back hard with a bitch slap.
Hacking someones system to me is of very little concern. Using it they way he did is the serious part.
Maybe this is something HBO/Showtime should look into. Team up with NetFlix. I know I would pay for HBO if I didn't have to pay 100$ just for the privilege to do so.
If they did join forces with NetFlix I have a feeling it would be a very big deal...
Yes I played all my games in DOS also. I only mean going from a straight command line or crummy shell (actually like the file system shell), you got icons, and whatnot...
Actually I lied. The cheapest I could find at Canadian tire was 7.99 for 2 bulbs. which is 15 for 4, which is 30 for 8. Compare that with a pkg of 8 for 99 cents.
30:1 cost ratio. Are you going to save that over the life of the bulb? Are you actually coming out ahead? breaking even? Depends how expensive your electricity is I suppose, which as I already mentioned is highly subsidized.
As I recall a package of 4 CFL was like 10$. A package of 8 normal bulbs was.99 cents. Even you example shows the CFL at 6$ or 4x the price (not 2.85).
I think my solution for stopping pollution caused by coal plants, would be to stop using coal plants.
Efficiency and conservation of use is important, don't get me wrong. Incentives to that end that is something that is also good. Heck one of the best things you could do towards this end is to get rid of some of the energy subsidies. Simply regulating out a technology that isn't currently in favor seems silly. I am not convinced they actually save money (at least for the consumer). Sure they consume less energy, but they also cost 10-15x as much to buy them. They are supposed to last a very long time, and while they do last longer than their cheap cousins, they don't come close to the 10,000 hours or whatever it is they advertize.
Anyway I see this a a political decision for PR, that is basically irrelevant and takes focus off real issues, like closing those coal plants. But hey, people can see light bulbs and can relate to them. They do not necessarily associate all the pollution they are drowning in that comes from the coal plant that is 50km away.
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Don't be too proud of this technological terror you've constructed.
ALL LIES!
You had me until I thought about having a TSA officer with a gun on a plane.
I think I would rather have private plane security. Just think of the commercials, "Here at Delta, we arm our guy to the teeth!"
welcome our super bee overlords!
LOL, yeah I remember messing about with memmanager and xms. Heck I remember half the games wouldn't work unless you tweeked the memory for each one. I recall setting up batch files for different games to set all the memory correctly before starting the game.
Now I tell steam I want to play a game and it says OK, downloads it, installs it, and plays it. It is truly an age of wonders we live in. Though I have to say the kids of today are getting little from it. I know I got a lot of my early technical experience trying to get games to even run on my 286. (I think it had 4MB of ram and was clocked at something like 3Mhz, though I think it had a "turbo" button to bump it up to 4.5Mhz or something like that. It also had a huge 20MB HD I think. Doom2 was the largest game I owned at 500k I think)
Interesting article, I will have to read it in more detail. It seemed to me that while they were making general comparisons they weren't exactly saying what they were using before. If essentially they were using a single workstation (even if dual quad Xeon 8 core 48GB machine) to do this and then went to a 40 node 8 core per node 2 FPGA per node, and 24GB per node, then yes it is easy to see how they got that 121x faster. (320 cores, 80 FPGAs, and 960GB RAM all working in parallel?)
Which makes me ask the question WTF were they doing using what is essentially a workstation for this and how long did they keep that up? I guess for me the big question, isn't "wow what a great new computer they built" but "what the heck were they thinking before"...
Anyway the article seemed pretty detailed, and I only skimmed it, so who knows.
Your right. But the hair salon doesn't need a BlackBerry either.
I am specifically talking about business that would use a BB, which is the office environment, which is Microsoft.
Anyway I have seen Greek Restaurants use iPads as menu's for customers... There are many uses, just not all that acceptable right now for most office environments.
I was in a meeting the other day, and one of the guys on the conference call wanted to know if we would ever get iPads for use in meetings and presentations and the like. I nearly laughed. Then one of the other guys in the room, says no but we are looking at PlayBooks. I nearly cried.
I do not see business moving to apple any time soon.
The only competitor in the business world I could possibly see are Windows phones. Only because they can use their huge advantage that everyone in buisness uses Microsoft products. However A) They would first have to build, or have built a phone that doesn't suck, and B) watch how they try to grab market share from RIM without getting anti-trust sued into oblivion by RIM.
RIM may just delegate and specialize in business products rather than consumer ones. That would be my advice. Do what you are good at. If at some point you develop some crazy new remarkable technology, then by all means jump back into the consumer market. Until then, stay out of the 800lb gorilla's way.
The funny thing is I just checked, and they only charge GST (Federal) and not PST (Provincial). Which is funny because we now have HST (Harmonized).
So I could see, them getting away before only charging the federal, but now that it is combined? They may be in trouble with Canada as well if anyone bothers to notice...
I learned a whole new language playing Halo 2 on Xbox live.
I thought about me coming from Canada as well might be the cause.
However I thought it interesting that the CFL was the only one that increased. The other one stayed at 1.27$ So unless homedepot is selectively applying Canadian currency or there is a website error, something else is going on. As I said, could be a big US subsidy (that perhaps you don't get if you don't live in the US) is being applied to make them more "competitive"...
Seeing as most of this stuff is likely made in China, perhaps it is just being subsidized to be cheaper.
Or maybe that is it, perhaps the cheap ones come from China and the more expensive ones come from the US, and it is a bid to keep jobs and money in the US, rather than have anything to do with actual energy conservation or pollution control.
Call me cynical, but I usually find these things to be more sideways than straight forward.
Sure I think it is wrong. Not 18 years in Shiv City wrong though.
I wouldn't be thrilled about someone snooping around my computer, or even using my protected network, what is more concern is what they use that information for.
Managers are sick of hearing it will take 5 years to develop and 5 million dollars.
They want it done for next Thursday, for 30,000 dollars. If that entails taking on a bit of risk associated with that, I think most would say "OK cool."...
Many IT shops are bloated and inefficient, and outsource everything really technical to consultant vendors who rip off the business anyway. Take out the middle men, take out the consultant gougers.
Personally for small tasks they seem like an OK solution. However for anything marginally complex, I don't think it is quite there yet. The only thing that Managers might balk at is that they have less control.
Anyway in the end, once things do get complex enough and if cloud starts taking over, the jobs will just move to those companies. Someone has to manage, create, administer this stuff. Which is some respects is a good thing.
Conversing with all you old bastards is enough for me!
I remember my parents had to get a second telephone line because I was on the BBS's so much.
Nothing was worse when someone picked up the phone while you were connected to some BBS door game (tw2002!) and crashed your connection... "ARRRGH MOM!" :)
As for how I get my fix, plenty of old hardware lying around (well no more 286's etc...), and plenty of emulators or whatever to play old games... I love how some are being ported to the iPhone, which is nice. Playing old games on my new iPhone I think is my latest nostalgia fix.
Sure I had a TRS80 when I was a kid and a VIC20, but it didn't beat my buddies C64! For me my age of computers started with my first 286, mono monitor, and 2400 baud modem. BBS's and modems (and computer games) are what got me interested in the field to begin with.
Personally I think it is a good thing. If you don't want to be apart of a social network, then don't.
That said I think the whole point of the circles thing in Google+ is that you don't actually have to share everything with everyone. Also the privacy is better. You can do the same in FB, but it is clunky, and the privacy issue is still there.
I don't like the fact that I have to remember two names for some people because they don't want to use their real one.
You forgot that they will implement some sort of game crippling DRM.
Fire all the developers. Hire 1/3 at 1/4 the cost, and make them work 3 times as hard.
Then spend everything on marketing.
LOL I was just about to make a madden joke, and just then saw you beat me too it. well played.
Yeah pretty scary. I think what pushes it over the top for me is the fact that he tries to abuse the judicial system to get his revenge. I think it just that the same system came back hard with a bitch slap.
Hacking someones system to me is of very little concern. Using it they way he did is the serious part.
I know our IT won't bother until they are forced to.
Maybe this is something HBO/Showtime should look into. Team up with NetFlix. I know I would pay for HBO if I didn't have to pay 100$ just for the privilege to do so.
If they did join forces with NetFlix I have a feeling it would be a very big deal...
Yes I played all my games in DOS also. I only mean going from a straight command line or crummy shell (actually like the file system shell), you got icons, and whatnot...
Actually I lied. The cheapest I could find at Canadian tire was 7.99 for 2 bulbs. which is 15 for 4, which is 30 for 8. Compare that with a pkg of 8 for 99 cents.
30:1 cost ratio. Are you going to save that over the life of the bulb? Are you actually coming out ahead? breaking even? Depends how expensive your electricity is I suppose, which as I already mentioned is highly subsidized.
As I recall a package of 4 CFL was like 10$. A package of 8 normal bulbs was .99 cents. Even you example shows the CFL at 6$ or 4x the price (not 2.85).
I think my solution for stopping pollution caused by coal plants, would be to stop using coal plants.
Efficiency and conservation of use is important, don't get me wrong. Incentives to that end that is something that is also good. Heck one of the best things you could do towards this end is to get rid of some of the energy subsidies. Simply regulating out a technology that isn't currently in favor seems silly. I am not convinced they actually save money (at least for the consumer). Sure they consume less energy, but they also cost 10-15x as much to buy them. They are supposed to last a very long time, and while they do last longer than their cheap cousins, they don't come close to the 10,000 hours or whatever it is they advertize.
Anyway I see this a a political decision for PR, that is basically irrelevant and takes focus off real issues, like closing those coal plants. But hey, people can see light bulbs and can relate to them. They do not necessarily associate all the pollution they are drowning in that comes from the coal plant that is 50km away.