"they're trying to stay at a price point to not compete with themselves"... I see what you're saying, I guess my confusion stems from the fact that people who've decided to spend that much are still going to buy Intel, regardless of the specific chip/model. And enough people will buy Intel's more expensive offerings that I'm still not sure I see what the negative impact on Intel could be, as they'll be moving about as much stock at each price point (right?). Is the market really that cut-throat that Intel would feel a squeeze from this move?
Not meaning to be ignorant here, but what performance price-point do they occupy? It's my understanding that AMD offers better bang-for-buck at the budget end of the scale, and Intel trumps their mid-to-high range offerings. So how would this affect customers who've chosen to buy Intel, since they're already committing themselves to the mid-range or higher?
I second the comments regarding Melbourne's inner north -- I'm currently living in North Melbourne, which is pretty similar to Carlton, and it's mostly a really nice area to live in. Funnily enough, I lived in Croydon before I moved. Apart from the distance to the city proper, Croydon is my idea of a great place to live. I'll take the travel time into the city, in return for the large properties and leafy streets (although developers are doing their best to turn everything into housing estates).
JoCaml is an extension of OCaml that supports concurrent and distributed programming through the use of the Join Calculus. Unlike other, more well known, process calculi such as CCS and Pi-Calculus, Join Calculus was design to allow efficient implementations.
The basic model is message passing (ala Erlang), but the killer feature is that you can specify "joins" -- think of them as functions that get called when a specific combination of messages are received. I managed to convert a single-threaded simulation into a parallel version that distributes over an arbitrary number of cores/computers in less than three hours. I'm not saying it's a silver bullet or that it's ideal for your next project, but it worked damn well for me. The underlying calculus could be implemented in other languages, although it probably works best in languages with good match statements, such as OCaml and Haskell.
Look, seriously, even if everyone did speak English, there are still tonnes of literary works in other languages - the original texts of the Ancient Greek classics, for example. To read in the original language is often a much more rewarding experience. Besiders, relying on past translations of non-english material can lead to errors. And consider how many different English translations of the Bible there are.
Almost everyone can speak, read and write at least tolerable english
Almost everyone can communicate using gestures, facial expressions and grunts, but is that any reason to use that as our primary communication method? I mean, to really stretch a metaphor from human languages to programming languages, we can write any computer program "tolerably" in assembler (it's Turing-complete), but that doesn't mean it's the best way to do it. If I can only speak one language "tolerably", but another exceptionally well, which one is better for conveying my ideas?
most young people can have full fledged discussions in it
I don't think we can rely on "d00d, u r so l33t" to teach people true literacy. Young people are increasingly using SMS and online chat and are actually losing their ability to correctly spell words or write grammatically correct sentences. The number of young adults I see who cannot distinguish correctly between there, their and they're is ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE. Literacy is a major problem in English-speaking nations.
Just look at Slashdot, I'm quite sure I'm not the only one who doesn't have english as primary language
that doesn't mean you can use it well. Take a good look at slashdot - many, many people mangle the English language. The American people are probably the biggest infringers here...:)
It's not that farfetched idea that in the (near) future everyone uses or at least knows english well enough to make translations meaningless
Human languages don't map to each other 1:1. Some languages have words that basically cannot be translated without a serious loss of accuracy. (I guess you could ssay that no human language is Turing-Complete, in that it can't totally express every conceivable human thought). Having everything translated to english is NOT a solution. Brevity, language tricks (such as puns, rhyming, etc) cannot always be substituted across languages.
If it wasn't 2:15am in Melbourne right now, I'd try to order my thoughts and express them more clearly, but after 4 hours of Java debugging I'm off to get some sleep before uni tomorrow. Goodnight.
Honestly, this is not the best use of the internet that I can think of. Sites like this will only aid those people/companies that are trying to ban everything under the sun with stuff like the DMCA.
I don't think it matters that DirecTV can't market their stuff in Canada - the Australian courts have ruled that online material is published in the nation of the reader (google for the recent Joe Gutnick defamation case heard in Australia about an online article published by a US newspaper). If the US courts see it the same (or DirecTV takes 'em on down under), they probably won't stand a chance (that's assuming it goes to court, obviously).
Personally, I think that running a site like this (and making money off it, too) is pretty darn irresponsible of the guy running it. It's kinda like waving a red rag at a bull, only you're a little kid that's tied to a stake in the ground and the bull is more of a homocidal maniac with a penchant for child-slaughter.
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"they're trying to stay at a price point to not compete with themselves" ... I see what you're saying, I guess my confusion stems from the fact that people who've decided to spend that much are still going to buy Intel, regardless of the specific chip/model. And enough people will buy Intel's more expensive offerings that I'm still not sure I see what the negative impact on Intel could be, as they'll be moving about as much stock at each price point (right?). Is the market really that cut-throat that Intel would feel a squeeze from this move?
Not meaning to be ignorant here, but what performance price-point do they occupy? It's my understanding that AMD offers better bang-for-buck at the budget end of the scale, and Intel trumps their mid-to-high range offerings. So how would this affect customers who've chosen to buy Intel, since they're already committing themselves to the mid-range or higher?
void process_information(s_information* info) {
if (info) {
if (info.is_classified)
process_secretly(info)
else
process_publicly(info)
}
}
Can I have my millions now for "the expensive software needed to handle classified and declassified data simultaneously"?
I second the comments regarding Melbourne's inner north -- I'm currently living in North Melbourne, which is pretty similar to Carlton, and it's mostly a really nice area to live in. Funnily enough, I lived in Croydon before I moved. Apart from the distance to the city proper, Croydon is my idea of a great place to live. I'll take the travel time into the city, in return for the large properties and leafy streets (although developers are doing their best to turn everything into housing estates).
JoCaml is an extension of OCaml that supports concurrent and distributed programming through the use of the Join Calculus. Unlike other, more well known, process calculi such as CCS and Pi-Calculus, Join Calculus was design to allow efficient implementations.
The basic model is message passing (ala Erlang), but the killer feature is that you can specify "joins" -- think of them as functions that get called when a specific combination of messages are received. I managed to convert a single-threaded simulation into a parallel version that distributes over an arbitrary number of cores/computers in less than three hours. I'm not saying it's a silver bullet or that it's ideal for your next project, but it worked damn well for me. The underlying calculus could be implemented in other languages, although it probably works best in languages with good match statements, such as OCaml and Haskell.
***WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING?***
:)
Look, seriously, even if everyone did speak English, there are still tonnes of literary works in other languages - the original texts of the Ancient Greek classics, for example. To read in the original language is often a much more rewarding experience. Besiders, relying on past translations of non-english material can lead to errors. And consider how many different English translations of the Bible there are.
Almost everyone can speak, read and write at least tolerable english
Almost everyone can communicate using gestures, facial expressions and grunts, but is that any reason to use that as our primary communication method? I mean, to really stretch a metaphor from human languages to programming languages, we can write any computer program "tolerably" in assembler (it's Turing-complete), but that doesn't mean it's the best way to do it. If I can only speak one language "tolerably", but another exceptionally well, which one is better for conveying my ideas?
most young people can have full fledged discussions in it
I don't think we can rely on "d00d, u r so l33t" to teach people true literacy. Young people are increasingly using SMS and online chat and are actually losing their ability to correctly spell words or write grammatically correct sentences. The number of young adults I see who cannot distinguish correctly between there, their and they're is ABSOLUTELY TERRIBLE. Literacy is a major problem in English-speaking nations.
Just look at Slashdot, I'm quite sure I'm not the only one who doesn't have english as primary language
that doesn't mean you can use it well. Take a good look at slashdot - many, many people mangle the English language. The American people are probably the biggest infringers here...
It's not that farfetched idea that in the (near) future everyone uses or at least knows english well enough to make translations meaningless
Human languages don't map to each other 1:1. Some languages have words that basically cannot be translated without a serious loss of accuracy. (I guess you could ssay that no human language is Turing-Complete, in that it can't totally express every conceivable human thought). Having everything translated to english is NOT a solution. Brevity, language tricks (such as puns, rhyming, etc) cannot always be substituted across languages.
If it wasn't 2:15am in Melbourne right now, I'd try to order my thoughts and express them more clearly, but after 4 hours of Java debugging I'm off to get some sleep before uni tomorrow. Goodnight.
Honestly, this is not the best use of the internet that I can think of. Sites like this will only aid those people/companies that are trying to ban everything under the sun with stuff like the DMCA.
I don't think it matters that DirecTV can't market their stuff in Canada - the Australian courts have ruled that online material is published in the nation of the reader (google for the recent Joe Gutnick defamation case heard in Australia about an online article published by a US newspaper). If the US courts see it the same (or DirecTV takes 'em on down under), they probably won't stand a chance (that's assuming it goes to court, obviously).
Personally, I think that running a site like this (and making money off it, too) is pretty darn irresponsible of the guy running it. It's kinda like waving a red rag at a bull, only you're a little kid that's tied to a stake in the ground and the bull is more of a homocidal maniac with a penchant for child-slaughter.