Yes that's true, and you can have this scenario developing for handhelds:
you have coded the fastest possible algorithm in C and your code is beautifully optimized by gcc, but the testers say that the frame rate is still 20 to 30% bellow the bare minimum and your boss want it to be fixed by tomorrow in the morning, in those cases you develop a radically novel algorithm from scratch, take the assembly generated by the compiler and bump it to the maximum manually or pray to have a real programmer nearby, if all else fail, you find an elegant way to end your suffering.
from the article and if the ps3 cell cpu is even half the processor than this monster is i say that game companies will need a lot of real programmers to make real good games (as if they cared).
Just a word Hamsters lots of them, the best and one of the cheapest power sources available, just imagine a couple of hamsters in their exercise wheels powering your new 100$ computer.
I'm studing seriously the posibility of tackling a whorty coding proyect, the rewriting of the entire LINUX kernel on a languaje very much but not unlike C and was considering doing it in
C-INTERCAL but after seing things like this
http://ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicTable.html , I changed my mind and will use PERL 6 instead.
I bet Halliburton and half a dozen other petroleum companies are already busy making plans to bring those Hidrocarbons (petroleum, Natural Gas) back to earth maybe by oleoduct;-)
the weaker gravity of mars (compared to earths) and its consecuences are just the tip of the iceberg but are enough to make one reconsider seriously the colonizing of other planets by humans, neverthless ideas like those are what fuels the advancement of our species and our evolution, and we cannot dismay for litle thigs like that, however venus looks like a more promising target for terraforming and is guaranted that it will end more terra like that mars in almost any scenario it has almost the same gravity mass size and other features, its only problem is its venomous, hot corrosive and heavy atmosfere but is a easier task than terraforming mars, because mars lacks almost all the thigs in enough quantities needed to sustain
earth life forms on the other hand we can obtain almost all that we need in venus from venus itself.
stop bashing the poor beagle 2 it has given us an excelent reason to send a man to mars, is necesary to send someone up there and press CTRL + ALT + SUPR on its console to get beagle again online
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Yes that's true, and you can have this scenario developing for handhelds: you have coded the fastest possible algorithm in C and your code is beautifully optimized by gcc, but the testers say that the frame rate is still 20 to 30% bellow the bare minimum and your boss want it to be fixed by tomorrow in the morning, in those cases you develop a radically novel algorithm from scratch, take the assembly generated by the compiler and bump it to the maximum manually or pray to have a real programmer nearby, if all else fail, you find an elegant way to end your suffering.
from the article and if the ps3 cell cpu is even half the processor than this monster is i say that game companies will need a lot of real programmers to make real good games (as if they cared).
Just a word Hamsters lots of them, the best and one of the cheapest power sources available, just imagine a couple of hamsters in their exercise wheels powering your new 100$ computer.
I'm studing seriously the posibility of tackling a whorty coding proyect, the rewriting of the entire LINUX kernel on a languaje very much but not unlike C and was considering doing it in C-INTERCAL but after seing things like this http://ozonehouse.com/mark/blog/code/PeriodicTable .html , I changed my mind and will use PERL 6 instead.
I bet Halliburton and half a dozen other petroleum companies are already busy making plans to bring those Hidrocarbons (petroleum, Natural Gas) back to earth maybe by oleoduct ;-)
the weaker gravity of mars (compared to earths) and its consecuences are just the tip of the iceberg but are enough to make one reconsider seriously the colonizing of other planets by humans, neverthless ideas like those are what fuels the advancement of our species and our evolution, and we cannot dismay for litle thigs like that, however venus looks like a more promising target for terraforming and is guaranted that it will end more terra like that mars in almost any scenario it has almost the same gravity mass size and other features, its only problem is its venomous, hot corrosive and heavy atmosfere but is a easier task than terraforming mars, because mars lacks almost all the thigs in enough quantities needed to sustain earth life forms on the other hand we can obtain almost all that we need in venus from venus itself.
stop bashing the poor beagle 2 it has given us an excelent reason to send a man to mars, is necesary to send someone up there and press CTRL + ALT + SUPR on its console to get beagle again online