For fans like me, this is like finding the Holy Grail.
It's early. ..I'm not even going to bother, I could have probably easily gotten a +5 funny mod with a statement like that though. Someone mind finishing the work for me?
That's what happens when you model the folding of proteins utilizing distributed computing; someone thinks its funny to hack the client to submit whatever they want. . .
I have modpoints but instead of modding you up I decided to make a post to try to get a funny mod. Question is, was that a smart move or not? If I get modded up it proves that it was infact a smart move, and therefore I likely I have a high IQ and concequently unlikely to get laid. However, if I get modded down as offtopic or troll, it means it was an idiotic decesion to make this post and one could infer I have a low IQ which would increase my chances of getting laid. ..for the love of God mod me down.
I don't think you understand exactly how much influence a single individual can be in this regard. As stated before equipment and maintenance is dirt cheap. ..What you would have would be complete anarchy, each station trying to broadcast over the other. You think what you hear now is worthless? Imagine 27 stations made by random people broadcasting whatever they want (maybe just static or noise because they don't like the other stations). . on the same frequency. You'd basically get nothing useful out of the broadcast anyways, I doubt you would see a reason to ever turn on your radio.
Your absolutely ridiculous Scientology example notwithstanding.
Ridiculous? I think not. If there were no licensing, I'd set up a station to broadcast Slashdot, how many people do you think would find that ridiculous? Everyone has a different idea of what "ridiculousness" and meaningless would be; that Scientology example is most certainly a possibility in a license-less spectrum.
Basically there are a lot of people out there with agendas and messages they would like to get out, I guarantee you that you'd find some interesting things in a city with millions of people where anyone could cover a 100 mile radius with their message. Good luck sifting through what you don't want.
I was going to mod you up funny, but then thought you missed a bit of the joke, I would have added just a bit more:
The RIAA will send a settlement letter to your parents to forward to you. For only $5000 you can continue to live with your current DNA. Otherwise they will take you to court to have the offending material removed.
Ok, pretty basic comment, moderators are apparently inept and highly suggestable.
Mod parent under-rated - he's trying to assist the moderators damnit! I, for one, am glad that he pointed out the comment was so neat! We need more meta-comments spamming up slashdot! Someone please advise on how my post should be moderated!
Ok. ..now I'm suspecting that the great grandparent has multiple accounts. ..In any case, in true tradition with recursive modding, mod parent up because I said so. Don't mod this comment up unless someone replies to it instructing you to do so. Pretty sure thats how it works.
The last thing the industry again needs, is lots of lame code SUCKING both cores and making PCs slow again, i rather have the other core free. ..
Well with a library such as this your code doesn't have to keep track of how many threads it is supposed to use or how many are available. You just write some parallel loops/functions and the library will scale the # of threads accordingly. I don't believe it would be all too difficult to explicitly tell the lib the number of threads to use (N, N/2, N-1, etc. where N is # of cores on system). Trusting each programmer to individually code this dynamic number of max threads is a far worse option than having a lib you can tweak IMO.
Well. ..c++ abstracts away from ASM, so is it bad too? Abstraction isn't a problem really, especially when it handles a bunch of grunt work correctly and efficiently. Yeah some programmers might not understand exactly what they are doing, but tools that add a layer of abstraction are OK in my book so long as they don't make things more complicated or grossly inefficient. Besides, if you really wanted to do it differently you could either modify the GPL code or write it from scratch. Hopefully, handling threads manually will become like inline assembly, there for people that need that low-level access but an easier and more abstract way of doing things is readily available (regular C/C++ code). Honestly I think libraries like this are going to be more and more common, multi-core is definitely the way of the future and it will take a whole new set of tools and programming paradigms to really harness it. Most programming languages weren't designed with the notion of parallelizing everything.
These guys actually want as much traffic as they can get to get a good idea of what isps are doing what. Go ahead, click online tool. It's pretty nifty.
You actually reminded me of an interesting point, since it is released under GPL and not LGPL can you dynamically link to it? LGPL allows you to dynamically link but GPL doenst? I can't remember the technical differences between the two. Obviously the point being that is if you utilize the GPL version of the library can you make proprietary programs?
Thats the thing, it makes programming easier by making the whole parallel thing a bit more transparent. Basically picture a foreach loop. This thing allows you to do the same thing but instead can do multiple instances of the loop at once and automatically uses the "optimal" number of threads based on the cores available, you just have to call parallel_for. It's not quite as simple as that but it certainly does take the grunt work out of parallelizing things.
I attended a seminar about this at GDC (Game Developers Conference) this year. It is really nifty stuff, automatically parallelizes things for you and helps take the load off of the OS scheduler. It is also trivial to implement in many cases, for instance there are parallel loops that execute things in parallel, all you have to do is write it like a normal loop but use a different keyword (ok so it is a wee bit more involved, but you get the idea). If I recall correctly it is basically a thread-pool that manages scheduling itself better than the OS because it knows ahead of time the needs of the code. Also you don't have to know the # of cores or anything as it handles that transparently. Also it isn't limited to Intel processors, I'm pretty sure at GDC it was actually being demoed on some sparc machines. If I had the time and/or a reason to use it I would definately investigate further.
Exactly, I'm pretty sure bending the iPhone (or any gadget for that matter) would void the warranty. Then again no warranty can limit the reasonable life-expectancy of something. Check out the better business bureau for a better idea of what actually voids warranties (most of the time the company is just spouting BS because they don't want to pay for a replacement/repair even though they should; it is either fraud or they just don't want to get on the bad side of the BBB). I think the BBB says the warranty for most consumer electronics is 3 years or so, so don't be afraid to say no to that extended warranty, nothing gets you customer service like opening a claim with the BBB for binding arbitration. My roomate had his mp3 player replaced after 2.5 years even though the warranty expired after 1 after I suggested he check out the BBB.
Wow I started off with a joke and then made a decent comment. . I must need some sleep.
Or unlocking certain multipliers on your Athlon. ..I never actually did this trick as I used window defogger instead (more reliable as it is more conductive). I still have 2x Athlon 2200xps Bartons overclocked to ~3000xp equivalent and running as MP in a dually of mine. ..super cheap dual-processor machine with craptons of processing power back in the day.
And to karma whore a bit Diamond ranges from 900 - 2320 WMK (type iia) being 2,320 WMK. The fact that diamons (excluding some blue diamonds) are also great insulators is worth noting as it makes it interesting for integrating into electronics; it won't interfere with the circuits but will happily carry away heat.
I've run Linux for years and I still can't name all the available distros. I doubt ANYONE can.
I'll bet you any sum of money that there is in fact no one in the world who can. As soon as you think you found someone I'll release an image of my harddrive and call it "ookabookix: elevendy billion edition" or something else more catchy, either way no one will see it coming. . . .
Coding in a corss-platform manner adds to costs; why would a company spend the time re-writing portions of their code or teaching their programmers to learn a new cross-platform library when it will only gain them 1% market share? What Linux supporters should do is encourage the use of java, Mono compatible.NET, etc. Microsoft is pushing.NET and Sun is pushing Java, Linux users should hop on the bandwagon and help out as well as it helps them too. There will still be compatibility issues like the windows registry or filesystem structure, device interfacing, etc, but it'd be nice if companies that pushed out products had less work to do to port it to Linux.
Some programs don't even need any alterations and will run quite well on Linux even though they weren't designed with that in mind. That, my friend, is the holy grail to getting Linux on the desktop.
Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof. Happen to have any links to documents that support your assertions? No offense but I find it difficult to take your word for it after reading many arguments. People can argue all day long and say whatever they want and it doesn't necessarily have to be true. I'd much rather see memos, testimony, reports, etc.
You misinterpreted the article, they were using the watts per cubic centimeter as a way of expressing energy density, their current design can do a few nanoamps and they hope to get it up to a microamp which after my calculations comes out to about 1 calorie a day at worst. Yes the reaction your body has to the device is a much more relevant concern IMO.
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It's early. .
That's what happens when you model the folding of proteins utilizing distributed computing; someone thinks its funny to hack the client to submit whatever they want. . .
/me listens to the hubub as the RIAA tries to drop the suit, but gets locked in because a counter-suit was filed. . .oh snap.
Leave it to a grammar Nazi to find the silver lining.
I have modpoints but instead of modding you up I decided to make a post to try to get a funny mod. Question is, was that a smart move or not? If I get modded up it proves that it was infact a smart move, and therefore I likely I have a high IQ and concequently unlikely to get laid. However, if I get modded down as offtopic or troll, it means it was an idiotic decesion to make this post and one could infer I have a low IQ which would increase my chances of getting laid. . .for the love of God mod me down.
Ridiculous? I think not. If there were no licensing, I'd set up a station to broadcast Slashdot, how many people do you think would find that ridiculous? Everyone has a different idea of what "ridiculousness" and meaningless would be; that Scientology example is most certainly a possibility in a license-less spectrum.
Basically there are a lot of people out there with agendas and messages they would like to get out, I guarantee you that you'd find some interesting things in a city with millions of people where anyone could cover a 100 mile radius with their message. Good luck sifting through what you don't want.
I was going to mod you up funny, but then thought you missed a bit of the joke, I would have added just a bit more:
The RIAA will send a settlement letter to your parents to forward to you. For only $5000 you can continue to live with your current DNA. Otherwise they will take you to court to have the offending material removed.
Ok, pretty basic comment, moderators are apparently inept and highly suggestable.
Ok. .
4.1 is a gross approximation. The exact number is actually closer to elevendy billion.
I don't think half of a DVD constitutes a laptop.
The last thing the industry again needs, is lots of lame code SUCKING both cores and making PCs slow again, i rather have the other core free. . .
Well with a library such as this your code doesn't have to keep track of how many threads it is supposed to use or how many are available. You just write some parallel loops/functions and the library will scale the # of threads accordingly. I don't believe it would be all too difficult to explicitly tell the lib the number of threads to use (N, N/2, N-1, etc. where N is # of cores on system). Trusting each programmer to individually code this dynamic number of max threads is a far worse option than having a lib you can tweak IMO.
Well. . .c++ abstracts away from ASM, so is it bad too? Abstraction isn't a problem really, especially when it handles a bunch of grunt work correctly and efficiently. Yeah some programmers might not understand exactly what they are doing, but tools that add a layer of abstraction are OK in my book so long as they don't make things more complicated or grossly inefficient. Besides, if you really wanted to do it differently you could either modify the GPL code or write it from scratch. Hopefully, handling threads manually will become like inline assembly, there for people that need that low-level access but an easier and more abstract way of doing things is readily available (regular C/C++ code). Honestly I think libraries like this are going to be more and more common, multi-core is definitely the way of the future and it will take a whole new set of tools and programming paradigms to really harness it. Most programming languages weren't designed with the notion of parallelizing everything.
These guys actually want as much traffic as they can get to get a good idea of what isps are doing what. Go ahead, click online tool. It's pretty nifty.
You actually reminded me of an interesting point, since it is released under GPL and not LGPL can you dynamically link to it? LGPL allows you to dynamically link but GPL doenst? I can't remember the technical differences between the two. Obviously the point being that is if you utilize the GPL version of the library can you make proprietary programs?
Thats the thing, it makes programming easier by making the whole parallel thing a bit more transparent. Basically picture a foreach loop. This thing allows you to do the same thing but instead can do multiple instances of the loop at once and automatically uses the "optimal" number of threads based on the cores available, you just have to call parallel_for. It's not quite as simple as that but it certainly does take the grunt work out of parallelizing things.
I attended a seminar about this at GDC (Game Developers Conference) this year. It is really nifty stuff, automatically parallelizes things for you and helps take the load off of the OS scheduler. It is also trivial to implement in many cases, for instance there are parallel loops that execute things in parallel, all you have to do is write it like a normal loop but use a different keyword (ok so it is a wee bit more involved, but you get the idea). If I recall correctly it is basically a thread-pool that manages scheduling itself better than the OS because it knows ahead of time the needs of the code. Also you don't have to know the # of cores or anything as it handles that transparently. Also it isn't limited to Intel processors, I'm pretty sure at GDC it was actually being demoed on some sparc machines. If I had the time and/or a reason to use it I would definately investigate further.
whoa whoa. . VLC? You mean mplayer right? I think mplayer (or xine) has a much better shot at being ported; xbox media center uses mplayer.
Exactly, I'm pretty sure bending the iPhone (or any gadget for that matter) would void the warranty. Then again no warranty can limit the reasonable life-expectancy of something. Check out the better business bureau for a better idea of what actually voids warranties (most of the time the company is just spouting BS because they don't want to pay for a replacement/repair even though they should; it is either fraud or they just don't want to get on the bad side of the BBB). I think the BBB says the warranty for most consumer electronics is 3 years or so, so don't be afraid to say no to that extended warranty, nothing gets you customer service like opening a claim with the BBB for binding arbitration. My roomate had his mp3 player replaced after 2.5 years even though the warranty expired after 1 after I suggested he check out the BBB.
Wow I started off with a joke and then made a decent comment. . I must need some sleep.
For the record, Beagle 2 was not a rover. Seriously why couldn't they have just said the Beagle 2 lander, or Beagle 2 probe. . .
Or unlocking certain multipliers on your Athlon. . .I never actually did this trick as I used window defogger instead (more reliable as it is more conductive). I still have 2x Athlon 2200xps Bartons overclocked to ~3000xp equivalent and running as MP in a dually of mine. . .super cheap dual-processor machine with craptons of processing power back in the day.
And to karma whore a bit Diamond ranges from 900 - 2320 WMK (type iia) being 2,320 WMK. The fact that diamons (excluding some blue diamonds) are also great insulators is worth noting as it makes it interesting for integrating into electronics; it won't interfere with the circuits but will happily carry away heat.
I've run Linux for years and I still can't name all the available distros. I doubt ANYONE can.
I'll bet you any sum of money that there is in fact no one in the world who can. As soon as you think you found someone I'll release an image of my harddrive and call it "ookabookix: elevendy billion edition" or something else more catchy, either way no one will see it coming. . . .
Coding in a corss-platform manner adds to costs; why would a company spend the time re-writing portions of their code or teaching their programmers to learn a new cross-platform library when it will only gain them 1% market share? What Linux supporters should do is encourage the use of java, Mono compatible .NET, etc. Microsoft is pushing .NET and Sun is pushing Java, Linux users should hop on the bandwagon and help out as well as it helps them too. There will still be compatibility issues like the windows registry or filesystem structure, device interfacing, etc, but it'd be nice if companies that pushed out products had less work to do to port it to Linux.
Some programs don't even need any alterations and will run quite well on Linux even though they weren't designed with that in mind. That, my friend, is the holy grail to getting Linux on the desktop.
Extraordinary claims need extraordinary proof. Happen to have any links to documents that support your assertions? No offense but I find it difficult to take your word for it after reading many arguments. People can argue all day long and say whatever they want and it doesn't necessarily have to be true. I'd much rather see memos, testimony, reports, etc.
You misinterpreted the article, they were using the watts per cubic centimeter as a way of expressing energy density, their current design can do a few nanoamps and they hope to get it up to a microamp which after my calculations comes out to about 1 calorie a day at worst. Yes the reaction your body has to the device is a much more relevant concern IMO.