It's true, and it unfortunately spreads to Slashdot as well. I made a rather unfortunate error due to my own ignorance yesterday, and was set upon by a few dozen people (mostly anonymous) spewing hatred and telling me that I'm an idiot, can't handle intelligent work, need to stay off of Slashdot, attempting to troll me into getting angry, et cetera. I'm only observing the effect of one person being wrong on the Internet, specifically on Slashdot, and I don't need any pity for the hole I dug myself.
The mob mentality seems to be stronger when anonymity is in the picture. Really, you're anonymous if you just have a handle that hasn't been popularized somehow.
Kinda makes one wonder, how are we raising so many maladjusted kids??? What are we doing wrong and how can we fix it?
Okay everyone, my communication skills haven't been up to par, so I took extra care in writing this message. Most of you have moved on by now, but in case you haven't, please continue...
Today I learned about a term. I have been corrected. This is a valid and legitimate term. I had been unaware of its validity, but had seen it used in several articles in such a way that it appeared to be marketing fluff to show how a processor can perform a task quickly. Apparently, it is more than that, and some of you were insulted by the multiple layers of slight in my postings. I apologize for upsetting those of you who are experts in related fields by not recognizing your terminology, which apparently has a long and storied history into the 1980s. I also apologize for arguing with those of you who didn't read my mind and understand exactly what I was trying to convey. Furthermore, I apologize for willingly feeding the trolls for my own entertainment, and regret having brought the discussion down to this level. My sarcasm and attempts at humor were feeble at best, and have gone largely unnoticed.
Whether or not I agree with your methods, I can appreciate those of you who have not posted AC.
I will try to double-check my posts in the future.
Thanks for reading, and I wish you well. I hope this clears up any misconceptions. To the undying, publicly searchable archives with this thread...
Indeed! If there was a way to interrupt the rendering, perform the AA, then finish rendering the GUI / HUD elements, that would be the ideal case for this technology. Unfortunately it appears applications need to be rewritten to do that, all for one type of AA that isn't readily available on most PCs and doesn't really offer a lot of benefits.
I agree and I think a much better phrase would be something like simplistically parallel or cakewalk parallel even.
Thank you! Simplistically parallel works a lot better.
And frankly I don't care if Intel calls it Shaka Zulu parallel
I'd buy that. TAKE MY MONEY
all these things are done better and with lower heat and power on the GPU
Indeed, for most applications and users we have reached that "good enough" point, at least until someone develops more complex software. Someone else in the comments here mentioned bus overutilization as a potential future scenario. It all depends on how much you offload, I suppose.
Regardless of the antitrust issues which we both agree are terrible... you have to give Intel some credit for producing a killer combo with the i7-2*** series and *67 chipsets.
What I saw in non-technical terms: It appeared to blur edges whose location or neighboring pixels changed from one frame to the next. Unfortunately, whenever something changed behind text and GUI elements, it went right ahead and blurred those edges as well.
I only said one thing, for which I accepted correction, but apparently the quality of discussion on Slashdot has degraded to the point of the mud-slinging on Digg and Youtube... I am mildly intrigued by one thing, though. Why do you feel the need to rip me to shreds so thoroughly? Are you trying to accomplish something? And, why are you doing it anonymously?
It's different from a Gaussian blur or median filter because it attempts to be selective about which edges it blurs, and how it blurs those edges.
This technique really wrecks text and GUI elements, though. When I first installed my 6950, I turned it on just to see what it was like, and it really ruined the readability of my games' GUIs. So, while it may be an effective AA technique, applications may need to be rewritten to take advantage of it.
Nope, I studied photography, evangelized multiple distributions of Linux, wrote my own games, work in IT at a place where all the workloads are single-threaded, have my own home recording studio, and other such things. That's my geek cred, not CS/CE.
I don't understand why people need to anonymously criticize an honest mistake by someone not "in the business" to the point where it's the biggest thread. I guess it's the Internet, and that's what's been happening since USENET, so I don't let it get to me. (I also used to participate in USENET, if that counts for anything anymore.)
Can amateur journalists PLEASE stop using the phrase "embarrassingly parallel" to describe software tasks? Who's embarrassed? Why are they embarrassed about designing something that can be efficiently processed?
Speaking as an AD admin at a large company, who's also supported Macs in mixed environments... An Windows-based enterprise is NOT going to want to set up a parallel directory service (and all of the infrastructure to support it) just so three guys in the graphic arts department can use a Mac on their network. They're also not going to want those three guys to use completely unmanaged computers, nor are they going to want to have to support them as independent computers outside the normal process. That's a lot of extra work and it's a total security disaster waiting to happen. I've seen it go really badly, and seen military personnel almost get in a lot of trouble over their special Mac when they bypassed security mechanisms that they felt were inconvenient.
It would be very helpful if there were some kind of way to apply settings to Macs using AD, along the lines of GPO for Windows except for Mac. That would alleviate a large amount of heartburn. Is there an app for that yet?!
I have the 1812 Overture on DVD Audio, complete with cannons and fireworks. If you ever get the chance... listen to it! It will blow your socks off, so set the volume LOW at first.
You can make all the recommendations and standards you want, but you can't force the studio engineers to obey them, nor can you change the studio executives who are demanding the loudness and writing the checks to the studios. There is a great deal of the attitude in the music industry that "I make a lot of money doing this, and you don't, so my way is clearly right!" So, this movement will probably involve a lot of independent artists. We need pop artists on board.
If we can somehow start a campaign to get people to enjoy an expanded dynamic range, maybe we can raise awareness of how much better music can sound. Maybe albums/tracks engineered correctly could have another small logo somewhere indicating such a thing - call it something like "HDR Audio" (High Dynamic Range) that makes people think.. "Ooh, HD, this one is better than the one without it" or "HDR is the popular thing in photography, so it's probably good with audio".
I'm all for more artists and engineers preserving the vitality of their music.
How about some good old fashioned human interaction?
I'm an introvert (as many here probably are), so I don't want too many of that. In any case, there are plenty other venues to socialize at, and I don't think that a bookstore would ever be my preferable one.
That's all you really had to say. It makes sense that a brick-and-mortar store and gathering place would not be to your taste, given the introversion factor. There's nothing wrong with your preference. Just remember that there are plenty of us who do like these places and want to keep them around, when you're dismissing them as useless to you. Consider that it might be beneficial for some other people, that's all.
Giving people jobs? Providing work for all the people it takes to maintain a building? Giving some teenager his first job, running a cash register or stocking shelves?
Supporting local authors by supporting a place where they can congregate and sell their books?
Seeing as how your signature reads: "I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization."... The sales tax you pay goes to the local and state government. The money the store makes goes to pay employees who live in the surrounding area, which enables them to have lives, spend money, support the people YOU work for, that kind of stuff. It makes your town a better place to live by keeping money there. You know, building the civilization around you.
How about some good old fashioned human interaction?
And sure, Amazon shows you a screenful of things based on your purchasing history, but that's nothing compared to standing in front of a big tall bookshelf full of things on a subject you like. They have electronic catalogs in-store, and usually a web kiosk, if searchability and special ordering is what you need. Over time the Amazon suggestions tend to filter out the things you might accidentally walk past on your way to the section of books you're interested in, which actually reduces the scope of your reading if it's the only way you get recommendations.
The big chains have e-readers, which allow you to check out books for free while you're in the store. That's a pretty big benefit too.
Then there's comfortable seating, readily available snacks, toys and stuff for your relatives' kids' birthdays... magazines you'd never find at the grocery store like Music Tech and Computer Music...
Come on, have you ever set foot into one of these places? I thought that liking places with large collections of books was part of being a nerd, which is this site's target audience...
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It's true, and it unfortunately spreads to Slashdot as well. I made a rather unfortunate error due to my own ignorance yesterday, and was set upon by a few dozen people (mostly anonymous) spewing hatred and telling me that I'm an idiot, can't handle intelligent work, need to stay off of Slashdot, attempting to troll me into getting angry, et cetera. I'm only observing the effect of one person being wrong on the Internet, specifically on Slashdot, and I don't need any pity for the hole I dug myself.
The mob mentality seems to be stronger when anonymity is in the picture. Really, you're anonymous if you just have a handle that hasn't been popularized somehow.
Kinda makes one wonder, how are we raising so many maladjusted kids??? What are we doing wrong and how can we fix it?
Okay everyone, my communication skills haven't been up to par, so I took extra care in writing this message. Most of you have moved on by now, but in case you haven't, please continue...
Today I learned about a term. I have been corrected. This is a valid and legitimate term. I had been unaware of its validity, but had seen it used in several articles in such a way that it appeared to be marketing fluff to show how a processor can perform a task quickly. Apparently, it is more than that, and some of you were insulted by the multiple layers of slight in my postings. I apologize for upsetting those of you who are experts in related fields by not recognizing your terminology, which apparently has a long and storied history into the 1980s. I also apologize for arguing with those of you who didn't read my mind and understand exactly what I was trying to convey. Furthermore, I apologize for willingly feeding the trolls for my own entertainment, and regret having brought the discussion down to this level. My sarcasm and attempts at humor were feeble at best, and have gone largely unnoticed.
Whether or not I agree with your methods, I can appreciate those of you who have not posted AC.
I will try to double-check my posts in the future.
Thanks for reading, and I wish you well. I hope this clears up any misconceptions. To the undying, publicly searchable archives with this thread...
Awwww, somebody needs a hug! C'mere, you!
I shall swing it embarrassingly, of course.
And now, on this thread... embarrassingly controversial.
This really better not turn into a meme.
Indeed! If there was a way to interrupt the rendering, perform the AA, then finish rendering the GUI / HUD elements, that would be the ideal case for this technology. Unfortunately it appears applications need to be rewritten to do that, all for one type of AA that isn't readily available on most PCs and doesn't really offer a lot of benefits.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a WoW character?? Who, where, when? I tried to find more information but it wasn't readily searchable.
I agree and I think a much better phrase would be something like simplistically parallel or cakewalk parallel even.
Thank you! Simplistically parallel works a lot better.
And frankly I don't care if Intel calls it Shaka Zulu parallel
I'd buy that. TAKE MY MONEY
all these things are done better and with lower heat and power on the GPU
Indeed, for most applications and users we have reached that "good enough" point, at least until someone develops more complex software. Someone else in the comments here mentioned bus overutilization as a potential future scenario. It all depends on how much you offload, I suppose.
Regardless of the antitrust issues which we both agree are terrible... you have to give Intel some credit for producing a killer combo with the i7-2*** series and *67 chipsets.
What I saw in non-technical terms: It appeared to blur edges whose location or neighboring pixels changed from one frame to the next. Unfortunately, whenever something changed behind text and GUI elements, it went right ahead and blurred those edges as well.
I only said one thing, for which I accepted correction, but apparently the quality of discussion on Slashdot has degraded to the point of the mud-slinging on Digg and Youtube... I am mildly intrigued by one thing, though. Why do you feel the need to rip me to shreds so thoroughly? Are you trying to accomplish something? And, why are you doing it anonymously?
It's different from a Gaussian blur or median filter because it attempts to be selective about which edges it blurs, and how it blurs those edges.
This technique really wrecks text and GUI elements, though. When I first installed my 6950, I turned it on just to see what it was like, and it really ruined the readability of my games' GUIs. So, while it may be an effective AA technique, applications may need to be rewritten to take advantage of it.
Nope, I studied photography, evangelized multiple distributions of Linux, wrote my own games, work in IT at a place where all the workloads are single-threaded, have my own home recording studio, and other such things. That's my geek cred, not CS/CE.
I don't understand why people need to anonymously criticize an honest mistake by someone not "in the business" to the point where it's the biggest thread. I guess it's the Internet, and that's what's been happening since USENET, so I don't let it get to me. (I also used to participate in USENET, if that counts for anything anymore.)
Thanks for writing an educational reply! Alas I cannot mod it, being the OP.
It's still a weird phrase, though.
Touche, sir.
Well whaddya know, it's in Wikipedia. That makes it officially okay, right?
I still think it's a poorly worded phrase.
Can amateur journalists PLEASE stop using the phrase "embarrassingly parallel" to describe software tasks? Who's embarrassed? Why are they embarrassed about designing something that can be efficiently processed?
That's a very helpful list. Thanks!
Speaking as an AD admin at a large company, who's also supported Macs in mixed environments... An Windows-based enterprise is NOT going to want to set up a parallel directory service (and all of the infrastructure to support it) just so three guys in the graphic arts department can use a Mac on their network. They're also not going to want those three guys to use completely unmanaged computers, nor are they going to want to have to support them as independent computers outside the normal process. That's a lot of extra work and it's a total security disaster waiting to happen. I've seen it go really badly, and seen military personnel almost get in a lot of trouble over their special Mac when they bypassed security mechanisms that they felt were inconvenient.
It would be very helpful if there were some kind of way to apply settings to Macs using AD, along the lines of GPO for Windows except for Mac. That would alleviate a large amount of heartburn. Is there an app for that yet?!
I have the 1812 Overture on DVD Audio, complete with cannons and fireworks. If you ever get the chance... listen to it! It will blow your socks off, so set the volume LOW at first.
Fright-core metal is so totally in this year
You can make all the recommendations and standards you want, but you can't force the studio engineers to obey them, nor can you change the studio executives who are demanding the loudness and writing the checks to the studios. There is a great deal of the attitude in the music industry that "I make a lot of money doing this, and you don't, so my way is clearly right!" So, this movement will probably involve a lot of independent artists. We need pop artists on board.
If we can somehow start a campaign to get people to enjoy an expanded dynamic range, maybe we can raise awareness of how much better music can sound. Maybe albums/tracks engineered correctly could have another small logo somewhere indicating such a thing - call it something like "HDR Audio" (High Dynamic Range) that makes people think.. "Ooh, HD, this one is better than the one without it" or "HDR is the popular thing in photography, so it's probably good with audio".
I'm all for more artists and engineers preserving the vitality of their music.
How about some good old fashioned human interaction?
I'm an introvert (as many here probably are), so I don't want too many of that. In any case, there are plenty other venues to socialize at, and I don't think that a bookstore would ever be my preferable one.
That's all you really had to say. It makes sense that a brick-and-mortar store and gathering place would not be to your taste, given the introversion factor. There's nothing wrong with your preference. Just remember that there are plenty of us who do like these places and want to keep them around, when you're dismissing them as useless to you. Consider that it might be beneficial for some other people, that's all.
Giving people jobs? Providing work for all the people it takes to maintain a building? Giving some teenager his first job, running a cash register or stocking shelves?
Supporting local authors by supporting a place where they can congregate and sell their books?
Seeing as how your signature reads: "I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization."... The sales tax you pay goes to the local and state government. The money the store makes goes to pay employees who live in the surrounding area, which enables them to have lives, spend money, support the people YOU work for, that kind of stuff. It makes your town a better place to live by keeping money there. You know, building the civilization around you.
How about some good old fashioned human interaction?
And sure, Amazon shows you a screenful of things based on your purchasing history, but that's nothing compared to standing in front of a big tall bookshelf full of things on a subject you like. They have electronic catalogs in-store, and usually a web kiosk, if searchability and special ordering is what you need. Over time the Amazon suggestions tend to filter out the things you might accidentally walk past on your way to the section of books you're interested in, which actually reduces the scope of your reading if it's the only way you get recommendations.
The big chains have e-readers, which allow you to check out books for free while you're in the store. That's a pretty big benefit too.
Then there's comfortable seating, readily available snacks, toys and stuff for your relatives' kids' birthdays... magazines you'd never find at the grocery store like Music Tech and Computer Music...
Come on, have you ever set foot into one of these places? I thought that liking places with large collections of books was part of being a nerd, which is this site's target audience...
It's good to get out of the house, and out of your computer chair.
You never know, you might find other books worth reading while you're there, too.
Bookstores are worth the trip.
Form an away team! Number one, you have the bridge.