Sadly, this fails to surprise me. This news story doesn't sound too different from the one posted yesterday about Kerry-contributors being banned from some engineer gathering....
Why should a search engine give a flying fuck about what http server a box is running?
Not too different from the pleas of my friends mom. Except he had comic books, such as Spiderman #1. His mom tossed them long ago as they were a "fire hazard". Pfffft. Women.
The MAPS mentioned in the OP should not be confused with MAPS, The Multi-Disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies.
The good MAPS is the one that is fighting for the legalization of MDMA, and other psychedelic drugs. They seem to be winning the fight.
www.maps.org
Regarding the cost involved for bandwidth, why not just charge the students $45/month just like any cable company does? Thats only an extra $180/semester.
I can't believe no one has mentioned the arcane art of meditation.
A 20 minute session of "proper" meditation can reset your mind more than a good hour long nap.
There are similarities between lifting weights and meditating. When you bench your max amount, when you push with all your might, there is not a single thing on your mind except to move the bar away from you. It clears your mind. Meditation has the same effect on the mind....
Exercise is most certainly key to maintaining your health. Meditate as well to make your routine full circle:)
Pardon my cynicism, but don't you think it took longer than expected for Grand Theft Auto to be blamed for something like this?
Why haven't movies taken the blame as much as video games? Remember how Terminator 2 made it 'funny' to shoot people, as long as there was 'zero casualties'?
I should voice my opinion, and state that this claim is absolutely perposterous.
No matter how nice the guy comes off as being, he isn't going to "kill me with kindness". His demeanor means fuck all, since I don't personally know him or work with him.
I am looking past his emotional display (all the laughing interrupts), and trying to look at the cold hard facts.
This guy is a MS biggie, and goes on to state that he isn't a technical savvy person. I find that to be preposterous! MS has a lot of power in the corporate world, and here is a man stating that he "isn't too technical". What if a lawyer went on record saying "well I don't know the law too much"? Would you want that lawyer to represent you? Of course not, you want the people in power (the people whose salaries you pay) to know their product/service inside out and backwards. I'll let/. decide how a doctor with similar claims as Martin would last in the medical field.....
As two of my professors have stated in class, SIMD and moreso parallel processing will require programmers to think in a fundamentally different way in order for multi-core/multi-processor to really take off.
This project may be a step in the right direction. Benchmarks show that SIMD such as SSE/2/3 only provide a marginal speed increase. And meanwhile, the massively parallel computations done on graphics cards dwarfs anything SIMD claims to produce.
Perhaps we will see GFX manufacturers selling their technology to the CPU makers.
I forget the specifics, but a new GFX card can perform somewhere around 35 GFLOPS, while a 3.4Ghz P4(executing SIMD code) can only produce around 5-6GFLOPS at best.
With projects like Brook GPU emerging, the division of CPU and GFX processor may be narrowed significantly.
"Or maybe the camera and audio pickups could be made flat enough for a "third eye" circuitry tattoo on your forehead, and the recorder could be solid state, embedded surgically in your body, or bonded to your skin? Whereever you go, there they are, watching you, whenever they like."
Tape a piece of paper to your forehead, jackass.
Anyone notice how the government is slowly using laws about technology to gain more and more control over the populace?
Pretty soon you won't even be able to 'buy' something. Everything will be 'rented'.
I think its time for what will be known as a Consumers Constitution.
We need a formal mandate that will state that corporations cannot fuck with us like they have been. Same goes for the Government.
Funny, knowledge is power. If us geeks have the knowledge to run/make all the gear, then why the fuck aren't we the ones telling THEM what to do (like SHOVE IT)?
I am of the mindset that a computer is simply a tool with which to do things I normally couldn't do.... like compute primes faster than my monkey brain could ever hope to...
A car also lets me do things I normally couldn't do (like move in 3d space at a rate of 60mph)...
Is someone going to patent the idea of me driving my car so that I may get to work on time? The logic is the same IMHO....
And what kind of optimzations are we talking about here? Changing floats to be 64 bits, doubles to 128 bits?
Better use of SIMD instructions? More SIMD registers?
Sure we can address more memory when using 64 bits of addressing space compared to 32 bits, but how would that make things faster ???
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Sadly, this fails to surprise me. This news story doesn't sound too different from the one posted yesterday about Kerry-contributors being banned from some engineer gathering.... Why should a search engine give a flying fuck about what http server a box is running?
Not too different from the pleas of my friends mom. Except he had comic books, such as Spiderman #1. His mom tossed them long ago as they were a "fire hazard". Pfffft. Women.
Is it possible to get a mini without the apple OS?
If you can't, then whats the point? You've already paid for an OS....
The MAPS mentioned in the OP should not be confused with MAPS, The Multi-Disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. The good MAPS is the one that is fighting for the legalization of MDMA, and other psychedelic drugs. They seem to be winning the fight. www.maps.org
What happened to toothing? It worked. I got laid. Next question?
Regarding the cost involved for bandwidth, why not just charge the students $45/month just like any cable company does? Thats only an extra $180/semester.
But what happens when the software controlling the zombie PCs is upgraded to resend the returned spam?
Internet crash!
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I can't believe no one has mentioned the arcane art of meditation.
:)
A 20 minute session of "proper" meditation can reset your mind more than a good hour long nap.
There are similarities between lifting weights and meditating. When you bench your max amount, when you push with all your might, there is not a single thing on your mind except to move the bar away from you. It clears your mind. Meditation has the same effect on the mind....
Exercise is most certainly key to maintaining your health. Meditate as well to make your routine full circle
Pardon my cynicism, but don't you think it took longer than expected for Grand Theft Auto to be blamed for something like this?
Why haven't movies taken the blame as much as video games? Remember how Terminator 2 made it 'funny' to shoot people, as long as there was 'zero casualties'?
I should voice my opinion, and state that this claim is absolutely perposterous.
No matter how nice the guy comes off as being, he isn't going to "kill me with kindness". His demeanor means fuck all, since I don't personally know him or work with him.
/. decide how a doctor with similar claims as Martin would last in the medical field.....
I am looking past his emotional display (all the laughing interrupts), and trying to look at the cold hard facts.
This guy is a MS biggie, and goes on to state that he isn't a technical savvy person. I find that to be preposterous! MS has a lot of power in the corporate world, and here is a man stating that he "isn't too technical". What if a lawyer went on record saying "well I don't know the law too much"? Would you want that lawyer to represent you? Of course not, you want the people in power (the people whose salaries you pay) to know their product/service inside out and backwards. I'll let
As two of my professors have stated in class, SIMD and moreso parallel processing will require programmers to think in a fundamentally different way in order for multi-core/multi-processor to really take off.
This project may be a step in the right direction. Benchmarks show that SIMD such as SSE/2/3 only provide a marginal speed increase. And meanwhile, the massively parallel computations done on graphics cards dwarfs anything SIMD claims to produce.
Perhaps we will see GFX manufacturers selling their technology to the CPU makers.
I forget the specifics, but a new GFX card can perform somewhere around 35 GFLOPS, while a 3.4Ghz P4(executing SIMD code) can only produce around 5-6GFLOPS at best.
With projects like Brook GPU emerging, the division of CPU and GFX processor may be narrowed significantly.
GCC: Get back to work, dumbass, or I'll cut your balls off.
I thought I was the only one to get that compiler error.
If this turns out to be a war of attrition, IBM will bleed em dry....
Lack of stability leads to corporate strong-arming, so as to achieve more stability in one's life? Hmmmmm.
Will the GDI still be present in its current form, or is Microsoft porting the GDI to Direct3D?
"Or maybe the camera and audio pickups could be made flat enough for a "third eye" circuitry tattoo on your forehead, and the recorder could be solid state, embedded surgically in your body, or bonded to your skin? Whereever you go, there they are, watching you, whenever they like." Tape a piece of paper to your forehead, jackass.
Imagine a hurricane sucking up a few of those. "I may not have power, but dammit I've got 98% signal strength!"
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Indeed it is.
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There IS a map making contest. Its right there on the steam splash screen :)
Ah, so you agree with Best Buy then? Better not shop during sales.....
Here's a deep one for ya:
Anyone notice how the government is slowly using laws about technology to gain more and more control over the populace?
Pretty soon you won't even be able to 'buy' something. Everything will be 'rented'.
I think its time for what will be known as a Consumers Constitution.
We need a formal mandate that will state that corporations cannot fuck with us like they have been. Same goes for the Government.
Funny, knowledge is power. If us geeks have the knowledge to run/make all the gear, then why the fuck aren't we the ones telling THEM what to do (like SHOVE IT)?
Fry the bastard! I won't miss him or his trashy spam messages.
I am of the mindset that a computer is simply a tool with which to do things I normally couldn't do.... like compute primes faster than my monkey brain could ever hope to...
A car also lets me do things I normally couldn't do (like move in 3d space at a rate of 60mph)...
Is someone going to patent the idea of me driving my car so that I may get to work on time? The logic is the same IMHO....
And what kind of optimzations are we talking about here? Changing floats to be 64 bits, doubles to 128 bits? Better use of SIMD instructions? More SIMD registers? Sure we can address more memory when using 64 bits of addressing space compared to 32 bits, but how would that make things faster ???
Please excuse the typo above. I officially voted yesterday.