I can not understand why massive optical writable storage has not been introduced at reasonable prices. Some solutions are born almost outdated: 25GB for a single sided Blu-Ray disk it is far from meeting mid term so-ho necessities. In my opinion, it is a necessity to push for a 100GB multilayer writable optical media, to cover the next 4-year home and small business backup and data distribution necessities.
Yes, it still kills people, but that its because it is massive, e.g., an inmunodepressed 90 year old can have 75% possibility of dying because of "normal flu". It's just a matter of exposition: you have more deaths by "normal flu" because of the massive exposition, in comparison to "avian flu". Let me guess that under the same grade of exposition, you could loss 1/4 of earth population, in the case of "avian flu". I think that Eukariote was trying to argue that way.
I'm glad of finding your comment at last: you're right, clavulanic acid usage for penicillin potentiating are not news! The point it is just that someone tried it against Tuberculosis.
I'm *glad* you have such economic insight! Recession for US and many European countries is almost granted, the interest rate lowering it is just a joke, as it is preferable a sharp correction (recession) than a deep and large progressive decadence (depression). Your bet? 2-3 year recession or 15 year depression? 1 stagflation (expensive oil inflation / other goods deflation) + 2 recession years? (not trolling, promise!)
Ad hominem arguments, i.e. attacking the person instead of the argumentation, are in my opinion, unfair, childish and coward. He was arguing about Miguel's contradictions, while you are acting like a teenager.
You're right, but you're wrong. 14 Gflop/s with double precission using the double precission opcodes, you're right. However, using single precission opcodes to perform double precission computations, you achieve 100 double precission GFLOPS (about the half of the 200 GFLOPS that in single precission mode):
The US will experience huge levels of inflation as the money comes home. Interest rates will rocket to compensate, US property and business markets will crash as credit becomes extremely expensive and the US will become a very poor country.
The alternative is a long slow linear decline in the dollar. Which means somehow preventing panic in the markets and to do that you have to stop them predicting the decline of the dollar. I think this may be what Bush and buddies are aiming for. However markets simply don't work that way, they make exponential corrections.
I'm glad to read such grade of insight, thank you very much for your exposition. I also expect the worst recession for Spain, where I live, since the 70's oil crisis. The context, in my opinion is quite similar to the 90's Japanese financial/stock-asset and housing bubble (credit crunch + deflation), we also have a huge levels of Trade Deficit. As individual, the only thing I can do is prepare for the hit: investment diversification (mainly public debt, avoiding the stock market and speculative funds), and living with no debts at all.
I think that we'll be able to deal with the crisis, as World "real economy" has no important problems, it is just the "economy-fiction" that represent a global fight for power. Due that it is not a production problem, just a power distribution, I imagine only two solution/stabilization contexts: 1) a global agreement to solve the financial situation, 2) WW III (I hope this does not happen soon).
Yes, I admit that the US have developed a brilliant geopolitical empire, but I'm not sure that the brightness could be maintained ad infinitum, as it implies a global deep disequilibrium. Artificially sustained standard of living drive to monetary problems; imagine if China decide about to flood the international market with dollars, it could be the last flick of the wrist to put down the US economy, and the rest of the world economy as collateral effect, into a critical situation.
Being European myself, I want the best for the US economy, as in a globalized market, if a big economy gets sick, sooner or later will affect the others. That's because I was trying to argue that the world economy should avoid artificial disequilibrium, keeping the market free, but limiting the grade of speculation (some speculation is OK, but a grade of speculation 5 times your GDP is *dangerous*).
Features I've also noticed about it. You can add some social and political aspects as well when you consider it makes it easy for politicians to spend money on the military industrial complex. You then get inevitable increase in the power of politicians because they always have money. It becomes important for large companies to try to influence those politicians so corruption increases.
I'm scared/afraid by your last paragraph: what if politics, due its capacity to print money, and being corrupts, instead of managing the country resources properly, use the war for resources or to avoid bankrupt? That is because I want geopolitical and economic stability, it would be easier to reduce Trade Deficit, increase global richness, energy-efficient productivity boost, and the more important: true and huge portion of middle class.
Well, it is quite common that justice for the one is usually an unjustice for the other.
The dollarification of the [oil] world economy seems to be a sword with two blades: while throwing inflation to the "Chinese Inflation Hole" and getting oil for free, the other side means deindustrialization, dependency, and artificial dollar value sustainment. Now we are facing a world wide credit crunch, mainly due to "financial engineering" which has delivered "false richness", implying hidden hyperinflation between the "real economy" and the "credit-monetary-multiplication economy".
In my opinion, first world countries should be aware about the dangers of deintustrializing its countries (North America, Europe, East Asia, etc.), as a Chinese currency evaluation, or dollar/euro explicit hyperinflation could make impossible to keep the localization and derive the 1st world economies to the stagflation (deflation of non-oil related goods and inflation of oil-related goods). I hope a world wide convergence to an average standard of living.
Now the markets cry for cheaper money from the Fed and the ECB, wanting interest rate lowering, being that a *robbery* for people's savings, much in the way of awarding/tipping financial-cheaters, speculators, and to punish the savings of rational, risk-aware, people. In my opinion it is very hypocrite to want a market liberalization when everything seems to be ok, and interventionism when financial abuse exploes: may be, keeping a liberal context, but with few debt limitation rules, the current financial mess could have been avoided.
In the end, most users at Barrapunto are also usual suspects^W./'ers (the spanish side it is interesting as it is focused on local events, politics, it's written in spanish -the english is still a handicap for many here in Spain- etc.; although, it has to be noted that Barrapunto is tiny in comparison to Slashdot, as the second has a huge community -receives worldwide contributions-).
A recurrent motto, as a joke, is "Barrapunto no es lo que era" ("Barrapunto is not what it was used to be").
Great hackers think they're on a higher plane of existence.
Generalization is usually a quick path to the wrong way. There is many "mediocre pseudohacker" with "dive complex", e.g., John is an expert doing X, Peter it isn't, then John disqualifies Peter, not only as non expert in X, but also as incompetent. In my opinion, these extremes are usually more related to psychic problems rather than to expertise/excellence consequences (yes, I think that there is equilibrate/generous/fine people who reach excellence).
Most FFT and DCT are usually implemented -aka programmed- at very low level (via handmade SIMD, FPU, or DSP optimizations), and for a good implementation you'll require maths, for sure: mantissa, precision, saturation, error propagation, etc. It is not that simple.
I think that the article was attempting to plot programmers as mere Lego workers, using sentences and loops instead of bricks. If you hire "dumb automats" for doing "dumb work", unless you work as consulting leech, you'll be probably out of the market pretty soon: the key is productivity, and productivity it is often related with automated tool building, for multiplying the human effort, for which you'll finish having to using maths in some way or other (at least it's my case).
Where I live (Europe) we also have the M3 out of control, that's why the EU central bank is raising the interest rates. I agree with your argument, the money supply is too much high, which is similar to a money devaluation if not backed by real goods. Because most of the liquidity is *artificial*, very distant from the physical money emission (M0), a major part of that volatile liquidity could collapse if housing "negative equity" cases began to became a problem (I expect recession for Spain in Q3-2008, as the housing bubble is bursting *now* and will shock the economy (~18% GDP), and we can not devaluate the currency, as the Spain central bank has no currency control anymore).
Taking into consideration the US average Joe debt, a weak currency may be a way for reducing its nightmares, as inflation is the way to shrink his pain (debt), while deflation would degrade badly the economy. Is it time for two digit US dollar inflation?
rms: This is Michel
linus: Sir, in... In Project World Conquest, we have no names.
rms: Now, you listen to me.
rms: This is a man and he has a name, and it's Michel Xhaard, OK?
linux overlords: Michel Xhaard.
linux overlords: He's a man
rms: and he's a webcam hero because of us. Do you understand that?
linus: I understand.
linus: In GPL v3, a member of Project World Conquest has a name.
linus: His name is Michel Xhaard.
linux overlords: His name is Michel Xhaard.
linux overlords: His name is Michel Xhaard.
rms: Come on, guys. Please. Stop it, and think about the last GPL v3 draft;-)
They are comparing oranges against apples (!), as you can not compare 16 OoO executed instructions per cycle versus 4 *resulting in-order* instructions per cycle (where for achieving these 4 instructions/cycle may be you had to execute 10, 20 or more OoO instructions (!)). Please, where is the rigor? Fair play anyone?
Well, very disapointing when compared to othermodernmicroprocessorarchitectures. Don't get me wrong, I love computer architecture, and the design seems interesting, but the "over-hype" is discouraging.
Each TRIPS chip contains two processing cores, each of which can issue 16 operations per cycle with up to 1,024 instructions in flight simultaneously. Current high-performance processors are typically designed to sustain a maximum execution rate of four operations per cycle.
It's me or are they trying to reparaphrasing, euphemistically, the Out-of-order execution?
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Tape drivers are OK, but too much expensive for SO-HO. The point of cheap optical media is not just as a way storage but also for easy delivering.
I can not understand why massive optical writable storage has not been introduced at reasonable prices. Some solutions are born almost outdated: 25GB for a single sided Blu-Ray disk it is far from meeting mid term so-ho necessities. In my opinion, it is a necessity to push for a 100GB multilayer writable optical media, to cover the next 4-year home and small business backup and data distribution necessities.
I hope they will find some loyal robot Descartes!
Yes, it still kills people, but that its because it is massive, e.g., an inmunodepressed 90 year old can have 75% possibility of dying because of "normal flu". It's just a matter of exposition: you have more deaths by "normal flu" because of the massive exposition, in comparison to "avian flu". Let me guess that under the same grade of exposition, you could loss 1/4 of earth population, in the case of "avian flu". I think that Eukariote was trying to argue that way.
Well, I respect your right to joke, unfortunately I can not find it funny anymore, you insensitive clod :-(
I'm glad of finding your comment at last: you're right, clavulanic acid usage for penicillin potentiating are not news! The point it is just that someone tried it against Tuberculosis.
I'm *glad* you have such economic insight! Recession for US and many European countries is almost granted, the interest rate lowering it is just a joke, as it is preferable a sharp correction (recession) than a deep and large progressive decadence (depression). Your bet? 2-3 year recession or 15 year depression? 1 stagflation (expensive oil inflation / other goods deflation) + 2 recession years? (not trolling, promise!)
Ad hominem arguments, i.e. attacking the person instead of the argumentation, are in my opinion, unfair, childish and coward. He was arguing about Miguel's contradictions, while you are acting like a teenager.
You're right, but you're wrong. 14 Gflop/s with double precission using the double precission opcodes, you're right. However, using single precission opcodes to perform double precission computations, you achieve 100 double precission GFLOPS (about the half of the 200 GFLOPS that in single precission mode):
Jack Dongarra and his team demonstrated a 3.2 GHz Cell with 8 SPEs delivering a performance equal to 100 GFLOPS on an average double precision Linpack 4096x4096 matrix.
QNX and LynxOS are great, but closed source, ergo without future.
My bet is that in the future Linux will be both 100% POSIX compliant and able to run as a true Hard Real Time OS.
The alternative is a long slow linear decline in the dollar. Which means somehow preventing panic in the markets and to do that you have to stop them predicting the decline of the dollar. I think this may be what Bush and buddies are aiming for. However markets simply don't work that way, they make exponential corrections.
I'm glad to read such grade of insight, thank you very much for your exposition. I also expect the worst recession for Spain, where I live, since the 70's oil crisis. The context, in my opinion is quite similar to the 90's Japanese financial/stock-asset and housing bubble (credit crunch + deflation), we also have a huge levels of Trade Deficit. As individual, the only thing I can do is prepare for the hit: investment diversification (mainly public debt, avoiding the stock market and speculative funds), and living with no debts at all.
I think that we'll be able to deal with the crisis, as World "real economy" has no important problems, it is just the "economy-fiction" that represent a global fight for power. Due that it is not a production problem, just a power distribution, I imagine only two solution/stabilization contexts: 1) a global agreement to solve the financial situation, 2) WW III (I hope this does not happen soon).
Being European myself, I want the best for the US economy, as in a globalized market, if a big economy gets sick, sooner or later will affect the others. That's because I was trying to argue that the world economy should avoid artificial disequilibrium, keeping the market free, but limiting the grade of speculation (some speculation is OK, but a grade of speculation 5 times your GDP is *dangerous*).
Features I've also noticed about it. You can add some social and political aspects as well when you consider it makes it easy for politicians to spend money on the military industrial complex. You then get inevitable increase in the power of politicians because they always have money. It becomes important for large companies to try to influence those politicians so corruption increases.
I'm scared/afraid by your last paragraph: what if politics, due its capacity to print money, and being corrupts, instead of managing the country resources properly, use the war for resources or to avoid bankrupt? That is because I want geopolitical and economic stability, it would be easier to reduce Trade Deficit, increase global richness, energy-efficient productivity boost, and the more important: true and huge portion of middle class.
Well, it is quite common that justice for the one is usually an unjustice for the other.
The dollarification of the [oil] world economy seems to be a sword with two blades: while throwing inflation to the "Chinese Inflation Hole" and getting oil for free, the other side means deindustrialization, dependency, and artificial dollar value sustainment. Now we are facing a world wide credit crunch, mainly due to "financial engineering" which has delivered "false richness", implying hidden hyperinflation between the "real economy" and the "credit-monetary-multiplication economy".
In my opinion, first world countries should be aware about the dangers of deintustrializing its countries (North America, Europe, East Asia, etc.), as a Chinese currency evaluation, or dollar/euro explicit hyperinflation could make impossible to keep the localization and derive the 1st world economies to the stagflation (deflation of non-oil related goods and inflation of oil-related goods). I hope a world wide convergence to an average standard of living.
Now the markets cry for cheaper money from the Fed and the ECB, wanting interest rate lowering, being that a *robbery* for people's savings, much in the way of awarding/tipping financial-cheaters, speculators, and to punish the savings of rational, risk-aware, people. In my opinion it is very hypocrite to want a market liberalization when everything seems to be ok, and interventionism when financial abuse exploes: may be, keeping a liberal context, but with few debt limitation rules, the current financial mess could have been avoided.
There is also an Ad for banning OpenXML as ISO standard.
(I agree with its arguments)
In the end, most users at Barrapunto are also usual suspects^W./'ers (the spanish side it is interesting as it is focused on local events, politics, it's written in spanish -the english is still a handicap for many here in Spain- etc.; although, it has to be noted that Barrapunto is tiny in comparison to Slashdot, as the second has a huge community -receives worldwide contributions-).
A recurrent motto, as a joke, is "Barrapunto no es lo que era" ("Barrapunto is not what it was used to be").
Un Día Vi Una Vaca Vestida De Uniforme!
;-)
Babbage was mechanical, while the proposed in the article seems more like a classic analog computer but using photons instead electrons.
Great hackers think they're on a higher plane of existence.
Generalization is usually a quick path to the wrong way. There is many "mediocre pseudohacker" with "dive complex", e.g., John is an expert doing X, Peter it isn't, then John disqualifies Peter, not only as non expert in X, but also as incompetent. In my opinion, these extremes are usually more related to psychic problems rather than to expertise/excellence consequences (yes, I think that there is equilibrate/generous/fine people who reach excellence).
Most FFT and DCT are usually implemented -aka programmed - at very low level (via handmade SIMD, FPU, or DSP optimizations), and for a good implementation you'll require maths, for sure: mantissa, precision, saturation, error propagation, etc. It is not that simple.
I think that the article was attempting to plot programmers as mere Lego workers, using sentences and loops instead of bricks. If you hire "dumb automats" for doing "dumb work", unless you work as consulting leech, you'll be probably out of the market pretty soon: the key is productivity, and productivity it is often related with automated tool building, for multiplying the human effort, for which you'll finish having to using maths in some way or other (at least it's my case).
Where I live (Europe) we also have the M3 out of control, that's why the EU central bank is raising the interest rates. I agree with your argument, the money supply is too much high, which is similar to a money devaluation if not backed by real goods. Because most of the liquidity is *artificial*, very distant from the physical money emission (M0), a major part of that volatile liquidity could collapse if housing "negative equity" cases began to became a problem (I expect recession for Spain in Q3-2008, as the housing bubble is bursting *now* and will shock the economy (~18% GDP), and we can not devaluate the currency, as the Spain central bank has no currency control anymore).
Taking into consideration the US average Joe debt, a weak currency may be a way for reducing its nightmares, as inflation is the way to shrink his pain (debt), while deflation would degrade badly the economy. Is it time for two digit US dollar inflation?
rms: This is Michel ;-)
linus: Sir, in... In Project World Conquest, we have no names.
rms: Now, you listen to me.
rms: This is a man and he has a name, and it's Michel Xhaard, OK?
linux overlords: Michel Xhaard.
linux overlords: He's a man
rms: and he's a webcam hero because of us. Do you understand that?
linus: I understand.
linus: In GPL v3, a member of Project World Conquest has a name.
linus: His name is Michel Xhaard.
linux overlords: His name is Michel Xhaard.
linux overlords: His name is Michel Xhaard.
rms: Come on, guys. Please. Stop it, and think about the last GPL v3 draft
Each of the two processor cores can execute up to 16 out-of-order operations
vs
Current high-performance processors are typically designed to sustain a maximum execution rate of four operations per cycle.
They are comparing oranges against apples (!), as you can not compare 16 OoO executed instructions per cycle versus 4 *resulting in-order* instructions per cycle (where for achieving these 4 instructions/cycle may be you had to execute 10, 20 or more OoO instructions (!)). Please, where is the rigor? Fair play anyone?
Explicit Data Graph Execution (EDGE) instruction set architecture?
...
Scalable and distributed processor core composed of replicated heterogeneous tiles?
Non-uniform cache architecture and implementation?
Well, very disapointing when compared to other modern microprocessor architectures. Don't get me wrong, I love computer architecture, and the design seems interesting, but the "over-hype" is discouraging.
Each TRIPS chip contains two processing cores, each of which can issue 16 operations per cycle with up to 1,024 instructions in flight simultaneously. Current high-performance processors are typically designed to sustain a maximum execution rate of four operations per cycle.
It's me or are they trying to reparaphrasing, euphemistically, the Out-of-order execution?
Please, take care when doing russian Beowulf jokes, you insensitive cloud !