By 2112, everything from Florida to the middle of North Carolina will be an uninhabited, uninhabitable lost land, barren of all life. Nothing will survive there.
So the Mayans were right about the apocalypse, but (exactly) 100 years wrong about the date?
Still I guess it's hard to do climate modelling in base 20 one stone tablets.
<?php define('DB_NAME', 'wp_doomed_com');// The name of the database define('DB_USER', 'wp_doomed_com');// Your MySQL username define('DB_PASSWORD', 'wp15');//...and password //define('DB_HOST', 'localhost');// 99% chance you won't need to change this value define('DB_HOST', 'mysql25.secureserver.net');// 99% chance you won't need to change this value define('MAIN_TITLE', 'doom-ed.com');
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CPUs perform better on 32-bit operands than 64-bit. Interestingly, the only CPU that Intel admits do perform better on 32-bit on the presentation I already linked a few times, is the Atom â" the quote is actually "64bit imul latency is twice of 32bit imul on Atom" . Now, what the heck is imul? That's a signed multiply operation. Do you multiply pointers? It doesn't make sense. Besides, pointers are not signed. Are you telling me that your most concern is for a platform (Atom) that has extra latency on an operation when people use 64-bit data types and they should instead use 32-bit? And your solution for that concerns is to create a new ABI where it's harder to use 64-bit data types instead of going to fix whatever program is causing the problem? I guess I should end it here, because this last note about the Atom and imul is probably going to make the day of most people who have half a clue.
It was when he started sticking to women that it all started to go wrong.
Seriously, because he 'stuck it to the man' he should be immune from prosecution for rape? The idea that important people should be allowed to get away with rape is somewhat medieval.
In fact none of the the governments that Assange attacked for being above the law would go anywhere near as far as that when it comes to executive privilege.
Come to think of it, they don't threaten to sue journalists who criticize them or leak their 'proprietary information' either. Something Assange was very prone to if you read what the Guardian and NYT wrote about him.
Seems like Assange wants far more executive privilege than the elected governments he attacked.
That's only because in Sweden charging is something that only happens after a final interrogation which takes place in a police station. Since he refused to go back for that the process is stalled.
It's a definitional point, coming down to how you translate the swedish word 'lagforing' into English. In Sweden, formal 'charging' is a process that happens after questioning. This came up in the Extradition Ruling. As part of the EAW application, the applicant has to commit that they intend to go to prosecution, and state the charges that may be brought. As the extradition ruling establishes:
In our jurisdiction prosecution will normally be started by the laying of an information, or a decision to charge. In many, perhaps most, other European countries the position is different. It is necessary to adopt a cosmopolitan approach to the question of whether as a matter of substance rather than form Mr Assange is wanted for prosecution. The fact that Sweden requires a person to be interrogated, before a formal decision to charge is made, is not determinative. Each country has its own procedures for prosecuting offences. The fact that the defendant would be interviewed upon his return is no clear indication that this is a criminal investigation rather than a criminal prosecution. This point was made recently in Asztaslov v Szekszard City Court, Hungary [2011] 1 WLR at para 46.
Assange's lawyers know full well that 'not being charged with anything' is misleading to people familiar with the UK or US systems. And yet his supporters are too stupid to actually look at what it means in Sweden.
They also misleadingly say he is 'only wanted for interview' and this could be done overseas. The Swedes point out that this is actually an interrogation done in a police station and usually results in charging and arrest afterwards. If it was done overseas, they wouldn't be able to do this.
An interrogation likely leading to arrest and charging unless you can provide an airtight alibi is not the same as an interview which you can walk away from (something Assange has a habit of) if you don't like the way it is going. Once again Assange's lawyers are being deliberately misleading. And his supporters are so keen to believe in him they wilfully ignore this.
I remember an exchange here that went like this (Google can't find it, because the Googlebot has better things to do than remember four year old slashdot posts. Unlike me)
Primus:.... The Macs UI us hard to use. You need to click on the very narrow window border to resize the window.
Secundus: Very narrow border? What are you, some kind of spastic?
Tertius: Mac fans show their people skills once again.
That's actually a very interesting idea. Qualcomm made a lot of money from a designing their own ARM core, the Snapdragon, from the micro-architecture upwards instead of buying a hard macro from ARM like all the other SOC vendors. The end result was that Scorpion had clock speed advantage over contemporary hard macros.
Clearly there's market for tuned up ARM cores. Intel as you say has an ARM license and the people to do this sort of project. They've got the cash too - I've heard that Qualcomm spent $50 million on developing the custom microarchitecture for Snapdragon but if you look at the number of design wins they got it was worth it. If Intel cancelled Itanium and moved the design team to an a custom ARM architecture project it seems like it would be cheaper. Assuming they've got enough people working on x64 of course - that clearly must be their priority. Then again, they only need to spend more than AMD to stay in the game - maybe they could rest on their laurels for a bit on x64 and deploy resources on ARM.
I don't really see ARM as being a competitor to x64 on netbooks because of software compatibility. But on phones it is pretty much the opposite - people are going to pick the best ARM core rather than switch over to x64 because ARM is a much better fit. Also I can see ARM being used in datacenters. In fact a lot of the problem with ARM is that there aren't many ARM SOCs with a fast memory controller because they are all tuned for low power. So ARM scores poorly compared to even an Atom at memory intensive benchmarks. Someone is going to do a desktop or server class ARM in the end anyway, why shouldn't it be Intel?
Windows 7 seems to have most drivers installed as default. My Epson 6100 laser printer is an example of that.
My HP Officejet 6500 is like that You can get a huge "full featured" driver, or a simpler "basic scan and print" one.
I used to download the basic one on XP (the full featured one never seemed to be stable), but since Windows 7 if you add it as a network printer you get the built in driver which is fine. No scanning, but if you plug in a USB cable you get TWAIN drivers installed.
I actually tried the basic driver to get network scanning but it failed halfway through install. Doing a quick Google search it seems like that is quite common and yet there is no fix for it. In fact if you read through the 'fixes' people have suggested, most of them end up with "add the printer from the control panel", which really means "use the drivers built in to Windows".
So the built in drivers - which are perfectly stable, the only problem is I need to plug in a USB cable to scan - are the only ones worth using. And they're based on the venerable UNIDRV, a technology which has been around since Windows 3.1. Basically UNIDRV lets the you create a text file which defines the escape sequences for a printer. No wonder they don't support scanning! in fact one of the GPD files mentions
*CodePage: 1252 *% Windows 3.1 US (ANSI) code page.
So it seems like HP actually maintain a "Full" driver, a "Basic" driver and the config files for UNIDRV which end up baked into Windows. You have to wonder why they bother, particularly as the "Basic" and "Full" drivers seem to be such a nightmare to support and even get working.
It can make the computer run faster, but frankly I don't think it is really necessary for most new computer systems.
I always used to do a wipe and reload. However with recent machines - mostly netbooks - I've found that just replacing Norton antivirus with Microsoft Security Essentials and stopping any irritating OEM stuff that runs on startup seems to be fine.
Then again if Microsoft gave me a copy of Windows I could do a clean install on like they used to, I'd have a choice. Of course the reason they don't do that is because the crapware vendors probably subsidize the price of the machine so heavily that Windows Starter is essentially free, so it's a bit of a sensitive issue for both Microsoft and their OEMs.
Microsoft are so cack handed these days that this initiative will probably irritate the crapware vendors enough for them to stop subsidizing Windows if it generates any money for them - after all there's a difference between the user doing this (or paying a third party to do it) and Microsoft doing it. Clearly at the very least it will irritate the OEMs but putting pressure on them to reduce the amount of crapware they install, but that is not necessarily in Microsoft's interests because it pushes down the market value OEMs will attach to Windows.
Very plausibly Dell paid $50 for Windows and got a significant percentage of that back in cash from the crapware vendors. If Dell is under pressure to install less crapware they will look to save that cash on the price of a Windows license.
VLIW seems like a dead end to me. Intel - who really can afford to do R&D - spent a lot of time and money on Itanium and it seems like it's not really competitive with x64 even if you're willing to recompile your code for each micro architecture iteration.
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Einstein was a hippy. Sure WWIV will be a low tech affair, but the machines will be using full on WMD capability to wipe out the humans in WWV.
Why is that? NEON instruction set is open
Presumably he can discuss the instruction set, just not the projects he worked on.
Looks like you bought into a platform where there's no competition and so hardware develops slowly.
By 2112, everything from Florida to the middle of North Carolina will be an uninhabited, uninhabitable lost land, barren of all life. Nothing will survive there.
So the Mayans were right about the apocalypse, but (exactly) 100 years wrong about the date?
Still I guess it's hard to do climate modelling in base 20 one stone tablets.
but more is always better.
What about more Nazis? Or more Godwins?
..... Your momma.
Here's a funny post where he compares people wanting support for minority architectures to 'violent minorities', i.e. terrorists.
http://udrepper.livejournal.com/7326.html
If this Carmat guy had spend more time updating his skills with modern languages like PHP his website wouldn't have got pwned
http://doom-ed.com/
Call your parents and tell them you need $99 for cocaine, hookers, lawyers etc? Hell I'd ask for more.
I believe it spelled "aneurysm". They were discovered by Aneurysm Bevin, evil inventor of British death panels.
From the first link
CPUs perform better on 32-bit operands than 64-bit. Interestingly, the only CPU that Intel admits do perform better on 32-bit on the presentation I already linked a few times, is the Atom â" the quote is actually "64bit imul latency is twice of 32bit imul on Atom"
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Now, what the heck is imul? That's a signed multiply operation. Do you multiply pointers? It doesn't make sense. Besides, pointers are not signed. Are you telling me that your most concern is for a platform (Atom) that has extra latency on an operation when people use 64-bit data types and they should instead use 32-bit? And your solution for that concerns is to create a new ABI where it's harder to use 64-bit data types instead of going to fix whatever program is causing the problem?
I guess I should end it here, because this last note about the Atom and imul is probably going to make the day of most people who have half a clue.
That paper is hardly making the case for x32.
GNU sans (rather than slash) Linux OS.
I thought we'd all agreed to call it GNU-Linux, pronounced GNU minus Linux?
Yeah it's almost like the majority of people who support Assange don't actually have any real principles at all.
He has been sticking it to the man
It was when he started sticking to women that it all started to go wrong.
Seriously, because he 'stuck it to the man' he should be immune from prosecution for rape? The idea that important people should be allowed to get away with rape is somewhat medieval.
In fact none of the the governments that Assange attacked for being above the law would go anywhere near as far as that when it comes to executive privilege.
Come to think of it, they don't threaten to sue journalists who criticize them or leak their 'proprietary information' either. Something Assange was very prone to if you read what the Guardian and NYT wrote about him.
Seems like Assange wants far more executive privilege than the elected governments he attacked.
That's only because in Sweden charging is something that only happens after a final interrogation which takes place in a police station. Since he refused to go back for that the process is stalled.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/jun/20/julian-assange-asylum-ecuador-embassy-live#block-20
It's a definitional point, coming down to how you translate the swedish word 'lagforing' into English. In Sweden, formal 'charging' is a process that happens after questioning. This came up in the Extradition Ruling. As part of the EAW application, the applicant has to commit that they intend to go to prosecution, and state the charges that may be brought. As the extradition ruling establishes:
In our jurisdiction prosecution will normally be started by the laying of an information, or a decision to charge. In many, perhaps most, other European countries the position is different. It is necessary to adopt a cosmopolitan approach to the question of whether as a matter of substance rather than form Mr Assange is wanted for prosecution. The fact that Sweden requires a person to be interrogated, before a formal decision to charge is made, is not determinative. Each country has its own procedures for prosecuting offences. The fact that the defendant would be interviewed upon his return is no clear indication that this is a criminal investigation rather than a criminal prosecution. This point was made recently in Asztaslov v Szekszard City Court, Hungary [2011] 1 WLR at para 46.
Assange's lawyers know full well that 'not being charged with anything' is misleading to people familiar with the UK or US systems. And yet his supporters are too stupid to actually look at what it means in Sweden.
They also misleadingly say he is 'only wanted for interview' and this could be done overseas. The Swedes point out that this is actually an interrogation done in a police station and usually results in charging and arrest afterwards. If it was done overseas, they wouldn't be able to do this.
An interrogation likely leading to arrest and charging unless you can provide an airtight alibi is not the same as an interview which you can walk away from (something Assange has a habit of) if you don't like the way it is going. Once again Assange's lawyers are being deliberately misleading. And his supporters are so keen to believe in him they wilfully ignore this.
You need to hire a middle aged ex IBM or Apple manager who doesn't code but is very good at playing politics.
Oh wait, that's the way to completely fuck up a small company.
WTF : Watched the Fucking
The fuck you say? I thought the people working on Battleship did it out of a simple love of the craft of film making.
the only colors you got were black and white.
When I was a kid we only had white. The black pixels had to sit at the back of the TV.
If a storage medium is dense but a bit slow, it just means it has a place lower in the storage hierarchy
Rather like if a slashdot poster is dense and a bit slow, he has a place lower in the slashdot hierarchy
Apple has really done well with accessibility.
I remember an exchange here that went like this (Google can't find it, because the Googlebot has better things to do than remember four year old slashdot posts. Unlike me)
Primus: .... The Macs UI us hard to use. You need to click on the very narrow window border to resize the window.
Secundus: Very narrow border? What are you, some kind of spastic?
Tertius: Mac fans show their people skills once again.
That's actually a very interesting idea. Qualcomm made a lot of money from a designing their own ARM core, the Snapdragon, from the micro-architecture upwards instead of buying a hard macro from ARM like all the other SOC vendors. The end result was that Scorpion had clock speed advantage over contemporary hard macros.
Look at the number of phones that used it here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon_(system_on_chip)
Clearly there's market for tuned up ARM cores. Intel as you say has an ARM license and the people to do this sort of project. They've got the cash too - I've heard that Qualcomm spent $50 million on developing the custom microarchitecture for Snapdragon but if you look at the number of design wins they got it was worth it. If Intel cancelled Itanium and moved the design team to an a custom ARM architecture project it seems like it would be cheaper. Assuming they've got enough people working on x64 of course - that clearly must be their priority. Then again, they only need to spend more than AMD to stay in the game - maybe they could rest on their laurels for a bit on x64 and deploy resources on ARM.
I don't really see ARM as being a competitor to x64 on netbooks because of software compatibility. But on phones it is pretty much the opposite - people are going to pick the best ARM core rather than switch over to x64 because ARM is a much better fit. Also I can see ARM being used in datacenters. In fact a lot of the problem with ARM is that there aren't many ARM SOCs with a fast memory controller because they are all tuned for low power. So ARM scores poorly compared to even an Atom at memory intensive benchmarks. Someone is going to do a desktop or server class ARM in the end anyway, why shouldn't it be Intel?
Windows 7 seems to have most drivers installed as default. My Epson 6100 laser printer is an example of that.
My HP Officejet 6500 is like that You can get a huge "full featured" driver, or a simpler "basic scan and print" one.
I used to download the basic one on XP (the full featured one never seemed to be stable), but since Windows 7 if you add it as a network printer you get the built in driver which is fine. No scanning, but if you plug in a USB cable you get TWAIN drivers installed.
I actually tried the basic driver to get network scanning but it failed halfway through install. Doing a quick Google search it seems like that is quite common and yet there is no fix for it. In fact if you read through the 'fixes' people have suggested, most of them end up with "add the printer from the control panel", which really means "use the drivers built in to Windows".
So the built in drivers - which are perfectly stable, the only problem is I need to plug in a USB cable to scan - are the only ones worth using. And they're based on the venerable UNIDRV, a technology which has been around since Windows 3.1. Basically UNIDRV lets the you create a text file which defines the escape sequences for a printer. No wonder they don't support scanning! in fact one of the GPD files mentions
So it seems like HP actually maintain a "Full" driver, a "Basic" driver and the config files for UNIDRV which end up baked into Windows. You have to wonder why they bother, particularly as the "Basic" and "Full" drivers seem to be such a nightmare to support and even get working.
It can make the computer run faster, but frankly I don't think it is really necessary for most new computer systems.
I always used to do a wipe and reload. However with recent machines - mostly netbooks - I've found that just replacing Norton antivirus with Microsoft Security Essentials and stopping any irritating OEM stuff that runs on startup seems to be fine.
Then again if Microsoft gave me a copy of Windows I could do a clean install on like they used to, I'd have a choice. Of course the reason they don't do that is because the crapware vendors probably subsidize the price of the machine so heavily that Windows Starter is essentially free, so it's a bit of a sensitive issue for both Microsoft and their OEMs.
Microsoft are so cack handed these days that this initiative will probably irritate the crapware vendors enough for them to stop subsidizing Windows if it generates any money for them - after all there's a difference between the user doing this (or paying a third party to do it) and Microsoft doing it. Clearly at the very least it will irritate the OEMs but putting pressure on them to reduce the amount of crapware they install, but that is not necessarily in Microsoft's interests because it pushes down the market value OEMs will attach to Windows.
Very plausibly Dell paid $50 for Windows and got a significant percentage of that back in cash from the crapware vendors. If Dell is under pressure to install less crapware they will look to save that cash on the price of a Windows license.
VLIW seems like a dead end to me. Intel - who really can afford to do R&D - spent a lot of time and money on Itanium and it seems like it's not really competitive with x64 even if you're willing to recompile your code for each micro architecture iteration.