Language support for ubiquitous and provably threadsafe implicit parallelization -- done right -- is the answer to using generic dark silicon -- not building specialized silicon. See The Flow Programming Language, an embryonic project to do just that: http://www.flowlang.net/p/introduction.html
It's a one way trip to Mars for at least the next 50 years. You would need something like 10x-100x the total fuel (don't remember the actual number) to transport enough fuel up with you to be able to return, because every ton of propellant you take with you has to also be lifted out of our gravity well too. Furthermore -- and this is the main problem -- we don't have any good way of shielding astronauts from high-energy cosmic radiation. So I hope Mr. Elon Musk doesn't mind the person he sends to Mars getting there and looking like a well-done hotdog.
That's really stupid. It's his life. He now has the legal system off his back as opposed to landing in prison for what should never have classified as a crime under any legal system.
How can it be just to have someone rule on an extremely important case when they know nothing about the specifics of what is being ruled on, and couldn't possibly gain even a rudimentary understanding of the technicalities within the timeframe of the case?
It was Guy Steele giving a talk at MIT on Fortress that gave this quote. But based on one of the other replies ("sounds like Stroustrup"), maybe I mis-remembered who the quote was attributed to. (I'm 99% sure that it was Gosling, not Stroustrup that Steele was quoting, but it was a couple of years ago now... I'll try to check my sources and post a reply...)
"No industry standard" means "Google is about to set the industry standard with their Google Checkout NFC consoles and all the NFC IP they are developing and acquiring, and we wouldn't want to encourage or condone that until Google has a good competitor in the NFC space".
Er, your username 'erroneus' is quite apt because (1) erroneous is misspelled, and (2) I didn't use either "inVentivize" or "incentivizive" in my post. And both incent and incentivize exist in the dictionary as verbs, but incentivize is in more common usage, and the masses, fortunately or unfortunately, decide the future of language, because language is a living thing.
"Incentivize" is a neologism so it is still not recognized by many spelling checkers, but it clearly does exist in the dictionary -- even the OED. However something you may not know is that the word "incent" is also a neologism, and it appeared nine years after the word "incentivize" (1977 vs. 1968 respectively).
I can also point you to a modern source that I think justifies the usage: Peter Diamandis of the X-Prize Foundation is famous for saying, "You get what you incentivize". Saying "You get what you incent" just wouldn't sound right -- and almost nobody would understand what was actually meant by that, because almost nobody in recent mainstream media/press/culture actually uses the word "incent"...
Google also got in major trouble for telling the truth in the Wifi debacle. Why do we disincentivize honesty, and what will happen if this pattern of punishment for honesty is extrapolated into the future?
I already ditched Bank of America for CapitalOne months ago after a series of added fees where there weren't fees and cancellations of services I needed (such as the ability to withdraw money from CCB ATMs in China for free). So far CapitalOne rocks in almost every way.
Good job, the Chromium developers do seem to pay attention to the external bug tracker, since that's all they have. (In stark contrast to the Android bug tracker, incidentally.:( )
You should report this as a performance regression bug in the Chromium bug tracker. It is DOM-related or rendering-related. These seem to be areas that have been neglected due to overshadowing by all the Chrome JS performance work.
Well the joke was inevitable... which is why I'm surprised it got to Score:4 Funny rather than Score:-1 Redundant or something, but I'll take the karma anyway:-)
Yes, if the time it takes you to get between the lights (due to traffic) is greater than or equal to the timing between light phases, then of course you will hit every light. Good point:-)
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Language support for ubiquitous and provably threadsafe implicit parallelization -- done right -- is the answer to using generic dark silicon -- not building specialized silicon. See The Flow Programming Language, an embryonic project to do just that: http://www.flowlang.net/p/introduction.html
Actually the unique power signature of an atomic bomb is a universal sign of stupidity, not intelligence.
It's a one way trip to Mars for at least the next 50 years. You would need something like 10x-100x the total fuel (don't remember the actual number) to transport enough fuel up with you to be able to return, because every ton of propellant you take with you has to also be lifted out of our gravity well too. Furthermore -- and this is the main problem -- we don't have any good way of shielding astronauts from high-energy cosmic radiation. So I hope Mr. Elon Musk doesn't mind the person he sends to Mars getting there and looking like a well-done hotdog.
In other words, they're preparing to announce they strongly oppose net neutrality -- so that they can charge heavy data users much more.
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Funny -- slashdot doesn't allow non-Latin Unicode chars -- the Chinese is "bu da, bu cheng cai"...
To teach their algorithm regret, they fed it a stream of sniffed wifi packets, and turned it over to the DoJ to be dealt with.
Or as they say in Chinese, "" -- if you don't hit your kids they won't be successful.
That's really stupid. It's his life. He now has the legal system off his back as opposed to landing in prison for what should never have classified as a crime under any legal system.
Government bureaucracy again. Nine days late.
How can it be just to have someone rule on an extremely important case when they know nothing about the specifics of what is being ruled on, and couldn't possibly gain even a rudimentary understanding of the technicalities within the timeframe of the case?
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It was Guy Steele giving a talk at MIT on Fortress that gave this quote. But based on one of the other replies ("sounds like Stroustrup"), maybe I mis-remembered who the quote was attributed to. (I'm 99% sure that it was Gosling, not Stroustrup that Steele was quoting, but it was a couple of years ago now... I'll try to check my sources and post a reply...)
My favorite Gosling quote: "The worst thing that can happen to a programming language you create is that people start to use it."
Carrying a cellphone in a front jeans pocket every day gives me a lot more to worry about than loss of bone density.
"No industry standard" means "Google is about to set the industry standard with their Google Checkout NFC consoles and all the NFC IP they are developing and acquiring, and we wouldn't want to encourage or condone that until Google has a good competitor in the NFC space".
Er, your username 'erroneus' is quite apt because (1) erroneous is misspelled, and (2) I didn't use either "inVentivize" or "incentivizive" in my post. And both incent and incentivize exist in the dictionary as verbs, but incentivize is in more common usage, and the masses, fortunately or unfortunately, decide the future of language, because language is a living thing.
"Incentivize" is a neologism so it is still not recognized by many spelling checkers, but it clearly does exist in the dictionary -- even the OED. However something you may not know is that the word "incent" is also a neologism, and it appeared nine years after the word "incentivize" (1977 vs. 1968 respectively).
I can also point you to a modern source that I think justifies the usage: Peter Diamandis of the X-Prize Foundation is famous for saying, "You get what you incentivize". Saying "You get what you incent" just wouldn't sound right -- and almost nobody would understand what was actually meant by that, because almost nobody in recent mainstream media/press/culture actually uses the word "incent"...
Google also got in major trouble for telling the truth in the Wifi debacle. Why do we disincentivize honesty, and what will happen if this pattern of punishment for honesty is extrapolated into the future?
I already ditched Bank of America for CapitalOne months ago after a series of added fees where there weren't fees and cancellations of services I needed (such as the ability to withdraw money from CCB ATMs in China for free). So far CapitalOne rocks in almost every way.
Good job, the Chromium developers do seem to pay attention to the external bug tracker, since that's all they have. (In stark contrast to the Android bug tracker, incidentally. :( )
You should report this as a performance regression bug in the Chromium bug tracker. It is DOM-related or rendering-related. These seem to be areas that have been neglected due to overshadowing by all the Chrome JS performance work.
I wish they'd spend more time on optimizing operations that modify the DOM, and not just focus on JS optimization. The DOM is still a huge bottleneck.
Well the joke was inevitable... which is why I'm surprised it got to Score:4 Funny rather than Score:-1 Redundant or something, but I'll take the karma anyway :-)
"Is Software Driving a Falling Demand For Brains?" Yes, I have heard Zombies are starting to eat software instead.
Yes, if the time it takes you to get between the lights (due to traffic) is greater than or equal to the timing between light phases, then of course you will hit every light. Good point :-)