Imagine you have a wind generator on your roof and several appliances connected. If the generator can't power all the devices simultaneously then they could negotiate with each other to smooth out the demand.
eg. If I put the kettle on to make a cup of tea the fridge could switch itself off for a couple of minutes. If I step in the shower all power can be diverted to the water heater, etc.
On a larger scale, smoothing out the demand could avoid building power entire power stations. This probably won't happen for the next 100 years, but one day it will.
Even if that's true it's not much of a deterrent, is it?
Most people will see the headline and think "122 million bucks!"
They should be jailed and/or fined everything they own. Even if you don't jail them they should be confined them to a tiny room eating ramen noodles for the next ten years.
Is Beowulf only for some special subset of problems?
Where did I say "you can't solve problems if you only have single precision"?
Supercomputers are expensive because of the exotic memory architectures needed to let all those CPUs have random access to the dataset and so they can communicate with each other.
If a problem can be broken down into little discrete chunks you don't need a supercomputer, you need a cluster of cheap computers.
GPUs are the next step down from that - very good if your problem fits their architecture, but only a subset of real problems will.
There's a lot of flops, sure, but they're arranged in a long pipeline where the only input is "texture map" and the only output is "frame buffer". That's not much good for general purpose processing.
Oh, and they're only single precision, which wipes out another big chunk of possibilities.
They didn't say how it was calibrated but let's face it, there's two guys sat there constantly tweaking it so I'm pretty sure the initial pre-match calibration will be done manually.
The only clever part is the camera tracking and perspective correction.
And the interesting part is how they transmit the data round, switching between audio, over the hidden TV lines, etc.
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If you extend it this could actually be useful...
Imagine you have a wind generator on your roof and several appliances connected. If the generator can't power all the devices simultaneously then they could negotiate with each other to smooth out the demand.
eg. If I put the kettle on to make a cup of tea the fridge could switch itself off for a couple of minutes. If I step in the shower all power can be diverted to the water heater, etc.
On a larger scale, smoothing out the demand could avoid building power entire power stations. This probably won't happen for the next 100 years, but one day it will.
Even if that's true it's not much of a deterrent, is it?
Most people will see the headline and think "122 million bucks!"
They should be jailed and/or fined everything they own. Even if you don't jail them they should be confined them to a tiny room eating ramen noodles for the next ten years.
The high life? Not for them.
How about you forget about obsessively blogging every minute of the day and just, you know, enjoy the cruise. Maybe even socialize a bit.
You never know, you might even end up talking to members of the opposite sex.
Barf.
Sure, so long as they make it abundantly clear that this is what they're up to.
Is this the case? I assume it isn't, because Slashdot and others are acting all surprised about it.
All of them seem to be leaping over sharks at the moment.
AVG and Avast! are both still usable if you disable all that heavy-handed link scanning.
Which part of "need to take control of hardware in a way that Windows will not allow" did you miss in your haste to illuminate the world?
>"That's why you see commercial jets dump or burn off fuel before an emergency landing."
I thought it was because fuel burns with a hot flame and kills people...
The little black bits inside missiles aren't supposed to be a symbol of Americanism. AF1 is.
When AF1 touches down you're supposed to think "America is in town!" (hurrah!)
So I'm with OP - Hell will freeze over before AF1 is non-Boeing.
So long as there are message boards, there will be "First Post!!!" messages in second and third position on them.
I'm sure there's a name for this law, "Law of first moron" seems appropriate.
This is already in most closed source/downloadable programs. Good luck in not gaining an extra toolbar and having your homepage hijacked.
Is Beowulf only for some special subset of problems?
Where did I say "you can't solve problems if you only have single precision"?
Supercomputers are expensive because of the exotic memory architectures needed to let all those CPUs have random access to the dataset and so they can communicate with each other.
If a problem can be broken down into little discrete chunks you don't need a supercomputer, you need a cluster of cheap computers.
GPUs are the next step down from that - very good if your problem fits their architecture, but only a subset of real problems will.
Not gonna happen.
There's a lot of flops, sure, but they're arranged in a long pipeline where the only input is "texture map" and the only output is "frame buffer". That's not much good for general purpose processing.
Oh, and they're only single precision, which wipes out another big chunk of possibilities.
Get the passengers to pedal - earn their tickets.
Lack of train security is temporary. If you build it, the TSA will come...
Is "air breaking" a new kind of dance move? I can't find it on youtube.
Or should they have to repay everybody for all the time and money they've wasted.
If your sport requires special on-screen aids to understand what's happening it's probably overdue for a rethink.
They didn't say how it was calibrated but let's face it, there's two guys sat there constantly tweaking it so I'm pretty sure the initial pre-match calibration will be done manually.
The only clever part is the camera tracking and perspective correction.
And the interesting part is how they transmit the data round, switching between audio, over the hidden TV lines, etc.
>"Who cares? There are better filesystems than FAT"
Um, yes, but how many of them are supported in Windows? You think people will buy cards which don't work directly in Windows machines?
They're leaving themselves the option of being "flexible" about royalty payments.
yes... but you won't have the 64Gb/sec transfer rate needed to play it.
They we all know WHY it was invented, we just want the name/address of the person who thought it rolled elegantly off the tongue.
The lost sales of only a single car will take a while to recoup at only $0.02 per advert.
Put it this way ... if it could then your drive would have double the capacity.
Drive makers aren't stupid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_recovery#Recovering_overwritten_data