They already have a solution for the "noisy wife" problem... it's called a "trunk" (or "boot" for those of you that drive on the wrong side of the road).
Exactly! And I'm genetically predisposed to rape women, because I have this genetic condition known as "a Y chromasome", so I can't really help myself!
I'm sorry, but the excuse "I was born that way!" should in no way, shape, or form effect the punishment for a crime. Consequences should be assigned based solely on actions, not excuses. (The corollary is that "I killed him because I hated him", and "I killed him because I hate gay/ethnic/religion/whatever people" should be treated exactly the same under the law.)
black holes themselves have never been observed. Neither has dark matter. That was my point, they are speculating and theorizing about both black holes dark matter; the math happens to work out better for dark matter, but only because dark matter was conceived as a Universal Fudge Factor in the first place. Our knowledge of the properties of both are highly speculative; black holes make a poorer fit for the observed phenomenon only because we think we know more about black holes. All that is really "known" is that there appears to be a source of gravitational attraction that does not emit or reflect electromagnetic signals. Other, more outlandish explanations are also possible for the structure of the observed universe, e.g. the four known forces work on greatly differing scales, might there not be a fifth force that works on a much larger scale than gravity, or on a much smaller scale than strong nuclear? "But no evidence has been found of a fifth force!" you might say... little or no evidence of the actual existence of dark matter has been found either, it is just postulated to explain the observed rate of expansion of the universe.
Classic nature vs. nurture debate -- it doesn't matter which caused it, the point is that I should get a lighter sentence because it's not my fault that I'm an asshole!
Yes, I'm using reductio ad absurdum to make a point.
"IQ" measures the ability to do well on IQ tests... no more, no less. It is in no way a predictor of success, with the exception of success in taking other types of tests. I'm a living example of someone with the ability to score over 99th percentile in intelligence tests, but still lacking in common sense (case in point: I'm wasting my time posting to slashdot!)
It's not like pets have a big glove compartment to shove the GPS into so that it is out of sight of thieves. You've obviously never watched your pet while it was walking away from you... Trust me, they have a big compartment back there to shove a GPS in that no thief is going to go into in pursuit of your GPS unit!
Many pets are "chipped" with ID tags under their skin. If you could solve the charging problem (capacitive/inductive coupling with pad under their kennel) you could do the same with a small GPS receiver and radio transmitter unit.
Shouldn't someone with "aggression genes" get a longer sentence, to protect others from his aggressive behavior? Since when has "being an asshole" constituted extenuating circumstances? Oh, that's right -- if you are genetically an asshole, then that's ok! So, all I have to do is prove in court that my father and my grandfather where assholes too, and I can get away with murder? That shouldn't be too hard...
Voting for McCain would be ok, except that in doing so, you encouraged Palin and helped to create a monster. Personally, I had a lot more respect for McCain before the 2008 election; certainly we would have been better off if McCain instead of Bush was elected in 2000.
5 and 3 y.o. On average, then, the original post is absolutely correct (in the same sense that if you take a statistician and place his head in boiling water and his feet in a block of ice, on the average he is quite comfortable.)
If dark matter is "undetectable", then why are they attributing microwave radiation to dark matter, instead of, say, the energy given off by normal matter falling into the black hole at the center of the galaxy? (What happens when dark matter falls into a black hole, anyway?)
Why do we keep invoking "dark matter" to explain that which is adequately explained by the massive black hole at the center of this and almost every other galaxy?
Cell architecture is good for specific problems sets, ones that look a lot like video streaming. It is by no means a general purpose HPC architecture.
Everybody knows x86 is poor foundation for high speed computing, but the software, tools, and R&D budget to keep improving it are there. Specialty processors can offer temporary advantages, but within a few years Intel engineers will do their best to integrate any new ideas into their latest designs. Since recovering from the Whitehall fiasco and getting the performance per watt religion, Intel has actually been doing quite well.
Sorry about the confusing jump there. I was referring to SiCortex's use of MIPs, not Sequent. Sequent was always x86 based, their weakness was lagging the release of the latest x86 chips by about a year in their products. Lightfleet also tried than discarded the Broadcom/SiByte processor, because it's floating point unit quite simply did not perform as advertised.
Yes, Orion, thanks, I couldn't remember the name. Insisting on basing an HPC on a chip that achieves low power by throttling back performance under high demand probably wasn't a smart choice either. Although at least with an Orion, you could develop your app on your desktop PC.
The people that are having problems with Windows 7 are the people that are upgrading from XP or Vista. Obviously most of Microsoft's testing has been done with clean installs, and buying a new PC with Windows 7 preinstalled should be a fairly good user experience. Karmic Koala has problems with clean installs as well as upgrades, if I understand correctly. Both Microsoft and Ubuntu appear to rely on their customers to test new OS releases for them. Given Ubuntu's budget, this should be expected for them. I still think Microsoft is relying on paying customers to essentially beta test their new software, but that is just my opinion. Usually the kinks get ironed out faster in Open Source software, it has yet to be seen if that will be the case with these two.
In a blog post after SiCortex shut down, Reilly says he believes there is still room for non-x86 machines in the HPC market. He is wrong. Much more money is being spent every year on improving x86 chips than all the competitors combined. Basing a supercomputer on MIPs was short-sighted; even if it offers a a price/performance or power/performance advantage now, in a couple years it won't, because x86 is being improved at a much faster rate. Where is Sequent now? The only way to build a successful desktop HPC company is to be able to do system design turns as fast as new x86 generations come out and ship soon after the new CPUs become widely available, e.g. a complete new product every 6 months. That requires partnership with either Intel or AMD, not use of a MIPs chip that no one is spending R&D resources on anymore.
Just imaging if the news had read, PC users upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 have run into a variety of hair pulling problems since last Thursday when Windows 7 launched. Complaints range from endless reboots to refusals by Windows to accept Microsoft's assigned product keys.
As of Monday morning, Microsoft had answered about 2600 questions that poured into support forum regarding upgrades. At last count, around 1400 questions remained unanswered.
Oh wait... it does Not to pick favorites, I'd say both the latest Windows and the latest Ubuntu are less than perfect, but both will improve over time. I would also give Microsoft credit for having spent a lot more than Ubuntu did testing their latest release.
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They already have a solution for the "noisy wife" problem... it's called a "trunk" (or "boot" for those of you that drive on the wrong side of the road).
The British electrical plug is the safest, but also the most expensive.
Exactly! And I'm genetically predisposed to rape women, because I have this genetic condition known as "a Y chromasome", so I can't really help myself!
I'm sorry, but the excuse "I was born that way!" should in no way, shape, or form effect the punishment for a crime. Consequences should be assigned based solely on actions, not excuses. (The corollary is that "I killed him because I hated him", and "I killed him because I hate gay/ethnic/religion/whatever people" should be treated exactly the same under the law.)
black holes themselves have never been observed. Neither has dark matter. That was my point, they are speculating and theorizing about both black holes dark matter; the math happens to work out better for dark matter, but only because dark matter was conceived as a Universal Fudge Factor in the first place. Our knowledge of the properties of both are highly speculative; black holes make a poorer fit for the observed phenomenon only because we think we know more about black holes. All that is really "known" is that there appears to be a source of gravitational attraction that does not emit or reflect electromagnetic signals. Other, more outlandish explanations are also possible for the structure of the observed universe, e.g. the four known forces work on greatly differing scales, might there not be a fifth force that works on a much larger scale than gravity, or on a much smaller scale than strong nuclear? "But no evidence has been found of a fifth force!" you might say... little or no evidence of the actual existence of dark matter has been found either, it is just postulated to explain the observed rate of expansion of the universe.
Classic nature vs. nurture debate -- it doesn't matter which caused it, the point is that I should get a lighter sentence because it's not my fault that I'm an asshole!
Yes, I'm using reductio ad absurdum to make a point.
"IQ" measures the ability to do well on IQ tests... no more, no less. It is in no way a predictor of success, with the exception of success in taking other types of tests. I'm a living example of someone with the ability to score over 99th percentile in intelligence tests, but still lacking in common sense (case in point: I'm wasting my time posting to slashdot!)
It's not like pets have a big glove compartment to shove the GPS into so that it is out of sight of thieves. You've obviously never watched your pet while it was walking away from you... Trust me, they have a big compartment back there to shove a GPS in that no thief is going to go into in pursuit of your GPS unit!
Many pets are "chipped" with ID tags under their skin. If you could solve the charging problem (capacitive/inductive coupling with pad under their kennel) you could do the same with a small GPS receiver and radio transmitter unit.
So, we've got a new way to identify terrorists... just dial their cell numbers, and listen to the ring tone!
Shouldn't someone with "aggression genes" get a longer sentence, to protect others from his aggressive behavior? Since when has "being an asshole" constituted extenuating circumstances? Oh, that's right -- if you are genetically an asshole, then that's ok! So, all I have to do is prove in court that my father and my grandfather where assholes too, and I can get away with murder? That shouldn't be too hard...
Voting for McCain would be ok, except that in doing so, you encouraged Palin and helped to create a monster. Personally, I had a lot more respect for McCain before the 2008 election; certainly we would have been better off if McCain instead of Bush was elected in 2000.
5 and 3 y.o. On average, then, the original post is absolutely correct (in the same sense that if you take a statistician and place his head in boiling water and his feet in a block of ice, on the average he is quite comfortable.)
If dark matter is "undetectable", then why are they attributing microwave radiation to dark matter, instead of, say, the energy given off by normal matter falling into the black hole at the center of the galaxy? (What happens when dark matter falls into a black hole, anyway?)
Why do we keep invoking "dark matter" to explain that which is adequately explained by the massive black hole at the center of this and almost every other galaxy?
Cell architecture is good for specific problems sets, ones that look a lot like video streaming. It is by no means a general purpose HPC architecture.
Everybody knows x86 is poor foundation for high speed computing, but the software, tools, and R&D budget to keep improving it are there. Specialty processors can offer temporary advantages, but within a few years Intel engineers will do their best to integrate any new ideas into their latest designs. Since recovering from the Whitehall fiasco and getting the performance per watt religion, Intel has actually been doing quite well.
Sorry about the confusing jump there. I was referring to SiCortex's use of MIPs, not Sequent. Sequent was always x86 based, their weakness was lagging the release of the latest x86 chips by about a year in their products. Lightfleet also tried than discarded the Broadcom/SiByte processor, because it's floating point unit quite simply did not perform as advertised.
Yes, Orion, thanks, I couldn't remember the name. Insisting on basing an HPC on a chip that achieves low power by throttling back performance under high demand probably wasn't a smart choice either. Although at least with an Orion, you could develop your app on your desktop PC.
The people that are having problems with Windows 7 are the people that are upgrading from XP or Vista. Obviously most of Microsoft's testing has been done with clean installs, and buying a new PC with Windows 7 preinstalled should be a fairly good user experience. Karmic Koala has problems with clean installs as well as upgrades, if I understand correctly. Both Microsoft and Ubuntu appear to rely on their customers to test new OS releases for them. Given Ubuntu's budget, this should be expected for them. I still think Microsoft is relying on paying customers to essentially beta test their new software, but that is just my opinion. Usually the kinks get ironed out faster in Open Source software, it has yet to be seen if that will be the case with these two.
In a blog post after SiCortex shut down, Reilly says he believes there is still room for non-x86 machines in the HPC market. He is wrong. Much more money is being spent every year on improving x86 chips than all the competitors combined. Basing a supercomputer on MIPs was short-sighted; even if it offers a a price/performance or power/performance advantage now, in a couple years it won't, because x86 is being improved at a much faster rate. Where is Sequent now? The only way to build a successful desktop HPC company is to be able to do system design turns as fast as new x86 generations come out and ship soon after the new CPUs become widely available, e.g. a complete new product every 6 months. That requires partnership with either Intel or AMD, not use of a MIPs chip that no one is spending R&D resources on anymore.
Lightfleet soon to follow. How is the company that was using Transmeta chips doing?
Just imaging if the news had read,
PC users upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 have run into a variety of hair pulling problems since last Thursday when Windows 7 launched. Complaints range from endless reboots to refusals by Windows to accept Microsoft's assigned product keys. As of Monday morning, Microsoft had answered about 2600 questions that poured into support forum regarding upgrades. At last count, around 1400 questions remained unanswered.
Oh wait... it does Not to pick favorites, I'd say both the latest Windows and the latest Ubuntu are less than perfect, but both will improve over time. I would also give Microsoft credit for having spent a lot more than Ubuntu did testing their latest release.
So basically, Ubuntu has finally achieved parity with Windows, then?
Been reading to your 4 year old a lot lately? Maybe a little too much?
Spam from the dead.
I find that answer a little hard to swallow.
You forgot the link