To simulate the male brain, you also have to simulate the functioning of the gonads, which do most of a male's thinking for him anyway. But if you're simulating a female brain, you probably want to just shut it down for about a week out of every month...
The MPAA appears to arguing out of both sides of their ass. In order for the copyright infringement to be supporting terrorism, doesn't somebody have to be paying money for it? In other words, by the MPAA's own argument, distributing copyrighted material for free cuts off funding for terrorism! So by eliminating all copyright protection tomorrow, and having the government make freely available all previously copyrighted materials, we can cut off the flow of money to the terrorists, and win the war on terror!
Or perhaps the terrorists make a lot more money on things like opium then they do on "pirated" movies...
He appears to be measuring the scheduling performance of the OS and the compiler optimization, not the performance of the hardware itself. So yes, it is comparing apples to oranges.
Our parents had the "Summer of Love", where they all flocked to San Francisco etc. to do drugs and have sex, and all we get is this lousy "Summer of Code", where we get to DO WORK on our summer vacation?!?
They don't deny global warming. They deny that global warming is primarily caused by human activity. If the warming trend is in fact part of a natural geological cycle, then sacrificing all our technology tomorrow wouldn't help much, would it? Perhaps what we need is NEW technology to help even out the ice age/warm age cycles.
Personally, I beleive that all the carbon dioxide we've released in the last 100 years must be having some effect.
A nanotech that is capable of eliminating human stress on the environment is also capable of giving a single human being the power to destroy all life on the planet. Given that we currently have a large number of sociopaths that have adopted a "Kill them all and let God sort it out!" approach, that does not bode well for the prospects of survival of ANY Terran species. In short, technology may not be the silver bullet you're looking for after all.
No, just trying to point out that Linux and *BSD servers aren't counted in the "35% Unix" sales number. Meaning the clear majority of server sales dollars go to "Unix-like" OSes, and not Windows.
People buy Mac Mini's because it is the cheapest way to get all the included software, not because it is the same size as a CD-ROM drive. If you're going to offer a system with zero expandability, it had better be able to do everything that people want to do right out of the box.
Another company used to make inflated claims about the performance of their processors by computing theoretical maximums for a few SIMD instructions, unachievable in most real code.
Uh, EVERY CPU manufacturer makes inflated claims about the performance of their processors! E.g. the FLOPS numbers are based on pure single-precision fused multiply-add instruction, neglecting data load and store times, and ignoring the fact that single precision floating point is useless for most applications due to rounding error. In practice, I'd be suprised to see them get more than 100GFlops out of this even in a hand-optimized HPL benchmark.
Also, this board is obviously using the preliminary 90nm chips; the final 60nm SOI chips should disipate a lot less power, so theoretically the monster heat sinks shouldn't be necessary. Of course, I'll beleive it when I see it, and I'd love to see power figures and BLAS benchmarks on the final chip too. Yes, compiling BLAS and MPI is trivial, but optimizing for a new architecture is a long trial-and-error process... I wouldn't want to publish the numbers from a default compile either, they are guaranteed to suck.
No, he's paraphrasing Bill Gates:``The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.'' -Bill Gates, The Road Ahead, pg. 265
IANAL, but the usual legal strategy is to sue for about 100 times what you could reasonably expect to be awarded in court, in hopes of convincing the other side to settle. (Yes, I was sued for $500,000 once by somebody that had no case. They got $0, but the point is, you can sue for any number you can pull out of thin air.)
The media centres all come with remote controls now, so there is no need for wireless keyboard or mouse... wanna type while you're sitting on your couch in the living room, then get a laptop.
Another problem with wireless: they all use the same frequency! Even the infrared ones interfere with each other. Bring one to a LAN party, and you better hope you're the ONLY one at that LAN party with a wireless! Sort gives "getting owned" a whole new meaning.
...is that you've got to constantly replace the batteries! I've got a logitech wireless mouse that recharges itself when returned to it's cradle. But with a keyboard, just have somebody set something on top of it, and when you come back to it, the batteries will be dead! (The keyboards shut themselves off when not in use, but if any key is left pressed, they think they're in use constantly transmiting that key.)
I also tried a Belkin travel mouse for my daughter because it fit her 4-year old hand size, but went back to a USB mouse because my daughter wasn't capable of turning it off, it constantly needed new batteries, and it had severe problems synching up with the receive, so it required my intervention every time she turned her computer on.
Yes, a closed loop with huge heatsinks where you actually want to tranfer thermal energy solves most of the problems I mentioned. You could fill it with fresh water or some other liquid with better heat transfer characteristics. Of course, one huge pipe doesn't work very well for heat transfer, so you would need a radiator-like apparatus at depth to transfer heat out of the liquid -- this may be subject to fouling problems also. Wouldn't the heat it is putting out attract some types of deep sea critters? How much energy does the water pump in a car consume just pumping water through a comparatively much smaller radiator?
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So why are apple and intel stock both down today?
To simulate the male brain, you also have to simulate the functioning of the gonads, which do most of a male's thinking for him anyway. But if you're simulating a female brain, you probably want to just shut it down for about a week out of every month...
can they simulate the voices in my brain, too?
Yes, for instance finding a surrogate mother to carry the little bastard to term could be a real bear...
Or perhaps the terrorists make a lot more money on things like opium then they do on "pirated" movies...
GCC 4.0 is truly cross platform -- they intentionally removed all the CPU-specific optimizations to make it suck equally on every platform.
He appears to be measuring the scheduling performance of the OS and the compiler optimization, not the performance of the hardware itself. So yes, it is comparing apples to oranges.
Executive summary: SCO's crack team of lawyers (or should that be "lawyers on crack"?) still haven't won a damn thing!
Our parents had the "Summer of Love", where they all flocked to San Francisco etc. to do drugs and have sex, and all we get is this lousy "Summer of Code", where we get to DO WORK on our summer vacation?!?
Personally, I beleive that all the carbon dioxide we've released in the last 100 years must be having some effect.
A nanotech that is capable of eliminating human stress on the environment is also capable of giving a single human being the power to destroy all life on the planet. Given that we currently have a large number of sociopaths that have adopted a "Kill them all and let God sort it out!" approach, that does not bode well for the prospects of survival of ANY Terran species. In short, technology may not be the silver bullet you're looking for after all.
No, just trying to point out that Linux and *BSD servers aren't counted in the "35% Unix" sales number. Meaning the clear majority of server sales dollars go to "Unix-like" OSes, and not Windows.
Repeat after me: Gnu's Not Unix...
People buy Mac Mini's because it is the cheapest way to get all the included software, not because it is the same size as a CD-ROM drive. If you're going to offer a system with zero expandability, it had better be able to do everything that people want to do right out of the box.
does it double as a coffee warmer?
You're suffering from selective memory. Gary Larson wasn't consistently funny either.
Uh, EVERY CPU manufacturer makes inflated claims about the performance of their processors! E.g. the FLOPS numbers are based on pure single-precision fused multiply-add instruction, neglecting data load and store times, and ignoring the fact that single precision floating point is useless for most applications due to rounding error. In practice, I'd be suprised to see them get more than 100GFlops out of this even in a hand-optimized HPL benchmark.
Also, this board is obviously using the preliminary 90nm chips; the final 60nm SOI chips should disipate a lot less power, so theoretically the monster heat sinks shouldn't be necessary. Of course, I'll beleive it when I see it, and I'd love to see power figures and BLAS benchmarks on the final chip too. Yes, compiling BLAS and MPI is trivial, but optimizing for a new architecture is a long trial-and-error process... I wouldn't want to publish the numbers from a default compile either, they are guaranteed to suck.
No, he's paraphrasing Bill Gates:``The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.'' -Bill Gates, The Road Ahead, pg. 265
What kind of salad dressing goes well with Eriogonom truncatum?
IANAL, but the usual legal strategy is to sue for about 100 times what you could reasonably expect to be awarded in court, in hopes of convincing the other side to settle. (Yes, I was sued for $500,000 once by somebody that had no case. They got $0, but the point is, you can sue for any number you can pull out of thin air.)
The media centres all come with remote controls now, so there is no need for wireless keyboard or mouse... wanna type while you're sitting on your couch in the living room, then get a laptop.
Another problem with wireless: they all use the same frequency! Even the infrared ones interfere with each other. Bring one to a LAN party, and you better hope you're the ONLY one at that LAN party with a wireless! Sort gives "getting owned" a whole new meaning.
I also tried a Belkin travel mouse for my daughter because it fit her 4-year old hand size, but went back to a USB mouse because my daughter wasn't capable of turning it off, it constantly needed new batteries, and it had severe problems synching up with the receive, so it required my intervention every time she turned her computer on.
Ever heard of a keyboard cable extension?
Yes, a closed loop with huge heatsinks where you actually want to tranfer thermal energy solves most of the problems I mentioned. You could fill it with fresh water or some other liquid with better heat transfer characteristics. Of course, one huge pipe doesn't work very well for heat transfer, so you would need a radiator-like apparatus at depth to transfer heat out of the liquid -- this may be subject to fouling problems also. Wouldn't the heat it is putting out attract some types of deep sea critters? How much energy does the water pump in a car consume just pumping water through a comparatively much smaller radiator?