I'm sorry your honor, I only punched fourteen people in the face after taking their money. That's such a tiny percentage of the people I took money from.
There, tried to make that funnier for you in a way that I've seen lots of people doing lately, but seem to have failed.
A quick glance does look like this is the case. It's like having a load of extra ALUs which can speed up number crunching in apps where the same or similar actions need to be performed against a series of values, such as working with matrices, FFTs, signal encoding/decoding. But GP computing also needs flow control; conditional branching, which still needs the main CPU. (Memory management also, but GPUs do have at least basic memory management as they have increasingly large chunks of memory for caching textures etc). Setting up the GPU to do stuff for ya takes overhead, which pays off if you're using it enough, so yeah being able to write functions that take advantage of it from languages like java could be beneficial, but you couldn't port the actual java vm over to the GPUs.
(but still with the disclamer "from a quick glance" - deeper inspection may prove otherwise)
You can't figure out a simple solution? Like, have the banner ad companies screen for flash commands that shouldn't be needed for simple ads, like setClipboard?
Even if I don't paste the url into my browser and run whatever's on that webpage, I don't want something wiping whatever I have in the clipboard at the time... which would be why I have 'allow clipboard access' disabled in my browser javascript settings, I'd be very annoyed if sites are pushing ads that sneak around this, and if I was employing these companies to provide ads for my sites, I'd be annoyed with them for annoying my users in such a way. After all, I'm entrusting space on my pages to them. These companies should be doing better, now it's known about, they need to implement something to stop it from happening, whether people are going to the website and running stuff or not.
(And yes there's options for blocking ads, but they're paying for what I'm using. If I don't like the number of ads I don't visit the site, cuz that's the deal as I see it... content for the ads)
"no amount of "security" is going to protect these people"
Protect them? Protect us! They get their machines infected, they become latest members of bot nets, flood our mailboxes with spam, his the servers we use with ddos attacks... no we can't protect 100%, but it's in all of our best interests to try, and close off any avenues of attack that we can.
"a PC with 6GB of RAM for $999? Really? That's funny"
That's not funny. Funny would involve the computer coming from a man walking into a bar after crossing the road on a chicken, or asking many of those 6gigs of RAM it would take to change a lightbulb. There's no chickens involved here, and definitely no light bulb. I deduce that you're using sarcasm, maybe to convey the idea that you don't believe you can get a computer out of 'em with 6gig RAM... am I right?
"It seems to be using feedback from the rendering itself"
Yep it does look like it's worked out dynamically; the article states that you can start watching a movie on another monitor while scene rendering on another, and it will compensate by sending fewer tasks to the busy card. Simplest way I'd assume to do this would be to keep feeding tasks into each cards pipeline until the scene is rendered. If one completes tasks quicker than the other, it will get more tasks fed in. I guess you'd either need to load the textures into all cards, or the rendering of sections of the scene could have to be decided in part by which card as textures it needs already in its texture memory.
I guess we're not gonna know a huge amount as these are areas they're understandably keeping close to their chests.
I think the limits we're hitting at the moment are not so much due to the material we're cutting into, but the light we're using to do so. To cut finer we need narrower wavelength (=higher energy) light. We're already hitting the very high end of the ultra-violet spectrum (around 10nm) and approaching x-ray light. As the wavelength decreases, all sorts of other things start to change. Materials the used to reflect the light now start letting photons through, lenses no longer have any effect etc, so new ways have to be found to control light at higher frequencies.
But even here there are ideas to get around the problems, such as using quantum effects like creating interference patterns (I believe I read recently, but don't quote me on it) to cut details finer than the wavelength of the light.
But IBM put money into linux/oss development (*cheers*) and they fought SCO (*boo's*) who hate so that makes them good... but they also built machines for the nazi's (*boo*) but cuz of the whole nazi thing we have Fanta (*...erm... do we like fanta?*). AMD + ATI = open source graphics drivers (*yay*) but Intel = open source graphics drivers all by themselves (*bigger yay*). IBM, even if they did get shat on during the process, are kinda responsible for putting MS (*smashes bottle and puts broken sharp pieces to its neck*) where it is now.
Erk... I think I'm going to need to have to create some kinda graphical relationship manager for this one, create a love/hate score for everyone involved, in the same way Google create pageranks, and I'll get back to you on whether we do in fact love or hate IBM or not. Stand by...
When you're talking about "the science" behind something that elicits an emotion, you usually want to keep the mind (both yours and the listeners) on the mechanism, rather than triggering the emotion which can then alter the perception of what's being said.
Also, emotions usually range from person to person, depending on when the person last felt the emotion, what other emotions they've felt at the same time, things that have triggered those emotions etc. Using precise ("technical") words reduces the ambiguities that appealing to an emotional state can create due to these.
Mine seems actually to be just based on measuring the battery charge (currently 15510mWH) and its discharge rate (currently 12216mW) for remaining life estimated at 1:15:08s. I have also noticed that I can get the discharge rate lower in windows than I can in linux, even after reducing screen back lighting, spinning down drives etc, but I run rightmark rmclock under windows which is pretty decent piece of software but nothing of that equivalent (if there is such) under linux - just standard cpu speed tweaking under/sys.
or Wake-On-Lan which can be done providing you can send a udp packet to a mac address (so i can wake up machines on the other side of my firewall/router by ssh'ing into that and sending the packet from there)
Nooo not true, you can have a windows GUI system bootup and run from cd or ramdrive image of some 40meg, or console / command line mode in less than 20 (possibly 10, can't find the exact details for that specific one in the amount of effort I can be bothered to go to for this post). Look up winbuilder and bart pe. I have done a really nice live windows boot cd to system rescue, with full explorer shell and a load of drive recovery stuff (like undelete, partition repair software etc) in around 120meg that can be booted off cd, usb, or loaded into ramdrive and booted from there.
Erm, actually linux has a command for shutting down and cancelling a running shutdown (eg, if you specify a shutdown time some point in the future). However you run this command is up to you, but don't be so stupid as to think it can't be done with a mouse in a GUI, you can make system calls in many number of ways. I just happen to run servers without screens attached so I know the "advanced" command line stuff. (seriously, you consider 'shutdown/a' to be 'advanced'?!!)
"Most people thought XP was rubbish for the first couple of years that it was out for"
And I stand by it! It's 2003 all the way (but perhaps if I had to pay its huge license fees I might change my mind). Okay it's not too dissimilar to xp, mostly like the fact that the default install is with [nearly] everything turned off, and you turn things on that you need/want, whereas xp seems to be the other way round, and will often end up with stuff running that you don't need to be just because you're not sure whether you can turn it off or not.
"really pisses me off when the computer decides that it will restart in T - 10 minutes just for a security upgrade and there is nothing I can do about it"
Try shutdown/a (run shutdown/? to see all options available) from command prompt. Not tried on vista, but at least on 2003, that's the command to abort a system shutdown.
"Bask in the glory, but don't for second believe that you "knew" the outcome of this. You guessed the outcome, based on what you wanted to believe to be true. And thakfully, that turned out to be the case"
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There, fixed that for ya.
A quick glance does look like this is the case. It's like having a load of extra ALUs which can speed up number crunching in apps where the same or similar actions need to be performed against a series of values, such as working with matrices, FFTs, signal encoding/decoding. But GP computing also needs flow control; conditional branching, which still needs the main CPU. (Memory management also, but GPUs do have at least basic memory management as they have increasingly large chunks of memory for caching textures etc). Setting up the GPU to do stuff for ya takes overhead, which pays off if you're using it enough, so yeah being able to write functions that take advantage of it from languages like java could be beneficial, but you couldn't port the actual java vm over to the GPUs.
(but still with the disclamer "from a quick glance" - deeper inspection may prove otherwise)
You can't figure out a simple solution? Like, have the banner ad companies screen for flash commands that shouldn't be needed for simple ads, like setClipboard?
Even if I don't paste the url into my browser and run whatever's on that webpage, I don't want something wiping whatever I have in the clipboard at the time... which would be why I have 'allow clipboard access' disabled in my browser javascript settings, I'd be very annoyed if sites are pushing ads that sneak around this, and if I was employing these companies to provide ads for my sites, I'd be annoyed with them for annoying my users in such a way. After all, I'm entrusting space on my pages to them. These companies should be doing better, now it's known about, they need to implement something to stop it from happening, whether people are going to the website and running stuff or not.
(And yes there's options for blocking ads, but they're paying for what I'm using. If I don't like the number of ads I don't visit the site, cuz that's the deal as I see it... content for the ads)
"no amount of "security" is going to protect these people"
Protect them? Protect us! They get their machines infected, they become latest members of bot nets, flood our mailboxes with spam, his the servers we use with ddos attacks... no we can't protect 100%, but it's in all of our best interests to try, and close off any avenues of attack that we can.
"a PC with 6GB of RAM for $999? Really? That's funny"
That's not funny. Funny would involve the computer coming from a man walking into a bar after crossing the road on a chicken, or asking many of those 6gigs of RAM it would take to change a lightbulb. There's no chickens involved here, and definitely no light bulb. I deduce that you're using sarcasm, maybe to convey the idea that you don't believe you can get a computer out of 'em with 6gig RAM... am I right?
"How long until my home computer is hooked up to a 50 amp 240 volt line?"
Mine already is... how do you usually power your computer?
GPUs very good at running a series of highly parallel maths... but comparisons and conditional jumps required for general computing erm... stuff?
I dunno, think that used to be the case, not sure whether it still is but I'd guess so.
"aren't as incompatible as AMD and NVidia would like us to think"
Nope, only incompatible enough to need extra hardware, translation layers, drivers, and all the R&D required to produce 'em...
"It seems to be using feedback from the rendering itself"
Yep it does look like it's worked out dynamically; the article states that you can start watching a movie on another monitor while scene rendering on another, and it will compensate by sending fewer tasks to the busy card. Simplest way I'd assume to do this would be to keep feeding tasks into each cards pipeline until the scene is rendered. If one completes tasks quicker than the other, it will get more tasks fed in. I guess you'd either need to load the textures into all cards, or the rendering of sections of the scene could have to be decided in part by which card as textures it needs already in its texture memory.
I guess we're not gonna know a huge amount as these are areas they're understandably keeping close to their chests.
The theory will fit, there will be strings, we'll add more dimensions if we need to.
ATI were bought out by AMD, so future ATI GPUs will be released by AMD.
yeah right, like I'm gonna be able to type from beyond the grave.
I think the limits we're hitting at the moment are not so much due to the material we're cutting into, but the light we're using to do so. To cut finer we need narrower wavelength (=higher energy) light. We're already hitting the very high end of the ultra-violet spectrum (around 10nm) and approaching x-ray light. As the wavelength decreases, all sorts of other things start to change. Materials the used to reflect the light now start letting photons through, lenses no longer have any effect etc, so new ways have to be found to control light at higher frequencies.
But even here there are ideas to get around the problems, such as using quantum effects like creating interference patterns (I believe I read recently, but don't quote me on it) to cut details finer than the wavelength of the light.
Smaller portions yep, but many many more courses :-)
But IBM put money into linux/oss development (*cheers*) and they fought SCO (*boo's*) who hate so that makes them good... but they also built machines for the nazi's (*boo*) but cuz of the whole nazi thing we have Fanta (*...erm... do we like fanta?*). AMD + ATI = open source graphics drivers (*yay*) but Intel = open source graphics drivers all by themselves (*bigger yay*). IBM, even if they did get shat on during the process, are kinda responsible for putting MS (*smashes bottle and puts broken sharp pieces to its neck*) where it is now.
Erk... I think I'm going to need to have to create some kinda graphical relationship manager for this one, create a love/hate score for everyone involved, in the same way Google create pageranks, and I'll get back to you on whether we do in fact love or hate IBM or not. Stand by...
When you're talking about "the science" behind something that elicits an emotion, you usually want to keep the mind (both yours and the listeners) on the mechanism, rather than triggering the emotion which can then alter the perception of what's being said.
Also, emotions usually range from person to person, depending on when the person last felt the emotion, what other emotions they've felt at the same time, things that have triggered those emotions etc. Using precise ("technical") words reduces the ambiguities that appealing to an emotional state can create due to these.
Mine seems actually to be just based on measuring the battery charge (currently 15510mWH) and its discharge rate (currently 12216mW) for remaining life estimated at 1:15:08s. I have also noticed that I can get the discharge rate lower in windows than I can in linux, even after reducing screen back lighting, spinning down drives etc, but I run rightmark rmclock under windows which is pretty decent piece of software but nothing of that equivalent (if there is such) under linux - just standard cpu speed tweaking under /sys.
or Wake-On-Lan which can be done providing you can send a udp packet to a mac address (so i can wake up machines on the other side of my firewall/router by ssh'ing into that and sending the packet from there)
"Where as with Windows it's all or nothing"
Nooo not true, you can have a windows GUI system bootup and run from cd or ramdrive image of some 40meg, or console / command line mode in less than 20 (possibly 10, can't find the exact details for that specific one in the amount of effort I can be bothered to go to for this post). Look up winbuilder and bart pe. I have done a really nice live windows boot cd to system rescue, with full explorer shell and a load of drive recovery stuff (like undelete, partition repair software etc) in around 120meg that can be booted off cd, usb, or loaded into ramdrive and booted from there.
Erm, actually linux has a command for shutting down and cancelling a running shutdown (eg, if you specify a shutdown time some point in the future). However you run this command is up to you, but don't be so stupid as to think it can't be done with a mouse in a GUI, you can make system calls in many number of ways. I just happen to run servers without screens attached so I know the "advanced" command line stuff. (seriously, you consider 'shutdown /a' to be 'advanced'?!!)
"Most people thought XP was rubbish for the first couple of years that it was out for"
And I stand by it! It's 2003 all the way (but perhaps if I had to pay its huge license fees I might change my mind). Okay it's not too dissimilar to xp, mostly like the fact that the default install is with [nearly] everything turned off, and you turn things on that you need/want, whereas xp seems to be the other way round, and will often end up with stuff running that you don't need to be just because you're not sure whether you can turn it off or not.
"really pisses me off when the computer decides that it will restart in T - 10 minutes just for a security upgrade and there is nothing I can do about it"
Try shutdown /a (run shutdown /? to see all options available) from command prompt. Not tried on vista, but at least on 2003, that's the command to abort a system shutdown.
you do what to your CPUs?!!
"Bask in the glory, but don't for second believe that you "knew" the outcome of this. You guessed the outcome, based on what you wanted to believe to be true. And thakfully, that turned out to be the case"
I second that.
SCO owns BSD now too?!!