It's very true. When I get mod points I almost exclusively use them to mod down those "+5 funny" comments that really, quite honestly, aren't. It's not that I don't have a sense of humour, more that I think as TFA states, as soon as anything that provokes the slightest chuckle gets 1-2 mod points, it's then there to stay. And there's a hell of a lot of wannabe-nerd-comedians around here.
I used to work for an investment bank. It was great pay but basically involved a lot of work with databases, programming them, migrating them, etc, and after a year I'd decided it wasn't what I wanted to do at all.
I now work for a games studio. The coding is more challenging and rewarding (C++/graphics API's versus Java/Corba/SQL etc.), the results are infinitely more fun and interesting and best of all, the working environment is almost the polar opposite from where I used to work. The pay isn't as good, but I thoroughly recommend this kind of career move to anybody not happy where they are. In fact, only reason I wouldn't recommend it is if you have big financial committments, e.g. family/mortgage...
True... I worked in the home & leisure department of Asda (UK branch of Wal*Mart) for a bit, and on the rare occasions a minor tried to buy a video game that wasn't recommended by the ratings I refused to sell it to them.
How the hell did saying "no, sorry" cost anyone heaps of money?
IMHO a bill like this isn't about restricting freedoms but enforcing common sense. While I'd rather the state kept out of my business in general, I don't think it's one of those Big Bad Things (tm).
This would be fantastic for lighting the insides of Arcologies. Something I've always thought was a big negative for city sized buildings is whereas you have a huge volume for everything you have relatively less surface area for windows, and as someone else posted here lack of natural light can be really bad for you... in a large-sized arcology you'd have huge sections with no windows...
The SPE's will only be much use if you're doing number crunching, since the SPE's are vector units (floating point processors). So I'm thinking the PowerPC core will be the only part that'd get much use running Linux.
Having said that, there's been talk about support for multiple OS's at the same time...
Not sure what kind of distributed computing you can really do over latency measured in milliseconds. One of the big bottlenecks for today's supercomputers is bus/shared memory access time. I can't really see this being useful for much more than we already do - SETI@Home and so on, where you send packets to be processed and after a few hours the node sends them back.
So yeah not sure if we could ever have a true supercomputer distributed over the net (as it is now, with the light speed as it is!) that's parallel in real time.
Also, how does it determine which sites are authoritative in this manner?
I'd say it's 99% likely they'll go by PageRank. That's how they rank 'authority' for everything else - relevancy, accuracy, etc., in the end. Given 2 pages with the exact same content, the number of incoming backlinks (IBL's) will determine which site G. chooses - and the PR is a composite of IBL's + PR of pages they're on.
The reason the site is so popular in the first place is because it's SCRABBLE though. People won't want to play "not-quite-scrabble-so-I-don't-get-sued"...
1. Blog spammers will fight back at blogs - mostly innocient people who have nothing to do with this war.
Uh... you mean they'll increase their spamming? Or post nasty comments instead of spam link comments? That's like saying "Terrorists will fight back against the US for invading Iraq" - what are they going to do that they weren't going to already?
I don't really believe the drive to realism is consumer driven - more industry driven: nVIDIA, ATI et al keep releasing newer and better hardware, and game developers feel obligated to make use of it. "Oooh look, pixel shaders, shiny... where can we squeeze these in!"
It's the same with CPU makers and Microsoft. Each version of Windows scales to meet the hardware.
So anyway, what exactly is the CPU going to be doing when we move the optimised navier stokes solvers onto a new chip?
m_iHP = m_iHP-1
sleep(1);
Slashdot Mirror
1. Go to Google.
2. Search for britney spears filetype:torrent
Do you think Google should be thrown in jail too?
All the search engines that index copyrighted material?
They are clearly innocent to anyone but a quasi-fascist government that only caters to corporatism and corruption.
It's creating positrons - you can't fuel a spaceship with positrons.
One reason, actually: MultiScaleImage.
I, for one, welcome our new robotic snake overlords!
It's very true. When I get mod points I almost exclusively use them to mod down those "+5 funny" comments that really, quite honestly, aren't. It's not that I don't have a sense of humour, more that I think as TFA states, as soon as anything that provokes the slightest chuckle gets 1-2 mod points, it's then there to stay. And there's a hell of a lot of wannabe-nerd-comedians around here.
I used to work for an investment bank. It was great pay but basically involved a lot of work with databases, programming them, migrating them, etc, and after a year I'd decided it wasn't what I wanted to do at all.
I now work for a games studio. The coding is more challenging and rewarding (C++/graphics API's versus Java/Corba/SQL etc.), the results are infinitely more fun and interesting and best of all, the working environment is almost the polar opposite from where I used to work. The pay isn't as good, but I thoroughly recommend this kind of career move to anybody not happy where they are. In fact, only reason I wouldn't recommend it is if you have big financial committments, e.g. family/mortgage...
It's Islay! And personally I'd go for the Glenlivet. But I do approve of the sentiment!
Oh the irony of "editorial" being mispelled :)
You can... it's in interface options. My filter is turned off, I like to be able to see my own cursing. :)
True... I worked in the home & leisure department of Asda (UK branch of Wal*Mart) for a bit, and on the rare occasions a minor tried to buy a video game that wasn't recommended by the ratings I refused to sell it to them. How the hell did saying "no, sorry" cost anyone heaps of money? IMHO a bill like this isn't about restricting freedoms but enforcing common sense. While I'd rather the state kept out of my business in general, I don't think it's one of those Big Bad Things (tm).
This would be fantastic for lighting the insides of Arcologies. Something I've always thought was a big negative for city sized buildings is whereas you have a huge volume for everything you have relatively less surface area for windows, and as someone else posted here lack of natural light can be really bad for you... in a large-sized arcology you'd have huge sections with no windows...
Just a random thought on an application.
responsible journalists do not allow anonymous, unchecked "facts" into their news output
You mean like Slashdot allows anonymous posts to its site?
Is Slashdot's system diametrically opposed to good journalism? I feel it has the opposite effect to be honest...
And you should be given the 'adsense TOS breach' award. ;)
The SPE's will only be much use if you're doing number crunching, since the SPE's are vector units (floating point processors). So I'm thinking the PowerPC core will be the only part that'd get much use running Linux.
Having said that, there's been talk about support for multiple OS's at the same time...
Not sure what kind of distributed computing you can really do over latency measured in milliseconds. One of the big bottlenecks for today's supercomputers is bus/shared memory access time. I can't really see this being useful for much more than we already do - SETI@Home and so on, where you send packets to be processed and after a few hours the node sends them back.
So yeah not sure if we could ever have a true supercomputer distributed over the net (as it is now, with the light speed as it is!) that's parallel in real time.
Well, that's why we have RAM, so we're not chained to disk access time.
Also, how does it determine which sites are authoritative in this manner? I'd say it's 99% likely they'll go by PageRank. That's how they rank 'authority' for everything else - relevancy, accuracy, etc., in the end. Given 2 pages with the exact same content, the number of incoming backlinks (IBL's) will determine which site G. chooses - and the PR is a composite of IBL's + PR of pages they're on.
Isn't the Googleplex connected to the net via transwarp conduits?
Wouldn't that make the object look silhouetted, not invisible?
It would work for stealth aircraft though, because there's no "background"...
Well, you could argue vinyl is still 2D. You have a distance along the groove and a "depth" in the groove.
I'm just amused this was modded as insightful.
:P
True enough I s'pose
The reason the site is so popular in the first place is because it's SCRABBLE though. People won't want to play "not-quite-scrabble-so-I-don't-get-sued"...
If you can't innovate, steal someone else's idea and make a website with it..
1. Blog spammers will fight back at blogs - mostly innocient people who have nothing to do with this war.
Uh... you mean they'll increase their spamming? Or post nasty comments instead of spam link comments? That's like saying "Terrorists will fight back against the US for invading Iraq" - what are they going to do that they weren't going to already?
I don't really believe the drive to realism is consumer driven - more industry driven: nVIDIA, ATI et al keep releasing newer and better hardware, and game developers feel obligated to make use of it. "Oooh look, pixel shaders, shiny... where can we squeeze these in!" It's the same with CPU makers and Microsoft. Each version of Windows scales to meet the hardware. So anyway, what exactly is the CPU going to be doing when we move the optimised navier stokes solvers onto a new chip? m_iHP = m_iHP-1 sleep(1);