I do use Cygwin occasionally, but it is slower than molasses and escaping of strings involving \ can be a nightmare. I'd be happy to learn of a better alternative.
Sorry, but I think your "even Windows 7" swipe is silly. As much as I love *nix and like to poke fun at Microsoft (I grew up on SunOS, HP-UX, IRIX, and Linux), I find Windows 7 to be a delight to work with (I run RC1 at home on two systems, an old P4 system and a newer Core 2 Duo). I would love to see a good desktop version of Linux, but Gnome, KDE etc. are just not polished enough (yeah, yeah, Ubuntu is pretty nice and all, but the desktop is still klunky). As a developer I miss the power of the command line tools in the Linux development environment, but as a casual user (and casual gamer) I am really liking Win7.
There is absolutely nothing surprising about this study - it is right in line with the large AB studies done in the past comparing AAC, WMA, MP3 etc. (Since the poster didn't bother to read up on the topic before positing to slashdot, I cannot be bothered to look up a link either) . AAC+ is a vastly superior codec for low bit-rate streaming, for which it was developed. It uses a very powerful technique called spectral replication (who would have thought something that useful would come out of Sweden - just kidding). Please don't post articles about things you know nothing about. Thank you.
"I can't believe this made it through a thought/mouth filter."
You must be new here:
1. PHB thinks he has a great idea. 2. Engineers hint to PHB that it is actually retarded, but have to implement it anyway. 3. Customers revolt. 4. Engineers get blamed for implementing such a ridiculous feature. 5. Goto 1.
And how would that change the basic comment that the age of the event in the local frame of reference is more like 28000+140 years? Sure, using the correct Lorentz transform is going to change the number slightly, but that's not the point. Get off your high horse, kid!
> Now, if they're talking about allowing separate processes to run separately without
> specific SMP code in the kernel, fine. But that's not 2x performance.
Hmm, how would that even work without a type of OS (scheduler) completely different
from what exists today? The scheduler on a single (logical) CPU system is multiplexing
the CPU between different threads/processes. One thread is running while the others
sleep, so only instructions from a single instruction stream is fed to the CPU at any
given moment. Thus we are back at the much harder problem of extraction parallelism
from a single instruction stream. In other words, "reverse hyperthreading" as described
only reduces the amount of potential parallelism presented to the hardware at any given moment.
I don't think the authors of that article know that they are talking about.
Anyone who has done serious development knows that this is nonsense.
Large software projects depend critically on skilled developers to provide
a sound overall design - you can't just throw more people at the problem.
The book "The mythical man month" argues this point quite convincingly.
The Itanium admittedly has great FP performance _per clock cycle_, but that's about the only nice thing anyone can say. $10bn?!? Talk about throwing good money after bad!
He expects to find investors to help pay for the research needed to figure a way to increase the tree power from less than 2 volts to 12 volts sometime this year, creating an alternative to fossil fuels.
Last I heard, power was measured in Watts. It's hard to take people without a grasp on
such fundamental concepts seriously.
willing to sink their dollars into crackpot pipe dreams like this. If they can mine and refine enough materials to recoup the energy spent pusing things in and out of orbit they'll be lucky.
RTFA! They measure the performance that people in the real world care about: The hardware AND the OS. Sure, there are many other HW/OS combinations that are interesting alternatives (x86/BSD being an obvious one), but the ones they do test are probably fairly representative of what many buyers of these machines would be running.
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I do use Cygwin occasionally, but it is slower than molasses and escaping of strings involving \ can be a nightmare. I'd be happy to learn of a better alternative.
Sorry, but I think your "even Windows 7" swipe is silly. As much as I love *nix and like to poke fun at Microsoft (I grew up on SunOS, HP-UX, IRIX, and Linux), I find Windows 7 to be a delight to work with (I run RC1 at home on two systems, an old P4 system and a newer Core 2 Duo). I would love to see a good desktop version of Linux, but Gnome, KDE etc. are just not polished enough (yeah, yeah, Ubuntu is pretty nice and all, but the desktop is still klunky). As a developer I miss the power of the command line tools in the Linux development environment, but as a casual user (and casual gamer) I am really liking Win7.
There is absolutely nothing surprising about this study - it is right in line with the large AB studies done in the past comparing AAC, WMA, MP3 etc. (Since the poster didn't bother to read up on the topic before positing to slashdot, I cannot be bothered to look up a link either) . AAC+ is a vastly superior codec for low bit-rate streaming, for which it was developed. It uses a very powerful technique called spectral replication (who would have thought something that useful would come out of Sweden - just kidding). Please don't post articles about things you know nothing about. Thank you.
Let me guess: This guy worked on NASA's Mars orbiter.
This is what happens when the lights are out at the FTC and FCC for 8 years!
"I can't believe this made it through a thought/mouth filter."
You must be new here:
1. PHB thinks he has a great idea.
2. Engineers hint to PHB that it is actually retarded, but have to implement it anyway.
3. Customers revolt.
4. Engineers get blamed for implementing such a ridiculous feature.
5. Goto 1.
She's not my special lady, she's my fucking lady friend. I'm just helping her conceive, man. So back off, wine Dude!
And how would that change the basic comment that the age of the event in the local frame of reference is more like 28000+140 years? Sure, using the correct Lorentz transform is going to change the number slightly, but that's not the point. Get off your high horse, kid!
Dude! Same thing with Charles Dickens and all those old guys.
Am I the only one who feels that the authors treated Johnny on a callous and cruel manner?
Ha! My 1 1/2 year old son will break that sucker in no time.
That has always been the case. It's a property of real numbers:
0.9999999... (infinite number of 9's) = 1
> Since when does "just under" mean "equals"?
> specific SMP code in the kernel, fine. But that's not 2x performance.
Hmm, how would that even work without a type of OS (scheduler) completely different from what exists today? The scheduler on a single (logical) CPU system is multiplexing the CPU between different threads/processes. One thread is running while the others sleep, so only instructions from a single instruction stream is fed to the CPU at any given moment. Thus we are back at the much harder problem of extraction parallelism from a single instruction stream. In other words, "reverse hyperthreading" as described only reduces the amount of potential parallelism presented to the hardware at any given moment.
I don't think the authors of that article know that they are talking about.
Anyone who has done serious development knows that this is nonsense. Large software projects depend critically on skilled developers to provide a sound overall design - you can't just throw more people at the problem. The book "The mythical man month" argues this point quite convincingly.
The Itanium admittedly has great FP performance _per clock cycle_, but that's about the only nice thing anyone can say. $10bn?!? Talk about throwing good money after bad!
He expects to find investors to help pay for the research needed to figure a way to increase the tree power from less than 2 volts to 12 volts sometime this year, creating an alternative to fossil fuels.
Last I heard, power was measured in Watts. It's hard to take people without a grasp on such fundamental concepts seriously.
(The obligatory Wikipedia reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volt)
> Man, this sounds a bit hippy-esque, but hopefully > you understand what I mean. I believe "Hippi-Dippy" is the proper term.
willing to sink their dollars into crackpot pipe dreams like this. If they can mine and refine enough materials to recoup the energy spent pusing things in and out of orbit they'll be lucky.
I'd like to see these crakcpots explain the observations of neutrinos generated by a supernova...
Ignorance is _Strength_ Geez, get your quotes right!
int majority(int a, int b, int c) { return (a&b)|(a&c)|(b&c); }
RTFA! They measure the performance that people in the real world care about: The hardware AND the OS. Sure, there are many other HW/OS combinations that are interesting alternatives (x86/BSD being an obvious one), but the ones they do test are probably fairly representative of what many buyers of these machines would be running.