Sadly, unless you haven't updated your machine in the last two months, this wouldn't matter as MS has already patched it. As for those of you with an "unpatched" kernel, let's just say this is like v1.5 PSPs.
One use can be for interacting with patients that're non-nteractive (I don't even know what the proper medical term is) and in apparent vegetive states. Maybe their brain is functioning but they can't talk to the rest of the world?
And although this is getting a bit farfetched, but if they can minimize the technology and use less power, how would that work for the next generation of video games?
Ideally, yes. But 1. this device will help prove said person's guilt (if they did commit the crime), and 2. try convincing a jury who already think that you're guilty due to race/gender/looks/how you smell/etc... and that circumstantial evidence seems to incriminate you, even if you're not guilty.
It'd be nice if people are just, but they're not always. =/
Obviously, everyone likes to argue whether or not "barriers to entry" exist. But let's cut to the obvious here: the ones who should willingly fork out the wad of cash to push this drug through the testing phase is the medical insurance companies. They will save BILLIONS by cutting the cost of $100k/pop cancer treatments down to $50. I guess now we just have to worry about "barriers to making the first move."
Governments? Charities? Drug companies? Why make it that farfetched when you can just ask the medical insurance companies to do it? They're the ones who're forking out $100k+ per cancer patient. This should be more than enough incentives to make them want to invest in it.
I think most of the sibling posts are misunderstanding fotbr. It seems like fotbr isn't saying that UHC doesn't work, he's just saying that UHC wouldn't work in the US.
Eh (not "eh?")...granted I'm not an American (I'm a Canadian...but I suppose that's close enough), I still thank you and all others like you for defending our collective rights and freedoms. I salute you, and all those who willingly put their lives on the line to protect the rest of us, with the utmost respect. What I don't appreciate is the politicians who're willing to stand behind a wall of human shield (you) just so that they can profit under the name of "national security" or "fighting the commies/terrorists." (Hey, as they say, "Communism is a dog eat dog world. Capitalism is just the other way around.")
So rather than thinking that others shouldn't get their dues, I think it's far better if we (all the ones whose asses you are protecting) all stood up and fought for your hard-deserved wallet.
Well, that's almost it, although the reason is a little more subtle. It's more along the lines that Apple's marketshare isn't large enough for nVidia or ATi to bother with, so the two companies just leave their hardware specs/interface to Apple to write its own drivers. Well, at least this is what I learned from the dudes who work at Apple during my interview with them.
Re:Scientific consensus not quite there yet...
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I think you parsed what I wrote incorrectly. If you read again, you'll realize it means "real scientists who don't have financial interests," not "real scientists don't have financial interests" (and I believe scientists with financial interests are mostly not real scientists anyway, since they're more than likely to be biased). The "real scientists" I'm referring to are the ones who're getting paid a lot less than the goons hired by the large oil companies.
As for your second argument, let me ask this:
Do CO2 and other "greenhouse" gases cause some amount of greenhouse effect (I think this has also been proven)? I think you'll agree that it does.
Do humans contribute a large and significant amount of CO2 and other greenhouse gases (this can, and has been measured)? I think that's a yes too.
So, in your opinion, do/did humans contribute to any part of the warming of the earth? I think in logic terms that would mean Humans->CO2->greenhouse effect. So, yeah, I don't think it's really "anyone's guess."
As for the rest of your comment, I think I agree with you.
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True, consensus doesn't mean "right." But the global warming issue aside...if the majority of real scientists without much financial interest tells you something they agree on, would you bet on or against it? Now add to that the people with financial interest tells you otherwise?
The question is, which way will you bet? (and don't talk to me about finding out more about the issue, because unless you're a climatologist or highly trained in the sciences, I doubt you'll get much more than an amateur opinion on the subject)
But doesn't something like Google Trends already implements at least part of the patent? If that's the case, shouldn't prior art easily defeat that patent, since it's invalid anyways?
You are right, and no GPU vendor has ever supported 64-bit floating points on their GPUs to date. As a matter of fact, ATi didn't have full 32-bit support up until their X1k series of cards. Furthermore, you are correct that the nVidia cards are much slower when handling if cases (it executes all branches, at least in the 6000 series), although I don't know how ATi's cards handle it.
I think the real reason that Folding@HOME went with ATi is because that this is their first GPGPU client, and they didn't want complexity beyond everything else they have to handle. Specifically, the nVidia GPUs don't support full IEEE-754 standard, and would collapse to zero when the exponent reaches past its smallest value.
Normally, this comformaty issue isn't much of a problem if it was accounted for. However, because of the fact that this is their first client, they want to do away with the additional complexity. In addition, since this is a distributed project, and every "first answer" from every client needs to be double, triple, quadruple, etc... checked, then having an answer slightly different (even if not significant) is really, really bad.
About the system warranty part, it is true. My friend went to EB to buy a used XBox (this was a few years ago), and the employee there told him, "If you're not satisfied with the system in 30 days, you can come return it. If it broke before 30 days, you can exchange it for a new one. As a matter of fact, if you walked out of the store and walked back in and complain about your XBox, we'll give you a new one." And so he did, and so he ended up with a new XBox paying a used XBox price.
Really? I think you got it a little mixed up. That's the part of the reason why Nintendo went with a cheaper console and respective games: so they can sell to those without HDTVs. The households with enough disposable income to afford HDTVs are the exact same ones who can afford the 360 and PS3, with a Wii as a second (or third) console. And no, 67% next year is by far bigger than the 33%, not to mention that kids probably play games in their rooms with a SDTV.
or do they all share Kuturagi's confidence?...yes, they actually do. They think the PS3 is some type of Godsend and all guard it like some state top-secret when the rest of the AAA game development community have used it and rated it as the worst next-gen system to develop for. Figures.
I have great respect for science. I can also look at a detailed photograph of a honeybee, or a sunset, or a cherry blossom tree and see the signature of their Creator. Science and God are not exclusive.
I have great respect for (non-intrusive) religion. I can also look at a post, a written opinion, or an intellectually irresponsible argument and see the signature of their common delusional writer. Religion and lunacy are not exclusive.
I believe my reply was written in rather plain English. Would you like me to draw a map?
Actually, I do. Afterall, the religious always (erroneously) assumed that their position is the basis and required the scientists to prove their point. The scientists have at least attempted to do their job, and offered possible scenarios against their arguments in order to make their arguments sound. However, the religious have never done so, and thus maybe it's time for you and your "collegues" to provide such "map" to prove your point, if you're able to.
As most allegories are. It's not a set of instructions on how to assemble exercise equipment.
And hence not proof, or even close to it. The mere fact that the religious accept such allegories indicate that their logic is as brittle and unsound as their allegories themselves.
And it only takes a thing called "money" to mislead the whole world, period. I suspect it more likely that the corporations are simply misleading everyone.
Yes, the Book of Genesis...as intentionally vaguely phrased as those by Nostradamus. Anyone can interpret anything out of those kinda of words. And your point is? It certainly doesn't prove your claims.
According to my friends at EA (who are full-time programmers), they said that after the EA-spouse incident, they've been very careful with overtime (8 hours of work per day). Now, employees pretty much have to "apply" to do overtime work...as in, request it from their managers who won't just trivially approve. So the situation has gotten a lot better.
Sure, it's either that we take a chance and maybe screw up the long term cycle a 1000 years into the future, or we do nothing and get a much higher chance of screwing up the weather now. Which one would you pick?
Wow, not only am I surprised at the number of people who got modded +5 Interesting/Insightful/etc for pointing out that Civ4 isn't an RTS, merely because these same people only read the/. summary instead of TFA, I'm even more surprised at the number of moderators that didn't RTFA and gave those +1 Interesting/Insightful/etc points. People, RTFA. Nowhere in the article does it mention that Civ 4 is an RTS. If you RTFA, you would've saw this:
"Overclick isn't limited to Civilization. Real-time strategy games will leave you with even worse carpal tunnel."
Oh yeah, shit, how could I be so stupid? Looks like the submitter didn't RTFA himself! You would think that the author of a Gamasutra article would know about what genre of games he's playing before writing an article up, no? Oh yeah, it looks like he does!
Note: if the original author of the article altered the article itself after the story was posted on/., or someone else already mentioned this, then I retract my case.
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Actually, in Super Metroid, I know (and seen, because my friend finished it in front of me) that if you finish the game in under 20 hours or something, during the ending credits her suit will kinda explode. And she sure looked like a girl!
On the one hand, I can understand your frustration with wasting resources. But before you go ahead and stab these people, you should start with the people who drive SUVs with 20" chrome wheels, Chinese (IAAC) who order $1000 worth of food just to display their wealth and only eating $20 of that, or people with really, really expensive home theaters (obviously, the former two examples are just plain wasteful, but the last example isn't *that* bad).
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...bugs with buffer overruns. Imagine writing DNA to somewhere one shouldn't be writing.
Sadly, unless you haven't updated your machine in the last two months, this wouldn't matter as MS has already patched it. As for those of you with an "unpatched" kernel, let's just say this is like v1.5 PSPs.
One use can be for interacting with patients that're non-nteractive (I don't even know what the proper medical term is) and in apparent vegetive states. Maybe their brain is functioning but they can't talk to the rest of the world?
And although this is getting a bit farfetched, but if they can minimize the technology and use less power, how would that work for the next generation of video games?
Ideally, yes. But 1. this device will help prove said person's guilt (if they did commit the crime), and 2. try convincing a jury who already think that you're guilty due to race/gender/looks/how you smell/etc... and that circumstantial evidence seems to incriminate you, even if you're not guilty.
It'd be nice if people are just, but they're not always. =/
Obviously, everyone likes to argue whether or not "barriers to entry" exist. But let's cut to the obvious here: the ones who should willingly fork out the wad of cash to push this drug through the testing phase is the medical insurance companies. They will save BILLIONS by cutting the cost of $100k/pop cancer treatments down to $50. I guess now we just have to worry about "barriers to making the first move."
Governments? Charities? Drug companies? Why make it that farfetched when you can just ask the medical insurance companies to do it? They're the ones who're forking out $100k+ per cancer patient. This should be more than enough incentives to make them want to invest in it.
I think most of the sibling posts are misunderstanding fotbr. It seems like fotbr isn't saying that UHC doesn't work, he's just saying that UHC wouldn't work in the US.
Eh (not "eh?")...granted I'm not an American (I'm a Canadian...but I suppose that's close enough), I still thank you and all others like you for defending our collective rights and freedoms. I salute you, and all those who willingly put their lives on the line to protect the rest of us, with the utmost respect. What I don't appreciate is the politicians who're willing to stand behind a wall of human shield (you) just so that they can profit under the name of "national security" or "fighting the commies/terrorists." (Hey, as they say, "Communism is a dog eat dog world. Capitalism is just the other way around.")
So rather than thinking that others shouldn't get their dues, I think it's far better if we (all the ones whose asses you are protecting) all stood up and fought for your hard-deserved wallet.
Well, that's almost it, although the reason is a little more subtle. It's more along the lines that Apple's marketshare isn't large enough for nVidia or ATi to bother with, so the two companies just leave their hardware specs/interface to Apple to write its own drivers. Well, at least this is what I learned from the dudes who work at Apple during my interview with them.
I think you parsed what I wrote incorrectly. If you read again, you'll realize it means "real scientists who don't have financial interests," not "real scientists don't have financial interests" (and I believe scientists with financial interests are mostly not real scientists anyway, since they're more than likely to be biased). The "real scientists" I'm referring to are the ones who're getting paid a lot less than the goons hired by the large oil companies.
As for your second argument, let me ask this:
Do CO2 and other "greenhouse" gases cause some amount of greenhouse effect (I think this has also been proven)? I think you'll agree that it does.
Do humans contribute a large and significant amount of CO2 and other greenhouse gases (this can, and has been measured)? I think that's a yes too.
So, in your opinion, do/did humans contribute to any part of the warming of the earth? I think in logic terms that would mean Humans->CO2->greenhouse effect. So, yeah, I don't think it's really "anyone's guess."
As for the rest of your comment, I think I agree with you.
True, consensus doesn't mean "right." But the global warming issue aside...if the majority of real scientists without much financial interest tells you something they agree on, would you bet on or against it? Now add to that the people with financial interest tells you otherwise?
The question is, which way will you bet? (and don't talk to me about finding out more about the issue, because unless you're a climatologist or highly trained in the sciences, I doubt you'll get much more than an amateur opinion on the subject)
But doesn't something like Google Trends already implements at least part of the patent? If that's the case, shouldn't prior art easily defeat that patent, since it's invalid anyways?
You are right, and no GPU vendor has ever supported 64-bit floating points on their GPUs to date. As a matter of fact, ATi didn't have full 32-bit support up until their X1k series of cards. Furthermore, you are correct that the nVidia cards are much slower when handling if cases (it executes all branches, at least in the 6000 series), although I don't know how ATi's cards handle it.
I think the real reason that Folding@HOME went with ATi is because that this is their first GPGPU client, and they didn't want complexity beyond everything else they have to handle. Specifically, the nVidia GPUs don't support full IEEE-754 standard, and would collapse to zero when the exponent reaches past its smallest value.
Normally, this comformaty issue isn't much of a problem if it was accounted for. However, because of the fact that this is their first client, they want to do away with the additional complexity. In addition, since this is a distributed project, and every "first answer" from every client needs to be double, triple, quadruple, etc... checked, then having an answer slightly different (even if not significant) is really, really bad.
About the system warranty part, it is true. My friend went to EB to buy a used XBox (this was a few years ago), and the employee there told him, "If you're not satisfied with the system in 30 days, you can come return it. If it broke before 30 days, you can exchange it for a new one. As a matter of fact, if you walked out of the store and walked back in and complain about your XBox, we'll give you a new one." And so he did, and so he ended up with a new XBox paying a used XBox price.
Really? I think you got it a little mixed up. That's the part of the reason why Nintendo went with a cheaper console and respective games: so they can sell to those without HDTVs. The households with enough disposable income to afford HDTVs are the exact same ones who can afford the 360 and PS3, with a Wii as a second (or third) console. And no, 67% next year is by far bigger than the 33%, not to mention that kids probably play games in their rooms with a SDTV.
I think your argument can't be more wrong.
or do they all share Kuturagi's confidence? ...yes, they actually do. They think the PS3 is some type of Godsend and all guard it like some state top-secret when the rest of the AAA game development community have used it and rated it as the worst next-gen system to develop for. Figures.
I have great respect for science. I can also look at a detailed photograph of a honeybee, or a sunset, or a cherry blossom tree and see the signature of their Creator. Science and God are not exclusive.
I have great respect for (non-intrusive) religion. I can also look at a post, a written opinion, or an intellectually irresponsible argument and see the signature of their common delusional writer. Religion and lunacy are not exclusive.
I believe my reply was written in rather plain English. Would you like me to draw a map?
Actually, I do. Afterall, the religious always (erroneously) assumed that their position is the basis and required the scientists to prove their point. The scientists have at least attempted to do their job, and offered possible scenarios against their arguments in order to make their arguments sound. However, the religious have never done so, and thus maybe it's time for you and your "collegues" to provide such "map" to prove your point, if you're able to.
As most allegories are. It's not a set of instructions on how to assemble exercise equipment.
And hence not proof, or even close to it. The mere fact that the religious accept such allegories indicate that their logic is as brittle and unsound as their allegories themselves.
And it only takes a thing called "money" to mislead the whole world, period. I suspect it more likely that the corporations are simply misleading everyone.
Yes, the Book of Genesis...as intentionally vaguely phrased as those by Nostradamus. Anyone can interpret anything out of those kinda of words. And your point is? It certainly doesn't prove your claims.
According to my friends at EA (who are full-time programmers), they said that after the EA-spouse incident, they've been very careful with overtime (8 hours of work per day). Now, employees pretty much have to "apply" to do overtime work...as in, request it from their managers who won't just trivially approve. So the situation has gotten a lot better.
Sure, it's either that we take a chance and maybe screw up the long term cycle a 1000 years into the future, or we do nothing and get a much higher chance of screwing up the weather now. Which one would you pick?
Wow, not only am I surprised at the number of people who got modded +5 Interesting/Insightful/etc for pointing out that Civ4 isn't an RTS, merely because these same people only read the /. summary instead of TFA, I'm even more surprised at the number of moderators that didn't RTFA and gave those +1 Interesting/Insightful/etc points. People, RTFA. Nowhere in the article does it mention that Civ 4 is an RTS. If you RTFA, you would've saw this:
/., or someone else already mentioned this, then I retract my case.
"Overclick isn't limited to Civilization. Real-time strategy games will leave you with even worse carpal tunnel."
Oh yeah, shit, how could I be so stupid? Looks like the submitter didn't RTFA himself! You would think that the author of a Gamasutra article would know about what genre of games he's playing before writing an article up, no? Oh yeah, it looks like he does!
Note: if the original author of the article altered the article itself after the story was posted on
Actually, in Super Metroid, I know (and seen, because my friend finished it in front of me) that if you finish the game in under 20 hours or something, during the ending credits her suit will kinda explode. And she sure looked like a girl!
On the one hand, I can understand your frustration with wasting resources. But before you go ahead and stab these people, you should start with the people who drive SUVs with 20" chrome wheels, Chinese (IAAC) who order $1000 worth of food just to display their wealth and only eating $20 of that, or people with really, really expensive home theaters (obviously, the former two examples are just plain wasteful, but the last example isn't *that* bad).
Easy. All the program has to do is to search for the words "dupe" under the comments section!