Nah. If this was happening in China it wouldn't be all over the news. They'd just quietly find Assange, put a bullet in the back of his head execution-style, and nobody would ever be the wiser.
That would be cool and all, if this was actually subsidizing solar power research... the summary says they money is going to companies building production plants, not early-stage research. In other words, just another government distortion of the free market. I'd rather have solar panel producers who can stand on their own commercially instead of giving handouts to yet another industry who will then become dependent on said handouts.
No, engine start takes place at around T-2.5 or T-3.5. If the engines have all built up to the proper thrust levels, and everything else checks out, THEN the computer releases the hold-down clamps at T-0.
You kid, but I remember reading an interview with a high level manager in the JSC astronaut office, wherein he said only half joking that the astronauts under his purview were more than willing to strap into a Shuttle with only one functioning SRB, etc, and a big part of his job was basically to convince them of reasonable safety standards for their OWN lives!
Right ok. I got a bit off topic... to get back on topic, with a 10 usec call overhead, it's not that hard to design kernel invocations that run for > 10X that time, thus minimizing the driver overhead, and getting pretty close to maximum GPU speed. BUT the one big caveat is that in many cases, this means you cannot use (for instance) CUBLAS but must write a custom kernel. You can do in one custom kernel invocation what could take three dozen CUBLAS calls, and the reduction in setup overhead can help. But an even bigger factor can be better use of the tiny cache on the GPU, where doing everything you need to do to a particular piece of data in a custom kernel means saving a ton of memory fetch overhead versus making 20 passes over the data by doing one thing at a time to it with CUBLAS. All in all, with a bit of work it is quite possible to get it to where feeding data from the CPU to the GPU is not the bottleneck.
I haven't timed GLX calls-to-the-card, but I have timed CUDA calls-to-the-card, and IIRC it was about a 10 usec overhead per call. If it was the same for glxgears, that would indicate a framerate of about 100,000 fps. However, when I run glxgears, I get more like 2000 - 20,000 fps, and it varies based on the size of the window -- it definitely seems to be slowing down based on the size of the window that must be cleared/redrawn. So there are definitely points on the glxgears performance spectrum where drawing operations (including copying 2D buffers around) overtakes simple driver overhead.
Also, Islam is the _first_ law in history that gives women a share of inheritance.
That's not quite correct. Check out Numbers 27:1-11... sure, the daughters only get something if there aren't any sons, but that's hardly reason to discount this incident entirely.
The daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. The names of the daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah. They approached the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders and the whole assembly, and said, "Our father died in the desert. He was not among Korah's followers, who banded together against the LORD, but he died for his own sin and left no sons. Why should our father's name disappear from his clan because he had no son? Give us property among our father's relatives."
So Moses brought their case before the LORD and the LORD said to him, "What Zelophehad's daughters are saying is right. You must certainly give them property as an inheritance among their father's relatives and turn their father's inheritance over to them.
"Say to the Israelites, 'If a man dies and leaves no son, turn his inheritance over to his daughter. If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers. If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father's brothers. If his father had no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative in his clan, that he may possess it. This is to be a legal requirement for the Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.' "
My friend has a UPS that is big enough to run a vacuum cleaner on for ten minutes without being plugged in. I think it was an APC 3000VA. If you actually have a larger model, none of the consumer 300VA junk, then plugging a printer into it really should not be a problem at all.
"Large increases in UV-B associated with the AOH have been measured with increases in UV-B at 297 nm of up to 38 times those of similar days with normal ozone. Recently we reported significant increases in sunburns during the spring of 1999 on days with low ozone because of the AOH."
Asked if he is planning to step down, McNealy characterized the possibility as merely a rumor, without directly answering the question. "That rumor is about 22 years old and still chuggin'," he wrote in an e-mail.
In the year 2050, we're all going to be bitter crotchety old people, set in our ideas talking about these young kids and their crazy ideas.
While I agree that the vast majority of people end up like this, I tend to think that they were really that way their whole lives, and it just becomes more evident as the world moves on. However, I have seen strong evidence that there exist people who never do become "bitter crotchety old people, set in [their] ideas"... see for example this interview excerpt from when Mandelbrot turned 80:
Your work has covered many areas. Would you describe yourself as a pure or an applied mathematician?
A mathematical scientist. It's the official name of my chair at Yale and it was chosen with care. It is deliberately ambiguous. In a different era, I would have called myself a natural philosopher. All my life, I have enjoyed the reputation of being someone who disrupted prevailing ideas. Now that I'm in my 80th year, I can play on my age and provoke people even more.
Is that a benefit of being an elder statesman of science?
Elder statesmen of science don't produce new results: they only comment on other people's results. I am still active in research.
What are you working on now?
My work is more varied than at any other point in my life. I am still carrying out research in pure mathematics. And I am working on an idea that I had several years ago on negative dimensions.
Negative dimensions???!!! No way!
Now I'm the youngin' resistant to the ideas of the guy in his 80s.
My point is that rational thinking could replace fear.
And on that, you are squarely wrong.
Rational thinking merely enables you to connect your fear to an action far removed from the end result. Without the fear, you'll still be able to work through the logical sequence of steps... but then you won't be able to realize that the outcome is undesireable, as opposed to desireable.
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Nah. If this was happening in China it wouldn't be all over the news. They'd just quietly find Assange, put a bullet in the back of his head execution-style, and nobody would ever be the wiser.
That would be cool and all, if this was actually subsidizing solar power research... the summary says they money is going to companies building production plants, not early-stage research. In other words, just another government distortion of the free market. I'd rather have solar panel producers who can stand on their own commercially instead of giving handouts to yet another industry who will then become dependent on said handouts.
No, engine start takes place at around T-2.5 or T-3.5. If the engines have all built up to the proper thrust levels, and everything else checks out, THEN the computer releases the hold-down clamps at T-0.
You kid, but I remember reading an interview with a high level manager in the JSC astronaut office, wherein he said only half joking that the astronauts under his purview were more than willing to strap into a Shuttle with only one functioning SRB, etc, and a big part of his job was basically to convince them of reasonable safety standards for their OWN lives!
Right ok. I got a bit off topic... to get back on topic, with a 10 usec call overhead, it's not that hard to design kernel invocations that run for > 10X that time, thus minimizing the driver overhead, and getting pretty close to maximum GPU speed. BUT the one big caveat is that in many cases, this means you cannot use (for instance) CUBLAS but must write a custom kernel. You can do in one custom kernel invocation what could take three dozen CUBLAS calls, and the reduction in setup overhead can help. But an even bigger factor can be better use of the tiny cache on the GPU, where doing everything you need to do to a particular piece of data in a custom kernel means saving a ton of memory fetch overhead versus making 20 passes over the data by doing one thing at a time to it with CUBLAS. All in all, with a bit of work it is quite possible to get it to where feeding data from the CPU to the GPU is not the bottleneck.
I haven't timed GLX calls-to-the-card, but I have timed CUDA calls-to-the-card, and IIRC it was about a 10 usec overhead per call. If it was the same for glxgears, that would indicate a framerate of about 100,000 fps. However, when I run glxgears, I get more like 2000 - 20,000 fps, and it varies based on the size of the window -- it definitely seems to be slowing down based on the size of the window that must be cleared/redrawn. So there are definitely points on the glxgears performance spectrum where drawing operations (including copying 2D buffers around) overtakes simple driver overhead.
You forgot the part where you divide by c^2. Let's say you add one megajoule of heat to your bottle of water. How much mass is that? 11 nanograms.
Not if you're made of powdered magnesium! That stuff will burn in O2, N2, H2O, CO2...
Also, Islam is the _first_ law in history that gives women a share of inheritance.
That's not quite correct. Check out Numbers 27:1-11... sure, the daughters only get something if there aren't any sons, but that's hardly reason to discount this incident entirely.
The daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. The names of the daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah. They approached the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders and the whole assembly, and said, "Our father died in the desert. He was not among Korah's followers, who banded together against the LORD, but he died for his own sin and left no sons. Why should our father's name disappear from his clan because he had no son? Give us property among our father's relatives."
So Moses brought their case before the LORD and the LORD said to him, "What Zelophehad's daughters are saying is right. You must certainly give them property as an inheritance among their father's relatives and turn their father's inheritance over to them.
"Say to the Israelites, 'If a man dies and leaves no son, turn his inheritance over to his daughter. If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers. If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father's brothers. If his father had no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative in his clan, that he may possess it. This is to be a legal requirement for the Israelites, as the LORD commanded Moses.' "
Done.
My friend has a UPS that is big enough to run a vacuum cleaner on for ten minutes without being plugged in. I think it was an APC 3000VA. If you actually have a larger model, none of the consumer 300VA junk, then plugging a printer into it really should not be a problem at all.
With you on that.
Email me if you want some ideas.
From the link:
"Large increases in UV-B associated with the AOH have been measured with increases in UV-B at 297 nm of up to 38 times those of similar days with normal ozone. Recently we reported significant increases in sunburns during the spring of 1999 on days with low ozone because of the AOH."
From Friday:
Asked if he is planning to step down, McNealy characterized the possibility as merely a rumor, without directly answering the question. "That rumor is about 22 years old and still chuggin'," he wrote in an e-mail.
The additional chips cost more than you think. For example, a random MPEG2 decoder chip meant for use in a set top box: $11 in volume. link
She must be incredibly frigid here on Earth...
I wouldn't be so sure. Read here.
Yes, but what about this?
yep.
didn't expect this day to come so soon...
Nah, people climb mountains cause they look like breasts :)
Don't you mean eighth-inch worms? Cause these ones won't grow back when you cut them in half =)
While I agree that the vast majority of people end up like this, I tend to think that they were really that way their whole lives, and it just becomes more evident as the world moves on. However, I have seen strong evidence that there exist people who never do become "bitter crotchety old people, set in [their] ideas"... see for example this interview excerpt from when Mandelbrot turned 80:
Negative dimensions???!!! No way!
Now I'm the youngin' resistant to the ideas of the guy in his 80s.
My point is that rational thinking could replace fear.
And on that, you are squarely wrong.
Rational thinking merely enables you to connect your fear to an action far removed from the end result. Without the fear, you'll still be able to work through the logical sequence of steps... but then you won't be able to realize that the outcome is undesireable, as opposed to desireable.
Moreover the creation stories in the Bible are not only contradict each other, but are demonstrably false.
No, they're not... that would be a big step up!
The very problem is that the claims of the religionists are not falsifiable.
That's precisely the plan of these guys.