it's called Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) and it works well. plenty of banks still use it because it's reliable and works. it's plenty slower but it's accurate regardless of the processor it's used on.
While writing my Ph.D in anthropology I found out it's almost impossible to get non-geeks to help me with editing my thesis because it was written in Latex
is this really a surprise? seriously, why would you expect for someone someone that is doing you a favor to learn something that is alien to them?
Google Docs is web based and near-WYSIWYG, but lacks support for professional print formats such as Latex
ok, so you expected people to learn LaTeX but you can be bothered to reformat the page after someone edits it for you? WTF?
i understand you want peer review but people are putting in effort to help you. the very least you could do is to put in some effort to accommodate them in return. it's this kind of bullshit behavior that gives geeks like me a bad name. stop telling people there is/was nothing wrong with GIMP and that they are holding their phone wrong!
johanneswilm, you are ruining geekdom for the rest of us!
let's face it, we cant trust what the government says.
a list of summarized lies and realities:
"the first thing i'll do is close guantanamo bay" - didnt happen, still open. "we do not torture" - because we renamed it "enhanced interrogation" or "rendition" them to other countries "there is no drone program" - not long after "oh, we have a drone program" "we do not have a program to collect information from everyone" - not long after "well, i tried to tell the least untruth" and seriously, PRISM is the least untruth?
i'm just waiting for the NSA to get busted using PRISM freely on anyone and everyone.
there is a good deal of criminal activity from congressmen and their friends that have gone completely unpunished and the police have abused the hell out of the PATRIOT act.
how far we have fallen. B.I.H. Constitutional rights (R.I.P. is so OVER)
it's lame that the admin caved to the demands of one loudmouth guy with a misdirected claim.
I am publishing information provided publicly by Sony Online Entertainment.
this is the only part that matters. instead he bickers with the loudmouth and finally caves. he should have just responded with that and ignored all further correspondence.
you seem to be confusing the Epiphany chip (silicon) with the Zync (FPGA+ARM) host chip or something. the Epiphany chips contain 16 or 64 "true" cores and the chips connect directly together.
the FPGA is the host for the CPU and communications with the Epiphany processor so you never need to change the FPGA at all. it's the Epiphany processor is what you are developing for, not an FPGA. the functionality of the FPGA is open, so you could use it just like any other IC if you really wanted.
Parallel computing is a way to get around the limitations on building insanely fast non-parallel computers
by limitations, i'm assuming you mean the laws of physics.
Parallel computing is... not something that's particularly ideal
it's merely a new paradigm in order to continue processing data faster and it wont be the last.
High core counts are making supercomputing more and more difficult. Supercomputing isn't about getting massively parallel... collective operations on supercomputers with hundreds of thousands to millions of cores are one of the largest bottlenecks in HPC code.
the Epiphany architecture is currently limited to 4096 interconnected cores because all the registers and memory (RAM) are memory mapped and the address space is limited. so if you are using 64 core chips it's 8x8 chips.
Supercomputing isn't about getting massively parallel, but rather high compute performance, memory performance, and interconnect performance. If you can get the same performance out of fewer cores, then there will usually be less stress on interconnects.
communication between cores is actually quite fast, 102 GB/s Network-On-Chip and 6.4 GB/s Off-Chip Bandwidth. so for 4096 cores, memory bandwidth is not a problem. the RAM and DMA communication system is actually separate from the cores, so you can pool your memory automagicly and not see any slowdown. you dont miss any cycles waiting for communications.
the roadmap on their site shows that they expect to have 64000 cores per chip in 2018, so that's going to be interesting.
Supercomputers are usually just measured by their floating point performance
umm... got a source for that claim?
having tons of really weak cores isn't really desirable for most applications.
each core is 1GHz (on the 16 core chip) and 800MHz (on the 64 core chip) with 32KB (RAM) each which as i said before can be pooled without penalty. those aren't what i would call weak cores.
early on, we teach children to share. sharing does not mean, "yeah, you can have the ball but it's going to cost you" which is _exactly_ what this is. this is renting. it's even been made this into a business and they call these "sharing" places, hotels and motels.
sharing is communism. your children are communists.
cedega only targeted some games but it ran waaaay more than that and certainly more than WINE. few games in the WINE DB actually work properly. there are very few "gold" status games and they all seem to vary from distro to distro.
and why would i muddle around with copying DLLs when it's works just fine with cedega? cedega also has better independent configuration options than even PlayOnLinux.
When you target a typically free software environment, you'd better offer your stuff for free or eventually someone else will come along and release a free alternative.
you say that but there was no alternative if you want to play DirectX 9 and 10 games on linux. the difference between the WINE project and Cedega is that Transgaming targeted specific DX9/DX10 games and fixed their codebase until everything in the game worked. games on WINE never had "good enough" support to play the large majority or games and it's still like that. Cedega has been gone for many years and WINE still hasnt caught up.
oh a serious note, progress is always good. it's really too bad transgamming killed cedega but didnt release any DX code. i really liked cedega and yes, paid the subscription fee for it.
you can invent a new use for anything, but i dont think that makes it a function of the item. i mean, you could use a gun to turn off the lights in your house like Homer but that doesnt mean it's a function of the gun. if you think i'm wrong then i'm going to tell on you to PRISM!:P
A gun is a tool for liberty. All other arguments are secondary to that. Yes, it is a killing machine. It is best used to keep in line the worst killing machines in human history: governments.
killing is what the machine does. who you kill (or the threat of it) is what can liberate you. the chinese invented the gun for warfare, not liberty from their governments. this is fact, not opinion.
a gun is a large responsibility. smart guns are an attempt to remove that responsibility. if you are irresponsible then you should not have a gun. if you dont know if you are responsible enough to own a gun then you are not.
before someone tries to compare it to owning a car, i would like to point out that a gun is specifically for killing. it has no other function, it's literally a killing machine.
i have yet to hear an argument for making crossbows safer yet it serves the same purpose as a gun. if it is somehow intrinsically safer then why aren't people advocating crossbows over guns?
the NSA is not concerned about infringing on people's rights and civil liberties. if we are going with medical analogies, i think the NSA would rather amputate than treat an infection.
it's great that US mil think they are hot shit with unmanned drones but the japanese beat them a year ago in a big way. The stakes are waaay higher in space. Worst case for a drone crash on a carrier is billions in damage. Worst case in space is taking down our only space station that took over a decade and 100 billion dollars to build and turn the station into a massive hazard for all future space missions.
and if you think getting Hellfire missile dropped on you is bad, just wait 'til you get hit by a Rod From God.;)
Developers don't choose when to release software, it's management. Think you need to do more testing but management thinks it looks ready? It's out the door and you cant do anything to stop them. Testing is just as important as coding and the developers dont do all the testing, it's usually outsourced.
Bottom line: if a company doesn't do it's due diligence then yes, they should be responsible for putting out bad software.
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i choose option 4.
4. they are trying to justify the massive amount of money that has been put into pointless SWAT teams.
it's called Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) and it works well. plenty of banks still use it because it's reliable and works. it's plenty slower but it's accurate regardless of the processor it's used on.
While writing my Ph.D in anthropology I found out it's almost impossible to get non-geeks to help me with editing my thesis because it was written in Latex
is this really a surprise? seriously, why would you expect for someone someone that is doing you a favor to learn something that is alien to them?
Google Docs is web based and near-WYSIWYG, but lacks support for professional print formats such as Latex
ok, so you expected people to learn LaTeX but you can be bothered to reformat the page after someone edits it for you? WTF?
i understand you want peer review but people are putting in effort to help you. the very least you could do is to put in some effort to accommodate them in return. it's this kind of bullshit behavior that gives geeks like me a bad name. stop telling people there is/was nothing wrong with GIMP and that they are holding their phone wrong!
johanneswilm, you are ruining geekdom for the rest of us!
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let's face it, we cant trust what the government says.
a list of summarized lies and realities:
"the first thing i'll do is close guantanamo bay" - didnt happen, still open.
"we do not torture" - because we renamed it "enhanced interrogation" or "rendition" them to other countries
"there is no drone program" - not long after "oh, we have a drone program"
"we do not have a program to collect information from everyone" - not long after "well, i tried to tell the least untruth" and seriously, PRISM is the least untruth?
i'm just waiting for the NSA to get busted using PRISM freely on anyone and everyone.
there is a good deal of criminal activity from congressmen and their friends that have gone completely unpunished and the police have abused the hell out of the PATRIOT act.
how far we have fallen.
B.I.H. Constitutional rights (R.I.P. is so OVER)
you dont need nine, just five and the rest could be prairie dogs as far as the law is concerned... as long as nobody knows they are prairie dogs. <_<;
it's lame that the admin caved to the demands of one loudmouth guy with a misdirected claim.
I am publishing information provided publicly by Sony Online Entertainment.
this is the only part that matters. instead he bickers with the loudmouth and finally caves. he should have just responded with that and ignored all further correspondence.
you seem to be confusing the Epiphany chip (silicon) with the Zync (FPGA+ARM) host chip or something. the Epiphany chips contain 16 or 64 "true" cores and the chips connect directly together.
what were you talking about?
seriously, is nobody trying to actually RTFA?
the FPGA is the host for the CPU and communications with the Epiphany processor so you never need to change the FPGA at all. it's the Epiphany processor is what you are developing for, not an FPGA. the functionality of the FPGA is open, so you could use it just like any other IC if you really wanted.
Parallel computing is a way to get around the limitations on building insanely fast non-parallel computers
by limitations, i'm assuming you mean the laws of physics.
Parallel computing is ... not something that's particularly ideal
it's merely a new paradigm in order to continue processing data faster and it wont be the last.
High core counts are making supercomputing more and more difficult. Supercomputing isn't about getting massively parallel ...
collective operations on supercomputers with hundreds of thousands to millions of cores are one of the largest bottlenecks in HPC code.
the Epiphany architecture is currently limited to 4096 interconnected cores because all the registers and memory (RAM) are memory mapped and the address space is limited. so if you are using 64 core chips it's 8x8 chips.
Supercomputing isn't about getting massively parallel, but rather high compute performance, memory performance, and interconnect performance. If you can get the same performance out of fewer cores, then there will usually be less stress on interconnects.
communication between cores is actually quite fast, 102 GB/s Network-On-Chip and 6.4 GB/s Off-Chip Bandwidth. so for 4096 cores, memory bandwidth is not a problem. the RAM and DMA communication system is actually separate from the cores, so you can pool your memory automagicly and not see any slowdown. you dont miss any cycles waiting for communications.
the roadmap on their site shows that they expect to have 64000 cores per chip in 2018, so that's going to be interesting.
Supercomputers are usually just measured by their floating point performance
umm... got a source for that claim?
having tons of really weak cores isn't really desirable for most applications.
each core is 1GHz (on the 16 core chip) and 800MHz (on the 64 core chip) with 32KB (RAM) each which as i said before can be pooled without penalty. those aren't what i would call weak cores.
And when it's involuntary and only beneficial to a select few it's ... what do we call our system today? I know it ain't capitalism anymore.
Aristocracy
early on, we teach children to share. sharing does not mean, "yeah, you can have the ball but it's going to cost you" which is _exactly_ what this is. this is renting. it's even been made this into a business and they call these "sharing" places, hotels and motels.
sharing is communism. your children are communists.
cedega only targeted some games but it ran waaaay more than that and certainly more than WINE. few games in the WINE DB actually work properly. there are very few "gold" status games and they all seem to vary from distro to distro.
and why would i muddle around with copying DLLs when it's works just fine with cedega? cedega also has better independent configuration options than even PlayOnLinux.
When you target a typically free software environment, you'd better offer your stuff for free or eventually someone else will come along and release a free alternative.
you say that but there was no alternative if you want to play DirectX 9 and 10 games on linux. the difference between the WINE project and Cedega is that Transgaming targeted specific DX9/DX10 games and fixed their codebase until everything in the game worked. games on WINE never had "good enough" support to play the large majority or games and it's still like that. Cedega has been gone for many years and WINE still hasnt caught up.
finally i can play those new games that came out... three to 11 years ago.
oh a serious note, progress is always good. it's really too bad transgamming killed cedega but didnt release any DX code. i really liked cedega and yes, paid the subscription fee for it.
you can invent a new use for anything, but i dont think that makes it a function of the item. i mean, you could use a gun to turn off the lights in your house like Homer but that doesnt mean it's a function of the gun. if you think i'm wrong then i'm going to tell on you to PRISM! :P
A gun is a tool for liberty. All other arguments are secondary to that. Yes, it is a killing machine. It is best used to keep in line the worst killing machines in human history: governments.
killing is what the machine does. who you kill (or the threat of it) is what can liberate you. the chinese invented the gun for warfare, not liberty from their governments. this is fact, not opinion.
Your signature tells me that you shouldn't have a gun yourself...
which is exactly why i got an automated self-defense laser cat.
i sure hope Oracle buys Microsoft, there is one particular project i would like them to kill. ;)
a gun is a large responsibility. smart guns are an attempt to remove that responsibility. if you are irresponsible then you should not have a gun. if you dont know if you are responsible enough to own a gun then you are not.
before someone tries to compare it to owning a car, i would like to point out that a gun is specifically for killing. it has no other function, it's literally a killing machine.
i have yet to hear an argument for making crossbows safer yet it serves the same purpose as a gun. if it is somehow intrinsically safer then why aren't people advocating crossbows over guns?
the NSA is not concerned about infringing on people's rights and civil liberties. if we are going with medical analogies, i think the NSA would rather amputate than treat an infection.
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. - John 3:20
just sayin'
it's great that US mil think they are hot shit with unmanned drones but the japanese beat them a year ago in a big way. The stakes are waaay higher in space. Worst case for a drone crash on a carrier is billions in damage. Worst case in space is taking down our only space station that took over a decade and 100 billion dollars to build and turn the station into a massive hazard for all future space missions.
and if you think getting Hellfire missile dropped on you is bad, just wait 'til you get hit by a Rod From God. ;)
Developers don't choose when to release software, it's management. Think you need to do more testing but management thinks it looks ready? It's out the door and you cant do anything to stop them. Testing is just as important as coding and the developers dont do all the testing, it's usually outsourced.
Bottom line: if a company doesn't do it's due diligence then yes, they should be responsible for putting out bad software.
now that they have decent hands, we will have robots stealing our cereal. they're always after me lucky charms.