When I say make your own board, solder chips to it, I do mean it. Make it, do not order it. Chips are sold at whatever quantities you wish. If you want to buy one ARM CPU instead of 100, you'll end up paying $11 for an item instead of $9.
It seems that OLPC designed to be used by people living in caves (no energy source at all, no communications at all) . Desktop isn't. Besides, the cheapest way to get a desktop is to get an outdated desktop from local source (You don't want to ship a pc that costs $50 over Atlantic)
Special purpose chips for hardware acceleration were used all along for high performance computing. Once the gate count was good enough to make capable chips the trend was simple - ditch those bastards. Of course, if there's pile of cash burning your pocket you can always find an expensive low FLOPS/$ hardware that either allows you to pack lots of FLOPS into small space, or just plain waste money... The idea is always there, it's just that people are not buying into it.
There are cheaper ways to inflict programming pain on yourself. What's wrong with old trusty mpi-2 sugared clusters? They'll give you more bang for the buck, and they're almost as painful to program, aren't they?
That's because of very small volumes. The chips themselves (and they sell well, unlike dev boards) are dirt cheap. Make your own board, solder chips to it and you're set
The Cell has never been intended solely to be a "game chip." Yea, right. Also, I'd like to use this opportunity to welcome our new single-precision overlords...
Yes and no.
The whole CO2 scare is wrong on many levels. Through the course of history climate changed much more drastically than it'll ever change with human made CO2 emissions. We're better adapt, those who refused to are long dead. Same goes for O2/CO2 ratio (big insects didn't want to adapt, where're they now?).
More CO2 means more favorable conditions to those who consume it. Those who do produce oxygen, at least nowdays. Die out, stay the same or flourish? What's gonna happen to CO2 then?
Sun is burning out its hydrogen, the temperatures will increase in a long run no matter what we do - that's a nature's joke about environmentalists.
Also, the whole thing is not enforceable - if the gains are immediate and attainable, and costs are spread over everyone any agreement will be broken again and again. You need a worldwide police to enforce them. But worldwide police means no more competition for law enforcement - Hitler's knocking at your door...
Ask a Chinese student proficient in solving these types of math problems what he/she thinks about art, the answer will be a blank look.
Art is a fraud.
Low end of the market is saturated by ex-ICBMs. A space launch is a better way of getting rid of an old ICBM than a usual burning of fuel on the ground. So ICBM launch is a gain even if there's no payload. How are they going to top that?
And there's only one free radio station left in Russia (and no tv channels). Somehow I don't think that closing the aforementioned station would be nice no matter what happens in US.
That mafia longs for being recognized as respectable European elite. Convince them that they need to eat their own shit for that, and they'll do it. Might work for greens too.
Looks like he does. It boggles my mind that a world's coldest country signed a Kyoto protocol. It does 3 things: harms the (empty, frozen) country, lowers oil/gas prices (harm some more) and pacifies greenies.
Never been there so I'm just curious: what kind of output (if any) can you get there during the winter? Won't you spend more energy blowing the snow or dust off the solar panel fields?
If Asian means East Asian, it explains perfectly. They've got higher IQ, so there are more of them in high iq area. If Asian means something else - we need another hypothesis. As for "smart enough" - well, there are women in programming, I wouldn't even say they are rare in the field. They're just lower in numbers, wich fits IQ hypothesis nicely. They're not trying to make a first female programmer, of course, they're trying to ensure that close to 50% programmers are female. The only way to achieve that is to discourage men from programming (no kidding), but blinded by political correctnes they're bound to fail (expect reports that "there's a progress, but we need to do even more").
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When I say make your own board, solder chips to it, I do mean it. Make it, do not order it. Chips are sold at whatever quantities you wish. If you want to buy one ARM CPU instead of 100, you'll end up paying $11 for an item instead of $9.
It seems that OLPC designed to be used by people living in caves (no energy source at all, no communications at all) . Desktop isn't. Besides, the cheapest way to get a desktop is to get an outdated desktop from local source (You don't want to ship a pc that costs $50 over Atlantic)
Special purpose chips for hardware acceleration were used all along for high performance computing. Once the gate count was good enough to make capable chips the trend was simple - ditch those bastards. Of course, if there's pile of cash burning your pocket you can always find an expensive low FLOPS/$ hardware that either allows you to pack lots of FLOPS into small space, or just plain waste money... The idea is always there, it's just that people are not buying into it.
There are cheaper ways to inflict programming pain on yourself. What's wrong with old trusty mpi-2 sugared clusters? They'll give you more bang for the buck, and they're almost as painful to program, aren't they?
That's because of very small volumes. The chips themselves (and they sell well, unlike dev boards) are dirt cheap. Make your own board, solder chips to it and you're set
The Cell has never been intended solely to be a "game chip."
Yea, right. Also, I'd like to use this opportunity to welcome our new single-precision overlords...
Yet another increase in number of suckers that IBM managed to fool into buying its clumsy CPU...
How does it make any difference?
Yes and no.
The whole CO2 scare is wrong on many levels. Through the course of history climate changed much more drastically than it'll ever change with human made CO2 emissions. We're better adapt, those who refused to are long dead. Same goes for O2/CO2 ratio (big insects didn't want to adapt, where're they now?).
More CO2 means more favorable conditions to those who consume it. Those who do produce oxygen, at least nowdays. Die out, stay the same or flourish? What's gonna happen to CO2 then?
Sun is burning out its hydrogen, the temperatures will increase in a long run no matter what we do - that's a nature's joke about environmentalists.
Also, the whole thing is not enforceable - if the gains are immediate and attainable, and costs are spread over everyone any agreement will be broken again and again. You need a worldwide police to enforce them. But worldwide police means no more competition for law enforcement - Hitler's knocking at your door...
The best way to reduce CO2 in the atmosphere still is and always will be to not emit it in the first place
Stop breathing now.
pulled out of the ass of B-B+ student, no doubt
Oh, man! You've just doubled my vocabulary...
Ask a Chinese student proficient in solving these types of math problems what he/she thinks about art, the answer will be a blank look.
Art is a fraud.
Low end of the market is saturated by ex-ICBMs. A space launch is a better way of getting rid of an old ICBM than a usual burning of fuel on the ground. So ICBM launch is a gain even if there's no payload. How are they going to top that?
Even if the planet consists of zephyr, gravity must be a bitch here
wake me up when they have trillions of jumps and memory reads/writes...
Are you a proton?
And there's only one free radio station left in Russia (and no tv channels). Somehow I don't think that closing the aforementioned station would be nice no matter what happens in US.
You just don't realise how handy it is for authorities to have a phony enemy. Imagine that Saddam Hussein... oh, nevermind.
Russia has a lot of land, so does Antarctica. Most of Russian land is only marginally better suited for living than Antarctica.
Uhm, sorry. I meant "with greens"; Convince them (mafia) that they need to cooperate with environmentalist, and they'll do it.
That mafia longs for being recognized as respectable European elite. Convince them that they need to eat their own shit for that, and they'll do it. Might work for greens too.
Looks like he does. It boggles my mind that a world's coldest country signed a Kyoto protocol. It does 3 things: harms the (empty, frozen) country, lowers oil/gas prices (harm some more) and pacifies greenies.
Never been there so I'm just curious: what kind of output (if any) can you get there during the winter? Won't you spend more energy blowing the snow or dust off the solar panel fields?
If Asian means East Asian, it explains perfectly. They've got higher IQ, so there are more of them in high iq area. If Asian means something else - we need another hypothesis. As for "smart enough" - well, there are women in programming, I wouldn't even say they are rare in the field. They're just lower in numbers, wich fits IQ hypothesis nicely. They're not trying to make a first female programmer, of course, they're trying to ensure that close to 50% programmers are female. The only way to achieve that is to discourage men from programming (no kidding), but blinded by political correctnes they're bound to fail (expect reports that "there's a progress, but we need to do even more").