We had a very nice Algol68 text in university from the UK Royal Radar Establishment. It was very gentle, just like K&R later. I can't remember the title - it's in a box in a closet somewhere and I'm not digging it up. Algol68 on ICL190x 24-bit machines, yay! I helped upgrading it from 8M words core to (gasp) all solid state memory.
Locality is nice if you stay within one memory chip. As soon as you go off-chip, you lose all the performance. And the premise is always that you gain high overall performance by ganging together several or many of these. Even simple, logical things like a memcpy or bitblt engine inside the RAM fall apart when you consider multiple modules with multiple chips each.
+1 just my thought. There's only a quantitative difference between the US and Indonesia. In many areas of the US you can not be elected to public office if you won't swear on the Bible.
DFT and friends rely on the orthogonality of sine waves: If you convolve your signal with a sine wave, you extract the amplitude of that particular harmonic because all other signal components average out to zero. Do that for each frequency of interest and you have your DFT. FFT is just a tricky arrangement of the calculations for signals that are a power of two in size based on divide-and-conquer and the properties of the sine/cosine functions. Disclaimer: It's been over 20 years since I did the math.
I would think that somebody who is smart enough for these kinds of questions is also smart enough to know the relationship between nutrition and constipation and how to avoid it:)
It makes a huge difference if you really need cycles. I'd need dual Opterons or Xeons for the equivalent compilation performance of my FX-8150 at 4.5GHz. That means $2k+ vs $250.
I'm reasonably sure that those industries pay "think" tanks and "marketing" firms to do that for them. Those companies in turn engage stupid people and sponsor them for posting because paying professionals for that is too expensive.
But if you look closely it's not as easy as that. Look up ring species for example. There are many cases where the answer to "can mate to produce [viable] offspring" is "in some cases."
Yay, intelligent beer design! That's why I prefer unfiltered wheat beer. The smart yeast collects at the bottom, you shake it up and pour it into your glass. Then you drink it and it goes straight to your brain, improving your intelligence. That's my hypothesis anyway.
If my Latin doesn't fail me it means "sugar fungus from beer." Oh and that fuzzy reading comes with age. You get lazy, don't look closely and in 99.999% of the cases you still read the correct word. Or maybe it's just the brain got *that* good at pattern recognition.
Just the presence of oxygen will prevent whatever happened from occurring today. You can't have primeval soup on Earth today. However, I wonder if we shouldn't push the Urey experiment further. I always liked it and it was a big revelation when I read about it for the first time as a kid.
The question at that point becomes: What do you call life and where is the boundary between non-life or proto-life and "real" life? Just like you can never observe a speciation event because it is such a slow process and when you look very closely it becomes fuzzy and you have to ask what exactly is a species. Life is always a river and not a thread.
Yeah, we're trying to get rid of the cranks but there's still way too many here. So Colorado is where they're all going? (Sent from Saint Ronnie's home turf.)
The problem is that people don't like revenue neutral solutions to the problem, like a revenue neutral carbon tax. Hence contrived "solutions" like cap-and-trade that don't work.
It is as well established as evolution. The basic science is over 100 years old and today's developments have been predicted 30+ years ago. That doesn't stop people from denying it.
That's because the majority of consumers is uneducated and doesn't give a shit about nutrition. At least in Europe they don't allow marketing of high sugar junk to kids so they don't get hooked at an early age.
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We had a very nice Algol68 text in university from the UK Royal Radar Establishment. It was very gentle, just like K&R later. I can't remember the title - it's in a box in a closet somewhere and I'm not digging it up.
Algol68 on ICL190x 24-bit machines, yay! I helped upgrading it from 8M words core to (gasp) all solid state memory.
Locality is nice if you stay within one memory chip. As soon as you go off-chip, you lose all the performance. And the premise is always that you gain high overall performance by ganging together several or many of these.
Even simple, logical things like a memcpy or bitblt engine inside the RAM fall apart when you consider multiple modules with multiple chips each.
+1 just my thought.
There's only a quantitative difference between the US and Indonesia. In many areas of the US you can not be elected to public office if you won't swear on the Bible.
Mod parent up!
+5, right on the money.
DFT and friends rely on the orthogonality of sine waves: If you convolve your signal with a sine wave, you extract the amplitude of that particular harmonic because all other signal components average out to zero.
Do that for each frequency of interest and you have your DFT.
FFT is just a tricky arrangement of the calculations for signals that are a power of two in size based on divide-and-conquer and the properties of the sine/cosine functions.
Disclaimer: It's been over 20 years since I did the math.
I would think that somebody who is smart enough for these kinds of questions is also smart enough to know the relationship between nutrition and constipation and how to avoid it :)
Apple shipped the new unreleased iPad classic by accident.
It makes a huge difference if you really need cycles. I'd need dual Opterons or Xeons for the equivalent compilation performance of my FX-8150 at 4.5GHz. That means $2k+ vs $250.
I'm reasonably sure that those industries pay "think" tanks and "marketing" firms to do that for them. Those companies in turn engage stupid people and sponsor them for posting because paying professionals for that is too expensive.
But if you look closely it's not as easy as that. Look up ring species for example. There are many cases where the answer to "can mate to produce [viable] offspring" is "in some cases."
Yes. Weathering uses oxygen too so geological processes would suck it up long term.
Yay, intelligent beer design!
That's why I prefer unfiltered wheat beer. The smart yeast collects at the bottom, you shake it up and pour it into your glass. Then you drink it and it goes straight to your brain, improving your intelligence. That's my hypothesis anyway.
If my Latin doesn't fail me it means "sugar fungus from beer."
Oh and that fuzzy reading comes with age. You get lazy, don't look closely and in 99.999% of the cases you still read the correct word. Or maybe it's just the brain got *that* good at pattern recognition.
Just the presence of oxygen will prevent whatever happened from occurring today. You can't have primeval soup on Earth today. However, I wonder if we shouldn't push the Urey experiment further. I always liked it and it was a big revelation when I read about it for the first time as a kid.
The question at that point becomes: What do you call life and where is the boundary between non-life or proto-life and "real" life?
Just like you can never observe a speciation event because it is such a slow process and when you look very closely it becomes fuzzy and you have to ask what exactly is a species. Life is always a river and not a thread.
It's not very new - I've seen it before around here.
FWIW: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wayne's_Musical_Version_of_The_War_of_the_Worlds is listening to. One of my favorites.
Yeah, we're trying to get rid of the cranks but there's still way too many here. So Colorado is where they're all going?
(Sent from Saint Ronnie's home turf.)
Yes. There's lots of evidence for it, and 0 against.
The problem is that people don't like revenue neutral solutions to the problem, like a revenue neutral carbon tax. Hence contrived "solutions" like cap-and-trade that don't work.
It is as well established as evolution. The basic science is over 100 years old and today's developments have been predicted 30+ years ago.
That doesn't stop people from denying it.
Yup. That includes living on credit and messing up the Commons everywhere. Thinking about it, financial stability is part of the Commons too.
>Who, exactly, is the fanatic here who isn't operating in a reality based world?
There a paid shills everywhere and they're especially active in pro-AGW, anti-fossil fuel and anti-Microsoft discussions.
But it'll surely keep those unwashed Linux hippies from accessing Microsoft's precious data.
That's because the majority of consumers is uneducated and doesn't give a shit about nutrition. At least in Europe they don't allow marketing of high sugar junk to kids so they don't get hooked at an early age.
Meh. The tape unit in my Commodore PET didn't work well with CrO2 tapes and they were more expensive than regular tapes.