The acoustic profile is absolutely horrible compared to say a HAF 922 or Fractal Define R4
I was actually considering the card but my HAF-X case has really poor noise dampening. It's practically a net with fans on it. For me the noise is definitely an issue.
A sprinter runs 100m in 10s. How does the average speed of the sprinter compare to a car speed?
There are 3600s in an hour, the sprinter runs at 36kp/h.
Before the metric system there were many, many versions of mile and other measurement units. In northen europe we had russian mile, british mile, swedish mile, danish mile, finnish mile, german mile, nautical mile with distance ranging from 1.5 to 11km. Without metric system the trade with the rest of the world would be really difficult.
A sprinter runs 100m in 10s. How does the average speed of the sprinter compare to a car speed?
There are 3600s in an hour, the sprinter runs at 36kp/h.
Before the metric system there were many, many versions of mile and other measurement units. In northen europe we had russian mile, british mile, swedish mile, danish mile, finnish mile, grman mile, nautical mile with distance ranging from 1.5 to 11km. Without metric system the trade with the rest of the world would be really difficult.
The 4.5TFlop is single. It is useful for tasks such as artificial intelligence. I used a convolutional neural network for aerial imagery classification and I got over 80 times more performance out from a GPU (more importantly over 30x improvement in performance per watt department). However, it is much more difficult to achieve this peak performance on a GPU than on a CPU, mostly because of the memory latencies. The CPU has advanced caching mechanism, that is not present on GPU.
You are correct, the double precision performance is more like 2TF, which is still a HUGE number. It beats any processor in the market by order of magnitude.
It's not very intuitive, but the contact patch is the same with narrow and wide tires. If the weight of the car and tire pressure remains the same, then also the contact area must be the same. Force equals area tmes pressure.
I overclocked my i7-920 from 2.66 to 3.7GHz and noticed significant change in cpu limited games like skyrim or civ 5. It's defenitely worth it if you want to get a few extra years out from your old system.
My nexus s used to lose connection to cell towers with android 2.3.1. Apparently a subsysem had crashed an the only way to restore the connection was to restart the phone. The crash was always silent, without any notification, I usually noticed it when I tried to make phone calls. Often (about every other week) I spent days without connection before I noticed it. The problem was not limited to my phone and it reocurred with firs vanilla 4.0 firmware.
Being able to receive basic phone calls does constitue as "decent function".
It's not two dimensional if it has a measurable thickness, which you stated in that same sentence. Unless you have a different definition of "two dimensional" than the rest of us.
It's two dimensional in sense that the third dimension is insignificantly small relative to other two dimensions e.g. it's flat. Also keep in mind that flat does not mean planar, for example earth is flat in spherical coordinates (r=const).
What I find even more disgusting is the following:
We don't have an obligation to solve America's problems. Our only obligation is making the best product possible.
The core ideas behind capitalism are heartless. You must either participate the lottery called "American Dream" or accept socialism. I will be the first one to welcome you to EU if you choose the latter.
Well apparently corporations are people too
It's not true.
The biggest problem with business today. Not just shortsighted and focused on short term profits, but the "Fuck America" attitude as long as it makes them X amount of more profit. Profit at all costs.
Don't be so modest, the attitude they teach in business school is "Fuck the World".
Despite improvements, ICS isn't quite as smooth and responsive as iOS was four years ago on the first iPhone, and it's really becoming quite an annoyance that Google hasn't yet solved this.
Both iOS and Windows Phone 7 use retained mode graphics, while android uses immediate mode graphics. Difference is that in android cpu has to redraw everything on screen when something changes while competitors load everything to GPU which will then redraw the screen. Android developers brag about android being hardware accelerated but it still uses the old model - even tho line command is hardware accelerated the cpu still has to make this line command.
Valve is like no other big company in this business. A good reason for them is that they don't want to, just as plain as that. Valve is owned by Valve employees, they do what they like.
The theory of relativity combines both delta distance and delta time into interval. The interval between two events that are connected by a ray of light (or something moving at the speed of light) is 0.
Apple's strategy for the last decade has been to ride the cusp of the wave of commoditisation. They identify a market that is about to be overrun by commodity products, enter it at the point when they can get commodity prices from their suppliers but still charge premium prices to their customers, and then move on to a new market while keeping a small share at the expensive end of the newly commoditised market.
I personally think that part of Apples success comes from focus on small set of products. They don't speak about generic "target audiences" and "markets" as much as others do and they don't flood those markets with products for each niche segment. For us, consumers, it doesn't matter if Apple can keep it going - they already changed the industry. For apple shareholders there would be something to worry about when P/E ratio grows larger, but currently there's no bubble there.
When velocity approaches the speed of light you'll have 0/0 but you can use L'Hopital's rule and get a definite position/time/mass from Lorenz equations. When speed goes over c the part of Lorenz equations, that is under square root, goes negative and you'll have imaginary time and space.
The OpenGL is low level stuff, were talking about animating high level controls.
WPF (silverlight is subset of it) applications in windows animate smoothly even tho the programs are written in C# that has similar garbage collector and nobody cares about allocation/deallocation in.NET world. On the other hand the apps that rely on old GDI or windows.forms have problems with animations even with modern Core i7 systems. There are additional advantages to this approach also - it frees cpu for other stuff and reduces power usage.
The OpenGL is still relevant as the high level library should use it for hardware access just as WPF uses Direct3D.
The animations on android are still not as slick as ipad. Considering how much everyone goes on about "polish" I do not understand why they don't fix this. It sounds like a small thing, but i think it's really important.
It is not an easy thing to fix as they do it wrong at fundamental level. They would need to move to retained graphics model (instead of immediate) and that would mean rewriting ALL the apps. In retained model app describes what's on screen and GPU is responsible for updating the screen - no garbage collector can interrupt that. Currently android developers have said that they wait for faster processors but it's just a demonstration of their ignorance.
IOS and WP7 use retained model and are both slick.
As of topic - I'm in bed and typing this on iPad. Typing on ipad is really hard.
Fundamentally people need to be taught that mindless repetitive tasks are something that the computer can do for them.
Like cleaning rooms, driving cars, brushing teeth or ironing shirts? As soon as you tell people that computers are smart they want to use at tasks it's useless. Have you not seen software project managers with ideas that require both artificial intelligence an a perpetum mobile.
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The acoustic profile is absolutely horrible compared to say a HAF 922 or Fractal Define R4
I was actually considering the card but my HAF-X case has really poor noise dampening. It's practically a net with fans on it. For me the noise is definitely an issue.
A sprinter runs 100m in 10s. How does the average speed of the sprinter compare to a car speed?
There are 3600s in an hour, the sprinter runs at 36kp/h.
Before the metric system there were many, many versions of mile and other measurement units. In northen europe we had russian mile, british mile, swedish mile, danish mile, finnish mile, german mile, nautical mile with distance ranging from 1.5 to 11km. Without metric system the trade with the rest of the world would be really difficult.
A sprinter runs 100m in 10s. How does the average speed of the sprinter compare to a car speed?
There are 3600s in an hour, the sprinter runs at 36kp/h.
Before the metric system there were many, many versions of mile and other measurement units. In northen europe we had russian mile, british mile, swedish mile, danish mile, finnish mile, grman mile, nautical mile with distance ranging from 1.5 to 11km. Without metric system the trade with the rest of the world would be really difficult.
Here's an idea: stop giving them your money!!!
This will make them destroy more companies we love.
It's been a while, but better late then never.
The 4.5TFlop is single. It is useful for tasks such as artificial intelligence. I used a convolutional neural network for aerial imagery classification and I got over 80 times more performance out from a GPU (more importantly over 30x improvement in performance per watt department). However, it is much more difficult to achieve this peak performance on a GPU than on a CPU, mostly because of the memory latencies. The CPU has advanced caching mechanism, that is not present on GPU.
You are correct, the double precision performance is more like 2TF, which is still a HUGE number. It beats any processor in the market by order of magnitude.
It's not very intuitive, but the contact patch is the same with narrow and wide tires. If the weight of the car and tire pressure remains the same, then also the contact area must be the same. Force equals area tmes pressure.
Google for oculus rift.
Actually, we did! At stock clocks the ivy bridge consumes less power an produces less heat. This is especially true for underclocked laptop versions.
They also used screen brightness of 200nits, way below max.
I overclocked my i7-920 from 2.66 to 3.7GHz and noticed significant change in cpu limited games like skyrim or civ 5. It's defenitely worth it if you want to get a few extra years out from your old system.
My nexus s used to lose connection to cell towers with android 2.3.1. Apparently a subsysem had crashed an the only way to restore the connection was to restart the phone. The crash was always silent, without any notification, I usually noticed it when I tried to make phone calls. Often (about every other week) I spent days without connection before I noticed it. The problem was not limited to my phone and it reocurred with firs vanilla 4.0 firmware.
Being able to receive basic phone calls does constitue as "decent function".
It's not two dimensional if it has a measurable thickness, which you stated in that same sentence. Unless you have a different definition of "two dimensional" than the rest of us.
It's two dimensional in sense that the third dimension is insignificantly small relative to other two dimensions e.g. it's flat. Also keep in mind that flat does not mean planar, for example earth is flat in spherical coordinates (r=const).
What I find even more disgusting is the following:
We don't have an obligation to solve America's problems. Our only obligation is making the best product possible.
The core ideas behind capitalism are heartless. You must either participate the lottery called "American Dream" or accept socialism. I will be the first one to welcome you to EU if you choose the latter.
Well apparently corporations are people too
It's not true.
The biggest problem with business today. Not just shortsighted and focused on short term profits, but the "Fuck America" attitude as long as it makes them X amount of more profit. Profit at all costs.
Don't be so modest, the attitude they teach in business school is "Fuck the World".
I thought the size of one bit IS one bits. Next they'll tell you that the size of atom is yellow.
Despite improvements, ICS isn't quite as smooth and responsive as iOS was four years ago on the first iPhone, and it's really becoming quite an annoyance that Google hasn't yet solved this.
Both iOS and Windows Phone 7 use retained mode graphics, while android uses immediate mode graphics. Difference is that in android cpu has to redraw everything on screen when something changes while competitors load everything to GPU which will then redraw the screen. Android developers brag about android being hardware accelerated but it still uses the old model - even tho line command is hardware accelerated the cpu still has to make this line command.
Valve is like no other big company in this business. A good reason for them is that they don't want to, just as plain as that. Valve is owned by Valve employees, they do what they like.
The theory of relativity combines both delta distance and delta time into interval. The interval between two events that are connected by a ray of light (or something moving at the speed of light) is 0.
Apple's strategy for the last decade has been to ride the cusp of the wave of commoditisation. They identify a market that is about to be overrun by commodity products, enter it at the point when they can get commodity prices from their suppliers but still charge premium prices to their customers, and then move on to a new market while keeping a small share at the expensive end of the newly commoditised market.
I personally think that part of Apples success comes from focus on small set of products. They don't speak about generic "target audiences" and "markets" as much as others do and they don't flood those markets with products for each niche segment. For us, consumers, it doesn't matter if Apple can keep it going - they already changed the industry. For apple shareholders there would be something to worry about when P/E ratio grows larger, but currently there's no bubble there.
What kind of technology and materials would we need to get the giant Fermilab etc. down from square kilometres down to square metres or even inches?
A black hole would do. It can compress whole earth down to a small stain on the surface of it.
When velocity approaches the speed of light you'll have 0/0 but you can use L'Hopital's rule and get a definite position/time/mass from Lorenz equations. When speed goes over c the part of Lorenz equations, that is under square root, goes negative and you'll have imaginary time and space.
The OpenGL is low level stuff, were talking about animating high level controls.
WPF (silverlight is subset of it) applications in windows animate smoothly even tho the programs are written in C# that has similar garbage collector and nobody cares about allocation/deallocation in .NET world. On the other hand the apps that rely on old GDI or windows.forms have problems with animations even with modern Core i7 systems. There are additional advantages to this approach also - it frees cpu for other stuff and reduces power usage.
The OpenGL is still relevant as the high level library should use it for hardware access just as WPF uses Direct3D.
The animations on android are still not as slick as ipad. Considering how much everyone goes on about "polish" I do not understand why they don't fix this. It sounds like a small thing, but i think it's really important.
It is not an easy thing to fix as they do it wrong at fundamental level. They would need to move to retained graphics model (instead of immediate) and that would mean rewriting ALL the apps. In retained model app describes what's on screen and GPU is responsible for updating the screen - no garbage collector can interrupt that. Currently android developers have said that they wait for faster processors but it's just a demonstration of their ignorance.
IOS and WP7 use retained model and are both slick.
As of topic - I'm in bed and typing this on iPad. Typing on ipad is really hard.
Fundamentally people need to be taught that mindless repetitive tasks are something that the computer can do for them.
Like cleaning rooms, driving cars, brushing teeth or ironing shirts? As soon as you tell people that computers are smart they want to use at tasks it's useless. Have you not seen software project managers with ideas that require both artificial intelligence an a perpetum mobile.
When I first teached my sister (a philologist) of how to use shortcuts in office she mapped ctrl+z, ctrl+x, ctrl+c and crtl+v to heading 1, 2 ,3 and 4.
I was amused :)
And yet she is really smart - just not into tech.
Now, when fear of losing my gmail data is out of the way, they have 25 million and one subscribers.