I hope we find huge quality mineral deposits. Then mining companies will provide some serious commercial backing for space travel. Having said that, it will be a while before its more profitable to mine Mars than Earth.
I'd say Tesla are doing fine with a pure electric approach. Swappable batteries at service stations or super capacitor based batteries with incredible charge times would work well for longer trips. Better to leave the fossil fuels behind completely as soon as possible. Having an engine as well as a motor is kind of wastefull.
Electric for haul trucks, well, idealy you'd want (electric) trains for transporting heavier things.
I don't have a console atm. But I'm thinking of getting a Wii just for SB Brawl.
Mario Galaxy etc are pretty cool too, but SB Brawl will be awesome (I hope).
Check these out. Specifically this one. That was actually the first part of the HPC presentation. Then Liang did a demonstration compiling code like on page 19 of that link with their funky compiler, and some analysis tools.
I plan on getting myself Solaris developer edition to have a play.
I went to a presentation by Sun last Friday (by Don Kretsch and Liang Chen), on "High Powered Computing". Sun's idea of HPC is, logically, multicored/cluster solutions.
They talked about some of their abstraction ideas on how to take advantage of a bunch of cores. Some interesting stuff, but it was still pretty similar to traditional single core approach, only branching for some stuff, like loops.
I'm not sure if any of their abstraction ideas were radical enough to get excited about, but it was still interesting to see.
Task specific hardware and low level programming seems like the best approach for me. Like graphics cards in games. Once we're comfortable with that it then maybe build up some APIs.
Sun's presentation convinced me that its the biggest challenge of modern computing.
I don't think that the first language you learn is the source of the problem with understanding in programming. Unless you consider maths a language.
The basis for understanding programming begins with primary school maths.
Logic, ordering, functions, exactness... maths...
Not to mention that half the applications of computers are to do more complex maths.
As a student doing units of programming, I can tell you theres a lot of people who can't think of a way to solve the underlying mathematical problem - that has nothing to do with their first language.
Comprehension and reasoning skills needed for coding should be built earlier than the first (real) language you learn.
Theres only 1 planet of resources here.
Look at how we explored Earth as an example.
Think of the commercial benefit of discovering other land in the 1500 - 1800.
Wolf:ET is the best freeware FPS released. Quite possibly the best PC game released.
Also, half of the articles praise should be directed to the engine, not the game.
The thing I find most annoying in 3D modeling is the formats.
Theres just so many formats... just about every modeling software, game engine, etc has their own format.
Its a nightmare to convert between formats. And when you do finally get it to export, it looses the shader info, and you end up having to redo that... the scaling is often off by a factor of 10, I'm just glad I haven't had to try an convert joints/animations.
In the end its just easier to learn the program that is best at the file format your using...
Sure they drifted off a bit between book 4 and book 10, but the endings were always epic and exhilarating.
This is not only sad because of his passing, but also because it leaves this grand epic unfinished, and without the promised prequels:(
I hope his notes will at least give closure to the tale... I wonder if they'll be released completely untouched as well as (no doubt) a conclusion completed by someone else.
Unfortunately, it seems Microsoft would rather try and force Vista onto everyone, rather than actually developing an OS good enough for people to want to migrate.
I think its a great initiative by Google, but why aim for producing Hybrid cars? As I see it, the overall idea is trying to move away from fossil fuels. Why keep a fosil fuel component at all?
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I hope we find huge quality mineral deposits. Then mining companies will provide some serious commercial backing for space travel. Having said that, it will be a while before its more profitable to mine Mars than Earth.
You could spend some time reviewing what is or is not /. worthy.
Or at least the ones who fell for it in the first place...
One meter, two meters...
One petaflop, two petaflops
Two petaflops up to a exaflop would be the petraflops range.
Electric for haul trucks, well, idealy you'd want (electric) trains for transporting heavier things.
Why wait until you upgrade?
I don't have a console atm. But I'm thinking of getting a Wii just for SB Brawl.
Mario Galaxy etc are pretty cool too, but SB Brawl will be awesome (I hope).
I plan on getting myself Solaris developer edition to have a play.
I went to a presentation by Sun last Friday (by Don Kretsch and Liang Chen), on "High Powered Computing". Sun's idea of HPC is, logically, multicored/cluster solutions. They talked about some of their abstraction ideas on how to take advantage of a bunch of cores. Some interesting stuff, but it was still pretty similar to traditional single core approach, only branching for some stuff, like loops. I'm not sure if any of their abstraction ideas were radical enough to get excited about, but it was still interesting to see. Task specific hardware and low level programming seems like the best approach for me. Like graphics cards in games. Once we're comfortable with that it then maybe build up some APIs. Sun's presentation convinced me that its the biggest challenge of modern computing.
Surely it is more important than most of the things on that list.
We need to get off this planet eventually...
Indeed, fatal errors aren't much of a problem for software engineers.
If doing more than one thing means your operate poorly, then your not actually multitasking.
This post is clearly a lie. No one younger than 20 would use the word "clod".
I don't think that the first language you learn is the source of the problem with understanding in programming. Unless you consider maths a language. The basis for understanding programming begins with primary school maths. Logic, ordering, functions, exactness... maths... Not to mention that half the applications of computers are to do more complex maths. As a student doing units of programming, I can tell you theres a lot of people who can't think of a way to solve the underlying mathematical problem - that has nothing to do with their first language. Comprehension and reasoning skills needed for coding should be built earlier than the first (real) language you learn.
Theres only 1 planet of resources here. Look at how we explored Earth as an example. Think of the commercial benefit of discovering other land in the 1500 - 1800.
If these companies pop up in California, we know Arni can save us.
Why do I think of Stargate every second post I read...
Wolf:ET is the best freeware FPS released. Quite possibly the best PC game released. Also, half of the articles praise should be directed to the engine, not the game.
Theres just so many formats... just about every modeling software, game engine, etc has their own format.
Its a nightmare to convert between formats. And when you do finally get it to export, it looses the shader info, and you end up having to redo that... the scaling is often off by a factor of 10, I'm just glad I haven't had to try an convert joints/animations.
In the end its just easier to learn the program that is best at the file format your using...
Sure they drifted off a bit between book 4 and book 10, but the endings were always epic and exhilarating.
This is not only sad because of his passing, but also because it leaves this grand epic unfinished, and without the promised prequels :(
I hope his notes will at least give closure to the tale... I wonder if they'll be released completely untouched as well as (no doubt) a conclusion completed by someone else.
RIP Robert Jordan, Thank you.
And that may have hurt Linux a lot.
Unfortunately, it seems Microsoft would rather try and force Vista onto everyone, rather than actually developing an OS good enough for people to want to migrate.
I just use a third party MSN client. :D
...or generating music from the bursts of electricity and chemicals in your brain... oh...
I think its a great initiative by Google, but why aim for producing Hybrid cars? As I see it, the overall idea is trying to move away from fossil fuels. Why keep a fosil fuel component at all?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OXqYbNEiW0Y
Purely electric cars look like a great option.