If the submitter is basing his algorithm on comparison operations, it's not possible to do better than O(nlogn), so I would guess too that he hasn't performed the O() analysis correctly.
I've been stuck in the duldrums of 32bit/33mhz pci for so long that I've almost forgotten anything else existed. Having said that my comment still stands, because all of the announced boards that have agp 8x are 32bit/33mhz only.
I don't see how this could be the case at least for agp 8x, as it has a bandwidth of 2.1 gigabytes/sec, and pci is about 133 megabytes/sec. A couple gigabit nics would have more than enough bandwidth hooked up to a couple agp ports...
That's different. You're talking about special relativity which doesn't apply at all near a black hole. Clocks slow down in an intense gravitational field. See any text on general relativity, or for an excellent discussion in popular literature Kip Thorne's Black Holes and Time Warps. The easiest place to look this stuff up online would be to do a search for the effects of general relativity on GPS.
There's actually about 10^81 atoms in the universe. There are about 10^120 possible boards of chess (including mirror images etc) see Chess -- from Mathworld and Atoms in the Universe.
General relativity also says that time is relative. From the observer sufficiently near the singularity to be affected by the intense space-time curvature, the singularity will take an infinite or near infinite amount of time to form. However, from the perspective of a distant observer the singularity forms very quickly indeed.
I'm assuming the modern theories that your referring to are the string theories and more recent m-theory. These look promising, and would result in the behavior that you describe. Their predictions about how the formation of singularities are affected by quantum gravity is the discussion that I'm referring to. But unfortunately they have not been able to make a single prediction that can be tested as of yet. General Relativity on the other hand, has been extensively verified, and has been correct in every test we've set for it. General Relativity predicts that singularities will form from a collapsing star. I still think that m-theory is handwaving until some testable predictions come out of it. BTW, I think that m-theory or one of it's derivatives will provide us a better description of the universe, but not today.
Current theories in no way preclude the formation of a singularity. In fact it is pretty much the required outcome when a sufficiently massive start reaches the end of it's life. There is some discussion that when quantum theory and gravity are unified quantum effects may smear the singularity out of existence, but at this point it is all hand waving. Perhaps what you're thinking of is a naked singularity. A naked singularity is a singularity that is not cloaked by an event horizon, and is extraordinarily unlikely to occur.
Absolutely. But I think that makes the point that I was hinting at for me: RISC chips are not inherently faster than a VLIW/RISC hybrid like the current p4's. After all, if risc is such a big win you shouldn't have to spend as much money on it to extract the performance of a crufty design like a p4.
AMD probably doesn't have a larger budget than ibm/motorola for powerpc, and it beats the pants of them too.
RISC probably has some pretty significant advantages when developing low power chips, or chips that play well enough with others to support massive scalability, but I just don't see it for single chip performance.
I was talking about absolute performance of a single intel chip versus anything else on the market. Not performance per penny. Perhaps you should have read my post more closely, nowhere did I mention cost.
umm, an intel cpu pretty much beats the pants off anything else on the market. On the downside, it's pretty tought to stuff 134 p4's in a server the way you can with a sparc or a powerpc.
Yes, of course, that was exactly what I meant. Thank goodness you were on the ball, or someone would have thought that I was alluding to Fort Knox's traditional reputation of extremely high security.
Sycophant: Damn it, man! You're talking about the head of the RIAA!
Basher: You must admit, she is rather mannish. No offense, but if that's a woman, it looks like she's been beaten with an ugly stick. Look at her hands, baby! Those are carpenter's hands. I think if everyone were honest, they'd confess that the lady looks exactly like a man in drag.
Article III, section 2 ...the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact...
The responsibility of resolving questions of law would seem to me to certainly include determing which sets of laws to apply to a given case. The supreme court is well within it's pervue to say that a law that the government passed is in direct conflict with a right granted by the constitution. The constitution doesn't explicitly grant them the right to strike down laws passed by the legislature, but they have this right in effect because they can simply rule against the government every time the issue is brought before them. As a timesaver, almost everyone acknowledges this and lets them declare laws unconstitutional.
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The speed of light is about 186,000 miles per second, or 669,600,000 mph.
You get audited every year for the rest of your life for being "too smart for your own good."
I've been here a long time, and that is the most brilliant sig I've ever seen.
If the submitter is basing his algorithm on comparison operations, it's not possible to do better than O(nlogn), so I would guess too that he hasn't performed the O() analysis correctly.
I've been stuck in the duldrums of 32bit/33mhz pci for so long that I've almost forgotten anything else existed. Having said that my comment still stands, because all of the announced boards that have agp 8x are 32bit/33mhz only.
I don't see how this could be the case at least for agp 8x, as it has a bandwidth of 2.1 gigabytes/sec, and pci is about 133 megabytes/sec. A couple gigabit nics would have more than enough bandwidth hooked up to a couple agp ports...
That's different. You're talking about special relativity which doesn't apply at all near a black hole. Clocks slow down in an intense gravitational field. See any text on general relativity, or for an excellent discussion in popular literature Kip Thorne's Black Holes and Time Warps. The easiest place to look this stuff up online would be to do a search for the effects of general relativity on GPS.
There's actually about 10^81 atoms in the universe. There are about 10^120 possible boards of chess (including mirror images etc) see Chess -- from Mathworld and Atoms in the Universe.
General relativity also says that time is relative. From the observer sufficiently near the singularity to be affected by the intense space-time curvature, the singularity will take an infinite or near infinite amount of time to form. However, from the perspective of a distant observer the singularity forms very quickly indeed.
Are you ready, 'cuz this is a pretty amazing piece of logic:
Cygnus X-1 is a black hole, therefore blackholes exist.
I'm assuming the modern theories that your referring to are the string theories and more recent m-theory. These look promising, and would result in the behavior that you describe. Their predictions about how the formation of singularities are affected by quantum gravity is the discussion that I'm referring to. But unfortunately they have not been able to make a single prediction that can be tested as of yet.
General Relativity on the other hand, has been extensively verified, and has been correct in every test we've set for it. General Relativity predicts that singularities will form from a collapsing star.
I still think that m-theory is handwaving until some testable predictions come out of it. BTW, I think that m-theory or one of it's derivatives will provide us a better description of the universe, but not today.
Kip Thorne has a subscription to penthouse. They exist.
Current theories in no way preclude the formation of a singularity. In fact it is pretty much the required outcome when a sufficiently massive start reaches the end of it's life. There is some discussion that when quantum theory and gravity are unified quantum effects may smear the singularity out of existence, but at this point it is all hand waving. Perhaps what you're thinking of is a naked singularity. A naked singularity is a singularity that is not cloaked by an event horizon, and is extraordinarily unlikely to occur.
So basically we agree. :)
Or you could do what I do when I want to see a movie and might need to take an emergency call- sit in the back row in an aisle seat.
Somehow I think that these are not the main difficulties standing in our way of finding extraterrestrial life.
Absolutely. But I think that makes the point that I was hinting at for me: RISC chips are not inherently faster than a VLIW/RISC hybrid like the current p4's. After all, if risc is such a big win you shouldn't have to spend as much money on it to extract the performance of a crufty design like a p4.
AMD probably doesn't have a larger budget than ibm/motorola for powerpc, and it beats the pants of them too.
RISC probably has some pretty significant advantages when developing low power chips, or chips that play well enough with others to support massive scalability, but I just don't see it for single chip performance.
I was talking about absolute performance of a single intel chip versus anything else on the market. Not performance per penny. Perhaps you should have read my post more closely, nowhere did I mention cost.
umm, an intel cpu pretty much beats the pants off anything else on the market. On the downside, it's pretty tought to stuff 134 p4's in a server the way you can with a sparc or a powerpc.
Yes, of course, that was exactly what I meant. Thank goodness you were on the ball, or someone would have thought that I was alluding to Fort Knox's traditional reputation of extremely high security.
While sendmail is much more secure now, in the days of yore it made IIS look like fort knox.
With apologies to Mike Meyers:
Basher: I'm sorry, I thought she was a man.
Sycophant: Damn it, man! You're talking about the head of the RIAA!
Basher: You must admit, she is rather mannish. No offense, but if that's
a woman, it looks like she's been beaten with an ugly stick. Look at her hands, baby! Those are carpenter's hands. I think if everyone were honest, they'd confess that the lady looks exactly like a man in drag.
The us has about as much chance of agreeing to join the european union as france has of seceding from europe and becoming the 51st state.
The responsibility of resolving questions of law would seem to me to certainly include determing which sets of laws to apply to a given case. The supreme court is well within it's pervue to say that a law that the government passed is in direct conflict with a right granted by the constitution. The constitution doesn't explicitly grant them the right to strike down laws passed by the legislature, but they have this right in effect because they can simply rule against the government every time the issue is brought before them. As a timesaver, almost everyone acknowledges this and lets them declare laws unconstitutional.
You're going to sit and stare at your beer instead of drinking it? (said in an adam sandler "you eat pieces of shit for breakfast?" voice)