For several reasons: FLOPS is a metric that depends on the algorithm used as well as on the system load. The system load could be minimized by running the benchmark on a bare-bone system multiple times and then averaging the results, but you still get serious variations. A FLOPS benchmark also depends on the RAM-speed and the amount of memory channels on the CPU chip if the benchmark is memory-hungry. Also, are you interested in running a large (parallel) computation over several days or a gazillion of short calculations in parallel? Also, not everyone is interested in the FLOPS performance. Lots of applications are more dependent on the performance of the integer unit.
I suppose this restriction will be mentioned in the rent contact, right? Because I would not count this sort of service as "internet" access and I would have to go to another ISP for the real thing, provided that it's not against the terms and conditions of the rent contract, in which case I would look for another apartment. It better be an otherwise kick ass apartment in order to persuade ageek to live there, unless your target group is something else.
You got it completely backwards. We should press for educational success and interest as much as possible, regardless of race and topic. You don't do this by forcing the more advanced group to a lower standard, but by raising everyone to a higher standard.
I don't think the TV is at fault here. The poor dynamic range comes from the sensor used to produce the recording. Our eyes and brain can view scenes with a range of about 24 stops, whereas a pro camera can only give you about 10 stops.
BTW we need a new term for describing the actual meaning of HDR because the acronym has become synonymous to horrible post-processing practices and unnatural colors.
So what? Men can also not tell who the bad guys are. Maybe it's that biker dude? The black or the hispanic? Maybe rape is not that relevant for men, but robbery surely is. Once you generalise you're in the wrong, no matter what.
I fail to see how the OP is part of the problem just because he complained about taking the flac from some false accusations that concern his social group.
The quality of the posts has deteriorated, to be sure, but in this case the topic is relevant. There is an awful generalisation being made by someone who obviously is not familiar with the geek culture and this is our opportunity to retort.
Do you mean you carry it with you like a notebook? Because if you do, you might want to check out the Galaxy Note 3. At least this device fully covers my needs when I'm on the go. For indoors though, there is no replacement for the god old engineering paper block.
The laws of thermodynamics are actually axioms, that we use in order to predict the behavior of physical systems. If we ever find an experiment that defies them they will have to be extended or abandoned. The same purpose (the prediction of physical behavior) can also be achieved by using different axioms (like the less-popular but by all means equivalent single-axiom Hatsopoulos-Keenan formulation). Nobody "promoted" anything from theory to law.
As a scientist, you don't go about validating any beliefs or disbeliefs that you may have, you simply use the theory and its laws to help you figure out how stuff works.
Unfortunately, yours didn't think this way either. And now we're stuck with an asshole too many, that thinks that people aren't entitled to their own opinion, no matter how subversive it may be.
Why is this modded flamebait? The post expresses an opinion quite politely and clearly. Correct or not, bringing arguments that need to be addressed in the discussion is a good thing.
I'll give you the one about chasing the ball, these damn things keep rolling and rolling and it can occasionally be fun if you manage to catch them before they roll into the river or the lake or whatever and before you get completely out of breath. But it may be ok if you live in a place like e.g. Nebraska that's totaly flat sans lakes and the ball will only go as far as you can kick it, which is not that far in most cases.
But climbing a tree is outright silly. The lowest branches of most trees are often out of reach and you can scatch yourself pretty badly on the way up. The small branches keep poking into your eyes or knocking on your glasses. And the foliage obscures the view so bad that the whole experience is pretty much a pain in the ass even if you finally do manage to get up. Also, how come everyone is so quick to point out that climbing trees is sooo much fun but no one mentions the fun involved in getting back down again? Exactly. Because it isn't.
From TFA: "They're so used to the instant buzz which you can get with these games and gadgets that they find it really hard to focus on anything which isn't exciting."
So make the fucking school exciting. And no, using computers in the classroom isn't the answer. Inspiring kids to learn is a very demanding task and you can't hide your incompetence as a teacher by blaming the kids and their tablets/phones/laptops. Inability to concentrate, you say? Have you actually *seen* a kid play Unreal Tournament (or whatever it is kids play these days)? Also, in my day, D&D, Magick the Gathering and similarly complicated games would be the grand examples that your "inability to learn" statement is full of shit.
Lastly, fuck you and your sociallizing. If you don't address issues like bullying, the kids will burry their faces even deeper in their screens in an effort to get away from it all.
The absurd release frequency, the unnecessary changes, and the bad quality forced me to air-gap my system and freeze it in an ancient version in order to keep it running (or, better said, in order to reduce the risk of it breaking down). I stopped recommending fedora ages ago. Now that that system fulfilled its original purpose, it will be repurposed and updated with something different, probably CentOS or Mint.
Yeah, when you don't give a shit about safety (as like, beyond the regulations, which are a bare minimum for preventing you from dying *on the spot*), stuff like this tends to happen in a factory handling and/or producing chemicals. The company I work for is in the same business, but never heard of any similar incidents in my workplace.
This is really sad. I had the privilege of seeing the original Alien prop up close at a special exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany. It was a lot more than what we got a glimpse of in the movie. It had an "industrial" look and feel, quite different from the sleek Aliens in the later films. Giger experimented a lot with sexual references and the genitalia. The Alien's elongated head is a phallic reference. The alien eggs originally had a single slot on top that looked like a vulva, that he later changed into a double slot in order to make it less obvious. His work was plainly awesome and it is sad that he was not commissioned in the other films of the Alien series.
Indeed, I'm a Gmail user from the very beginning and although the layout has changed significantly over the years, none of the changes was actually bad. Different, yes, but they didn't suck. Although a lot of functions were added that are IMHO rather nonsense, they are kept out of the way and the UI always remained very intuitive. Also, Gmail (besides offering a huge amount of space for no charge and a spam filter that is actually very good) launched the "search, don't sort" idea which was pretty revolutionary for web-email at the time. They seemed to come into conflict with that idea by introducing folders and "labels" but, as I said, it is very easy to ignore them.
Also, they have a very cool feature, that lets you adjust the amount of whitespace by choosing between the "comfortable", "cozy" and "compact" settings. Are you listening, Slashdot designers?
Exactly, people seem to ignore that ships may need a long time to get there, but they carry a MUCH larger load. It is like a network with high latency but also high bandwidth. Also the fuel they burn is practically useless for any other purpose.
Wow, you must be the perfect example of how a low Slashdot ID an insightful comment don't make.
If you even bothered to parse the headline, you'd have noticed that the talk is about scientists using Fortran, not OS kernel hackers, not Web programmers. Fortran is totally NOT the tool for any of the tasks you mention, just like most of the other languages just suck for parallel floating-point operation intensive applications.
But since you're an old hat, I'll take a stroll on your lawn and point out the following:
Do these scientists develop friendly graphical user interfaces for their Fortran programs?
Define "friendly". I have actually seen Fortran programs that print ASCII-art-like diagrams. Sure beats having to look at GB-long tables of numerical data at runtime.
Do these programs have robust and secure handling of all input?
In all my years of experience (>10, so I guess I'm quite the novice in Fortran-years) I have not seen a single security exploit implemented in Fortran. It's just not the tool for the job. BTW if anyone can point out such a thing, please let me know so that I can raise my hat in the right direction. Now, as far as robustness goes, Fortran lets us input data in many creative ways, it would be a shame to take away such a... ahem... feature.
How about configuration: are there dialogs for setting up preferences, which are persisted somewhere?
They are called ASCII files. They are pretty persistent, and they will remember settings that, more often than not, should have been long forgotten.
Do they package up user-friendly installers?
No need. All you need to do is unzip the folder.
How much of their stuff runs on new platforms like tablets and smartphones?
What non-Fortran-stuff do these programs integrate with? Anything over a network?
The modern Fortran versions can talk to C. Python uses Fortran libraries for math-intensive stuff. Fortran programs can number crunch across hundreds or thousands of nodes connected with InfiniBand. Network-y enough for you?
Where can I download a scientific Fortran program to evaluate its quality?
You can use the library all you want in your programs (thus making use of the API), but you may not re-implement the library functions and have an identical API as the other proprietary library. You may re-implement the library functions, with the same functionality, and write an new API for it. Granted, it will probably look much like the proprietary API, but if you just copy the header files you are just asking for trouble.
A deposit slip is not copyrightable because every bank requires the same information. There is no alternative to the layout of a deposit slip. For an API of this size, however, there are numerous ways to organize all the declarations in the different header files and numerous possibilities for the names and the naming conventions of the procedures and the variables. When the developers at Sun made the decisions to write them in a certain way, they created an API that was original, but not unique: you could go and write your own library having the same functionality and your own API.
Now the developers at Google decided to copy Java's API verbatim, although they implemented the whole library from scratch. This can be due to numerous reasons: - laziness (we should not attribute to malice stuff that can have much simpler explanations) - haste and/or ignorance ("lemme just copy these headers here to save time, it should fall under fair use, anyway") - malice (they wanted to have their own Java, with blackjack and hookers, that runs only on Android and screw Oracle and their show-off CEO)
I think if Google had made the slightest changes to the API so that it was not verbatim copying, it would have been much easier for them to argue that "we tried to write our own API, but it didn't work out, so as a result our API looks almost identical to Oracle's, really, we did!"
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For several reasons: FLOPS is a metric that depends on the algorithm used as well as on the system load. The system load could be minimized by running the benchmark on a bare-bone system multiple times and then averaging the results, but you still get serious variations. A FLOPS benchmark also depends on the RAM-speed and the amount of memory channels on the CPU chip if the benchmark is memory-hungry. Also, are you interested in running a large (parallel) computation over several days or a gazillion of short calculations in parallel? Also, not everyone is interested in the FLOPS performance. Lots of applications are more dependent on the performance of the integer unit.
I suppose this restriction will be mentioned in the rent contact, right? Because I would not count this sort of service as "internet" access and I would have to go to another ISP for the real thing, provided that it's not against the terms and conditions of the rent contract, in which case I would look for another apartment. It better be an otherwise kick ass apartment in order to persuade ageek to live there, unless your target group is something else.
You got it completely backwards. We should press for educational success and interest as much as possible, regardless of race and topic. You don't do this by forcing the more advanced group to a lower standard, but by raising everyone to a higher standard.
Leaks on the VA? Can you please provide a link? Outside the US we are not familiar with this.
I don't think the TV is at fault here. The poor dynamic range comes from the sensor used to produce the recording. Our eyes and brain can view scenes with a range of about 24 stops, whereas a pro camera can only give you about 10 stops.
BTW we need a new term for describing the actual meaning of HDR because the acronym has become synonymous to horrible post-processing practices and unnatural colors.
So what? Men can also not tell who the bad guys are. Maybe it's that biker dude? The black or the hispanic? Maybe rape is not that relevant for men, but robbery surely is. Once you generalise you're in the wrong, no matter what.
I fail to see how the OP is part of the problem just because he complained about taking the flac from some false accusations that concern his social group.
The quality of the posts has deteriorated, to be sure, but in this case the topic is relevant. There is an awful generalisation being made by someone who obviously is not familiar with the geek culture and this is our opportunity to retort.
Do you mean you carry it with you like a notebook? Because if you do, you might want to check out the Galaxy Note 3. At least this device fully covers my needs when I'm on the go. For indoors though, there is no replacement for the god old engineering paper block.
The laws of thermodynamics are actually axioms, that we use in order to predict the behavior of physical systems. If we ever find an experiment that defies them they will have to be extended or abandoned. The same purpose (the prediction of physical behavior) can also be achieved by using different axioms (like the less-popular but by all means equivalent single-axiom Hatsopoulos-Keenan formulation). Nobody "promoted" anything from theory to law.
As a scientist, you don't go about validating any beliefs or disbeliefs that you may have, you simply use the theory and its laws to help you figure out how stuff works.
Unfortunately, yours didn't think this way either. And now we're stuck with an asshole too many, that thinks that people aren't entitled to their own opinion, no matter how subversive it may be.
Why is this modded flamebait? The post expresses an opinion quite politely and clearly. Correct or not, bringing arguments that need to be addressed in the discussion is a good thing.
Especially resurrection spells, I've heard, take particularly long to cast...
I'll give you the one about chasing the ball, these damn things keep rolling and rolling and it can occasionally be fun if you manage to catch them before they roll into the river or the lake or whatever and before you get completely out of breath. But it may be ok if you live in a place like e.g. Nebraska that's totaly flat sans lakes and the ball will only go as far as you can kick it, which is not that far in most cases.
But climbing a tree is outright silly. The lowest branches of most trees are often out of reach and you can scatch yourself pretty badly on the way up. The small branches keep poking into your eyes or knocking on your glasses. And the foliage obscures the view so bad that the whole experience is pretty much a pain in the ass even if you finally do manage to get up. Also, how come everyone is so quick to point out that climbing trees is sooo much fun but no one mentions the fun involved in getting back down again? Exactly. Because it isn't.
This is an obvious troll, but I'll bite.
From TFA: "They're so used to the instant buzz which you can get with these games and gadgets that they find it really hard to focus on anything which isn't exciting."
So make the fucking school exciting. And no, using computers in the classroom isn't the answer. Inspiring kids to learn is a very demanding task and you can't hide your incompetence as a teacher by blaming the kids and their tablets/phones/laptops. Inability to concentrate, you say? Have you actually *seen* a kid play Unreal Tournament (or whatever it is kids play these days)? Also, in my day, D&D, Magick the Gathering and similarly complicated games would be the grand examples that your "inability to learn" statement is full of shit.
Lastly, fuck you and your sociallizing. If you don't address issues like bullying, the kids will burry their faces even deeper in their screens in an effort to get away from it all.
Indeed I should have gone with CentOS in the first place. It was a bad decision on my part, but it also turned out to be much worse than expected.
The absurd release frequency, the unnecessary changes, and the bad quality forced me to air-gap my system and freeze it in an ancient version in order to keep it running (or, better said, in order to reduce the risk of it breaking down). I stopped recommending fedora ages ago. Now that that system fulfilled its original purpose, it will be repurposed and updated with something different, probably CentOS or Mint.
Yeah, when you don't give a shit about safety (as like, beyond the regulations, which are a bare minimum for preventing you from dying *on the spot*), stuff like this tends to happen in a factory handling and/or producing chemicals. The company I work for is in the same business, but never heard of any similar incidents in my workplace.
In one of his books, he also gives credit to the guy that keeps that outdated system running.
This is really sad. I had the privilege of seeing the original Alien prop up close at a special exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany. It was a lot more than what we got a glimpse of in the movie. It had an "industrial" look and feel, quite different from the sleek Aliens in the later films. Giger experimented a lot with sexual references and the genitalia. The Alien's elongated head is a phallic reference. The alien eggs originally had a single slot on top that looked like a vulva, that he later changed into a double slot in order to make it less obvious. His work was plainly awesome and it is sad that he was not commissioned in the other films of the Alien series.
Use this link to access your account:
https://mail.google.com/mail/?...
The UI will launch in HTML mode. It is usually triggered for old browsers or slow internet connections.
Indeed, I'm a Gmail user from the very beginning and although the layout has changed significantly over the years, none of the changes was actually bad. Different, yes, but they didn't suck. Although a lot of functions were added that are IMHO rather nonsense, they are kept out of the way and the UI always remained very intuitive. Also, Gmail (besides offering a huge amount of space for no charge and a spam filter that is actually very good) launched the "search, don't sort" idea which was pretty revolutionary for web-email at the time. They seemed to come into conflict with that idea by introducing folders and "labels" but, as I said, it is very easy to ignore them.
Also, they have a very cool feature, that lets you adjust the amount of whitespace by choosing between the "comfortable", "cozy" and "compact" settings. Are you listening, Slashdot designers?
Exactly, people seem to ignore that ships may need a long time to get there, but they carry a MUCH larger load. It is like a network with high latency but also high bandwidth. Also the fuel they burn is practically useless for any other purpose.
Wow, you must be the perfect example of how a low Slashdot ID an insightful comment don't make.
If you even bothered to parse the headline, you'd have noticed that the talk is about scientists using Fortran, not OS kernel hackers, not Web programmers. Fortran is totally NOT the tool for any of the tasks you mention, just like most of the other languages just suck for parallel floating-point operation intensive applications.
But since you're an old hat, I'll take a stroll on your lawn and point out the following:
Do these scientists develop friendly graphical user interfaces for their Fortran programs?
Define "friendly". I have actually seen Fortran programs that print ASCII-art-like diagrams. Sure beats having to look at GB-long tables of numerical data at runtime.
Do these programs have robust and secure handling of all input?
In all my years of experience (>10, so I guess I'm quite the novice in Fortran-years) I have not seen a single security exploit implemented in Fortran. It's just not the tool for the job. BTW if anyone can point out such a thing, please let me know so that I can raise my hat in the right direction. Now, as far as robustness goes, Fortran lets us input data in many creative ways, it would be a shame to take away such a... ahem... feature.
How about configuration: are there dialogs for setting up preferences, which are persisted somewhere?
They are called ASCII files. They are pretty persistent, and they will remember settings that, more often than not, should have been long forgotten.
Do they package up user-friendly installers?
No need. All you need to do is unzip the folder.
How much of their stuff runs on new platforms like tablets and smartphones?
This has actually been done! Check it out here:
http://specificimpulses.blogsp...
What non-Fortran-stuff do these programs integrate with? Anything over a network?
The modern Fortran versions can talk to C. Python uses Fortran libraries for math-intensive stuff. Fortran programs can number crunch across hundreds or thousands of nodes connected with InfiniBand. Network-y enough for you?
Where can I download a scientific Fortran program to evaluate its quality?
Start here: http://www.netlib.org/
And remember kids: If the old man scares you, just kick him in the nuts and run away!
You can use the library all you want in your programs (thus making use of the API), but you may not re-implement the library functions and have an identical API as the other proprietary library. You may re-implement the library functions, with the same functionality, and write an new API for it. Granted, it will probably look much like the proprietary API, but if you just copy the header files you are just asking for trouble.
A deposit slip is not copyrightable because every bank requires the same information. There is no alternative to the layout of a deposit slip. For an API of this size, however, there are numerous ways to organize all the declarations in the different header files and numerous possibilities for the names and the naming conventions of the procedures and the variables. When the developers at Sun made the decisions to write them in a certain way, they created an API that was original, but not unique: you could go and write your own library having the same functionality and your own API.
Now the developers at Google decided to copy Java's API verbatim, although they implemented the whole library from scratch. This can be due to numerous reasons:
- laziness (we should not attribute to malice stuff that can have much simpler explanations)
- haste and/or ignorance ("lemme just copy these headers here to save time, it should fall under fair use, anyway")
- malice (they wanted to have their own Java, with blackjack and hookers, that runs only on Android and screw Oracle and their show-off CEO)
I think if Google had made the slightest changes to the API so that it was not verbatim copying, it would have been much easier for them to argue that "we tried to write our own API, but it didn't work out, so as a result our API looks almost identical to Oracle's, really, we did!"