Sorry mate, but don't expect anything better here. The 'southerners' (I live in the north - clearly) have been going nuts for years with the political correctness, 'think of the children' and just the general 'I'm unfamiliar with what you're doing so I don't like it and I'm gonna stick my head in and tell you and others that you shouldn't be doing it' crowd. The fear mongering mob are making a lot of noise and are getting all sorts of ridiculous laws passed. Did you know that kids in the playground at some schools can't do cartwheels anymore? Outlawed! True story.
I'm moving further north (20km north of Cairns) in a few years, buying about 20 hectares, and I'm going to build/do whatever the fuck I wanna do.
I learned Java via the Deital and Deital (How to Program) books. I find them useful for quick reference as well. They may not be the definitive reference but are pretty good and have been sufficient for my needs.
My soon to be wife is Korean and she has lived in Australia with me for the last 4 years. Since then, her mother (living just outside Seoul) has been taking more of an interest in Australia and was shocked to hear that Australia was 'running out of water' because of the drought (as reported by the media she was watching). About two weeks later, we received a case of bottled water to help us through it. I love the woman because of that gesture:)
A ring maker is currently making my design for my soon to be wife. I had a lot of fun designing the engagement ring... even though she'll only receive it a couple of weeks before we get married. I went with platinum with a diamond and twin blood red rubies ( I sourced the stones from some miners up north - a lot cheaper). I stress that it is very cool designing the smallest details. The wedders are also platinum but basically very plain.
The ring is the only thing we are spending the money on. The rest of it is family and very close friends at her parents house and garden. Also had to pay for a celebrant.
While I'm sure you definitely know what you're doing, I can't help but think that what you're doing is terribly inefficient. Your data layout would be far from optimal and would be wasting a *lot* of cycles with TLB misses, primary and secondary cache misses and branch mispredictions. Granted, your compiler is probably unrolling a lot of this, but I can't help but think that using one dimensional arrays with some appropriate array indexing would be far better. That is how I do it.
I initially thought that it was hydraulics but soon changed my mind to the 'engine' being human. As the show went on, there were too many inconsistencies that you wouldn't get from a machine. The random noise when the movements became erratic increased too much. None the less, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I get your point, a lot of stuff can be done badly. But if you're using some non-linear decomposition and solving using accelerators that can reduce computational complexity from O^3 to O^2 for an iteration, you're writing to take advantage of multiple instruction per cycle and using a compiler that will be able to vectorise the instructions in your loops, the natural progression is to start testing whether those pre-conditioners still work when you scale your anisotropic, hybrid, volumetric meshes by a couple of orders of magnitude. When you are trying to simulate salt movement through aquifers and into subsurface geology, around Bundaberg for example, you want to be able to examine thousands of square kilometres when the resolution of your mesh is measured in centimetres (because of substructures). I challenge you to do *that* on a desktop.
The only advantage I can see of using 50 boxes for the computational and file serving would be that you could power cycle those that are not on demand. But if your recording terabytes of images and you're going to run some image processing/data analysis routines over them, would you be better off with a compute cluster such as a rack of Altix or Blue Gene? Easier to manage, lower administration, maintenance and ongoings?
I also have to question Microsoft SQL Server. Storing and retrieving images sure, but when it comes to serving for analysis and storing/collating results, it would be a little too slow? How much can you tune a closed source solution on a tight budget as opposed going for one that you can tinker with to gain performance.
Here in Aus, I noticed that just recently, the sub-notebooks for sale in the general electrical shops have had linux removed and now you can only see XP. This has happened in the last couple of months. I'll go with plot.
Don't you have to double the framerate if you're showing 3D using polarised lenses? If you still have the same existing bandwidth, you divide the resolution by approx 1.4 (not 2) to maintain the 2*currentFrameRate.
I've just been driving interactive discrete modeled simulations on a tiled display (8K) in stereo (actually just twice framerate since it actually doesn't make sense on LCDs... just playing around)... I'm doing this on an eight core system (software rendering). The timesteps are being simulated on a 512 core system... not the 8 core one.
I don't think 3D is a gimmick. It's just that directors need to understand that the rules for shooting for 2D image completely change for 3D. For example, you can't have action in the background or action happening off focus (or whatever the term is for around the edges).... it will make people queezy. Content can look really, really amazing when done correctly. Hollywood just needs the Stanley Kubrick of 3D.
y = sin(x) in Pascal (That was the language at school at the time)
From there, research in non-linear algebra and research support for a supercomputer and cluster - mainly code tuning, optimisation and parallelisation.
I can certainly understand that the "else" would get lost, but I'd put the comment for the "else" just inside the opening brace on the next available line.
If the "if" statement has an associated "else", the "else" will always be on the next line after the closing brace of the "if".
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Sorry mate, but don't expect anything better here. The 'southerners' (I live in the north - clearly) have been going nuts for years with the political correctness, 'think of the children' and just the general 'I'm unfamiliar with what you're doing so I don't like it and I'm gonna stick my head in and tell you and others that you shouldn't be doing it' crowd. The fear mongering mob are making a lot of noise and are getting all sorts of ridiculous laws passed. Did you know that kids in the playground at some schools can't do cartwheels anymore? Outlawed! True story.
I'm moving further north (20km north of Cairns) in a few years, buying about 20 hectares, and I'm going to build/do whatever the fuck I wanna do.
I learned Java via the Deital and Deital (How to Program) books. I find them useful for quick reference as well. They may not be the definitive reference but are pretty good and have been sufficient for my needs.
My soon to be wife is Korean and she has lived in Australia with me for the last 4 years. Since then, her mother (living just outside Seoul) has been taking more of an interest in Australia and was shocked to hear that Australia was 'running out of water' because of the drought (as reported by the media she was watching). About two weeks later, we received a case of bottled water to help us through it. I love the woman because of that gesture :)
A ring maker is currently making my design for my soon to be wife. I had a lot of fun designing the engagement ring ... even though she'll only receive it a couple of weeks before we get married. I went with platinum with a diamond and twin blood red rubies ( I sourced the stones from some miners up north - a lot cheaper). I stress that it is very cool designing the smallest details. The wedders are also platinum but basically very plain.
The ring is the only thing we are spending the money on. The rest of it is family and very close friends at her parents house and garden. Also had to pay for a celebrant.
While I'm sure you definitely know what you're doing, I can't help but think that what you're doing is terribly inefficient. Your data layout would be far from optimal and would be wasting a *lot* of cycles with TLB misses, primary and secondary cache misses and branch mispredictions. Granted, your compiler is probably unrolling a lot of this, but I can't help but think that using one dimensional arrays with some appropriate array indexing would be far better. That is how I do it.
http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=puns springs to mind.
I initially thought that it was hydraulics but soon changed my mind to the 'engine' being human. As the show went on, there were too many inconsistencies that you wouldn't get from a machine. The random noise when the movements became erratic increased too much. None the less, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I get your point, a lot of stuff can be done badly. But if you're using some non-linear decomposition and solving using accelerators that can reduce computational complexity from O^3 to O^2 for an iteration, you're writing to take advantage of multiple instruction per cycle and using a compiler that will be able to vectorise the instructions in your loops, the natural progression is to start testing whether those pre-conditioners still work when you scale your anisotropic, hybrid, volumetric meshes by a couple of orders of magnitude. When you are trying to simulate salt movement through aquifers and into subsurface geology, around Bundaberg for example, you want to be able to examine thousands of square kilometres when the resolution of your mesh is measured in centimetres (because of substructures). I challenge you to do *that* on a desktop.
The only advantage I can see of using 50 boxes for the computational and file serving would be that you could power cycle those that are not on demand. But if your recording terabytes of images and you're going to run some image processing/data analysis routines over them, would you be better off with a compute cluster such as a rack of Altix or Blue Gene? Easier to manage, lower administration, maintenance and ongoings? I also have to question Microsoft SQL Server. Storing and retrieving images sure, but when it comes to serving for analysis and storing/collating results, it would be a little too slow? How much can you tune a closed source solution on a tight budget as opposed going for one that you can tinker with to gain performance.
Australia ... yeah, it does suck.
X60 - everything works ... except finger scanner. But that was fixed with thinkfinger
Here in Aus, I noticed that just recently, the sub-notebooks for sale in the general electrical shops have had linux removed and now you can only see XP. This has happened in the last couple of months. I'll go with plot.
Ahhh, the advantage of being the arse end of the earth. You know, I like it that way.
"In 10 metres, sharp turn left." .... BSOD
Fuck! That'd be awesome fun ... especially dealing with that IO. Cool story.
Don't you have to double the framerate if you're showing 3D using polarised lenses? If you still have the same existing bandwidth, you divide the resolution by approx 1.4 (not 2) to maintain the 2*currentFrameRate.
... just playing around) ... I'm doing this on an eight core system (software rendering). The timesteps are being simulated on a 512 core system ... not the 8 core one.
.... it will make people queezy. Content can look really, really amazing when done correctly. Hollywood just needs the Stanley Kubrick of 3D.
I've just been driving interactive discrete modeled simulations on a tiled display (8K) in stereo (actually just twice framerate since it actually doesn't make sense on LCDs
I don't think 3D is a gimmick. It's just that directors need to understand that the rules for shooting for 2D image completely change for 3D. For example, you can't have action in the background or action happening off focus (or whatever the term is for around the edges)
I went in that direction, I'm not suggesting that being the next step in the learning process ... although ...
y = sin(x) in Pascal (That was the language at school at the time)
From there, research in non-linear algebra and research support for a supercomputer and cluster - mainly code tuning, optimisation and parallelisation.
But what if a or b is equal to negative zero?
I can certainly understand that the "else" would get lost, but I'd put the comment for the "else" just inside the opening brace on the next available line.
If the "if" statement has an associated "else", the "else" will always be on the next line after the closing brace of the "if".
Just my $0.02
If the one line from the open brace is that important, they should also be doing something about the wasted line from the close brace.
What? Being consistent? No, no, no ... we can't have that!
Gets my vote. Readability is clean. Enables quick scan debugging (with eyes that is).
I find that tracing parenthesis is a lot easier.
My guess was that the aide's name was Sebastian and after the recent bi-election there was call for a celebration! *clap hands* Champaign!
Your backup policy is a flash drive? Let me guess, it's stored on top of/nearby your box? Or, is it floating around in your desk draw?