Suggestions? Yeah. Stop using Windoze. I'm not trying to take the elitist role, but it sounds like you need more control over your computer's resources. If you still need to test apps, buy a second, crap laptop for testing purposes. I suspect it will be cheaper in the long term.
'Parents think the computer is the only way for their kids to get porn on the internet. Unfortunately, they are dead wrong,'
I can also get porn on my phone. I love tech.
Sorry, but I need to correct your "law of averages" figures.
Yes, Australia is a large country with a low population base. But, that density is not in anyway a uniform distribution. For a simple example see http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html
"Highest Carbon Output" - I always love this one. What is it that is measured? What is the denominator in this case to "standardise" countries? Perhaps this model needs to be reconsidered as a large chunk of this output is used for export. Should we not use the total people consuming goods produced in a country as opposed to the population of the country?
Current solar power (in all its various configurations) is useless. Yes, it is "free energy". But the amount of resources consumed in creating these technologies make them inefficient as a whole (when taking into account of their half-life). It is still being researched heavily by countries worldwide (as it should be) but other technologies at this point look far more promising.
Not sure about the "burning a lot of coal".... we certainly have and dig up a lot of it. If we stop digging it up, another country will start. If we have the [almost] monopoly in supply, we can start dictating terms of its usage (as we do with Uranium). We are about to start building zero emission coal plants (lead by example), we will package that technology to those buying the coal and expect users to comply with our demands. If a country does not, they pay a proportional amount more per tonne or find another supplier.
Kyoto protocol is just one for politicians to get reelected. Goals are set, but one need not meet that target. It doesn't work.
I believe that a race is on at the moment for semantic searching. Not only nouns, verbs etc, but whether the phases are subjective or objective. I know a blog search company that is working on this. They wanted to borrow some of my code.
I read about this some time ago... I think the paper was entitled "The 10 billion dollar Eignvector: The math behind google" or something to that effect. Sorry, but I've got a new laptop and cannot find the exact title. It was an excellent introduction for beginner computational scientists for an application of the eigenvector. I forget the American University responsible.
but given that Microsoft is one of the few companies with a monopoly, this primes them for real research, doesn't it? Many years ago when other tech companies had monopolies they invested a lot of hard cash into their research and development divisions, hiring many graduates and the like that were noted as being at the top (or potentially top) of their game. Now those monopolies are removed, the shareholders have kicked in saying that the research divisions were not generating enough of a profit margin and were a drain on the shareholders' dividends. Real research takes time.
What I mean is that since I work for a university, it is good for me. Those companies can throw a set amount of research dollars our way since we are basically research sweatshops. I admit that I don't like the idea of Microsoft and love to think of them as crippling the potential of a lot of users, but I applaud them for at least acknowledging the importance of research and taking an active part in their 'responsibilities'.
I can't speak for America but it seems that the threat of terrorism and actual terrorism has increased markedly since the Iraq war elsewhere, the London Tube Bombings being the most obvious sign of that.
The same has happened with Australia. Because we decided to get involved with this whole anti-terrorism thing, we have done nothing but bring attention to ourselves... all bad attention.
What I mean is, it's Australia people! What happened to the "Australia is the arse end of the world" philosophy? We have a leader that is caught up playing with the big boys and is too stupid to know what he's gotten us all into and that the rest of the world actually couldn't give a crap about us.
There are numerous ways to handle a 2^37 byte dataset for real-time interaction. It was just an example of why the GPU is becoming obsolete (for video purposes). Low memory calculations, however, is another issue.
But the pretend to know all, once sentence statement/question/flamebait lacks a point. But what's the point in pointing it out?
I don't think that it is necessarily a bad idea. Some of the datasets I need to display are far bigger than what the greatest video card (currently) can handle. The data displayed has too many pixels (to see without resizing) than what the graphics card (with appropriate displays) is capable of. From what I see that the immediate future shows, the graphics card is in a position where it will never be able to catch up (yes, even with parallel pipes). I'll leave it for the active user to prove that it is even worse when considering memory. We've had to go for the software implementation on a cluster.
This all said, it is probably perfect for a notebook/laptop/[insert modern notation here].
What I do love about the idea is to implement functions/methods/[insert language specific notation here] for those specific algorithms that can be written to take advantage of the parallel architecture of the GPU, while the CPU can spend time processing stuff that the GPU cannot do.
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Agreed .... was modded as funny but makes a valid point ... especially to my non-legal mind.
Suggestions? Yeah. Stop using Windoze. I'm not trying to take the elitist role, but it sounds like you need more control over your computer's resources. If you still need to test apps, buy a second, crap laptop for testing purposes. I suspect it will be cheaper in the long term.
'Parents think the computer is the only way for their kids to get porn on the internet. Unfortunately, they are dead wrong,' I can also get porn on my phone. I love tech.
I love it when geeks [Uber] have too much time on their hands. If I were in charge, i'd allocate a day per week for geeks to just come up with shit.
Sorry, but I need to correct your "law of averages" figures.
.... we certainly have and dig up a lot of it. If we stop digging it up, another country will start. If we have the [almost] monopoly in supply, we can start dictating terms of its usage (as we do with Uranium). We are about to start building zero emission coal plants (lead by example), we will package that technology to those buying the coal and expect users to comply with our demands. If a country does not, they pay a proportional amount more per tonne or find another supplier.
Yes, Australia is a large country with a low population base. But, that density is not in anyway a uniform distribution. For a simple example see http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap001127.html
"Highest Carbon Output" - I always love this one. What is it that is measured? What is the denominator in this case to "standardise" countries? Perhaps this model needs to be reconsidered as a large chunk of this output is used for export. Should we not use the total people consuming goods produced in a country as opposed to the population of the country?
Current solar power (in all its various configurations) is useless. Yes, it is "free energy". But the amount of resources consumed in creating these technologies make them inefficient as a whole (when taking into account of their half-life). It is still being researched heavily by countries worldwide (as it should be) but other technologies at this point look far more promising.
Not sure about the "burning a lot of coal"
Kyoto protocol is just one for politicians to get reelected. Goals are set, but one need not meet that target. It doesn't work.
At least he's giving it a go. Given the accusational history of this topic it's amazing anybody will publish anything on it. I give him big points.
Touche' .... The first list may seem to be 'flighty' to some people, but others know that they are the core of the second list.
Eureka!!! You've done it! Now we have a place to stash the nuclear waste. You should get some cred for that one!
Excellent idea.
Not really a problem here in Australia .... rarely rains anyway.
But what about the migrating birds? Some with gastrointestinal problems?
Cheers for that. Helpful.
Kind regards
I believe that a race is on at the moment for semantic searching. Not only nouns, verbs etc, but whether the phases are subjective or objective. I know a blog search company that is working on this. They wanted to borrow some of my code.
I read about this some time ago ... I think the paper was entitled "The 10 billion dollar Eignvector: The math behind google" or something to that effect. Sorry, but I've got a new laptop and cannot find the exact title. It was an excellent introduction for beginner computational scientists for an application of the eigenvector. I forget the American University responsible.
but given that Microsoft is one of the few companies with a monopoly, this primes them for real research, doesn't it? Many years ago when other tech companies had monopolies they invested a lot of hard cash into their research and development divisions, hiring many graduates and the like that were noted as being at the top (or potentially top) of their game. Now those monopolies are removed, the shareholders have kicked in saying that the research divisions were not generating enough of a profit margin and were a drain on the shareholders' dividends. Real research takes time.
What I mean is that since I work for a university, it is good for me. Those companies can throw a set amount of research dollars our way since we are basically research sweatshops. I admit that I don't like the idea of Microsoft and love to think of them as crippling the potential of a lot of users, but I applaud them for at least acknowledging the importance of research and taking an active part in their 'responsibilities'.
My two cents.
Were? Still am. And proud of it
They go to the same place pens go.
I can't speak for America but it seems that the threat of terrorism and actual terrorism has increased markedly since the Iraq war elsewhere, the London Tube Bombings being the most obvious sign of that.
... all bad attention.
The same has happened with Australia. Because we decided to get involved with this whole anti-terrorism thing, we have done nothing but bring attention to ourselves
What I mean is, it's Australia people! What happened to the "Australia is the arse end of the world" philosophy? We have a leader that is caught up playing with the big boys and is too stupid to know what he's gotten us all into and that the rest of the world actually couldn't give a crap about us.
Which was the way I liked it.
I gotta tell yah, I get pretty worried about my macbook pro. This sucker gets HOT. I worry about it burning though the desk.
There are numerous ways to handle a 2^37 byte dataset for real-time interaction. It was just an example of why the GPU is becoming obsolete (for video purposes). Low memory calculations, however, is another issue.
But the pretend to know all, once sentence statement/question/flamebait lacks a point. But what's the point in pointing it out?
So, the medical imaging dataset I'm currently trying to visualise, 137GB - 4096^3 of shorts, will fit into texture memory of this thing? .... cool :)
I don't think that it is necessarily a bad idea. Some of the datasets I need to display are far bigger than what the greatest video card (currently) can handle. The data displayed has too many pixels (to see without resizing) than what the graphics card (with appropriate displays) is capable of. From what I see that the immediate future shows, the graphics card is in a position where it will never be able to catch up (yes, even with parallel pipes). I'll leave it for the active user to prove that it is even worse when considering memory. We've had to go for the software implementation on a cluster.
This all said, it is probably perfect for a notebook/laptop/[insert modern notation here].
What I do love about the idea is to implement functions/methods/[insert language specific notation here] for those specific algorithms that can be written to take advantage of the parallel architecture of the GPU, while the CPU can spend time processing stuff that the GPU cannot do.
Nicely said.
Once again: Revolution, wall. nuff said
And you'll be the first one up against the wall when the revolution comes.