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No, this isnt a joke. The reaction of the audience showed that clearly. How pityfull they shook their head to confirm how "sad" a five year old windows computer is.

That part of the keynote was really so ugly-spoiled-hipster-narrow-minded that i really started to think about switching to windows for the first time after 12 years of apple usage.
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I have yet to work at a place where making sense was the driving factor for technology choices :)
There's been a lot of use of FPGAs for acceleration. Netezza is a good example of an early win in this space. FPGAs have become only slightly easier to program in the last 10 years...

Intel bough Altera and will integrate FPGAs into the Xeon this year so expect to see this expand.
It's called a Chromebook :P But I do get what you mean
Here is a device that recreates many classic computers with an FPGA https://github.com/mist-devel/mist-board/wiki and I can also think of http://redpitaya.com which is primarily an FPGA based O-scope and SDR, but you can download "apps" for it to work of other common electronics workbench devices.
Does it really work?
I've found a script that lets you create Google Chrome Extension for site. http://codecanyon.net/item/news-feed-chrome-extension/10391318

It said, "Your extension will be placed in the Chrome Store directory... It will help you reach new users".

Please let me know does it really work? What do you think about it? What do you think about backlink from Chrome Store? Thank you!
> $2200 in a PC and a Rift, or $100 that clips on your phone (assuming you're on Samsung)?

I'm guessing there's a middle ground here. We already have the Solun Q shipping shortly, which uses a low power AMD CPU/GPU combo that can deliver graphics that land somewhere between what a phone and a console can do. All of it running on battery power with no wires.

Its an interesting form factor at the very least. I imagine the first gen of all these products will be pretty poor, but being attached to a $1500 PC is going to be the first problem solved in this space. Its too much of a hassle and cost. Being able to just buy a VR set that you turn on and put on your head is going to be a big win. People won't be intimidated by this and will prefer an all-in-one machine. It'll need to ship with motion controls and somehow get this all to work without a lighthouse/usb camera system.
Ah, I see what you mean. A few years of warnings-as-errors mode made me forget that the most bizarre constant expressions (not constexprs) will compile even if their results or what you do with them are complete nonsense.

I'd argue that the constexpr behavior is an improvement, in that it enables errors for large swaths of obviously buggy expressions without breaking backward compatibility. If the committee wants to remove float-division-by-0 from the set of UB expressions, they should do that independently of the rules for constexprs/constant expressions (as some Googling gives me the impression the C standard did with Annex F).

Generally, I think compiler vendors should not be distinguishing themselves by "reliably" implementing some "defined" behavior for what the standard declares to be UB[1]. At that point you're effectively implementing a proprietary language extension. "Implementation-defined" parts of the standard—and tooling/libraries, of course—are where vendors should be differentiating.

[1] I had a very traumatic experience with HP-UX and its configurable null-pointer-dereference semantics that may be biasing me here.
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Apple expects it's customers to spend ~1100 every two years on their products. So it's sad for Apple that people are waiting 5 years to think about new hardware.
The article doesn't say if their possessions were destroyed. They can't be replaced with insurance money.

Edit: I meant their personal possessions that aren't replaceable like home movies and paper photos.
Aren't there better alternatives to IE that don't cost money? That doesn't seem to be the same at all. Much of the reason older PCs are still useful is because the software is still mutable, often at no monetary cost.
TL;DR They compare one specific general purpose persistent key value store with transaction support - Kyoto Cabinet [1] - running on one specific machine - without further details besides running at 3.2 GHz - with an implementation of an in-memory hash map with chaining (32 byte keys, 16 byte values) on a Stratix IV FPGA with 8 GiB of external DDR SDRAM running at 244 MHz and find that the FPGA is an order of magnitude or two, depending on the operation, faster. Essentially a large but slow associative memory. They also ignore any communication overhead between the host and the FPGA.

I don't think that this is really a relevant result, my old Core i3 with 2.5 GHz easily achieves their five million operation per second when I just use an in-memory hash map - tested with the simplest possible C# program adding ten million strings into a Dictionary<String, String>.

[1] http://fallabs.com/kyotocabinet/
Thanks. I did not see this.
Strong consistency in Manhattan, Twitter’s distributed storage system
> so do normal people, everyday

Really? Normal people can lend money they don't actually have? How does that work?

If you mean that normal people can create wealth, of course they can. But that's not what we're talking about here.
These $9/shipped generic USB modems worked on Linux for me: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Adroit-New-USB-56K-V-90-V-92-...

Not great quality, but it sounds like you just want to go off hook and send a single DTMF tone. (ATH1, then ATD6). It should work fine.
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I agree with your analysis above. However, for piloting games, this looks pretty killer. Being able to crane your head around ("keep your head on a swivel") and have the same situational awareness problem as fighter pilots (minus the G forces) is going to be awesome. Piloting airplanes, tanks, mechs, warships, spaceships -- all going to be awesome.

So maybe the Vive can capitalize on this. Not only can they deliver the piloting, they can also deliver "true VR." Having those controls bundled is going to be a big advantage. It all depends on how much good software they can get built for the platform.

Then comes Sony.
You are ignoring taxes. Getting 35 billion dollars from selling Alibaba shares into the hands of there stockholders is not simple.
I was stunned this is BF. Great long form profile. I was wondering if maybe the content is shared / re-run under some other brand as well or if BF can afford to do this in depth stuff itself.
I've heard this many times but never understood it. How is there $190 of things that work like money? It seems like $10 of the original $100 is locked up, and only $90 is available in for purchasing goods; the owner cant use his money like money (only the assurance of "having" it, not the property of buying anything with it) -- only the person who ultimately gets lended that money can.
A leap motion integrated into this to show your hands might work really well. At some point we'll know what's required for a good environment like this, and have software that supports it all. For now, it's new territory.
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Looks like it wasn't merge, but commits that were the issues. 12986 looks like the issue ID, but it has been closed.
I think you just proved my point. No company would want to support this setup for the small number of users on Linux. It might be possible to support something narrow like SteamOS, but most of the times D3D wrappers end up failing as a porting strategy (see Final Fantasy XIV for a recent example).
They also don't overtly describe themselves as Github clones. Slightly different goals: one tries to compete and aims to offer something superior, the other is intentionally a cheap knock-off (not intended to sound derogatory - there's a place for that).
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The electricity used by those will be dwarfed by the energy used to heat the incoming water. A large electric tankless heater (served by a 240VAC/100A and drawing 18kW) can supply a 2gpm showerhead.

Compare that to a computer and PJ, several of which can be comfortably serviced by a single 120VAC/15A circuit.
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How do you know poor people bought their iPhones? They may have been handed down after someone else's 18 month contract was up.

(When I travelled in some remote parts of Nepal the people were very poor but many had smartphones. There weren't any mobile shops for hundreds of miles, so my guess is that they were gifted to them).
Definitely my favorite author, and my bucket list is to read all of his books. So far:
Foundation series
Nightfall
I, Robot
Asimov on Chemistry
Asimov on Physics
Nemesis (almost finished)
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"reserve deposits are a fraction of lending, not vice-versa"

It amazes me how many people get that backwards.

If a bank could loan more money than had on deposit, they could could simply loan themselves or other banks enough to pay off depositors. That is literally a license to print money. And the government prefers to keep that power for themselves. That's what the Federal Reserve is.

For every deposit of $10, they might earn 2% on the $9 they are allowed to lend out. They have to live on that 18 cents.

If they were able to loan out $90 or $100 (depending on what theory you hear), they'd make 10 times as much. Within a decade, they wouldn't need their deposits.

But banks do fail, so clearly that is not the case.

I think people are confusing modern banks with ancient banks that took in gold deposits and issued paper notes based on those deposits, sometimes issuing more notes than the gold they had on deposit. That is a completely different situation. And was not sustainable when it did occur.

The banking system is a huge creator of bubbles, but it does not work the way many imagine.

I asked one believer in the multiplier theory to show me the statute that says it works that way. He found the law that contradicted his belief and insisted it proved it.
From what I've experienced in demos, any situation when you're in a cockpit feels like you're in the game.
My interpretation of it is to say that web devs should not be afraid of introducing bugs while implementing new features, as patches can be pushed just as fast.

This may be true for a web site (or app as some like to call them these days). But the mentality has filtered down to actual software running locally, or even whole OSes (see Android for instance, where more than once Google has pushed a feature into the world before all the proverbial edges have been filed down).
You can go really cheap: AMD 8300+$40 mobo/stock cooler +500w psu + gtx 970 + generic mouse/keyboard/monitor + $30 case + 8GB ram + $20 SSD and come out around ~$600.

For an upgradeable Intel solution with a decent SSD/HDD, 16GB of ram, huge case, and a hybrid water cooler: ~$945.

In my situation, I bought a 980ti, Corsair 750w PSU, GPU/CPU hybrid coolers, and new case. It was around ~950, but my older 2600k is keeping up with the times. I'm also doing neural networks/Vive game dev. I really wanted to wait for Nvidia to relase their Pascal line before buying a video card.

That makes my jump into VR/AI cost around 2k (~1000 PC components, ~900 Vive). Yet, a long awaited upgrade. My 4850 video card is from 2008 and could still play current games in lower settings/resolutions.

Side bar: because my GPU wasn't a reference board the hybrid cooler would not mount. I had to hacksaw my brand new card's heatsink and zip tie the fan back to it for the VRM/ram cooling. Anxiety was an understatement. Luckily, the 980ti idles at 75F now and maxes at 120F (from idle 120F/max 180F).

http://i.imgur.com/mgdPXwE.jpg
"PostgreSQL stores each record, regardless of attributes, in an 8K block of data (excluding TOAST fields and indices) on the disk. If you have a table with 5 columns of integers they will use 8K of disk space for each row, not 20 bytes."

Uh, no. I think you're confusing tuples and pages. You can have many (many) tuples in a single page.
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Probably happens more frequently than you think in dynamic languages. Even in compiled languages I imagine its reasonably common to compare something to a hard coded string that could easily be mistyped.
Well, I believe it's easier to get contributors on GH than to force newcomers to create an account on a new service just to submit a patch.
Currently all of my PCs, laptop and DSLR are over 5 years old and running strong. I am still using my HTC evo 4g I got 5 years ago...I replaced the battery once but that is all.

It is a shame we live in this world where things are thrown out every couple years...cars become "too expensive to fix" after a couple years (or totalled by insurance companies due to minor accidents).

I wish there was an easy solution...but I don't see anything changing when the major corporations encourage this type of planned expiration date.
What is the reason for submitting this? RFC 2616 has been out for nearly 20 years, and was superseded by RFCs 7230-7237 two years ago.
I didn't realize it until I read your comment and can attest I was extremely confused. "Wait, bitbucket is hosted on github? Wait they redesigned to look like github? Why is the blog post for this major cloud provider written in broken english?"

(to be clear I didn't have a problem understanding the blog post and don't mind that the english isn't perfect, I just thought it was curious).
A GTX 660 is a low end card. A GTX 950 is 150$ and ~5-10% faster than a GTX 660.
I never wore one, don't you get a headache, after wearing it couple of hours and also the gadget is heavy.
I think we could make a distinction between allowing people to make those types of decisions and actively enabling and encouraging those types of decisions.

If you want to gamble your house away in a private bet, go for it, but the local government shouldn't move heaven and earth to get a casino built to enable thousands and thousands of people to make those decisions in the name of tax revenue.

Similarly, I don't think you would be taking away people's freedom in any meaningful way if, say, you limited lottery transactions to say, $20.
I might be wrong.. like I said it's just a feeling. But people make purchasing decisions with their limbic system not their prefrontal cortex. My limbic system reacts with too much anxiety to those images. Yours might not of course.

With regards to the wii, the wii is exactly opposite to the Rift since the way the controller is set up it's a perfect party game system, and encourages social interaction.
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Yes, Phil's comment about 5-year old PCs still in use might seem to be out touch for a lot of people especially the ones who aren't Apple products' demographics. But consider these points:

1) Moore's Law was still in effect in the past five years. iOS devices hardware have been taking full advantage of that. So for roughly the same price range, you will get a 12x more performant hardware [1] for the same price, probably more energy efficient device too. Ain't it better if you can afford?

2) Apple started to emphasize their environmental friendliness (including energy efficiency) in manufacturing process and product raw materials and has been advancing their game each year[2]. So a once more toxic product made 5 years ago might be manufactured less so. In the process of replacing this 5-year old product, it is actually moving us forward to a more environmental friendly life style. Similarly, like the light bulb evolution: incandescent -> CFL -> LED etc.

There are probably other connotations behind that comment when Phil said it. Since 2/3 of the revenues were from selling iOS devices[3], Apple is still a hardware company like it or not. If they can sell you a piece of faster, more energy efficient and environment friendlier hardware than the one from yesteryear and in the mean time making a huge profit from that, wouldn't it be merrier for both them and the consumer?

[1] https://browser.primatelabs.com/ios-benchmarks

[2] http://www.apple.com/environment/

[3] http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/apple/apple-q1-2016-financial...
(Pitching my own company https://cloudron.io here)

If you want a single click install on a _private_ server and with a custom domain -
https://cloudron.io/appstore.html?app=io.gogs.cloudronapp. We track Gogs releases actively and keep it up to date with no effort on your part.

My own repos are hosted on gogs - https://git.girish.in

Edit: Since I got asked a couple of times about this (wow, you guys are fast), anyone can write apps for the Cloudron. It's docker based and you can find the Gogs app code here https://github.com/cloudron-io/gogs-app
The general theme of discussion here ("Gaming") completely validates the author's statement that it isn't ready for the "Mainstream"
The curve for "ipfs corporation" shows a similar development since 2011 [0], so that seems like the most likely candidate. I would still attribute most of the growth since 2015 to the InterPlanetaryFileSystem, so maybe a third of the search volume.

[0] https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=ipfs%2C%20ipfs%20cor...
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Interesting the CEO of Google can walk through CES undetected. What makes a business leader go from anonymous to celebrity? The press probably over-focuses on the celebrity types who probably only account for a fraction of important decisions in the tech world.
Apple leaves the signing window for older versions for usually a week after the newest version drops.
Go to a site like https://ipsw.me/ and find your device. If the iOS version in the drop down menu has a green background, you can still restore to that version. You download the ipsw file and hold shift + click restore/upgrade on iTunes to manually target the ipsw you want to downgrade to.
Back to text mode then. Does infinity text consoles do anything better than one retina monitor? We will soon see!
That's how WAR files get built. It's a very standard mechanism for deploying Java apps.

I think having Java on your machine is a reasonable requirement. I mean the equivalent in Ruby would be to have Ruby, install all gems and THEN launch the app.
What slig said, and also all of the infrastructure that GitHub provides for free.
It could easily be just because it's too large. Either there was a buffer overrun, or something got truncated in a bad way.
> 4) Is playing the lottery an expression of hopelessness for some people? They know that their $5 is never going to multiply to $10 (the way it might for a wealthier person), so it's easier to risk that $5 for a chance to win $5 million.

I think this is key. Turning $5 into $10 is impossible. Turning $5MM into $10MM is inevitable. The Lottery is a band-aid to treat the symptom (hopelessness). Address the root cause, which is the lack of opportunity for economic mobility.
Plenty of companies cannot upgrade away from IE because the cost would be too high. I worked at a company that only worked with IE7 at one point.

Sure, I could have said "just use Firefox" or "just use Chrome...It's free!", but that wasn't really an option.

Now, granted, I'm aware that a company is not the same as a person, but it was just a dumb example I used to kind of point out that getting offended because Apple "punched down" is kind of arbitrary.
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Good! Have you heard anything back?
Is it a joke that Apple mark their computers as "obsolete" and stop providing support after they've been available for 5 years?

This "joke" might have a chance at being funny if they didn't apply the punchline to their own stuff.
20GHz at what IPC? Performance isn't just clock rate and core count, there's also been a big improvement over the years in how many instructions the CPU can execute per clock cycle. GHz has been more or less stagnant since the P4, but single-core speeds have still gone up significantly.
Yes. 30% of people in NA aim to eat GF, where 5% have the Celiac gene, meaning 25% of people could be sensitive to FODMAPs or just misguided, but will never (as in genetically impossible) have existential health problem (ie. Celiac and co-morbid issues) caused by gluten.
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Farlands looks a bit like "Spore for Rift" :-) I am glad to see they are shipping. And it definitely provides an example of a project I didn't think they would be able to ship from Kickstarter being shipped. Congrats to the Rift team!
Possibly the sheer real estate available could compensate. I wouldn't use it for e.g. graphic design or the visual parts of web work, but grainy terminal text or web content could be made more legible by just using more of the field of view and blowing everything up by 2x or so.
Yep, pretty big gamer here, have three of the current gen consoles, even bought a simple Google Cardboard peripheral to get a feel for VR, but I'm probably not going to drop serious cash on anything that's out there for at least a year, and until I see which way the wind is blowing. I'm excited for it, but it's too much money for me to spend right now.
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It is an old card that was fairly high-end when it came out. It matches the graphical capabilities of the PS4 today.

It's not low end, it's mid-range. HD at 60fps (often higher) on med-high settings on everything but the very most recent games (without MSAA).

Again, you'll probably need to wait more than 4 years for a high-end card to become "very low end". I'd give it five or six years.
Yeah, seated cockpit sims seem to be Oculus Rift's best niche.
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Interesting that there is no mention of the weight of the headset. Has anyone used the Rift for more than an hour straight? Is there head/neck fatigue?
Mercantilism features strong restrictions on trade and protectionism, which Germany doesn't have.

It's mostly that the government and even unions are comfortable doing things that help companies compete internationally, even if that means that wages might not rise as much for example.
My thoughts on this kind of thing have always been more like "put a tablet in a waterproof container and suction cup it to the outside of a glass shower".

Apparently you can get shower curtains that have a transparent tablet pouch for a similar effect: http://www.hammacher.com/Product/Default.aspx?sku=83858
> I would say that 1.0/-0.0 is mathematically defined in the pure sense

`1.0 / -0.0` isn't mathematically defined though, it is certainly undefined. IEEE-754 takes that and performs "limit of `1/x` as `x` approaches zero from the left".

> IEEE-754 defines a specific model of real numbers closed under such operations [-inf,inf]\union{NaN}.

No, IEEE-754 defines a way to handle the exception by convention.
The person I responded to was complaining that the rift alternative (a phone with appropriate lenses) had limited time usage due to relying on a battery. Most phones can run indefinitely by hooking them up to an external power source, obviating one of the poster's concerns. Additionally, you could augment the phone's processing power through a high-speed interconnect (like the USB cable that also supplies continuous power).
Open source covers the copyright. This is more a trademark issue. The trademark issue is independent of the copyright-openness of their assets, as it is not valid to infringe their trademark either with their assets, or with fully copyright-independent assets.
You act as though everyone has the opportunity "to go out and create their own success," which is less and less true the poorer you are.