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It depends on the data sharing and memory access patterns you want to support. For instance, the 16-32-core Larrabee has a ring bus. So do GPUs with many, many cores (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R600#Memory_controllers). What rings give up in terms of nonuniform point-to-point latency and diversity, they partially make up for in physical design simplicity. They are easily routed and verified, giving the circuit guys more time to go nuts on it and crank up the frequency more than you might be able to on a mesh, torus, or other more complex topology ( http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.22.... ). You're quite right that they're not infinitely scalable though; Intel came out with two chips at ISSCC using 2D meshes ( http://hothardware.com/News/Intel-Unveils-48Core-SingleChip-... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/28/isscc_chip_preview/ ) for the 48-64-core regime. They also used a mesh for their Polaris test chip a couple years ago ( http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?article... ). Beyond that, there is a ton of published work (network-on-chip, or NoC, is the keyword will help you find it) but not too many chips to prove or disprove their ideas.

For what it's worth, most of the many-core chips that do exist keep it fairly simple. Ambric's MPPA had a mesh with configurable routing (http://www.nethra.us.com/technologies_mppa.php), GPUs have a combination of pretty straightforward hierarchical interconnect and rings, and Azul's interconnect is a tree-like structure as well.

One thing to consider is that, while more complex topologies can buy you something in a supercomputer, give you more bisection bandwdith, and better support point to point communication, it has turned out to be pretty hard to actually write correct programs in that style (lots of arbitrary peer-to-peer communication); this partially motivates simpler interconnects, where the programmer can more easily reason about what's going on. Another concern is that topologies that work great in a server room (3D) are nigh-unroutable on a chip (2D). The wraparound links in a torus are a great example of this; Blue Gene/L used a torus to great effect (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&...), and the wraparound links drastically reduce worst-case and average point to point latency over a mesh, but those links mean giving up a large fraction of a metal layer on a chip, as opposed to a long cable in a machine room.

Also, I would hazard a guess that the workloads these chips are intended for are mostly multiprogrammed, not multithreaded; if they don't share much data, the network's bisection bandwidth is not as much of an issue as the off-chip bandwidth.

Regarding scalar operand networks as found in Raw/Tilera64: The specific idea (register-mapped networks) probably changes the programming model too much for Intel to adopt directly, but the Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC) linked above, presented at ISSCC 2010, uses something sort of similar for message passing over their 2D mesh. The communication channels are memory-mapped rather than register-mapped, but the mechanism is similar.
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Steam does not even run well on windows why would they try to port it to mac before making it stable on windows?
No, but there's a middle phase where you're self-conscious about having fun for the sake of fun.
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This article appears to be little more than advertisement for the Farmville game.

Although I agree that we should have more games that train responsible behaviour, I don't think this particular game falls into that category.

The article mentions that if you start certain actions in the game, you'll have to return to the game within a certain amount of time. That doesn't train responsible behaviour, it's just a way to keep users addicted to the game, by forcing them to integrate this game into their daily rhythm. It reminds me on things like TV, Tamagotchi or WoW.

Real responsibility starts when you break your addiction to such games and concentrate on important parts of life.

Farmville isn't really "defined by responsibility and routine". It is just defined by routine. So instead of fighting the worries stated in the article's beginning, it trains people to do exactly that:

"I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel"
I live in eastern Europe and there is one thing that might be relevant. The flat tax here is actually progressive tax in disguise. We have something that could be called non-taxable minimal amount (sorry, I'm not an economist) which is let's say 80 Latvian gold coins (Lgc); the average salary is 400 Lgc; the income tax + social tax is roughly 32% from the amount that remains after non-taxable minimum is substracted. So effectively it would be 0% for people with 80 Lgc salary; 26% for people with average salary; 29% for people with 1000 Lgc salary.
I personally use Qt for my GUI needs and am building a large startup-related app with it at the moment. If working in C++ is too painful/slow/effort for you, PyQt is a powerful (and very easy) alternative, but the license may not suit your needs (dual licence GPL/Commercial). PySide is an LGPL version thats compatible (or almost compatible) with PyQt, developed by the Maemo team, but I'm not sure how mature it is.

Qt has excellent support for traditional GUI widgets, graphics (you can even embed widgets in OpenGL, allowing you to transform, zoom, rotate etc them as OpenGL geometry), networking, concurrency, plugins and other niceties.
A lot of Northern Europe by the sea has a relatively mild climate because of the Gulf stream. Chicago winters are more harsh than in Denmark for instance. Even though Denmark is 55 degrees north. Like southern Alaska. There are even palm trees some places in Scotland.
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I disagree. I think this "browser war" (or rather, healthy competition) is the best thing that has happened to the web in a long time. The more quality players competing, the better.

As long as they use open standards, it can't hurt the web, and if on top of that their code is open source, there should be lots of cross-pollination that further speeds things up.

It might be tempting to think that consolidating to one main platform would make things better - and maybe they would be at first - but in the long-term, without real competition, the rendering engine and javascript engines would almost certainly improve more slowly than they otherwise would.
"I still wonder why _______ even bothers with writing its own engines instead of using _______. There really is no need for 2 open source rendering engines, that do the exact same thing."

If Apple had said the same thing back in 2003, then Webkit would not exist today. Firefox didn't exist then, but Gecko sure did, and there have been plenty of opportunities since for them to give up and switch.

I say there's value in diversity.
There's a lot to be said for mandatory start times.
You can't patent a look. Or copyright it. Or trademark it.
we're paying more attention to everything OTHER than our children

Not so here. I'm taking special care to make sure that all my four children are well educated. I do that in two ways:

1) I homeschool them, so that they have flexible curricula well matched to their needs with the highest quality available materials,

and

2) I actively participate in two nonprofit organizations dedicated to improvement of education in my state. In one, I coordinate with other parents to promote better education for gifted learners inside or outside classroom schools, and in the other I coordinate a math education program helping young people advance in their math understanding at elementary age

http://www.ams.org/notices/200502/fea-kenschaft.pdf

http://archive.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/fall99...

http://archive.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/fall99...

http://archive.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/issues...

Note the articles I have just linked to. You can't be sure that if most American children spent more time in elementary school classrooms that they would grow up with more knowledge of mathematics. The same is true of reading, but that's another set of links.
Not to mention unauthorized church fundraiser TV viewings of their games.
The article sounds like the officials already realize that this is a horrible idea, though the tax payers won't do anything to prevent it. Even if it is the same overall price, its hidden in the fine print, and most people won't dig deep enough to find it.

Now if only the general masses were smarter they could figure this out for themselves. But how will we make the masses smarter if we are taking cuts to our education system...
The reason college organizations develop these best practices is because they're ideally structured for an apprectice-ship/mentor-ship situation. Even the highest ranking and most experienced student has only been there for 3-4 years, so they're experienced enough to know what worked in the past, but the turn-over's high enough to avoid getting bogged down in "this is how we've always done it" or "that didn't work last time". Because the old guard is out in the Real World in a few years, there's less of a delay for a genuine innovator to move from rookie to chief. In the corporate world, those innovative youngsters get frustrated with the idea of spending 10+ years climbing the corporate ladder to be able to put their good ideas and/or unique perspective to use, so some of them quit and become entrepreneurs.

It's a very fine line that 3-5 year programs seem to walk rather well.
Padmasree Warrior is scary smart and incredibly driven, and she definitely is a excellent, highly successful antidote to all the Steve-Jobs-is-an-asshole-you-should-be-too pieces floating around. Work hard, play hard, empower others: "I can tell you that it’s much easier to dictate a direction in a traditional command-and-control environment. But that kind of leadership gives you short-lived authority."
In python world, rack is WSGI. Pylons is built around wsgi concept, thus has access to wsgi apps. I'm not sure how Django handles WSGI entry points. It's been a while since last time I worked on django app.

See: http://wsgi.org/wsgi/Middleware_and_Utilities
This is actually the first major application that has aspects of it powered by SimpleGeo (as pointed out by Joe Stump here http://twitter.com/joestump/status/10224268993). I think it's as big of an accomplish for SimpleGeo as it is for StickyBits. Both companies are doing some amazing things...
I think that Windows doesn't turn on power for a USB device until a driver recognizes it and OKs full power; I've run into this with other battery chargers in the past, and with other combinations of devices. Even though I have 6 different devices with USB in my living room, I can only charge my iPhone from one of them.

EDIT: This is opposed to Linux and Mac OS, which seem to be happy to provide plenty of power as soon as the device handshakes - I regularly charge my iPhone off of my ReadyNAS without any problems.
I added [video]. I also checked my analytics, and the bounce rates aren't that different (at least for my blog). Eventually I'll put all the transcripts up at http://tractionbook.com/. That's going to take me some time though.
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We have been using Kanban for about a month now. It is very successful. Scrum focuses on people. Kanban focuses on the tasks.

It is safe to say that everyone on the project from testers to developers to higher management that is not actively involved has a good sense of the entire state of the project.

Scrum is too micro-management - daily updates - what I did today, what I'm doing tomorrow - you'll laugh but one of my co-workers - he told his wife, a teacher, about scrum and the burn downs. And she laughed and brought over a sample of the 'What I'll do today/What I did yesterday' template that her school uses with 3rd graders to track their progress.

Kanban is not a silver bullet. It really helps to have a large physical board - a virtual board - be it a shared Excel spreadsheet that is version controlled - is not very graspable - even if it is the defacto authoritative source.

Kanban works because people here want it to work. Because they're tired of scrum. Of being micro-managed. Of having to sit through endless scrum burndown calls where everyone has to talk about what they did. Especially when the team is overseas and they are dialing in late. Kanban cuts that down to what is needed to be known. If you need to have longer discussions, you break off from the main talk. Kanban calls are JIT updates, not updates just for updates.
I guess I'm old enough to have known that already.
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> a computer capable of executing millions of instructions per second

Billions, not millions.
I remember paying $20k for a geocoder not 10 years ago ... how times have changed!
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That's what we do (track medical devices, pallets, documents, etc., with barcodes and RFID).

The biggest barrier by far for this market is the status-quo: if you have to add even a few steps to employees’ current workflow, the project will have a much harder time getting off the ground.
Gecko runs slower, less capable, and doesn't adhere to the standards as strictly last I checked. So they aren't "exactly" the same.

Gecko is also very very wide spread in other non-browser applications AFAIK.
It seems to me that the best kind of competition is among open source projects, since they can all benefit from improvements made to any one. It's the opposite of proprietary competition, in which innovations are locked behind patents and cannot spread.
Hard to define, I know. But I'm sure you agree that giving you the freedom to imprison people at will does not result in a net increase of freedom when you take into account the people affected by that.
I've thought for a while that the concept of teaching instruments through games is a great idea, and hope this lives up to my expectations. If this piques your interest, you might want to look at the independent PC title Synthesia (http://www.synthesiagame.com/) which is based around a similar idea for piano; despite not particularly polished it has the core concepts down and is improving all the time. I hope that one day someone sees the potential in his and throws money at the developer to give it the time and resources it deserves to turn it into a large-scale commercial project.

I have great hopes for these sorts of products, and think teaching instruments via games is simply the low-hanging fruit of a bigger idea. I think using technology to improve learning is a woefully unexplored area, and that learning is a sector that is ripe for some serious disruption. I don't think textbooks or lectures are an good or efficient way to learn, but we're still using those same methods that have existed since time immemorial without strong emperical evidence simply because it's the status quo. Meanwhile, technology and our knowledge of neuroscience and psychology have improved beyond all recognition, yet they are massively underutilised in terms of helping people learn. I can't help but feel that one day all these dots are going to be connected and it's going to dramatically change how we learn and educate for the better.
IIRC oxen is a vestigial dual (not plural) form, so quite appropriate.
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"They forego revenue in exchange for the loss control."

You obviously don't understand insurance outside of healthcare, if the insurance companies' underwriters and actuaries do their job right - the profit/revenue of all policy types is the same regardless of risk.

High risk=High rates, Low risk=low rates. Revenue/risk is balanced.

We all suffer spiraling healthcare costs because there is little correlation to what you pay for healthcare insurance and your overall risk to the insurer.

"Group underwriting" only exists in the healthcare industry - no where else.
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I have Pinker's book at hand as I type this. Pinker's detailed chapter on that issue is based on an article by Turkheimer, the author whose more recent paper I already cited to this thread as the first reply here. Pinker by no means has done anything at all to show that intelligence is "by and large an innate quality." The new and emerging rethinking of the interaction between genome and environment, which Turkheimer is doing a lot to pioneer, is driven by the data, not so much by any reaction from people in other disciplines.
How long does it take you to compute and then fill out the forms for your taxes? Also, do you have to declare bank accounts held outside the country?
This reminded me of the same game concept that was supposedly under development a few years ago when Guitar Hero and Rockband came out. The game was to be called Guitar Rising and was going to allow for the ability to use any electric guitar. Now the game is beginning to seem like vapourware but you should check out the demo video.

http://www.guitarrising.com/
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"We're all trying different things now to see what will help us save a little money," she explained.

Lazy thinking masquerading as innovation.

A four day school week (160 vs. 180) affecting all faculty and students to save $200K? Let me give you a better idea: fire three overpriced administrators who agree to this s##t for brains idea and save $75K each.
The template system rocks if you like handcuffs on your templates - and for some projects that may be the case.

Otherwise it's crippled in comparison to Jinja or Mako - with large amounts of un-Pythonic boilerplate if you want to write template tags.

To an extent you can replace it but again you will have trouble with those "reusable" apps.
"I still wonder why Firefox even bothers with writing its own engines instead of using webkit and v8. There really is no need for 2 open source rendering engines, that do the exact same thing."

It's a good thing the WebKit and V8 teams didn't have that attitude, or the only open source rendering engine would be Gecko.
It's a more scientific view of the human genome to focus on the genetic differences that are "fixed" in distinction between the genomes of Pan troglodytes (or Pan paniscus) and Homo sapiens. There is something profoundly different about the intelligence of any human being as contrasted with the intelligence of any chimpanzee (or gorilla, or more distantly related animal).
The U.S. flat tax proposals contain similar measures. Some even include a negative tax provision for low incomes.
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How does Qt perform? The licence is not an issue, since we're developing a commercial app, but ideally it should be able to work on a HDTV-sized touchscreen. Also, it is not required to run on a generic hardware -- we could build it to specs.
Great, just great. ...I'll make sure my kids are at 5-day week school to give them an advantage over the poor kids harmed by this idiocy.
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This reminds me of the CueCat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CueCat).

From what I recall, the CueCat was born of the same idea, but was quite before its time (for example, it connected via PS/2).
They definitely had a limit, but I think it was a bit higher (5K or 10K).
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Sorry, but this article is totally void of a convincing argument for any of the advice therein. What if you're not a BDD convert? What if you actually get more done on a 2 week long branch?
So, why the hell are you using some Apple software that is much more restrictive than the the GPL?
Um, yes, sure. I even mentioned that (you might have missed it). Those are problems, but you don’t necessarily have to solve them with multitasking. Or better: the kind of multitasking you know. Most apps can just save their state and quit. Some apps in some specific circumstances should keep running. The iPhone already supports that kind of multitasking (Phone app, iPod app, Voice Memo app) but only Apple can use it. I see no reason why they wouldn’t extend that to all developers sooner or later.

The iPhone and the iPad suck if you want to do what you just said regularly. That’s certainly true. But many other traditional tasks of multitasking are handled quite gracefully right now without any multitasking.
I have the pleasure to brief on our Data Visualization software "Trend Compass".

TC is a new concept in viewing statistics and trends in an animated way by displaying 5 axis (X, Y, Time, Bubble size & Bubble color) instead of just the traditional X and Y axis. It could be used in analysis, research, presentation etc. In the banking sector, we have Deutsche Bank New York as our client.

Link on Chile's Earthquake (27/02/2010):

http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/EarthQuakeinChile/

This a link on weather data :

http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/aims/

This is a bank link to compare Deposits, Withdrawals and numbers of Customers for different branches over time ( all in 1 Chart) :

http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/bank-trx/

Misc Examples :

http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/airline/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/stockmarket1/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/tax/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/football/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/swinefludaily/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/flu/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/babyboomers/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/bank-trx/
http://www.epicsyst.com/test/v2/advertising/

This is a project we did with Princeton University on US unemployment :
http://www.epicsyst.com/main3.swf

A 3 minutes video presentation of above by Professor Alan Krueger Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and currently Chief Economist at the US Treasury using Trend Compass :
http://epicsyst.com/trendcompass/princeton.aspx?home=1

Latest financial links on the Central Bank of Egypt:

http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/Aggregate-balan...
http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/balance-sheet
http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/banks-deposits-...
http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/egyptian-banks/
http://www.epicsyst.com/trendcompass/samples/currency-by-den...

I hope you could evaluate it and give me your comments. So many ideas are there.

You can download a trial version. It has a feature to export EXE,PPS,HTML and AVI files. The most impressive is the AVI since you can record Audio/Video for the charts you create.

http://epicsyst.com/trendcompass/FreeVersion/TrendCompassv1....

All the best.
If I go to http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=sydney&#... with Chrome I don't get a JSON format:

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While education experts have expressed concern about the long-term effects of reduced learning hours, schools are saying that the step is necessary to avoid further teacher layoffs.

Wait, you're telling me that if you have a four-day school week, it's so that we can keep more teachers on board?