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Nvidia revs up CUDA GPU coder toolkit

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Thrust library

Spent the afternoon playing with the Thrust library for CUDA. Very very nice work.

There is nothing wrong with OpenCL but it has some hoops to jump through. Thrust is very much like simple C++ STL programming. I like Thrust a lot!

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@Anton Ivanov

Look at the Thrust library. If you are comfortable with the STL, Thrust will sort your data on the GPU with code that looks just like a stock STL algorithm.

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Survey sets out to pin down nation's pr0n habits

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Well said

Good work.

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Yes, research is valuable

However way back in the 1990s when e-commerce first showed up it was clearly understood from traffic analysis that the only companies that made money via e-commerce were porn sites.

Would you believe that all of the 'deviants' managed to jump on the Internet e-commerce bandwagon before the entire world figured it out, just to get their porn fix?

Lots of people like porn. Porn is a bigger movie industry in California than Hollywood is by a factor of approx 10. I suggest that researchers who want to demonstrate this are probably wanking.

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Oh indeed

Mea culpa!

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Intel: 'PC makers took the light out of Light Peak'

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no comment

I just wanted to login to track back a comment

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Samsung goes super slim with Notebook 9 series

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Nice machine

It would be nicer still with an AMD E350 APU not Intel's effort.

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Former Microsoft exec barred from taking job at Salesforce

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unacceptable

This is corporate communism. Else it is corporate fascism. Either way it is a limit of personal rights in favour of corporatist rights.

Corps are fictional persons but people are real persons.

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Apple's MacBook Pros chucked out ahead of iPad 2

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Just chuck

the iPad!

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Intel throws Thunderbolt

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vs. other interconnects

"...data transfer protocol into a host's memory or PCIe-connected peripherals..."

I have not read the Light Peak spec. That said, if LP transfers packet oriented data with full management channel(s) in the sense that Infiniband does, then LP might be a decent alternative to IB, modulo existence of a software stack (something like OpenIB), to which an MPI stack could speak.

If these things were true, this would be very nice because LP seems t o be targetted at the mass market, thus ought to be a lot cheaper than IB hardware.

Thoughts, anyone?

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AMD's Bulldozer cores to push to 3.5 GHz and beyond

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Fantasic!

What more can I say?

Fantastic!

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Russia has 'secret space warplane' to match US X-37B

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Good article

...but mostly about the US item, not the Russian one!

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Google open sources its Mac deployment engine

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Hahaha!

Take that Apple! Someone is horning in on your tightly controlled system.

I'll bet Saint Jobs is apoplectic!

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Dead Space 2

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Bah!

Give me Left for Dead!

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CodeWeavers pours Wine for the masses

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Speaking as a member of the Linux cognescenti

WINE is just about the most confusing emulation scheme I've dealt with... the M$ C: drive is located in exactly which .directory? WINE is in no way, shape, or form ready for the non-geeks.

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Google and Apple locked horns over iPhone location data

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Geolocation

Which company do you think would be the first to hand over real time geo-location info to the FBI & CIA were there ever a civil revolt in the USA (or elsewhere)? The black shirts amongst the 'security forces' must drool over the possibility of locating dissidents to within a few meters and a few minutes or seconds.

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Gatwick Airport security swoops on 3-inch rifle

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Well yes but

You could also roll up a copy of The Economist and use it to crush someone's larynx.

Just about anything can be used as weapon, given some imagination.

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Cisco borgs network 'guardian angel'

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@AC

Not fair. If Intel or AMD or CPU-vendor-of-your-choice had circuitry that sends data without consent that would be noticed far and wide and it would become an issue.

Yet Cisco and every other significant maker of enterprise and telco switch & routing products are known to have installed backdoors in their products at the behest of the USA NSA. Skype did it with it's videoconference software for the gov't of China for Skype clients distributed in China.

My point is just that I do not trust corps when it comes to my privacy.

Yes you can say, correctly, that I would have to make my own h/w, but I've not heard that CPUs have back doors.

I can only deal with the problem where I can deal with it... I'm not aware that I should suspect my CPU or ethernet controller.

Do you know something I do not? If so, please share.

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Corp

And... I should trust a corp to guard my interests?

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Egypt slams lid on protests, Twitter

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@alien anthropologist

Indeed! Well said.

The 'Muslim' charge qua protests in Egypt makes about as much sense as a 'Christian' charge against a political demo in USA or Canada or Europe or Oz or NZ.

Statistically/demographically what else would they be? Such a charge means nothing.

The OP is playing prejudice.

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@M man, JaitcH, Paratrooping Parrot

I suggest you three ppl look up the definition of 'realpolitik'.

Fact is that Egypt at peace with Israel is very important in several ways to the USA. Boot out Mubarek and the devil you do not know might abrogate the peace treaty. Thus status-quo wins the day. This is not rocket science.

Eds: could we have a Henry Kissinger icon added to the list?

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Seagate tells flash bigots to get real

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Seriously

How many gigs does the average MP3 collection occupy? I've got about 48GB. I'm not going to carry all my ripped movies around on my laptop - can't see the point. Music I can see the point of though.

The biggest reason I can see for big HDDs in notebooks is that Win7+Office seems to need somewhat north of a bunch of gigs to install. But that's not much of an arg for a TB in a notebook.

I've never run out of space with a 160GB disk in my notebook, and that's a dual boot Win+Linux scheme.

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Oracle spurns Ruby devs for Java love

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Oracle is trying to monetize Java

So why would it care about other languages?

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AMD uncloaks Fusion dev kit

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Hmmmm.

The article gives this link http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/Pages/default.aspx for the new SDK. That page has this link for download http://developer.amd.com/gpu/AMDAPPSDK/downloads/Pages/default.aspx.

So I downloaded it, and noticed it has the exact same file name as AMD Stream 2.3 SDK I grabbed months ago.

And the output of "diff -q ati-stream-sdk-v2.3-lnx64.tgz ../dnld/AMD-Stream-2.3/ati-stream-sdk-v2.3-lnx64.tgz" (the first file being the new SDK, the second file the one I downloaded months ago?

The output is: "". No difference.

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Let me be the first to welcome, hahaha!

I am glad to see this finally out, and with Fusion support and formal support for 4890s ('cause I own two of them). Support for Bobcat is cool: being able to leverage the GPU part of a Bobcat should make possible a quite high ratio of computational power to electrical power consumption, and that in a small box.

However I was really hoping to see the new AMD 'Stream' SDK include a low level C-like binding in the style of CUDA C. Nothing wrong with OpenCL, I just like the nitty gritty of CUDA.

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Israelis seize woman packing 44 iPhones

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@Gil Grissum

Israel's main telco is in dispute with Apple about profit share. Thus Israel govt some time ago controlled import of Apple cell phones, and there is a black market in Israel for iPhones. Nothing more.

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HAHAHA!

In USA/Canada she could have charged ethnic profiling or ageism!

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Utah to honour Browning M1911 semi-automatic

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Hear hear!

Hear hear!

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Get your story right

You are thinking of a Margaret Atwood story: The Handmaid's Tale.

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Well yes but

Not every day is a senator (DM or RP) shot in the head. I find it very hard to believe that the shooter did not know who he was shooting at.

I'm in Canada and I freely admit we play it softer, and I think that's a good thing. I've seen some ads from the right wing (Palin can we say) using crosshairs: such would not fly here.

I do not know if the shooter took the cross hairs to heart, but I have to wonder. The shooter may be just a lunatic. The characterization of people with non-agreeing points of view in the USA as being less than human or immoral is worrying: it can incite people.

Politics is ever a blood sport but mostly metaphorically in the western(ized) democracies. The temperature of the game in the USA these past 15 or 20 years has been quite high, and may inspire some people to use real heat. I do not know if this is the case here, but equally can you say it is not the case?

I do think that collegiality has been lost, and that seems to me to be the first thing lost in a downward slide. Example, I really do not agree with the policies of my provincial gov't but I am not about to shoopt the premier, nor are his sympathizers about to shoot me.

There are people in the USA who more or less speak on the airwaves of their opponents as being 'cockroaches', implicitly subhuman.

Where did we last recently see this kind of talk? Rwanda and ex-Yugoslavia.

The USA has had a verbally violent political culture for quite a few years now - is it impossible to believe that some loose cannons would take it to heart?

There are ways of dealing with opposing points of view that do not demonize one's opponents - generically they are called debate - and these methods hold the promise of finding solutions acceptable to both sides of the debate. I just do not see such ways being used by people on the far right in the USA - rather I see some people on the far right cultivating an extreme approach.

That said, the centre/left in the USA, Obama aside (and he is centrist IMHO) have spent the past 20 odd years fearing to speak their mind.

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@Comateux

I've always preferred the smell of tear gas in the morning to the sound of gunfire. Gunfire is more of an evening thing for me. To each his own though.

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Mid-Atlantic Ocean temperatures peaked in 1998

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New data panic

It might just be that we got access to new data sources for temp of various parts of the planet during the past 60-odd years, and the variations in temp, not matching prior models, induced a moral panic.

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Facebook offers 500 million users SSL crypto

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Nope, fail.

At least in Canada. There are no HTTPS options anywhere that I can find.

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Asus NX90Jq 18.4in Core i7 laptop

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B&O Design

B&O generally makes very good and very good looking stuff, but the big black wings hanging off the monitor in this case are a bad idea. Get rid of them and this thing would get a "10" from me.

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Thunderstorms found to squirt antimatter into space

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Let me be the first

to welcome our positronic cloud-like overlords!

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If you open source an old market, are you doomed to fail?

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Let's open source Solaris!

Let's open source Solaris!

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Man charged in bizarre EXPLODING VIBRATOR plot

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Should be an attempted murder charge

What the title says.

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'Methanotroph' bacteria feasted on blown BP rig's methane belch

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1 million ton oxygen deficit

When you have all the oxygen in a volume of the ocean removed then all the oxygen 'breathing' animals in that region of the ocean die. This happens with red tides IIRC, and also when massive doses of phosphates usually from fertilizers are dumped into lakes and oceans and stimulate alfal blooms.

So now everyone is happy the evil methane is gone - that's OK I suppose but the problem has simply been transformed into a different shape - no damned oxygen!

Something that has been little commented on since the spill but which was reported at the time is this: whatever BP was pumping into the deep waters during the spill occasionally came to the surface and made people out on the water very very ill. The spill turned out to dissipate faster than expected - but was that because BP was perhaps pumping the nastiest dispersants available as fast as it could as deep as it could?

So great, the spill was dissipated pretty quick, but how many megatons of poison were added to ocean to achieve that?

Outta sight outta mind! People are so short sighted sometimes it amazes me.

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Intel unveils itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny SSDs

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@mhenriday

Then what is being measured is actually an impulse not an acceleration, yes?

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Robo stealth bomber piggybacks on NASA's shuttle jumbo

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Autonomous weapons

I really do not like the idea of autonomous weapon systems. They will cause a rather radical concentration of power in the hands of a president or prime minister... removing the military chain of command from between weapons and politicians entirely.

Given very accurate weapons that require no pilots or drivers... what stops another GWB type loon bombing every- and anyone God tells him to? How would the legislative find out about that... there would be no military people involved to talk about it?

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US Army 'to issue every soldier with a smartphone'

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Now that is what I call PORK!

FULL FAT PORK!

Which industry lobbyist pulled off this coup?

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The year's best... PC games

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Bah

In 16 or 18 odd years of first person shooter gaming the best piece of work I've seen is L4D (and L4D2). Superior game play does not need DX10/DX11/DX420, it just needs a good adaptive game model. My $0.02.

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WikiLeaks' Assange to be indicted for spying 'soon'

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Gov'ts

Clearly what we need is more gov't secrecy. It astounds me that we even let question period be reported. Seriously - can you not see the risk inherent in the public holding public servants accountable? And how are the secret police supposed to control us if their, uh, deliberations are not secret? We built democracy on the, ahem, right of secrecy of the politicians and bureaucrats did we not? The English revolution in the 1600's, the American revolution & constitution, the French Rights of Man - these were all intended to protect the rulers from interference from the serfs, pardon me, citizenry.

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@Carlo Graziani

There is in Brit common law the requirement for prosecution to inform defense of the content of the case being made. This persisted in the USA legal code. I don't know that Italy or Germany have or ever had that idea however. Well that explains some history I suppose.

Assange's lawyer should be informed, as a matter of proper legal protocol, by the prosecution, of how the prosecution intends to proceed.

Of course, what Assange & co. have been up to is so intensely political that a show trial is not impossible...

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Elon Musk's Dragon capsule reaches orbit successfully

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Very nice.

el Reg should ask SpaceX to toss the PARIS plane out the window while up there!

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Anonymous attacks PayPal in 'Operation Avenge Assange'

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@Bilgepipe

That is somehow different from the people who die because the gov'ts operate behind screens?

Do you think a life taken with gov't sanction is less valuable than one taken without?

Perhaps you could find an einsatzgrupen to join...

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This is what democracy looks like.

This is what democracy looks like.

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THE TRUTH on the Californian NASA POISON ALIENS

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Just more proof

that the blogosphere is 99% noise.

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YES! It's the twists-in-midair FALLING GECKO ROBOT!

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@Ru

Oh, BS. This not so complicated that it needed an example to implement.

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Popular sites caught sniffing user browser history

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All I can say is

I used the Francis character from L4D as my avatar on StackOverflow when I made an account there.

Now, when I post elsewhere having used the same email to make my account, guess what my avatar often defaults to?

Techeye.net particularly bothered me in this regard.

Strangely enough Facebook has not managed to mine this connection.

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