Turns out the F-35 program is a red herring to the chinese!

Now THEY can spend billions trying to get it to work!

German beers don't have to do this anymore, so there is no actual worry about getting in trouble.

Lots of German beers don't conform to the very narrow ingredient list anymore and the world is a better place for it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot#History

The reason for the question is that nothing in Moore's law says anything about single-threaded performance doubling every 1.5 years as many thing.

Moore's law is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years.

Are you sure you know what moore's law is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law .. might be worth a read.

It really doesn't seem like portability should be a huge goal for writing code for top-100 supercomputers. The cost of the computer would dwarf (or at least be a significant portion of) the cost of developing the software for it. It seems like writing purpose-built software for this type of machine would be desirable.

If you can cut the cost of the computer in half by doubling the speed of the software, it seems a valid fiscal tradeoff, and the way to do that would be to write it for purpose-built hardware.

Why did you even say this? "PC users" aren't even mentioned in this article. This article is about supercomputers where the workloads are by virtual definition extremely parallel and the restrictions are around price and power consumption, not "FPS on a single game".

You know this because you run large-scale datacenters running millions of machines?

You know this is a common misinterpretation, right?

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/17/nyregion/l-kill-the-lawyers-a-line-misinterpreted-599990.html

Basically the rebellion knows that lawyers maintain order in society and in order to throw it into chaos they need to get rid of the lawyers.

Also,

"The first thing we do," said the character in Shakespeare's Henry VI, is "kill all the lawyers." Contrary to popular belief, the proposal was not designed to restore sanity to commercial life. Rather, it was intended to eliminate those who might stand in the way of a contemplated revolution -- thus underscoring the important role that lawyers can play in society.

http://www.spectacle.org/797/finkel.html

bubbles exist when there's no real money involved. When it's all about making money in the future and throwing now money at it.

There is no "app bubble". People are paying real money for it, and there's no reason to believe they will stop. Perhaps the investments in companies that make them will pop, but there will never be less money being spent on apps than there is now.

Amazon.com is looking to hire thousands of people, right now. Not saying that that makes a dent, but there are companies with very strong growth right now.

you need 100 of them?

You can't exactly go out and buy 100 cell phones -- at least not at the same price point as the raspberry pi's.

you probably didn't crash it copying some unimportant files. Linux doesn't play that game.

The best way to learn is to fix what you've broken. That's how I learned linux.

Hate not being able to edit...

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