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Comment Re:I think this is bullshit (Score 1) 1746

by i-Chaos (#46655499) Attached to: Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO

There's a difference between voting against a person, disagreeing with a person, witholding your own business dealings with the same, and rallying for support against someone's professional business based on their personal opinions. Essentially, in the current world, you're arguing that you are allowed to discriminate on a small scale based on someone's opinion, which is sort of true. Sure, you can't discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, or religion, but go ahead on everything else, please, right?

Brendan Eich made a personal comment that was not representative of the views of the entire office at Mozilla. The man's career shouldn't have to suffer for his personal views. This type of personal extortion is no different than firing a man for being straight, or gay. Would it have been morally right if Brendan Eich stated in his departure speech that the 'net in general, as well as all non-LGBT persons should boycott OKCupid as a dating site due to their anti-free speech and pro-gay agenda?

Either way, as much as I believe in LGBT rights, the first shot fired was by OKCupid, and it was uncouth and general BM.
Graphics

NVIDIA Unveils Next Gen Pascal GPU With Stacked 3D DRAM and GeForce GTX Titan Z 110

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the reinforcing-the-memory-hierarchy dept.
MojoKid (1002251) writes "NVIDIA's 2014 GTC (GPU Technology Conference) kicked off today in San Jose California, with NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang offering up a healthy dose of new information on next generation NVIDIA GPU technologies. Two new NVIDIA innovations will be employed in their next-gen GPU technology, now know by its code named 'Pascal." First, there's a new serial interconnect known as NVLink for GPU-to-CPU and GPU-to-GPU communication. Though details were sparse, apparently NVLink is a serial interconnect that employs differential signaling with embedded clock and it allows for unified memory architectures and eventually cache coherency. It's similar to PCI Express in terms of command set and programming model but NVLink will offer a massive 5 — 12X boost in bandwidth up to 80GB/sec.

The second technology to power NVIDIA's forthcoming Pascal GPU is 3D stacked DRAM technology.The technique employs through-silicon vias that allow the ability to stack DRAM die on top of each other and thus provide much more density in the same PCB footprint for the DRAM package. Jen-Hsun also used his opening keynote to show off NVIDIA's most powerful graphics card to date, the absolutely monstrous GeForce GTX Titan Z. The upcoming GeForce GTX Titan Z is powered by a pair of GK110 GPUs, the same chips that power the GeForce GTX Titan Black and GTX 780 Ti. All told, the card features 5,760 CUDA cores (2,880 per GPU) and 12GB of frame buffer memory—6GB per GPU. NVIDIA also said that the Titan Z's GPUs are tuned to run at the same clock speed, and feature dynamic power balancing so neither GPU creates a performance bottleneck."
Biotech

Pine Tree Has Largest Genome Ever Sequenced 71

Posted by samzenpus from the it's-how-you-use-it dept.
sciencehabit (1205606) writes "Using a single pollinated pine seed, researchers have sequenced the entire genome of the loblolly pine tree--and it's a doozy. The tree's genome is largest yet sequenced: 22.18 billion base pairs, more than seven times longer than the human genome. The team found that 82% of the genome was made up of duplicated segments, compared with just 25% in humans. The researchers also identified genes responsible for important traits such as disease resistance, wood formation, and stress response."

Comment As an Allumni of Waldorf... (Score 1) 333

by i-Chaos (#37810964) Attached to: A Silicon Valley School That Doesn't Use Computers

.. I can say they are not just there to "educate." They educate the soul and raise human beings! I attended the highschool there from Grade 9 to Grade 12. At the Toronto Waldorf School, there'd never been a fistfight in the highschool in 25 years. The people (teachers & students) are genuinely nice, genuinely caring, and genuinely good people - it's all based on their philosophies.

No cliques, no popularity contests, no teenage pregnancies and other delinquent behaviours. If you want your kids to grow up wholesome, Waldorf is awesome for that!

In regards to computers, I don't know how it is in LA, but at the Toronto Waldorf School we had computer courses. We learned the history of computing, and even built mechanical gates by hand using wood, paper clips, wires, etc, and as a whole class project we put together all the gates and made a mechanical calculator! Throughout my high school years, in fact, I'd built so many things with my hands that I would never have the opportunity to build if my parents had never sent me to that school.
The Internet

Submission + - Make a viral video, lose your job

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Raul654 writes: "Philip de Vellis, the author of the Hilary Clinton viral video was outed today on the Huffington Post. The company he works for, Blue State Digital, has now fired him as a result. Said Vellis: "I made the 'Vote Different' ad because I wanted to express my feelings about the Democratic primary, and because I wanted to show that an individual citizen can affect the process.""
Music

Gifted Children Find Heavy Metal Comforting 585

Posted by samzenpus from the the-soothing-side-of-slayer dept.
An anonymous reader writes "The Daily Telegraph is reporting that intelligent teenagers often listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with being talented, according to research. Researchers found that, far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent "metalheads" are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders."
Music

Submission + - RIAA Balks at Complying with Order for Documents

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NewYorkCountryLawyer
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "When the RIAA was ordered to turn over its attorneys billing records to the defendant's lawyer in Capitol v. Foster, there was a lot of speculation that they would never comply with the order. As it turns out they have indeed balked at compliance with the order, saying that they are preparing a motion for protective order seeking confidentiality (something they could have asked for, but didn't ask for, in their opposition papers to the initial motion). Not having any of that, Ms. Foster's lawyer has now made a motion to compel their compliance with the Court's March 15th order."

Comment I don't get it... (Score 1) 174

by i-Chaos (#13710407) Attached to: Next Generation Chip Research
I don't get a word he says, and I know a little bit about programming. Can somone dumb this down?

From what I know, a loop is a loop and you need to satisfy a condition and do some processing. Won't it be a problem if I don't have the data resulting from the last loop before I do the next one?

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