China's new one Petaflop water-cooled computer with Chinese designed cpu's
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Or perhaps they're not into angle bracket computing - as in: I have all this computing power, lets use 99% of it on parsing ...
Espen Harlinn Senior Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services
Espen, I like this remark very much, and it brought me the first smile of the morning here at GMT+7, thanks. Looking beyond the 'zen-truth' in what you said, do you ever wonder what the theoretical minima are for syntactic declaration, delineation, of classes, objects, fields, propertie, methods, etc., are ... when content is being served up dynamically ... streaming in, being fed on demand 'down' from servers ? Does Python, by design, in a way, ask, rhetorically: isn't white space enough ? Well, okay, yeah, you gotta have 'def and 'class. But, Python, as I dimly am aware of it, lets you use def without any terminating tag. Are there planets where life's dna is expressed without semi-colons ? It would actually interest me very much to know what a piece of source code for the whatever language that drives the new dragon-from-the-waters-of-Zheng He looks like. Assuming that's not a national secret. best, Bill
"Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish." Steven Wright
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Espen, I like this remark very much, and it brought me the first smile of the morning here at GMT+7, thanks. Looking beyond the 'zen-truth' in what you said, do you ever wonder what the theoretical minima are for syntactic declaration, delineation, of classes, objects, fields, propertie, methods, etc., are ... when content is being served up dynamically ... streaming in, being fed on demand 'down' from servers ? Does Python, by design, in a way, ask, rhetorically: isn't white space enough ? Well, okay, yeah, you gotta have 'def and 'class. But, Python, as I dimly am aware of it, lets you use def without any terminating tag. Are there planets where life's dna is expressed without semi-colons ? It would actually interest me very much to know what a piece of source code for the whatever language that drives the new dragon-from-the-waters-of-Zheng He looks like. Assuming that's not a national secret. best, Bill
"Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish." Steven Wright
BillWoodruff wrote:
first smile of the morning here at GMT+7
At GMT+7 on a sunday morning, few things beside pleasant dreams could have made me smile ;) Glad you liked it
Espen Harlinn Senior Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services
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i use most of my CPU time running HP printer drivers and Adobe updaters
So that what you wanted that Cray Jaguar[^] for - well yes, I too have noticed that the Adobe Updater is a bit resource hungry ;)
Espen Harlinn Senior Architect, Software - Goodtech Projects & Services
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Chris Losinger wrote:
Adobe updaters
And it seems no matter how many times you kill the processes, they keep spawning like the undead. I probably shut down the auto-updater at work a good half dozen times a day at work.
i dont know how this is done on windows, but in linux(and probably most unix bases systems) if you get the PID of the process(ps -aef | grep -i works well), go to /proc//stat the 4th parameter is the parent process that spawned that process...kill that and and it wont get spawned back (something i learned when trying to figure out what the hell was spawning java every time i killed it) (edit: ok i found out how to do it in windows: get process monitor[^] from microsoft, find the process you want, (make sure you have the column for "parent PID" in the grid view), copy the parentPID and go to filter,then go to filter, then select "pid is " it seems procmon can't kill so you have to bring up task manager and find the executable listed under "Process Name" in procmon and then kill it.)
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New York Times story by John Markoff[^] Excerpt: "The Sunway system, which can perform about 1,000 trillion calculations per second — a petaflop — will probably rank among the 20 fastest computers in the world. More significantly, it is composed of 8,700 ShenWei SW1600 microprocessors, designed at a Chinese computer institute and manufactured in Shanghai." Sometimes I wonder why there isn't a more 'visible' from-within-China presence here on CP. Probably (Occam's Razor ?) because they have their own forums in their own language ? Or is it because the Lounge is on the 'no go' list ? best, Bill
"Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish." Steven Wright
I confirm that CP is accessible from China. This lounge and this news are public too.
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i use most of my CPU time running HP printer drivers and Adobe updaters
See, this is why I got six cores :laugh:
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Espen, I like this remark very much, and it brought me the first smile of the morning here at GMT+7, thanks. Looking beyond the 'zen-truth' in what you said, do you ever wonder what the theoretical minima are for syntactic declaration, delineation, of classes, objects, fields, propertie, methods, etc., are ... when content is being served up dynamically ... streaming in, being fed on demand 'down' from servers ? Does Python, by design, in a way, ask, rhetorically: isn't white space enough ? Well, okay, yeah, you gotta have 'def and 'class. But, Python, as I dimly am aware of it, lets you use def without any terminating tag. Are there planets where life's dna is expressed without semi-colons ? It would actually interest me very much to know what a piece of source code for the whatever language that drives the new dragon-from-the-waters-of-Zheng He looks like. Assuming that's not a national secret. best, Bill
"Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish." Steven Wright
Don't like Python. Like baroque. On a more serious note, IMO freeform is good, and Python is not freeform. If you mess up indent in a 2000 lines Python file, containing only six 300 lines function (which is already happening, as Python is used more and more in large and "respectable" projects, by established companies, who don't always enforce the best coding practices), a restore from source control is your only hope of recovery. OTOH, remember Pascal or VB6? IMO, braces and semicolons are still decent.
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Chris Losinger wrote:
Adobe updaters
And it seems no matter how many times you kill the processes, they keep spawning like the undead. I probably shut down the auto-updater at work a good half dozen times a day at work.
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I confirm that CP is accessible from China. This lounge and this news are public too.
Feiyun Wang wrote:
I confirm that CP is accessible from China. This lounge and this news are public too.
Which probably explains why there are not more Chinese participants. If it does not have to be hacked to get access, they move on to something more interesting like Dept of Defense or CIA files! :)
Melting Away www.deals-house.com www.innovative--concepts.com
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Feiyun Wang wrote:
I confirm that CP is accessible from China. This lounge and this news are public too.
Which probably explains why there are not more Chinese participants. If it does not have to be hacked to get access, they move on to something more interesting like Dept of Defense or CIA files! :)
Melting Away www.deals-house.com www.innovative--concepts.com
First of all, I want to say that CP is one of favorite places to learn coding and find answers, and I am a Chinese. The reason why not many Chinese participants here is the language barrier, I think. It's not very easy for me to read an article sometimes when I found a useful one in English, so not to mention writing. However I like this site, despite it's in a foreign language.