{"id":1051,"date":"2010-02-17T08:44:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T14:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2010-02-17T08:46:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T14:46:27","slug":"made-me-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/made-me-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Made me laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed Kirk &amp; Hwu&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0123814723?tag=realtimerenderin\">Programming Massively Parallel Processors<\/a>&#8221; book is back in stock at Amazon (and now with 2 mixed reviews), after being unavailable for a number of days. The part that made me laugh is Amazon&#8217;s ranking listing:<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td align=\"right\">#1 in&nbsp;<\/td>\n<td align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/bestsellers\/books\/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_1\">Books<\/a> &gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/bestsellers\/books\/5\/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_2\">Computers &amp; Internet<\/a> &gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/bestsellers\/books\/549652\/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_3\">Hardware<\/a> &gt;\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/bestsellers\/books\/3829\/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_4_last\">Mainframes &amp; Minicomputers<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><P><br \/>\nIf GPU computing isn&#8217;t the antithesis of mainframes and minicomputers, I&#8217;m not sure what is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed Kirk &amp; Hwu&#8217;s &#8220;Programming Massively Parallel Processors&#8221; book is back in stock at Amazon (and now with 2 mixed reviews), after being unavailable for a number of days. The part that made me laugh is Amazon&#8217;s ranking listing: #1 in&nbsp; Books &gt;\u00a0Computers &amp; Internet &gt;\u00a0Hardware &gt;\u00a0Mainframes &amp; Minicomputers If GPU computing isn&#8217;t the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[16,87],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-books","tag-cuda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}