They're still waiting from 5 years ago for pagefile.sys to populate. "It looked like it was all booted up and ready to go all that time, but in reality the disk thrashing kept going and going forever," complained a researcher.
These latest TOP500 project teams seem to have exercised free choice of OSes, free from force or coercion. Choice is good, so I'm not sure if you're complaining, and if so, why? If we knew that all 500 projects were using completely interchangeable code and hardware we might have a monoculture at play, but the reality is that they used the best available OS option for their own specific, bespoke, custom needs. I hope I understood your comment correctly.
That time when Linus's wife could not be Rickrolled because her Linux box had no Flash capability was a searing tragedy in the annals of computer history.
I signed up here almost from the very beginning of Slashdot time. A few days earlier and I might have had ID#100000. From what people have been saying here in all those 19+ years, Slashdot was dying, has always been dying, is still dying, and will always be dying. I just ignore the irritating cruft, and I'd advise everyone to do that.
So, moving right along... how about those TOP500 scores!
As Linux began to crack the TOP500 list in the 1990s, Bill Gates tried to ignite a supercomputer effort at Microsoft but it never amounted to much. I wish I could find a link to it. Anyways, I found the following timeline for Microsoft's "Project Catapult" AI-related supercomputing effort, which might not be in the TOP500 list's league:
2010: Microsoft researchers meet with Bing executives to propose using FPGAs to accelerate Indexserve.
2011: A team of Microsoft software engineers and researchers come together to address a huge processing problem: how to use customized, programmable integrated circuits to accelerate computationally expensive operations in Bing’s Indexserve engine.
2012: Large scale pilot of FPGA boards in each of 1,632 servers and wiring them with a custom secondary network.
2013: Results of pilot demonstrated positive ROI, allowed latency improvements in ranking while cutting the number of required servers in half. Decision was made to go to production.
2014: Publication of paper and decision to merge Bing design with Microsoft’s converged SKU, adding to the v2 architecture that enables configurable clouds.
2015: Ramp up to large-scale production in Bing and Azure.
2016: “Configurable Cloud” architecture in nearly every new production server. Configurable Cloud paper published (Micro 2016, October) https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...
What is the outcome of that photonic energy if the beam misses? What are the technical issues/dangers of such a situation? Could a man out standing in his field suddenly be vivisected by an errant beam? What if the streams cross, dammit?!!
"Expecting people not to keep as much of their wealth as possible within the law is foolish."
No, that's incorrect. Expecting people not to pay their fair share as possible within the law is foolish. No freeloaders, no coat-tail-riders, no overgrown babies who never learned that sharing is critical to their own existence. No excuses.
If you are one of those who praises tax avoidance as a laudable life goal, you are a freeloading, coat-tail riding maladroit.
The biggest value of the data dump is that an otherwise closed doorway into a strange world in which the 1%ers exist is suddenly thrown open to show that monetary enrichment dissolves any and all notions of patriotism and shared values.
Sociopaths will continue to praise their own legal proprietary, and imbeciles will continue to cheer on their beloved sociopaths, but those who try to live and excel while doing their share to make their own lives and the world they live in better get chumped again and again by an evil breed. This data dump helps to see this much clearly.
It is not about some phoney notion that tax avoidance is somehow laudable; it is about exposing corruption.
Well, I guess its still not time to say "Goodnight PJ, wherever you are."
Owing for the most part to this ongoing SCO saga, the web was once gifted with the presence of Groklaw and the inimitable Pamela Jones, who brushed aside direct and very personal attacks from Darl McBride, Maureen O'Gara, and others as she provided insights and clarity for computer geeks on what tends to be a quite opaque judicial system. The comfort bar amongst FOSS supporters was raised significantly by her.
We all know that sensation of hearing the fast approaching excitement and activity, the rumble of the earth, the ear-splitting crescendo, and the immediate drop in frequency, the whirlwinds of smoke and grit in the air, the slow end of the experience, the energy dissipating into nothingness. Oh ya, and occasionally some dead cattle. They might as well have named their company Entropy Journey Inc.
Cite? How about we cite these liberal univerisities for wasting tax dollars.
As long as universities have Economics departments, I don't want to hear one word about how any scientific research is "wasting" money.
Additionally, academic research projects involve making funding proposals and submitting applications for at least one grant (and often several) coming from non-governmental entities, so gripes about waste of taxpayer dollars are not based on a realistic view.
Canada's "The Nature Of Things" TV documentary series, hosted by Dr. David Suzuki, covered this very topic of squirrel food hoarding behaviour in a 2012 episode called "Nuts About Squirrels":
The show highlights the work of Prof. Mike Steele and team at Wilkes, as well as that of Prof. Joel Brown at the University of Illinois, and Dr. Sarah Parton at Hampshire College.
This new UC Berkeley research adds to a fascinating topic.
Worth noting is that this decision has come down on the last working day of CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais. What a great parting gift to the carriers after all their years of extorting every possible dollar from Canadians.
Fare thee well, JP Blais, and thanks for the solid!
I'm glad to live close to the U.S. border so that I can use Roam Mobility as needed to get around the hideous roaming fees charged by the Canadian carriers.
Why are they wasting tax dollars when the technology already has been known in Area 51 since the 1940s? The 1943 Wizarding Accords, of which the author of the Declaration of Independence, Labach the Elder, was a signatory, allowed such advanced technology to be exploited for civilian purposes. Smarten up, NASA!
The title on The Verge talks about the new "Front End" of the Tesla S, yet in the story the cosmetic surface of the front fascia is the topic. In North American car jargon, the term "front end" means the steering and suspension apparatus of the front wheels. Going back many, many years, it was common to book one's car into a repair shop for a "front end alignment", and some mechanics were "front end" specialists. I just had an Abe Simpson moment there...
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Thankfully any exploits against Bluetooth were quickly ruined by... well... Bluetooth.
They're still waiting from 5 years ago for pagefile.sys to populate. "It looked like it was all booted up and ready to go all that time, but in reality the disk thrashing kept going and going forever," complained a researcher.
I'd expect that most of them are not distro-based but rather LFS-based: http://www.linuxfromscratch.or...
I'm sure some of those rigs could spare a few CPU cycles to run VMs in case somebody needs to Skype their basement-dwelling maladroit kid.
These latest TOP500 project teams seem to have exercised free choice of OSes, free from force or coercion. Choice is good, so I'm not sure if you're complaining, and if so, why? If we knew that all 500 projects were using completely interchangeable code and hardware we might have a monoculture at play, but the reality is that they used the best available OS option for their own specific, bespoke, custom needs. I hope I understood your comment correctly.
That time when Linus's wife could not be Rickrolled because her Linux box had no Flash capability was a searing tragedy in the annals of computer history.
I signed up here almost from the very beginning of Slashdot time. A few days earlier and I might have had ID#100000. From what people have been saying here in all those 19+ years, Slashdot was dying, has always been dying, is still dying, and will always be dying. I just ignore the irritating cruft, and I'd advise everyone to do that.
So, moving right along... how about those TOP500 scores!
As Linux began to crack the TOP500 list in the 1990s, Bill Gates tried to ignite a supercomputer effort at Microsoft but it never amounted to much. I wish I could find a link to it. Anyways, I found the following timeline for Microsoft's "Project Catapult" AI-related supercomputing effort, which might not be in the TOP500 list's league:
2010: Microsoft researchers meet with Bing executives to propose using FPGAs to accelerate Indexserve.
2011: A team of Microsoft software engineers and researchers come together to address a huge processing problem: how to use customized, programmable integrated circuits to accelerate computationally expensive operations in Bing’s Indexserve engine.
2012: Large scale pilot of FPGA boards in each of 1,632 servers and wiring them with a custom secondary network.
2013: Results of pilot demonstrated positive ROI, allowed latency improvements in ranking while cutting the number of required servers in half. Decision was made to go to production.
2014: Publication of paper and decision to merge Bing design with Microsoft’s converged SKU, adding to the v2 architecture that enables configurable clouds.
2015: Ramp up to large-scale production in Bing and Azure.
2016: “Configurable Cloud” architecture in nearly every new production server. Configurable Cloud paper published (Micro 2016, October)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-u...
What is the outcome of that photonic energy if the beam misses? What are the technical issues/dangers of such a situation? Could a man out standing in his field suddenly be vivisected by an errant beam? What if the streams cross, dammit?!!
"Expecting people not to keep as much of their wealth as possible within the law is foolish."
No, that's incorrect. Expecting people not to pay their fair share as possible within the law is foolish. No freeloaders, no coat-tail-riders, no overgrown babies who never learned that sharing is critical to their own existence. No excuses.
The intro, that is...
This looks to be the non-paywalled Financial Times story:
http://www.businessdayonline.c...
If you are one of those who praises tax avoidance as a laudable life goal, you are a freeloading, coat-tail riding maladroit.
The biggest value of the data dump is that an otherwise closed doorway into a strange world in which the 1%ers exist is suddenly thrown open to show that monetary enrichment dissolves any and all notions of patriotism and shared values.
Sociopaths will continue to praise their own legal proprietary, and imbeciles will continue to cheer on their beloved sociopaths, but those who try to live and excel while doing their share to make their own lives and the world they live in better get chumped again and again by an evil breed. This data dump helps to see this much clearly.
It is not about some phoney notion that tax avoidance is somehow laudable; it is about exposing corruption.
Tor and Mozilla folks work together on these things. That's what they themselves say.
Well, I guess its still not time to say "Goodnight PJ, wherever you are."
Owing for the most part to this ongoing SCO saga, the web was once gifted with the presence of Groklaw and the inimitable Pamela Jones, who brushed aside direct and very personal attacks from Darl McBride, Maureen O'Gara, and others as she provided insights and clarity for computer geeks on what tends to be a quite opaque judicial system. The comfort bar amongst FOSS supporters was raised significantly by her.
Now please, SCO, die already. Just die.
We all know that sensation of hearing the fast approaching excitement and activity, the rumble of the earth, the ear-splitting crescendo, and the immediate drop in frequency, the whirlwinds of smoke and grit in the air, the slow end of the experience, the energy dissipating into nothingness. Oh ya, and occasionally some dead cattle. They might as well have named their company Entropy Journey Inc.
Isn't there a law or code of some sort that says not to murder, harm, sue, or otherwise ruin a paying customer?
As long as universities have Economics departments, I don't want to hear one word about how any scientific research is "wasting" money.
Additionally, academic research projects involve making funding proposals and submitting applications for at least one grant (and often several) coming from non-governmental entities, so gripes about waste of taxpayer dollars are not based on a realistic view.
Canada's "The Nature Of Things" TV documentary series, hosted by Dr. David Suzuki, covered this very topic of squirrel food hoarding behaviour in a 2012 episode called "Nuts About Squirrels":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The show highlights the work of Prof. Mike Steele and team at Wilkes, as well as that of Prof. Joel Brown at the University of Illinois, and Dr. Sarah Parton at Hampshire College.
This new UC Berkeley research adds to a fascinating topic.
Worth noting is that this decision has come down on the last working day of CRTC Chairman Jean-Pierre Blais. What a great parting gift to the carriers after all their years of extorting every possible dollar from Canadians.
Fare thee well, JP Blais, and thanks for the solid!
I'm glad to live close to the U.S. border so that I can use Roam Mobility as needed to get around the hideous roaming fees charged by the Canadian carriers.
Why are they wasting tax dollars when the technology already has been known in Area 51 since the 1940s? The 1943 Wizarding
Accords, of which the author of the Declaration of Independence, Labach the Elder, was a signatory, allowed such advanced technology to be exploited for civilian purposes. Smarten up, NASA!
The title on The Verge talks about the new "Front End" of the Tesla S, yet in the story the cosmetic surface of the front fascia is the topic. In North American car jargon, the term "front end" means the steering and suspension apparatus of the front wheels. Going back many, many years, it was common to book one's car into a repair shop for a "front end alignment", and some mechanics were "front end" specialists. I just had an Abe Simpson moment there...
ABBA Abba admin abba root aBBa superuser Opeth ^C
Incoming message from Kepler: "Wow, that was amazing! I need a smoke."
Krebs and others have been talking about these kinds of Chinese surveillance products for awhile: https://news.slashdot.org/stor...
Here's another: http://news.softpedia.com/news...
The catch with *this* story is that it is about a product available through Amazon. That's it, in a nutshell.