Actually while IBM may not do a lot of "pure science". Some of it's breakthroughs in technology have far reaching implications, I'd say something similar with HP. So yes, pure science is not getting the kind of investment it did a while back, yes it could do with more, yes it would help. But I am sure that the kind of work that is being done in pure science nowdays is not the kind that can do with the amount of investment that can be "easily" made.
If there were to be radical shifts - a lot could happen. I guess, but what if scenarios are not particularly useful. Yes we need to do stuff, but the how is much more important. That we need to do stuff has been known for ages.
Also - Europe seems to have more money in pure science - I wonder if some one can get stats about how they have been better off for it. (not a bait - actually curious about the numbers)
- I'm not from any of the above mentioned companies.
However the thing is this, it's easier to get synthesiseable code in verilog that will correspond to your code directly, if you have experience, that is. However, VHDL seems to be better in my opinion only because it is more structured.
Ok - so the thing is, I've done significant work in both. I kind of liked the fact that VHDL was more structured and readable, however Verilog seems to have more support. Now, apart from this the differences, are mostly in getting synthesiseable results from your code, it's easier to get code match the RTL, like I've already said, if you're working in Verilog, plus synthesisers also have better support for Verilog. However, after getting started on verilog, VHDL is much more attractive in my opinion.
Well in a way it could be. I'd read the spectrum article some time back, but since I work in the field I can give some insight.
RAM latencies are a huge hit for applications that are based on random access. DRAMs etc. don't actually do random access the way you'd want they access one memory over a large time period, and provide faster access to some successive elements. New processor architectures based on smart caches and intelligent memories could be a lot more useful, basically though a rethinking of processor architecture is involved - in the end electrical and computer engineering is still that : Engineering there will always be tradeoffs.
One thing that I noticed was that this is may not apply to the engineering fields and to the more mathematical of sciences. I'm not sure about exactly whether the above can be construed as being valid or not ? should the headline be as general and should it be called 'science' if it's just medicine ?
I know I will burn karma for this - Open Source means that the source code is open. The fact that there are many licenses available such as the BSD one, the GNU one the MIT one and others means that there is no one agreed upon definition of what all it must encompass.
Any way point being - let them do what they are as long as they aren't imposing it on you. If they are forcing you to do something against your will - leave it.
I believe there is a statement that some one made - in any organisation people tend to rise to their level of incompetence.
Not to say you made a bad choice, but I think you'd have done better by joining a research lab. That's what I did, I joined a lab at another univ. while studying in my current one, and now my prof. has hired me. I'm also in 'computer engineering' - so to speak VLSI and comp. arch. for High performance to be precise.
I'm not sure if you have the same background of arch, programming, and hardware to be a computer engineering student vs. a computer science guy vs. an IT guy. But like some poster above me said - try a startup/small company - I know they are less likely to crib about grades etc. and more likely to worry about how good you really are.
Tool for progressive, and like OP said - King Crimson as well. For something more interesting try the post rock genre like god is an astronaut or something.
Actually, atleast this is what I think - I may be wrong of course. But a lot of the 'writtens' are BSODs, and most softwares tend to read in areas first before writing, an unauthorized read (ie. in locations where your prog. isn't allowed to read) will result in the 'read' error.
I hope they don't keep that. If microsoft wants to prevent the bad press associated with vista - they may need to make it un-vista-like atleast superficially.
I know I shouldn't look at coming to slashdot for anything that is ermm.. 'unbiased' wrt msft. But, if some guy from cult of mac can say that the commercial was not that bad -- ahh well that day can still come.
Kgs yeah, tons ? Doubt it - what density are you looking at here.
(We are talking about realistic atoms here - not about one atom == so much volume hence assuming hand to be a couple of cc - so many atoms - each atom has this weight => total weight == x tons. Talk about lattices in crystals etc.)
Not to be pedantic but that's material science not chemistry. And To GP you're an EE right. So if you were to go into let's say organic semiconductors you'd need to know basic Organic Chemistry - maybe not iodoform reaction etc. but certainly enough about what aromaticity is and electron pair delocalisation and all.
Well parent is a little flame-ish, but the point he makes is correct. The link is rather biased, and does seem to be making a planned move seem like msft having failed, without providing evidence. But hey, this is the intertubez who said we have to provide evidence for what we report right ?
I see, I never knew that CCTVs watching your every move were not an invasion into privacy etc. (not to flame but seriously ?)
And do look at it from the point of view of the Indians - bombings in major cities at random times - chosen for maximum disruption of normal life. The parliament was attacked, I'd like to see how the UK responds to terrorists after something like that.
Fortunately, it's currently not that bad here (but maybe I'm mistaken). Though yes, the ignorance most people have with respect to technology is rather irritating. The point however is that this is just a reaction - due to recent bomb blasts through out the country - in most major cities. Any ways, wifi hasn't spread all that much so the people it would be affecting aren't large, but let's see. Personally I doubt if it will be a law all that easily, most prolly it'll get squashed as soon as a bill is introduced.
Niagra as those are called, aren't very good at individual core performance. There was a study by Berkley some time back that did rate them above the others in terms of scaling. However, this is mostly with respect to memory bandwidth, in my opinion with Intels move from FSB to their as yet unreleased QuickPath Interconnect, which if I understood is closer to the AMD hyper transport. This may be challenged.
FYI the benchmarks were against clovertowns and opterons, and the cell performed best.
IEEE lets you put preprints up on your site. It's one of those things that let students like me tell the world I've been accepted for publication without having to wait for ages till they actually do publish. I'm not so sure about the other journals though.
Don't know what's being marketed ? Well they know that it's from microsoft, I don't think that people need to associate some particular product with the brand when all that is being marketed is that brand. I, of course, may be wrong.
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Actually while IBM may not do a lot of "pure science". Some of it's breakthroughs in technology have far reaching implications, I'd say something similar with HP. So yes, pure science is not getting the kind of investment it did a while back, yes it could do with more, yes it would help. But I am sure that the kind of work that is being done in pure science nowdays is not the kind that can do with the amount of investment that can be "easily" made.
If there were to be radical shifts - a lot could happen. I guess, but what if scenarios are not particularly useful. Yes we need to do stuff, but the how is much more important. That we need to do stuff has been known for ages.
Also - Europe seems to have more money in pure science - I wonder if some one can get stats about how they have been better off for it. (not a bait - actually curious about the numbers)
- I'm not from any of the above mentioned companies.
Yes, essentially I'd agree with you.
However the thing is this, it's easier to get synthesiseable code in verilog that will correspond to your code directly, if you have experience, that is. However, VHDL seems to be better in my opinion only because it is more structured.
Ok - so the thing is, I've done significant work in both. I kind of liked the fact that VHDL was more structured and readable, however Verilog seems to have more support. Now, apart from this the differences, are mostly in getting synthesiseable results from your code, it's easier to get code match the RTL, like I've already said, if you're working in Verilog, plus synthesisers also have better support for Verilog. However, after getting started on verilog, VHDL is much more attractive in my opinion.
Well in a way it could be. I'd read the spectrum article some time back, but since I work in the field I can give some insight.
RAM latencies are a huge hit for applications that are based on random access. DRAMs etc. don't actually do random access the way you'd want they access one memory over a large time period, and provide faster access to some successive elements. New processor architectures based on smart caches and intelligent memories could be a lot more useful, basically though a rethinking of processor architecture is involved - in the end electrical and computer engineering is still that : Engineering there will always be tradeoffs.
One thing that I noticed was that this is may not apply to the engineering fields and to the more mathematical of sciences. I'm not sure about exactly whether the above can be construed as being valid or not ? should the headline be as general and should it be called 'science' if it's just medicine ?
Lolcats and Schrodingers cat together - interesting.
http://abstrusegoose.com/7
I know I will burn karma for this - Open Source means that the source code is open. The fact that there are many licenses available such as the BSD one, the GNU one the MIT one and others means that there is no one agreed upon definition of what all it must encompass.
Any way point being - let them do what they are as long as they aren't imposing it on you. If they are forcing you to do something against your will - leave it.
I believe there is a statement that some one made - in any organisation people tend to rise to their level of incompetence.
Not to say you made a bad choice, but I think you'd have done better by joining a research lab. That's what I did, I joined a lab at another univ. while studying in my current one, and now my prof. has hired me. I'm also in 'computer engineering' - so to speak VLSI and comp. arch. for High performance to be precise.
I'm not sure if you have the same background of arch, programming, and hardware to be a computer engineering student vs. a computer science guy vs. an IT guy. But like some poster above me said - try a startup/small company - I know they are less likely to crib about grades etc. and more likely to worry about how good you really are.
Tool for progressive, and like OP said - King Crimson as well. For something more interesting try the post rock genre like god is an astronaut or something.
Actually, atleast this is what I think - I may be wrong of course. But a lot of the 'writtens' are BSODs, and most softwares tend to read in areas first before writing, an unauthorized read (ie. in locations where your prog. isn't allowed to read) will result in the 'read' error.
Sadly - given that he had only a B - which college given his potential would have taken him ? MIT ? Caltech ? Berkley ? I think not.
I hope they don't keep that. If microsoft wants to prevent the bad press associated with vista - they may need to make it un-vista-like atleast superficially.
I know I shouldn't look at coming to slashdot for anything that is ermm.. 'unbiased' wrt msft. But, if some guy from cult of mac can say that the commercial was not that bad -- ahh well that day can still come.
http://cultofmac.com/microsoft-debuts-new-pc-ad/2896
Kgs yeah, tons ? Doubt it - what density are you looking at here.
(We are talking about realistic atoms here - not about one atom == so much volume hence assuming hand to be a couple of cc - so many atoms - each atom has this weight => total weight == x tons. Talk about lattices in crystals etc.)
Not to be pedantic but that's material science not chemistry. And To GP you're an EE right. So if you were to go into let's say organic semiconductors you'd need to know basic Organic Chemistry - maybe not iodoform reaction etc. but certainly enough about what aromaticity is and electron pair delocalisation and all.
I btw. am an EE.
Well parent is a little flame-ish, but the point he makes is correct. The link is rather biased, and does seem to be making a planned move seem like msft having failed, without providing evidence. But hey, this is the intertubez who said we have to provide evidence for what we report right ?
I guess I stand corrected.
Cosmonaut and Astronaut actually, since we already had one. Went into space with the russians though - some joint venture something or the other.
I see, I never knew that CCTVs watching your every move were not an invasion into privacy etc. (not to flame but seriously ?)
And do look at it from the point of view of the Indians - bombings in major cities at random times - chosen for maximum disruption of normal life. The parliament was attacked, I'd like to see how the UK responds to terrorists after something like that.
Fortunately, it's currently not that bad here (but maybe I'm mistaken). Though yes, the ignorance most people have with respect to technology is rather irritating. The point however is that this is just a reaction - due to recent bomb blasts through out the country - in most major cities. Any ways, wifi hasn't spread all that much so the people it would be affecting aren't large, but let's see. Personally I doubt if it will be a law all that easily, most prolly it'll get squashed as soon as a bill is introduced.
Niagra as those are called, aren't very good at individual core performance. There was a study by Berkley some time back that did rate them above the others in terms of scaling. However, this is mostly with respect to memory bandwidth, in my opinion with Intels move from FSB to their as yet unreleased QuickPath Interconnect, which if I understood is closer to the AMD hyper transport. This may be challenged.
FYI the benchmarks were against clovertowns and opterons, and the cell performed best.
Do you think it stops just there ? 16 by 25 by 36 ....
Those who didn't get it - Ian M. Banks has a set of novels set in the 'Culture' universe. There was one called 'Excession'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excession
PrePrints
IEEE lets you put preprints up on your site. It's one of those things that let students like me tell the world I've been accepted for publication without having to wait for ages till they actually do publish. I'm not so sure about the other journals though.
Don't know what's being marketed ? Well they know that it's from microsoft, I don't think that people need to associate some particular product with the brand when all that is being marketed is that brand. I, of course, may be wrong.
Try - "Buying a secret present for your wife/girlfriend", I know, I know, slashdot - no wife/girlfriend.