Off topic, but does anyone know if I could stuff a PCI & ISA soundcard in my PC, using the PCI for Windows & ISA one for linux? It's seems like there shouldn't be any problems, but doesn't everything seem easy on paper? Just try it you say, but I am not willing to hand out a hard earned $10 just to find out it doesn't work! ;)
I believe they have a fully waterproof model for a bit more $$$. You have to admit they are pretty neat though. They can withstand a much greater shock than normal laptops - mine fell about 6inches and the LCD went haywire for a while. Also these are great for rough, vibration prone environments - ie on a jeep off road, or on a roller coaster. Most laptops will die under any Gs.
To whoever downgraded this post: It's a joke shithead! What's up with all the humorless idiot moderators? Ok, sometimes I am a humorless idiot moderator myself...
I have actually read several papers (from IBM, etc. ) on this exact topic - including details about implementations. I would be very surprised if Google has not read these papers. I hope that they are not patenting ideas that were previously available in the public sphere. God damn I hate patents!!!!!!!
I may be slightly biased since I go to Berkeley, but I think it's great. Here are a few thoughts.
Research in just about any field is definitely possible, I have been doing it since I was a freshman. It just depends on your own initiative to go out and find out what is going on (their are programs that list all the oppurtinities, but you have to seek them out).
Berkeley is crowded, and nothing will be handed to you on a platter. Everything you get out of it will be due to what you put into it, which is a good lesson in my opinion.
Although lower div classes can be huge, I have never had a prof who wasn't accessable whenever I needed to see them.
The social atmosphere is A LOT more varied that what you would see at Caltech or MIT. I have friends at those schools who are not always so happy.
Make sure that your son has an idea what the difference between CS & technology is.
UW also has a good CS program, so you should definitely look into it if money is a concern.
Have your son check out the class homepages http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu for an idea of the coursework.
One more thing - don't let your son get a big head, I know a 8th grader who got in the 1400s on the SAT - there is always someone smarter than you, so you can't let that be your measurement of self-worth or your source of happiness.
Go to CMU, or MIT, or even Stanfurd!!! Just don't go to berkeley! There are already way too many EECS/CS majors here, it's just nuts! Everyone, go home! Who knew there were 300 people every semester who want to take operating systems???
- When it first came out the penetration of 3d accelerated hardware was minimal - Downloads were slow when VRML first arrived - I remember the huge difference when I first tried VRML on an SGI on an ethernet. - Any idiot can write text to make a HTML file, 3d stuff is much harder - It's not well integrated with the browser: few will use it if it requires a 4MB download (and reboot under windows). - So far the only real applications of 3d are games, modelling, and CGI for movies. Hopefully someone can come up with a decent 3d interface. Part of this is also the development of a good 3d manipulator - the 3d version of the mouse.
Errrr, hate to break it to you, but their does exist a force that repels matter. It is called E&M. You know, same potential as gravity, but it can repel as well as attract. Last I checked it isn't playing hell with our concepts of energy conservation. By the way, it does take an infinite amount of energy to create a point charge (classically speaking). Just make it a footnote and forget about it since ervery thing else works.
Last I looked, it seemed like the general consensus was that NFS sucked on Linux. It seems that FreeBSD has a much more robust and speedy implementation of it.
Not a flame, just repeating what I saw on usenet and linux-kernel.
Even though it was implemented on a PalmPilot, I think it's the fact that the force of electro-magnetism can be used in so many ways that is the coolest fact. I mean you can microwave food, herd electrons into doing our work, see, etc. This force of nature can do it all. ENIAC was revolutionary, the PalmPilot is not. I sure love my electro-weak force. Never leave home without it.;)
What needs to happen is an extensible unit that takes Minidisc as a media but has a programmable DSP so that it can play MP3's, or ATRAC (is that MD format?) files. Also needed is a MD reader/writer for PCs, preferable one that is USB/IEEE1394.
My only question is why data MDs cost $13 and the audio ones cost $2.50 when they both hold digital info.
One more note - Sony is suppose to have developed a 650 MB MD.
The high prices of Xeon chips are not due to patents! Fast on die memory cost beaucoup $$s. Also the market - "high-end" servers can cost a ton without people flinching, unlike the desktop market.
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There are IEEE1394-USB cables, haven't used one myself though. Check out Fry's or something. I know that there 1394 PCI cards for abot $100 though.
Here's a better idea: Upload your book in PDF/PS format. Users can download the files or portions thereof for free, but for $10 a printing press will spit out a dead tree copy for you. I am not sure if the publishing technology is all there yet to make if financially viable, but I sure think it would be neat.
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I too remember it as "butthead astronomer." Of course I am way to lazy to try to search for the story on the web anywhere.
Of the few SSH clients for windows, my favorite is putty. Single exe file, nice terminal. No port forwarding, but what can you do? The first site that I found with it when I type "putty ssh" into a search engine is: http://www.sorted.org/~chris/ssh/
This move really scares me. Although flexibility is definitely a good thing, I am getting the impression that SGI has a short attention span. First the stupid rebranding a few months ago, now this. They need to be able to stick with a plan for more than a year. The visual workstations may not have been selling like hotcakes, but they are fairly new to the market and sport cutting edge and proprietary interfaces (cobalt graphics & pci64). Peripheral manufacturers are just now starting to catch up.
And positioning themselves as a player in the non-existant streaming media server market seems rather ridiculous. A good server just needs great disk/memory IO, which competitors like Sun already have.
SGI has lost its dominance in the graphics market and is now confused. Like netscape, they are forever repositioning themselves because they can't find a strategy that makes a profit. Netscape was a client company, then a server company, then a portal, then AOLs toy.
So SGI do a good thing, embrace open software. Not only is this good for the community, it is also good for their business. IRIX systems never developed the 'network' of vendors and support that is necessary. With Linux's seeming dominance of the UN*X field (is there any UN*X platform that doesn't emulate linux binaries?) it will be much easier to integrate SGI's products into existing environments.
I only hope that SGI can keep its focus long enough and continue its great R&D so that it can actually make an impact in the industry. At least if it does die a pitiful death its legacy will live on in the code that it opens.
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Off topic, but does anyone know if I could stuff a PCI & ISA soundcard in my PC, using the PCI for Windows & ISA one for linux? It's seems like there shouldn't be any problems, but doesn't everything seem easy on paper? Just try it you say, but I am not willing to hand out a hard earned $10 just to find out it doesn't work!
;)
I believe they have a fully waterproof model for a bit more $$$. You have to admit they are pretty neat though. They can withstand a much greater shock than normal laptops - mine fell about 6inches and the LCD went haywire for a while. Also these are great for rough, vibration prone environments - ie on a jeep off road, or on a roller coaster. Most laptops will die under any Gs.
To whoever downgraded this post:
It's a joke shithead! What's up with all the humorless idiot moderators? Ok, sometimes I am a humorless idiot moderator myself...
I have actually read several papers (from IBM, etc. ) on this exact topic - including details about implementations. I would be very surprised if Google has not read these papers. I hope that they are not patenting ideas that were previously available in the public sphere. God damn I hate patents!!!!!!!
I am going to patent N click shopping, where N is a real number. That's right, 0.5 click shopping! Let's see amazon compete with that!!!
I may be slightly biased since I go to Berkeley, but I think it's great. Here are a few thoughts.
Research in just about any field is definitely possible, I have been doing it since I was a freshman. It just depends on your own initiative to go out and find out what is going on (their are programs that list all the oppurtinities, but you have to seek them out).
Berkeley is crowded, and nothing will be handed to you on a platter. Everything you get out of it will be due to what you put into it, which is a good lesson in my opinion.
Although lower div classes can be huge, I have never had a prof who wasn't accessable whenever I needed to see them.
The social atmosphere is A LOT more varied that what you would see at Caltech or MIT. I have friends at those schools who are not always so happy.
Make sure that your son has an idea what the difference between CS & technology is.
UW also has a good CS program, so you should definitely look into it if money is a concern.
Have your son check out the class homepages http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu for an idea of the coursework.
One more thing - don't let your son get a big head, I know a 8th grader who got in the 1400s on the SAT - there is always someone smarter than you, so you can't let that be your measurement of self-worth or your source of happiness.
Go to CMU, or MIT, or even Stanfurd!!! Just don't go to berkeley! There are already way too many EECS/CS majors here, it's just nuts! Everyone, go home! Who knew there were 300 people every semester who want to take operating systems???
- When it first came out the penetration of 3d accelerated hardware was minimal
- Downloads were slow when VRML first arrived - I remember the huge difference when I first tried VRML on an SGI on an ethernet.
- Any idiot can write text to make a HTML file, 3d stuff is much harder
- It's not well integrated with the browser: few will use it if it requires a 4MB download (and reboot under windows).
- So far the only real applications of 3d are games, modelling, and CGI for movies. Hopefully someone can come up with a decent 3d interface. Part of this is also the development of a good 3d manipulator - the 3d version of the mouse.
Vint Cerf was behind TCP/IP.
Errrr, hate to break it to you, but their does exist a force that repels matter. It is called E&M. You know, same potential as gravity, but it can repel as well as attract. Last I checked it isn't playing hell with our concepts of energy conservation. By the way, it does take an infinite amount of energy to create a point charge (classically speaking). Just make it a footnote and forget about it since ervery thing else works.
Our solar system system was created by a diety ...
Jenny Craig maybe? Or was it Richard Simmons?
Hitler liked puppies.
Doesn't kfm allow you to accept cookies on a site-by-site basis?
Last I looked, it seemed like the general consensus was that NFS sucked on Linux. It seems that FreeBSD has a much more robust and speedy implementation of it.
Not a flame, just repeating what I saw on usenet and linux-kernel.
Even though it was implemented on a PalmPilot, I think it's the fact that the force of electro-magnetism can be used in so many ways that is the coolest fact. I mean you can microwave food, herd electrons into doing our work, see, etc. This force of nature can do it all. ENIAC was revolutionary, the PalmPilot is not. I sure love my electro-weak force. Never leave home without it. ;)
What needs to happen is an extensible unit that takes Minidisc as a media but has a programmable DSP so that it can play MP3's, or ATRAC (is that MD format?) files. Also needed is a MD reader/writer for PCs, preferable one that is USB/IEEE1394.
My only question is why data MDs cost $13 and the audio ones cost $2.50 when they both hold digital info.
One more note - Sony is suppose to have developed a 650 MB MD.
The high prices of Xeon chips are not due to patents! Fast on die memory cost beaucoup $$s. Also the market - "high-end" servers can cost a ton without people flinching, unlike the desktop market.
There are IEEE1394-USB cables, haven't used one myself though. Check out Fry's or something. I know that there 1394 PCI cards for abot $100 though.
Small request. Please remove Negroponte from your list and add him to the "Vapid Glory Hound" list.
Thank you.
Here's a better idea:
Upload your book in PDF/PS format. Users can download the files or portions thereof for free, but for $10 a printing press will spit out a dead tree copy for you. I am not sure if the publishing technology is all there yet to make if financially viable, but I sure think it would be neat.
I too remember it as "butthead astronomer." Of course I am way to lazy to try to search for the story on the web anywhere.
I seem to recall that variable in functions are local iff your declare them with 'var'.
Of the few SSH clients for windows, my favorite is putty. Single exe file, nice terminal. No port forwarding, but what can you do? The first site that I found with it when I type "putty ssh" into a search engine is:
http://www.sorted.org/~chris/ssh/
You had two rocks? We only had one, and we had to bang on it with our fists until we fell unconscious from shock!
This move really scares me. Although flexibility is definitely a good thing, I am getting the impression that SGI has a short attention span. First the stupid rebranding a few months ago, now this. They need to be able to stick with a plan for more than a year. The visual workstations may not have been selling like hotcakes, but they are fairly new to the market and sport cutting edge and proprietary interfaces (cobalt graphics & pci64). Peripheral manufacturers are just now starting to catch up.
And positioning themselves as a player in the non-existant streaming media server market seems rather ridiculous. A good server just needs great disk/memory IO, which competitors like Sun already have.
SGI has lost its dominance in the graphics market and is now confused. Like netscape, they are forever repositioning themselves because they can't find a strategy that makes a profit. Netscape was a client company, then a server company, then a portal, then AOLs toy.
So SGI do a good thing, embrace open software. Not only is this good for the community, it is also good for their business. IRIX systems never developed the 'network' of vendors and support that is necessary. With Linux's seeming dominance of the UN*X field (is there any UN*X platform that doesn't emulate linux binaries?) it will be much easier to integrate SGI's products into existing environments.
I only hope that SGI can keep its focus long enough and continue its great R&D so that it can actually make an impact in the industry. At least if it does die a pitiful death its legacy will live on in the code that it opens.