If the charges had any merit, why did the American authorities not have the English police arrest him and get him extradited to the US? Or were they worried that they would be laughed out of an English court?
I know that Microsoft have an Academic pricing scheme, but what would the cost of staying with Microsoft for this time period? They have been trying to change the licensing model to a subscription based model. How would this affect the College's bottom Line? The other thing to consider is, if dropping Microsoft products would equip students with the skills background they need to be useful to a future employer. I am not trying to troll, but what percentage of companies will look for CS graduates with Microsoft skills versus Linux / BSD / Mac OS / Unix. Mac I assume is also an option as the pledge was just anti Microsoft.
We have the opposite problem where we work, we look for people with lots of Unix and find people with lots of Microsoft.
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When is Apple going to take on Apple records? But wait, they have been around longer (set up by the Beatles) and they are a record company, so we all know who would win.
Luckily the vote was not on Slashdot otherwise instead of the Bush and Gore camps we would have the country divided over CmdrTaco and Cowboy Neal. We would all have avoided the first three options of Bush, Gore and Nader and there would be legions of Lawyers discussing script-kiddies stuffing the ballot boxes;-)
There is way too little detail to make any sort of judgement based on these figures. I would need to see a lot more of the configuration information before I would even dream of considering these results. For example there is no kernel configuration options or NT settings. How much swap space was uaes what sort of filesystem was used, how were the partitions laid out, what were the configuration options used for the databases. There is only a couple of sample results, but the words out-performed is all over the place. If we are so ready to slam Microsoft results we should hold these to the same standard.
I am not surprised the commercial vendors would not allow their names to be mentioned (were they even asked, wasn't clear from report). Remember with any of these benchmark reports cavet emptor.
Okay, I downloaded the full 96MB this morning and have been checking out some of the features during the day. But unfortunately StarOffice is still not good enough for me to convince others in my office from using word.
I work in a large corporation and Word is the standard for sending documents. I work at a Unix workstation and it annoys me having to go to another machine to read these files. So in recent weeks I have been looking at the various options. Yes StarOffice filters have improved from 5.1, but looking at documents I have been sent during the week, it still makes glaring mistakes.
I am running Linux and I have truetype support in my font server (with all the Windows fonts available). But Staroffice still see parts of my documents in a symbol font (correct font appears in word).
Another document conatining a table with lists of bulleted points in the cells. Some of the bulleted point come back with the wrong formatting. 5.2 did handle this document better than 5.1
A third document which has two images at the top and two URLs embedded is cropped short. 5.2 did a worse job than 5.1, adding in a large blank space between the images and the text.
Yes it does perform better but it is still not good enough for me to use it as a replacement. Oh, and like other postings I would prefer seperate exectables instead of everything clumped together. My next target to investigate is WordPerfect Office 2000 (I do not need it for free, but I do need it to work!)
Why do I get the impression that some manager went to Comdex saw the bells and whistles presentation, the people at Net Nanny put on, heard all the usual buzzwords and said "That is for us". There is more details about this system at BioPassword. There entire presentation looks like a smoke screen with a brief mention of Statistics and a frequently mentioned but no explaination of their pateneted method.
The only advantage I see of this over say hand writing verification is that it does not require any special hardware, but what happens in all of these cases: 1) I'm tired so I type slower. 2) I have hurt my hand or I am suffering from repetitive strain injuries. 3) I change my keyboard. 4) I spill coffee on my keyboard and the keys are a little sticky. 5) I have been working at my keyboard for months and my typing speed goes up (I have advanced from two fingers to four). 6) Since this is only available for windows at the moment and windows has crashed on me again and I am mad, so I hammer the keys home when typing the password.
I am sure others could add many more scenarios to this list.
Every biometric system has its faults, the more accurate the system the more expensive, but this has to be the cheapest and least accurate.
There already is a robust voice recognition system for Linux. ViaVoice has been ported (well Betas avilable anyway) by IBM. The Beta can be downloaded for free and there text to speech as well as voice recognition demos.
It depends on a number of factors, first of all is the problem integer based or floating point based. Is the problem cache bound or not. What sort of memory architecture is the machine running. I have seen codes work faster on while running over two boxes rather than a dual processor box becae of the memory bus architecture of the PC, it was faster to use message passing and VI interface cards. Commodity processors tend not to be the best for large scale math problems, because they are geared to be good all round chips. If price was not an issue I would look at IBM Power 3 based machines. Also for really high maths that are too big for cache Hitachi have a nice solution with the pseudo-vector facility that they use on the CPUs in their SR8000 machine. Back to the problem in hand, taking specInt or SpecFp numbers can be very misleading. The best option would to come up with a test case that is representative of the problem you wish to solve, with a data set of the same order you are going to work on and run it against the processor. After that you should be looking at clock speed not just for the CPU but also for the memory bus, size of cache if this can affect the problem you want to solve and last of all but definitely not forgetting the IO performance to disk, because with most serious problems you will have to read in and write out large amounts of data.
Hi IIRC America does not have an equivalent law to the European Data Protection Act, where you can find out what information is stored on you and get invalid information fixed. If this is a for-profit organisation what is to stop selling this information on to College Boards, when you go to apply or even future employers?
Wasn't there a TV show in the 70's/80's with a similar theme, some guy who owned a salvage yard built his own rocket to salage all the stuff they left behind them on the moon.
Maybe this could be the ultimate open source project, we already have the open source OS and tools, open source chip design, all we need now is a few open source rocket designs are we are on our way.
NASA use Linux maybe they would like to help out, and the Russions have all that old equipment lying around.
I think the TV show was called Salvage, and the main character was played by Andy Griffeth.
I have just been reading through their SEC filings available on-line from www.sec.gov.
I think it is important that we look at their good points: 1) They have made a massive investment in infrastructure by way of property and equipment $18,273 2) They have a good knowledge of the Open source community including Linux Torvalds (their spelling) 3) They currently have four products, their OS was released in Spetember 1999 and with this their entire revenue to the end of October 1999 was $0
You do not have Open Source everything and I do not think that was ever the aim. But what is important is that we all know how to talk to each other. That the standards are not monopolised by one company (Halloween Document). By having OPEN standards for how we get different systems talking to each and inter-operating we get the following advantages: 1) Better competition, 2) Easier to build working systems, 3) Ability to then concentrate on real issues rather software ones. Does anybody believe that Microsoft would have been as successful if they worked with Open standards? Why would anyone change their word-processor vendor if the new vendors could not read all their old documents? Have a standard for the documents and I will be able to choose the product based on quality, price and functionality regardless of vendor or even choose to edit my documents on a different OS.
Not only is this not original, it does not even come close to what one Japanese man did. He lived in an apartment (no garden, human contact), surviving off free offers and competition winnings. You know the type of competitions, complete the following phrase in ten words or less to win a three month supply of toilet paper. His ordeal was secretly filmed with hidden video cameras as well.
The Hitachi machine can achieve these figures for two reasons:
1) Their Interconnect 2) Their Processors
The interconnect is a hyper-bar crossbar network, with a bandwidth of 1GByte. Also they are able to get sustained message passing performance of about 90% like they did on their previous machine the SR2201. Other vendors would provide 60-65% of peak.
The number listed in the Top500 for processors is a bit mis-leading, this is in fact the number of nodes. The Hitachi nodes are made up of a number of processors, each with pseudo-vector optimisation (allowing them to miss the cache when loading large memory blocks). This optimisation means the chip can have a high sustained performance on large scale numeric problems. The nodes can be configured as either SMP of vector. This allows the machine to address a much wider range of domain problems.
Hitachi have a very brief page describing their machines SR8000 Product Page
I would love to see what a fully configured machine could do (6 TFlops!).
BTW, Linpack is not a great gauge of a Supercomputers performance. When there a lot of nodes it becomes message bound and does not reflect the true performance of the machine. When looking at machines like this it is important to look at benchmarks related to domain problems. e.g. It does not really matter what interconnect you have if you are doing ray-tracing, but it matters a great deal when doing astro-physics.
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If the charges had any merit, why did the American authorities not have the English police arrest him and get him extradited to the US? Or were they worried that they would be laughed out of an English court?
I tried to see if it could find CowboyNeal, as it couldn't find me (obviously not notorious enough yet)?
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I got the following as a response:
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I know that Microsoft have an Academic pricing scheme, but what would the cost of staying with Microsoft for this time period? They have been trying to change the licensing model to a subscription based model. How would this affect the College's bottom Line? The other thing to consider is, if dropping Microsoft products would equip students with the skills background they need to be useful to a future employer. I am not trying to troll, but what percentage of companies will look for CS graduates with Microsoft skills versus Linux / BSD / Mac OS / Unix. Mac I assume is also an option as the pledge was just anti Microsoft.
We have the opposite problem where we work, we look for people with lots of Unix and find people with lots of Microsoft.
When is Apple going to take on Apple records? But wait, they have been around longer (set up by the Beatles) and they are a record company, so we all know who would win.
Does anyone else worry about a rental company tracking everywhere you go, or do they claim that they are only checking the rate you get there?
Luckily the vote was not on Slashdot otherwise instead of the Bush and Gore camps we would have the country divided over CmdrTaco and Cowboy Neal. We would all have avoided the first three options of Bush, Gore and Nader and there would be legions of Lawyers discussing script-kiddies stuffing the ballot boxes ;-)
There is way too little detail to make any sort of judgement based on these figures. I would need to see a lot more of the configuration information before I would even dream of considering these results. For example there is no kernel configuration options or NT settings. How much swap space was uaes what sort of filesystem was used, how were the partitions laid out, what were the configuration options used for the databases. There is only a couple of sample results, but the words out-performed is all over the place. If we are so ready to slam Microsoft results we should hold these to the same standard.
I am not surprised the commercial vendors would not allow their names to be mentioned (were they even asked, wasn't clear from report). Remember with any of these benchmark reports cavet emptor.
Okay, I downloaded the full 96MB this morning and have been checking out some of the features during the day. But unfortunately StarOffice is still not good enough for me to convince others in my office from using word.
I work in a large corporation and Word is the standard for sending documents. I work at a Unix workstation and it annoys me having to go to another machine to read these files. So in recent weeks I have been looking at the various options. Yes StarOffice filters have improved from 5.1, but looking at documents I have been sent during the week, it still makes glaring mistakes.
I am running Linux and I have truetype support in my font server (with all the Windows fonts available). But Staroffice still see parts of my documents in a symbol font (correct font appears in word).
Another document conatining a table with lists of bulleted points in the cells. Some of the bulleted point come back with the wrong formatting. 5.2 did handle this document better than 5.1
A third document which has two images at the top and two URLs embedded is cropped short. 5.2 did a worse job than 5.1, adding in a large blank space between the images and the text.
Yes it does perform better but it is still not good enough for me to use it as a replacement. Oh, and like other postings I would prefer seperate exectables instead of everything clumped together. My next target to investigate is WordPerfect Office 2000 (I do not need it for free, but I do need it to work!)
Why do I get the impression that some manager went to Comdex saw the bells and whistles presentation, the people at Net Nanny put on, heard all the usual buzzwords and said "That is for us".
There is more details about this system at BioPassword. There entire presentation looks like a smoke screen with a brief mention of Statistics and a frequently mentioned but no explaination of their pateneted method.
The only advantage I see of this over say hand writing verification is that it does not require any special hardware, but what happens in all of these cases:
1) I'm tired so I type slower.
2) I have hurt my hand or I am suffering from repetitive strain injuries.
3) I change my keyboard.
4) I spill coffee on my keyboard and the keys are a little sticky.
5) I have been working at my keyboard for months and my typing speed goes up (I have advanced from two fingers to four).
6) Since this is only available for windows at the moment and windows has crashed on me again and I am mad, so I hammer the keys home when typing the password.
I am sure others could add many more scenarios to this list.
Every biometric system has its faults, the more accurate the system the more expensive, but this has to be the cheapest and least accurate.
Is there anyone's data you will not accept?
There already is a robust voice recognition system for Linux. ViaVoice has been ported (well Betas avilable anyway) by IBM. The Beta can be downloaded for free and there text to speech as well as voice recognition demos.
It depends on a number of factors, first of all is the problem integer based or floating point based. Is the problem cache bound or not. What sort of memory architecture is the machine running. I have seen codes work faster on while running over two boxes rather than a dual processor box becae of the memory bus architecture of the PC, it was faster to use message passing and VI interface cards. Commodity processors tend not to be the best for large scale math problems, because they are geared to be good all round chips. If price was not an issue I would look at IBM Power 3 based machines. Also for really high maths that are too big for cache Hitachi have a nice solution with the pseudo-vector facility that they use on the CPUs in their SR8000 machine. Back to the problem in hand, taking specInt or SpecFp numbers can be very misleading. The best option would to come up with a test case that is representative of the problem you wish to solve, with a data set of the same order you are going to work on and run it against the processor. After that you should be looking at clock speed not just for the CPU but also for the memory bus, size of cache if this can affect the problem you want to solve and last of all but definitely not forgetting the IO performance to disk, because with most serious problems you will have to read in and write out large amounts of data.
Hi
IIRC America does not have an equivalent law to the European Data Protection Act, where you can find out what information is stored on you and get invalid information fixed. If this is a for-profit organisation what is to stop selling this information on to College Boards, when you go to apply or even future employers?
Wasn't there a TV show in the 70's/80's with a similar theme, some guy who owned a salvage yard built his own rocket to salage all the stuff they left behind them on the moon.
Maybe this could be the ultimate open source project, we already have the open source OS and tools, open source chip design, all we need now is a few open source rocket designs are we are on our way.
NASA use Linux maybe they would like to help out, and the Russions have all that old equipment lying around.
I think the TV show was called Salvage, and the main character was played by Andy Griffeth.
I have just been reading through their SEC filings available on-line from www.sec.gov.
I think it is important that we look at their good points:
1) They have made a massive investment in infrastructure by way of property and equipment $18,273
2) They have a good knowledge of the Open source community including Linux Torvalds (their spelling)
3) They currently have four products, their OS was released in Spetember 1999 and with this their entire revenue to the end of October 1999 was $0
You do not have Open Source everything and I do not think that was ever the aim. But what is important is that we all know how to talk to each other. That the standards are not monopolised by one company (Halloween Document). By having OPEN standards for how we get different systems talking to each and inter-operating we get the following advantages: 1) Better competition, 2) Easier to build working systems, 3) Ability to then concentrate on real issues rather software ones. Does anybody believe that Microsoft would have been as successful if they worked with Open standards? Why would anyone change their word-processor vendor if the new vendors could not read all their old documents? Have a standard for the documents and I will be able to choose the product based on quality, price and functionality regardless of vendor or even choose to edit my documents on a different OS.
Not only is this not original, it does not even come close to what one Japanese man did. He lived in an apartment (no garden, human contact), surviving off free offers and competition winnings. You know the type of competitions, complete the following phrase in ten words or less to win a three month supply of toilet paper. His ordeal was secretly filmed with hidden video cameras as well.
The Hitachi machine can achieve these figures for two reasons:
1) Their Interconnect
2) Their Processors
The interconnect is a hyper-bar crossbar network, with a bandwidth of 1GByte. Also they are able to get sustained message passing performance of about 90% like they did on their previous machine the SR2201. Other vendors would provide 60-65% of peak.
The number listed in the Top500 for processors is a bit mis-leading, this is in fact the number of nodes. The Hitachi nodes are made up of a number of processors, each with pseudo-vector optimisation (allowing them to miss the cache when loading large memory blocks). This optimisation means the chip can have a high sustained performance on large scale numeric problems. The nodes can be configured as either SMP of vector. This allows the machine to address a much wider range of domain problems.
Hitachi have a very brief page describing their machines SR8000 Product Page
I would love to see what a fully configured machine could do (6 TFlops!).
BTW, Linpack is not a great gauge of a Supercomputers performance. When there a lot of nodes it becomes message bound and does not reflect the true performance of the machine. When looking at machines like this it is important to look at benchmarks related to domain problems. e.g. It does not really matter what interconnect you have if you are doing ray-tracing, but it matters a great deal when doing astro-physics.