I think you're getting confused between Kbits and Kbytes. A 56 Kbit/s modem is 7 KBytes per second (4-5 more realistically.) The test is for 32 Kilobits/sec, or 4 KBytes/s , easily achievable (with some buffering) on dial-up.
There is a company that more or less does this already--Dover.
They specialize in books that have been out of print for some years.
They usually have a quite excellent selection, and their prices are
almost always under $25. Most of their math
or science books I've looked at at amazon tend to be 4-5 stars and
20-30% off list! It's really a cheap way to build an amazing library.
Their calculus
section for example is quite extensive, and I see several undergrad
textbooks. While the books are paperback, the paper is not thin and
flimsy, and none of my Dover editions have fallen apart.
There's no way I can afford to go to MIT - as much as I would love to - but with OCW, at least I can benefit from a great deal of their wisdom with some elbow grease, even without the cash.
What makes you think you can't afford MIT? The Ivies and company have very good financial aid policies. It's just possible, under certain circumstances, to pay less than community college. I go to Penn, and basically only pay for room and board and books.
Yeah, I got caught trying to use a serial number that wasn't mine. The software didn't even install, but the next day my school got the following email, and told me that I better stop or I'd be in trouble. Six months later I downloaded a demo (legitimately!!) but they must have kept my MAC address on file, because they sent another email to the school accusing me of piracy, and the school had to escalate it because it was my second offense. Ughh. I carefully explained that I didn't do anything wrong, and they believed me, but I wouldn't be surprised if another school would have done unpleasant things to me under those circumstances.
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>Subject: Copyright Infringement #26764 (Software Piracy) --
>165.123.xxx.xxx (xxxxxxxx.xxx.resnet.group.upenn.edu)
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>Someone within your network attempted to activate our software using a
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Okay, you're right...I looked up "whinging" instead of "whinge", so I didn't find it. In my defense, the dictionaries say that it's chiefly a British word. The equivalent "whine" is much more common. GO QUAKERS!
In less funky units the solar constant is ~1kW/m^2 for a really sunny area at high noon. It can be less than a tenth of that at high latitudes/overcast days/not perpendicular to the sky, etc.
Ummm, most Penn Students, (including myself) are on financial aid. In fact, Ivy League schools are terrific deals if you're in the lower income tax bracket. Admission is need blind, which means that family income plays no part in admission, and the school commits to subsidizing your tuition (with grants and low interest loans) to the full amount you need. Harvard and Princeton, IIRC, even drop the loan part. As for being famous for being the "alma mater of those whinging [what is that, a combination of whining and cringing?] crybabies of Thirtysomething," this is the first I've heard of it. I prefer to focus on Ivanka Trump being in the same class as myself.
For physics and math, just about all new research goes through arxiv.org first.
The dirty little secret is that few people actually read the physics journals anymore, but publishing in a peer reviewed journal is still important, so universities still subscribe.
The situation isn't as nice for the biological sciences, but PubMed www.pubmed.org is pretty good.
Where do you think they got the processors from shmuck? All I see is a nice aggregation of technology invented somewhere else. At least Japan's Earth Simulator (which was horribly expensive) used their own chips, not IBM's.
I like how you compare us to South Korea in one sentence, then complain about our military expenditures in the next. Guess what buddy, South Korea would look just like North Korea right now if it wasn't for that money.
As for our education system (actually you probably mean our elementary and high school level, considering our University system is the undisputed finest in the world) perhaps the massive amounts of immigration skew the results a bit?
As for the US not leading the world in technology...quick, name me five world leading tech corps outside the US. Not so easy, huh? Find me an Intel, or IBM, or GE, or Cisco, or...you can't.
But the best proof is this. How many Americans move to India for the tech opportunities there, and vice versa? Think about it.
That was "Lifeline" I believe, his first published story. The scene was a court case between someone who could predict your day of death and an insurance company. The judge was lecturing the plaintiff, the insurers.
Compare this to the 1U Hammer racks that are coming out http://www.newisys.com/NewisysDataSheet.pdf for a 42U rack, you have 84 processors, with each processor being about two and a half times faster, SPECint2000 1202 vs. 483 and SPECfp2000 1170 vs. 495, with the Hammers in 32bit mode. Each 1U Hammer rack can contain up to 16 GB of memory, which gives a total of 672 GB of total RAM, compared to the 256GB of the Origin 3900. I also wouldn't be surprised if a 42U rack of Hammers ended up costing more like $300,000 than $3,000,000
>> although its fillrate and 38-bit colour may >> make it less desirable for animation
I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean. The fillrate is just fine for a workstation, games generally are the only programs that need a high fillrate, memory bandwidth and size, and of course T&L are *much* more important. The 38 bit internal color is excellent, nicely comparing to SGI ( http://www.sgi.com/workstations/comparison.html ), and unmatched by 3dlabs. The bit-depth of the graphics card has nothing to do with the color rendering accuracy, which is usually 48 or 64 bits for high end stuff. Games really need high bit depth precision for multitexturing, which multiplies color errors. I think Carmack mentioned this in a.plan once.
Nvidia will probably have 64 bit color in NV30, and 3dfx's rampage was supposed to have 52 bit color ( http://www.digit-life.com/articles/3dfxtribute/ ) Games start needing high bit depths when you have massive multi-texturing, which tends to multiply errors. I think Carmack had a.plan about this...
Didn't you read the slashdot story ( http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/22/175224 4 )? It was a 5 million dollar profit using generally accepted accounting principles. Pro forma profits were around 35 million.
Get a thousand computers running Linux and a NIC, nothing too fancy (~$200 each) a nice Promise SuperTrakSX 6000 (~$200 each) 10 160GB ATA drives (six attached to the RAID controller, four attached to the motherboard, ~300 each.) Total price, a little more than three million, and you get 1.6 PETAbytes of data storage (less if you take advantage of the built in RAID.) That's about 200 days worth of capturing. Assuming you don't start for a few more months, I wouldn't be surprised if there were 250 GB drives available, which would give you about a years worth of storage. You can probably assume costs/PetaByte goes down at least 50% a year, so this might be a surprisingly good long term strategy--just keep adding boxes to the network...
Slashdot Mirror
Two articles that are on this topic
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Lack of Protective parasites causes asthma
Small correction--orders of magnitude is base ten, while we're talking about base two.
So multiply your orders of magnitude by ~ 0.30103 .
>>well over fifteen times slower than Java
Than I guess you've never tried Psyco
http://www.pypackage.org/packages/python-psyco
*huge* increases in speed for some code.
I think you're getting confused between Kbits and Kbytes. A 56 Kbit/s modem is 7 KBytes per second (4-5 more realistically.) The test is for 32 Kilobits/sec, or 4 KBytes/s , easily achievable (with some buffering) on dial-up.
3:2::1.5:1
Christopher Hitchens, a long time liberal and very respected writer, has a excellent critique of the movie here
How about the DVD of the Encyclopedia Britannica?Or high resolution maps for the US/world.
There is a company that more or less does this already--Dover.
They specialize in books that have been out of print for some years. They usually have a quite excellent selection, and their prices are almost always under $25. Most of their math or science books I've looked at at amazon tend to be 4-5 stars and 20-30% off list! It's really a cheap way to build an amazing library.
Their calculus section for example is quite extensive, and I see several undergrad textbooks. While the books are paperback, the paper is not thin and flimsy, and none of my Dover editions have fallen apart.
There's no way I can afford to go to MIT - as much as I would love to - but with OCW, at least I can benefit from a great deal of their wisdom with some elbow grease, even without the cash.
What makes you think you can't afford MIT? The Ivies and company have very good financial aid policies. It's just possible, under certain circumstances, to pay less than community college. I go to Penn, and basically only pay for room and board and books.
>*** COMPLAINT *** >Delivered-To: xxxxxx.upenn.edu >Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 07:01:33 -0500 >To: dmca@isc.upenn.edu >From: piracy@visualware.com (Visualware Anti-Piracy) >Subject: Copyright Infringement #26764 (Software Piracy) -- >165.123.xxx.xxx (xxxxxxxx.xxx.resnet.group.upenn.edu) > >Someone within your network attempted to activate our software using a >product license key they did not legally obtain. Attempting to convert our >trial software into fully registered software without paying for the >license key is software piracy and is a violation of copyright laws and >international copyright treaties, as well as other intellectual property >laws and treaties -- a violation of most AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) and >TOS (Terms of Service). The full log detail of product activation attempts >by this individual: >ip address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx [xxxxxxxx.hrn.resnet.group.upenn.edu] >local ip address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx >date/time: Wed Feb 26 05:59:42 EST 2003 (26 Feb 2003 10:59:42 GMT) >ethernet mac: 0040450xxxxx >user name: xxxxxx >computer name: xxxxxx >license key: VR-V7C1-0gHYa6oNysjvP7SsCXxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xx
>product: VisualRoute (build 1913)
>zone: en_US-05:00
>This log information will enable you to track down the specific computer
>used and many times the individual using the computer. For assistance in
>interpreting this log information, important background / copyright
>information, and tips on tracking down the individual responsible, please
>refer to (consider this document included by reference):
>
>This document also includes (if applicable) DMCA notification information.
>For more information about software piracy and copyright law, visit:
>
>We do not take anyone attempting to steal software licenses from us
>lightly and would appreciate it if you would look into this software
>piracy and take the appropriate corrective actions (have the responsible
>party purchase a legal license or discipline the responsible party
>according to your AUP/TOS).
>Please let me know how this incident is resolved.
>Jerry Jongerius
>Chief Technology Officer
>Visualware, Inc.
>jerry.jongerius@visualware.com
>[NOTE: piracy@visualware.com is an unattended mailbox. If you expect a
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http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00001197/0 2/Zeno's_Paradoxes_-_A_Timely_Solution.pdf
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002may/chi20020 521011824.htm
>>Wonder if someone can hack Windows XP to allow multiple users.
That feature is supposed to be in SP2. (Up to two simultaneous users.)
Okay, you're right...I looked up "whinging" instead of "whinge", so I didn't find it. In my defense, the dictionaries say that it's chiefly a British word. The equivalent "whine" is much more common. GO QUAKERS!
In less funky units the solar constant is ~1kW/m^2 for a really sunny area at high noon. It can be less than a tenth of that at high latitudes/overcast days/not perpendicular to the sky, etc.
Ummm, most Penn Students, (including myself) are on financial aid. In fact, Ivy League schools are terrific deals if you're in the lower income tax bracket. Admission is need blind, which means that family income plays no part in admission, and the school commits to subsidizing your tuition (with grants and low interest loans) to the full amount you need. Harvard and Princeton, IIRC, even drop the loan part. As for being famous for being the "alma mater of those whinging [what is that, a combination of whining and cringing?] crybabies of Thirtysomething," this is the first I've heard of it. I prefer to focus on Ivanka Trump being in the same class as myself.
For physics and math, just about all new research goes through arxiv.org first.
The dirty little secret is that few people actually read the physics journals anymore, but publishing in a peer reviewed journal is still important, so universities still subscribe.
The situation isn't as nice for the biological sciences, but PubMed www.pubmed.org is pretty good.
Where do you think they got the processors from shmuck? All I see is a nice aggregation of technology invented somewhere else. At least Japan's Earth Simulator (which was horribly expensive) used their own chips, not IBM's.
I like how you compare us to South Korea in one sentence, then complain about our military expenditures in the next. Guess what buddy, South Korea would look just like North Korea right now if it wasn't for that money.
As for our education system (actually you probably mean our elementary and high school level, considering our University system is the undisputed finest in the world) perhaps the massive amounts of immigration skew the results a bit?
As for the US not leading the world in technology...quick, name me five world leading tech corps outside the US. Not so easy, huh? Find me an Intel, or IBM, or GE, or Cisco, or...you can't.
But the best proof is this. How many Americans move to India for the tech opportunities there, and vice versa? Think about it.
That was "Lifeline" I believe, his first published story. The scene was a court case between someone who could predict your day of death and an insurance company. The judge was lecturing the plaintiff, the insurers.
Compare this to the 1U Hammer racks that are coming out http://www.newisys.com/NewisysDataSheet.pdf
for a 42U rack, you have 84 processors, with each processor being about two and a half times faster, SPECint2000 1202 vs. 483 and SPECfp2000 1170 vs. 495, with the Hammers in 32bit mode. Each 1U Hammer rack can contain up to 16 GB of memory, which gives a total of 672 GB of total RAM, compared to the 256GB of the Origin 3900. I also wouldn't be surprised if a 42U rack of Hammers ended up costing more like $300,000 than $3,000,000
From the education store--
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CD-ROM drive
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>> although its fillrate and 38-bit colour may
.plan once.
.plan about this...
>> make it less desirable for animation
I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean. The fillrate is just fine for a workstation, games generally are the only programs that need a high fillrate, memory bandwidth and size, and of course T&L are *much* more important. The 38 bit internal color is excellent, nicely comparing to SGI ( http://www.sgi.com/workstations/comparison.html ), and unmatched by 3dlabs. The bit-depth of the graphics card has nothing to do with the color rendering accuracy, which is usually 48 or 64 bits for high end stuff. Games really need high bit depth precision for multitexturing, which multiplies color errors. I think Carmack mentioned this in a
Nvidia will probably have 64 bit color in NV30, and 3dfx's rampage was supposed to have 52 bit color ( http://www.digit-life.com/articles/3dfxtribute/ ) Games start needing high bit depths when you have massive multi-texturing, which tends to multiply errors. I think Carmack had a
Didn't you read the slashdot story ( http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/22/175224 4 )? It was a 5 million dollar profit using generally accepted accounting principles. Pro forma profits were around 35 million.
Get a thousand computers running Linux and a NIC, nothing too fancy (~$200 each) a nice Promise SuperTrakSX 6000 (~$200 each) 10 160GB ATA drives (six attached to the RAID controller, four attached to the motherboard, ~300 each.) Total price, a little more than three million, and you get 1.6 PETAbytes of data storage (less if you take advantage of the built in RAID.) That's about 200 days worth of capturing. Assuming you don't start for a few more months, I wouldn't be surprised if there were 250 GB drives available, which would give you about a years worth of storage. You can probably assume costs/PetaByte goes down at least 50% a year, so this might be a surprisingly good long term strategy--just keep adding boxes to the network...
Sorry, I'm new at this. The inventor has disavowed the press release. Look down the middle of this page. This is the original press release.