Programmer: Ooops, wrong condition on the 'if' statement. I'll just reboot the rocket's computer and test again! Flight director (emerging from flaming debris): Errr... what rocket?
You'll be arrested for breaking the DMCA!! After all what is a private method? Code that has access protection!
Besides, it's impolite to access stranger's privates if you weren't supposed to. If you're a 'friend', on the other hand, you presumably have access to all the privates of interest.
It's a kind civilzational scar. The last time they welcomed international participation in the local economy, the East India Company gratefully accepted. We know what happened after that.
Also, the government runs several gigantic industries (Public Sector Units), that have provided scores of jobs. Unfortunately, these PSUs are models of inefficiency --- few of them turn in a profit. However, whenever government officials talk of privatizing them, both politians and common folk raise a storm: the latter because of the jobs and security that these PSUs provide (one can't be fired from them!), and the former because of the resulting vote blocks.
There are many other factors at work:
- Gandhian ideals of self-sufficiency
- Fear of having multi-nationals usurp local industry and overpower Indian "culture"
- Fear of having the rich usurp the wealth of the nation, leading to tough and sometimes unreasonable government regulations on every industry.
- Being a poor country, having to manage an economy of scarcity, leading to rations and licenses for any kind of resource. Unfortunately, this ushered in the "license raj" and widespread corruption.
- Related to the above, the strengthening of unions and labor laws to ridiculous extremes.
India is gradually shedding the above mindsets and regulations. The slow pace of changes is both due to caution on the government's part (remember what perestroika did?), and a lingering mistrust of the rich. But all this has been changing.
It's funny, but Bollywood movies are a good barometer to judge social thought on these issues. Until the nineties, villians were always super-rich ruthless industrialists, and the heroes were always poor laborers living in villages/slums, etc. If you look at the current crop of movies, the heroes are all super-rich guys with multi-billion industries in "London" and "Australia". People are now willing to consider that one can get rich without cheating/raping/pillaging the poor --- a drastic change in social thought!
"Rich" is no longer the same four letter word it used to be.:-)
'For every 100 applications lodged, I'd say that 10 are a bit whacky.'... which is itself a whacky way of saying that 1 out of 10 applications is whacky.
This UCAV is for SEAD -- Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses. So it's primary objective is to take out Surface to Air Missile (SAM) sites, controlling radars, etc. Assuming a carefully co-ordinated attack with well-identified targets, any single target doesn't need too much bang! to make it go away.
Once the air defences are down, you can sent in the bigger birds (F/A-18, F-15), and after that the even bigger birds (B-52)
You're missing the point. Distributed computing is not about only running on machines that aren't yours, but also efficiently utilizing the machines that are yours (or at least have easy access to).
Consider that a University of Wisconsin study showed that, on average, computers on desktops are idle at least 60% of the time. And that doesn't count the cycles burned lost between keystrokes --- I'm talking about extended periods of time. For example, almost all desktop machines are idle during nights. That's 50% already. Now add lunch time. Meetings, etc.
That's when systems like Condor come in. Researchers at Wisconsin got hundreds of years of CPU time on machines they already had without impacting others.
Coming back to your argument, the counter argument is that you may not even need to buy additional boxes --- just use the ones you already have more efficiently by utilizing distributed computing systems.
As far as "freeness" of processor cycles, let me tell you that the optimization researchers can soak up as much cpu as you can possibly throw at them. Also, if you look up Particle Physics Data Grid (PPDG) and GriPhyn, you'll find out that many distributed computing problems are I/O driven.
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Programmer: Ooops, wrong condition on the 'if' statement. I'll just reboot the rocket's computer and test again! ... what rocket?
Flight director (emerging from flaming debris): Errr
Dennis got into the act after Linus called his code ugly: damn, them be fightin' words!
You'll be arrested for breaking the DMCA!! After all what is a private method? Code that has access protection!
Besides, it's impolite to access stranger's privates if you weren't supposed to. If you're a 'friend', on the other hand, you presumably have access to all the privates of interest.
It's a kind civilzational scar. The last time they welcomed international participation in the local economy, the East India Company gratefully accepted. We know what happened after that.
:-)
Also, the government runs several gigantic industries (Public Sector Units), that have provided scores of jobs. Unfortunately, these PSUs are models of inefficiency --- few of them turn in a profit. However, whenever government officials talk of privatizing them, both politians and common folk raise a storm: the latter because of the jobs and security that these PSUs provide (one can't be fired from them!), and the former because of the resulting vote blocks.
There are many other factors at work:
- Gandhian ideals of self-sufficiency
- Fear of having multi-nationals usurp local industry and overpower Indian "culture"
- Fear of having the rich usurp the wealth of the nation, leading to tough and sometimes unreasonable government regulations on every industry.
- Being a poor country, having to manage an economy of scarcity, leading to rations and licenses for any kind of resource. Unfortunately, this ushered in the "license raj" and widespread corruption.
- Related to the above, the strengthening of unions and labor laws to ridiculous extremes.
India is gradually shedding the above mindsets and regulations. The slow pace of changes is both due to caution on the government's part (remember what perestroika did?), and a lingering mistrust of the rich. But all this has been changing.
It's funny, but Bollywood movies are a good barometer to judge social thought on these issues. Until the nineties, villians were always super-rich ruthless industrialists, and the heroes were always poor laborers living in villages/slums, etc. If you look at the current crop of movies, the heroes are all super-rich guys with multi-billion industries in "London" and "Australia". People are now willing to consider that one can get rich without cheating/raping/pillaging the poor --- a drastic change in social thought!
"Rich" is no longer the same four letter word it used to be.
'For every 100 applications lodged, I'd say that 10 are a bit whacky.' ... which is itself a whacky way of saying that 1 out of 10 applications is whacky.
This UCAV is for SEAD -- Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses. So it's primary objective is to take out Surface to Air Missile (SAM) sites, controlling radars, etc. Assuming a carefully co-ordinated attack with well-identified targets, any single target doesn't need too much bang! to make it go away.
Once the air defences are down, you can sent in the bigger birds (F/A-18, F-15), and after that the even bigger birds (B-52)
++Rajesh
In which case, I suppose we will eventually see "Pissium"
You're missing the point. Distributed computing is not about only running on machines that aren't yours, but also efficiently utilizing the machines that are yours (or at least have easy access to).
Consider that a University of Wisconsin study showed that, on average, computers on desktops are idle at least 60% of the time. And that doesn't count the cycles burned lost between keystrokes --- I'm talking about extended periods of time. For example, almost all desktop machines are idle during nights. That's 50% already. Now add lunch time. Meetings, etc.
That's when systems like Condor come in. Researchers at Wisconsin got hundreds of years of CPU time on machines they already had without impacting others.
Coming back to your argument, the counter argument is that you may not even need to buy additional boxes --- just use the ones you already have more efficiently by utilizing distributed computing systems.
As far as "freeness" of processor cycles, let me tell you that the optimization researchers can soak up as much cpu as you can possibly throw at them. Also, if you look up Particle Physics Data Grid (PPDG) and GriPhyn, you'll find out that many distributed computing problems are I/O driven.
++Rajesh
++Rajesh