I'm the author of the post, just wanted you to know that I wished that more CS educators share your attitude but that is certainly not the case at major American universities today.
The IE security feature can be disabled with about two mouse clicks under server manager. It's also very easy to add a trusted site by just clicking add when the error message pops up telling you it has blocked a download.
There's really no reason you should be downloading from sites in the first place on a production server since server 2008 has it's own built in windows updater and most patches are tested first and redistributed through WUS.
IE ES isn't new either, it was even stricter on server 2003 and it prevented some of my idiotic colleges from downloading random crap on the servers.
What subscription services? Those that offer similar services are usually brokers that provide research and real time quotes as long as you have a couple hundred in the account, without monthly fees. I don't see why anyone would actually pay for subscriptions to independent sites, since those who are interested in this type of information are looking to utilize it to trade stocks.
I don't see why a couple hundred servers at a few million along with a nicely designed site with php and mysql for a few hundred thousand wouldn't work. Internet surveys are extremely popular these days and the information wouldn't have to go through multiple hoops to be stored in the database format where it can be analyzed.
That statement isn't made towards atom, rather Intel's ability to mass produce 45nm which costs less, performs better and generates less heat. AMD is just starting 45nm production and by the time we see it hit full production, you can expect Intel to be transitioning 32nm.
They were actually able to prove that the mice's brain activity was similar to the brain activity of other mice using EEG's which meant that they were as awake as the other mice. But I agree, much of psychology is making up believable theories bases on the rough outline of scientific data.
Our psychology professor gave us a packet awhile ago based on the same theory, and it's been mentioned in our psychology text which is at least a few years old.
The experimenters used a mouse and prevented it from entering REM sleep(when the mouse would dream) by putting it on a floating platform with a large hole in the middle so that the mouse would slip through the hole in to the water below when it entered REM sleep since its muscles relaxed.
It was then shown that the mouse was less aware of danger, and was less responsive to threatening stimulus and more willing to stay in the open where it is more likely to be attacked by predators.
I have a feeling the general user who would edit a wikipedia article or something like Wikisearch will be much more tech savvy and promote more tech oriented results for keywords than those that google will provide. This can be a good thing or bad thing depending on what you are looking for. Google personalized search is probably the superior method since it uses the users own searches(without external input) to determine the rankings of the search results.
Emphasis on DECENT. My nVidia 7900GT driver still doesn't let me have a dual monitor setup without completely messing up the display on one screen, and it's STILL not fixed yet. The creative sound drivers suck badly, some of my games still can't utilize the 3d features of the sound card, and the sound quality is crap, I was better off using my onboard sound card. There wasn't a driver for my dlink 530tx gigabit card for a really long time, there's a driver out now but I can't access half the features like remote wake and such. And then there are all these accessories such as my iogear skype conferencing mic that will probably never work on x64 simply because the manufacturer is small and underfunded.
"finalized install file itself is expected to be a 50MB download via Windows Update."
Microsoft's compression algorithm will be damn impressive if it can compress 7GBs of data in a 50mb download. I think most of the space is used to make copies of critical system files and such, which will probably be deleted when the installation process is over. I would imagine that Microsoft will decrease the space requirement when they release the final version, probably making copies of many unnecessary files since its just a release candidate.
These guys are pretty much saying that they don't really intent to optimize the code for penryn because very few processors will have SSE4, and even then they don't expect much performance improvement. I'm still waiting for decent 64-bit drivers for half of my hardware........ most early adopters pay a premium for features that aren't really utilized at first, and by the time the software catches up the hardware is dirt cheap.
However penryn(except for the extreme edition) is an exception since it is priced at a point where it is worth it to pay the extra buck or two for the extra features that are not going to have much impact till years later when the software catches up. I'm really looking forward to Nehalem though, the architecture update is going to bring significant improvement in performance without much to do with software optimization.
Although it's pretty unlikely that Colbert will pull a Schwarzenegger, he'd still put some of the democratic candidates to shame. A recent poll from CNBC that was shown on his show showed him at 2.3%, above some of the major democratic candidates. I think that speaks volume about how separated presidential candidates have become from their constituents.
Vapor cooling a PC is a different matter though, you'd have to worry about condensation and liquid leakage. I thought the Crays were water cooled with anti conductive liquid in case of leakage? Also, if you were to install a cooling system that will easily cost more than a grand in mass, I'm sure the extra grand will buy you more than enough space for another server or two, or a dozen when it comes to blades.
You also have to factor in the fact that the vapor cooling system itself is going to be taking up some space. With relatively high cheap performance blade servers or a couple of 2U servers, I think the Skulltrail setup top mips/m comparison either.
I feel like its more about the bragging rights than anything, because all the applications that would actually be able to benefit from such power can get the same performance through a cluster at a much lower cost.
The article mentioned "Piednoel told us that one of these systems has been overclocked in his lab to 5.0 GHz stable, and 5.2 GHz nearly stable. The system uses vapor cooling.". The cooling system alone can easily cost more than a grand and it'll probably be a pain in the ass to maintain. I have a feeling that the CPUs will be more likely sold in the 4GHz range, without the vapor cooling system and that it was just a demonstration like how most car manufacturer's insane prototypes? The price performance ratio just plummets after that point with the inclusion of a thousand dollar cooling system that is most likely going to have higher maintenance fees and probability of failure. I just can't see any type of significant market for vapor cooled PCs, since the bottle neck is going to be the graphics cards rather than the CPUs at that high of a frequency for gaming, and computational intensive applications will probably be better off with cluster computing since it's more power and price efficient to have multiple machines, rather than squeeze every last drop of performance out of one.
Are you kidding me? Most of Slashdot is the double standard, when Apple locks consumers in to their products most of you respond by saying that they are trying to make money and do whats best for their stockholders, but when Microsoft does so they are a evil monopoly? You can't be blind enough to realize that there's no double standard, because there's evidence on every single story that concerns either Microsoft for Apple.
By the way, Econ 101, when a company makes money it usually prevents another company from doing so, pretty obvious in the computer and electronics market in general. Not much of a conjecture I'd say.
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Apple's decision to enforce explicit nullability via the type system is very interesting/bold. http://deanzchen.com/the-best-...
I'm the author of the post, just wanted you to know that I wished that more CS educators share your attitude but that is certainly not the case at major American universities today.
Use openDNS?
The IE security feature can be disabled with about two mouse clicks under server manager. It's also very easy to add a trusted site by just clicking add when the error message pops up telling you it has blocked a download. There's really no reason you should be downloading from sites in the first place on a production server since server 2008 has it's own built in windows updater and most patches are tested first and redistributed through WUS. IE ES isn't new either, it was even stricter on server 2003 and it prevented some of my idiotic colleges from downloading random crap on the servers.
What subscription services? Those that offer similar services are usually brokers that provide research and real time quotes as long as you have a couple hundred in the account, without monthly fees. I don't see why anyone would actually pay for subscriptions to independent sites, since those who are interested in this type of information are looking to utilize it to trade stocks.
I don't see why a couple hundred servers at a few million along with a nicely designed site with php and mysql for a few hundred thousand wouldn't work. Internet surveys are extremely popular these days and the information wouldn't have to go through multiple hoops to be stored in the database format where it can be analyzed.
That statement isn't made towards atom, rather Intel's ability to mass produce 45nm which costs less, performs better and generates less heat. AMD is just starting 45nm production and by the time we see it hit full production, you can expect Intel to be transitioning 32nm.
They were actually able to prove that the mice's brain activity was similar to the brain activity of other mice using EEG's which meant that they were as awake as the other mice. But I agree, much of psychology is making up believable theories bases on the rough outline of scientific data.
Our psychology professor gave us a packet awhile ago based on the same theory, and it's been mentioned in our psychology text which is at least a few years old. The experimenters used a mouse and prevented it from entering REM sleep(when the mouse would dream) by putting it on a floating platform with a large hole in the middle so that the mouse would slip through the hole in to the water below when it entered REM sleep since its muscles relaxed. It was then shown that the mouse was less aware of danger, and was less responsive to threatening stimulus and more willing to stay in the open where it is more likely to be attacked by predators.
I have a feeling the general user who would edit a wikipedia article or something like Wikisearch will be much more tech savvy and promote more tech oriented results for keywords than those that google will provide. This can be a good thing or bad thing depending on what you are looking for. Google personalized search is probably the superior method since it uses the users own searches(without external input) to determine the rankings of the search results.
What if the doomsday involved global warming, permafrost perma-gone?
Doesn't that mean viruses and adware will also be able to run on Macs?
Maybe it's because both Zunes are sold out by Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Zune-Digital-Media-Player-Generation/dp/B000WG6XW6/ref=pd_ts_e_9?ie=UTF8&s=electronics http://www.amazon.com/Zune-Digital-Media-Player-Brown/dp/B000H0QDCC/ref=pd_ts_e_15?ie=UTF8&s=electronics
I hope they don't intent to recoup the cost by handing out traffic tickets.
It's all good, great minds think alike?
If you read my entire post that is what I said?
Emphasis on DECENT. My nVidia 7900GT driver still doesn't let me have a dual monitor setup without completely messing up the display on one screen, and it's STILL not fixed yet. The creative sound drivers suck badly, some of my games still can't utilize the 3d features of the sound card, and the sound quality is crap, I was better off using my onboard sound card. There wasn't a driver for my dlink 530tx gigabit card for a really long time, there's a driver out now but I can't access half the features like remote wake and such. And then there are all these accessories such as my iogear skype conferencing mic that will probably never work on x64 simply because the manufacturer is small and underfunded.
"finalized install file itself is expected to be a 50MB download via Windows Update." Microsoft's compression algorithm will be damn impressive if it can compress 7GBs of data in a 50mb download. I think most of the space is used to make copies of critical system files and such, which will probably be deleted when the installation process is over. I would imagine that Microsoft will decrease the space requirement when they release the final version, probably making copies of many unnecessary files since its just a release candidate.
These guys are pretty much saying that they don't really intent to optimize the code for penryn because very few processors will have SSE4, and even then they don't expect much performance improvement. I'm still waiting for decent 64-bit drivers for half of my hardware........ most early adopters pay a premium for features that aren't really utilized at first, and by the time the software catches up the hardware is dirt cheap. However penryn(except for the extreme edition) is an exception since it is priced at a point where it is worth it to pay the extra buck or two for the extra features that are not going to have much impact till years later when the software catches up. I'm really looking forward to Nehalem though, the architecture update is going to bring significant improvement in performance without much to do with software optimization.
I don't know about you, but I'd feel like I'm a victim if I was penalized $200,000 for stealing a couple of items from the dollar store?
Although it's pretty unlikely that Colbert will pull a Schwarzenegger, he'd still put some of the democratic candidates to shame. A recent poll from CNBC that was shown on his show showed him at 2.3%, above some of the major democratic candidates. I think that speaks volume about how separated presidential candidates have become from their constituents.
Vapor cooling a PC is a different matter though, you'd have to worry about condensation and liquid leakage. I thought the Crays were water cooled with anti conductive liquid in case of leakage? Also, if you were to install a cooling system that will easily cost more than a grand in mass, I'm sure the extra grand will buy you more than enough space for another server or two, or a dozen when it comes to blades. You also have to factor in the fact that the vapor cooling system itself is going to be taking up some space. With relatively high cheap performance blade servers or a couple of 2U servers, I think the Skulltrail setup top mips/m comparison either. I feel like its more about the bragging rights than anything, because all the applications that would actually be able to benefit from such power can get the same performance through a cluster at a much lower cost.
The article mentioned "Piednoel told us that one of these systems has been overclocked in his lab to 5.0 GHz stable, and 5.2 GHz nearly stable. The system uses vapor cooling.". The cooling system alone can easily cost more than a grand and it'll probably be a pain in the ass to maintain. I have a feeling that the CPUs will be more likely sold in the 4GHz range, without the vapor cooling system and that it was just a demonstration like how most car manufacturer's insane prototypes? The price performance ratio just plummets after that point with the inclusion of a thousand dollar cooling system that is most likely going to have higher maintenance fees and probability of failure. I just can't see any type of significant market for vapor cooled PCs, since the bottle neck is going to be the graphics cards rather than the CPUs at that high of a frequency for gaming, and computational intensive applications will probably be better off with cluster computing since it's more power and price efficient to have multiple machines, rather than squeeze every last drop of performance out of one.
How is it a rant if everything I've said is factually true?
Are you kidding me? Most of Slashdot is the double standard, when Apple locks consumers in to their products most of you respond by saying that they are trying to make money and do whats best for their stockholders, but when Microsoft does so they are a evil monopoly? You can't be blind enough to realize that there's no double standard, because there's evidence on every single story that concerns either Microsoft for Apple. By the way, Econ 101, when a company makes money it usually prevents another company from doing so, pretty obvious in the computer and electronics market in general. Not much of a conjecture I'd say.