I wonder if their simulations will take into account the heat produced by the computers running the simulations... since this is a distributed computing project, there can potentially be thousands of computers or more, and the heat produced will add up. However insignificant that may seem, I'm willing to bet that the weather will somehow be affected.
Also, whatever result they got from the simulations, however accurate it is in simulating the past 50 years, will not be accurate enough to be used to extrapolate the next 50 years. It won't be able to predict any future technology that could either pollute the planet even more, or clean up the planet (i.e. some kind of artificial and energy efficient carbon sink). Moreover, it won't be able to predict future natural or man-made disasters, some of which are unrelated to the weather, for example, meteor impacts. And lastly, they can't predict human behavior... someone can go out in the middle of nowhere and set an entire forest on fire, which will surely affect the weather.
It will be great if they can predict tomorrow's weather to a 99.99% accuracy, but knowing the weather for the next 50 years is simply impractical, not to mention impossible.
Itanium and Itanium 2 (McKinley) is alive and well. Protypes in the lab have booted HPUX, Windows, Linux just fine. Granted, they ARE prototypes, but they do work very well.
My user name is really copied from someone else's username, but it is possible that person misspelled die fledermaus from The Tick... or from the german opera of the same name.
I'd be interested in building 7 duron 950 systems for $1200. Could you spare some time in telling me what setups you have, motherboards, etc... I assume most of these boxes do not have monitors attached to them, and hence, no need for video cards, which explains the $1200 price tag as well.
You have some interesting ideas... and sure, they can all be implemented... but the engineering cost of developing something like that would not justify it, not to mention there will be no market for it (that I know of). We already got boards that can take 2 32-bit processors anyway.
Question: where to buy? A search on eden on pricewatch.com came up with nothing relevant...
I admit it looks very attractive..., but where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy?
If everyone is as anal as the poster of this story and cares about elegance and "pretty code" and whatnot, we all would not be using a x86 processor because its architecture is just "sooo damn ugly!!". Get over it. If it works, it works, does it really matter how anything is implemented if it does its job just perfectly fine?
Personally, I will adopt anything that will make my life (not the developer's life) easier. yenc allows me to download 30-40% less, so I use it. Why? because if I don't use it, I won't be able to obtain the mp3s, the games, the warez, the pr0n, etc, etc, etc that I wanted:) Real life is not pretty, deal with it... stop living in fantasy world.
I agree with you. Many subjects still being taught in schools are very Eurocentric. When I was back in school, I really wanted to learn about India, Japan, and China, and in general Asia and the rest of the non-European world. But we always skipped over those chapters. (I remember we skipped chapters on Islam, India, China, and Japan, and probably others.) I managed to read those chapters on my own (although they are still written with a Eurocentric viewpoint:( ), but I bet half of my classmates never read them. It is no wonder why this country, supposedly the most educated or 'civilized', is so full of ignorant folks who knew nothing about the rest of the world.
And, in those days, Europe was the center of the world.
In those days, Europe was only the center of the European world, and China was the center of the Chinese world...remember, the chinese name for china was (and still is) Middle Kingdom.
FYI, Japan beat China only because China was in a great civil war itself, and was divided into the Nationalist and the Communist. In the end, they combined (Chiang Kai-Shek was kidnapped and forced to use his army to fight Japan) to defeat Japan before going back to their civil war.
Well, most of us using wintel machines won't be able to have 5GB of ram even if we wanted since that requires more than 32-bits of address bits, and the majority of the motherboards out there doesn't even support up to 4 GB. I myself have maxed out my PC to 1.5 GB of ram, and you betcha if I was able to go higher I would:) I do have to admit that is a lot of ram, and I usually have have more than 90% free memory on my system. This is more for bragging rights:)
A few hours drive south of Oklahoma is Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, a big Metropolitan area... #8 or 9 in the US in terms of population. Living in Oklahoma is not really that bad.
The problem is that the topic of management, business administration, etc, etc is not intellectually satisfying... it only attracts people out there trying to make a buck. And naturally these people (who really only cares about profit) will not care about any details when it comes to your brilliant implementations.
Of course engineering or programming jobs makes good money too, but most of us are in this industry because we love the work we're doing (or at least loved the EE/CE/CS major when we're back in college).
This is good news... this is one more reason to boycott XBox and Microsoft.
Of course, I will never purchase a Xbox anyway, so this won't really affect me. If I ever won a Xbox, say, from Taco Bell, I would probably sell it and get a Gamecube instead (I already have a PS2.)
I don't see what the big deal is in a segway... after all that hype, it ended up being just a motorized scooter... albeit it's a little smarter than that, but its nothing revolutionary... This thing ain't useful to me anyway, since I'm in Texas where everything is faaaaaaaarrr apart.
What a troll. If the poster of this story was not comparing Itanium to PIII and Athlon chips, why would he mention the word "commodity" and also mention about building it for 2k?
Corporations will never intend to have workstations and servers to be in that price range unless they are planning to go out of business.
Next time, read more carefully, and look up meanings of words you don't know before you post again... why am I answering to a AC anyway?
> You have to be stupid
Now this one is totally unnecessary, what's your problem? Abused by your parents when you were a little kid?
Intel does not intend IA64 processors to become commodity CPUs like its IA32 processors. You will not be able to build an Itanium system for $2k, at least not for many years, just like you cannot go to Fry's and buy parts for a Alpha system or a PARISC system. The person who submitted the story is misinformed.
Compile a table of say... the top 2^16 1k chunks(this can be arbitrary) of data that's flowing through the net by observing the traffic flowing though the backbone. Now distribute this table (65536k in size) to everybody.. heck make it come default with Windows and Linux or something. When a person is compressing a file, the compression program will refer to this table and whenever the program comes across a 1k chunk of data in the file that is a 'hit', replace it with a 16 bit value (which is preassigned to that chunk of data) + an escape sequence. For all other data that's not found in the table, perform regular compression.
Now since this table of 65536 (this size could be arbitrary powers of 2, of course, depending on how practical the size of the final table becomes) entries are very common in net traffic, it is very likely that your file contains many 'hits', which will considerably reduce your file size (i.e. 1024 bytes reduced to 16 bits + a few more bits).
You can even have many different tables of this, one for mp3 compression, one for text files, and so on, and just have the compression program analyze your file before it selects a table, and then append a table number in front of the resulting compressed file for decoding.
I have a lot of warez on my computer and running out of disk space. I need to burn those warez to 650mb CDs. But I want to use the space on those CDs efficiently, since I am too cheap to waste space like that:) Which means I need to find a way to burn X bytes of warez onto N cds. where (N-1)*650MB = X = N*650MB, N a integer, and X is closer to N*650MB than (N-1)*650MB. Would this turn into an NP complete problem?
What you described works for any method of file transfer. Even manual file transfer i.e. Person B types 4 times faster than person A. Therefore, after some time, when the file is copied, 80% of it was typed in by person B, and the other 20% was typed by person A. Nothing enlightening... makes me wonder why this post got a score of 2.
This 'new' scheme of transfering files is better described by Carnivore in the post below.
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I wonder if their simulations will take into account the heat produced by the computers running the simulations... since this is a distributed computing project, there can potentially be thousands of computers or more, and the heat produced will add up. However insignificant that may seem, I'm willing to bet that the weather will somehow be affected.
Also, whatever result they got from the simulations, however accurate it is in simulating the past 50 years, will not be accurate enough to be used to extrapolate the next 50 years. It won't be able to predict any future technology that could either pollute the planet even more, or clean up the planet (i.e. some kind of artificial and energy efficient carbon sink). Moreover, it won't be able to predict future natural or man-made disasters, some of which are unrelated to the weather, for example, meteor impacts. And lastly, they can't predict human behavior... someone can go out in the middle of nowhere and set an entire forest on fire, which will surely affect the weather.
It will be great if they can predict tomorrow's weather to a 99.99% accuracy, but knowing the weather for the next 50 years is simply impractical, not to mention impossible.
Itanium and Itanium 2 (McKinley) is alive and well. Protypes in the lab have booted HPUX, Windows, Linux just fine. Granted, they ARE prototypes, but they do work very well.
My user name is really copied from someone else's username, but it is possible that person misspelled die fledermaus from The Tick... or from the german opera of the same name.
I'd be interested in building 7 duron 950 systems for $1200. Could you spare some time in telling me what setups you have, motherboards, etc... I assume most of these boxes do not have monitors attached to them, and hence, no need for video cards, which explains the $1200 price tag as well.
You're a funny man....
You have some interesting ideas... and sure, they can all be implemented... but the engineering cost of developing something like that would not justify it, not to mention there will be no market for it (that I know of). We already got boards that can take 2 32-bit processors anyway.
Question: where to buy? A search on eden on pricewatch.com came up with nothing relevant...
I admit it looks very attractive..., but where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy? where to buy?
If everyone is as anal as the poster of this story and cares about elegance and "pretty code" and whatnot, we all would not be using a x86 processor because its architecture is just "sooo damn ugly!!". Get over it. If it works, it works, does it really matter how anything is implemented if it does its job just perfectly fine?
:) Real life is not pretty, deal with it... stop living in fantasy world.
Personally, I will adopt anything that will make my life (not the developer's life) easier. yenc allows me to download 30-40% less, so I use it. Why? because if I don't use it, I won't be able to obtain the mp3s, the games, the warez, the pr0n, etc, etc, etc that I wanted
great... a post modded up to 3 for just copying the website.
yeah, feels like a hoax, but i could be wrong...
I agree with you. Many subjects still being taught in schools are very Eurocentric. When I was back in school, I really wanted to learn about India, Japan, and China, and in general Asia and the rest of the non-European world. But we always skipped over those chapters. (I remember we skipped chapters on Islam, India, China, and Japan, and probably others.) I managed to read those chapters on my own (although they are still written with a Eurocentric viewpoint :( ), but I bet half of my classmates never read them. It is no wonder why this country, supposedly the most educated or 'civilized', is so full of ignorant folks who knew nothing about the rest of the world.
And, in those days, Europe was the center of the world.
In those days, Europe was only the center of the European world, and China was the center of the Chinese world...remember, the chinese name for china was (and still is) Middle Kingdom.
FYI, Japan beat China only because China was in a great civil war itself, and was divided into the Nationalist and the Communist. In the end, they combined (Chiang Kai-Shek was kidnapped and forced to use his army to fight Japan) to defeat Japan before going back to their civil war.
Well, most of us using wintel machines won't be able to have 5GB of ram even if we wanted since that requires more than 32-bits of address bits, and the majority of the motherboards out there doesn't even support up to 4 GB. :) I do have to admit that is a lot of ram, and I usually have have more than 90% free memory on my system. This is more for bragging rights :)
I myself have maxed out my PC to 1.5 GB of ram, and you betcha if I was able to go higher I would
A few hours drive south of Oklahoma is Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, a big Metropolitan area... #8 or 9 in the US in terms of population. Living in Oklahoma is not really that bad.
The problem is that the topic of management, business administration, etc, etc is not intellectually satisfying... it only attracts people out there trying to make a buck. And naturally these people (who really only cares about profit) will not care about any details when it comes to your brilliant implementations.
Of course engineering or programming jobs makes good money too, but most of us are in this industry because we love the work we're doing (or at least loved the EE/CE/CS major when we're back in college).
This is good news... this is one more reason to boycott XBox and Microsoft.
Of course, I will never purchase a Xbox anyway, so this won't really affect me. If I ever won a Xbox, say, from Taco Bell, I would probably sell it and get a Gamecube instead (I already have a PS2.)
I don't see what the big deal is in a segway... after all that hype, it ended up being just a motorized scooter... albeit it's a little smarter than that, but its nothing revolutionary... This thing ain't useful to me anyway, since I'm in Texas where everything is faaaaaaaarrr apart.
What a troll. If the poster of this story was not comparing Itanium to PIII and Athlon chips, why would he mention the word "commodity" and also mention about building it for 2k?
Corporations will never intend to have workstations and servers to be in that price range unless they are planning to go out of business.
Next time, read more carefully, and look up meanings of words you don't know before you post again... why am I answering to a AC anyway?
> You have to be stupid
Now this one is totally unnecessary, what's your problem? Abused by your parents when you were a little kid?
FYI, nForce comes in 2 chips........
Intel does not intend IA64 processors to become commodity CPUs like its IA32 processors. You will not be able to build an Itanium system for $2k, at least not for many years, just like you cannot go to Fry's and buy parts for a Alpha system or a PARISC system. The person who submitted the story is misinformed.
actually, if there are any more delays, Lucas might die off, and perhaps a better director would rewrite episode 3 :)
What can Oracle do to prevent me from taking a expensive Tektronix Oscilloscope and probe the memory bus of the machine it runs on?
Very similar to hoffman encoding...
Compile a table of say... the top 2^16 1k chunks(this can be arbitrary) of data that's flowing through the net by observing the traffic flowing though the backbone. Now distribute this table (65536k in size) to everybody.. heck make it come default with Windows and Linux or something. When a person is compressing a file, the compression program will refer to this table and whenever the program comes across a 1k chunk of data in the file that is a 'hit', replace it with a 16 bit value (which is preassigned to that chunk of data) + an escape sequence. For all other data that's not found in the table, perform regular compression.
Now since this table of 65536 (this size could be arbitrary powers of 2, of course, depending on how practical the size of the final table becomes) entries are very common in net traffic, it is very likely that your file contains many 'hits', which will considerably reduce your file size (i.e. 1024 bytes reduced to 16 bits + a few more bits).
You can even have many different tables of this, one for mp3 compression, one for text files, and so on, and just have the compression program analyze your file before it selects a table, and then append a table number in front of the resulting compressed file for decoding.
Can anyone suggest a solution to this:
:) Which means I need to find a way to burn X bytes of warez onto N cds. where (N-1)*650MB = X = N*650MB, N a integer, and X is closer to N*650MB than (N-1)*650MB. Would this turn into an NP complete problem?
I have a lot of warez on my computer and running out of disk space. I need to burn those warez to 650mb CDs. But I want to use the space on those CDs efficiently, since I am too cheap to waste space like that
What you described works for any method of file transfer. Even manual file transfer i.e. Person B types 4 times faster than person A. Therefore, after some time, when the file is copied, 80% of it was typed in by person B, and the other 20% was typed by person A. Nothing enlightening... makes me wonder why this post got a score of 2.
This 'new' scheme of transfering files is better described by Carnivore in the post below.