Why you will always be wrong. Basically, clusters make use of existing networking technologies (higher overhead) and supercomputers (SIMD, MIMD, whatever) are designed to make that overhead as low as possible.
Thus, by definition, for HPC applications that can't be parallelized enough to overcome the communications overhead, super computers will always beat out clusters and have a place.
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LotR is one thing. They have additional scenes on the super fancy-pants versions. But they don't go changing the scenes you've already watched
PJ edited out the car, and in the directors commentary said "What car? I don't see any car!" But in reality he was being facetious.
There certainly was a car in FOTR, I didn't catch it, and neither did he.
I realize there is a major difference in removing a tiny gaffe that most people didn't catch (and if you did, it would actually detract from the experience of being in "middle earth") to re-writing history a la Lucas. So this is the exception that PROVES the rule!
However if an all in one unit is cheap enough, it doesn't matter that its a single point of failure.
For example, if I get a multi disc dvd player with surround sound speakers, I bought 1 box, everythings already set up, I just connect TV and the speakers and I'm done. Is it as good as a component set? HELL NO.
But what if its "good enough?" And cheap enough ($300-$500)? Even so-so "progressive scan" dvd players beat the pants off old VHS, so I'm happy with the improvement.
And thats my point- simplicity in gear is an illusion- but if its cheap enough it becomes a viable solution.
Mainframes will be the death of us (Due to a lack of talent)! The last major delay in the UK air traffic system was their NAS mainframe going down after a failed patch, and taking three hours (on a Friday morning!) to get back in service. (you can google for NATS being grilled by parliament)
Please remove your tinfoil hat and read the rest of my comment... they usually fix the problems you find.
Oh sure, they never want to take the blame, but when you have a reproducible fault ( pinpointing it down to the module for them never hurts...) they usually capitulate. They frequently aren't very happy (especially when it in some ancient protocol that nobody* uses) but they do it.
And lets say they don't want to fix the problems you find: your system doesn't make it past safety review, white paper or not. So you and them are back to square 1; and they no longer have that huge order for 100,000 units anymore. SO yeah, that NEVER happens.
And most NDAs contain clauses preventing you from releasing anything you find that would be detrimental to the company - for example, any statement that would intimate there is a security hole.
That its true. But then again, a published white paper detailing how a test set up that we tried in our labs exposes a shocking vulnerability that everyone else can re-create is completely fine.
Or! We say "Hey, fix this in the next update. You have a security hole." And they do.
MY handspring Visor had some software (Shareware?) that couldbe used as a learning remote... and it worked great across the room. The only problem? No real buttons (that PDA touch screen), I had to hold it sideways (IR port on the side) and I had to use my freaking PDA to change the channel! Convergence isn't always good...
Enter, the Sony RM-VL900- the coolest learning remote. ITs got real buttons. And it learns EVERYTHING. SO for $60 bucks, I have a macro capable super-tacular learning remote that is so easy, even my wife had no problems adapting to it.
This $700 remote is for people with large cash endowments and no physical endowment. For everyone else, there's a $60 remote.
The patent system may be broken, but I don't really see how this would be an indication of it.
This is slashdot; where quirky technology idea mixed with knee-jerk tinfoil-ism leads to front page story. I know I can't wait until my story on "Gaurdian robots running Embedded Linux that break through your windows and rape sleeping M$ users" makes it to the front page!
pretending that all women are exactly alike is the root of many social problems today. I'm not saying that men and woman are exactly alike; I'm going the step further and saying that all women aren't exactly alike.
Just because you're right, its still kinda wrong;)
But yes- my wife says "Just get out 40", knowing full well that she'll be taking 35... leaving me for the week with, 5? Yeah, thanks for looking out honey. I simply ignore her and grab 100.
I used to like Debit Cards too; and then I tried to bring up a case of fraud to my bank. The jerks stone-walled me and sat on their fat asses. It was actually the WEB SITE that said "Yeah, you don't live in khazakstan. This is Fraud. We'll be giving you a credit. Have a nice day."
The bank then "refused" my fraud report saying "oh, you got your money back." Assholes.
Use a credit card; especially one with frequent flyer miles. I don't carry cash anymore; I use my credit card. And I get double miles at certain restaurants. And I get free trips to Hawaii. (next stop: Tahiti)
Credit Cards are easy to trace too; you get that printed statement and a many companies will let you see your account online (don't use Internet Exploder, though!;)
Those 503 errors happened BECAUSE someone tried to edit grammar in a story, and slaschode can't handle being written to and read at the same time.
So they fixed the problem by not editing. Makes sense to me.
And no one calls them editors. I mean, they can call themselves editors all they want... they can also call themselves the Kings of Spanish-Grambula, but that doesn't make it so.
Bob Dylan: "Pawn in their Game" always has a spot on my playlist. U2: War is an incredible album; nice and raw and kickin'. J5: All the way live. 'nuff said. Moby: despite being a die hard raver (funky breaks, speed garage, acid breaks, darkstep, disco-house, liquid afrofunk (a.k.a. porno-step)) I can't get down with Moby. My wife loves Moby, I'm so-so on him. What am I missing?! Nas: its gotta be the early stuff... "I never sleep, cuz sleep is the cousin of death"
I don't see any metal, but I see some kickin' tunage. Maybe you just need a haircut?;)
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Why you will always be wrong. Basically, clusters make use of existing networking technologies (higher overhead) and supercomputers (SIMD, MIMD, whatever) are designed to make that overhead as low as possible.
Thus, by definition, for HPC applications that can't be parallelized enough to overcome the communications overhead, super computers will always beat out clusters and have a place.
Yeah, looks right nice with the rest of the bric-a-brac, no?
Exactly! It has its own longerberger basket, doncha know.
Considering most americans think North Dakota is part of Canada*, I'm not surprised.
(My wife is from ND- and yes, people actually say "Oh! You're canadian!")
My mother in law in ND has a cable modem! She's 31337!
ITs always an issue on travel web sites where they review accomodations and restaurants. Is it a real tourist? or a ringer for the place?
Its all about developing heuristics that set off your BS meter.
ITs called astroturfing.
Caveat Lector.
LotR is one thing. They have additional scenes on the super fancy-pants versions. But they don't go changing the scenes you've already watched
PJ edited out the car, and in the directors commentary said "What car? I don't see any car!" But in reality he was being facetious.
There certainly was a car in FOTR, I didn't catch it, and neither did he.
I realize there is a major difference in removing a tiny gaffe that most people didn't catch (and if you did, it would actually detract from the experience of being in "middle earth") to re-writing history a la Lucas. So this is the exception that PROVES the rule!
I agree with all of your points.
However if an all in one unit is cheap enough, it doesn't matter that its a single point of failure.
For example, if I get a multi disc dvd player with surround sound speakers, I bought 1 box, everythings already set up, I just connect TV and the speakers and I'm done. Is it as good as a component set? HELL NO.
But what if its "good enough?" And cheap enough ($300-$500)? Even so-so "progressive scan" dvd players beat the pants off old VHS, so I'm happy with the improvement.
And thats my point- simplicity in gear is an illusion- but if its cheap enough it becomes a viable solution.
Mainframes will be the death of us (Due to a lack of talent)! The last major delay in the UK air traffic system was their NAS mainframe going down after a failed patch, and taking three hours (on a Friday morning!) to get back in service. (you can google for NATS being grilled by parliament)
Yo! Where you been?!
Please remove your tinfoil hat and read the rest of my comment...
they usually fix the problems you find.
Oh sure, they never want to take the blame, but when you have a reproducible fault ( pinpointing it down to the module for them never hurts...) they usually capitulate. They frequently aren't very happy (especially when it in some ancient protocol that nobody* uses) but they do it.
And lets say they don't want to fix the problems you find: your system doesn't make it past safety review, white paper or not. So you and them are back to square 1; and they no longer have that huge order for 100,000 units anymore. SO yeah, that NEVER happens.
And most NDAs contain clauses preventing you from releasing anything you find that would be detrimental to the company - for example, any statement that would intimate there is a security hole.
That its true. But then again, a published white paper detailing how a test set up that we tried in our labs exposes a shocking vulnerability that everyone else can re-create is completely fine.
Or! We say "Hey, fix this in the next update. You have a security hole." And they do.
Holy COW is this section ugly! Its a gradient between poo and cubicle-taupe that I can't stand!
Oops, sorry, can't do that - its that darned constipated closed-source disadvantage.
Money + NDA = "Open to me" source.
Yeah, can't trust those commie FOSS developers. Instead, lets invest in "America", lets give money to companies who develop software overseas anyway!*
*We wanted to buy software from only American developers, but we couldn't afford it.
MY handspring Visor had some software (Shareware?) that couldbe used as a learning remote... and it worked great across the room. The only problem? No real buttons (that PDA touch screen), I had to hold it sideways (IR port on the side) and I had to use my freaking PDA to change the channel! Convergence isn't always good...
Enter, the Sony RM-VL900- the coolest learning remote. ITs got real buttons. And it learns EVERYTHING. SO for $60 bucks, I have a macro capable super-tacular learning remote that is so easy, even my wife had no problems adapting to it.
This $700 remote is for people with large cash endowments and no physical endowment. For everyone else, there's a $60 remote.
The patent system may be broken, but I don't really see how this would be an indication of it.
This is slashdot; where quirky technology idea mixed with knee-jerk tinfoil-ism leads to front page story. I know I can't wait until my story on "Gaurdian robots running Embedded Linux that break through your windows and rape sleeping M$ users" makes it to the front page!
I e-mailed "Daddy Pants" before the story went live about that.
Yeah, I used to like wasting my time like that, too.
Doesn't really pay to have a system for notification if you don't check it regularly enough.
Doesn't really pay to have a subscription if they don't check it at all.
Sometimes, you need to post a dupe of a story.
Not because you are a bad editor, but because the importance of the very real possibility that it will stifle our ability to innovate.
So, enjoy it again for the first time.
pretending that all women are exactly alike is the root of many social problems today. I'm not saying that men and woman are exactly alike; I'm going the step further and saying that all women aren't exactly alike.
Just because you're right, its still kinda wrong ;)
But yes- my wife says "Just get out 40", knowing full well that she'll be taking 35... leaving me for the week with, 5? Yeah, thanks for looking out honey. I simply ignore her and grab 100.
I used to like Debit Cards too; and then I tried to bring up a case of fraud to my bank. The jerks stone-walled me and sat on their fat asses. It was actually the WEB SITE that said "Yeah, you don't live in khazakstan. This is Fraud. We'll be giving you a credit. Have a nice day."
;)
The bank then "refused" my fraud report saying "oh, you got your money back." Assholes.
Use a credit card; especially one with frequent flyer miles.
I don't carry cash anymore; I use my credit card. And I get double miles at certain restaurants. And I get free trips to Hawaii. (next stop: Tahiti)
Credit Cards are easy to trace too; you get that printed statement and a many companies will let you see your account online (don't use Internet Exploder, though!
Those 503 errors happened BECAUSE someone tried to edit grammar in a story, and slaschode can't handle being written to and read at the same time.
So they fixed the problem by not editing.
Makes sense to me.
And no one calls them editors. I mean, they can call themselves editors all they want... they can also call themselves the Kings of Spanish-Grambula, but that doesn't make it so.
"Why are we wearing bras on our heads?"
"Its ceremonial."
Bob Dylan: "Pawn in their Game" always has a spot on my playlist.
;)
U2: War is an incredible album; nice and raw and kickin'.
J5: All the way live. 'nuff said.
Moby: despite being a die hard raver (funky breaks, speed garage, acid breaks, darkstep, disco-house, liquid afrofunk (a.k.a. porno-step)) I can't get down with Moby. My wife loves Moby, I'm so-so on him. What am I missing?!
Nas: its gotta be the early stuff... "I never sleep, cuz sleep is the cousin of death"
I don't see any metal, but I see some kickin' tunage. Maybe you just need a haircut?