These are big, generally single threaded applications. In 2001, we used Suns becuase they supported memory sizes we needed. Gate simulation needed about 5GB of physical memory. P&R more like 10GB. For smaller jobs, we used x86 boxes. They wern't just cheaper. They were faster.
But now EDA vendors are starting to support AMD64. With Sun's announcment, the performance gap is going to get wider. No Ultrasparc V. Niagara and Rock won't help, even when they get here.
"The technique, which won't result in chips larger than those from competitors, sacrifices the ability to perform one task extremely quickly for the ability to do multiple independent tasks simultaneously"
No good. No good at all. How long before Synopsys, Cadence, and Magma do the unthinkable and actually drop support for Sparc/Solaris?
You wouldn't bring your laptop to the movies to work on a bit of code during boring parts,
Yes, actually, I would. I don't but that's only becuase it is physically awkward. If I'm watching a movie at home I actually do code, surf, etc durring the boring bits. Don't you? I, for one, hate doing only one thing.
There is nothing in the silent vibration of my cellphone that anyone around me will notice.
Maybe you have a better phone than me but mine is not silent in vibrate. Oh, it's a lot quieter than ring but it is clearly audible those those near me.
Whispering to the person calling isn't very silent either.
What I'd like to see is:
1) Ring through an ear piece. Maybe some do this already. I have an old phone.
2) Programable keys that will allow me to answer the call with my choice of canned response.
For example I could program one key to say: "Can't talk now. Try again later"
Another key would say "Give me a minute. I need to find a place where we can talk"
Okay, clearly something about international trade needs to be explained to you: Money never flows out and not back into a country, unless they are your colony
Currency can not flow one way but wealth absolutely can. If $BARistant runs a trade deficit long enough, one of two things will happen:
1) $FOOistan will own all of $BARistan. The residents of $BARistan will own nothing. Scenario #2 follows almost inevitably.
2) The value of the $BARistan currency will drop to zero. The citizens of $BARistan will be unable to purchase anything from $FOOistan. If items from $FOOistan are needed to run the economy then the economy comes to a halt. More accurately, is reduced to the level that can be sustained entirely from internal resources, without international inputs.
It is actually no different than a colony. The wealth transfer just happens behind the sceenes in relative currency valuations rather than up front in Dollars and Cents.
Some sort of AI based network of vehicles that are available on demand (the nearest parked car will come to you -- or to the nearest "junction"). No one needs to "own" a vehicle. They will all be safe too.
Functionally, we have that today. They are called taxi's. Of course they are operated by humans rather than AI's so the cost is rather high. Still, I think it is clear that you need quite lot of density to make this reasonably cheap and convenient.
The problem is that we seldom build cities. Cities morph -- especially in our suburban mindset we've have for the past century or so
Cities are not built house by house though. Most of the time, whole subdivisions are built more or less at once. Most are not walking and biking unfriendly by accident. They are designed that way.
They *could* put in sidewalks, but chose not to. Commercial and retail *could* be included but are not. New subdivisions *could* be criss crossed with minor streets great for bicycling but instead every neighborhood street ends in a cul de sac and traffic is diverted to arterials.
On the other hand, as I pointed out in my speech that day, there was another new language coming up that was 20000% better. It was called Perl. Perhaps you've heard of it.:-)
I don't really agree here. REXX is a free form shell scripting language and stomps on everything else I have used for that purpose and that includes perl. You can write a simple sequence of commands with virtually no syntactic clutter and incrementally add expressions and control structures. With REXX, one can effortless take a program across the entire practical range of tranditional Unix shell languanges and far beyond.
Perl, of course, is more powerful but it is not really a shell language. It's syntax is more complex and gets in the way when you are trying to mix control code with command calls.
I still write bourne shell scripts. I also write awkward "shell" scripts in perl. But I would rather use REXX.
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If, for example, your legitimate E-mail contains many messages about investments, mortgages, and similar financial subjects, it's going to be hard to separate out financial spam by word analysis.
The trick is, don't send all your mail to one mailbox. Many/most of us do get email about investments. Many/most of us also have reason for a publically viewable email address.
But there is no reason why your financial institutions need to have your public email address.
There is no reason why the public needs to have the address you use for financial matters.
The financial institutions that I do business with are given distinct private email address. These addreses are never used publically so they never get spammed. No filtering necessary.
On the other hand, the address I use for Usenet is only used for Usenet. People and companies that I have business relationships with do not send me mail there. Ay financial email received at the Usenet address can be safely filtered out as it will always be spam.
while SquirrellMail wins hands-down every time, it does not even come close to giving the power and flexibility of a dedicated email client
Web mail is slow and that is a problem. But there is nothing about the medium that prevents the creation of a powerful mail client.
My mail usage is about 70% SquirrelMail and 30% Mutt. I put up with slugishness in SquirrelMail becuase of one important *feature*.
SquirrelMail gives me continueously updated unread and total message counts for all 40 of my active mail folders. No other mail client, web mail or gui seems to do this. I have heard that Mutt can be made to do this in the status line, but no status line is big enough for 40 mail folders.
Being able to tell where all my unread mail is is a huge advantage. I bounce out to Mutt for a couple of features that aren't often found in dedicated mail clients either.
1) Mutt allows me to type in an arbitrary value in the From: line. It is irritating that a majority of gui mail clients forbid this.
2) Mutt allows me to define "self" as a pattern. Every other mail client I have tried, including SquirrelMail, has required me to enter each every possible address seperately. That's ok for a static list of 3 or 4 but I have over 200 and with my tagging system, I invent a new one every few days.
Noone else who worked with me still works there so I can't use them for reference either
Who says you can't use them? My last 3 companies don't even exist. That doesn't mean I don't have any references. Give out the names of those you worked with regardless of whether they still work there. If the prospective employer wants to verify that you actually worked there, they will call HR, not your old boss.
Never forget: the purpose of a resume is to get you an interview. If you got the interview, then you know that there were no fatal flaws on your resume. If there were fatal flaws on the resume, you won't get the interview and, hense, won't be able to explain them away.
But you have to wonder... what on earth was Intel thinking? It wasn't x86 compatible by a longshot
Intel was thinking that Itanium would be enough faster than a native x86 to emulate x86 competively. The architecture was designed to make software emulation of x86 relatively efficient.
The trouble is, the required performance never arrived. Clock rates greatly lagged x86. Compilers have not been able to use the resources provided by IA64 effectively. Itanium hasn't been able to keep up with x86 when running native, much less in emulation.
432 and Itannic had full management support. The 432 failed becuase the market rejected it. Itannic appears destined for the same fate. The 960 wasn't rejected by the market, it was rejected by Intel management.
Internet capacity is unbounded. When usuage increases, there is insentive (economic and otherwise) to buy larger pipes. The more people use the Internet, the bigger it gets. It actually gets more useful since those bigger pipes generally improve the performance of all applications.
RF spectrum is finite. The more people use it, the more congested it gets and the less useful it becomes. No one can buy more capacity. At best, they can apply more sophisticated technology to make better use of what they have.
I graduated at the end of 1990 with a BS in Computer Engineering. By my estimation, that is equivalent to 2001 in the current economic cycle. It took me nearly 7 years to get a job in my field. It was 1995 before companies would talk to me at all. I ran into exactly the same problem you are seeing: too inexperienced to be hired through normal channels, too "stale" to he hired as a fresh grad.
I finally hit pay dirt in 1997. I broke through partly because the economy had picked up more because I put great effort into building relevant skills and experiences. I bought design tools. I took classes covering all the most current tools and techniques. I build circuit boards. I learned on my own time and my own dime what most people learn from their first employer.
You may have to do the same. In my opinion, you can't have too much education, as long as it is relevant to the needs of the job market. Go to grad school if that option is available to you. Lead an open source project. Do work that will make you moderately proud and famous. Pay close attention to the relevancy of what you are doing.
Mobster: you must be a member of a gang or Mafia. To get in, you need to have a rap sheet with at least 20 entries. First 12,000 invites went to email addresses in Federal prisons.
Officially, no on else can join. Unofficially, you just need to make us an offer we can't refuse.
Witchster: you must be an initiate into witchcraft. To get in you need to have posted at least one spell of your own creation, with details on the underlying operation principles. First 12,000 invites went to the High Priest/Priestesses of covens registered as nonprofits.
The master list is kept sealed in vault and never updated. It is, hower, checked periodically. If your name magically shows up on the list, you're in.
But if you need a terrorist preventor, how about a button the pilot or copilot can hit when the cockpit is compromised that would engage the autopilot and couldn't be turned off until the plane is on the ground.
That would require an autopilot system that can land the plane. Existing autopilots only work in the air. Take off and landing are why we still have pilots.
What happens if I'm on a flight that for whatever the reason HAS to land at La Guardia (low fuel) and cannot navigate AROUND lower Manhattan, but instead wants to go over it.
Pilot calls up Air traffic Control. Air Traffic Control (if they agree) transmits a code for a temporary, limited override.
In the case of a near colision, one could have a panic button that provides an override for a brief time and automatically signals air traffic control.
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These are big, generally single threaded applications. In 2001, we used Suns becuase they supported memory sizes we needed. Gate simulation needed about 5GB of physical memory. P&R more like 10GB. For smaller jobs, we used x86 boxes. They wern't just cheaper. They were faster.
But now EDA vendors are starting to support AMD64. With Sun's announcment, the performance gap is going to get wider. No Ultrasparc V. Niagara and Rock won't help, even when they get here.
"The technique, which won't result in chips larger than those from competitors, sacrifices the ability to perform one task extremely quickly for the ability to do multiple independent tasks simultaneously"
No good. No good at all. How long before Synopsys, Cadence, and Magma do the unthinkable and actually drop support for Sparc/Solaris?
You wouldn't bring your laptop to the movies to work on a bit of code during boring parts,
Yes, actually, I would. I don't but that's only becuase it is physically awkward. If I'm watching a movie at home I actually do code, surf, etc durring the boring bits. Don't you? I, for one, hate doing only one thing.
There is nothing in the silent vibration of my cellphone that anyone around me will notice.
Maybe you have a better phone than me but mine is not silent in vibrate. Oh, it's a lot quieter than ring but it is clearly audible those those near me.
Whispering to the person calling isn't very silent either.
What I'd like to see is:
1) Ring through an ear piece. Maybe some do this already. I have an old phone.
2) Programable keys that will allow me to answer the call with my choice of canned response.
For example I could program one key to say:
"Can't talk now. Try again later"
Another key would say
"Give me a minute. I need to find a place where we can talk"
No, no. no. Simply mentioned Hitler is not enough. You have to compare someone with Hitler or the Nazis. Like this:
"Mike Godwin is a Nazi"
Okay, clearly something about international trade needs to be explained to you: Money never flows out and not back into a country, unless they are your colony
Currency can not flow one way but wealth absolutely can. If $BARistant runs a trade deficit long enough, one of two things will happen:
1) $FOOistan will own all of $BARistan. The residents of $BARistan will own nothing. Scenario #2 follows almost inevitably.
2) The value of the $BARistan currency will drop to zero. The citizens of $BARistan will be unable to purchase anything from $FOOistan. If items from $FOOistan are needed to run the economy then the economy comes to a halt. More accurately, is reduced to the level that can be sustained entirely from internal resources, without international inputs.
It is actually no different than a colony. The wealth transfer just happens behind the sceenes in relative currency valuations rather than up front in Dollars and Cents.
Some sort of AI based network of vehicles that are available on demand (the nearest parked car will come to you -- or to the nearest "junction"). No one needs to "own" a vehicle. They will all be safe too.
Functionally, we have that today. They are called taxi's. Of course they are operated by humans rather than AI's so the cost is rather high. Still, I think it is clear that you need quite lot of density to make this reasonably cheap and convenient.
The problem is that we seldom build cities. Cities morph -- especially in our suburban mindset we've have for the past century or so
Cities are not built house by house though. Most of the time, whole subdivisions are built more or less at once. Most are not walking and biking unfriendly by accident. They are designed that way.
They *could* put in sidewalks, but chose not to. Commercial and retail *could* be included but are not. New subdivisions *could* be criss crossed with minor streets great for bicycling but instead every neighborhood street ends in a cul de sac and traffic is diverted to arterials.
On the other hand, as I pointed out in my speech that day, there was another new language coming up that was 20000% better. It was called Perl. Perhaps you've heard of it. :-)
I don't really agree here. REXX is a free form shell scripting language and stomps on everything else I have used for that purpose and that includes perl. You can write a simple sequence of commands with virtually no syntactic clutter and incrementally add expressions and control structures. With REXX, one can effortless take a program across the entire practical range of tranditional Unix shell languanges and far beyond.
Perl, of course, is more powerful but it is not really a shell language. It's syntax is more complex and gets in the way when you are trying to mix control code with command calls.
I still write bourne shell scripts. I also write awkward "shell" scripts in perl. But I would rather use REXX.
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Ceres is round. Vesta is nearly so. Do they get promoted to planet status?
If, for example, your legitimate E-mail contains many messages about investments, mortgages, and similar financial subjects, it's going to be hard to separate out financial spam by word analysis.
The trick is, don't send all your mail to one mailbox. Many/most of us do get email about investments. Many/most of us also have reason for a publically viewable email address.
But there is no reason why your financial institutions need to have your public email address.
There is no reason why the public needs to have the address you use for financial matters.
The financial institutions that I do business with are given distinct private email address. These addreses are never used publically so they never get spammed. No filtering necessary.
On the other hand, the address I use for Usenet is only used for Usenet. People and companies that I have business relationships with do not send me mail there. Ay financial email received at the Usenet address can be safely filtered out as it will always be spam.
while SquirrellMail wins hands-down every time, it does not even come close to giving the power and flexibility of a dedicated email client
Web mail is slow and that is a problem. But there is nothing about the medium that prevents the creation of a powerful mail client.
My mail usage is about 70% SquirrelMail and 30% Mutt. I put up with slugishness in SquirrelMail becuase of one important *feature*.
SquirrelMail gives me continueously updated unread and total message counts for all 40 of my active mail folders. No other mail client, web mail or gui seems to do this. I have heard that Mutt can be made to do this in the status line, but no status line is big enough for 40 mail folders.
Being able to tell where all my unread mail is is a huge advantage. I bounce out to Mutt for a couple of features that aren't often found in dedicated mail clients either.
1) Mutt allows me to type in an arbitrary value in the From: line. It is irritating that a majority of gui mail clients forbid this.
2) Mutt allows me to define "self" as a pattern. Every other mail client I have tried, including SquirrelMail, has required me to enter each every possible address seperately. That's ok for a static list of 3 or 4 but I have over 200 and with my tagging system, I invent a new one every few days.
Noone else who worked with me still works there so I can't use them for reference either
Who says you can't use them? My last 3 companies don't even exist. That doesn't mean I don't have any references. Give out the names of those you worked with regardless of whether they still work there. If the prospective employer wants to verify that you actually worked there, they will call HR, not your old boss.
Never forget: the purpose of a resume is to get you an interview. If you got the interview, then you know that there were no fatal flaws on your resume. If there were fatal flaws on the resume, you won't get the interview and, hense, won't be able to explain them away.
But you have to wonder... what on earth was Intel thinking?
It wasn't x86 compatible by a longshot
Intel was thinking that Itanium would be enough faster than a native x86 to emulate x86 competively. The architecture was designed to make software emulation of x86 relatively efficient.
The trouble is, the required performance never arrived. Clock rates greatly lagged x86. Compilers have not been able to use the resources provided by IA64 effectively. Itanium hasn't been able to keep up with x86 when running native, much less in emulation.
Wrong list.
432 and Itannic had full management support. The 432 failed becuase the market rejected it. Itannic appears destined for the same fate. The 960 wasn't rejected by the market, it was rejected by Intel management.
They are already building better mice.
Internet capacity is unbounded. When usuage increases, there is insentive (economic and otherwise) to buy larger pipes. The more people use the Internet, the bigger it gets. It actually gets more useful since those bigger pipes generally improve the performance of all applications.
RF spectrum is finite. The more people use it, the more congested it gets and the less useful it becomes. No one can buy more capacity. At best, they can apply more sophisticated technology to make better use of what they have.
I graduated at the end of 1990 with a BS in Computer Engineering. By my estimation, that is equivalent to 2001 in the current economic cycle. It took me nearly 7 years to get a job in my field. It was 1995 before companies would talk to me at all. I ran into exactly the same problem you are seeing: too inexperienced to be hired through normal channels, too "stale" to he hired as a fresh grad.
I finally hit pay dirt in 1997. I broke through partly because the economy had picked up more because I put great effort into building relevant skills and experiences. I bought design tools. I took classes covering all the most current tools and techniques. I build circuit boards. I learned on my own time and my own dime what most people learn from their first employer.
You may have to do the same. In my opinion, you can't have too much education, as long as it is relevant to the needs of the job market. Go to grad school if that option is available to you. Lead an open source project. Do work that will make you moderately proud and famous. Pay close attention to the relevancy of what you are doing.
Good luck. You are going to need that too.
Mobster: you must be a member of a gang or Mafia. To get in, you need to have a rap sheet with at least 20 entries. First 12,000 invites went to email addresses in Federal prisons.
Officially, no on else can join. Unofficially, you just need to make us an offer we can't refuse.
Witchster: you must be an initiate into witchcraft. To get in you need to have posted at least one spell of your own creation, with details on the underlying operation principles. First 12,000 invites went to the High Priest/Priestesses of covens registered as nonprofits.
The master list is kept sealed in vault and never updated. It is, hower, checked periodically. If your name magically shows up on the list, you're in.
Do you ever ride a bicycle in cold temperatures? Frozen hands, frozen ears, and a torso that is sweating.
Microsoft Office is not an invention, though. "The office suite" could be. The automobile is an invention. Ford Taurus is not.
This way I could have files spread all over it, each with a font size that didn't hurt my eye
The typeface on a typical printed documment is *smaller* than most high rez zellots use on their screen.
It's not the size, it's the resolution. Printed documents are 300dpi, worst case. I want that on the screen.
But if you need a terrorist preventor, how about a button the pilot or copilot can hit when the cockpit is compromised that would engage the autopilot and couldn't be turned off until the plane is on the ground.
That would require an autopilot system that can land the plane. Existing autopilots only work in the air. Take off and landing are why we still have pilots.
What happens if I'm on a flight that for whatever the reason HAS to land at La Guardia (low fuel) and cannot navigate AROUND lower Manhattan, but instead wants to go over it.
Pilot calls up Air traffic Control. Air Traffic Control (if they agree) transmits a code for a temporary, limited override.
In the case of a near colision, one could have a panic button that provides an override for a brief time and automatically signals air traffic control.