not all problems work well in clusters. sometimes you need a big ass box with lots of CPUs and memory (i'd rather have a p690 system then a sun though. each cpu on the peseries is much faster then the sun cpu)
You probably have no idea how right you are. I know a couple of folks who used to work for a subsidiary of Times-Mirror Corporation. At a meeting of technical leads in the mid/late '90s the discussion from the subsidiary that published college text books was how to leverage technologies such as SGML/XML to create the ability for profs to customize the content of the text book they used in class each year. The motivation for this was not to allow the prof to select the best content for the course (this was just the marketing angle) but to destroy the market for used text books.
I can just hear a prof saying something like, "Oh, by the way, don't buy a used copy of the text for this class. The content has changed significantly from last year."
Time-Mirror got bought by Tribune Corporation a couple of years ago. Tribune sold off the subsidiaries that didn't fit with their core identity of news media so I have no idea where that particular subsidiary ended up. My guess is it doesn't matter. On the other hand, I know of at least one prof who required his own text book and then refunded to the class what he made on them buying it. Some people are fair but don't count on it.
there is an awfully well-known scheme the publishing houses use to sell books. The schools can't do anything about it, anyway. Here's how it works:
1) Publish a new edition of your textbook at least every couple of years. Be sure to change the page numbering significantly, and ideally, move stuff from chapter to chapter. The harder it is to syncronize with the old edition, the better! 2) Release it as soon as you're almost sold out of the previous edition. 3) Laugh as bookstores can no longer carry new copies of the old edition, so professors have to require the new edition -- they can't assume that everyone will be able to find a used copy of the old edition, and it'll take way too much of their time to synchronize teaching from both editions. 4) Rinse, Repeat 5) PROFIT!
Ironic. Companies like Disney, which make their money by deriviting copyrighted material from out of copyright works, want to retain their own copyright for even longer.
Yeah isn't it funny how all of the "great" Disney movies were nothing more than remakes of old stories, legends, etc that are in the public domain, and yet they are fighting tooth and nail to prevent their own works from ever going into the public domain?
But thats a whole nother' thread...
Anyways, I'm sure one could easily argue that sometimes people benafit from pirating. I'm sure if college kids didn't rampantly pirate MS Office and Windows, Microsoft wouldn't have the market share that it currently does, and these same kids wouldn't be "locked" into Office and other such software as adults.
Heck, in college I had a cracked version of Warcraft II that I played all the time. I loved that game so much what did I do later on? I bought StarCraft and WarCraft III.
Actually, having the CPUs in the machine already is better for everybody. it is cheaper to manuafacture because there is less variety, and when you want to activate them you get it right away.
you pay for what you use. what's so bad about that?
no, because they already have AIX which is a superior server os and linux or AIX for workstations. why would they would they want to support an unproven os (unproven in the big corporate market where they make most of their money)?
It already is optimized for the local case. It does not send anything over the network for local clients. It sends the data over a local socket. why can't people understand this?
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The power 5 will have 2 cpus on a die, and they both will behave like hyperthreading intel cpus.
so each 'cpu' will look like 4 logical cpus
not all problems work well in clusters. sometimes you need a big ass box with lots of CPUs and memory (i'd rather have a p690 system then a sun though. each cpu on the peseries is much faster then the sun cpu)
You probably have no idea how right you are. I know a couple of folks who used to work for a subsidiary of Times-Mirror Corporation. At a meeting of technical leads in the mid/late '90s the discussion from the subsidiary that published college text books was how to leverage technologies such as SGML/XML to create the ability for profs to customize the content of the text book they used in class each year. The motivation for this was not to allow the prof to select the best content for the course (this was just the marketing angle) but to destroy the market for used text books.
I can just hear a prof saying something like, "Oh, by the way, don't buy a used copy of the text for this class. The content has changed significantly from last year."
Time-Mirror got bought by Tribune Corporation a couple of years ago. Tribune sold off the subsidiaries that didn't fit with their core identity of news media so I have no idea where that particular subsidiary ended up. My guess is it doesn't matter. On the other hand, I know of at least one prof who required his own text book and then refunded to the class what he made on them buying it. Some people are fair but don't count on it.
there is an awfully well-known scheme the publishing houses use to sell books. The schools can't do anything about it, anyway. Here's how it works:
1) Publish a new edition of your textbook at least every couple of years. Be sure to change the page numbering significantly, and ideally, move stuff from chapter to chapter. The harder it is to syncronize with the old edition, the better!
2) Release it as soon as you're almost sold out of the previous edition.
3) Laugh as bookstores can no longer carry new copies of the old edition, so professors have to require the new edition -- they can't assume that everyone will be able to find a used copy of the old edition, and it'll take way too much of their time to synchronize teaching from both editions.
4) Rinse, Repeat
5) PROFIT!
Ironic. Companies like Disney, which make their money by deriviting copyrighted material from out of copyright works, want to retain their own copyright for even longer.
Yeah isn't it funny how all of the "great" Disney movies were nothing more than remakes of old stories, legends, etc that are in the public domain, and yet they are fighting tooth and nail to prevent their own works from ever going into the public domain?
But thats a whole nother' thread...
Anyways, I'm sure one could easily argue that sometimes people benafit from pirating. I'm sure if college kids didn't rampantly pirate MS Office and Windows, Microsoft wouldn't have the market share that it currently does, and these same kids wouldn't be "locked" into Office and other such software as adults.
Heck, in college I had a cracked version of Warcraft II that I played all the time. I loved that game so much what did I do later on? I bought StarCraft and WarCraft III.
Actually, having the CPUs in the machine already is better for everybody. it is cheaper to manuafacture because there is less variety, and when you want to activate them you get it right away.
you pay for what you use. what's so bad about that?
perhaps it is because the sun hardware is slow compared to the pSeries (RS/6000) machines.
yes, every day. works great.
no, because they already have AIX which is a superior server os and linux or AIX for workstations. why would they would they want to support an unproven os (unproven in the big corporate market where they make most of their money)?
The zSeries are the mainframes. they run a CISC chip.
do you have a source that says zSeries will be moved to the POWER platform? that would be rather cool.
uh, maybe when the pentium came out but a 486 sure as hell couldn't do 64 bit math. It is not about the math, it is about big ass memory space.
Spammers do this already, only they use spyware.
Spammers would also abuse the network you propose.
insider trading is trading stock with inside information. It is not inside information that the stock was overvalued.
clearcase runs on linux as well as many UNIX platforms.
it is more based on Singapore justice ( hey, another great fox show idea! )
It already is optimized for the local case. It does not send anything over the network for local clients. It sends the data over a local socket. why can't people understand this?
are you sure? i always learned in school that register access was the fastest possible way to get data.
you have to spin some clock cycles to go to the L1, etc memory.
my experience with windows is that things do slow down when a cd rom spins up. they don't always block, but they do slow down.
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1. faster compiles. compiling large projects still takes a lot of time
2. working with large datasets. having an easy (not PAE) way of accessing > 3gig of RAM is nice
3. why the hell not? just because you can't use it doesn't mean nobody can.
it is impossible to prove what I said, but it is true!
java stored procedures are just in time compiled (at least in sybase they are) the compiled code is stored. You don't interpret it every time.
Windows is not NUMA ( non uniform memory access) aware out of the box.
emacs can be built with gtk widgets, and I believe vim has a gtk version also.
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