A local geologist just published a memoir of his trip to Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year. In this memoir he has a map of the Filcher (now Ronne) ice sheet in 1958, along with 1998 satellite data on the facing page. The shrinking of the sheet is remarkable. That such change should occur in 40 years that don't mark the end of a mini ice-age is more than a little bit remarkable.
The problem with court transcripts is that they tend to be heavily biased documents, admitting only what the prosecution allows to be in court. For example if the prosecution witholds evidence, which happens far too often in this country, no trace of that act will show up in the transcript. If the defense has failed to properly investigate, there will be little trace in the transcript. If the prosecution witnesses (specifically police) perjure themselves, which again happens far too often, there will be no trace in the transcript.
F'rinstance Instrument on channel is in Australia. 2.5 seconds of lag, delay all other channels for 2.5 seconds.
This won't work, because musicians need to hear themselves as well as everyone else in the session in context. With your system, you would end up hearing your own playing 2.5 seconds after you played it!
There is a (relatively) easy way for companies that wish to protect any IP that they may have in their drivers, and that is to patent it. If they patent the techniques used in their drivers as well as the chips, then releasing the source code (which is most emphatically not the same thing as Open Source, of course) should be a non-issue, as their competitors would be barred from using the inventions embodied in the code.
Not that this should be an issue, anyway. There is usually very little of interest in terms of patentable algorithms (even in today's world of ultra-liberal software patent) in a driver. Anything that these companies have come up with for drivers has doubtless also been invented by all of their competitors.
Nope. IRIX started from System V, thanks to (not that) Steve Bourne, who worked at SGI back in the old days. Story I heard is that he and someone else, probably Greg Chesson, walked into Jim's office one day and basically wouldn't leave until he agreed to use System V instead of BSD.
The interesting thing about IRIX is that it was one of the first SysV based kernels to incorporate a lot of BSD-isms, such as sockets and mbufs.
The R10K O2 used an ASIC known as "Juice" to interface the R10K to the memory system. Think of it as SGI's equivalent of Intel's MTH in every way. In short, an unmitigated disaster.
Later R10K O2's used a better chip, and I understand had superior performance. The reason why the R10K was put in the O2 was to have another platform for the chip to increase production and reduce the burdened cost for the Octanes and Origins.
And you are wrong. There are limits to the amount of information that can be encoded, as Shannon proved in the 30's and 40's. Just because we aren't currently using the bandwidth in the most efficient manner today does not mean that there is no limit.
And do not forget, c sharp is the same note as b flat!
Um, no, it isn't. In equal temperment, its the same note as d flat. However, real musicians, eg, those of use without frets, know that c# and d flat are two different things.
I wonder how long it'll take till someone hacks a better anonymous system. Say with rings of trust, and HEAVY crypto.
Go ahead. Because of explicit trust such a system would be so small that not even the RIAA would conceive of it as a threat. If you open up the trust relationships to the point where you could actually do significant piracy (which is all some people around here seem to want to protect), then it will be open to infiltration and compromise.
Of course, the common complaint against this idea is "I'm a programmer! How do I feed my kids if I can't sell software?" And the answer is - most programmers don't work in the for-sale software industry as it sits today! The vast majority are employed by banks, hospitals, manufacturing companies, and so on as in-house problem solvers. The for-sale software provider is (statistically speaking) a minor player, and a bit of an abberation.
I've been a programmer for about 15 years, and I've never met an in-house programmer. I have, however, met, and worked for, people and companies who sell software to hospitals, banks, etc... The fact is that companies by and large do not want to be in the software development business. Most would rather let someone else deal with developing and maintaining software, so that they can concentrate their efforts on the things that they do best.
Cassini (the Saturn probe) uses hydrazine thrusters. It will gather no samples, although it will send a probe (named Huygens) into Titan to take measurements of its atmosphere and perhaps produce images if we're very, very lucky.
The only alternative propulsion spacecraft flying right now is DS1, which uses an ion drive.
The only sample return mission currently flying is Stardust, which uses hydrazine thrusters.
Mozart was buried in a manner that was common for the Viennese middle classes of the time. The myth of his poverty has its origins in a single letter that where he asked a friend for a loan. The letter was written while Austria was at war, and demand for Mozart's services were low. There is a lot of Mozart material on the web, easily accessible by Google, so I won't bother with links.
Mozart actually did derive considerable income from publishing his works. I think that it is safe to say that if audio recording had been available, Mozart would have used it and expected to be compensated by the consumers of his recordings.
ccNUMA (r) is SGI's cache coherent NUMA. There are a lot of sophisticated tricks played with memory, but it all boils down to a system with lower memory latency over the 'link than the old Power Series machines had locally. The coherent cache turns out to be handy, too. I never did delve deeply into those machines, but they definitely are kewl. And they scale like no one's business. More info can be found here.
NUMA-Q is the Sequent technology. It is also cache coherent according to this paper, but the details are lacking. It does not appear to scale as well as SGI's NUMA, though.
SGI currently ships NUMA machines up ~1024 processors, and AFAIK are working on an Intel version of that architecture built around Merced, er, excuse me, Itanium. They also seem committed to bringing those NUMA features to Linux, although I strongly believe that in order to do so they will have to essentially rewrite the kernel (which would be a good thing, IMHO).
Somehow I don't see a lot of cooperation between Big Blue and Small Purple on this one.
The moon is relatively easy, especially for an unmanned craft. Being so close (2 light seconds) allows for the spacecraft to be controlled largely from Earth. This is one way Lunar Prospector was able to keep the costs down.
The challenge will be to do privately funded missions that last for years of flight time at distances of light hours. Somehow I don't see Trans Orbital rushing into those projects.
BTW, Clementine didn't map the lunar surface in visible at all. It used a laser altimeter and a few other really interesting instruments. And it didn't cost under $100M (that was Prospector at $63M). I don't have the figure on the top of my head, but being pre-"Better Faster Cheaper (choose two;-)", it was probably closer to $500M. But since it was half-military we'll probably never know.
What everyone seems to be forgetting here is that Rambus is in lots of other markets besides PC memory, which it clearly isn't going to be good for. However, I'm sure that it will become dominant as an interconnect technology in routers, and it also has a bright future in embedded systems. Will all of this justify the current valuation? Probably not. But the company certainly has prospects to have continued profitability for several years.
You don't. However, someone trying to sell Linux to a security concious site does need it. B1 should allow system integrators to start using Linux, thus furthering the march towards World Domination.
This is a fairly large and complex piece of software. As others have said, it abstracts various OS concepts, which allows a single source code base. The disadvantage is that you now have bugs in WinDriver (or its moral equivalent) to deal with, in addition to your own bugs.
Another point is that you are limited to what abstractions are provided by your toolkit vendor. It might be difficult to use interesting OS specific features. On the plus side, its also possible that by updating the toolkit one could pick up some interesting features for (close to) free.
Nonsense. Everything that you need to write drivers on Windows is documented, although some things don't work the way that MSFT says.
If what you say were true then there would be no drivers available for any *NIX system, because all of the companies would have signed the fictitious MSFT agreement preventing them from porting.
Ok, so the police can't say (or think that they can't say) anything to the press. Since one can usually count on law enforcement to give out reports that prejudice the process, this is actually an improvement from the standpoint of the suspect.
And lets get something straight. The First Amendment states Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. I don't see "the people's right to know about criminal activity" in there anywhere.
Frankly, the people of Illinois should be thankful that the newspapers will have fewer sources of official information, which is usually an oxymoron anyway. Maybe journalists in Illinois will actually do some work now to get background information instead of relying on what the police and the DA want us to know.
The problem is that HR departments at many companies try to hold employees to standards that they themselves could never possibly meet. This results in the all-too-familiar situation where nearly anyone can be dismissed for cause at any time due to behavior which is generally accepted as ok.
There are many people in the world who feel for some reason that they can't leave their job. For some this is true, like the IBM lifer who is 3 years from retirement. For others it isn't. But generally if you are in an old-style retirement plan, or are so highly specialized that finding other employment is difficult if not impossible, then you don't have a choice. If you leave your job you stand to loose too much. Not everyone is 23 years old and used to living in poverty. Many people have families and houses that they will lose if they quit their jobs.
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A local geologist just published a memoir of his trip to Antarctica during the International Geophysical Year. In this memoir he has a map of the Filcher (now Ronne) ice sheet in 1958, along with 1998 satellite data on the facing page. The shrinking of the sheet is remarkable. That such change should occur in 40 years that don't mark the end of a mini ice-age is more than a little bit remarkable.
The problem with court transcripts is that they tend to be heavily biased documents, admitting only what the prosecution allows to be in court. For example if the prosecution witholds evidence, which happens far too often in this country, no trace of that act will show up in the transcript. If the defense has failed to properly investigate, there will be little trace in the transcript. If the prosecution witnesses (specifically police) perjure themselves, which again happens far too often, there will be no trace in the transcript.
This won't work, because musicians need to hear themselves as well as everyone else in the session in context. With your system, you would end up hearing your own playing 2.5 seconds after you played it!
Not that this should be an issue, anyway. There is usually very little of interest in terms of patentable algorithms (even in today's world of ultra-liberal software patent) in a driver. Anything that these companies have come up with for drivers has doubtless also been invented by all of their competitors.
Nope. IRIX started from System V, thanks to (not that) Steve Bourne, who worked at SGI back in the old days. Story I heard is that he and someone else, probably Greg Chesson, walked into Jim's office one day and basically wouldn't leave until he agreed to use System V instead of BSD.
The interesting thing about IRIX is that it was one of the first SysV based kernels to incorporate a lot of BSD-isms, such as sockets and mbufs.
Later R10K O2's used a better chip, and I understand had superior performance. The reason why the R10K was put in the O2 was to have another platform for the chip to increase production and reduce the burdened cost for the Octanes and Origins.
And you are wrong. There are limits to the amount of information that can be encoded, as Shannon proved in the 30's and 40's. Just because we aren't currently using the bandwidth in the most efficient manner today does not mean that there is no limit.
I don't.
First of all, gcc is not as good as you think.
Second, if you bypass Code Morphing(tm) you also bypass all of the run-time optimizations. This is definitely a loose.
Now, what I would like to see is front end for a nicer ISA than x86, but since there is limited market for that at best I'm not holding my breath.
Um, no, it isn't. In equal temperment, its the same note as d flat. However, real musicians, eg, those of use without frets, know that c# and d flat are two different things.
Go ahead. Because of explicit trust such a system would be so small that not even the RIAA would conceive of it as a threat. If you open up the trust relationships to the point where you could actually do significant piracy (which is all some people around here seem to want to protect), then it will be open to infiltration and compromise.
Um, Guiness is Irish, not English. And I've never had a really good pint more than 20 miles from St. James Gate.
I've been a programmer for about 15 years, and I've never met an in-house programmer. I have, however, met, and worked for, people and companies who sell software to hospitals, banks, etc... The fact is that companies by and large do not want to be in the software development business. Most would rather let someone else deal with developing and maintaining software, so that they can concentrate their efforts on the things that they do best.
Because Jack Valenti is the president of the MPAA and has made many public comments on this issues of this case.
The only alternative propulsion spacecraft flying right now is DS1, which uses an ion drive.
The only sample return mission currently flying is Stardust, which uses hydrazine thrusters.
Mozart actually did derive considerable income from publishing his works. I think that it is safe to say that if audio recording had been available, Mozart would have used it and expected to be compensated by the consumers of his recordings.
NUMA-Q is the Sequent technology. It is also cache coherent according to this paper, but the details are lacking. It does not appear to scale as well as SGI's NUMA, though.
Somehow I don't see a lot of cooperation between Big Blue and Small Purple on this one.
The moon is relatively easy, especially for an unmanned craft. Being so close (2 light seconds) allows for the spacecraft to be controlled largely from Earth. This is one way Lunar Prospector was able to keep the costs down.
The challenge will be to do privately funded missions that last for years of flight time at distances of light hours. Somehow I don't see Trans Orbital rushing into those projects.
BTW, Clementine didn't map the lunar surface in visible at all. It used a laser altimeter and a few other really interesting instruments. And it didn't cost under $100M (that was Prospector at $63M). I don't have the figure on the top of my head, but being pre-"Better Faster Cheaper (choose two ;-)", it was probably closer to $500M. But since it was half-military we'll probably never know.
Just a quick correction. Bill Gates clearly doesn't have an infinite amount of monkeys. If he did, Windows would work better.
Microsoft: A Few Monkeys Short.
What everyone seems to be forgetting here is that Rambus is in lots of other markets besides PC memory, which it clearly isn't going to be good for. However, I'm sure that it will become dominant as an interconnect technology in routers, and it also has a bright future in embedded systems. Will all of this justify the current valuation? Probably not. But the company certainly has prospects to have continued profitability for several years.
You don't. However, someone trying to sell Linux to a security concious site does need it. B1 should allow system integrators to start using Linux, thus furthering the march towards World Domination.
Another point is that you are limited to what abstractions are provided by your toolkit vendor. It might be difficult to use interesting OS specific features. On the plus side, its also possible that by updating the toolkit one could pick up some interesting features for (close to) free.
If what you say were true then there would be no drivers available for any *NIX system, because all of the companies would have signed the fictitious MSFT agreement preventing them from porting.
And lets get something straight. The First Amendment states Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. I don't see "the people's right to know about criminal activity" in there anywhere.
Frankly, the people of Illinois should be thankful that the newspapers will have fewer sources of official information, which is usually an oxymoron anyway. Maybe journalists in Illinois will actually do some work now to get background information instead of relying on what the police and the DA want us to know.
There are many people in the world who feel for some reason that they can't leave their job. For some this is true, like the IBM lifer who is 3 years from retirement. For others it isn't. But generally if you are in an old-style retirement plan, or are so highly specialized that finding other employment is difficult if not impossible, then you don't have a choice. If you leave your job you stand to loose too much. Not everyone is 23 years old and used to living in poverty. Many people have families and houses that they will lose if they quit their jobs.