How does "image quality" relate to a $100 19" 1600x1200 display?
Besides, I'd rather two 1280x1024 LCDs before one 1600x1200 CRT any day. In fact, I'd rather one 1280x1024 LCD. I had two 19" 1600x1200 CRTs and now have one 18" 1280x1024 LCD, and would never go back.
if you really need me to step through your yelling and ineffective spin point-by-point, let me know. i'd be happy to.
otherwise, pay attention here. the second link provides anecdotal proof that the first link works, even for the initial setup.
you're certainly no michael moore yet, but good luck on that.
love,
kcm
(p.s. you could also just schelp it over to a friend's house and borrow a phone, but i'm under the impression that's the more difficult option for you.)
sorry to interrupt your holier-than-thou-ness, but this indeed does work for the initial call.
granted, you need a Series 2 unit and a wired-Ethernet USB dongle (wireless would most likely work as well if the V4+ software is pre-loaded), but that's a fairly common setup for someone buying a new TiVo and planning to use a broadband connection for it.
perhaps the pharmacy has refilled your ritalin, I would give them a call.
No kidding. iTunes is great, but I don't use it for music - I use it for the audiobooks. These are not available by *ahem* cheaper means, so I love having iTunes for them.
sure they are. try your local library. that's what you get from your taxes at work!
Um, you do realize that if you wait until you're a student, if it's a large-enough school, you'll get a 10-15% educational discount on the machine. That alone (plus the fact that it'll be shipped there, plus the fact that it won't ship until August, and that's if you've already ordered one) is worth the wait.
Join the Apple Student Dev. program for an even larger discount, or make friends with someone who had/has an internship/job at Apple for more discounts.
That being said, I think the recommendations for a laptop make a lot more sense at college. You'll have more than enough desktops around the various computing labs I assume the school has, so be smart and get a laptop you can take anywhere, anytime. They really are desktop replacements these days, even the not-so-hefty ones. Get a 12" PowerBook or something.
Oh, and the other opporitunity here is to find a professor to do research/work for, and have him get you a kickass machine/laptop to "work" on.
I feel there are at minimum two kind of coders out there right now. Type A joined the ranks because they want to make money. They could have easily done something else. Most were drawn into the big bright light of the Internet boom. They want to code from 9 to 5pm, and then be done. They expect to move into mangement at some point, and consider coding a menial task that can be pushed down the ranks.
I resent the idea you imply here that Type A is just in it for the money and that Type X is the ideal which represents the only "tech" type that you respect.
There is indeed a middle-ground which involves having other hobbies at home, raising a family, brewing beer, etc., that is indeed a profitable, enjoyable life.
There's certainly a thought that if you don't spend your free time chained to the computer as well as your on-the-clock hours, you're a failure and an impostor. That's what I see from those who haven't entered the real world yet, or have a jilted view of it. "Burning out" is the first thing I think of. I know plenty of people who let themselves be chained to Emacs since their employer KNOWS they'll do it voluntarily.
I think another idea I've read comes to mind: there's two types of technical people; Type C likes to solve problems, Type D likes to implement those solutions. Neither is better or worse, just different personality types. Some people work 9a-5p, some people work 5a-9p, and it's really just a matter of priorities.
Your Type A is a people person, and Type X is perhaps not. That's OK. The world needs both.:) Enjoy those around you instead of expecting everyone to wear a trenchcoat and have a badly-grown-in goatee.
There are many aspects of "Grid Computing", as you say, but most if not all of them are based on large scale science projects (me) or on big business. I am most curious to see if Grid computing will eventually find it's way to a home user. I heard that Sony is using Grid tech. to connect computing centers which are supposed to host multi-player games. The home user will most likely not get in touch with the Grid soon though.
yup. i don't expect mr. home user to use "the grid" any more than I expect him to use Linux on the desktop. indirectly, yes, but to use an example from the P2P world -- he doesn't care if his porn comes at him with swarming technology or not, as long as it's fast!
I'm quite familiar with both, thanks. I'm referring to something slightly more sophisticated and elegant than trying to kludge together MPICH-G2 with a bunch of different binaries for whatever machines you have to hand-select beforehand.
neither of these allow for an autonomous, dynamic, automatic architecture-spanning system. yet.
Grid computing is not about making a giant computing farm out of a bunch of distributed machines.
see, that's the major fallacy of the hype behind "The Grid". yes, one of the benefits can be seen in the supercomputing realm, where you can link up many different machines (we haven't gotten to doing this between architectures yet, mind you) to make a gianto-machine.
however, the key in *all* of this is the technologies that allow for that to happen, along with the data transfer, authentication, and authorization, et al, that have to happen.
as far as cycles go, no, we probably won't see a dynamically created, scheduled, and allocated meta-supercomputer anytime soon. most companies will use these technologies to make static or mostly-static links between a few select sites and partners for now.
however, these protocols (GridFTP, ack), standards (OGSA,...), and ideas are the important part here. having these "Grid" concepts built into every new technology (filesystems: NFSv4, security: Globus GSI, etc.) will allow these linkups, data transfer, and whatever we may awnt to do, to happen much more efficiently in the future.
to wit: the killer app in "The Grid" is not to make a giant supercomputer. it's to develop a lot of different ideas and technologies which allow for resource sharing (at the general level, among other things) to occur in a standardized, efficient, and logical fashion in the future. noone will use all of them, but the key is to use what you need from what "The Grid" encompasses. that's why it's referred to as "The Third Wave of Computing"!
What we need to do is find who this affects, and unite them against the legislation. It just *doesn't matter* if a bunch of people say they don't like it -- the law might gain one or two exception clauses, like normal.
This potentially affects the auto industry, which is huge in Michigan -- I would assume most of them use secure links to transmit all kinds of data to other states and countries. How would they react to finding out they can no longer keep their IP safe?
What other industries and "big money" exist that would be opposed to this? Who can we unite against this?
I've seen the markup of the bill, and not only did they remove clauses which specified "for illegal purposes" (more or less), but they removed every single bit of specific language used, in order to extend the law to t-shirts, songs, etc. for matters like DeCSS. It's pretty ugly.
I live in Michigan, work with CITI quite a bit (Niels is indeed a cool guy and deserves all the support we can give, since he has certainly given it out himself), and I'm truthfully pretty scared to think about what this could mean to me. Who wants to move to Europe? You think I'm kidding?
There are (at least) two ways to utilize asynchronous design architecturally:
The first being a large-scale asynchronous design that allows for high-speed disconnected operations to complete with lots of communication between them, and the second being a design which eliminates the extra latching required in a largely-synchronous design.
The first eats up power, and the second conserves it (theoretically). In the first case, you have tons of little "units" eating up as much power as they can because they're all operating independently as quickly as possible, and in the second case, you have a lot of little units which only "operate" when needed.
Think of it as polling vs. interrupts. One design, the faster one, says "are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? here's your data..", and the other slower and power-conserving design says "hey, I have your data, let me know when you want it and I'll give it to you"..
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How does "image quality" relate to a $100 19" 1600x1200 display?
Besides, I'd rather two 1280x1024 LCDs before one 1600x1200 CRT any day. In fact, I'd rather one 1280x1024 LCD. I had two 19" 1600x1200 CRTs and now have one 18" 1280x1024 LCD, and would never go back.
he also makes a mighty fine sangria.
if you really need me to step through your yelling and ineffective spin point-by-point, let me know. i'd be happy to.
otherwise, pay attention here. the second link provides anecdotal proof that the first link works, even for the initial setup.
you're certainly no michael moore yet, but good luck on that.
love,
kcm
(p.s. you could also just schelp it over to a friend's house and borrow a phone, but i'm under the impression that's the more difficult option for you.)
sorry to interrupt your holier-than-thou-ness, but this indeed does work for the initial call.
granted, you need a Series 2 unit and a wired-Ethernet USB dongle (wireless would most likely work as well if the V4+ software is pre-loaded), but that's a fairly common setup for someone buying a new TiVo and planning to use a broadband connection for it.
perhaps the pharmacy has refilled your ritalin, I would give them a call.
But that wouldn't let me dorkily name-drop, so what's the point, really..
I think you meant Amdahl's Law.. the improvement to the user is only as noticeable as the original experience was poor.
The faster the original redraw, the less of an effect the speedier redraws have on the user's interaction experience.
No kidding. iTunes is great, but I don't use it for music - I use it for the audiobooks. These are not available by *ahem* cheaper means, so I love having iTunes for them.
sure they are. try your local library. that's what you get from your taxes at work!
sounds like W^X..
it's a valiant and good idea, but not Microsoft's invention.
wait, here it is.
not really. probably going through dedicated 10Gb/s lambdas somewhere around Starlight in Chicago as an intermediary.
your commodity traffic won't touch these links. it might get close enough to wave.
Language translation filters were written for it more than a year ago, at least.
Um, you do realize that if you wait until you're a student, if it's a large-enough school, you'll get a 10-15% educational discount on the machine. That alone (plus the fact that it'll be shipped there, plus the fact that it won't ship until August, and that's if you've already ordered one) is worth the wait.
Join the Apple Student Dev. program for an even larger discount, or make friends with someone who had/has an internship/job at Apple for more discounts.
That being said, I think the recommendations for a laptop make a lot more sense at college. You'll have more than enough desktops around the various computing labs I assume the school has, so be smart and get a laptop you can take anywhere, anytime. They really are desktop replacements these days, even the not-so-hefty ones. Get a 12" PowerBook or something.
Oh, and the other opporitunity here is to find a professor to do research/work for, and have him get you a kickass machine/laptop to "work" on.
I resent the idea you imply here that Type A is just in it for the money and that Type X is the ideal which represents the only "tech" type that you respect.
There is indeed a middle-ground which involves having other hobbies at home, raising a family, brewing beer, etc., that is indeed a profitable, enjoyable life.
There's certainly a thought that if you don't spend your free time chained to the computer as well as your on-the-clock hours, you're a failure and an impostor. That's what I see from those who haven't entered the real world yet, or have a jilted view of it. "Burning out" is the first thing I think of. I know plenty of people who let themselves be chained to Emacs since their employer KNOWS they'll do it voluntarily.
I think another idea I've read comes to mind: there's two types of technical people; Type C likes to solve problems, Type D likes to implement those solutions. Neither is better or worse, just different personality types. Some people work 9a-5p, some people work 5a-9p, and it's really just a matter of priorities.
Your Type A is a people person, and Type X is perhaps not. That's OK. The world needs both. :) Enjoy those around you instead of expecting everyone to wear a trenchcoat and have a badly-grown-in goatee.
yup. i don't expect mr. home user to use "the grid" any more than I expect him to use Linux on the desktop. indirectly, yes, but to use an example from the P2P world -- he doesn't care if his porn comes at him with swarming technology or not, as long as it's fast!
I'm quite familiar with both, thanks. I'm referring to something slightly more sophisticated and elegant than trying to kludge together MPICH-G2 with a bunch of different binaries for whatever machines you have to hand-select beforehand.
neither of these allow for an autonomous, dynamic, automatic architecture-spanning system. yet.
Grid computing is not about making a giant computing farm out of a bunch of distributed machines.
...), and ideas are the important part here. having these "Grid" concepts built into every new technology (filesystems: NFSv4, security: Globus GSI, etc.) will allow these linkups, data transfer, and whatever we may awnt to do, to happen much more efficiently in the future.
see, that's the major fallacy of the hype behind "The Grid". yes, one of the benefits can be seen in the supercomputing realm, where you can link up many different machines (we haven't gotten to doing this between architectures yet, mind you) to make a gianto-machine.
however, the key in *all* of this is the technologies that allow for that to happen, along with the data transfer, authentication, and authorization, et al, that have to happen.
as far as cycles go, no, we probably won't see a dynamically created, scheduled, and allocated meta-supercomputer anytime soon. most companies will use these technologies to make static or mostly-static links between a few select sites and partners for now.
however, these protocols (GridFTP, ack), standards (OGSA,
to wit: the killer app in "The Grid" is not to make a giant supercomputer. it's to develop a lot of different ideas and technologies which allow for resource sharing (at the general level, among other things) to occur in a standardized, efficient, and logical fashion in the future. noone will use all of them, but the key is to use what you need from what "The Grid" encompasses. that's why it's referred to as "The Third Wave of Computing"!
yes, it's called _A Signal Shattered_, and it was jus as good if not better. wish he'd do another..
This potentially affects the auto industry, which is huge in Michigan -- I would assume most of them use secure links to transmit all kinds of data to other states and countries. How would they react to finding out they can no longer keep their IP safe?
What other industries and "big money" exist that would be opposed to this? Who can we unite against this?
I've seen the markup of the bill, and not only did they remove clauses which specified "for illegal purposes" (more or less), but they removed every single bit of specific language used, in order to extend the law to t-shirts, songs, etc. for matters like DeCSS. It's pretty ugly.
I live in Michigan, work with CITI quite a bit (Niels is indeed a cool guy and deserves all the support we can give, since he has certainly given it out himself), and I'm truthfully pretty scared to think about what this could mean to me. Who wants to move to Europe? You think I'm kidding?
Encryption? Privacy? There's always VOMIT!
There are (at least) two ways to utilize asynchronous design architecturally:
The first being a large-scale asynchronous design that allows for high-speed disconnected operations to complete with lots of communication between them, and the second being a design which eliminates the extra latching required in a largely-synchronous design.
The first eats up power, and the second conserves it (theoretically). In the first case, you have tons of little "units" eating up as much power as they can because they're all operating independently as quickly as possible, and in the second case, you have a lot of little units which only "operate" when needed.
Think of it as polling vs. interrupts. One design, the faster one, says "are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? here's your data..", and the other slower and power-conserving design says "hey, I have your data, let me know when you want it and I'll give it to you"..
try this paper. there are others, of course, this is only part of the architecture.