The only information NOT in the summary is this tiny paragraph:
The project is also making a new software update available. The 1.1 version improves visibility of donor locations on the globe, folding calculation speed and protein viewing. There's also additional language support, help screen hints, and improved donor-name length and character handling.
Users can join the program by clicking on the Folding@home icon in the PS3 CrossMediaBar (XMB), or setting the application to run whenever the console is idle.
Why not just put the entire article in the summary?
In the current generation of Power CPUs, you can implement micropartitions, akin to "this partition uses.1 CPUs", which if you've got spare computational power available on your AIX system, you could create additional partitions for X86 use. Also, since the partitions have the ability to communicate directly with each other without going over an external network, you could have in one chassis an AIX database with a linux based webserver in different partitions, both sharing the same fibrechannel cards and external gigE/10Gig network connections.
So why haven't you a) called Toshiba, b) called Microsoft? When did slashdot become "I can't figure out the problem, i've searched all the forums and I'm completely out of ideas of who to turn to, so what shall I do? I know I'll call a linux/unix news website"?
Man invents. God creates. Man invented the AUTOMOBILE. Called it AMAZING! God made a tree said it was good. Man invented the REFRIGERATOR. Called it INCREDIBLE. God made a rabbit and called it good.
The wheels fell off the car. The refrigerator lost its cool. Tree's still up and rabbit's still runnin'.
If gadgets can't crash planes, then the ban is costing billions of hours per year of lost productivity by business people who want to work in flight.
Atleast he didn't quote some made up fact of "Billions of dollars of lost productivity".
I ride the train to work every day, it's an above ground train so you can use your cell phone. I realized that the one thing I hate most is the invention of cell headsets. either the little cable that comes with the phone (which hangs down by your chest) or the tiny bluetooth headsets. Either way, people think they need to yell to be heard. I can't imagine sitting on a flight to Tokyo in the middle section with a few people around you all yelling into their bluetooth headsets to be heard above the drone of the engines and the other people on flight.
While on the train I can get up and move to a different seat or stand by the door. On an airplane I'm forced to sit next to this moron yelling in whatever language he is fluent in. I think i could make billions selling a 'bluetooth' jammer http://www.ladyada.net/make/wavebubble/index.html right before you get on the flight.
What about WIFI? That's all I need some jerkoff, connecting to the internet, firing up Vonage/VOIP and then either a) using speakerphone and built in mic, OR b) Using a f-ing bluetooth headset. Also on the subject of wifi, that's all i need, I pay $10 (or whatever) and then get almost NO bandwidth as everyone has to fireup a VPN and connect to their Exchange servers. Also, if I pay $1000 for a first class ticket, do I get better wireless? Or a AP for ONLY first class passengers? Surely, if there are 20ppl in first class, I don't want to have to share it with the 200 cattle in the back.
Why is it that whenever someone comes out with a top X computing products of all time, they always leave out the hard drive? Yet somehow these boneheads listed the zipdisk, which a) didn't kill off the floppy drive (USB thumb drives did) and b) only lasted few years.
How about giving props to IBM, Seagate etc where it's due. Not only did they give you fast, reliable, RANDOM access (remember we used reel to reel tape before this) but its been increasing in capacity and speed ever since, not to mention going DOWN in price. 100GB laptop drives anyone? It wasn't that long ago when 'high performance' disk drives were in the 9 and 18GB range for disk arrays. Not for laptops.
Remember without it, you'd be trying to boot your PC with punchcards, floppy disks or tape.
I work at yahoo and approximately 80% of ALL the email in our system is SPAM and gets tossed into your Bulk Mail folder, and this in itself is only a tiny fraction of the total amount of SPAM we receive (our filters toss out ALOT of SPAM which doesn't make it to your Bulk Mail folder) Let's say there was no limit on the amount of SPAM you could store in your account, this would only add to the shear amount of SPAM that could be kept in our system.
While a great marketing move, technically not a wise one as we're probably the #1 target for spam.
So my buddy picked one up a few weeks ago, and we started playing Wii tennis. It's a fun game and we'll play for an hour or two at a stretch. However, we've figured out that you can pretty much 'flick your wrist' instead of moving your entire arm to swing the racket, and be just as successful in the game. In fact, if one of us tries to play as if they were actually playing tennis, 99% of the time they lose.
I'm not saying that you *couldn't* play this game and get some exercise, I'm just saying if you think that 100% of the people that play this will play in the manner that is considered 'exercise' then you are mistaken.
Plus, we've never had an accident whereby the controller flew out of our hands, knocked over a vase, started a fire, killed the dog, broke the TV.. ala http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/
In the sprit of CCIE: R&S (Routing and Switching)... one would have to know indepth the common protocols used in the house to include (but not limitted to) at the frame/packet level:
It shall be in the style of the "old CCIE:R&S" exams, which had a TWO day lab, in which if you failed the first day, you didn't come back the second day. Additionally, while setting up the gear, you will have to contend with a crying baby, a large dog that wants to play, a husband that "thinks he knows it more than you" and a housewife that says you charge too much.
And the FCC has prepared a draft report suggesting that Congress authorize it to regulate broadcast violence, as it now does obscenity, and possibly force cable companies to let subscribers opt out of paying for channels that run brutal content.
I wish I could opt out and not pay for any channels that I'll never be watching. I don't watch 95% of the channels I get ranging from home shopping to UPN/CW/AZN/CartoonNetwork... I could probably get by with 10channels if I could get them al la carte. Though the cable companies would probably make it still cheaper for me to get 500 channels than the 10 I do want.
People need to know when the issue with this one developer happened, which was last summer, all of the management team was actually on a summer vacation. And the people in charge then they basically decided to handle it the way they handled it. And they just made a really bad decision the way they managed that whole thing. But they did the best they could, because we had never done anything, nothing like this had ever come up. And this goes so much against the CCP mentality, and the corporate culture that, in our naiveness, we never really thought that anything like that could actually happen. Because CCP is our baby, and this basically is like hurting your own baby, which you just don't do. And the person that did it, which I know really well, he doesn't understand himself, it just doesn't make any sense. Anyway, they mishandled it, absolutely, and we've stated so in our blogs. From that came a number of rules that we have now for our own employees. We have an internal affairs department that does nothing but monitor our employees, to ensure that nothing like that will ever happen again. But some still think that CCP as a whole is trying to help one alliance in-game. And, it's so ridiculous for anyone to think that. Why would anyone at CCP want to do something like that? So, we just mishandled it and we tried to correct it, and we I think we handled it as best we could, and that's what it basically was. We made a mistake, we'd never dealt with something like this before
How can we as a society on our own free will determine it's better to go with a service that has no regulations on quality or uptime? It's now a daily occurance that I or someone else I'm talking with goes through the "are you there? you're breaking up..." routing. 99% of the time when someone calls me on my cell, I ask them if they can call me back on my landline either my desk (if i'm at work, VOIP) or at home. At that point i've never had the connection "mysteriously drop out". I just don't buy the 40% of the population number. What percentage of the US doesn't have a cell phone at all?
In 5-10yrs, I want my cell phone to determine that I'm in my house (or at work) and act like a 'standard cordless phone' and connect with a baseunit in my building/home instead of trying to reach the tower a mile away. There's just two much truth in Verizon's "are you there? Good" advertisements. Not truth about Verizon, but the scary truth that cell phones are not just reliable enough. And no I don't want a tower hidden in every bellfry, office building, or "fake tree" on every corner.
Why is it all of a sudden whenever someone says "Virtualization" they imply that it must be Vmware/Xen/windows/x86 platform.
It's not like these issues haven't existed on other platforms. Mainframes, mini's (as400), Unix (aix/solaris/hpux), heck we've had it on non-computer platforms (VLANs anyone...).
And yes using partitions/LPARs on those platforms required *GASP* planning, but in the age of "click once to install DB and build website" aka "Instant gratification" we refuse to do any actual work prior to installing, downloading, deploying...
How about a few articles comparing AIX/HPUX/Solaris partitions to x86 solutions...
the fourth major commercial server release for Red Hat, will better position its Linux against Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 as well as Windows, Unix, and proprietary platforms. What do they mean by proprietary platforms? Who knew RH was actively going after z/OS, OS/400, VMS, VxWorks, OSX.... what exactly consistutes a proprietary platform? One that only one vendor can create hardware for? Or one that there is only one vendor selling hardware/software/accessories for it?
Slashdot Mirror
From the "I'd rather post to /. and have the editors post this topic than enter it in google" dept:
i ve
http://www.google.com/search?q=why+are+t1s+expens
First 10hits are questions on "Why is a T1 more expensive than DSL?"
Must be a slow news day.
(i know this is a troll but, "ask slashdot" questions should not be answered with the FIRST TEN hits in a google search).
Why not just put the entire article in the summary?
What about the Happy MAC startup icon/mascot? http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/justforfu n/happymacandfriends.html
or the accompanying 'sad mac' (system error) mascot/icon? http://www.answers.com/topic/sad-mac-png
True, but IBM is providing those shops which already have IBM powerPC 'big iron' and opportunity to leverage it for non-ppc environments.
In the current generation of Power CPUs, you can implement micropartitions, akin to "this partition uses .1 CPUs", which if you've got spare computational power available on your AIX system, you could create additional partitions for X86 use. Also, since the partitions have the ability to communicate directly with each other without going over an external network, you could have in one chassis an AIX database with a linux based webserver in different partitions, both sharing the same fibrechannel cards and external gigE/10Gig network connections.
Ok,
So why haven't you a) called Toshiba, b) called Microsoft? When did slashdot become "I can't figure out the problem, i've searched all the forums and I'm completely out of ideas of who to turn to, so what shall I do? I know I'll call a linux/unix news website"?
PDF doesn't always cut it as one often uses animations.
Man invents. God creates.
Man invented the AUTOMOBILE. Called it AMAZING!
God made a tree said it was good.
Man invented the REFRIGERATOR. Called it INCREDIBLE.
God made a rabbit and called it good.
The wheels fell off the car. The refrigerator lost its cool. Tree's still up and rabbit's still runnin'.
Atleast he didn't quote some made up fact of "Billions of dollars of lost productivity".
I ride the train to work every day, it's an above ground train so you can use your cell phone. I realized that the one thing I hate most is the invention of cell headsets. either the little cable that comes with the phone (which hangs down by your chest) or the tiny bluetooth headsets. Either way, people think they need to yell to be heard. I can't imagine sitting on a flight to Tokyo in the middle section with a few people around you all yelling into their bluetooth headsets to be heard above the drone of the engines and the other people on flight.
While on the train I can get up and move to a different seat or stand by the door. On an airplane I'm forced to sit next to this moron yelling in whatever language he is fluent in. I think i could make billions selling a 'bluetooth' jammer http://www.ladyada.net/make/wavebubble/index.html right before you get on the flight.
What about WIFI? That's all I need some jerkoff, connecting to the internet, firing up Vonage/VOIP and then either a) using speakerphone and built in mic, OR b) Using a f-ing bluetooth headset. Also on the subject of wifi, that's all i need, I pay $10 (or whatever) and then get almost NO bandwidth as everyone has to fireup a VPN and connect to their Exchange servers. Also, if I pay $1000 for a first class ticket, do I get better wireless? Or a AP for ONLY first class passengers? Surely, if there are 20ppl in first class, I don't want to have to share it with the 200 cattle in the back.
The statistic that impresses me is that they claim that there are 2% more computers connected to the internet than in the previous month.
HEY! Don't forget Netware.
yeesh...
Why is it that whenever someone comes out with a top X computing products of all time, they always leave out the hard drive? Yet somehow these boneheads listed the zipdisk, which a) didn't kill off the floppy drive (USB thumb drives did) and b) only lasted few years.
How about giving props to IBM, Seagate etc where it's due. Not only did they give you fast, reliable, RANDOM access (remember we used reel to reel tape before this) but its been increasing in capacity and speed ever since, not to mention going DOWN in price. 100GB laptop drives anyone? It wasn't that long ago when 'high performance' disk drives were in the 9 and 18GB range for disk arrays. Not for laptops.
Remember without it, you'd be trying to boot your PC with punchcards, floppy disks or tape.
-Storage Admin since 1982.
I work at yahoo and approximately 80% of ALL the email in our system is SPAM and gets tossed into your Bulk Mail folder, and this in itself is only a tiny fraction of the total amount of SPAM we receive (our filters toss out ALOT of SPAM which doesn't make it to your Bulk Mail folder) Let's say there was no limit on the amount of SPAM you could store in your account, this would only add to the shear amount of SPAM that could be kept in our system.
While a great marketing move, technically not a wise one as we're probably the #1 target for spam.
So my buddy picked one up a few weeks ago, and we started playing Wii tennis. It's a fun game and we'll play for an hour or two at a stretch. However, we've figured out that you can pretty much 'flick your wrist' instead of moving your entire arm to swing the racket, and be just as successful in the game. In fact, if one of us tries to play as if they were actually playing tennis, 99% of the time they lose.
I'm not saying that you *couldn't* play this game and get some exercise, I'm just saying if you think that 100% of the people that play this will play in the manner that is considered 'exercise' then you are mistaken.
Plus, we've never had an accident whereby the controller flew out of our hands, knocked over a vase, started a fire, killed the dog, broke the TV.. ala http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/
...is that they studied HPUX and not AIX....
the reason nobody hacks AIX is that without smitty nobody can use it.
I for one can't wait for my CCIE:Linksys.
In the sprit of CCIE: R&S (Routing and Switching)... one would have to know indepth the common protocols used in the house to include (but not limitted to) at the frame/packet level:
Ethernet.
TCP/IP
UDP
Netbios
CIFS
BitTorrent
Various streaming audio/video protocols.
PPOE..
It shall be in the style of the "old CCIE:R&S" exams, which had a TWO day lab, in which if you failed the first day, you didn't come back the second day. Additionally, while setting up the gear, you will have to contend with a crying baby, a large dog that wants to play, a husband that "thinks he knows it more than you" and a housewife that says you charge too much.
I wish I could opt out and not pay for any channels that I'll never be watching. I don't watch 95% of the channels I get ranging from home shopping to UPN/CW/AZN/CartoonNetwork... I could probably get by with 10channels if I could get them al la carte. Though the cable companies would probably make it still cheaper for me to get 500 channels than the 10 I do want.
Can someone explain what the actual scandal was?
How can we as a society on our own free will determine it's better to go with a service that has no regulations on quality or uptime? It's now a daily occurance that I or someone else I'm talking with goes through the "are you there? you're breaking up..." routing. 99% of the time when someone calls me on my cell, I ask them if they can call me back on my landline either my desk (if i'm at work, VOIP) or at home. At that point i've never had the connection "mysteriously drop out". I just don't buy the 40% of the population number. What percentage of the US doesn't have a cell phone at all?
In 5-10yrs, I want my cell phone to determine that I'm in my house (or at work) and act like a 'standard cordless phone' and connect with a baseunit in my building/home instead of trying to reach the tower a mile away. There's just two much truth in Verizon's "are you there? Good" advertisements. Not truth about Verizon, but the scary truth that cell phones are not just reliable enough. And no I don't want a tower hidden in every bellfry, office building, or "fake tree" on every corner.
All they mention is that they have 34TB of storage... Is this locally attached / internal disk? NFS? SAN? FibreChannel? iSCSI?
Storage... it aint sexy but you know you want it...
Why is it all of a sudden whenever someone says "Virtualization" they imply that it must be Vmware/Xen/windows/x86 platform.
It's not like these issues haven't existed on other platforms. Mainframes, mini's (as400), Unix (aix/solaris/hpux), heck we've had it on non-computer platforms (VLANs anyone...).
And yes using partitions/LPARs on those platforms required *GASP* planning, but in the age of "click once to install DB and build website" aka "Instant gratification" we refuse to do any actual work prior to installing, downloading, deploying...
How about a few articles comparing AIX/HPUX/Solaris partitions to x86 solutions...
Why do they always post blogs so I have to read from the bottom of the page to the top...
9:45
9:30
9:25...
I want to read the page from top down... not bottom up.... c'mon.
IMHO, taking two good selling games (Super Mario Brothers and Lemmings) and adding cooperative multiplayer seems like a good idea to me.
Looks like the site's on fire....
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