I attempted (when I was 8) to fix a clock my mom got for Christmas but died 2 months later. I figured it *had* to be the plug, so I cut it off, stripped back the wires, and inserted the wires.
20 minutes later I woke up with no eyebrows. 14 years later I graduated with my BSEE.
I would have loved fibre in my dorm room back in college, as kicking back X applications to one's PC wouldn't have been a chore. It was ok with 10Mbit, but the latency drop and bandwidth boost with fibre would have made it seem like I was really in the engineering labs.
I'll remain a bit skeptical about IA-64 until the compilers catch up. At least with ClawHammer we'll be able to keep our current speed and raise it plenty.
Yes, IA-64 has more potential, but Visual Studio (et al) still need serious tweaking to achieve that potential.
only thing i can think of is that occasionally patents take a while to go through, so you really have to look when the patent was filed, not when it was granted.
If you think about how much $1 USD gets taxed in its lifetime, it's mind-boggling. The Man takes 1/3 of my income, then he takes 5.5% more when I take the rest of that income and blow it at newegg.com, who then uses it to pay their employees, etc.
It's a vicious cycle, and since the Music Industry is struggling so much (Eminem's disc gets pushed up due to mp3 pirating, then leads the sales charts 3 weeks in a row), they've got to get every dollar possible. The cost of yachts and country clubs doesn't stay the same, you see.
Once I buy something, I should be able to do whatever I want with it assuming I'm not breaking any laws. If by some strange occurance do CD's get more royalties extracted during a reselling, then I'd change my used CD store to a "take the discs you want for free, but you must donate $5/disc to the guy playing his guitar in the corner" model. There, I'm no longer selling CD's. It's like the baseball model where you can trade a guy for "a player to be named later", or the infamous "past considerations" deal used in the NFL up until 2 years ago.
Mozilla 1.0 got installed on my machine for one reason: they've got the best mail client this side of pine. I've always enjoyed NSmail, and Mozilla has continued the fine tradition, even improving it with the multiple POP accounts (although I've switched to IMAP exclusively).
Although, to tell you the truth, I found myself browsing with Mozilla for quite a while yesterday without realizing I wasn't in IE. It's a remarkable effort from the Mozilla.org team. Now if only Ctrl-N would pop open a cloned window, instead of a new one that loads he homepage.:/
The first company I worked for had the same feeling as you're currently describing. There was a network, but it was loosely connecting a bunch of Win95 boxes. The standard policy was to provide a central drive where all data was saved to. It had the notion of a "home directory" in Unix land, but it was only for Data.
Then, because everyone's T: drive pointed to the same big server drive, it was easily backed up nightly.
We received monthly warnings that anything stored locally wasn't backed up, and a few dead Win95 disks and people stopped saving important stuff to the C: drive.
If broadband companies would just block ports of the major P2P programs, it should curb the bandwidth usage greatly. Some of us do some work from home, run X apps remotely, etc., and bandwidth caps would hurt more than having to uninstall Kazaa.
Stargate SG-1 had an ep like that as well... some offshoot of humans decided they wanted thier own Hitler-esque crusade so the purebred people hid underground and gassed the rest of the planet. They used drones linked directly to the brain to fight air wars miles above their current position.
After sophomore year when we were all scattering to different EE internships, a friend of mine wound up at IBM Rochester. As the story goes, they were celebrating the 1st shipment of one of their servers (AS/400 maybe?) and were all standing around the panel truck as it was loaded in and drove off. As it took the highway exit and ramped up its speed, the back doors flew open and the box fell out and skidded to a halt on hwy 52. It wasn't latched down, and the back doors weren't latched. So much for the party.
The only problem with these "high performance interconnects" is that they're too generic to get clustered boxes working on any serious HPC codes. The dedicated high bandwidth/low latency interconnect in a Cray T3E (1994) still smokes any Myrinet (high bandwidth, high latency) serial interconnect linking commodity processors today.
When you need your "supercomputer" to have more synergy than simply sharing the same power supply, people still go with traditional big iron like cray, sgi, ibm, and nec. These codes require tight coupling and sharing of data between nodes and processors and can't afford to spin NOP cycles as the latency over Myrinet kills their performance.
Yes, clusters do run some codes extremely well. These are the ones that don't require much node-to-node communication and only use the interconnect to setup the executables locally. RC5 and SETI would be a great example of these. But what if a RC5 key depended on the answer to the results of a key from its nearest 8 neighbors? Suddenly the clustered interconnects are swamped and REAL performance becomes a low percentage of peak.
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DNF will be the Pack-in.
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Guess you get to decide who's to blame for the holdup.
this might give me the skills to leave the B-mains and hit the A-mains. Assuming they let me tape their ozite carpet. :p
you building your own motherboards or something? What mainstream motherboard doesn't have AGP 4x?
The clock died, not me. :P
I attempted (when I was 8) to fix a clock my mom got for Christmas but died 2 months later. I figured it *had* to be the plug, so I cut it off, stripped back the wires, and inserted the wires.
20 minutes later I woke up with no eyebrows. 14 years later I graduated with my BSEE.
But we as engineers get engineers week! Let the sys-admins have their day basking in the sound of 10,000 80mm fans blowing. :)
I would have loved fibre in my dorm room back in college, as kicking back X applications to one's PC wouldn't have been a chore. It was ok with 10Mbit, but the latency drop and bandwidth boost with fibre would have made it seem like I was really in the engineering labs.
I'll remain a bit skeptical about IA-64 until the compilers catch up. At least with ClawHammer we'll be able to keep our current speed and raise it plenty.
Yes, IA-64 has more potential, but Visual Studio (et al) still need serious tweaking to achieve that potential.
yeah, but you're missing a chance to hang out at memorial terrace during your long lunches
only thing i can think of is that occasionally patents take a while to go through, so you really have to look when the patent was filed, not when it was granted.
I pay on the meter for both. It's just how it works in the US.
If you think about how much $1 USD gets taxed in its lifetime, it's mind-boggling. The Man takes 1/3 of my income, then he takes 5.5% more when I take the rest of that income and blow it at newegg.com, who then uses it to pay their employees, etc.
It's a vicious cycle, and since the Music Industry is struggling so much (Eminem's disc gets pushed up due to mp3 pirating, then leads the sales charts 3 weeks in a row), they've got to get every dollar possible. The cost of yachts and country clubs doesn't stay the same, you see.
Once I buy something, I should be able to do whatever I want with it assuming I'm not breaking any laws. If by some strange occurance do CD's get more royalties extracted during a reselling, then I'd change my used CD store to a "take the discs you want for free, but you must donate $5/disc to the guy playing his guitar in the corner" model. There, I'm no longer selling CD's. It's like the baseball model where you can trade a guy for "a player to be named later", or the infamous "past considerations" deal used in the NFL up until 2 years ago.
Mozilla 1.0 got installed on my machine for one reason: they've got the best mail client this side of pine. I've always enjoyed NSmail, and Mozilla has continued the fine tradition, even improving it with the multiple POP accounts (although I've switched to IMAP exclusively).
:/
Although, to tell you the truth, I found myself browsing with Mozilla for quite a while yesterday without realizing I wasn't in IE. It's a remarkable effort from the Mozilla.org team. Now if only Ctrl-N would pop open a cloned window, instead of a new one that loads he homepage.
I'm very tempted to pick up a GBA to relive my Link to the Past experience. There's a port coming soon!
The first company I worked for had the same feeling as you're currently describing. There was a network, but it was loosely connecting a bunch of Win95 boxes. The standard policy was to provide a central drive where all data was saved to. It had the notion of a "home directory" in Unix land, but it was only for Data.
Then, because everyone's T: drive pointed to the same big server drive, it was easily backed up nightly.
We received monthly warnings that anything stored locally wasn't backed up, and a few dead Win95 disks and people stopped saving important stuff to the C: drive.
If broadband companies would just block ports of the major P2P programs, it should curb the bandwidth usage greatly. Some of us do some work from home, run X apps remotely, etc., and bandwidth caps would hurt more than having to uninstall Kazaa.
How long would Tiger Woods put up with the PGA if people took a mulligan any time they wanted?
When I buy a game, I'm purchasing the entertainment. If you're on there with autoaimers or speed-up cheats, you're taking my entertainment away.
Stargate SG-1 had an ep like that as well... some offshoot of humans decided they wanted thier own Hitler-esque crusade so the purebred people hid underground and gassed the rest of the planet. They used drones linked directly to the brain to fight air wars miles above their current position.
In a world where advertising must exist, I'll take popunders ahead of pop-ups ANY day.
Yes, but MS would have had to swallow the DVD licensing fee instead of 'hiding' it in the cost of the remote.
It was a quick place to save money since most people won't use it as a DVD player anyway.
But production costs may have changed since the first original estimate. loss per box is something that these companies hold close to their chest.
After sophomore year when we were all scattering to different EE internships, a friend of mine wound up at IBM Rochester. As the story goes, they were celebrating the 1st shipment of one of their servers (AS/400 maybe?) and were all standing around the panel truck as it was loaded in and drove off. As it took the highway exit and ramped up its speed, the back doors flew open and the box fell out and skidded to a halt on hwy 52. It wasn't latched down, and the back doors weren't latched. So much for the party.
built a box for my cousin this past weekend, nforce + duron 1.0 GHz, 512 MB pc2100 crucial, and 60 GB 7200 Seagate for $590. Newegg rules!
The only problem with these "high performance interconnects" is that they're too generic to get clustered boxes working on any serious HPC codes. The dedicated high bandwidth/low latency interconnect in a Cray T3E (1994) still smokes any Myrinet (high bandwidth, high latency) serial interconnect linking commodity processors today.
When you need your "supercomputer" to have more synergy than simply sharing the same power supply, people still go with traditional big iron like cray, sgi, ibm, and nec. These codes require tight coupling and sharing of data between nodes and processors and can't afford to spin NOP cycles as the latency over Myrinet kills their performance.
Yes, clusters do run some codes extremely well. These are the ones that don't require much node-to-node communication and only use the interconnect to setup the executables locally. RC5 and SETI would be a great example of these. But what if a RC5 key depended on the answer to the results of a key from its nearest 8 neighbors? Suddenly the clustered interconnects are swamped and REAL performance becomes a low percentage of peak.