MHz != million instructions per second, it means simply "cycles per second". Instructions per cycle is something completely different and is different for each architecture and even different implementations of the same architecture. Instructions per cycle is also different for different instructions can also vary for the same instruction based on the processor's state. Using an average cycles per instruction value and dividing the MHz value by that to get some kind of "performance" figure is still incomplete because the statistical distribution of instructions used for each application will be very different, so the average will never be very accurate. Benchmarks are still important.
the sooner that learning MIPS becomes less revelant, etc....
Sun's primary architecture is SPARC, not MIPS, although Sun is now also shipping x86-64 (AMD Opteron) servers. Sun at one time used Motorola 680x0 processors.
In any case MIPS is relevant because, like ARM, it is the core of many "system on chip" processors used for things like TiVo series 2 boxes and tons of other consumer electronics devices.
If anything, Sun's recent rollout of cheap Linux/Java boxes followed by Sun's failure might be seen as a failure of Linux and of Java. So in that regard, a failure there could hurt Linux.
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ctrl-s is, like 's' for 'saving':-)
So it's English-biased? What happens when you port it to Spaish or German or Chinese or Korean and those key mnemonics don't make sense anymore? For those people (and there are a lot of them) the keystroke choices are arbitrary.
The answer to that, obviously, is that Khan Jr. has high karma and gets an automatic +1. If they both post the same sarcastic response, the moderators are more likely to see Khan's +1 post as clever or witty, while Bobby's post is more likely to be seen as trolling.
The problem isn't recognizing and reading Chinese characters, it is writing them. My experience is with Japanese, but it applies to Chinese too, I think. When writing Kanji (Chinese characters) by hand, you need to remember the correct stroke order and you need to practice a lot otherwise your handwriting looks like crap. On a computer, however, you simply type the phoenetics of the word and then select the correct character or characters from the IME (input method extension). Using a computer allows you to replace remembering the correct way to write a complex character with simply recognizing or reading the character.
The end result fr me is that on a computer I can use characters I don't really know the stroke order of or how to write by hand. However, I know the words and recognize and know the characters so I can still use them correctly. However, if I had to write something out by hand, I would have a hard time and I would either make a lot of mistakes or I would have to write everything using hiragana, katakana, and simple kanji and my writing would end up looking like a 3rd grader's.
How many tons of carbon dioxide were released into the atmosphere to manufacture the chips inside your PDA?
The gain is probably not as much as the net effect of removing and processing the trees necessary for the paper versions. Not to mention fuel used in transportation of heavy paper books.
I love it. It's by far the coolest thing I've ever used for watching DivX's. I don't have a lot of experience to compare it with though. I like it a lot more than the projecor we use at work for Powerpoint stuff.
Unfortunately, with the X1 I am having a problem with visible noise on the S-Video input. I see gray lines that track from the bottom of the screen to the top. This is almost certainly a power problem and may be solved by getting a better S-Video cable or moving the projector power plug to a different circuit.
However, it's too bad reasonable voices like these are being ignored. And organizations like Greenpeace, PETA, the Sierra Club are being taken over by crazies. The Sierra Club in particular used to be a club for hunters and outdoorsmen, but has turned into an eco-nazi propaganda organization.
I agree that DDT and nuclear power would do quite a lot of good for the world, by the way.
From the article you linked, I don't think the situations sound similar at all. Anyway, if you tried to sue the city because a cop asked you for ID, you'd be laughed out of any courtroom. If you tried to get a D.A. to prosecute a cop for asking you for ID, you'd be laughed at. Unless you were beaten up like this guy was, it wouldn't be worth it.
a. On or about August 9, 1997, in a police car in Brooklyn, New York, the defendants CHARLES SCHWARZ and THOMAS WIESE hit and physically assaulted Abner Louima while his hands were handcuffed behind his back.
b. On or about August 9, 1997, in a police car in Brooklyn, New York, the defendants JUSTIN VOLPE, THOMAS BRUDER, CHARLES SCHWARZ, and THOMAS WIESE hit and physically assaulted Abner Louima while his hands were hands were handcuffed behind his back.
c. On or about August 9, 1997, in a rest room at the 70th Precinct, the defendants JUSTIN VOLPE and CHARLES SCHWARZ hit and physically assaulted Abner Louima, by kicking him and by shoving a wooden stick into his rectum and mouth while his hands were handcuffed behind his back.
Reed-Solomon codes are of a class of codes called block codes because they work on fixed-length blocks. They will take a message of length M bits, add K bits of extra parity data and output a codeword of length N. R-S codes are systematic, meaning that the first M bits of the N-bit message have the same content as the M bits of the message, so in the case where there are no errors, the message can be read out directly. R-S codes can detect up to K bit errors and correct K/2 errors.
BCH codes are similar, except that they are non-systematic. The message is scrambled by the code and needs to be decoded. The advantage of BCH codes is that they can correct K bit errors in the message.
For both types of block codes, the blocks are required to be some power of 2 minus 1, i.e., M = 2^i - 1, where i is some integer, if I recall correctly. It is possible to pad bits with a known value (e.g., 0 or 1) in the case where you want to have a shorter message.
Sun hired hordes of H-1B workers. About 66% of the people who worked on the UltraSPARC-V were former/current H-1B workers. This observation proves the fact that H-1B workers are not needed to create high-technology.
This only proves that foreign workers are not required in Japan.
It is true that it is possible for some people to do some interesting things.
However, that isn't the case most of the time. Usually these people have little or no electronics knowledge. Instead, they do a lot of drugs and poke around the live circuits with spare bits of wire.
At the end of it, all they're left with is some broken toys and hopefully a recording of an oscillator burning up as it's shorted to something else.
Say it takes 5 Indians to do your job effectively. Those Indians are each paid 1/10th of what the company pays you. The company still cuts its costs in half even if they have to hire 5 replacement workers. If they accept lowered productivity for a while, they can save even more money.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of inexpensive Indians. For a lot of tasks, that is more efficient than one expensive machine.
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Um, unless your friends are deaf, why not use your voice to chat?
Yes, but the license has a cash value of 1/20th of one cent. A pristine copy will cost you $17.99 minus 1/20th of one cent.
Or 5000 acres divided into a housing development consisting of 20,000 quarter-acre lots each with a tract home.
MHz != million instructions per second, it means simply "cycles per second". Instructions per cycle is something completely different and is different for each architecture and even different implementations of the same architecture. Instructions per cycle is also different for different instructions can also vary for the same instruction based on the processor's state. Using an average cycles per instruction value and dividing the MHz value by that to get some kind of "performance" figure is still incomplete because the statistical distribution of instructions used for each application will be very different, so the average will never be very accurate. Benchmarks are still important.
Your mileage may vary.
the sooner that learning MIPS becomes less revelant, etc....
Sun's primary architecture is SPARC, not MIPS, although Sun is now also shipping x86-64 (AMD Opteron) servers. Sun at one time used Motorola 680x0 processors.
In any case MIPS is relevant because, like ARM, it is the core of many "system on chip" processors used for things like TiVo series 2 boxes and tons of other consumer electronics devices.
If anything, Sun's recent rollout of cheap Linux/Java boxes followed by Sun's failure might be seen as a failure of Linux and of Java. So in that regard, a failure there could hurt Linux.
ctrl-s is, like 's' for 'saving'
So it's English-biased? What happens when you port it to Spaish or German or Chinese or Korean and those key mnemonics don't make sense anymore? For those people (and there are a lot of them) the keystroke choices are arbitrary.
The answer to that, obviously, is that Khan Jr. has high karma and gets an automatic +1. If they both post the same sarcastic response, the moderators are more likely to see Khan's +1 post as clever or witty, while Bobby's post is more likely to be seen as trolling.
The problem isn't recognizing and reading Chinese characters, it is writing them. My experience is with Japanese, but it applies to Chinese too, I think. When writing Kanji (Chinese characters) by hand, you need to remember the correct stroke order and you need to practice a lot otherwise your handwriting looks like crap. On a computer, however, you simply type the phoenetics of the word and then select the correct character or characters from the IME (input method extension). Using a computer allows you to replace remembering the correct way to write a complex character with simply recognizing or reading the character.
The end result fr me is that on a computer I can use characters I don't really know the stroke order of or how to write by hand. However, I know the words and recognize and know the characters so I can still use them correctly. However, if I had to write something out by hand, I would have a hard time and I would either make a lot of mistakes or I would have to write everything using hiragana, katakana, and simple kanji and my writing would end up looking like a 3rd grader's.
It's faster because you never need to type parentheses.
Example:
4239 * (12382 + 147324) + 2342
in RPN, you would type:
4239 [enter] 12382 [enter] 147324 [+] [*] 2342 [+]
No parens to balance, plus you can see all of the intermediate values (e.g., the result of 12382 + 147324) as you go.
How many tons of carbon dioxide were released into the atmosphere to manufacture the chips inside your PDA?
The gain is probably not as much as the net effect of removing and processing the trees necessary for the paper versions. Not to mention fuel used in transportation of heavy paper books.
I love it. It's by far the coolest thing I've ever used for watching DivX's. I don't have a lot of experience to compare it with though. I like it a lot more than the projecor we use at work for Powerpoint stuff.
Unfortunately, with the X1 I am having a problem with visible noise on the S-Video input. I see gray lines that track from the bottom of the screen to the top. This is almost certainly a power problem and may be solved by getting a better S-Video cable or moving the projector power plug to a different circuit.
In only two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.
However, it's too bad reasonable voices like these are being ignored. And organizations like Greenpeace, PETA, the Sierra Club are being taken over by crazies. The Sierra Club in particular used to be a club for hunters and outdoorsmen, but has turned into an eco-nazi propaganda organization.
I agree that DDT and nuclear power would do quite a lot of good for the world, by the way.
From the article you linked, I don't think the situations sound similar at all. Anyway, if you tried to sue the city because a cop asked you for ID, you'd be laughed out of any courtroom. If you tried to get a D.A. to prosecute a cop for asking you for ID, you'd be laughed at. Unless you were beaten up like this guy was, it wouldn't be worth it.
a. On or about August 9, 1997, in a police car in Brooklyn, New York, the defendants CHARLES SCHWARZ and THOMAS WIESE hit and physically assaulted Abner Louima while his hands were handcuffed behind his back.
b. On or about August 9, 1997, in a police car in Brooklyn, New York, the defendants JUSTIN VOLPE, THOMAS BRUDER, CHARLES SCHWARZ, and THOMAS WIESE hit and physically assaulted Abner Louima while his hands were hands were handcuffed behind his back.
c. On or about August 9, 1997, in a rest room at the 70th Precinct, the defendants JUSTIN VOLPE and CHARLES SCHWARZ hit and physically assaulted Abner Louima, by kicking him and by shoving a wooden stick into his rectum and mouth while his hands were handcuffed behind his back.
Reed-Solomon codes are of a class of codes called block codes because they work on fixed-length blocks. They will take a message of length M bits, add K bits of extra parity data and output a codeword of length N. R-S codes are systematic, meaning that the first M bits of the N-bit message have the same content as the M bits of the message, so in the case where there are no errors, the message can be read out directly. R-S codes can detect up to K bit errors and correct K/2 errors.
BCH codes are similar, except that they are non-systematic. The message is scrambled by the code and needs to be decoded. The advantage of BCH codes is that they can correct K bit errors in the message.
For both types of block codes, the blocks are required to be some power of 2 minus 1, i.e., M = 2^i - 1, where i is some integer, if I recall correctly. It is possible to pad bits with a known value (e.g., 0 or 1) in the case where you want to have a shorter message.
Didn't 4DOS support long filenames on top of FAT long before VFAT (Windows 95) did?
I'm pretty sure I remember using 4DOS around the DOS 3.3 to DOS 5.0 days.
In Slashdot Utopia we could mark this article as "-1, Yellow Journalism".
In the Soviet Russian Utopia, the "-1, Yellow Journalism" would mark US!
Oops. Another case of sarcasm lost due to text-based communications.
Sun hired hordes of H-1B workers. About 66% of the people who worked on the UltraSPARC-V were former/current H-1B workers. This observation proves the fact that H-1B workers are not needed to create high-technology.
This only proves that foreign workers are not required in Japan.
You do realize that that line was a euphamism for wife beating, right? Every time he said that, he was threatening to beat her into submission.
Of course, I guess that's how you feel about your wife.
It is true that it is possible for some people to do some interesting things.
However, that isn't the case most of the time. Usually these people have little or no electronics knowledge. Instead, they do a lot of drugs and poke around the live circuits with spare bits of wire.
At the end of it, all they're left with is some broken toys and hopefully a recording of an oscillator burning up as it's shorted to something else.
All I know about Bush is I had a job when Clinton was president.
All I know about you is you're a moron.
No kidding. That movie was fucked up however you look at it.
I'm serious here, not a troll:
Say it takes 5 Indians to do your job effectively. Those Indians are each paid 1/10th of what the company pays you. The company still cuts its costs in half even if they have to hire 5 replacement workers. If they accept lowered productivity for a while, they can save even more money.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of inexpensive Indians. For a lot of tasks, that is more efficient than one expensive machine.
Why trust the passport which may be issued by some weird country?
The passport should just be a number and all other information should be looked up independantly on a secure database.