Don't you think a different approach should be made, where you use the data to create the theories, rather than for verification? Machine learning, neural networks and data mining are some of the biggest projects in corporate america these days, where you use the businesses resulting data to optimize and refine their operation.
SLAC used to use the crystal ball detector for detecting the data and pouring it into an Oracle 10g grid of sun machines, and they'd data mine the data to generate theories. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Ball_(detector) I wonder what they call their detector for the LHC, and what database software they use. Also, I'd be curious to know what they use to mine the data, and how they go about it.
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Some idiot in IT for a startup I worked for wrote some perl script that checks to see if our web page was up, and if it was down, it emails to 6 pages. Our ISP had a problem, and there were some other network issues and everyone just turned off their pagers and the script was constantly sending e-pages to all 6 pages, for a total for $1000/day. I guess the idiot didn't space out the times between checking the web site and paging, as it just constants sent e-pages. WTF!
I find it interesting how the lack of open source and "freedom" of their drivers becomes detrimental. In a project I just worked on, we would have deployed thousands of their set top boxes if drivers weren't an issue.
Sure does.. Well remember Bush and Dick vs. Gore and Clitton? Colin was in the mix too.. Who's mccain's running mate? I'm expecting someone named Abel.
It is my opinion that AJAX is doomed, because all of these toolkits have come out that are essentially complex Javascript libraries that jump through hoops to work on all browsers. What happens when a new browser is released? What happens when an old browser is used? Its not like there is some company qualifying javascript interpreters to meet some standard so a toolkit can be written that will always work in all cases in the future. Its probably going to go back to a Java VM scenario, which is exactly what silverlight is - a minimal.NET VM. Flash/Actionscript (which is an ecmascript interpreter and library in a VM shows hope), but then they don't want to standardize on the ecmascript 4 that it is based on. I just find hopeless to try to write an AJAX application for the enterprise that will work on all browsers since the standardization of Javascript is such a cluster f*ck that we can't be certain whether a script is going to run on all browsers or not.
Price - as of mid-2008, flash memory prices are still considerably more costly per gigabyte than are comparable conventional hard drives: around USD 3.50 per GB[10] compared to typically less than USD 0.40 for mechanical drives.[11]
Capacity - although currently far lower than that of conventional hard drives, SSD capacity is predicted to increase rapidly, with experimental drives of up to 1 TB in test.[12][13]
Higher vulnerability to certain types of effects, including abrupt power loss (especially DRAM based SSDs), magnetic fields and electric/static charges, in comparison to normal HDDs (which store the data inside a Faraday cage).
Limited write cycles - flash-memory cells will often wear out after 10,000-100,000 write cycles[citation needed], while high endurance cells may have an endurance of 1-5 million write cycles (many log files, file allocation tables, and other commonly used parts of the file system exceed this over the lifetime of a computer.[14] Special file systems or firmware designs can mitigate this problem by spreading writes over the entire device (so-called wear levelling), rather than rewriting files in place.[15] Today's drives can last up to 20 years with average usage.[dubious - discuss] An example for the lifetime of SSD is explained in detail in this wiki.[dubious - discuss] SSDs based on DRAM, however, do not suffer from this problem.
Slower write speeds - as erase blocks on flash-based SSDs generally are quite large, they are far slower than conventional disks for random writes and therefore vulnerable to write fragmentation,[16] and in some cases for sequential writes.[6] SSDs based on DRAM do not suffer from this problem. Lower storage density - hard disks can store more data per unit volume than DRAM or flash SSDs, except for very low capacity/small devices.
Higher power consumption at idle or under low workloads laptop battery runtimes decrease when using an SSD over a 7200 RPM 2.5" laptop hard drive,[17] flash drives also take more power per gigabyte. RAM based SSD require more power than hard disks, both operating and when turned off.[18]
I'm wondering why they are still going in this direction, as hard drives are the slowest part of a computer. Why hasn't a solid state / flash ram approach taken over? Is it feasible to have a hybrid solid state/mechanical solution?
Farmers think differently. There is no way they'd depend on the internet for their crops. Just the same reason why they prefer classic pickup trucks without computers.
There are plenty of places out in the country that does well with little internet. Only major cities that depend on external systems and greedy business people will be impacted.
In unrelated news, your local thrift shop is offering free open source toasters, although it can only toast 1 slice of bread at a time. I'd imagine with a power strip you can line up several of these toasters to toast more bread at once. Cheers!
What was that new keyword that M$ added to java that made it illegal for them to use the language.. oh yeah DELEGATE. I wonder what their first proprietary key word for javascript will be.. wait... they already have jscript.
This probably means that M$ is going to add a bunch of proprietaries to Javascript through IE and start adding language features to make a proprietary platform. Even so more, probably access to the win32 api via javascript. Even more so, probably JITed c#, wait.. wasn't java supposed to do this?
Wooo Hoo!!! Cashed.. or uhm cached credentials.. I can see crackers using their patterns for decryption schemes. Also, who knows if these passwords are used elsewhere.
What would be the difference between pre-filling with gas or pre-charging with electricity. Maybe the time to fill/charge is the only difference. With removeable batteries, this point is moot.
The mpeg algorithm is called DCT Cosine. If this is parallaizable, then mpeg encoding/decoding should be, although there is no way a general processor can beat an asic in silicon.
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Don't you think a different approach should be made, where you use the data to create the theories, rather than for verification? Machine learning, neural networks and data mining are some of the biggest projects in corporate america these days, where you use the businesses resulting data to optimize and refine their operation.
SLAC used to use the crystal ball detector for detecting the data and pouring it into an Oracle 10g grid of sun machines, and they'd data mine the data to generate theories. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Ball_(detector) I wonder what they call their detector for the LHC, and what database software they use. Also, I'd be curious to know what they use to mine the data, and how they go about it.
Some idiot in IT for a startup I worked for wrote some perl script that checks to see if our web page was up, and if it was down, it emails to 6 pages. Our ISP had a problem, and there were some other network issues and everyone just turned off their pagers and the script was constantly sending e-pages to all 6 pages, for a total for $1000/day. I guess the idiot didn't space out the times between checking the web site and paging, as it just constants sent e-pages. WTF!
Give me one of these running at 3.4ghz /w 6 cores, and it'll match my 3.4 v6. Now to integrate the two....
I find it interesting how the lack of open source and "freedom" of their drivers becomes detrimental. In a project I just worked on, we would have deployed thousands of their set top boxes if drivers weren't an issue.
I've got hundreds of signed timesheets signed by the CEO.
Sure does.. Well remember Bush and Dick vs. Gore and Clitton? Colin was in the mix too.. Who's mccain's running mate? I'm expecting someone named Abel.
Quoting Douglas Adams:
Only one thing moves faster than the speed of light, and its bad news which operates by it's own laws.
Or something or other like that.
It is my opinion that AJAX is doomed, because all of these toolkits have come out that are essentially complex Javascript libraries that jump through hoops to work on all browsers. What happens when a new browser is released? What happens when an old browser is used? Its not like there is some company qualifying javascript interpreters to meet some standard so a toolkit can be written that will always work in all cases in the future. Its probably going to go back to a Java VM scenario, which is exactly what silverlight is - a minimal .NET VM. Flash/Actionscript (which is an ecmascript interpreter and library in a VM shows hope), but then they don't want to standardize on the ecmascript 4 that it is based on. I just find hopeless to try to write an AJAX application for the enterprise that will work on all browsers since the standardization of Javascript is such a cluster f*ck that we can't be certain whether a script is going to run on all browsers or not.
Apparently http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive answers my questions:
Price - as of mid-2008, flash memory prices are still considerably more costly per gigabyte than are comparable conventional hard drives: around USD 3.50 per GB[10] compared to typically less than USD 0.40 for mechanical drives.[11]
Capacity - although currently far lower than that of conventional hard drives, SSD capacity is predicted to increase rapidly, with experimental drives of up to 1 TB in test.[12][13]
Higher vulnerability to certain types of effects, including abrupt power loss (especially DRAM based SSDs), magnetic fields and electric/static charges, in comparison to normal HDDs (which store the data inside a Faraday cage).
Limited write cycles - flash-memory cells will often wear out after 10,000-100,000 write cycles[citation needed], while high endurance cells may have an endurance of 1-5 million write cycles (many log files, file allocation tables, and other commonly used parts of the file system exceed this over the lifetime of a computer.[14] Special file systems or firmware designs can mitigate this problem by spreading writes over the entire device (so-called wear levelling), rather than rewriting files in place.[15] Today's drives can last up to 20 years with average usage.[dubious - discuss] An example for the lifetime of SSD is explained in detail in this wiki.[dubious - discuss] SSDs based on DRAM, however, do not suffer from this problem.
Slower write speeds - as erase blocks on flash-based SSDs generally are quite large, they are far slower than conventional disks for random writes and therefore vulnerable to write fragmentation,[16] and in some cases for sequential writes.[6] SSDs based on DRAM do not suffer from this problem.
Lower storage density - hard disks can store more data per unit volume than DRAM or flash SSDs, except for very low capacity/small devices.
Higher power consumption at idle or under low workloads laptop battery runtimes decrease when using an SSD over a 7200 RPM 2.5" laptop hard drive,[17] flash drives also take more power per gigabyte.
RAM based SSD require more power than hard disks, both operating and when turned off.[18]
I'm wondering why they are still going in this direction, as hard drives are the slowest part of a computer. Why hasn't a solid state / flash ram approach taken over? Is it feasible to have a hybrid solid state/mechanical solution?
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Farmers think differently. There is no way they'd depend on the internet for their crops. Just the same reason why they prefer classic pickup trucks without computers.
There are plenty of places out in the country that does well with little internet. Only major cities that depend on external systems and greedy business people will be impacted.
Dang, there goes all that negative karma I was racking up every time I listened to Ice-T/Body Count's Cop Killer and Anything from 2Live Crew.
In unrelated news, your local thrift shop is offering free open source toasters, although it can only toast 1 slice of bread at a time. I'd imagine with a power strip you can line up several of these toasters to toast more bread at once. Cheers!
What was that new keyword that M$ added to java that made it illegal for them to use the language.. oh yeah DELEGATE. I wonder what their first proprietary key word for javascript will be.. wait... they already have jscript.
c:\> FDISK /MBR /dev/hda1
Out of Memory
c:\> format c:
Out of Disk Space
c:\> edlin config.sys
File not found
c:\> set PROMPT=$
$ mke2fs
This probably means that M$ is going to add a bunch of proprietaries to Javascript through IE and start adding language features to make a proprietary platform. Even so more, probably access to the win32 api via javascript. Even more so, probably JITed c#, wait.. wasn't java supposed to do this?
Wooo Hoo!!! Cashed.. or uhm cached credentials.. I can see crackers using their patterns for decryption schemes. Also, who knows if these passwords are used elsewhere.
In Soviet Russia the new robot overlords welcome you!
What would be the difference between pre-filling with gas or pre-charging with electricity. Maybe the time to fill/charge is the only difference. With removeable batteries, this point is moot.
The mpeg algorithm is called DCT Cosine. If this is parallaizable, then mpeg encoding/decoding should be, although there is no way a general processor can beat an asic in silicon.
And the might google says:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/nxzilla/
On embedded linux, mozilla will compile.