From some classwork I did a few years back on the algorithm that runs google, I recall something about links TO a page or this may have just been a theoretical idea covered at the same time, my memory is fuzzy. The point is, that perhaps it doesn't use links FROM a site, but rather links TO a site or perhaps a combination of the two. So a good physics site would be one that Hawkings page links to, as do lots of other sites, that when indexed return good results for physics. I'm also assuming that the algorithm doesn't really purely on links, but uses links as well as some traditional indexing methods to achieve better results. I mean how good can a physics page be if the term physics doesn't appear in the page in any way, shape, or form.
Actually it does affect Blizzard to the extent that it allows people with pirated copies of the game to enjoy the bnet experience. At current, at least with Diablo, battlenet tracked the CD key of the person connecting. If two copies of the same key were being used, this became an issue, with this new sever people who obtained pirated versions of the game no longer had to worry about somebody else connecting with the same key. Basically Blizzard wants to ensure that they can track anyone who tries using all the features of the game in a pirated version.
The key here is that Itanium isn't going after the 32 bit market. Intel plans to keep producing its 32 bit chips at least for the time being, the Itanium is purely a move at the high end server market. So while yes, 32 bit apps will run slower, Intel probably doesn't care, as all the customers they are trying to sell to are already on 64 bit, Sparc, Alpha, Power4, what have you.
Actually the parent wasn't referring to PC or Mac 32-bit. If you will notice the mention to Alpha and Power3 (Power4, is more current), and you will notice the relevance. These 64-bit architectures blow the pants off of the 500Mhz MIPs.
Compaq is currently making money as well, though its tough to consider them in the same class since less than a third of their business is PCs anymore.
Its been a while since I saw a show on the history channel about this, but I believe the bomb proof structure was actually in Norway, though it did get bombed closer to the end of the war. According to the show however, the only thing that kept the Germans from the bomb, was their inability to acquire sizable enough amounts of weapons grade nuclear material. This was as I understand it an early problem for the Americans until a solution was found, which allowed sizeable enough quantities of weapons grade Uranium to be produced. Then again it was cable TV, so how right could it be.
And all the cheering just makes it a little too much like those friday night high school football games. uh, thanks, but no.
Dean Kamen's intent was to have them like Friday night football games. His goal is to have engineers and scientists looked upon as role models the same way that athletes are. Its a rather admirable goal in my opinion. I'd much have my kids striving to get a college education and using thier mind.
I'll admit I didn't read the danger article yet, but from a side not V=IR if the resistance is high (as it would be for a person) and the amps are high. Then the voltage would also be high. This is simple high school physics. Though yes I'm over simplifying it a bit, its the general point.
Well after 4 years and $125,000 I can honestly feel proud about something my school did. Even if not directly sponsored by the school. Probably the first time WPI has been/.ed too.
More likely it was to get it out before Christmas. EQ already has the largest MMORPG install base, and most market share. Something like 375,000 active users and over 500,000 units sold. Dark Age, while a competitor is the one that has to work its butt off to try to cut in on EQ. Christmas however only comes once a year and to lose out on the parents of all those teenage EQ addicts buying presents would be a waste.
I have to disagree. Performance can be alot more than just hp. Take the Acura RSX Type-S for example. Its got a 4 cylinder engine that gets 200hp and 29mpg. Now I call that performance. Performance should equate more to the quality of the egineering and what innovative things are done to the car. American companies have been putting big honkin engine in heavy-ass cars for years, but I know many a drive who'd say they don't perform worth a damn compared to a European or Japanese car in the same price and class.
Its not that the Ethernet Jack doesn't work. There just isn't any online service provided for it yet. You can still use it for a LAN game with friends. I believe MS is going to offer something along the lines of MSN, or fantasy star for teh Xbox, begining in the summer of 2002, but the plug is fully functional for now assuming games are written to use it.
Its not just around the corner, its been around for a few years now. Its purely research though, as it says in the article. You can invest all you want, but most of the benefit of the network isn't going to be tangible. I'm sure Cisco, IBM and the other companies mentioned will get to try out some next generation technology on this that will eventually make it to the regular internet, but commercial research isn't the point. In fact anything "commercial" is quite contrary to the point.
As an aside we had a connection to I2 at the school I graduate from this past spring and from talking with professors some of the projects on it revolved around distributed computing, as well as some work on new network protocols.
By the same token, what if you simply had a newsgroup listing people's ICQ accounts (or other such program). People could then go initiate a conversation with anyone on the list, (ex: "hey do you have the new song"), then use ICQ to transfer any files. In essence this is an attack on peer-to-peer networking technology in general simply because it "could" be used to transfer music files. What if MusicCity was to change its name to pr0nCity, but still let people transfer whatever file types they wanted?
Also the rebot has the nice ability of being turned off and back on again. Tito would have been a bit tougher to turn back on again if they turned him off;) Problem I could see however is if the robot starts to come apart and then there are all these lego blocks floating around inside the station.
you could rig up a sort of mirror system using a standard platter drive. On shutdown it just stores any changes to the platter drive. Admitted this could take a good chunk of time, but I'm sure the smart engineers at some megacorp can figure out a way to maybe update the platters in the background so you get the performance of the solid state memory, but have a mirrored version in case of power failure. The only problem I could see is that with the 10-fold difference in access time, if you are doing a large amount of reading and writing would require a large buffer, or you'd have to slow down to the platter drive speed again. All this aside it still seems practical with a few small problem fixes along the way.
Actually Moore's law doesn't deal purely with processor "speed", it deals with computing "power". Thus a chip at differing clock speeds could have the same functional power. I refer to this article which refers to the P4 2Ghz being the same power as the Athlon 1.4Ghz. These "power" differences can be the result of better pipelining and other chip features. Thus an exact analysis of Moore's law in relation to a 20Ghz chip is tougher. What isn't to say that a drastic change in chip design won't allow for a 10 fold increase in chip "power". Not that I don't think the article isn't overblown, but Moore's law isn't really a factor here.
This is of course assuming you get through the firewall and aren't seen getting through the firewall, and that they use the same keys each day. Just assuming you get the encrypted data, tahts still probably like 70 files that need to be cracked. Also they could be really trick and throw in something like cipher block chaining on top of the 3DES and then it would get really ugly especially given the size of the files. This could very well take until the sun burns out to crack;) But then again, like all things crypto, you could get lucky and crack it with the first try:)
Actually the Combine HP/Compaq will have the largest Unix Market share of any of the major vendors if the merger goes through, which means not only to people use them, but a rather large number of people use them.
the reports I've been reading on the bbc and cnn say that the buildings have upwards of 150,000 people a day. Though it was early in the day, but estimates I've read still say as many as 40,000 people could have been in the buildings.
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Its the the Wall Street Journal actually. MSNBC, just posted it off the news wire.
From some classwork I did a few years back on the algorithm that runs google, I recall something about links TO a page or this may have just been a theoretical idea covered at the same time, my memory is fuzzy. The point is, that perhaps it doesn't use links FROM a site, but rather links TO a site or perhaps a combination of the two. So a good physics site would be one that Hawkings page links to, as do lots of other sites, that when indexed return good results for physics. I'm also assuming that the algorithm doesn't really purely on links, but uses links as well as some traditional indexing methods to achieve better results. I mean how good can a physics page be if the term physics doesn't appear in the page in any way, shape, or form.
Actually it does affect Blizzard to the extent that it allows people with pirated copies of the game to enjoy the bnet experience. At current, at least with Diablo, battlenet tracked the CD key of the person connecting. If two copies of the same key were being used, this became an issue, with this new sever people who obtained pirated versions of the game no longer had to worry about somebody else connecting with the same key. Basically Blizzard wants to ensure that they can track anyone who tries using all the features of the game in a pirated version.
The key here is that Itanium isn't going after the 32 bit market. Intel plans to keep producing its 32 bit chips at least for the time being, the Itanium is purely a move at the high end server market. So while yes, 32 bit apps will run slower, Intel probably doesn't care, as all the customers they are trying to sell to are already on 64 bit, Sparc, Alpha, Power4, what have you.
Actually the parent wasn't referring to PC or Mac 32-bit. If you will notice the mention to Alpha and Power3 (Power4, is more current), and you will notice the relevance. These 64-bit architectures blow the pants off of the 500Mhz MIPs.
Compaq is currently making money as well, though its tough to consider them in the same class since less than a third of their business is PCs anymore.
Its been a while since I saw a show on the history channel about this, but I believe the bomb proof structure was actually in Norway, though it did get bombed closer to the end of the war. According to the show however, the only thing that kept the Germans from the bomb, was their inability to acquire sizable enough amounts of weapons grade nuclear material. This was as I understand it an early problem for the Americans until a solution was found, which allowed sizeable enough quantities of weapons grade Uranium to be produced. Then again it was cable TV, so how right could it be.
Because they read this article that was posted a few weeks ago.
And all the cheering just makes it a little too much like those friday night high school football games. uh, thanks, but no. Dean Kamen's intent was to have them like Friday night football games. His goal is to have engineers and scientists looked upon as role models the same way that athletes are. Its a rather admirable goal in my opinion. I'd much have my kids striving to get a college education and using thier mind.
I'll admit I didn't read the danger article yet, but from a side not V=IR if the resistance is high (as it would be for a person) and the amps are high. Then the voltage would also be high. This is simple high school physics. Though yes I'm over simplifying it a bit, its the general point.
Well after 4 years and $125,000 I can honestly feel proud about something my school did. Even if not directly sponsored by the school. Probably the first time WPI has been /.ed too.
More likely it was to get it out before Christmas. EQ already has the largest MMORPG install base, and most market share. Something like 375,000 active users and over 500,000 units sold. Dark Age, while a competitor is the one that has to work its butt off to try to cut in on EQ. Christmas however only comes once a year and to lose out on the parents of all those teenage EQ addicts buying presents would be a waste.
I have to disagree. Performance can be alot more than just hp. Take the Acura RSX Type-S for example. Its got a 4 cylinder engine that gets 200hp and 29mpg. Now I call that performance. Performance should equate more to the quality of the egineering and what innovative things are done to the car. American companies have been putting big honkin engine in heavy-ass cars for years, but I know many a drive who'd say they don't perform worth a damn compared to a European or Japanese car in the same price and class.
Its not that the Ethernet Jack doesn't work. There just isn't any online service provided for it yet. You can still use it for a LAN game with friends. I believe MS is going to offer something along the lines of MSN, or fantasy star for teh Xbox, begining in the summer of 2002, but the plug is fully functional for now assuming games are written to use it.
Its not just around the corner, its been around for a few years now. Its purely research though, as it says in the article. You can invest all you want, but most of the benefit of the network isn't going to be tangible. I'm sure Cisco, IBM and the other companies mentioned will get to try out some next generation technology on this that will eventually make it to the regular internet, but commercial research isn't the point. In fact anything "commercial" is quite contrary to the point.
As an aside we had a connection to I2 at the school I graduate from this past spring and from talking with professors some of the projects on it revolved around distributed computing, as well as some work on new network protocols.
By the same token, what if you simply had a newsgroup listing people's ICQ accounts (or other such program). People could then go initiate a conversation with anyone on the list, (ex: "hey do you have the new song"), then use ICQ to transfer any files. In essence this is an attack on peer-to-peer networking technology in general simply because it "could" be used to transfer music files. What if MusicCity was to change its name to pr0nCity, but still let people transfer whatever file types they wanted?
so I wonder if all this /. traffic to MSN will make them think they're getting DoSed.
And this was posted a week or two ago.....old news
Also the rebot has the nice ability of being turned off and back on again. Tito would have been a bit tougher to turn back on again if they turned him off ;) Problem I could see however is if the robot starts to come apart and then there are all these lego blocks floating around inside the station.
you could rig up a sort of mirror system using a standard platter drive. On shutdown it just stores any changes to the platter drive. Admitted this could take a good chunk of time, but I'm sure the smart engineers at some megacorp can figure out a way to maybe update the platters in the background so you get the performance of the solid state memory, but have a mirrored version in case of power failure. The only problem I could see is that with the 10-fold difference in access time, if you are doing a large amount of reading and writing would require a large buffer, or you'd have to slow down to the platter drive speed again. All this aside it still seems practical with a few small problem fixes along the way.
Actually Moore's law doesn't deal purely with processor "speed", it deals with computing "power". Thus a chip at differing clock speeds could have the same functional power. I refer to this article which refers to the P4 2Ghz being the same power as the Athlon 1.4Ghz. These "power" differences can be the result of better pipelining and other chip features. Thus an exact analysis of Moore's law in relation to a 20Ghz chip is tougher. What isn't to say that a drastic change in chip design won't allow for a 10 fold increase in chip "power". Not that I don't think the article isn't overblown, but Moore's law isn't really a factor here.
This is of course assuming you get through the firewall and aren't seen getting through the firewall, and that they use the same keys each day. Just assuming you get the encrypted data, tahts still probably like 70 files that need to be cracked. Also they could be really trick and throw in something like cipher block chaining on top of the 3DES and then it would get really ugly especially given the size of the files. This could very well take until the sun burns out to crack ;) But then again, like all things crypto, you could get lucky and crack it with the first try :)
Actually the Combine HP/Compaq will have the largest Unix Market share of any of the major vendors if the merger goes through, which means not only to people use them, but a rather large number of people use them.
Amen
the reports I've been reading on the bbc and cnn say that the buildings have upwards of 150,000 people a day. Though it was early in the day, but estimates I've read still say as many as 40,000 people could have been in the buildings.