Our sense of personal violation by the state, as in airport/border searches without probable cause, reasonable suspicion, or any evidence, has been clouded by insecurity rationalizations without actual justification. We had that sense - now it's clouded by relentless propaganda and fearmongering. FedEx is exploiting that clouded sense to invade our privacy on behalf of the MPAA.
FWIW, under fascism - the merger of corporate and government power - the state and the corporation are indistinguishable.
Get outside into the world more sometime, Anonymous Coward. BTW, that's "Chomsky" - you can't even bash intelligently. Betcha you're planning to vote for Bush again in November.
100M pixels on a 10' cube means 100000000 / (120 * 120 * 6) = 1157 pixels:inch^2, or 34dpi. Typical screen resolution is 72dpi, so this "VR" is less than 1/4 the resolution we're used to. Though viewing from approximately 5' distance in the room, rather than 2' on a PC, compensates quite a lot. OTOH, at least half those pixels aren't seen by a single viewer (behind them), and most of the rest are seen only outside the hi-rez foveas in the middle of their eyes' view field.
I'd be more impressed with a 10' cube paneled with UXGA LCDs, with about 130dpi, with logic that doesn't bother rendering the unseen panels. Quadruple the resolution, but at most double the displayed pixels - maybe only 100M or less. The problems registering the panels seem easier than registering the projections along 488 edges, too.
"Seriously, this is like training drug dogs to find plastic bags."
Excellent analogy that punches through the clouds that the "Terror War" have cast on our sense of personal violation by the state.
Corporate globalism, with no basis in justice or recognition of any rights beyond corporate property, means everyone is guilty until proven not liable by a corporate lawyer. Accusation = proof, just like medieval faith governments.
Since upgrading Ubuntu 5.04 to 5.10, my desktop has had serious defects in rendering fonts in some apps (Firefox and Evolution), and can't burn audio CDs without refusing, misburning or crashing desktop/OS. The past 7 months of automatic updates, including the latest X.org dump, haven't fixed the problems. I haven't found messages in the Ubuntu forums, GNOME website or elsewhere on the Web indicating others with my problem, or who have solved it. Posting in those Ubuntu and GNOME forums hasn't returned any results. Where do I turn for that kind of support that actually works?
I'm just one commandline away from "rm -Rf/". Having typed it into this Slashdot submission form, I'm just a click away from pasting it into a terminal window.
Yet somehow, I don't feel like I'm peeking off the ledge of a 50 storey building into tiny traffic below.
No, they're pumping water thru tiny channels with MEMs like digestive peristalsis. Seems a waste of die layer volume. They could put the MEMs pumps at the edges, or in another layer, with microchannels, if they want to show off MEMs coolness. FWIW, water seems a poor thermal carrier, vaporizing at 100C, unless they use the heat to pump it. Which makes my way cooler than theirs, with minimal or no MEMs needed.
Why bother building the pump into the chip at all? What's wrong with a "mini" external pump, pushing the coolant through simple channels with the traditional pressure gradient? The MEMs on the chip take space that computing HW could occupy. Maybe some MEMs valves and sensors to optimize flows through varying areas as they heat differently during different processing tasks. But the pump can be outboard, where logic HW would be less useful because of signal latency.
You're the one not reading the results. The very message you quote points out how that institution joined I2 partly because it represents opportunities to get NSF funding. The next result says:
"The Security at Line Speed workshop was made possible through a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant awarded to Internet2".
NSF grants are clearly funding Internet2.
I linked to a very simple Google search to avoid googlemandering cherry-picked results. Not all the results in that simple search document government funding of Internet2. But they're in there - if you bother to read them, and you're not committed to denying the facts regardless of how wrong you are.
Your affiliation with Internet2 is most probably subsidized by the American people as a whole. We are entitled to know how our money is being spent, regardless of the preference of the corpration getting the welfare^Wsubsidy.
Internet2 is directly funded by public money, in addition to inidrect public money spent on its member institutions. We're paying (at least part of) your salary. We're paying (at least part of) the price of this backbone contract. We should know who's getting our money, just as you were fair to disclose your affiliation.
Disclaimer: the minimal info published on this contract doesn't include whether its funding might derive entirely from a private source. But I doubt it.
"Because Internet2 is a member organization, all contracts have to be approved by members. Once that happens the name of the new service provider will be revealed, the group says."
Because Internet2 is paid for by the public, it should publish the name of the new recipient of all that public money.
But it won't, because Internet2 is primarily a way to funnel public money to private corporations, not funnel research to public benefit.
Sounds like WoW has a house of cards network with single point of failure architecture problems.
And that AT&T is exploiting them, marketing a new "premium service/support" contract by letting them go down.
I can't wait until WoW has to pay AT&T (and its handful of competitors, if they get rid of the SPF) the extra "premium tier" routing fees, once the telcos market their "nonneutral" Internet. Because a world of angry Warcraft players jonesing for their fix will be a nice gift for telco suits just trying to make it home from work.
Those products, though very cool at the time, don't seem to have gone anywhere. Is the 3G and integration of this Lifebook the key to the revolution? Is it even usable as a voice phone?
Yeah, the good old days when AT&T made CPUs like the DSP32c with a C language ASM instruction set.
As we can see from the current discussion, those same issues and techniques (or at least architectural patterns) are still relevant. In proportion - about a thousand times faster, but equally across the whole uneven platform.
The past few years we've seen several attempts to launch the obvious next steps in personal media: home media PCs and networked console games. The products the big companies like Microsoft, Microsoft, Intel, Microsoft and Sony have launched have all failed to appeal to any but existing enthusiasts. The technology seems ready, but the "operational paradigm", the UI structure, seem uninspired. It's a revolutionary leap that's born as an evolutionary step.
Could these companies, and their risk-averse cultures, just be the wrong worlds from which these new platforms need to be born? Is there a more radical product that's not getting the attention it needs to catch on because it's upstaged by the big failures, in the media and in the market?
These incremental LCD improvements are welcome. But where's the "tileable LCD" already? I want to tile any number of LCDs in any multiple of their resolution. I remember in the late 1990s reports of bezel tech that allowed a slightly larger surface layer than the one facing the actual display. Extending out past the frame edge, so edge pixels could appear adjacent to the edge of the next tile. With just a tiny seam fastened by a tiny cylindrical edge sliding into a cylindrical notch in the adjacent edge. Driven by an array of cheap VGA cards, possibly even in multiple machines linked by FireWire or other highspeed interconnect bus.
But it's already 2006, and the displays are all monolithic. It's news for a new dual-display card to work well, and revolutionary for a triple-display. When I should have a video wall made of cheap, defect-free little QVGA tiles driven by a few racks of $20 cards.
Mobile devices and especially phones have produced the $billions in LCD R&D reinvestment once the bottleneck. What's taking so long?
Miro died in 1983, after a lifetime spent capitalizing handsomely (and well-deservedly) on his art. Under the original US copyright laws, he and his "estate" would have had until 2000 to benefit exclusively from the right to reproduce his works. That limited time was certainly more than sufficient to to promote the progress of science and useful arts.
Even though artists like Miro would produce their art regardless of protections or capitalization, driven by their "muse" that compels them to communicate in their medium as much as the rest of us are compelled to communicate by talking and handwaving. And like lawyers are compelled to communicate through C&D letters and invoices.
Popular art like Miro's has always quickly become part of the folk vocabulary of its culture. An early effect of that acceptance is usually enough saleability that the artist can make money quickly, supporting more art. In the centuries since the Constitution recognized a limited monopoly compromise with freedom for practical operation of a free society in an scarcity economy, the time required for adequate compensation has shrunk vastly, with reproduction and compensation technology and techniques far beyond most could then imagine. Recognition of the contribution of the people who codify such art into our folk culture has been completely eclipsed by concessions to the experts who codify art from "high" through "pop" through "commercial" and protect all its product franchises in perpetuity.
Anyone have an equivalent HowTo for Postgres clusters?
And while I'm getting everything in life I casually ask for, where's the SW that automatically swaps out a MySQL install and replaces it with Postgres, including revising source code that calls/queries the DB, or just uses a MySQL installation as a proxy replica for Postgres nodes in a mixed cluster?
"So we'll determine the next version of Ubuntu that practically everyone uses by what the developers want.
How about an experiment where the users determine the features of the leading desktop Linux distro?"
Nowhere does it say anything about developers' communications capabilities, with users or with anyone else.
A later post, to which you replied, said "developers are often not qualified to communicate with the people who use the software". "Often" is not "always", and is a legitimate criticism, established everywhere in the software development community. And again in this thread, as you have amply demonstrated it yourself - assuming you weren't lying or deluded when you described yourself as a developer.
Don't try to lie to me about my own posts, about my own communications. You are the one who can't communicate, either expressing your points without obnoxious comments, or even by reading my posts to which you respond.
Enough free clues for you. Go back to making up nonsense and trying to get it to compile. You don't get to play with this human any more.
I wish at least half the effort put into catching child porn scumbags were put into catching the much more common child neglecters and abusers. Or into better education and childcare. Most porn kids seem to be runaways. If they didn't run away, we wouldn't have as many vulnerable kids.
Those DSPs you mention aren't CPUs, and they're not available on PCI cards - plus the programmability you mention.
The way to think about the use of GPGPU in a host with its own (GP) CPU is client/server computing. I put together such a system in 1990, a 12MHz 80286, with 4 12.5MFLOPS DSPs (AT&T DSP32c) and an FPGA "scheduler" on the ISA card. The 286 ran a loop sending data and commands to a memory mapped page on the card's SRAM, and copying the page when a status register was set. I had realtime 24bit VGA renderings of megapolygons at 30FPS, all processed on the DSPs. The systems have all scaled up, but the price improvement per FLOPS of the GPUs over the CPU is even better now than then.
As you say, the key is keeping the compute servers full, which amortizes the signalling overhead best, and keeping the signaling across the bus high-level enough that the bandwidth doesn't bottleneck. There are lots of demanding apps now which could use that architecture. Audio compression is my favorite - I'm waiting to stuff a $1000 P4 with 6 $400 dual GPUs, and beat the performance of any <$10K server, scalable down to $1500. That's the kind of host that could really transform telephony.
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Our sense of personal violation by the state, as in airport/border searches without probable cause, reasonable suspicion, or any evidence, has been clouded by insecurity rationalizations without actual justification. We had that sense - now it's clouded by relentless propaganda and fearmongering. FedEx is exploiting that clouded sense to invade our privacy on behalf of the MPAA.
FWIW, under fascism - the merger of corporate and government power - the state and the corporation are indistinguishable.
Get outside into the world more sometime, Anonymous Coward. BTW, that's "Chomsky" - you can't even bash intelligently. Betcha you're planning to vote for Bush again in November.
100M pixels on a 10' cube means 100000000 / (120 * 120 * 6) = 1157 pixels:inch^2, or 34dpi. Typical screen resolution is 72dpi, so this "VR" is less than 1/4 the resolution we're used to. Though viewing from approximately 5' distance in the room, rather than 2' on a PC, compensates quite a lot. OTOH, at least half those pixels aren't seen by a single viewer (behind them), and most of the rest are seen only outside the hi-rez foveas in the middle of their eyes' view field.
I'd be more impressed with a 10' cube paneled with UXGA LCDs, with about 130dpi, with logic that doesn't bother rendering the unseen panels. Quadruple the resolution, but at most double the displayed pixels - maybe only 100M or less. The problems registering the panels seem easier than registering the projections along 488 edges, too.
"Seriously, this is like training drug dogs to find plastic bags."
Excellent analogy that punches through the clouds that the "Terror War" have cast on our sense of personal violation by the state.
Corporate globalism, with no basis in justice or recognition of any rights beyond corporate property, means everyone is guilty until proven not liable by a corporate lawyer. Accusation = proof, just like medieval faith governments.
Since upgrading Ubuntu 5.04 to 5.10, my desktop has had serious defects in rendering fonts in some apps (Firefox and Evolution), and can't burn audio CDs without refusing, misburning or crashing desktop/OS. The past 7 months of automatic updates, including the latest X.org dump, haven't fixed the problems. I haven't found messages in the Ubuntu forums, GNOME website or elsewhere on the Web indicating others with my problem, or who have solved it. Posting in those Ubuntu and GNOME forums hasn't returned any results. Where do I turn for that kind of support that actually works?
Why don't they also prohibit talking about switching to a different carrier?
I'm just one commandline away from "rm -Rf /". Having typed it into this Slashdot submission form, I'm just a click away from pasting it into a terminal window.
Yet somehow, I don't feel like I'm peeking off the ledge of a 50 storey building into tiny traffic below.
No, they're pumping water thru tiny channels with MEMs like digestive peristalsis. Seems a waste of die layer volume. They could put the MEMs pumps at the edges, or in another layer, with microchannels, if they want to show off MEMs coolness. FWIW, water seems a poor thermal carrier, vaporizing at 100C, unless they use the heat to pump it. Which makes my way cooler than theirs, with minimal or no MEMs needed.
Why bother building the pump into the chip at all? What's wrong with a "mini" external pump, pushing the coolant through simple channels with the traditional pressure gradient? The MEMs on the chip take space that computing HW could occupy. Maybe some MEMs valves and sensors to optimize flows through varying areas as they heat differently during different processing tasks. But the pump can be outboard, where logic HW would be less useful because of signal latency.
You're the one not reading the results. The very message you quote points out how that institution joined I2 partly because it represents opportunities to get NSF funding. The next result says:
"The Security at Line Speed workshop was made possible through a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant awarded to Internet2".
NSF grants are clearly funding Internet2.
I linked to a very simple Google search to avoid googlemandering cherry-picked results. Not all the results in that simple search document government funding of Internet2. But they're in there - if you bother to read them, and you're not committed to denying the facts regardless of how wrong you are.
Your affiliation with Internet2 is most probably subsidized by the American people as a whole. We are entitled to know how our money is being spent, regardless of the preference of the corpration getting the welfare^Wsubsidy.
Internet2 is directly funded by public money, in addition to inidrect public money spent on its member institutions. We're paying (at least part of) your salary. We're paying (at least part of) the price of this backbone contract. We should know who's getting our money, just as you were fair to disclose your affiliation.
Disclaimer: the minimal info published on this contract doesn't include whether its funding might derive entirely from a private source. But I doubt it.
"Because Internet2 is a member organization, all contracts have to be approved by members. Once that happens the name of the new service provider will be revealed, the group says."
Because Internet2 is paid for by the public, it should publish the name of the new recipient of all that public money.
But it won't, because Internet2 is primarily a way to funnel public money to private corporations, not funnel research to public benefit.
Sounds like WoW has a house of cards network with single point of failure architecture problems.
And that AT&T is exploiting them, marketing a new "premium service/support" contract by letting them go down.
I can't wait until WoW has to pay AT&T (and its handful of competitors, if they get rid of the SPF) the extra "premium tier" routing fees, once the telcos market their "nonneutral" Internet. Because a world of angry Warcraft players jonesing for their fix will be a nice gift for telco suits just trying to make it home from work.
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Attention TrollMods: that's a Flame, chomping on Flamebait, not a Troll.
My points about incompetent communicators rolls on thru the night...
What about the hirez rig for supertaster?
A 2 year old review of the GSM Flybook
A 15 month old review of the GSM Enfora CF card
Those products, though very cool at the time, don't seem to have gone anywhere. Is the 3G and integration of this Lifebook the key to the revolution? Is it even usable as a voice phone?
Yeah, the good old days when AT&T made CPUs like the DSP32c with a C language ASM instruction set.
As we can see from the current discussion, those same issues and techniques (or at least architectural patterns) are still relevant. In proportion - about a thousand times faster, but equally across the whole uneven platform.
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Jackass TrollMod can't tell a flame from a Troll. Good thing they're not determining the features of your next OS upgrade - or are they?
The past few years we've seen several attempts to launch the obvious next steps in personal media: home media PCs and networked console games. The products the big companies like Microsoft, Microsoft, Intel, Microsoft and Sony have launched have all failed to appeal to any but existing enthusiasts. The technology seems ready, but the "operational paradigm", the UI structure, seem uninspired. It's a revolutionary leap that's born as an evolutionary step.
Could these companies, and their risk-averse cultures, just be the wrong worlds from which these new platforms need to be born? Is there a more radical product that's not getting the attention it needs to catch on because it's upstaged by the big failures, in the media and in the market?
These incremental LCD improvements are welcome. But where's the "tileable LCD" already? I want to tile any number of LCDs in any multiple of their resolution. I remember in the late 1990s reports of bezel tech that allowed a slightly larger surface layer than the one facing the actual display. Extending out past the frame edge, so edge pixels could appear adjacent to the edge of the next tile. With just a tiny seam fastened by a tiny cylindrical edge sliding into a cylindrical notch in the adjacent edge. Driven by an array of cheap VGA cards, possibly even in multiple machines linked by FireWire or other highspeed interconnect bus.
But it's already 2006, and the displays are all monolithic. It's news for a new dual-display card to work well, and revolutionary for a triple-display. When I should have a video wall made of cheap, defect-free little QVGA tiles driven by a few racks of $20 cards.
Mobile devices and especially phones have produced the $billions in LCD R&D reinvestment once the bottleneck. What's taking so long?
Miro died in 1983, after a lifetime spent capitalizing handsomely (and well-deservedly) on his art. Under the original US copyright laws, he and his "estate" would have had until 2000 to benefit exclusively from the right to reproduce his works. That limited time was certainly more than sufficient to to promote the progress of science and useful arts.
Even though artists like Miro would produce their art regardless of protections or capitalization, driven by their "muse" that compels them to communicate in their medium as much as the rest of us are compelled to communicate by talking and handwaving. And like lawyers are compelled to communicate through C&D letters and invoices.
Popular art like Miro's has always quickly become part of the folk vocabulary of its culture. An early effect of that acceptance is usually enough saleability that the artist can make money quickly, supporting more art. In the centuries since the Constitution recognized a limited monopoly compromise with freedom for practical operation of a free society in an scarcity economy, the time required for adequate compensation has shrunk vastly, with reproduction and compensation technology and techniques far beyond most could then imagine. Recognition of the contribution of the people who codify such art into our folk culture has been completely eclipsed by concessions to the experts who codify art from "high" through "pop" through "commercial" and protect all its product franchises in perpetuity.
Anyone have an equivalent HowTo for Postgres clusters?
And while I'm getting everything in life I casually ask for, where's the SW that automatically swaps out a MySQL install and replaces it with Postgres, including revising source code that calls/queries the DB, or just uses a MySQL installation as a proxy replica for Postgres nodes in a mixed cluster?
You've worn out your welcome, clown, with your gibberish and self-defeating threats.
My original post, to which you replied:
"So we'll determine the next version of Ubuntu that practically everyone uses by what the developers want.
How about an experiment where the users determine the features of the leading desktop Linux distro?"
Nowhere does it say anything about developers' communications capabilities, with users or with anyone else.
A later post, to which you replied, said "developers are often not qualified to communicate with the people who use the software". "Often" is not "always", and is a legitimate criticism, established everywhere in the software development community. And again in this thread, as you have amply demonstrated it yourself - assuming you weren't lying or deluded when you described yourself as a developer.
Don't try to lie to me about my own posts, about my own communications. You are the one who can't communicate, either expressing your points without obnoxious comments, or even by reading my posts to which you respond.
Enough free clues for you. Go back to making up nonsense and trying to get it to compile. You don't get to play with this human any more.
I wish at least half the effort put into catching child porn scumbags were put into catching the much more common child neglecters and abusers. Or into better education and childcare. Most porn kids seem to be runaways. If they didn't run away, we wouldn't have as many vulnerable kids.
Those DSPs you mention aren't CPUs, and they're not available on PCI cards - plus the programmability you mention.
The way to think about the use of GPGPU in a host with its own (GP) CPU is client/server computing. I put together such a system in 1990, a 12MHz 80286, with 4 12.5MFLOPS DSPs (AT&T DSP32c) and an FPGA "scheduler" on the ISA card. The 286 ran a loop sending data and commands to a memory mapped page on the card's SRAM, and copying the page when a status register was set. I had realtime 24bit VGA renderings of megapolygons at 30FPS, all processed on the DSPs. The systems have all scaled up, but the price improvement per FLOPS of the GPUs over the CPU is even better now than then.
As you say, the key is keeping the compute servers full, which amortizes the signalling overhead best, and keeping the signaling across the bus high-level enough that the bandwidth doesn't bottleneck. There are lots of demanding apps now which could use that architecture. Audio compression is my favorite - I'm waiting to stuff a $1000 P4 with 6 $400 dual GPUs, and beat the performance of any <$10K server, scalable down to $1500. That's the kind of host that could really transform telephony.