Damn.. best I could do (with a computer I wouldn't be ashamed of letting somebody use) was $253.12 shipped at NewEgg.com. Of course this included 256MB of RAM, an Athlon XP1700+, a 40GB HDD and a 52x CDROM. I could've gone a bit lower, but NewEgg doesn't really deal too much in the ultra-low-end hardware, and the Duron would've only saved me $2-3.
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Lowering the education and class requirements for computing knowledge may be the only way we can fight the tide of those jobs heading overseas...
Somewhat redundant question but, what do you want to do? Clustering may be sexy, but it's a piss-poor solution to a vast majority of problems. Ignoring the technical details, the key is that a distributable problem needs to be simply broken up into subproblems that have a small problem description and a small solution description (I almost failed theory, but IIRC, it's a subset of LogSpace).
I wouldn't do it for Photoshop or playing Quake, but if I were rendering 3D animation or doing scientific analysis/simulation, I'd definately go for the cluster.
OCf course, given my track record, I'd probably just end up buying a single $200 machine and spending the other $2800 on booze and women.
The entire Puget Sound is suburban hell, with a horrible transportation problem that, short of government mandated carpooling/public transit, will never be fixed, as the root of the problem is geographical; the entire area is a ribbon up and down I-5.
I just moved to Albuquerque, NM, and, while it's significantly smaller (at 700k in the metro area), since it's centered on the crossroads of to major freeways, I-20 and I-40 (both of which have the capacity of I-5), rush hour traffic here is _better_ than traffic was up in Marysville (small 'burb about 50-60 miles north of Seattle).
Personally, I was kinda excited after looking at the screenshots, unfortunately they decided to use childish epithets like "Micro$oft Winblows" on their about page.
Great, we get two at least two matrix posts modded up to this level, but what about the possibility that it's the the Nights of the Lambda Calculus communicating with (or simply just using) the 7th generation internet protocol?
I started browsing through this, and my initial reaction was "OH GOD!!! WHY ANOTHER THOUSAND PAGE PROGRAMMING BOOK?!??!". It just seems excessive to use that much space to explain the subject; when did authors of computing books start getting paid by the page?
This was just a demonstration of the technique, having nothing to do with SCO. It was merely a comparison of Linux and the 4.4BSD-lite, both of which are freely available and easy to obtain.
4.4BSD-lite was a release of BSD that was deemed by the courts to be clean & free of AT&T (then the owner of the SysV IP) code, thus if anything that exists in both SCO's source and Linux is also in 4.4BSD-lite, SCO doesn't have a leg to piss on.
Computers will get faster, education will get more expensive, politicians will lie and SCO will soon press charges of distributing child pornography against IBM.
Who in their right mind would have a cluster this size, for this sort of work, on any network where "securely installing over the network" is an issue? I mean, I'd want this as far off of a public network as possible, unless I really want to explain to whoever authorized my grant why my experimental data indicates that:
You must admit that this is an excellent annecdote to pull up next time some overly-concerned citizens' group starts spouting off about violent video games making kids violent. It doesn't prove a damned thing, but it'd hold as much water as most of their arguments.
Maybe if we're lucky, we could get them to have lame games outlawed...
But we all know that synthetic benchmarks border on useless anyways; consumers buying graphics cards based on the scores presented by a single benchmark are already setting themselves up for a fall; it's not much different than consumers buying CPUs based on a MHz rating, regardless of what's actually being done by the CPU.
Laptops are slick and all, but really, not such a good idea. The portable aspect is overrated, since any worthwhile school will have computer labs everywhere you go, not to mention that portability is a great asset to would-be theives. Get yourself a decent desktop (don't bother with a printer... the aforementioned computro labs will have plenty of them) for your gaming needs and call it good.
Not only is a desktop going to be significantly less expensive than the equivalently powered laptop, people will more likely steal your door (friend had this happen...) than their PC.
The organization method that's worked well for me through my undergrad days and seems keep working now is a stack of spiral notebooks, one for each class.
In one of the other articles hosted on the site, How to Live in a Simulation, there's more poorly thought out circular logic...
Obviously we cannot now be sure that we are not living in a simulation. The more likely our descendants are to be rich, long-lasting, and interested in simulating us, the more simulations of people like us we should expect there to be on average, relative to real people like us. And so the more we expect our descendants to be rich like this, the more we should expect that we are in fact living in a simulation
So, he's saying the more worthwhile simulating out lives are, the more likely it is that they're simulated? Fuck that; if anybody wanted to simulated my ass, I'd be getting laid, I'd have friends, and I sure as hell wouldn't be spending all my money on cheap liquor, drinking alone.
How did this guy get a PhD in philosophy, let alone actually get a paid position with it? I wouldn't even call this philosophy, it's an eloquently expressed paranoid delusion. The worst part is that the rest of the paper goes on to say that, if you're life's not real, why not act selfishly? Is that -really- worth writing? It's no different than saying "You could die tommorrow, party on dude".
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Damn.. best I could do (with a computer I wouldn't be ashamed of letting somebody use) was $253.12 shipped at NewEgg.com. Of course this included 256MB of RAM, an Athlon XP1700+, a 40GB HDD and a 52x CDROM. I could've gone a bit lower, but NewEgg doesn't really deal too much in the ultra-low-end hardware, and the Duron would've only saved me $2-3.
Lowering the education and class requirements for computing knowledge may be the only way we can fight the tide of those jobs heading overseas...
Somewhat redundant question but, what do you want to do? Clustering may be sexy, but it's a piss-poor solution to a vast majority of problems. Ignoring the technical details, the key is that a distributable problem needs to be simply broken up into subproblems that have a small problem description and a small solution description (I almost failed theory, but IIRC, it's a subset of LogSpace).
I wouldn't do it for Photoshop or playing Quake, but if I were rendering 3D animation or doing scientific analysis/simulation, I'd definately go for the cluster.
OCf course, given my track record, I'd probably just end up buying a single $200 machine and spending the other $2800 on booze and women.
The entire Puget Sound is suburban hell, with a horrible transportation problem that, short of government mandated carpooling/public transit, will never be fixed, as the root of the problem is geographical; the entire area is a ribbon up and down I-5.
I just moved to Albuquerque, NM, and, while it's significantly smaller (at 700k in the metro area), since it's centered on the crossroads of to major freeways, I-20 and I-40 (both of which have the capacity of I-5), rush hour traffic here is _better_ than traffic was up in Marysville (small 'burb about 50-60 miles north of Seattle).
If it means anything to you, the 1GHz VIA chips are about the same speed as a 600MHz Celeron.
Personally, I was kinda excited after looking at the screenshots, unfortunately they decided to use childish epithets like "Micro$oft Winblows" on their about page.
What a bunch of cockmunching lamers.
Great, we get two at least two matrix posts modded up to this level, but what about the possibility that it's the the Nights of the Lambda Calculus communicating with (or simply just using) the 7th generation internet protocol?
If AOL/TW/Nullsoft can get away with it, why not them?
What'll we have in 5 years?
Super USB 2.0 Alpha Ultra Turbo High Speed Mega Special Tournament Edition Plus Plus?
I started browsing through this, and my initial reaction was "OH GOD!!! WHY ANOTHER THOUSAND PAGE PROGRAMMING BOOK?!??!". It just seems excessive to use that much space to explain the subject; when did authors of computing books start getting paid by the page?
This was just a demonstration of the technique, having nothing to do with SCO. It was merely a comparison of Linux and the 4.4BSD-lite, both of which are freely available and easy to obtain.
4.4BSD-lite was a release of BSD that was deemed by the courts to be clean & free of AT&T (then the owner of the SysV IP) code, thus if anything that exists in both SCO's source and Linux is also in 4.4BSD-lite, SCO doesn't have a leg to piss on.
Computers will get faster, education will get more expensive, politicians will lie and SCO will soon press charges of distributing child pornography against IBM.
I thought he was talking about Mail Order Monsters...
Who in their right mind would have a cluster this size, for this sort of work, on any network where "securely installing over the network" is an issue? I mean, I'd want this as far off of a public network as possible, unless I really want to explain to whoever authorized my grant why my experimental data indicates that:
e = mc^31337
You must admit that this is an excellent annecdote to pull up next time some overly-concerned citizens' group starts spouting off about violent video games making kids violent. It doesn't prove a damned thing, but it'd hold as much water as most of their arguments.
Maybe if we're lucky, we could get them to have lame games outlawed...
At least it's a preview of an advertisement.
[H]ardOCP has repeatedly stated that synthetic benchmarks are crap and benchmarks should be based on real-world performance.
But we all know that synthetic benchmarks border on useless anyways; consumers buying graphics cards based on the scores presented by a single benchmark are already setting themselves up for a fall; it's not much different than consumers buying CPUs based on a MHz rating, regardless of what's actually being done by the CPU.
Remeber that insecure activex control that they signed and couldn't revoke?
Why the hell would you need a Bachelor's degree to work a helpdesk job in the first place?
Of course, with the way the ecconomy is these days....
IT as in "I'm too lazy to take the hard math classes that the CS guys are expected to take"?
Laptops are slick and all, but really, not such a good idea. The portable aspect is overrated, since any worthwhile school will have computer labs everywhere you go, not to mention that portability is a great asset to would-be theives. Get yourself a decent desktop (don't bother with a printer... the aforementioned computro labs will have plenty of them) for your gaming needs and call it good.
Not only is a desktop going to be significantly less expensive than the equivalently powered laptop, people will more likely steal your door (friend had this happen...) than their PC.
The organization method that's worked well for me through my undergrad days and seems keep working now is a stack of spiral notebooks, one for each class.
In the past, I've seen IBM pimping TurboLinux.
Linux wrote Linux? Damn... the singularity AI is closer than I thought...
So, he's saying the more worthwhile simulating out lives are, the more likely it is that they're simulated? Fuck that; if anybody wanted to simulated my ass, I'd be getting laid, I'd have friends, and I sure as hell wouldn't be spending all my money on cheap liquor, drinking alone.
How did this guy get a PhD in philosophy, let alone actually get a paid position with it? I wouldn't even call this philosophy, it's an eloquently expressed paranoid delusion. The worst part is that the rest of the paper goes on to say that, if you're life's not real, why not act selfishly? Is that -really- worth writing? It's no different than saying "You could die tommorrow, party on dude".