In the time between Apocalypse 1 and today, the mono team have basically cranked out an entire development environment of excellent quality.
They weren't designing a language. They were implementing it. There is a difference between design and implementation. Remember, it's like saying Microsoft "innovated" something just by implementing something already known.
You can argue with this but the real reason MS Office is popular in academea may have more to do with cheap licenses than anything else.
Having just recently graduated from undergrad at Georgia Tech, I can definitely say that the reason that MS Office is popular there is Excel. For engineering uses, the formula features of Excel beat any other system I've used for quick, easy calculations. The plots are almost up with Kalidegraph, and it's easy. Licenses are cheap, but people are using the best tool for the job (for the moment).
broadcasting your username and password to every node along the way is such a good idea
Except for the fact that neither IE nor Mozilla do that. All that the server sees until it requests the user/pass is just the URL. (I tested this with the current IE, so the functionality may be different in the non-patched version).
Here are the respective requests (typed into the address bar as http://user:pass@192.168.1.20:56691/ or:56698/) from Mozilla:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Connection: keep-alive Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,tex t/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,*/*;q=0.1 Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Host: 192.168.1.20:56691 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Keep-Alive: 300
And from IE:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Connection: Keep-Alive Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, */* Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-Language: en-us Host: 192.168.1.20:56698 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;.NET CLR 1.1.4322)
The wall is actually 760 million light years wide... the comparison is that one light year is 1.3 billion times the length of the Great Wall of China. (Info is from here.)
One of the major reasons I (and many other people) use Linux is because of its support for older and slower hardware. I can run Linux my 486 with two 10Mbit ISA nics as a home router and everything is hunky-dory. I, for one, hope that they keep the older drivers going for as long as possible. It'd be nice if someone could just provide a wrapper to keep old drivers working after they're no longer supported.
[I]t seems sometimes that our fear of terrorism is actually hampering development of a whole variety of technologies and progress in fields as disparate as aerospace to biology.
It shouldn't just seem that way. It is true. One of my professors when calling roll this year at my grad school (in chemical and biomolecular engineering) asked about a student that didn't show up. He jokingly asked if they had their visa revoked. This has happened significantly more since Dubya started his war on terror. Countries used to complain that the US was causing a brain drain pulling their best minds from them to us. I guess we don't have to worry about that as much anymore.
Now someone can pickpocket me by just bumping into me on the subway. It would be relatively simple to just read the card with a device in my pocket from someone else's pocket. How hard could it be to make your own RFID device that gives out the same number?
Wouldn't this rewriting violate copyrights? It seems that modification of copyrighted works like that (since they are effectively publishing them) would be against the law.
It seems that they have effectively violated the ICANN Domain Name Dispute Policy: "circumstances indicating that you have registered or you have acquired the domain name primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain name registration". They're definitely doing this to sell domains.
Why do the publishers just not do something like a moderated newsgroup on a restricted server? It seems like that would provide a better solution and the end user tools are already out there (apparently in better forms than what the article describes the RSS tools of being).
I'd imagine network speeds will only continue to climb with increased use of fiber.
In other news, computers are expected to continue to be purchased by corporations. Also, breaking news just announced, the obvious will happen and be modded as Insightful.
it presents itself as 2 cpus to the underlying os... , but when you do something that actually taxes both cpus (make -j8 bzImage or what have you) there's a lot of thrashing and no true performance gain.
It sounds like you're not using the system correctly. With a make -j8, you're going to be accessing the hard drive a lot. If you have enough ram to make everything from a ram disk it will provide a noticable gain. Try something like running a massively parallel computational task and see what the benefits turn out to be.
Why are people still buying these devices if they don't offer the features they want or expect out of the box?
For the same reason that people buy cars then modify them. For the same reason that people update the software on their computers. For the same reason that people get accessories for or modify anything that they own.
1. Transferring product from generator (IBM supercomputer) to location. If you've just used 1 month of supercomputer time to model DNA folding, how will IBM transfer that data back to you? What if the computations and use are faster than the transmission rate?
Well, all that you would need at your location would be the equivalent of an Xterminal, and you would have all you need. Why would you need more than visualization of the data at your location? If it is a metered utility, you should be able to access it from anywhere negating the need for data transfer from their cluster of supercomputers....especially if its Windows run and goes down once a week, cutting into your bought utility time.
I doubt that they would use a system that goes down. Often supercomputers are clustered and use a common set of storage space that would allow migration of users and processes between systems. There should be minimal downtime in the final system-- the equivalent of current utilities. Also, they would likely only go down when your other utilties went out (lines cut, etc).
What if IBM becomes the only utility and charges way more than it should - there's no competition so Company A can't shop around. Along this same vien, if Company A is smart enough, they'll never enter into a utility agreement with IBM if they can generate their own computing cycles and be sure that they'll always be there, versus putting all their eggs in one basket.
If IBM did this and was successful, I'd feel sure that Sun, MS, Intel, and maybe others (does Tera still exist?) would start their own shops as competition. And companies are already putting their eggs all in one basket, but now it's just a basket that is their IT department.
I can't see supercomputing cycles as being something that is commodity, or for that matter, something I (or any company) needs to buy on a metered basis.
So, as your desktop you have access to this system. Maybe you are using only 20 CPU minutes per month as a standard desktop user. Imagine a company that has 10k users that would only use 20 CPU minutes per month. I'd think it would make sense in that case. Similar systems already exist, and they're called ASP's (Application Service Providers), and they already work on a similar concept.
The DOD and others already sell supercomputer CPU hours. I had a friend who had ~100000 CPU hours available to him on ASCI Red (for rocket and combustion fluid dynamics simulations). IBM is just formalizing it a bit more.
The heart of the Internet sustained its largest and most sophisticated attack ever
I've never considered DDOS all that sophisticated myself. It's seems to me that "wow a script kiddie got more systems under his control than usual" more than "a great cracker is on the loose". Though I suppose if it were a great cracker then they could have been proving themselves by predicting the attack.
I didn't enter this discussion to declare my allegiance to the Royal (Gold) 35mm.
On a relatively un-related note, if you like this then you should really check out some of Kodak's professional lines of film (unless your budget can't stand it). Their Portra line of films gives superior quality to just about any other color negative film I've used (be sure to get VC, Vivid Color, for outdoor shots and NC, natural color, for people shots). Great stuff.
Having identical spam from thousands of people would provide evidence that this is not an isolated phenomenon. Which would you view as more damming if the FTC came into the courtroom with a single printout of a spam, or a printout of the spam and a stack of 50 CDs full of copies that different people sent in?
Unlike photons, electrons have mass. Nothing with mass moves at anything close to the speed of light.
Another poster correctly mentioned that the electrons don't move quickly, but the pulses do (as stated in the link you put up).
Another point that needs to be made is that photons do have mass. The de Broglie equation holds for all energy (and matter is energy) which states that m*v*lambda=h where m is the mass, v is the velocity, lambda is the wavelength and h is Planck's constant (6.626E-34 J*s). That gives near infrared light (lambda = 400nm) a mass of about 5.52E-36 kg. For reference an electron's rest mass is 9.109E-31 kg.
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In the time between Apocalypse 1 and today, the mono team have basically cranked out an entire development environment of excellent quality.
They weren't designing a language. They were implementing it. There is a difference between design and implementation. Remember, it's like saying Microsoft "innovated" something just by implementing something already known.
You can argue with this but the real reason MS Office is popular in academea may have more to do with cheap licenses than anything else.
Having just recently graduated from undergrad at Georgia Tech, I can definitely say that the reason that MS Office is popular there is Excel. For engineering uses, the formula features of Excel beat any other system I've used for quick, easy calculations. The plots are almost up with Kalidegraph, and it's easy. Licenses are cheap, but people are using the best tool for the job (for the moment).
The system would likely have the ability to interface with the radio and take over the radio speakers with a warning message.
Except for the fact that neither IE nor Mozilla do that. All that the server sees until it requests the user/pass is just the URL. (I tested this with the current IE, so the functionality may be different in the non-patched version).
Here are the respective requests (typed into the address bar as http://user:pass@192.168.1.20:56691/ or
And from IE:
You know that there are a lot of neophytes on Slashdot when this post gets modded offtopic instead of funny.
The wall is actually 760 million light years wide... the comparison is that one light year is 1.3 billion times the length of the Great Wall of China. (Info is from here.)
One of the major reasons I (and many other people) use Linux is because of its support for older and slower hardware. I can run Linux my 486 with two 10Mbit ISA nics as a home router and everything is hunky-dory. I, for one, hope that they keep the older drivers going for as long as possible. It'd be nice if someone could just provide a wrapper to keep old drivers working after they're no longer supported.
[I]t seems sometimes that our fear of terrorism is actually hampering development of a whole variety of technologies and progress in fields as disparate as aerospace to biology.
It shouldn't just seem that way. It is true. One of my professors when calling roll this year at my grad school (in chemical and biomolecular engineering) asked about a student that didn't show up. He jokingly asked if they had their visa revoked. This has happened significantly more since Dubya started his war on terror. Countries used to complain that the US was causing a brain drain pulling their best minds from them to us. I guess we don't have to worry about that as much anymore.
Now someone can pickpocket me by just bumping into me on the subway. It would be relatively simple to just read the card with a device in my pocket from someone else's pocket. How hard could it be to make your own RFID device that gives out the same number?
For the interested, the site that I've always found the best info on HP calculators and software for them is http://www.hpcalc.org/.
Wouldn't this rewriting violate copyrights? It seems that modification of copyrighted works like that (since they are effectively publishing them) would be against the law.
Bill
It seems that they have effectively violated the ICANN Domain Name Dispute Policy: "circumstances indicating that you have registered or you have acquired the domain name primarily for the purpose of selling, renting, or otherwise transferring the domain name registration". They're definitely doing this to sell domains.
Bill
And, for assistance, here is the direct link to the source!
H*R Rocks!
Bill
Why do the publishers just not do something like a moderated newsgroup on a restricted server? It seems like that would provide a better solution and the end user tools are already out there (apparently in better forms than what the article describes the RSS tools of being).
Pentium II and III are mentioned here.
Bill
routers are designed from the very beginning to do routing. the asics do it. the processors are designed for it. the os is designed for it.
Actually many medium sized routers use intel processors.
I'd imagine network speeds will only continue to climb with increased use of fiber.
In other news, computers are expected to continue to be purchased by corporations. Also, breaking news just announced, the obvious will happen and be modded as Insightful.
it presents itself as 2 cpus to the underlying os... , but when you do something that actually taxes both cpus (make -j8 bzImage or what have you) there's a lot of thrashing and no true performance gain.
It sounds like you're not using the system correctly. With a make -j8, you're going to be accessing the hard drive a lot. If you have enough ram to make everything from a ram disk it will provide a noticable gain. Try something like running a massively parallel computational task and see what the benefits turn out to be.
I think of Poe as more of an opium fiend.
Why are people still buying these devices if they don't offer the features they want or expect out of the box?
For the same reason that people buy cars then modify them. For the same reason that people update the software on their computers. For the same reason that people get accessories for or modify anything that they own.
1. Transferring product from generator (IBM supercomputer) to location. If you've just used 1 month of supercomputer time to model DNA folding, how will IBM transfer that data back to you? What if the computations and use are faster than the transmission rate?
...especially if its Windows run and goes down once a week, cutting into your bought utility time.
Well, all that you would need at your location would be the equivalent of an Xterminal, and you would have all you need. Why would you need more than visualization of the data at your location? If it is a metered utility, you should be able to access it from anywhere negating the need for data transfer from their cluster of supercomputers.
I doubt that they would use a system that goes down. Often supercomputers are clustered and use a common set of storage space that would allow migration of users and processes between systems. There should be minimal downtime in the final system-- the equivalent of current utilities. Also, they would likely only go down when your other utilties went out (lines cut, etc).
What if IBM becomes the only utility and charges way more than it should - there's no competition so Company A can't shop around. Along this same vien, if Company A is smart enough, they'll never enter into a utility agreement with IBM if they can generate their own computing cycles and be sure that they'll always be there, versus putting all their eggs in one basket.
If IBM did this and was successful, I'd feel sure that Sun, MS, Intel, and maybe others (does Tera still exist?) would start their own shops as competition. And companies are already putting their eggs all in one basket, but now it's just a basket that is their IT department.
I can't see supercomputing cycles as being something that is commodity, or for that matter, something I (or any company) needs to buy on a metered basis.
So, as your desktop you have access to this system. Maybe you are using only 20 CPU minutes per month as a standard desktop user. Imagine a company that has 10k users that would only use 20 CPU minutes per month. I'd think it would make sense in that case. Similar systems already exist, and they're called ASP's (Application Service Providers), and they already work on a similar concept.
The DOD and others already sell supercomputer CPU hours. I had a friend who had ~100000 CPU hours available to him on ASCI Red (for rocket and combustion fluid dynamics simulations). IBM is just formalizing it a bit more.
The heart of the Internet sustained its largest and most sophisticated attack ever
I've never considered DDOS all that sophisticated myself. It's seems to me that "wow a script kiddie got more systems under his control than usual" more than "a great cracker is on the loose". Though I suppose if it were a great cracker then they could have been proving themselves by predicting the attack.
I didn't enter this discussion to declare my allegiance to the Royal (Gold) 35mm.
On a relatively un-related note, if you like this then you should really check out some of Kodak's professional lines of film (unless your budget can't stand it). Their Portra line of films gives superior quality to just about any other color negative film I've used (be sure to get VC, Vivid Color, for outdoor shots and NC, natural color, for people shots). Great stuff.
Bill
Having identical spam from thousands of people would provide evidence that this is not an isolated phenomenon. Which would you view as more damming if the FTC came into the courtroom with a single printout of a spam, or a printout of the spam and a stack of 50 CDs full of copies that different people sent in?
Bill
Unlike photons, electrons have mass. Nothing with mass moves at anything close to the speed of light.
Another poster correctly mentioned that the electrons don't move quickly, but the pulses do (as stated in the link you put up).
Another point that needs to be made is that photons do have mass. The de Broglie equation holds for all energy (and matter is energy) which states that m*v*lambda=h where m is the mass, v is the velocity, lambda is the wavelength and h is Planck's constant (6.626E-34 J*s). That gives near infrared light (lambda = 400nm) a mass of about 5.52E-36 kg. For reference an electron's rest mass is 9.109E-31 kg.
Bill