This doesn't really seem all that strange to me. My mother was a member of DECUS (Digital Equipment Corporation Users Society) in the early 1970s. When I tried to go to their homepage, I was sent to encompassus.com -- encompass is HP's user group.
There are lots of these out there. Just because it's for profit doesn't mean that it can't have a community behind it.
Georgia Tech is the same as Rice is according to the other poster. Traffic is automatically routed through the Internet2 if you are going to a connected institute.
I also know that if you have readon to need access, we have the ability to get access to any technology on campus. Just with two e-mails I have access to at least 5 supercomputers on campus, and if I need more access I can e-mail.
I'd bet that if you actually need access to the systems, then you can probably get it, but giving access to a CAVE system to all students just so that they can play Quake3 on it would be stupid on the part of the IT department.
BUT, now, the best spam filters out there already use statistical properties. Spamassassin does this...
Spamassassin (as he addressed) does not do this, it gives individual items a score. His method dynamically scores items based on the message. You could use his filter as a plugin for Spamassassin, but with the numbers he's talking about you wouldn't need anything other than his system.
Check any biology lab or methods section of the scientific papers that come out these days and you're bound to find someone shilling for some company's enzyme or centrifuge.
Actually the methods section is used to make sure that someone can 100% reproduce the equipment. If you just give the equipment specs then you may miss an important spec. If you give the make and model then they will have all relevant specs defined.
But if I were the IBM sales rep for supercomputing, I'd sure be hyping the fact that when it's not simulating nuclear explosions, you can run Gimp and Mozilla.
Supercomputers aren't for anything but processing. Why would someone care to run something like gimp or mozilla on a supercomputer, or anything at all other than simulations? The purpose of these massive-scale systems is strictly computation.
If someone is regularly using a supercomputer for Gimp or Mozilla, then there is something wrong.
My work is particularly interested in filesystems > 64 TB and RAID with > 20 devices.
Wouldn't you be hitting the point of diminishing returns with software RAID with > 20 devices? It seems to me that the processor would be strictly doing I/O computation under heavy loads.
Except these lashes wouldn't be served automatically by a script, but administered by real people who just don't like spam.
This has nothing at all to do with spam. What the man was doing was domain prospecting and using popups. Maybe the whipping should be done by people who don't like popups.
Also, it is relatively easy to block this sort of thing with popup zappers or just settings in mozilla. I realize that Joe Q. Public doesn't know this, but the tools are there. When I went to the site, I was redirected about 3 times then just hit back and was back where I started-- no popups.
The overall impression is that this is a constant process and that it may be an easy way of getting to the sub-europan ocean.
And, if these cracks are formed by tidal forces that ar constantly changing, how do you propose that people stop the probe from being crushed in the process? Several millions of tons of ice are likely to destroy just about any machinery.
I personally think that this would be a really good and easy way to make my home library catalog. I could just hold up my rf scanner and get the info direct from the books themselves.
If your not buying Nvidia products - you are supprting the terrorists!
While I'm relatively sure that you meant this as a joke, I really dislike how everything that people do is in the fight against terrorism. I also find it rather funny how people can believe things like this and yet still believe the Slashdot-party-line that people who are fighting encryption and privacy by citing terrorism are doing bad things.
It's funny to me that there are commercials on TV now that talk about how if you do drugs you support terrorism. In a NY Times article a month or two ago, they mentioned that since the Taliban lost control of Afghanistan the drug crops from there have increased by ~100x. That's good drug control for you.
I do wonder whether it is wise to use such complex technology in the field
Do you think that military computers are somehow simpler than normal computers? Generally the military designs in redundance to prevent failure (I remember a lecture where the designer of stealth figher computer systems mentioned that they always have at least n+1 computers). And generally this type of thing is an additional assist, but there are almost always relatively manual control where possible.
I would not have thought that, due to the criticalness of the job, a windows variant can pass the required tests.
They were just referring to the battlefield simulators if I read the article correctly. For these systems I would be surprised if they were critical, they're simply helpful. The tanks, fighters, etc. will use their proprietary, bug-free operating systems still.
If a single neuron could perform the equivilant of an instruction, then human brains would only be 100-1000 times more powerful than a modern desktop computer, probably less when you consider that they're more like a beowolf cluster than a single powerful computer.
You seem to imply, but not explicitly state, that the cell would only perform 1 operation/second. I'm guessing that it is much more than that.
Actually, this would not help at all in looking through the neighbor's curtains. You would want lower wavelengths (your link is for infrared-- the opposite direction of UV).
Check out this link for some more information on the em spectrum.
Are they as bigger threat as Russia was? Are they capable of collapsing the Western economies with the stroke of a pen? No!
Actually, yes. The Chinese military, if they decided to attack could kill everyone in the USA rather easily. Think about it this way, they have about 5 times the population, and their population averages to a younger age. We have a military of about 1-3 million. China has a military of over 10 million with the easy ability to conscript about 200 million more.
Also, it seems like it would take a lot more development to extend this wideband laser work for something more consumer-oriented
The point of this is not for a general consumer device any time soon. This device will be used in spectroscopy where there are very few line source lights that operate in the mid-infrared range.
It just doesn't work that way. A disc and a sphere of the same weight will simply not roll downhill at the same speed, even in a vacuum. Besides, the very act of lowering one's center of gravity 1.5 feet would have a definite impact on momentum.
You are comparing different issues. The skiier is not rolling. If the skiier were trying to roll down the hill, then you would be correct, but the momentum that you're describing is rotational momentum, not translational. With translational momentum, it doesn't matter. A proper comparison would be to push an object across a table (like say your CPU and your monitor); they have very different geometries, but the only forces acting on them are your push and the friction of the table (until you get to high speeds when wind resistance matters).
I really doubt that cost is an issue to Wal-Mart. If they thought that they could get a 2-5% increase in productivity from Linux then they'd probably be using it immediately. The issue here is still that they want the best, most efficient output of hardware and software.
Linux runs best on Intel. Intel's architecture would require more machines (which would cost less in total, but refer to the first sentence of this for the answer to that). Intel architecture is less efficient than Sun. For most DB type applications, Sun is the best. That I know of (in less than supercomputer markets) there is no better architecture for databases. Therefore (as mentioned in another post) Wal-Mart uses Sun. Solaris is the best OS on Sun hardware, therefore Wal-Mart uses Solaris.
But the best programmers today are a lot better than the best programmers twenty years ago - because they're building off of the best ideas of the last twenty years.
This is not true. That is like saying that the best physicists today are better than Einstein (that assertion today may be true). Just because you're building off the ideas of others doesn't make you any more able. It means that you can do more, but you're just using tools given to you, not making the tool.
Your assertion there is like saying that today's carpenters are better at carpentry than the first person to use a hammer. It is true that they can do better carpentry work, but that doesn't mean that they could have come up with the hammer to begin with.
And also, how many computers run operating systems? How many of those computers with operating systems on them run life and death systems (911, nasa, flight control, etc). Now with that in mind, think of if the OS crashes while taking a 911 call. The 911 programmer may have no bugs in his software while the OS vendor has tons. That means that the 911 software, the OS, any drivers, and connected software is all life and death, not just the 911 system.
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This doesn't really seem all that strange to me. My mother was a member of DECUS (Digital Equipment Corporation Users Society) in the early 1970s. When I tried to go to their homepage, I was sent to encompassus.com -- encompass is HP's user group.
There are lots of these out there. Just because it's for profit doesn't mean that it can't have a community behind it.
Bill
Georgia Tech is the same as Rice is according to the other poster. Traffic is automatically routed through the Internet2 if you are going to a connected institute.
I also know that if you have readon to need access, we have the ability to get access to any technology on campus. Just with two e-mails I have access to at least 5 supercomputers on campus, and if I need more access I can e-mail.
I'd bet that if you actually need access to the systems, then you can probably get it, but giving access to a CAVE system to all students just so that they can play Quake3 on it would be stupid on the part of the IT department.
BUT, now, the best spam filters out there already use statistical properties. Spamassassin does this...
Spamassassin (as he addressed) does not do this, it gives individual items a score. His method dynamically scores items based on the message. You could use his filter as a plugin for Spamassassin, but with the numbers he's talking about you wouldn't need anything other than his system.
Bill
Check any biology lab or methods section of the scientific papers that come out these days and you're bound to find someone shilling for some company's enzyme or centrifuge.
Actually the methods section is used to make sure that someone can 100% reproduce the equipment. If you just give the equipment specs then you may miss an important spec. If you give the make and model then they will have all relevant specs defined.
But if I were the IBM sales rep for supercomputing, I'd sure be hyping the fact that when it's not simulating nuclear explosions, you can run Gimp and Mozilla.
Supercomputers aren't for anything but processing. Why would someone care to run something like gimp or mozilla on a supercomputer, or anything at all other than simulations? The purpose of these massive-scale systems is strictly computation.
If someone is regularly using a supercomputer for Gimp or Mozilla, then there is something wrong.
It's just the martians defending themselves. They don't really like visitors very much.
My work is particularly interested in filesystems > 64 TB and RAID with > 20 devices.
Wouldn't you be hitting the point of diminishing returns with software RAID with > 20 devices? It seems to me that the processor would be strictly doing I/O computation under heavy loads.
Except these lashes wouldn't be served automatically by a script, but administered by real people who just don't like spam.
This has nothing at all to do with spam. What the man was doing was domain prospecting and using popups. Maybe the whipping should be done by people who don't like popups.
Also, it is relatively easy to block this sort of thing with popup zappers or just settings in mozilla. I realize that Joe Q. Public doesn't know this, but the tools are there. When I went to the site, I was redirected about 3 times then just hit back and was back where I started-- no popups.
The overall impression is that this is a constant process and that it may be an easy way of getting to the sub-europan ocean.
And, if these cracks are formed by tidal forces that ar constantly changing, how do you propose that people stop the probe from being crushed in the process? Several millions of tons of ice are likely to destroy just about any machinery.
Imagine: a family reunion. Barbecue and beer in the park. The shady trees and babbling brook. Paradise.
Then: the buzzing of bees! A nest of trouble, stirred up by your mischievous nephew!
"Jonny, quit buzzing like a bee... Oh well, he was an annoying nephew anyway."
I personally think that this would be a really good and easy way to make my home library catalog. I could just hold up my rf scanner and get the info direct from the books themselves.
Here is a better press release than the one listed with the article.
If your not buying Nvidia products - you are supprting the terrorists!
While I'm relatively sure that you meant this as a joke, I really dislike how everything that people do is in the fight against terrorism. I also find it rather funny how people can believe things like this and yet still believe the Slashdot-party-line that people who are fighting encryption and privacy by citing terrorism are doing bad things.
It's funny to me that there are commercials on TV now that talk about how if you do drugs you support terrorism. In a NY Times article a month or two ago, they mentioned that since the Taliban lost control of Afghanistan the drug crops from there have increased by ~100x. That's good drug control for you.
I do wonder whether it is wise to use such complex technology in the field
Do you think that military computers are somehow simpler than normal computers? Generally the military designs in redundance to prevent failure (I remember a lecture where the designer of stealth figher computer systems mentioned that they always have at least n+1 computers). And generally this type of thing is an additional assist, but there are almost always relatively manual control where possible.
I would not have thought that, due to the criticalness of the job, a windows variant can pass the required tests.
They were just referring to the battlefield simulators if I read the article correctly. For these systems I would be surprised if they were critical, they're simply helpful. The tanks, fighters, etc. will use their proprietary, bug-free operating systems still.
It isn't that there is more than one useful result per firing, but that it can fire more than once per second.
If a single neuron could perform the equivilant of an instruction, then human brains would only be 100-1000 times more powerful than a modern desktop computer, probably less when you consider that they're more like a beowolf cluster than a single powerful computer.
You seem to imply, but not explicitly state, that the cell would only perform 1 operation/second. I'm guessing that it is much more than that.
Actually, this would not help at all in looking through the neighbor's curtains. You would want lower wavelengths (your link is for infrared-- the opposite direction of UV).
Check out this link for some more information on the em spectrum.
Are they as bigger threat as Russia was? Are they capable of collapsing the Western economies with the stroke of a pen? No!
Actually, yes. The Chinese military, if they decided to attack could kill everyone in the USA rather easily. Think about it this way, they have about 5 times the population, and their population averages to a younger age. We have a military of about 1-3 million. China has a military of over 10 million with the easy ability to conscript about 200 million more.
Also, it seems like it would take a lot more development to extend this wideband laser work for something more consumer-oriented
The point of this is not for a general consumer device any time soon. This device will be used in spectroscopy where there are very few line source lights that operate in the mid-infrared range.
It just doesn't work that way. A disc and a sphere of the same weight will simply not roll downhill at the same speed, even in a vacuum. Besides, the very act of lowering one's center of gravity 1.5 feet would have a definite impact on momentum.
You are comparing different issues. The skiier is not rolling. If the skiier were trying to roll down the hill, then you would be correct, but the momentum that you're describing is rotational momentum, not translational. With translational momentum, it doesn't matter. A proper comparison would be to push an object across a table (like say your CPU and your monitor); they have very different geometries, but the only forces acting on them are your push and the friction of the table (until you get to high speeds when wind resistance matters).
I really doubt that cost is an issue to Wal-Mart. If they thought that they could get a 2-5% increase in productivity from Linux then they'd probably be using it immediately. The issue here is still that they want the best, most efficient output of hardware and software.
Linux runs best on Intel. Intel's architecture would require more machines (which would cost less in total, but refer to the first sentence of this for the answer to that). Intel architecture is less efficient than Sun. For most DB type applications, Sun is the best. That I know of (in less than supercomputer markets) there is no better architecture for databases. Therefore (as mentioned in another post) Wal-Mart uses Sun. Solaris is the best OS on Sun hardware, therefore Wal-Mart uses Solaris.
But the best programmers today are a lot better than the best programmers twenty years ago - because they're building off of the best ideas of the last twenty years.
This is not true. That is like saying that the best physicists today are better than Einstein (that assertion today may be true). Just because you're building off the ideas of others doesn't make you any more able. It means that you can do more, but you're just using tools given to you, not making the tool.
Your assertion there is like saying that today's carpenters are better at carpentry than the first person to use a hammer. It is true that they can do better carpentry work, but that doesn't mean that they could have come up with the hammer to begin with.
And also, how many computers run operating systems? How many of those computers with operating systems on them run life and death systems (911, nasa, flight control, etc). Now with that in mind, think of if the OS crashes while taking a 911 call. The 911 programmer may have no bugs in his software while the OS vendor has tons. That means that the 911 software, the OS, any drivers, and connected software is all life and death, not just the 911 system.
"I thought everyone loved pi, and they could now get it 24-7!"
If only they had realized that people can only take pi about 22/7. 24/7 is just more than people want it.
He has visions of cities that glow from within...
Perhaps he has never seen the city glow that comes from normal light pollution.