Apple is on the cutting edge of making sure their OS runs on the slowest CPUs possible. For a while that was PPC, back when Intel was kicking ass and taking names, and Motorola couldn't find their ass with both hands. But now that IBM is starting to pop out high speed multi-core PPC chips, it's time to find a new slow chip.
Face it, Apple is cursed, what ever chip they use is doomed to be second rate. If intel was smart, they would have kept their distance;-)
Given the military's dependence on GPS, do you think they would allow one second of interuption? And they use it on almost every corner of the globe. They would notice holes in service much sooner then you ever would. Call this article what it is, FUD to prop up EU's Galileo.
What kind of power draw do the blade chassis have? What blades? What version of Red Hat?!?!?!
From my experience, a blade chassis runs with 4 1875 Watt power units (they have more powerful models). Each of the 14 blades is budgeted a maximum of around 210 to 260 watts (dependent on model). Given the CPU speed described, I would imagine that is the 2CPU xeon model, ie the HS20
If they are running IBM cluster managment tools, like CSM (which would be very probable given that it has a module designed to interface directly with the blade chassis management system), that would mean the are limited to the CSM support list.
The point of declaring a war is that you are the first one to do it. Microsoft has already made it abundantly clear that they want Google's head on a platter. Headline should read 'Google joins in war Microsoft started'.
Anybody who is anybody knows that this is just a likely as a x86 based mac...
Oh yeah. x86 macs (not to mention essentially ditching the push towards 64-bit), affordable macs, and flash based iPods (I swear I remember Steve Jobs saying all flash based players were crap). It's been a weird year. At this point not much would really surprise me any more.
If a family is so poor that they can't even afford food or clothing, shouldn't we be spending money to provide them with this, rather than spending money on biometrics to prevent them from acquiring these basic needs?
There are different levels of poverty. At the very lowest levels there are the people that can't even get food. Obviously this type of program isn't targeted for them, that what UN food aid, and unicef are for. But if you go to some '2nd world' countries (Brazil comes to mind), it's very common to see TV antennas sticking out of wood shacks. At this level people have enough money to survive, but not move themselves up in society. So if you are born poor, you stay poor. And you end up with a country with no middle class, and 95% of the country being owned by 5% of the population. A low cost way to access the internet would do wonders for educating the populace. This could be a real catalyst for social change in those sorts of countries.
The least they could do is write it as some sort of nanotech experiment gone wrong. That would at least give it enough psuedo-science to make joe six-pack happy.
Last week they promised a change as big as the original iPod announcement. But somehow I am very underwelmed. I guess it's those unrealistic hopes for a video iPod
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Fuckhead. I see you missed the entire point of the 'be polite' post.
Now, I will close with a smile and a 'have a nice day', and I'll be the good guy. That's what the republicans do, and that's why they win. If you cannot learn this, then you are dooming yourself to another 4 years.
This is probably because Marvel has already sold the rights to all the cool characters (ie Sony has rights to the SpiderMan movies). Now they can make movies about all the second string characters they couldn't hawk off before.
I know it isn't marvel, but to quote Losing Lois Lane "Green Lantern, you're a second string charcter, hell I work with you and I don't even know what you do. Green!?!? Green isn't a power, it's a color!!!!!"
It comes down to down to tone. The review was put in a rather nice and measured tone. The response started with the phrase 'what the fuck'. Typically, if somebody says 'fuck' in the first sentence of their reply, it isn't going to sound very nice. Now you may think this is all 'Ms manners' bullshit, but in the past I have argued, that one of the reasons that Bush won was because those that were opposed to him came off as total ass holes. You don't persuade people by swearing at them. The Kerry supports came out spent several month say 'You are a total fucking idiot if you vote for Bush', and all that ended up doing was solidifying Bush's support. And now look at the mess we're in. We should really learn from this, or it's just going to be a repeat in 2008.
Keep the right-wing ideals out of site and off of Slashdot.
I've worked with IBM, bought a bunch of JS20s (2.2GHz 970 PPC powers those things). But typically IBM pushes Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 for Power. Yes, that will run on a PowerPC chip. This is mostly because it is compatible (and certified to run) with IBMs cluster management software CSM and their Global file system GPFS, it's the natural choice when installing a set of these machines.
Yellow dog just isn't big enough to offer the kind of product certification and support that Novel can offer.
When my boss tells me to go write a component I don't reply to him with a study about the most efficient way of implementing it, nor a report on the "paradigm" it belongs to. No, I just write it and debug it, which lets the whole project move forwards.
You know that's not as much of a compelling argument as you might think it is. If you can do your job without really thinking about it, it means two things: First, any other shmoe can do it, and don't bother bragging about how your mad skillz set you apart from the pack. Secondly, if you don't have to make sure you algorithms aren't optimal, then obviously this job is small beans. The difference between a big O time of ln N vs N^2 (if you don't understand that, don't bother replying) is no big deal if you are working for your uncle to manage his inventory database for his book store, but it becomes a bit more important when you have 100,000 transactions a minute.
But what good is a great cs degree with knowledge of engineering problems when employers dont give a shit?
Employers want someone who can fix their problems. Thats it.
Are you quite sure that employers don't give a shit? Now maybe if you're programming end user programs that manipulate little characters on the screen, it's no biggy. But personally I never wanted to get stuck writing word processors and websites for the rest of my life. But if you're employer wants to be able to solve the crew pairing problem (very popular with air line companies), the traveling sales man problem (good for data routing), or anything involving linear/integer programming, dynamic programming, graph theory, proper relational database design, or advanced pattern recognition they NEED a computer scientists. People without proper computer science training tend to mess these things up.
At first glance it may seem so, but only for those not in the know. If you really read in between the lines you would have seen that it was an obvious dig at DEC/Compac/HP for VMS.
It's the new Y2K, the hard coded daylight saving times built into our gadgets will cause a global meltdown!!! Nuclear reactors will initiate cooling sequences an hour late!! Food supply chains will be broken!!! There will be mass pandemonium!! Dogs will be sleeping with cats!!!
Thank god my bomb shelter is still prepped, and that freeze-dried food is still good.
Depending on the implementation, the images have varying degrees of opacity, and with most of them, you could theoretically walk down the street while watching Futurama.
Studies have shown that driving while talking on a cell phone is four time more dangerous, I can only imagine the problems involved with watching TV. Most people can't multitask media consumption and other activities. I know that when I'm on the phone, I have to turn off the TV, other wise the person I'm talking to doesn't get a very interesting converstion ('uh huh.. uh huh.. yeah... right....')
This rule is canceled out by the first rule of society, change can take place, as long as you target the young people and let the people used to the old way of doing things die out.
(note, this method for inducing change also works for racial issue, political change, and views of sexiuality)
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Apple is on the cutting edge of making sure their OS runs on the slowest CPUs possible. For a while that was PPC, back when Intel was kicking ass and taking names, and Motorola couldn't find their ass with both hands. But now that IBM is starting to pop out high speed multi-core PPC chips, it's time to find a new slow chip.
;-)
Face it, Apple is cursed, what ever chip they use is doomed to be second rate. If intel was smart, they would have kept their distance
I for one welcome those who welcome our new robotic overlords.
They are VERY reliable.
One page of paid ads.
One page of page-rank spam and fake links.
In most cases that doesn't really happen to me. It mostly happens when searching for porn... or so I've been told...
Additionally the Firefox 2.0/3.0 roadmap also looks promising.
It's still a fraction, all you've done is caused the compiler to typecast them as floats rather then integers.
That's a good idea. Are there any lawyers in Florida that read slashdot that would like to report Jack's actions to the Florida bar association?
Given the military's dependence on GPS, do you think they would allow one second of interuption? And they use it on almost every corner of the globe. They would notice holes in service much sooner then you ever would.
Call this article what it is, FUD to prop up EU's Galileo.
What kind of power draw do the blade chassis have? What blades? What version of Red Hat?!?!?!
From my experience, a blade chassis runs with 4 1875 Watt power units (they have more powerful models). Each of the 14 blades is budgeted a maximum of around 210 to 260 watts (dependent on model). Given the CPU speed described, I would imagine that is the 2CPU xeon model, ie the HS20
If they are running IBM cluster managment tools, like CSM (which would be very probable given that it has a module designed to interface directly with the blade chassis management system), that would mean the are limited to the CSM support list.
The point of declaring a war is that you are the first one to do it. Microsoft has already made it abundantly clear that they want Google's head on a platter. Headline should read 'Google joins in war Microsoft started'.
Anybody who is anybody knows that this is just a likely as a x86 based mac...
Oh yeah. x86 macs (not to mention essentially ditching the push towards 64-bit), affordable macs, and flash based iPods (I swear I remember Steve Jobs saying all flash based players were crap).
It's been a weird year. At this point not much would really surprise me any more.
If a family is so poor that they can't even afford food or clothing, shouldn't we be spending money to provide them with this, rather than spending money on biometrics to prevent them from acquiring these basic needs?
There are different levels of poverty. At the very lowest levels there are the people that can't even get food. Obviously this type of program isn't targeted for them, that what UN food aid, and unicef are for.
But if you go to some '2nd world' countries (Brazil comes to mind), it's very common to see TV antennas sticking out of wood shacks. At this level people have enough money to survive, but not move themselves up in society. So if you are born poor, you stay poor. And you end up with a country with no middle class, and 95% of the country being owned by 5% of the population.
A low cost way to access the internet would do wonders for educating the populace. This could be a real catalyst for social change in those sorts of countries.
The least they could do is write it as some sort of nanotech experiment gone wrong. That would at least give it enough psuedo-science to make joe six-pack happy.
Do you think we can blame this on the North Korean Hacker army we've been hearing about?
Last week they promised a change as big as the original iPod announcement. But somehow I am very underwelmed.
I guess it's those unrealistic hopes for a video iPod
Fuckhead.
I see you missed the entire point of the 'be polite' post.
Now, I will close with a smile and a 'have a nice day', and I'll be the good guy. That's what the republicans do, and that's why they win. If you cannot learn this, then you are dooming yourself to another 4 years.
Have a nice day...
This is probably because Marvel has already sold the rights to all the cool characters (ie Sony has rights to the SpiderMan movies). Now they can make movies about all the second string characters they couldn't hawk off before.
I know it isn't marvel, but to quote Losing Lois Lane "Green Lantern, you're a second string charcter, hell I work with you and I don't even know what you do. Green!?!? Green isn't a power, it's a color!!!!!"
It comes down to down to tone. The review was put in a rather nice and measured tone. The response started with the phrase 'what the fuck'. Typically, if somebody says 'fuck' in the first sentence of their reply, it isn't going to sound very nice.
Now you may think this is all 'Ms manners' bullshit, but in the past I have argued, that one of the reasons that Bush won was because those that were opposed to him came off as total ass holes. You don't persuade people by swearing at them. The Kerry supports came out spent several month say 'You are a total fucking idiot if you vote for Bush', and all that ended up doing was solidifying Bush's support. And now look at the mess we're in. We should really learn from this, or it's just going to be a repeat in 2008.
Keep the right-wing ideals out of site and off of Slashdot.
And I love your dedication to free speech.
See, another reason to get a CS degree. So you can get that joke!
I've worked with IBM, bought a bunch of JS20s (2.2GHz 970 PPC powers those things). But typically IBM pushes Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9 for Power. Yes, that will run on a PowerPC chip. This is mostly because it is compatible (and certified to run) with IBMs cluster management software CSM and their Global file system GPFS, it's the natural choice when installing a set of these machines.
Yellow dog just isn't big enough to offer the kind of product certification and support that Novel can offer.
When my boss tells me to go write a component I don't reply to him with a study about the most efficient way of implementing it, nor a report on the "paradigm" it belongs to. No, I just write it and debug it, which lets the whole project move forwards.
You know that's not as much of a compelling argument as you might think it is. If you can do your job without really thinking about it, it means two things: First, any other shmoe can do it, and don't bother bragging about how your mad skillz set you apart from the pack. Secondly, if you don't have to make sure you algorithms aren't optimal, then obviously this job is small beans. The difference between a big O time of ln N vs N^2 (if you don't understand that, don't bother replying) is no big deal if you are working for your uncle to manage his inventory database for his book store, but it becomes a bit more important when you have 100,000 transactions a minute.
But what good is a great cs degree with knowledge of engineering problems when employers dont give a shit?
Employers want someone who can fix their problems. Thats it.
Are you quite sure that employers don't give a shit? Now maybe if you're programming end user programs that manipulate little characters on the screen, it's no biggy. But personally I never wanted to get stuck writing word processors and websites for the rest of my life.
But if you're employer wants to be able to solve the crew pairing problem (very popular with air line companies), the traveling sales man problem (good for data routing), or anything involving linear/integer programming, dynamic programming, graph theory, proper relational database design, or advanced pattern recognition they NEED a computer scientists. People without proper computer science training tend to mess these things up.
At first glance it may seem so, but only for those not in the know. If you really read in between the lines you would have seen that it was an obvious dig at DEC/Compac/HP for VMS.
It's the new Y2K, the hard coded daylight saving times built into our gadgets will cause a global meltdown!!! Nuclear reactors will initiate cooling sequences an hour late!! Food supply chains will be broken!!! There will be mass pandemonium!! Dogs will be sleeping with cats!!!
Thank god my bomb shelter is still prepped, and that freeze-dried food is still good.
100% of the political leaders in China have an engineering or science degree. In the states? none!
Yes. And I would so love it if the United States modelled it's political system on China.
Depending on the implementation, the images have varying degrees of opacity, and with most of them, you could theoretically walk down the street while watching Futurama.
Studies have shown that driving while talking on a cell phone is four time more dangerous, I can only imagine the problems involved with watching TV.
Most people can't multitask media consumption and other activities. I know that when I'm on the phone, I have to turn off the TV, other wise the person I'm talking to doesn't get a very interesting converstion ('uh huh.. uh huh.. yeah... right....')
This rule is canceled out by the first rule of society, change can take place, as long as you target the young people and let the people used to the old way of doing things die out.
(note, this method for inducing change also works for racial issue, political change, and views of sexiuality)