Superbowl uses a few fancy camera tricks, in one stadium. World Cup has a few stadia, and no tricks. TDF Goes to places you would not want to drive a car, let alone 50+ production television trucks, covers several hundred kilometers of cycle racing, then moves for the next day, for a MONTH! It gives you telemetric data off 12+ riders each day, it manages 200+ riders positions in real time, and it runs through any weather conditions.
Trust me, I am in the middle of flying back from doing the OLN coverage, nothing even comes close.
Of course they are carefully looking at the AMERICAN price for titanium production..
It is much much cheaper in Russia, as it is basically produced as a side effect of steel production there due to the different ores available. Most significant titanium users source their titanium from Russia, and there is little interest in other sources as Russia just has the right ores anyway.
>But the truth is if the bombs weren't dropped Europe would be a facist state
For god sake go and ready just a tiny bit of history.
'The nukes' were dropped to help american interests in the pacific (and thats being generous, to a large extent japan had stopped any meaningfull external warfare by then anyway, and russia was rapidly destroying what was left, it was a minour threat, but the devices needed testing and demonstration after all..), and were in no way related to the war in europe, in any way at all.
VE day (victory in europe) was 8th may 1945. hiroshima was bombed on 9th august 1945, 3 months LATER. VJ daywas 15th august 1945.
They are, specifically on NVidia hardware. Gelato.
NVidia care about this kind of market, hence they have WORKING OpenGL drivers, something ATI done care about (even though they like to claim OpenGL 2.0 functionality without even supporting the base requirements in hardware!)
You're not screwing the government, you're screwing the millions of people that depend on government money to survive. Stop scamming the government, millions of people on welfare depend on taxpayers.
Translation:
Millions of people are screwing you by relying on the taxes you pay to survive. Stop being scammed by these people by believing that they are supported by government money, it is your money supporting them!
Tongue in cheek of course, but a very valid reply to the above.
When people ask me to give to a charity now I just tell them I did, by paying taxes.
While I know that you are joking, one of the major targets of this particular machine is actually basically that, not of course for any direct public benefit, but for the owners.
This particular machine is of course targeted at LANL, and weapons development (oops, did I say that? I mean 'stockpile stewardship')
However, protein folding is one of the primary targets of the architecture.
Oh, and BTW, the IO nodes of this beast run linux. Not exactly a standard kernel, but not far off. The compute nodes run a very simple custom kernel to minimise resource use (after all, they have very limited needs as the IO nodes provide them most services).
For god sake consider thinking before you open your moth next time.
Think for a moment about the fact that a Gelato rendering node is MANY times faster than CPU rendering, therefore either saving you significant amounts of waiting time (which is expensive, unless you think people work for free), or saving you from having to have many many more nodes, which is also a significant cost in equipment, licenses, and support.
IF you are doing your rendering on a single node, then it is quite obvious that you are not actually working on serious commercial projects, as you would be aware that the waiting times dont add up.
By far the largest cost in such projects is manpower, and a machine that can offer 10+ TIMES the performance is well worth the paltry $1500/machine license, and $1000/machine hardware cost, the payoff will be in the order or weeks.
Then again, since you dont seem to be aware of this, I can only assume that you are not actually involved in real production rendering, so I guess there is little point in continuing this topic.
Down here in New Zealand i have been running on a generally available WiMax system for about 2 months now, and it have been available well before that. Guess I must have dreamed that. Nice strong 1Mbit/512Kbit (down/up) link at around 4Km from the transmitter on 3.5GHz. Only about 30% more expensive than wired ADSL broadband, which is not available here as we have fibre bearers out here in the country (go figure, Telecom wont install local DSLAMS).
There are tons of these system rolled out over here, have been for quite some time.
>580 vs 585 latest generation - its not even close - >the 585 (amd opteron) just flat smokes the intel 4 way zeon - >top of the line for everything, SAN backend.
Wow, for someone who cannot even spell Xeon you seem to be pretty clued up!;)
BTW everyone, the primary reason AMD is doing this now is because Intel entered the market with low-end dualcore at affordable prices, AMD entered with above-top end maximum performance chips, and they want to try and make a point before intel releases their server-class expensive dual-cores.
Remember, the CHEAPEST Opteron dual-core costs about 50% more than the MOST EXPENSIVE intel dual-core at present, and AMD specified Opteron (not Athlon X2) for this test...
>This is a well known phenomenon. The question is how much energy is being used to get this reduction in drag? >Where does this energy come from? Either APUs, or more powerful main engines... which are heavier... which means bigger wings...
Of course, if the effect they were discussing was a reduction in drag you may well have a point, since reducing the low speed stall of the wing was the actual effect I guess you missed the mark a little.
But of course, this is a well know effect. The sound produces surface turbulence in the zone where the laminar flow breaks down, and helps to keep the flow attached to a slightly higher angle of attack. Generally 'tripwires', surface steps, and small turbulator fins are used for this effect, however they operate at fixed positions. This system is a little more general, although comes at an energy (and indeed drag) cost.
An interesting approach would be to detect the development of stall and hit the vibration generators then, which would work great except it is very hard to re-attach flow once it breaks down, and very hard to detect stall before the flow detaches.
All in all, someone with a media connection has decided to ride a bit of common knowledge, good on them.
What an utter misguided falsehood. Are you actually trying to fool people, or do you not know better yourself?
While there are a few *compatible* modes from way back still supported in modern PCs (at no real added cost, financial or performance), these are almost unused in modern software.
Perhaps you have not noticed how modern PCs have highly complex interrupt virtualisation/routing capabilities, programmable edge/level sensitivity, prioritisation, etc in their interrupt subsystems, or how 'DMA' has grown in to a full arbitrated bus master/slave transfer system allowing zero-CPU activity transfers even between different IO devices directly, but that does not mean they are not there.
There is no legacy pc 'crap' as you put it, just a handfull of compatibility modes that are so immaterial as to mean nothing.
Do you really think the physical memory map means anything in these days of fully remapped virtual memory?
A modern 'pc' makes the system architecture of a 15 year old alpha server,a 10 year old sun workstation, or a 5 year old Macintosh look like a joke.
Lets also not forget that the internals of a modern Macintosh, other than the CPU and memory subsystem, are basically all PC hand-me-downs now anyway, IDE, USB, PCI, video cards, the list goes on.
>The people in the demographics market for Apple >Ipods should figure it out within 5 minutes how >to replace a battery. This is a lame attempt by >the old people to pretend they're hip.
I would suggest that most of the people in Apples demographic market for Ipods would not realise that it uses a battery, that it could possibly be opened, or quite possibly what 'time' is.
I guess next time apple will put YMMV a little more obviously in the literature.
Yes, thats right, a lump of crystal dug out of a large, polluting hole by minimum wage (if they are lucky) workers by sheer luck, and used to prop up massive corps is SO much better than one produced in a demonstration of our ability to solve extremely difficult technological problems, and produce an identical item.
Of course, in a few years you wont be able to tell which is which, so long as they work out how to add in a few imperfections to make the grown crystal look as poor as the natural one.
About damn time, another artificially produced drain on the common mans pocket toppled.
Grow up and learn a little. I wrote a masters thesis on image compression and analysis, by the way.
Both TIFF and PNG are capable of supporting ALL of these features without the tie-ins that raw formats have.
Lets see:
1 - There is no reason why these need to be done to other formats either, or do you not realise that both TIFF and PNG can support 16 bits per component plus additional data channels if required, all in a totally standard and open format? (PNG of course being the much more flexibile of the two)
2 - In what way do you think this? wow, you really have been sucked in by marketing.. there is again absolutely no reason why a raw (read: custom and expensive) format is required to do this, just because most manufacturers wish to throw away data to fit inside 8bit per formats does not mean that they need to.HDR formats are VERY common place these days without a need for manufacturer tie-in. Raw formats do absolutely NOTHING to help with over exposed images, or do you think they magically 'fix' a CCD/CMOS sensor pixel that is saturated?, they can help a little with undersaturated images, but since the noise floor of even good sensors sits around the 8th to 9th bit anyway, that is really a bit of a wash.
Face it, 'most people' are not capable of operating a good SLR, be it digital or film, to begin with. raw formats are most often used as a crutch for poor camera control.
And as to your first comment, you really have got yourself arse-about-face haven't you? the idea is that people SHOULD learn how to use their cameras properly in the first place.
Raw formats are currently useful for professional photographers who have the knowledge and end-user requirements for that level of use, they are next to meaningless for the average photographer.
You are confusing compressed and LOSSY compressed. TIFF is a lossless compression (if it even has its compression turned on), which does not ever lose any detail. JPEG of course is generally a LOSSY compression system, although it does supprot lossless compression, this is almost never used.
TIFF compression, by the way, will help almost zero on photographs, it is an RLE system which only really helps on noiseless images.
I really wonder when camera makers will clue up and switch to PNG for lossless and JPEG2 for lossy, both of which are LARGE improvements.
Of course, the reason that there is some value in RAW formats is that some sensors support morethan 8bit colour, and SOME raw formats actually preserve this, but that is actually not as common as many assume.
The number one reason for RAW formats is that people feel more 'elite' when they used them, and purchase the associated large storage media, etc.
Most people would be much better served by actually learning how to take a reasonable photograph in the first place.
>The US has sunk pretty low in recent years, >but still has a far way to go to reach the >depravity of Chinese or North Korean societies.
That would be the Chinese or North Korean Leadership you would be meaning there, not the society.
Please Remember, in these countries the leadership is much more separated from the society than in the west, and especially when compared to the USA where the government can be considered to be a reflection of society.
Of course please don't forget that Koreans are NOT Chinese, never have been, and take great offense at even a hint that they are.
The Koreans have suffered terribly in the hands of both the Chinese and the Japanese at times, geographically they are to a certain extent the Poland of Asia, and have suffered many similar fates (although not quite a bad as the horrors that were given to Poland at the end of the second world war).
Having said that, all of the Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese that I know get along very well, and are highly non-racist. There are idiots in every country that try and stir up ethnic unrest, the unfortunate bit is that they often succeed.
>The difference being that driving a car instead >of using a horse and buggy isn't illegal, >whereas illegally copying music is.
So you are suggesting that we should make the cars illegal to protect the important and ancient trades of cart making and horse farming?
I don't know, perhaps people will find enough uses to keep horses around even when they are not needed as a primary form of transportation. Perhaps it could even become a sport, you know, a bit of a recreational thing for people to do - horse riding! perhaps it could take off!
Nah, better arrest all the car drivers for destroying the livelyhoods of the horse farmers and cart makers.
Actually, much of it is going to Korea I would guess (the southern half).
This is not really anything unusual, the 'Simpsons' has been drawn in korea for quite a long time now.
And anyone who thinks South Korean is some kind of 3rd world low-wage country wants to go and try and live there! Seoul is the most expensive citys in the world to visit according to at least one study.
I guess they just do a good job for a resonable fee.
International competition is just part of the reality now, and if someone else does the job with a better price/performance, while meeting the requirements, then the work will (and probably should) move.
Of course, I'm making the mistake of a serious reply to an obvious troll, but why not.
Please try to remember that entry to the 'Top 500' list is as much about your interconnect topology and technology as the capabilities of the processors used.
It is a measure of one, and exactly one benchmark, LINPACK
Machines which are not well suited to this benchmark, or do not have network technologies/topologies well matching linpacks requirements will perform poorly at it, but possibly very well for their chosen purpose.
Good examples of this are the WETA digital clusters used in parts of the LOTR films, which are great for rendering, but hampered seriously in their linpack result by their 100MBit standard ethernet connections.
Another good example of this is the Virginia Tech G5 cluster, which gets a LARGE boost from it's infiniband interconnects (well, it will when Apple finish giving them the new machines... eventually..).
Not that I am defending SPARC's rather lackluster performance these days, just making a rather important point.
Those SPARC boxes better get a LOT cheaper VERY fast if they intend to find any real home in HPC.
Well, sounds like a case of dry solder joints to me, which means the solder used to connect parts to the motherboard has not been correctly applied and/or heated, leaving it weak. Could also be a simple socket retention issue.
The good news is that this is usually easily fixable, opening the device and re-heating the joints that connect the socket to the board, maybe also applying a little epoxy to reinforce the socket, as a little movement can agrivate the problem.
The bad news is that if the soldering is not up to spec, the entire device could suffer from long term unreliability, especially in a device that will see constant movement and vibration, such as this..
Possibly they have used a surface mount socket with only the solder connections to retain it, and it really needed some form of positive retention because the case is not strong enough to provide the rest - this would make it a little harder to fix by resoldering, but the theory is the same.
After all, it's not really a DIFFICULT problem in engineering, if this problem is happening a lot then someone has REALLY dropped the ball here.
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666, see Mac/Sevendust-A ANTI-A, see Mac/ANTI-A CDEF, see Mac/CDEF CODE-1, see Mac/CODE-1 CODE-252, see Mac/CODE-252 CODE-9811, see Mac/CODE-9811 ERIC, see Mac/Scores Garfield, see Mac/MDEF-A Graphics Accelerator, see Mac/SevenD-Fam INIT-1984, see Mac/INIT-1984 INIT-29, see Mac/INIT-29 INIT-9403, see Mac/INIT-9403 INIT-M, see Mac/INIT-M Mac/ANTI-A Mac/CDEF Mac/CODE-1 Mac/ CODE-252 Mac/CODE-9811 Mac/INIT-1984 Mac/INIT-2 9 Mac/INIT-9403 Mac/INIT-M Mac/MBDF-A Mac/MBDF -B Mac/MDEF-A Mac/nVIR-A Mac/nVIR-B Mac/nVIR-F am Mac/Scores Mac/SevenD-C Mac/SevenD-D Mac/Se venD-Fam Mac/Sevendust-A Mac/Sevendust-B Mac/Se vendust-J Mac/T4 Mac/WDEF Mac/ZUC-A MBDF-A, see Mac/MBDF-A MBDF-B, see Mac/MBDF-B MDEF 666, see Mac/Sevendust-A MDEF 9806, see Mac/Sevendust-A MDEF-A, see Mac/MDEF-A NASA VULT, see Mac/Scores nVIR-A, see Mac/nVIR-A nVIR-B, see Mac/nVIR-B nVIR-Fam, see Mac/nVIR-Fam San Jose Flu, see Mac/Scores Scores, see Mac/Scores SevenD-C, see Mac/SevenD-C SevenD-D, see Mac/SevenD-D SevenD-Fam, see Mac/SevenD-Fam Sevendust-A, see Mac/Sevendust-A Sevendust-B, see Mac/Sevendust-B Sevendust-J, see Mac/Sevendust-J SysX, see Mac/INIT-9403 T4, see Mac/T4 WDEF, see Mac/WDEF ZUC-A, see Mac/ZUC-A
Ahh, hasn't break even been passed experimentally quite some time ago?
http://www.jaeri.go.jp/english/fusion/fusion.htm l
This claims break even in 1996, and 1.25 power increase in 1998 in the JT-60 tokamak..
And this article seems to be stating they plan to hit breakeven in 2014 or further out.. hmmm.. perhaps they mean some special kind of break even, like the first ones using our method, or in the US, or something like that..
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There is no comparison.
Superbowl uses a few fancy camera tricks, in one stadium.
World Cup has a few stadia, and no tricks.
TDF Goes to places you would not want to drive a car, let alone 50+ production television trucks, covers several hundred kilometers of cycle racing, then moves for the next day, for a MONTH! It gives you telemetric data off 12+ riders each day, it manages 200+ riders positions in real time, and it runs through any weather conditions.
Trust me, I am in the middle of flying back from doing the OLN coverage, nothing even comes close.
Of course they are carefully looking at the AMERICAN price for titanium production..
It is much much cheaper in Russia, as it is basically produced as a side effect of steel production there due to the different ores available.
Most significant titanium users source their titanium from Russia, and there is little interest in other sources as Russia just has the right ores anyway.
Oh well, good try though.
>But the truth is if the bombs weren't dropped Europe would be a facist state
For god sake go and ready just a tiny bit of history.
'The nukes' were dropped to help american interests in the pacific (and thats being generous, to a large extent japan had stopped any meaningfull external warfare by then anyway, and russia was rapidly destroying what was left, it was a minour threat, but the devices needed testing and demonstration after all..), and were in no way related to the war in europe, in any way at all.
VE day (victory in europe) was 8th may 1945.
hiroshima was bombed on 9th august 1945, 3 months LATER.
VJ daywas 15th august 1945.
They are, specifically on NVidia hardware. Gelato.
NVidia care about this kind of market, hence they have WORKING OpenGL drivers, something ATI done care about (even though they like to claim OpenGL 2.0 functionality without even supporting the base requirements in hardware!)
You're not screwing the government, you're screwing the millions of people that depend on government money to survive. Stop scamming the government, millions of people on welfare depend on taxpayers.
Translation:
Millions of people are screwing you by relying on the taxes you pay to survive. Stop being scammed by these people by believing that they are supported by government money, it is your money supporting them!
Tongue in cheek of course, but a very valid reply to the above.
When people ask me to give to a charity now I just tell them I did, by paying taxes.
While I know that you are joking, one of the major targets of this particular machine is actually basically that, not of course for any direct public benefit, but for the owners.
This particular machine is of course targeted at LANL, and weapons development (oops, did I say that? I mean 'stockpile stewardship')
However, protein folding is one of the primary targets of the architecture.
Oh, and BTW, the IO nodes of this beast run linux. Not exactly a standard kernel, but not far off. The compute nodes run a very simple custom kernel to minimise resource use (after all, they have very limited needs as the IO nodes provide them most services).
For god sake consider thinking before you open your moth next time.
Think for a moment about the fact that a Gelato rendering node is MANY times faster than CPU rendering, therefore either saving you significant amounts of waiting time (which is expensive, unless you think people work for free), or saving you from having to have many many more nodes, which is also a significant cost in equipment, licenses, and support.
IF you are doing your rendering on a single node, then it is quite obvious that you are not actually working on serious commercial projects, as you would be aware that the waiting times dont add up.
By far the largest cost in such projects is manpower, and a machine that can offer 10+ TIMES the performance is well worth the paltry $1500/machine license, and $1000/machine hardware cost, the payoff will be in the order or weeks.
Then again, since you dont seem to be aware of this, I can only assume that you are not actually involved in real production rendering, so I guess there is little point in continuing this topic.
I suggest you go and pick up NVIDIA Gelato.
Using a general purpose CPU for this kind of work is like using your hands to remove a rusty bolt, just not the right way (tm).
We are finding ORDERS of magnitude less rendering time using such technology, and much lower equipment costs.
Down here in New Zealand i have been running on a generally available WiMax system for about 2 months now, and it have been available well before that.
Guess I must have dreamed that.
Nice strong 1Mbit/512Kbit (down/up) link at around 4Km from the transmitter on 3.5GHz.
Only about 30% more expensive than wired ADSL broadband, which is not available here as we have fibre bearers out here in the country (go figure, Telecom wont install local DSLAMS).
There are tons of these system rolled out over here, have been for quite some time.
>580 vs 585 latest generation - its not even close -
;)
>the 585 (amd opteron) just flat smokes the intel 4 way zeon -
>top of the line for everything, SAN backend.
Wow, for someone who cannot even spell Xeon you seem to be pretty clued up!
BTW everyone, the primary reason AMD is doing this now is because Intel entered the market with low-end dualcore at affordable prices, AMD entered with above-top end maximum performance chips, and they want to try and make a point before intel releases their server-class expensive dual-cores.
Remember, the CHEAPEST Opteron dual-core costs about 50% more than the MOST EXPENSIVE intel dual-core at present, and AMD specified Opteron (not Athlon X2) for this test...
Sigh, Marketing.
>This is a well known phenomenon. The question is how much energy is being used to get this reduction in drag?
>Where does this energy come from? Either APUs, or more powerful main engines... which are heavier... which means bigger wings...
Of course, if the effect they were discussing was a reduction in drag you may well have a point, since reducing the low speed stall of the wing was the actual effect I guess you missed the mark a little.
But of course, this is a well know effect. The sound produces surface turbulence in the zone where the laminar flow breaks down, and helps to keep the flow attached to a slightly higher angle of attack.
Generally 'tripwires', surface steps, and small turbulator fins are used for this effect, however they operate at fixed positions. This system is a little more general, although comes at an energy (and indeed drag) cost.
An interesting approach would be to detect the development of stall and hit the vibration generators then, which would work great except it is very hard to re-attach flow once it breaks down, and very hard to detect stall before the flow detaches.
All in all, someone with a media connection has decided to ride a bit of common knowledge, good on them.
What an utter misguided falsehood. Are you actually trying to fool people, or do you not know better yourself?
While there are a few *compatible* modes from way back still supported in modern PCs (at no real added cost, financial or performance), these are almost unused in modern software.
Perhaps you have not noticed how modern PCs have highly complex interrupt virtualisation/routing capabilities, programmable edge/level sensitivity, prioritisation, etc in their interrupt subsystems, or how 'DMA' has grown in to a full arbitrated bus master/slave transfer system allowing zero-CPU activity transfers even between different IO devices directly, but that does not mean they are not there.
There is no legacy pc 'crap' as you put it, just a handfull of compatibility modes that are so immaterial as to mean nothing.
Do you really think the physical memory map means anything in these days of fully remapped virtual memory?
A modern 'pc' makes the system architecture of a 15 year old alpha server,a 10 year old sun workstation, or a 5 year old Macintosh look like a joke.
Lets also not forget that the internals of a modern Macintosh, other than the CPU and memory subsystem, are basically all PC hand-me-downs now anyway, IDE, USB, PCI, video cards, the list goes on.
>The people in the demographics market for Apple
>Ipods should figure it out within 5 minutes how
>to replace a battery. This is a lame attempt by
>the old people to pretend they're hip.
I would suggest that most of the people in Apples
demographic market for Ipods would not realise
that it uses a battery, that it could possibly
be opened, or quite possibly what 'time' is.
I guess next time apple will put YMMV a little more obviously in the literature.
Wow! time to go and re-learn your history moron!
Ivy Mike was tested 1st November 1952, and that was by Americans, in case you dont know.
The Russians tested theirs on 12th August 1953, a MUCH simpler design, which could barely be considered a functional hydrogen bomb.
Try again.
Yes, thats right, a lump of crystal dug out of a large, polluting hole by minimum wage (if they are lucky) workers by sheer luck, and used to prop up massive corps is SO much better than one produced in a demonstration of our ability to solve extremely difficult technological problems, and produce an identical item.
Of course, in a few years you wont be able to tell which is which, so long as they work out how to add in a few imperfections to make the grown crystal look as poor as the natural one.
About damn time, another artificially produced drain on the common mans pocket toppled.
Grow up and learn a little.
I wrote a masters thesis on image compression and analysis, by the way.
Both TIFF and PNG are capable of supporting ALL of these features without the tie-ins that raw formats have.
Lets see:
1 - There is no reason why these need to be done to other formats either, or do you not realise that both TIFF and PNG can support 16 bits per component plus additional data channels if required, all in a totally standard and open format? (PNG of course being the much more flexibile of the two)
2 - In what way do you think this? wow, you really have been sucked in by marketing.. there is again absolutely no reason why a raw (read: custom and expensive) format is required to do this, just because most manufacturers wish to throw away data to fit inside 8bit per formats does not mean that they need to.HDR formats are VERY common place these days without a need for manufacturer tie-in. Raw formats do absolutely NOTHING to help with over exposed images, or do you think they magically 'fix' a CCD/CMOS sensor pixel that is saturated?, they can help a little with undersaturated images, but since the noise floor of even good sensors sits around the 8th to 9th bit anyway, that is really a bit of a wash.
Face it, 'most people' are not capable of operating a good SLR, be it digital or film, to begin with. raw formats are most often used as a crutch for poor camera control.
And as to your first comment, you really have got yourself arse-about-face haven't you? the idea is that people SHOULD learn how to use their cameras properly in the first place.
Raw formats are currently useful for professional photographers who have the knowledge and end-user requirements for that level of use, they are next to meaningless for the average photographer.
hmmm.
You are confusing compressed and LOSSY compressed. TIFF is a lossless compression (if it even has its compression turned on), which does not ever lose any detail.
JPEG of course is generally a LOSSY compression system, although it does supprot lossless compression, this is almost never used.
TIFF compression, by the way, will help almost zero on photographs, it is an RLE system which only really helps on noiseless images.
I really wonder when camera makers will clue up and switch to PNG for lossless and JPEG2 for lossy, both of which are LARGE improvements.
Of course, the reason that there is some value in RAW formats is that some sensors support morethan 8bit colour, and SOME raw formats actually preserve this, but that is actually not as common as many assume.
The number one reason for RAW formats is that people feel more 'elite' when they used them, and purchase the associated large storage media, etc.
Most people would be much better served by actually learning how to take a reasonable photograph in the first place.
>The US has sunk pretty low in recent years,
>but still has a far way to go to reach the
>depravity of Chinese or North Korean societies.
That would be the Chinese or North Korean Leadership you would be meaning there, not the society.
Please Remember, in these countries the leadership is much more separated from the society than in the west, and especially when compared to the USA where the government can be considered to be a reflection of society.
Of course please don't forget that Koreans are NOT Chinese, never have been, and take great offense at even a hint that they are.
The Koreans have suffered terribly in the hands of both the Chinese and the Japanese at times, geographically they are to a certain extent the Poland of Asia, and have suffered many similar fates (although not quite a bad as the horrors that were given to Poland at the end of the second world war).
Having said that, all of the Japanese, Koreans, and Chinese that I know get along very well, and are highly non-racist. There are idiots in every country that try and stir up ethnic unrest, the unfortunate bit is that they often succeed.
>The difference being that driving a car instead
>of using a horse and buggy isn't illegal,
>whereas illegally copying music is.
So you are suggesting that we should make the cars illegal to protect the important and ancient trades of cart making and horse farming?
I don't know, perhaps people will find enough uses to keep horses around even when they are not needed as a primary form of transportation.
Perhaps it could even become a sport, you know, a bit of a recreational thing for people to do - horse riding! perhaps it could take off!
Nah, better arrest all the car drivers for destroying the livelyhoods of the horse farmers and cart makers.
Actually, much of it is going to Korea I would guess (the southern half).
This is not really anything unusual, the 'Simpsons' has been drawn in korea for quite a long time now.
And anyone who thinks South Korean is some kind of 3rd world low-wage country wants to go and try and live there! Seoul is the most expensive citys in the world to visit according to at least one study.
I guess they just do a good job for a resonable fee.
International competition is just part of the reality now, and if someone else does the job with a better price/performance, while meeting the requirements, then the work will (and probably should) move.
Of course, I'm making the mistake of a serious reply to an obvious troll, but why not.
Sigh.
Please try to remember that entry to the 'Top 500' list is as much about your interconnect topology and technology as the capabilities of the processors used.
It is a measure of one, and exactly one benchmark, LINPACK
Machines which are not well suited to this benchmark, or do not have network technologies/topologies well matching linpacks requirements will perform poorly at it, but possibly very well for their chosen purpose.
Good examples of this are the WETA digital clusters used in parts of the LOTR films, which are great for rendering, but hampered seriously in their linpack result by their 100MBit standard ethernet connections.
Another good example of this is the Virginia Tech G5 cluster, which gets a LARGE boost from it's infiniband interconnects (well, it will when Apple finish giving them the new machines... eventually..).
Not that I am defending SPARC's rather lackluster performance these days, just making a rather important point.
Those SPARC boxes better get a LOT cheaper VERY fast if they intend to find any real home in HPC.
Well, sounds like a case of dry solder joints to me, which means the solder used to connect parts to the motherboard has not been correctly applied and/or heated, leaving it weak. Could also be a simple socket retention issue.
The good news is that this is usually easily fixable, opening the device and re-heating the joints that connect the socket to the board, maybe also applying a little epoxy to reinforce the socket, as a little movement can agrivate the problem.
The bad news is that if the soldering is not up to spec, the entire device could suffer from long term unreliability, especially in a device that will see constant movement and vibration, such as this..
Possibly they have used a surface mount socket with only the solder connections to retain it, and it really needed some form of positive retention because the case is not strong enough to provide the rest - this would make it a little harder to fix by resoldering, but the theory is the same.
After all, it's not really a DIFFICULT problem in engineering, if this problem is happening a lot then someone has REALLY dropped the ball here.
Taken from Sophos....
m ac exe.html
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http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/index_
Description: Macintosh file virus
666, see Mac/Sevendust-A
ANTI-A, see Mac/ANTI-A
CDEF, see Mac/CDEF
CODE-1, see Mac/CODE-1
CODE-252, see Mac/CODE-252
CODE-9811, see Mac/CODE-9811
ERIC, see Mac/Scores
Garfield, see Mac/MDEF-A
Graphics Accelerator, see Mac/SevenD-Fam
INIT-1984, see Mac/INIT-1984
INIT-29, see Mac/INIT-29
INIT-9403, see Mac/INIT-9403
INIT-M, see Mac/INIT-M
Mac/ANTI-A
Mac/CDEF
Mac/CODE-1
Mac
Mac/CODE-9811
Mac/INIT-1984
Mac/INIT-
Mac/INIT-9403
Mac/INIT-M
Mac/MBDF-A
Mac/MBD
Mac/MDEF-A
Mac/nVIR-A
Mac/nVIR-B
Mac/nVIR-
Mac/Scores
Mac/SevenD-C
Mac/SevenD-D
Mac/S
Mac/Sevendust-A
Mac/Sevendust-B
Mac/S
Mac/T4
Mac/WDEF
Mac/ZUC-A
MBDF-A, see Mac/MBDF-A
MBDF-B, see Mac/MBDF-B
MDEF 666, see Mac/Sevendust-A
MDEF 9806, see Mac/Sevendust-A
MDEF-A, see Mac/MDEF-A
NASA VULT, see Mac/Scores
nVIR-A, see Mac/nVIR-A
nVIR-B, see Mac/nVIR-B
nVIR-Fam, see Mac/nVIR-Fam
San Jose Flu, see Mac/Scores
Scores, see Mac/Scores
SevenD-C, see Mac/SevenD-C
SevenD-D, see Mac/SevenD-D
SevenD-Fam, see Mac/SevenD-Fam
Sevendust-A, see Mac/Sevendust-A
Sevendust-B, see Mac/Sevendust-B
Sevendust-J, see Mac/Sevendust-J
SysX, see Mac/INIT-9403
T4, see Mac/T4
WDEF, see Mac/WDEF
ZUC-A, see Mac/ZUC-A
Ahh, hasn't break even been passed experimentally quite some time ago?
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http://www.jaeri.go.jp/english/fusion/fusion.ht
This claims break even in 1996, and 1.25 power increase in 1998 in the JT-60 tokamak..
And this article seems to be stating they plan to hit breakeven in 2014 or further out.. hmmm.. perhaps they mean some special kind of break even, like the first ones using our method, or in the US, or something like that..