The computer-illiterate bureaucrat who runs the show hires IT consultants to design and implement any major projects, an old-school geek is the senior sysadmin, and recent college graduates do the dirty work.
The cosmetic changes will not convert a lot of non-yahoo mail users, but the new look would have been an unexpected but pleasant surprise to the regular yahoo mail users!
Isn't there some real news for nerds besides skin changes?
"Just 0.3 percent admitted to faking research data, and 1.4 percent admitted to plagiarism. But lesser violations were far more common, including 4.7 percent who admitted to publishing the same data in two or more publications to beef up their résumés and 13.5 percent who used research designs they knew would not give accurate results."
How is this different than just having mathematica on different systems and than just "adding" new kernels for each of the other systems on the system that you are using? (assume site license)
Besides the small inconvenience of having to hunt and install ncompress -required to uncompress some libraries-, Mathematica 4.2 S.E. works on Mandrake 9.0.
I know Mathematica is SMP capable, but at what level is it SMP "capable" - below or at equation level. In other words, (on an SMP machine, after adding a new kerne) if you have two independent equations, in the same notebook, one after the, other, does Mathematica uses both cpus to solve the first equation, and then both cpus to solve the second equation, or does it use one cpu to solve the first equation, and at the same time the second cpu to solve the second equation (assume independent calculations)?
I'm asking this because I observer some really weird cpu behavior on an AMD/SMP system (both in Linux and Windows) - like 99% usage 1st cpu, 30% usage 2nd cpu, for 10-15 minutes, and then usage reverses. The program I'm running has 4 nested loops, and each loop performs complete, independent, calculations.
(But then again I'm using a S.E. which might be SMP retarded)
People sometimes ask me the names of the large numbers. Here is a table. The system used in the U.S. is not as logical as that used in other countries (like Great Britain, France, and Germany). In these other countries, a billion (bi meaning two) has twice as many zeros as a million, and a trillion (tri meaning three) has three times as many zeros as a million, etc. But the scientific community seems to use the American system.
Number of zeros:U.S. & scientific community:Other countries
3:thousand:thousand 6:million:million 9:billion:1000 million (1 milliard) 12:trillion:billion..."
The funny thing is when MTA wanted to strike, last year sometime, one of their complaints was that the token booth puppets are being replaced by machines/computers, and that there is a need for a doorman.
I say fire them all, and replace them by machines, except the conductors... You won't have the hear them bitch, no more $17 in singles in change after purchasing 2 tokens (especially an hour before shift switching), no more, "We don't accept $50 bills, not even the new ones!", and on top of everything you'll be able to hear the announcements.
What a difference between the new 6/L trains and the old trains.
1. Taking AMD to court for not forcing motherboard manufacturers to implement mb shutdown due to heat - especially taking in consideration the heat the AMD processors operate at.
2. Taking AMD to court for contradictory technical documents. Is anybody out there capable of differentiating between MP and XP at the bios level.
3. Taking AMD to court for incompetent technical support. One day they say non-recommended motherboards can screw up the warranty of the processors, the next day they "re-phrase" the answer, and say, they'll work with the customer to fix any problems.
4. Taking both AMD and Tyan to court for misleading the public - Tiger S2460 is "NOT" a recommended AMD/SMP platform inspite what Tyan claims, and inspite AMD failure to warn the public that Tyan claims otherwise - call it "internal politics".
The reason AMD became a "real" choice in the first place was because they snaked-eye the enthusiasts with the Duron's 50% over-clockability at a reasonable price, when Intel was charging an arm and a leg for similar performance.
The choice is very simple:
If you are not paying for the products and your a$$ is on the line you go with the "standards"!!! - Intel, MS, SUN, etc...
If you are paying for the products out of your own wallet, then you go with the best (support*performance)/price ratio. The need for "support" is relative to an individual.
AMD is/was lacking in the support department, but performace and price was great. AMD support is improving both in MS and Linux environments (but this is support from the community -at least on the linux platform- rather than support from AMD).
Intel is/was a bit hefty on on the performance/price, but support is/was great.
If AMD scratches MS's back for the sake of "support" more power to them. But if AMD starts matching Intel's prices and AMD's performance/price ratio starts to match Intel's performance/price, Intel here I come, because support=experience=age.
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They would use the cyrillic alphabet.
The computer-illiterate bureaucrat who runs the show hires IT consultants to design and implement any major projects, an old-school geek is the senior sysadmin, and recent college graduates do the dirty work.
The cosmetic changes will not convert a lot of non-yahoo mail users, but the new look would have been an unexpected but pleasant surprise to the regular yahoo mail users!
Isn't there some real news for nerds besides skin changes?
Using BASIC for anything other than spaghetti programming.
Speculations made by computer literates who are grammatically challenged, and don't spell check should be taken with a grain of silicon.
Isn't that what everybody wants to see?
"Just 0.3 percent admitted to faking research data, and 1.4 percent admitted to plagiarism. But lesser violations were far more common, including 4.7 percent who admitted to publishing the same data in two or more publications to beef up their résumés and 13.5 percent who used research designs they knew would not give accurate results."
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Required reading for editors: How to Lie with Statiscs
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/sim-explorer
People you know are probably in the "Technology Center" which is part of the bureaucracy. Not to be confused with the academics.
How is this different than just having mathematica on different systems and than just "adding" new kernels for each of the other systems on the system that you are using? (assume site license)
Besides the small inconvenience of having to hunt and install ncompress -required to uncompress some libraries-, Mathematica 4.2 S.E. works on Mandrake 9.0.
I know Mathematica is SMP capable, but at what level is it SMP "capable" - below or at equation level. In other words, (on an SMP machine, after adding a new kerne) if you have two independent equations, in the same notebook, one after the, other, does Mathematica uses both cpus to solve the first equation, and then both cpus to solve the second equation, or does it use one cpu to solve the first equation, and at the same time the second cpu to solve the second equation (assume independent calculations)?
I'm asking this because I observer some really weird cpu behavior on an AMD/SMP system (both in Linux and Windows) - like 99% usage 1st cpu, 30% usage 2nd cpu, for 10-15 minutes, and then usage reverses. The program I'm running has 4 nested loops, and each loop performs complete, independent, calculations.
(But then again I'm using a S.E. which might be SMP retarded)
http://www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm
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"Million, Billion, Trillion... © Copyright 1999, Jim Loy
People sometimes ask me the names of the large numbers. Here is a table. The system used in the U.S. is not as logical as that used in other countries (like Great Britain, France, and Germany). In these other countries, a billion (bi meaning two) has twice as many zeros as a million, and a trillion (tri meaning three) has three times as many zeros as a million, etc. But the scientific community seems to use the American system.
Number of zeros:U.S. & scientific community:Other countries
3:thousand:thousand
6:million:million
9:billion:1000 million (1 milliard)
12:trillion:billion
http://www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm
The funny thing is when MTA wanted to strike, last year sometime, one of their complaints was that the token booth puppets are being replaced by machines/computers, and that there is a need for a doorman.
I say fire them all, and replace them by machines, except the conductors... You won't have the hear them bitch, no more $17 in singles in change after purchasing 2 tokens (especially an hour before shift switching), no more, "We don't accept $50 bills, not even the new ones!", and on top of everything you'll be able to hear the announcements.
What a difference between the new 6/L trains and the old trains.
What about:
1. Taking AMD to court for not forcing motherboard manufacturers to implement mb shutdown due to heat - especially taking in consideration the heat the AMD processors operate at.
2. Taking AMD to court for contradictory technical documents. Is anybody out there capable of differentiating between MP and XP at the bios level.
3. Taking AMD to court for incompetent technical support. One day they say non-recommended motherboards can screw up the warranty of the processors, the next day they "re-phrase" the answer, and say, they'll work with the customer to fix any problems.
4. Taking both AMD and Tyan to court for misleading the public - Tiger S2460 is "NOT" a recommended AMD/SMP platform inspite what Tyan claims, and inspite AMD failure to warn the public that Tyan claims otherwise - call it "internal politics".
check:
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http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/GJAN-43VR4V.htm
http://www-1.ibm.com/cgi-bin/pc/support/support
No confussion here!!!
The reason AMD became a "real" choice in the first place was because they snaked-eye the enthusiasts with the Duron's 50% over-clockability at a reasonable price, when Intel was charging an arm and a leg for similar performance.
The choice is very simple:
If you are not paying for the products and your a$$ is on the line you go with the "standards"!!! - Intel, MS, SUN, etc...
If you are paying for the products out of your own wallet, then you go with the best (support*performance)/price ratio. The need for "support" is relative to an individual.
AMD is/was lacking in the support department, but performace and price was great. AMD support is improving both in MS and Linux environments (but this is support from the community -at least on the linux platform- rather than support from AMD).
Intel is/was a bit hefty on on the performance/price, but support is/was great.
If AMD scratches MS's back for the sake of "support" more power to them. But if AMD starts matching Intel's prices and AMD's performance/price ratio starts to match Intel's performance/price, Intel here I come, because support=experience=age.