"the machine may be ineligible because of its specialized hardware"
What specialized hardware? I would really like to read a more technical article about this machine. I would guess that the Japanese focused on vector processing like they did in the design of the Earth-Simulator.
The best supporting evidence I have for this conclusion is the comparison of Japan's last two supercomputers: Sun Fire X64 Cluster Earth-Simulator
Sun Fire has 10,368 processors with a Rmax(GFlops) of 38,180.
Earth-Simulator has 5,120 processors with a Rmax(GFlops) of 35,860.
That's 49% less processors with 94% the processor power*.
If someone (regardless if they are family) calls a computer you took the time to build for them a "piece of crap" then they no long deserve your help. Unless it really is a piece of crap in which case you should no longer build computers.
If you are dead set to go down this road then your best bet is to build the computer and setup the software exactly to their specifications. Of course, give them recommendations and help them along to good choices but do not be pushy. If as some later point they have complaints gently remind them that the computer was made to their specifications.
Rep. Lantos wants us (Americans) to force our laws on all the other countries of the world. This seems a little to Nazi for me. I believe that freedom of speech is a Good thing, but without laws there would be no thing protecting our rights. We (Americans) must respect other countries laws and allow the people of those countries to live the way they choose. If the majority of people in China truly want freedom of speech they can do what it takes to change their laws, but until then they are simply a minority that is making life difficult for everybody else. ---------- I fought for my freedom. Have you?
I should have been more clear in my last post. When using the automatic statement completion on a regular basis people come to depend on it. For example, Joe needs to write a program in C++ that does threading in Windows. Using Visual Studio he types in
hThread = CreateThread(
and VS provides him with the details of how many parameters and what kind of types he needs. However, when Joe goes to work for another company that develops Windows software using C++ he finds that they use the Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit because it is free and has everthing they need... Except for automatic statement completion for Joe who never learned how many parameters of which types are needed to create a new thread in C++ in a Windows environment.
Just as repeated use of calculator degrades a person's math skills I agree that Visual Studio can degrade a programmer's ability to remember all the aspects of a language. However, it really only affects those programmers who are lazy. Many people have already noted that it is easy to turn off the auto-whatevers and use code. You can go further and just use the command line. Lazy FU|5. Also, if you don't use Visual Studio why are you reading this?
In addition to describing interesting "Babble" devices the linked article from the posting talks about another interesting device that allows the user to change satellite views on a table-top by putting your hands on the table and spreading them, you zoom into a region, a city, a neighborhood. You can also slide your hand over the table to expose the view as captured at an earlier time. Even more interesting is that the surface of the table rises to create a model of the actual terrain.
As a sophomore in Computer Science everything was very abstract and really not as interesting as I had hoped. After reading Hillis' book The Pattern on the Stone my interest was renewed. The book presents Computer Science ideas in a more physical manner and I found my interest renewed (even if I still had to deal with professors that had died inside theirselves but continued teaching). The best comparison I can make is to Feynman's "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character.
The recommended system speed is 1GHz; however, Drivey works quite nicely on my 366MHz system. The demo is very mellow and would make a good screensaver except for the whole thing of using 100% of my system resources.
Window XP users should consider creating a test account in the "Guests" Group to run the program and others like it from in case it's a virus. You don't have to logout of your current account, simply right click on Drivey.exe, click on "Run As..." then choose your test account.
If there really is a "brain drain" on the rest of the industry. It should send a message to the rest of the industry that in order to compete they need to create work environments similar to the environments at Google and Yahoo.
------------ http://ccc.1asphost.com/codeworm
In addition to making a more stable OS only allowing two weeks to make changes cuts out people trying to submit changes that haven't been completely developed and tested.
----------- http://ccc.1asphost.com/codeworm/
Why did you waste your time with a master's degree if you were going to work a normal job?! I have plenty of college drop-out friends have have good "normal" IT jobs. If you take a "normal" IT job with your master's degree it will have been a waste. Go get your Ph.D.
The key to success in mathematics is solid foundations. Help your son master general math topics and he'll never feel limited in upper level classes. I suggest buying a cheap ACT, SAT, or GRE study guide and working through the math tests. This will help him discover problem areas. After that I recommend buying high quality books; hardback and if you need ideas check out what the colleges are using. Don't get bogged down with software - it will only become a crutch. A simple graphing calculator would likely be best. Remember: he won't be able to use anything more than that on tests, so he might as well get use to it now.
I just signed a contract saying that I wouldn't get together with others in the company and quit. If a bunch of you quit at once and the company can prove that you guys talked to each other about quiting it can do such things as, keep your last pay-check, sue you for damages, etc. I hope you didn't use your company email.
Why this guy? Lots of other universities have software to make searching the network shares easier. Also, the RIAA should go after MS Windows because microsoft has been providing the ability to search network shares for years.
1) Press the Windows key + F
2) Search for files of this format: *.mp3
3) Look in: \\magenta or whatever you network share is named
$150 what the heck is wrong with you? Do you have money just burning a hole in your pocket?
Here's how to record radio talk shows for $2: 1) Go to a dollar store 2) Buy a small AM/FM/Tape player/recorder for $1 3) Buy some black tapes for $1 4) Record the talk show on the tape using the radio
If you want to it to be "digital": 1) Follow steps 1 & 2 from above 2) Buy two pairs of head-phones for $2 3) Cut off the speakers and splice the jacks together. 4) Hook the radio up with your computer's soundcard (line in) 4) Record the talk show with your computer using the radio
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"It's hard to find anything bad to say, apart from some frustration that a couple of the hacks that interested me used ASP or VB rather than a more portable language."
Oh my freaking God! Cry me a river! If you are not a good enough programmer to port code from ASP/VB then you don't know what a "more portable" language is.
August, 1998. On South Uist island in the Outer Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland, a group of men huddled around a van, jacketed against the 25 knot wind. There was no way that they could hear the sound of the aircraft's engine over the persistent whistling of the gale; they would see it -- if they saw it at all -- before they would hear it. And it was an hour overdue on a potentially historic flight.
The small, single-engined craft was attempting the first solo flight across the Atlantic, but this was more of a solo than the one Lindbergh made some 70 years earlier. Where there had been one pilot on that flight, which was for Lindbergh the irreducible minimum crew, there was none on Laima. The plane was trying to fly itself solo from one side of the ocean to a particular spot on the other side. Instead of a compass and stars to steer by, it had a microprocessor and a global positioning system (GPS) receiver...
Without viewing/reading both good and evil how can a person correctly judge what is good or evil?
In every experiment, you need to compare your results to what you are ready know to be true. But since we do not know what is true we need to compare everything to everything. In this case, we need to be able to access everything ever made to truly be able to decide if something is good or evil. Censorship destorts the truth.
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"the machine may be ineligible because of its specialized hardware"
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What specialized hardware? I would really like to read a more technical article about this machine. I would guess that the Japanese focused on vector processing like they did in the design of the Earth-Simulator.
The best supporting evidence I have for this conclusion is the comparison of Japan's last two supercomputers:
Sun Fire X64 Cluster
Earth-Simulator
Sun Fire has 10,368 processors with a Rmax(GFlops) of 38,180.
Earth-Simulator has 5,120 processors with a Rmax(GFlops) of 35,860.
That's 49% less processors with 94% the processor power*.
Here's the original article link:
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jul
*Only comparing one aspect of performance.
If someone (regardless if they are family) calls a computer you took the time to build for them a "piece of crap" then they no long deserve your help. Unless it really is a piece of crap in which case you should no longer build computers.
If you are dead set to go down this road then your best bet is to build the computer and setup the software exactly to their specifications. Of course, give them recommendations and help them along to good choices but do not be pushy. If as some later point they have complaints gently remind them that the computer was made to their specifications.
Rep. Lantos wants us (Americans) to force our laws on all the other countries of the world. This seems a little to Nazi for me. I believe that freedom of speech is a Good thing, but without laws there would be no thing protecting our rights. We (Americans) must respect other countries laws and allow the people of those countries to live the way they choose. If the majority of people in China truly want freedom of speech they can do what it takes to change their laws, but until then they are simply a minority that is making life difficult for everybody else.
----------
I fought for my freedom. Have you?
I should have been more clear in my last post. When using the automatic statement completion on a regular basis people come to depend on it. For example, Joe needs to write a program in C++ that does threading in Windows. Using Visual Studio he types in
hThread = CreateThread(
and VS provides him with the details of how many parameters and what kind of types he needs. However, when Joe goes to work for another company that develops Windows software using C++ he finds that they use the Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit because it is free and has everthing they need... Except for automatic statement completion for Joe who never learned how many parameters of which types are needed to create a new thread in C++ in a Windows environment.
Just as repeated use of calculator degrades a person's math skills I agree that Visual Studio can degrade a programmer's ability to remember all the aspects of a language. However, it really only affects those programmers who are lazy. Many people have already noted that it is easy to turn off the auto-whatevers and use code. You can go further and just use the command line. Lazy FU|5. Also, if you don't use Visual Studio why are you reading this?
In addition to describing interesting "Babble" devices the linked article from the posting talks about another interesting device that allows the user to change satellite views on a table-top by putting your hands on the table and spreading them, you zoom into a region, a city, a neighborhood. You can also slide your hand over the table to expose the view as captured at an earlier time. Even more interesting is that the surface of the table rises to create a model of the actual terrain.
As a sophomore in Computer Science everything was very abstract and really not as interesting as I had hoped. After reading Hillis' book The Pattern on the Stone my interest was renewed. The book presents Computer Science ideas in a more physical manner and I found my interest renewed (even if I still had to deal with professors that had died inside theirselves but continued teaching). The best comparison I can make is to Feynman's "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character.
The recommended system speed is 1GHz; however, Drivey works quite nicely on my 366MHz system. The demo is very mellow and would make a good screensaver except for the whole thing of using 100% of my system resources.
Window XP users should consider creating a test account in the "Guests" Group to run the program and others like it from in case it's a virus. You don't have to logout of your current account, simply right click on Drivey.exe, click on "Run As..." then choose your test account.
If there really is a "brain drain" on the rest of the industry. It should send a message to the rest of the industry that in order to compete they need to create work environments similar to the environments at Google and Yahoo.
------------
http://ccc.1asphost.com/codeworm
In addition to making a more stable OS only allowing two weeks to make changes cuts out people trying to submit changes that haven't been completely developed and tested.
-----------
http://ccc.1asphost.com/codeworm/
Hey if this guy can't get funding to pay for grad school maybe he's in the wrong field.
Why did you waste your time with a master's degree if you were going to work a normal job?! I have plenty of college drop-out friends have have good "normal" IT jobs. If you take a "normal" IT job with your master's degree it will have been a waste. Go get your Ph.D.
Now all we need to do is find those giant Martian ice melting machines and Mars will be our home away from home.
The key to success in mathematics is solid foundations. Help your son master general math topics and he'll never feel limited in upper level classes. I suggest buying a cheap ACT, SAT, or GRE study guide and working through the math tests. This will help him discover problem areas. After that I recommend buying high quality books; hardback and if you need ideas check out what the colleges are using. Don't get bogged down with software - it will only become a crutch. A simple graphing calculator would likely be best. Remember: he won't be able to use anything more than that on tests, so he might as well get use to it now.
I just signed a contract saying that I wouldn't get together with others in the company and quit. If a bunch of you quit at once and the company can prove that you guys talked to each other about quiting it can do such things as, keep your last pay-check, sue you for damages, etc. I hope you didn't use your company email.
Why this guy? Lots of other universities have software to make searching the network shares easier. Also, the RIAA should go after MS Windows because microsoft has been providing the ability to search network shares for years.
1) Press the Windows key + F
2) Search for files of this format: *.mp3
3) Look in: \\magenta or whatever you network share is named
$150 what the heck is wrong with you? Do you have money just burning a hole in your pocket?
Here's how to record radio talk shows for $2:
1) Go to a dollar store
2) Buy a small AM/FM/Tape player/recorder for $1
3) Buy some black tapes for $1
4) Record the talk show on the tape using the radio
If you want to it to be "digital":
1) Follow steps 1 & 2 from above
2) Buy two pairs of head-phones for $2
3) Cut off the speakers and splice the jacks together.
4) Hook the radio up with your computer's soundcard (line in)
4) Record the talk show with your computer using the radio
"It's hard to find anything bad to say, apart from some frustration that a couple of the hacks that interested me used ASP or VB rather than a more portable language."
Oh my freaking God! Cry me a river! If you are not a good enough programmer to port code from ASP/VB then you don't know what a "more portable" language is.
What exactly is the benefit of having your project worked on outside of the US?
Hire American.
August, 1998. On South Uist island in the Outer Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland, a group of men huddled around a van, jacketed against the 25 knot wind. There was no way that they could hear the sound of the aircraft's engine over the persistent whistling of the gale; they would see it -- if they saw it at all -- before they would hear it. And it was an hour overdue on a potentially historic flight.
The small, single-engined craft was attempting the first solo flight across the Atlantic, but this was more of a solo than the one Lindbergh made some 70 years earlier. Where there had been one pilot on that flight, which was for Lindbergh the irreducible minimum crew, there was none on Laima. The plane was trying to fly itself solo from one side of the ocean to a particular spot on the other side. Instead of a compass and stars to steer by, it had a microprocessor and a global positioning system (GPS) receiver...
Read the rest at:
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/j_raskin_1.html
Without viewing/reading both good and evil how can a person correctly judge what is good or evil?
In every experiment, you need to compare your results to what you are ready know to be true. But since we do not know what is true we need to compare everything to everything. In this case, we need to be able to access everything ever made to truly be able to decide if something is good or evil. Censorship destorts the truth.
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https://lm.lcs.mit.edu/px.html
If you cannot connect to a site and you think your local ISP is responible use the above link.