I remember how dorky the "k-power" kids' advisory team was... but I also remember typing my application on my TRS-80 Model I (my TI-99/4a didn't have a parallel adapter) and printing it on my daisy wheel printer, too.
Yes! Some pay per bandwith used, and even if its flat, 100 PC's on a corporate network could generate some neat network traffic too.
Oops. Yes, you're right about external bandwidth fees. I actually thought of that caveat, but got distracted and forgot to put it in. If you have bandwidth fees, by all means, take those into account as well.
However, as far as internal traffic on your network is concerned (darn, Slashdot doesn't understand the "sub" tag):
Vt = value of everyone else's normal bandwidth on the network
Vy = value of your bandwidth you normally use when at your desk
Vp = value of the bandwidth your computer uses when it's running a project but you're not there
Ut = total value when you and everyone else is there working normally, a.k.a. normal load
Vp < Vy
Vt + Vy = Ut .: Vt + Vp < Ut
That is, you won't be using as much bandwidth on your internal network when you aren't there, even with some use by the project. Assuming this is true, if you run into bandwidth issues when only a project runs, your network is already overloaded, or was never designed to run with all users at their desks.
It bothers me when people can't contribute to discussions, except to complain about grammar. How can you even bear to read Slashdot, with all the comments written by people who can barely spell, or by people for whom English is not their primary language?
Well, it's true that Dish Network has entered the PVR market with a box that you can get free or rent depending on the deal you cut with them, but remember that DirecTV's PVR, up til now, anyway, has been Tivo's DirecTivo.
I think any solution that takes an already-compressed digital stream and records it straight to disk, like the DirecTivo, is better in concept than any standalone box, that has to take an analog signal and compress it on the fly.
It also helps when the manufacturers turn a blind eye to third party hacks that let you make the most of your fair use (bigger drives, NICs, etc), something that you can't do if you are renting the box from the cable or satellite provider.
However, if it wasn't for the direct digital stream, I think a lot of us would be happy enough with the new lines of tv cards and software for our computers. Especially once Snapstream and the other providers get good scheduler services going.
The real question, which hasnt been answered on that article is how much network bandwith does it consume?
If you're not using your computers, it doesn't matter, now, does it? None of the programs (folding, distributed, that awful eccp client) would use as much as a guy surfing on the net, except maybe seti, and even that is just bursting, not continuous. Most of them seem to use shorthand for "uploading" results anyway, the only big use is when they download new info.
Your concern should be power consumption and heat production, probably. Especially if you're using Transmetas or laptops, etc.
No. The electricity used is not the issue within a company. The machines are on 24x7 anyway; the business has alreay accepted that cost of doing business.
Wrong. Particularly with larger corporate purchases, some buys calculate energy usage based on 9-10 hours a day on, and the remainder on low-power mode, and use that in their decision making.
Of course, discussing art on/. is like asking the guy at TacoBell about optimal router configurations
A lot of us who programmed routers so well they didn't require much attention are now out of jobs, so you might be surprised.
I got to talking to one of the checkout guys I always saw on my 3 A.M. grocery trips in Portland, and found out he used to be a tech recruiter for guys like me... that's about when I decided I had to move back home before I ran out of savings.
It's all part of some nefarious plot to allow other people to outnerd me after all my years of effort at being King Dork of the universe.
That's why you have broadband - because now that they'll be broadcast in the US, all those shows are much more likely to get sucked down and put on p2p.
You want geekiness? I saw the "the Spirit of Christmas" short in 1995 or early 1996 on my friend's color NeXT station, after he spent hours downloading the 52-meg quicktime file over the ISDN line I helped him wire up. The end was broken, I think, and Windows QT sucked at the time, so I couldn't copy it from him to play on my PC. (Brian, if you're reading this, call me - I have my own NeXT now)
I've talked to some who consider some shows to be anime - like branding The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to be "live-action" anime.
You seem to be thinking of only certain types of anime. Anime is not just fighting, space ships, kids battling with tiny creatures/machines/elemental forces, and/or giant robots. If you expand it out to include other types, you could substitute one or two sitcoms with magic in them (Bewitched, for example) for Kimagure Orange Road(but I'll hit you with my 500lb. hammer if you say Alf is anything like NieA Under 7).
There was another young woman who father would make her wear revealing anime costumes for something called cosplay, I wonder if I should have alerted the authorities about possible abuse?
That depends. Was the cosplay sexual in nature? Was she "underage" as defined by your local laws? If the answer to both questions is yes, do you really need it spelled out for you?
I wonder why kids can't stick with good old-fashioned healthy American cartoons like Bugs Bunny or Roadrunner.
Riiight. Have you seen some of the racist ones?. While I feel they're important for older kids to watch and think about, they're not "healthy." Of course, Bugs made up for that later by teaming with Michael Jordan... right?
Macs aren't the only products that inspire fanatical devotion (see comments re Linux, BSD, etc.). Not even just computers (shocking, isn't it?). Have you ever met people who drive Saturns? We're rather fanatical about our friendly dealerships and polymer side panels (dent resistant *and* rust proof:)
I hope your Saturn crashes even less than your Macintosh, if it's got plastic body panels.
With a lathe and a milling machine you can produce a firearm in as little as a day or two.
Can't you also just re-bore a current gunbarrel? I mean, I don't know, but it seems to me like if guns are traced by marks caused by ridges in the gunbarrel, you can change the ridges a bit and the marks change.
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Who else would make a compiler that states "This label is the target of a goto from outside of the block containing this label AND this block has an automatic variable with an initializer AND your window wasn't wide enough to read this whole error message"?
For floating point, IBM's Power4 chips are currently faster than Intel x86 chips running at more than 2.5 times the clock speed. Case in point: SPECfp2000.
And what would the list look like if Athlon XPs/MPs were added to the list? This is a very biased list; it seems to be full of just commercial servers.
He's not going to buy a house with his 8 months' saved salary, because that's his cushion against unemployment. What happens if he buys a house, spends that savings on a big down payment, and then 3 months down the road he gets laid off? If he can no longer make his house payment, he's out on the street, having lost his capital investment. If he's renting, on the other hand, he's not used that capital yet, and retains the flexibility to move to a cheaper place, as well.
Now, if he wants to start saving up separately from that 8 months' salary, then using that other saved amount to buy into a house, that would be a great idea. But it would be foolish for him to give up his position of security by using his major savings up and going into a position of debt if he doesn't have to.
I first heard about this virus in the last few days in the form of spam that came to my box, proclaiming that Bugbear was a new virus on the loose.
The fact that a spammer knows about this virus way before Slashdot indicates he's either very fast moving, or he may have some relationship with whoever created it. Unless, of course, Slashdot is just behind.
Of course we all know that they're really just protecting their own interests. They don't want to become the enforcers, because it will cost them money to do so. And remember, Verizon's complaint isn't that the RIAA wants the customer's records... it's that they want them without the formality of a court proceeding. They'll easily give that information out once they get a proper subpoena, so that the court order protects them from the subscriber suing them later.
I just sent him an email about the email being down. Oh, wait, I have an email. Oh. .., wait, I'm the netwerk admin.
Congratulations, I'd say your network works pretty well, then. Just better remind yourself not to annoy yourself with email unless it's a real issue. You are busy, you know.
That is, the two games within the world of the movie "A.I." that were supposed to be out at the Xbox launch, but disappeared? They were going to be made by the Dreamworks game affiliate, but now I just get fading links on Google when I search for them.
Someone tell me what happened to them? Was A.I. the movie considered such a flop that they were killed? I would buy an Xbox the the day of their release, but I promised myself when I bought my PlayStation 2 a year ago to wait until then...
Wow. I certainly wouldn't recommend anyone else do what I would do, because I'm not a lawyer, but I'd tell the CEO simply that I didn't do it, that Klez is a common virus, point him at some virus sites, and then say "bring it on" if he wasn't convinced. Then, if he did try to sue me, I'd alert all my friends here at Slashdot about the CEO, by name, and embarrass him and his company for having such an idiot CEO until I got a public apology plus any damages if I got arrested or my boxes confiscated, etc. With any luck, his shareholders will lose confidence in him and hit him in the pocketbook by driving the stock price down.
If CEOs are really that stupid, then I can almost believe the idea that most of the recent accounting scandals are the CFOs' fault. Maybe it's like the role of Governor and Lieutenant Governor in Texas. The Lieutenant Governor wields all the real power politically, while the Governor sometimes gets to become U.S. President...
I'm not worried about any IP rights violations in the beginning, because Intel, AMD, Motorola, TI, or whoever is making similar chips could get Chinese imports blocked from our economy until they get that matter resolved.
Nor am I worried that the Chinese will develop a private version of Linux and not release it under GPL, because as many other posters have pointed out, a private tree would be hard for them to maintain, and would reduce their general compatibility.
What worries me about this is that China isn't exactly known for its pioneering efforts on behalf of minimizing the impact of the technology industry on the environment. I am worried that, in their efforts to introduce this into a world marketplace, they won't follow the minimum environmental requirements that the rest of the industry deals with. I think we should be prepared to ask any company that announces they're looking at using this chip whether they've ensured that those standards will be met, and that we are prepared to hold them accountable for the actions of their suppliers.
I'm all for more chips in the marketplace. I might even buy these if I get in the market and there is an English-language Linux distro (or, better yet, maybe OSX? Wouldn't that be Steve Jobs' best coup, porting that BSD-based OS to it? (Can I say coup when talking about Communist China without being shot?)). But the environmental standards must be followed.
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Don't you remember?
They were bought out by Home Computer Magazine!
I remember how dorky the "k-power" kids' advisory team was... but I also remember typing my application on my TRS-80 Model I (my TI-99/4a didn't have a parallel adapter) and printing it on my daisy wheel printer, too.
I counter that argument here.
You also don't want to run up your company's utility bill if you'd otherwise leave your computer off when you're not at work.
That's why I said
in the same message.
Yes! Some pay per bandwith used, and even if its flat, 100 PC's on a corporate network could generate some neat network traffic too.
Oops. Yes, you're right about external bandwidth fees. I actually thought of that caveat, but got distracted and forgot to put it in. If you have bandwidth fees, by all means, take those into account as well.
However, as far as internal traffic on your network is concerned (darn, Slashdot doesn't understand the "sub" tag):
Vt = value of everyone else's normal bandwidth on the network
Vy = value of your bandwidth you normally use when at your desk
Vp = value of the bandwidth your computer uses when it's running a project but you're not there
Ut = total value when you and everyone else is there working normally, a.k.a. normal load
Vp < Vy
.: Vt + Vp < Ut
Vt + Vy = Ut
That is, you won't be using as much bandwidth on your internal network when you aren't there, even with some use by the project. Assuming this is true, if you run into bandwidth issues when only a project runs, your network is already overloaded, or was never designed to run with all users at their desks.
A bit simplistic, but I hope you get the idea...
I hate to be a dick, but dense(st/r) isn't a proper word.
They're not? Who says?
It just bothers me when people use poor grammar.
It bothers me when people can't contribute to discussions, except to complain about grammar. How can you even bear to read Slashdot, with all the comments written by people who can barely spell, or by people for whom English is not their primary language?
Well, it's true that Dish Network has entered the PVR market with a box that you can get free or rent depending on the deal you cut with them, but remember that DirecTV's PVR, up til now, anyway, has been Tivo's DirecTivo.
I think any solution that takes an already-compressed digital stream and records it straight to disk, like the DirecTivo, is better in concept than any standalone box, that has to take an analog signal and compress it on the fly.
It also helps when the manufacturers turn a blind eye to third party hacks that let you make the most of your fair use (bigger drives, NICs, etc), something that you can't do if you are renting the box from the cable or satellite provider.
However, if it wasn't for the direct digital stream, I think a lot of us would be happy enough with the new lines of tv cards and software for our computers. Especially once Snapstream and the other providers get good scheduler services going.
The real question, which hasnt been answered on that article is how much network bandwith does it consume?
If you're not using your computers, it doesn't matter, now, does it? None of the programs (folding, distributed, that awful eccp client) would use as much as a guy surfing on the net, except maybe seti, and even that is just bursting, not continuous. Most of them seem to use shorthand for "uploading" results anyway, the only big use is when they download new info.
Your concern should be power consumption and heat production, probably. Especially if you're using Transmetas or laptops, etc.
No. The electricity used is not the issue within a company. The machines are on 24x7 anyway; the business has alreay accepted that cost of doing business.
Wrong. Particularly with larger corporate purchases, some buys calculate energy usage based on 9-10 hours a day on, and the remainder on low-power mode, and use that in their decision making.
Homer: Hamburger earmuffs!
Homer must not have seen Hats of Meat.
Actually, it got much closer in 1951...
Seriously, though, I hope NASA and ESA and the Chinese and private firms have planned well in advance to take advantage of this situation.
Of course, discussing art on /. is like asking the guy at TacoBell about optimal router configurations
A lot of us who programmed routers so well they didn't require much attention are now out of jobs, so you might be surprised.
I got to talking to one of the checkout guys I always saw on my 3 A.M. grocery trips in Portland, and found out he used to be a tech recruiter for guys like me... that's about when I decided I had to move back home before I ran out of savings.
It's all part of some nefarious plot to allow other people to outnerd me after all my years of effort at being King Dork of the universe.
That's why you have broadband - because now that they'll be broadcast in the US, all those shows are much more likely to get sucked down and put on p2p.
You want geekiness? I saw the "the Spirit of Christmas" short in 1995 or early 1996 on my friend's color NeXT station, after he spent hours downloading the 52-meg quicktime file over the ISDN line I helped him wire up. The end was broken, I think, and Windows QT sucked at the time, so I couldn't copy it from him to play on my PC. (Brian, if you're reading this, call me - I have my own NeXT now)
I've talked to some who consider some shows to be anime - like branding The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to be "live-action" anime.
You seem to be thinking of only certain types of anime. Anime is not just fighting, space ships, kids battling with tiny creatures/machines/elemental forces, and/or giant robots. If you expand it out to include other types, you could substitute one or two sitcoms with magic in them (Bewitched, for example) for Kimagure Orange Road (but I'll hit you with my 500lb. hammer if you say Alf is anything like NieA Under 7).
There was another young woman who father would make her wear revealing anime costumes for something called cosplay, I wonder if I should have alerted the authorities about possible abuse?
That depends. Was the cosplay sexual in nature? Was she "underage" as defined by your local laws? If the answer to both questions is yes, do you really need it spelled out for you?
I wonder why kids can't stick with good old-fashioned healthy American cartoons like Bugs Bunny or Roadrunner.
Riiight. Have you seen some of the racist ones?. While I feel they're important for older kids to watch and think about, they're not "healthy." Of course, Bugs made up for that later by teaming with Michael Jordan... right?
Please tell me you're just trolling...
I am in high school and very interested in physics and it would be an awsome project to work on something like this.
Where have I heard this type of thing before?
You may think this is the ultimate chick "magnet," but personally, I think that even if fusion reactors only get a second place in the science fair these days, you should try to build a Tokomak. There's just something sexy about how they look.
After the fair, no matter how you do, you can take a promising date to see it, dim the lights and crank it up and see if sub-nuclear particles are all that get excited. Who knows, maybe you'll finally discover the joys of practical applications for combinatorial physics, where books have only given you theories to feed your fantasies...
(moderators: please don't "nuke" me too badly on this one)
Macs aren't the only products that inspire fanatical devotion (see comments re Linux, BSD, etc.). Not even just computers (shocking, isn't it?). Have you ever met people who drive Saturns? We're rather fanatical about our friendly dealerships and polymer side panels (dent resistant *and* rust proof :)
I hope your Saturn crashes even less than your Macintosh, if it's got plastic body panels.
With a lathe and a milling machine you can produce a firearm in as little as a day or two.
Can't you also just re-bore a current gunbarrel? I mean, I don't know, but it seems to me like if guns are traced by marks caused by ridges in the gunbarrel, you can change the ridges a bit and the marks change.
Who else would make a compiler that states "This label is the target of a goto from outside of the block containing this label AND this block has an automatic variable with an initializer AND your window wasn't wide enough to read this whole error message"?
Maybe the programmer coding the errors is a parent, and had read Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day recently.
Are the error messages the same globally (i.e., even in Australia)?
(Okay, if you're not giggling yet, read this link)
For floating point, IBM's Power4 chips are currently faster than Intel x86 chips running at more than 2.5 times the clock speed.
Case in point: SPECfp2000.
And what would the list look like if Athlon XPs/MPs were added to the list? This is a very biased list; it seems to be full of just commercial servers.
He's not going to buy a house with his 8 months' saved salary, because that's his cushion against unemployment.
What happens if he buys a house, spends that savings on a big down payment, and then 3 months down the road he gets laid off? If he can no longer make his house payment, he's out on the street, having lost his capital investment. If he's renting, on the other hand, he's not used that capital yet, and retains the flexibility to move to a cheaper place, as well.
Now, if he wants to start saving up separately from that 8 months' salary, then using that other saved amount to buy into a house, that would be a great idea. But it would be foolish for him to give up his position of security by using his major savings up and going into a position of debt if he doesn't have to.
I first heard about this virus in the last few days in the form of spam that came to my box, proclaiming that Bugbear was a new virus on the loose.
The fact that a spammer knows about this virus way before Slashdot indicates he's either very fast moving, or he may have some relationship with whoever created it. Unless, of course, Slashdot is just behind.
Of course we all know that they're really just protecting their own interests. They don't want to become the enforcers, because it will cost them money to do so. And remember, Verizon's complaint isn't that the RIAA wants the customer's records... it's that they want them without the formality of a court proceeding. They'll easily give that information out once they get a proper subpoena, so that the court order protects them from the subscriber suing them later.
I just sent him an email about the email being down. Oh, wait, I have an email. Oh. . ., wait, I'm the netwerk admin.
Congratulations, I'd say your network works pretty well, then. Just better remind yourself not to annoy yourself with email unless it's a real issue. You are busy, you know.
That is, the two games within the world of the movie "A.I." that were supposed to be out at the Xbox launch, but disappeared? They were going to be made by the Dreamworks game affiliate, but now I just get fading links on Google when I search for them.
Someone tell me what happened to them? Was A.I. the movie considered such a flop that they were killed? I would buy an Xbox the the day of their release, but I promised myself when I bought my PlayStation 2 a year ago to wait until then...
Wow. I certainly wouldn't recommend anyone else do what I would do, because I'm not a lawyer, but I'd tell the CEO simply that I didn't do it, that Klez is a common virus, point him at some virus sites, and then say "bring it on" if he wasn't convinced. Then, if he did try to sue me, I'd alert all my friends here at Slashdot about the CEO, by name, and embarrass him and his company for having such an idiot CEO until I got a public apology plus any damages if I got arrested or my boxes confiscated, etc. With any luck, his shareholders will lose confidence in him and hit him in the pocketbook by driving the stock price down.
If CEOs are really that stupid, then I can almost believe the idea that most of the recent accounting scandals are the CFOs' fault. Maybe it's like the role of Governor and Lieutenant Governor in Texas. The Lieutenant Governor wields all the real power politically, while the Governor sometimes gets to become U.S. President...
I'm not worried about any IP rights violations in the beginning, because Intel, AMD, Motorola, TI, or whoever is making similar chips could get Chinese imports blocked from our economy until they get that matter resolved.
Nor am I worried that the Chinese will develop a private version of Linux and not release it under GPL, because as many other posters have pointed out, a private tree would be hard for them to maintain, and would reduce their general compatibility.
What worries me about this is that China isn't exactly known for its pioneering efforts on behalf of minimizing the impact of the technology industry on the environment. I am worried that, in their efforts to introduce this into a world marketplace, they won't follow the minimum environmental requirements that the rest of the industry deals with. I think we should be prepared to ask any company that announces they're looking at using this chip whether they've ensured that those standards will be met, and that we are prepared to hold them accountable for the actions of their suppliers.
I'm all for more chips in the marketplace. I might even buy these if I get in the market and there is an English-language Linux distro (or, better yet, maybe OSX? Wouldn't that be Steve Jobs' best coup, porting that BSD-based OS to it? (Can I say coup when talking about Communist China without being shot?)). But the environmental standards must be followed.