Ok, I know that Government (except Clinton I suppose) always have a budget deficit. If I were running the Government (which, luckily for everyone, I very much doubt will ever happen) I would make as sure as hell that the budget came in under so that I could throw a few sweeteners around when it come to getting re-elected if nothing else. (This is even more usefull in countries like the UK where the 'leader' can run the country for more than two election periods).
Common sense and governance may rhyme but they seem to completely defy one another.
"It is amazing, it is like when it comes to IT, the best brains in business suddenly loose their intelligence, as if different rules apply when it comes to computers."
It's also amazing when someone patents a common task/object with the word computer in it as a new invention. and it's also amazing when existing laws relating to theft or whatever aren't applied to computers and instead a whole new law which may bypass all legal president is passed instead. The same thing is happening with terrorists, we have existing laws about incitement to commit murder, but we need new ones for terrorists. I suppose it keeps the Government in a job.
Well, I think the tide is turning, very slowing, but it still turning.
I have a friend who's job is fixing peoples PC's, he's asked if I can go through some Linux stuff with him because he's seriously considering moving some people over to Linux instead of Windows.
I suppose he would prefer people to ask for help when they can't do something instead of when somethings broken because of a virus etc...
When bureaucracy causes problem like this it is malignant.
Just like a sensible person the Government should always try to keep a little cash to one side for the unexpected. But then again I suppose that all the 'spare' money has gone on Iraq which probably didn't help the response to Katrina too much and the response to Katrina defiantly seemed malignant, malignant by bureaucracy, negligence and ignorance a quality many Governments seem to have.
Well, in that case it's working at maximum revenue. So long as the server keeps serving and doesn't fall over.
I suppose one option would be to dynamically remove any images from the content when the server is under high load. This could be done by making all image resquests point to small_1x1.gif, or just dropping any requests that come in for images in a specific directory.
Now all we need is the Apache module to do this! Apache module
Internet apps have ridiculous latency, To me general perpose apps are things like windows or linux with real time interaction as well as bulk vector processing or high latency network applications. The GPU is fine for general processing so long as it doesn't have to have low latency. e.g. sound processing where you know what your going to get a half a second in advance could be done on the GPU without thrashing you system, but real time sound processing would be difficult, that's why I say it's not really general purpose, in the sense that a CPU is.
It is possible to run some processing tasks on the GPU, something like a matrix inversion should be fairly quick, but general purpose apps aren't really viable due to the time/bandwidth it takes working between the GPU and CPU.
"than buy a more costly equivalent LCD monitor which then requires setting up a living room PC with an OS and tuner card(s)"
Most of the LCD monitors I've seen cost far less than the LCD TVs, and most people seem to be buying LCD TVs nowadays and not CTRs.
A prebuilt MythTV system should be easy enough to get to grips too, and if you've got a bit more cash kicking around you could get windows media center that has some nice dvd info intergration.
Sorry to spoil it for you all, but they've been at it for year, here in the UK, everyone gets DNA'ed and they keep the records on file even if you are proven completely innocent. Ah, such is life with cameras following you everywhere but not noticeable drop in crime since the cameras were installed.
fresh out of training and knows the latest techniques
Your pushing it to assume that schools teach the latest techniques, even the articles in Dr Dobs seem to be a year or so too late to be 'the latest thing'
I expect you'll be subject to the oldest trick in the book, a rewrite, and what's even better is that the rewrite may even build on your mistakes and work better than you did.
'The days of playing VGA-resolution games on consoles will soon be over'
I doubt it, I think the days of TV will be over, especially with the BBC letting you download TV and Radio shows up to seven days after they were shown.
Why pay $$$$ for a HDTB when you can pay $$$ for a good TFT monitor to plug into a PC with a dual HDTV decoder that also acts as a PVR and game station?
but a TV isn't 1600 x 1200, it's only close to half that Couple that with the lower frame rate,tv has a refresh rate of 50HZ but a frame rate of only 25fps, and that's why graphics chipsets in consoles only have to be 1/8 as powerfull as in PCs.
Well, if we add to the definition that the object must be the dominant part of it's local system then Pluto's still a planet. You could also add to the definition that they must have been formed as a primarily single object from the planetry disk left after the creation of the central star, which may or may not get rid of Pluto.
"As I observe all the Bill Gates "bashing" from those who benefit daily from what Microsoft has done for the world, I am slightly puzzled."
It's almost as if the computer wouldn't have made it without Microsoft , banks don't run Java and Oracle, Experian doesn't run big iron and all web pages were standards compliant.
Peoples view On Microsoft 30 years on are a mixture of Marketing misinformation and Bills foundation (that has often seemed to favor those countries looking to switch from Microsoft products in the past).
People like Microsoft because they aren't fully aware of the competition or how Microsoft wiped the competition out through illegal practices or just buying them out. Managers like winners (even if they cheat) and there's know arguing that Microsoft is a winner.
Half way down the page on the right hand side there's a diagram. Moore's law the fifth paradigm, notice the scale on the left hand side, calculations per second per $1000.
"Enlarge Kurzweil expansion of Moore's law shows that due to paradigm shifts the underlying trend holds true from integrated circuits to earlier transistors, vacuum tubes, relays and electromechanical computers."
So your saying that a dual core processors don't have almost twice as many transistors? Were going to reach some density limits, but we can still double the number of transistors.
I used to work on fiberoptics for Honeywell about ten years ago, back then they were producing 32port switches with a gigabit backplain, I can't remember how much it cost bot $1000 seems reasonable. Nowadays you can get gigabit ethernet for 'free' with some motherboards. (It's still expensive to produce high speed fiber optics though)
People seem quite happy playing games on their TV (happier than on their computers) and TV's run a nowhere near 76Hz video at 1600x1200, mobile devices tend to have even lower resolution screens.
And don't forget that mobile devices aren't going to be completely, they will at least be able to use a compressed video stream and at best be able to run 50%+ of the application locally.
So, basically you figures bare no resemblance to the real world in any way what so ever.
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Are you licensed for that? it's one thing people copying a few songs it's another thing when a company does it.
Ok, I know that Government (except Clinton I suppose) always have a budget deficit. If I were running the Government (which, luckily for everyone, I very much doubt will ever happen) I would make as sure as hell that the budget came in under so that I could throw a few sweeteners around when it come to getting re-elected if nothing else. (This is even more usefull in countries like the UK where the 'leader' can run the country for more than two election periods).
Common sense and governance may rhyme but they seem to completely defy one another.
"It is amazing, it is like when it comes to IT, the best brains in business suddenly loose their intelligence, as if different rules apply when it comes to computers."
It's also amazing when someone patents a common task/object with the word computer in it as a new invention. and it's also amazing when existing laws relating to theft or whatever aren't applied to computers and instead a whole new law which may bypass all legal president is passed instead.
The same thing is happening with terrorists, we have existing laws about incitement to commit murder, but we need new ones for terrorists. I suppose it keeps the Government in a job.
Well, I think the tide is turning, very slowing, but it still turning.
I have a friend who's job is fixing peoples PC's, he's asked if I can go through some Linux stuff with him because he's seriously considering moving some people over to Linux instead of Windows.
I suppose he would prefer people to ask for help when they can't do something instead of when somethings broken because of a virus etc...
When bureaucracy causes problem like this it is malignant.
Just like a sensible person the Government should always try to keep a little cash to one side for the unexpected. But then again I suppose that all the 'spare' money has gone on Iraq which probably didn't help the response to Katrina too much and the response to Katrina defiantly seemed malignant, malignant by bureaucracy, negligence and ignorance a quality many Governments seem to have.
Couldn't they just open source Voyager and get a number of nations to fork the bill?
Well, in that case it's working at maximum revenue. So long as the server keeps serving and doesn't fall over.
I suppose one option would be to dynamically remove any images from the content when the server is under high load.
This could be done by making all image resquests point to small_1x1.gif, or just dropping any requests that come in for images in a specific directory.
Now all we need is the Apache module to do this! Apache module
Internet apps have ridiculous latency, To me general perpose apps are things like windows or linux with real time interaction as well as bulk vector processing or high latency network applications. The GPU is fine for general processing so long as it doesn't have to have low latency. e.g. sound processing where you know what your going to get a half a second in advance could be done on the GPU without thrashing you system, but real time sound processing would be difficult, that's why I say it's not really general purpose, in the sense that a CPU is.
It is possible to run some processing tasks on the GPU, something like a matrix inversion should be fairly quick, but general purpose apps aren't really viable due to the time/bandwidth it takes working between the GPU and CPU.
"than buy a more costly equivalent LCD monitor which then requires setting up a living room PC with an OS and tuner card(s)"
Most of the LCD monitors I've seen cost far less than the LCD TVs, and most people seem to be buying LCD TVs nowadays and not CTRs.
A prebuilt MythTV system should be easy enough to get to grips too, and if you've got a bit more cash kicking around you could get windows media center that has some nice dvd info intergration.
Sorry to spoil it for you all, but they've been at it for year, here in the UK, everyone gets DNA'ed and they keep the records on file even if you are proven completely innocent. Ah, such is life with cameras following you everywhere but not noticeable drop in crime since the cameras were installed.
fresh out of training and knows the latest techniques
Your pushing it to assume that schools teach the latest techniques, even the articles in Dr Dobs seem to be a year or so too late to be 'the latest thing'
I expect you'll be subject to the oldest trick in the book, a rewrite, and what's even better is that the rewrite may even build on your mistakes and work better than you did.
'The days of playing VGA-resolution games on consoles will soon be over'
I doubt it, I think the days of TV will be over, especially with the BBC letting you download TV and Radio shows up to seven days after they were shown.
Why pay $$$$ for a HDTB when you can pay $$$ for a good TFT monitor to plug into a PC with a dual HDTV decoder that also acts as a PVR and game station?
but a TV isn't 1600 x 1200, it's only close to half that Couple that with the lower frame rate ,tv has a refresh rate of 50HZ but a frame rate of only 25fps, and that's why graphics chipsets in consoles only have to be 1/8 as powerfull as in PCs.
Well, if we add to the definition that the object must be the dominant part of it's local system then Pluto's still a planet. You could also add to the definition that they must have been formed as a primarily single object from the planetry disk left after the creation of the central star, which may or may not get rid of Pluto.
Here's a top quote:
"As I observe all the Bill Gates "bashing" from those who benefit daily from what Microsoft has done for the world, I am slightly puzzled."
It's almost as if the computer wouldn't have made it without Microsoft , banks don't run Java and Oracle, Experian doesn't run big iron and all web pages were standards compliant.
Peoples view On Microsoft 30 years on are a mixture of Marketing misinformation and Bills foundation (that has often seemed to favor those countries looking to switch from Microsoft products in the past).
People like Microsoft because they aren't fully aware of the competition or how Microsoft wiped the competition out through illegal practices or just buying them out. Managers like winners (even if they cheat) and there's know arguing that Microsoft is a winner.
So, are you trying to tell me you don't know what a hill is? I don't think their going to be naming many flat surfaces hills.
Half way down the page on the right hand side there's a diagram.
Moore's law the fifth paradigm, notice the scale on the left hand side, calculations per second per $1000.
"Enlarge Kurzweil expansion of Moore's law shows that due to paradigm shifts the underlying trend holds true from integrated circuits to earlier transistors, vacuum tubes, relays and electromechanical computers."
So your saying that a dual core processors don't have almost twice as many transistors? Were going to reach some density limits, but we can still double the number of transistors.
I used to work on fiberoptics for Honeywell about ten years ago, back then they were producing 32port switches with a gigabit backplain, I can't remember how much it cost bot $1000 seems reasonable. Nowadays you can get gigabit ethernet for 'free' with some motherboards. (It's still expensive to produce high speed fiber optics though)
the consumer is simply an 'eyeball'
Well, we used to call them potential customers.
Moore's law is a bang for buck law, you can still go duel etc... core and keep with Moore's law so long as you keep the prices down.
People seem quite happy playing games on their TV (happier than on their computers) and TV's run a nowhere near 76Hz video at 1600x1200, mobile devices tend to have even lower resolution screens.
And don't forget that mobile devices aren't going to be completely, they will at least be able to use a compressed video stream and at best be able to run 50%+ of the application locally.
So, basically you figures bare no resemblance to the real world in any way what so ever.
I also doubt you $200 PC will cut it.