i am very happy that this endeavo(u)r is being done. i am very excited in seeing the results (too bad it's one year till showdown and probably a couple of months for supercomputers to analyze all the data.)
kudos to the scientific community. scientists from different nations as well as countries have collaborated in this event. i hope this is the start of more advances in science (and hopefully i would live through seeing the fruits of their labo(u)r.):)
i won't bother with intranet pages anymore, most/. get it. i agree with the decision of microsoft. at least it encourages the internet to be on web standard at the same time accommodating the incompatible.:)
having been using ie8 beta2 for a couple of days, it is better than ie6 and ie7. ie has been my only browser ever since probably ie4. (/. readers, please don't bash me.) i think it has improved greatly in features (albeit quite late in the game.) but i'm happy with the goal of following web standards. good thing acid2 test is working now. however, a couple of high profile websites are generating problems for me. it includes slashdot and ebay. it has to do more of behavior and speed rather than look. new useful features/changes: find, session restoration and recovery, tab recovery, developer tools, and inprivate. probably working with features of ie7, firefox, and safari all in one.
john:)
p.s. i am posting this entry in compatibility mode because/. is having problems with ie8. by disabling the feature, then my web will be broken right now.
how about printing all the pictures back to 35mm negatives. negatives have been able to withstand much longer times even with dirt, molds, humidity, warm temp, etc.
for videos, well convert them to 35mm movies? print to film? expensive but i think will last for generations.
just counting on downloads (voluntary and automatic) probably the guinness world record would probably be microsoft. just count the number of computers downloading files every patch tuesday, that would probably be in the scale of tens to hundreds of millions.
well for firefox, does the figure there amount to the automatic update or just manual downloads? but for voluntary downloads, probably mozilla may get the crown.
you have the hardware but what about the content? so will the kids be accessing the net and going to social network sites?
the cheap computer is just part of the problem. i would like to see if they can get free unrestricted access to all the library of congress collection. i'll get very excited when that happens. books are becoming much expensive than computers.
the internet gave cheaper access to information. but useful information is still hard to come by these days for free.:)
wouldn't investors be wanting to get their money back? what's the point if you are going to put money in a company only at the end for them to gobble it up. i'll put it somewhere.
if good things would want to be given without profit, then i suggest a foundation instead and ask for donations.
if they claim to be more neutral, then at the start of the installation, they should prompt the user for whatever search engine they prefer and not default to anything (it should always go to a selection screen when one searches.)
take the case of ie7, when i installed it, it asks me for my search engine preference. but the default search bar goes to live.
isn't reducing the price going to hurt more of ps3 sales rather than helping it? people will instead buy the ps2 and avoid buying the ps3 for the meantime because of the higher price. but then again, it may also be good because it is also possibly hurting the sales of wii and xbox as well.
the price reduction for ps3 is a good move as well. removing the compatibility probably will not make a big different because people who will buy ps3 will highly have a ps2 already.
a suggestion to sony, add a keyboard, mouse and allow x86 programs to run, put in satellite fm tuner, audio amplifier, and mixer into the box among others to make it the center of the living room.
if i were a game developer, i would no longer develop for the ps3. by making the people spend time with the ps3 as a pvr than a game console, my potential sales will be lost.
i just see it as, father: i want to watch the show i missed. son: i want to play. father: sorry you should have gotten a wii. haha!
my main question before that they answered is if the core 2 quad processors are being choked due to insufficient bandwidth. they measured the difference between 1066 and 1333fsb and performance barely increased. this brings me back to the following observations:
1. the processor is not bandwidth limited and merging the 4 cores in a single die would not yield much performance benefit. this brings back to the argument who is better the native quad core vs 2 x dual core (though in an engineering standpoint, the native quad core will be better but in real world as long as performance is good, i really don't care.)
2. intel has made a good job with their branch prediction that required data is almost always in the cache reducing any performance hit via fsb.
3. on-die memory controller might not yield great performance improvement for current core2 processors (if intel would add them now.)
the main anticipation now is if amd will beat intel in their upcoming barcelona chips. the advantage right now with amd is their ability to increase sockets through hypertransport. but that advantage might disappear soon when intel integrates the memory controller.
anyway, as of now the consumers are winning. i hope that amd will be able to keep up with intel so we can have good competition. for the mean time, i will be buying a q6600 system. quite cheap cpu coupled with cheap memory now (good time to increase memory capacity to >=4gb.)
the difference though if you can search the records electronically is that it will be easier to mine the information. that will be very difficult with printed records limiting the scope of malicious activities.
some people may not want the added responsibilities when moving up the corporate ladder. they may be happy with all the time they get and the place where they work (may it be at home or some comfortable location.)
it's a tradeoff between flexibility and being exhausted and worked out.
i'd prefer to be happy and flexible with a decent pay rather than have a big pay with not enough time to spend it enjoying.
i'm from the philippines and we are generally a metric country. however, there are certain instances when the imperial system is used. it is often done in sizes in hardware parts like pipes where we have 1/4", 1/2", etc. in those cases, it will be much harder to convert to metric as 1/4" is 0.635cm and 1/2" is 1.27cm are not of typical sizes like 0.5, 0.25.
anyway, i have been accustomed to using feet and inches in measuring my height (but uses metric on objects) and pounds for my weight. i have recently converting those to metric and i am quite getting used to it without having to think about the conversion.
at the end, i believe that education in school will make a much bigger impact. having been taught the metric system, it is easier for me to visualize and estimate in those items than in imperial system.
my question is why do all the cable systems seems to pass the same path? some would say that the path is the "safest." look what happened now. it's not as safe as they think.
most providers are boasting of diversified systems but at the end, all their cables pass through the same area. if only i have enough money to establish my own telecom company.
a rant (a little off topic) - i'm from the philippines and my isp, then connected to a carrier, globe telecoms has not yet been able to recover much after all the weeks. they seem to rely on just one cable system (c2c.) it took them around two weeks at least to add additional capacity from other networks. i'm also angry at them as they block certain bandwidth intensive sites like youtube. as a carrier, they should not block sites (the slowness in speed would have deterred many from accessing the site anyway.) at the same time, they are not very good in balancing traffic. some of the sites that pass on certain upstream providers are fast and some are very slow to a point of not being able to visit because they pass through congested links. if only i could call them and tell them what to do.
i'm from the philippines and the connection right now is horrible. it is spotty and i am able to access slashdot right now albeit very slow.
i am concerned about what happened here's why.
the earthquake happened dec. 26, 8:26pm local time (same time zone with taiwan.) during that time, the internet connectivity was still working ok (i accessed the net at around 10pm and surprised to see at tsunami alerts in my country.) there was no increased latency or packet loss. it was only until the morning of the following day that the connectivity started failing. my questions are:
1. did the cables break sometime during the night after debris may have loosed and damaged the cables? 2. did governments shut down commercial internet services in order to allocate remaining capacity for themselves? or did carriers cut out other customers to give preference to some? 3. why is it that asia is affected? if ever the entire landing station in taiwan is offline and cables are cut from there, the cables are operating in protected ring configurations and should have rerouted automatically. 4. if it failed, do telcos remove the protection and instead just increase their bandwidth usage (for pure profits?) 5. do all the cable systems pass through the same physical path (which is unlikely but with what happened, it makes me think so?) 6. it has been reported that china, korea and japan are among those affected but a lot of cable systems land on their countries going to us directly. how do they configure their network that something so far affects them? (i would assume that majority of southeast asian countries will be affected and will spare china, japan, korea.)
it just frustrates me that with all the technologies available today, the carriers' networks are still very frail. in addition, i would like for carriers that they not drop packets during congestion as it makes it almost impossible to access hosts. the added latency will be much welcome for me (my thinking that connections will be congested not because of new traffic but because of retransmissions.)
schools are treated as areas of knowledge. teachers are treated as source of knowledge.
i think that should be changed to schools are areas that facilitate the creation of knowledge. teachers are facilitators for students to discover and learn. in addition, the parents play a crucial role in the development of the students. it's not like dump your kids there and out goes an einstein.
let's take an example of the recent demotion of pluto from being a planet. a teacher who does not update with the latest scientific news will still teach pluto as being a planet. however, if students were to regularly look for current events in the scientific world, then healthy debates and new understanding will result, with the teacher learning along the way. the teachers should help student to critical thinking and research and engage students in healthy discussions in topic. the teacher should also help in emphasizing on team work and cooperation.
based on my experience, i get very bored when the teacher just flashes everything in a powerpoint presentation and just talks about what is on the screen. i could have gotten the file and studied it myself and used the wasted time doing other things. but when i'm faced with a problem, it gets me excited as i discover things and use your brain through critical thinking.
even yahoo bounces e-mail from itself. the increase in volume is probably true that yahoo groups marked my yahoo e-mail as bouncing!
i would welcome a new better messaging system to replace the quite outdated e-mail system. i suspect, we cannot keep the cycle of upgrading bandwidth and server capacity just to filter all the spam. someone has gotta give (like a recent article where an isp just drops the e-mail.)
how does this compare to toe nics in the market (alacritech, adaptec)?
how does this compare to the technology of intel's i/o acceleration technology?
from anandtech's benchmarks, the killer nic did not do that much of a different in latency. in the transfer of data, it is even slower and has a high cpu utilization.
however, this is a new product and may suffer from bad driver implementation/immature product. we may see some improvements in the future.
failure rate depends on the conditions in which the hdd is placed in.
a friend of mine has a raid system (5 and 10) for his video storage. it used to happen that it gets an average failure of around 1 per month (in a bunch of around 20 drives). (raid is *not* is substitute for backup. it gives an added protection for a drive failure.) we live in the tropics and the ambient temp is high. i suggested to air condition 24 hours and it reduced the failure rate to around 1 every six months. note these are just desktop drives and not enterprise drives.
in another scenario, we have desktop drives running on some low end servers for years (more than 3) and we have not a single failure. of course it is placed in a datacenter.
i believe that failures of drives are caused by: varied temperature gradients during operation (expansion and contraction) high temperature operation (causing premature wear of components) bad power supply and power source (this one zaps the electronics) and i suggest to get a really expensive server class psu with double conversion ups and some electrical filtering systems (if you really value your data) dust (causes overheating) on and off operation (if you run it 24 hours, don't turn it off)
the moral of the story: hdd fails!
the only solution is to backup backup and backup your data at different sources. personally, i duplicate my important data across two computers, a usb hdd, usb flash (for those really critical files), web drive (internet.)
"'A new report shows that 83% of companies expect to support new workloads on Linux against 23% for Windows.... Over two-thirds of the respondents said they will increase their use of Linux in the next year, and almost no one said the opposite.'"
if you start from 0 and want to use apps on another platform (linux in this case), then definitely porting your existing apps and new apps will have a drastic effect on the numbers.
if you are a shop using mostly windows, how will you be able to increase your use of windows when you are already at maximum? i wonder if there is a 100% linux shop and thinking of using windows.
i am not an electrical engineer. my question may be simple but implementation may be difficult.
the blackouts that happen are mostly cascaded effects with one circuit overloading and all others tripping and everybody has no power. is there any way of limiting the tripping to just a particular area or circuit instead of tripping the entire system? or there are systems in place to avoid that (which i believe is likely) but it doesn't work as planned? it always confuses me why a small problem causes huge disruptions (been in that situation a lot of times.) the behavior appears that there is just one circuit for all.
that said, will it be cheaper for that system instead of putting sensors all around? and as a side note, it is good that cities would experience power failures from time to time in order to provide people with awareness about disaster preparedness especially critical infrastructure such as medical and communications.
people don't care about the os, it is the applications that run on it.
if you are able to do what you need to do, then people will not complain. but if you install them a system "lacking" their own needs, it becomes insufficient.
Slashdot Mirror
i am very happy that this endeavo(u)r is being done. i am very excited in seeing the results (too bad it's one year till showdown and probably a couple of months for supercomputers to analyze all the data.)
kudos to the scientific community. scientists from different nations as well as countries have collaborated in this event. i hope this is the start of more advances in science (and hopefully i would live through seeing the fruits of their labo(u)r.) :)
i won't bother with intranet pages anymore, most /. get it. i agree with the decision of microsoft. at least it encourages the internet to be on web standard at the same time accommodating the incompatible. :)
having been using ie8 beta2 for a couple of days, it is better than ie6 and ie7. ie has been my only browser ever since probably ie4. (/. readers, please don't bash me.) i think it has improved greatly in features (albeit quite late in the game.) but i'm happy with the goal of following web standards. good thing acid2 test is working now. however, a couple of high profile websites are generating problems for me. it includes slashdot and ebay. it has to do more of behavior and speed rather than look. new useful features/changes: find, session restoration and recovery, tab recovery, developer tools, and inprivate. probably working with features of ie7, firefox, and safari all in one.
john :)
p.s. i am posting this entry in compatibility mode because /. is having problems with ie8. by disabling the feature, then my web will be broken right now.
i think analog is still the best way.
how about printing all the pictures back to 35mm negatives. negatives have been able to withstand much longer times even with dirt, molds, humidity, warm temp, etc.
for videos, well convert them to 35mm movies? print to film? expensive but i think will last for generations.
microsoft does things right as far as usability and gui is concerned.
apple has the cool factor and great eye candy.
tried using mac os x. after using mac, i appreciated windows and office even more. dumped the mac and went back. been productive and happy since.
p.s.
i'm the person who just want to get things done. that's the reason why microsoft windows for me. they get things done for lots of people.
just counting on downloads (voluntary and automatic) probably the guinness world record would probably be microsoft. just count the number of computers downloading files every patch tuesday, that would probably be in the scale of tens to hundreds of millions.
well for firefox, does the figure there amount to the automatic update or just manual downloads? but for voluntary downloads, probably mozilla may get the crown.
you have the hardware but what about the content? so will the kids be accessing the net and going to social network sites?
:)
the cheap computer is just part of the problem. i would like to see if they can get free unrestricted access to all the library of congress collection. i'll get very excited when that happens. books are becoming much expensive than computers.
the internet gave cheaper access to information. but useful information is still hard to come by these days for free.
wouldn't investors be wanting to get their money back? what's the point if you are going to put money in a company only at the end for them to gobble it up. i'll put it somewhere.
if good things would want to be given without profit, then i suggest a foundation instead and ask for donations.
if they claim to be more neutral, then at the start of the installation, they should prompt the user for whatever search engine they prefer and not default to anything (it should always go to a selection screen when one searches.)
take the case of ie7, when i installed it, it asks me for my search engine preference. but the default search bar goes to live.
isn't reducing the price going to hurt more of ps3 sales rather than helping it? people will instead buy the ps2 and avoid buying the ps3 for the meantime because of the higher price. but then again, it may also be good because it is also possibly hurting the sales of wii and xbox as well.
the price reduction for ps3 is a good move as well. removing the compatibility probably will not make a big different because people who will buy ps3 will highly have a ps2 already.
a suggestion to sony, add a keyboard, mouse and allow x86 programs to run, put in satellite fm tuner, audio amplifier, and mixer into the box among others to make it the center of the living room.
if i were a game developer, i would no longer develop for the ps3. by making the people spend time with the ps3 as a pvr than a game console, my potential sales will be lost.
i just see it as,
father: i want to watch the show i missed.
son: i want to play.
father: sorry you should have gotten a wii. haha!
my main question before that they answered is if the core 2 quad processors are being choked due to insufficient bandwidth. they measured the difference between 1066 and 1333fsb and performance barely increased. this brings me back to the following observations:
1. the processor is not bandwidth limited and merging the 4 cores in a single die would not yield much performance benefit. this brings back to the argument who is better the native quad core vs 2 x dual core (though in an engineering standpoint, the native quad core will be better but in real world as long as performance is good, i really don't care.)
2. intel has made a good job with their branch prediction that required data is almost always in the cache reducing any performance hit via fsb.
3. on-die memory controller might not yield great performance improvement for current core2 processors (if intel would add them now.)
the main anticipation now is if amd will beat intel in their upcoming barcelona chips. the advantage right now with amd is their ability to increase sockets through hypertransport. but that advantage might disappear soon when intel integrates the memory controller.
anyway, as of now the consumers are winning. i hope that amd will be able to keep up with intel so we can have good competition. for the mean time, i will be buying a q6600 system. quite cheap cpu coupled with cheap memory now (good time to increase memory capacity to >=4gb.)
the difference though if you can search the records electronically is that it will be easier to mine the information. that will be very difficult with printed records limiting the scope of malicious activities.
some people may not want the added responsibilities when moving up the corporate ladder. they may be happy with all the time they get and the place where they work (may it be at home or some comfortable location.)
it's a tradeoff between flexibility and being exhausted and worked out.
i'd prefer to be happy and flexible with a decent pay rather than have a big pay with not enough time to spend it enjoying.
i'm from the philippines and we are generally a metric country. however, there are certain instances when the imperial system is used. it is often done in sizes in hardware parts like pipes where we have 1/4", 1/2", etc. in those cases, it will be much harder to convert to metric as 1/4" is 0.635cm and 1/2" is 1.27cm are not of typical sizes like 0.5, 0.25.
anyway, i have been accustomed to using feet and inches in measuring my height (but uses metric on objects) and pounds for my weight. i have recently converting those to metric and i am quite getting used to it without having to think about the conversion.
at the end, i believe that education in school will make a much bigger impact. having been taught the metric system, it is easier for me to visualize and estimate in those items than in imperial system.
my question is why do all the cable systems seems to pass the same path? some would say that the path is the "safest." look what happened now. it's not as safe as they think.
most providers are boasting of diversified systems but at the end, all their cables pass through the same area. if only i have enough money to establish my own telecom company.
a rant (a little off topic) - i'm from the philippines and my isp, then connected to a carrier, globe telecoms has not yet been able to recover much after all the weeks. they seem to rely on just one cable system (c2c.) it took them around two weeks at least to add additional capacity from other networks. i'm also angry at them as they block certain bandwidth intensive sites like youtube. as a carrier, they should not block sites (the slowness in speed would have deterred many from accessing the site anyway.) at the same time, they are not very good in balancing traffic. some of the sites that pass on certain upstream providers are fast and some are very slow to a point of not being able to visit because they pass through congested links. if only i could call them and tell them what to do.
i would just want for all the drm stuff to explode on their faces such that consumers will not buy them and demand that drm be removed.
i would welcome the day when such content are free again.
i'm from the philippines and the connection right now is horrible. it is spotty and i am able to access slashdot right now albeit very slow.
i am concerned about what happened here's why.
the earthquake happened dec. 26, 8:26pm local time (same time zone with taiwan.) during that time, the internet connectivity was still working ok (i accessed the net at around 10pm and surprised to see at tsunami alerts in my country.) there was no increased latency or packet loss. it was only until the morning of the following day that the connectivity started failing. my questions are:
1. did the cables break sometime during the night after debris may have loosed and damaged the cables?
2. did governments shut down commercial internet services in order to allocate remaining capacity for themselves? or did carriers cut out other customers to give preference to some?
3. why is it that asia is affected? if ever the entire landing station in taiwan is offline and cables are cut from there, the cables are operating in protected ring configurations and should have rerouted automatically.
4. if it failed, do telcos remove the protection and instead just increase their bandwidth usage (for pure profits?)
5. do all the cable systems pass through the same physical path (which is unlikely but with what happened, it makes me think so?)
6. it has been reported that china, korea and japan are among those affected but a lot of cable systems land on their countries going to us directly. how do they configure their network that something so far affects them? (i would assume that majority of southeast asian countries will be affected and will spare china, japan, korea.)
it just frustrates me that with all the technologies available today, the carriers' networks are still very frail. in addition, i would like for carriers that they not drop packets during congestion as it makes it almost impossible to access hosts. the added latency will be much welcome for me (my thinking that connections will be congested not because of new traffic but because of retransmissions.)
schools are treated as areas of knowledge. teachers are treated as source of knowledge.
i think that should be changed to schools are areas that facilitate the creation of knowledge. teachers are facilitators for students to discover and learn. in addition, the parents play a crucial role in the development of the students. it's not like dump your kids there and out goes an einstein.
let's take an example of the recent demotion of pluto from being a planet. a teacher who does not update with the latest scientific news will still teach pluto as being a planet. however, if students were to regularly look for current events in the scientific world, then healthy debates and new understanding will result, with the teacher learning along the way. the teachers should help student to critical thinking and research and engage students in healthy discussions in topic. the teacher should also help in emphasizing on team work and cooperation.
based on my experience, i get very bored when the teacher just flashes everything in a powerpoint presentation and just talks about what is on the screen. i could have gotten the file and studied it myself and used the wasted time doing other things. but when i'm faced with a problem, it gets me excited as i discover things and use your brain through critical thinking.
i would love to see the aurora reach the lower latitude countries. :)
even yahoo bounces e-mail from itself. the increase in volume is probably true that yahoo groups marked my yahoo e-mail as bouncing!
i would welcome a new better messaging system to replace the quite outdated e-mail system. i suspect, we cannot keep the cycle of upgrading bandwidth and server capacity just to filter all the spam. someone has gotta give (like a recent article where an isp just drops the e-mail.)
how does this compare to toe nics in the market (alacritech, adaptec)?
how does this compare to the technology of intel's i/o acceleration technology?
from anandtech's benchmarks, the killer nic did not do that much of a different in latency. in the transfer of data, it is even slower and has a high cpu utilization.
however, this is a new product and may suffer from bad driver implementation/immature product. we may see some improvements in the future.
failure rate depends on the conditions in which the hdd is placed in.
a friend of mine has a raid system (5 and 10) for his video storage. it used to happen that it gets an average failure of around 1 per month (in a bunch of around 20 drives). (raid is *not* is substitute for backup. it gives an added protection for a drive failure.) we live in the tropics and the ambient temp is high. i suggested to air condition 24 hours and it reduced the failure rate to around 1 every six months. note these are just desktop drives and not enterprise drives.
in another scenario, we have desktop drives running on some low end servers for years (more than 3) and we have not a single failure. of course it is placed in a datacenter.
i believe that failures of drives are caused by:
varied temperature gradients during operation (expansion and contraction)
high temperature operation (causing premature wear of components)
bad power supply and power source (this one zaps the electronics) and i suggest to get a really expensive server class psu with double conversion ups and some electrical filtering systems (if you really value your data)
dust (causes overheating)
on and off operation (if you run it 24 hours, don't turn it off)
the moral of the story: hdd fails!
the only solution is to backup backup and backup your data at different sources. personally, i duplicate my important data across two computers, a usb hdd, usb flash (for those really critical files), web drive (internet.)
assuming that majority is using windows:
... Over two-thirds of the respondents said they will increase their use of Linux in the next year, and almost no one said the opposite.'"
"'A new report shows that 83% of companies expect to support new workloads on Linux against 23% for Windows.
if you start from 0 and want to use apps on another platform (linux in this case), then definitely porting your existing apps and new apps will have a drastic effect on the numbers.
if you are a shop using mostly windows, how will you be able to increase your use of windows when you are already at maximum? i wonder if there is a 100% linux shop and thinking of using windows.
i am not an electrical engineer. my question may be simple but implementation may be difficult.
the blackouts that happen are mostly cascaded effects with one circuit overloading and all others tripping and everybody has no power. is there any way of limiting the tripping to just a particular area or circuit instead of tripping the entire system? or there are systems in place to avoid that (which i believe is likely) but it doesn't work as planned? it always confuses me why a small problem causes huge disruptions (been in that situation a lot of times.) the behavior appears that there is just one circuit for all.
that said, will it be cheaper for that system instead of putting sensors all around? and as a side note, it is good that cities would experience power failures from time to time in order to provide people with awareness about disaster preparedness especially critical infrastructure such as medical and communications.
people don't care about the os, it is the applications that run on it.
if you are able to do what you need to do, then people will not complain. but if you install them a system "lacking" their own needs, it becomes insufficient.