The article claims 4W, not micro watts, per cubic centimeter, which is four orders of magnitude more than your calculations.
I agree with Eddi3, leave my heart alone. I think we should rather focus an nano-fuel cells, say for something like consuming low-density lipoprotiens (LDL). That way both the organism and the device benefit.
>And YOU dont understand that the total amount of sale doesnt mean shit if i dont fit into the target demographic.
And YOU clearly don't understand that Nintendo is a business out to make money. They do this by selling product, and one of the things that has kept many a game OUT of the hands of an entire demography is their parents! Since you're likely in that in between age, neither a child nor a parent, I'll enlighten you slightly:
Parents don't want their children spending endless hours in front of a television. They want them exercising, and Wii provides a bridge to satisfy both needs.
Yes its not the fully immersive play we've been wanting. Yes it's a bit light on (what you call) good games, but you simply forget that parents buy games for their 12-year-olds, not vice-a-versa.
I generally try to avoid political articles such as this one, but in this case I would like to point out that the ECJ has simply help up common sense. Record Companies via RIAA: "We wish to examine all ISP subscriber data to determine IF anyone has violated our copyrights." EU High court advisor: "You must actually accuse someone before you may subpoena evidence." Its nice to see that the EU still abides by the Magna Carta Liberatum, est 1215. If only those of us in the US could expect so much...
The pendulum has swung back now. In the days when 10Mbps ethernet came onto the scene and our processors could barely keep up with their floopy drives (which is why a floppy used DMA), we collectively came up with the idea of using several computers to solve a problem by splitting the problem up among them. Since then thanks to Moore's law our processors now spend a lot of time waiting to fetch the next instruction from their on-chip L1 cache - as in when there's a miscalculation in the branch prediction step. Our networks however have not kept up to this pace. Right now our very best effort for network speed is infiniband which tops out at 96Gbps theoretical limit. The AMD Opteron page lists a limit of 24GBps, that's 192Gbps, bandwidth using three coherent hypertranport processors. See the problem? I see one of two things happening, either we'll find a magic bullet technology to significantly increase our network speeds; or some limit will finally end Moore's law. Otherwise there's simply no reason to tie together multiple processors. Despite Windows best efforts, our CPU's still spend most of their time waiting for something to do.
With the reference to the hippocampus where the Cdk5 does it's magic, I wonder if the mice no longer fear the stimulus because they no longer remember the experience.
I'd also like to note that not all creators are motivated economically. Nearly all of the open-source efforts run on achieving notoriety and this is basically impossible to quantify in economic terms. Thus I would hate to build policy solely on economic constraints.
My favorite errata in the list is AI22, Sequential Code Fetch to Non-canonical Address May have Nondeterministic Results. Basically the chip decides that all of the high oreder bits should be '1', instead of '0' - for no apparent reason as its not consistent. Did anyone notice these chips are using the 65nm process? At what point do the shear quantum affects overcome the deterministic EE rules that are used to design the chips? I don't know, but wikipedia defines a nanoparticle as one with at least one dimension less than 100nm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoparticle Given that definition every transistor's source, drain and gate are nanoparticles. And we expect them to behave classically why?
People who, as you say, 'game' the system have demonstrated an apptitude sorely missing in most of the IT field (thinking outside the box to solve a problem). Once again the technique proves itself... It is at least nice of you to admit that we HAVE a problem that needs fixed. 1/2 of any solution is to recognize a problem exists, so thank you.
I've done wireless assessments and installations for offices, hotels, school buildings (think bomb shelters) and even manufacturing plants. Anything IS possible, but not if you hire a kid recently graduated from ITT Tech(as an example only) to do it. I'd take a recent physicist graduate first because at least they would understand wave propagation. The use of tools such as Air Magnet make performing such an assessment easier, but a good tool won't fix ignorance. This actually begs of a greater question within IT - that of the influx of semi-trained, unskilled workers. Ours is the only profession without a professional organization. We have no entrance exam, no licensing structure, no board review. And DON'T tell me that Sylvan/Prometric certification in any sense means squat. I have no respect for a testing method wherein the correct answer is presented simply for the applicant to pick from. and YES I have them, many of them (MS, Novell, Solaris, Cisco) thus my disdain. I think we as a profession need to adopt some form of 'guild' structure. 2-yrs as an apprentice followed by a board review WHERE YOU ACTUALLY PERFORM WORK(Think the CCIE practical exam where you configure otherwise blank routers) [Yeah I have that too]. 5-yrs as a journeyman where you expand and deepen your skill followed by another board review to obtain a Mastery level in a particular discipline. The tradesmen have had this structure for hundreds of years. Lawyers, Doctors and Accountants all have an entrance exam. Why do we in IT think we're different.
I want to bring to your attention the fact that the use of virtualization software is not really intended for the desktop environment. I can't imagine MS is terribly concerned about a few (even thousand) really expert users who pull off the use of Vista on a Mac or a Linux box in their basement. The group is simply too few to be on their radar. On the other hand every IT department everywhere understands that they can not continue to allow their server 'farms' to continue to grow at the rate they have over even the last few years. Virtualization solves a lot of problems, particulary those with snoody applications that demand an entire 'box' to themselves; or even several 'stand alone' platforms. What MS is really scared of is the possibility that someone will figure out a way to make Windows a sort of middle-ware. Say for instance we could get VMware to run on a zLinux partition on a mainframe. I know the vast majority of Slashdot readers are mainframe-averse, but the cost savings due to such simple things as floor space reduction is too large to ignore, particularly with the very large applications like PeopleSoft or SAP that have application and database servers on Windows. Consolidation of hardware demands significant hardware and one of the lessons we HAVE learned over the past 15 or so years is that in certain circumstances centralized is better.
The days of free access to the internet from any university are long gone. Perhaps yours is still like that, but every university I deal with has firewalls in place, uses intrusion detection on their internal networks, and requires students to load virus protection on their laptops before they can access the university network. In the strictest of senses, that is not free. To the point of the Article, I don't find anything 'chilling' about raising awareness. If that is what you call 'Big Brother' then perhaps you should (re-)read Orwell's "1984". What I do find chilling, however is the need for some to lambast any restrictions on anyone, anywhere for any reason as evil. Remember; Anarchy is the most free society. Do want to live there?
Ben Franklin's statement, "Anyone willing to give up a little freedom, for a little safety deserves neither" lived in a community of Quakers and was one himself. All statements must be evaluated in the context in which they were given, not in yours.
Let's be honest with ourselves. Students from middle eastern countries come to the US because they want to better themselves. It would not be in their best interest to disrupt the thing which they have determined is the path to a better life. Self interest (nearly) always outwieghs ideology. Not that there aren't some, but I think profiling students is an exercise in futility.
On the other hand crying "my freedoms are being taken away" means you haven't entered society yet and don't really understand what freedoms is. Can you drive a car, get married, own a house, or have a telephone ring without someone somewhere taxing it, make you get a license or control your access?
Freedom is the not license to do as you please.
Freedom is the ability to affect change. If you don't like it, then change it but don't waste our colletive time with tears and drivel.
You have the task of training a new sysadmin in Unix, that has no previous unix experience. What are the first five or six commands you teach them, and why?
If the candidate doesn't mention man in the list there gone - as all commands can be derived from man -k
Slightly off topic, for the PC techies my favorite question is:
List the standard AT hardware interrupts and their use, in order.
Only ever had one PC tech answer this anything like close-to-correct.
I can't imagine any valid use of an open printer to the internet...No self-respecting script-kiddie (yes I know that's an oxymoron) would drop by to pick up his/her printouts.
P.S. Note the correct form of denoting unknown gender
I find some of the remarks to this as, well, interesting given the fervor of discussions on/. on Freedom. Freedom to write code, freedom to write code from other's code, freedom to download music, freedom to do what-ever you want basically.
I'm not saying Tito should or should not be allowed to go into space. I'm just noting how easy it is for this group to want to restrict another's freedom while at the same time requiring everyone else to grant them theirs.
I think the submitter with the word processor scenarior is onto something, but let me tweek his sugesstion slightly. Lets say a national depository library, which is tasked by law to store significant works, uses a tool to store the work in an encrypted manner. Lets also state that ALL hard-drives use an "encryption" mechanism called 4B-5B to limit the sequence of nulls to no more than three repeating so that the magnetic media actually has a signal to store. The author of the original work now is prohibited from retreiving his/her work even though they hold all rights. This is a case of conflicting needs and is one of the methods of argument used to throw out the Jim Crow laws of bygone years. The need of the depository library to store the work, and the author's right to access the work are in conflict and cannot be reconciled under this ruling.
The 4B-5B thing is extra fodder, as the ruling covers ALL encoding methods, this would implicate all magnetically stored information, even that which is not expressly "encrypted".
If they're each 4-pairs, they're not Ameritech lines, no matter how they're labeled.
DS0, DS1, ISDN, POTS, xDSL and every other Telco provided copper service arrives at the premisis on either a single pair or two pair, never four.
Take a volt meter to the blue/wht-blue pair, and the orange/wht-orange pair and see if you have measurable DC voltage. If you do its a POTS line that some yahoo extended with CAT-3/5 internally. If it has no voltage at all, its probably either Ethernet (NO DC voltage) or dead.
As soon as I heard the initial story, my immediate thought was that it was phony. It still doesn't make sense to me why M$ would publicly admit to being violated.
I think this is one step in a short proc, to put WINE and other Windows emulators completely out of business. I find the proximaty to recent announcements in/. concerning WINE's ability to run Office and 2000 to be just the kind of incitement that M$ would feel the need to react.
Normally I don't go for the whole black-helicopter theory, but this is just TOOOOOoooo close, and way too wrong to be real.
As this and other similar questions easily demonstrate, there are some questions that can't be answered. Such is the one posed here, "should/. be held to the same ethics as main-stream media?" Well, which ethics are those? as above, but also; are main-stream media actually held to ethics at all?
I've listened to more than a few "jouralist" go on about the purity of their profession, the need to be wholly objective and unbiased. The simple truth is that everyone, even/. is biased. In the very act of publishing some articles, and not others, you have put forth a bias.
I'm NOT arguing to stop editing. Rather I'm saying that the question itself is flawed. Ethics or otherwise, is/. fulfilling the needs of its community? Is it providing a worthwhile service? Is it making enough money to sustain itself? Those are the only questions that CAN be asked intelligently, as they each have an answer.
Holding/. to a supposed set of ethics, that is only marginally agreed upon let alone followed, is a waste of thought.
Its because the people who actually pay for software, not download it off crack sites, want to be able to use the new software on their existing x86 machines, and because the people who buy new machines actually still want to use Word Perfect 5.0 for DOS on their new Athalon.
Don't forget that on any computer that has a single user, most of the CPU time is spent either idle or doing GUI work. The 64-bit arch is needed to overcome the I/O bottleneck, like the I/O to main memory, rather than to do anything for the MIPS ratings.
Yes, most emulators are used to help the developers work with the target system in a controlled, software-only environment. Nearly all, read anyone with a brain, embedded systems are developed this way, especially since the hardware used is typically one-shot ASIC derived.
As far as is it valid, that depends on how well the simulator works. There's no fundamental reason it could not be absolutely, 100% correct; just slower.
Are you nuts? Size of the organism has no bearing whatsoever on the vapor pressure of its internal fluids. Fungus, paramecium, ameoba, etc are are still basically contaminated WATER! In a vacuum that water would evaporate quickly through the semi-permeable membrane and leave behind the dessiccated organic remnants of the cell.
No outside atmospheric pressure - no living cell.
Go back and study your ninth-grade biology; Assuming of course you've already had that advanced class:)
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The article claims 4W, not micro watts, per cubic centimeter, which is four orders of magnitude more than your calculations.
I agree with Eddi3, leave my heart alone. I think we should rather focus an nano-fuel cells, say for something like consuming low-density lipoprotiens (LDL). That way both the organism and the device benefit.
Dennis Dumont
>And YOU dont understand that the total amount of sale doesnt mean shit if i dont fit into the target demographic.
And YOU clearly don't understand that Nintendo is a business out to make money. They do this by selling product, and one of the things that has kept many a game OUT of the hands of an entire demography is their parents! Since you're likely in that in between age, neither a child nor a parent, I'll enlighten you slightly:
Parents don't want their children spending endless hours in front of a television.
They want them exercising, and Wii provides a bridge to satisfy both needs.
Yes its not the fully immersive play we've been wanting. Yes it's a bit light on (what you call) good games, but you simply forget that parents buy games for their 12-year-olds, not vice-a-versa.
Dennis Dumont
I generally try to avoid political articles such as this one, but in this case I would like to point out that the ECJ has simply help up common sense.
Record Companies via RIAA: "We wish to examine all ISP subscriber data to determine IF anyone has violated our copyrights."
EU High court advisor: "You must actually accuse someone before you may subpoena evidence."
Its nice to see that the EU still abides by the Magna Carta Liberatum, est 1215. If only those of us in the US could expect so much...
Dennis Dumont
The pendulum has swung back now. In the days when 10Mbps ethernet came onto the scene and our processors could barely keep up with their floopy drives (which is why a floppy used DMA), we collectively came up with the idea of using several computers to solve a problem by splitting the problem up among them. Since then thanks to Moore's law our processors now spend a lot of time waiting to fetch the next instruction from their on-chip L1 cache - as in when there's a miscalculation in the branch prediction step.
Our networks however have not kept up to this pace. Right now our very best effort for network speed is infiniband which tops out at 96Gbps theoretical limit. The AMD Opteron page lists a limit of 24GBps, that's 192Gbps, bandwidth using three coherent hypertranport processors. See the problem?
I see one of two things happening, either we'll find a magic bullet technology to significantly increase our network speeds; or some limit will finally end Moore's law. Otherwise there's simply no reason to tie together multiple processors. Despite Windows best efforts, our CPU's still spend most of their time waiting for something to do.
Dennis Dumont
With the reference to the hippocampus where the Cdk5 does it's magic, I wonder if the mice no longer fear the stimulus because they no longer remember the experience.
Dennis Dumont
I'd also like to note that not all creators are motivated economically. Nearly all of the open-source efforts run on achieving notoriety and this is basically impossible to quantify in economic terms.
Thus I would hate to build policy solely on economic constraints.
Dennis Dumont
My favorite errata in the list is AI22, Sequential Code Fetch to Non-canonical Address May have Nondeterministic Results. Basically the chip decides that all of the high oreder bits should be '1', instead of '0' - for no apparent reason as its not consistent.
Did anyone notice these chips are using the 65nm process?
At what point do the shear quantum affects overcome the deterministic EE rules that are used to design the chips? I don't know, but wikipedia defines a nanoparticle as one with at least one dimension less than 100nm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoparticle
Given that definition every transistor's source, drain and gate are nanoparticles. And we expect them to behave classically why?
People who, as you say, 'game' the system have demonstrated an apptitude sorely missing in most of the IT field (thinking outside the box to solve a problem). Once again the technique proves itself...
It is at least nice of you to admit that we HAVE a problem that needs fixed. 1/2 of any solution is to recognize a problem exists, so thank you.
Dennis Dumont
I've done wireless assessments and installations for offices, hotels, school buildings (think bomb shelters) and even manufacturing plants. Anything IS possible, but not if you hire a kid recently graduated from ITT Tech(as an example only) to do it. I'd take a recent physicist graduate first because at least they would understand wave propagation. The use of tools such as Air Magnet make performing such an assessment easier, but a good tool won't fix ignorance.
This actually begs of a greater question within IT - that of the influx of semi-trained, unskilled workers. Ours is the only profession without a professional organization. We have no entrance exam, no licensing structure, no board review.
And DON'T tell me that Sylvan/Prometric certification in any sense means squat. I have no respect for a testing method wherein the correct answer is presented simply for the applicant to pick from. and YES I have them, many of them (MS, Novell, Solaris, Cisco) thus my disdain.
I think we as a profession need to adopt some form of 'guild' structure. 2-yrs as an apprentice followed by a board review WHERE YOU ACTUALLY PERFORM WORK(Think the CCIE practical exam where you configure otherwise blank routers) [Yeah I have that too]. 5-yrs as a journeyman where you expand and deepen your skill followed by another board review to obtain a Mastery level in a particular discipline.
The tradesmen have had this structure for hundreds of years. Lawyers, Doctors and Accountants all have an entrance exam.
Why do we in IT think we're different.
Just my $0.02
Dennis Dumont
I want to bring to your attention the fact that the use of virtualization software is not really intended for the desktop environment. I can't imagine MS is terribly concerned about a few (even thousand) really expert users who pull off the use of Vista on a Mac or a Linux box in their basement. The group is simply too few to be on their radar.
On the other hand every IT department everywhere understands that they can not continue to allow their server 'farms' to continue to grow at the rate they have over even the last few years. Virtualization solves a lot of problems, particulary those with snoody applications that demand an entire 'box' to themselves; or even several 'stand alone' platforms.
What MS is really scared of is the possibility that someone will figure out a way to make Windows a sort of middle-ware. Say for instance we could get VMware to run on a zLinux partition on a mainframe.
I know the vast majority of Slashdot readers are mainframe-averse, but the cost savings due to such simple things as floor space reduction is too large to ignore, particularly with the very large applications like PeopleSoft or SAP that have application and database servers on Windows. Consolidation of hardware demands significant hardware and one of the lessons we HAVE learned over the past 15 or so years is that in certain circumstances centralized is better.
Dennis Dumont
The days of free access to the internet from any university are long gone. Perhaps yours is still like that, but every university I deal with has firewalls in place, uses intrusion detection on their internal networks, and requires students to load virus protection on their laptops before they can access the university network. In the strictest of senses, that is not free.
To the point of the Article, I don't find anything 'chilling' about raising awareness. If that is what you call 'Big Brother' then perhaps you should (re-)read Orwell's "1984". What I do find chilling, however is the need for some to lambast any restrictions on anyone, anywhere for any reason as evil. Remember; Anarchy is the most free society. Do want to live there?
Ben Franklin's statement, "Anyone willing to give up a little freedom, for a little safety deserves neither" lived in a community of Quakers and was one himself. All statements must be evaluated in the context in which they were given, not in yours.
Let's be honest with ourselves. Students from middle eastern countries come to the US because they want to better themselves. It would not be in their best interest to disrupt the thing which they have determined is the path to a better life. Self interest (nearly) always outwieghs ideology. Not that there aren't some, but I think profiling students is an exercise in futility.
On the other hand crying "my freedoms are being taken away" means you haven't entered society yet and don't really understand what freedoms is. Can you drive a car, get married, own a house, or have a telephone ring without someone somewhere taxing it, make you get a license or control your access?
Freedom is the not license to do as you please.
Freedom is the ability to affect change. If you don't like it, then change it but don't waste our colletive time with tears and drivel.
Dennis Dumont
I like to ask a Unix admin this question:
You have the task of training a new sysadmin in Unix, that has no previous unix experience. What are the first five or six commands you teach them, and why?
If the candidate doesn't mention man in the list there gone - as all commands can be derived from man -k
Slightly off topic, for the PC techies my favorite question is:
List the standard AT hardware interrupts and their use, in order.
Only ever had one PC tech answer this anything like close-to-correct.
Just goes to show you that anything that is well commented can be understood, even if not maintained.
I agree with Scott Nudds - C is processor independent assembly language.
I suppose you've never heard of tunneling?
I can't imagine any valid use of an open printer to the internet...No self-respecting script-kiddie (yes I know that's an oxymoron) would drop by to pick up his/her printouts.
P.S. Note the correct form of denoting unknown gender
I find some of the remarks to this as, well, interesting given the fervor of discussions on /. on Freedom. Freedom to write code, freedom to write code from other's code, freedom to download music, freedom to do what-ever you want basically.
I'm not saying Tito should or should not be allowed to go into space. I'm just noting how easy it is for this group to want to restrict another's freedom while at the same time requiring everyone else to grant them theirs.
I think the submitter with the word processor scenarior is onto something, but let me tweek his sugesstion slightly. Lets say a national depository library, which is tasked by law to store significant works, uses a tool to store the work in an encrypted manner. Lets also state that ALL hard-drives use an "encryption" mechanism called 4B-5B to limit the sequence of nulls to no more than three repeating so that the magnetic media actually has a signal to store. The author of the original work now is prohibited from retreiving his/her work even though they hold all rights. This is a case of conflicting needs and is one of the methods of argument used to throw out the Jim Crow laws of bygone years. The need of the depository library to store the work, and the author's right to access the work are in conflict and cannot be reconciled under this ruling.
The 4B-5B thing is extra fodder, as the ruling covers ALL encoding methods, this would implicate all magnetically stored information, even that which is not expressly "encrypted".
If they're each 4-pairs, they're not Ameritech lines, no matter how they're labeled.
DS0, DS1, ISDN, POTS, xDSL and every other Telco provided copper service arrives at the premisis on either a single pair or two pair, never four.
Take a volt meter to the blue/wht-blue pair, and the orange/wht-orange pair and see if you have measurable DC voltage. If you do its a POTS line that some yahoo extended with CAT-3/5 internally. If it has no voltage at all, its probably either Ethernet (NO DC voltage) or dead.
It excerises the file I/O buffering and context switching services of the kernel.
As soon as I heard the initial story, my immediate thought was that it was phony. It still doesn't make sense to me why M$ would publicly admit to being violated.
/. concerning WINE's ability to run Office and 2000 to be just the kind of incitement that M$ would feel the need to react.
I think this is one step in a short proc, to put WINE and other Windows emulators completely out of business. I find the proximaty to recent announcements in
Normally I don't go for the whole black-helicopter theory, but this is just TOOOOOoooo close, and way too wrong to be real.
As this and other similar questions easily demonstrate, there are some questions that can't be answered. Such is the one posed here, "should /. be held to the same ethics as main-stream media?" Well, which ethics are those? as above, but also; are main-stream media actually held to ethics at all?
/. is biased. In the very act of publishing some articles, and not others, you have put forth a bias.
/. fulfilling the needs of its community? Is it providing a worthwhile service? Is it making enough money to sustain itself? Those are the only questions that CAN be asked intelligently, as they each have an answer.
/. to a supposed set of ethics, that is only marginally agreed upon let alone followed, is a waste of thought.
I've listened to more than a few "jouralist" go on about the purity of their profession, the need to be wholly objective and unbiased. The simple truth is that everyone, even
I'm NOT arguing to stop editing. Rather I'm saying that the question itself is flawed. Ethics or otherwise, is
Holding
You show me a 120 wpm typist, and I'll show you someone who will BADLY type ahead of anything in Win(blows) with a mythical 6GHz Ultra-Athalon.
Somethings work better in DOS mode.
[begin injection of real-world...]
Its because the people who actually pay for software, not download it off crack sites, want to be able to use the new software on their existing x86 machines, and because the people who buy new machines actually still want to use Word Perfect 5.0 for DOS on their new Athalon.
Don't forget that on any computer that has a single user, most of the CPU time is spent either idle or doing GUI work. The 64-bit arch is needed to overcome the I/O bottleneck, like the I/O to main memory, rather than to do anything for the MIPS ratings.
Yes, most emulators are used to help the developers work with the target system in a controlled, software-only environment. Nearly all, read anyone with a brain, embedded systems are developed this way, especially since the hardware used is typically one-shot ASIC derived.
As far as is it valid, that depends on how well the simulator works. There's no fundamental reason it could not be absolutely, 100% correct; just slower.
How about after the Windows, instead of a Gameboy, we do a C=64 :-)
8-bit STILL rules!
Are you nuts? Size of the organism has no bearing whatsoever on the vapor pressure of its internal fluids. Fungus, paramecium, ameoba, etc are are still basically contaminated WATER! In a vacuum that water would evaporate quickly through the semi-permeable membrane and leave behind the dessiccated organic remnants of the cell.
:)
No outside atmospheric pressure - no living cell.
Go back and study your ninth-grade biology; Assuming of course you've already had that advanced class