I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but any scheme that would "compress the data on the fly" means one thing and one thing only, you're going to suffer a perofrmance hit in order for this method to "double your memory".
I would imagine that this hit is no small potato when you consider the fact that memory is increasingly pushing the speed barrier forcing cycle times to become smaller and smaller. Now imagine running additional compression overhead on top of that and you're back to a much larger cycle time (anyone remember 80ns SIMMS?)
I would be weary of anything that promises to provide 2x the performance and neglects to mention the associated performance hit. Now, this necessarily won't be a big deal for people on the desktop, but IBM is marketing this for servers. Last time I checked, a server is usually stretched to its limits under worst case scenarios and normally runs with reserve resources in anticipation of the worst case scenario. Adding additional overhead does not make sense from a hardware-savings perspective because:
a. You now *may* have to buy another server to meet your requirements.
b. You very well might be cheaper buying memory upgrades than installing additional servers (although who knows how much memory will cost when the RAMBUS fiasco subsides =)
Much for the same reason we design computers with a hierarchical memory system using caches and the like is to avoid throwing things to devices which are orders of magnitude slower (like hard disks)
Why willingly slow down your fastest storage (memory) in order to double it? (in the context of servers and high load application, desktop is another story)
In a sense, you paid for a service that they were restricting without giving you the option of saying "no thanks". Whether you think you should or shouldn't be entitled to play network doom is not the idea here. IMHO the univeristies should let you make an informed decision as to whether you want to pay a "technology fee". How about giving the student a detailed contract so they know what they are paying for should they OPT to have network access. Just as phone access in your dorm room is optional, so should internet access. You pay for what you want/use.
Now, that said, my university didn't have any real assinine restrictions to internet access, and we were enlightened by the fact that we were one of the first to be wired with T1 to the dorm room.
Ummm...I hate to sound like flamebait, but wouldn't it have been wiser in this age of PC-conscious mania to have picked a name not so offensive to those of the Hindu persuasion? I mean dot-station could be misconstrued as a derogatory remark against those of Indian heritage who work in the Computer Science and Engineering fields....really, INTEL should watch their patootie on this one.
O'Reilly has yet to produce the following defintive geek guides: 1. Natalie Portmann in a Nutshell 2. Managing Hot Grits down your pants Then of course we'll see the other publishers: Natalie Portmann Unleashed! Hot Grits down your pants for dummies Learn Hot Grits in 21 days Natalie Portman: Quick Reference et al... Dan
There you go thinking like a westerner...it isn't that they select sperm, they simply concieve a child and then terminate based upon the sex of the foetus. I know a chinese doctor who has performed this in the past. That person now lives in the us and programs for a living.
Males are preferred much in the same way as males have always been preferred in all poor agricultural environments, not that ALL of China is like that mind you, but ALOT of it is, which sex is better at providing additional help at gathering the resources necessary for me and my family to live, a male or a female? Males are preferred for their ability to work and the fact that daughters are viewed in this context as a drain on resources with which little or no benefit is derived. As far as carrying on the family name is concerned I am unsure as to how strong a person of chinese origin cares about this.
Many a night is spent with my chinese girlfriend discussing our cultural differences in how they relate to why her parents originally harbored much dislike for me. One which I had never heard before coincidentally had to do with the seemingly overt hairyness of my body (I'm irish-basque) Hairyness is viewed as a trait of lazyness in her parents cultural upbrining and hence they thought their daughter was getting involved with a lazy bum. Further inspection on their part has since allayed their fears, for as we all know irish people have had quite an arduous existence often having to work very hard in order to survive (hehehehe.) I suppose that is why we are genetically superior (just KIDDING!!!)
And Basque people are all ill-tempered revolutionaries, which explains my love for UNIX and Linux, it opposes the mainstream computing culture!!!!! hee hee hee....
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I find it absolutely ludicrous that a British Telecom Company would try and impose a patent on United States based ISPs. Is this even legal? If British Telecom is claiming a patent within the US patent system do they not have to have a US corporation? I am unfamiliar with patent law but I would like to think that in order for their claim to be taken seriously (as ludicrous as *that* idea is) they would need to have a BT-subsidiary or branch office legally incorporated in the US. I feel that there need to be some serious inquiries into the legality of certain patents and pending a full-blown investigation into US Patent law reform a moratorium should be placed on obviously questionable patents.
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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but any scheme that would "compress the data on the fly" means one thing and one thing only, you're going to suffer a perofrmance hit in order for this method to "double your memory".
I would imagine that this hit is no small potato when you consider the fact that memory is increasingly pushing the speed barrier forcing cycle times to become smaller and smaller. Now imagine running additional compression overhead on top of that and you're back to a much larger cycle time (anyone remember 80ns SIMMS?)
I would be weary of anything that promises to provide 2x the performance and neglects to mention the associated performance hit. Now, this necessarily won't be a big deal for people on the desktop, but IBM is marketing this for servers. Last time I checked, a server is usually stretched to its limits under worst case scenarios and normally runs with reserve resources in anticipation of the worst case scenario. Adding additional overhead does not make sense from a hardware-savings perspective because:
a. You now *may* have to buy another server to meet your requirements.
b. You very well might be cheaper buying memory upgrades than installing additional servers (although who knows how much memory will cost when the RAMBUS fiasco subsides =)
Much for the same reason we design computers with a hierarchical memory system using caches and the like is to avoid throwing things to devices which are orders of magnitude slower (like hard disks)
Why willingly slow down your fastest storage (memory) in order to double it? (in the context of servers and high load application, desktop is another story)
In a sense, you paid for a service that they were restricting without giving you the option of saying "no thanks". Whether you think you should or shouldn't be entitled to play network doom is not the idea here. IMHO the univeristies should let you make an informed decision as to whether you want to pay a "technology fee". How about giving the student a detailed contract so they know what they are paying for should they OPT to have network access. Just as phone access in your dorm room is optional, so should internet access. You pay for what you want/use.
Now, that said, my university didn't have any real assinine restrictions to internet access, and we were enlightened by the fact that we were one of the first to be wired with T1 to the dorm room.
Ummm...I hate to sound like flamebait, but wouldn't it have been wiser in this age of PC-conscious mania to have picked a name not so offensive to those of the Hindu persuasion? I mean dot-station could be misconstrued as a derogatory remark against those of Indian heritage who work in the Computer Science and Engineering fields....really, INTEL should watch their patootie on this one.
O'Reilly has yet to produce the following defintive geek guides: 1. Natalie Portmann in a Nutshell 2. Managing Hot Grits down your pants Then of course we'll see the other publishers: Natalie Portmann Unleashed! Hot Grits down your pants for dummies Learn Hot Grits in 21 days Natalie Portman: Quick Reference et al... Dan
There you go thinking like a westerner...it isn't that they select sperm, they simply concieve a child and then terminate based upon the sex of the foetus. I know a chinese doctor who has performed this in the past. That person now lives in the us and programs for a living.
There you go thinking like a westerner again! =)
Males are preferred much in the same way as males have always been preferred in all poor agricultural environments, not that ALL of China is like that mind you, but ALOT of it is, which sex is better at providing additional help at gathering the resources necessary for me and my family to live, a male or a female? Males are preferred for their ability to work and the fact that daughters are viewed in this context as a drain on resources with which little or no benefit is derived. As far as carrying on the family name is concerned I am unsure as to how strong a person of chinese origin cares about this.
Many a night is spent with my chinese girlfriend discussing our cultural differences in how they relate to why her parents originally harbored much dislike for me. One which I had never heard before coincidentally had to do with the seemingly overt hairyness of my body (I'm irish-basque) Hairyness is viewed as a trait of lazyness in her parents cultural upbrining and hence they thought their daughter was getting involved with a lazy bum. Further inspection on their part has since allayed their fears, for as we all know irish people have had quite an arduous existence often having to work very hard in order to survive (hehehehe.) I suppose that is why we are genetically superior (just KIDDING!!!)
And Basque people are all ill-tempered revolutionaries, which explains my love for UNIX and Linux, it opposes the mainstream computing culture!!!!! hee hee hee....
I thought death was nature's way of saying:
# shutdown -h now
I find it absolutely ludicrous that a British Telecom Company would try and impose a patent on United States based ISPs. Is this even legal? If British Telecom is claiming a patent within the US patent system do they not have to have a US corporation? I am unfamiliar with patent law but I would like to think that in order for their claim to be taken seriously (as ludicrous as *that* idea is) they would need to have a BT-subsidiary or branch office legally incorporated in the US. I feel that there need to be some serious inquiries into the legality of certain patents and pending a full-blown investigation into US Patent law reform a moratorium should be placed on obviously questionable patents.