You make a very good point. Even a $1 per charge is rediculous if it boils down to a costs of $0.10 an hour to operate. At $0.10 an hour, I can probably run two full blown desktop workstations with line power and who knows how many laptops.
Also, I think the firewire capabilities has improved in XP vs 2K.
I thought that WinZip had something like an Exploring extension to open archives as if they were directories. I suppose it makes sense to integrate that feature.
Built in firewall... that didn't seem to help block the ports used by Blaster or Sobig.
I realize that the above was probably supposed to be funny but the stereotypes played upon should be addressed.
Yes, most of my tuition was paid for by outside help, but MOST of that was student loans that I had to pay later. There were some grants and scholarships. I had to kick in about 20% up front, meaning that I had to earn that money while going to school.
As for overcharging bookstores, it may very well be true, but with my bookstore, I would compare with Amazon.com and other stores and come out about even. I would lay the blame on the publishers first. There are publishers that wouldn't hesitate to put out a new edition every year so that each group of students have to buy a new set of books, as they secretly consider the used book market theft, a lot of authors do too and author's organizations have been less than secretive about this.
Then there's the University education motto of "publish or perish" and many of the profs end up publishing textbooks. There is a huge glut of this kind of thing, so many choices and each choice gets such a small run that the books are expensive because of the set-up costs being distributed for a lot fewer books.
I wonder if they were trying to harken to the roots of the US interstate system (although I think Germany's Autobahn predates it).
I recall a small expedition done by the military to show that an truck caravan can be used to cross the continent. Everyone thought it was stupid because, well, anyone who is anyone carried their freight by rail. Eventually some people realized that the interstate highway system could be used.
But, even in light of this, I would rather hike all the way up that mountain than ride one of those dorkmobiles.
Here is a fun article: http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20 030810-081 911-2985r.htm
I quote: "Anybody who rides around on a Segway is a mewling pantywaist passive-aggressive dork with arrested-development issues who probably saves his e-mail in tidy little folders organized with happy-face icons.
I already feel better."
and:
"One thing that makes me very very happy about the current political debate is that most lawmakers agree that Segways should require a helmet. Since an actual motorcycle helmet would conflict with the eco-friendly coolness of the Segway experience, they're tending toward some kind of modified bicycle helmet that looks like one of those strap-on leather jobbies worn by the Fighting Horsemen of Notre Dame. Put a computer programmer in a tieless linen suit on a Segway with a leather football helmet on his head, and he looks like a fetishist on his way to the sex dungeon."
You are probably right, I haven't thought of it that way. I always just figured it to be in a psychological something else of a genre if I had to classify it, but there are scientific principles used in studying psychology.
I've read comments saying that patch wasn't on Windows Update until it was too late. And of course, that patch required service packs, which require prohibitively long download times for dial-up users.
The multi die module wasn't a "strange system" it was simply an expensive way to do it. Both the CPU and cache were fabbed separately and individually bonded into the package and into each other. As I remember, others have done similar things before, but I think it was the largest scale use of its kind. Now a more complex CPU with a big of a cache is more routinely put on the same die, and I expect that this project will as well.
The problem is that it does require brute force to get something into orbit, so there is so much that can be done. The most efficient might be a space teather elevator but the materials science isn't quite there yet.
The idea of using lots of little engines has been done by the Soviets. I forget what problems they had.
I think there is a difference, not all aspects of an operating system should be lumped into one in this consideration. Windows doesn't necessarily suck because of the user interface but because of the internals, but on the other hand, in my opinion Linux sucks almost solely because of the user interface. Take the good parts of everything, put it together well and you may have a winner.
I think the question is how trustworthy the research and data is, heck, it is released by an organization whose very livelyhood is software. How many here fully trust the statistics publicly released by the BSA, RIAA or MPAA?
Besides, the press-release style of the article doesn't have much for footnotes or note the sampling methods, etc.
As yet, unless the nForce 3 boards are out, there weren't any Hammer boards that had 64 bit PCI/PCI-X _and_ AGP. I believe both are needed to truly be considered a workstation board now. I think that might change with nF3, but I forget if it is 2P capable, which is another thing that is needed now.
As far as I can tell, Apple also has a problem of not being workstation class simply by not having ECC support. ECC was standard for workstation computers for at least five years.
I really don't look that hard as I don't expect to buy either kind of system for a couple years.
Also, the thing that bugs me is that according to the article they are trying to replace incandescents. Such a replacement is already available, with nearly 10x the lifetime and 1/4th the electricity usage, yet people don't use them. They cost more but the average lifetime use usually makes up for it. Few buy that technology for home use now, so why why would these people jump on LED?
I think that flourescents are an acceptable replacement and can be bought in color outputs that mimic the color of incandescents.
The question is, do they really care more about the customer or the bottom line?
If things carry on with a lot more big exploits coming down, if they con't care about the customer, there is a chance that they won't have to worry about a bottom line.
We still have to educate people, but also, systems must be designed to be able to accomodate non-computer peopl and the fact that they usually have other things to think about. Think of it this way: would you rather your physician spend his/her time worried about patients or the computer system? It's an awfully simplistic example but I think the point needs to be made that few people should have to consider their computers more than a tool and learn a large set of hoops in order to maintain and use it.
It really gets over 471 GFLOPS on a 32-bit version of HPL. Using an "untuned" 64/80-bit version, KASY0 gets a very respectable 187.3 GFLOPS. These aren't theoretical numbers, they are the real thing. The theoretical we-will-never-see-that numbers are 531 GFLOPS and 1.06 TFLOPS, respectively, for 64/80-bit and 32-bit floating point.
Yes, we know HPL is only one application and not a very general one at that. We have other stuff running as well... but most of what we do is computer system design. Thus, our primary applications tend to be things like the Sparse Flat Neighborhood Network design program, which nobody else yet has. The result is that the performance numbers that are most important to us are meaningless to anybody else.
I was borrowing a PS2 with Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec. The "simulation" mode was awfully tedious. They give you a certain amount of money and then ask you to pick a car. They don't have the decency of narrowing it down to what you can afford, so the player has to go through dozens of screenfuls of rediculously priced cars to find one that is affordable. After a couple races of that, I gave up and went to arcade mode.
The problem is that in my experience, colleges have typically been increasing their per student spending by _twice_ that of inflation for maybe thirty years. Caltech spent nearly $200,000 per student per year? What the HELL are they spending it on?! That has to be enough for nearly three personal tutors from your high-earn industries.
I know that a lot of stuff is expensive but then I've seen a lot of money thrown around to suit the whims of administrators and to keep the "image" up rather than focusing on education.
You mention a CEO - does your equivalent size business include students, or not? I think that is important.
Six parts would have served the movies well, each movie was twice as long as most others. A lot of movies run 90min to just over two hours, three hours and longer was severely trying my ability to sit still.
There is a licence difference to consider here. GPL _requires_ the changes be made available in source form if the binary is distributed. BSD licences pretty much allows any company to take code, make proprietary changes to it and doesn't require distribution of those changes.
I don't think it will work. Look at the effort against reading New York Times articles. The articles are free to read, they only want a registration account. Users don't pay money. Despite this, slashdotters find alternate routes to get the same.
If that text is real, then I must wonder what he was thinking when developing P2P related software in the US, given the current circumstances surrounding it. The P2P software still developed is mostly developed outside the US because it is outside of direct US prosecution.
I also wonder what the point in feeing to Canada or Mexico would be. I thought there were extradition treaties in place.
It is too difficult to muster sympathy in this case.
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You make a very good point. Even a $1 per charge is rediculous if it boils down to a costs of $0.10 an hour to operate. At $0.10 an hour, I can probably run two full blown desktop workstations with line power and who knows how many laptops.
Also, I think the firewire capabilities has improved in XP vs 2K.
I thought that WinZip had something like an Exploring extension to open archives as if they were directories. I suppose it makes sense to integrate that feature.
Built in firewall... that didn't seem to help block the ports used by Blaster or Sobig.
I realize that the above was probably supposed to be funny but the stereotypes played upon should be addressed.
Yes, most of my tuition was paid for by outside help, but MOST of that was student loans that I had to pay later. There were some grants and scholarships. I had to kick in about 20% up front, meaning that I had to earn that money while going to school.
As for overcharging bookstores, it may very well be true, but with my bookstore, I would compare with Amazon.com and other stores and come out about even. I would lay the blame on the publishers first. There are publishers that wouldn't hesitate to put out a new edition every year so that each group of students have to buy a new set of books, as they secretly consider the used book market theft, a lot of authors do too and author's organizations have been less than secretive about this.
Then there's the University education motto of "publish or perish" and many of the profs end up publishing textbooks. There is a huge glut of this kind of thing, so many choices and each choice gets such a small run that the books are expensive because of the set-up costs being distributed for a lot fewer books.
I wonder if they were trying to harken to the roots of the US interstate system (although I think Germany's Autobahn predates it).
0 030810-081 911-2985r.htm
I recall a small expedition done by the military to show that an truck caravan can be used to cross the continent. Everyone thought it was stupid because, well, anyone who is anyone carried their freight by rail. Eventually some people realized that the interstate highway system could be used.
But, even in light of this, I would rather hike all the way up that mountain than ride one of those dorkmobiles.
Here is a fun article:
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/2
I quote:
"Anybody who rides around on a Segway is a mewling pantywaist passive-aggressive dork with arrested-development issues who probably saves his e-mail in tidy little folders organized with happy-face icons.
I already feel better."
and:
"One thing that makes me very very happy about the current political debate is that most lawmakers agree that Segways should require a helmet. Since an actual motorcycle helmet would conflict with the eco-friendly coolness of the Segway experience, they're tending toward some kind of modified bicycle helmet that looks like one of those strap-on leather jobbies worn by the Fighting Horsemen of Notre Dame. Put a computer programmer in a tieless linen suit on a Segway with a leather football helmet on his head, and he looks like a fetishist on his way to the sex dungeon."
You are probably right, I haven't thought of it that way. I always just figured it to be in a psychological something else of a genre if I had to classify it, but there are scientific principles used in studying psychology.
I've read comments saying that patch wasn't on Windows Update until it was too late. And of course, that patch required service packs, which require prohibitively long download times for dial-up users.
Are either of these not true?
True. Pleasantville, The Truman Show and Harry Potter also got nominations in the past, despite not being science fiction.
If they don't make some adjustments, it will be the "Latest Hip Subculture Genre Awards".
I think a lot of this stuff may be winning on name recognition alone rather than on whether or not it meets basic criteria of deserving an award.
They do have a vested interest issue, but I don't think any of their computer products was infected by a major virus/worm in the last decade.
The multi die module wasn't a "strange system" it was simply an expensive way to do it. Both the CPU and cache were fabbed separately and individually bonded into the package and into each other. As I remember, others have done similar things before, but I think it was the largest scale use of its kind. Now a more complex CPU with a big of a cache is more routinely put on the same die, and I expect that this project will as well.
Getting preachy on us?
The problem is that it does require brute force to get something into orbit, so there is so much that can be done. The most efficient might be a space teather elevator but the materials science isn't quite there yet.
The idea of using lots of little engines has been done by the Soviets. I forget what problems they had.
I think there is a difference, not all aspects of an operating system should be lumped into one in this consideration. Windows doesn't necessarily suck because of the user interface but because of the internals, but on the other hand, in my opinion Linux sucks almost solely because of the user interface. Take the good parts of everything, put it together well and you may have a winner.
It really needs to be tested against the Aron, Krion and Raon.
I think the question is how trustworthy the research and data is, heck, it is released by an organization whose very livelyhood is software. How many here fully trust the statistics publicly released by the BSA, RIAA or MPAA?
Besides, the press-release style of the article doesn't have much for footnotes or note the sampling methods, etc.
I too would suggest using such lists as just another point of reference for statistics and not block solely because the ISP is on the list.
As yet, unless the nForce 3 boards are out, there weren't any Hammer boards that had 64 bit PCI/PCI-X _and_ AGP. I believe both are needed to truly be considered a workstation board now. I think that might change with nF3, but I forget if it is 2P capable, which is another thing that is needed now.
As far as I can tell, Apple also has a problem of not being workstation class simply by not having ECC support. ECC was standard for workstation computers for at least five years.
I really don't look that hard as I don't expect to buy either kind of system for a couple years.
Also, the thing that bugs me is that according to the article they are trying to replace incandescents. Such a replacement is already available, with nearly 10x the lifetime and 1/4th the electricity usage, yet people don't use them. They cost more but the average lifetime use usually makes up for it. Few buy that technology for home use now, so why why would these people jump on LED?
I think that flourescents are an acceptable replacement and can be bought in color outputs that mimic the color of incandescents.
The question is, do they really care more about the customer or the bottom line?
If things carry on with a lot more big exploits coming down, if they con't care about the customer, there is a chance that they won't have to worry about a bottom line.
We still have to educate people, but also, systems must be designed to be able to accomodate non-computer peopl and the fact that they usually have other things to think about. Think of it this way: would you rather your physician spend his/her time worried about patients or the computer system? It's an awfully simplistic example but I think the point needs to be made that few people should have to consider their computers more than a tool and learn a large set of hoops in order to maintain and use it.
http://aggregate.org/KASY0/faq.html
What performance does KASY0 really get?
It really gets over 471 GFLOPS on a 32-bit version of HPL. Using an "untuned" 64/80-bit version, KASY0 gets a very respectable 187.3 GFLOPS. These aren't theoretical numbers, they are the real thing. The theoretical we-will-never-see-that numbers are 531 GFLOPS and 1.06 TFLOPS, respectively, for 64/80-bit and 32-bit floating point.
Yes, we know HPL is only one application and not a very general one at that. We have other stuff running as well... but most of what we do is computer system design. Thus, our primary applications tend to be things like the Sparse Flat Neighborhood Network design program, which nobody else yet has. The result is that the performance numbers that are most important to us are meaningless to anybody else.
There is a lot of info in that FAQ.
I was borrowing a PS2 with Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec. The "simulation" mode was awfully tedious. They give you a certain amount of money and then ask you to pick a car. They don't have the decency of narrowing it down to what you can afford, so the player has to go through dozens of screenfuls of rediculously priced cars to find one that is affordable. After a couple races of that, I gave up and went to arcade mode.
The problem is that in my experience, colleges have typically been increasing their per student spending by _twice_ that of inflation for maybe thirty years. Caltech spent nearly $200,000 per student per year? What the HELL are they spending it on?! That has to be enough for nearly three personal tutors from your high-earn industries.
I know that a lot of stuff is expensive but then I've seen a lot of money thrown around to suit the whims of administrators and to keep the "image" up rather than focusing on education.
You mention a CEO - does your equivalent size business include students, or not? I think that is important.
Six parts would have served the movies well, each movie was twice as long as most others. A lot of movies run 90min to just over two hours, three hours and longer was severely trying my ability to sit still.
There is a licence difference to consider here. GPL _requires_ the changes be made available in source form if the binary is distributed. BSD licences pretty much allows any company to take code, make proprietary changes to it and doesn't require distribution of those changes.
I don't think it will work. Look at the effort against reading New York Times articles. The articles are free to read, they only want a registration account. Users don't pay money. Despite this, slashdotters find alternate routes to get the same.
If that text is real, then I must wonder what he was thinking when developing P2P related software in the US, given the current circumstances surrounding it. The P2P software still developed is mostly developed outside the US because it is outside of direct US prosecution.
I also wonder what the point in feeing to Canada or Mexico would be. I thought there were extradition treaties in place.
It is too difficult to muster sympathy in this case.