My father was an Army geek, actually a Ph.D. in materials science. He had the job of analyzing equipment failures such as when LAWS rockets blew up during the launch process making them very unpopular with the end user.
The most famous such geek was Archimedes who did things like set Roman sails on fire by focussing reflected sunlight on them during the siege of Syracuse.
No you ignorant Brit! Boston (finally) beat the Yankees to make it to the World Series.
Actually Boston has beaten the Yankees to make it to the World Series before. There have been 5 such showdowns between the Red Sox and Yankees - 1904, 1978, 1999, 2003 and 2004. The Red Sox won in 1904 and 2004.
As far as the portents. Does this mean the Red Sox can only win if there is a lunar eclipse during the World Series? If so, what sort of events do the Cubs require to break their losing streak? Asteroid impact?
Or could we be saved from a Reign Of Evil Red Sox by clouds: "some clouds having on one occasion covered the sky, so that an eclipse could not be seen, the courtiers joyfully repaired to the emperor to felicitate him that Heaven, touched by his virtues, had spared him the pain of witnessing the 'eating of the moon.'"
But probably not. The Emperor has already been vanquished, and in a truly ignominious manner. The eclipse is indeed a portent of doom for at least the Yankees.
The correct answer to the question is what is the value of downtime to you. Often a few hours of being offline dwarfs the savings possible from this approach.
There is no question you will have more downtime with desktop hardware - it in just not engineered with 365/24 in mind. You can add in a few extra fans and make sure you don't have any proprietary parts like Dell and HP throw into their desktops, but in the long run you WILL have more downtime.
When I bought my LCD monitor I found all kinds of information in user reviews online. Check out New Egg, Amazon, etc. for all kings of discussion of this exact issue.
Intel is bringing in foreign workers because they're cheap and replacable, and why should a little thing like legality stop them?
While that may be so, in reality it doesn't make that much difference. If H1-B loopholes were closed, a company with the global reach of Intel could easily move the work to one of it's offshore operations where it would only have to pay prevailing wages there.
What is the solution? Near term I don't know of one. The only real hope is that the US economy has a good track history when it comes to adjusting to problems.
You do have a choice, but you are limited to formats other than DVD. I agree that it sucks, but when you get right down to it, it's the same thing: each director changed the theatrical release.
Jackson come right out and says that the theatrical version is the version that he considers to be his best effort, while the extended version is something he produced for the enjoyment of the hard core fans. This is completely different from Lucas who does have any consideration whatsoever for the people who prefer the original version. With him you must take my version, if you don't like it tough. If the fans like the original, too bad, because you aren't going to get it.
LD is not a realistic option. While there are used copies out there they don't look that great (I know, I own a set), are starting to go bad in storage (my EpIV won't play the last 10 minutes), and keeping the LD players going is becoming a chore. I believe that there is only one LD player currently in production, and it costs about $1000. A long time ago I purchased DVD versions of the movies in my LD collection for simple reason that it was cheaper and they look better on DVD. Now do you know what were the ONLY films I couldn't get in nice high-res DVD? The original Star Wars trilogy.
A big pie in the face for you, George!
And a small one for you for not being able to see the difference between Lucas and Jackson.
A lot of cable providers do things like say 'no servers' in their terms of service and also block port 80 which makes running your own server really annoying. There are some very nice low cost hosting services that make the hassle of dynamic dns not worth it even if your are on a very tight budget.
I use phpwebhosting.com which is $10/mo. I'm very satisfied with it.
I went to the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Family Fun Day once. Really cool to tours the labs there. If you can go to one of these kinds of things I would highly recommend it.
Generally I use business class products on my home network for reliability. One item I've had good luck with is a Cisco Pix 501. Comes with a full version of PIX software that makes it very flexible, for a not too bad cost through discounters like Ebuyer.
So you think the terms of your job should be "protected" by the government, huh?
They already are, in many ways. For example, your employer is bound by the Civil Rights Act, OSHA, Fair Labor Standards Act, the Pension Protection Act, Disability, Workers Comp, Unemployment Insurance and so on. Under the FLSA if you are a salaried employee you probably cannot be docked in pay for anything less than a full day absence. Docking your pay beyond that is likely to be a violation of the FLSA and you should contact a lawyer or your state department of labor.
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if you're in a tight loop with your data and instruction cache perfectly populated, and all of a sudden the garbage collection kicks in, then your cache is toast and data will have to be refetched to it when execution resumes.
Actually, in the more recent JVMs garbage collection improves cache coherency through memory locality - newly allocated memory is likely to be close to already allocated memory, and thus in the cache.
The same techniques can be exploited to cause stack allocation instead of heap allocation, another speed win.
As far as compilation goes, Java compilers don't extensively optimize. Java optimizations typically occur at run time, which gives you a far greater range of possible strategies than the static compile time optimizations that are possible with C. Some people now think that run time optimization will eventually lead Java to be a higher performance language tham C.
I don't believe java can be as fast as native code, although probably extremely close.
It will be interesting to see how this works out, I'm betting that for a significant class of problems, large general purpose software, Java's runtime optimization will make it a clear winner.
For small programs that can fit in a CPU cache though, I think Java will be slower to overtake C, if ever.
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Those battle droids aren't so tough if you have your lightsaber handy.
The big trouble will come when the shielded model hits the street.
I'd choose a Taser as an anti-Packbot weapon myself.
My father was an Army geek, actually a Ph.D. in materials science. He had the job of analyzing equipment failures such as when LAWS rockets blew up during the launch process making them very unpopular with the end user.
The most famous such geek was Archimedes who did things like set Roman sails on fire by focussing reflected sunlight on them during the siege of Syracuse.
No you ignorant Brit! Boston (finally) beat the Yankees to make it to the World Series.
Actually Boston has beaten the Yankees to make it to the World Series before. There have been 5 such showdowns between the Red Sox and Yankees - 1904, 1978, 1999, 2003 and 2004. The Red Sox won in 1904 and 2004.
As far as the portents. Does this mean the Red Sox can only win if there is a lunar eclipse during the World Series? If so, what sort of events do the Cubs require to break their losing streak? Asteroid impact?
Or could we be saved from a Reign Of Evil Red Sox by clouds: "some clouds having on one occasion covered the sky, so that an eclipse could not be seen, the courtiers joyfully repaired to the emperor to felicitate him that Heaven, touched by his virtues, had spared him the pain of witnessing the 'eating of the moon.'"
But probably not. The Emperor has already been vanquished, and in a truly ignominious manner. The eclipse is indeed a portent of doom for at least the Yankees.
Hey, don't go there. This rat-brain in a dish probably can write better code than my boss.
none of these vulnerabilities are known to be exploited.
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That will change.
On the other hand, I wonder why things like these for soem reason never get posted.
Actually that did get posted.
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/04/
The correct answer to the question is what is the value of downtime to you. Often a few hours of being offline dwarfs the savings possible from this approach.
There is no question you will have more downtime with desktop hardware - it in just not engineered with 365/24 in mind. You can add in a few extra fans and make sure you don't have any proprietary parts like Dell and HP throw into their desktops, but in the long run you WILL have more downtime.
Seriously, what's the hold up?
Quality of Service.
That wasn't because I sought it, or even wanted it
Resistance to this organizational change by CIOs is often cited as a big reason for the slow adoption of VOIP by large companies.
a whole slew of employees facing post-IPO burnout and boredom will leave the company
Not to mention telling their boss to fuck off and die when he demands that you work late.
When I bought my LCD monitor I found all kinds of information in user reviews online. Check out New Egg, Amazon, etc. for all kings of discussion of this exact issue.
Intel is bringing in foreign workers because they're cheap and replacable, and why should a little thing like legality stop them?
While that may be so, in reality it doesn't make that much difference. If H1-B loopholes were closed, a company with the global reach of Intel could easily move the work to one of it's offshore operations where it would only have to pay prevailing wages there.
What is the solution? Near term I don't know of one. The only real hope is that the US economy has a good track history when it comes to adjusting to problems.
You do have a choice, but you are limited to formats other than DVD. I agree that it sucks, but when you get right down to it, it's the same thing: each director changed the theatrical release.
Jackson come right out and says that the theatrical version is the version that he considers to be his best effort, while the extended version is something he produced for the enjoyment of the hard core fans. This is completely different from Lucas who does have any consideration whatsoever for the people who prefer the original version. With him you must take my version, if you don't like it tough. If the fans like the original, too bad, because you aren't going to get it.
LD is not a realistic option. While there are used copies out there they don't look that great (I know, I own a set), are starting to go bad in storage (my EpIV won't play the last 10 minutes), and keeping the LD players going is becoming a chore. I believe that there is only one LD player currently in production, and it costs about $1000. A long time ago I purchased DVD versions of the movies in my LD collection for simple reason that it was cheaper and they look better on DVD. Now do you know what were the ONLY films I couldn't get in nice high-res DVD? The original Star Wars trilogy.
A big pie in the face for you, George!
And a small one for you for not being able to see the difference between Lucas and Jackson.
A lot of cable providers do things like say 'no servers' in their terms of service and also block port 80 which makes running your own server really annoying. There are some very nice low cost hosting services that make the hassle of dynamic dns not worth it even if your are on a very tight budget.
I use phpwebhosting.com which is $10/mo. I'm very satisfied with it.
I went to the Princeton Plasma Physics Lab Family Fun Day once. Really cool to tours the labs there. If you can go to one of these kinds of things I would highly recommend it.
how much you wanna bet that I can build a better box
How about equalling the warranty, support I get, too??? Do you know how much stuff is available online + newsgroups for PIX???
You think that's an oooolllddd id? LOL
Generally I use business class products on my home network for reliability. One item I've had good luck with is a Cisco Pix 501. Comes with a full version of PIX software that makes it very flexible, for a not too bad cost through discounters like Ebuyer.
I've got a CS degree
Let me see now, that was Summa Cum Laude/Phi Beta Kappa from an Ivy League school? Right?
Oh, yes and your PhD was from Stanford? MIT? or what equivalent?
And you have been a chaired professor for how many years at what elite university?
Oh, and you have experience in intellectual property cases that have set relevant legal precidents?
And you have served on what national panels/policy making bodies in this field??
Cape Wind will never happen because Teddy Kennedy doesn't want it in his backyard.
I use double ROT-13.
If they release these in HD I might plunk some cash down but that clearly isn't going to be an issue for another half decade I expect.
Sooner than you think HD-DVD is expected next year. You can already by players in Japan.
So you think the terms of your job should be "protected" by the government, huh?
They already are, in many ways. For example, your employer is bound by the Civil Rights Act, OSHA, Fair Labor Standards Act, the Pension Protection Act, Disability, Workers Comp, Unemployment Insurance and so on. Under the FLSA if you are a salaried employee you probably cannot be docked in pay for anything less than a full day absence. Docking your pay beyond that is likely to be a violation of the FLSA and you should contact a lawyer or your state department of labor.
if you're in a tight loop with your data and instruction cache perfectly populated, and all of a sudden the garbage collection kicks in, then your cache is toast and data will have to be refetched to it when execution resumes.
Actually, in the more recent JVMs garbage collection improves cache coherency through memory locality - newly allocated memory is likely to be close to already allocated memory, and thus in the cache.
The same techniques can be exploited to cause stack allocation instead of heap allocation, another speed win.
As far as compilation goes, Java compilers don't extensively optimize. Java optimizations typically occur at run time, which gives you a far greater range of possible strategies than the static compile time optimizations that are possible with C. Some people now think that run time optimization will eventually lead Java to be a higher performance language tham C.
I don't believe java can be as fast as native code, although probably extremely close.
It will be interesting to see how this works out, I'm betting that for a significant class of problems, large general purpose software, Java's runtime optimization will make it a clear winner.
For small programs that can fit in a CPU cache though, I think Java will be slower to overtake C, if ever.
Sounds extremely over-optimistic to me.