build a petaflop computer -- one that will process 1,000 trillion operations per second
petaFLOP == 1,000 trillion FLOATING POINTOperations Per Second.
It turns out that the author of the article linked to uses the term to mean 1,000 trillion ops/sec too. I think this is correctly called 1,000 TIPS (trillions insturctions per second), although IPS is usually not that commonly quoted.
The Supremes have even ruled that police can't arrest you for flipping them off...
Do you have any more info on that ruling? I might have to recite it some day...
The road to hell is paved with good intentions...
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... as the old adage goes.
While I'm sure that Mr. Carr had good intentions while writing this article, I strongly disagree with where he takes his readers:
Regulation by government or corporations, take your pick - I think the assertion that there is a difference between the two falls through
Only two forms of regulation are available in the United States: governmental and corporate. - I believe that there is at least one or two more forms of regulation (possibly personal and community regulation). Refer to The Scarlet Letter
But what about material that is just as dangerous, I think, but is much more difficult to regulate -- which is to say disinformation, as well as information that is forbidden in other media but sneaks onto the Net? - The belief that all speach must go checked rails against the very nature of free speach rights. Refer to China's net regulation for an example of government regulation of content which goes against so-called "public/government good".
Television and radio are governed by the Federal Communications Commission, ostensibly because airwave space is limited and is viewed as a public resource. But anyone who has ever worked in either medium knows that the actual concerns of the FCC extend beyond this minimal mandate and into the realm of responsibility -- that is, into ensuring that networks do not use their considerable influence to perpetrate what could be massive frauds and deceptions of the public and do not behave in a way that is wantonly at variance with obscenity and other content laws. - the FCC is a double sided tool of the networks - on the one hand creating a false shortage of bandwidth and on the other hand keeping stations which choose to broadcast something other than the cookie-cut subliminal-message-laced pacifying "news"/"talk-shows"/"comedy" etc. off the air through content regulation.
The point of this article seems to be that the net should be regulated as other mediums are, in an effort to save it from `evil corporations'.
The fact of the matter is that other mediums are already under the control of evil corporations through bought-and-paid-for government pseudo-regulation. The net is the only free medium, and it will be the last if the people allow it to be regulated.
The dreamcast has a processor (Hitachi SH4) that is capable of 1.4 billion floating point ops per second (1.4GFLOPS). A cluster of, say, 6 dreamcasts ($150 x 6 = $900) could be used as a personal supercomputer. A linux port to dreamcast would make this much easier to accomplish, since the stadard library and toolchain already exists.
doesn't the "Innocent uptil proven guilty" concept only apply to criminal cases[?]
IANAL either, but I think it's more like "...proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt" that only applies to criminal cases; in civil cases, the burden of proof is still on the prosecuting side, but they only have to prove that it was likely or some such crap.
Disintermediation - literally, withdrawal of funds from intermediary financial institutions, such as banks and savings and loan associations, in order to invest in instruments yielding a higher return. In this context I think it means pulling out of the established distribution channels in favor of a distribution method that has no intermediaries, i.e. 'middle-men'
What do you think is going to happen when every TV station starts streaming videos of everyone's favorite shows to anyone who wants it?
The amount of bandwidth used is not dependant on the number of different streaming media sites available to the end-user. On the contrary, it is dependant on the number of end-users currently downloading from streaming media sites.
To illustrate, if every TV station starts streaming videos of everyone's favorite shows, and everyone who wanted to downloaded them, the bandwidth usage would be no different from a scenario where only one station streamed videos of everyone's favorite shows, and everyone who wanted to downloaded them.
The only valid reason why television and radio broadcasting are licensed is that there is a limited frequency spectrum, and some non-commercial entity (or ostensibly non-commercial, in the case of the government) has to divide it up. No such spectral limitation exists on streamed media, thus the government has no business regulating it. --- tsmith
Do you think that you should be able to own a nuclear bomb if you want to.
Indeed I should, and why not?
What is the difference between my possessing a nuclear bomb and our government possessing a nuclear bomb, except that what I do with mine may be easily seen by my neighbors, and what the government does with theirs may be smokescreened by taxpayer-funded propaganda?
A typical 33.6 has 130ms latency and is half duplex. Telephony over it sucks.
Slightly more than one tenth of a second latency is not noticeable in a voice conversation. The final delay will be the one-way network latency + the sample length (in time), which if kept short enough can keep the lag from becoming too annoying. The half-duplicity of the modem connection does not go against my argument - in my calculation I took into account that both sending and recieving channels would have to share the pipe. Read it again if you think I'm bs'ing.
The poster to whom I was replying made a direct analogy between pirating software and using VoIP apps. My point is that it is possible to have a VoIP communication channel that is more effiecient than a regular analog phone call.
Actually, with a good compression codec (which are quite common), VoIP can take up less bandwidth than a regular analog call. For instance, with CELP compression it's possible to have a full-duplex communication channel in 9600bps (600Bps * 8b/B * 2directions) + protocol overhead (IP + UDP header lengths anyone?) so on a typical 33600bps connection you could likely squeeze 3 simultaneous conversations. IMHO this is why there was a big push in the wireless telco industry to move to digital (what do they really care about call security?).
If you think about it, VoIP is more efficient than your "honest" + "proper voice line".
CELP == Code Excited Linear Predication I believe it's been around for a while (1970's?).
I disagree with the earlier posts about having distros certify configurations or having Linus lay his 'seal of approval' upon each and any piece of hardware/ configuration that wants to put a logo on their boxes to inspire hope in the hearts of linux users...
back when the MBA's hadn't heard of Linux we had our own solution in the community: search for information/ ask questions, and if you can't get the right answers, then it's really a hit or miss situation. If you go ahead anyways, at least you know to save your reciept.
As the article points out, we can't trust the venders to give us straight answers about the products they sell.
btw, my Belkin KVM works flawlessly, although it doesn't have USB ports...
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that's the funniest shit i've read all night
come to think of it, it's always FLOPS, not FLOP too...
petaFLOP == 1,000 trillion FLOATING POINT Operations Per Second.
It turns out that the author of the article linked to uses the term to mean 1,000 trillion ops/sec too. I think this is correctly called 1,000 TIPS (trillions insturctions per second), although IPS is usually not that commonly quoted.
Do you have any more info on that ruling? I might have to recite it some day...
While I'm sure that Mr. Carr had good intentions while writing this article, I strongly disagree with where he takes his readers:
The point of this article seems to be that the net should be regulated as other mediums are, in an effort to save it from `evil corporations'.
The fact of the matter is that other mediums are already under the control of evil corporations through bought-and-paid-for government pseudo-regulation.
The net is the only free medium, and it will be the last if the people allow it to be regulated.
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The dreamcast has a processor (Hitachi SH4) that is capable of 1.4 billion floating point ops per second (1.4GFLOPS). A cluster of, say, 6 dreamcasts ($150 x 6 = $900) could be used as a personal supercomputer. A linux port to dreamcast would make this much easier to accomplish, since the stadard library and toolchain already exists.
IANAL either, but I think it's more like "...proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt" that only applies to criminal cases; in civil cases, the burden of proof is still on the prosecuting side, but they only have to prove that it was likely or some such crap.
Development tools are also generally lacking in the JSP space
What kind of devel tools does this guy want? An editor with syntax highlighting? Gimme a break. Sheesh, you don't even have to use javac for JSP.
Why are so many programmers wussies these days?
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That's something that'll make you go into a mental for(;;) loop
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Disintermediation - literally, withdrawal of funds from intermediary financial institutions, such as banks and savings and loan associations, in order to invest in instruments yielding a higher return. In this context I think it means pulling out of the established distribution channels in favor of a distribution method that has no intermediaries, i.e. 'middle-men'
The amount of bandwidth used is not dependant on the number of different streaming media sites available to the end-user. On the contrary, it is dependant on the number of end-users currently downloading from streaming media sites.
To illustrate, if every TV station starts streaming videos of everyone's favorite shows, and everyone who wanted to downloaded them, the bandwidth usage would be no different from a scenario where only one station streamed videos of everyone's favorite shows, and everyone who wanted to downloaded them.
The only valid reason why television and radio broadcasting are licensed is that there is a limited frequency spectrum, and some non-commercial entity (or ostensibly non-commercial, in the case of the government) has to divide it up. No such spectral limitation exists on streamed media, thus the government has no business regulating it. --- tsmith
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Emphasis is my own.
Indeed I should, and why not?
What is the difference between my possessing a nuclear bomb and our government possessing a nuclear bomb, except that what I do with mine may be easily seen by my neighbors, and what the government does with theirs may be smokescreened by taxpayer-funded propaganda?
The weakness of your argument and the weight of its prepostory cause it to fall over upon itself.
Slightly more than one tenth of a second latency is not noticeable in a voice conversation. The final delay will be the one-way network latency + the sample length (in time), which if kept short enough can keep the lag from becoming too annoying. The half-duplicity of the modem connection does not go against my argument - in my calculation I took into account that both sending and recieving channels would have to share the pipe. Read it again if you think I'm bs'ing.
The poster to whom I was replying made a direct analogy between pirating software and using VoIP apps. My point is that it is possible to have a VoIP communication channel that is more effiecient than a regular analog phone call.
--Tim
If you think about it, VoIP is more efficient than your "honest" + "proper voice line".
CELP == Code Excited Linear Predication
I believe it's been around for a while (1970's?).
Tim --
back when the MBA's hadn't heard of Linux we had our own solution in the community: search for information/ ask questions, and if you can't get the right answers, then it's really a hit or miss situation. If you go ahead anyways, at least you know to save your reciept.
As the article points out, we can't trust the venders to give us straight answers about the products they sell.
btw, my Belkin KVM works flawlessly, although it doesn't have USB ports...
3. They support blocks of unsafe code. You put the keyword modifier unsafe to a method or block and can do pointer manipulations.
is a sad sign of the state of the art (of computer programming) ??
break-down: pointer manipulations == unsafe?
tsmith