The arrangements of the pins are slightly different, preventing punters from simply snipping off a pin, and using their old Athlon64 CPU in a shiny new motherboard. As I understand, the Athlon64 chips integrate a memory controller onto the die, so every time the memory controller design is changed, the socket must also change.
The 940 pin Athlon64 required expensive, slower ECC ram, just like the Opteron. But unlike the Opteron, the Athlon64 was intended to be sold to people who might not appreciate the tradeoffs involved in using ECC. AMD corrected this oversight, and then released a new socket because a new motherboard design would be required anyway.
seroiusly, maybe a dual opteron rig... do not forget that the Athlon 64 FX is functionally identical to the Opteron, the only difference being that the new Athlon fx's are 939 pin and the Opteron is 940.
Interesting. I never knew you could judge computation power on such a simple metric (pins per processor). Shouldn't we be concerned with the functionality of that 940th pin?
I was given a budgetary quote of more than 5X this per CPU. Sure the Xeons have more grunt than the Transmeta CPU's, but is it worth 5X? The Altix uses Itanium 2 processors. It can also run a single system image.
The whole point of this marketing exercise was to bring cluster computers out of the glass walled (and blinkinlight laden) server room, and to the desktop, on the assumption that the bureaucracy of node allocation gets in the way.
With this setup, a mathematician can get a flash of inspiration, fire up grid Mathematica, and have 12 processors testing her hypothesis in a matter of seconds. A biologist can run BLAST without having to worry about whether his colleagues might be hogging the computational resources.
Essentially, it's a very expensive "personal cluster" machine,
If a dual opteron can do something like 12G flops for $2.5K, what can this thing do with 12 processors at $10K...?
18 gigaflops, sustained. And what's this about "If"? Either a dual opteron workstation is capable of sustaining a certain level of performance (in which case, a hyperlink would have been nice) or it's not.
It's a list of the "most frequently" challenged books, which implies that multiple challenges were recorded for each title.
I suppose that somewhere, there might be a incompetent children's Librarian blowing his budget on subscriptions to Hustler, and subsequently raising the ire of "concerned parents." But such challenges would be too rare to enter the ALA list.
Most of the books on the list will be among the tens of thousands of volumes in any well stocked library. Some of the books are deemed to be of sufficient pedagogical value that they are assigned-- others are merely intended to appeal to a minority of readers.
Perhaps kid A's parents are so uptight that they believe a certain book may imperil kid A's morals. But that book may not have been acquired for kid A, but rather for kid B. If the book is banned, kid B suffers.
You may be interested in reading this review of Barbara Feinberg's Welcome to Lizard Motel: Children, Stories, and the Mystery of Making Things Up.
The author, Laura Miller begins
An avid reader growing up, I decided that there were two types of children's books: call it ''Little Women'' versus ''Phantom Tollbooth.'' The first type was usually foisted on you by nostalgic grown-ups. These were books populated by snivelers and goody-two-shoes, the most saintly of whom were sure to die in some tediously drawn-out scene. When the characters weren't dying or performing acts of charity or thawing the hearts of mean old gentlemen, they mostly just hung around the house, thinking about how they felt about their relatives.
Perhaps the problem is that kids don't read enough fiction-- and so the adults in their lives feel compelled to push novels that will impress "life lessons" upon the hapless readers.
Heterosexual couples are necessary for the propogation of the species. Homosexual couples are not.
Thank god for the modern state. Without the constant intervention of the government and educators, people would never have figured out the intricacies of sex.
I suppose that if you don't pay much attention to the background subplots, it's fairly innocuous. But, if you don't pay attention to the background subplots, you're missing half the movie.
2001: A Space Odyssey predated the ratings system by a few months. In this New York Times review it's listed as "MPAA Rating: NR (Mild Violence/Adult Situations/Questionable for Children)"
I'm not quite sure how it later earned a "G" rating. After all, it's a about a computer committing mass murder. Perhaps the board believed that those persons who might be emotionally scarred by the movie would be bored out of their skulls.
Profanity is boring. It's just a way to make some characters look cool, and that's stupid. I'd rather make up my own mind about what characters I like. I mean, occasionally, it actually fits, but usually it seems forced and purposeful.
When Robert Altman directed Gosford Park , he included eight "fucks", and earned his "R".
"Because we showed it at the London Film Festival," reports Altman, "The Hollywood Reporter carried a review and the guy gave it a rave, except that he said, 'Altman has the characters using the word "fuck" and, of course, it was never used in that period.' Well, it certainly wasn't allowed in movies in that period because of the censorship, but the word 'fuck' goes back to 1066 or something like that. I was just shocked that he would be so foolish as to expose his ignorance. But I wasn't making a 1932 movie. In fact, we put so many 'fucks' in it in order to get a rating; otherwise, we would have got a PG and kids would have gone. And I didn't want kids at this movie because they wouldn't get it and they'd get up and walk out.
Incidentally, the "first 64bit computer" part of the Apple debacle was one part I never understood - surely we've had 64bit (UltraSparc) workstations since the mid-90s? Slightly less seriously, I've got a 128bit "computer" right now (Play Station 2) - surely that would count against Apple's claim?
And I have a 256 bit graphics card--the Radeon 9000, though it's not quite clear how graphics card companies calculate this.
The Emotion Engine is 128 bit only in the sense that it's SIMD unit is 128 bits wide. This width is also shared with SSE and altivec.
Sometimes, the bitness refers to the address bus-- but the powerPC 970 only has a 42 bit address bus.
If Lucas produces another round of sequels, he may be tempted to reedit his previous films, so as to add various framing devices. The original versions will then be withdrawn from the marketplace.
Well, the same word (psuches) is used throughout the greek text, so it would seem that the translator is imposing his interpretation upon the text by using two independent english translations of psuches.
This interpretation may be in line with theological tradition-- but new translations are frequently commissioned with the intent of realigning ones faith with the "original" sources.
The Revised Standard Version is not exactly a radical translation-- in fact, it was adopted by many American Protestant and, IIRC, Catholic and Orthodox churches.
The Scholars Version is pretty radical-- it's used in the Jesus Seminar's Five Gospels which aims to determine which of Jesus's sayings were actually said by Jesus. Naturally, the academic credibility of such a project rests on a linguistically accurate translation. (The fifth gospel, btw, is the Gospel of Thomas, discovered among the Nag Hammadi texts in 1945).
The context here, I think, is that Jesus is promising eternal life--be prepared to give up your life for me-- and in return, you'll get it back. If you will not-- and instead seek material wealth, you'll die anyway. The exhortation is "follow me", not "be good".
The word (transliterated) is "psuche". From what I can gather, it refers most commonly to the "breath of life," or "vital force". This greek concept can be extended to encompass an immortal soul, but such an elaboration may not be what the author of Mark intended.
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" implies that is is foolish to risk corruption and immorality for the sake of worldly glory. but
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own life?" implies that is is foolish to risk bodily injury and death for the sake of worldly glory.
I don't know greek, and am not much interested in Christianity, so I can't comment on the theological implications.
Perhaps these are better transcriptions. "After all, what good does it do a person to acquire the whole world and pay for it with life?" -- Scholars Version
"For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?" --Revised Standard Version
I wouldn't want to be accused of promulgating the equivalent of the hopper's bible....
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The arrangements of the pins are slightly different, preventing punters from simply snipping off a pin, and using their old Athlon64 CPU in a shiny new motherboard. As I understand, the Athlon64 chips integrate a memory controller onto the die, so every time the memory controller design is changed, the socket must also change.
The 940 pin Athlon64 required expensive, slower ECC ram, just like the Opteron. But unlike the Opteron, the Athlon64 was intended to be sold to people who might not appreciate the tradeoffs involved in using ECC. AMD corrected this oversight, and then released a new socket because a new motherboard design would be required anyway.
VNC on a 10 Gb/s link might not be too bad...
seroiusly, maybe a dual opteron rig... do not forget that the Athlon 64 FX is functionally identical to the Opteron, the only difference being that the new Athlon fx's are 939 pin and the Opteron is 940.
Interesting. I never knew you could judge computation power on such a simple metric (pins per processor). Shouldn't we be concerned with the functionality of that 940th pin?
I was given a budgetary quote of more than 5X this per CPU. Sure the Xeons have more grunt than the Transmeta CPU's, but is it worth 5X?
The Altix uses Itanium 2 processors. It can also run a single system image.
The Orion is more akin to a conventional cluster.
The 12 node system has a peak power consumption of 220 watts. Not a lot of heat, in the scheme of things.
The whole point of this marketing exercise was to bring cluster computers out of the glass walled (and blinkinlight laden) server room, and to the desktop, on the assumption that the bureaucracy of node allocation gets in the way.
With this setup, a mathematician can get a flash of inspiration, fire up grid Mathematica, and have 12 processors testing her hypothesis in a matter of seconds. A biologist can run BLAST without having to worry about whether his colleagues might be hogging the computational resources.
Essentially, it's a very expensive "personal cluster" machine,
If a dual opteron can do something like 12G flops for $2.5K, what can this thing do with 12 processors at $10K...?
18 gigaflops, sustained.
And what's this about "If"? Either a dual opteron workstation is capable of sustaining a certain level of performance (in which case, a hyperlink would have been nice) or it's not.
Actually, the headnode supports Gnome and X-windows. The deskside has a "network attached framebuffer".
People knew sex, and its intricacies, but were discrete about it.
I'd wouldn't call Saturnalia discrete.
The title of the book says, "Heather has two mommies", which is impossible. A person can only have one mother and one father.
What part of Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer don't you understand?
It's a list of the "most frequently" challenged books, which implies that multiple challenges were recorded for each title.
I suppose that somewhere, there might be a incompetent children's Librarian blowing his budget on subscriptions to Hustler, and subsequently raising the ire of "concerned parents." But such challenges would be too rare to enter the ALA list.
Most of the books on the list will be among the tens of thousands of volumes in any well stocked library. Some of the books are deemed to be of sufficient pedagogical value that they are assigned-- others are merely intended to appeal to a minority of readers.
Perhaps kid A's parents are so uptight that they believe a certain book may imperil kid A's morals. But that book may not have been acquired for kid A, but rather for kid B. If the book is banned, kid B suffers.
The author, Laura Miller begins
Perhaps the problem is that kids don't read enough fiction-- and so the adults in their lives feel compelled to push novels that will impress "life lessons" upon the hapless readers.
Heterosexual couples are necessary for the propogation of the species. Homosexual couples are not.
Thank god for the modern state. Without the constant intervention of the government and educators, people would never have figured out the intricacies of sex.
I suppose that if you don't pay much attention to the background subplots, it's fairly innocuous. But, if you don't pay attention to the background subplots, you're missing half the movie.
2001: A Space Odyssey predated the ratings system by a few months. In this New York Times review it's listed as "MPAA Rating: NR (Mild Violence/Adult Situations/Questionable for Children)"
I'm not quite sure how it later earned a "G" rating. After all, it's a about a computer committing mass murder. Perhaps the board believed that those persons who might be emotionally scarred by the movie would be bored out of their skulls.
When Robert Altman directed Gosford Park , he included eight "fucks", and earned his "R".
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There's also Young Adam. E&R also gave this film two thumbs up. Decent film, if a little nihilistic.
Incidentally, the "first 64bit computer" part of the Apple debacle was one part I never understood - surely we've had 64bit (UltraSparc) workstations since the mid-90s? Slightly less seriously, I've got a 128bit "computer" right now (Play Station 2) - surely that would count against Apple's claim?
And I have a 256 bit graphics card--the Radeon 9000, though it's not quite clear how graphics card companies calculate this.
The Emotion Engine is 128 bit only in the sense that it's SIMD unit is 128 bits wide. This width is also shared with SSE and altivec.
Sometimes, the bitness refers to the address bus-- but the powerPC 970 only has a 42 bit address bus.
If Lucas produces another round of sequels, he may be tempted to reedit his previous films, so as to add various framing devices. The original versions will then be withdrawn from the marketplace.
Well, the same word (psuches) is used throughout the greek text, so it would seem that the translator is imposing his interpretation upon the text by using two independent english translations of psuches.
This interpretation may be in line with theological tradition-- but new translations are frequently commissioned with the intent of realigning ones faith with the "original" sources.
The Revised Standard Version is not exactly a radical translation-- in fact, it was adopted by many American Protestant and, IIRC, Catholic and Orthodox churches.
The Scholars Version is pretty radical-- it's used in the Jesus Seminar's Five Gospels which aims to determine which of Jesus's sayings were actually said by Jesus. Naturally, the academic credibility of such a project rests on a linguistically accurate translation. (The fifth gospel, btw, is the Gospel of Thomas, discovered among the Nag Hammadi texts in 1945).
The context here, I think, is that Jesus is promising eternal life--be prepared to give up your life for me-- and in return, you'll get it back. If you will not-- and instead seek material wealth, you'll die anyway. The exhortation is "follow me", not "be good".
The word (transliterated) is "psuche". From what I can gather, it refers most commonly to the "breath of life," or "vital force". This greek concept can be extended to encompass an immortal soul, but such an elaboration may not be what the author of Mark intended.
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" implies that is is foolish to risk corruption and immorality for the sake of worldly glory.
but
"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own life?" implies that is is foolish to risk bodily injury and death for the sake of worldly glory.
I don't know greek, and am not much interested in Christianity, so I can't comment on the theological implications.
Perhaps these are better transcriptions.
"After all, what good does it do a person to acquire the whole world and pay for it with life?" -- Scholars Version
"For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?" --Revised Standard Version
I wouldn't want to be accused of promulgating the equivalent of the hopper's bible....
Heh. The "original" was in greek--and apparently is difficult to translate.
Two alternative translations:
"After all, what good does it do for a person to acquire the who world, and pay for it with life?" -- Scholars Version
"For what does it profit a man ti gain the whole world, and pay for it with his life." --Revised Standard Version