OK. My mistake. There's more than enough evidence available on the net to suggest that both USL (with its SVR4 MPX) and NCR (with it's UNIX MP-RAS) product supported SMP on x86 platforms one such source from 1993
Guess I was reading two much into the "massively parallel" buzzword. Do you know if the 1024 machines clustered a bunch of 8 way nodes, or were more fully SMP?
As for any possible transfer of technology between USL and NCR while under the ownership of AT&T, I wouldn't know where to begin. If such transfer did occur, it would be an interesting ommission from SCO's complaint.
"The only way that the pathway is an "eight-lane highway" for Linux to achieve the scalability, SMP support, fail-over capabilities and reliability of UNIX is by the improper extraction, use, and dissemination of the proprietary and confidential UNIX Software Code and libraries. Indeed, UNIX was able to achieve its status as the premiere operating system only after decades of hard work, beginning with the finest computer scientists at AT&T Bell Laboratories, plaintiff's predecessor in interest."
As you have alluded,
ESR dismisses Unixware's implementation of SMP.
Ironically, UnixWare did not get usable SMP on Intel until after Linux. The UnixWare implememtation was unstable until mid-1997; Linux got working SMP in 1996 with the release of 2.0.
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SCO/Caldera's claim to own the scalability techniques certainly cannot be supported from the feature list of its own SCO OpenServer, a genetic Unix. The latest version[41] advertises SMP up to only 4 processors (a level which SCO's complaint dismisses as inadequate), no LVM, no NUMA, and no hot-swapping. That is, SCO/Caldera is alleging that IBM misappropriated from SCO technologies which do not appear in SCO's own product.
SCO's complaint and ESR"s response do not mention any other parallel techniques besides SMP. Indeed, SCO implies that it regards other parallel techniques as inferior to SMP.
That is to say, it virtually never needs repair, it performs well under a wide variety of adverse circumstances, and it can be extended throughout an enterprise and across multiple processors to perform unified or disparate tasks in a seamless computing environment.
The machines you mention are massively parallel machines. Massive parallelism differs from symetric paralelism, chiefly in that in MPP, each processor has its own memory. The task to be performed is broken up into many subtasks and each processor completes that subtask simultaneously. source
Although effective, massively parallel computing is far from seamless. Think of a MPP as a Beowulf with fast interconnects. It is not the seamless architecture that is described in SCO's complaint.
Google is valuable to its customers because it is both capacious (3 billion web pages) and it seems to do a decent job ranking search results. The first advantage stems from the fact that Google relies on automated cataloguing agents (spiders). The second advantage is that certain algorithms try to heureustically gauge relevence (otherwise mirrors of/usr/dict/words would crop up far more often.
It is all but impossible to assemble a 3 billion entry database of webpages without automation, and it is even more difficult to edit it down. If, on a spot check, it is noticed that the actual relevence of results differs greatly from Google's relevence, it is not appropriate to hand edit the scores. Rather, new algorithms must be devised that recalibrate the "relevancy" of thousands or millions of pages, so any miscalibration will be, in the eyes of Google's users, shortlived. Hand editing isn't fast enough.
But you want to add lawyers to the mix. What a nifty idea. I suppose you have a plan involving the use of "selling pagerank" so as to offset the massive increase in legal fees paid by Google...
Meanwhile, the world will move onto another search engine.
Oh yeah? Where in the Bill of Rights (thought I'd expand it to the Big Ten instead of just the first) does it say that Google can do anything they damn well please?
Presumably because Google has the right to a free press, and thus retains (a modicum of) control over what it prints. No need to expand your search criteria to the entire bill of rights, though the ninth and tenth amendments could come in handy.
Is there any physical reason (other than that small matter of cost ) that crafting a new kilogram (or more likely, gram) out of diamond would not be an ideal solution?
f I want to believe that the US is the best country in the entire world then what is wrong with that? Because it focuses ones attention on one's present condition, and turns ones attention away from improving ones future condition.
IIRC, the Radeon 7000 doesn't support shaders and the GeForce4MX only supports vertex shaders to a limited extent. Neither card supports pixel shaders. Games that take advantage of these (admittedly esoteric) features won't look as nice, or will run more slowly on these cards.
The GeForceFX and Radeon 9700 support the latest incarnations of DirectX 9, and therefore appeal to rich Windoze gamers.
BTW, If you want an example of why the Radeon 7000 and GeForce4MX are considered obsolete by some, check out this table of results from Tom's Hardware.
Personally, I still use a Rage128 chipset (I have an iBook). T&L would be nice for Data Explorer, though.
The official explanation was that the printer (the Xerox Dover) jammed frequently, and RMS wanted to hack the drivers so that some sort of alert would display on his terminal if the printer jammed. This was in 1979, long before anti-counterfeiting features were incorportated into copiers.
SPDIF still has those pesky SCMS bits to deal with. That's assumming that digital output is available-- as Microsoft's Secure Audio Path scheme can disable digital outputs. Yes, yes, I hear a cry of "so write your own driver" from the peanut gallery.
But, as we all know, SAP uses signed, certified drivers.
The Washington Post gives more details on two plans. The first would involve a launch of Atlantis with a four man skeleton crew to an orbit within 20-30 meters of Columbia and a transfer of the stranded astronauts using spare spacesuits. The second would have two astronauts "don the two space suits aboard their craft and attempt to patch a hole in the left wing using odds and ends, including stainless steel parts, insulation, soft tiles ripped from the side of the shuttle, an ice pack and heat resistant tape."
Actually, thy glyphs associated with the number sign,octoctorpe,or hash are somewhat different than the musical sharp sign. The sharp has slanted horizontal lines, while the # has slanted vertical lines.
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I am guessing that the prohibition on "visit[ing] for any commercial purpose" precludes me from actually purchasing their wares.
In the UK, some 390,000 individuals are followers of the force But as the original Canada.com article notes, the Jedi religion choce may have been a protest agains the government surveying religious preference.
The middle of the bill recieves the most wear and tear (because of folding). As the portrait is considered a security faeature, it makes little sense to place it in region susceptible to damage. Instead, the center portion is left blank, so as to increase ones attention on the undamaged, off center portions.
In his book Balance of Power (1986, the game designer Chris Crawford describes Terrorism thusly:
Terrorism: The first step [in the development of an insurgency] comes when some hothead carries out an act of violence against the government. It is neccesarily rather puny; after all we can't expect every hothead to have much military power at his disposal (thank heaven!). This act serves to galvanize opposition. Once people realize that there are others willing to fight back, they gravitate towards each other, and the insurgency begins to take shape, During this early stage, the insurgents will lack any real military power. They operate as part-time rebels, living during the day as regular citizens, but plotting their revolution in secrecy and making occasional strikes.
It's a little dated, but it's a straight definitiom. Terrorists strike at target of opportunities in urban areas. The goal of their attacks is usually not to go after military targets--in most cases the're too well defended (although see Beirut, Khyber Towers, Pentagon and if you're willing to split hairs. the King David Hotel) but to inspire confidence in those who would support them ("We can win this struggle!") and inspire fear in their enemies ("They came out of nowhere. How could we let this happen?").
Many terrorist organizations don't have a sufficiant grasp of political reality to transform their terrorist activities into an effective opposition. Al Quada's goal was something along the lines of "worldwide Islamic Revolution"-- something that can probably be characterized as "pure fantasy." Although bin Laden's "simultaneous , multiple target" signature may have won him respect from other terrorist organizations, his tactics did little, if anything, to secure his stated political goals, and have instead (deservedly so) marked him as a mass murderer.
You probably don't want to remove the US keyboard, as not all applications support Unicode. See this site for a keyboard layout that supports all the Latin blocks (Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, and Latin Extended Additional)
Not all fonts support these, although Gentium supports every possible Latinate Unicode 3.0 glyph, and up to three levels of diacretics.
That's what I thought. To me, that behaviour is rather annoying-- but then, I write more C than (say) German. The Brazilian Portuguese keyboard layout, btw, does not have seperate accent keys, although the Portuguese layout does.
OSX also supports "US Extended" but that layout doesn't change the dead key locations. It does, however, support more diacretical marks and a number of Eastern and Northern European letters (e.g. the polish slashed L, eth, thorn, etc)
It was designed to mimic the Windows keyboard layout. For a Mac user, it's not the "real deal". I'm not sure how one survives on the web with a dead '~'.
This article just begs for independent verification. Unfortunately, the Multnomah County employment opportunities is down Website down for scheduled maintenance from Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 12 AM to Sunday, May 18 at 11:45 PM.
Æ is the 26th letter (not ligature) of the Danish alphabet. The OE ligature is also found in French as a ligature. Note that the oe glyph does not show up on slashdot.
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OK. My mistake. There's more than enough evidence available on the net to suggest that both USL (with its SVR4 MPX) and NCR (with it's UNIX MP-RAS) product supported SMP on x86 platforms one such source from 1993
Guess I was reading two much into the "massively parallel" buzzword. Do you know if the 1024 machines clustered a bunch of 8 way nodes, or were more fully SMP?
As for any possible transfer of technology between USL and NCR while under the ownership of AT&T, I wouldn't know where to begin. If such transfer did occur, it would be an interesting ommission from SCO's complaint.
Although effective, massively parallel computing is far from seamless. Think of a MPP as a Beowulf with fast interconnects. It is not the seamless architecture that is described in SCO's complaint.
But Google is not obliged to fully implement this patent.
Google is valuable to its customers because it is both capacious (3 billion web pages) and it seems to do a decent job ranking search results. The first advantage stems from the fact that Google relies on automated cataloguing agents (spiders). The second advantage is that certain algorithms try to heureustically gauge relevence (otherwise mirrors of /usr/dict/words would crop up far more often.
It is all but impossible to assemble a 3 billion entry database of webpages without automation, and it is even more difficult to edit it down. If, on a spot check, it is noticed that the actual relevence of results differs greatly from Google's relevence, it is not appropriate to hand edit the scores. Rather, new algorithms must be devised that recalibrate the "relevancy" of thousands or millions of pages, so any miscalibration will be, in the eyes of Google's users, shortlived. Hand editing isn't fast enough.
But you want to add lawyers to the mix. What a nifty idea. I suppose you have a plan involving the use of "selling pagerank" so as to offset the massive increase in legal fees paid by Google...
Meanwhile, the world will move onto another search engine.
Oh yeah? Where in the Bill of Rights (thought I'd expand it to the Big Ten instead of just the first) does it say that Google can do anything they damn well please?
Presumably because Google has the right to a free press, and thus retains (a modicum of) control over what it prints. No need to expand your search criteria to the entire bill of rights, though the ninth and tenth amendments could come in handy.
Do Balsa, Mahogony, Pine, and Elm have anything to do with woodworking?
Oops. should be the National Physical Laboratory.
I really must get around to learning to read someday.
Is there any physical reason (other than that small matter of cost ) that crafting a new kilogram (or more likely, gram) out of diamond would not be an ideal solution?
BTW, theNational Physical Institute has a FAQ on its Pl-Ir standard kilo.
f I want to believe that the US is the best country in the entire world then what is wrong with that?
Because it focuses ones attention on one's present condition, and turns ones attention away from improving ones future condition.
but its good enough since Russia has dropped Glonass guided bombs in Chechnya
Hmm. If you consider dropping bombs on chechnya to be a good thing...
IIRC, the Radeon 7000 doesn't support shaders and the GeForce4MX only supports vertex shaders to a limited extent. Neither card supports pixel shaders. Games that take advantage of these (admittedly esoteric) features won't look as nice, or will run more slowly on these cards.
The GeForceFX and Radeon 9700 support the latest incarnations of DirectX 9, and therefore appeal to rich Windoze gamers.
BTW, If you want an example of why the Radeon 7000 and GeForce4MX are considered obsolete by some, check out this table of results from Tom's Hardware.
Personally, I still use a Rage128 chipset (I have an iBook). T&L would be nice for Data Explorer, though.
The official explanation was that the printer (the Xerox Dover) jammed frequently, and RMS wanted to hack the drivers so that some sort of alert would display on his terminal if the printer jammed. This was in 1979, long before anti-counterfeiting features were incorportated into copiers.
SPDIF still has those pesky SCMS bits to deal with. That's assumming that digital output is available-- as Microsoft's Secure Audio Path scheme can disable digital outputs. Yes, yes, I hear a cry of "so write your own driver" from the peanut gallery.
But, as we all know, SAP uses signed, certified drivers.
Everything in the parent post has already been said, and repeated ad nauseum by various karma whoring ACs.
The Washington Post gives more details on two plans. The first would involve a launch of Atlantis with a four man skeleton crew to an orbit within 20-30 meters of Columbia and a transfer of the stranded astronauts using spare spacesuits. The second would have two astronauts "don the two space suits aboard their craft and attempt to patch a hole in the left wing using odds and ends, including stainless steel parts, insulation, soft tiles ripped from the side of the shuttle, an ice pack and heat resistant tape."
Actually, thy glyphs associated with the number sign,octoctorpe,or hash are somewhat different than the musical sharp sign. The sharp has slanted horizontal lines, while the # has slanted vertical lines.
I am guessing that the prohibition on "visit[ing] for any commercial purpose" precludes me from actually purchasing their wares.
In the UK, some 390,000 individuals are followers of the force But as the original Canada.com article notes, the Jedi religion choce may have been a protest agains the government surveying religious preference.
The middle of the bill recieves the most wear and tear (because of folding). As the portrait is considered a security faeature, it makes little sense to place it in region susceptible to damage. Instead, the center portion is left blank, so as to increase ones attention on the undamaged, off center portions.
It's a little dated, but it's a straight definitiom. Terrorists strike at target of opportunities in urban areas. The goal of their attacks is usually not to go after military targets--in most cases the're too well defended (although see Beirut, Khyber Towers, Pentagon and if you're willing to split hairs. the King David Hotel) but to inspire confidence in those who would support them ("We can win this struggle!") and inspire fear in their enemies ("They came out of nowhere. How could we let this happen?").
Many terrorist organizations don't have a sufficiant grasp of political reality to transform their terrorist activities into an effective opposition. Al Quada's goal was something along the lines of "worldwide Islamic Revolution"-- something that can probably be characterized as "pure fantasy." Although bin Laden's "simultaneous , multiple target" signature may have won him respect from other terrorist organizations, his tactics did little, if anything, to secure his stated political goals, and have instead (deservedly so) marked him as a mass murderer.
Christopher Hitchens defined terrorism as the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. It's a interesting definition, but, of course it all depends on what one views as impossible.
You probably don't want to remove the US keyboard, as not all applications support Unicode. See this site for a keyboard layout that supports all the Latin blocks (Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, and Latin Extended Additional)
Not all fonts support these, although Gentium supports every possible Latinate Unicode 3.0 glyph, and up to three levels of diacretics.
That's what I thought. To me, that behaviour is rather annoying-- but then, I write more C than (say) German. The Brazilian Portuguese keyboard layout, btw, does not have seperate accent keys, although the Portuguese layout does.
OSX also supports "US Extended" but that layout doesn't change the dead key locations. It does, however, support more diacretical marks and a number of Eastern and Northern European letters (e.g. the polish slashed L, eth, thorn, etc)
It was designed to mimic the Windows keyboard layout. For a Mac user, it's not the "real deal". I'm not sure how one survives on the web with a dead '~'.
This article just begs for independent verification. Unfortunately, the Multnomah County employment opportunities is down Website down for scheduled maintenance from Saturday, May 17, 2003 at 12 AM to Sunday, May 18 at 11:45 PM.
Æ is the 26th letter (not ligature) of the Danish alphabet. The OE ligature is also found in French as a ligature. Note that the oe glyph does not show up on slashdot.