While the possibility of privacy-invasion is very real with the use of RFID, the governments could mandate that the RFID tags could be used only in labels external to the goods, and labels that can be easily removed. So, the price tag on clothes could contain RFID tag, but it cannot be sewed into the hem, for example. Thus, they will be useful for Walmart for inventory control, and consumers could remove them as soon as they get buy those items.
IBM's Extreme Blue internship program beats the sh*t out of any internship. 3 bright engg interns and one tolerable MBA intern developing new technology for a full summer. a lot of their new "on-demand" thingie has come out of that internship program.
I am ready to believe that Cell, the processor of PS3, is ready. It was to be developed by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba. The design specs of the cell were unbelievably similar to the IBM chip specs for blue gene, a petaflop machine which IBM had said would be ready in 2004. Although the blue gene project, in its original form, has been dumped (and replaced by something called blue gene / light, or BG/L), I suppose the processors should have been ready by now. In fact, Lawrence Livermore National Lab is rumoured to have placed an order for a massive BG/L machine. So, IMHO, the Cell should be ready. But definitely the games, or even the SDK are not ready.
From the article:
"The Apache Software Foundation would rather that vendors of Apache didn't add any third-party modifications to Apache at all - it adds to brand confusion. It's rather like going to buy Coke, complaining to the Coca-Cola company that the drink was too sour, then finding that your supermarket was adding lemon."
Thats because Coke is not open source. Isn't the ability to modify an inherent feature in open source software ?
I have been pondering over this for some time now. The US companies go to India looking for cheap labor. The typical reason given is that a company can hire 3-5 resources in India for the cost of 1 resource in US.
Check the assistantships paid to grad students in US Universities. Companies can hire 5 grad students for the cost of 1 employee in US as well. These grad students are pretty well versed in the latest technologies (having used them in Undergrad), and would be willing to work hard since the job pays for their education as well.
In addition, the 10+ hour lag which works very well for outsourcing to India will work well here too, because US grad students typically work the same time the Indian tech workers do:-)
If your company decides to hire US grad students, I want a cut for the idea:-)
charmer
intel making chips for linux
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you can see for yourself that the article is so shallow: Here is a quote in the context of why linux is becoming popular:
"Second, Intel Corp., the dominant maker of processors for PCs, loosened its tight links with Microsoft and started making chips for Linux. This made it possible for corporations to get all the computing power they wanted at a fraction of the price. "
With so many stories in the recent weeks on slashdot about India, we should have a separate section for India, with an icon as India's map (http://www.mapsofindia.com).
These are latency measurements. Anyone with minimal threaded programming experience will tell you that any type of threading does not improve latency, just the throughput, by enabling overlapped execution.
<i> In 1983, Adelman et al achieved a major breakthrough by giving a eterministic algorithm for primality that runs in (log n) ** O(log log log n) </i> <br>
in contrast, this paper suggests an algorithm that runs in (log n) ** 12, which means that the 1983 algorithm would run better for numbers less than: <strong> n = (2 ** (2** (2 ** 12))) </strong>
I went to school with this guy at IIT, Kanpur. He is smart, and had a great advisor, Somnath Biswas for his PhD. Looks like IIT,K did away with their policy not to hire people educated at IIT,K, since he is a professor there now. Maybe they made an exception.
A poor home-grown OS (no offence) called Cougar or TFlops which doesn't even support X11 or sockets.
Why does a parallel machine need X11 or poor (slow) communication primitives? Why should a full OS run on all the processors ? The OS really needs to get out of the way of the computations where every microsecond counts.
In IPDPS 2001 conference, there is a paper on Concurrent Priority Queues based on SkipLists by Shavit of Sun Micro. That demonstrates exactly the opposite of what you are saying.
If complexity of parallel programming is the only factor affecting this important area of research, I think more and more computer scientists and programmers ought to be involved in computational science.
I think Computational Science has suffered a great deal in the 1990's because of all the smart computer scientists and programmers hitching on to the dot-com bandwagon, and opting for all that showy stuff (which was bound to flop) instead of getting deeper into good solid research such as reducing parallel programming complexity.
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While the possibility of privacy-invasion is very real with the use of RFID, the governments could mandate that the RFID tags could be used only in labels external to the goods, and labels that can be easily removed. So, the price tag on clothes could contain RFID tag, but it cannot be sewed into the hem, for example. Thus, they will be useful for Walmart for inventory control, and consumers could remove them as soon as they get buy those items.
--Charmer
I have all along been saying that Jobs prefer Gore, not Bush. Economy would be better if Gore were president.
charmer.
IBM's Extreme Blue internship program beats the sh*t out of any internship. 3 bright engg interns and one tolerable MBA intern developing new technology for a full summer. a lot of their new "on-demand" thingie has come out of that internship program.
charmer
I am ready to believe that Cell, the processor of PS3, is ready. It was to be developed by IBM, Sony, and Toshiba. The design specs of the cell were unbelievably similar to the IBM chip specs for blue gene, a petaflop machine which IBM had said would be ready in 2004. Although the blue gene project, in its original form, has been dumped (and replaced by something called blue gene / light, or BG/L), I suppose the processors should have been ready by now. In fact, Lawrence Livermore National Lab is rumoured to have placed an order for a massive BG/L machine. So, IMHO, the Cell should be ready. But definitely the games, or even the SDK are not ready.
charmer
Thats because Coke is not open source. Isn't the ability to modify an inherent feature in open source software ?
Charmer
But how many Libraries of Congress (LOCs) is that ? How can anyone quote GB without equivalent LOCs ?
charmer
I have been pondering over this for some time now. The US companies go to India looking for cheap labor. The typical reason given is that a company can hire 3-5 resources in India for the cost of 1 resource in US.
:-)
:-)
Check the assistantships paid to grad students in US Universities. Companies can hire 5 grad students for the cost of 1 employee in US as well. These grad students are pretty well versed in the latest technologies (having used them in Undergrad), and would be willing to work hard since the job pays for their education as well.
In addition, the 10+ hour lag which works very well for outsourcing to India will work well here too, because US grad students typically work the same time the Indian tech workers do
If your company decides to hire US grad students, I want a cut for the idea
charmer
you can see for yourself that the article is so shallow: Here is a quote in the context of why linux is becoming popular: "Second, Intel Corp., the dominant maker of processors for PCs, loosened its tight links with Microsoft and started making chips for Linux. This made it possible for corporations to get all the computing power they wanted at a fraction of the price. "
640 KB (of on-chip cache) ought to be enough for everybody.
With so many stories in the recent weeks on slashdot about India, we should have a separate section for India, with an icon as India's map (http://www.mapsofindia.com).
These are latency measurements. Anyone with minimal threaded programming experience will tell you that any type of threading does not improve latency, just the throughput, by enabling overlapped execution.
... that the us patent office uses patent-bots to review and grant patents ?
charmer
From the paper:
<i> In 1983, Adelman et al achieved a major breakthrough by giving a eterministic algorithm for primality that runs in (log n) ** O(log log log n) </i> <br>
in contrast, this paper suggests an algorithm that runs in (log n) ** 12, which means that the 1983 algorithm would run better for numbers less than:
<strong>
n = (2 ** (2** (2 ** 12)))
</strong>
-- charmer
I went to school with this guy at IIT, Kanpur. He is smart, and had a great advisor, Somnath Biswas for his PhD. Looks like IIT,K did away with their policy not to hire people educated at IIT,K, since he is a professor there now. Maybe they made an exception.
charmer
4. Intel ASCI Red
Sandia National Labs
A poor home-grown OS (no offence) called Cougar or TFlops which doesn't even support X11 or sockets.
Why does a parallel machine need X11 or poor (slow) communication primitives? Why should a full OS run on all the processors ? The OS really needs to get out of the way of the computations where every microsecond counts.
charmer
I searched google for skiplists, when I came across this presentation. I dont have a link handy.
Surely you can have children without it...
In IPDPS 2001 conference, there is a paper on Concurrent Priority Queues based on SkipLists by Shavit of Sun Micro. That demonstrates exactly the opposite of what you are saying.
Hey, Have you tried running your tool against your own tool ? Maybe that could get rid of some of those bugs. charmer
If complexity of parallel programming is the only factor affecting this important area of research, I think more and more computer scientists and programmers ought to be involved in computational science.
I think Computational Science has suffered a great deal in the 1990's because of all the smart computer scientists and programmers hitching on to the dot-com bandwagon, and opting for all that showy stuff (which was bound to flop) instead of getting deeper into good solid research such as reducing parallel programming complexity.
charmer