"He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name." [Rev 13:16-17, NIV]
Is your working set honestly over 8GB? Your dataset might be extremely large... but I would think that for the most part you'd get along just fine with swapping out to a decently fast device and your working set would be considerably below 8GB.
When doing computer simulations it's really easy to need that much RAM. I currently have 4 GB (2xQuad Xeons on a Tyan motherboard -- To the OP: Get Opterons instead if you can), but could sometimes use much more. Swap is not an options: When the memory hits the swap the performance simply drops to pathetic levels.
In computational physics you are in a constant struggle between the need for more accuracy and the limits of the machine.
I'm just a SWL I'm afraid, and lately not even that, because I moved and don't have good reception. I have a Sony ICF-7600G (a short wave radio with SSB), and I made a opto-electronic coupler to isolate the radio from the computer noise (just a IR led, a IR detector (BPW-50 or something), and a op-amp), feeding the signal to the serial port for hamcom to read. I indeed tried other modes and besides PSK31 received, with varying degrees of success, RTTY (up to 150 bauds) and SSTV. Most signals of interest seem to be encrypted (except on the amateur bands, of course).
As I said I have currently 2 problems that limit my SWL: The appartment building where I live does not have good reception and the radio does not like rechargeable batteries very much. I use 4 Duracell 1200Ah NiMH, but the reception degrades with time (as the batteries discharge). If I use a mains transformer it will flood the receiver with noise, and alkaline batteries end up being expensive.
So true. I've once decoded psk31 feeding the audio from my short wave radio on 14070KHz to hamcomm, and sometimes, I could barely listen to the signal, but the computer would find 4 or 5 psk31 conversations. And they are extremely low bandwidth (100Hz I think), and have error correction.
I find it odd that punitive damages are paid to the person filling a suit. If there are actual damages they should be paid to them, however if there is a need for punitive damages that money should go to the government, not to whoever started the suit. In this way, the millions and millions companies have to pay would not go into the lawyers pockets, and lots of frivolous lawsuits would be avoided.
I started reading slashdot before there where user subscriptions, but only subscribed when logging in gave you some functionality [For the new folks, at first the login didn't change anything at all!]. If only I knew...
Science can be very competitive, and keeping the code closed gives you an edge over the other labs. Also, after spending 1 or 2 years doing some simulations, you certainly don't feel like giving away the secret sauce, so that others will directly compete with you.
Looked from the outside one could think this type of thinking would not occur in science, but we need to eat too, and however meager the pay, you would not be able to do the things you love if the grants were cut.
Sharing code in science is something that is not done often enough. I would be happy if the papers said which numerical method they used! Of course, releasing the source code would be better as we have to take the simulations results on a base of faith.
That said, I've released some code, but the response has been very underwelming, and it is being mostly ignored...
Fellow europeans, if you ever complained about ads in the EU, just watch an american show with the commericals left in. You will be hugging you commericial channels advertising staff before the show is out So true! I have recently been to the US and couldn't believe how bad the situation was! There is no separator between the program and the ads, so every 10 minutes or so the program abruptly changes to and ad. The best TV series are broadcasted on prime time, but they are impossible to watch.
On the plus side, almost everything has close captioning, even the live programs.
It was Commodore, not Apple, who released the first true home computer.
It was Commodore, not Apple, who "brought computing to homes" by making their machines affordable.
Lastly, it was the success of Commodore, not Apple's, that made computing mainstream.
Depends on the place. For me (and my generation) the first computer to reach the masses was the ZX Spectrum.
But really, I didn't find either worth spending $50 or $60 on [...] And that is in the USA. Imagine you had to pay 60 euros, probably more in the UK. As I do not want to play pirated games I play games a few years old, when the price has dropped to something more reasonable.
I work at a Big Company, where over-engineering, paying 10k where 1k would do, and endless discussion on the color of the bikeshed happen thrice before lunch every day. Could the bikeshed be in cornflower blue?
The system wasn't very successful, though. Not enough information given to the public in a time where the concept of electronic money wasn't all that widespread...
That was not the only reason why it failed. I had one of those, but it was easier just to use cash. The transaction was harder with the electronic wallet card that just handing some coins. Sometimes the card wouldn't work at the first try, other times the vendor would have to search for the terminal as it was infrequently used. I don't miss it one bit (my card probably has still 10 ou 20 escudos left:-) )
This is also my recomendation. If you don't already know assembly, learn it. It does not really matter which processor or architecture, because you will not use assembly afterwards anyway, but you will be a better programmer just by knowing it. If you do not want to learn x86 assembly, something simple like the z80 will be enough, and there are certainly lots of tools and tutorials to help you.
The content creators, especially the original content creators are generating value to Youtube, and should be rewarded for their effort, not having to pay for the privilege. Viewers (such as me) only add to the bandwidth costs.
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"He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name." [Rev 13:16-17, NIV]
When doing computer simulations it's really easy to need that much RAM. I currently have 4 GB (2xQuad Xeons on a Tyan motherboard -- To the OP: Get Opterons instead if you can), but could sometimes use much more. Swap is not an options: When the memory hits the swap the performance simply drops to pathetic levels.
In computational physics you are in a constant struggle between the need for more accuracy and the limits of the machine.
Hey, I've once tried the Quake 3 demo on a 233Mhz AMD without 3D acceleration and got a frame every 18 or 20 s. Thats 0.05 FPS!
As I said I have currently 2 problems that limit my SWL: The appartment building where I live does not have good reception and the radio does not like rechargeable batteries very much. I use 4 Duracell 1200Ah NiMH, but the reception degrades with time (as the batteries discharge). If I use a mains transformer it will flood the receiver with noise, and alkaline batteries end up being expensive.
So true. I've once decoded psk31 feeding the audio from my short wave radio on 14070KHz to hamcomm, and sometimes, I could barely listen to the signal, but the computer would find 4 or 5 psk31 conversations. And they are extremely low bandwidth (100Hz I think), and have error correction.
I find it odd that punitive damages are paid to the person filling a suit. If there are actual damages they should be paid to them, however if there is a need for punitive damages that money should go to the government, not to whoever started the suit. In this way, the millions and millions companies have to pay would not go into the lawyers pockets, and lots of frivolous lawsuits would be avoided.
Youtube has ads?
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I started reading slashdot before there where user subscriptions, but only subscribed when logging in gave you some functionality [For the new folks, at first the login didn't change anything at all!]. If only I knew...
Looked from the outside one could think this type of thinking would not occur in science, but we need to eat too, and however meager the pay, you would not be able to do the things you love if the grants were cut.
Sharing code in science is something that is not done often enough. I would be happy if the papers said which numerical method they used! Of course, releasing the source code would be better as we have to take the simulations results on a base of faith. That said, I've released some code, but the response has been very underwelming, and it is being mostly ignored...
Organising code on a spreadsheet... I guess it will resemble Befunge
Seeing the title the first game to come to my mind was KGB, an adventure game for the PC. It was so hard, I only reached the 2nd level once or twice.
Depends on the place. For me (and my generation) the first computer to reach the masses was the ZX Spectrum.
The tecnology to do that exists, but I don't know if it is available comercially.
In Brazil voting is mandatary, and if you don't vote you have to pay a fine.
That was not the only reason why it failed. I had one of those, but it was easier just to use cash. The transaction was harder with the electronic wallet card that just handing some coins. Sometimes the card wouldn't work at the first try, other times the vendor would have to search for the terminal as it was infrequently used. I don't miss it one bit (my card probably has still 10 ou 20 escudos left :-) )
This is also my recomendation. If you don't already know assembly, learn it. It does not really matter which processor or architecture, because you will not use assembly afterwards anyway, but you will be a better programmer just by knowing it. If you do not want to learn x86 assembly, something simple like the z80 will be enough, and there are certainly lots of tools and tutorials to help you.
The content creators, especially the original content creators are generating value to Youtube, and should be rewarded for their effort, not having to pay for the privilege. Viewers (such as me) only add to the bandwidth costs.
IBM buys the International Space Station? (followed by a brief period of shock :-) )
I hope they don't forget to include a spare water chip...
What does google trends has to say about /. vs digg?