intel is having a few problems with its hire fire stratergy. The ex employees are taking a class action against the company over the "UNPAID OVERTIME" (Sorry but the website goes a little ott on the capitals)
I cant see how stacking chips to make them smaller is going to impact the consumers (very much). They aren't lower power, faster or in any way what customers wanted. They are simply cheaper to produce and give better profit margines. Considering the ARM's are tiny I can't see how they can charge 20-40$ for them after the stacking.
During the Britain v Argentina war, Thacher (The PM at the time) was complaining that the BBC were not reporting the news as "us vs them" but reather refeared to the british forces as "the british forces". I love the fact that the BBC dont have to listen to anyone else but themselves (Not to the government, investors, advertisers etc.)
The methods I have seen of Gzip seemed to be made to make it possible to do it in hardware. I was under the impression that was intended.
On an aside note this could be ofcause easily dome using an FPGA pci card. One that can do anything you want. Reprogram it to accelerate seti at home or stick some routines used in quake into it. Much more versetile. The only problems are standarsation and convincing developers to use them.
The story was originally on the inquirer. The original came out and amazon noticed and pulled the whole site down for couple of hours, fixed the problem and put it back online. Only then does the slashdot story come online. I was wondering when the story being shown to subscribers first will come into problems.
Yeah sure the US delibretly avoids civiliands and making better missiles might be beter, but unfortunately the US also exports more military equipment than anyone else (I was told). As much as I don't like shrub (W jr) having the ability to kill at distance I would like it even less when these weapons are used by US's more draconian allies.
I dont really think by maing the best robot to get to Vegas I could convince DARPA stop making weapons. Nor could I convince the US that they should stop all wars because I can make their missiles more powerful as they need smaller gudence systems. As an engineer outside the system you don't have a say.
I wish they were more clear from the start. They should have called the challenge: "Make a land based explosive weapon to kill people at a very long range (no foreigners)
Its very annoying being a researcher with moral objections. DARPA is offering $40mil towards asynchronous research. Our research group is one of the best in the area but after discussing the situation we decided not to to take the money. Most of the group (including me) don't really want to do military research. One of the projects most suited to the group would be making some processors for missiles and I definately wouldnt be happy about that.
There is the case that we could do a pure research project for them. No direct link with weapons but simply making tools to make asynchronous processors but we may be blocked from publishing research and still (more indirectly) killing people.
I never though that in computers you would have to think so hard about what money and projects to accept but this is one I would skip. Its obveous that DARPA want some long range seeking technology but they want good engineers (ones who wouldnt work for them directly) to do their work and warm them over in the pretence that its a fun game. I can't think of many engineers who wouldn't want to have a go at this challenge.
Finally people are making systems which they know might be cracked. After doing power analasis of processors I would not be happy if my bank said that the data is fully secure and no one can break into it. I would prefair if they said well people could break into it but they will only be able to steal x ammount before the card is canceled.
Linux does have a tendency not to preempt. I have 1Gb or ram on my work machine and when I copy very large files everything gets cached and then after a few seconds the whole system freezes when the cache is dumped to disk. The new patches should solve that and improve reaction times
I did post the story but the last sentence which was cut was very important.(Original). "Although there are no patent issues MIPS have been known to be veryaggressive toward people who try to create compatible systems."
I kept getting these Emails and I was wondering why they bother. I mean everyone must by not be aware of the scam and there is no point to put in any more effort. But when Cakes Law v1.0 ("Everyone is a Fuckwhit") comes into play amasing things happen.
Slashdot Mirror
intel is having a few problems with its hire fire stratergy. The ex employees are taking a class action against the company over the "UNPAID OVERTIME" (Sorry but the website goes a little ott on the capitals)
I cant see how stacking chips to make them smaller is going to impact the consumers (very much). They aren't lower power, faster or in any way what customers wanted. They are simply cheaper to produce and give better profit margines. Considering the ARM's are tiny I can't see how they can charge 20-40$ for them after the stacking.
During the Britain v Argentina war, Thacher (The PM at the time) was complaining that the BBC were not reporting the news as "us vs them" but reather refeared to the british forces as "the british forces".
I love the fact that the BBC dont have to listen to anyone else but themselves (Not to the government, investors, advertisers etc.)
Im talking about reconfigurable FPGAs
The methods I have seen of Gzip seemed to be made to make it possible to do it in hardware. I was under the impression that was intended.
On an aside note this could be ofcause easily dome using an FPGA pci card. One that can do anything you want. Reprogram it to accelerate seti at home or stick some routines used in quake into it. Much more versetile.
The only problems are standarsation and convincing developers to use them.
The story was originally on the inquirer. The original came out and amazon noticed and pulled the whole site down for couple of hours, fixed the problem and put it back online. Only then does the slashdot story come online. I was wondering when the story being shown to subscribers first will come into problems.
Distruibuted Mirror Project
Yet you are too scared to reveal who you are.
Eather _you_ are a pansy or you are ashamed of your views.
Yeah sure the US delibretly avoids civiliands and making better missiles might be beter, but unfortunately the US also exports more military equipment than anyone else (I was told). As much as I don't like shrub (W jr) having the ability to kill at distance I would like it even less when these weapons are used by US's more draconian allies.
I dont really think by maing the best robot to get to Vegas I could convince DARPA stop making weapons. Nor could I convince the US that they should stop all wars because I can make their missiles more powerful as they need smaller gudence systems. As an engineer outside the system you don't have a say.
I wish they were more clear from the start.
They should have called the challenge:
"Make a land based explosive weapon to kill people at a very long range (no foreigners)
I would like to slam DARPA for using this fun contest to get ideas on hopw to kill people better.
Its very annoying being a researcher with moral objections. DARPA is offering $40mil towards asynchronous research. Our research group is one of the best in the area but after discussing the situation we decided not to to take the money. Most of the group (including me) don't really want to do military research. One of the projects most suited to the group would be making some processors for missiles and I definately wouldnt be happy about that.
There is the case that we could do a pure research project for them. No direct link with weapons but simply making tools to make asynchronous processors but we may be blocked from publishing research and still (more indirectly) killing people.
I never though that in computers you would have to think so hard about what money and projects to accept but this is one I would skip. Its obveous that DARPA want some long range seeking technology but they want good engineers (ones who wouldnt work for them directly) to do their work and warm them over in the pretence that its a fun game. I can't think of many engineers who wouldn't want to have a go at this challenge.
An old slashdot story about dual head laptops
The new story about this should be AMD's numbering stratergy
Finally people are making systems which they know might be cracked. After doing power analasis of processors I would not be happy if my bank said that the data is fully secure and no one can break into it. I would prefair if they said well people could break into it but they will only be able to steal x ammount before the card is canceled.
Linux does have a tendency not to preempt. I have 1Gb or ram on my work machine and when I copy very large files everything gets cached and then after a few seconds the whole system freezes when the cache is dumped to disk.
The new patches should solve that and improve reaction times
Try
the mirror
I only started the project so not many people know about it so far.
If you have a mirror with pictures and the other links then please do submit it.
Ah a first oportunity to try out the Distributed Mirror Project
Here is a mirror list
I did post the story but the last sentence which was cut was very important.(Original).
"Although there are no patent issues MIPS have been known to be very aggressive toward people who try to create compatible systems."
Oh no! I hate wood themes. And now the're standard in windows?
Just look at those tacky varnish borders
I kept getting these Emails and I was wondering why they bother. I mean everyone must by not be aware of the scam and there is no point to put in any more effort.
But when Cakes Law v1.0 ("Everyone is a Fuckwhit") comes into play amasing things happen.
I am talking in the compressor sence. If you removed them and then put them back after expanding.
You know that site with the story?
Is their pig logo made from the contents of a tin of spam?
I never noticed that