I have a question for you to consider since you brought up east asia. I'm not sure where you got that idea. Yes there is a race between SW Asia moving from manufacturing areas to high tech and a lot of mistakes are being made by the tigers. This is a race against countries like China and India reather than against machines. Once those two economies kick in they will be able to undercut the tigers. What is the US manufactures at home? Well I dont think the US is going to do that just yet. Fully automating manufacturing is very expencive. The kind of expence that stable economies do not invest in. To move to something like that you need a 'pop economy' like the US 1950's or the British industrial revolution or the dot coms. In these sort of economies value of investment is rising faster than the pay back. If you buy a factory then in a years time you will make more money because the factory is worth more than the profit it made. The depreteation of hi-tec machines is so high it simply isn't worth it yet. Even if its more efficient the investment is too high for anyone to start the ball rolling. But anyway what if it does get rolling and there is an antomation boom during the next few years and US becomes self sustaining. The markets of china and India are so huge that all the tigers have to do is to force them open. This will sustain them untill they also become self sufficient.
I dont think the time is nigh. You need customers to make robots cheap (we allready have the tech) and we need cheap robots to make the customers want them. The US is going to start slipping behind but the people living there allready own the next big booms. So the US will become more class divided. Rich boom company owners and unemployed plebians. SE Asia will find new markets. India and China will open up. The world become a lot bigger with the bilions (i.e. 2) of new consumers and hopefully new contributors to open projects. Products get cheaper. The power and wealth divide in some countries gets greater (eg. US) and in possibely smaller other (More socialist countries like France). US owns a lot and forces the rest of the world to play by its rules through the WTO.
Famine and death? Probably not. War over resources? Allready started but I can't see it going much further. Change? Huge. Revolutions? Eventually, maybe.
Thats why I say might. Taxing heavily the companies (capitalist) or simply owning all the companies and sharing the profits (communist) are two solutions. Would they happen? I can't see the world ridding itself of most of the population in order for the rich to stay powerful. Eventually you have killed off all your customers. But it will take time to accept the new world order and the ideas behind it. If the motion comes in overnight then yes we are dead but I think we have a slow progression which might turn out ok. I worry that the US is so stuck in its ways and might never move out of them but I think that the oil running out will kick them back to the state of the other countries.
I did have this sort of idea several years ago and I figured out that the only way the society can survive is to turn socialist. There are two ways of making money: Rent your self out (i.e. do work) Rent your other assets (i.e. invest in/own companies) Now what happens when the returns you get on these swing. The freedom of capitalism allows the value of labour and investment to change. When your company becomes unproductive it folds. This is the capitalist method of weeding out the ineffective companies and allowing the market to be run by better companies selling cheaper/better products. The other swing isn't very nice at all. If the value of labour drops below the bread line then the population simply cannot survive and we weed out the no longer useful members of society. This happens in stages. The first areas are the primary and secondary industries where machines can most easily replace humans.
Only after I figured this out did I find that socialists economists have been talking about this stuff for generations. Marx was predicting that the revolutions will happen in the industrialised world first because the value of their labour would drop first. This hasn't happened yet because we have been very good at producing jobs and although the value of unskilled labour in the US etc. is too low the exploitation of east Asia allows the living costs to be driven down too. Unfortunately this is not a situation that will last forever. East Asia will want more money and they will want to find someone else to exploit.
Are we doomed? Technocrats assume that the change will be so slow that a balancing out of the problems will not affect us. Raising the unemployment benefit to a sustainable living level allows people to not need to work while keeping them as consumers. In other words the future might be quite nice. If you want to work then you will get paid well. If you don't want to work, then you get enough money to live on and all produce is very cheap as its made by cheap to run machines.
We have made a few ARM Boards to teach undergraduate students. They work with ARM Angel or with our own debugger KMD. You can write code in asm or C or any even gcc front end (inc java). The best feature for me is the huge FPGA's to play around with. Its quite easy to pick up any electronic equipment and plug it into it. Lots of fun and great experience gaining stuff. The board total was around 100 GBP (inc board manufacture and mounting) and I think if you ask nicely the designs will be available.
Alternatively you could use something like a 6809 or an 8051 but then writing code for them is a pain. The best idea if you use someting old is to emulate a better processor. You can then run your favorite ARM/MIPS/x86 code on an emulation and forget the real system.
My mother used to work as a water health scientist in Poland (It was just a cover job for working in the anti-biological warfare division but thats another story). She used to have to ensure that there was a correct ammount of flouride in the water. The ammount had to be quite exact, not because a little too much flouride is bad for you but because if you kill off all bacteria then the people didnt become immune to the different strains. The USSR did huge studies on this, varying the flourine levels and getting statistics. Its the same case with my friends who go to India and would never drink the tap water. They simply are not immune to the local bacteria while the locals are quite happy with it.
This isn't the first time Japan is doing one of these long term plans. I watched a program a few years back explaining that japan had several plans like this ("tommorow's world" for people in the UK). Firstly they did a huge investment into transistors then silicon manufacturing and at the time of the program (1995 ish) they were part way through a huge investment into flat screen displays (not even TFT at that stage I dont think). At the time I was thinking it was a huge mistake. Flat panes were slow, small and hugely expensive and no one would spend extra to have one to replace a better CRT. Im sure people were thinking the same sort of things on the other projects but they sure did pay off. I'm not sure how Japan figures out what to pick but it seems to work. Maybe they are making very good choices or maybe if you stick enough money into something it will eventually pay off. And as sceptical I am of humanoid robots I can't say this is a silly idea any more.
The removal tool takes several minutes to run. Just apply the exact patch and remove the msblast.exe from your windows/system32 directory. Then run the tool afterwards to ensure it has gone. The exact patch needed is here http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/de fault. asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp
Im not fully against the webcams but some of the best teaching I had would probably get frowned upon in reviews. From Mr Brotbank singing "Chain Reaction" in Physics to me and a few other being allowed to mess around on a project reather than sit through the IT lesson.
I wonder if they really are suckers. SCO needed someone to admit paying up. So what if they got a company which has just the one or two linux servers to pay in exchange for SCO paying them back double. Company is happy, SCO looks more credible and lawyers get their share.
Article length: 184 words Sales pitch: 169 words Im taking everything below "For more information on the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux, contact SCO..." as sales pitch
Yes but most computers do not have ECC nor parity on their memory. ECC might protect you and parity will simply allow you to crash out safely. Unless it was dont care memory this error would cause a failure of some form. I have run memory tests with quite dodgey memory, power supplies, fans etc. over periods of many hours and these errors do normaly not occur. Unless you went out to buy eec memory for your computer because you are scared these sort of error might occur over the lifetime of your machine then you are not protected from them. I think the case is you dont know what youre talking about. The and coming along and looking like a fool stating that the moderators are stupid for also being cauteous of the results presented doesnt help. You seem to be very angry that a public forum is composed of people expressing their "wrong" opinions but at the same time you are happy to troll away on them. You you dont agree then dont read it. Unless you spent several hours working out what "amasing" means then maybe you should lay of the coffee.
I did mean 100years+ for the whole memory. There is no way you would accept your computer crashing every hour. A bit change in the program memory will cause wrong behaviour and most of the time crash the application. If its in the data than it wont crash but it will corrupt a lot of important info. No way a computer would be useful with that sort of failure happening every hour. This would need heavy error correction.
Whats amasing is the fact that there errors are appearsing at all reather than one power supply being better than another. These errors sould not appear in a system no matter how poor your supply is
The results of the memory tests are amasing. The MTBF is about an hour on some of the power supplys. I'm not sure If I understand the setup but that is appauling. I expect a MTBF of about 100+ years not an hour.
Many of todays (hoge comparetively) processes suffer from metal migration and huge static power dissapation. If the molecule sized transistors are going to take off they have to solve there problems first or these products will have a lifetime of a few hours.
This seems like ARM trying to get everyone adopting their standards. You can bet that ARM IP will be all over it. The ISA will be ARM, communication will be AMBA and the only standards complient accepted development platform will be the ARM SDT. ARM is trying to get more and more fortified in their mobile phone market and its very difficult to do anything different. Thats why they can charge redicelous prices for their toolkits and the favours to universities (such as discount/free software) have now stopped, because now if you are going to learn low level mobile application coding then it simply has to be ARM. No need for them to attract and convince people to use them any more. We even wrote our own debugger so we wouldn't have to payt the ARM tax.
When I am writing code I like to use the product for a while and get the feel of what is going on and visualise all the functions that get called while it is executing. Its imprtant to get a vey basic version of the system going to get the idea of how its executimg. Thesame goes for hardware design. When I was designing a cpu it really helped to see the schematic view of the system executing instructions and the values flying around. Much easier to understand than looking through the design. When writing a language or an input method try it out before writing any code. When I wrote a language called chump I wrote whole pages of code in it and only then started writing the compiler. I had to change many things in order to make it usable which I wouldnt have guesses if I didnt use it for a substantial ammount of time.
Slashdot Mirror
I allready had the thought of using LED's to see memory usage.
Then using that memory to play Pong but never with the LEDs themselves.
To be fair I did look through all the links on the story for them and only then I asked (partly because other people would be also intrested).
Has anyone got a link to some screenshots?
You're right. It was called NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) in the UK.
http://www.classicgaming.com/museum/nes/
I have a question for you to consider since you brought up east asia.
I'm not sure where you got that idea.
Yes there is a race between SW Asia moving from manufacturing areas to high tech and a lot of mistakes are being made by the tigers. This is a race against countries like China and India reather than against machines. Once those two economies kick in they will be able to undercut the tigers.
What is the US manufactures at home? Well I dont think the US is going to do that just yet. Fully automating manufacturing is very expencive. The kind of expence that stable economies do not invest in. To move to something like that you need a 'pop economy' like the US 1950's or the British industrial revolution or the dot coms. In these sort of economies value of investment is rising faster than the pay back. If you buy a factory then in a years time you will make more money because the factory is worth more than the profit it made.
The depreteation of hi-tec machines is so high it simply isn't worth it yet. Even if its more efficient the investment is too high for anyone to start the ball rolling.
But anyway what if it does get rolling and there is an antomation boom during the next few years and US becomes self sustaining. The markets of china and India are so huge that all the tigers have to do is to force them open. This will sustain them untill they also become self sufficient.
I dont think the time is nigh. You need customers to make robots cheap (we allready have the tech) and we need cheap robots to make the customers want them. The US is going to start slipping behind but the people living there allready own the next big booms. So the US will become more class divided. Rich boom company owners and unemployed plebians. SE Asia will find new markets. India and China will open up. The world become a lot bigger with the bilions (i.e. 2) of new consumers and hopefully new contributors to open projects. Products get cheaper. The power and wealth divide in some countries gets greater (eg. US) and in possibely smaller other (More socialist countries like France). US owns a lot and forces the rest of the world to play by its rules through the WTO.
Famine and death? Probably not.
War over resources? Allready started but I can't see it going much further.
Change? Huge.
Revolutions? Eventually, maybe.
Thats why I say might. Taxing heavily the companies (capitalist) or simply owning all the companies and sharing the profits (communist) are two solutions. Would they happen? I can't see the world ridding itself of most of the population in order for the rich to stay powerful. Eventually you have killed off all your customers.
But it will take time to accept the new world order and the ideas behind it. If the motion comes in overnight then yes we are dead but I think we have a slow progression which might turn out ok. I worry that the US is so stuck in its ways and might never move out of them but I think that the oil running out will kick them back to the state of the other countries.
I did have this sort of idea several years ago and I figured out that the only way the society can survive is to turn socialist.
There are two ways of making money:
Rent your self out (i.e. do work)
Rent your other assets (i.e. invest in/own companies)
Now what happens when the returns you get on these swing. The freedom of capitalism allows the value of labour and investment to change. When your company becomes unproductive it folds. This is the capitalist method of weeding out the ineffective companies and allowing the market to be run by better companies selling cheaper/better products.
The other swing isn't very nice at all. If the value of labour drops below the bread line then the population simply cannot survive and we weed out the no longer useful members of society. This happens in stages. The first areas are the primary and secondary industries where machines can most easily replace humans.
Only after I figured this out did I find that socialists economists have been talking about this stuff for generations. Marx was predicting that the revolutions will happen in the industrialised world first because the value of their labour would drop first. This hasn't happened yet because we have been very good at producing jobs and although the value of unskilled labour in the US etc. is too low the exploitation of east Asia allows the living costs to be driven down too. Unfortunately this is not a situation that will last forever. East Asia will want more money and they will want to find someone else to exploit.
Are we doomed? Technocrats assume that the change will be so slow that a balancing out of the problems will not affect us. Raising the unemployment benefit to a sustainable living level allows people to not need to work while keeping them as consumers.
In other words the future might be quite nice. If you want to work then you will get paid well. If you don't want to work, then you get enough money to live on and all produce is very cheap as its made by cheap to run machines.
We have made a few ARM Boards to teach undergraduate students. They work with ARM Angel or with our own debugger KMD. You can write code in asm or C or any even gcc front end (inc java).
The best feature for me is the huge FPGA's to play around with. Its quite easy to pick up any electronic equipment and plug it into it. Lots of fun and great experience gaining stuff.
The board total was around 100 GBP (inc board manufacture and mounting) and I think if you ask nicely the designs will be available.
Alternatively you could use something like a 6809 or an 8051 but then writing code for them is a pain. The best idea if you use someting old is to emulate a better processor. You can then run your favorite ARM/MIPS/x86 code on an emulation and forget the real system.
Actually this is the difficult way to do it.
As a newby you would just type
apt-get install kernel-2.6.0
Or rpm equivelant.
My mother used to work as a water health scientist in Poland (It was just a cover job for working in the anti-biological warfare division but thats another story).
She used to have to ensure that there was a correct ammount of flouride in the water. The ammount had to be quite exact, not because a little too much flouride is bad for you but because if you kill off all bacteria then the people didnt become immune to the different strains. The USSR did huge studies on this, varying the flourine levels and getting statistics.
Its the same case with my friends who go to India and would never drink the tap water. They simply are not immune to the local bacteria while the locals are quite happy with it.
This isn't the first time Japan is doing one of these long term plans. I watched a program a few years back explaining that japan had several plans like this ("tommorow's world" for people in the UK). Firstly they did a huge investment into transistors then silicon manufacturing and at the time of the program (1995 ish) they were part way through a huge investment into flat screen displays (not even TFT at that stage I dont think).
At the time I was thinking it was a huge mistake. Flat panes were slow, small and hugely expensive and no one would spend extra to have one to replace a better CRT. Im sure people were thinking the same sort of things on the other projects but they sure did pay off.
I'm not sure how Japan figures out what to pick but it seems to work. Maybe they are making very good choices or maybe if you stick enough money into something it will eventually pay off. And as sceptical I am of humanoid robots I can't say this is a silly idea any more.
First discovered on the Simpsons and named "poindextrose"
The removal tool takes several minutes to run.e fault. asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS03-026.asp
Just apply the exact patch and remove the msblast.exe from your windows/system32 directory.
Then run the tool afterwards to ensure it has
gone.
The exact patch needed is here
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/d
Im not fully against the webcams but some of the best teaching I had would probably get frowned upon in reviews. From Mr Brotbank singing "Chain Reaction" in Physics to me and a few other being allowed to mess around on a project reather than sit through the IT lesson.
I wonder if they really are suckers.
SCO needed someone to admit paying up. So what if they got a company which has just the one or two linux servers to pay in exchange for SCO paying them back double.
Company is happy, SCO looks more credible and lawyers get their share.
Article length: 184 words
Sales pitch: 169 words
Im taking everything below "For more information on the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux, contact SCO..." as sales pitch
Yes but most computers do not have ECC nor parity on their memory.
ECC might protect you and parity will simply allow you to crash out safely.
Unless it was dont care memory this error would cause a failure of some form.
I have run memory tests with quite dodgey memory, power supplies, fans etc. over periods of many hours and these errors do normaly not occur.
Unless you went out to buy eec memory for your computer because you are scared these sort of error might occur over the lifetime of your machine then you are not protected from them.
I think the case is you dont know what youre talking about. The and coming along and looking like a fool stating that the moderators are stupid for also being cauteous of the results presented doesnt help. You seem to be very angry that a public forum is composed of people expressing their "wrong" opinions but at the same time you are happy to troll away on them. You you dont agree then dont read it. Unless you spent several hours working out what "amasing" means then maybe you should lay of the coffee.
I did mean 100years+ for the whole memory.
There is no way you would accept your computer crashing every hour. A bit change in the program memory will cause wrong behaviour and most of the time crash the application. If its in the data than it wont crash but it will corrupt a lot of important info.
No way a computer would be useful with that sort of failure happening every hour. This would need heavy error correction.
Whats amasing is the fact that there errors are appearsing at all reather than one power supply being better than another.
These errors sould not appear in a system no matter how poor your supply is
The results of the memory tests are amasing. The MTBF is about an hour on some of the power supplys. I'm not sure If I understand the setup but that is appauling. I expect a MTBF of about 100+ years not an hour.
Many of todays (hoge comparetively) processes suffer from metal migration and huge static power dissapation. If the molecule sized transistors are going to take off they have to solve there problems first or these products will have a lifetime of a few hours.
The ideal situation would be if you got a warning from slashdot and then then made some mirrors of the pages on distributer mirror.
This seems like ARM trying to get everyone adopting their standards. You can bet that ARM IP will be all over it. The ISA will be ARM, communication will be AMBA and the only standards complient accepted development platform will be the ARM SDT.
ARM is trying to get more and more fortified in their mobile phone market and its very difficult to do anything different. Thats why they can charge redicelous prices for their toolkits and the favours to universities (such as discount/free software) have now stopped, because now if you are going to learn low level mobile application coding then it simply has to be ARM. No need for them to attract and convince people to use them any more.
We even wrote our own debugger so we wouldn't have to payt the ARM tax.
The inq have a story wondering if just the two mentioned super computers worth of opterons sold have allready outsold the itanics.
When I am writing code I like to use the product for a while and get the feel of what is going on and visualise all the functions that get called while it is executing. Its imprtant to get a vey basic version of the system going to get the idea of how its executimg. Thesame goes for hardware design. When I was designing a cpu it really helped to see the schematic view of the system executing instructions and the values flying around. Much easier to understand than looking through the design.
When writing a language or an input method try it out before writing any code. When I wrote a language called chump I wrote whole pages of code in it and only then started writing the compiler. I had to change many things in order to make it usable which I wouldnt have guesses if I didnt use it for a substantial ammount of time.