Cool! Who did you talk with at DW? Did you get to go "backstage" and see them work? Is that a tour they offer? I'm (obviously) curious to know about what they showed you and how got access. Thanks.
An annoying and ever-present piece of bad science is seeing a person out-run a large explosion. Jerry Pournelle pointed this out in one of his columns not long ago, but spend some time reading a DOD explosives manual and you'll see that explosions travel VERY fast, and you can't out-run them or drive faster than them.
Okay, so his water pump is only designed to run for a max of 10 minutes before overheating. Since overclocked CPUs generate heat, an underclocked CPU must be able to absorb heat, right? RIGHT? Why not slap an old 286 onto the pump, underclock it to run at, oh, say, 2 Hz (not mHz, but plain ol' Hz) and the 286 will absorb all the excess heat off the pump! Voila!:-)
Or should he just get a water cooler to put on the pump, which would in turn need a water cooler for ITS pump, which would need a water cooler for ITS pump, which would . . . oh, wait, this is infinite nesting, isn't it?:-P
I'm addicted to Microprose's Risk II. It's the classic board game of Risk, with pretty good computer AI. There are extensions, in the sense of Risk variants that are different from the classic board game. Despite the fact that the computer cheats -- my roommate has a screen shot capture of it doing an illegal move -- it's still an amazingly addictive game.
Caltech computer scientist
Paul Messina said that a single repository for this vast amount of
data is essential, otherwise, "we will end up like shipwrecked
sailors on a desert island, surrounded by an ocean of salt water
and unable to slake our thirst."
What I am really wondering is: is there at the current moment ANY company/application/whatever that required this amount of storage? I thought that even a large bank could manage with a few TB's
Not intended as a flame, just interested
I work at a large credit card bank (we're the largest issuer of VISA cards, and our analytic data store is in the top 500 supercomputer sites). Our main Oracle data warehouse has about 38 TB of tablespace in use. It'll be awhile before we need drives with PB capacity.:-)
I'll get modded as redundant for this comment because what I have to say echoes SamJooky's comment. Career-related issues like this one are important, though, and the point needs to be reinforced.
If you're miserable at something in school, believe me, it just gets worse on the outside, in the real world. When I was an undergrad, I was a EE major for a quarter (this school had 10-week quarters instead of 16-week semesters), then a CS major for about two years. As time passed I realized how much I hated everything about the major. I enjoyed the electives (some science, mostly humanities) that I took far more than I enjoyed courses in my major. The father of one of my best friends taught at the school I attended, and offered some of the best advice I'd ever had up to that point in my life (even though I got a "C" in his film class:-P): It's okay to change your mind! Find what you like doing, and then do it well. The "doing it well" part will follow naturally from the "like doing it" part. He backed the point up with a story of a man who was a drudge chemist in his 40s, hated it, and completely switched careers to something he enjoyed.
It's typical for people these days, at least in the U.S. where I am, to change careers several times. If you don't like what you're doing at any point in your life, find what you do like, and do that. I switched from CS to Economics in undergrad, and changed schools twice. It took me five years to graduate, but so what. After going on to grad school (thinking I wanted a Ph.D. in Econ, but being quite happy with an M.A.), I now find myself happily coming back to a CS-focus, as I've been a database analyst and statistical programmer for a large credit card bank for the last couple of years. For me, this combines the fun of CS-related work with the fun of using my Econ skills and experience.
So, to sum up and hopefully offer some practical advice, I urge you and anyone else in this dilemma to take some time to think about what is most enjoyable (and career-oriented -- it's tough to get paid drinking beer, fun though that is:-P) and focus on that. What courses were really fun for you? Focus on those. Talk to the professors and other students in that major. Could you see yourself doing that as a career? If so, go for it! If not, keep looking around, and don't be afraid to change your mind a time or two.
"Overclocking is a dangerous and immoral way to improve performance . .."
Overclocking may push the hardware up to or past its design specs, but it's "immoral" now? If Moses had overclocked his tablets there would have been room for that eleventh one, "Thou shalt not overclock thy CPU.":-)
Slashdot Mirror
ObKhanQuote
It would destroy such instructions in favor of its new matrix.
There's a new language being formed in the bowels of Microsoft.
Not meaning to troll or bait flames, but why are you asking Slashdot readers instead of making some phone calls to the nearest video transfer shops?
From the first few lines of the article:
:-)
There are no armed guards to knock out. No sensors to deactivate. No surveillance cameras to cripple.
Did anyone else read that and want to continue, "Only a magnetic shield prevents beaming," the commandant's line from "Star Trek VI"?
I dunno, but imagine a Beowulf cluster of 'em. :-)
Why do you say they're useless? Not meaning to troll or flamebait; I'm genuinely curious. Don't they count page loads accurately? Thanks.
Man, y'all are working too hard. First thing *I* do with it is encrypt the hell outta my pr0n. :-)
and
"I'd rather die in my sleep, like my dad, than screaming in terror, like his passengers." - Jack Handey.
Hope they've got their lead-lined underwear on if they're INSIDE it. Don't try this at home, kids. :-)
It's interesting that an IBM plant's lines run Linux, not IBM's own AIX . . .
You mean something like EFF?
Cool! Who did you talk with at DW? Did you get to go "backstage" and see them work? Is that a tour they offer? I'm (obviously) curious to know about what they showed you and how got access. Thanks.
An annoying and ever-present piece of bad science is seeing a person out-run a large explosion. Jerry Pournelle pointed this out in one of his columns not long ago, but spend some time reading a DOD explosives manual and you'll see that explosions travel VERY fast, and you can't out-run them or drive faster than them.
Okay, so his water pump is only designed to run for a max of 10 minutes before overheating. Since overclocked CPUs generate heat, an underclocked CPU must be able to absorb heat, right? RIGHT? Why not slap an old 286 onto the pump, underclock it to run at, oh, say, 2 Hz (not mHz, but plain ol' Hz) and the 286 will absorb all the excess heat off the pump! Voila! :-)
:-P
Or should he just get a water cooler to put on the pump, which would in turn need a water cooler for ITS pump, which would need a water cooler for ITS pump, which would . . . oh, wait, this is infinite nesting, isn't it?
I'm addicted to Microprose's Risk II. It's the classic board game of Risk, with pretty good computer AI. There are extensions, in the sense of Risk variants that are different from the classic board game. Despite the fact that the computer cheats -- my roommate has a screen shot capture of it doing an illegal move -- it's still an amazingly addictive game.
Caltech computer scientist
:-)
Paul Messina said that a single repository for this vast amount of
data is essential, otherwise, "we will end up like shipwrecked
sailors on a desert island, surrounded by an ocean of salt water
and unable to slake our thirst."
Wow, a CS guy who took an English class!
What I am really wondering is: is there at the current moment ANY company/application/whatever that required this amount of storage? I thought that even a large bank could manage with a few TB's
:-)
Not intended as a flame, just interested
I work at a large credit card bank (we're the largest issuer of VISA cards, and our analytic data store is in the top 500 supercomputer sites). Our main Oracle data warehouse has about 38 TB of tablespace in use. It'll be awhile before we need drives with PB capacity.
I'll get modded as redundant for this comment because what I have to say echoes SamJooky's comment. Career-related issues like this one are important, though, and the point needs to be reinforced.
:-P): It's okay to change your mind! Find what you like doing, and then do it well. The "doing it well" part will follow naturally from the "like doing it" part. He backed the point up with a story of a man who was a drudge chemist in his 40s, hated it, and completely switched careers to something he enjoyed.
:-P) and focus on that. What courses were really fun for you? Focus on those. Talk to the professors and other students in that major. Could you see yourself doing that as a career? If so, go for it! If not, keep looking around, and don't be afraid to change your mind a time or two.
If you're miserable at something in school, believe me, it just gets worse on the outside, in the real world. When I was an undergrad, I was a EE major for a quarter (this school had 10-week quarters instead of 16-week semesters), then a CS major for about two years. As time passed I realized how much I hated everything about the major. I enjoyed the electives (some science, mostly humanities) that I took far more than I enjoyed courses in my major. The father of one of my best friends taught at the school I attended, and offered some of the best advice I'd ever had up to that point in my life (even though I got a "C" in his film class
It's typical for people these days, at least in the U.S. where I am, to change careers several times. If you don't like what you're doing at any point in your life, find what you do like, and do that. I switched from CS to Economics in undergrad, and changed schools twice. It took me five years to graduate, but so what. After going on to grad school (thinking I wanted a Ph.D. in Econ, but being quite happy with an M.A.), I now find myself happily coming back to a CS-focus, as I've been a database analyst and statistical programmer for a large credit card bank for the last couple of years. For me, this combines the fun of CS-related work with the fun of using my Econ skills and experience.
So, to sum up and hopefully offer some practical advice, I urge you and anyone else in this dilemma to take some time to think about what is most enjoyable (and career-oriented -- it's tough to get paid drinking beer, fun though that is
Good luck!
Tall_Rob: "I am Rob, tall geek."
Bridgekeeper: "WHAT is your quest?"
Tall_Rob: "To buy the Holy Grail action figures."
Bridgekeeper: "WHY are there only five of them instead of the 30-odd characters from the movie?"
Tall_Rob: "What? I don't know that . . . AAAAAIEEEEEEEEE!"
The site seems to be slashdotted. Did anyone have a chance to mirror it? Thanks.
Overclocking may push the hardware up to or past its design specs, but it's "immoral" now? If Moses had overclocked his tablets there would have been room for that eleventh one, "Thou shalt not overclock thy CPU." :-)
As random a time as any other.