Cell was designed by an alliance between IBM, Sony, and Toshiba, to be both a process for their next-generation gaming console and to be a high-powered number crunching processor for scientific, communication, and other number-crunching intensive applications.
My gawd did I really write that? I sound like a press release...
At the rate they're going, IBM's going to be shipping their Cell blade servers sooner than Sony ships the PS3, which is ironic in that the PS3 is what the chip was originally designed for...
On the other hand, if they're devoting 1/4 of their booth to this, it's probably going to be something bigger than "Look, here's a new trailer!". Given the size of booth that a giant worldwide conglomerate like Sony will have, 1/4 of it would be ridiculous overkill for just trailers.
What the hell is wrong with you? Everybody knows that God's real name is Dave! I talk to him every day in his study at our compound and he's constantly dismayed at how few people know of his glory and majesty.
Dave is generally a pretty peacable guy, but don't ever draw a cartoon of him eating Twinkies. Twinkies are sacred and to be worshipped with never-ending fervor and all zingers are to be stomped into a cakey creamy mess upon sight.
The biggest difference here is that this is a violent protest by 16 hindu extremist wackos who are in a splinter sect. I'd draw a parallel to christian sects who endorse the KKK or christian nazis. This nowhere resembles the thousands and millions of muslim protesters who are right now generally trashing entire cities.
Because I know a bunch of muslims who are most decidely NOT freaking savages. Granted though they seem to be in the major minority...
A big part of the problem is that many muslims seem to be taught by their clerics to not seek wisdom on their own. They're taught to follow their cleric unto death practically no matter what he says. And if you so much as raise the question of a doubt, you're decries as an apostic and treated the same way they treat other infidels.
As another poster said, the muslim religion is right now in it's terrible twos. They're at the same stage that judaism was at during the time of Jesus and that Christianity was at during the crusades and inquisition.
I'd hazard to guess that this is because a lot of muslims deep down support this. It IS what their religion teaches: that all non-muslims are infidels and will be killed in the jihad. Every infidel that is killed is one closer to a worldwide muslim theocracy. Think the crusades and inquisition...
It's remarkable similar to all the people who publicly say they hate Bush but vote for him because they like his western cowboy attitude of international policy. They quietly are convinced that the US is the greatest country ever and anything we have to do to spread our brand of freedom is worth the cost. That's not a publicly acceptable statement, however, so they decry Bush but keep voting for him and his cronies...
I wonder how long it'll be we're just all at war...seems to be what they want.
I mean seriously, if a supermarket had a sale on steak and put up cartoons of Vishnu, you wouldn't see Hindus violently protesting. Neither if they had a sale on pork and put cartoons in the window of YHWH.
Only if you learn to spell sanitizer correctly. Their will be no improper speling on this mishun, wee must proov we arr beter than thoze self-centered hunams!
Other than that, we all know that telephone sanitization is the highest form of enlightened labor and as such you'll be getting a cabin with a hot tub and complete holographic anime maid/chippendale butler, your choice. Launch is at 7, don't be late!
we must discover if there is intelligent life in this universe so we can build spaceships, travel to meet them, and obliterate them.
Finally someone who shares similar views with me! You, sir, will be on my spacecraft when we annihilate the puny weak-minded humans and set out to destroy the cosmos!
What's the world coming to?? Diakatana got released, Mother 3 got released...what's next, Duke Nukem Forever? My god, it'll rip a hole in the space-time continuum!
And yet another possibility is that it IS the stage for the drama, but we're only still in the very beginning of the very first line of dialogue from the very first scene. For all we know, the drama could be set to unfold across the universe in later times (later on a cosmological scale). It's not for us to know, but it does make an interesting conversation topic;)
I hate to tell ya, but it sounds like you've never been in a modern stick built house. Sound insulation is just fine, they're absolutely watertight, quite strong if built right, and they don't fall over in high winds (again, if they're built right). I think you're thinking of cottages and other country-type houses built of sticks or whatever, because the problems you're referring to don't occur in the houses we build at all.
The real problem with cob houses from HFH's standpoint is that to do it properly, you need a lot of heavy equipment and that costs quite a bit of money these days. Yes, it would be nice to be able to spend the time to do it by hand, but remember for every HFH house you're building, there's a family waiting to get in it who are usually passing the time living in either very substandard conditions or paying 70% or more of their wages to living costs.
Good points in the previous post to this. Another reason we don't do domes at all is that part of Habitat's goal is to make the homes fit in with the neighborhood. We don't want the homes to stick out like a sore thumb so you can easily see wherever a Habitat house is. We try as best we can (within reason and budget) to make the homes fit in more or less with the neighborhood they're in.
Local building codes are a HUGE issue for Habitat, which is why each affiliate is somewhat on their own to pick the house designs. The houses we build where I am (Minnesota) would generally be WAY over code in most other areas, excepting for specific issues such as wind load and earthquake stability.
Also you're correct, most building codes for single family dwellings are focused almost exclusively on stick built with pine 2x4's or 2x6's. You can do other types of houses but it's generally a big hassle to get through all the inspections, regulations, etc. Especially if you want to do something that's not been done in the area before, they basically have to write up special regulations for the house before the plans can be approved. Major pain in the butt...
Your comments are both intelligent and applicable, unfortunately they're also totally impractical. Habitat for Humanity has a very limited budget that's I believe almost entirely made up of donations. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have the money to put together 4x4 or 4x6 framed homes, but that costs TONS of money. Pine is the basically the only wood used for construction any more because all of the hardwoods have been priced WAY WAY out of reason. For instance, a 2x4 8 ft pine board runs around $3.50 or so. The same board of oak, no splits, would run at least $80 or so. I'm not talking a 5% increase, I'm talking a 20x increase or more. Even pine beams are exhorbitantly expensive these days.
There has been some talk of switching to either steel stud/joist construction or ICF (Insulated Concrete Forms) for most Habitat affiliates, but both take a lot of planning and some specialized tools. Also both cost more than wood frame and therefore are rather sticky points for budgeting. The Habitat affiliate I work for has recently done two houses partially in ICF and it works very very well, however we had to raise the final cost of the house by $5,000 and I believe we're eating another $3,000 or so of cost just for using those forms. I sincerely hope they come down in price very soon because they're VERY stable and relatively easy to work with. But I'm babbling...
In short, we'd love to build something heavier, but unless someone ponies up the money for it and also sends the expertise to work with the stronger materials, we're stuck doing pine stick-built houses...
From the perspective of someone who currently works for Habitat for Humanity and has a lot of experience on this sort of thing, I would highly reccommend steel toed boots. The hard hat I tend to be a bit less picky on, as they'll only really help you in places you don't have to bend over much and will be ducking under things. I'd say throw a few in just in case but usually I just go with a regular cotton bucket hat.
As far as tools and things, here's the (non-definitive) list that I would reccommend:
-Shovels (1 per person, round point)
-Crow bars/wrecking bars
-Breaker bar (looks like a giant steel pole with a point or chisel on the end)
-Hammers (lots)
-Nails (several boxes each of 8 penny, 16 penny, 16 penny duplex)
-Good cordless tools with plenty of backup batteries (I'd reccommend at least 18 volt if you can get them, get enough batteries that you can charge at night)
-Generator if someone owns one already (very handy)
-Wheelbarrow or two
-Sawzall or equivalent tool of destruction (2 if you can get them)
-LOTS of good leather gloves (go for full leather, do not get fabric-backed or cotton jersey. They just won't stand up. You can get decent leather gloves here at $22/dozen)
-LARGE water cooler - I'd reccommend a good Rubbermaid or Igloo jobsite cooler with associated plastic/foam glasses
That's a good start for a list. If you want more advice drop me an email with SLASHDOT in the title at the email addy on my account. I've done quite a lot of this sort of work before. Wish I could come with you but I'm stuck here:\
Not really, I tend to shy away from software solutions for hardware problems. I'd personally reccomment going with a hardware RAID controller from 3ware or Promise (both make decent cards at fairly decent prices without getting into enterprise stuff). Any software mirroring has the potential to significantly slow down your data access because it's leaning on the main system processor to do all the mirrors and also writing twice as much data to the drives, whereas with a hardware card the controller takes care of all the dual writing without the OS really worrying about it.
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Cell was designed by an alliance between IBM, Sony, and Toshiba, to be both a process for their next-generation gaming console and to be a high-powered number crunching processor for scientific, communication, and other number-crunching intensive applications.
My gawd did I really write that? I sound like a press release...
They already did, called the SmartJoy Frag ;)
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http://xbox.gamespy.com/articles/565/565000p1.htm
A miracle boon for PC gamers gone console! Not without its limits, but not bad for what it does.
At the rate they're going, IBM's going to be shipping their Cell blade servers sooner than Sony ships the PS3, which is ironic in that the PS3 is what the chip was originally designed for...
On the other hand, if they're devoting 1/4 of their booth to this, it's probably going to be something bigger than "Look, here's a new trailer!". Given the size of booth that a giant worldwide conglomerate like Sony will have, 1/4 of it would be ridiculous overkill for just trailers.
BTW you sound like my cousin - she's not jewish but she IS almost a vegetarian, with the exception of bacon, ham, and breakfast sausage...
Must be mind-altering additives in them.
What the hell is wrong with you? Everybody knows that God's real name is Dave! I talk to him every day in his study at our compound and he's constantly dismayed at how few people know of his glory and majesty.
Dave is generally a pretty peacable guy, but don't ever draw a cartoon of him eating Twinkies. Twinkies are sacred and to be worshipped with never-ending fervor and all zingers are to be stomped into a cakey creamy mess upon sight.
The biggest difference here is that this is a violent protest by 16 hindu extremist wackos who are in a splinter sect. I'd draw a parallel to christian sects who endorse the KKK or christian nazis. This nowhere resembles the thousands and millions of muslim protesters who are right now generally trashing entire cities.
Because I know a bunch of muslims who are most decidely NOT freaking savages. Granted though they seem to be in the major minority...
A big part of the problem is that many muslims seem to be taught by their clerics to not seek wisdom on their own. They're taught to follow their cleric unto death practically no matter what he says. And if you so much as raise the question of a doubt, you're decries as an apostic and treated the same way they treat other infidels.
As another poster said, the muslim religion is right now in it's terrible twos. They're at the same stage that judaism was at during the time of Jesus and that Christianity was at during the crusades and inquisition.
I'd hazard to guess that this is because a lot of muslims deep down support this. It IS what their religion teaches: that all non-muslims are infidels and will be killed in the jihad. Every infidel that is killed is one closer to a worldwide muslim theocracy. Think the crusades and inquisition...
It's remarkable similar to all the people who publicly say they hate Bush but vote for him because they like his western cowboy attitude of international policy. They quietly are convinced that the US is the greatest country ever and anything we have to do to spread our brand of freedom is worth the cost. That's not a publicly acceptable statement, however, so they decry Bush but keep voting for him and his cronies...
Dirka dirk Allah jihad!!
Dirka dirka dirk dirk dirka JIHAD!!!
I wonder how long it'll be we're just all at war...seems to be what they want.
I mean seriously, if a supermarket had a sale on steak and put up cartoons of Vishnu, you wouldn't see Hindus violently protesting. Neither if they had a sale on pork and put cartoons in the window of YHWH.
People need to take a serious chill pill...
Only if you learn to spell sanitizer correctly. Their will be no improper speling on this mishun, wee must proov we arr beter than thoze self-centered hunams!
Other than that, we all know that telephone sanitization is the highest form of enlightened labor and as such you'll be getting a cabin with a hot tub and complete holographic anime maid/chippendale butler, your choice. Launch is at 7, don't be late!
What's the world coming to?? Diakatana got released, Mother 3 got released...what's next, Duke Nukem Forever? My god, it'll rip a hole in the space-time continuum!
Hmm...for a moment I thought you were wondering when IBM was going to OUTsource UFIA...
;)
Interesting thought, eh?
Thanks, now I don't have to barter my soul to read somewhat clueless technical rubbish from a business & financial magazine ;)
And yet another possibility is that it IS the stage for the drama, but we're only still in the very beginning of the very first line of dialogue from the very first scene. For all we know, the drama could be set to unfold across the universe in later times (later on a cosmological scale). It's not for us to know, but it does make an interesting conversation topic ;)
I hate to tell ya, but it sounds like you've never been in a modern stick built house. Sound insulation is just fine, they're absolutely watertight, quite strong if built right, and they don't fall over in high winds (again, if they're built right). I think you're thinking of cottages and other country-type houses built of sticks or whatever, because the problems you're referring to don't occur in the houses we build at all.
The real problem with cob houses from HFH's standpoint is that to do it properly, you need a lot of heavy equipment and that costs quite a bit of money these days. Yes, it would be nice to be able to spend the time to do it by hand, but remember for every HFH house you're building, there's a family waiting to get in it who are usually passing the time living in either very substandard conditions or paying 70% or more of their wages to living costs.
I fall under the third category, that of people too damn lazy to type it all out and running late for a rehearsal :P
Exactly what the other guy said. Pine is the de facto standard here because:
a) it's cheap
b) it grows really fast
c) it's readily available (see b)
As I said above, basically any other type of wood is WAY too expensive to be building affordable homes out of.
Good points in the previous post to this. Another reason we don't do domes at all is that part of Habitat's goal is to make the homes fit in with the neighborhood. We don't want the homes to stick out like a sore thumb so you can easily see wherever a Habitat house is. We try as best we can (within reason and budget) to make the homes fit in more or less with the neighborhood they're in.
Local building codes are a HUGE issue for Habitat, which is why each affiliate is somewhat on their own to pick the house designs. The houses we build where I am (Minnesota) would generally be WAY over code in most other areas, excepting for specific issues such as wind load and earthquake stability.
Also you're correct, most building codes for single family dwellings are focused almost exclusively on stick built with pine 2x4's or 2x6's. You can do other types of houses but it's generally a big hassle to get through all the inspections, regulations, etc. Especially if you want to do something that's not been done in the area before, they basically have to write up special regulations for the house before the plans can be approved. Major pain in the butt...
Your comments are both intelligent and applicable, unfortunately they're also totally impractical. Habitat for Humanity has a very limited budget that's I believe almost entirely made up of donations. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have the money to put together 4x4 or 4x6 framed homes, but that costs TONS of money. Pine is the basically the only wood used for construction any more because all of the hardwoods have been priced WAY WAY out of reason. For instance, a 2x4 8 ft pine board runs around $3.50 or so. The same board of oak, no splits, would run at least $80 or so. I'm not talking a 5% increase, I'm talking a 20x increase or more. Even pine beams are exhorbitantly expensive these days.
There has been some talk of switching to either steel stud/joist construction or ICF (Insulated Concrete Forms) for most Habitat affiliates, but both take a lot of planning and some specialized tools. Also both cost more than wood frame and therefore are rather sticky points for budgeting. The Habitat affiliate I work for has recently done two houses partially in ICF and it works very very well, however we had to raise the final cost of the house by $5,000 and I believe we're eating another $3,000 or so of cost just for using those forms. I sincerely hope they come down in price very soon because they're VERY stable and relatively easy to work with. But I'm babbling...
In short, we'd love to build something heavier, but unless someone ponies up the money for it and also sends the expertise to work with the stronger materials, we're stuck doing pine stick-built houses...
From the perspective of someone who currently works for Habitat for Humanity and has a lot of experience on this sort of thing, I would highly reccommend steel toed boots. The hard hat I tend to be a bit less picky on, as they'll only really help you in places you don't have to bend over much and will be ducking under things. I'd say throw a few in just in case but usually I just go with a regular cotton bucket hat.
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As far as tools and things, here's the (non-definitive) list that I would reccommend:
-Shovels (1 per person, round point)
-Crow bars/wrecking bars
-Breaker bar (looks like a giant steel pole with a point or chisel on the end)
-Hammers (lots)
-Nails (several boxes each of 8 penny, 16 penny, 16 penny duplex)
-Good cordless tools with plenty of backup batteries (I'd reccommend at least 18 volt if you can get them, get enough batteries that you can charge at night)
-Generator if someone owns one already (very handy)
-Wheelbarrow or two
-Sawzall or equivalent tool of destruction (2 if you can get them)
-LOTS of good leather gloves (go for full leather, do not get fabric-backed or cotton jersey. They just won't stand up. You can get decent leather gloves here at $22/dozen)
-LARGE water cooler - I'd reccommend a good Rubbermaid or Igloo jobsite cooler with associated plastic/foam glasses
That's a good start for a list. If you want more advice drop me an email with SLASHDOT in the title at the email addy on my account. I've done quite a lot of this sort of work before. Wish I could come with you but I'm stuck here
Not really, I tend to shy away from software solutions for hardware problems. I'd personally reccomment going with a hardware RAID controller from 3ware or Promise (both make decent cards at fairly decent prices without getting into enterprise stuff). Any software mirroring has the potential to significantly slow down your data access because it's leaning on the main system processor to do all the mirrors and also writing twice as much data to the drives, whereas with a hardware card the controller takes care of all the dual writing without the OS really worrying about it.