How about use as a waldo, either in manufacturing or in hostile environments such as space? The 'air muscle' part might need modification for vacuum, but I bet it isn't insurmountable.
"The use of excessive bandwidth is something that Buckeye does not condone or will not stand. The clear distinction between this type of theft and the theft of cable services is that there is a finite amount of resource. The more the customer uses, the less there is to go around for other customers. These customers were impacting the performance of all our other customers," Mr. Shryock said.
Which strikes me as funny, as AT&T Cable did have people arrested earlier this year/late last year on charges of stealing cable (TV) service. In one case local to me, it was demonstrated in court that some of the arrested individuals not only did not have AT&T service, but the AT&T techs later showed that there was no physical way for the person to have tapped into the service.
Great. Just what I need in something portable like a camera is another moving part. The nice thing about flash memory is that is doesn't have any moving parts = fewer things that will wear out or have to made shock resistant.
I work in a data center for a major ISP/backbone provider. While we've got OC48's coming in from the backbone, it's 1Gb ethernet to the LAN distribution routers. With 10Gb ethernet, we can finally fully utilize that incoming bandwidth without having to use a lot of ports.
Another good use is the emerging use of iSCSI, or SCSI over ethernet. 1Gbps ~ 100MBps, but more likely around 60-80Mbps. With 10Gbps, a SAN based on iSCSI will actually be able to use the throughput of those SCSI drive arrays.
Eventually this will trickle down to the desktop, but not right now. So it doesn't really matter what PCI can handle - this isn't presently meant for it. BTW, 133MHz PCI-X will give 10Gbps, so if you have a dedicated PCI-X bus to that adapter, you can handle it will today's technology.
I'm using a stick of Corsair PC3200, which is DDR400 (or so claims Corsair). The P4S533 allows for async PCI:RAM, including a 4:6 when at 133MHz FSB or higher. That gives 200MHz when the FSB is 133MHz. I'm presently running a 1.6A at 141MHz FSB (2.256GMhz) and running the RAM at 211MHz. My Sandra memory scores beat 100MHz PC800 RDRAM by about 600MB/sec.
Key words there are 'daily work'. If that is using things like word processors, spreadsheets, web browsers and the like, then that is correct. If your daily work is encoding video or audio, making heavy use of Photoshop, Lightwave or Maya, then it makes a difference.
Depends on what you do. Some applications are particularly memory intensive, like MPEG-4 encoding. The faster the memory, the better. Other apps are limited by the CPU, peripheral bus or graphics card.
I'm still waiting for P4 motherboards to support 333Mhz DDR.
There are plenty of them, based on the SIS645DX chipset. I've got a ASUS P4S533 that supports it just fine, and can use DDR400 (though there is no ratified spec for it) as well.
Except that the Tualatin PIII's with 512KB cache are relatively new. They released them only 2-4 months ago. My thought is that marketing is the motivation, that they are trying to push the new technology, but to make a Xeon cost less than a PIII is just weird.
The odd thing from the price cuts is that a 2.2 MHz P4 Xeon Prestonia, w/ 512KB L2 cache, now costs $32 less than a 1.4GHz PIII Tualatin w/ 512KB L2 cache. Both of these chips are intended (by Intel) for servers/high end workstations.
As mentioned in The Register article, 3rd party apps will appear as choices if they are coded so that they interface with XP to appear as choices. They will not automatically appear just because they are installed; it will require some registration with MS to have the app appear as a choice, perhaps even having to use some shared library from MS.
"...or every major professional baseball, basketball, football and hockey team in America."
'Tonight's matchup is between the Windows Devleopers' Rams vs. the Security Steelers. Should be an interesting game, though the Security's defense has been sorely lacking this season."
Just love that marketing-speak
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Under 'Liberate yourself from your desktop'
"Establish a one-to-one relationship with your PC."
Sorry, I prefer to be a slut and have relationships with lots of PCs.
That would be the liver, not the kidney. That's why they can often take a part of a living donor's liver and transplant it, and the portion (usually one of the three lobes of the liver) grows back in the donor, and a funtional liver develops in the recipient.
The part of their release that the cloned organ produces urine, but no other functions have been tested is important because the kidney has a whole slew of funtions besides being a filter for the blood. The kidney metabolizes toxins, much like the liver but at a lower rate, as well as hormonally regulates the heart. I'm betting that this 'cloned kidney' does little to nothing of those functions.
While Linux is gradually making in-roads on the desktop, that is not were the present strength lies. It is best suited in the server arena, where spiffy user interfaces and good spreadsheet programs mean much less than stability, speed and ease of remote administration.
The article looks to be oriented from the desktop user's perspective, where it's the applications that matter, not the OS.
The differnce between freedom from censorship and the blocking of spam is one of consent.
If I wish to view something on the web, and the author wants others to view it, I should be able to do so without someone else telling me that I can't. The author is consenting in wanting others to view the work, and I am consenting in wanting to view the work.
With spam, my consent is considered irrelavent by the spammers. They are sending me material, without my consent or my desire to see it. It costs me money to receive their spam, as the ISP is going to pass on the cost of their bandwidth utilization to me in the form of higher fees.
The problem then becomes what to do after grad school. I've known a fair number of Ph.D.'s in CS, and they had a hard time getting jobs after graduation, even during the recent boom years, unless they went into academia. Why? Because the perception of the business world is that CS Ph.D.'s have studied obscure topics that have no bearing on the real world, as they know it. They want someone who has experience with the systems that they use, not someone who will try to revamp their whole world.
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How about use as a waldo, either in manufacturing or in hostile environments such as space? The 'air muscle' part might need modification for vacuum, but I bet it isn't insurmountable.
"The use of excessive bandwidth is something that Buckeye does not condone or will not stand. The clear distinction between this type of theft and the theft of cable services is that there is a finite amount of resource. The more the customer uses, the less there is to go around for other customers. These customers were impacting the performance of all our other customers," Mr. Shryock said.
Which strikes me as funny, as AT&T Cable did have people arrested earlier this year/late last year on charges of stealing cable (TV) service. In one case local to me, it was demonstrated in court that some of the arrested individuals not only did not have AT&T service, but the AT&T techs later showed that there was no physical way for the person to have tapped into the service.
Better rethink that theory:
Earth Simulator: 35.86TFlops.sec (according to Top100 list)
Seti@Home network: 37.07TFlops/sec (over last 24hr., according to the site).
Just because it is an incredibly powerful machine doesn't mean it has the distributed computing projects beat.
Great. Just what I need in something portable like a camera is another moving part. The nice thing about flash memory is that is doesn't have any moving parts = fewer things that will wear out or have to made shock resistant.
I work in a data center for a major ISP/backbone provider. While we've got OC48's coming in from the backbone, it's 1Gb ethernet to the LAN distribution routers. With 10Gb ethernet, we can finally fully utilize that incoming bandwidth without having to use a lot of ports.
Another good use is the emerging use of iSCSI, or SCSI over ethernet. 1Gbps ~ 100MBps, but more likely around 60-80Mbps. With 10Gbps, a SAN based on iSCSI will actually be able to use the throughput of those SCSI drive arrays.
Eventually this will trickle down to the desktop, but not right now. So it doesn't really matter what PCI can handle - this isn't presently meant for it. BTW, 133MHz PCI-X will give 10Gbps, so if you have a dedicated PCI-X bus to that adapter, you can handle it will today's technology.
I'm using a stick of Corsair PC3200, which is DDR400 (or so claims Corsair). The P4S533 allows for async PCI:RAM, including a 4:6 when at 133MHz FSB or higher. That gives 200MHz when the FSB is 133MHz. I'm presently running a 1.6A at 141MHz FSB (2.256GMhz) and running the RAM at 211MHz. My Sandra memory scores beat 100MHz PC800 RDRAM by about 600MB/sec.
Key words there are 'daily work'. If that is using things like word processors, spreadsheets, web browsers and the like, then that is correct. If your daily work is encoding video or audio, making heavy use of Photoshop, Lightwave or Maya, then it makes a difference.
Depends on what you do. Some applications are particularly memory intensive, like MPEG-4 encoding. The faster the memory, the better. Other apps are limited by the CPU, peripheral bus or graphics card.
There are plenty of them, based on the SIS645DX chipset. I've got a ASUS P4S533 that supports it just fine, and can use DDR400 (though there is no ratified spec for it) as well.
Except that the Tualatin PIII's with 512KB cache are relatively new. They released them only 2-4 months ago. My thought is that marketing is the motivation, that they are trying to push the new technology, but to make a Xeon cost less than a PIII is just weird.
And of course that should read GHz, not MHz. So much for previewing my posts...
The odd thing from the price cuts is that a 2.2 MHz P4 Xeon Prestonia, w/ 512KB L2 cache, now costs $32 less than a 1.4GHz PIII Tualatin w/ 512KB L2 cache. Both of these chips are intended (by Intel) for servers/high end workstations.
As mentioned in The Register article, 3rd party apps will appear as choices if they are coded so that they interface with XP to appear as choices. They will not automatically appear just because they are installed; it will require some registration with MS to have the app appear as a choice, perhaps even having to use some shared library from MS.
He said 2 lawyers and 20% of revenue, not 50 lawyers and 80% of revenue.
How about bigger exhaust fans, a higher wattage PSU and supercharging the spindle motor to 10K RPM?
"...or every major professional baseball, basketball, football and hockey team in America."
'Tonight's matchup is between the Windows Devleopers' Rams vs. the Security Steelers. Should be an interesting game, though the Security's defense has been sorely lacking this season."
Under 'Liberate yourself from your desktop'
"Establish a one-to-one relationship with your PC."
Sorry, I prefer to be a slut and have relationships with lots of PCs.
That would be the liver, not the kidney. That's why they can often take a part of a living donor's liver and transplant it, and the portion (usually one of the three lobes of the liver) grows back in the donor, and a funtional liver develops in the recipient.
The part of their release that the cloned organ produces urine, but no other functions have been tested is important because the kidney has a whole slew of funtions besides being a filter for the blood. The kidney metabolizes toxins, much like the liver but at a lower rate, as well as hormonally regulates the heart. I'm betting that this 'cloned kidney' does little to nothing of those functions.
Exploding chips. Just store the information on EEPROMs made from this material. You want to erase it? Just have it explode!
While Linux is gradually making in-roads on the desktop, that is not were the present strength lies. It is best suited in the server arena, where spiffy user interfaces and good spreadsheet programs mean much less than stability, speed and ease of remote administration.
The article looks to be oriented from the desktop user's perspective, where it's the applications that matter, not the OS.
The differnce between freedom from censorship and the blocking of spam is one of consent.
If I wish to view something on the web, and the author wants others to view it, I should be able to do so without someone else telling me that I can't. The author is consenting in wanting others to view the work, and I am consenting in wanting to view the work.
With spam, my consent is considered irrelavent by the spammers. They are sending me material, without my consent or my desire to see it. It costs me money to receive their spam, as the ISP is going to pass on the cost of their bandwidth utilization to me in the form of higher fees.
Hmm... not much on Slashdot tonight... Let's see what the Cartoon Channel has instead.
*click of remote*
CD-RW drives cannot burn DVD-RW or DVD+RW.
DVD+RW drives cannot burn DVD-RW, and visa-versa (until someone makes a drive that does both).
DVD-R media can be had for as little as $5USD apiece. Given that is 4.7GB, that is the equivalent of about 7 CDR's. Not too bad, in terms of price/MB.
Ever try to back up a 40GB drive to CDR? That's about 60 disks - a real pain. Eight or nine DVD-R's would be much easier and quicker.
The communication in the patent itself mentions modems operating over telephone lines of a telephone system.
That leaves networks that use Ethernet over Cat5, with switches and routers, never touching a phone line or modem, free and clear.
The problem then becomes what to do after grad school. I've known a fair number of Ph.D.'s in CS, and they had a hard time getting jobs after graduation, even during the recent boom years, unless they went into academia. Why? Because the perception of the business world is that CS Ph.D.'s have studied obscure topics that have no bearing on the real world, as they know it. They want someone who has experience with the systems that they use, not someone who will try to revamp their whole world.