TCP offload engines, zero copy I/O etc are not exactly a new concept. However, what could be significant is in the realization of applications based on these concepts. i am trying to bring in a point about RDMA (Remote Direct Memory access) which relies upon a hardware based RDMA engine residing in the peer. RDMA suits bulky data transfer like the one seen in SAN (Storage area networks). more info on RDMA is available at http://rdmaconsortium.org/.
notwithstanding the hoopla surrounding the gmail privacy concerns, lets say many people do indeed sign up for the service. just spare a thought for the recepients of mails sent using gmail!!!!
I voted this morning. As an aside, I need to mention that this is actully the SECOND time my constituency used the EVMs. the last time was around 1999. anyway, one thing i noticed about the EVMs while voting was that there is no way for me to know that the vote got registered against the candidate I actually voted for. of course, these machines have been tested fairly well enough [manufacturers Bharat Electronics Ltd (www.bel-india.com)]. But I need to know for sure too.
The other issue has to do with the number of candidates that can be accomodated on the EVM (perhaps 20 or so). The last general elections in 1999 in India threw up a logistical problem. One particular constituency had, well, 400 candidates. The Election Commission had to revert to paper. Why there were 400 candidates is besides the point(not relevant here).
While I do think that a 2-party system leaves voters with no much choice, i think that a multi-party system like in India (where there are, well, 20 odd parties contesting at the national level) doesn't mean to provide voters a good choice either. a government with a huge number of coalition parties is not particualarly stable, and hence the guy who manages the show as the head of the govt (the Prime Minister, in India) has to compromise on a host of issues that'd better be dealt with but aren't. All this just to keep the coalition members happy and ensure there are no "drop-outs" of the coalition. In the end, its a negative sum game for almost everyone (except the politicians, of course). Also, note that a political coalition does not necessarily mean that all the parties involved are on the same ideological platform. I think a coalition is more like a cabal.
The exact same argument could be applied to, say, IBM's open-source contributions.
exactly. a couple of days ago (as reported on/.), IBM wrote to Sun asking for parts (note the "parts") of Java to be open sourced. The article also mentioned that IBM, Sun and a few others would decide which parts should be open-sourced. Obviously IBM would have wanted those parts open-sourced, those parts that would have made business sense to it.
My 2p of an opinon is that I think there should be a end to the debate on "philosophical" aspects of open source. Obviously, ppl who preach open source are still expecting something in return. if not money, something else (maybe name, fame, credit, something).
Do any of the site-readers use a WebDAV( Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) based approach to retrieve this document (the document stored in RDF)? oh, btw, is a WebDAV based approach possible at all?
India has been using the EVMs for about 7 years now. only that this time around, the number of machines deployed is going to be significantly higher than in previous years... also, since the elections are held in multiple phases across the country, the machines get re-used.
if we manage to implement a "genuinely" AI element, could it be made self-mutating? i mean, not just in the sense of learning new behavioural patterns provided by an external means, but capable of modifying itself without the external impetus...
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TCP offload engines, zero copy I/O etc are not exactly a new concept. However, what could be significant is in the realization of applications based on these concepts. i am trying to bring in a point about RDMA (Remote Direct Memory access) which relies upon a hardware based RDMA engine residing in the peer. RDMA suits bulky data transfer like the one seen in SAN (Storage area networks).
more info on RDMA is available at http://rdmaconsortium.org/.
notwithstanding the hoopla surrounding the gmail privacy concerns, lets say many people do indeed sign up for the service.
just spare a thought for the recepients of mails sent using gmail!!!!
outsource the electoral process to india, and we in return will outsource our politicians to you :)
I voted this morning. As an aside, I need to mention that this is actully the SECOND time my constituency used the EVMs. the last time was around 1999.
anyway, one thing i noticed about the EVMs while voting was that there is no way for me to know that the vote got registered against the candidate I actually voted for. of course, these machines have been tested fairly well enough [manufacturers Bharat Electronics Ltd (www.bel-india.com)]. But I need to know for sure too.
The other issue has to do with the number of candidates that can be accomodated on the EVM (perhaps 20 or so). The last general elections in 1999 in India threw up a logistical problem. One particular constituency had, well, 400 candidates. The Election Commission had to revert to paper. Why there were 400 candidates is besides the point(not relevant here).
While I do think that a 2-party system leaves voters with no much choice, i think that a multi-party system like in India (where there are, well, 20 odd parties contesting at the national level) doesn't mean to provide voters a good choice either. a government with a huge number of coalition parties is not particualarly stable, and hence the guy who manages the show as the head of the govt (the Prime Minister, in India) has to compromise on a host of issues that'd better be dealt with but aren't. All this just to keep the coalition members happy and ensure there are no "drop-outs" of the coalition. In the end, its a negative sum game for almost everyone (except the politicians, of course).
Also, note that a political coalition does not necessarily mean that all the parties involved are on the same ideological platform. I think a coalition is more like a cabal.
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how about SCMP?
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The exact same argument could be applied to, say, IBM's open-source contributions.
/.), IBM wrote to Sun asking for parts (note the "parts") of Java to be open sourced. The article also mentioned that IBM, Sun and a few others would decide which parts should be open-sourced. Obviously IBM would have wanted those parts open-sourced, those parts that would have made business sense to it.
exactly. a couple of days ago (as reported on
My 2p of an opinon is that I think there should be a end to the debate on "philosophical" aspects of open source. Obviously, ppl who preach open source are still expecting something in return. if not money, something else (maybe name, fame, credit, something).
Do any of the site-readers use a WebDAV( Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) based approach to retrieve this document (the document stored in RDF)?
oh, btw, is a WebDAV based approach possible at all?
India has been using the EVMs for about 7 years now. only that this time around, the number of machines deployed is going to be significantly higher than in previous years...
also, since the elections are held in multiple phases across the country, the machines get re-used.
i guess one reason why china wants to send more and more of its people to space is to reduce its population (greater than 1 billion) on earth;)
have you had a chance to look at
ArgoUML (http://argouml.tigris.org/)?
hope it does not end up with something like:
"RoboSleep" - "The intelligent sleeper that sleeps while you rest!"
it is not BEING a buddhist that makes one happy, but PRACTISING buddhism that does it......
why! this is true of ALL religions.
btw, Happiness, as we know, is not permanent. Bliss is.
if we manage to implement a "genuinely" AI element, could it be made self-mutating? i mean, not just in the sense of learning new behavioural patterns provided by an external means, but capable of modifying itself without the external impetus...