In addition, I am pretty sure that, at least in NY, there is no requirement for a service person to be educated. Shops need to be regestered with the state, but it is, basically, just a formality put in place as a method to prevent fraud. If you rip off people the state might (probably not) take the shops licence.
This type of regulation may be good for computer repair, but not individuals. For instance, I am not A+ certified. I do not do support or service, but, through school and work experience, etc. I am more qualified to fix a computer than most A+ technicians. I don't want to get arrested for fixing someones computer without a licence when I fix a friend's office computer.
We have enough regulations. Do we really need to make computer repair a bueracracy too?
With the Paine Webber guy, I was amazed this guy didn't think the SEC could put 2 and 2 together.
Maybe, from working at Paine Webber, he knew that the SEC is not all that swift..... He probably figured that even with their heads up their ass, they can't find shit.
The article does not say how much, if at all, he was able to profit from his put options.... Figuring this is the first that I have heard of it, I doubt that he profitted by a lot, if at all.... Does anybody know? I would have figured that this was an obvious item that should have been reported in the article.
You are right, this is totally impractical. 1000W is not much power, and do you see the size of this beast? A combination of the cheapest APC unit and the cheapest generator you can find will be just as good, if not better (the generator will out power this thing).
Withstanding all that, you have to admit, a fuel cell backup has a pretty high geek factor.
sprocs are basically like Linux threads? what other Unix OS's have this type of "light weight" process? That are they called?
I have never programmed a large SGI machine. Personnally, I would like to better educate myself. Porting threaded applications to run on Linux well is kind of a pain. I wonder if the correct way to write a cross platform (Linux and commercial Unix) applications would be start with a linux-thread or sproc type structure from design, instead of Pthreads..... maybe this would prove to be more work.... Interesting idea to ponder.
Obviously you have never written a "serious" Unix application....
so - If I don't threads in my application, how am I gonna use multiple processors concurrently? Am I going to have seperate processes and perform some type of IPC between them? That would require a lot more memory and a large amount of overhead for synchronization.
Most of the workload on super-computers is threaded (>90%). Most supercomputers are Unix (>95%)..... If "serious" applications don't gain anything from threading, then why do the developers spend that much time doing threading their applications? Have you ever written a larger parallel applications? I have, and let me tell you, If I didn't have to deal with threads, I would not. When you have a problem, dubugging is VERY difficult. This goes for message passing libraries, like MPI, too.
Linux is a great choice for supercomputers. It's support for shared memory, threading, and SMP is equal to the best designs out there
One of the weakest areas in Linux, compared to commercial Unix, is its threads support. The "light-weight" processes is a hack, at best. Each of the Pthreads libraries are limited in some respect. signal delivery is all messed up. If you use one of those user level thread libs, then there is little advantage to SMP.
Personally, (Please note, I understand that a lot of people disagree with this, but this is what I think) Linux is great for desktops and small servers (=4 CPUs), but when it comes to "Big Iron" and Large SMPs, the thread limitations alone make it a bad choice. I guess in a cluster a small servers, like a beowulf-like cluster, it is fine......
Here is something that I have noticed, all of the fastest typers that I know, at one time, took piano lessons.... Pretty interesting, huh? I guess learning scales can, actually, be beneficial.
Anybody who has a "computer literate" 3 year old is, more or less, forcing this down the throats of their kids. They are doing a huge diservice to them. Childeren of that age should do things that involve kid to kid interaction, like yard games and such.
I don't think that this father understands the social ramifications of his actions. If he truly loved his kids, he would not make any issue about the OS that they run.... This guy is a disgrace. Come on, "My real motivation to do this is to save money and to teach my children that sometimes the best isn't always the most expensive." - WHAT?? I don't believe that. This guy just want his kids to be as big of a nerd as he is... I think that kids can be comfortable with computers, as they are with TV or a sink, but they don't need to learn much about them at such a young age.
Is this really news to anyone? We all have cell phones, service sucks. We all know this. Is there anything we can do without breaking out contracts? I don't think so, but I would like to hear some constructive ideas.... I looked at my contract, I can not even sue Verizon. Does anybody have any CONSTRUCTIVE ideas on how to force change?
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Why not push Linux where it can make a huge impact like Workstation class systems? I'm not talking about over glorified desktops, but real workstation systems. Intel finally has a workstation class processor in the Xeon series of processors, and I've been running Linux on one for a while now. It honestly is the closed thing to a SPARCworkstation Intel has come out with. Lot of Universities and companies could replace their older workstations with new Xeon based Linux systems easily.
Ohwell, Server market is good, but I think Linux could make better in roads into the Workstation market.
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In addition, I am pretty sure that, at least in NY, there is no requirement for a service person to be educated. Shops need to be regestered with the state, but it is, basically, just a formality put in place as a method to prevent fraud. If you rip off people the state might (probably not) take the shops licence.
This type of regulation may be good for computer repair, but not individuals. For instance, I am not A+ certified. I do not do support or service, but, through school and work experience, etc. I am more qualified to fix a computer than most A+ technicians. I don't want to get arrested for fixing someones computer without a licence when I fix a friend's office computer.
We have enough regulations. Do we really need to make computer repair a bueracracy too?
Supreme court is just like regular court, except it also has tomatoes and sour cream.
I used to be really paranoid about spyware, but I talk to a guy about this, and he said the following:
"What do I care, all anyone is going to find on my computer is porn anyway"
The article does not say how much, if at all, he was able to profit from his put options.... Figuring this is the first that I have heard of it, I doubt that he profitted by a lot, if at all.... Does anybody know? I would have figured that this was an obvious item that should have been reported in the article.
You are right, this is totally impractical. 1000W is not much power, and do you see the size of this beast? A combination of the cheapest APC unit and the cheapest generator you can find will be just as good, if not better (the generator will out power this thing).
Withstanding all that, you have to admit, a fuel cell backup has a pretty high geek factor.
sprocs are basically like Linux threads? what other Unix OS's have this type of "light weight" process? That are they called?
I have never programmed a large SGI machine. Personnally, I would like to better educate myself. Porting threaded applications to run on Linux well is kind of a pain. I wonder if the correct way to write a cross platform (Linux and commercial Unix) applications would be start with a linux-thread or sproc type structure from design, instead of Pthreads..... maybe this would prove to be more work.... Interesting idea to ponder.
Obviously you have never written a "serious" Unix application....
so - If I don't threads in my application, how am I gonna use multiple processors concurrently? Am I going to have seperate processes and perform some type of IPC between them? That would require a lot more memory and a large amount of overhead for synchronization.
Most of the workload on super-computers is threaded (>90%). Most supercomputers are Unix (>95%)..... If "serious" applications don't gain anything from threading, then why do the developers spend that much time doing threading their applications? Have you ever written a larger parallel applications? I have, and let me tell you, If I didn't have to deal with threads, I would not. When you have a problem, dubugging is VERY difficult. This goes for message passing libraries, like MPI, too.
Linux is a great choice for supercomputers. It's support for shared memory, threading, and SMP is equal to the best designs out there
One of the weakest areas in Linux, compared to commercial Unix, is its threads support. The "light-weight" processes is a hack, at best. Each of the Pthreads libraries are limited in some respect. signal delivery is all messed up. If you use one of those user level thread libs, then there is little advantage to SMP.
Personally, (Please note, I understand that a lot of people disagree with this, but this is what I think) Linux is great for desktops and small servers (=4 CPUs), but when it comes to "Big Iron" and Large SMPs, the thread limitations alone make it a bad choice. I guess in a cluster a small servers, like a beowulf-like cluster, it is fine......
Here is something that I have noticed, all of the fastest typers that I know, at one time, took piano lessons.... Pretty interesting, huh? I guess learning scales can, actually, be beneficial.
Anybody who has a "computer literate" 3 year old is, more or less, forcing this down the throats of their kids. They are doing a huge diservice to them. Childeren of that age should do things that involve kid to kid interaction, like yard games and such.
I don't think that this father understands the social ramifications of his actions. If he truly loved his kids, he would not make any issue about the OS that they run.... This guy is a disgrace. Come on, "My real motivation to do this is to save money and to teach my children that sometimes the best isn't always the most expensive." - WHAT?? I don't believe that. This guy just want his kids to be as big of a nerd as he is... I think that kids can be comfortable with computers, as they are with TV or a sink, but they don't need to learn much about them at such a young age.
Is this really news to anyone? We all have cell phones, service sucks. We all know this. Is there anything we can do without breaking out contracts? I don't think so, but I would like to hear some constructive ideas.... I looked at my contract, I can not even sue Verizon. Does anybody have any CONSTRUCTIVE ideas on how to force change?
Why not push Linux where it can make a huge impact like Workstation class systems? I'm not talking about over glorified desktops, but real workstation systems. Intel finally has a workstation class processor in the Xeon series of processors, and I've been running Linux on one for a while now. It honestly is the closed thing to a SPARCworkstation Intel has come out with. Lot of Universities and companies could replace their older workstations with new Xeon based Linux systems easily.
Ohwell, Server market is good, but I think Linux could make better in roads into the Workstation market.