Name a provider where a user hasn't abused the service at some point in time. Perhaps only people capable of running their own provider should have email access? Fine, but name a backbone provider that hasn't been abused.
Not all of IRIX is actually owned by sgi. Bits of it are licensed, other bits are contested (by the SCO trolls). It'd be nice if it happened but it isn't terribly feasible.
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Ugh. ASICs are nowhere near dead. FPGAs for most purposes are stillborn though. If I open up a cellular phone I'll see a fistful of integrated circuits and right now you can't get more consumer than that. Could that be due to the low power requirements and analog signal processing involved? Partly, but if I open up a DVD player I'll see a smaller fistful of integrated circuits, the same goes for a personal computer or even the control circuitry for a microwave oven.
FPGAs are great in a small number of area. FPGAs are expensive per unit compared to an equivalent dedicated ASIC but their up front costs are terribly low. The most expensive up-front cost would be your software and you can probably be dangerous for a few hundred bucks to a few thousand dollars. On the other hand the up front costs for an ASIC are tremendous, I don't work in consumer electronics but the non-recurring engineering charge for the ASIC I'm working on is 1 million dollars. We get a handful of test parts for that but a much smaller piece price than with FPGA technology.
The other area where they're useful is when you need to reconfigure the FPGA. I've seen FPGAs on digital VCR like devices for handling DRM for instance. For MPEG encoding they still use dedicated silicon though. Where I work we use them for reconfigurable computing but the circuitry they communicate to processor through are still custom ASICs.
If I were going to design something digital and the frequency wasn't too terribly high and the units shipped weren't very high either (thousands, maybe 10's of thousands) I'd probably use an FPGA. Outside of that design space the answer becomes quickturn ASICs and beyond that traditional ASICs.
OK, my falling asleep during an exam reinforces your views about EEs who couldn't read simple timing diagrams. A better inference would be that your EE department was just crap. I could make the same boast. I consistently got the highest marks in any computer science or physics courses I took (not the EE variants, the actual core CS and graduate physics courses). I was offered a scholarship to switch majors to math in second year. But you're right. EEs are just dumb.
I arrive at the exam, sit down and once the professor says to start I take the exam out of the envelope and page through it planning my attack. There's maybe 8 pages, I'm looking over page 6 when the prof says "30 minutes, 30 minutes left."
I fell asleep - for 2.5 hours during a 3 hour exam.
isn't a founder of CRAY. He's a founder of TERA Computer who aquired CRAY in the late 90's. He's a proponent of their multithreadhed architecture - an architecture which has abysmally failed commercially. Since 1988 they've had only one actual cash sale of their system. What this probably means is that CRAY is returning to it's strength of vector supercomputers, such as the CRAY1, CRAY2, XMP, YMP, J90, SV1 and SV2 or possibly massively parallel systems such as the T3E and T3F.
No, but Microsoft can. I can't see a lot of people thinking "Ahh, that huge megacompany Apple doesn't hold the patent, soft squishy Microsoft does, let's violate their patent!"
VGA is about the right resolution for video though, or at least SVGA is. I don't really think this is the direction Apple's going, but if the weight could be reduced and the power hunger satiated video goggles might be right for videos.
The biggest difference between the earlier Star Wars movies is that I was a whole lot younger in 1977. If I were to see them for the first time now I'd think they were silly and poorly written. For a young kid Star Wars was so overwhelming that your past memory of it smoothed over the rough bits for a lot of people.
What does "untold number" mean? That's the weasely argument that the MPAA and RIAA use to determine that they're losing billions of dollars to piracy.
In this case there's the set of people that stated that they wouldn't contribute to the linux kernel because of the Bitkeeper decision. There's also the set of people capable of contributing to the linux kernel. The intersection of these two groups is the impact on kernel development and it's offset by increased productivity due to Bitkeeper. I don't know if it's a net positive or a net negative, but neither do you.
All transforms aren't created equal as far as computational efficiency goes. For instance the Fast Fourier Transform is much more efficient computationaly than the Fast Discrete Cosine Transform. The FFT however produces a spectra that's less condusive to lossy compression.
They should be expensed when they're exercised not when they're awarded because there's no guarantee that they ever will be exercised. So by taxing them before they are exercised you're creating work for accountants who'll have to keep track of them until their expiry date.
I've got a lot of options which I doubt will ever be exercised. The bulk of them were awarded when my company was trading at 14 dollars and change but now it's trading at near 2 bucks. They're expiring in 2 years and unless something miraculous happens they will not be exercised.
If something miraculous does happen then I will exercise them. Eventually they'll be sold and then taxed.
All this is going to do is ensure that non-executives don't get any options because of tax burdens. The twats at the top will still get them.
The FCC doesn't care about the people who don't care whether standards get enforced or not. They care about the squeaky wheels who get their religious panties in a bunch. If you really wanted an anti-protest you'd have to target a program that was going to be shown, contains content the FCC might be concerned with and the parents group wouldn't be against. Is The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre, err.., Passion of The Christ going to be shown this holiday season or maybe for Easter? Organize a phone and letter campaign to get that violent smut off the air!
Bullshit. The sgi machine was up at NASA doing real work. The IBM machine's benchmarks have only been repeated in their manufacturing floor. I'm not saying the results are bogus but I'm saying that sgi is the one with the production ready supercomputer.
The bigger deal is that this sucker was put together and running customer code in 15 weeks. The build went so smoothly that people were surprised when a freshly installed machine didn't just run by the end of the day.
In the context of a scientific theory disagreeing with or refuting Intelligent Design is not a bias. Intelligent Design doesn't fit inside the framework of a scientific theory. Theories don't include statements that are unknowable or untestable. A driving intelligence behind evolution is an untestable and unknowable proposition. You can't devise a test that will prove or disprove it.
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nVidia, as well as other vendors, licenses the technology from sgi.
Name a provider where a user hasn't abused the service at some point in time. Perhaps only people capable of running their own provider should have email access? Fine, but name a backbone provider that hasn't been abused.
Not all of IRIX is actually owned by sgi. Bits of it are licensed, other bits are contested (by the SCO trolls). It'd be nice if it happened but it isn't terribly feasible.
Ugh. ASICs are nowhere near dead. FPGAs for most purposes are stillborn though. If I open up a cellular phone I'll see a fistful of integrated circuits and right now you can't get more consumer than that. Could that be due to the low power requirements and analog signal processing involved? Partly, but if I open up a DVD player I'll see a smaller fistful of integrated circuits, the same goes for a personal computer or even the control circuitry for a microwave oven.
FPGAs are great in a small number of area. FPGAs are expensive per unit compared to an equivalent dedicated ASIC but their up front costs are terribly low. The most expensive up-front cost would be your software and you can probably be dangerous for a few hundred bucks to a few thousand dollars. On the other hand the up front costs for an ASIC are tremendous, I don't work in consumer electronics but the non-recurring engineering charge for the ASIC I'm working on is 1 million dollars. We get a handful of test parts for that but a much smaller piece price than with FPGA technology.
The other area where they're useful is when you need to reconfigure the FPGA. I've seen FPGAs on digital VCR like devices for handling DRM for instance. For MPEG encoding they still use dedicated silicon though. Where I work we use them for reconfigurable computing but the circuitry they communicate to processor through are still custom ASICs.
If I were going to design something digital and the frequency wasn't too terribly high and the units shipped weren't very high either (thousands, maybe 10's of thousands) I'd probably use an FPGA. Outside of that design space the answer becomes quickturn ASICs and beyond that traditional ASICs.
OK, my falling asleep during an exam reinforces your views about EEs who couldn't read simple timing diagrams. A better inference would be that your EE department was just crap. I could make the same boast. I consistently got the highest marks in any computer science or physics courses I took (not the EE variants, the actual core CS and graduate physics courses). I was offered a scholarship to switch majors to math in second year. But you're right. EEs are just dumb.
I arrive at the exam, sit down and once the professor says to start I take the exam out of the envelope and page through it planning my attack. There's maybe 8 pages, I'm looking over page 6 when the prof says "30 minutes, 30 minutes left."
I fell asleep - for 2.5 hours during a 3 hour exam.
isn't a founder of CRAY. He's a founder of TERA Computer who aquired CRAY in the late 90's. He's a proponent of their multithreadhed architecture - an architecture which has abysmally failed commercially. Since 1988 they've had only one actual cash sale of their system. What this probably means is that CRAY is returning to it's strength of vector supercomputers, such as the CRAY1, CRAY2, XMP, YMP, J90, SV1 and SV2 or possibly massively parallel systems such as the T3E and T3F.
sgi's itanium based system has so far supported 10240 processors. They've already left irix in the dust.
In other words it's the equivalent of:
find / -name "*.mp3" -exec rm -i {} \;
Bullshit, slashdot does remove comments.
No, but Microsoft can. I can't see a lot of people thinking "Ahh, that huge megacompany Apple doesn't hold the patent, soft squishy Microsoft does, let's violate their patent!"
I guess it's just as much a sport as seeing how many hotdogs you can eat.
Oh wait, that's not a sport either.
VGA is about the right resolution for video though, or at least SVGA is. I don't really think this is the direction Apple's going, but if the weight could be reduced and the power hunger satiated video goggles might be right for videos.
The biggest difference between the earlier Star Wars movies is that I was a whole lot younger in 1977. If I were to see them for the first time now I'd think they were silly and poorly written. For a young kid Star Wars was so overwhelming that your past memory of it smoothed over the rough bits for a lot of people.
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What does "untold number" mean? That's the weasely argument that the MPAA and RIAA use to determine that they're losing billions of dollars to piracy.
In this case there's the set of people that stated that they wouldn't contribute to the linux kernel because of the Bitkeeper decision. There's also the set of people capable of contributing to the linux kernel. The intersection of these two groups is the impact on kernel development and it's offset by increased productivity due to Bitkeeper. I don't know if it's a net positive or a net negative, but neither do you.
All transforms aren't created equal as far as computational efficiency goes. For instance the Fast Fourier Transform is much more efficient computationaly than the Fast Discrete Cosine Transform. The FFT however produces a spectra that's less condusive to lossy compression.
They should be expensed when they're exercised not when they're awarded because there's no guarantee that they ever will be exercised. So by taxing them before they are exercised you're creating work for accountants who'll have to keep track of them until their expiry date.
I've got a lot of options which I doubt will ever be exercised. The bulk of them were awarded when my company was trading at 14 dollars and change but now it's trading at near 2 bucks. They're expiring in 2 years and unless something miraculous happens they will not be exercised.
If something miraculous does happen then I will exercise them. Eventually they'll be sold and then taxed.
All this is going to do is ensure that non-executives don't get any options because of tax burdens. The twats at the top will still get them.
The FCC doesn't care about the people who don't care whether standards get enforced or not. They care about the squeaky wheels who get their religious panties in a bunch. If you really wanted an anti-protest you'd have to target a program that was going to be shown, contains content the FCC might be concerned with and the parents group wouldn't be against. Is The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre, err.., Passion of The Christ going to be shown this holiday season or maybe for Easter? Organize a phone and letter campaign to get that violent smut off the air!
Actually, given his age it might be Indiana Jones denture adhesive, viagara and stool softeners.
The same can be said for any communicable disease.
Bullshit. The sgi machine was up at NASA doing real work. The IBM machine's benchmarks have only been repeated in their manufacturing floor. I'm not saying the results are bogus but I'm saying that sgi is the one with the production ready supercomputer.
The bigger deal is that this sucker was put together and running customer code in 15 weeks. The build went so smoothly that people were surprised when a freshly installed machine didn't just run by the end of the day.
In the context of a scientific theory disagreeing with or refuting Intelligent Design is not a bias. Intelligent Design doesn't fit inside the framework of a scientific theory. Theories don't include statements that are unknowable or untestable. A driving intelligence behind evolution is an untestable and unknowable proposition. You can't devise a test that will prove or disprove it.
But if you're a Christian then God is the ultimate jury and fair trial.
They don't have to give you a choice, they only have to warn you (in microscopic text) in the shrinkwrap.