"Specifically, the computers predicted that one experimental protein would fold in 6 microseconds, while laboratory observations revealed an actual folding time of 7.5 microseconds."
They missed the prediction by 1.5 microseconds. While that may not sound like much, that's 20 percent of the actual result.
Are these considered good results? I'm no protein folding expert...but 20 percent seems like alot.
Actually it does; in an ethernet frame. That's how your switch "learns" the mac addresses of all the NICs connected to it before you've run anything higher in the OSI model.
So, you want to kill the RIAA deep pocket? Don't contribute to it. Only buy CDs from artists directly...do not buy music through the retail channel. Send a clear message to the RIAA that they are an un-wanted organization. Give your money DIRECTLY to the aritsts.
I'm the network admin for a school, and Apple tech support REFUSES to talk to you if you've got anything "non-stock" in the machine! What kind of crap is that? I installed a RAID 1 card in my boss's machine, (since he's already had one hard drive failure) and 6 months later his mainboard goes bad....apple wouldn't talk to me until I removed the RAID card and put back the factory hard drive.
Needless to say, that didn't fix the mainboard problem. Then to add insult to injury, Apple wouldn't send me a replacement board (like Dell and Gateway do). I had to take the thing to a local service shop! Apple services it's machines like they are microwaves, or VCRs.....ARRRGH!
Can you imagine Dell or Gateway refusing to troubleshoot problems with you because you've installed a new internal peripheral (i.e network adapter, video card, sound card...etc)?
No wonder corporate america stays away from these things....the support is awful.
But the point of a HLL (high level language) is to abstract those details to make software programming easier.
Of course, that doesn't apply if you program in assembler, so you are stuck with all the low level details.
I was just making the point that the software industry is trying to reduce pointer complexity in HLL's but hardware designers haven't tackled that yet.
Great, in a time where we are removing god awful pointers from high level programming languages, we're putting them in the hardware.....uuugh.
Anyone ever write something with intensive pointer arithmetic in C++? It's enough to drive you mad.
Can you imagine peer code review: "No, that's not the instruction.....that's a pointer to the instruction."
Oh boy!
-ted
Blame college tuitions, not the dot-coms....
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Every argument (in the article) seems to try to blame the dot-coms, the economy, and everything else under the sun, each argument always goes back the underlying problem....debt.
Servicing debt is the least effecient way to use money, and the quickest way to make you broke. Most of the debt "Gen Xers" have is college, or related to college (i.e. the computer and books you bought on credit during school).
The real culprit seems to be outrageously inflated college tuitions. Look at the past 10 years; college tuition increases have outstripped GDP growth, inflation, and wage rates. With 60% of american students going to college, is it any suprise that this generation is servicing record debts? My dad got a 4 yr. college degree for $8000.00. One year of college cost me more than that.
America needs to get college tuitions in check, and we also need a national health care system. These are two of the biggest burdens on American consumers....if we accomplish both of these goals, we will be poised for long term growth.
I believe the Magnuson-Moss Warranty act allows for the purchase of accessories like mod chips:
" Tie-In Sales Provisions:
Generally, tie-in sales provisions are not allowed. Such a provision would require a purchaser of the warranted product to buy an item or service from a particular company to use with the warranted product in order to be eligible to receive a remedy under the warranty. The following are examples of prohibited tie-in sales provisions.
In order to keep your new Plenum Brand Vacuum Cleaner warranty in effect, you must use genuine Plenum Brand Filter Bags. Failure to have scheduled maintenance performed, at your expense, by the Great American Maintenance Company, Inc., voids this warranty.
While you cannot use a tie-in sales provision, your warranty need not cover use of replacement parts, repairs, or maintenance that is inappropriate for your product. The following is an example of a permissible provision that excludes coverage of such things.
While necessary maintenance or repairs on your AudioMundo Stereo System can be performed by any company, we recommend that you use only authorized AudioMundo dealers. Improper or incorrectly performed maintenance or repair voids this warranty."
It is my understanding of this act that no accessories manufacturer is required to get permission from the original manufacturer before producing the add-in parts.
Manguson-Moss also allows for "unintended use"...that means you can buy a hammer and use it as a paper weight if you like (as long as using it as a paper weight does not result in the destruction of the hammer). So Microsoft can not prohibit you from running other software on your Xbox.
How did Microsoft pull this off? MS must have better attorneys.
The Intel motherboard does not allow for overclocking, and all the hardware is stuff by major vendors...nothing unusual here.
Before the install, I thought the scsi controller might have been a problem, but the dpti2o.o driver works just fine...it sees the hard drive and allows me to do an install.
Sure, something could be taking up the low memory area on my machine (yes, I tried the relocation option on the scsi card). My point is, that I don't want to run old hardware just to avoid compatibility problems. I want to run really new hardware and I want it to "just work" as the RH tag line goes.
Bought RH 8.0 Professional expecting to get support people that could actually speak English...no luck there. Four calls to tech support and I've yet to find any tech support person that could spell my email address correctly or understand English.
So I post to the Bug-Grub bug reporter thing....no answers yet.
Funny how other OSes(and their respective boot loaders) have no issues on this hardware....but Grub throws an "Error 28....cannot fit selected item into memory" and lilo just hangs or gives me a "CRC error".
I understand, nothing in the IT industry is perfect, but when I pay for support, I expect to get my problems resolved. (That's a stab at RedHat, not the Grub maintainers.) Other commercial OS vendors are quite responsive...I've even had MS tech support people on the phone for hours on end on a Saturday fixing an Exchange problem!
These bootloaders and Redhat's support system need a lot of work before corporate America commits time and resources to their products.
Right! I forgot about net radio. I actually found some new artists on net radio...and guess what? I went out and bought their CDs! The RIAA should be thankful that net radio can play the music that clear channel and the like refuse to play.
Non-top 40 artists should be pissed that the RIAA is persecuting net radio....it could be their only shot at airplay.
I own two of these. The audiotron works by scanning a windows/samba share...so it will work with linux.
It is audio component sized, uses ethernet or HPNA, is rack-mountable,uses an IR remote control, and turtle beach even publishes the IR codes for programming devices like a Pronto.
I'm not sure about OGG support. My whole collection is MP3, but it does support WMA (groan).
There is no TV out support. It does, however, have an optical digital out, if you choose to use external D/A conversion.
I've been very happy with mine. I got gave away a sonic blue balls device because it required proprietary server software....and the support sucked.
What about the various flavors of unix with SSL vulnerabilites? If these these kids can't run "windows update" successfully and keep their windows systems patched, what makes the IT morons at UCSB think they can keep their unix systems patched?
I'm a sys-admin for a small school, and I'm familiar with the restrictions of a bidding process. Most likely the DOI will go through the appropriate bidding process by producing an RFP specifying a Microsoft solution, and then various vendors will bid on a systems solution centered on a Microsoft product.
By narrowing the systems specifications right down to the software vendor, a CIO can pretty much get what he/she wants. Sure, there are lots of MCSE's selling MS solutions, but if the RFP specifically requests a Microsoft product, that effectively excludes all other systems vendors.
I case you don't know him, he is the perpetual tech optimist Gilder Tech Report.
These wall street, talking heads are always so optimistic about technologies that they fail to see their shortcommings. I love new technology as much as any slashdotter, but do you think for a minute that reliable wireless data will be built on a technology that can be knocked out with a 2.4 GHz cordless telephone?
I love these reports. Broadband is too expensive.... No market penetration.... Dial-up is just fine....yada, yada, yada.
If the lackluster demand of broadband is a reality, then how the hell are people pirating music en masse? Does the RIAA expect people to believe that internet users are cheap people with hours of time to waste downloading music through a 56k modem connection?
Clearly the RIAA is using the non-existent broadband threat to scare legislators into writing even more copyright laws.
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Yup, any changes in the software driver "reprograms" the eeprom...and the NIC will announce the new MAC address after making that change.
It's all academic anyway, since ethernet frames don't make it past the router anyway.
-ted
From the article:
"Specifically, the computers predicted that one experimental protein would fold in 6 microseconds, while laboratory observations revealed an actual folding time of 7.5 microseconds."
They missed the prediction by 1.5 microseconds. While that may not sound like much, that's 20 percent of the actual result.
Are these considered good results? I'm no protein folding expert...but 20 percent seems like alot.
-ted
Actually it does; in an ethernet frame. That's how your switch "learns" the mac addresses of all the NICs connected to it before you've run anything higher in the OSI model.
-ted
So, you want to kill the RIAA deep pocket? Don't contribute to it. Only buy CDs from artists directly...do not buy music through the retail channel. Send a clear message to the RIAA that they are an un-wanted organization. Give your money DIRECTLY to the aritsts.
-ted
Thanks for the info. I'll look into it.
One has to wonder why no one at Apple told me about this?
-ted
I'm the network admin for a school, and Apple tech support REFUSES to talk to you if you've got anything "non-stock" in the machine! What kind of crap is that? I installed a RAID 1 card in my boss's machine, (since he's already had one hard drive failure) and 6 months later his mainboard goes bad....apple wouldn't talk to me until I removed the RAID card and put back the factory hard drive.
Needless to say, that didn't fix the mainboard problem. Then to add insult to injury, Apple wouldn't send me a replacement board (like Dell and Gateway do). I had to take the thing to a local service shop! Apple services it's machines like they are microwaves, or VCRs.....ARRRGH!
Can you imagine Dell or Gateway refusing to troubleshoot problems with you because you've installed a new internal peripheral (i.e network adapter, video card, sound card...etc)?
No wonder corporate america stays away from these things....the support is awful.
-ted
You are absolutely correct.
But the point of a HLL (high level language) is to abstract those details to make software programming easier.
Of course, that doesn't apply if you program in assembler, so you are stuck with all the low level details.
I was just making the point that the software industry is trying to reduce pointer complexity in HLL's but hardware designers haven't tackled that yet.
-ted
Right, you are talking "memory pointers" bits of data that point to, or keep track of locations in memory (or a stack...like a stack pointer).
These new "pointers" for lack of a better term reference actual instructions....not data locations....it just adds another layer of complexity.
As far as newer languages...I was talking about Java. Most Java guys avoid using pointers.
-ted
Great, in a time where we are removing god awful pointers from high level programming languages, we're putting them in the hardware.....uuugh.
Anyone ever write something with intensive pointer arithmetic in C++? It's enough to drive you mad.
Can you imagine peer code review: "No, that's not the instruction.....that's a pointer to the instruction."
Oh boy!
-ted
Every argument (in the article) seems to try to blame the dot-coms, the economy, and everything else under the sun, each argument always goes back the underlying problem....debt.
Servicing debt is the least effecient way to use money, and the quickest way to make you broke. Most of the debt "Gen Xers" have is college, or related to college (i.e. the computer and books you bought on credit during school).
The real culprit seems to be outrageously inflated college tuitions. Look at the past 10 years; college tuition increases have outstripped GDP growth, inflation, and wage rates. With 60% of american students going to college, is it any suprise that this generation is servicing record debts? My dad got a 4 yr. college degree for $8000.00. One year of college cost me more than that.
America needs to get college tuitions in check, and we also need a national health care system. These are two of the biggest burdens on American consumers....if we accomplish both of these goals, we will be poised for long term growth.
-ted
I've been making hydrogen and sulfur for years now....especially on tuesday morning after Monday Night Football, beer and nachos.
They should just make a device you fart into...that would be much more efficient.
-ted
Can you imagine purchasing a car and not being allowed to install a turbo, or better exhaust...or modifying it to run on fryer oil?
Check out full explanation here
I believe the Magnuson-Moss Warranty act allows for the purchase of accessories like mod chips:
" Tie-In Sales Provisions:
Generally, tie-in sales provisions are not allowed. Such a provision would require a purchaser of the warranted product to buy an item or service from a particular company to use with the warranted product in order to be eligible to receive a remedy under the warranty. The following are examples of prohibited tie-in sales provisions.
In order to keep your new Plenum Brand Vacuum Cleaner warranty in effect, you must use genuine Plenum Brand Filter Bags. Failure to have scheduled maintenance performed, at your expense, by the Great American Maintenance Company, Inc., voids this warranty.
While you cannot use a tie-in sales provision, your warranty need not cover use of replacement parts, repairs, or maintenance that is inappropriate for your product. The following is an example of a permissible provision that excludes coverage of such things.
While necessary maintenance or repairs on your AudioMundo Stereo System can be performed by any company, we recommend that you use only authorized AudioMundo dealers. Improper or incorrectly performed maintenance or repair voids this warranty."
It is my understanding of this act that no accessories manufacturer is required to get permission from the original manufacturer before producing the add-in parts.
Manguson-Moss also allows for "unintended use"...that means you can buy a hammer and use it as a paper weight if you like (as long as using it as a paper weight does not result in the destruction of the hammer). So Microsoft can not prohibit you from running other software on your Xbox.
How did Microsoft pull this off? MS must have better attorneys.
-ted
Info here.
I used to get 7-10 telemarketer calls a week before this service, now i've got blissful silence. It is very worth the $4.00/mo. verizon charges.
-ted
Nope, that option does not appear in the bios. I guess we won't be seeing that from Intel until the 3.06 GHz P4 is out.
-ted
OK, OK, OK...
Hardware:
Intel D850EMV2 motherboard (P15 bios)
Adaptec 2110s scsi raid controller
Pentium 4 2.8 Ghz
512 MB rambus memory
Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti 500
Dual Seagate 65 GB scsi hard drives (raid 1)
The Intel motherboard does not allow for overclocking, and all the hardware is stuff by major vendors...nothing unusual here.
Before the install, I thought the scsi controller might have been a problem, but the dpti2o.o driver works just fine...it sees the hard drive and allows me to do an install.
Sure, something could be taking up the low memory area on my machine (yes, I tried the relocation option on the scsi card). My point is, that I don't want to run old hardware just to avoid compatibility problems. I want to run really new hardware and I want it to "just work" as the RH tag line goes.
-ted
Bought RH 8.0 Professional expecting to get support people that could actually speak English...no luck there. Four calls to tech support and I've yet to find any tech support person that could spell my email address correctly or understand English.
So I post to the Bug-Grub bug reporter thing....no answers yet.
Funny how other OSes(and their respective boot loaders) have no issues on this hardware....but Grub throws an "Error 28....cannot fit selected item into memory" and lilo just hangs or gives me a "CRC error".
I understand, nothing in the IT industry is perfect, but when I pay for support, I expect to get my problems resolved. (That's a stab at RedHat, not the Grub maintainers.) Other commercial OS vendors are quite responsive...I've even had MS tech support people on the phone for hours on end on a Saturday fixing an Exchange problem!
These bootloaders and Redhat's support system need a lot of work before corporate America commits time and resources to their products.
-ted
Right! I forgot about net radio. I actually found some new artists on net radio...and guess what? I went out and bought their CDs! The RIAA should be thankful that net radio can play the music that clear channel and the like refuse to play.
Non-top 40 artists should be pissed that the RIAA is persecuting net radio....it could be their only shot at airplay.
-ted
Info here.
I own two of these. The audiotron works by scanning a windows/samba share...so it will work with linux.
It is audio component sized, uses ethernet or HPNA, is rack-mountable,uses an IR remote control, and turtle beach even publishes the IR codes for programming devices like a Pronto.
I'm not sure about OGG support. My whole collection is MP3, but it does support WMA (groan).
There is no TV out support. It does, however, have an optical digital out, if you choose to use external D/A conversion.
I've been very happy with mine. I got gave away a sonic blue balls device because it required proprietary server software....and the support sucked.
Hope this is helpful.
-ted
What about the various flavors of unix with SSL vulnerabilites? If these these kids can't run "windows update" successfully and keep their windows systems patched, what makes the IT morons at UCSB think they can keep their unix systems patched?
-ted
Anandtech recently went "backstage" at Intel and got pictures of a 10 GHz ALU running at Intel with air cooling. Pics here
-ted
I'm a sys-admin for a small school, and I'm familiar with the restrictions of a bidding process. Most likely the DOI will go through the appropriate bidding process by producing an RFP specifying a Microsoft solution, and then various vendors will bid on a systems solution centered on a Microsoft product.
By narrowing the systems specifications right down to the software vendor, a CIO can pretty much get what he/she wants. Sure, there are lots of MCSE's selling MS solutions, but if the RFP specifically requests a Microsoft product, that effectively excludes all other systems vendors.
-ted
I case you don't know him, he is the perpetual tech optimist Gilder Tech Report.
These wall street, talking heads are always so optimistic about technologies that they fail to see their shortcommings. I love new technology as much as any slashdotter, but do you think for a minute that reliable wireless data will be built on a technology that can be knocked out with a 2.4 GHz cordless telephone?
Gimme a break.
-ted
I love these reports. Broadband is too expensive.... No market penetration.... Dial-up is just fine....yada, yada, yada.
If the lackluster demand of broadband is a reality, then how the hell are people pirating music en masse? Does the RIAA expect people to believe that internet users are cheap people with hours of time to waste downloading music through a 56k modem connection?
Clearly the RIAA is using the non-existent broadband threat to scare legislators into writing even more copyright laws.
-ted
I guess my clients would be close to that if their power/UPS systems were as reliable.
-ted
right about the same time when Linux gets a single unified desktop/window manager.
-ted