> * Transparent clustering. Run this process somewhere else with as much or as little user control is a required
Oh boy!!! this is how SMP kernels work when you run them on a multiprocessor systems. But not when you have multiple discrete single CPU systems. Or multiple discrete multiprocessor systems.
Imagine all your machines automatically acted as a single box when they were connected to the LAN. Or other low latency interconnect like Infiniband.
You can disagree about Snow Crash, but don't belittle someone and then presume yourself to be better read than they are simply because you disagree. What can I say. Anyone who thinks Snow Crash is a fantastic book by definition has no idea what a they're talking about. There are two options. Either they are an idiot, or they haven't read much. I was being generous.
I read on the Internet (so it must be true) that 50% of the Americans believe that there are aliens on the earth, 50% voted for Bush, sounds plausible to me.
I wonder why so many Americans? It's all explained in full here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/credulous
Taking an extreme case, suppose you took an M-1 Abrams Main Battle Tank and set it up to run autonomously (or fitted it out for remote control.) Hell, you'd have something resembling one of Keith Laumer's Bolos if you did that. In any event, a bare-handed human wouldn't stand much of a chance as the robot ground him up beneath its treads. Human beings have physical limits, but you can scale up a machine as far as you like. I'd put money on unarmed humans winning a war against semi-intelligent automated or even remotely controlled battle tanks. Tanks only work because they're backed up by humans. Out on it's own it's dead.
Stick or not, if you saw that thing coming, what would you do? Watch. Ambush. Tank trap.
Hell, people aren't durable or particularly smart either. Show me a machine which lasts 70 years. Human bone is stronger and lighter than concrete and human intelligence is a normal distribution, we have genius as well as stupidity. To top it off we can communicate. We're the top predator on the planet (by far) despite being smaller, slower and weaker than almost all of the others.
but because in a more primitive society, similar activities serve as practice for the capabilities that females are attracted to. In other words, it will get you laid. Business... Civilisation itself.
We're now capable of far bigger feats of engineering and architecture so why not take a look at some of the modern wonders. e.g. The Panama canal, the 3 Gorges Dam, Taipei 101 etc etc.
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Oh boy!!! this is how SMP kernels work when you run them on a multiprocessor systems. But not when you have multiple discrete single CPU systems. Or multiple discrete multiprocessor systems.
Imagine all your machines automatically acted as a single box when they were connected to the LAN. Or other low latency interconnect like Infiniband.
I think the closest thing is Mosix:
http://www.mosix.org/txt_about.html
Then you're on to the network queueing systems like NQS, PBS, Torque, Sun Grid Engine, Condor
World domination is at hand!
Same as SCSI... Testing.
Ok. You have a major release, it's permission to break all backwards compatibility, to completely change the face of computing.
Given the hardware around. What features should Linux 3.0.0 have?
Indeed. The first thing you do is chat with the night shift to make sure everything ran smoothly. Then you make sure the day shift are all in.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/credulous
Bare metal and some way of randomly corrupting ram.
Hmmm?
Slightly thicker jacket will do the job. Then all it takes to kill the robot is a gentle push.
Tell you what. I'll get worried about robots when they develop flinch reactions.
http://www.taser.com/
It's going to be decades before robots are able to stand up to a human bare handed, never mind with something as simple as a stick.
No, it isn't.
The first railway, colliery lines for transporting coal in the UK were pulled by horses.
We're now capable of far bigger feats of engineering and architecture so why not take a look at some of the modern wonders. e.g. The Panama canal, the 3 Gorges Dam, Taipei 101 etc etc.
No. I've simply read more books than you. Snowcrash doesn't rate more than a 5 out of 10. 6 if I'm in a good mood.
And the gauge of UK railway lines comes from the width of two horses arses.
I predict 80 column text will be around for a long long time.
The advanced battery people are already building better batteries for the military:
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http://www.sionpower.com/applications/military.ht
Bigger version of this:
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6272752.stm
Or
http://www.ogormans.co.uk/freeplay_weza.htm
But then, it looks like people are already working on military applications of lithium powered batteries:
http://www.sionpower.com/applications/military.ht