Really most users today do not do much with there PCs but run a browser and email. It will run Office just fine and most software you would expect to find in most offices today. It should sell like hotcakes. Look how well the Atom does for so many tasks.
Yes if you are doing CAD, Gaming, editing video then this sucks. For most other people it will be small, cheap, cool, and good enough.
BTW how many languages and carriers will a company have to deal with in the EU? Even if you crystal ball prediction is correct and I am not so sure that it is the EU will still be a patch work. A German will be a German and an Irishman will still be an Irishman. I hope the EU thing does work out but still It hasn't yet so it doesn't matter at this point. The US still has the largest GNP of any single nation and for the most part for marketing of phones you can include most of Canada in that market for language and as far as regulations go they are very close to the US regulations.
And Nokia is now dropping market share and jumping into bed with of companies Microsoft who has been failing in the mobile space more more than a decade.
The US carriers are all doing fine and making money. Nokia is in deep trouble. Who needed to work with who seems very clear to me. BTW TMobile and Sprint both are pretty good about not crippling phones. Verizon use to be terrible and now is just bad and AT&T seems to be all for it.
Both. Actually if you look at total deaths it is probably re-entry. There are multiple abort modes for the shuttle and conventional rockets that are survivable. Plus if you have an issue you do not have to launch. As the old saying goes. Take off is optional landing is not.
If one was English you should have had little to no problem. English and Spanish would cover probably 99% of the US. Of course you may just be stumped by the local dialect. I often run into that when I go to the UK they say the oddest things outside of the big cities. One time I asked where was a fun place to go and I was told to go to this pub because that is where the crack was! My goodness I didn't know the UK had such a drug problem.
.mil.gov and.edu do still seem to work probably because they are controlled The.US.UK seem to be marginal. Here is a question are the national tags assumed? So that there can be a Yahoo.com in say the US and the UK? If you are in the US and type Yahoo.com it goes to Yahoo.com.US and if you are in the UK it goes to Yahoo.com.UK? Just wondering because I take DNS for granted.
Funny but Apple and Google are totally taking Nokia's market share and they had to go Microsoft. Yes just ignore that US market and look what you get. The US market really only has one language to deal with, one currency, and one set of governmental rules. It also has the largest GNP. The XBox doing OK is a multibillion dollar system. That is technophobic? Yes that is why Nokia had to come to Microsoft. Just at is stupid for a major US company to ignore markets like the EU, Japan, and China you can not be a world wide company and ignore the US.
The US market is unfied in that there is one language, one currency, and one set of regulations to deal with. And you only have four major carriers to deal with.
That is Nokia's big problem IMHO. The US has the biggest GNP of any single nation. It is a large unified market and it is just dumb to ignore it. Nokia didn't adapt the the US model by working with carriers to offer subsidized smart phones and didn't offer CDMA smart phones. Way back when Sprint had no really interesting smart phones I would have jumped on a Nokia smart phone. Now we have Android, IOS, WebOS, RIM, and WP7. I just got an EVO 4g but I would have bought the N900 if I could have for the same price and on Sprint. Nokia believed that it could live marketing to the rest of the world and it did for a good while. Thing is all the new smart phone OSs are coming from North America.
I am sure that you are correct but still from a moral point of view he did the correct thing. Of course morality and bureaucracy do not work out.. But then having it public knowledge that you where trying to get mess with senators from both parties is a real good way for a General to end up retired quickly.
Actually a drone armed with concrete smart bombs might be the best solution if we had to do it. They are just 1000lb or 500lb practice bombs with a paveway or JDAM kit. A chunk of guided concrete from 20,000 feet can do a good amount of damage to what it hits but very little colateral damage. But again I still think that any direct action would be counter productive at this time. Now parking a carrer group off the coast my give their air force something to worry about an may cause the to keep some aircraft on the ground as a reserve. No threats or comments just park it off the coast. AKA walk softly and carry a big stick.
A better solution and less risk would be to use cruse missiles like the Apache, Storm Shadow or SLAM-ER. The jamming sites are fixed and should be easy to target. Thing is that the US should not do this. Libya has used the US as a boogieman for a long time. Hey the EU is capable if they want to. ANd if you are going to do that you might as well take out the air bases as well. Over all I would say that tactic would be unwise at this time.
I do understand that is why I said I wonder what the ideal trade off between memory and CPU will be. Right now such a system would be useless because caches are only a few MBs. What happens when we can put 4 GB on the die? There are very few problems that can not fit in 4GB. I do understand the register, L1, L2, L3, main memory, mass storage structure. But we are already having memory access issues and moving to more and more cores. There is just a really nice symmetry to each CPU having 32 bits of CPU speed memory and then using the upper 32 bits to address the local memory of other CPUs. Sort of like how the Connection Machine used masses of dumb CPUs this would use masses of a lot more powerful CPUs. Sure it would not be for a desktop but for massive parallel programs where each problem unit can fit in a 32 bit address space. And you are right that this like the connection machine isn't the ideal solution.
Except that JAG said that was in illegal order. Dude the military of a free nation must follow the orders of the civilan authority and follow the rules and regulations that those authorities set out. They do not have right to decide to what rules they will and will not follow. The JAG says no so it is freaking no.
The get yourself fixed! To many whinny ass sperm donors like you going around and taking no responsibility for their actions. But hey just print out that post and hand it to any woman that you start to date and we will call it fair.
I thought the same thing except if you read the entire article you will see the difference. From the story. "In March 2010, Breazile issued a written order that "directly tasked" Holmes to conduct an IO campaign against "all DV visits" – short for "distinguished visitor." The team was also instructed to "prepare the context and develop the prep package for each visit." In case the order wasn’t clear enough, Breazile added that the new instructions were to "take priority over all other duties." Instead of fighting the Taliban, Holmes and his team were now responsible for using their training to win the hearts and minds of John McCain and Al Franken.
On March 23rd, Holmes emailed the JAG lawyer who handled information operations, saying that the order made him "nervous." The lawyer, Capt. John Scott, agreed with Holmes. "The short answer is that IO doesn’t do that," Scott replied in an email. "[Public affairs] works on the hearts and minds of our own citizens and IO works on the hearts and minds of the citizens of other nations. While the twain do occasionally intersect, such intersections, like violent contact during a soccer game, should be unintentional." The JAG lawyer said this was crossing the line. Notice that in this case the Militaries own system said "Heck NO" The general seemed to keep pushing even after the JAG lawyer said no and then tried to use loopholes to get what he wanted and then after everything seemed to target Holmes. I am a big supporter of our military and in this case the JAG and Holmes did the correct thing but this general actions are very questionable.
It is a big deal because the JAG said it was going over the line and after that they General's Chief of Staff seemed to target the office that asked the JAG which is really crossing the line. No member of the military should be punished for checking the legality of an order like that with the JAG.
That is an interesting point. These troops are experts at getting people to see what you want to see. To put it another way they are experts at being persuasive. They sound more like really good public affairs officers than anything else. So the question is this. If they where not ordered to lie to the senators. or If they didn't drug them, deprive them of sleep, or blast them with heavy metal music 24/7. Was there any wrong doing? Simple answer seems yes since he Officer in question asked the JAG and got an answer of yes IO don't do that. This General and his chief of staff do seem to need to have a little talk with the JAG. After this it is my guess that the CoS will never get his star and maybe not even make full col. This does seem to need looking into but I will say good job JAG and the officer that raised the questions to start with.
I was thinking of Cache as being more like on board fast ram that ran at CPU speed than as cache as we see it today. To take your database example the way I imagine it working is a CPU would send commands to all the CPUs to find the records that contain x. Each CPU would search it's own memory of records and then just transmit the records to the requesting CPU. It would take a differn't programing model that what we use today. In a way I was thinking of it as smart ram. It seems dumb that a CPU has to read a value do a compair and then read the next value. If the CPU could send a command to the ram to incement a value or do search it contents for a string or values you could really cut down on the memory band width. But this is all pipe dreams from a software guy so any hardware experts just understand that I am just thinking out loud and really do not think I know more than you guys do.
"Nodes don't need video, and nearly any server/cluster motherboard will have onboard cheap video anyway, so save the video cards." True but Tesla cards are not available on NewEgg but high end nVidia cards are. Just thinking of GPGPU acceleration which is why I picked nVidia since suport for user programming ATI video cards is a bit lacking. Plus Iran trying to buy a bunch of Tesla cards might cause a stir. But you are correct that they would be optional. BTW one day I am going to see if I can offload SSL to the onboard GPU. Seems like it maybe a good use of the a resource that is hardly used.
The Racking part does involve knowledge but for a cluster of this nature I would suspect it to be no harder than your standard datacenter. Plus Iran isn't a that bad when it comes to infrastructure. Yes you would really want a cluster friendly friendly distro but those are available. I agree that most places would be better off buying a system but if you didn't want the hassle of dealing with export controls you can build a supercomputer today with easy to get off the self parts. Heck if you can live with the lower interconnect speeds then even Giga-E is workable. So yes I simplified the details a bit but you get the general idea.
Memory bandwidth seems to be the next big bottle neck. I wonder what is the "ideal" memory to CPU ratio. I wonder what it would be like to have a system with no real ram just cache. Imagine CPUs with 4 GB of cache in a system where all the memory above 32bits was the cache of another CPU. You could access the memory of the other CPU as the speed of RAM today. It would be a really massive MP system to be sure. Of course then you would still want some RAM even if it just for DMA IO and Video. Yea I am sure I am combing up with a total fail at some level and some EE on here will tell me why but from a software point of view it interests me.
It is your child. Have you ever seen a child support payment that really was equal to half the cost of feeding, clothing, housing, and medical care for the child? It doesn't happen. Guess what even when the wife remarries they are still YOUR FREAKING CHILDREN. The sad thing is that I really pity any kids you have since you feel that they are such a burden. if you do not have kids yet just go get snipped now and save them the shame and sadness of having a father that doesn't care enough to support them.
Wow "victims" of rape? Dud be a real man. Any man that whines about child support isn't a man. He is what you scrape off the bottom of your shoe. Sounds like you are one of those people that considers themselves a poor victim of an unfair system.
But is Sweden know for railroading people? I mean we are talking about Sweden here. Not exactly a place known terrible miscarriages of justice. I mean really? Sweden?
It seems that is the law in Sweden. If this really just that then he will get off. You may be right that there is a rate but the rate may just be publicity seekers and not some big government conspiracy.
And a new point just so that I am not mixing issues too much. WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BRING RACE INTO IT? Good greif guess what there are white people that would do the same thing. Man I hate bigots and liberal bigots are the worst! Why would a women's race make her more or less believable!
And there are conservative African Americans! Yes I know that is slight off point but really!
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Really most users today do not do much with there PCs but run a browser and email. It will run Office just fine and most software you would expect to find in most offices today. It should sell like hotcakes. Look how well the Atom does for so many tasks.
Yes if you are doing CAD, Gaming, editing video then this sucks.
For most other people it will be small, cheap, cool, and good enough.
BTW how many languages and carriers will a company have to deal with in the EU? Even if you crystal ball prediction is correct and I am not so sure that it is the EU will still be a patch work. A German will be a German and an Irishman will still be an Irishman. I hope the EU thing does work out but still It hasn't yet so it doesn't matter at this point. The US still has the largest GNP of any single nation and for the most part for marketing of phones you can include most of Canada in that market for language and as far as regulations go they are very close to the US regulations.
And Nokia is now dropping market share and jumping into bed with of companies Microsoft who has been failing in the mobile space more more than a decade.
The US carriers are all doing fine and making money. Nokia is in deep trouble. Who needed to work with who seems very clear to me.
BTW TMobile and Sprint both are pretty good about not crippling phones. Verizon use to be terrible and now is just bad and AT&T seems to be all for it.
Both.
Actually if you look at total deaths it is probably re-entry. There are multiple abort modes for the shuttle and conventional rockets that are survivable. Plus if you have an issue you do not have to launch.
As the old saying goes. Take off is optional landing is not.
Yes.
If one was English you should have had little to no problem. English and Spanish would cover probably 99% of the US. Of course you may just be stumped by the local dialect. I often run into that when I go to the UK they say the oddest things outside of the big cities. One time I asked where was a fun place to go and I was told to go to this pub because that is where the crack was!
My goodness I didn't know the UK had such a drug problem.
.mil .gov and .edu do still seem to work probably because they are controlled The .US .UK seem to be marginal. Here is a question are the national tags assumed? So that there can be a Yahoo.com in say the US and the UK? If you are in the US and type Yahoo.com it goes to Yahoo.com.US and if you are in the UK it goes to Yahoo.com.UK?
Just wondering because I take DNS for granted.
Funny but Apple and Google are totally taking Nokia's market share and they had to go Microsoft. Yes just ignore that US market and look what you get. The US market really only has one language to deal with, one currency, and one set of governmental rules. It also has the largest GNP. The XBox doing OK is a multibillion dollar system.
That is technophobic? Yes that is why Nokia had to come to Microsoft. Just at is stupid for a major US company to ignore markets like the EU, Japan, and China you can not be a world wide company and ignore the US.
The US market is unfied in that there is one language, one currency, and one set of regulations to deal with. And you only have four major carriers to deal with.
That is Nokia's big problem IMHO. The US has the biggest GNP of any single nation. It is a large unified market and it is just dumb to ignore it. Nokia didn't adapt the the US model by working with carriers to offer subsidized smart phones and didn't offer CDMA smart phones. Way back when Sprint had no really interesting smart phones I would have jumped on a Nokia smart phone. Now we have Android, IOS, WebOS, RIM, and WP7. I just got an EVO 4g but I would have bought the N900 if I could have for the same price and on Sprint.
Nokia believed that it could live marketing to the rest of the world and it did for a good while. Thing is all the new smart phone OSs are coming from North America.
I am sure that you are correct but still from a moral point of view he did the correct thing. Of course morality and bureaucracy do not work out.. But then having it public knowledge that you where trying to get mess with senators from both parties is a real good way for a General to end up retired quickly.
Actually a drone armed with concrete smart bombs might be the best solution if we had to do it.
They are just 1000lb or 500lb practice bombs with a paveway or JDAM kit. A chunk of guided concrete from 20,000 feet can do a good amount of damage to what it hits but very little colateral damage.
But again I still think that any direct action would be counter productive at this time. Now parking a carrer group off the coast my give their air force something to worry about an may cause the to keep some aircraft on the ground as a reserve. No threats or comments just park it off the coast. AKA walk softly and carry a big stick.
A better solution and less risk would be to use cruse missiles like the Apache, Storm Shadow or SLAM-ER. The jamming sites are fixed and should be easy to target. Thing is that the US should not do this. Libya has used the US as a boogieman for a long time. Hey the EU is capable if they want to. ANd if you are going to do that you might as well take out the air bases as well. Over all I would say that tactic would be unwise at this time.
I do understand that is why I said I wonder what the ideal trade off between memory and CPU will be. Right now such a system would be useless because caches are only a few MBs. What happens when we can put 4 GB on the die? There are very few problems that can not fit in 4GB. I do understand the register, L1, L2, L3, main memory, mass storage structure. But we are already having memory access issues and moving to more and more cores. There is just a really nice symmetry to each CPU having 32 bits of CPU speed memory and then using the upper 32 bits to address the local memory of other CPUs. Sort of like how the Connection Machine used masses of dumb CPUs this would use masses of a lot more powerful CPUs. Sure it would not be for a desktop but for massive parallel programs where each problem unit can fit in a 32 bit address space.
And you are right that this like the connection machine isn't the ideal solution.
Except that JAG said that was in illegal order.
Dude the military of a free nation must follow the orders of the civilan authority and follow the rules and regulations that those authorities set out. They do not have right to decide to what rules they will and will not follow. The JAG says no so it is freaking no.
The get yourself fixed! To many whinny ass sperm donors like you going around and taking no responsibility for their actions. But hey just print out that post and hand it to any woman that you start to date and we will call it fair.
I thought the same thing except if you read the entire article you will see the difference.
From the story.
"In March 2010, Breazile issued a written order that "directly tasked" Holmes to conduct an IO campaign against "all DV visits" – short for "distinguished visitor." The team was also instructed to "prepare the context and develop the prep package for each visit." In case the order wasn’t clear enough, Breazile added that the new instructions were to "take priority over all other duties." Instead of fighting the Taliban, Holmes and his team were now responsible for using their training to win the hearts and minds of John McCain and Al Franken.
On March 23rd, Holmes emailed the JAG lawyer who handled information operations, saying that the order made him "nervous." The lawyer, Capt. John Scott, agreed with Holmes. "The short answer is that IO doesn’t do that," Scott replied in an email. "[Public affairs] works on the hearts and minds of our own citizens and IO works on the hearts and minds of the citizens of other nations. While the twain do occasionally intersect, such intersections, like violent contact during a soccer game, should be unintentional."
The JAG lawyer said this was crossing the line. Notice that in this case the Militaries own system said "Heck NO"
The general seemed to keep pushing even after the JAG lawyer said no and then tried to use loopholes to get what he wanted and then after everything seemed to target Holmes.
I am a big supporter of our military and in this case the JAG and Holmes did the correct thing but this general actions are very questionable.
It is a big deal because the JAG said it was going over the line and after that they General's Chief of Staff seemed to target the office that asked the JAG which is really crossing the line. No member of the military should be punished for checking the legality of an order like that with the JAG.
That is an interesting point. These troops are experts at getting people to see what you want to see. To put it another way they are experts at being persuasive. They sound more like really good public affairs officers than anything else.
So the question is this.
If they where not ordered to lie to the senators.
or
If they didn't drug them, deprive them of sleep, or blast them with heavy metal music 24/7.
Was there any wrong doing?
Simple answer seems yes since he Officer in question asked the JAG and got an answer of yes IO don't do that.
This General and his chief of staff do seem to need to have a little talk with the JAG. After this it is my guess that the CoS will never get his star and maybe not even make full col. This does seem to need looking into but I will say good job JAG and the officer that raised the questions to start with.
I was thinking of Cache as being more like on board fast ram that ran at CPU speed than as cache as we see it today.
To take your database example the way I imagine it working is a CPU would send commands to all the CPUs to find the records that contain x. Each CPU would search it's own memory of records and then just transmit the records to the requesting CPU. It would take a differn't programing model that what we use today. In a way I was thinking of it as smart ram. It seems dumb that a CPU has to read a value do a compair and then read the next value. If the CPU could send a command to the ram to incement a value or do search it contents for a string or values you could really cut down on the memory band width.
But this is all pipe dreams from a software guy so any hardware experts just understand that I am just thinking out loud and really do not think I know more than you guys do.
"Nodes don't need video, and nearly any server/cluster motherboard will have onboard cheap video anyway, so save the video cards." True but Tesla cards are not available on NewEgg but high end nVidia cards are. Just thinking of GPGPU acceleration which is why I picked nVidia since suport for user programming ATI video cards is a bit lacking. Plus Iran trying to buy a bunch of Tesla cards might cause a stir. But you are correct that they would be optional.
BTW one day I am going to see if I can offload SSL to the onboard GPU. Seems like it maybe a good use of the a resource that is hardly used.
The Racking part does involve knowledge but for a cluster of this nature I would suspect it to be no harder than your standard datacenter. Plus Iran isn't a that bad when it comes to infrastructure. Yes you would really want a cluster friendly friendly distro but those are available.
I agree that most places would be better off buying a system but if you didn't want the hassle of dealing with export controls you can build a supercomputer today with easy to get off the self parts. Heck if you can live with the lower interconnect speeds then even Giga-E is workable. So yes I simplified the details a bit but you get the general idea.
Memory bandwidth seems to be the next big bottle neck. I wonder what is the "ideal" memory to CPU ratio.
I wonder what it would be like to have a system with no real ram just cache. Imagine CPUs with 4 GB of cache in a system where all the memory above 32bits was the cache of another CPU. You could access the memory of the other CPU as the speed of RAM today. It would be a really massive MP system to be sure. Of course then you would still want some RAM even if it just for DMA IO and Video.
Yea I am sure I am combing up with a total fail at some level and some EE on here will tell me why but from a software point of view it interests me.
It is your child. Have you ever seen a child support payment that really was equal to half the cost of feeding, clothing, housing, and medical care for the child? It doesn't happen. Guess what even when the wife remarries they are still YOUR FREAKING CHILDREN. The sad thing is that I really pity any kids you have since you feel that they are such a burden. if you do not have kids yet just go get snipped now and save them the shame and sadness of having a father that doesn't care enough to support them.
Wow "victims" of rape? Dud be a real man. Any man that whines about child support isn't a man. He is what you scrape off the bottom of your shoe. Sounds like you are one of those people that considers themselves a poor victim of an unfair system.
But is Sweden know for railroading people? I mean we are talking about Sweden here. Not exactly a place known terrible miscarriages of justice. I mean really? Sweden?
It seems that is the law in Sweden. If this really just that then he will get off. You may be right that there is a rate but the rate may just be publicity seekers and not some big government conspiracy.
And a new point just so that I am not mixing issues too much.
WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BRING RACE INTO IT?
Good greif guess what there are white people that would do the same thing. Man I hate bigots and liberal bigots are the worst! Why would a women's race make her more or less believable!
And there are conservative African Americans!
Yes I know that is slight off point but really!