IBM has at least 3 different systems that this could be (x86-ish linux cluster, power* aix, bluegene), but the article doesn't say which.
Other competitors would have been Sun (linux or solaris), SGI (Altix), Cray, etc. Apparently the USGov won't consider Japanese machines so Hitachi/NEC are out.
PS Japan is building a 10x faster machine in the same timeframe.
PPS The top500 is heavily biased toward clustery machines; certain types of science codes do not run well on such systems. Not saying it's a wrong metric, just that the machines on the top500 are not good at every kind of problem.
A couple years after I went through the program, I found out that my DARE officer was arrested for possession of marijuana. It then made sense to me that he would jump on the desks and scream at us, "IEEE DON'T WANT YOU TO DOOOO DRUUUGSSS!!"
Anyway, any program that blatantly lies to kids is silly. Kids are smart and they will inevitably ask for a better answer than "Because we said so."
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Actually, small farms produce more food per hectare than large ones.
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008/06/10/small-is-bountiful/
IBM has at least 3 different systems that this could be (x86-ish linux cluster, power* aix, bluegene), but the article doesn't say which.
Other competitors would have been Sun (linux or solaris), SGI (Altix), Cray, etc. Apparently the USGov won't consider Japanese machines so Hitachi/NEC are out.
PS Japan is building a 10x faster machine in the same timeframe.
PPS The top500 is heavily biased toward clustery machines; certain types of science codes do not run well on such systems. Not saying it's a wrong metric, just that the machines on the top500 are not good at every kind of problem.
An authentic thai told me:
"open source" has almost no meaning in thailand because 99% of software you can buy is pirated
it's true though you can buy "Microsoft" Windows for like $5
at what seems like a real computer store
After a clean reboot, I get:
"The iTunes application could not be opened. There is not enough memory available."
screenshot here: http://flickr.com/photos/ghort/241816410/
It's a 1GB MBP. My itunes library file is 60MB.
No kidding. 25 grand gets you, what, a case of Evian in California?
Dude! I would absolutely click on a banner that said that, no matter how old I am.
A couple years after I went through the program, I found out that my DARE officer was arrested for possession of marijuana. It then made sense to me that he would jump on the desks and scream at us, "IEEE DON'T WANT YOU TO DOOOO DRUUUGSSS!!"
Anyway, any program that blatantly lies to kids is silly. Kids are smart and they will inevitably ask for a better answer than "Because we said so."
Clearly Sony is taking advantage of the as-yet untapped goths-who-want-an-iBook-but-hate-the-colors demographic.
I'm not buying a laptop until they make one that looks like a Speak 'N Spell.
I didn't see it.