Do you think walking around there would get you any more objective information?
If you can see through the bits they want you to see... then yes walking around an office/work site can tell you a lot.
When I went for a job interview at Oracle I ask what the different parts of the department where and could I see them. After a nice tour we started the interview, what the interview was telling me and what I had seen wheren't matching up (of course then my interviewer told me the CVS had no merging facility)...
However, the person who submitted the story apparently doesn't have the better option(s) available. Asking
here shouldn't hurt. So, read Slashdot, go to interview, walk around, try to find someone who's been there.
Well, at least its better then the stories Taco gets paid to write....
To state the obvious. I was really looking forward to a tiny, low power computing revolution.
Well it happened a long time ago, or have
you not seem an ARM chip yet? Maybe you
where looking forward to an x86 compatible
tiny, low power computing revolution or something.
Since I was a Radio Shack employee for (too) many years, I feel uniquely qualified to add my two cents on
the name/address issue here. When you are indoctrinated into the Radio Shack system of retail bliss, it is
ingrained in you that an enormous amount of return business is generated from the seemingly-intrusive
practice of asking for names and addresses. It was, to me, an uncomfortable practice to get into the habit of
doing but I eventually relented and pursued it. In fact, your performance reviews were partly weighted by
your name/address percentage rate.
One line from the movie Cool Hand Luke seems to spring to mind: "calling it your job don't make it right, Boss."
That has cheered up my day. Where can I make PayPal donation to help send Taco to outspace. If we send him to the Moon we don't have to worry about an expensive atmospheric re-entry vehicle either....;-)
Oh, now lets be fair, this isn't Microsoft's faul! If someone breaks into your house because you left
the door unlocked, it's not YOUR fault, but the fault of whoever it was that showed the thief how to
use a door knob. Didn't you know???
True, but now microsoft wants to stop people telling you that the lock doesn't work if you paint the door green.
Something is amazenly wrong. Why don't they just buy up all the security companies so they can control what they do, it's not as if they don't use that as standard business practice...
well, if you'd like to pop off down to your
local aquarium shop dohickee and check out
the pumps. They are pretty quiet, well they
are unless you are putting air in as well, that's kind of noisy. Good aquarium could run you $100 piece so even the do it your self water cool system isn't going to be cheap if your looking for quality.
Of course if you want a laugh think about a water cooled laptop. Every where you go you've gotta hook up to the water or maybe use a small foot pump if you are near some water. This could make business trips some what trouble some...
The only time I could imagine doing this is if I had built a big ass cluster (where adding more machine wouldn't improve the speed) and Intel or AMD had gone bust and I need more crunching speed....
Oh really? Think geek sells these? This isn't an obvious attempt to squeeze a few more bucks out of us, is it?
(Wish I had some mod points....)
I don't think taco has done that much writting before, notice that he even spell checked it. My guess is that/. has to plug more of it advertisers products. It's not as if he is lying about the quality of the product, but the Think geek references would leave you thinking that they make them...
I normally don't read what taco says because he can spout some dumb ass comments sometimes. The other option is a slower loading slashdot (i.e. without VA paying for it's bandwith), so I don't mind, slashdot is still useful even if what taco says is being paid for by adverisers.
Despite the best efforts of the RIAA to stamp out filesharing services, they have yet to seriously move against Usenet or
convince any of the major ISP's to not carry the alt.binaries hierarchy. (I beleive Earthnet caved into the BSA and stopped
carrying a lot of the alt.binaries.warez groups)
They might not have directly try to shutdown Usenet but they have tried to shutdown Usenet clients like pan. I can't find the link to the legal problems pan has had which is a pitty because it's kind of funny. Stuff like:
bad guys: How would you like it if we gave out 1000s of copies of Pan for free?
Pan guys: We like that, have you heard of the GPL before?
yeah but the fun of lego wasnt buildint what you were supposed (?) to build. it was thinking of something cool and then
basically building it as good as you could with the bits available.
You could do that with Erector very easily as well. The main problem is the amount of time it takes you to screw together parts only to see your idea is wrong and then have to undo all the screws. With legos if you where build things without instruction and it didn't come out right, you still could have a lot of fun taking it to bits using gravity and a few flights of stairs. For me the fun with lego wasn't in the building of (compared to Erector, kind of limited) things, the fun with lego was the distruction you could do to your art piece afterwards....***SMASH***..
I don't remember building something I wasn't looking forward to destroying...;-)
This is actually what happened. The torpedo warhead was activated just after "launch", so it is believed. The current insider
theory/rumor going around is that the new experimental torpedo (a supercavitating, possibly *supersonic*) torpedo was
designed to have a self-activating warhead based upon a simple time elapsing mechanism. It is believed that the shaft
chamber malfunctioned, but those in the control room were not aware of it. They ordered the launch, the torpedo chamber
flooded, the torpedo armed, and "boom".
The torpedo arm system is based on distance not time. It's based on distance for some very good reason and what you claim above is one of them. But consider that there is a great than one in 20 of to the torpedo being dub. How do you get the
torpedo out of the flooded tube and turn it off before the timer goes off???? You can't, this is why torpedo's don't use timers.
Another problem with timers is if the torpedo leaves the boat with engine problems and doesn't get to a safe distance, i.e. it limps a long at a inches a second, then arms and detinates itself next to it's boat of origin.
Submarine warfare has been around for 100s of years, over the last 100 years we've got more effective at it, but we still seem to mess up.... I'd say one of the more exciting things about the next 100 years is going to be more personal submarine tarvel.
>Should I worry that practically anyone can now build a supercomputer?
Unless "practically anyone" has the funds, the storage room, and the manpower to maintain this monstrosity, there is nothing
to worry about.
It's only 256 machines, how hard could it be to steel(steal?) 256 computers. Rip off a couple of Gateway (are they still in business) and Dell trucks, maybe rob a few schools. Now that you've gotten (by fair means or foul) a super-computer that is rated in the top 500, what would you like to do with it? How about any brutt force crack that you feel like (it's not like you need some neat algorthyms with that much firepower)? How about generating insane encryption levels that FbI and CiA can't crack?
Of course, about 256 people with laptops and wireless modems, all running mandrake, sitting in the train station solving tough mathematical problems just annoy people....
Is this kind of similar to how cell phones work? There's a big antenna that all the little antennas can transmit to. It just seemed
like the little antennas would have a finite range that they could transmit before the signal degraded too far to be usable.
Yes, similar to how cell phones work in that regard. The degraded signal can still be received by the big antenna even if the little antenna at the same distance couldn't recieve it.
If you had two big antennas then the distance the could communicate over would be greater than that of a big antenna and a little antenna.
I figured I could transmit to them, but I figured their little antennas wouldn't
be able to transmit to me unless I also put up a powerful antenna on each home.
The big antenna you transmitted to the little antenna with, can hear the little antennas without you having to boost their signal. I.E. you don't need to upgrade your clients antennas....
I hope they are cheap, I keep hit my finger with a hammer (miss use of screws and nails normally). But I can't imagine hammering a silicon chip into
your finger nail would be fun...
But, they would have to be cheap anyway, since fingers nails grow and move and chips which didn't get damaged would fall off.
Of course a whole cyberborg army is no match for a couple of really powerful magnets....
Of course everyone knows that vim is the best text editor in the world. Anyone who tells you differently is either wrong, lying, or criminally insane.
I was happily getting used to using vim on Window$ over the last few weeks. Although, just because of that I think I'll change to emacs.
Didn't taco post a story about "why linux and open source will fail" and blamings on people having flame wars.
The more I hear for CT the more I think the open source community could do without half bit journist like that....OH! sorry I didn't mean to offend any half bit journist out there.!;-)
XScale is intel speak for StrongARM....
it means, we want to look like we made
this our selves rathar than just buying
the plans off somebody else.
Mainly cause intel have problems keep
there chip power consumption down. XScale
is a OEM rebranding of ARM (with some
minor tweaks)....
Of course, every ARM chip is really OEM
with some minor tweaks, since ARM don't
make silicon............
Now I remember ARM when it stood for
Acorn Risc Machine...probably the first
Desktop machine containing a Risc process,
no matter what Apple('s marketing dept falsely) claims.
Must admit, an ARM powered PDA is cool, but
I really want to get a Cerf cube...
You can have each CPU board running a seperate OS, attatched to a seperate set of devices such as hard drives, ethernet, etc. In this case, more CPUs are more power.
I've found that to be a nice idea, but if you try and use all the CPU power at the same time you'll find many bottle necks that reduce the combined CPU power down to less than one CPU suprisingly fast.
I'm always impressed by anything with over 16 CPUs that really works. And with the price Sun are pushing these babies at, you'd expect them to work well.
I miss transputers, I miss Occam, hmmmm, anybody know of an open source Occam project?
Slashdot Mirror
operating system.
Well, ask for your money back and take another course....
To make it simple, the kernel is the "operating" part and the "system" is all the bits that manage your password, let you login, run shells, etc.
I'd better microsoft would love to sell kernels seperate for the OS....
If you can see through the bits they want you to see... then yes walking around an office/work site can tell you a lot.
When I went for a job interview at Oracle I ask what the different parts of the department where and could I see them. After a nice tour we started the interview, what the interview was telling me and what I had seen wheren't matching up (of course then my interviewer told me the CVS had no merging facility)...
However, the person who submitted the story apparently doesn't have the better option(s) available. Asking here shouldn't hurt. So, read Slashdot, go to interview, walk around, try to find someone who's been there.
Well, at least its better then the stories Taco gets paid to write....
To state the obvious. I was really looking forward to a tiny, low power computing revolution.
Well it happened a long time ago, or have you not seem an ARM chip yet? Maybe you where looking forward to an x86 compatible tiny, low power computing revolution or something.
Since I was a Radio Shack employee for (too) many years, I feel uniquely qualified to add my two cents on the name/address issue here. When you are indoctrinated into the Radio Shack system of retail bliss, it is ingrained in you that an enormous amount of return business is generated from the seemingly-intrusive practice of asking for names and addresses. It was, to me, an uncomfortable practice to get into the habit of doing but I eventually relented and pursued it. In fact, your performance reviews were partly weighted by your name/address percentage rate.
One line from the movie Cool Hand Luke seems to spring to mind: "calling it your job don't make it right, Boss."
Thanks for the information all the same.
Bob Dole invented the internet, it didn't have anything to do with "hacker shits" apparently, sorry to rain on your parade.
the door unlocked, it's not YOUR fault, but the fault of whoever it was that showed the thief how to
use a door knob. Didn't you know???
True, but now microsoft wants to stop people telling you that the lock doesn't work if you paint the door green.
Something is amazenly wrong. Why don't they just buy up all the security companies so they can control what they do, it's not as if they don't use that as standard business practice...
well, if you'd like to pop off down to your local aquarium shop dohickee and check out the pumps. They are pretty quiet, well they are unless you are putting air in as well, that's kind of noisy. Good aquarium could run you $100 piece so even the do it your self water cool system isn't going to be cheap if your looking for quality.
Of course if you want a laugh think about a water cooled laptop. Every where you go you've gotta hook up to the water or maybe use a small foot pump if you are near some water. This could make business trips some what trouble some...
The only time I could imagine doing this is if I had built a big ass cluster (where adding more machine wouldn't improve the speed) and Intel or AMD had gone bust and I need more crunching speed....
(Wish I had some mod points....)
I don't think taco has done that much writting before, notice that he even spell checked it. My guess is that /. has to plug more of it advertisers products. It's not as if he is lying about the quality of the product, but the Think geek references would leave you thinking that they make them...
I normally don't read what taco says because he can spout some dumb ass comments sometimes. The other option is a slower loading slashdot (i.e. without VA paying for it's bandwith), so I don't mind, slashdot is still useful even if what taco says is being paid for by adverisers.
the quasiturbine:
http://quasiturbine.promci.qc.ca/QTIndex.html
convince any of the major ISP's to not carry the alt.binaries hierarchy. (I beleive Earthnet caved into the BSA and stopped
carrying a lot of the alt.binaries.warez groups)
They might not have directly try to shutdown Usenet but they have tried to shutdown Usenet clients like pan. I can't find the link to the legal problems pan has had which is a pitty because it's kind of funny. Stuff like:
bad guys: How would you like it if we gave out 1000s of copies of Pan for free?
Pan guys: We like that, have you heard of the GPL before?
er, never mind.... let's all be jedi instead of worshiping the Plumbing gods...
You could do that with Erector very easily as well. The main problem is the amount of time it takes you to screw together parts only to see your idea is wrong and then have to undo all the screws. With legos if you where build things without instruction and it didn't come out right, you still could have a lot of fun taking it to bits using gravity and a few flights of stairs. For me the fun with lego wasn't in the building of (compared to Erector, kind of limited) things, the fun with lego was the distruction you could do to your art piece afterwards....***SMASH***..
I don't remember building something I wasn't looking forward to destroying... ;-)
theory/rumor going around is that the new experimental torpedo (a supercavitating, possibly *supersonic*) torpedo was
designed to have a self-activating warhead based upon a simple time elapsing mechanism. It is believed that the shaft
chamber malfunctioned, but those in the control room were not aware of it. They ordered the launch, the torpedo chamber
flooded, the torpedo armed, and "boom".
The torpedo arm system is based on distance not time. It's based on distance for some very good reason and what you claim above is one of them. But consider that there is a great than one in 20 of to the torpedo being dub. How do you get the
torpedo out of the flooded tube and turn it off before the timer goes off???? You can't, this is why torpedo's don't use timers.
Another problem with timers is if the torpedo leaves the boat with engine problems and doesn't get to a safe distance, i.e. it limps a long at a inches a second, then arms and detinates itself next to it's boat of origin.
Submarine warfare has been around for 100s of years, over the last 100 years we've got more effective at it, but we still seem to mess up.... I'd say one of the more exciting things about the next 100 years is going to be more personal submarine tarvel.
Unless "practically anyone" has the funds, the storage room, and the manpower to maintain this monstrosity, there is nothing to worry about.
It's only 256 machines, how hard could it be to steel(steal?) 256 computers. Rip off a couple of Gateway (are they still in business) and Dell trucks, maybe rob a few schools. Now that you've gotten (by fair means or foul) a super-computer that is rated in the top 500, what would you like to do with it? How about any brutt force crack that you feel like (it's not like you need some neat algorthyms with that much firepower)? How about generating insane encryption levels that FbI and CiA can't crack?
Of course, about 256 people with laptops and wireless modems, all running mandrake, sitting in the train station solving tough mathematical problems just annoy people....
Yes, similar to how cell phones work in that regard. The degraded signal can still be received by the big antenna even if the little antenna at the same distance couldn't recieve it.
If you had two big antennas then the distance the could communicate over would be greater than that of a big antenna and a little antenna.
The big antenna you transmitted to the little antenna with, can hear the little antennas without you having to boost their signal. I.E. you don't need to upgrade your clients antennas....
But, they would have to be cheap anyway, since fingers nails grow and move and chips which didn't get damaged would fall off.
Of course a whole cyberborg army is no match for a couple of really powerful magnets....
I'm not getting the chip.....
Does it still leak memory like crazy?
I used to be a Balsa fan until I discovered Sylpheed...
http://sylpheed.good-day.net/
It's the best GTK based email client I've seen anywhere. Check it out....
More like hammering the wheels out of shape so that the bike would only works on out of shape roads which have been appoved...
If they want to stop people copying CD all they have to do is put country and western music on it......
I was happily getting used to using vim on Window$ over the last few weeks. Although, just because of that I think I'll change to emacs.
Didn't taco post a story about "why linux and open source will fail" and blamings on people having flame wars.
The more I hear for CT the more I think the open source community could do without half bit journist like that....OH! sorry I didn't mean to offend any half bit journist out there.!
XScale is intel speak for StrongARM....
it means, we want to look like we made
this our selves rathar than just buying
the plans off somebody else.
Mainly cause intel have problems keep
there chip power consumption down. XScale
is a OEM rebranding of ARM (with some
minor tweaks)....
Of course, every ARM chip is really OEM
with some minor tweaks, since ARM don't
make silicon............
Now I remember ARM when it stood for
Acorn Risc Machine...probably the first
Desktop machine containing a Risc process,
no matter what Apple('s marketing dept falsely) claims.
Must admit, an ARM powered PDA is cool, but
I really want to get a Cerf cube...
Wow, the mension of Napster brings back all the nostalgia of the dot com era... NYC skyline has changed since then... time passes.
You can have each CPU board running a seperate OS, attatched to a seperate set of devices such as hard drives, ethernet, etc. In this case, more CPUs are more power.
I've found that to be a nice idea, but if you try and use all the CPU power at the same time you'll find many bottle necks that reduce the combined CPU power down to less than one CPU suprisingly fast.
I'm always impressed by anything with over 16 CPUs that really works. And with the price Sun are pushing these babies at, you'd expect them to work well.
I miss transputers, I miss Occam, hmmmm, anybody know of an open source Occam project?
Maybe the performance with 107 CPUs is lower than 106 CPUs. Adding more CPU does not equal more power.