What do you think of the exams for grad school? I'm not American so I didn't take the SAT. However, in my undergrad university we had to take a similar test to be admitted. I assume is similar to the SAT 'cause I've seen the questions. Now, what about the GRE? The general GRE test is just a "harder" version of the SAT and similar exams. That's one of those things where good native English speakers can get a 700 and barely-understandable-one-syllable-speaking Orientals can get an 800. (verbal part). Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against orientals, it just shows how the different cultures take different approaches. (Somebody from China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, etc please correct me if I'm wrong). They study for this verbal part (the hardest for them) for months on end. I for one, got a 500 or so, but I can speak, write, read and understand better than most of them. (No, english is not my native language). Does this show that the effort that they put into studying english is their norm in studying? Frankly, I couldn't say, but I've seen them study/work a lot. Let's move on and consider the GRE advanced test, or subject. This test is specific to one area. I only know about the Computer Science test. Even though it was only on CS, it did try to cover "all" of it, or at least, all the basics. This, in my opinion, is definitely a good test in evaluating how much you know about CS. (If you haven't taken or seen the test go and get yourself a practice exam and see how 3l33t you really are.:-). The question is, does the fact that you know a lot about CS prove that you're going to be a good student? I don't think so, but I can say that normally, if you are a good student in CS, you'll (is this obvious or not?) know a lot about CS. Anybody with GRE tales, experiences or adventures? Cureless --
Education is not bad. As a matter of fact AIS (Acer Inforation Services) set up their base customer help lines in Costa Rica, so most of the calls people made to 1-800-ACERHELP (I don't remember the exact number) got routed to CR. This was because labor is cheap compared to the states and people are skilled.
In 1997 (I think) Intel build the latest Fab in Costa Rica, where a lot of the Pentium III people use here are produced.
However, getting back on track. Internet for everyone is not easy. Costa Rica's televcommunications infrastructure is still developing. They released Cable Modems around 6 months ago and the talk is starting about DSL. The drawback, however, is that net access is only from statelite links, and a poor country like Costa Rica can't afford big fat links from satelites it doesn't own, so net access outside Costa Rica is kinda slow.
The Telecomunications are also a matter of big discussion, since right now they are controled by the state. That means that there is only one telephone company and one ISP (Comertial) from which all individuals and businesses get their connections.
Getting email to everybody started with getting access to all schools, but that's a far away project.
Not really. Those not-so-opensource-products-with-no-source-code might need to run on a x86 achitecture.
This processor might be able to run non-native (what ever native means) linux binaries, it might even be able to run the whole thing; linux-x86-on-Crusoe, linux-ppc-on-Crusoe, linux-sparc-on-Crusoe, and obviously linux-Crusoe.
Also, once the plataform is up and ready, sooner or later other stuff (non-linux) might want to be ported, and while it's ported a non-native version can be "emulated" (what ever that means to this processor).
I don't remember the whole discussion on the patent thing, but did it specifically target x86? What about other architectures, even new architectures? This might give Transmeta the upper hand in a place where 64 seems to split compatibility all over.
cl
P.S. I'm making stuff up as I go so don't trust me.
If it's a processor then some software is going to run on it? This could explained, as mentioned in an article above, why they hired Linus.
Think about it. A *new* architecture, with some really fancy new characteristics but no software? I don't think so. On the other hand, if they involve the opensource community . . . BINGO! a real competitor to Wintel.
Who else would you choose as youre link to the community but Linus. He's the head of development. He can make sure everything runs on this "Crusoe". I'm not directly tied into kernel development, but you sometimes wonder why some patches don't get included . . .:-)
But in the end, if it's a processor, Linux will run on it. How else can you have a top-secret processor? Who can they really trust as their OS of choice? Windoze? MacOS? BE? . . . You never know, kernel 2.4 might as well be ready to run on "Crusoe"
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What do you think of the exams for grad school? :-).
I'm not American so I didn't take the SAT. However, in my undergrad university we had to take a similar test to be admitted. I assume is similar to the SAT 'cause I've seen the questions.
Now, what about the GRE? The general GRE test is just a "harder" version of the SAT and similar exams. That's one of those things where good native English speakers can get a 700 and barely-understandable-one-syllable-speaking Orientals can get an 800. (verbal part). Don't get me wrong, I've nothing against orientals, it just shows how the different cultures take different approaches. (Somebody from China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, etc please correct me if I'm wrong). They study for this verbal part (the hardest for them) for months on end.
I for one, got a 500 or so, but I can speak, write, read and understand better than most of them. (No, english is not my native language).
Does this show that the effort that they put into studying english is their norm in studying? Frankly, I couldn't say, but I've seen them study/work a lot.
Let's move on and consider the GRE advanced test, or subject. This test is specific to one area. I only know about the Computer Science test. Even though it was only on CS, it did try to cover "all" of it, or at least, all the basics. This, in my opinion, is definitely a good test in evaluating how much you know about CS. (If you haven't taken or seen the test go and get yourself a practice exam and see how 3l33t you really are.
The question is, does the fact that you know a lot about CS prove that you're going to be a good student? I don't think so, but I can say that normally, if you are a good student in CS, you'll (is this obvious or not?) know a lot about CS.
Anybody with GRE tales, experiences or adventures?
Cureless
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I'm from Costa Rica and it makes me proud to see it in a Slashdot story.
First of all, we don't have 1 computer. You can check out some stats here that compare it to other central american countries.
No, it's not communist.
Here's a map and here's some real info.
Education is not bad. As a matter of fact AIS (Acer Inforation Services) set up their base customer help lines in Costa Rica, so most of the calls people made to 1-800-ACERHELP (I don't remember the exact number) got routed to CR. This was because labor is cheap compared to the states and people are skilled.
In 1997 (I think) Intel build the latest Fab in Costa Rica, where a lot of the Pentium III people use here are produced.
However, getting back on track. Internet for everyone is not easy. Costa Rica's televcommunications infrastructure is still developing. They released Cable Modems around 6 months ago and the talk is starting about DSL. The drawback, however, is that net access is only from statelite links, and a poor country like Costa Rica can't afford big fat links from satelites it doesn't own, so net access outside Costa Rica is kinda slow.
The Telecomunications are also a matter of big discussion, since right now they are controled by the state. That means that there is only one telephone company and one ISP (Comertial) from which all individuals and businesses get their connections.
Getting email to everybody started with getting access to all schools, but that's a far away project.
I hope everything matures.
-Cureless-
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Not really. Those not-so-opensource-products-with-no-source-code might need to run on a x86 achitecture.
This processor might be able to run non-native (what ever native means) linux binaries, it might even be able to run the whole thing; linux-x86-on-Crusoe, linux-ppc-on-Crusoe, linux-sparc-on-Crusoe, and obviously linux-Crusoe.
Also, once the plataform is up and ready, sooner or later other stuff (non-linux) might want to be ported, and while it's ported a non-native version can be "emulated" (what ever that means to this processor).
I don't remember the whole discussion on the patent thing, but did it specifically target x86? What about other architectures, even new architectures? This might give Transmeta the upper hand in a place where 64 seems to split compatibility all over.
cl
P.S. I'm making stuff up as I go so don't trust me.
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Reply . . . Let's get it over with.
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If it's a processor then some software is going to run on it? This could explained, as mentioned in an article above, why they hired Linus.
:-)
Think about it. A *new* architecture, with some really fancy new characteristics but no software? I don't think so. On the other hand, if they involve the opensource community . . . BINGO! a real competitor to Wintel.
Who else would you choose as youre link to the community but Linus. He's the head of development. He can make sure everything runs on this "Crusoe".
I'm not directly tied into kernel development, but you sometimes wonder why some patches don't get included . . .
But in the end, if it's a processor, Linux will run on it. How else can you have a top-secret processor? Who can they really trust as their OS of choice? Windoze? MacOS? BE? . . .
You never know, kernel 2.4 might as well be ready to run on "Crusoe"
cl
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Reply . . . let's get it over with
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