What could be more efficient? It takes all the energy in a tic-tac to dig a little hole, drop in a seed and cover it up. The sun and rain take over from there.
True, it will take a while to grow into a great big tree but the energy you put in is virtually nothing.
If this thing becomes any sort of standard, we'll have normal people being able to count up to 256 in binary on their fingers. Another thing too, depending on how the "chords" map to the alphabet, we may have laypeople who know the ascii system by heart.
User ClearCase Multisite. You can distrubute the load over several servers whether they're in the same room of across an ocean. I currently admin servers in Chicago, Detroit and Munich.
Not only that, but you get awesome redundancy. we have some projects that we multisite to different sits just as a hot-backup measure.
(Try scaling a clearcase server and you'll see how bad the design is... Hint: Adding more CPUs won't help you.)
Try adding more memory and distributing yor server duties over a cluster and that will help.
Here's a bit of wild speculation, but wouldn't it be interesting if the radiation generated by a giant breeder reactor contributed to the amount of genetic variation in life on Earth? Wouldn't it be more interesting still, if such a radiation source were in fact needed to get life going as well as it has on our planet.
That would kind of put a new variable into the Drake equation.
I think a better example of a P2P network is that direct connect feature that some service providers have. you call someone, you connect to the person via the tower, you hit a button and poof! you're talking on a direct walkie-talkie connection with the other person.
That way the tower just acts like a coordinator rather than a server.
I don't know if I'm right here, but isn't this how the nutella(sp) network works?
The Technical University of Darmstadt had quite a few dual-boot Linux/Windows machines in public labs. This was 3 years ago so I don't know if this is still the case.
I actually do this with my cat on a regular basis only a little different. I imitate her meow and she responds. If i do multiple meows or long ones, she will often do the same number or stretch them out.
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Wait a minute... How is this a troll? This is the best idea for this stuff that i've heard yet! yeah, yeah, all these suggestions about running applications on private parts are cute and all but this actually sounds like a solid idea.
Every time I've driven through Indiana, the smell of industry has hit me like a kick in the crotch. I remember it smelling like a mix of cheese, exhaust, burning motors and rubber. I'm morbidly interested if this big poop dump is going to somehow interact with the current stink in a positive way (lemons, roses, cookies) neutral (fresh air, paper, nothing) or some new form of stench that kills you upon sniffing.
I wonder also if it will seem anything like the bog of eternal stench from labyrinth.
I worked at Cray a little while ago and they used this cool liquid teflon stuff as a coolent. The rumour was that you could drink the stuff and still live. I never got the chance.
dude, having supercomputers build bombs is a GOOD thing. remember that the alternative is to test bombs in the real world.
SETI@home is a very nice proof of concept, not much more.
United devices is where it's at. distributed cancer drug testing. boo-yah!
I'm all about distributed computing and SETI and all that noise but let me play devil's advocate for a minute.
First, this is a sys-admin nightmare. keeping thinks running smooth in a system of HP-UX, Sun, IRIX, NT, and 2000 gets ticky sometimes. Add about a dozen variaties of OSes and patch levels, and you'll need another cluster of supercomputers just to keep everything straight on the first cluster.
Also, the idea of clustering supercomputers isn't new. Cray has been pushing this idea for some time, selling nodes that can be stand-alone computers or part of a bigger cluster.
There is also a point after which keeping an old SGI isn't worth the cost of space, power and upkeep.
I'm a ClearCase admin at a big company. I might be biased but I think it'll handle everything you're worried about. CC can already keep track of who's doing what and when. Branches keep track of the "who" and CC keeps loads of metadata to account for the "when" amongst other things.
One thing you can do if you really want to keep things straight is to write a trigger that writes "who" and "when" and anything else to a log file whenever someone does a checkin.
Back at school, they used Novel for thin client apps in the engineering NT lab. It worked ok but had some annoying startup times. lots of grey bars filling up with blue boxes.
At work now, Novel is a piece of crap. We use Citrix for some things and it works nicely. I've heard that it has memory leaks and will crash you if you don't have a lot of RAM. I haven't personaly seen this but I work with an old-timer that holds a grudge against Citrix for this very reason. Like i said, I haven't seen it personaly but I haven't seen our Citrix server pushed to any sort of limits. If you're talking about 500 machines, I don't know how that will scale. I'm willing to bet that you'll need more than one Metaframe server.
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What could be more efficient? It takes all the energy in a tic-tac to dig a little hole, drop in a seed and cover it up. The sun and rain take over from there.
True, it will take a while to grow into a great big tree but the energy you put in is virtually nothing.
your boxers are on the highway
The article specified that the keyboard had 4 keys that could be pushed with the finger tip and the mid-finger.
that's 4 states {(off, off)(on, off)(off, on)(on, on)} and 4 buttons.
4^4 = 256
If this thing becomes any sort of standard, we'll have normal people being able to count up to 256 in binary on their fingers. Another thing too, depending on how the "chords" map to the alphabet, we may have laypeople who know the ascii system by heart.
so much for being leet.
User ClearCase Multisite. You can distrubute the load over several servers whether they're in the same room of across an ocean. I currently admin servers in Chicago, Detroit and Munich.
Not only that, but you get awesome redundancy. we have some projects that we multisite to different sits just as a hot-backup measure.
(Try scaling a clearcase server and you'll see how bad the design is... Hint: Adding more CPUs won't help you.) Try adding more memory and distributing yor server duties over a cluster and that will help.
Here's a bit of wild speculation, but wouldn't it be interesting if the radiation generated by a giant breeder reactor contributed to the amount of genetic variation in life on Earth? Wouldn't it be more interesting still, if such a radiation source were in fact needed to get life going as well as it has on our planet.
That would kind of put a new variable into the Drake equation.
I think a better example of a P2P network is that direct connect feature that some service providers have. you call someone, you connect to the person via the tower, you hit a button and poof! you're talking on a direct walkie-talkie connection with the other person.
That way the tower just acts like a coordinator rather than a server.
I don't know if I'm right here, but isn't this how the nutella(sp) network works?
The Technical University of Darmstadt had quite a few dual-boot Linux/Windows machines in public labs. This was 3 years ago so I don't know if this is still the case.
I actually do this with my cat on a regular basis only a little different. I imitate her meow and she responds. If i do multiple meows or long ones, she will often do the same number or stretch them out.
Wait a minute... How is this a troll? This is the best idea for this stuff that i've heard yet! yeah, yeah, all these suggestions about running applications on private parts are cute and all but this actually sounds like a solid idea.
I don't think that will make much of a difference since that info probably still goes over the wireless LAN regardless of being scanned or typed.
Or I could be wrong. That's a possibility too.
Every time I've driven through Indiana, the smell of industry has hit me like a kick in the crotch. I remember it smelling like a mix of cheese, exhaust, burning motors and rubber. I'm morbidly interested if this big poop dump is going to somehow interact with the current stink in a positive way (lemons, roses, cookies) neutral (fresh air, paper, nothing) or some new form of stench that kills you upon sniffing.
I wonder also if it will seem anything like the bog of eternal stench from labyrinth.
That was "One Million BC" my friend.
Planet of the Apes had no shortage of primates.
How could we let a traitor like John Walker tell us how to measure gravity.
It's unamerican!
I worked at Cray a little while ago and they used this cool liquid teflon stuff as a coolent. The rumour was that you could drink the stuff and still live. I never got the chance.
stupid motherfuckers.
Skip list are a data structure, not an algorithm.
FFT, right on.
My favorates are:
huffman coding
heap sort
merge sort
twisted and e-vil
dude, having supercomputers build bombs is a GOOD thing. remember that the alternative is to test bombs in the real world. SETI@home is a very nice proof of concept, not much more. United devices is where it's at. distributed cancer drug testing. boo-yah!
I'm all about distributed computing and SETI and all that noise but let me play devil's advocate for a minute.
First, this is a sys-admin nightmare. keeping thinks running smooth in a system of HP-UX, Sun, IRIX, NT, and 2000 gets ticky sometimes. Add about a dozen variaties of OSes and patch levels, and you'll need another cluster of supercomputers just to keep everything straight on the first cluster.
Also, the idea of clustering supercomputers isn't new. Cray has been pushing this idea for some time, selling nodes that can be stand-alone computers or part of a bigger cluster.
There is also a point after which keeping an old SGI isn't worth the cost of space, power and upkeep.
just some disjointed thoughts...
I don't know if you noticed, but all those cool holographic interfaces in FF had the Palm logo on them.
I'm a ClearCase admin at a big company. I might be biased but I think it'll handle everything you're worried about. CC can already keep track of who's doing what and when. Branches keep track of the "who" and CC keeps loads of metadata to account for the "when" amongst other things.
One thing you can do if you really want to keep things straight is to write a trigger that writes "who" and "when" and anything else to a log file whenever someone does a checkin.
And he damn well better or else those monolith jerks will come and kick our asses.
Back at school, they used Novel for thin client apps in the engineering NT lab. It worked ok but had some annoying startup times. lots of grey bars filling up with blue boxes.
At work now, Novel is a piece of crap. We use Citrix for some things and it works nicely. I've heard that it has memory leaks and will crash you if you don't have a lot of RAM. I haven't personaly seen this but I work with an old-timer that holds a grudge against Citrix for this very reason. Like i said, I haven't seen it personaly but I haven't seen our Citrix server pushed to any sort of limits. If you're talking about 500 machines, I don't know how that will scale. I'm willing to bet that you'll need more than one Metaframe server.