To be more efficient they'd probably have to have multiple layers of clustering, i.e. have a gigantic Beowolf cluster which is made up of smaller Beowolf clusters.
Assuming they can get the networking and power resources and have the warehouse necessary to house all of these computers, there's very little you can actually do in such a massively parallel system. The hardest part would be simply feeding it enough data to keep all the nodes processing concurrently.
A much more efficient use of such massive resources would be to split them into smaller clusters of 50-100 computers in size, and allocate time individually. Then when a really large project comes along you can merge a few of the smaller clusters together.
IMHO, if this project is for real, it's still a pretty shabby deal. Granted that old 386 box you have is pretty near worthless in today's sub $500 market, but email addresses are cheap too. Donate that box to Goodwill and give some poor child the chance to familiarize himself with the technology necessary to succeed in the next millennium.
..it only takes 2% of the people how have cash in the banks withdrawing that cash to cause our banking system to collapse...
Don't think the government doesn't know that... the Treasury Dept. is printing money like crazy to help cover the rush, and there's always a possibility of a bank holiday to force the idiots to keep their money in the bank.
I for one am going to proudly keep my money in the bank (as if I had enough to really worry about anyway:)
And besides, check your facts... coal power plants give off MUCH more radiation than nuclear plants plus they pollute our air and water uncontrollably.
At least with nuclear waste its all containable.
As to your "super bacteria" resistant strains of bacteria crop up all the time, but its not due to radiation in any way. The more we use antibiotics, the more bacteria is exposed to them, which then evolve to be resistant.
Nobody's treading on their right to free speech.... as far as I'm concerned I want the conspiracy nuts to scream as loud as possible so I can see them easily and give them a wide birth.
Being "fringe" has nothing to do with free speech... its their specific "fringe" beliefs that we're attacking. Just because someone exercises their freedom of speech doesn't mean we have to give them ANY credibility whatsoever.
As for being part of a fringe group by visiting slashdot, I'm proud to be a minority in this country (just take a look at what is played on television to see why I distance myself from the majority).
Fortunately, I can back up the things I say with two things that these people lack: rational thinking and facts.
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Oh boy, I can hack into the little linux newbie's personal comp and grab all his porn.
Yeah, that's a useful and a hack worthy of legend.
The point is not making a nice small hello world program... if you want one, go ahead and write one in perl, but nobody will care...
The reason everyone uses "hello world" is that it has essentially no user code, which makes it a good benchmark on the amount of code a certain compiler will link in just to write to the screen.
The question is how small can you make your program if necessary. If hello world compiles to 50k, then if you need a program that fits in 40K of memory and actually does something, you need to find a different compiler or language.
This makes no sense. Do you really think a chips costs can be planned? I think they are just making the best chips they can, and pricing them accordingly.
He's referring to the end price to the consumer, which CAN and is predicted. AMD was hoping to beat Intel's pricing on comperable performance... they didn't go as low on pricing as they probably could because they desperately need money to fund their R&D.
How are we wasting fossil fuels by simply capturing cpu cycles which would otherwise be wasted on NOP's? It's a far more egregious waste of energy to have the countless PC's which are on for say 15 minutes while their users go grab a cup of coffee to simply sit and do nothing productive!
Admittedly the SETI project (note that it is currently a test, and not really geared to a large scale survey) has little prospect of finding signals from intelligent life. Does this mean we should never look?
How wasteful would it be for the human race to have missed its one opportunity for contact with an alien civilization, simply because we were too bullheaded to even listen!
It will alter its course... its a simple question of kinematics...
Fortunately, however, the force of the lander touching down must be very slight in order to protect all of its valuable equipment. Take that reciprocal force on the comet and divide by the comet's mass (vastly greater than the landers, at least in the 100's of thousands, if not millions of times greater) and you have an insignificant force.. particularly compared to the streams of ionized gas coming off the surface
A decent analogy would be when a dust mite lands on your arm... doesn't exactly knock you over.
Of course Apple will win. There are 3 possibilities:
1) Future power settles low and revokes their design, seeing as they can't afford a tough legal battle with Apple 2) There is a prolonged legal battle, and Apple finally wins since Future Power's design is obviously stolen 3) There is a prolonged legal battle during which the courts order an injunction against Future Power shipping... thus causing them to lose market share and be unable to continue the suit
The problem lies in the fact that it was developed in the US. Simply placing it on a server in another country won't do the trick, that's considered an export, and therefore is banned.
Ok, your argument would have some merit if you could demonstrate that 50% of all athletic scholorships were given to female athletes... which you can't.
Giving large athletic scholorships to male players while largly ignoring female sports in general is simply another arena where gender discrimination takes place.
Oh, and congrats to/. Doug
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That's not really fair.... to microsoft
It's quite easy to put together a decent web server for a small business for less than the cost of NT itself.
Yes, but they recanted rather quickly once they saw the sales figures.
Star Trek's 5-9 are already available... i think Paramount is taking its time with the older movies, since they need more updating to bring their quality up to DVD standards.
Think of the ramifications on either side for Palpatine.
1) The movie plot: she doesn't sign the treaty (which Palpatine probably predicted, given her impetuous youth and personality), and the Federation attacks, thus giving him the scandal necessary to be elected Chancellor.
2) She does sign the treaty, Palpatine takes credit for bringing this standoff to a peaceful close, thus gaining power both in the Senate, and of course over the planet he represents (now is is likely that he will lose his senate seat if he rules the planet!?)
3) She doesn't sign the treaty, he sends the Federation army, and instead of being defeated by a stroke of pure luck, this time they win (probably what Palpatine predicted). Now Palpatine uses sympathy to gather an army from others in the Senate, handily defeats the federation army, and is lauded by all as a liberator. Unfortunately, he neglects to return control over his new armies, and uses his fame and newfound army to leverage his influence in the Senate.
No matter what happens, Palpetine wins! The Naboo planet is simply a convenient tool.
Actually, there have been extrordinary benefits that have derived from technologies NASA developed. You wouldn't be able to fit that purdy li'l computer on your desk if NASA wasn't forced to make smaller and faster computers for its Apollo program.
Of course it would be stupid to send the shuttle up if all we cared about were the spinoff technologies, but the science these missions provide have incredible benefit.
Plot aside, the special effect shots in the Matrix were extremely well done. Using multiple camera's to interpolate a still image which could be traversed in 3-d.
It absolutely killed me to see those fight scenes in the Matrix, however. This is *exactly* what I have always imagined a light-saber duel between two jedi masters to be.
Each jedi uses the force to anticipate and to, effectively, slow down time. To an outside observer they are going very fast, a la Menace's special effects, but to the jedi, the rest of the world has slowed down, a la Matrix.
It would have been a spectacular sequence to have gone from from a Matrix style frozen image or slow-mo swaths of the sabers, to an incredibly fast paced fight, which Lucas did provide.
I think the question here is what is causing the expansion of the universe, and how it relates to the fundamental forces. Unfortunately, I don't have a good answer for you...
There is a flaw in your thinking. It's not *really* the galaxy that is moving, but rather the space between the observer and the object which is expanding.. so if all space is expanding at a constant rate (which it is), objects appear to be moving away from us at a rate determined by the amount of space between us.
You may want to check out a message I posted a bit higher up which may help you with the balloon analogy (uses bread and raisins).
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Close but ice-9 doesn't turn everything into ice-9, rather it just causes water to freeze at high temperatures.
Sux when you're made of water, but not much of a problem to say, a hunk of iron.
Doug
To be more efficient they'd probably have to have multiple layers of clustering, i.e. have a gigantic Beowolf cluster which is made up of smaller Beowolf clusters.
Assuming they can get the networking and power resources and have the warehouse necessary to house all of these computers, there's very little you can actually do in such a massively parallel system. The hardest part would be simply feeding it enough data to keep all the nodes processing concurrently.
A much more efficient use of such massive resources would be to split them into smaller clusters of 50-100 computers in size, and allocate time individually. Then when a really large project comes along you can merge a few of the smaller clusters together.
IMHO, if this project is for real, it's still a pretty shabby deal. Granted that old 386 box you have is pretty near worthless in today's sub $500 market, but email addresses are cheap too. Donate that box to Goodwill and give some poor child the chance to familiarize himself with the technology necessary to succeed in the next millennium.
Doug
..it only takes 2% of the people how have cash in the banks withdrawing that cash to cause our banking system to collapse...
:)
Don't think the government doesn't know that... the Treasury Dept. is printing money like crazy to help cover the rush, and there's always a possibility of a bank holiday to force the idiots to keep their money in the bank.
I for one am going to proudly keep my money in the bank (as if I had enough to really worry about anyway
Doug
Heard ya the first time :)
And besides, check your facts... coal power plants give off MUCH more radiation than nuclear plants plus they pollute our air and water uncontrollably.
At least with nuclear waste its all containable.
As to your "super bacteria" resistant strains of bacteria crop up all the time, but its not due to radiation in any way. The more we use antibiotics, the more bacteria is exposed to them, which then evolve to be resistant.
Doug
Nobody's treading on their right to free speech.... as far as I'm concerned I want the conspiracy nuts to scream as loud as possible so I can see them easily and give them a wide birth.
Being "fringe" has nothing to do with free speech... its their specific "fringe" beliefs that we're attacking. Just because someone exercises their freedom of speech doesn't mean we have to give them ANY credibility whatsoever.
As for being part of a fringe group by visiting slashdot, I'm proud to be a minority in this country (just take a look at what is played on television to see why I distance myself from the majority).
Fortunately, I can back up the things I say with two things that these people lack: rational thinking and facts.
Oh boy, I can hack into the little linux newbie's personal comp and grab all his porn.
Yeah, that's a useful and a hack worthy of legend.
The point is not making a nice small hello world program... if you want one, go ahead and write one in perl, but nobody will care...
The reason everyone uses "hello world" is that it has essentially no user code, which makes it a good benchmark on the amount of code a certain compiler will link in just to write to the screen.
The question is how small can you make your program if necessary. If hello world compiles to 50k, then if you need a program that fits in 40K of memory and actually does something, you need to find a different compiler or language.
Doug
This makes no sense. Do you really think a chips costs can be planned? I think they are just making the best chips they can, and pricing them accordingly.
He's referring to the end price to the consumer, which CAN and is predicted. AMD was hoping to beat Intel's pricing on comperable performance... they didn't go as low on pricing as they probably could because they desperately need money to fund their R&D.
drudd
How are we wasting fossil fuels by simply capturing cpu cycles which would otherwise be wasted on NOP's? It's a far more egregious waste of energy to have the countless PC's which are on for say 15 minutes while their users go grab a cup of coffee to simply sit and do nothing productive!
Admittedly the SETI project (note that it is currently a test, and not really geared to a large scale survey) has little prospect of finding signals from intelligent life. Does this mean we should never look?
How wasteful would it be for the human race to have missed its one opportunity for contact with an alien civilization, simply because we were too bullheaded to even listen!
drudd
Heck, its a waste to develop multiple operating systems... and I'm sure microsoft will back me up on this one :)
Doug
It will alter its course... its a simple question of kinematics...
Fortunately, however, the force of the lander touching down must be very slight in order to protect all of its valuable equipment. Take that reciprocal force on the comet and divide by the comet's mass (vastly greater than the landers, at least in the 100's of thousands, if not millions of times greater) and you have an insignificant force.. particularly compared to the streams of ionized gas coming off the surface
A decent analogy would be when a dust mite lands on your arm... doesn't exactly knock you over.
Doug
So you expect GREENpeace to rush out and protect a dirty snowball....
uh huh...
Of course Apple will win. There are 3 possibilities:
:)
1) Future power settles low and revokes their design, seeing as they can't afford a tough legal battle with Apple
2) There is a prolonged legal battle, and Apple finally wins since Future Power's design is obviously stolen
3) There is a prolonged legal battle during which the courts order an injunction against Future Power shipping... thus causing them to lose market share and be unable to continue the suit
Any way you cut it, Apple wins
The problem lies in the fact that it was developed in the US. Simply placing it on a server in another country won't do the trick, that's considered an export, and therefore is banned.
Doug
Duh, you answered your own question. If you can't get your movie into a chain theater, you can't make money, end of story.
:)? They do it to make money, and you can't make money with an NC-17.
Why do people release movies (note: release, not make
And if I believe my child is mature enough to handle the content inside a movie, then why shouldn't I be allowed to make that decision?
Ok, your argument would have some merit if you could demonstrate that 50% of all athletic scholorships were given to female athletes... which you can't.
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Giving large athletic scholorships to male players while largly ignoring female sports in general is simply another arena where gender discrimination takes place.
Oh, and congrats to
Doug
That's not really fair.... to microsoft
It's quite easy to put together a decent web server for a small business for less than the cost of NT itself.
Yes, but they recanted rather quickly once they saw the sales figures.
Star Trek's 5-9 are already available... i think Paramount is taking its time with the older movies, since they need more updating to bring their quality up to DVD standards.
Think of the ramifications on either side for Palpatine.
1) The movie plot: she doesn't sign the treaty (which Palpatine probably predicted, given her impetuous youth and personality), and the Federation attacks, thus giving him the scandal necessary to be elected Chancellor.
2) She does sign the treaty, Palpatine takes credit for bringing this standoff to a peaceful close, thus gaining power both in the Senate, and of course over the planet he represents (now is is likely that he will lose his senate seat if he rules the planet!?)
3) She doesn't sign the treaty, he sends the Federation army, and instead of being defeated by a stroke of pure luck, this time they win (probably what Palpatine predicted). Now Palpatine uses sympathy to gather an army from others in the Senate, handily defeats the federation army, and is lauded by all as a liberator. Unfortunately, he neglects to return control over his new armies, and uses his fame and newfound army to leverage his influence in the Senate.
No matter what happens, Palpetine wins! The Naboo planet is simply a convenient tool.
Doug
Actually, there have been extrordinary benefits that have derived from technologies NASA developed. You wouldn't be able to fit that purdy li'l computer on your desk if NASA wasn't forced to make smaller and faster computers for its Apollo program.
Of course it would be stupid to send the shuttle up if all we cared about were the spinoff technologies, but the science these missions provide have incredible benefit.
Doug
Its called science.. you notice phenomenon, hypothesize, fit models around your hypothesize and see if they fit the available evidence.
Eta Carinae is just not quite accounted for by current models. The data collected will simply help revise those models in the right direction.
fit models around your hypothesis :)
Plot aside, the special effect shots in the Matrix were extremely well done. Using multiple camera's to interpolate a still image which could be traversed in 3-d.
It absolutely killed me to see those fight scenes in the Matrix, however. This is *exactly* what I have always imagined a light-saber duel between two jedi masters to be.
Each jedi uses the force to anticipate and to, effectively, slow down time. To an outside observer they are going very fast, a la Menace's special effects, but to the jedi, the rest of the world has slowed down, a la Matrix.
It would have been a spectacular sequence to have gone from from a Matrix style frozen image or slow-mo swaths of the sabers, to an incredibly fast paced fight, which Lucas did provide.
Doug
I think the question here is what is causing the expansion of the universe, and how it relates to the fundamental forces. Unfortunately, I don't have a good answer for you...
Doug
There is a flaw in your thinking. It's not *really* the galaxy that is moving, but rather the space between the observer and the object which is expanding.. so if all space is expanding at a constant rate (which it is), objects appear to be moving away from us at a rate determined by the amount of space between us.
You may want to check out a message I posted a bit higher up which may help you with the balloon analogy (uses bread and raisins).
Doug