And for the people comparing this to movie ratings -- there is a subtle difference: kids watching movie in the theater are NOT "at home" where parents can efficiently control what they see/do. Games ARE played at home.
Of course by the same argument we do not need ratings on DVDs too... But I guess it is taking it too far.
... was talking about steer-by-wire/drive-by-wire type of car, where there is no direct mechanical link between your steering wheel or brake pedal and the wheel. So, if software controlling THAT electronic link fails you can do almost nothing (I can only hope they would not come up with "parking break by wire" concept!;-) ).
And this is maybe one of the points that people who whine that Paul G. did not write about "outsourcing" miss -- in the US you DO have an advantage compared to the rest of the world, namely to start your own business while you are still young and survive through the first stages (or at least get VERY valuable experience).
See, your parents can probably help you a bit, you can get a credit card or two, a bank loan, if you make a good case -- even some VC money... You do not have to go work at the factory in your teens for 14-hour shifts, this kind of stuff...
Said as someone who did not grow up in the States, is gainfully employed (no, they will not outsource my current job, and if I take the next one it will be me who'd participate in making the decisions if/what we should outsource), and can not understand why this basic idea of working for yourself is so alien to the people in the country which one can say was founded on the same idea.
(Note, that the datasets we work with are often tens of thousands of rows, and anywhere from 10 to 100+ paramaters)
Would it be more like 5 or, say, 7 (x10K) rows? last time I've checked, Excel can not deal with more than 64K rows (or columns, for that matter), it might have changed, but I would not want to imagine dealing with a Gb dataset in Excel...
... though I (obviously) have MS Office on my (company) computer, and for a good reason: it is cross-platform!
When the bulk of your "data" gets generated while running EDA software on remote Solaris cluster it is convenient to have an office tool to put together an IOC/presentation/whatener right there and then. After this I can continue to edit it on the Windows side, maybe off-line, WITH THE SAME PROGRAM!
... just for the balance... If one can sell a "family friendly" add-on to a DVD movie to block "bad" scenes (which, IMHO, is fair -- one can always skip through scenes with a remote control, a little automation of that process should not be illegal) -- can one sell additional footage to turn a family friendly movie into a "frathouse-friendly" version with simulated actors engaging in, hmm, unexpected acts? It might even fall under the parody clause of the fair use...
This guy applies modern image processing to old tapes of raw data from Russian "Venera" missions. Quite fascinating views, but still, too hot and acidic... I guess a spacecraft gets "eaten" by the atmosphere there in like an hour...
... At least at the place I work at (large aerospace/defence company in So. Cal.) if someone in a suit is noticed around it is a definite hint that an important customer is coming. Other than that, everyone wears slacks and (polo) shirts, or even more casual. At some point the sector president sent out an e-mail reminding that surfers' outfits (swimming shorts and faded t-shirts) are a bit beyond the line of acceptable business attire.;-)
But then, again, it is a bit too warm here to wear a suit and tie...
As my former Prof used to say (we did work on an alternative ultra-high-speed electronics) -- "One does not need light to get speed of light".
An EM wave propagates in a matched transmission line at the speed light would propagate in the same dielectric.
Make transmission lines superconductive, add a highly non-linear Josephson junction as a switching element and there you go. People have demostrated gates running at 770 GHz, logic running at 60G, it's all there, but not "basic research" enough to get Govt. funding anymore and might require more than 1-2 years that VCs are willing to wait to build a meaningful system.
Yeah, maybe if you mean "retail" to be what they charge for 10,000 parts -- then yes, it might be more that 15 cents a part. But I would happily pay 50 cents a part (in quatities of 5 -- for the total of the whopping $2.50) to fix my $400 LCD monitor...
Most of electronic component companies would be quite happy to send you a "sample" (or two) if you project an impression of someone who is designing "the next greatest gadget I can not tell you about right now" and you are evaluation their components for the "gadget". Sometimes if their real product are chips they would sell you an evaluation board. Well, for those you'd have to pay, but I suspect that what they charge for these boards is still below what it would cost you to assemble one (even assuming that college kids work for their girlfriends for free BUT tend to burn a part or two in the process of hand-soldering the board;-) ).
Jus wanted to send a line down the wire --- are you really that serious about the shortage of "programmers" in Russia (my home-country too, even if you do not believe it!). '93 Physics dept of the Moscow State -- and which one would be the "one of the best in Russia is CS" now? I hope you do not mean VMK (in my times it was more of a source of nice and quite loose gals, as strange as it would sound to the rest of/.;-) ).
I was looking for logic vs. cache break-down numbers for a while, obviously Intel is not keen on providing it on their own.
The way I see it, 24 MB = 1024*1024*8*24 * 6 transistors/SRAM cell = 1.2B transistors for cache, still leaving 500M for logic. Well, we can factor in address storage and cache access logic, but I'd still like to see some harder data than this.
Actually some guys in SGI (back in the days when IndyCam was a fancy novelty and apparently they were thinking what it can be used for) did just that. Of course the resulting images should be sampled at long enough intervals and MD5-hashed...
Google for lavarand or even check out this/. article.
You ahve to charge a line with capacitance C above a certain threshold voltage V to open the transistor gate F times a second, giving you dissipated power of F*CV^2/2 just for that one line -- note V _squared_.
Of course if you switch to superconductor logic you would not have to chagre the whole line (and there is no voltage except the instance Josephson jucntion switches), but this is a topic for another discussion.
Other than that, yes, you are correct that you will need roughly 100,000 times more energy to run 100,000 times faster, but your energy is limited by the fact that you want to be safely above kB*T noise to switch in a non-random fashion (lowering T helps a lot;-) ).
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They have this tool called 'cron', maybe... ;-)
Paul B.
not ... IBM-specific -- tools ... eclipse ...
You do realize that eclipse is one of the great OSS things that IBM gave to the world, right?
Paul B.
And for the people comparing this to movie ratings -- there is a subtle difference: kids watching movie in the theater are NOT "at home" where parents can efficiently control what they see/do. Games ARE played at home.
Of course by the same argument we do not need ratings on DVDs too... But I guess it is taking it too far.
Paul B.
... making wounds in one's heart (Re: Blondes!) ;-)
Paul B.
... was talking about steer-by-wire/drive-by-wire type of car, where there is no direct mechanical link between your steering wheel or brake pedal and the wheel. So, if software controlling THAT electronic link fails you can do almost nothing (I can only hope they would not come up with "parking break by wire" concept! ;-) ).
Paul B.
And this is maybe one of the points that people who whine that Paul G. did not write about "outsourcing" miss -- in the US you DO have an advantage compared to the rest of the world, namely to start your own business while you are still young and survive through the first stages (or at least get VERY valuable experience).
See, your parents can probably help you a bit, you can get a credit card or two, a bank loan, if you make a good case -- even some VC money... You do not have to go work at the factory in your teens for 14-hour shifts, this kind of stuff...
Said as someone who did not grow up in the States, is gainfully employed (no, they will not outsource my current job, and if I take the next one it will be me who'd participate in making the decisions if/what we should outsource), and can not understand why this basic idea of working for yourself is so alien to the people in the country which one can say was founded on the same idea.
Paul B.
Personally, I prefer to think of it as being 344 picoseconds^2 after setting c=1 and measuring distances in seconds.
... ;-)
At which Er? Si, GaAs, InP, Alumina, Quartz... or air?
Paul B.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268380/
;-)
is more appropriate...
Paul B.
We can help our survival with the things we can control: birth rates, the environment, war.
;-(
Problem #3 controls #1 quite well, while #1 (when it gets out of hand) causes #3...
And we can not really control either...
Paul B.
... an in-office orgasm in today's strip... ;-)
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No, check for yourself:
http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/
Paul B.
... to begin with...
Paul B.
To REALLY try to run away from the "bad guys" who would tremendously enjoy making a couple of extra holes in your head???
I'd guess it can cost much more to SECURELY deliver anything from point A to point B...
Paul B.
... You will even find a book there. Try expressing some of of his macros as C++ with templates ;-)
(I doubt one can express a lisp macro in C/C++ WITHOUT templates, YMMV).
Paul B.
(Note, that the datasets we work with are often tens of thousands of rows, and anywhere from 10 to 100+ paramaters)
Would it be more like 5 or, say, 7 (x10K) rows? last time I've checked, Excel can not deal with more than 64K rows (or columns, for that matter), it might have changed, but I would not want to imagine dealing with a Gb dataset in Excel...
Paul B.
... though I (obviously) have MS Office on my (company) computer, and for a good reason: it is cross-platform!
When the bulk of your "data" gets generated while running EDA software on remote Solaris cluster it is convenient to have an office tool to put together an IOC/presentation/whatener right there and then. After this I can continue to edit it on the Windows side, maybe off-line, WITH THE SAME PROGRAM!
YMMV
Paul B.
... just for the balance... If one can sell a "family friendly" add-on to a DVD movie to block "bad" scenes (which, IMHO, is fair -- one can always skip through scenes with a remote control, a little automation of that process should not be illegal) -- can one sell additional footage to turn a family friendly movie into a "frathouse-friendly" version with simulated actors engaging in, hmm, unexpected acts? It might even fall under the parody clause of the fair use...
Paul B.
This guy applies modern image processing to old tapes of raw data from Russian "Venera" missions. Quite fascinating views, but still, too hot and acidic... I guess a spacecraft gets "eaten" by the atmosphere there in like an hour...
Paul B.
... At least at the place I work at (large aerospace/defence company in So. Cal.) if someone in a suit is noticed around it is a definite hint that an important customer is coming. Other than that, everyone wears slacks and (polo) shirts, or even more casual. At some point the sector president sent out an e-mail reminding that surfers' outfits (swimming shorts and faded t-shirts) are a bit beyond the line of acceptable business attire. ;-)
But then, again, it is a bit too warm here to wear a suit and tie...
Paul B.
As my former Prof used to say (we did work on an alternative ultra-high-speed electronics) -- "One does not need light to get speed of light".
An EM wave propagates in a matched transmission line at the speed light would propagate in the same dielectric.
Make transmission lines superconductive, add a highly non-linear Josephson junction as a switching element and there you go. People have demostrated gates running at 770 GHz, logic running at 60G, it's all there, but not "basic research" enough to get Govt. funding anymore and might require more than 1-2 years that VCs are willing to wait to build a meaningful system.
Paul B.
Yeah, maybe if you mean "retail" to be what they charge for 10,000 parts -- then yes, it might be more that 15 cents a part. But I would happily pay 50 cents a part (in quatities of 5 -- for the total of the whopping $2.50) to fix my $400 LCD monitor...
YMMV,
Paul B.
Most of electronic component companies would be quite happy to send you a "sample" (or two) if you project an impression of someone who is designing "the next greatest gadget I can not tell you about right now" and you are evaluation their components for the "gadget". Sometimes if their real product are chips they would sell you an evaluation board. Well, for those you'd have to pay, but I suspect that what they charge for these boards is still below what it would cost you to assemble one (even assuming that college kids work for their girlfriends for free BUT tend to burn a part or two in the process of hand-soldering the board ;-) ).
Paul B.
Jus wanted to send a line down the wire --- are you really that serious about the shortage of "programmers" in Russia (my home-country too, even if you do not believe it!). '93 Physics dept of the Moscow State -- and which one would be the "one of the best in Russia is CS" now? I hope you do not mean VMK (in my times it was more of a source of nice and quite loose gals, as strange as it would sound to the rest of /. ;-) ).
.signature pun about lisp -- well...
As to your
Best luck, bro, anyway!
Paul B.
I was looking for logic vs. cache break-down numbers for a while, obviously Intel is not keen on providing it on their own.
The way I see it, 24 MB = 1024*1024*8*24 * 6 transistors/SRAM cell = 1.2B transistors for cache, still leaving 500M for logic. Well, we can factor in address storage and cache access logic, but I'd still like to see some harder data than this.
Paul B.
... and a cheap webcam! ;-)
/. article.
Actually some guys in SGI (back in the days when IndyCam was a fancy novelty and apparently they were thinking what it can be used for) did just that. Of course the resulting images should be sampled at long enough intervals and MD5-hashed...
Google for lavarand or even check out
this
Paul B.
You ahve to charge a line with capacitance C above a certain threshold voltage V to open the transistor gate F times a second, giving you dissipated power of F*CV^2/2 just for that one line -- note V _squared_.
;-) ).
Of course if you switch to superconductor logic you would not have to chagre the whole line (and there is no voltage except the instance Josephson jucntion switches), but this is a topic for another discussion.
Other than that, yes, you are correct that you will need roughly 100,000 times more energy to run 100,000 times faster, but your energy is limited by the fact that you want to be safely above kB*T noise to switch in a non-random fashion (lowering T helps a lot
Paul B.