When corporations make bulk purchases of hardware for new projects, they would have to factor in the following:
Purchase of new equipment + software Installation of add-ons like E-mail and word-processing apps Integration into the existing system network Development and porting of existing in-house applications Administration staff + training courses Users + (re)training courses Workflow performance Power consumption
You could be a start-up company with half-price hardware, but if you tried to make a profit from expensive training course that would kill the consideration.
They mean that everything in Windows uses the Microsoft Word.doc format, spreadsheets format, and the clipboard to get everything to exchange data. From that viewpoint, trying to not use those formats is just trying to make life difficult for yourself.
A mobile Internet connection would probably be more suited to someone is on low income - many already don't bother with telephone landlines because they are constantly moving around due to job market conditions. Having to install, test and disconnect an ADSL connection every few months because they are moving home would be too much hassle. Even with cable TV, it is something like $50 to install.
My local newspaper used to have a cartoon based on this theme - one time there was a punchline, "Aye Hen, if it weren't for the beer, fags and bingo, we wouldn't be able to afford to stay on the social (security)".
Which in a way is true, because of all the tax duty and prices on these items (box of 40 cigarettes = $10, 7/day = $70, beer = $4/pint, 7/week = $30, bingo = $20/week).
Funny thing is, once all a smoking ban came in place in public areas, the bingo halls went out of business. All of the money spent on slot machines went on cash prizes for the bingo games. Originally, when the punters played bingo they would smoke as they played and play slot machines after they finished. But once there was a smoking ban, they would rush outside, ignore the slot machines, have a cigarette and go home with their winnings.
I was told the ARM instruction set combined multiply and addition instructions into one, much like DSP chips do. As multiplication and division instructions are traditionally the most energy-hungry operations due to all the transistors required to implement them in hardware, it's more energy efficient to emulate them.
Even more optimisation include logical shift instructions are implement using a barrel shifter, and multiplication is implemented using Booth's algorithm on 8-bit blocks. Thus, instead of one big block of transistors to implement multiplication, it's a microcode routine. Early SPARC chips emulated floating-point instructions for this reason.
Just get the users to assemble the computers themselves - worked for Clive Sinclair and the ZX series of home computers ($149.95 assembled, $99.95 in components). Manuals and assembly instructions are provided at no extra cost.
Perfect for use in a building with a communal cable/aerial system, such as a high-rise apartment block. That's where most of the pirate radio stations would start up.
My last university had a high-speed fibre-optic link for internet connectivity, something in the range of 100 Gigabits/second, but by the time that was spread out between student residences, 100+ research groups, staff and undergraduate labs, the actual bandwidth per PC was around 25K/second. Any linux user could log into their home PC via ssh, do a wget and have an mpeg or PDF file downloaded instantly, but still have the frustration of not getting it onto their lab PC. Students would resort to viewing Youtube videos on videos and even doing downloads using their mobile phones to get around this. Some of the larger PDF research papers are around 15 Mbyte in size, more than the size of the average video file. I can see why users are choosing to use their mobile phones rather than a landline.
That sounds like the path SGI and other Silicon Valley vendors like Cray made back in the 1990's.
European electronic companies used to refer to those workstations as "big iron". They knew back then that they couldn't compete against these companies in terms of performance, because the Silicon Valley companies would always outmanoeuvre any new competitor by adding larger and more integrated ASIC's, more boards, larger chassis's, bigger power units, faster networking, more disk space and so on...
So the Europeans concentrated on the low-end "systems-on-a-chip" architectures like mobile phones and netbooks, while the Silicon Valley vendors kept competing against each other. But as fast as they create new high-ends, the low-end consumer market is moving up as well. In the end, there are so few customers that their last remaining niche markets became the government supercomputing and parallel computing research labs.
Nvidia have probably deliberately chosen not to get involved with fab production - that's not really their core business (chip design is, not chip manufacture). It's safer for them or the board manufacturers to lease multiple fab plants, just in case any one gets disrupted due to whatever reason. Leave that up to the board manufacturers and just give them a reference design.
Because a GPU caches texture memory in 2D and 3D pyramids (MIP-mapping), and a CPU does code and data page caching in 1D. Somehow, these two just might merge, especially with shader languages and trillion point data sets.
They set up their own base station using free software. That gives them access to the phone numbers. Then it would just be a matter of sending the SMS messages Even a standard wireless modem would allow a regular PC to send SMS messages via AT commands for GSM/CDMA wireless modems. Some phones support "long messages" which are just short messages chained together by software. There is a maximum of 160 characters with Latin alphabets and 70 characters with Chinese or Arabic alphabets (unicode?). That seems to be what they are doing here - there seems to be all sorts of opportunity for creating chaos by combining these two features.
Within a router it would be the actual IP data packets that are being buffered. A standard router has a number of network interfaces (token ring, ethernet, wireless, ISDN, whatever....) . Each network interface is piece of hardware that is memory mapped to allow the CPU to send and receive packets. Each hardware device also has a small online memory buffer to store the most recently received or transmitted addressed data packets (every protocol layer down to the MAC source and destination address, IP address, sequence number as well as the data). Depending on system and packet size, that could be anything between 1 and 16.
The usual implementation was to have each hardware device generate an interrupt whenever some data had been received and to transfer the data from internal memory to a common pool in system RAM. The latter was divided up into pre-allocated blocks with a few large blocks (>1000 bytes) and many smaller blocks (512 bytes). Some one might have done a statistical analysis onto the theoretical distribution of the size of packet data being sent through the network. Most of the time this worked out, but there were problems that happened some times. If all the smaller blocks were in use, then the larger blocks were used instead. For efficiency, these wouldn't be transferred through the system, until all the entire block has been filled up with data, so if you have a stream of 128 byte packets, it would take eight of them before the larger block was filled. For some systems, packet sizes were enhanced to 4K or even 8K. A constant high-speed stream of small packets was most likely to do this.
Also, many of the hardware devices would simply overwrite the contents of one unprocessed data packet with the contents of the latest arrival if it wasn't collected fast enough. So that could really mess up sequence numbers.
Is it possible to connect a standard USB keyboard to the phone - most phones have a micro-USB connector, so I'm wondering if there is micro-USB/USB converter to allow this?
I wasn't trying to justify it - I think it was terrible. Though, it wasn't much better for those with window offices. Knew one guy who got a peninsula office - windows on the South, East and West sides. In Winter, the room was comfortable, in Summer, the room was like a botanical gardens replica of a desert. Admins ended up with the offices underneath the air-conditioners - their office was like the Artic tundra - with a constant cold wild from the North.
So we just need someone to fill the gap in between and invent rotating container homes . Just rent an empty slot on the giant apartment block. When you need to move home, the owners disconnect your apartment and use an internal winch system to load the container home onto a truck or train.
If the daytime side is 350C and the night-time side is -170C, then the dawn/dusk time-zones are going to be somewhere inbetween. But with those temperature differentials, rails are probably going to twist and buckle before you've completed one cycle. Might as well just live underground.
Some coal mines used to have an elevator system that comprised of a set of elevator cabs that simply moved up and down by one level. To go down a level you just hopped on the first available cab, then get off at the floor below and repeated the process.
I've seen office blocks which had a elevator system which was comprised of a loop of elevator boxes that travelled in a slow loop. On each floor the left cab would go up and the right cab would go down. On the top and bottom floors, the cabs would loop round. New staff would always want to see what happened after going past the top floor.
You haven't worked for a corporation in a large office block . Staff with seniority would get the window desks. Junior staff would get the desks in the inner offices/office halls of the building. In winter, it meant junior staff wouldn't have seniority to see daylight during the weekdays between November and January.
In the 1950's, the LA building codes were set so that homes could be lifted up and transported by truck to a new location should the land be required for a freeway or widened road. Even the streetlights were designed so that they could be swung out of the way.
That's fascinating - some time ago, the BBC had a trial where they made selected selections of their archive available online. Some of the 60's talk shows would have a bizarre Greek theme, with stone pillars, frescos, chessboard style titles, and even the hosts were in greek style dresses and makeup, yet in the same role as a talk host interviewing guests today. I'm guessing they just thought TV was just going to be like theatre.
You have an analogue signal that is split up into three difference luminance levels (red,green,blue). These would each be aligned so that they matched the red/green/dot pattern of the CRT screen. As the image is recorded onto black-white film which would have a fine crystal grain size, the individual intensities of each red, green or blue dot would have been recorded. Although the film was in monochrome, it would still have recorded the color information, but as a stipple or dither pattern. If you can convert this image into a high-resolution digital image and write a suitable algorithm, you could reconstruct the original color information.
It would be no difficult from taking a close-up shot of a LCD screen, converting it to monochrome, and then writing a photoshop plugin to convert the image back into color.
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When corporations make bulk purchases of hardware for new projects, they would have to factor in the following:
Purchase of new equipment + software
Installation of add-ons like E-mail and word-processing apps
Integration into the existing system network
Development and porting of existing in-house applications
Administration staff + training courses
Users + (re)training courses
Workflow performance
Power consumption
You could be a start-up company with half-price hardware, but if you tried to make a profit from expensive training course that would kill the consideration.
They mean that everything in Windows uses the Microsoft Word .doc format, spreadsheets format, and the clipboard to get everything to exchange data. From that viewpoint, trying to not use those formats is just trying to make life difficult for yourself.
A mobile Internet connection would probably be more suited to someone is on low income - many already don't bother with telephone landlines because they are constantly moving around due to job market conditions. Having to install, test and disconnect an ADSL connection every few months because they are moving home would be too much hassle. Even with cable TV, it is something like $50 to install.
My local newspaper used to have a cartoon based on this theme - one time there was a punchline, "Aye Hen, if it weren't for the beer, fags and bingo, we wouldn't be able to afford to stay on the social (security)".
Which in a way is true, because of all the tax duty and prices on these items (box of 40 cigarettes = $10, 7/day = $70, beer = $4/pint, 7/week = $30, bingo = $20/week).
Funny thing is, once all a smoking ban came in place in public areas, the bingo halls went out of business. All of the money spent on slot machines went on cash prizes for the bingo games. Originally, when the punters played bingo they would smoke as they played and play slot machines after they finished. But once there was a smoking ban, they would rush outside, ignore the slot machines, have a cigarette and go home with their winnings.
I was told the ARM instruction set combined multiply and addition instructions into one, much like DSP chips do. As multiplication and division instructions are traditionally the most energy-hungry operations due to all the transistors required to implement them in hardware, it's more energy efficient to emulate them.
Even more optimisation include logical shift instructions are implement using a barrel shifter, and multiplication is implemented using Booth's algorithm on 8-bit blocks. Thus, instead of one big block of transistors to implement multiplication, it's a microcode routine. Early SPARC chips emulated floating-point instructions for this reason.
Just get the users to assemble the computers themselves - worked for Clive Sinclair and the ZX series of home computers ($149.95 assembled, $99.95 in components). Manuals and assembly instructions are provided at no extra cost.
And they are pining for the fyords..
"The first million years were the worst. The second million, they were the worst too. After that I went into a bit of a decline."
Perfect for use in a building with a communal cable/aerial system, such as a high-rise apartment block. That's where most of the pirate radio stations would start up.
My last university had a high-speed fibre-optic link for internet connectivity, something in the range of 100 Gigabits/second, but by the time that was spread out between student residences, 100+ research groups, staff and undergraduate labs, the actual bandwidth per PC was around 25K/second. Any linux user could log into their home PC via ssh, do a wget and have an mpeg or PDF file downloaded instantly, but still have the frustration of not getting it onto their lab PC. Students would resort to viewing Youtube videos on videos and even doing downloads using their mobile phones to get around this. Some of the larger PDF research papers are around 15 Mbyte in size, more than the size of the average video file. I can see why users are choosing to use their mobile phones rather than a landline.
That sounds like the path SGI and other Silicon Valley vendors like Cray made back in the 1990's.
European electronic companies used to refer to those workstations as "big iron". They knew back then that they couldn't compete against these companies in terms of performance, because the Silicon Valley companies would always outmanoeuvre any new competitor by adding larger and more integrated ASIC's, more boards, larger chassis's, bigger power units, faster networking, more disk space and so on...
So the Europeans concentrated on the low-end "systems-on-a-chip" architectures like mobile phones and netbooks, while the Silicon Valley vendors kept competing against each other. But as fast as they create new high-ends, the low-end consumer market is moving up as well. In the end, there are so few customers that their last remaining niche markets became the government supercomputing and parallel computing research labs.
...It's Life Jim, but not as we know it...
Nvidia have probably deliberately chosen not to get involved with fab production - that's not really their core business (chip design is, not chip manufacture). It's safer for them or the board manufacturers to lease multiple fab plants, just in case any one gets disrupted due to whatever reason. Leave that up to the board manufacturers and just give them a reference design.
Because a GPU caches texture memory in 2D and 3D pyramids (MIP-mapping), and a CPU does code and data page caching in 1D. Somehow, these two just might merge, especially with shader languages and trillion point data sets.
They set up their own base station using free software. That gives them access to the phone numbers. Then it would just be a matter of sending the SMS messages Even a standard wireless modem would allow a regular PC to send SMS messages via AT commands for GSM/CDMA wireless modems. Some phones support "long messages" which are just short messages chained together by software. There is a maximum of 160 characters with Latin alphabets and 70 characters with Chinese or Arabic alphabets (unicode?). That seems to be what they are doing here - there seems to be all sorts of opportunity for creating chaos by combining these two features.
Within a router it would be the actual IP data packets that are being buffered. A standard router has a number of network interfaces (token ring, ethernet, wireless, ISDN, whatever....) . Each network interface is piece of hardware that is memory mapped to allow the CPU to send and receive packets. Each hardware device also has a small online memory buffer to store the most recently received or transmitted addressed data packets (every protocol layer down to the MAC source and destination address, IP address, sequence number as well as the data). Depending on system and packet size, that could be anything between 1 and 16.
The usual implementation was to have each hardware device generate an interrupt whenever some data had been received and to transfer the data from internal memory to a common pool in system RAM. The latter was divided up into pre-allocated blocks with a few large blocks (>1000 bytes) and many smaller blocks (512 bytes). Some one might have done a statistical analysis onto the theoretical distribution of the size of packet data being sent through the network. Most of the time this worked out, but there were problems that happened some times. If all the smaller blocks were in use, then the larger blocks were used instead. For efficiency, these wouldn't be transferred through the system, until all the entire block has been filled up with data, so if you have a stream of 128 byte packets, it would take eight of them before the larger block was filled. For some systems, packet sizes were enhanced to 4K or even 8K. A constant high-speed stream of small packets was most likely to do this.
Also, many of the hardware devices would simply overwrite the contents of one unprocessed data packet with the contents of the latest arrival if it wasn't collected fast enough. So that could really mess up sequence numbers.
Is it possible to connect a standard USB keyboard to the phone - most phones have a micro-USB connector, so I'm wondering if there is micro-USB/USB converter to allow this?
I wasn't trying to justify it - I think it was terrible. Though, it wasn't much better for those with window offices. Knew one guy who got a peninsula office - windows on the South, East and West sides. In Winter, the room was comfortable, in Summer, the room was like a botanical gardens replica of a desert. Admins ended up with the offices underneath the air-conditioners - their office was like the Artic tundra - with a constant cold wild from the North.
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So we just need someone to fill the gap in between and invent rotating container homes . Just rent an empty slot on the giant
apartment block. When you need to move home, the owners disconnect your apartment and use an internal winch system to load the container home onto a truck or train.
If the daytime side is 350C and the night-time side is -170C, then the dawn/dusk time-zones are going to be somewhere inbetween. But with those temperature differentials, rails are probably going to twist and buckle before you've completed one cycle. Might as well just live underground.
Some coal mines used to have an elevator system that comprised of a set of elevator cabs that simply moved up and down by one level. To go down a level you just hopped on the first available cab, then get off at the floor below and repeated the process.
I've seen office blocks which had a elevator system which was comprised of a loop of elevator boxes that travelled in a slow loop. On each floor the left cab would go up and the right cab would go down. On the top and bottom floors, the cabs would loop round. New staff would always want to see what happened after going past the top floor.
You haven't worked for a corporation in a large office block . Staff with seniority would get the window desks. Junior staff would get the desks in the inner offices/office halls of the building. In winter, it meant junior staff wouldn't have seniority to see daylight during the weekdays between November and January.
In the 1950's, the LA building codes were set so that homes could be lifted up and transported by truck to a new location should the land be required for a freeway or widened road. Even the streetlights were designed so that they could be swung out of the way.
That's fascinating - some time ago, the BBC had a trial where they made selected selections of their archive available online. Some of the 60's talk shows would have a bizarre Greek theme, with stone pillars, frescos, chessboard style titles, and even the hosts were in greek style dresses and makeup, yet in the same role as a talk host interviewing guests today. I'm guessing they just thought TV was just going to be like theatre.
You have an analogue signal that is split up into three difference luminance levels (red,green,blue). These would each be aligned so that they matched the red/green/dot pattern of the CRT screen. As the image is recorded onto black-white film which would have a fine crystal grain size, the individual intensities of each red, green or blue dot would have been recorded. Although the film was in monochrome, it would still have recorded the color information, but as a stipple or dither pattern. If you can convert this image into a high-resolution digital image and write a suitable algorithm, you could reconstruct the original color information.
It would be no difficult from taking a close-up shot of a LCD screen, converting it to monochrome, and then writing a photoshop plugin to convert the image back into color.