And you just know some geek will figure out a way of following somebody (if not themselves) around using all the webcams and putting the video up on Youtube. Maybe they will use Google maps and some 3D mathematics to work out how all the camera projection spaces intersect.
Look at supercomputing architectures - in the past many systems were based on message passing between individual CPU's or nodes. That requires custom communication software/hardware to handle data transfers. Alternatively, you can memory map the memory space of each node into a 'global' memory map. Then you can write scalable software that works from a single CPU to thousands of CPU's. A 32-bit memory address gives you 4 Gigabytes, but if you want a single memory map for a system with thousands of nodes, then you need another 16-bits. Add some more bits for multicasting and broadcasting, and you get 128 bits.
Canada does the same - first thing anyone who wishes to buy property or a second hand car, is to check to see if there are any outstanding liens. Oh yes, and check to see that the seller is the actual seller and not a renting tenant looking to make a quick sale by selling their landlords property.
The price charged by Nextronics for LCD screen repairs is even worse. They charge you something like $2600 to $3200 for a new screen, but if you part exchange it, they give you half price (motherboards are the same). Except of course, if you were to buy the LCD screen (Hitachi 17") it would be around $400 from the hardware supplier.
Thanks for the correction - it's the same outcome. Some developers may want to have both Nvidia and Ati boards in a desktop at the same time. Maybe even some users. Nvidia doesn't want to be pigeonholed as the maker of physics-accelerator boards.
Though, it just seems a little bit queeny of them to go "we're not going to let you use our board for physics unless you use it for graphics as well."
I do use an Geforce 8800 card, so I am familiar with the physics acceleration on those cards.
Notice the focus on words like "ecosystem", "religion" and placing the blame on machines and people. No mention of vulnerable drivers, protocols or applications.
Practical things would be
o Develop reliable methods of network protocol design to prevent vulnerabilites in network services.
o Proper application design so that the above aren't compromised by feature bloat of applications. "Hey, let's add macros and automatic E-mail sending/receiving to our application. Never know when it might come in useful".
A similar thing happened with Adlib and Creative Labs. Adlib brought out a sound card that uses a music synthesizer chip. Creative Labs design their own card that is register compatible with the Adlib card plus add a microphone/playback feature for voice sampling. This puts Adlib out of business - didn't matter what they did, Creative Labs board is compatible with all the releases of their software.
Nvidia and ATI are in a similar position. NVidia researches and develops optimized software to perform 3D physics on the GPU hardware. Much to their annoyance, ATI gets smarmy and modifies their drivers so that NVidia PhysX can be natively on their boards, effectively getting NVidia to pay their own engineers to optimize their software to run on their competitors hardware.
Stansted and Edinburgh airport do that as well (perhaps all airports). You go into the airport, check in your hold luggage and keep your laptop with you using a laptop bag. No problem. Go shopping, buy a newspaper, a Wired magazine and some shortbread biscuits for gifts. Still no problem. Put these items into a plastic bag. Now, we have a problem. You now have *TWO* bags.
Normally, security would just put these into separate plastic trays and scan them separately. Now, the airline companies like Virgin and Easyjey employ some smart-asses (usually in yellow or orange T-shirts) to *ENSURE* that *EVERYONE* puts everything into the largest bag before being allowed through to security, so that everyone is carrying only one bag. What do the security people do? Require that everything is taken out of the bag and scanned separately.
I've seen lots of companies do that (defence companies, medical prosthetics). The defence companies would have a prototype system that would consist of rack mounted circuitboards, then they would repackage everything into a single ASIC chip within six months. The medical companies made artificial hands which had an external circuit board controller that was packaged into a shielded box along with a battery pack belt. That was reduced down to a chip and battery that went into the wrist of the prosthetic hand.
Some time ago, there was a drug manufactured for the treatment of sheep (a fatal digestive problem or something similar), which was marketed at $5 per head of sheep, since this was all farmers could afford. Then some medical research discovered that the same medical compound worked on humans as well. This was marketed at $50,000 per person, since that was all insurance companies could afford. After all, how much is a human life worth?
Razzle Dazzle or just plain ugly? . The idea was that while you couldn't hide the existence of a ship visible to the periscope of a submariner, you could give him a blinding headache while he squinted through the eyeglass trying to see past the mist, fog, icebergs and waves to determine which end of the ship was which.
Jasper Maskelyne used searchlights combined with an inverted rotating cone of mirrors to create 9 mile radius rotating pinwheels of light that would disorient pilots.
With Gmail, you have six options; keep E-mail on their server and access it through the web, forward it to another E-mail address, forward and delete it, download it, or download and delete it. The judge won't have achieved anything by freezing the account and it has one of the downloading or forwarding options set up.
I've tried explaining computer technology to my retired relatives..
Me: "Ok, here's your power cable - that plugs into the back of the base unit just like your DVD player. The cable here goes to the screen just like the SCART connctor to the TV. Now this is the keyboard which is just like a typewriter keyboard, and this is the mouse...."
Relative: "What? Where's the mouse? That plastic thing there? It doesn't look much like a mouse to me. Where are it's whiskers, feet and tail?"
Me: "OK, let's call it an input device. You hold it in your hand and move it around like this. When you want to select something, you press or click the button here..."
And you don't even want to try to explain to them why they can't just use the TV remote to type in the letters of the channel they want to watch (e. C..N...N ) rather than having to type in and remember the desired channel number.
He just uses "ants and swarms" to replace "daemon and daemons".
His research is based on a network of 64 computers and has identified all sorts of different types of security breach that can be detected on a network (unauthorized ssh/ftp, botnet commands, spam-mailer, virus-in-a-mail-message, backdoor trojan) and that it might not be possible to detect where the originating commands are coming from - a whole load of servers or PC's might be infected.
The article states that there is a performance gain from having a separate task to detect each of these (he calls these ants). Since there are so many files, ports and devices to be checked, it is better to have multiple copies of each task. OS people would call these 'daemons'. Testing for all of these security breach requires a "swarm of ants" or a "plague of daemons" (whatever the aggreggate work of daemon is).
I guess talking about daemons in the server network would probably scare the h*ll out of Christian Managers.
One time I took a flight. For whatever reason, the airport staff (or Ryanair) insisted that all hand luggage must be put in the hold of the plane. I was forced to put my laptop bag in the hold of the plane. Needless to say, when it came back, the CCFL tube of the backlight was broken. Fortunately, it was insured, but an inconvenience anyway.
I remember that back in 1986 - even the home computers at the time supporting 16-color video modes while the PC only had CGA. Several years later, computers like the Atari ST, Amiga, Archimedes, Next workstation all had GUI systems, while PC's were stuck with Windows 3.1, which was used most of the time to play solitaire or minesweeper.
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Intel's Larrabee multi-core CPU/GPU should be interesting to see.
Is the guy who put his http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_2nN7kimMk still around?
And you just know some geek will figure out a way of following somebody (if not themselves) around using all the webcams and putting the video up on Youtube. Maybe they will use Google maps and some 3D mathematics to work out how all the camera projection spaces intersect.
Look at supercomputing architectures - in the past many systems were based on message passing between individual CPU's or nodes. That requires custom communication software/hardware to handle data transfers. Alternatively, you can memory map the memory space of each node into a 'global' memory map. Then you can write scalable software that works from a single CPU to thousands of CPU's. A 32-bit memory address gives you 4 Gigabytes, but if you want a single memory map for a system with thousands of nodes, then you need another 16-bits. Add some more bits for multicasting and broadcasting, and you get 128 bits.
Microsoft has been aiming towards high-performance computing recently, working with companies like Nvidia. If you are going to have racks and racks of CPU's/GPU's, it would make sense to have everything accessible using a single memory space.
Canada does the same - first thing anyone who wishes to buy property or a second hand car, is to check to see if there are any outstanding liens. Oh yes, and check to see that the seller is the actual seller and not a renting tenant looking to make a quick sale by selling their landlords property.
The price charged by Nextronics for LCD screen repairs is even worse. They charge you something like $2600 to $3200 for a new screen, but if you part exchange it, they give you half price (motherboards are the same). Except of course, if you were to buy the LCD screen (Hitachi 17") it would be around $400 from the hardware supplier.
The hard disks drives are even worse. For a new 250 GB laptop hard disk drive, it would cost you around $2500
You mean like the "America Police Force" private detention facility in Hardin, Montana?
Thanks for the correction - it's the same outcome. Some developers may want to have both Nvidia and Ati boards in a desktop at the same time. Maybe even some users. Nvidia doesn't want to be pigeonholed as the maker of physics-accelerator boards.
Though, it just seems a little bit queeny of them to go "we're not going to let you use our board for physics unless you use it for graphics as well."
I do use an Geforce 8800 card, so I am familiar with the physics acceleration on those cards.
Notice the focus on words like "ecosystem", "religion" and placing the blame on machines and people. No mention of vulnerable drivers, protocols or applications.
Practical things would be
o Develop reliable methods of network protocol design to prevent vulnerabilites in network services.
o Proper application design so that the above aren't compromised by feature bloat of applications. "Hey, let's add macros and automatic E-mail sending/receiving to our application. Never know when it might come in useful".
A similar thing happened with Adlib and Creative Labs. Adlib brought out a sound card that uses a music synthesizer chip. Creative Labs design their own card that is register compatible with the Adlib card plus add a microphone/playback feature for voice sampling. This puts Adlib out of business - didn't matter what they did, Creative Labs board is compatible with all the releases of their software.
Nvidia and ATI are in a similar position. NVidia researches and develops optimized software to perform 3D physics on the GPU hardware. Much to their annoyance, ATI gets smarmy and modifies their drivers so that NVidia PhysX can be natively on their boards, effectively getting NVidia to pay their own engineers to optimize their software to run on their competitors hardware.
Stansted and Edinburgh airport do that as well (perhaps all airports). You go into the airport, check in your hold luggage and keep your laptop with you using a laptop bag. No problem. Go shopping, buy a newspaper, a Wired magazine and some shortbread biscuits for gifts. Still no problem. Put these items into a plastic bag. Now, we have a problem. You now have *TWO* bags.
Normally, security would just put these into separate plastic trays and scan them separately. Now, the airline companies like Virgin and Easyjey employ some smart-asses (usually in yellow or orange T-shirts) to *ENSURE* that *EVERYONE* puts everything into the largest bag before being allowed through to
security, so that everyone is carrying only one bag. What do the security people do? Require that everything is taken out of the bag and scanned separately.
I've seen lots of companies do that (defence companies, medical prosthetics). The defence companies would have a prototype system that would consist of rack mounted circuitboards, then they would repackage everything into a single ASIC chip within six months. The medical companies made artificial hands which had an external circuit board controller that was packaged into a shielded box along with a battery pack belt. That was reduced down to a chip and battery that went into the wrist of the prosthetic hand.
The drug was Levamisole and Ergamisol
Some time ago, there was a drug manufactured for the treatment of sheep (a fatal digestive problem or something similar), which was marketed at $5 per head of sheep, since this was all farmers could afford. Then some medical research discovered that the same medical compound worked on humans as well. This was marketed at $50,000 per person, since that was all insurance companies could afford. After all, how much is a human life worth?
There are some similar ideas for camouflage
Razzle Dazzle or just plain ugly? . The idea was that while you couldn't hide the existence of a ship visible to the periscope of a submariner, you could give him a blinding headache while he squinted through the eyeglass trying to see past the mist, fog, icebergs and waves to determine which end of the ship was which.
Jasper Maskelyne used searchlights combined with an inverted rotating cone of mirrors to create 9 mile radius rotating pinwheels of light that would disorient pilots.
Those $16 visi-glo LED light dog collars have an instruction leaflet that has a hazard warning label: "flashing LED's may induce epileptic seizures"
Many CPU's in the past had Halt and Catch Fire instructions.
With Gmail, you have six options; keep E-mail on their server and access it through the web, forward it to another E-mail address, forward and delete it, download it, or download and delete it. The judge won't have achieved anything by freezing the account and it has one of the downloading or forwarding options set up.
Direct TV satellite dish converted into a solar reflector
I've tried explaining computer technology to my retired relatives..
Me: "Ok, here's your power cable - that plugs into the back of the base unit just like your DVD player. The cable here goes to the screen just like the SCART connctor to the TV. Now this is the keyboard which is just like a typewriter keyboard, and this is the mouse...."
Relative: "What? Where's the mouse? That plastic thing there? It doesn't look much like a mouse to me. Where are it's whiskers, feet and tail?"
Me: "OK, let's call it an input device. You hold it in your hand and move it around like this. When you want to select something, you press or click the button here..."
And you don't even want to try to explain to them why they can't just use the TV remote to type in the letters of the channel they want to watch (e. C..N...N ) rather than having to type in and remember the desired channel number.
Who remembers Operating System lectures where the professor talked about semaphore signals, monitors and deadlock, or scanners
He just uses "ants and swarms" to replace "daemon and daemons".
His research is based on a network of 64 computers and has identified all sorts of different types of security breach that can be detected on a network (unauthorized ssh/ftp, botnet commands, spam-mailer, virus-in-a-mail-message, backdoor trojan) and that it might not be possible to detect where the originating commands are coming from - a whole load of servers or PC's might be infected.
The article states that there is a performance gain from having a separate task to detect each of these (he calls these ants). Since there are so many files, ports and devices to be checked, it is better to have multiple copies of each task. OS people would call these 'daemons'. Testing for all of these security breach requires a "swarm of ants" or a "plague of daemons" (whatever the aggreggate work of daemon is).
I guess talking about daemons in the server network would probably scare the h*ll out of Christian Managers.
One time I took a flight. For whatever reason, the airport staff (or Ryanair) insisted that all hand luggage must be put in the hold of the plane. I was forced to put my laptop bag in the hold of the plane. Needless to say, when it came back, the CCFL tube of the backlight was broken. Fortunately, it was insured, but an inconvenience anyway.
I remember that back in 1986 - even the home computers at the time supporting 16-color video modes while the PC only had CGA. Several years later, computers like the Atari ST, Amiga, Archimedes, Next workstation all had GUI systems, while PC's were stuck with Windows 3.1, which was used most of the time to play solitaire or minesweeper.
Did the screen work when you got the laptop back?