They will probably bring the computer across part by part; case, transformer, motherboard, CPU, keyboard, mouse, hard disk drive and CD/DVD drive. Look at all the custom mod cases that people in Europe, USA and Canada have done. It shouldn't be any different for Cuba.
I'm amazed that so many people can be coordinated in such a confined space. There's a new building being built on my local campus. At most there are never more than 10 workmen on site at any time, and even then, they are always working in separate areas, operating machinery (elevators, cranes, clamps for plate glass).
Are the builders of this system required to wear beards and black hats?
I've seen the websites where the Amish organise barn-raising parties. It's quite impressive. The womenfolk make sandwiches and other light meals, while the menfolk completely construct and assemble the parts to make a three or four floor structure. Presumably they can construct a house in the same amount of time?
When I was in high school, the kids (white middle class) would copy the behavior/gestures of the characters in Hollywood prison movies.
And the hospitals would always have stories of kids who had injured themselves while wearing a Superman outfit.
Let the game reflects the true consequences of drunk driving. Car crashes and bursts into flames, player is left with scarred face/body. Car crashes without player wearing seatbelt - let the player complete the game in a wheelchair.
Another example is the auto-comment feature in vi/vim. If you try to copy-and-paste a cutting of text which has comments in it, vim will happily add its own comment double slashes (//'s) after every comment in your text. The result is a complete mess-up.
You can disable this feature with 'set paste' and 'set nopaste', but when you have 'set paste' on, you don't get to see what line number/column you are at. It's almost as if you are being told, "Fine, you can refuse to use auto-commenting, but we're not going to let you see where you are instead".
A bit like the desktop which refuses to open an image file because it doesn't have the exact extension that it expects(.tif vs.tiff or.tga.targa).
Looks like they are just adding up the raw theoretical capacity of every device. They would have to perform a complete scan of every disk block to see if anything was there or not.
From the article, there were 4634 exams, and 11,781 floppy disk. That amounts to just under 3 floppy disks per case. It wouldn't be too difficult to imagine that anyone with a computer might just have a few floppy disks lying around which originally came from hardware purchases (device drivers, software upgrades, freebie applications from magazines, AOL subscriptions).
Mobile phones are coming with 1,2 and 4 Gigabytes of flash memory storage now, so that is no surprise.
The problem with high-end animation is that you need to load in many different textures and geometry models before being able to render the final image and write out a single frame. Most of the supercomputer work seems to have everything in CPU node memory at the same time, and just run one iteration instantly (a 2048^3 3D grid of CFD cells for simulating supernova).
Previous research in parallel processing tried allocating processing nodes to different locations in the scene or different geometric models, or just using a whoever-is-available-at-the-time algorithm. Pixel-planes tried allocating one processor per pixel.
The hope is that the EU system will be so accurate, it will allow for motorists to pay their road tax using a pay-as-you-go system, where every half mile of road has its own toll price.
Personally, I don't see how this is going to work with complex freeway junctions, parking underneath motorway underpasses or driveways parallel to dual carriageways (but separated by a wall and some vegetation).
I have some problems with my Fedora Core 8 system as well - in some applications the sound will suddenly change to white noise before making all sorts of twangy and poppy noises. The only solution is to restart the application - is this pulseaudio?
Booting off a Live CD is fairly obvious - the CD drive makes a loud buzzing noise and the activity light flashes on and off.
If they wanted to make a copy of your drive, then they would probably do a sector-by-sector copy or a sector-dump. Though, transferring data from a 80Gb (let along a 250Gb or a pair of 500Gb drives is going to take several hours). As others have said, the most obvious places to look are the "My Documents", "My Images", "My Videos" and "Documents and Settings/Desktop" directories in Windows.
Booting from a flash drive would seem the best option; it's silent and some memory sticks have large enough to store an entire live DVD.
Another thing is to have your home directory on an external drive. If you have ever upgraded to a larger disk drive, and moved files across directory by directory before deleting the originals and restoring the drive partition to its full theoretical capacity, it is amazing to see how much other data is being squirreled away by the desktop and OS. Thumbnail directories, index files, registry files, cache directories, hidden configuration directories (.firefox etc...) all store stuff.
It's easier to carry that sort of stuff on an external drive rather than having it on the laptop at all.
That way streamed, latency sensitive connections will allocate the bandwidth they need and torrents will take up whatever is left.
And then somebody will invent a P2P file transfer protocol that disguises itself as a streamed latency sensitive connection. So everyone ends up being back to where they were before.
Every so often, there's a corporate interview in the business section of the newspapers, where the journalist talks to CEO or HR manager about the company. In the past, they would be boastful about how they would get 25 qualified engineers applying for each position and that they would only hire one or two. At least until the interviewer asked what happened to the other twenty or so. Do they disappear or don't they end up working for your competitors instead?
I've seen people trying to drive in the rain when the road surface is wet and visibilty is reduced - they drive at exactly the same speed as they would when the road is dry and visibility is at it's best.
Your are referring to the time when it was decided that the linux kernel should have an 8K stack rather than a 4K stack, and while this didn't affect any applications, it broke any driver which used kernel stack memory?
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They will probably bring the computer across part by part; case, transformer, motherboard, CPU, keyboard, mouse, hard disk drive and CD/DVD drive. Look at all the custom mod cases that people in Europe, USA and Canada have done. It shouldn't be any different for Cuba.
I'm interested in learning more - do you have any more links? From many slashdot articles, people have a bad opinion of ATI drivers.
Delays are mainly due to disagreements between different vendors rather than any one company wanting to slow the show down.
Look at the early OpenGL registry extension specifications - vendors couldn't even agree on what vector arithmetic instructions to implement.
Commonly known as the "2x4 of motivation" by senior management.
No, I've just visited photography web-pages dedicated to the craft of barn-raising:
Amish Barn-Raising
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I'm amazed that so many people can be coordinated in such a confined space. There's a new building being built on my local campus. At most there are never more than 10 workmen on site at any time, and even then, they are always working in separate areas, operating machinery (elevators, cranes, clamps for plate glass).
Are the builders of this system required to wear beards and black hats?
I've seen the websites where the Amish organise barn-raising parties. It's quite impressive. The womenfolk make sandwiches and other light meals, while the menfolk completely construct and assemble the parts to make a three or four floor structure. Presumably they can construct a house in the same amount of time?
When I was in high school, the kids (white middle class) would copy the behavior/gestures of the characters in Hollywood prison movies.
And the hospitals would always have stories of kids who had injured themselves while wearing a Superman outfit.
Let the game reflects the true consequences of drunk driving. Car crashes and bursts into flames, player is left with scarred face/body. Car crashes without player wearing seatbelt - let the player complete the game in a wheelchair.
Another example is the auto-comment feature in vi/vim. If you try to copy-and-paste a cutting of text which has comments in it, vim will happily add its own comment double slashes (//'s) after every comment in your text. The result is a complete mess-up.
.tif vs .tiff or .tga .targa).
You can disable this feature with 'set paste' and 'set nopaste', but when you have 'set paste' on, you don't get to see what line number/column you are at. It's almost as if you are being told, "Fine, you can refuse to use auto-commenting, but we're not going to let you see where you are instead".
A bit like the desktop which refuses to open an image file because it doesn't have the exact extension that it expects(
Tentacles
Looks like they are just adding up the raw theoretical capacity of every device. They would have to perform a complete scan of every disk block to see if anything was there or not.
From the article, there were 4634 exams, and 11,781 floppy disk. That amounts to just under 3 floppy disks per case. It wouldn't be too difficult to imagine that anyone with a computer might just have a few floppy disks lying around which originally came from hardware purchases (device drivers, software upgrades, freebie applications from magazines, AOL subscriptions).
Mobile phones are coming with 1,2 and 4 Gigabytes of flash memory storage now, so that is no surprise.
Do the arithmetic. Assuming that the average size hard disk drive is 60-80 Gigabytes, then the totals add up:
CD's: 37,424 x 650 Megabytes = 24325600 Megabytes
HD's: 17,378 x 70 Gigabytes = 1245655040 Megabytes
Floppy's: 11,781 x * 1.4 Megabytes = 16493.4 Megabytes
DVD's: 4374 x 4 Gigabytes = 17915904 Megabytes
Total = 1287913037.4 Megabytes
= 1287913.0374 Gigabytes
= 1287.9130374 Terabytes
The problem with high-end animation is that you need to load in many different textures and geometry models before being able to render the final image and write out a single frame. Most of the supercomputer work seems to have everything in CPU node memory at the same time, and just run one iteration instantly (a 2048^3 3D grid of CFD cells for simulating supernova).
Previous research in parallel processing tried allocating processing nodes to different locations in the scene or different geometric models, or just using a whoever-is-available-at-the-time algorithm. Pixel-planes tried allocating one processor per pixel.
A relevant article at Outlook Business
The hope is that the EU system will be so accurate, it will allow for motorists to pay their road tax using a pay-as-you-go system, where every half mile of road has its own toll price.
Personally, I don't see how this is going to work with complex freeway junctions, parking underneath motorway underpasses or driveways parallel to dual carriageways (but separated by a wall and some vegetation).
I remember reading in the "Three Of a Kind" annual (with Lenny Henry), a Londoners freeway map of the UK. It was quite simple. It read:
Scotland
|
|
| M1 (The North ^)
|
London
There was nothing between London and Scotland except for the narrow strip of the M1.
A bowlful of Lucky Charms
I have some problems with my Fedora Core 8 system as well - in some applications the sound will suddenly change to white noise before making all sorts of twangy and poppy noises. The only solution is to restart the application - is this pulseaudio?
Booting off a Live CD is fairly obvious - the CD drive makes a loud buzzing noise and the activity light flashes on and off.
If they wanted to make a copy of your drive, then they would probably do a sector-by-sector copy or a sector-dump. Though, transferring data from a 80Gb (let along a 250Gb or a pair of 500Gb drives is going to take several hours). As others have said, the most obvious places to look are the "My Documents", "My Images", "My Videos" and "Documents and Settings/Desktop" directories in Windows.
Booting from a flash drive would seem the best option; it's silent and some memory sticks have large enough to store an entire live DVD.
Another thing is to have your home directory on an external drive. If you have ever upgraded to a larger disk drive, and moved files across directory by directory before deleting the originals and restoring the drive partition to its full theoretical capacity, it is amazing to see how much other data is being squirreled away by the desktop and OS. Thumbnail directories, index files, registry files, cache directories, hidden configuration directories (.firefox etc...) all store stuff.
It's easier to carry that sort of stuff on an external drive rather than having it on the laptop at all.
That way streamed, latency sensitive connections will allocate the bandwidth they need and torrents will take up whatever is left.
And then somebody will invent a P2P file transfer protocol that disguises itself as a streamed latency sensitive connection. So everyone ends up being back to where they were before.
But they end up pranging their cars into electricity poles, T-boning at intersections and tailgating into the car in front.
Still, it's cheap material for reality TV shows.
Every so often, there's a corporate interview in the business section of the newspapers, where the journalist talks to CEO or HR manager about the company. In the past, they would be boastful about how they would get 25 qualified engineers applying for each position and that they would only hire one or two. At least until the interviewer asked what happened to the other twenty or so. Do they disappear or don't they end up working for your competitors instead?
I've seen people trying to drive in the rain when the road surface is wet and visibilty is reduced - they drive at exactly the same speed as they would when the road is dry and visibility is at it's best.
It's like a liquid lunch, just more bubbly.
You can buy a single external 500 GB hard disk drive for 60 pounds or 120 dollars.
Were the apes taught correct grammar or were they just taught the basic noun signs? I, You, want, give, take, apple, food, water, etc...
Your are referring to the time when it was decided that the linux kernel should have an 8K stack rather than a 4K stack, and while this didn't affect any applications, it broke any driver which used kernel stack memory?