No, someone should only buy them after SCO looses the lawsuit and the stock price plumets, and then release all of SCO's supposed IP to the public domain.
If it were me, I'd also buy Daryl for the night -- as a special gift to the goatse guy.
his assertion that free software is the domain of hackers/tinkerers/students
I think he meant crackers. Of course OSS is often written by "hackers" -- in the correct sense of the word. I'd rather that than have it written by marketing or MBA's.
He probably has a grant from Microsoft. You'd be surprised...
Efficiency is strongly dependent on the interconnect. Does anyone know if the 128 node benchmark (that supposedly showed ~80% efficiency) was run with only one Infiniband switch -- i.e. all nodes connected through only one switch?
BTW, the performance never was stated to be 17 TF, so it did notdrop to 7.4 (or whatever it ends up to be).
I'm in the same boat. Why can't cellphone manufacturers make one or two models with all of the bells-and-whistles except the camera?
Feel lucky that you have your T68i. I'm in need of a phone, and only the Siemens S56 and SL56 seem to be relatively high-end GSM phones without built-in cameras. What I'd really like is a Sony Ericsson T616...
Yea, I have a $150 softcover textbook (from the USA) that looks like it was photocopied. For that price they could afford real cloth binding and decent printing. But why should the publishers bother?
Most of the students from South America and Asia bring these books from home, and often they are essentially softcover photocopies. Still worth it to get a $120 book for $20, as long as you don't need it for a life-long reference.
Both prescription drugs and books -- 10x the price in the USA than anywhere else.
Sharing music with users on the same computer is trivial: just tell everyone to set the "iTunes music folder" (in preferences->advanced) to the same location, and copy all of your existing music there.
Everytime someone else rips new music the other users will need to run file->"add music to library" and then select either the entire iTunes music folder, or just the songs of interest.
Works great for my wife and I. The only issue we've run into so far deals with file permissions (on OS X). We've created a new user group (using NetInfo), and run chown and "chmod -R g+rw". Unfortunately, when iTunes rips a CD by a new artist it creates the new folder with only read permissions for the group. Guess I need to mess around with umask or somesuch.
Oddly enough, I received the following seminar announcement this morning (hope Dr. Santiago doesn't mind):
Electrokinetic Microfluidic Systems
Prof. Juan G. Santiago, Stanford
October 14, 3:00 pm
Abstract
Electrokinetics involves the interaction of solid surfaces, ionic solutions, and electric fields. Electric fields can be used to generate bulk fluid motion (electroosmosis) and to separate charged species (electrophoresis). Microfabrication technology has enabled the application of electrokinetics as a method of performing chemical analyses and achieving liquid pumping in electronically-controlled microsystems with no moving parts. These systems have the potential to provide higher throughput, reduced sample consumption, and higher sensitivity than traditional devices.
This seminar reviews progress at Stanford including fundamental studies of electrokinetic flows with ionic conductivity gradients and a review several novel methods for on-chip capillary electrophoresis (CE). Novel methods developed for on-chip CE include shape-optimized channel turns, optimal injection methods, and a two-dimensional system combining CE and isoelectric focusing. We are currently studying both conductivity-gradient-based sample stacking and a newly identified flow instability that occurs in electrokinetic microflow systems with conductivity gradients. Field amplified sample stacking leverages conductivity gradients as a robust method of increasing sample concentration prior to CE separation. We have developed a dispersion model that can be used to optimize the sensitivity and resolution of sample-stacked assays. We are studying electrokinetic flow instabilities by obtaining flow visualizations for a systematic variation of experimental parameters, and developing theoretical models including linear analysis and nonlinear simulation. This work shows that electric body forces associated with the accumulation of charge in the bulk liquid are crucial to these instabilities. Suppression or avoidance of electrokinetic flow instabilities is directly applicable to sample stacking as conductivity-gradient-induced instabilities limit stacking efficiency. Promotion of electrokinetic instabilities enables rapid mixing at micron scales, which is critical to increasing the throughput of a variety of binding assays.
The graphite outer ring (blue) was not perfectly sealed with the bottom of the chamber (grey) and moved downward very slightly. This opened several gas paths between the ring and the ablative material (beige) which then melted the back of the chamber and led to thrust vectoring. This phenomenon did not occur during the static fire test.
So it looks like the test did ultimately fail due to a problem with the engine. Nevertheless, the rocket did fly.
The issue is not that telemarketers have the "free speach" right to call people who have expressly asked not to be called, but rather that the DNC list _allows_ charities and others to call anyway! What the ruling said was that the Gov't doesn't have the right to curtail the speach of a select group.
In that sense I agree: give us a DNC list without loopholes!
Do you know they are using SuSE, or just guessing? I was wondering if Apple developed Infiniband drivers so they could tout OSX as the OS.
I'd personally probably pick Black Lab on Yellow Dog Linux -- it's specifically developed for clustering, and includes libraries tuned for Altivec. Not that I don't like SuSE (I run it on my Thinkpad), but SuSE PPC is still at version 7.3, while Intel is at 8.2.
The interconnect is Infiniband by Mellanox. These things get 10Gbps bandwidth with 6us latency under MPI. Very decent stuff. There is more information at the site above.
Note that 1100*$3000 = $3M. This doesn't include the 4GB RAM, but also doesn't include any volume discounts. Thus the interconnect may cost about $2M.
Oh, and to the guy who said "4 Athlons + Myranet is the same price as one G5" -- can I have some of what you're smoking?
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No, someone should only buy them after SCO looses the lawsuit and the stock price plumets, and then release all of SCO's supposed IP to the public domain.
If it were me, I'd also buy Daryl for the night -- as a special gift to the goatse guy.
Divide and conquor
Just be glad they aren't resorting to their most famous tactic:
Embrace, extend, extinguish
That only proves that radio is dead.
My computer is not in the same room where I would notmally play CDs when entertaining anyway.
That's why you need a networked stereo receiver.
(or an iPod and a free input on your existing receiver).
his assertion that free software is the domain of hackers/tinkerers/students
I think he meant crackers. Of course OSS is often written by "hackers" -- in the correct sense of the word. I'd rather that than have it written by marketing or MBA's.
He probably has a grant from Microsoft. You'd be surprised...
Efficiency is strongly dependent on the interconnect. Does anyone know if the 128 node benchmark (that supposedly showed ~80% efficiency) was run with only one Infiniband switch -- i.e. all nodes connected through only one switch?
BTW, the performance never was stated to be 17 TF, so it did not drop to 7.4 (or whatever it ends up to be).
The 8910i looks great, but won't work in the USA...
I'm in the same boat. Why can't cellphone manufacturers make one or two models with all of the bells-and-whistles except the camera?
Feel lucky that you have your T68i. I'm in need of a phone, and only the Siemens S56 and SL56 seem to be relatively high-end GSM phones without built-in cameras. What I'd really like is a Sony Ericsson T616...
Permanent public access? Linking from slashdot may be less than beneficial in the short term...
Yea, I have a $150 softcover textbook (from the USA) that looks like it was photocopied. For that price they could afford real cloth binding and decent printing. But why should the publishers bother?
the printing and binding is often pretty bad.
Most of the students from South America and Asia bring these books from home, and often they are essentially softcover photocopies. Still worth it to get a $120 book for $20, as long as you don't need it for a life-long reference.
Both prescription drugs and books -- 10x the price in the USA than anywhere else.
Yea, whatever.
Sharing music with users on the same computer is trivial: just tell everyone to set the "iTunes music folder" (in preferences->advanced) to the same location, and copy all of your existing music there.
Everytime someone else rips new music the other users will need to run file->"add music to library" and then select either the entire iTunes music folder, or just the songs of interest.
Works great for my wife and I. The only issue we've run into so far deals with file permissions (on OS X). We've created a new user group (using NetInfo), and run chown and "chmod -R g+rw". Unfortunately, when iTunes rips a CD by a new artist it creates the new folder with only read permissions for the group. Guess I need to mess around with umask or somesuch.
a master plan that will not be fulfilled until my pants are running Windows CE
Great. Now I have to clean coffee out of my keyboard...
--
OSS panties: "Free as in freedom!"
If people start coding for the standards-complient browsers instead of IE
You don't work for a PHB do you?
I agree completely, I just don't think it'll happen any time soon.
Too bad I cannot go...
BTW, WTF is up with
The new company at least will give a damn about its chip business -- it's all they've got -- something that Mot itself never did.
Surprised they didn't sell it, but they probably couldn't find any takers.
is also a CIO.
Feel free to get me one too. The Learjet 60 perhaps?
Shure makes some incredible earphones, and they are $500. Work as earplugs too.
They are even better if you get custom made inserts.
I've been happy with my similar (but $50) Fontopia MDR-EX71SL headphones from Sony, but have been eyeing these others for a while.
From the site provided in another link:
The graphite outer ring (blue) was not perfectly sealed with the bottom of the chamber (grey) and moved downward very slightly. This opened several gas paths between the ring and the ablative material (beige) which then melted the back of the chamber and led to thrust vectoring. This phenomenon did not occur during the static fire test.
So it looks like the test did ultimately fail due to a problem with the engine. Nevertheless, the rocket did fly.
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Why yes, I AM a rocket scientist.
The issue is not that telemarketers have the "free speach" right to call people who have expressly asked not to be called, but rather that the DNC list _allows_ charities and others to call anyway! What the ruling said was that the Gov't doesn't have the right to curtail the speach of a select group.
In that sense I agree: give us a DNC list without loopholes!
Do you know they are using SuSE, or just guessing? I was wondering if Apple developed Infiniband drivers so they could tout OSX as the OS.
I'd personally probably pick Black Lab on Yellow Dog Linux -- it's specifically developed for clustering, and includes libraries tuned for Altivec. Not that I don't like SuSE (I run it on my Thinkpad), but SuSE PPC is still at version 7.3, while Intel is at 8.2.
I agree that an Xserve G5 would be much more space efficient, but remember that VT supposedly went with Apple over HP/Dell because of ship date.
The interconnect is Infiniband by Mellanox. These things get 10Gbps bandwidth with 6us latency under MPI. Very decent stuff. There is more information at the site above.
Note that 1100*$3000 = $3M. This doesn't include the 4GB RAM, but also doesn't include any volume discounts. Thus the interconnect may cost about $2M.
Oh, and to the guy who said "4 Athlons + Myranet is the same price as one G5" -- can I have some of what you're smoking?
So my cellphone just burst into flames. Does anyone on Slashdot have an idea what I should do?