without a view of the exterior, airsickness would likely increase... because a discrepancy between what you feel and what you see is what causes your inner ear to tell you it's time to blow chow.
The large print arabic numerals on the bills should be a tip-off as to their value. If people can't read numerals to determine value, how can they do the arithmetic to tell whether they got the correct change?
What's next? A cash register that resembles a twister board? "That'll be two reds, a blue, oh and left foot green"
Don't nations worldwide have control over how their physical locations are addressed? Why would it make sense that ICANN or any other entity would have control over virtual addresses that want to affiliate with their physical location?
Isn't long distance telephony infrastructure also controlled by a few massive corporations? Equal access carrier laws and preventing a single company from owning the whole thing has fostered enough competition to really hammer AT&T, for instance.
IBM is really in the R&D/Intellectual Property
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They give financial bonuses to anyone in the company who files a patent... they run a great public, free patent search database... and they defend and license them with vigor.
I am curious whether they will still do hard disk drive R&D, or just mass storage R&D. Given all that IBM has cooking in its labs, it could be that they want out of hard drives because "the end is nigh" for that mode of storage.
I'd look at storage innovations and patents filed by IBM in the last 5 years or so to see whether this is actually the case...
"Overall, the displays are working great and we are on track to achieve our goal of having 100% of the Xbox interactive displays working correctly and demonstrating the Xbox difference."
I thought the point was that they ARE demonstrating the Xbox difference?
Because you'll see large numbers of users coming from single IP addresses in the case of proxies. Think AOL, WebTV,...
Today's hardware is designed to distribute sticky sessions randomly or round-robin, resulting in more uniform load distribution than your "smart" hash.
Labor is by far the biggest cost in an effort like this.
You can get, say 2TB of storage, a set of 2 2-way IBM H80 web servers, a 4-way M80 database server with 4GB of RAM for database, and a high-end failover H80 to back up the M80. Add to that a fully-redundant 100BT Cisco Router/Firewall/Switch setup. Add to that Oracle licensing costs for the whole setup.
Hundreds of millions? You could buy a setup like this and set up a seriously scalable web site for under $1 million just over a year ago... I know, I did it.
The parent to this post is not "Insightful". It is "Wrong"
Maybe it's just me, but if your specialty is high performance vector operations targeted specifically at graphic-intensive programs applications like games where vector operations are CPU-bound, then why would you not just code a superfast set of assembly routines for vector operations that are tuned for the various processors, and provide them as a C library that the world can use with their compiler of choice?
It seems like the alternative with VectorC is for me to implement my own vector libraries anyway and then hope your compiler is both clever enough to figure out how to optimize my code, and robust enough not to break on other constructs.
I'm not trying to be hostile, just curious. Perhaps there are tons more programs besides graphics / games that benefit from VectorC's optimization? Otherwise, it looks like you've implemented an entire C compiler to get a few features you could add to an existing one otherwise.
If Verizon fulfilled their Geek Guard duties with all the rapidity that they, say, install DSL lines for competing DSL providers, they would have "rescheduled" their disaster response three times and we'd have an appointment for early November right now.
Quick! Get a breathalyzer on the news item submitter!
I had at least three classes where we worked in teams of 3 or 4 people (Software engineering, Graphics, and Compilers). The TA / professor would determine the grade for the team, and also solicit the team members' input on all the other team members. If there was a disparity, you all sat down together and worked it out. Sadly, that happened in 2 of the 3 cases for me, where our group had a true stand-out zero contributor.
It would have been useful if they'd provided some rudimentary project planning and management instruction also.
I've always wondered why people use the expression 'talking about a person behind their back', when that would clearly be talking about them in front of them?
I spent several months working with HP about 5 years ago, and they had a saying inside the company that went something to the effect that if HP were trying to market, say, a Bacon Cheeseburger, they'd call it "Fried dead cow and pig on a bun with dairy and plant matter."
This presumes your application is all on one box. Many if not most serious web applications talk to a separate [physical] database server, which could be Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, whatever...
As long as the database interfaces invoked in the IIS / ASP code can be ported (ASP's ADO wrappers to JDBC or whatever PHP uses), you would be up and running (though maybe with 2 OS supporting the same application but hey).
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The Sound of Silence, indeed.
but if it has a "Popcorn" button, it's gold!
it's microsoft!
a human footprint that takes up 83% of the earth's surface? Call the National Enquirer!
without a view of the exterior, airsickness would likely increase... because a discrepancy between what you feel and what you see is what causes your inner ear to tell you it's time to blow chow.
Now a combination death ray and cell phone -- THAT would be something!
The large print arabic numerals on the bills should be a tip-off as to their value. If people can't read numerals to determine value, how can they do the arithmetic to tell whether they got the correct change? What's next? A cash register that resembles a twister board? "That'll be two reds, a blue, oh and left foot green"
Doncha mean switching providers would be like pulling teeth?
DivX : Putting the X in X-Box.
Don't nations worldwide have control over how their physical locations are addressed? Why would it make sense that ICANN or any other entity would have control over virtual addresses that want to affiliate with their physical location?
Isn't long distance telephony infrastructure also controlled by a few massive corporations? Equal access carrier laws and preventing a single company from owning the whole thing has fostered enough competition to really hammer AT&T, for instance.
They give financial bonuses to anyone in the company who files a patent... they run a great public, free patent search database... and they defend and license them with vigor. I am curious whether they will still do hard disk drive R&D, or just mass storage R&D. Given all that IBM has cooking in its labs, it could be that they want out of hard drives because "the end is nigh" for that mode of storage. I'd look at storage innovations and patents filed by IBM in the last 5 years or so to see whether this is actually the case...
Because you'll see large numbers of users coming from single IP addresses in the case of proxies. Think AOL, WebTV, ...
Today's hardware is designed to distribute sticky sessions randomly or round-robin, resulting in more uniform load distribution than your "smart" hash.
Labor is by far the biggest cost in an effort like this.
You can get, say 2TB of storage, a set of 2 2-way IBM H80 web servers, a 4-way M80 database server with 4GB of RAM for database, and a high-end failover H80 to back up the M80. Add to that a fully-redundant 100BT Cisco Router/Firewall/Switch setup. Add to that Oracle licensing costs for the whole setup.
Hundreds of millions? You could buy a setup like this and set up a seriously scalable web site for under $1 million just over a year ago... I know, I did it.
The parent to this post is not "Insightful". It is "Wrong"
Maybe it's just me, but if your specialty is high performance vector operations targeted specifically at graphic-intensive programs applications like games where vector operations are CPU-bound, then why would you not just code a superfast set of assembly routines for vector operations that are tuned for the various processors, and provide them as a C library that the world can use with their compiler of choice?
It seems like the alternative with VectorC is for me to implement my own vector libraries anyway and then hope your compiler is both clever enough to figure out how to optimize my code, and robust enough not to break on other constructs.
I'm not trying to be hostile, just curious. Perhaps there are tons more programs besides graphics / games that benefit from VectorC's optimization? Otherwise, it looks like you've implemented an entire C compiler to get a few features you could add to an existing one otherwise.
I had at least three classes where we worked in teams of 3 or 4 people (Software engineering, Graphics, and Compilers). The TA / professor would determine the grade for the team, and also solicit the team members' input on all the other team members. If there was a disparity, you all sat down together and worked it out. Sadly, that happened in 2 of the 3 cases for me, where our group had a true stand-out zero contributor.
It would have been useful if they'd provided some rudimentary project planning and management instruction also.
Now all we need is breathalyzers for email!
I've always wondered why people use the expression 'talking about a person behind their back', when that would clearly be talking about them in front of them?
It kinda smells like Eudyptes chrysolophus for the laid of HP-UX people!
I spent several months working with HP about 5 years ago, and they had a saying inside the company that went something to the effect that if HP were trying to market, say, a Bacon Cheeseburger, they'd call it "Fried dead cow and pig on a bun with dairy and plant matter."
Postus primus
Posta prima
Postum primum
take your pick depending on gender. In your case the third is probably appropriate.
This presumes your application is all on one box. Many if not most serious web applications talk to a separate [physical] database server, which could be Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, MySQL, whatever ...
As long as the database interfaces invoked in the IIS / ASP code can be ported (ASP's ADO wrappers to JDBC or whatever PHP uses), you would be up and running (though maybe with 2 OS supporting the same application but hey).