Go RTFA. He didn't say that. Bush said that we should, and will, continue stem cell research, both embryonic and adult. However, since the science is still in a fledgling state and currently offers little/no hope to those who are currently/recently diagnosed with things that *may* be solvable in the future by stem cell research, we shouldn't be giving them false hope by saying that there will be a cure for them next week. Barring some amazing breakthroughs, stem cell research is still probably a 20-year-out technology.
I have (and have had in the past) many Win2K boxes and Windows XP boxes that run 24/7 except for forced reboots from software patches and/or hardware installation.
One Win2K server I helped maintain had a better uptime than most of our Suns and other Unix boxes. Mostly because it was well protected from the 'net and we didn't patch it.
As far as other OSs, my Linux servers also run 24/7 and have a high uptime. However, as of late, we've been notified (by the various distribution patch notification tools) of more software patches than on Windows by a long shot. My SuSE 9.1 Professional box, for instance, hasn't gone a week without at least two patch sessions for the last two months, but only a few of those have required reboots (kernel patch).
Yup... it seems like everyone is jumping to the conclusion that Microsoft was the one who wanted that clause in the agreement. I mean, obviously the post has the word "Microsoft" in it, therefore it must be about something evil that Microsoft is doing!/rolleyes
I wouldn't be surprised at all if that clause was wanted by Sun in order to distance themselves from any liabilities through OpenOffice.
I have DEP turned on for everything except those that I explicitly allow to run without DEP (not the default setting). I also have an Athlon64 processor so it should be doing hardware NX as well. I haven't had any problems yet and have only found one program (a game) that I regularly use that was shut down by DEP, at which time it asked me if I wanted to allow it to run without DEP, which I opted to do.
Yup... any code of Solaris that is released will be absorbed and assimilated by the Borg of OSS. Before long, there will be little differentiation between Linux and Solaris and Solaris will go the way of the DoDo.
Microsoft and F/OSS are both species of Borgs, it's just that their methods of assimilation are different.
Such companies would most likely already be on the "Premium" support list.... If they aren't, then let me know who they are so that I'll never use them.
I'd mod the parent up if it weren't at 5 already:)
He's pretty much dead on the money there. "Beowulf" in the strictest sense doesn't have Myrinet though, only commodity parts like 100 or 1000 Mb Ethernet. In these configurations, any latency bound application will be horrible (typically fine grained parallelism, lots of messages, typically small, being transferred). The latency of 1GbE vs 100MbE isn't that much different and both are an order of magnitude or more slower than Myrinet or any of the high performance interconnects.
Having ported MPICH to the T3D and the T3E in the past, as well as ported MPICH to a number of other platforms and written an MPI (and MPI-2_ implementation from scratch and ported it to many different platforms, I can say that clusters do some things well (as the above poster) such as the somewhat trivial benchmarks of the Top500.org lists and some applications that are similar to that in communication needs. However, there are many problems that run much better on Myrinet and even much better on higher speed interconnects.
You still gotta have some love for something like 6.5usec latency for small messages and 325MB/sec (yes, megaBYTES per sec) bandwidth, even on a supercomputer that is 10 years old (Cray T3E). And there are four such links off of each Cray T3E node. Source and shameless plug.
There were several. One was the translation of VAX code to Alpha to run on Alpha-VMS. The other was FX!32 that translated x86 Windows binaries to Alpha binaries.
FX!32 worked most of the time but it rarely gave the expected speedup we expected.
I think the general rule is that the more dense the medium, the faster the shock wave will travel. Sound in water is faster than air. Sound in rock is faster than water. The mantle is supposedly molten rock, which I'm pretty sure is more dense than water.
I wish mine still worked. Like anything I don't keep my eye on, my mom let some kid of one of her friends have it some years ago without asking me. Last I heard it was tossed in a dumpster:(
Not really, considering it survived well as a hobby -- but with the backing of China, it will advance at an even faster pace than it ever has.
Assuming, of course, that China actually backs Linux and doesn't fork it off and do their own distro with their own who-knows-what in it. Maybe they'll eventually be big enough to attempt to force code bases to put in China Government "stuff" into their sources in order to be "accepted" into the Eastern economy?
I usually use the built-in sound on motherboards I buy for gaming. When I rip my own CDs, I rip them in very high quality.
When I am listening to music, I want good music. When I'm playing a game, I want good graphics. If I'm playing a game, say Doom3, and the sound isn't that great but the frame rate and quality is good, I can have fun. If the frame rate is good but there is no sound, I can still play the game and have a reasonably good time. It doesn't matter how good the sound is, it won't make up for having 10 FPS and trying to play the game.
Actually, it doesn't rise at all (haven't you seen *any* of the Professor Julius Sumner Miller videos?) "There ain't no Hindu levitation goin on here!":)
Warm air is pushed up by cooler air below it because the warmer air is less dense than the cooler air.
Don't forget that some graphics cards, like the high end SGI graphics cards from years ago, were actually made from regular CPUs. The Reality line of graphics back in the early/mid 90s were made from Intel i860 processor arrays (high end boards having up to 12 of them, IIRC). These are the same processors that were in the iPSC860 Hypercube and Paragon supercomputers, among other things.:)
And you completely missed my point... Apple copied from others just as Microsoft has copied from iTunes, a fact which is agreed upon by the original poster. To then say that Apple is OK for copying to make iTunes but Microsoft isn't OK for copying is complete hypocracy.
Actually, all of my licenses are 100% legal... and I didn't even mention my Linux boxes or anything else.
a) My wife uses two of those boxes daily. b) I use two of those boxes daily c) I use the laptop for work when I travel d) I used to do a lot of parallel processing development so I have lots of boxes... e) I don't live with my mom... I've been on my own, paying my own way through life since I was 17... so, almost 20 years now...
So.... it's not OK for Microsoft to copy from iTunes, but it is OK for Apple to copy from other stuff to make iTunes?
You agree with me that iTunes copied, copied, copied directly from other things... but then you say that is OK I guess because it was Apple doing the copying this time...
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Go RTFA. He didn't say that. Bush said that we should, and will, continue stem cell research, both embryonic and adult. However, since the science is still in a fledgling state and currently offers little/no hope to those who are currently/recently diagnosed with things that *may* be solvable in the future by stem cell research, we shouldn't be giving them false hope by saying that there will be a cure for them next week. Barring some amazing breakthroughs, stem cell research is still probably a 20-year-out technology.
I have (and have had in the past) many Win2K boxes and Windows XP boxes that run 24/7 except for forced reboots from software patches and/or hardware installation.
One Win2K server I helped maintain had a better uptime than most of our Suns and other Unix boxes. Mostly because it was well protected from the 'net and we didn't patch it.
As far as other OSs, my Linux servers also run 24/7 and have a high uptime. However, as of late, we've been notified (by the various distribution patch notification tools) of more software patches than on Windows by a long shot. My SuSE 9.1 Professional box, for instance, hasn't gone a week without at least two patch sessions for the last two months, but only a few of those have required reboots (kernel patch).
Yup... it seems like everyone is jumping to the conclusion that Microsoft was the one who wanted that clause in the agreement. I mean, obviously the post has the word "Microsoft" in it, therefore it must be about something evil that Microsoft is doing! /rolleyes
I wouldn't be surprised at all if that clause was wanted by Sun in order to distance themselves from any liabilities through OpenOffice.
I have DEP turned on for everything except those that I explicitly allow to run without DEP (not the default setting). I also have an Athlon64 processor so it should be doing hardware NX as well. I haven't had any problems yet and have only found one program (a game) that I regularly use that was shut down by DEP, at which time it asked me if I wanted to allow it to run without DEP, which I opted to do.
Yup... any code of Solaris that is released will be absorbed and assimilated by the Borg of OSS. Before long, there will be little differentiation between Linux and Solaris and Solaris will go the way of the DoDo.
Microsoft and F/OSS are both species of Borgs, it's just that their methods of assimilation are different.
Such companies would most likely already be on the "Premium" support list.... If they aren't, then let me know who they are so that I'll never use them.
I'd mod the parent up if it weren't at 5 already :)
He's pretty much dead on the money there. "Beowulf" in the strictest sense doesn't have Myrinet though, only commodity parts like 100 or 1000 Mb Ethernet. In these configurations, any latency bound application will be horrible (typically fine grained parallelism, lots of messages, typically small, being transferred). The latency of 1GbE vs 100MbE isn't that much different and both are an order of magnitude or more slower than Myrinet or any of the high performance interconnects.
Having ported MPICH to the T3D and the T3E in the past, as well as ported MPICH to a number of other platforms and written an MPI (and MPI-2_ implementation from scratch and ported it to many different platforms, I can say that clusters do some things well (as the above poster) such as the somewhat trivial benchmarks of the Top500.org lists and some applications that are similar to that in communication needs. However, there are many problems that run much better on Myrinet and even much better on higher speed interconnects.
You still gotta have some love for something like 6.5usec latency for small messages and 325MB/sec (yes, megaBYTES per sec) bandwidth, even on a supercomputer that is 10 years old (Cray T3E). And there are four such links off of each Cray T3E node. Source and shameless plug.
How does Windows XP SP2 Data Execution Prevention handle this? or does it? (sounds like all those buffer overrun/overflow exploits should be stopped)
They'll give you a free laptop bag [ibm.com] if you develop an app for Linux on their Power platform.
Is it like those T-shirts with the saying:
"I developed an App for Linux on IBM's Power Platform and all I got was this lousy laptop bag!"
There were several. One was the translation of VAX code to Alpha to run on Alpha-VMS. The other was FX!32 that translated x86 Windows binaries to Alpha binaries.
FX!32 worked most of the time but it rarely gave the expected speedup we expected.
I think the general rule is that the more dense the medium, the faster the shock wave will travel. Sound in water is faster than air. Sound in rock is faster than water. The mantle is supposedly molten rock, which I'm pretty sure is more dense than water.
I wish mine still worked. Like anything I don't keep my eye on, my mom let some kid of one of her friends have it some years ago without asking me. Last I heard it was tossed in a dumpster :(
One word: portability
Yeah... that's why we see all those OpenGL games running on and being sold for all those platforms that have OpenGL on them now...
I had a 1040ST and liked it a lot. I liked the 65XE and 130XE too, they had some interesting hardware in them.
I remember playing Seven Cities of Gold a lot back on the 400, I think. Lots of fun back then.
I used to like "Imperium Galacticum" and "EOS" on the Apple ][e/c as well.
Microsoft produces nothing that has any advantage outside the typical American top-heavy company that is full of office drones and PHBs,
In other words, regular folks, who make up the 99% of the world who aren't techno-geeks like us?
Not really, considering it survived well as a hobby -- but with the backing of China, it will advance at an even faster pace than it ever has.
Assuming, of course, that China actually backs Linux and doesn't fork it off and do their own distro with their own who-knows-what in it. Maybe they'll eventually be big enough to attempt to force code bases to put in China Government "stuff" into their sources in order to be "accepted" into the Eastern economy?
I usually use the built-in sound on motherboards I buy for gaming. When I rip my own CDs, I rip them in very high quality.
When I am listening to music, I want good music. When I'm playing a game, I want good graphics. If I'm playing a game, say Doom3, and the sound isn't that great but the frame rate and quality is good, I can have fun. If the frame rate is good but there is no sound, I can still play the game and have a reasonably good time. It doesn't matter how good the sound is, it won't make up for having 10 FPS and trying to play the game.
I'm not talking about the difference between "lighter" and "less dense" in my other post.
Hot air rises to the top because it is lighter.
:)
Actually, it doesn't rise at all (haven't you seen *any* of the Professor Julius Sumner Miller videos?) "There ain't no Hindu levitation goin on here!"
Warm air is pushed up by cooler air below it because the warmer air is less dense than the cooler air.
Consider it a statement against code bloat in general.
The Linux kernel is quite large these days and I've gotten patch notifications for it twice on SuSE 9.1 Professional in the past month or so....
If you didn't think there was anything wrong with it, why did you post?
Don't forget that some graphics cards, like the high end SGI graphics cards from years ago, were actually made from regular CPUs. The Reality line of graphics back in the early/mid 90s were made from Intel i860 processor arrays (high end boards having up to 12 of them, IIRC). These are the same processors that were in the iPSC860 Hypercube and Paragon supercomputers, among other things. :)
And you completely missed my point... Apple copied from others just as Microsoft has copied from iTunes, a fact which is agreed upon by the original poster. To then say that Apple is OK for copying to make iTunes but Microsoft isn't OK for copying is complete hypocracy.
Actually, all of my licenses are 100% legal... and I didn't even mention my Linux boxes or anything else.
a) My wife uses two of those boxes daily.
b) I use two of those boxes daily
c) I use the laptop for work when I travel
d) I used to do a lot of parallel processing development so I have lots of boxes...
e) I don't live with my mom... I've been on my own, paying my own way through life since I was 17... so, almost 20 years now...
So.... it's not OK for Microsoft to copy from iTunes, but it is OK for Apple to copy from other stuff to make iTunes?
You agree with me that iTunes copied, copied, copied directly from other things... but then you say that is OK I guess because it was Apple doing the copying this time...