Even if they did, it's hardly convienient have to reboot and enter the BIOS to rev up the processor in the midst of heavy operations.
I don't think Dell (or any laptop manufacturer) would be that dumb. Atleast in Win you have (based on this: Power Management Dell(TM) SmartStep(TM) 200N and 250N control over your power usage on-the-fly (as usual).
but when I paid for this thing, nobody told me it would run at HALF SPEED in battery mode
What you are talking about is actually a good feature for many laptops. If you want to maximize your performance while depending on battery, check your BIOS while booting. There probably is some switch for gliding between max. power savings and max. performance.
I would believe 99.5% of Slashdot readers handle the task much better, faster and with more choices without the softare.
Select the music, photos, files and folders to move, so your new Mac isn't cluttered with unwanted files. Eliminates the hassles.
Transferring data to a new computer can be tricky. Move2Mac does it safely and securely, freeing you from any hassles.
I don't know, but based on the marketing speech, there is not much "intelligence" in this software. The reason why it sounds easy, safe and secure for the Joe Average, is probably the fact that it is marketed as a software created just for this "single task" and it is therefore much more easy to buy and understand it.
Ohh, actually it does not give you the same services. It just redirects you to the "Make a reservation page". Still, applying the things stated in the Disclaimer makes the whole thing look like a joke.
Did you try hitting the "I do not accept" button. It gives you the exactly same services as the "I accept" does. Does this mean, that now I can just break any rules they stated in that legal jargon:) ?
There's one pretty effective counter for this already in place: if your computer finds the correct key, you get a decently-sized bundle of cold, hard cash. Most people, at least, would prefer to have that money than screw up the contest.
Yes, but if the chances of winning that piece of cash gets close to the same as winning in national lotto, then there will be a significant number of nerds who value more higher the probability of getting their name shown in prime time (in a top position in the statistics) by cheating.
Well, it seems the slashdot effect comes in many flavors. In this case it might a pretty forceful one, as the subject matter is probably of interest to many. Here is an analysis of data gathered from another case - which was quite easy to handle actually.
SETI currently does integrity checks by having the same unit calculated several times then taking the most common result..
Yes, and imagine the case of the distributed crypto-crack efforts such as those run by distributed.net and by us too for the rc5-56 challenge (the cyberian.org effort). Imagine, that someone fakes the results for just the keyspace, which contained the correct key - and that this forged result passes the controls. Now, as result the progress counter might reach 100% and you still did not find the correct key. The only solution would be to calculate the whole keyspace again. I mean, even if you check the integrity - calculate same task for 10 times for example - still, it is possible that the forge gets through. Ofcourse, there is a number of counter actions to make the forging harder but still, I think the key problem is still unanswered. Or, if someone has some good fresh pointers about this subject, please post them here:)
Because of the complexity of the molecules, the energy needs to be calculated at many thousand points. Each point may require several hours of computing time on a modern workstation. In computational terms, this is an ideal parallel problem which can be distributed onto as many processors as points needed and is therefore ideally suited for the CISS Experiment
Yes, security (and data/result integrity) is probably one of the main reasons why they want it to be run in a trusted enviroment. Otherwise it seems that this would be a good case for a massively distributed solution (although apparently the application required big amounts of memory, and maybe bandwidth). But the dataintegrity in non-trusted network probably makes it impossible. I don't know if anyone has come up with a good solution to overcome the dataintegrity problems - other than performing occasional checks (running the same task on multiple machines) to find the forged results. In a non-trusted environment, you might soon find a big percent of the cpu cycles used just for dataintegrity checks.
"Why didn't they just make a client program for distributed computing so the entire country/world could help out?" (From a Slashdot posting.)
First, we had to keep CISS-1 simple enough for us to manage. Second, the computational chemistry application has significant resource requirements (e.g., large memory, significant disk space, etc.). Third, we are not interested in "cycle stealing" for CISS-1; the machines that we use will be dedicated to the task at hand. The rest of the FAQ is here.
"It is literally and figuratively the shining star of international cooperation and a lot of dedicated work."
Yes, maybe - but imagine that it took over an half century of space travel to get these guys working together. Ofcourse it is better now that 3 years ago - but just think if for example US and USSR could have co-operated before the USSR space program and the whole country collapsed. We would be much more far away now.
Slashdot, a "News for Nerds" service located somewhere, is disrupting a CourierPost Online by extensive amount of signalling sent over internet. According to the analysis of the slashdot effect, the "signal" level reaches the rate of around 270 signals per minute (it's normally less than 50) and partially blacks out the official content. Making communication between the subscribers and CourierPost Online more difficult. The article seems to suggest that as more slashdot readers go online, more websites will be affected, as the signalling rate will be significantly stronger than before. Insert Joisey-joke here.
I did, did you?:) Anyway, do you have some secret knowledge about the other content/meaning hidden in the formatting of the legal judgments than the actual characters representing the judgment. Otherwise, next time, come with an argument which is not analogy of "You died, because you dropped dead.":)
and why? I mean, I do not think I would have thumbled into it if I would be a bit younger. Do you, non-dinosaurs, really play it? How did you get introduced to it? Is there anyone who can admit just pretending it's cool, because it's "oldskool":)
At first glance, the device looks like something out of a science fiction movie. Its ovoid, finely flecked metallic blue body, encased in a colorless, transparent shell and accented by matt silver buttons is reminiscent of one of Star Trek's handheld phaser guns. The blinking LED lights atop the device and the embedded red laser -- activated when you press a trigger on the Presenter's blue-smoked translucent plastic underside -- reinforce the futuristic impression
I think the "reviewer" just may have succeeded even better than the original market-droids of Logitech.
to deliver a few hundred characters of ASCII. By delivering these judgments (and there are gazillions of those in the site) in some more sensible (and at the same time more user friendly) format they could probably order everyone a free pizza instead for spending it on bandwith. It's just incredibly stupid to download stuff in more than *20 excess size and to launch a and need an external program to view the content. Hey, but it's official it got to be PDF!
No, this was the pre-arranged agreement between Intel and Intergraph.
Yeah, these settlements are another part that I don't understand. If the companies believe they can make wiser decisions outside the court, why do they go inside the court. Isn't the result just perverted cases like this?
Yeah, I guess that's how it went. But imagine the potential extra costs Intel must have feared when they decided to sacrifice the $150 million to reach the agreement. It would be nice to know which extra ace Intergraph had in their pocket during the discussions.
The companies further agreed that Intel would pay Intergraph an additional $100 million if it filed and lost an appeal...
If Intel wins the appeal, it won't get the $150 million back, but it won't have to pay Intergraph any more fees and won't be barred from shipping Itanium chips.
Ok. So I get sued by someone for stealing his non-flushable-toilet idea (which is great concept), and he wins the first round in the court and I am ordered to pay him $42 million dollars. So, I make an appeal, which I win. They decide I did not do anything wrong after all. By this appeal I won't get anything back, but I won't have to pay anything more either. By suing me, the inventor got $42 million for nothing?
if you want one, might be that without direct elections the might manage to make up a board of directors which actually can face a consensus on matters. In some sense, the result of the previous mechanism was partially a competition for getting the most press coverage... a big percent of people just don't even consider unknown individuals as a candidate.
Where it == "effectively submit bug reports to the right database". I mean, there is almost as many practises as there is open source projects. Well, sourceforge defines one quite common interface. But still, maybe there really would be the need to create some common "protocol", "method" or "mechanism" or "interface" which would make it easier to deliver the bug report to the correct place. If it made sense and was "enforced" with some well known instance, maybe it could be done. A kind of router mechanism that finds the path for the bug report even if you send it to the wrong place initially. So, basicly we would need another open source project to develop this system, and the resulting mapper would then have to be integral part of the development tools of most projects. Uh oh, at this point I started wondering whether this is understadble or not, but what the heck, let's hit "Submit".
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I don't think Dell (or any laptop manufacturer) would be that dumb. Atleast in Win you have (based on this: Power Management Dell(TM) SmartStep(TM) 200N and 250N control over your power usage on-the-fly (as usual).
What you are talking about is actually a good feature for many laptops. If you want to maximize your performance while depending on battery, check your BIOS while booting. There probably is some switch for gliding between max. power savings and max. performance.
Select the music, photos, files and folders to move, so your new Mac isn't cluttered with unwanted files. Eliminates the hassles. Transferring data to a new computer can be tricky. Move2Mac does it safely and securely, freeing you from any hassles.
I don't know, but based on the marketing speech, there is not much "intelligence" in this software. The reason why it sounds easy, safe and secure for the Joe Average, is probably the fact that it is marketed as a software created just for this "single task" and it is therefore much more easy to buy and understand it.
Ohh, actually it does not give you the same services. It just redirects you to the "Make a reservation page". Still, applying the things stated in the Disclaimer makes the whole thing look like a joke.
Did you try hitting the "I do not accept" button. It gives you the exactly same services as the "I accept" does. Does this mean, that now I can just break any rules they stated in that legal jargon :) ?
Yes, but if the chances of winning that piece of cash gets close to the same as winning in national lotto, then there will be a significant number of nerds who value more higher the probability of getting their name shown in prime time (in a top position in the statistics) by cheating.
a plugin for QuickTime and iTunes that enables the user to play all of those Ogg Vorbis files that you have sitting on your hard drive
Well, it seems the slashdot effect comes in many flavors. In this case it might a pretty forceful one, as the subject matter is probably of interest to many. Here is an analysis of data gathered from another case - which was quite easy to handle actually.
Yes, and imagine the case of the distributed crypto-crack efforts such as those run by distributed.net and by us too for the rc5-56 challenge (the cyberian.org effort). Imagine, that someone fakes the results for just the keyspace, which contained the correct key - and that this forged result passes the controls. Now, as result the progress counter might reach 100% and you still did not find the correct key. The only solution would be to calculate the whole keyspace again. I mean, even if you check the integrity - calculate same task for 10 times for example - still, it is possible that the forge gets through. Ofcourse, there is a number of counter actions to make the forging harder but still, I think the key problem is still unanswered. Or, if someone has some good fresh pointers about this subject, please post them here :)
Yes, security (and data/result integrity) is probably one of the main reasons why they want it to be run in a trusted enviroment. Otherwise it seems that this would be a good case for a massively distributed solution (although apparently the application required big amounts of memory, and maybe bandwidth). But the dataintegrity in non-trusted network probably makes it impossible. I don't know if anyone has come up with a good solution to overcome the dataintegrity problems - other than performing occasional checks (running the same task on multiple machines) to find the forged results. In a non-trusted environment, you might soon find a big percent of the cpu cycles used just for dataintegrity checks.
First, we had to keep CISS-1 simple enough for us to manage. Second, the computational chemistry application has significant resource requirements (e.g., large memory, significant disk space, etc.). Third, we are not interested in "cycle stealing" for CISS-1; the machines that we use will be dedicated to the task at hand. The rest of the FAQ is here.
*** and now to the commercials, for the final time, here is an analysis of the Slashdot effect.
Yes, maybe - but imagine that it took over an half century of space travel to get these guys working together. Ofcourse it is better now that 3 years ago - but just think if for example US and USSR could have co-operated before the USSR space program and the whole country collapsed. We would be much more far away now.
***plug: Here's an analysis of the slashdot effect.
Finding Nemo, focus on 6-12 year old kids, slashdot... focus on 6-66 year old geeks.
It was not humor. Just a marketing stunt. :)
Slashdot, a "News for Nerds" service located somewhere, is disrupting a CourierPost Online by extensive amount of signalling sent over internet. According to the analysis of the slashdot effect, the "signal" level reaches the rate of around 270 signals per minute (it's normally less than 50) and partially blacks out the official content. Making communication between the subscribers and CourierPost Online more difficult. The article seems to suggest that as more slashdot readers go online, more websites will be affected, as the signalling rate will be significantly stronger than before. Insert Joisey-joke here.
I did, did you? :) Anyway, do you have some secret knowledge about the other content/meaning hidden in the formatting of the legal judgments than the actual characters representing the judgment. Otherwise, next time, come with an argument which is not analogy of "You died, because you dropped dead." :)
Reading an An analysis of the slashdot effect has proved to provide instant help.
and why? I mean, I do not think I would have thumbled into it if I would be a bit younger. Do you, non-dinosaurs, really play it? How did you get introduced to it? Is there anyone who can admit just pretending it's cool, because it's "oldskool" :)
I think the "reviewer" just may have succeeded even better than the original market-droids of Logitech.
to deliver a few hundred characters of ASCII. By delivering these judgments (and there are gazillions of those in the site) in some more sensible (and at the same time more user friendly) format they could probably order everyone a free pizza instead for spending it on bandwith. It's just incredibly stupid to download stuff in more than *20 excess size and to launch a and need an external program to view the content. Hey, but it's official it got to be PDF!
Yeah, these settlements are another part that I don't understand. If the companies believe they can make wiser decisions outside the court, why do they go inside the court. Isn't the result just perverted cases like this?
Yeah, I guess that's how it went. But imagine the potential extra costs Intel must have feared when they decided to sacrifice the $150 million to reach the agreement. It would be nice to know which extra ace Intergraph had in their pocket during the discussions.
Ok. So I get sued by someone for stealing his non-flushable-toilet idea (which is great concept), and he wins the first round in the court and I am ordered to pay him $42 million dollars. So, I make an appeal, which I win. They decide I did not do anything wrong after all. By this appeal I won't get anything back, but I won't have to pay anything more either. By suing me, the inventor got $42 million for nothing?
if you want one, might be that without direct elections the might manage to make up a board of directors which actually can face a consensus on matters. In some sense, the result of the previous mechanism was partially a competition for getting the most press coverage... a big percent of people just don't even consider unknown individuals as a candidate.
Where it == "effectively submit bug reports to the right database". I mean, there is almost as many practises as there is open source projects. Well, sourceforge defines one quite common interface. But still, maybe there really would be the need to create some common "protocol", "method" or "mechanism" or "interface" which would make it easier to deliver the bug report to the correct place. If it made sense and was "enforced" with some well known instance, maybe it could be done. A kind of router mechanism that finds the path for the bug report even if you send it to the wrong place initially. So, basicly we would need another open source project to develop this system, and the resulting mapper would then have to be integral part of the development tools of most projects. Uh oh, at this point I started wondering whether this is understadble or not, but what the heck, let's hit "Submit".