Weather services are something that IS best done by the government. Weather forcasting takes a large number of observation stations across large amount of area. Also areas without large population densities should not suffer inferior forcasting technology which is exactly what would naturally happen under a private network.
Doubtfull. Even the Cisco cards which do a bunch of the crypto in hardware will not have the functions for AES onboard and the crypto is in the ASIC which is not flash upgradable. Some cards which offload the crypto to the host CPU might be able to be upgraded, but will a general purpose CPU be able to do the AES at 54Mbit/sec??
Ah, but the spammers aren't and won't pay for their servers. They will continue to hijack other peoples machines through worms and trojans and just eat up the CPU time of the zombie machines. This might slow down the overall flow of spam some as the total computational time available is certainly less than the total bandwidth available if the computation function is tuned that way but it's not going to eliminate spam at all.
It's MUCH worse than that. Due to new regulations in this same act the largest ~1/3rd of commercial shells are now illegal to produce! That means that for most American's this year will probably be the last fourth of July with really large displays until the country returns to some sense of sanity (probably never in my lifetime). All of this and there is zero chance it will actually stop a terrorist, Nichols and McVeigh built theirs from fuel oil and fertilizer for pete's sake. We live in a free country, let's do the things that might actually gain some safety for us and get rid of these stupid knee jerk reactions that make us less free (therefore accomplishing some small part of the terrorists goals).
Well considering that you need FAA aproval for engines bigger than 4oz. I think it's REALLY freaking big! Also for people more familiar with model rocketry a large D class engine has less than an ounce of propellant (~25g).
The best system I have seen so far is the U.are.U 4000. This system uses multiple CMOS camera's to construct a 3D image of the ridgelines which is not easily defeated by a gelatin mold (rarely do they build a good 3D map), if they added a camera which was sensitive to IR they could take a temerature or bloodflow measurement and make it basically foolproof. Besides which a 3D gelatin mold is basically impossible to obtain without the subject's knowledge. Also the way we are using the U.Are.U for our client involves a password, the scanner, and a hardware token/encryption system, to defeat this system you would have to record his password, obtain a 3D fingerprint mold, AND steal his hardware token! He is an engineer taking a laptop full of trade secrets with him to the far east and his company is worried about theft of the data.
Yes and it just gets worse as chip densities increases. That's why IBM invented Chipkill (which is essentially RAID-5 for ECC RAM banks). The error rate for 1GB ECC memory-equipped server is 9 outages per 100 servers over 3 years IBM whitepaper, pdf. Non-ECC ram is probably rediculously high!
Was it Charlie? Because he sure seemed intent on being first to market. Btw I said I wouldn't use exact numbers so I won't but the cards were initially costing significantly more to produce then Cisco was selling them for if that gives you any idea.
The discrete component count on the origional.11a card was insane. The number of workarounds the guys had to use to make the thing work correctly was huge, and as I'm sure you know high part count==high cost==bad. Also if you don't think time to market matters to these guys you're VERY wrong. They spent a big pile of cash on their IT infrastructure and justified by saying that each day late to market was over one million in lost sales due to market capture forces. Btw I supported Cisco/Aironet for almost three years so I had a little bit of an insiders look at things. I'm not divulging any trade secrets or hard numbers so I think it's ok, plus my knowledge is over a year old at this point.
Cisco buying Radiata had NOTHING to do with the IP. They bought them because Radiata made big vocal claims about being 6-12 months ahead of everyone else in the market on developing a 802.11a chipset. As it turned out this was marketing smoke that got blown up Cisco's read. The reality was that they had a half finished product that was buggy as hell and ended up costing Cisco time to market rather than give them a lead position. The Cisco WLAN engineers bitch long and hard about the company buying them a chipset provider rather than allowing them to select the best part available in the marketplace but by then it was too late because the capital had already been invested and the decision makers were not held responsible, the WLAN division was. Btw the millions per person was fairly reasonable since the expectation was that the division would make one million in revenue per employee per year to grow at a compounded rate of twenty percent. Given Cisco's average profit margin that meant that the expected P/E was probably less than 20, even with the downturn I don't think it was that bad of an investment.
Not sure if things have changed in the last year or so, but Carmak's origional goal was to have it play on any card with a vertex shader which meant the lowest end card is the GF3Ti200. Today there are laptop's with MUCH more powerfull GPU's including the GF4Go, GeForce FX Go5700, and ATI offerings.
CAS latency for ECC ram is typically 3-3-3 whereas the memory Apple ships with the G5 towers is 3-3-2. So you won't see a hell of a lot of slowdown with the PPC970FX, in fact since they run at faster speeds you'll see an overall improvement =)
Well since they already allow Butane lighters which are MUCH more explosive and they sell high proof Ethanol on tons of flights I can't see a reason to not allow Methanol fueled electronics.
To elaborate.
This wasn't even an attempt at the X-Prize. With a sucessfull launch under their belt they will file the 60 day notice, and THEN they can attempt. At that time they will have to make two back to back flights with the same craft within 2 weeks in order to win the prize.
I just want to say that that is a VERY cool thing to do for the men and women who devote their lives to defending their countries. It's an often thankless job, and being away from loved ones with crappy communications makes it that much harder. Personally I think that the military needs to spend a little bit of cash on forward deployed servers so that things like that aren't needed. Why shouldn't soldiers away from home have unlimited size email boxes, if google can support it with ad revenue I think the military with their Billions and Billions can afford something that would significantly improve the moral and good will of the troops.
Actually the biggest reason is that the scene data is gigabytes in size and the machines need to be maxed on the RAM they can hold. My friend had a single texture on his senior digital film project that was larger than most systems ram (570MB IIRC).
Here, here!
The BEST vacation I ever took was at Zion Ponderosa ranch and resort. I stayed in a cowboy cabin, no phone, no tv, no cellphone reception, no internet, just a table lamp and a clock radio that got three stations! It was THE most relaxing week of my life. Getting totally away from technology and enjoying the great outdoors was wonderfull. They kept me so busy that I didn't have time to miss the toys. I would highly recomend it to any fellow geeks who are starting to feel a little stressed.
IDE storage is already at $0.50/GB and falling, not sure what Google is using for Gmail but even if it's several times that it's still easy to pay for with ad revenue. Heck the bandwidth is probably at least as expensive.
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Their IDE RAID card, the SuperTrak SX6000 does REALLY poorly at some tasks. It eats CPU and from mailing lists has a lot of problems recovering from drive failures. For a good comparison to other ATA RAID cards see this storage review writeup on it.
Nope, I visited the media lab on a campus tour back when I was visiting schools to apply to. Got in but couldn't afford the ~40K/year tuition+room&board. My parent's house cost $42K for god's sake! I ended up going to RIT which was less than half the cost =)
I was very suprised that COG was not on either list. COG is doing more for the real advancement of robotics then any of those "celebrity" robots ever will. I mean why should we transfer the cult of personality from hollywood to the realm of robotics?
Uh, my Motorolla T721 has a 10 day standby time. It also has a color screen, polyphonic ringtones, voice activated dialing, JAVA interpreter. Those features have ZERO impact on battery life except when they are used (in the case of the backlight or JAVA processor) or never (in the case of the rest of it).
I've never even heard of the product, is it any good? Do the styalistic recomendations make sense for people with a writing structure more advanced then a gradeschooler? Now that I'm back in school again a good grammar checker would be worth the cost.
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Weather services are something that IS best done by the government. Weather forcasting takes a large number of observation stations across large amount of area. Also areas without large population densities should not suffer inferior forcasting technology which is exactly what would naturally happen under a private network.
Doubtfull. Even the Cisco cards which do a bunch of the crypto in hardware will not have the functions for AES onboard and the crypto is in the ASIC which is not flash upgradable. Some cards which offload the crypto to the host CPU might be able to be upgraded, but will a general purpose CPU be able to do the AES at 54Mbit/sec??
Ah, but the spammers aren't and won't pay for their servers. They will continue to hijack other peoples machines through worms and trojans and just eat up the CPU time of the zombie machines. This might slow down the overall flow of spam some as the total computational time available is certainly less than the total bandwidth available if the computation function is tuned that way but it's not going to eliminate spam at all.
It's MUCH worse than that. Due to new regulations in this same act the largest ~1/3rd of commercial shells are now illegal to produce! That means that for most American's this year will probably be the last fourth of July with really large displays until the country returns to some sense of sanity (probably never in my lifetime). All of this and there is zero chance it will actually stop a terrorist, Nichols and McVeigh built theirs from fuel oil and fertilizer for pete's sake. We live in a free country, let's do the things that might actually gain some safety for us and get rid of these stupid knee jerk reactions that make us less free (therefore accomplishing some small part of the terrorists goals).
Well considering that you need FAA aproval for engines bigger than 4oz. I think it's REALLY freaking big! Also for people more familiar with model rocketry a large D class engine has less than an ounce of propellant (~25g).
correct and the key is stored on the keyfob.
The best system I have seen so far is the U.are.U 4000. This system uses multiple CMOS camera's to construct a 3D image of the ridgelines which is not easily defeated by a gelatin mold (rarely do they build a good 3D map), if they added a camera which was sensitive to IR they could take a temerature or bloodflow measurement and make it basically foolproof. Besides which a 3D gelatin mold is basically impossible to obtain without the subject's knowledge. Also the way we are using the U.Are.U for our client involves a password, the scanner, and a hardware token/encryption system, to defeat this system you would have to record his password, obtain a 3D fingerprint mold, AND steal his hardware token! He is an engineer taking a laptop full of trade secrets with him to the far east and his company is worried about theft of the data.
Yes and it just gets worse as chip densities increases. That's why IBM invented Chipkill (which is essentially RAID-5 for ECC RAM banks). The error rate for 1GB ECC memory-equipped server is 9 outages per 100 servers over 3 years IBM whitepaper, pdf. Non-ECC ram is probably rediculously high!
Was it Charlie? Because he sure seemed intent on being first to market. Btw I said I wouldn't use exact numbers so I won't but the cards were initially costing significantly more to produce then Cisco was selling them for if that gives you any idea.
The discrete component count on the origional .11a card was insane. The number of workarounds the guys had to use to make the thing work correctly was huge, and as I'm sure you know high part count==high cost==bad. Also if you don't think time to market matters to these guys you're VERY wrong. They spent a big pile of cash on their IT infrastructure and justified by saying that each day late to market was over one million in lost sales due to market capture forces. Btw I supported Cisco/Aironet for almost three years so I had a little bit of an insiders look at things. I'm not divulging any trade secrets or hard numbers so I think it's ok, plus my knowledge is over a year old at this point.
Cisco buying Radiata had NOTHING to do with the IP. They bought them because Radiata made big vocal claims about being 6-12 months ahead of everyone else in the market on developing a 802.11a chipset. As it turned out this was marketing smoke that got blown up Cisco's read. The reality was that they had a half finished product that was buggy as hell and ended up costing Cisco time to market rather than give them a lead position. The Cisco WLAN engineers bitch long and hard about the company buying them a chipset provider rather than allowing them to select the best part available in the marketplace but by then it was too late because the capital had already been invested and the decision makers were not held responsible, the WLAN division was. Btw the millions per person was fairly reasonable since the expectation was that the division would make one million in revenue per employee per year to grow at a compounded rate of twenty percent. Given Cisco's average profit margin that meant that the expected P/E was probably less than 20, even with the downturn I don't think it was that bad of an investment.
Not sure if things have changed in the last year or so, but Carmak's origional goal was to have it play on any card with a vertex shader which meant the lowest end card is the GF3Ti200. Today there are laptop's with MUCH more powerfull GPU's including the GF4Go, GeForce FX Go5700, and ATI offerings.
CAS latency for ECC ram is typically 3-3-3 whereas the memory Apple ships with the G5 towers is 3-3-2. So you won't see a hell of a lot of slowdown with the PPC970FX, in fact since they run at faster speeds you'll see an overall improvement =)
Well since they already allow Butane lighters which are MUCH more explosive and they sell high proof Ethanol on tons of flights I can't see a reason to not allow Methanol fueled electronics.
To elaborate.
This wasn't even an attempt at the X-Prize. With a sucessfull launch under their belt they will file the 60 day notice, and THEN they can attempt. At that time they will have to make two back to back flights with the same craft within 2 weeks in order to win the prize.
I just want to say that that is a VERY cool thing to do for the men and women who devote their lives to defending their countries. It's an often thankless job, and being away from loved ones with crappy communications makes it that much harder. Personally I think that the military needs to spend a little bit of cash on forward deployed servers so that things like that aren't needed. Why shouldn't soldiers away from home have unlimited size email boxes, if google can support it with ad revenue I think the military with their Billions and Billions can afford something that would significantly improve the moral and good will of the troops.
Actually the biggest reason is that the scene data is gigabytes in size and the machines need to be maxed on the RAM they can hold. My friend had a single texture on his senior digital film project that was larger than most systems ram (570MB IIRC).
Here, here!
The BEST vacation I ever took was at Zion Ponderosa ranch and resort. I stayed in a cowboy cabin, no phone, no tv, no cellphone reception, no internet, just a table lamp and a clock radio that got three stations! It was THE most relaxing week of my life. Getting totally away from technology and enjoying the great outdoors was wonderfull. They kept me so busy that I didn't have time to miss the toys. I would highly recomend it to any fellow geeks who are starting to feel a little stressed.
IDE storage is already at $0.50/GB and falling, not sure what Google is using for Gmail but even if it's several times that it's still easy to pay for with ad revenue. Heck the bandwidth is probably at least as expensive.
Their IDE RAID card, the SuperTrak SX6000 does REALLY poorly at some tasks. It eats CPU and from mailing lists has a lot of problems recovering from drive failures. For a good comparison to other ATA RAID cards see this storage review writeup on it.
Nope, I visited the media lab on a campus tour back when I was visiting schools to apply to. Got in but couldn't afford the ~40K/year tuition+room&board. My parent's house cost $42K for god's sake! I ended up going to RIT which was less than half the cost =)
I was very suprised that COG was not on either list. COG is doing more for the real advancement of robotics then any of those "celebrity" robots ever will. I mean why should we transfer the cult of personality from hollywood to the realm of robotics?
So, you can get bad advice in 50 languages, great.....
Uh, my Motorolla T721 has a 10 day standby time. It also has a color screen, polyphonic ringtones, voice activated dialing, JAVA interpreter. Those features have ZERO impact on battery life except when they are used (in the case of the backlight or JAVA processor) or never (in the case of the rest of it).
I've never even heard of the product, is it any good? Do the styalistic recomendations make sense for people with a writing structure more advanced then a gradeschooler? Now that I'm back in school again a good grammar checker would be worth the cost.