SA is NEVER going to be turned back on, the military has said so repeatadly. It especially won't get turned on over North America so they don't have to worry about it.
And he also said flat out that Nvidia's "optimization" was a cheat. By throwing away data in a manner that was not possible from the data given by the engine the Nvidia engineers cheated, a real world application would never make those optimizations because as soon as the viewpoint changes the optimization is null and the results are incredibly horrible images.
So instead of using the cheap and efficient method of taxing based on usage by taxing the gas they want every citizen to buy an expensive electronics device which is prone to failure, then put up all the additional collection devices?? WTF for? And besides they will then miss revenue from everyone who travels through the state who is not a resident, or will you get one of these GPS units at the state border and have to turn it in when you leave the state? Overall it sounds like stupid solutions to a non-problem. I can only think that they have alterior motives and wish to implement something big brotherish like England has in London. the British have already admitted to using the city center camera network to nab criminals.
Wow, what liberal scum (and I say this as a moderate democrat). Publishing facts is now a violation of someones rights??? If rapists who have served their sentence can have their pictures published for 10 or more years later then how the fuck is publishing someones name next to a picture of their home a violation of rights????
Why is there a $40 difference between the 20 and 40GB hdd's? They're both 2.5" laptop hdd's and if you look around both those capacities sell for around $80-85 bucks, so asking an extra $40 for the larger drive (or heck even offering the lower capacity drive) is kind of nuts. These are comodity components, use whatever best fits the price point of what the consumer want to pay, not pick a bunch of cheap crap and inflate the bigger sounding unit. That's one of the reasons I loved my iPod so much, the hdd seperatly cost nearly as much as the iPod so I knew Apple wasn't trying to screw me on the componenets.
storage outsrips transistors, always has, probably always will. It's easier to store a piece of data then it is to manipulate it. Look at the storage capacity vs time graph and compare it to Moore's law, the doubling happens every 12-15 months not every 18-24. Access times haven't gotten lower, but that's because we still use rotating disks, it's very, very hard to make cheap components to the tollerances that would allow >15K RPM's. If the ever preducted holographic storage comes to be then we will have fast and low latency mass storage, but that's a field where throwing more money at it won't necessarilly make it happen faster because it's a basic sciences kind of thing and it's really just waiting for the right mind to come along to break it out of the rut it's been in for the last 10+ years.
By rewriting existing scientific programs, they say, researchers will be able to get powerful computing from inexpensive clusters of personal computers that are running the free Linux software operating system.
"The supercomputer vendors are adamant that I am wrong," Dr. Bell said. "But the Beowulf is a Volkswagen and these people are selling trucks."
All the people who are responding saying they don't mention Linux didn't read the second page.
Clusters suck for some problems. Weather prediction is one classic one, fluid dynamics is a whole class of problems that suck on loosly coupled clusters. Basically you need your message passing interface latency to be much faster than one your calculation cycle or you just spin your tires waiting for results from adjacent cells. If all problems mapped well to cluster of comodity PC's then I can guarentee that Linux would be on almost all of the TOP 500 supercomputers because the cost/MIP is a fraction of the big systems. Then I look at the real TOP500 and realize that the top cluster of commodity PC's is only at #7 and it is beat out by a factor of 7 by the NEC vector supercomputer in the number one slot even though the NEC only has twice as many CPU's. Even then they aren't using fast ethernet or even gig ethernet, they are using the high bandwidth low latency Quadrics interconnects. The two other clusters in the top20 are using Myrinet which is also high bandwidth, low latency, but once you add those kinds of interconnects they kind of stop being cheap off the shelf PC's, since the connect boards probably cost nearly as much as the boxes =)
Currently affordable solar panels barely break even on the energy that is put into producing them. Their environmental impact is also nearly a wash as it takes a LOT of nasty chemicals to make them. Solar collection farms using mirrors and superheated steam are somewhat better, but aren't very usefull throught most of the world as the solar energy concentration and consistency sucks.
Actually the designers think they have figured out a way to keep the dam proper from silting with a unique design for the base of the dam. In addition here is a quote about silting
"Silting Due to Three Gorges Dam
According to a simulation by the Yangtze Academy of Sciences and the Hydroelectric Power Research Institute, if discharges are processed before discharge into the river and some silting is carried away during the annual flood stage of the river, then silting along the river in one hundred years will reach and equilibrium level of 1.6 billion cubic meters.
[Note this simulation does not consider the silting prevention effect of dams planned on the upper reaches of the Yangtze and on its tributaries. The actual amount of silting may thus be less.]
This figures were obtained on the basis of a study of silting at the Gezhou Dam which was constructed ten years ago [with water storage beginning 15 years ago] so the simulation based on this experience is quite credible.
Thus, it is anticipated that silting will not affect the flood control storage capacity or the storage capacity needed for hydroelectric power generation of the Three Gorges Dam.
However, the Chinese side does not deny that silting will be a serious problem in the Chongqing area.
o Effect on water transport [Chongqing area] silting expected to reduce river depth by 22 cm/yr.
o Potential flooding owing to higher backed up water level.
[According to the book Yangtze! Yangtze! by former Hydroelectric Power Ministry Vice Minister Ling, the back water level during the floods of 1954 and 1981 rose to levels 185 to 198 - 199 meters higher than they are today.]
The Chinese side explains that this problem can only be solved by dredging. One million cubic meters are now dredged annually. The Chongqing city center is 250 meters above the river level and nearly all city streets are 200 meters above the river level. Thus if some urban functions are moved even a large flood [nearly 200 meters above the present river level] would not cause a problem. "
From googles cache of: http://www.tibet.ca/wtnarchive/1997/3/5_6.htm l
Large dam projects flood huge areas of land, eliminating entire ecosystems, displacing large numbers of people, destroying archaeological evidence, and submerging economically productive land.
Actually Hoover dam did none of the above. There was no native activity in Black Canyon, there were no people living in the canyon system, there was little life because it was a desert, and even if there was some insignificant number of species wiped out the coal it kept from being burnt more than makes up for it, and the land like I said was a desert so no loss of economically productive land.
Actually it was not the aviation fuel that caused the collapse, it was the truss design. The aviation fuel stoped contributing to the fire in 10-15 minutes, it was the sustained fire from all of the office debri melting the trusses(who's thin insulation had been stripped by the impact) where they attached to the outside of the building that caused the pancaking and subsequent collapse. Basically it was a combination of the truss design that made for such large interior spaces (and thus made the project economically tenable) and the insufficient fireproofing that led to the collapse.
Technically the city proper only has a population of 2.4 million. Mexico City has a population of over 9.6 million, though the metro area is only ~17 million vs the ~30 million for Chongqing. Still I guess it's a matter of symantics if the area really is one continuous city, then again the Tokyo basin might win if we want to go by contiguous city.
Why does everyone assume you need a crew of thousands for this thing. My dad was on an ore carrier that was larger than this and it had a crew of 23. And that crew included 3 cooks! Running and even maintaining this thing shouldn't take many people at all. Now operating the flight deck and maintaining a squadron of aircraft would take a bunch but just the ship would take a couple dozen tops.
Yeah, but this will actually be a good thing. For delicate scientific applications where increased background radiationis a problem old steel armor is needed because all steel made since WWII has increased radiation levels due to world wide fallout. I know most of the old battleship stock that one of the two companies that specialize in this has just about run out so scrapping off some of the armor from this thing might just help advance science =)
Ah yes but how do you define on company time for exempt employees? And then also remember that Justin lives in CA which has different labor laws from the rest of the country. If I remember correctly things that a company wishes to claim from California resident's have to be spelled out even more exactly than is the norm.
Currently in my state they are trying to legistlate the competition out of existance or at the very least get them barred from offering competing services. Of course long term this is ludicrous and the strongest competitor will win, but in the meantime they can do huge amounts of collateral damage with the laws they buy.
No, Circuit switching is truely dead, just not everyone knows it yet. Check out the articles from a day or two ago, major telco's are already going 100% packet switched, and those who haven't are well over 50% and will be at or near 100% within 5 years.
Ownership of the equipment doesn't give them ownership to the IP. They would have to have a contract with Justin that says all thoughts are AOL's regardless of whether he does them for work or not. That is a possibility, but with Justin's rebellious streak I doubt it.
Get real. The telco's won't spend a dime they don't have to. If the ILEC's had their way T-1's at thousands a month would be the only broadband and we'd all still be paying 25+ cents a minute for long distance and no feature that didn't reduce their costs without lowering prices would exist.
Yeah I know it's CNET, but damn if you are going to be a tech reporter at least try to get the details right. but not before developers downloaded it and began creating services based on its software code. No, unlike WASTE Justin did not release Gnutella as Free Software, people merely ran the binary and traced the transactions and reverse engineered the protocol. This time he really did it right and made it so no matter what AOL does they can't take WASTE back.
Who didn't see this coming. Justin comes up with cool tech because he can't be touched by AOL and even if they fired him he's stinking rich from the takeover so he doesn't have to work for anyone. AOL still owns the servers and can dictate what gets released by one of their holding but once the code is out there it's there for good (assuming Justin didn't violate any sections of the GPL, specifically re patents).
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SA is NEVER going to be turned back on, the military has said so repeatadly. It especially won't get turned on over North America so they don't have to worry about it.
Yes, but at $50 target price for 1.5GB they beat every other form of small storage by several times when you consider price, storage, and space.
And he also said flat out that Nvidia's "optimization" was a cheat. By throwing away data in a manner that was not possible from the data given by the engine the Nvidia engineers cheated, a real world application would never make those optimizations because as soon as the viewpoint changes the optimization is null and the results are incredibly horrible images.
So instead of using the cheap and efficient method of taxing based on usage by taxing the gas they want every citizen to buy an expensive electronics device which is prone to failure, then put up all the additional collection devices?? WTF for? And besides they will then miss revenue from everyone who travels through the state who is not a resident, or will you get one of these GPS units at the state border and have to turn it in when you leave the state? Overall it sounds like stupid solutions to a non-problem. I can only think that they have alterior motives and wish to implement something big brotherish like England has in London. the British have already admitted to using the city center camera network to nab criminals.
So do you have any good stories to tell of growing up with Amy? =)
Wow, what liberal scum (and I say this as a moderate democrat). Publishing facts is now a violation of someones rights??? If rapists who have served their sentence can have their pictures published for 10 or more years later then how the fuck is publishing someones name next to a picture of their home a violation of rights????
Why is there a $40 difference between the 20 and 40GB hdd's? They're both 2.5" laptop hdd's and if you look around both those capacities sell for around $80-85 bucks, so asking an extra $40 for the larger drive (or heck even offering the lower capacity drive) is kind of nuts. These are comodity components, use whatever best fits the price point of what the consumer want to pay, not pick a bunch of cheap crap and inflate the bigger sounding unit. That's one of the reasons I loved my iPod so much, the hdd seperatly cost nearly as much as the iPod so I knew Apple wasn't trying to screw me on the componenets.
storage outsrips transistors, always has, probably always will. It's easier to store a piece of data then it is to manipulate it. Look at the storage capacity vs time graph and compare it to Moore's law, the doubling happens every 12-15 months not every 18-24. Access times haven't gotten lower, but that's because we still use rotating disks, it's very, very hard to make cheap components to the tollerances that would allow >15K RPM's. If the ever preducted holographic storage comes to be then we will have fast and low latency mass storage, but that's a field where throwing more money at it won't necessarilly make it happen faster because it's a basic sciences kind of thing and it's really just waiting for the right mind to come along to break it out of the rut it's been in for the last 10+ years.
By rewriting existing scientific programs, they say, researchers will be able to get powerful computing from inexpensive clusters of personal computers that are running the free Linux software operating system.
"The supercomputer vendors are adamant that I am wrong," Dr. Bell said. "But the Beowulf is a Volkswagen and these people are selling trucks."
All the people who are responding saying they don't mention Linux didn't read the second page.
Clusters suck for some problems. Weather prediction is one classic one, fluid dynamics is a whole class of problems that suck on loosly coupled clusters. Basically you need your message passing interface latency to be much faster than one your calculation cycle or you just spin your tires waiting for results from adjacent cells. If all problems mapped well to cluster of comodity PC's then I can guarentee that Linux would be on almost all of the TOP 500 supercomputers because the cost/MIP is a fraction of the big systems. Then I look at the real TOP500 and realize that the top cluster of commodity PC's is only at #7 and it is beat out by a factor of 7 by the NEC vector supercomputer in the number one slot even though the NEC only has twice as many CPU's. Even then they aren't using fast ethernet or even gig ethernet, they are using the high bandwidth low latency Quadrics interconnects. The two other clusters in the top20 are using Myrinet which is also high bandwidth, low latency, but once you add those kinds of interconnects they kind of stop being cheap off the shelf PC's, since the connect boards probably cost nearly as much as the boxes =)
Currently affordable solar panels barely break even on the energy that is put into producing them. Their environmental impact is also nearly a wash as it takes a LOT of nasty chemicals to make them. Solar collection farms using mirrors and superheated steam are somewhat better, but aren't very usefull throught most of the world as the solar energy concentration and consistency sucks.
correction, that was from googles cache of:n dt/ca 3gorg.htm
http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/english/sa
grabbed the wrong page link.
Actually the designers think they have figured out a way to keep the dam proper from silting with a unique design for the base of the dam. In addition here is a quote about silting
m l
"Silting Due to Three Gorges Dam
According to a simulation by the Yangtze Academy of Sciences and the Hydroelectric Power Research Institute, if discharges are processed before discharge into the river and some silting is carried away during the annual flood stage of the river, then silting along the river in one hundred years will reach and equilibrium level of 1.6 billion cubic meters.
[Note this simulation does not consider the silting prevention effect of dams planned on the upper reaches of the Yangtze and on its tributaries. The actual amount of silting may thus be less.]
This figures were obtained on the basis of a study of silting at the Gezhou Dam which was constructed ten years ago [with water storage beginning 15 years ago] so the simulation based on this experience is quite credible.
Thus, it is anticipated that silting will not affect the flood control storage capacity or the storage capacity needed for hydroelectric power generation of the Three Gorges Dam.
However, the Chinese side does not deny that silting will be a serious problem in the Chongqing area.
o Effect on water transport [Chongqing area] silting expected to reduce river depth by 22 cm/yr.
o Potential flooding owing to higher backed up water level.
[According to the book Yangtze! Yangtze! by former Hydroelectric Power Ministry Vice Minister Ling, the back water level during the floods of 1954 and 1981 rose to levels 185 to 198 - 199 meters higher than they are today.]
The Chinese side explains that this problem can only be solved by dredging. One million cubic meters are now dredged annually. The Chongqing city center is 250 meters above the river level and nearly all city streets are 200 meters above the river level. Thus if some urban functions are moved even a large flood [nearly 200 meters above the present river level] would not cause a problem. "
From googles cache of:
http://www.tibet.ca/wtnarchive/1997/3/5_6.ht
Large dam projects flood huge areas of land, eliminating entire ecosystems, displacing large numbers of people, destroying archaeological evidence, and submerging economically productive land.
Actually Hoover dam did none of the above. There was no native activity in Black Canyon, there were no people living in the canyon system, there was little life because it was a desert, and even if there was some insignificant number of species wiped out the coal it kept from being burnt more than makes up for it, and the land like I said was a desert so no loss of economically productive land.
Actually it was not the aviation fuel that caused the collapse, it was the truss design. The aviation fuel stoped contributing to the fire in 10-15 minutes, it was the sustained fire from all of the office debri melting the trusses(who's thin insulation had been stripped by the impact) where they attached to the outside of the building that caused the pancaking and subsequent collapse. Basically it was a combination of the truss design that made for such large interior spaces (and thus made the project economically tenable) and the insufficient fireproofing that led to the collapse.
Technically the city proper only has a population of 2.4 million. Mexico City has a population of over 9.6 million, though the metro area is only ~17 million vs the ~30 million for Chongqing. Still I guess it's a matter of symantics if the area really is one continuous city, then again the Tokyo basin might win if we want to go by contiguous city.
Why does everyone assume you need a crew of thousands for this thing. My dad was on an ore carrier that was larger than this and it had a crew of 23. And that crew included 3 cooks! Running and even maintaining this thing shouldn't take many people at all. Now operating the flight deck and maintaining a squadron of aircraft would take a bunch but just the ship would take a couple dozen tops.
Yeah, but this will actually be a good thing. For delicate scientific applications where increased background radiationis a problem old steel armor is needed because all steel made since WWII has increased radiation levels due to world wide fallout. I know most of the old battleship stock that one of the two companies that specialize in this has just about run out so scrapping off some of the armor from this thing might just help advance science =)
Ah yes but how do you define on company time for exempt employees? And then also remember that Justin lives in CA which has different labor laws from the rest of the country. If I remember correctly things that a company wishes to claim from California resident's have to be spelled out even more exactly than is the norm.
Currently in my state they are trying to legistlate the competition out of existance or at the very least get them barred from offering competing services. Of course long term this is ludicrous and the strongest competitor will win, but in the meantime they can do huge amounts of collateral damage with the laws they buy.
No, Circuit switching is truely dead, just not everyone knows it yet. Check out the articles from a day or two ago, major telco's are already going 100% packet switched, and those who haven't are well over 50% and will be at or near 100% within 5 years.
Ownership of the equipment doesn't give them ownership to the IP. They would have to have a contract with Justin that says all thoughts are AOL's regardless of whether he does them for work or not. That is a possibility, but with Justin's rebellious streak I doubt it.
Get real. The telco's won't spend a dime they don't have to. If the ILEC's had their way T-1's at thousands a month would be the only broadband and we'd all still be paying 25+ cents a minute for long distance and no feature that didn't reduce their costs without lowering prices would exist.
Yeah I know it's CNET, but damn if you are going to be a tech reporter at least try to get the details right. but not before developers downloaded it and began creating services based on its software code. No, unlike WASTE Justin did not release Gnutella as Free Software, people merely ran the binary and traced the transactions and reverse engineered the protocol. This time he really did it right and made it so no matter what AOL does they can't take WASTE back.
Who didn't see this coming. Justin comes up with cool tech because he can't be touched by AOL and even if they fired him he's stinking rich from the takeover so he doesn't have to work for anyone. AOL still owns the servers and can dictate what gets released by one of their holding but once the code is out there it's there for good (assuming Justin didn't violate any sections of the GPL, specifically re patents).