Yes its definitely post EM radiation stress syndrome
Fortunately I have the cure:
An uncommonly large martini, shaken, stirred and gulped down real quick, followed by a second and third. It also cures "post management meeting stress disorder" Unfortunately it can't deal with "Post Steve Bulmer stress disorder" and tends to induce "post martini stress syndrome". You can't win them all. "Life, don't tell me about life..."
Apart from the cooling fans, which are easily replaced, I expect my Sun Ultra 60 to last 50 years. I have seen computers built in the 1960s that are still running, and will run for another 20 years with a small amount of maintenance. (A PDP/11 from that era will run a modern version of Unix - provided you dont use a GUI.) The national computer museum has machines from the late 1950s that run, and replicas of 1940's machines that run: the real ones were destroyed "for reasons of national security".
In any case, consider saying in 1970 "what car from 1910 would people still run?" Today, cars from 1960 are still in daily use, and some milirary vehicles are even older. Computers do not wear in the way that vehicles do. Apart from disk drives and fans (both easily replaced), computers have no moving parts, and will last forever unless maltreated.
And its pretty easy to replace old ship-board computers with new ones - provided they are plug compatible.
This does not mean I, a UK tax payer believe in the project or the costings. No UK military project has cost less then double the predicted figure, and 10* is more likely. The chief advantage of a bigger project is the bigger scope for bribery and corruption.
Here in the UK, the last thing companies want is new ideas. They all tell you they have enough ideas already. "F#@% off with your new ideas - we have enough already" is what management, especially financial management will tel you.
If anyone wants ideas enogh to actually pay money for them, let me know. (I mean good, sound engineering ideas that will make someone a million dollars a year or maybe a billion. This is engineering - actual long-term investment required.)
As a practicing UK Christian and former school governor, let me say:
1) The school I was a governor of did not hold daily worship desipe it being the law, because they could nto do so without contravening other laws on religious diversity, freedom, etc. Every governors meeting simply postoned discussion on what to do about religious matters "until the next meeting" as this was the only legally acceptable option!
2) I have met ONE person who believed in Creationism. He was considered rather strange, even by the team in charge of training lay priests.
3) The Anglican (Episcopalian/Church of England, etc) church teaches that God created evolution, and the Old Testament teaches what Jews believed in the Olden days, and probably not even ancient Jews believed that Genesis was to be taken litterally.
4) Darwin and Newton were practicing and sincere Christians.
5) In the beginning there was nothing...
They discontinued OraclePowerObjects just as I lauched a product based on it,
and they discontinued OS/2 support just after I launched a product based on it.
Never again would I run mission critical stuff on proprietry software!
If I wanted to put my head in a lion's mouth, I would have worked in a circus!
Larry Ellison: You do not get customers by smacking people round the face with a wet fish!
Obviously its not My-See-Quel, because SQL superceeded Sequel, which was IBM's database product prior to the invention of SQL.
If IBM knew they were going to replace Sequel they would have named it Prequel, but since at the time they thought 12 computers (with less power than the original GameBoy) would satisfy the entire world's demand for computing power, you will understand that "forward thinking" was not IBM's strong-point at the time.
Rubbish. Bring back the old fashioned hot metal type. In the days when it was widely used, people used to READ newspapers, not just look at page 3. (And we used to walk to school in th' snow wi'out shoes, an' it were uphill BOTH ways.)
Actually, you can make perfectly good explosives yourself for next to nothing from ingredients available in your local garden centre or supermarket, if you studied chemistry in school instead of bunking off class. The suicide attacks here in the UK were done with home made explosives bought by employed people using their wages.
Short of banning work, there's no way to stop that source of funding.
In my view, there is a huge amount of scaremongering going on. Terrorists use terrorism because its CHEAP. It doesn't need much funding. The 9/11 thing was an exception.
Laws preventing you from paying cash for cars (here in the UK) are not going to have any impact on terrorism. They probably do affect the disposal of stolen money, and they sure as hell inconvenience law abiding citizens, who then assume "its being done for a good reason" and that the government is "tough on terrorism".
Its in the same league as my proposed ban on short skirts to combat inflation - it works if you apply the rules strictly - not because there is a cause and effect relationship in the scientific sense, but because it gives the general public the impression the government is "taking stringent action".
Better for Microsoft, maybe. However, for those who don't use Windows, and dont want the result of every query to be "Microsoft", "Alamo Car Rentals" or "Barnes and Noble" the choice will probably continue to be easy.
Do you know where I can get the GTA series for Sparc hardware? You can get Sun E450 Enterprise servers on E-bay for under $1000 (although you'd pay a bit more for one with 8 CPUs installed) It would be serieously cool to use one for great games!
Maybe they need to support Algol68 - a high level language which allows the programmer to say what can be done in parallel, and what can't, and lets the compiler/hardware decide what should actually be done in parallel. Not only that, its easy to lean "Algo68 without tears" was only 64 pages or so, and mathematically correct - took 8 years of development by the best mathematicians in Europe, but they got there in the end.
Unfortunately, it was developed at a time when IBM was like MS is now, and Algol68 was NOT an IBM product, so it was doomed. IBM produced PL/1 instead, which was doomed because it was crap, so we were left with C as the only surviving language from the minicomputer era! (And C is really PDP11 assembler, and the PDP11 was designed to be a "hardware Fortan machine".)
I bet that 100% of people take their eyes of the road occasionally. This is abject foolishness. If you cannot drive safely without taking your eyes of the road momentarily, you have no business driving at all. A navigator is loads less distracting than having your spouse in the car, whether or not they are giving directions. Are we going to pass a law that there should be not more than one person per car? A navigator is less distracting, and far safer, than trying to find signs indicating where to turn off on an unfamilair road, anywhere in Europe, and far safer than driving round London or Paris with an A to Z on your lap, which loads of people used to do.
Sure people should not be programming their navigators while driving in dense, fast moving traffic, but while stuck at the traffic lights or jam caused by roadworks, why not program the navigator so as to take an alternative route?
These are the same people that put up ten traffic signs before every junction and complain people cant read them all.
On further investigation, this is not true... the GPU can do graphics operations on host memory, which necessarily requires writing to it (and AND, OR and XOR into it). Although access is limited to 32 bit quantities, it would be quite feasible to define a command address into which you write the address of a parameter block containing instructions. These could operate like scsi commands, which would be appropriate for block (vector) operations. One location in the block contains the command status, whihc you poll to determine when the command is complete (although most graphics systems support interrupts).
What sort of operations? Well encrypt/decrypt for a start. A GPU would be a suitable architecture to support an encrypted file system, as it could encrypt/decrypt entire file read/write blocks in place while waiting for disk head movement to settle.
I run FreeBSD on my Thinkpad, but I may dual-boot to Solaris. Windows in any shape or form is out of the question, as I actually USE my PC for work, and I cant afford to have viruses, spyware, and other 180 solutions products on my PC.
If you play GTA on a DRM'd computer, and find Al Quaida or the Mothers of America send the hit squad after you because of your moral degeneracy (or any other reason), its not my fault.
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Fortunately I have the cure:
An uncommonly large martini, shaken, stirred and gulped down real quick, followed by a second and third. It also cures "post management meeting stress disorder" Unfortunately it can't deal with "Post Steve Bulmer stress disorder" and tends to induce "post martini stress syndrome". You can't win them all. "Life, don't tell me about life..."
In any case, consider saying in 1970 "what car from 1910 would people still run?" Today, cars from 1960 are still in daily use, and some milirary vehicles are even older. Computers do not wear in the way that vehicles do. Apart from disk drives and fans (both easily replaced), computers have no moving parts, and will last forever unless maltreated.
And its pretty easy to replace old ship-board computers with new ones - provided they are plug compatible.
This does not mean I, a UK tax payer believe in the project or the costings. No UK military project has cost less then double the predicted figure, and 10* is more likely. The chief advantage of a bigger project is the bigger scope for bribery and corruption.
If anyone wants ideas enogh to actually pay money for them, let me know. (I mean good, sound engineering ideas that will make someone a million dollars a year or maybe a billion. This is engineering - actual long-term investment required.)
1) The school I was a governor of did not hold daily worship desipe it being the law, because they could nto do so without contravening other laws on religious diversity, freedom, etc. Every governors meeting simply postoned discussion on what to do about religious matters "until the next meeting" as this was the only legally acceptable option!
2) I have met ONE person who believed in Creationism. He was considered rather strange, even by the team in charge of training lay priests.
3) The Anglican (Episcopalian/Church of England, etc) church teaches that God created evolution, and the Old Testament teaches what Jews believed in the Olden days, and probably not even ancient Jews believed that Genesis was to be taken litterally. 4) Darwin and Newton were practicing and sincere Christians. 5) In the beginning there was nothing ...
If they can get him, then they should be able to get a few more of the spammers.
They discontinued OraclePowerObjects just as I lauched a product based on it, and they discontinued OS/2 support just after I launched a product based on it.
Never again would I run mission critical stuff on proprietry software!
If I wanted to put my head in a lion's mouth, I would have worked in a circus!
Larry Ellison: You do not get customers by smacking people round the face with a wet fish!
Frogger
Anyone who doesn't drink Guiness on St Guiness' day has only thems elves to blame.
If IBM knew they were going to replace Sequel they would have named it Prequel, but since at the time they thought 12 computers (with less power than the original GameBoy) would satisfy the entire world's demand for computing power, you will understand that "forward thinking" was not IBM's strong-point at the time.
Rubbish. Bring back the old fashioned hot metal type. In the days when it was widely used, people used to READ newspapers, not just look at page 3. (And we used to walk to school in th' snow wi'out shoes, an' it were uphill BOTH ways.)
Heirarchical file system
attach new filesystem anywhere in the old one
networking (UUCP, Ethernet, mail, etc)
User name based login accounts (with 8 char limit :-)
Its absolutely essential to keep chickens and swans out of the server room. Get them out NOW!
Short of banning work, there's no way to stop that source of funding.
In my view, there is a huge amount of scaremongering going on. Terrorists use terrorism because its CHEAP. It doesn't need much funding. The 9/11 thing was an exception.
Laws preventing you from paying cash for cars (here in the UK) are not going to have any impact on terrorism. They probably do affect the disposal of stolen money, and they sure as hell inconvenience law abiding citizens, who then assume "its being done for a good reason" and that the government is "tough on terrorism".
Its in the same league as my proposed ban on short skirts to combat inflation - it works if you apply the rules strictly - not because there is a cause and effect relationship in the scientific sense, but because it gives the general public the impression the government is "taking stringent action".
Because, as those of us who have to work for a living know: a TON of important software uses it for the dongle!
Wicked: just charge them a heap of money - then they will know how good it is!
No - Sun manage to get four multithreading cores in their Niagra, and only run at 72 watts with 32 threads. see this
However, with Intel's cores, I expect be able to have a hot dinner faster than you can say Microwave".
Better for Microsoft, maybe. However, for those who don't use Windows, and dont want the result of every query to be "Microsoft", "Alamo Car Rentals" or "Barnes and Noble" the choice will probably continue to be easy.
Sun is your friend. Google for "Niagra"
Do you know where I can get the GTA series for Sparc hardware? You can get Sun E450 Enterprise servers on E-bay for under $1000 (although you'd pay a bit more for one with 8 CPUs installed) It would be serieously cool to use one for great games!
Unfortunately, it was developed at a time when IBM was like MS is now, and Algol68 was NOT an IBM product, so it was doomed. IBM produced PL/1 instead, which was doomed because it was crap, so we were left with C as the only surviving language from the minicomputer era! (And C is really PDP11 assembler, and the PDP11 was designed to be a "hardware Fortan machine".)
And hang everyone from the yard-arm.
And an extra ration of rum to all who agree with me.
Sure people should not be programming their navigators while driving in dense, fast moving traffic, but while stuck at the traffic lights or jam caused by roadworks, why not program the navigator so as to take an alternative route?
These are the same people that put up ten traffic signs before every junction and complain people cant read them all.
What sort of operations? Well encrypt/decrypt for a start. A GPU would be a suitable architecture to support an encrypted file system, as it could encrypt/decrypt entire file read/write blocks in place while waiting for disk head movement to settle.
As it is write only, it is ideal for implementing a hardware /dev/null on Unix systems.
If you play GTA on a DRM'd computer, and find Al Quaida or the Mothers of America send the hit squad after you because of your moral degeneracy (or any other reason), its not my fault.