Clusters are nice and all but your missing a few big points...
Throughput: Having whiz-bang fast processors is nice, but only if you can get the data to them fast enough. Why do you think processors and OS's engage in all these elaborate caching schemes... If ram was even 50% as fast as the CPU, you'd see a marked improvement immediately, but only until you had to get something off of disk. Now if you could get your Mass Storage at 50% as fast as RAM, the world would be a better place...
Another really crippling aspect of the PC is the horrid PCI bus. We need to just throw PCI away, or religate it to the realms of COM ports. PCI-X is on the horizon and that will some inprovement, but what we really need is to start getting the interconnects faster.
Being an SA of both Unix and NT servers, and having to sit through negotiations with a certain large anti-virus company who's name we shall not name... They hype it up like your going to walk into your lab and find that your machines have metamorphosed into kobolds and are attacking en-masse.
This is the danger of being a publiclly traded company... you need to make the numbers, no matter what. I wouldn't be suprised if they didn't have a skunk words devision who's whole job is just dreaming this stuff up. What's next, an mp3 infector???
<whine> I submitted this story twice and got it rejected twice, just to see micheal post it... Thanks... </whine>
1. if she's got a laptop, a locking cable so it won't get stolen (provided her POS dorm room has a nice eyebolt to connect it to.
2. Pepper spray. nonletal weapons are the way to go... who knows where she'll be when suddenly she ends up in a place she doesn't want to be and wants to get away...
3. a good MP3 player. personally I love my RioVolt. Send her with a good collection of mp3's to listen to.
4. Day planner. 5. a small toolbox or one of those locking fireproof safes she can put her valubles in if she's going to have a roommate.
Why don't we sign a damn waiver then... My wife and I love roller coasters and structure our vacations around riding them...
How about something like this...
"I ______ hereby certify that I am signing this document of my owh free will and that [amusement park] shall not be liable for any physical injuries that this ride may incur, or exasperate an existing medical condition, provided that this coaster has had proper maintaince and has been deemed worthy of use by its manufactuerer"
Don't the legislators have bigger fish to fry... like why our educational system sucks ass... like why I'm not writing this from a moon base?
His infant son recently passed away from SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) and he's been enlisting people who've got some spare time to throw it at creating a baby monitor that can be used to collect statistics so in time, that information can be used to determine what symptoms cause SIDS. So far he's gotten tons of responses.
They cut a one second shot of someone being headbutted???
But their okay with all the other scenes of people being carved into bits by light sabers.
If it's the kind of headbutt where the other guys head explodes, that might be different, but since they didn't tender an opinion on why they chose to cut that one second, we'll never know...
Oh well, good thing I live in the USA. The goverement maybe stealing my personal rights out from under my feet, but hot diggity damn, I'll have my head butts!
I'd say Ep2 and Spider-Man. I saw spider-man and really liked it. What I was the most happy about was the fact that they kept it true as possible to the comic book. Somethings were different, but overall I think they did a great job.
For you business students out there... here's a good case for doing your homework and purposely buying junk bonds...
Instead of using a usb based webcam, I'd go with a video capture card personally.
Under every OS, webcams suck...period. If this is something where your going to take the MPEG stream and make a VCD archive out of it, your going to want something that creates a quality MPEG stream.
For apps for video check out http://www.exploits.org/v4l/
Well the first problem is the proximity of the crew to hundreds of thousands of highly explosive fuel. At least with a rocket, the crew is on top and you can have some sorta either vertical or lateral escape system that can fire off with in 1/10 of a second of the rocket detecting a propellent cookoff. With the shuttle, the craft is strapped to the side of said fuel. The only way you could improve the crews surviveability would be to modularize the shuttle in such a way that if a propellent cookoff was detected, it would fire the crew capsule laterally away from the main fuel tank (and be able todo this while not killing the crew from g-forces and still getting them away quick enough that the concusive forces of the exploding fuel and the shrattnel from the fuel tank don't shred the vechicle.) This is a totally feasible. The biggest problem would be the weight involved. I t would increase the cost per pound instead of reducing it.
I'm not sure what a better solution would be, but I'm sure that some smart people will come up with a solution.
The problem comes in when 5 million people start using your hobby program instead of buying their program that they've patented. Then suddenly the inventor gets in a funk.
So pretty much the only way to infringe on a patent is todo a poor implementation;-)
The solution to the problem is "whois". I called up verizon (yes I know...) and asked for their DNS numbers and I was told that they don't give those out for security reasons. I almost had to put the phone down I was laughing so hard. I asked the person if I could talk to their supervisor, who gave me the same answer. "Unless your using our PPPoE client we will not support or give aid to any non standard setup." I was polite and simply said that all I wanted was the DNS addresses and that I was more than capable of supporting myself. No go, finally I just thank you and hung up on them. Dialed in to the company and did a whois and then put in those DNS settings. Yeah, its been my experience that 99.9999999 percent of the techsupport from verizon could be best described as worker drones...
If hundreds of people have nothing better todo with their time then translate other peoples stuff.
The biggest problem I see is a majority of people wanting things translated and a minority of people being able to translate. Plus all the other issues. What is some translates a sweet love letter into something that gets the person put in jail.
This is yet another nail in the coffin of free speech. I guess I'm gonna have to write a parser that I feed all my comments through...
I can see it now...
Jutkers News Service: In a ruling today, the federal supreme court ruled that opinions are now all illegal. The justices were split, with half saying "I'm not prepared to issue a statement at this time that might be construded as something libel" the other justices had this to say reading from a prepared statement. "Citizens who engage in 'opinions' now must be ready to be held accountable for those 'opinions' in a court of law. The willy-nilly saying what you think will only bring you trouble. They should keep their mouths shut and enjoy the free open society they are lucky to have"
A press conference that was held later, the justices were asked what they thought this meant for free speech. Their response, reading from a prepared statement "Free speech isn't so free anymore... people just opening their mouths is bad business. If any person can just go out and do 'free speech' stuff including opinions and observations, what kind of world would we live in. Companies spend millions on marketing campaigns just so some person can go on a website and say 'I had bad service' thus ruining millions of dollars of advertising. Suddenly that free speech isn't so cheap anymore. What happens when that company goes out of business and all those people lose there jobs! Don't you see, by that person opening their mouth once it ruined a whole company"
The reporter countered asking "What if the company really had bad service?" Justice millhouse responded slowly, reading through a couple of pages. "It has been our observation that businesses never treat a customer poorly, because it would be bad business. If someone has bad service, they've brought it upon themselves, and they are to blame."
Pretty much the rest of the press conference went on with the same thing. I'd like to comment more on this but I feel my opinions would land me in a lawsuit, or worse jail.
God Bless America, the home of the free and brave...
Way back when cdr's were a novelty, at least at "Strawberries" (a music store in the northeast us) you could goto a console pick out the songs you wanted and it would make you a custom cd.
The system sucked for a number of reasons: 1. The interface was a bit kludgy. 2. The burner was painfully snow like 1x or 2x 3. The selection sucked.
With the advent of superfast writers, I could invision a really sweet kiosk that would better to use.
Personally I think this is the way that record companies should go. Instead of charging a lousy 16 bucks for a cd, they should charge 5 and make the thing on the spot. I personally know I'd pay 5 bucks for a CD, even if I wasn't sure I'd like all the songs. The other cool thing is a record company could setup a kisok that only featured music from its own artists so you could do the mix and match thing.
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Clusters are nice and all but your missing a few big points...
Throughput:
Having whiz-bang fast processors is nice, but only if you can get the data to them fast enough. Why do you think processors and OS's engage in all these elaborate caching schemes... If ram was even 50% as fast as the CPU, you'd see a marked improvement immediately, but only until you had to get something off of disk. Now if you could get your Mass Storage at 50% as fast as RAM, the world would be a better place...
Another really crippling aspect of the PC is the horrid PCI bus. We need to just throw PCI away, or religate it to the realms of COM ports. PCI-X is on the horizon and that will some inprovement, but what we really need is to start getting the interconnects faster.
Being an SA of both Unix and NT servers, and having to sit through negotiations with a certain large anti-virus company who's name we shall not name... They hype it up like your going to walk into your lab and find that your machines have metamorphosed into kobolds and are attacking en-masse.
This is the danger of being a publiclly traded company... you need to make the numbers, no matter what. I wouldn't be suprised if they didn't have a skunk words devision who's whole job is just dreaming this stuff up. What's next, an mp3 infector???
<whine>
I submitted this story twice and got it rejected twice, just to see micheal post it... Thanks...
</whine>
I remember that project...
I had to write one of those calculators for my C++ class (we had implemented a stack class...)
Maybe they meant to say
"What the 35-year-olds will be using to try to hook up with the 18- or 20-year-olds tommorrow"...
When you apply flat logic to all things modern, porn wins...
1. if she's got a laptop, a locking cable so it won't get stolen (provided her POS dorm room has a nice eyebolt to connect it to.
2. Pepper spray. nonletal weapons are the way to go... who knows where she'll be when suddenly she ends up in a place she doesn't want to be and wants to get away...
3. a good MP3 player. personally I love my RioVolt. Send her with a good collection of mp3's to listen to.
4. Day planner.
5. a small toolbox or one of those locking fireproof safes she can put her valubles in if she's going to have a roommate.
Yeah, that's because there too busy humping the boys, not the girls...
Why don't we sign a damn waiver then... My wife and I love roller coasters and structure our vacations around riding them...
How about something like this...
"I ______ hereby certify that I am signing this document of my owh free will and that [amusement park] shall not be liable for any physical injuries that this ride may incur, or exasperate an existing medical condition, provided that this coaster has had proper maintaince and has been deemed worthy of use by its manufactuerer"
Don't the legislators have bigger fish to fry... like why our educational system sucks ass...
like why I'm not writing this from a moon base?
His infant son recently passed away from SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) and he's been enlisting people who've got some spare time to throw it at creating a baby monitor that can be used to collect statistics so in time, that information can be used to determine what symptoms cause SIDS. So far he's gotten tons of responses.
Get yourself a pair of those goggles that makes it feel like your looking at a 60" screen.
Granted they'll make your eyes melt, but here soon enough we'll have Chiba city anyway...
As long as the person doesn't give them to anybody they shoudl be all right.
It's only pirating, if you intend to share the information...
I don't think fighting amongst the different distributions is going to help promote linux as a legitate OS at all.
I hope redhat gets a clue...
They cut a one second shot of someone being headbutted???
But their okay with all the other scenes of people being carved into bits by light sabers.
If it's the kind of headbutt where the other guys head explodes, that might be different, but since they didn't tender an opinion on why they chose to cut that one second, we'll never know...
Oh well, good thing I live in the USA. The goverement maybe stealing my personal rights out from under my feet, but hot diggity damn, I'll have my head butts!
I'd say Ep2 and Spider-Man. I saw spider-man and really liked it. What I was the most happy about was the fact that they kept it true as possible to the comic book. Somethings were different, but overall I think they did a great job.
For you business students out there... here's a good case for doing your homework and purposely buying junk bonds...
Instead of using a usb based webcam, I'd go with a video capture card personally.
Under every OS, webcams suck...period. If this is something where your going to take the MPEG stream and make a VCD archive out of it, your going to want something that creates a quality MPEG stream.
For apps for video check out http://www.exploits.org/v4l/
As for the sound, "try dspspy".
Hope that helps!
Well the first problem is the proximity of the crew to hundreds of thousands of highly explosive fuel. At least with a rocket, the crew is on top and you can have some sorta either vertical or lateral escape system that can fire off with in 1/10 of a second of the rocket detecting a propellent cookoff. With the shuttle, the craft is strapped to the side of said fuel. The only way you could improve the crews surviveability would be to modularize the shuttle in such a way that if a propellent cookoff was detected, it would fire the crew capsule laterally away from the main fuel tank (and be able todo this while not killing the crew from g-forces and still getting them away quick enough that the concusive forces of the exploding fuel and the shrattnel from the fuel tank don't shred the vechicle.) This is a totally feasible. The biggest problem would be the weight involved. I t would increase the cost per pound instead of reducing it.
I'm not sure what a better solution would be, but I'm sure that some smart people will come up with a solution.
The problem comes in when 5 million people start using your hobby program instead of buying their program that they've patented. Then suddenly the inventor gets in a funk.
;-)
So pretty much the only way to infringe on a patent is todo a poor implementation
better yet, the kids standing across the street with a high gain yagi getting office X.
I can see it now, there going to start installing bluetooth scramblers (they'll just call it "bluecavity") in public places to prevent remote theft...
Your walking along and suddenly the RIAA police run by and tackle some kid for pirating over the air waves.
Or better yet, you'll go on a warez site and the instructions will be like..
"Goto the mall, stand in front of the Orange Julius and make the 'pirate sign' in the air. Your download will commence shortly aftwards."
The solution to the problem is "whois". I called up verizon (yes I know...) and asked for their DNS numbers and I was told that they don't give those out for security reasons. I almost had to put the phone down I was laughing so hard. I asked the person if I could talk to their supervisor, who gave me the same answer. "Unless your using our PPPoE client we will not support or give aid to any non standard setup." I was polite and simply said that all I wanted was the DNS addresses and that I was more than capable of supporting myself. No go, finally I just thank you and hung up on them. Dialed in to the company and did a whois and then put in those DNS settings. Yeah, its been my experience that 99.9999999 percent of the techsupport from verizon could be best described as worker drones...
For support for HP printers, check out gimp print. From what I've seen its pretty damn amazing.
We'll firstly,
Cher's makeup would deflect a nuclear blast (I'm imagine someone throwing a grape at the side of a house)
So we'd assume that all the cockroaches after the explosion mutate upto 55 kilograms.
Now if you were looking at Cher and a cockroach, how could you tell the difference?
If hundreds of people have nothing better todo with their time then translate other peoples stuff.
The biggest problem I see is a majority of people wanting things translated and a minority of people being able to translate. Plus all the other issues. What is some translates a sweet love letter into something that gets the person put in jail.
This is yet another nail in the coffin of free speech. I guess I'm gonna have to write a parser that I feed all my comments through...
I can see it now...
Jutkers News Service:
In a ruling today, the federal supreme court ruled that opinions are now all illegal. The justices were split, with half saying "I'm not prepared to issue a statement at this time that might be construded as something libel" the other justices had this to say reading from a prepared statement. "Citizens who engage in 'opinions' now must be ready to be held accountable for those 'opinions' in a court of law. The willy-nilly saying what you think will only bring you trouble. They should keep their mouths shut and enjoy the free open society they are lucky to have"
A press conference that was held later, the justices were asked what they thought this meant for free speech. Their response, reading from a prepared statement "Free speech isn't so free anymore... people just opening their mouths is bad business. If any person can just go out and do 'free speech' stuff including opinions and observations, what kind of world would we live in. Companies spend millions on marketing campaigns just so some person can go on a website and say 'I had bad service' thus ruining millions of dollars of advertising. Suddenly that free speech isn't so cheap anymore. What happens when that company goes out of business and all those people lose there jobs! Don't you see, by that person opening their mouth once it ruined a whole company"
The reporter countered asking "What if the company really had bad service?" Justice millhouse responded slowly, reading through a couple of pages. "It has been our observation that businesses never treat a customer poorly, because it would be bad business. If someone has bad service, they've brought it upon themselves, and they are to blame."
Pretty much the rest of the press conference went on with the same thing. I'd like to comment more on this but I feel my opinions would land me in a lawsuit, or worse jail.
God Bless America, the home of the free and brave...
Way back when cdr's were a novelty, at least at "Strawberries" (a music store in the northeast us) you could goto a console pick out the songs you wanted and it would make you a custom cd.
The system sucked for a number of reasons:
1. The interface was a bit kludgy.
2. The burner was painfully snow like 1x or 2x
3. The selection sucked.
With the advent of superfast writers, I could invision a really sweet kiosk that would better to use.
Personally I think this is the way that record companies should go. Instead of charging a lousy 16 bucks for a cd, they should charge 5 and make the thing on the spot. I personally know I'd pay 5 bucks for a CD, even if I wasn't sure I'd like all the songs. The other cool thing is a record company could setup a kisok that only featured music from its own artists so you could do the mix and match thing.
There's a really good penny arcade that addresses what your talking about
As for the kid its really tragic. I'm sure Everquest will be painted in a horrible light after this, or not. Though much like the kid who killed himself because his D&D character got cursed, the kid probably had other problems.