...unlike some software companies... And some hardware companies!!! Christopher A. Bohn
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Ran into the same problem. I've been tempted to buy cork paper & glue cork to the CDs and actually sell CD-ROM coasters. Never got around to it. Anyone who has the gumption to give this a try has my blessing to steal my idea. As long as I get a free sample. (I have no way to verify this -- you're on the honor system:-) Christopher A. Bohn
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The other problem with this is that it could have killed honest-to-goodness sales of DVD movies. Ranks right up there with leasing software. Christopher A. Bohn
Every action has its consequences -- this is a hidden truth in TANSTAAFL that a lot of people miss. In this case, instead of standing up to take personal responsibility for his statements, John Doe is facing the consequences of putting the ability to anonymously express opinions in jeopardy. I (mostly) agree with your conclusion, but your final argument has a hole in it -- using the same logic, one common person stealing from another common person should be encouraged because a totalitarian state would discourage it. A free society is not defined in the negative (such as anti-totalitarian), but rather in the affirmative. True freedoms are not "freedom from..." but rather "freedom of..." Christopher A. Bohn
"Kaffe is available under the Open Source initiative and comes with complete source code, distributed under the GNU Public License (GPL).
"Alternatively, the Kaffe OpenVM Custom Edition can be licensed from Transvirtual - an ideal solution for companies who cannot accept GPL code in their products."
Ah, but supercomputers fill the niche of "performance at any cost." The notion of price-performance wasn't heard in HPC circles until the Beowulf project in 1994. And you're absolutely right about the scaling of applications. But the use of the LINPACK benchmark was a necessary decision to make the list accessible to most anybody who had a supercomputer, despite the benchmark being obsolete. Christopher A. Bohn
ASCI Red was Intel's supercomputing division's last hurrah -- the king is dead; long live the king. Back in November, one vendor (don't remember if it was SGI or Sun) earned itself some animosity when its marketing department counted the number of entries it had in the Top500 and declared itself the leader in the supercomputing industry. BTW, try using a table to get your columns to line up. Christopher A. Bohn
It's a shame. Sure was nice for 7 months to be able to point out that a Linux cluster was one of the 100 fastest supercomputers (C-Plant was ranked #92 on November's list). We'll just have to wait until the port to ASCI Red is finished (I seem to recall a University team (UVA?) was working on that. Of course, I could be completely mistaken. Christopher A. Bohn
Deep Blue is a member of IBM's SP family. IIRC, it was more souped-up (suped-up?:-) than a standard SP-2 but not quite up to par with ASCI Blue Pacific. Christopher A. Bohn
"NASA has been studying the idea of one day sending a methane-producing robot spacecraft to Mars, said Kral."
But not to release it into the atmosphere -- this idea is to produce rocket fuel from indigineous resources ("live off the land") and store it for use by a return-sample mission that will arrive two years later. Christopher A. Bohn
ENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic computer. Colossus was specific to code-breaking. I'd previously read that the Atanosoff-Berry Computer (ca.1939) (see also the links from that page, and this page) was the first programmable electronic computer, and it was specialized for solving linear systems of floating-point equations (at a whopping 3.75 flops). The designers wanted to be able to input & output as fast as the machine could support it, so they abandoned mechanical card readers & writers. Instead, they read cards by passing them under an electric field and measuring the disturbances in the field made by the holes. The wrote to the cards by using a 5kV spark to burn holes into the cards. Christopher A. Bohn
One question you have to ask yourself is how this is different from Red Hat accepting capital from Netscape, Intel, etc. The difference is that if these companies were to say "go to the dark side or we won't give you money" then Red Hat could swallow hard and say "no."
On the otherhand, Red Hat would be unable to prevent sales of stock to anyone. And if a majority of shareholders were to say "place all your future software developments under a restrictive EULA instead of GPL" then Red Hat would have no choice.
But, the employees would. And as Red Hat exists in its pre-IPO state, it is only as ethical as its employees. Assuming those same employees are still there post-IPO, then should a majority of shareholders demand restrictive EULAs, then the ethical employees could walk.
And, as Linus has pointed out, if the "owner" of a piece of GPL'd software would ever go to the dark side, then s/he can't take the software, too.
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IIRC, they're uniprocessor nodes
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I kid you not ... www.osi.org will take you to "Ontario Swine Improvement, Inc."
Christopher A. Bohn
Just think -- if Windows 2000 had a two-digit date, then it'd report itself as Windows 00, a pre-alfa version =)
Christopher A. Bohn
And Solaris 2.7 --> 7 and JDK 1.2 --> 2
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...unlike some software companies...
And some hardware companies !!!
Christopher A. Bohn
Ran into the same problem. I've been tempted to buy cork paper & glue cork to the CDs and actually sell CD-ROM coasters. Never got around to it. Anyone who has the gumption to give this a try has my blessing to steal my idea. As long as I get a free sample. (I have no way to verify this -- you're on the honor system :-)
Christopher A. Bohn
The other problem with this is that it could have killed honest-to-goodness sales of DVD movies. Ranks right up there with leasing software.
Christopher A. Bohn
Thank Goodness.
Christopher A. Bohn
My submission was along the lines of "step into my parlor..."
Christopher A. Bohn
Every action has its consequences -- this is a hidden truth in TANSTAAFL that a lot of people miss. In this case, instead of standing up to take personal responsibility for his statements, John Doe is facing the consequences of putting the ability to anonymously express opinions in jeopardy.
I (mostly) agree with your conclusion, but your final argument has a hole in it -- using the same logic, one common person stealing from another common person should be encouraged because a totalitarian state would discourage it. A free society is not defined in the negative (such as anti-totalitarian), but rather in the affirmative. True freedoms are not "freedom from..." but rather "freedom of..."
Christopher A. Bohn
Can you just imagine television commercials on network TV? During the Superbowl!? Look at what that did for Outpost.com
Christopher A. Bohn
"Kaffe is available under the Open Source initiative and comes with complete source code, distributed under the GNU Public License (GPL).
"Alternatively, the Kaffe OpenVM Custom Edition can be licensed from Transvirtual - an ideal solution for companies who cannot accept GPL code in their products."
Christopher A. Bohn
Ah, but supercomputers fill the niche of "performance at any cost." The notion of price-performance wasn't heard in HPC circles until the Beowulf project in 1994.
And you're absolutely right about the scaling of applications. But the use of the LINPACK benchmark was a necessary decision to make the list accessible to most anybody who had a supercomputer, despite the benchmark being obsolete.
Christopher A. Bohn
ASCI Red was Intel's supercomputing division's last hurrah -- the king is dead; long live the king.
Back in November, one vendor (don't remember if it was SGI or Sun) earned itself some animosity when its marketing department counted the number of entries it had in the Top500 and declared itself the leader in the supercomputing industry.
BTW, try using a table to get your columns to line up.
Christopher A. Bohn
It's a shame. Sure was nice for 7 months to be able to point out that a Linux cluster was one of the 100 fastest supercomputers (C-Plant was ranked #92 on November's list). We'll just have to wait until the port to ASCI Red is finished (I seem to recall a University team (UVA?) was working on that. Of course, I could be completely mistaken.
Christopher A. Bohn
A machine cannot be included on the list if the owners don't submit the LINPACK results for consideration.
Christopher A. Bohn
Deep Blue is a member of IBM's SP family. IIRC, it was more souped-up (suped-up? :-) than a standard SP-2 but not quite up to par with ASCI Blue Pacific.
Christopher A. Bohn
IIRC, the Xeon versions of Pentium II/III have full-speed L2's.
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But not to release it into the atmosphere -- this idea is to produce rocket fuel from indigineous resources ("live off the land") and store it for use by a return-sample mission that will arrive two years later.
Christopher A. Bohn
And what was the atmospheric pressure in his experiments?
Christopher A. Bohn
ENIAC was the first general-purpose electronic computer. Colossus was specific to code-breaking. I'd previously read that the Atanosoff-Berry Computer (ca.1939) (see also the links from that page, and this page) was the first programmable electronic computer, and it was specialized for solving linear systems of floating-point equations (at a whopping 3.75 flops). The designers wanted to be able to input & output as fast as the machine could support it, so they abandoned mechanical card readers & writers. Instead, they read cards by passing them under an electric field and measuring the disturbances in the field made by the holes. The wrote to the cards by using a 5kV spark to burn holes into the cards.
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and vice-versa
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One question you have to ask yourself is how this is different from Red Hat accepting capital from Netscape, Intel, etc. The difference is that if these companies were to say "go to the dark side or we won't give you money" then Red Hat could swallow hard and say "no."
On the otherhand, Red Hat would be unable to prevent sales of stock to anyone. And if a majority of shareholders were to say "place all your future software developments under a restrictive EULA instead of GPL" then Red Hat would have no choice.
But, the employees would. And as Red Hat exists in its pre-IPO state, it is only as ethical as its employees. Assuming those same employees are still there post-IPO, then should a majority of shareholders demand restrictive EULAs, then the ethical employees could walk.
And, as Linus has pointed out, if the "owner" of a piece of GPL'd software would ever go to the dark side, then s/he can't take the software, too.
Christopher A. Bohn
Except that under free enterprise, the government cannot engage in commercial business.
Christopher A. Bohn
Sorry for the sillyness, playing to see if there is a bug in the system
It's not playing if you can call it "testing" without your nose growing.
Christopher A. Bohn