Never mind the KDE/Gnome discussion, I found it fascinating to read how TheKompany.com is made up of people who have not all met face-to-face. The founder has only met one of his employees ever.
His employees were all basically referred and the traditional face-to-face interviews were obviously never done.
From my experience in the process control industry, this is typical of European especially German engineering. They make great products you hear very little about. We had a vendor in a while ago with some great industrial Ethernet products; they have been around for years but the first time we heard of them was by being included in a larger system. Great engineering is wonderful but you gotta sell it too!
The combination of the Fab and the Dresden Design Center (DDC) was said to require a $2.3 million investment, with close to $2M already spent...
At that price, any Tom Dick or Harriet could set one up!
Of course, the next sentence makes it clear they're talking BILLIONS, not millions:
and the remaining $300M due to be used by the end of 2003. For an advanced microprocessor fabrication facility like Fab 30 this is the going rate for start-up costs, which is a major part of the reason why there are only two big competitors in the desktop CPU market; with such high barriers to entry, it's very difficult to become a mass market competitor in the CPU business.
Wouldn't the SMP chips have greater problems with bus contention when they're both trying to access main RAM? Or does the HT chip just push the contention to the cache level?
Because current hybrid fuels, other than paraffin-based fuels, cannot sustain a high combustion rate, they have found only limited application and are not commercially viable for space applications. Tests at Stanford and Ames have shown the new paraffin-based fuel has a burn rate that is three times greater than that of other hybrid fuels.
They should talk to Silicon Valley darlings like Pets.com, WebVan et al if they want to know about burn rate!
I ordered a huge 80MB hard drive back in 1988 with SCSI interface and 4MB RAM. It plugged into my Amiga 500's expansion slot and was a mere $1000 US. I could not fill that puppy up no matter how much stuff I downloaded with my 9600bps modem. Ah, those were the days.
In April, physicists at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) in Canada presented conclusive new evidence that electron neutrinos oscillate -- or change 'flavour' -- on their way from the Sun to the Earth.
I agree that the use of laptops (especially wireless-equipped ones) is the effect of being bored, not the cause.
"In my day" (university 1984-1989) if one was bored, you could doodle, read something else, sleep, etc. None of this was interactive with other people.
With wireless-equipped laptops, you can now interact with other people via email, IM, blog, etc etc. I think this is the distinction - you can easily get totally wrapped up in your computer interaction and shut the class out entirely.
"In my day" at least you had a shot at hearing something the professor said, because none of your distractions were that absorbing.
I get a lot of spam, from a lot of places. My Outlook spam filter has a little over 300 domains that I have received spam from. Some are from Korea, some are major American ISPs.
By your logic, I should block aol.com because I get no legitimate messages from there.
Put the control of spam into the hands of the users - they can decide what's spam and what is not. I don't trust my ISP to decide what web pages I can see; I don't trust them to decide what email I should receive either.
I agree, people have become multitasking. I multitask as well - several windows, flipping back and forth, music playing, etc. We all do it.
My point (and I think I have one!) is that with this multitasking, we never give anything our complete attention. When your computer multitasks, you never get 100% efficiency because of overhead due to task swaps and so forth - so does your brain.
No argument on professors needing to get you excited about learning. There will always be brilliant researchers who are poor teachers.
Call me old-fashioned, but I wish for the days when you had a chance of having someone's complete attention. These days of cellphones, PDAs and laptops mean that distractions are commonplace.
Sure, many classes are very boring and students will lose interest regardless of what toy is in front of them, but I think professors have a right to limit distactions.
I hate spam as much as the next person, but the vigilante attitude of the RBL'ers goes too far. Cutting off a large netblock because of the actions of a few is too much.
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It wasn't cloning that got her lungs - it was secondary cigarette smoke from the black sheep of the family.
Much of the work into developing this next-generation weapon is being done at the High Energy Research and Technology Facility.
The $9m lab is located in a canyon in the Manzano Mountains, part of the remote Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico.
I wish they would check their figures before releasing stories. Could you possibly build a lab like this for 9 million dollars?
The first thing that comes to mind is what they would do to enemy pilots.
OK, it's a new way of doing *legal* business. :)
Never mind the KDE/Gnome discussion, I found it fascinating to read how TheKompany.com is made up of people who have not all met face-to-face. The founder has only met one of his employees ever.
His employees were all basically referred and the traditional face-to-face interviews were obviously never done.
It's a new way of doing business. I like it.
From my experience in the process control industry, this is typical of European especially German engineering. They make great products you hear very little about. We had a vendor in a while ago with some great industrial Ethernet products; they have been around for years but the first time we heard of them was by being included in a larger system. Great engineering is wonderful but you gotta sell it too!
The combination of the Fab and the Dresden Design Center (DDC) was said to require a $2.3 million investment, with close to $2M already spent...
At that price, any Tom Dick or Harriet could set one up!
Of course, the next sentence makes it clear they're talking BILLIONS, not millions:
and the remaining $300M due to be used by the end of 2003. For an advanced microprocessor fabrication facility like Fab 30 this is the going rate for start-up costs, which is a major part of the reason why there are only two big competitors in the desktop CPU market; with such high barriers to entry, it's very difficult to become a mass market competitor in the CPU business.
Wouldn't the SMP chips have greater problems with bus contention when they're both trying to access main RAM? Or does the HT chip just push the contention to the cache level?
Good point about the pipeline(s).
Is there any comparison between a single, HyperThreaded, chip and two chips multiprocessed with SMP? I assume the results would be very similar.
This is the original posting.
Reading the posting, it seems unlikely.
Because current hybrid fuels, other than paraffin-based fuels, cannot sustain a high combustion rate, they have found only limited application and are not commercially viable for space applications. Tests at Stanford and Ames have shown the new paraffin-based fuel has a burn rate that is three times greater than that of other hybrid fuels.
They should talk to Silicon Valley darlings like Pets.com, WebVan et al if they want to know about burn rate!
That "punishment" would let him find out more about the company's systems for the next time. :)
I don't think IBM is trying to get anyone to switch to OS/2. IBM's point in the notice was to transition to a new platform from OS/2 in three stages:
1. Upgrade to Warp 4, Warp Server, e.g. the last release.
2. Make your apps Internet-compatible via Java, XML, etc.
3. Get off OS/2.
It's a sound strategy - much better than saying "toss your old boxes and use our magic new product of the week".
I ordered a huge 80MB hard drive back in 1988 with SCSI interface and 4MB RAM. It plugged into my Amiga 500's expansion slot and was a mere $1000 US. I could not fill that puppy up no matter how much stuff I downloaded with my 9600bps modem. Ah, those were the days.
The system would make a great doorstop today!
You can't use ping, because ping's job is to echo back what you sent. It should fill the packet.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0792.txt?number=0792
In April, physicists at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) in Canada presented conclusive new evidence that electron neutrinos oscillate -- or change 'flavour' -- on their way from the Sun to the Earth.
So they don't taste like chicken anymore?
I agree that the use of laptops (especially wireless-equipped ones) is the effect of being bored, not the cause.
"In my day" (university 1984-1989) if one was bored, you could doodle, read something else, sleep, etc. None of this was interactive with other people.
With wireless-equipped laptops, you can now interact with other people via email, IM, blog, etc etc. I think this is the distinction - you can easily get totally wrapped up in your computer interaction and shut the class out entirely.
"In my day" at least you had a shot at hearing something the professor said, because none of your distractions were that absorbing.
I get a lot of spam, from a lot of places. My Outlook spam filter has a little over 300 domains that I have received spam from. Some are from Korea, some are major American ISPs.
By your logic, I should block aol.com because I get no legitimate messages from there.
Put the control of spam into the hands of the users - they can decide what's spam and what is not. I don't trust my ISP to decide what web pages I can see; I don't trust them to decide what email I should receive either.
I agree, people have become multitasking. I multitask as well - several windows, flipping back and forth, music playing, etc. We all do it.
My point (and I think I have one!) is that with this multitasking, we never give anything our complete attention. When your computer multitasks, you never get 100% efficiency because of overhead due to task swaps and so forth - so does your brain.
No argument on professors needing to get you excited about learning. There will always be brilliant researchers who are poor teachers.
Call me old-fashioned, but I wish for the days when you had a chance of having someone's complete attention. These days of cellphones, PDAs and laptops mean that distractions are commonplace.
Sure, many classes are very boring and students will lose interest regardless of what toy is in front of them, but I think professors have a right to limit distactions.
I hate spam as much as the next person, but the vigilante attitude of the RBL'ers goes too far. Cutting off a large netblock because of the actions of a few is too much.