I, for one, am waiting with baited breath for the CO Supreme Court to rule on Tattered Cover v. Thornton. In fact, I will probably head down the court the day the decision is handed down.
What I loved was that the oral arguments for this case were held at Brighton High School in a sort of civics demonstration for the students. They got to see a couple cases being heard.
Also, it is impressive to look at the large number of organizations that filed amicus curiae briefs for Tattered Cover. It's a who's who of rights orgs.
Yeah, I'm seeing it...I'm seeing it. Heck, if I could get that working, I wouldn't need glasses. I could just get two of these and replace them. The GavCam taken to it's limit.
...you'd be able to see in focus without your glasses
Ah, but my problem is that I need the glasses, I am quite blind and so if I decided to buy one of these as a stylish HUD or video viewer, I'd be half blind.
That's not a bad thing if I'm sitting down, but if I'm walking across campus looking cool with one of these babies on my head, I need the other eye.
I should! I can get a top hat and cane easily from a friend. Now, where to buy a prescription monocle...
And here is another question, what about epileptics that respond to flashing lights? I'm thinking this bugger will have government warnings up the wazoo about that. "Let's move the flashing LEDs as close the eye as we can..."
Okay, I can see this as a new type of Glasstron like system for portable DVD players (has to be cheaper than the 8" LCD on current ones). But in no way should this be in a cell phone. I can barely walk and talk on one of those, but walk, talk, and view a movie, I'd hurt people. In a car, I'd be a moving traffic violation.
One other question, what about those of us with glasses, can the system work around that, or will I have to start wearing a monocle like Mr. Peanut?
As I said, offtopic but not quite. A British company is trying to patent salted chips, or fries, as we USAns know it. The group, ActionAid, is trying to point out the stupidity of modern foods patent laws. Their announcement is here.
As I said, the program is Gaussian. This is a memory bandwidth loving program. I have done jobs of similar size that were tested that needed 600+MB of RAM to run (otherwise swapping brought CPU usage to 0) and about 60 GB of scratch space for integrals.
Indeed the numbers I give show that the best Athlon system ran on an nForce, the best memory bandwidth solution for Athlon.
The processors were a P4/1.8 and a Athlon 1.4. A bump to an Athlon XP would help, but not enough to get to the RDRAM solution.
Also, there were no MP solutions tested, only MP motherboards with one processor used (the Athlon MP solutions). If they did, a dual Xeon on an i860 can just fly.
My Alpha was a year ago the fastest computer at a very high level research institution. Now a Dual Xeon can just crush it horribly (using Linux).
Some timings to go along with this. Using the same Gaussian test jobs, the total sum of CPU time (in minutes):
Alpha667: 2005.37
Athlon: 1357.57
P4: 1120.53
The P4 and AMD are the best of the motherboard/compiler combos. It was found that the Intel compiler did wonders for both the Athlon and P4. For example, the Athlon+PGF77 was 1835.46. That is ~8 hours shaved off!
First, Itanium. Then Hammer. Now this. As a grad student who uses Alphas everyday to do quantum calculations, I really want a new 64-bit chip out there, especially since Compaq killed the Alpha.
My dream is Hammer(great FP, no doubt) + RDRAM/1200. Before the flames kill me, right now the best workstation for Gaussian is P4+RDRAM. Why? The RDRAM. That amazing architecture is beautiful for the large calcs Gaussian can do.
CU recently opened a similar system as well. It's a three-sided "immersive visualization environment." Not quite as cool as the CAVE, but good. Nice SGI computers running it as well.
My friend who has seen it in stereo mode says it is quite nice. I want to try Quake in it.
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Actually, this is an important theory in Calculus. It's called the Mean Value Theorem. Essentially, if you take one hour to go 80 miles, it can be proven that at some point, your velocity was 80 MPH for an instant.
In fact, there is *always* a homework problem like this in a Calculus I class. Usually, the problem has a student doing this and the teacher asks, "Could you get out of the ticket? No.".
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I, for one, am waiting with baited breath for the CO Supreme Court to rule on Tattered Cover v. Thornton. In fact, I will probably head down the court the day the decision is handed down.
What I loved was that the oral arguments for this case were held at Brighton High School in a sort of civics demonstration for the students. They got to see a couple cases being heard.
Also, it is impressive to look at the large number of organizations that filed amicus curiae briefs for Tattered Cover. It's a who's who of rights orgs.
Yeah, I'm seeing it...I'm seeing it. Heck, if I could get that working, I wouldn't need glasses. I could just get two of these and replace them. The GavCam taken to it's limit.
"Don't hit me! I'm wearing projectors!"
...you'd be able to see in focus without your glasses
Ah, but my problem is that I need the glasses, I am quite blind and so if I decided to buy one of these as a stylish HUD or video viewer, I'd be half blind.
That's not a bad thing if I'm sitting down, but if I'm walking across campus looking cool with one of these babies on my head, I need the other eye.
I should! I can get a top hat and cane easily from a friend. Now, where to buy a prescription monocle...
And here is another question, what about epileptics that respond to flashing lights? I'm thinking this bugger will have government warnings up the wazoo about that. "Let's move the flashing LEDs as close the eye as we can..."
Okay, I can see this as a new type of Glasstron like system for portable DVD players (has to be cheaper than the 8" LCD on current ones). But in no way should this be in a cell phone. I can barely walk and talk on one of those, but walk, talk, and view a movie, I'd hurt people. In a car, I'd be a moving traffic violation.
One other question, what about those of us with glasses, can the system work around that, or will I have to start wearing a monocle like Mr. Peanut?
As I said, offtopic but not quite. A British company is trying to patent salted chips, or fries, as we USAns know it. The group, ActionAid, is trying to point out the stupidity of modern foods patent laws. Their announcement is here.
Can't believe I didn't see this link: Free Punch Cards. I especially love the graphical punch your own card.
As I said, the program is Gaussian. This is a memory bandwidth loving program. I have done jobs of similar size that were tested that needed 600+MB of RAM to run (otherwise swapping brought CPU usage to 0) and about 60 GB of scratch space for integrals.
Indeed the numbers I give show that the best Athlon system ran on an nForce, the best memory bandwidth solution for Athlon.
The processors were a P4/1.8 and a Athlon 1.4. A bump to an Athlon XP would help, but not enough to get to the RDRAM solution.
Also, there were no MP solutions tested, only MP motherboards with one processor used (the Athlon MP solutions). If they did, a dual Xeon on an i860 can just fly.
My Alpha was a year ago the fastest computer at a very high level research institution. Now a Dual Xeon can just crush it horribly (using Linux).
Some timings to go along with this. Using the same Gaussian test jobs, the total sum of CPU time (in minutes):
Alpha667: 2005.37
Athlon: 1357.57
P4: 1120.53
The P4 and AMD are the best of the motherboard/compiler combos. It was found that the Intel compiler did wonders for both the Athlon and P4. For example, the Athlon+PGF77 was 1835.46. That is ~8 hours shaved off!
First, Itanium. Then Hammer. Now this. As a grad student who uses Alphas everyday to do quantum calculations, I really want a new 64-bit chip out there, especially since Compaq killed the Alpha. My dream is Hammer(great FP, no doubt) + RDRAM/1200. Before the flames kill me, right now the best workstation for Gaussian is P4+RDRAM. Why? The RDRAM. That amazing architecture is beautiful for the large calcs Gaussian can do.
Actually, Boxleitner's Sheridan was the *first* captain. Jeffery Sinclair was a commander, not a captain.
Lord, I am a nerd.
CU recently opened a similar system as well. It's a three-sided "immersive visualization environment." Not quite as cool as the CAVE, but good. Nice SGI computers running it as well. My friend who has seen it in stereo mode says it is quite nice. I want to try Quake in it.
Actually, this is an important theory in Calculus. It's called the Mean Value Theorem. Essentially, if you take one hour to go 80 miles, it can be proven that at some point, your velocity was 80 MPH for an instant.
In fact, there is *always* a homework problem like this in a Calculus I class. Usually, the problem has a student doing this and the teacher asks, "Could you get out of the ticket? No.".