The difference between the two is only ~2%, in Gnomes favor. This out of of a group of a little over 2200, I don't know if I would consider that a large enough percentage to consider it to be anything other then a margin of error.
Iridium is a 2400baud connection, advertised as 10 kilobit/s, however that is after Iridium's ~4/1 compression. Something tells me that the fiber line they are pulling has quite a bit more bandwidth then that, although both solutions undoubtedly suffer from bad latency.
I agree with you in some sense. Mac OS X is easier to deal with then Linux (on the desktop in particular), and Apple has a long history of being used in research (I've been to quite a few biotech related labs, and they usually seem to have Macs on the desktop). However, I wouldn't credit Mac OS X as being more powerful then Linux on x86 or other unices (as the articles seem to), it just happens to be more convenient for the scientific desktop.
I've done distance learning in the past (at the college & high school levels), and in my experience, it really depends upon what you, and your profesor put into it. If you were to treat your classes as "real" classes, you could probably get a lot out of it, but in my experience, thats not usually how either group treats distance education, so it ends up being a lot like a semester of light study followed by CLEP.
The Athlon turns out more heat, but at least its doing the amount of work you expect it to. If your P4 starts overheating, it will throttle back the amount of work it does to keep the temperature under control, thus making you think its running cooler.
I was under the impression that both SPARC and MIPS were open standards. On top of that, neither one seems to have any sort of DRM in any of the implementations of them. Why reinvent the wheel?
How would this effect the European ISP community? Would the governments subsidize it, or would the costs be dumped on the consumer, increasing the cost of net access in Europe even higher then it already is?
I suppose that in many regions where broadband has not been widely adopted (Britain?), this could work very well, but what about places where it has been?
Interesting idea. It seems to be a standard proxy that attempts to make the encryption seem to be unencrypted data. The trick will be making it transparent to the user, but still having it protect the data (if everyone in China starts requesting just.png files, from just a few servers, it would be awfully suspicious).
I'd also imagine that the http requests could get awfully cluttered if they are encrypted into patterns. How will they avoid having the patterns be recognizable to interceptors?
It will be interesting to see what the system ends up looking like.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like a bad idea to block consumer access to an IP or range of IPs. They are perfectly justified in preventing incoming connections to IPs they control, but I would be angry if an ISP I payed money to began restricting the content I could access, just because there is the threat of an attack. Where do they draw the line?
The guy in the fur coat was digitally replaced by a computer generated Jabba. I recall seeing something about it in a "Making Of" type special, they ended up having Han step on his tail because the original actor (in the suit) wouldn't have been standing there, but Jabba took more room.
The wheel was patented by John Keogh from Melborne Australia, it was mostly a demonstation of what is wrong with the Australian patent system. The BBC covered it, as did the Register (although I'm not finding their link at the moment).
They've done it before, although they didn't have much success then either. I thought they gave up after that (outside of Cobalt). Solaris x86 is coming back though, which is probably more major news.
I know that Apple uses colored PCBs for various prototype stages (if I remember correctly, one of these machines went on eBay a little while back with red/brown boards). I thought that blue was one of the colors that they used for prototyping (some of the 6100 prototypes I've seen images of have blue boards, and undoubtedly there are newer examples out there). Did they change they're testing process around, or did they just shift colors to have a better visual look in the final revision?
Much like the Xserve, it looks like they've managed to hack DDR onto the G4 processor, and its still running on a bus which is not doubled like the Athlons. Running the bus at 166mhz should make up for that a little bit though.
Interesting that after all the commentary on the new cases having huge (7lbs) heat sinks, I couldn't find any images of them on the apple site. They must really be that big.
UltraSPARC 20? Do you mean SPARCStation 20, Ultra 30, or Ultra 10? At present, your statement does not correspond to any Sun machines. Interesting that IBM was using Sun machines there too though, it seems as though a lot of internal IBM research seems to be done on Sun Ultra machines.
You cannot open promiscuous sockets from Java, thus making a TINI a poor choice for a portable packet sniffer. It looks like you could open connections outward from a TINI, circumventing many security systems. I have no clue whether or not ARP based sniffing requires a promiscuous ethernet adapter or not.
Rather odd though, OpenVMS is not that obscure, but RISC-OS is not all that common outside of Britain, and the image is from Harvard. Someone there must like it an awful lot though, I personally wouldn't do work on machines that top out with 200mhz StrongARM chips.
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That is not the reason. Apple has publicly released the eMac to consumers (link). Apple probably did this to prevent Zettabyte from infringing on iMac sales, but I have no idea as to what legal basis they would have for doing this (reselling end user software licenses maybe?).
I think you are forgetting about NT 4.0/2000 beta for Alpha, along with NT 3.5 (which was released for Alpha, PPC, and MIPS at least). More recently, Microsoft has released their 64bit Itanium version of Windows. Read up before making statements like that, it makes the rest of us Windows bashers look bad.
You are a fool. Not only are you seemingly unable to produce readable text, but it barely makes sense.
"I'm sure the forefathers of free software, like ESR, Linus Torvalds, and Richard Stallman would have wished that they could have been alive and around today"?
Patents last for 17 years from filing, although a lot of pharma companies want that changed due to the large amount of government required testing for that field.
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40% single is not "mainly single", especially as there are only 2 answers there.
The difference between the two is only ~2%, in Gnomes favor. This out of of a group of a little over 2200, I don't know if I would consider that a large enough percentage to consider it to be anything other then a margin of error.
Iridium is a 2400baud connection, advertised as 10 kilobit/s, however that is after Iridium's ~4/1 compression. Something tells me that the fiber line they are pulling has quite a bit more bandwidth then that, although both solutions undoubtedly suffer from bad latency.
Er, Antarctica is a continent. Unless of course you are commenting on the continental plate its on shifting, which may take a little while.
I agree with you in some sense. Mac OS X is easier to deal with then Linux (on the desktop in particular), and Apple has a long history of being used in research (I've been to quite a few biotech related labs, and they usually seem to have Macs on the desktop). However, I wouldn't credit Mac OS X as being more powerful then Linux on x86 or other unices (as the articles seem to), it just happens to be more convenient for the scientific desktop.
I've done distance learning in the past (at the college & high school levels), and in my experience, it really depends upon what you, and your profesor put into it. If you were to treat your classes as "real" classes, you could probably get a lot out of it, but in my experience, thats not usually how either group treats distance education, so it ends up being a lot like a semester of light study followed by CLEP.
The Athlon turns out more heat, but at least its doing the amount of work you expect it to. If your P4 starts overheating, it will throttle back the amount of work it does to keep the temperature under control, thus making you think its running cooler.
I was under the impression that both SPARC and MIPS were open standards. On top of that, neither one seems to have any sort of DRM in any of the implementations of them. Why reinvent the wheel?
How would this effect the European ISP community? Would the governments subsidize it, or would the costs be dumped on the consumer, increasing the cost of net access in Europe even higher then it already is?
I suppose that in many regions where broadband has not been widely adopted (Britain?), this could work very well, but what about places where it has been?
Interesting idea. It seems to be a standard proxy that attempts to make the encryption seem to be unencrypted data. The trick will be making it transparent to the user, but still having it protect the data (if everyone in China starts requesting just .png files, from just a few servers, it would be awfully suspicious).
I'd also imagine that the http requests could get awfully cluttered if they are encrypted into patterns. How will they avoid having the patterns be recognizable to interceptors?
It will be interesting to see what the system ends up looking like.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems like a bad idea to block consumer access to an IP or range of IPs. They are perfectly justified in preventing incoming connections to IPs they control, but I would be angry if an ISP I payed money to began restricting the content I could access, just because there is the threat of an attack. Where do they draw the line?
The guy in the fur coat was digitally replaced by a computer generated Jabba. I recall seeing something about it in a "Making Of" type special, they ended up having Han step on his tail because the original actor (in the suit) wouldn't have been standing there, but Jabba took more room.
The wheel was patented by John Keogh from Melborne Australia, it was mostly a demonstation of what is wrong with the Australian patent system. The BBC covered it, as did the Register (although I'm not finding their link at the moment).
They've done it before, although they didn't have much success then either. I thought they gave up after that (outside of Cobalt). Solaris x86 is coming back though, which is probably more major news.
I know that Apple uses colored PCBs for various prototype stages (if I remember correctly, one of these machines went on eBay a little while back with red/brown boards). I thought that blue was one of the colors that they used for prototyping (some of the 6100 prototypes I've seen images of have blue boards, and undoubtedly there are newer examples out there). Did they change they're testing process around, or did they just shift colors to have a better visual look in the final revision?
Much like the Xserve, it looks like they've managed to hack DDR onto the G4 processor, and its still running on a bus which is not doubled like the Athlons. Running the bus at 166mhz should make up for that a little bit though. Interesting that after all the commentary on the new cases having huge (7lbs) heat sinks, I couldn't find any images of them on the apple site. They must really be that big.
UltraSPARC 20? Do you mean SPARCStation 20, Ultra 30, or Ultra 10? At present, your statement does not correspond to any Sun machines. Interesting that IBM was using Sun machines there too though, it seems as though a lot of internal IBM research seems to be done on Sun Ultra machines.
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You cannot open promiscuous sockets from Java, thus making a TINI a poor choice for a portable packet sniffer. It looks like you could open connections outward from a TINI, circumventing many security systems. I have no clue whether or not ARP based sniffing requires a promiscuous ethernet adapter or not.
Rather odd though, OpenVMS is not that obscure, but RISC-OS is not all that common outside of Britain, and the image is from Harvard. Someone there must like it an awful lot though, I personally wouldn't do work on machines that top out with 200mhz StrongARM chips.
That is not the reason. Apple has publicly released the eMac to consumers (link). Apple probably did this to prevent Zettabyte from infringing on iMac sales, but I have no idea as to what legal basis they would have for doing this (reselling end user software licenses maybe?).
I think you are forgetting about NT 4.0/2000 beta for Alpha, along with NT 3.5 (which was released for Alpha, PPC, and MIPS at least). More recently, Microsoft has released their 64bit Itanium version of Windows. Read up before making statements like that, it makes the rest of us Windows bashers look bad.
If by 20, you mean 10, yes.
You are a fool. Not only are you seemingly unable to produce readable text, but it barely makes sense. "I'm sure the forefathers of free software, like ESR, Linus Torvalds, and Richard Stallman would have wished that they could have been alive and around today"?
Patents last for 17 years from filing, although a lot of pharma companies want that changed due to the large amount of government required testing for that field.