So am I. So is everybody on/.. If we needed oversimplification and pretty moving pictures to understand things, we'd be on people.com instead of here. His task is "...toys for educating people around complicated...". That implies that these aren't deep thinkers, and probably would benefit from such a presentation. Our personal biases (bia?) against stupid flash is irrelevant. It sounds like he actually needs it.
That's not what this one is for. This is about the LSI of an optical communications set, whether a multiplexer, a booster (can't remember what they call them... the repeater thing), whatever.... all these things that involve lots of big discretes under control of asics, now can be built using lithographic processes, instead of robots, soldering irons, and people. Righ now, if you lose one of those suckers, you fix it. with this breakthrough, you replace it. It's like in the old days, when you'd have a hard drive fail, a tech would come out with an oscilloscope and debug it... time lost, labor bought. Now, if you have a hard drive fail, you tell the software it's offline, flip the lever and pull out the old drive, push in the new drive and flip the lever, tell the software to set up the drive and put it back in the pool.
It's not about taking up space. It's not really about the consumers, in the first interface with MS. It's about them using their position as OS vendor to supress competitors, with Netscape being the most prominent example. MS didn't create IE at 0-cost and provide it at 0-cost. They devoted a lot of time (=money) to developing it, then included it as part of the operating system. I acknowledge that they made it available to systems that didn't have it yet, but that's part of the subtrefuge. IE does nothing to make windows better, and the fact that it's a better browser doesn't change that. I tend to think in analogies, and teh best one I can see is the automobile fuel business. If gasoline weren't a commodity, and only one company made it, and wanted the oil change business, all they've got to do is include an oil change with every 10th fill-up. Who, in his right mind, would go buy oil and change it himself, or pay one of those incompetent quick-lubes to do it, when it's already part of his gasoline?
yes, it's hygroscopic, though you ordinarily give the mix all the water it needs. The key ingredient here is the single active ingredient in portland cement - Calcium Oxide... CaO... anybody ever heard of quicklime? It's used to destroy bodies of murder victims, and in time of plagues, the mass graves would be filled with a layer of bodies, and a layer of quicklime, alternating, so the bodies would quickly be destroyed. The physical structure is quickly broken down, and the bacteria then do the rest on those bacteria-bite-sized morsels. Remember the pile of lime in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" (not that Dickens ever got around to explaining it, but it was obvious)? Nasty stuff, though even pure, it's not like in the movies, where you sink into it as you almost instantly dissolve, and in concrete, it's a lot more dilute.
I agree that plain clock speed numbers are largely meaningless between architectures. Nonetheless, getting a chip to run at a higher speed will make it do its job (just the computation part... io,, memory access, etc. are another story) faster. In the main application I'm concerned with, EDA, we get, within an architecture, about a 1:1 clock speed/job speed benefit. Our 1800Mhz (P.R. numbers) Athlon systems are a hair better than twice as fast as our 900Mhz HP-UX (PA-Risc) systems and about three times as fast as our 600Mhz SunOS (Sparc) systems, on our kind of work. That tells me that if Sun and HP could overcome timing issues in their architecture the way Intel has, they could, by running at 2.4Ghz, be a little less than half again as fast as these athlons, and if AMD can get their clock speed up there, they'd once again be completely devastating Intel. Of course, AMD is devoting their engineering efforts to perfecting the hammer extensions. Once those are in place, there will be no reason to keep the proprietary systems around, for us, as we need them only to run jobs that need more than 2Gb memory allocated for a process. Of course, the big guys will stay necessary for things like databases. Their I/O architecture beats any i386 system I ever saw.
Oh, and yes, I AM a lamer (are your l,a, and e broken?).
Until you mentinoed rot13.com, i didn't know anybody'd bothered to make a binary. I always just piped stuff through "tr abcdefghijklmABCDEFGHIJKLM nopqrstuvwxyzNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" You learn something new every day.
Actually, they still run on Digital Unix. They just renamed it, like they did when they renamed OSF/1 to Digital Unix. DEC was the only company from the OSF consortium to stick with the project, which was designed to make all the vendors' unices compatible -- O(pen) S(ystems) F(oundation (or was it federation?)). It was originally kind of created by DEC, IBM, and I think HP and maybe some others. Before that, they were mostly using Ultrix.
The format is platform/cpu, number of units completed, total cpu time contributed, average cpu time/unit completed. It's mor readable in setiathome,s tables.
All the best performers on that list are Alphas, running Tru64. Those suckers have been in the Ghz range for many years, long before Intel or AMD. Are Sun, IBM, or HP there even yet? I know they're getting close.
There's also "American Mandrake", commonly called the mayapple. I sometimes tried keeping a few of the roots, bruised, on a shelf in my closet, when i was having trouble sleeping. The fumes brought on deep, but often wierd, sleep.
I haven't seen the actual quote posted yet, so i figure i'll add it in here.
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name"
I suppose the name or number might be some kind of PIN or password kind of thing.
And what has it got to do with newspapers? I can go down to my local mom and pop newstand here in upstate NY and get my local paper AND the NY Times, AND the Boston Globe, AND the London Times, AND. . . on, and on, and on.
That's the point. You CAN get those other newspapers. You're not limited by law to the weekly Adirondack Advertiser just because it's published closer to you than the Times is.
I assume you're kidding about the opt out. I used to appreciate the inclusion of options to opt out of spam, but noticed that it didn't seem to help. As an experiment, I created a user (Not a new hotmal or yahoo address... those seem to be immediately published), and as that user, followed the unsubsubscribe instructions. That user promptly began recieving spam, and its only action was to request to not receive spam. Sure, there're probably some spammers that actually do the opt out, but even of those who do, they stop sending you spam themselves, while adding you to the list of validated email addresses they compile and sell to other spammers.
But as the site says, forced removal will set off an alarm, so at least, you can get things headed towards the site of the abduction, assuming the alarm is sent fast enough to get out before the watch is stomped to pieces.
I beg to differ. When the latest run of consciousness has been too long and complex, without adequate garbage collection, I use ethanol to induce a reboot. The restart is troublesome, but I'm still not in the mental hospital.
But if the entire continent/earth whatever had this same gravity reduction
Goodness! That brings up an interesting point, doesn't it? You're scared of global warming and ozone holes? What about global vacuum? Reduce g, and the atmosphere starts eroding away faster in the solar wind. Maybe if we made a shield whose umbra closed in the lower stratosphere, the effect would be negligible, but even so, we wouldn't want it left running more than necessary. Maybe we could use one to assist in building an enclosure reaching space, then the reduced-g field could be contained inside there. The air would still all blow out the top, but it wouldn't let the rest of the world lose its air.
Re:Not only that, but what about replacements?
on
IBM 120GXP Revisited
·
· Score: 1
is IBM going to say "Tough shit, you ran it for more than double the monthly limit! Forget about your warranty replacement."? What kind of recourse
From storage review
IBM stands by the 3-year warranty for the 120GXP. Power-on hours will not be a determining factor in negating the warranty.
The good news: You'll get it replaced.
The bad news: You'll replace it.
No cost in hardware, just lost production (unless you're using it in hotswap raid). That's why people pay a premium for high-end equipment. The cost of downtime is more than the incremental cost of the hardware.
Well, an implementation using a suction cup is new, at least to me, but I've seen such things at hamfests, since at least 1988. They were large lag screws with a driver coil directly mounted thereon, driving a VERY heavy magnet suspended on light springs, so when you applied the audio, The magnet largely would hold still, moving the driver coil/lag screw, which was to be screwed into a wall stud. I never heard one in action, though, but if the lag screw didn't turn the wood its in into sawdust, it should give awesome bass.
I've been expecting to see some moron with one mounted in the center of his car roof for a subwoofer. If I ever do, I'm finally going to scavenge that old klystron and start sniping.
At least in English as used in the USA, the phrase "leaves little to be desired" connotes near completeness. "has little to be desired" is not a standard idiom, but to most, sounds negative.
Slashdot Mirror
Thomas A. Edison invented
...Typical. Don't you know it was really Tesla? Edison supressed publication of Tesla's research and then brought it out as his own.
I for one am more partial to content over form.
/.. If we needed oversimplification and pretty moving pictures to understand things, we'd be on people.com instead of here. His task is "...toys for educating people around complicated...". That implies that these aren't deep thinkers, and probably would benefit from such a presentation.
So am I. So is everybody on
Our personal biases (bia?) against stupid flash is irrelevant. It sounds like he actually needs it.
They at least understand that there's no way they can pretend this isn't happening. the senate judiciary committee's on public comments section
And he has been on The Simpsons And Futurama
and don't forget about the Dilbert TV show.
That's not what this one is for. This is about the LSI of an optical communications set, whether a multiplexer, a booster (can't remember what they call them... the repeater thing), whatever.... all these things that involve lots of big discretes under control of asics, now can be built using lithographic processes, instead of robots, soldering irons, and people. Righ now, if you lose one of those suckers, you fix it. with this breakthrough, you replace it.
It's like in the old days, when you'd have a hard drive fail, a tech would come out with an oscilloscope and debug it... time lost, labor bought. Now, if you have a hard drive fail, you tell the software it's offline, flip the lever and pull out the old drive, push in the new drive and flip the lever, tell the software to set up the drive and put it back in the pool.
It's not about taking up space. It's not really about the consumers, in the first interface with MS. It's about them using their position as OS vendor to supress competitors, with Netscape being the most prominent example. MS didn't create IE at 0-cost and provide it at 0-cost. They devoted a lot of time (=money) to developing it, then included it as part of the operating system. I acknowledge that they made it available to systems that didn't have it yet, but that's part of the subtrefuge. IE does nothing to make windows better, and the fact that it's a better browser doesn't change that.
I tend to think in analogies, and teh best one I can see is the automobile fuel business.
If gasoline weren't a commodity, and only one company made it, and wanted the oil change business, all they've got to do is include an oil change with every 10th fill-up. Who, in his right mind, would go buy oil and change it himself, or pay one of those incompetent quick-lubes to do it, when it's already part of his gasoline?
yes, it's hygroscopic, though you ordinarily give the mix all the water it needs. The key ingredient here is the single active ingredient in portland cement - Calcium Oxide... CaO... anybody ever heard of quicklime? It's used to destroy bodies of murder victims, and in time of plagues, the mass graves would be filled with a layer of bodies, and a layer of quicklime, alternating, so the bodies would quickly be destroyed. The physical structure is quickly broken down, and the bacteria then do the rest on those bacteria-bite-sized morsels. Remember the pile of lime in "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" (not that Dickens ever got around to explaining it, but it was obvious)?
Nasty stuff, though even pure, it's not like in the movies, where you sink into it as you almost instantly dissolve, and in concrete, it's a lot more dilute.
I agree that plain clock speed numbers are largely meaningless between architectures. Nonetheless, getting a chip to run at a higher speed will make it do its job (just the computation part... io,, memory access, etc. are another story) faster. In the main application I'm concerned with, EDA, we get, within an architecture, about a 1:1 clock speed/job speed benefit. Our 1800Mhz (P.R. numbers) Athlon systems are a hair better than twice as fast as our 900Mhz HP-UX (PA-Risc) systems and about three times as fast as our 600Mhz SunOS (Sparc) systems, on our kind of work. That tells me that if Sun and HP could overcome timing issues in their architecture the way Intel has, they could, by running at 2.4Ghz, be a little less than half again as fast as these athlons, and if AMD can get their clock speed up there, they'd once again be completely devastating Intel. Of course, AMD is devoting their engineering efforts to perfecting the hammer extensions. Once those are in place, there will be no reason to keep the proprietary systems around, for us, as we need them only to run jobs that need more than 2Gb memory allocated for a process.
Of course, the big guys will stay necessary for things like databases. Their I/O architecture beats any i386 system I ever saw.
Oh, and yes, I AM a lamer (are your l,a, and e broken?).
Until you mentinoed rot13.com, i didn't know anybody'd bothered to make a binary. I always just piped stuff through
"tr abcdefghijklmABCDEFGHIJKLM nopqrstuvwxyzNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
You learn something new every day.
Actually, they still run on Digital Unix. They just renamed it, like they did when they renamed OSF/1 to Digital Unix. DEC was the only company from the OSF consortium to stick with the project, which was designed to make all the vendors' unices compatible -- O(pen) S(ystems) F(oundation (or was it federation?)). It was originally kind of created by DEC, IBM, and I think HP and maybe some others. Before that, they were mostly using Ultrix.
from The setiathome platforms list:
47) alpha-compaq-T64Uv4.0d/EV67 87171 9.952 years 1 hr 00 min 00.4 sec
from the setiathome cpus list
15) Alpha EV67 31882 3.701 years 1 hr 01 min 00.5 sec
The format is platform/cpu, number of units completed, total cpu time contributed, average cpu time/unit completed. It's mor readable in setiathome,s tables.
All the best performers on that list are Alphas, running Tru64. Those suckers have been in the Ghz range for many years, long before Intel or AMD. Are Sun, IBM, or HP there even yet? I know they're getting close.
"or there was a color unit..."
The color Kyocera Smartphone is coming soon. I got to play with a beta a couple of days ago. I don't work for them, and have no more info.
There's also "American Mandrake", commonly called the mayapple.
I sometimes tried keeping a few of the roots, bruised, on a shelf in my closet, when i was having trouble sleeping. The fumes brought on deep, but often wierd, sleep.
I haven't seen the actual quote posted yet, so i figure i'll add it in here.
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name"
I suppose the name or number might be some kind of PIN or password kind of thing.
Anyway, This sure looks like a match.
And what has it got to do with newspapers?
I can go down to my local mom and pop newstand here in upstate NY and get my local paper AND the NY Times, AND the Boston Globe, AND the London Times, AND. . . on, and on, and on.
That's the point. You CAN get those other newspapers. You're not limited by law to the weekly Adirondack Advertiser just because it's published closer to you than the Times is.
I assume you're kidding about the opt out.
I used to appreciate the inclusion of options to opt out of spam, but noticed that it didn't seem to help.
As an experiment, I created a user (Not a new hotmal or yahoo address... those seem to be immediately published), and as that user, followed the unsubsubscribe instructions. That user promptly began recieving spam, and its only action was to request to not receive spam.
Sure, there're probably some spammers that actually do the opt out, but even of those who do, they stop sending you spam themselves, while adding you to the list of validated email addresses they compile and sell to other spammers.
But as the site says, forced removal will set off an alarm, so at least, you can get things headed towards the site of the abduction, assuming the alarm is sent fast enough to get out before the watch is stomped to pieces.
there's no rebooting
I beg to differ. When the latest run of consciousness has been too long and complex, without adequate garbage collection, I use ethanol to induce a reboot.
The restart is troublesome, but I'm still not in the mental hospital.
But if the entire continent/earth whatever had this same gravity reduction
Goodness! That brings up an interesting point, doesn't it? You're scared of global warming and ozone holes? What about global vacuum? Reduce g, and the atmosphere starts eroding away faster in the solar wind.
Maybe if we made a shield whose umbra closed in the lower stratosphere, the effect would be negligible, but even so, we wouldn't want it left running more than necessary.
Maybe we could use one to assist in building an enclosure reaching space, then the reduced-g field could be contained inside there. The air would still all blow out the top, but it wouldn't let the rest of the world lose its air.
is IBM going to say "Tough shit, you ran it for more than double the monthly limit! Forget about your warranty replacement."? What kind of recourse
From storage review IBM stands by the 3-year warranty for the 120GXP. Power-on hours will not be a determining factor in negating the warranty.
The good news: You'll get it replaced. The bad news: You'll replace it. No cost in hardware, just lost production (unless you're using it in hotswap raid). That's why people pay a premium for high-end equipment. The cost of downtime is more than the incremental cost of the hardware.
Well, an implementation using a suction cup is new, at least to me, but I've seen such things at hamfests, since at least 1988.
They were large lag screws with a driver coil directly mounted thereon, driving a VERY heavy magnet suspended on light springs, so when you applied the audio, The magnet largely would hold still, moving the driver coil/lag screw, which was to be screwed into a wall stud. I never heard one in action, though, but if the lag screw didn't turn the wood its in into sawdust, it should give awesome bass.
I've been expecting to see some moron with one mounted in the center of his car roof for a subwoofer. If I ever do, I'm finally going to scavenge that old klystron and start sniping.
The subject IS the comment.
Sorry for the nearly contentless post. I had to move quickly to keep a troll from first post.
tivo to visor?
I don't know how his old ass can see the numbers
I know how he feels. They used to call me "Eagle Ass", but now, I can see only with my eyes.
At least in English as used in the USA, the phrase "leaves little to be desired" connotes near completeness. "has little to be desired" is not a standard idiom, but to most, sounds negative.