its an amazing technology...only quite involved. Basically you concatenate all the files together (cat should do), print it out on good 32lb paper, get a professor's signature and file it in a college lib...heard those things stick around for centuries
Hi,
lets leave the cost factor aside for a moment.
Too many people consider medicine as a well defined science. It isnt. To a large extent it is an empirical science with a lot of guesswork, albeit educated guesswork, on the part of the physician. After a lot of diagnostic tests, the physician is given an incomplete list of symptoms. Based on those, the physician has to decide what the root cause is, and how to treat it.
In the US and in many other developed countries, little or no leeway is given to the physician to make mistakes, especially when they have only a single attempt. If they fail, they are hit with a huge lawsuit.
In less developed countries, physicians usually have more leeway. In addition, they usually treat a much larger number of patients, and this experience gained helps them make better guesses.
In summary, medicine is still an emprical science, with a hell lot of guesswork involved. Any one who expects 100% accuracy is misguided.
It has been reported that numerous patches have now been emailed to microsoft after the source code leaks of the previous hour. The quality of those patches has amazed Microsoft, which has with immediate effect fired most of its current employees and send out offer letters to the patch developers.
Inside sources also report that microsoft is also deliberating on firing all its employees and relying completely on the so-called underground community to maintain and develop new features of the Windows operating system. More on this as it comes.
Everyone seems to be thinking that if you get irate, then you jump ahead to the front of the line.
The true purpose is to ensure that everyone is happy and calm. If you get irate, you will be warned, asked to hang up and try again...and it will repeat until you can talk normally.
people trying to get free advice from Doctors...or lawyers...or heck any other professional ?
There must be some doctor/lawyer/non-it professional reading slashdot ? is there ? please, I for one would like to know how you deal with friends/family/co-workers asking for free advise/troubleshooting...
"Throughput computing"..where the performance is measured not individually but in aggregate. See their media kit available at http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/thro ug hputcomputing/ for more details.
However, I believe the whole idea is nothing new. AFAIK, there are only two ways of increasing the performance of a processor (Operations Per Second) - either increase the IPC (Instructions per cycle) by increasing parallelism or decrease the cycle time by increasing the clock Rate (Ghz).
Each method has its limits and follows the law of diminishing returns - for e.g. increasing the clock rate implies increasing the number of stages in the pipeline...and after say 10000 stages, the penalties imposed due to flushing the pipeline might compensate for the increased GhZ. Similarly if you manage to place 100000 cores on a chip, scheduling amongst these cores and providing realtime access to the memory for all these cores will become the bottleneck. Hence, I take statements like "how to kill the x86" with a pinch of salt.
Finally, it will the fabcrication (physical) technology that decides which one of these dies. For e.g. if tomorrow someone is able to come up with a process that enables 100Ghz chips at the (think extensions of SOI etc) decreasing the cycle time will win. Similarly, if someone comes out with femto (10^-15 ) metre fabrication technology, then parallelism will win.
First things first - sun does not compete on speed. It competes on reliability and stability. Yeah my athlon 1800+ is way faster than my sun blade 100...but if you check the number of reboots, sun wins hands down with 0 in over 2 years.
Incidentally, I get more work done on the sun m/c.
Now to the article: "...The 350w power supply is made by Samsung, and I would consider it barely adequate for this kind of computer....If I were designing this workstation I would have used a more robust power supply..."
Yeah sure. If you could you'd put in a nuclear reactor over there!!! Ever heard of power efficiency? Those guys had a good enough reason to stick with a 350W power supply...and trust me, those engineers are no idiots.
"...I wish it had a drive activity indicator LED and a reset button, which would add a lot of convenience for very little added cost..."
Reset button ? Sun ? get off your windowz box and work on a sun box for a year. Tell me if you *ever* need to reboot it. (for those who dont know - very few patches require reboots)
"... You're also subject to automatic software updates which may include further license restrictions. But at least there's no product activation, so it's not as bad as it could be...."
automatic s/w updates ? Solaris 8 ?
The "reviewer" is totally unqualified. He has no idea of the intended use of Sun machines. Nor does it seem he has ever worked on one. Comparing it with 32bit desktops is like comparing a car with a humvee.. Sure the former beats it in speed [hummer goes max ~80mph)..but in real life, especially when you are being bombarded...humvee is the way to go.
I have been a teaching assistant for over 3 years and it is no secret that plagiarism is a fact of life.
The problem is that the assignments handed out are overly broad. Instead, I believe the solution is to significantly narrow down the problem, so that it is more or less unique. You may find it on the net, but u'll spend more time getting it to conform to the requirements.
For e.g., instead of asking for the effects of globalization on world economy (or some such thing), ask them for effects of globalization on THEIR life. u get the idea...
If you make any references to a website, be sure you maintain a local copy on your website along with the link to the original and ALWAYS reference your website.
For e.g.
reference 10. XX Available at http://www.mypage.com/reference_list/xx
page xx constains
Article by so and so. Link here. Local Cache over here.
Well, since Microsoft provides the functionality of disabling the autorun by pressing the shift key, doesnt Microsoft Windows(TM) become a device to disable a copy protection scheme ? Isnt it therefore, illegal to use Windows(TM) in the US of A ?
Why is everyone assuming that zero-G implies a space shuttle ? Its terribly unlikely that NASA tech's are onto slashdot- are they ??
I guess he needs it for something simpler - such as skydiving- or anything that involves free falling - maybe a laboratory experiment - something to do with air/fluid flow perhaps ?
be that as it may, I concur that standard IDE's should do for 0g, but of course - u need to investigate u r requirements better.
I would argue that the entrant to any of the IIT's is TECHNICALLY much more qualified than 99% of the entrants I've seen in the US.
To get into the IIT's, you need to clear what is known as the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). The examination is conducted all over India. An estimated 250000 students take the exam yearly with about an estimated 2500 getting through to the 6 campuses of IIT's.
The entrance exam is grilling. It encompasses three 3-hr exams in maths, physics and chemistry. The syllabus of these exams is roughly equivalent to that of a 3-year bachelor course in science (BSc). So its like you need to be about 3 years ahead of your grade to get through. With the increasing number of applicants, the exam has been made into a two stage exam - a three hr screening multiple choice exam followed by the aforementioned three 3-hr exams. You have to clear both!!
Typically students start preparing for the JEE exams atleast 2 years before they give it. School work is neglected as the syllabus for the JEE is way more advanced than the normal school.
The JEE is not a joke. It is one of the toughest exams to get through.
Take this as an example - two senior year students came up witha polynomial time algorithm for Primality testing.
Its not the corporations who exist expressly for the sole purpose of profit. Its also partly the US Govt fault.
Arms dealers for example, would love to sell arms to anyone who is ready to shell $$. However the government restricts the sale via the Export Regulations act to govts/entities which MAY use the technology for aggressive actions against other entities.
Shouldnt the export regulations be extended to materials which can be used by govts/entities against their own citizens ?
What would really be interesting if each individual could get a unique digital signature and hence mint his own "digi-cash". The "digi-cash" would work simply as IOU's. How to enforce them is a totally diff problem...the idea is basically from the story And then there were none by Eric Frank Russel.
An interesting read anyways.
Slashdot Mirror
So, this is where the syndicates must hoarding the money ?
its an amazing technology...only quite involved.
Basically you concatenate all the files together (cat should do), print it out on good 32lb paper, get a professor's signature and file it in a college lib...heard those things stick around for centuries
Hi,
lets leave the cost factor aside for a moment.
Too many people consider medicine as a well defined science. It isnt. To a large extent it is an empirical science with a lot of guesswork, albeit educated guesswork, on the part of the physician. After a lot of diagnostic tests, the physician is given an incomplete list of symptoms. Based on those, the physician has to decide what the root cause is, and how to treat it.
In the US and in many other developed countries, little or no leeway is given to the physician to make mistakes, especially when they have only a single attempt. If they fail, they are hit with a huge lawsuit.
In less developed countries, physicians usually have more leeway. In addition, they usually treat a much larger number of patients, and this experience gained helps them make better guesses.
In summary, medicine is still an emprical science, with a hell lot of guesswork involved. Any one who expects 100% accuracy is misguided.
It has been reported that numerous patches have now been emailed to microsoft after the source code leaks of the previous hour. The quality of those patches has amazed Microsoft, which has with immediate effect fired most of its current employees and send out offer letters to the patch developers.
Inside sources also report that microsoft is also deliberating on firing all its employees and relying completely on the so-called underground community to maintain and develop new features of the Windows operating system. More on this as it comes.
Everyone seems to be thinking that if you get irate, then you jump ahead to the front of the line.
The true purpose is to ensure that everyone is happy and calm. If you get irate, you will be warned, asked to hang up and try again...and it will repeat until you can talk normally.
people trying to get free advice from Doctors...or lawyers...or heck any other professional ?
There must be some doctor/lawyer/non-it professional reading slashdot ? is there ? please, I for one would like to know how you deal with friends/family/co-workers asking for free advise/troubleshooting...
if the mailto://user@host.tld works in IE with this fix ?
RTFA tells me that "@" in an HTTP url is now considered to have an invalid syntax. Is this the case with the mailto protocol also ?
TIA.
"Throughput computing"..where the performance is measured not individually but in aggregate.o ug hputcomputing/ for more details.
See their media kit available at
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/presskits/thr
However, I believe the whole idea is nothing new. AFAIK, there are only two ways of increasing the performance of a processor (Operations Per Second) - either increase the IPC (Instructions per cycle) by increasing parallelism or decrease the cycle time by increasing the clock Rate (Ghz).
Each method has its limits and follows the law of diminishing returns - for e.g. increasing the clock rate implies increasing the number of stages in the pipeline...and after say 10000 stages, the penalties imposed due to flushing the pipeline might compensate for the increased GhZ. Similarly if you manage to place 100000 cores on a chip, scheduling amongst these cores and providing realtime access to the memory for all these cores will become the bottleneck. Hence, I take statements like "how to kill the x86" with a pinch of salt.
Finally, it will the fabcrication (physical) technology that decides which one of these dies. For e.g. if tomorrow someone is able to come up with a process that enables 100Ghz chips at the (think extensions of SOI etc) decreasing the cycle time will win. Similarly, if someone comes out with femto (10^-15 ) metre fabrication technology, then parallelism will win.
This guy has no idea what he is talking about.
...humvee is the way to go.
First things first - sun does not compete on speed. It competes on reliability and stability. Yeah my athlon 1800+ is way faster than my sun blade 100...but if you check the number of reboots, sun wins hands down with 0 in over 2 years.
Incidentally, I get more work done on the sun m/c.
Now to the article:
"...The 350w power supply is made by Samsung, and I would consider it barely adequate for this kind of computer....If I were designing this workstation I would have used a more robust power supply..."
Yeah sure. If you could you'd put in a nuclear reactor over there!!! Ever heard of power efficiency? Those guys had a good enough reason to stick with a 350W power supply...and trust me, those engineers are no idiots.
"...I wish it had a drive activity indicator LED and a reset button, which would add a lot of convenience for very little added cost..."
Reset button ? Sun ? get off your windowz box and work on a sun box for a year. Tell me if you *ever* need to reboot it. (for those who dont know - very few patches require reboots)
"... You're also subject to automatic software updates which may include further license restrictions. But at least there's no product activation, so it's not as bad as it could be...."
automatic s/w updates ? Solaris 8 ?
The "reviewer" is totally unqualified. He has no idea of the intended use of Sun machines. Nor does it seem he has ever worked on one. Comparing it with 32bit desktops is like comparing a car with a humvee.. Sure the former beats it in speed [hummer goes max ~80mph)..but in real life, especially when you are being bombarded
Three feet. Not two.
Two hands and Three feet.
I have been a teaching assistant for over 3 years and it is no secret that plagiarism is a fact of life.
The problem is that the assignments handed out are overly broad. Instead, I believe the solution is to significantly narrow down the problem, so that it is more or less unique. You may find it on the net, but u'll spend more time getting it to conform to the requirements.
For e.g., instead of asking for the effects of globalization on world economy (or some such thing), ask them for effects of globalization on THEIR life. u get the idea...
True. Slashdot is like news.google.com integrated with groups.google.com.
If you make any references to a website, be sure you maintain a local copy on your website along with the link to the original and ALWAYS reference your website.
For e.g.
reference 10. XX Available at http://www.mypage.com/reference_list/xx
page xx constains
Article by so and so. Link here. Local Cache over here.
Well, since Microsoft provides the functionality of disabling the autorun by pressing the shift key, doesnt Microsoft Windows(TM) become a device to disable a copy protection scheme ? Isnt it therefore, illegal to use Windows(TM) in the US of A ?
Expert legal advice anyone ?
What exactly is copyright infringement ? Is it simply making a copy or is it using that copy ?
if X makes copies of mp3's and then immediately deletes them without listening to them, is X guilty of copyright infringement ?
Why is everyone assuming that zero-G implies a space shuttle ? Its terribly unlikely that NASA tech's are onto slashdot- are they ??
I guess he needs it for something simpler - such as skydiving- or anything that involves free falling - maybe a laboratory experiment - something to do with air/fluid flow perhaps ?
be that as it may, I concur that standard IDE's should do for 0g, but of course - u need to investigate u r requirements better.
I would argue that the entrant to any of the IIT's is TECHNICALLY much more qualified than 99% of the entrants I've seen in the US. To get into the IIT's, you need to clear what is known as the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE). The examination is conducted all over India. An estimated 250000 students take the exam yearly with about an estimated 2500 getting through to the 6 campuses of IIT's. The entrance exam is grilling. It encompasses three 3-hr exams in maths, physics and chemistry. The syllabus of these exams is roughly equivalent to that of a 3-year bachelor course in science (BSc). So its like you need to be about 3 years ahead of your grade to get through. With the increasing number of applicants, the exam has been made into a two stage exam - a three hr screening multiple choice exam followed by the aforementioned three 3-hr exams. You have to clear both!! Typically students start preparing for the JEE exams atleast 2 years before they give it. School work is neglected as the syllabus for the JEE is way more advanced than the normal school. The JEE is not a joke. It is one of the toughest exams to get through. Take this as an example - two senior year students came up witha polynomial time algorithm for Primality testing.
did anyone get this ? u cant mod that "INteresting."
for those of you who evidently didnt get this, 78% nitrogen mixture at approx 14.7 psi is AIR!!!
I read that as "Greeks dont need to worry" and spent quite a few minutes re-reading and trying to grasp the joke!!!
Prof. Draper recommends we start using wooden tires as in bullock carts.
Its not the corporations who exist expressly for the sole purpose of profit. Its also partly the US Govt fault.
Arms dealers for example, would love to sell arms to anyone who is ready to shell $$. However the government restricts the sale via the Export Regulations act to govts/entities which MAY use the technology for aggressive actions against other entities.
Shouldnt the export regulations be extended to materials which can be used by govts/entities against their own citizens ?
A Parable
What would really be interesting if each individual could get a unique digital signature and hence mint his own "digi-cash". The "digi-cash" would work simply as IOU's. How to enforce them is a totally diff problem...the idea is basically from the story And then there were none by Eric Frank Russel. An interesting read anyways.
Heres $10. :P
Click File->Save and lo, u got it stored on ur comp. How much more do u want ?
Nope. One does not need to use VPN over the wireless network.
You register and get the WEP keys. You can ALSO VPN in, but one need not. The paranoid use VPN along with WEP.