Of course, the real issue is which probability is higher: somebody lobbing one ICBM at us and the system successfully working, vs. the system causing increased tensions with Russia which gives a freer hand to China, Iran, etc.
The XFL had zillions of gimmicks. The failure of the league doesn't discredit all of them. I do think you'd need a fisheye lens with heavy-duty image stabilization to allow extracting a reasonably steady video stream in a range of camera angles though.
Since you seem to know something about it, can you explain a very basic thing - isn't a superconducting semiconductor a contradiction? When a gate is shut off, obviously it has resistance. So unlike a superconductor, a "superconducting" transistor will still consume energy and release heat. Correct or incorrect?
I wonder if this is simply a reflection of the sheer number of bloggers out there in the world.
I'm sure it's at least partly that - which means that the Internet is indeed having an unprecedented democratizing effect on the media, and that repressive governments are feeling pressure from larger numbers of citizens than ever before. If your implication was that only the rate of imprisonment between various media is significant, I disagree entirely. A broad, grass-roots consensus in favor of freedom around the globe is just what we should be working for.
IMHO this study is not an indictment against the use of today's multi-core processors for supercomputers or anything else. They're simply pointing out that in the future (as cores continue to grow exponentially) some memory bandwidth advances will be needed. The implication that today's multi-core processors are best suited for games is silly - where they're really well utilized is in servers, and they work very well. The move towards commodity processors in supercomputing wasn't some kind of accident, it occurred because that's what currently gets the best results. I'd expect a renaisance in true supercomputing just as soon as it's justified, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Longer than it takes to fsck an 80GB ext2 filesystem? Because that's a pretty long time.
Oh, are we giving ext3 a pass on this? Distros typically e2fsck ext3 filesystems every so often. Boy is it horrible when you're trying to get work done and your computer decides (without asking) to take 20 minutes to boot up.
Which is why all the retirement lit I've seen strongly recommends redistributing assets as you get closer to retirement - the closer you are, the more your should be in "cash".
Agreed, but remember cash also has risk: inflation. You won't lose 40% in a year (at least, not likely), but with inflation now significantly above the interest on savings accounts and CDs, it is a real problem.
It seems our government has resigned itself to deficit spending to ease this recession, so if I were a retiree living on "safe" investments right now, I would be terrified by the prospect of high inflation slashing the value of my pension and savings.
the great depression was FAR FAR FAR worse than this and they were not whining as much as people now either.
You would have to define whining. The depression did break the back of libertarian-style government America, resulting in the much larger federal government created by the New Deal = social security, labor unions, government work and welfare programs, etc. (Personally I think that was mostly good, since it slashed poverty among the elderly and allowed far more Americans to share in the postwar economic boom).
If marketers wanted to create an event, they should have created"Cyber Sunday" instead, because that's when people are home and have time to shop online. Perhaps "Cyber Monday" is a throwback to days when people "surfed the web" at work because they didn't have decent connections at home.
What I want to know is what happens when a technologically savvy government or organization decides to start spoofing aircraft in the air or modifying/jamming actual airplanes' signals.
Probably the same that happens when/if today's lower-tech transponders are spoofed.
Maybe because at the moment there are very few applications of an Internet connection for which you'd notice the difference between 1mbit and 10mbit.
Anybody can notice the differnce between 1 mbit and 10 mbit video. Blu-ray is 40 mbps, and that's if only one channel is being watched. Video on the Internet is THE killer app, and it's just beginning.
If all you use is e-mails, youtube, facebook, and the occasional iTunes download you have no reason to care about speed.
That's exactly the problem - limiting people to those uses. Today's infrastructure can always accomodate today's applications, by definition. But for sustained economic growth new more efficient and productive technologies must be adopted.
Me neither. We spent weeks (which translates to tens of thousands of dollars) benchmarking and optimizing a database app. The thought of accelerating it by a factor of 5-10x with a simple hardware upgrade is stunning.
The last line is also funny "reduces it from mid-afternoon when a blazing sun dries the air." The only way to dry air is rain, snow, mixing with drier air, dew, and frost. I am a firm believer in the conservation of mass
Sheesh, all these "remember gentoo?" posts are making me feel funny, since I run it on my primary home system. Is Ubuntu's package set more inclusive and up-to-date? RHEL is the official Linux where I work, and the official Linux at most other worksites I see (and in the world of systems integration Linux is very competitive with Windows). But every time I get a new desktop PC it needs cutting-edge drivers that RHEL never seems to have.
Unlike Duke Nukem Forever, DNSSEC actually exists, and from what I gather, the main problem is getting people to adopt it. If so, inventing some other more secure upgrade to DNS really is a waste of time (unless it's somehow easier to adopt than DNSSEC). It would amount to wishing away the problem of mass adoption.
I have found one problem with open source toolchans - producing good quality graphics. At the end of the day you have to present the data, and gnuplot just isn't cutting it anymore.
To me it is clear that a company does not exist for one single reason, since most can't exist without customers, employers, and investors; therefore the purposes of the company are to satisfy customers, pay employees, and enrich investors. Of those three, I'd say investors are the least necessary, since a company could grow (however slowly) without borrowing. Bartering certainly predates credit and supported economic development to a certain point.
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Of course, the real issue is which probability is higher: somebody lobbing one ICBM at us and the system successfully working, vs. the system causing increased tensions with Russia which gives a freer hand to China, Iran, etc.
The XFL had zillions of gimmicks. The failure of the league doesn't discredit all of them. I do think you'd need a fisheye lens with heavy-duty image stabilization to allow extracting a reasonably steady video stream in a range of camera angles though.
Since you seem to know something about it, can you explain a very basic thing - isn't a superconducting semiconductor a contradiction? When a gate is shut off, obviously it has resistance. So unlike a superconductor, a "superconducting" transistor will still consume energy and release heat. Correct or incorrect?
I'm sure it's at least partly that - which means that the Internet is indeed having an unprecedented democratizing effect on the media, and that repressive governments are feeling pressure from larger numbers of citizens than ever before. If your implication was that only the rate of imprisonment between various media is significant, I disagree entirely. A broad, grass-roots consensus in favor of freedom around the globe is just what we should be working for.
IMHO this study is not an indictment against the use of today's multi-core processors for supercomputers or anything else. They're simply pointing out that in the future (as cores continue to grow exponentially) some memory bandwidth advances will be needed. The implication that today's multi-core processors are best suited for games is silly - where they're really well utilized is in servers, and they work very well. The move towards commodity processors in supercomputing wasn't some kind of accident, it occurred because that's what currently gets the best results. I'd expect a renaisance in true supercomputing just as soon as it's justified, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Oh, are we giving ext3 a pass on this? Distros typically e2fsck ext3 filesystems every so often. Boy is it horrible when you're trying to get work done and your computer decides (without asking) to take 20 minutes to boot up.
Agreed, but remember cash also has risk: inflation. You won't lose 40% in a year (at least, not likely), but with inflation now significantly above the interest on savings accounts and CDs, it is a real problem.
It seems our government has resigned itself to deficit spending to ease this recession, so if I were a retiree living on "safe" investments right now, I would be terrified by the prospect of high inflation slashing the value of my pension and savings.
You would have to define whining. The depression did break the back of libertarian-style government America, resulting in the much larger federal government created by the New Deal = social security, labor unions, government work and welfare programs, etc. (Personally I think that was mostly good, since it slashed poverty among the elderly and allowed far more Americans to share in the postwar economic boom).
And beyond that, to mean anything at all you must use the per capita inflation-adjusted GDP, which takes almost another 1% off the GDP growth rate.
If marketers wanted to create an event, they should have created"Cyber Sunday" instead, because that's when people are home and have time to shop online. Perhaps "Cyber Monday" is a throwback to days when people "surfed the web" at work because they didn't have decent connections at home.
Actually he was a computer - that's what they called people who did mundane computations before machines took over their job.
Probably the same that happens when/if today's lower-tech transponders are spoofed.
I don't get it. Sometimes beating somebody is better than avoiding offending them.
Anybody can notice the differnce between 1 mbit and 10 mbit video. Blu-ray is 40 mbps, and that's if only one channel is being watched. Video on the Internet is THE killer app, and it's just beginning.
That's exactly the problem - limiting people to those uses. Today's infrastructure can always accomodate today's applications, by definition. But for sustained economic growth new more efficient and productive technologies must be adopted.
Me neither. We spent weeks (which translates to tens of thousands of dollars) benchmarking and optimizing a database app. The thought of accelerating it by a factor of 5-10x with a simple hardware upgrade is stunning.
Too bad they didn't put that on the PC sticker: "Special-Gimped-Version-of-Vista-Compatible!"
Warm air absorbs more water than cold air.
I'm just amazed that the performance loss from single to double precision is more than a factor of 10! It's only 2x the bits, what's the holdup?
Sheesh, all these "remember gentoo?" posts are making me feel funny, since I run it on my primary home system. Is Ubuntu's package set more inclusive and up-to-date? RHEL is the official Linux where I work, and the official Linux at most other worksites I see (and in the world of systems integration Linux is very competitive with Windows). But every time I get a new desktop PC it needs cutting-edge drivers that RHEL never seems to have.
Well, they don't support some other as-yet-nonexistent alternate security fix for the Kaminsky Bug, either.
Unlike Duke Nukem Forever, DNSSEC actually exists, and from what I gather, the main problem is getting people to adopt it. If so, inventing some other more secure upgrade to DNS really is a waste of time (unless it's somehow easier to adopt than DNSSEC). It would amount to wishing away the problem of mass adoption.
Honestly, tell me you could generate this with gnuplot. (Disclaimer: I've never used mathematica).
I have found one problem with open source toolchans - producing good quality graphics. At the end of the day you have to present the data, and gnuplot just isn't cutting it anymore.
To me it is clear that a company does not exist for one single reason, since most can't exist without customers, employers, and investors; therefore the purposes of the company are to satisfy customers, pay employees, and enrich investors. Of those three, I'd say investors are the least necessary, since a company could grow (however slowly) without borrowing. Bartering certainly predates credit and supported economic development to a certain point.