Better just to use overkill"encryption all the time. EG instead of thinking long and hard about whether it would be worth cracking something encrypted with DES, just use 3DES all the time and save your brainpower for something else.
That's just for this particular game. These guys should be looking to license their technology, or at least market their skills, for future applications. And remember, there's no "moore's law" for wireless bandwidth, nor for batteries - cellphones are only growing *more* bandwidth limited relative to their ever-faster processors and memory capacities. Even after the OS and built-in applications on these puppies are no longer resource-constrained, content delivery will still be an issue.
I agree, unless he actually gets a year in jail. Good grief, I'm not interested in paying $100,000 of taxpayer money to put somebody through the system and incarcerate them for a year for that. How about a $1000 fine instead.
I never have and never will film a movie with a camcorder. I do sneak in food and drinks all the time though. I sure hope I can't get a year in jail for that.
That aside, I don't think I would care to attend the movies if an usher was going to stand next to me the whole time and watch me pick my nose or whatever. I guess we'll have to see how widespread this becomes.
No, cybersquatting prevents the copyright holder from using the domain name, "Lindows" didn't prevent MS from using "Windows."
I agree that Lindows clearly alluded to Windows, but there is nothing wrong with that, and it's legal. "Lindows" clearly implied what the product was - an alternative to Windows. There was little risk of actually confusing Lindows with Windows.
MS could not get Lindows stricken down under US law so they made it a worldwide battle. The logistics of this forced Lindows to surrender.
No, the Crays, at least the traditional Cray vector machines, were not very fast at running sequential code - not even as fast as a normal, general-purpose CPU (especially one of comparable cost). That's why they were never used for things like running payroll. They were specialized machines for scientific applications.
Nobody is disputing that clusters have relatively high communications penalties for tightly coupled computatoins. The issue is whether that justifies the generalization that clusters are not "high performance", which it doesn't. People have successfully used clusters for rendering, many types of physics simulations, big-time webserving (e.g. google)... all of these are high performance applications.
Clusters can get high performance on some types of tasks. But sometimes, you need fine-grained parallelism that just isn't available on a cluster.
And sometimes you need high performance on code that doesn't have fine-grained parallelism, meaning a Cray vector machine would be slow. So I guess Crays aren't High Performance Computers either.
Must be nice to live in your idealistic world. Back in the real world, the purpose of any (publicly-traded) corporation is to maximize shareholder profits.
You're wrong. You won't find "Corporation" on the periodic table, they're just a legal contrivance to achieve desirable ends. The point you're (unwittingly) making is that corporations aren't very well serving the ends they were invented to serve. To a reasonable mind this should be a sign that we should reconsider the incorporation laws.
He really loves doing it. I also read another article recently about demand for automotive technicians being quite high and supply being quite low.
This isn't going to cut it on a nationwide scale. For the economy to grow, we need to be replacing exported jobs with *higher value* jobs.
Nobody has yet given a dencent answer to the question, what are those higher value jobs?
Perhaps more importantly, what stops those higher value industries from developing overseas first? In the past, there were a lot of well educated Soviets, but they were held back by (attempted) Communism. China was busy having an industrial revolution, and India was nothing at all. Now they're all coming online. A huge fraction of US grad students are foreigners, not to mention their own developing educational institutions back home.
It would be nice to think that more for others doesn't mean less for us, but that simply doesn't hold when your economy is built on oil and cheap foreign labor.
This is a problem all my old tape and radio players used to have. In particular you'd lose hearing in one ear and have to hold the plug to one side if you didn't completely baby the headphone jack. Anybody else have players like that?
Sony at least seems to have figured it out. I fell on my MP3 CD Walkman while rollerblading and the headphone plug actually *bent* in the jack, yet the player itself still works fine and plays through both ears without static.
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Will Google take over disk I/O, thread management, or the loading of executables into memory? This is bullshit.
That wouldn't be a layer on top of the OS at all, it would be a replacement OS.
As for the hype, most of it isn't coming from google. All that goodwill is beneficial to google so long as they don't start believing it themselves.
As for not wanting to turn managment of your data over to some third party, I agree completely.
Intel playing catch-up to AMD IS big news, not because it's illegal (it isn't) but because it has always been the other way around.
Granted, it doesn't mean AMD is the "market leader" (normally measured in $$$), nor even the overall technology leader, but being copied by Intel sure bolsters AMD's image.
If I understand correctly, you're saying 10base2 is shared while 10baseT is not? That's not true. Both wire types are used for ethernet, and both are shared. Ether way, collisions aren't that big a deal after all, see the classic reference:
Ethernet works in practice, but allegedly not in theory: some people have sufficiently misunderstood the existing studies of Ethernet performance so as to create a surprisingly resilient mythology. One myth is that an Ethernet is saturated at an offered load of 37%; this is an incorrect reading of the theoretical studies, and is easily disproved in practice. This paper is an attempt to dispel such myths.
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Figure 10 shows excess delay , a direct measure of inefficiency. It is derived from the delays plotted in figure 8. The ideal time to send one packet and wait for each other host to send one packet is subtracted from the measured time. The time that remains was lost participating in collisions. Notice that it increases linearly with increasing number of hosts (offered load). When 24 hosts each send 1536-byte packets, it takes about 31 milliseconds for each host to send one packet. Theoretically it should take about 30 mSec; the other 1 mSec (about 3%) is collision overhead. Figure 4 agrees, showing a measured efficiency of about 97% for 1536-byte packets and 24 hosts.
The upshot is that ethernet can carry very close to its rated capacity even if there are a lot of hosts and a lot of collisions. (Of course nowadays we tend to use switches instead of hubs anyhow, but that's not a at all inherent in 10baseT wiring).
Whether wireless will work quite this well, I don't know.
Perhaps if they'd spent less time farting around with building campuses and more time on building their market, they'd be in better shape.
Maybe, maybe not. Go back 20-30 years and look at all the companies that were selling big computers (and even workstations). What percentage are left? IBM and...
Most of the strategies that come to mind were tried by one or more now defunct companies. Silicon Graphics decided to go Wintel and what good did it do?
You can fault Sun for not being economical, but when your basic business goes out of style, belt tightening just prolongs the inevitable.
I suppose one silver lining in having an outage once a year or so is that it forces us to keep backup systems for hospitals etc in place. If we only lost power once every 10 years, probably nobody at the hospital would even know what to do when power was lost, and people could die. It's just so hard to keep a backup system maintained and working if you are never forced to really use it once in a while. Like planning ahead for a weeklong camping trip, if you don't work up to it by taking shorter trips your chances of being fully prepared are nigh on 0%.
It's not about Linux in particular. If the only way to "compete" with MS is to give away something for free, something is wrong already.
I can accept that, for some goods and services, markets simply don't flourish. But let's quit pretending that companies in "winner takes all" niches are controlled by market forces when they're not. For the public to sit by year after year as MS gouges for Windows and Office is simply negligent.
Unwanted stabilization could occur with either a mechanical or a software device.
Remember the movie with the amazing closeups of migratory birds in flight? That was all image stabilization.
Image stabilization done in postprocessing should really be able to do an amazing job, since it can even (in effect) anticipate the future, which no mechanical system could do. But the loss of resolution from digital zooming (or alternately, a dynamically resizing black border) may be a deal killer.
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Better just to use overkill"encryption all the time. EG instead of thinking long and hard about whether it would be worth cracking something encrypted with DES, just use 3DES all the time and save your brainpower for something else.
And 8550% more volume in 11-dimensional space!
That's just for this particular game. These guys should be looking to license their technology, or at least market their skills, for future applications. And remember, there's no "moore's law" for wireless bandwidth, nor for batteries - cellphones are only growing *more* bandwidth limited relative to their ever-faster processors and memory capacities. Even after the OS and built-in applications on these puppies are no longer resource-constrained, content delivery will still be an issue.
I never have and never will film a movie with a camcorder. I do sneak in food and drinks all the time though. I sure hope I can't get a year in jail for that.
That aside, I don't think I would care to attend the movies if an usher was going to stand next to me the whole time and watch me pick my nose or whatever. I guess we'll have to see how widespread this becomes.
I highly recommend the article, it's an interesting read and is quite apropros.
Not unless they can get into a router on the path between you and someone valid who logged in, or the same ethernet segment.
I agree that Lindows clearly alluded to Windows, but there is nothing wrong with that, and it's legal. "Lindows" clearly implied what the product was - an alternative to Windows. There was little risk of actually confusing Lindows with Windows.
MS could not get Lindows stricken down under US law so they made it a worldwide battle. The logistics of this forced Lindows to surrender.
Does Apple support anything like apt-get? Do they even *offer* anything like it?
Nobody is disputing that clusters have relatively high communications penalties for tightly coupled computatoins. The issue is whether that justifies the generalization that clusters are not "high performance", which it doesn't. People have successfully used clusters for rendering, many types of physics simulations, big-time webserving (e.g. google)... all of these are high performance applications.
Nobody has yet given a dencent answer to the question, what are those higher value jobs?
Perhaps more importantly, what stops those higher value industries from developing overseas first? In the past, there were a lot of well educated Soviets, but they were held back by (attempted) Communism. China was busy having an industrial revolution, and India was nothing at all. Now they're all coming online. A huge fraction of US grad students are foreigners, not to mention their own developing educational institutions back home.
It would be nice to think that more for others doesn't mean less for us, but that simply doesn't hold when your economy is built on oil and cheap foreign labor.
My real point in posting is to ask if anybody knows how much the mall stores pay for a CD?
The RIAA will not accept any decline in profits from the old days when publishing meant stamping a CD and not just anybody could do it.
Sony at least seems to have figured it out. I fell on my MP3 CD Walkman while rollerblading and the headphone plug actually *bent* in the jack, yet the player itself still works fine and plays through both ears without static.
As for the hype, most of it isn't coming from google. All that goodwill is beneficial to google so long as they don't start believing it themselves.
As for not wanting to turn managment of your data over to some third party, I agree completely.
Granted, it doesn't mean AMD is the "market leader" (normally measured in $$$), nor even the overall technology leader, but being copied by Intel sure bolsters AMD's image.
Whether wireless will work quite this well, I don't know.
Most of the strategies that come to mind were tried by one or more now defunct companies. Silicon Graphics decided to go Wintel and what good did it do?
You can fault Sun for not being economical, but when your basic business goes out of style, belt tightening just prolongs the inevitable.
I suppose one silver lining in having an outage once a year or so is that it forces us to keep backup systems for hospitals etc in place. If we only lost power once every 10 years, probably nobody at the hospital would even know what to do when power was lost, and people could die. It's just so hard to keep a backup system maintained and working if you are never forced to really use it once in a while. Like planning ahead for a weeklong camping trip, if you don't work up to it by taking shorter trips your chances of being fully prepared are nigh on 0%.
It's like one of those horror movies where they nuke a large city to ward off the invaders (and I warn you, in the movies it never, ever works.)
I can accept that, for some goods and services, markets simply don't flourish. But let's quit pretending that companies in "winner takes all" niches are controlled by market forces when they're not. For the public to sit by year after year as MS gouges for Windows and Office is simply negligent.
Remember the movie with the amazing closeups of migratory birds in flight? That was all image stabilization.
Image stabilization done in postprocessing should really be able to do an amazing job, since it can even (in effect) anticipate the future, which no mechanical system could do. But the loss of resolution from digital zooming (or alternately, a dynamically resizing black border) may be a deal killer.