By definition a supercomputer is a computer or machine that can solve problems that an ordinary computer can't solve.
So you won't se supercomputer under your desk simply because as long as there is space it's possible to build a larger computer that do things that your computer can't do.
A question:
The original artilces from AP (news.yahoo.com and many other places) mentioned something about the walls/sides being tilted 17 degrees to speed up airflow. True or just a hoax?
Can you comment on that or is this covered by your NDA?
IEEE should not act proctively in a case like this. So far there are no UN sanctions against these countries regarding WMD.
IEEE took action to fulfill the U.S. Treasury Department trade regulations administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). This shows that:
1.IEEE is a organization that to a large degree is influenced by US policy and interests.
2. In this case the OFAC regulations could result in the opposite of the intended effect:
Restricting the ability for researchers in these countries to communicate with western researchers will only make it more difficault for them to do their job and participating in legitimate research. That could make some of them less sympatethic to western ideas and harder to find legitimate jobs.
And getting the information in these IEEE papers is not rocket science even in a banned country. I bet that Iranian researchers allready send money to Pakistan or Turkey so someone there can set up a false member account or copy the papers. And the OFAC regulations were constructed without Internet in mind...Today you can't expect published information to stay out of North Korea just becasue you no longer send it directly to them by mail.
IEEE's policy in this case is stupid and short sighted. In a *worst case* scenario this could lead some engineers and researchers to the governmental WMD programs instead of other work.
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whois -h whois.directnic.com penis123.com...
Registrant:
Leading Edge Marketing Inc.
PO Box CR-56766
Suite #1210
Nassau, New Providence ---
BS
810-815-1672
The persons and companies behind albionmedical.com are noturious spammers. A couple of whois lookups and google searches reveal some Nassau, Bahamas registrered companies and a lot of angry people reciving spam from these folks.
From directnic.com
Registrant:
Leading Edge Marketing Inc.
PO Box CR-56766
Suite #1210
Nassau, New Providence ---
BS
810-815-1672
Domain Name: ALBIONMEDICAL.COM
Administrative Contact:
Leading Edge Marketing, Leading Edge Marketing domains@leminternet.com
PO Box CR-56766
Suite #1210
Nassau, New Providence ---
BS
810-815-1672
Technical Contact:
Leading Edge Marketing, Leading Edge Marketing domains@leminternet.com
PO Box CR-56766
Suite #1210
Nassau, New Providence ---
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810-815-1672
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And a pissed guy:
Jesus fucking christ. I'm getting spam bounces again, this time from from some shit-heel pushing pheremones. (Mailing address on page) The company sending the actual messages is "Leading Edge Marketing", in the Bahamas, I assume, from their whois record:
Leading Edge Marketing, Leading Edge Marketing domains@leminternet.com
PO Box CR-56766
Suite #1210
Nassau, New Providence ---
BS
810-815-1672
I heartily encourage any and all civic-minded Internet users to track down and punish these motherless fucks in whatever manner seems appropriate. Not only are they wasting the bandwidth and time of who knows how many million email readers, but they're using my name to sign their poo-flings, causing me to deal with their bounces, and possibly getting my domain on a blacklist somewhere. Time to make these Joe Jobbing asshats pay.
I swear to god, if I ever meet a spammer in person, the devil's gonna need a wig.
The fact that these people do Joe Jobs also doesn't help.
The obsession on security and the idea that a country can protect itself 100% against terrorism through a "War on Terror" can destroy USA as a free country.
Evern if you can justify the collateral damage on the hospital without violating the Geneva Convention it's still a bad policy to do so.
I think that the experience from Gulf War 2 shows that destroying "infrastructure"* is very effective during the war, but also makes it more difficault to control the country after the war.
And destroying a hospital makes people much more pissed than if you "just" take their electricity. It makes it kind of hard to appear as "liberators".
*in this case military speak for; power grid/electricity, TV and Radio stations, mobile communications, public transport/roads/bridges/tunnels, command and control bunkers etc.
True, but the BlueGene/L node is not stackable you can't put one on the top of another, so in real world cases these systems will use close to the same amount of space.
And this system cost ca. $1 mill. while I guestimate that a BlueGene/L node will cost $2-4 mill.
If you choose option 1 above just remember too tell them about the dangers before you let them loose... Don't try to scare them, just tell them that:
-There *are* evil people out there..(again without making them afraid or intrerested)
-Other people out there are after their money.
Tell them to be critical against what they hear and see.
Don't lie to them it will only make them disappointed in a way that they don't trust you.
The SSC is (ok, could have been) very cool. Lot's of nice pictures over at the picture archive.
An what happened to the research on solvent-refined coal?
Apart from the pollution and contamination problems everybody had big expectations. Or? All the research in this area lying dead?
I think the original press release said "the size of a dishwasher".
This is how things like this happens:
IBM engineers make this box probably approx. the size of a z/800 or S/390. Marketing sees that they can't send out something like "the size of a large mainframe cut in two" so they sends it out as "the size of a dishwasher" because people will understand that.
But jounalists then don't think that's sexy enough and think that "a dishwasher is like a big TV" and sends it out as "the size of a TV".
The most interesting thing apart from the type and number of CPU's is:
Among the breakthroughs: IBM used chips that combine several supercomputer functions. Designers also slanted the machine's walls 11 degrees to speed the entry of cool air and exit of hot air, slashing the supercomputer's need for electricity-sucking air conditioning.
"Nobody had tilted the walls before," said William Pulleyblank, who heads the project for IBM.
I know, and I think that article was great; I even agrees with him. I was just refering to all the flaming that sometimes errupt around Katz as a controversial person here on Slashdot.
Judging by the vast amount of CD's that has been price fixed by the major labels, I see no reason why we should trust companies who have shown time and time again that they'll happily make deals that makes copyrighted material available to everyone at an inflated price.
I have not tried Magnatunes so I don't know about the quality of the music.
But i doubt that its worse than a lot of the crap that the major record companies throws out.
Imagine a grocery store that only carried generic house-brand items. Wouldn't be very popular or successful, would it.
A large and significant percentage of Wal-Bart brands are in-house or previously unknown brands.
Lidl, the largest grocery chain in Germany carries only their own brands.
90 % of the sucsessful artists on the market producees music that is commodity. What seperates those artists from the less succsessful is marketing. For those that don't succumb to the marketing hype Magnatuse is probably just as good. And it's cheaper.
[..]to post an article that is structured in an entirely negative way,[..]
What article did you read?
As far as I can see he said twice, at top and in the last sentence, that iPod is the best designed MP3 player in the world.
But that does not means that it's perfect. IMO point 1, 3 and 4 are all valid, and I don't see anything in you post that says that you disagree with him.
Of course all articles are written with advertising in mind, but what kind of "jounalism" do you really want? If you ask me I would say that the amount of fan-boy articles praising iPod is overwhelming on the net. On the other hand I like critical articles better.
And "beating up the popular guy"?
If this can help making iPod even better in the next version I'm all for it.
I think Apple know that If they don't continue to improve the iPod, Dell will sooner or later make a similar player and sell it for half the price..
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Ahh, the classic "this is not usefull for me so it can not be usefull for anyone else either" attitude.
So you won't se supercomputer under your desk simply because as long as there is space it's possible to build a larger computer that do things that your computer can't do.
The original artilces from AP (news.yahoo.com and many other places) mentioned something about the walls/sides being tilted 17 degrees to speed up airflow. True or just a hoax?
Can you comment on that or is this covered by your NDA?
Thanks in advance.
IEEE took action to fulfill the U.S. Treasury Department trade regulations administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). This shows that:
1.IEEE is a organization that to a large degree is influenced by US policy and interests.
2. In this case the OFAC regulations could result in the opposite of the intended effect:
Restricting the ability for researchers in these countries to communicate with western researchers will only make it more difficault for them to do their job and participating in legitimate research. That could make some of them less sympatethic to western ideas and harder to find legitimate jobs.
And getting the information in these IEEE papers is not rocket science even in a banned country. I bet that Iranian researchers allready send money to Pakistan or Turkey so someone there can set up a false member account or copy the papers. And the OFAC regulations were constructed without Internet in mind...Today you can't expect published information to stay out of North Korea just becasue you no longer send it directly to them by mail.
IEEE's policy in this case is stupid and short sighted. In a *worst case* scenario this could lead some engineers and researchers to the governmental WMD programs instead of other work.
From directnic.com
And a pissed guy:
The fact that these people do Joe Jobs also doesn't help.
The obsession on security and the idea that a country can protect itself 100% against terrorism through a "War on Terror" can destroy USA as a free country.
I think that the experience from Gulf War 2 shows that destroying "infrastructure"* is very effective during the war, but also makes it more difficault to control the country after the war.
And destroying a hospital makes people much more pissed than if you "just" take their electricity. It makes it kind of hard to appear as "liberators".
*in this case military speak for; power grid/electricity, TV and Radio stations, mobile communications, public transport/roads/bridges/tunnels, command and control bunkers etc.
And this system cost ca. $1 mill. while I guestimate that a BlueGene/L node will cost $2-4 mill.
If the increase in spam continues, sooner or later many businesses will request a better system/protocol/communication platform than SMTP.
For example Boxx; www.boxxtech.com
-There *are* evil people out there..(again without making them afraid or intrerested)
-Other people out there are after their money.
Tell them to be critical against what they hear and see.
Don't lie to them it will only make them disappointed in a way that they don't trust you.
That is why giving Google too much personal information is a bad thing.
An what happened to the research on solvent-refined coal?
Apart from the pollution and contamination problems everybody had big expectations. Or? All the research in this area lying dead?
This is how things like this happens:
IBM engineers make this box probably approx. the size of a z/800 or S/390. Marketing sees that they can't send out something like "the size of a large mainframe cut in two" so they sends it out as "the size of a dishwasher" because people will understand that.
But jounalists then don't think that's sexy enough and think that "a dishwasher is like a big TV" and sends it out as "the size of a TV".
There is a story here on Yahoo from AP.
The most interesting thing apart from the type and number of CPU's is:
Cool.I know, and I think that article was great; I even agrees with him. I was just refering to all the flaming that sometimes errupt around Katz as a controversial person here on Slashdot.
Really. I am. Deep inside. I can own planets!
I hereby lay claims on all planets and stars known to mankind as of 13 November 2003.
Judging by the vast amount of CD's that has been price fixed by the major labels, I see no reason why we should trust companies who have shown time and time again that they'll happily make deals that makes copyrighted material available to everyone at an inflated price.
They do the important job of outsourcing to India!
But i doubt that its worse than a lot of the crap that the major record companies throws out. A large and significant percentage of Wal-Bart brands are in-house or previously unknown brands.
Lidl, the largest grocery chain in Germany carries only their own brands.
90 % of the sucsessful artists on the market producees music that is commodity. What seperates those artists from the less succsessful is marketing. For those that don't succumb to the marketing hype Magnatuse is probably just as good. And it's cheaper.
-No DRM. MP3
-Try before you buy
-Artists get 50% of the purchase price, artists keep the rights to their music.
-No RIAA connections.
As far as I can see he said twice, at top and in the last sentence, that iPod is the best designed MP3 player in the world.
But that does not means that it's perfect. IMO point 1, 3 and 4 are all valid, and I don't see anything in you post that says that you disagree with him.
Of course all articles are written with advertising in mind, but what kind of "jounalism" do you really want? If you ask me I would say that the amount of fan-boy articles praising iPod is overwhelming on the net. On the other hand I like critical articles better.
And "beating up the popular guy"?
If this can help making iPod even better in the next version I'm all for it.
I think Apple know that If they don't continue to improve the iPod, Dell will sooner or later make a similar player and sell it for half the price..