What are you Rip Van Winkle ?? Where have you been in the last decade and a half where the whole DSP world became dominated with VLIW architectures - TI's 6x, Philips (now NXP) Trimedia, Starcore, Qualcomm's QDSP.. Even in general purpose computing, Intel did a real VLIW implementation - Itanium.
Cows/Oxen have been used in this manner traditionally to crush oilseeds in India. The apparatus is called a Ghani or a Kolhu. see here :
http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/T4660T/t4660t04.gif
It might come as a surprise to you but one doesn't get a Computer Science PhD to learn how to program, rather one does so to figure out what to solve with a program (unless you are working on Software Engineering).
I have a close friend who joined Microsoft Research last year after his PhD (which included interning there). He also had an offer from Google and a couple of hedge funds. His reason for taking MSR was that Microsoft, for all it's image does actually allow the MSR guys to pretty much do what they want to explore instead of forcing a direction driven by a profit making application of that work. This results in much research not ending up in products (so you don't see it), but doesn't stifle the people working there. This came as quite a surprise to me but when I look at some of the papers the groups in MSR have published, I wonder how far from the truth that is.
oh and BTW, they were paying a good 0.6x higher than Google so that would account for some of those PhDs.
So it is not easy to use because it doesn't use iTunes ? Read the description, it appears like storage to the OS, so despite your doubts you CAN drag and drop a directory. It would seem to me that as you don't need to install anything to make it work, it "just works" a lot better than the iPod which only works once you install iTunes, which btw will keep asking to be updated every two days. If you plan to buy music from someone other than Apple, this doesn't sound so bad does it?
Not true, flash development has little to do with digital transistor development. Flash requires more masks, different profiles and very different characterization and reliability testing from standard digital CMOS (think about the charge pumps). Certifying a new flash process is much more cumbersome than developing for digital cmos and so most flash production tends to be on older processes.
It's interesting to see that when you want to post such obviously fascist drivel (just compare what you've expressed here with the justifications the Nazis gave for all their abhorent experiments on concentration camp victims), you haven't the balls to post with your id.
Don't see how this gets modded up at all. It's a troll. What this poster is simply saying (without bothering to justify, provide facts or say anything useful in the post) that if one is Indian and in India, one is stupid. i.e. If you're Indian and smart you should pack up and immigrate to the US. if the poster is Indian and in the US, his/her existence disproves that point. If he/she is an Indian in India, needs to get an education and get a job in the booming economy there. If not, he/she knows very little about India or Indians.
Oh wow, really! Try decoding a h.264 main profile stream on Mips or powerPC and then talk about how useless DSPs are. You seem to be doing mainly control software with little or no signal processing, so using a RISC core may seem like a good idea to you. Try some real signal processing to learn about why one needs special purpose engines like DSPs.
Yahoo Launchcast premium does something similar. For your personalized radio station, based on your ratings of songs, artist and album it plays music you've already selected or is selected by other users whose selections overlap yours. Works fairly well once you done something like 200+ ratings, except that it uses DirectX and so requires me to run windows and IE.
The pandora player mentioned doesn't seem to work with firefox, it just shows a blank portion of the screen.
I've heard Negroponte in speeches he's made in India (and he's made a tidy packet doing that sort of thing) and he's given to such "let's solve the digital divide with charity" sort of thinking. While it may sound like a nice thing to say, the devil is in the details. The basic reasons for children lacking access to knowledge infrastructure are not only much about availability of hardware and bandwidth. Social conditions, religious and sectarian dogma, poverty, illiteracy and ignorance of parents that makes educating kids not seem attractive, language barriers and lack of teachers are much bigger hurdles. Without solving at least some of those, handing out laptops is (as another post pointed out) going to result in resales of those laptops or them lying around gathering dust or at best teach those kids to play computer games.
For those that are going to scream that we in the west should applaud these and not diss progress in poor countries - I am from South Asia and lived there most of my life till a few months back and I have seen and interacted with enough people that this effort is aimed at to have some idea of what progress would mean for them.
Also, consider that since the $100 price is enabled only when these things are manufactured in tens of millions, the project is likely make poor economies dish out large sums to order large numbers of said laptops before any results can be seen. The only guaranteeed winners are going to be manufacturers of these machines (and components in them).
Though I don't agree with all that he says, there are some interesting thoughts about this project in this blog http://www.deeshaa.org/2005/11/05/formula-for-milk ing-the-digital-divide
Surprisingly that isn't totally true. Whatever, their product groups may do, from speaking to some guys from Microsoft Research at a recent conference and from other sources, they hire lots of PhDs and are doing blue-sky research esp. in the bio-computing area. Also, look at the number and quality of papers from MS Research in any of the theoretical computer science conferences. In fact, a friend of mine recently completed his PhD in machine learning and had an offer from Google and MS Research and took the latter. According to him (and he has interned with MS), Google Labs is much more product focused than MSR and he was convinced that he would get more freedom to work on his interests in MS Research (and they apparently pay more to fresh PhDs).
I haven't been following this too closely, but do they have one integrated memory controller or two for the dual core devices ? It would seem to be a fairly obvious thing to do to maintain the memory bandwidth per core. And yes, that would probably need a higher pin count package, but the overall system cost would be lower.
While I agree that XP is incredibly stable compared to previous Windows versions, it does BSOD, though not as regularly as before. A more repeatable form of BSOD I find, is what I call GSOL (Gray Screen Of Limbo) something that happens if you expect the OS to revive itself after you've asked it to "Hibernate" from the shut down menu.
And Mac OS X Jaguar is how old ? Jaguar isn't close to being current, yet it doesn't show a single succeful attack in the test. So it's not that SP1 is insecure simply because it is old. That is just the sort of simplistic and pathetic excuse we get from a monopoly which is not interested in fixing it's OS. Give it a few months and the same story will be repeated with SP2 and you'll be defending an updated SP3 or whatever they call it.
On the contrary, I have mostly seen managers (esp. non-tech ones) fall for snake oil products from vendors. Here in the chip industry, there is always someone trying to convince the managers about some push-button panacea for design productivity and deep submicron issues.
If you want 1080p, besides LCD, the new Samsung DLP TV is also an option. Dunno if it is in stores yet but it was on display at CES (model HLR6768W). At the same size this should be cheaper and better at pure black.
You're right - for non-holiday periods. Try free shipping during the holidays only if you're not shopping for the holidays. But their maximum sales are during the holiday shopping periods - that is where this may be useful, esp when buying multiple gifts and shipping them around the country.
oops! I meant to say that was the only one I was aware of (must preview). Looking at the link, there seem to be a lot more activity there than I thought.
That could be pretty useful for OSS. However, have we seen much OSS development coming from India ? The only OSS tool authored by an Indian located in India is Anjuta (the programming IDE for gnome). Know of any others ?
It's interesting to note how many people are claiming here that this is common practice for all countries when the point of the complaint is that it's the airline, not the country's govt. that is asking these questions.
Every country's immigration asks for this info from non-citizens and that's understandable (tracking overstays etc.). But for all those claiming this is common, how many airlines, not immigration officials asked you for these details ? Not once for me, not while travelling to the US, Europe or Japan. But then I never flew AA.
Not quite. You are mixing up an employee stock purchase plan vs. an employee stock options plan. The one you refer to is an employee stock purchase plan wherein employees are given a discount on the FMV for purchasing stock. In a stock option plan, the employee is granted an option (valid for a number of years) to buy stock at a price fixed at the current FMV. If the stock goes up in that number of years, the employee can exercise (and sell immediately ) the stock options without neccessarily investing any money of his/her own. In a stock purchase plan, the employee has to fork out his/her own cash just like in the open market but at a discounted price. The expenditure on the part of the company to enable this discount in such purchase plans is already expensed today (the monetary value of this expense is known at the time of purchase), and the company then uses a particular tax rule that was supposed to promote employee ownership of the company, to get tax rebates. The accounting rule in question here applies to the stock options which when granted have no real value. The value is monetized if and when the options are exercised.
Quite right and in fact, this applies to most spheres which involve communicating to a larger audience. There seems to be a tendency to reward clarity in a message even at the expense of veracity. In everyday business, politics and media we see more examples of a successful message being one that is easy to latch on to even if a detailed look at the issues may not support it.
Part of the divide there is also that while accurate reporting of science does happen, it is mostly in scientific forums and media. FOr mainstream media, there seems to be an acceptance that the picture needs to be dumbed down to be able to communicate it crisply.
I pray this has a chance of ending one of my prime gripes of late. If this goes through, maybe, just maybe, Linksys might come out with a CF form WLAN client that supports LEAP and works with an Aironet network. I may finally be able to connect my PDA to the company WLAN.
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What are you Rip Van Winkle ?? Where have you been in the last decade and a half where the whole DSP world became dominated with VLIW architectures - TI's 6x, Philips (now NXP) Trimedia, Starcore, Qualcomm's QDSP.. Even in general purpose computing, Intel did a real VLIW implementation - Itanium.
Cows/Oxen have been used in this manner traditionally to crush oilseeds in India. The apparatus is called a Ghani or a Kolhu. see here : http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/T4660T/t4660t04.gif
Actually, this is by itself a sort of Beowulf Cluster of telescopes.
It might come as a surprise to you but one doesn't get a Computer Science PhD to learn how to program, rather one does so to figure out what to solve with a program (unless you are working on Software Engineering).
I have a close friend who joined Microsoft Research last year after his PhD (which included interning there). He also had an offer from Google and a couple of hedge funds. His reason for taking MSR was that Microsoft, for all it's image does actually allow the MSR guys to pretty much do what they want to explore instead of forcing a direction driven by a profit making application of that work. This results in much research not ending up in products (so you don't see it), but doesn't stifle the people working there. This came as quite a surprise to me but when I look at some of the papers the groups in MSR have published, I wonder how far from the truth that is.
oh and BTW, they were paying a good 0.6x higher than Google so that would account for some of those PhDs.
So it is not easy to use because it doesn't use iTunes ? Read the description, it appears like storage to the OS, so despite your doubts you CAN drag and drop a directory. It would seem to me that as you don't need to install anything to make it work, it "just works" a lot better than the iPod which only works once you install iTunes, which btw will keep asking to be updated every two days. If you plan to buy music from someone other than Apple, this doesn't sound so bad does it?
Not true, flash development has little to do with digital transistor development. Flash requires more masks, different profiles and very different characterization and reliability testing from standard digital CMOS (think about the charge pumps). Certifying a new flash process is much more cumbersome than developing for digital cmos and so most flash production tends to be on older processes.
It's interesting to see that when you want to post such obviously fascist drivel (just compare what you've expressed here with the justifications the Nazis gave for all their abhorent experiments on concentration camp victims), you haven't the balls to post with your id.
Don't see how this gets modded up at all. It's a troll. What this poster is simply saying (without bothering to justify, provide facts or say anything useful in the post) that if one is Indian and in India, one is stupid. i.e. If you're Indian and smart you should pack up and immigrate to the US. if the poster is Indian and in the US, his/her existence disproves that point. If he/she is an Indian in India, needs to get an education and get a job in the booming economy there. If not, he/she knows very little about India or Indians.
Oh wow, really! Try decoding a h.264 main profile stream on Mips or powerPC and then talk about how useless DSPs are. You seem to be doing mainly control software with little or no signal processing, so using a RISC core may seem like a good idea to you. Try some real signal processing to learn about why one needs special purpose engines like DSPs.
Yahoo Launchcast premium does something similar. For your personalized radio station, based on your ratings of songs, artist and album it plays music you've already selected or is selected by other users whose selections overlap yours. Works fairly well once you done something like 200+ ratings, except that it uses DirectX and so requires me to run windows and IE. The pandora player mentioned doesn't seem to work with firefox, it just shows a blank portion of the screen.
I've heard Negroponte in speeches he's made in India (and he's made a tidy packet doing that sort of thing) and he's given to such "let's solve the digital divide with charity" sort of thinking. While it may sound like a nice thing to say, the devil is in the details. The basic reasons for children lacking access to knowledge infrastructure are not only much about availability of hardware and bandwidth. Social conditions, religious and sectarian dogma, poverty, illiteracy and ignorance of parents that makes educating kids not seem attractive, language barriers and lack of teachers are much bigger hurdles. Without solving at least some of those, handing out laptops is (as another post pointed out) going to result in resales of those laptops or them lying around gathering dust or at best teach those kids to play computer games. For those that are going to scream that we in the west should applaud these and not diss progress in poor countries - I am from South Asia and lived there most of my life till a few months back and I have seen and interacted with enough people that this effort is aimed at to have some idea of what progress would mean for them. Also, consider that since the $100 price is enabled only when these things are manufactured in tens of millions, the project is likely make poor economies dish out large sums to order large numbers of said laptops before any results can be seen. The only guaranteeed winners are going to be manufacturers of these machines (and components in them). Though I don't agree with all that he says, there are some interesting thoughts about this project in this blog http://www.deeshaa.org/2005/11/05/formula-for-milk ing-the-digital-divide
Surprisingly that isn't totally true. Whatever, their product groups may do, from speaking to some guys from Microsoft Research at a recent conference and from other sources, they hire lots of PhDs and are doing blue-sky research esp. in the bio-computing area. Also, look at the number and quality of papers from MS Research in any of the theoretical computer science conferences. In fact, a friend of mine recently completed his PhD in machine learning and had an offer from Google and MS Research and took the latter. According to him (and he has interned with MS), Google Labs is much more product focused than MSR and he was convinced that he would get more freedom to work on his interests in MS Research (and they apparently pay more to fresh PhDs).
I haven't been following this too closely, but do they have one integrated memory controller or two for the dual core devices ? It would seem to be a fairly obvious thing to do to maintain the memory bandwidth per core. And yes, that would probably need a higher pin count package, but the overall system cost would be lower.
While I agree that XP is incredibly stable compared to previous Windows versions, it does BSOD, though not as regularly as before. A more repeatable form of BSOD I find, is what I call GSOL (Gray Screen Of Limbo) something that happens if you expect the OS to revive itself after you've asked it to "Hibernate" from the shut down menu.
And Mac OS X Jaguar is how old ? Jaguar isn't close to being current, yet it doesn't show a single succeful attack in the test. So it's not that SP1 is insecure simply because it is old. That is just the sort of simplistic and pathetic excuse we get from a monopoly which is not interested in fixing it's OS. Give it a few months and the same story will be repeated with SP2 and you'll be defending an updated SP3 or whatever they call it.
On the contrary, I have mostly seen managers (esp. non-tech ones) fall for snake oil products from vendors. Here in the chip industry, there is always someone trying to convince the managers about some push-button panacea for design productivity and deep submicron issues.
If you want 1080p, besides LCD, the new Samsung DLP TV is also an option. Dunno if it is in stores yet but it was on display at CES (model HLR6768W). At the same size this should be cheaper and better at pure black.
You're right - for non-holiday periods. Try free shipping during the holidays only if you're not shopping for the holidays. But their maximum sales are during the holiday shopping periods - that is where this may be useful, esp when buying multiple gifts and shipping them around the country.
oops! I meant to say that was the only one I was aware of (must preview). Looking at the link, there seem to be a lot more activity there than I thought.
That could be pretty useful for OSS. However, have we seen much OSS development coming from India ? The only OSS tool authored by an Indian located in India is Anjuta (the programming IDE for gnome). Know of any others ?
It's interesting to note how many people are claiming here that this is common practice for all countries when the point of the complaint is that it's the airline, not the country's govt. that is asking these questions. Every country's immigration asks for this info from non-citizens and that's understandable (tracking overstays etc.). But for all those claiming this is common, how many airlines, not immigration officials asked you for these details ? Not once for me, not while travelling to the US, Europe or Japan. But then I never flew AA.
Not quite. You are mixing up an employee stock purchase plan vs. an employee stock options plan. The one you refer to is an employee stock purchase plan wherein employees are given a discount on the FMV for purchasing stock. In a stock option plan, the employee is granted an option (valid for a number of years) to buy stock at a price fixed at the current FMV. If the stock goes up in that number of years, the employee can exercise (and sell immediately ) the stock options without neccessarily investing any money of his/her own. In a stock purchase plan, the employee has to fork out his/her own cash just like in the open market but at a discounted price. The expenditure on the part of the company to enable this discount in such purchase plans is already expensed today (the monetary value of this expense is known at the time of purchase), and the company then uses a particular tax rule that was supposed to promote employee ownership of the company, to get tax rebates. The accounting rule in question here applies to the stock options which when granted have no real value. The value is monetized if and when the options are exercised.
Quite right and in fact, this applies to most spheres which involve communicating to a larger audience. There seems to be a tendency to reward clarity in a message even at the expense of veracity. In everyday business, politics and media we see more examples of a successful message being one that is easy to latch on to even if a detailed look at the issues may not support it. Part of the divide there is also that while accurate reporting of science does happen, it is mostly in scientific forums and media. FOr mainstream media, there seems to be an acceptance that the picture needs to be dumbed down to be able to communicate it crisply.
I pray this has a chance of ending one of my prime gripes of late. If this goes through, maybe, just maybe, Linksys might come out with a CF form WLAN client that supports LEAP and works with an Aironet network. I may finally be able to connect my PDA to the company WLAN.