the approximate distance it would fall is s = ut + 1/2at**2... 0+1/2*32*9*9 feet... 1296 feet.
A few theories from me as an armchair scientist. If it has a way to lock it's wings it will fall slower. It will loose several seconds of direction control but maybe it has a mechanism to compensate.
I'm not a typical Grid user. I have tested and reviewed DataSynapse to use inside our organisation.
We want to offload processing cicles from z/OS onto a cheaper platform. As we process highly secure data we
do not want any of this to land on insecure Windows boxes so our Grid engines will be typically tightly
controlled Solaris or Linux boxes.
What I like best is the re-division of the application. The application submits a request for processing to
a broker/manager. The broker/manager dispatches requests to available engines. Engines register to the
broker/manager as "ready to process" and are given work to do.
The beauty of this is the prioritisation and the load management that comes with the package. You can setup
your engine systems to process a maximum amounts of requests by which the jobs are processed in a best time
way. Each job get the full CPU, does the processing as fast as possible and then the engine continues with
the next one. Note that we run high CPU intensive jobs.
And then there's the redundancy and automatic fail-over of the broker/manager and engine. If any one of these
dies, jobs are rerouted/rescheduled. We actually need high availability.
These days the act of 'coding' is as identifiable and costly as the act of an author typing or handwriting their novel i.e. negligible and you don't bother quantifying it.
I take you mean analysis, design, specification and implementation are all in one person. That happens a lot and managers don't like it for good reasons. Something you cannot devide you cannot relocate.
On mainframes you could/can clearly devide different phases in the development process and that is what managers like. The fact the relatively pimitive environment causes development to actually take much longer doesn't seem to hinder the acceptance. Don't want to get flamed down by hostie-slashdotters (are there any?) so I can tell you that as soon as you want to integrate z/OS-COBOL with web applications and the UNIX world, problems start. I have seen situation where very remarkable workarounds were even written in assembly(!)
On *nix systems you can also divide development phases but most of the time you have to roll your own. I have worked on very large *nix software archives so I know. (I have also worked on large VMS software archives where people rolled their own too.) The fact that this is ultimately cheaper and/or more flexible does not convince.
Jobs will go to India or wherever it is cheaper to do them. No need to argue
about this.
However, it's mostly production and operational support jobs that shift.
Jobs that require communication with actual humans and jobs that need higher
levels of skills will not disappear so quickly.
That means coding, application/system administration are candidates for
departure. Consultancy, analysis and design most likely will remain.
Then you realize that coding accounts for about 10-20% of the costs of
application development. Assuming outsourcing is free as in beer, 10-20%
cost savings is done. That's still a lot of money.
But the outsourcing will demand higher quality standards of an
organization. That is, the task division has to be documented and managed and
that costs money.
Then, the Indian firm will actually charge. Maybe a mere 10% of what a local
would charge but they will charge.
Then comes laziness and more people are hired. At 10% one can afford stuff.
And the whole process transforms into one large management problem and actually
costing more.
The other alternative is to outsource everything and to buy a solution service
for cheap. And to give your strategic operation away. As soon as the lock-in took
place you're forked.
Costs will go down?! Don't make me laugh. We're in the hype phase of outsourcing.
We'll realize and come to our senses in 1-3 years and an adjustment will be seen.
Outsourcing will be a part of our lives but not as big as some hot shot managers
wants us to believe.
having said that, I'll start taking courses in juggling or in playing the jester.
Always keep your job-options open;(
QS20 will mark the first application in which the highly-touted Cell will be available to consumers
Consumers?! Do you know how much a QS20 will cost you? These are business systems. You'd have to buy both a blade center and a blade.
why do I need something more than my five-year-old PC system?
I would. Because these chips will eventually wind up in blade systems which will run Linix which will be used to port CPU intensive tasks.
There's no reason to invent expensive, new technologies to be inferior substitutes...
Yes there are. 1) Fun. 2) Because you can, 3) They might come in handy one day.
Background 6 years Navy Comm Tech 1.5 years US State Dept Comm Eng - 8 months Comm Eng for Counter Terrorism group 12 yeas LM - Syst Eng, PM amd Eng Manager. Including SW PM for an Aegis BAseline and SW Eng Manager for LM NORAD projects
We non-us citizen notice this urge you us-guys have to measure up and compare your thingies in several postings in this thread. Really, this is a bit pathetic.
The missing Regular Expressions is what kept me off Java and on Perl for a looong while. I started using ORO and since their introduction into Java itself I almost completely switched over. I relly do hope Perl 6 will be released and lives up to its expectations.
Having said that I really don't see why you have to devote a complete book on regex. A small tutorial does just fine.
I'm a bit surprised by this as my spending at Amazon has only increased in the last 8 years. Amazon is my preferred supplier of books and games.
I'd say more people are doing so.
Not as an excuse but I'm not a native english speaker, don't live in an english spellng country, too lazy to spell check, too lazy to install FF with spell checking,....
Speaking of my doughter, she's very bright and can solve complex problems. If she really wants to, that is...
The thing is that she likes to play with dolls and wants everything colored pink. Her most valuable tool is a bag to put stuff in.
Neither me nor my wife like girly things. We don't know where our doughter got the girly attitude but she has it. A LOT.
The son is a typical boy and likes blue. Didn't force him into that either. Society might but I didn't.
So you expect people to be politically correct and buy the ugly, grey Nintendo DSes? Even if the kids particularily like blue or pink?
Hell you remember me of the politically correctnes of the 70ies. Boy that screwed up the minds of loads of kids. Boys had to be girls and girls had to be boys.
Grow your own kids buddy and share your findings. In 20 years or so...
OTOH, I think you actually posted out of boredom. Nothing on TV... Can't get no pussy.... Let's be politically correct!
We own two. One for the son (blue), one for the doughter (pink).
My wife and I like the brain training games so two units are used by four people.
I'm sure my mum (79 years of age) will like the brain training games too so I bought a DS lite (white) with two games for her which I will give to her next Saturday.
What makes a god-fearing, law-abiding family father buy expensive electronic toys? High amounts if good (and mostly clean) fun!!!
I' still think I'm not a Nintendo fanboy but I sure like the stuff they make!
Like in the talking moose?
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The lower the current, the lower the power loss caused by cable resistance. P-loss = I ^ R-cable (lost power equals squared current times cable resistance.)
The higher the voltage, the lower the current for the same total power. I = P-tot / V (Current equals total devided by voltage.)
The higher the voltage, the more insulation you need.
Air insulates fine as long as you have plenty of it.
Air to insulate costs nothing.
Insulating high voltages through anything else than air is horribly expensive.
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the approximate distance it would fall is s = ut + 1/2at**2 ... 0+1/2*32*9*9 feet ... 1296 feet.
A few theories from me as an armchair scientist. If it has a way to lock it's wings it will fall slower. It will loose several seconds of direction control but maybe it has a mechanism to compensate.
I'm not a typical Grid user. I have tested and reviewed DataSynapse to use inside our organisation.
We want to offload processing cicles from z/OS onto a cheaper platform. As we process highly secure data we do not want any of this to land on insecure Windows boxes so our Grid engines will be typically tightly controlled Solaris or Linux boxes.
What I like best is the re-division of the application. The application submits a request for processing to a broker/manager. The broker/manager dispatches requests to available engines. Engines register to the broker/manager as "ready to process" and are given work to do.
The beauty of this is the prioritisation and the load management that comes with the package. You can setup your engine systems to process a maximum amounts of requests by which the jobs are processed in a best time way. Each job get the full CPU, does the processing as fast as possible and then the engine continues with the next one. Note that we run high CPU intensive jobs.
And then there's the redundancy and automatic fail-over of the broker/manager and engine. If any one of these dies, jobs are rerouted/rescheduled. We actually need high availability.
These days the act of 'coding' is as identifiable and costly as the act of an author typing or handwriting their novel i.e. negligible and you don't bother quantifying it.
I take you mean analysis, design, specification and implementation are all in one person. That happens a lot and managers don't like it for good reasons. Something you cannot devide you cannot relocate.
On mainframes you could/can clearly devide different phases in the development process and that is what managers like. The fact the relatively pimitive environment causes development to actually take much longer doesn't seem to hinder the acceptance. Don't want to get flamed down by hostie-slashdotters (are there any?) so I can tell you that as soon as you want to integrate z/OS-COBOL with web applications and the UNIX world, problems start. I have seen situation where very remarkable workarounds were even written in assembly(!)
On *nix systems you can also divide development phases but most of the time you have to roll your own. I have worked on very large *nix software archives so I know. (I have also worked on large VMS software archives where people rolled their own too.) The fact that this is ultimately cheaper and/or more flexible does not convince.
Jobs will go to India or wherever it is cheaper to do them. No need to argue about this.
;(
However, it's mostly production and operational support jobs that shift. Jobs that require communication with actual humans and jobs that need higher levels of skills will not disappear so quickly.
That means coding, application/system administration are candidates for departure. Consultancy, analysis and design most likely will remain.
Then you realize that coding accounts for about 10-20% of the costs of application development. Assuming outsourcing is free as in beer, 10-20% cost savings is done. That's still a lot of money.
But the outsourcing will demand higher quality standards of an organization. That is, the task division has to be documented and managed and that costs money.
Then, the Indian firm will actually charge. Maybe a mere 10% of what a local would charge but they will charge.
Then comes laziness and more people are hired. At 10% one can afford stuff.
And the whole process transforms into one large management problem and actually costing more.
The other alternative is to outsource everything and to buy a solution service for cheap. And to give your strategic operation away. As soon as the lock-in took place you're forked.
Costs will go down?! Don't make me laugh. We're in the hype phase of outsourcing. We'll realize and come to our senses in 1-3 years and an adjustment will be seen. Outsourcing will be a part of our lives but not as big as some hot shot managers wants us to believe.
having said that, I'll start taking courses in juggling or in playing the jester. Always keep your job-options open
Will they migrate to IIS/.net?
... F-14 ... ^[^[^[
No wait
QS20 will mark the first application in which the highly-touted Cell will be available to consumers
Consumers?! Do you know how much a QS20 will cost you? These are business systems. You'd have to buy both a blade center and a blade.
why do I need something more than my five-year-old PC system?
I would. Because these chips will eventually wind up in blade systems which will run Linix which will be used to port CPU intensive tasks.
Water is not scarce.
Ever been to a desert?
There's no reason to invent expensive, new technologies to be inferior substitutes...
Yes there are. 1) Fun. 2) Because you can, 3) They might come in handy one day.
Background 6 years Navy Comm Tech 1.5 years US State Dept Comm Eng - 8 months Comm Eng for Counter Terrorism group 12 yeas LM - Syst Eng, PM amd Eng Manager. Including SW PM for an Aegis BAseline and SW Eng Manager for LM NORAD projects
We non-us citizen notice this urge you us-guys have to measure up and compare your thingies in several postings in this thread. Really, this is a bit pathetic.
The Kingdom of Heaven (as in joy) is within you. That is, within a gene in you.
Having said that, a dirty mind approximates eternal bliss.
Noise ain't digital nor a form of encryption. So what's the DMCA to do with this?!
Nor will a privileged imbecile be able to govern a nation.
What?!
Am I the only one here reading Ford as in Prefect?
Are the people that find me strange actually right?
EMP1: Apart from legal issues, mod chips contain amazing software.
EMP2: Please pronounce sof'ware like Bill wants you to: SOF'WARE
The missing Regular Expressions is what kept me off Java and on Perl for a looong while. I started using ORO and since their introduction into Java itself I almost completely switched over. I relly do hope Perl 6 will be released and lives up to its expectations.
Having said that I really don't see why you have to devote a complete book on regex. A small tutorial does just fine.
I'm a bit surprised by this as my spending at Amazon has only increased in the last 8 years. Amazon is my preferred supplier of books and games. I'd say more people are doing so.
>Ancient Fossils?
>>There's some other kind of fossil?
Can't call my mother in law "ancient".
15 Milion Units ... Nicely stacked in warehouses just right besides the fairy tales.
Fair enough. D-A-U-G-H-T-E-R.
....
Not as an excuse but I'm not a native english speaker, don't live in an english spellng country, too lazy to spell check, too lazy to install FF with spell checking,
Way to ingrain gender-stereotypes.
OK, I'll bite.
Speaking of my doughter, she's very bright and can solve complex problems. If she really wants to, that is...
The thing is that she likes to play with dolls and wants everything colored pink. Her most valuable tool is a bag to put stuff in.
Neither me nor my wife like girly things. We don't know where our doughter got the girly attitude but she has it. A LOT.
The son is a typical boy and likes blue. Didn't force him into that either. Society might but I didn't.
So you expect people to be politically correct and buy the ugly, grey Nintendo DSes? Even if the kids particularily like blue or pink?
Hell you remember me of the politically correctnes of the 70ies. Boy that screwed up the minds of loads of kids. Boys had to be girls and girls had to be boys.
Grow your own kids buddy and share your findings. In 20 years or so...
OTOH, I think you actually posted out of boredom. Nothing on TV... Can't get no pussy.... Let's be politically correct!
We own two. One for the son (blue), one for the doughter (pink).
My wife and I like the brain training games so two units are used by four people.
I'm sure my mum (79 years of age) will like the brain training games too so I bought a DS lite (white) with two games for her which I will give to her next Saturday.
What makes a god-fearing, law-abiding family father buy expensive electronic toys? High amounts if good (and mostly clean) fun!!!
I' still think I'm not a Nintendo fanboy but I sure like the stuff they make!
Like in the talking moose?
versed enough in Unixisms ... the mean streets of Linuxville ... downtown Linuxville ... plush lawns of Mactown ... plastic Windowsland ... Ubuntu Street ... Slackware Road ... snotty punks on Gentoo Avenue ... je-ne-sais-quoi
Oh puh-lease!!!
That's DRM on GUN. What would RMS say?!
This is a no-brainer.
The lower the current, the lower the power loss caused by cable resistance. P-loss = I ^ R-cable (lost power equals squared current times cable resistance.)
The higher the voltage, the lower the current for the same total power. I = P-tot / V (Current equals total devided by voltage.)
The higher the voltage, the more insulation you need.
Air insulates fine as long as you have plenty of it.
Air to insulate costs nothing.
Insulating high voltages through anything else than air is horribly expensive.