Larry Augustin is the CEO of VA. Interestingly, he was a classmate of Yahoo's founders Jerry Yang and David Filo at Stanford; where they approached and asked him to join to start Yahoo. Larry chose to sell Linux workstations.
After approx. 3 years of eating his heart out, he will finally make some big bucks.
The Harrier GR.MkV and Harrier GR.MkVII, used by the Royal Air Force, are second generation Harriers and are technically the same aircraft(if not better, as in the case of MkVII) as the AV-8Bs, the aircraft you refer to as "MK II"; with the exception of some electronic gear that the British chose to have. So no, Britain operates the newest generation of the jet it created in the first place.
And Royal Navy operates the latest Sea Harrier with radar, again a much more advanced version of the Harrier than the US variants.
I would like one as a lawn ornament only. That said, I would like to correct you: No one in the US has a personal Mig-29, Oracle CEO Ellison has an Italian built Aermacchi MB-326 jet trainer. I do not think the Sybase CEO can afford this.
Plans to register a Mig-29 for airshow purposes in the US were scrapped last year when the FAA did not allow it based on safety reasons.
The only flying Mig-29s in the US belong to the government, and most of them were bought from Moldova to prevent them from being sold to Iran for a song. They are being flown for evaluation purposes.
There are, however, numerous older Migs belonging to wealthy American enthusiasts. No Mig-29s, though.
There are a lot of privately owned US military planes, jet or prop-driven. Foreign military planes are even more easily acquired, the Russians are willing to sell you a Su-27, arguably the best fighter aircraft on Earth, for about $10M. In case you are looking for good bargains on jet fighters; you might want to check www.barnstormers.com. You will see lots of people from Russia peddling flyable Migs/Sukhois. The last time I checked a Polish guy was offering non-flyable Mig-23s for $50K. A much better price for a lawn ornament. If you want something that can fly, you can buy a L-39 or heck, a flyable Mig-23 for about $100K. I can't wait until my stock options vest, and perhaps one day you can see a Mig-23 on a lawn on Sunnyvale or Cupertino and say, "hey, I know that Turkish guy, he posted at Slashdot about that!"
MEMS = Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems. MEMS deals with implementing mechanical and electronic systems together on the same chip using semiconductor manufacturing technologies, like pressure sensors and the related circuitry on the same die, micromirror display technology like TI's DLP(Digital Light Processing). MEMS does not even remotely involve anything like multiple CPUs and networks on a single die.
So "we're not getting closer to the MEMS idea." MEMS is something totally different, out there, and will be a very, very important field in the near future.
Excuse me here, but chip design is nothing like game or demo design. They may be from the coolest demo scene ever, it does not mean squat. The two skill sets are entirely different, although extensive knowledge of graphics algorithms is a must for architects specifying/designing high level specs for graphics accelerators. Being a doctoral student with IC design experience, I can talk for hours on the difficulties and the financial burden associated with designing a 16-bit RISC processor, let alone a state-of-the-art graphics accelerator.
This sounds like a hoax to me, or a bunch of really hopeful kids with an impressive spec, but nothing else. I would have the following questions to any group venturing on their own to design and build their graphic accelerator without bundles of cash and/or experience:
-How will you pay for the design tools? EDA tools to compile the HDL design, place & route, simulate, etc. cost more than 100K per seat. It is nothing like grabbing gcc or egcs from the nearest Linux ftp site and starting coding..
-How will they prototype their chip? A graphics accelerator will not fit in most FPGAs, so even that cheapest prototyping method is out of the question. They will probably need to rent/acquire hardware emulators or have prototypes built, which cost a lot of $$$$.
-Then again, it doesn't only take a bunch of us geeks & 3D programming wizzes (plural of 'wiz', anyone?) to put a 3D chip on the market-you need hordes of suits for marketing, advertising and other stuff, too..They don't come in cheap.
With all due respect for Finnish technical talent(Nokia and of course Linus comes to mind), I believe they will fail miserably. If this is for real, that is.
There is no place in Turkey which can scientifically be categorized as desert. But of course, relatively speaking, you can say even the coldest regions of Turkey are deserts compared to Canada.
There are ad-free IM clients around there, including GAIM for Linux. All of them use the published AOL protocol, and so far AOL has not complained about these clients asking for users's passwords. Now MS wants to use the same protocol; and AOL is whining.
Microsoft is right here, folks. If AOL has concerns about security, they should have prevented open-source people from using this protocol, too.
You can download MS Instant Messenger client from Microsoft's web site; but can't use it, since AOL does not feel secure about MS asking you your password. Yet you can go and download precompiled "Supa-Dupa IM Client Thingy" binaries from a script kiddie's free Web page; and it will also prompt you to enter your password; but hey, AOL is perfectly fine with it. Ridiculous.
I believe Sahin and Kartal should have been BANNED. Heck, they have decimated perhaps 10 percent of the country's driver population in the last 10 years in accidents.
Yes, Intel started doing this with the Pentium Pro architecture, and pretty much every x86 design on the block has been doing the same thing, perhaps with the exception of IDT WinChip, which I'm not sure about.
The x86, hence Pentium, instruction set is a strictly CISC architecture with a lot of features that are not used in the RISC world, i.e. memory-to-memory operations, instructions of varying lengths, etc.
Umm, I have been living in the US for so long that I don't remember the price in Turkey. You're probably right in your observation, though. I must also point out that I've driven their super cars for the elite too, (a Zil or a Volga or something, that was the most expensive domestic rental car in the part of Russia I visited) and I was not impressed.
The Czech have been producing Skoda Favorit at about the same price then, and it was far superior to the Lada. But hey, we've digressed enough.
True, Russia does not have "modern" fabs that match the US/Japanese standards, but it is flat out wrong that they were "decades behind" Western semiconductor technology or designed all their computers/electronic systems with vacuum tube technology. I believe this is a hoax, but there is still a dispute on whether it was the Russians(the team headed by Dr. Boris Babaian, the guy behind E2K project, and Elbrus supercomputers) or the Americans who designed the first superscalar machine. There is no doubt the Soviets had a fully functional, mass produced supercomputers in the late 1970s and early 80s that almost matched their Western counterparts in performance(Elbrus series).
Besides, McKinley is not the right example to give here. McKinley is still nothing more than a design, while the Alpha is real. As the process technology improves, the current Alpha 21264 and the upcoming 21364 design should still be faster or as fast as McKinley or E2K, unless there is a "quantum leap" kind of innovation in the microarchitecture.
This particular incident is clearly a hoax, but for God's sake, give the Russians the credit they deserve, guys. They can damn well design advanced microprocessors along a lot of other goodies. Remember, these guys were a superpower not long ago.
One thing I think the Russians will not be able to design for a long time is a decent car, though. Has anyone here in Slashdot ever driven a Lada Samara?
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Yes, usually your broker will penalize you for "flipping", i.e. selling the shares you bought at the IPO price. As a result, they might make it hard for you to get shares at the IPO price again.
You usually will not be able to buy any shares before noon when such hot IPOs debut. This is no place to estimate stock prices, but based on my previous experience with tech IPOs, I would say RedHat would probably be available in the open market in the range of 40$ per share or something; if not way higher. The only way to get in at the offering price (I believe it will be raised from $10-12 per share, it is too low.) is either to use WitCapital if they offer the IPO, or to open an account in an online broker which will offer the RedHat IPO.
There might be a whole lot of rich Slashdotters around by the end of that week.
That is the whole point of brute-force attack against cryptosystems!! You only need a system which is capable of decrypting a given ciphertext with a given key. Therefore this chip DOES crack encryption. The EFF used a similar setup to crack DES, too.
I don't believe NSA will give a damn about this student project. With today's technology, DES is a joke anyway. It is a good algorithm if you have something to hide from your brother in the high school. I also don't believe that NSA will give a damn about any chip that encrypts/decrypts publicly available algorithms-designing a chip is not very difficult nowadays if you know a bit or two about FPGAs and hardware description languages.
However, if you find a way to crack these algorithms WITHOUT using a brute search, and publish it; expect a black helicopter from NSA on your backyard very soon.
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Larry Augustin is the CEO of VA. Interestingly, he was a classmate of Yahoo's founders Jerry Yang and David Filo at Stanford; where they approached and asked him to join to start Yahoo. Larry chose to sell Linux workstations.
After approx. 3 years of eating his heart out, he will finally make some big bucks.
The Harrier GR.MkV and Harrier GR.MkVII, used by the Royal Air Force, are second generation Harriers and are technically the same aircraft(if not better, as in the case of MkVII) as the AV-8Bs, the aircraft you refer to as "MK II"; with the exception of some electronic gear that the British chose to have. So no, Britain operates the newest generation of the jet it created in the first place.
And Royal Navy operates the latest Sea Harrier with radar, again a much more advanced version of the Harrier than the US variants.
I would like one as a lawn ornament only. That said, I would like to correct you: No one in the US has a personal Mig-29, Oracle CEO Ellison has an Italian built Aermacchi MB-326 jet trainer. I do not think the Sybase CEO can afford this.
Plans to register a Mig-29 for airshow purposes in the US were scrapped last year when the FAA did not allow it based on safety reasons.
The only flying Mig-29s in the US belong to the government, and most of them were bought from Moldova to prevent them from being sold to Iran for a song. They are being flown for evaluation purposes.
There are, however, numerous older Migs belonging to wealthy American enthusiasts. No Mig-29s, though.
There are a lot of privately owned US military planes, jet or prop-driven. Foreign military planes are even more easily acquired, the Russians are willing to sell you a Su-27, arguably the best fighter aircraft on Earth, for about $10M. In case you are looking for good bargains on jet fighters; you might want to check www.barnstormers.com. You will see lots of people from Russia peddling flyable Migs/Sukhois. The last time I checked a Polish guy was offering non-flyable Mig-23s for $50K. A much better price for a lawn ornament. If you want something that can fly, you can buy a L-39 or heck, a flyable Mig-23 for about $100K. I can't wait until my stock options vest, and perhaps one day you can see a Mig-23 on a lawn on Sunnyvale or Cupertino and say, "hey, I know that Turkish guy, he posted at Slashdot about that!"
MEMS = Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems. MEMS deals with implementing mechanical and electronic systems together on the same chip using semiconductor manufacturing technologies, like pressure sensors and the related circuitry on the same die, micromirror display technology like TI's DLP(Digital Light Processing). MEMS does not even remotely involve anything like multiple CPUs and networks on a single die.
So "we're not getting closer to the MEMS idea." MEMS is something totally different, out there, and will be a very, very important field in the near future.
Excuse me here, but chip design is nothing like game or demo design. They may be from the coolest demo scene ever, it does not mean squat. The two skill sets are entirely different, although extensive knowledge of graphics algorithms is a must for architects specifying/designing high level specs for graphics accelerators. Being a doctoral student with IC design experience, I can talk for hours on the difficulties and the financial burden associated with designing a 16-bit RISC processor, let alone a state-of-the-art graphics accelerator.
This sounds like a hoax to me, or a bunch of really hopeful kids with an impressive spec, but nothing else. I would have the following questions to any group venturing on their own to design and build their graphic accelerator without bundles of cash and/or experience:
-How will you pay for the design tools? EDA tools to compile the HDL design, place & route, simulate, etc. cost more than 100K per seat. It is nothing like grabbing gcc or egcs from the nearest Linux ftp site and starting coding..
-How will they prototype their chip? A graphics accelerator will not fit in most FPGAs, so even that cheapest prototyping method is out of the question. They will probably need to rent/acquire hardware emulators or have prototypes built, which cost a lot of $$$$.
-Then again, it doesn't only take a bunch of us geeks & 3D programming wizzes (plural of 'wiz', anyone?) to put a 3D chip on the market-you need hordes of suits for marketing, advertising and other stuff, too..They don't come in cheap.
With all due respect for Finnish technical talent(Nokia and of course Linus comes to mind), I believe they will fail miserably. If this is for real, that is.
There is no place in Turkey which can scientifically be categorized as desert. But of course, relatively speaking, you can say even the coldest regions of Turkey are deserts compared to Canada.
Nice sense of humor, though.
There are ad-free IM clients around there, including GAIM for Linux. All of them use the published AOL protocol, and so far AOL has not complained about these clients asking for users's passwords. Now MS wants to use the same protocol; and AOL is whining.
Microsoft is right here, folks. If AOL has concerns about security, they should have prevented open-source people from using this protocol, too.
You can download MS Instant Messenger client from Microsoft's web site; but can't use it, since AOL does not feel secure about MS asking you your password. Yet you can go and download precompiled "Supa-Dupa IM Client Thingy" binaries from a script kiddie's free Web page; and it will also prompt you to enter your password; but hey, AOL is perfectly fine with it. Ridiculous.
I believe Sahin and Kartal should have been BANNED. Heck, they have decimated perhaps 10 percent of the country's driver population in the last 10 years in accidents.
Perhaps you meant Dave Ditzel, the ex-Sun microprocessor guru who is supposedly leading the Transmeta CPU design..
Here is an interesting link that points out Ditzel's relation to Elbrus..
Yes, Intel started doing this with the Pentium Pro architecture, and pretty much every x86 design on the block has been doing the same thing, perhaps with the exception of IDT WinChip, which I'm not sure about.
The x86, hence Pentium, instruction set is a strictly CISC architecture with a lot of features that are not used in the RISC world, i.e. memory-to-memory operations, instructions of varying lengths, etc.
Umm, I have been living in the US for so long that I don't remember the price in Turkey. You're probably right in your observation, though. I must also point out that I've driven their super cars for the elite too, (a Zil or a Volga or something, that was the most expensive domestic rental car in the part of Russia I visited) and I was not impressed.
The Czech have been producing Skoda Favorit at about the same price then, and it was far superior to the Lada. But hey, we've digressed enough.
True, Russia does not have "modern" fabs that match the US/Japanese standards, but it is flat out wrong that they were "decades behind" Western semiconductor technology or designed all their computers/electronic systems with vacuum tube technology. I believe this is a hoax, but there is still a dispute on whether it was the Russians(the team headed by Dr. Boris Babaian, the guy behind E2K project, and Elbrus supercomputers) or the Americans who designed the first superscalar machine. There is no doubt the Soviets had a fully functional, mass produced supercomputers in the late 1970s and early 80s that almost matched their Western counterparts in performance(Elbrus series).
Besides, McKinley is not the right example to give here. McKinley is still nothing more than a design, while the Alpha is real. As the process technology improves, the current Alpha 21264 and the upcoming 21364 design should still be faster or as fast as McKinley or E2K, unless there is a "quantum leap" kind of innovation in the microarchitecture.
This particular incident is clearly a hoax, but for God's sake, give the Russians the credit they deserve, guys. They can damn well design advanced microprocessors along a lot of other goodies. Remember, these guys were a superpower not long ago.
One thing I think the Russians will not be able to design for a long time is a decent car, though. Has anyone here in Slashdot ever driven a Lada Samara?
Yes, usually your broker will penalize you for "flipping", i.e. selling the shares you bought at the IPO price. As a result, they might make it hard for you to get shares at the IPO price again.
You usually will not be able to buy any shares before noon when such hot IPOs debut. This is no place to estimate stock prices, but based on my previous experience with tech IPOs, I would say RedHat would probably be available in the open market in the range of 40$ per share or something; if not way higher. The only way to get in at the offering price (I believe it will be raised from $10-12 per share, it is too low.) is either to use WitCapital if they offer the IPO, or to open an account in an online broker which will offer the RedHat IPO.
There might be a whole lot of rich Slashdotters around by the end of that week.
That is the whole point of brute-force attack against cryptosystems!! You only need a system which is capable of decrypting a given ciphertext with a given key. Therefore this chip DOES crack encryption. The EFF used a similar setup to crack DES, too.
I don't believe NSA will give a damn about this student project. With today's technology, DES is a joke anyway. It is a good algorithm if you have something to hide from your brother in the high school. I also don't believe that NSA will give a damn about any chip that encrypts/decrypts publicly available algorithms-designing a chip is not very difficult nowadays if you know a bit or two about FPGAs and hardware description languages.
However, if you find a way to crack these algorithms WITHOUT using a brute search, and publish it; expect a black helicopter from NSA on your backyard very soon.