"One wonders whether similar ideas were brought to China by the Tocharians, as they show up later in the writings of Meng Tzu."
Yes, I wondered this aloud to my wife at the breakfast table just this morning. She simply gave me a knowing nod and went on reading her ancient Babylonian manuscript.
From the article: "A medic, who can be miles away, will now be able to diagnose and treat a soldier who is about to have sunstroke, without even physically seeing the soldier.
Radio traffic: "Alpha Bravo Charlie appears to be out of action! Doctor, can you give us a report on his telemetry?
Doctor: "Is he wearing that black, 50 pound Darth Vader suit?"
"...if you can't put the full dataset into memory, you might as well forget using a cluster. The node to node throughput is several orders of magnitude slower than the processor bus in multiple CPU systems. (6.4GB/s vs 17MB/s for regular ethernet, or 170MB/s for Gigabit)"
There's the argument in a nutshell. A cluster ain't worth shiite to a modeler who needs to move petabytes of contiguous data in his algorithms.
that a linux kernal cannot be designed to a set of requirements and specifications and then run through test and QA controls? Has he checked with the NSA on this?
He should be embarassed to call himself a software professional.
This is a perfect example of an article written around an intentionally misleading premise... in other words, an evil marketing screed.
Five or six years ago, my wife had to visit a sick friend a thousand miles away from home. Having experienced the ripoff LD rates in hotels while on business travel, I told her to use the "1-800-CALL-ATT" number so heavily advertised on TV. BAD MOVE! As it turns out, the fine print that flashes on the bottom of the TV screen for 500 milliseconds at the end of the commercial informs us that the low fixed rates are available only to users of the AT&T Phone Card. For anyone else, the sky is the limit.
As it happened, my wife's friend took a turn for the worse and we spent 4 to six hours on the phone over the course of a few days talking over whatever it is she needed to "express" (women...). My wife used the 1-800-CALL-ATT number, telling them to bill the LD to our home phone. Imagine my shock and horror when the AT&T bill arrived singing a tune of almost $700. The heartless bastards had no mercy... any and all pleading for mercy ended "Well... that's what you owe us... pay up or else." It took me 3 months to get them to knock a couple hundred off just to close the matter out, but it was their deceptive advertising that caused the problem in the forst place.
May AT&T's corporate soul, if it still has one, rot in corporate hell.
Fiat has been well known about its infamous electronic design. so...
Actually, in sports car circles... the Brits had that title locked with their use of Lucas brand electronics. The old joke was...
Q: Why do the British drink warm beer?
A: Because Lucas makes refrigerators too.
Why would a robot (or human for that matter) designed for zero g require feet? Go back to the drawing board... replace those feet with a couple more arms.
" You know you're a loser when you fail a THIRD post."
Good on 'em... their loser-ness not only got me bumped up to first post, but got me modded up a point by making me look like a bloody genius in comparison. (Woulda made first post quite by accident had I been logged in when I hit the reply button).
this technology might eventually be used for vision correction heretofore untouchable by traditional lenses, getting around things like retinal and corneal damage.
Someone steals lunch so the CEO tells him to become a corporate spy? Right. I bet.
The idea was directly plagiarized from a story line where a guy without auto insurance gets into a fender bender and is sentenced by the judge to become Jerry Seinfeld's butler.
I've always maintained that Disney's "Tron" was an unofficial adaptation of PKD's "Ubik" (The novel which turned me on to PKD as a kid when I found it on a rack at a 7/11 store). "Tron" isn't as close to the original story as some other PKD adaptations, but it's close enough, and a watchable film for it's day.
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"One wonders whether similar ideas were brought to China by the Tocharians, as they show up later in the writings of Meng Tzu."
Yes, I wondered this aloud to my wife at the breakfast table just this morning. She simply gave me a knowing nod and went on reading her ancient Babylonian manuscript.
From the article: "A medic, who can be miles away, will now be able to diagnose and treat a soldier who is about to have sunstroke, without even physically seeing the soldier.
Radio traffic: "Alpha Bravo Charlie appears to be out of action! Doctor, can you give us a report on his telemetry?
Doctor: "Is he wearing that black, 50 pound Darth Vader suit?"
Radio traffic: "Yes!"
Doctor: "It's probably sun stroke."
There's the argument in a nutshell. A cluster ain't worth shiite to a modeler who needs to move petabytes of contiguous data in his algorithms.
For that kind of money... you'd think you'd get Color Nautilus speakers, in hi-res.
that a linux kernal cannot be designed to a set of requirements and specifications and then run through test and QA controls? Has he checked with the NSA on this?
He should be embarassed to call himself a software professional.
This is a perfect example of an article written around an intentionally misleading premise... in other words, an evil marketing screed.
Sheesh...
As it happened, my wife's friend took a turn for the worse and we spent 4 to six hours on the phone over the course of a few days talking over whatever it is she needed to "express" (women...). My wife used the 1-800-CALL-ATT number, telling them to bill the LD to our home phone. Imagine my shock and horror when the AT&T bill arrived singing a tune of almost $700. The heartless bastards had no mercy... any and all pleading for mercy ended "Well... that's what you owe us... pay up or else." It took me 3 months to get them to knock a couple hundred off just to close the matter out, but it was their deceptive advertising that caused the problem in the forst place.
May AT&T's corporate soul, if it still has one, rot in corporate hell.
"Be the ball, be the ball....."
Actually, in sports car circles... the Brits had that title locked with their use of Lucas brand electronics. The old joke was... Q: Why do the British drink warm beer? A: Because Lucas makes refrigerators too.
No thanks.
Why would a robot (or human for that matter) designed for zero g require feet? Go back to the drawing board... replace those feet with a couple more arms.
What have the IE engineers been doing for the last three years? Handing out towels in the rest rooms?
Fifteen years ago, I was one of the Thin Client evangelists trying to keep M$ Win off of the company desktops.
Thin Client has its place, but so does public transportation... and some people, no matter what, want to "drive their own."
Good on 'em... their loser-ness not only got me bumped up to first post, but got me modded up a point by making me look like a bloody genius in comparison. (Woulda made first post quite by accident had I been logged in when I hit the reply button).
same as the old boss.
the QVC home shopping channel markets these things... QVC resides in the West Chester PA facility originally built for Commodore Computer Co.
it probably won't work with non-M$ browsers.
uses the same logic as those who predict that, based on statistical trends, the mile will someday be run in under 4 uSeconds.
Did the brainiacs stop to think that this is not a problem if, by their show lineup, they've defined themselves as a NEWS oriented channel?
What maroons!
this technology might eventually be used for vision correction heretofore untouchable by traditional lenses, getting around things like retinal and corneal damage.
Very true. After all, who can afford that extra 0.0000052 seconds of time in a life or death situation!
My dad was a plumber. I'm sure he had to pull one or of those from a couple of toilets... with his bare hands.
The idea was directly plagiarized from a story line where a guy without auto insurance gets into a fender bender and is sentenced by the judge to become Jerry Seinfeld's butler.
I've always maintained that Disney's "Tron" was an unofficial adaptation of PKD's "Ubik" (The novel which turned me on to PKD as a kid when I found it on a rack at a 7/11 store). "Tron" isn't as close to the original story as some other PKD adaptations, but it's close enough, and a watchable film for it's day.
You don't get the bandwidth, the network does. More channels available - less congestion on the network.