I wonder if this isn't part of the series of changes announced at MS TechEd, where it was said the Ring 0 (Kernel) instructions would be emulated to provide a bit of a speed-up for the VS Hypervisor. It was said that both Intel and AMD were preparing designs to support virtualisation in silicon. That would put it out somewhere near the end of 2007 I think.
I know of a few thousand retail stores that run these things; external HDD connected via USB. Not real expensive, not real cheap -- but you press a button on the box and it backs up your drive. Would work a treat on a laptop.
What incredible arrogance to say whether the universe cares about us or not! Either could be true. But from the perspective of little people still living on one single tiny planet, we are simply not qualified to judge. We are still too small to know.
I don't care either way, I'm just very curious to find out what's out there, and I wish I could go and find out.
Given that the primary activity of a civilized person is commerce, the new web needs to be optimally efficient for reliable business exchanges.
That means that any and every participant can be identified. Anonymity leads to fraud and hence it cannot be tolerated. If you post anything, it should always be possible to trace that back to you.
Rather ironic that this little monograph was posted Anonymous Coward, eh?
20% of my 4x4 SUV has never been off the road. I got the SUV because my last two cars melted under prolonged exposure to the SCA http://www.sca.org.au/
A friend of mine once ran the massively parallel supercomputer centre at LaTrobe. He told me of how the transputer-based Connection Machine would run blindingly fast in parallel, only to have the lights slowly wink out until one small corner of the display was the only thing lit. He said it was disappointing, and rather funny, how parallel jobs tended to go linear over time.
Yep, sometimes you just need a few processors running very fast cycles.
Sigh... we miss you, Seymour Cray. Wish you hadn't taken your Jeep out that day.
You're right of course, but he did make a difference, by being an innovator, and that kind of put him in a different category after that. I'd rather we had a few of these type of people looking outward, research fellows -- we might get some unplanned advances from them, to say nothing of the fact that when they give that much benefit, they deserve a ride. Maybe there is a place for the gumm't here -- I'd love to pay a few boondoggle bucks in their direction, god knows enough of them are wasted on lesser causes.
Iirc I think you had about four days for any one search. Not just for the rare Enron events, but also for forensic accounting -- auditors with warrants to check for various forms of fraud, in the banking industry at least these sorts of things might happen several times per year. And they kind of have to have the high-end logging capacity, too -- SWIFT entries come in at a rate of several million per day, so DVD's are out. But for smaller firms, botique ISP's etc. they'd probably be just fine.
There might be a market for people to run little repositories for people -- something like an MQ-Anywhere pipe to your server & disk farm, get MQ installed on your clients machines and get them to dump their logs down the queue to you. Get a few of them and charge appropriately, could be worth a few quid. MQ Series is just a stupid little buffer but it's IBM-robust, runs on pretty much anything and it's trusted by folk. For recall you could give them an enquiry and you write a responder, but it might also be easy enough to just take their request on the web and mail them back a data key. 16GB per key nowdays, add it to their bill.
Wouldn't work in Australia, compliance penalties apply if you can't dredge up the data within a specified period of time. YMMV but it'd be worth checking what the regs actually require. A good reference is this little PDF I found http://www.ironport.com/pdf/ironport_email_complia nce_guide.pdf/
Personally I'd think about a hardware solution, block replication off-site to a third party registry. When you're talking compliance (especially fiduciary compliance) it's usually easy to come up with the bucks, so dream up something right and propose it.
The whole point of research is that you're discovering something unknown; the outcomes cannot be known at the start.
Without pure research, you're condemned to copying -- and following -- the research results of others. How can you possibly get ahead with that formula?
Imagine if you managed to acquire a name like Sir Tim Berners-Lee as part of your operation, perhaps as a "Fellow". You wouldn't get much value having him improve the bits of technology that make up the Internet, lots of people are already doing that now, following his lead. But if you tasked him with "Look into what interests you and let us know if you turn up anything useful" you'd be turning a fine mind on to what they do best, which is change the world. And you get a piece of the action, not a few percent improvement, but a chunk of the whole next decade or two.
It's possible that Sir Tim would not make quite the splash he made originally (I don't think anyone could top that, personally) but with top flight minds, well, that's the way to bet. Let 'em publish, and give them a piece of the result. You'll end up winning in the long run.
And Deming himself said that short sided companies are losers. Look him up if you're not familiar with the name, makes a good read.
I don't know about their other consumer stuff, but I really like my WRT54G wireless router. Especially since they provided the GPL'd software
I think there were two versions of the WRT54G, one with enough puff to run the good stuff and a "cheapened" (later) version that turned into a brick if you breathed on it due to a lower memory spec. The early ones were good, the latter kind of sucked.
You could be right about the fuel vs. rounds weight. Is the laser liquid or gaseous? Either way there would be a lot of fluid to pump through, solid lasers being mostly a thing of the past if my last reading isn't too obsolescent.
Here's an idea -- what about orbital lasers made out of ice? You could use solar mirrors & a slight spin to melt and fusion-purify asteroidal ice or planetary ring ice and make some whopper of a giant solid laser with even larger solar mirrors to pump it. A five-kilometer solid laser perhaps? If you made it large enough I bet you could get a lot of useful life out of it before you ran out of thermal mass and went liquid. Would be useful as a power source for interstellar spacecraft; a stationary laser at some appropriate solar orbit of arbitrary size, heating reaction mass for a spacecraft, then using simple photonic reflection when that ran out. Could do a fair approximation of C I'd think, but blimey I'd be in trouble for an idea on how to slow it down.
GP said "Phalanx", which works by moving a lot of metal through the air. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS/ I thought he was suggesting it was a better option, although it could have been just a comment on the guidance system. I'm moderately familiar with the concept of a laser and how it works, I read the article. You had something constructive to add, or were you just being a prick?
Truck-mounted Phalanx? You're joking. Way too much metal to carry around to feed it. Even used intermittently it takes a ship to carry the necessary ordinance, and mortars can happen to you all day. Photons weigh a lot less.
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I wonder if this isn't part of the series of changes announced at MS TechEd, where it was said the Ring 0 (Kernel) instructions would be emulated to provide a bit of a speed-up for the VS Hypervisor. It was said that both Intel and AMD were preparing designs to support virtualisation in silicon. That would put it out somewhere near the end of 2007 I think.
I think we'd need a giant space truck, not a series of tubes. Space ain't the place to go waving internets around.
Oh my, do we really want this? Microsoft is spending hugely on their own Virtual Server range and we want to put road blocks in front of VMWare?
I know of a few thousand retail stores that run these things; external HDD connected via USB. Not real expensive, not real cheap -- but you press a button on the box and it backs up your drive. Would work a treat on a laptop.
I don't care either way, I'm just very curious to find out what's out there, and I wish I could go and find out.
You are right, CM did not use Transputers. I'm afraid I suffered a collision in long-term storage there.
Prohibition in the Roaring Twenties. "Bootleg" discs, Elliot Ness - like tactics. It will never work, it will just alienate an entire nation again.
I think the lad's gone old on us.
I can neither confirm nor deny that I was 4th Baron of Stormhold in Lochac.
You're saying it will be mostly Canadian?
Rather ironic that this little monograph was posted Anonymous Coward, eh?
20% of my 4x4 SUV has never been off the road. I got the SUV because my last two cars melted under prolonged exposure to the SCA http://www.sca.org.au/
Yep, sometimes you just need a few processors running very fast cycles.
Sigh... we miss you, Seymour Cray. Wish you hadn't taken your Jeep out that day.
You're right of course, but he did make a difference, by being an innovator, and that kind of put him in a different category after that. I'd rather we had a few of these type of people looking outward, research fellows -- we might get some unplanned advances from them, to say nothing of the fact that when they give that much benefit, they deserve a ride. Maybe there is a place for the gumm't here -- I'd love to pay a few boondoggle bucks in their direction, god knows enough of them are wasted on lesser causes.
There might be a market for people to run little repositories for people -- something like an MQ-Anywhere pipe to your server & disk farm, get MQ installed on your clients machines and get them to dump their logs down the queue to you. Get a few of them and charge appropriately, could be worth a few quid. MQ Series is just a stupid little buffer but it's IBM-robust, runs on pretty much anything and it's trusted by folk. For recall you could give them an enquiry and you write a responder, but it might also be easy enough to just take their request on the web and mail them back a data key. 16GB per key nowdays, add it to their bill.
Personally I'd think about a hardware solution, block replication off-site to a third party registry. When you're talking compliance (especially fiduciary compliance) it's usually easy to come up with the bucks, so dream up something right and propose it.
Short sighted. Short sighted companies. Glaaah, need caffiene. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming/
Without pure research, you're condemned to copying -- and following -- the research results of others. How can you possibly get ahead with that formula?
Imagine if you managed to acquire a name like Sir Tim Berners-Lee as part of your operation, perhaps as a "Fellow". You wouldn't get much value having him improve the bits of technology that make up the Internet, lots of people are already doing that now, following his lead. But if you tasked him with "Look into what interests you and let us know if you turn up anything useful" you'd be turning a fine mind on to what they do best, which is change the world. And you get a piece of the action, not a few percent improvement, but a chunk of the whole next decade or two.
It's possible that Sir Tim would not make quite the splash he made originally (I don't think anyone could top that, personally) but with top flight minds, well, that's the way to bet. Let 'em publish, and give them a piece of the result. You'll end up winning in the long run.
And Deming himself said that short sided companies are losers. Look him up if you're not familiar with the name, makes a good read.
I think there were two versions of the WRT54G, one with enough puff to run the good stuff and a "cheapened" (later) version that turned into a brick if you breathed on it due to a lower memory spec. The early ones were good, the latter kind of sucked.
Here's an idea -- what about orbital lasers made out of ice? You could use solar mirrors & a slight spin to melt and fusion-purify asteroidal ice or planetary ring ice and make some whopper of a giant solid laser with even larger solar mirrors to pump it. A five-kilometer solid laser perhaps? If you made it large enough I bet you could get a lot of useful life out of it before you ran out of thermal mass and went liquid. Would be useful as a power source for interstellar spacecraft; a stationary laser at some appropriate solar orbit of arbitrary size, heating reaction mass for a spacecraft, then using simple photonic reflection when that ran out. Could do a fair approximation of C I'd think, but blimey I'd be in trouble for an idea on how to slow it down.
GP said "Phalanx", which works by moving a lot of metal through the air. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS/ I thought he was suggesting it was a better option, although it could have been just a comment on the guidance system. I'm moderately familiar with the concept of a laser and how it works, I read the article. You had something constructive to add, or were you just being a prick?
Truck-mounted Phalanx? You're joking. Way too much metal to carry around to feed it. Even used intermittently it takes a ship to carry the necessary ordinance, and mortars can happen to you all day. Photons weigh a lot less.
2) Introduce a new version nobody wants, leveraging your history of dropping support for old versions;
3)...
4) Profit!!
I prefer "encapsulation" myself
I was pitching, and caught a line drive to the left side of my skull. Hemispherical compression fracture. This was before helmets, in 1961.