I opened the doom3 mainpage and that mechanical robot page. Jesus, what a coincidence. It's almost as if that the doom3 monster *is* the mechanical robot covered in flesh. Doom Robot
If I recall.. google uses red hat for their server farms. Most of those servers contain the free version of red hat but google also has an enterprise license from red hat. Red Hat's in court against sco. Its as simple as that. Until that red hat case or ibm case is sorted out, no big company is going to shell out a penny. There was some report about a fortune 500 company paying for sco licenses. Its probably only ms. Do you think any company that is so dumb to be swayed by sco's threats is going to have any fortune to speak of? They would get eaten up alive by their competitors. Google knows better.
Re:Plasma is for sucks. DLP is the way to go.
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plasma screens also emit a lot of heat. DLP screens are bigger than plasma tv's and cheaper. Therefore they are selling quite well in the nation's stores.. anybody want to elaborate about projector's?
also, looks like trustedreview's webservers must be currently cursing whoever en-trusted them to serve slashdot's appetite;)
My father's a tea wholesaler for 26 years. In India. He sells the best tea for 2-8 $ per 2 pounds(1kg). There are more than 60 different varieties and blends. Its too bad the doctor's advised me not to drink milk otherwise I would like drink tea regularly.
I was going to post a comment on this very question. If they are unlicensed, is it not possible to ask the chains to stop selling them or sue them?
Take a look at the licensing website of philips. There are 76 licensees of dvd players in china. Would it not be easy to spot the licensed and unlicensed players from their price difference itself? Take a look at this article-nytimes.
drink tea! Im not kidding. Instead of giving up coffee completely.. substitute one cup(or 2) of coffee with tea the first week... and so on until you're drinking only tea. And then gradually cut down to 3 cups of tea a day.
Look around for good quality tea). You might have to experiment a bit. For caffeine and flavor, I'd suggest black tea. You can make it the same way you make coffee but strain the concoction a second time through the filter.
Understand that caffeine and sugar are a killer combination. Both of these(alongwith a sedentary lifestyle) accelerate the onset of diabetes.
Its quite ironical that the country that was in the dark ages between 95 and 2000 is now leading the way in broadband and related applications while others try to catch up slowly.
Most of the credit should go to softbank bb. It does have a lot of debt from its ventures but hopefully its debt will reduce in the next 2-3 years.
Maybe Lance Bass can still hitch a one way ticket to nowhere. On the other hand.. I have an cutout scan from a newspaper(1956) about a London travel company taking reservations to the moon for the year 2040. Cost? Just 12,000 quid.
There are three choices for gender- male female other Gotta take a look at their biology texts.. Kim Jong belongs to the third category, without a doubt. Also, take a look at the SECTION 4. REQUIRED TRAVEL INFORMATION They ask for the passport no, issue date, expiry, nationality.. what the fsck are they thinking?
Those north korean officials will just skim this information off to use for fraud.
This article is right on target. I feel very strongly about this issue. I read only the first para of that sf chronicle article before I decided to comment. The governments are fucking stupid. Roughly 4 years back when I was at michigan tech, I found out that a masters student(mech) was from some university of wisconsin college(hard to remember but I think it was Eau Claire). That college, had more computers per student than mtu. Increased productivity at his college. But only because the students using them knew how to harness them properly. He told me computers in college do make a lot of difference. But in high school, its just eye candy for most. A conduit of porn and games. Nothing more. There might be exceptions but not at the cost of public money.
And in the past 2 years, MTU has had its budget cut by 10 % each year. Many people lobbied to keep the budget as it is, but no. The govt needs to cut down on aid to its most productive seector-college education. A college education brings atleast 15-20 times more benefit than what the govt invests in it. Dumb fucking govt doesn't understand that. MTU is losing good students because of this. Enrollment is dropping because tuition for an engineering college costs far more than an arts college. In 2001, the figure at my college PER credit hour- 371 $ engineering, 167 $, arts/humanities. From 2002, engg majors have to pay 800 $ extra per semester. The us is killing the goose that lays the eggs. As lesser engineers graduate, the us loses more of its technical edge. Colleges can't get grants because they can't attract enough bright students. And what else does the govt do? It sets aside a few million for laptops for school kids. This, while the budget of productive colleges are being cut. MTU even has a link on the its mainpage. Laptops for college students brings about far more productivity. Guaranteed. A few months ago, there was a story on slashdot about laptops for 6th graders in a Maine school. A slashdotter then commented- in grade 6, forget about laptops, if I had my head attached to body at the end of the day, it would be fortunate. Do you know how sorry the situation of higher education is in Maine?
At grades 6-12, the most important need is to DEVELOP THE BASIC SCIENCES. When you go to college, how the heck do you expect to develop software if you don't know how the decent working knowledge of maths and physics? Laptops, desktops are all fucking secondary and shouldn't even figure in. What's the use of learning power point presentations in 8th grade? The fucking use is when you become a manager in a company, you'll use it to show how much your fucking company saved from outsourcing that work. You'll use it to show how to cut corners, how to cut quality, how fucking intellectually bankrupt you are. Computers won't save you. Only a rigorous curriculum of maths and sciences will.
No wonder, the US needs to import engineers(not software people). Because there is a genuine shortage. There are more damn lawyers in los angeles county than in entire japan. Yup, you'll be busy making presentations on power point laughing with glee as to how much you'll earn through litigation while bankrupting a us company.
If you rather spend the millions on teachers and books, it brings more value 5-10 years down the line.
one can critize slashdot for all the fluff that is modded up and it is valid too.. but comments like the parent make reading it worthwhile. This comment would probably be the funniest I have read today(Comment) I like Brunel but was able to catch only part of his program on the BBC. I did, however vote for him. The above post provided me information I might have never have chaned across..
Hello, Could you help me setup movable type. I tried to set it up a few months ago but couldn't figure it all out. If you could provide your email id or website from where I can contact you, it would be nice. abhisarda Mail.
Page One: Competition in China Erodes Profit Margins 10/13/03
Heard in Asia: Chinese Market May Become Tough Going for Global Firms 06/17/03
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT)
PRICE CHANGE U.S. dollars 57.96 -0.32 11/12
Behind China's Export Boom, Heated Battle Among Factories
As Wal-Mart, Others Demand Lowest Prices, Managers Scramble to Slash Costs By PETER WONACOTT Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
SHAJING, China -- Under the corrugated-metal roofs of Ching Hai Electric Works Co., hundreds of workers toil in six plants to meet orders for millions of small appliances. Inside one factory, ex-farmers bend over a clanging conveyer belt where they turn squid-shaped hunks of steel and wiring into electric fans. The fans cost about $4 wholesale and eventually will retail in the U.S. for $15 to $40 through such online stores as Amazon.com.
This is the kind of picture U.S. politicians might conjure up when tapping the hot-button issue of American jobs lost to the flood of Chinese exports. But China's smaller manufacturers themselves face brutal new competition right at home.
China, one of the world's busiest factory floors, increasingly suffers from a production glut, and the big overseas retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that soak up China's exports have been quick to capitalize. They're demanding rock-bottom prices and forcing factory bosses to cut costs any way they can in order to remain in contention for export orders. The average wholesale price for Ching Hai's fans, juicers and toasters has tumbled to $4 from $7 a decade ago, according to company executives.
It's the survival of the cheapest. At Ching Hai, manager David Liu has cut his labor force in half, to 1,500 workers, even while maintaining the same level of orders. The company's starting salary of about $32 a month is some 40% less than the local minimum wage. Many workers put in 18-hour days with minimal training and constant pressure to boost output. Despite the cost cutting, Mr. Liu says Ching Hai is just barely profitable, although he declines to provide any figures.
"I had no gray hair before I came," says the 41-year-old Mr. Liu, running a hand over a salt-and-pepper brush cut. "Profits now are too tough."
The relentless cost cutting raises questions about how much pressure retailers should exert in places where unemployment and weak labor laws are problems. Ching Hai, which has a high rate of accidents mostly involving fingers severed by machinery, has been investigated by the local labor bureau for possible violations. The company defends its safety record and says some accident claims may be bogus.
The lure of low production costs has been attracting new plants to China from around Asia for the past decade. In recent years, easy credit and expanding know-how in China have caused the number of local manufacturing operations to mushroom. The trade liberalization undertaken since China's entry into the World Trade Organization two years ago drew another raft of foreign manufacturers. Shajing alone, a city of 600,000, boasts about 1,200 factories.
Buyers are moving aggressively to play one factory against another. "As things get more competitive, the pressure that comes along with that, yeah, we try to take advantage of it," says Gary Meyers, a vice president in global procurement at Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart expects to buy $15 billion of goods in China this year, after purchasing about $12 billion last year, or about 8% of all the goods it bought in 2002. Overseas retailers bought a total of $30 billion in goods from China in 2001, according to the most recent government estimates.
The son of two textile workers in Taiwan, Mr. Liu was the first in his family to break into the ranks of management after he joined Ching Hai's Taiwan headquarters. Then, a decade ago, Ch
Would a dying standard be releasing a new specification version? Don't think so.
The naysayers can eat their statements. Wifi wasn't cheap and took a while to take hold. Same case with bluetooth. The Palm Tungsten 3 does not include a wifi chip but a bluetooth one. Because a wifi chip takes up more power. For portable devices, bluetooth will become de facto in the coming year.
from-JPL.NASA"The solar system does not end at the orbit of Pluto, the ninth planet. Nor does it end at the heliopause boundary, where the solar wind can no longer continue to expand outward against the interstellar wind. It extends over a thousand times farther out where a swarm of small cometary nuclei, termed Oort's Cloud, is barely held in orbit by the Sun's gravity, feeble at such a great distance. Voyager 1 passed above the orbit of Pluto in May 1988, and Voyager 2 will pass beneath Pluto's orbit in august 1990. But even at speeds of over 35,000 mph, it will take nearly 20,000 years for the Voyagers to reach the middle of the comet swarm, and possibly twice this long for them to pass the outer boundaries of cometary space. By this time, they will have traveled a distance of two light-years, equivalent to half of the distance to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star. "
What if you take a page with text and scan it? It can take a size anywhere between 30-1000 KB. The same text can be written in an text editor in 5-6 KB. In MS word in 60 KB. 2 years back, CD-R's were the in thing. Everyone and anyone was storing data on it. Since its size was 700 MB, files were generally smaller and compressed. Higher broadband connections and DVD recorders(alongwith faster processors) are becoming common, people don't care so much about file sizes.
Regarding duplicate data- ask five people to compare what files take up how much of their hard disk.
Maybe slashdot could do a poll on this, asking what percentage of space do movies, music etc take up on the hard disk. This would give a rough guide as to how much data duplication takes place.
If you go to IRC servers, you will see bots with uploading speeds of 2-5-10 Mb/s.. Lots of people download files from there. Stuff that is interesting to one might be interesting to millions of others on the net. Similarly, if you check the files downloaded from download.com, you might see a 15 MB application downloaded millions of times. That is a lot of data duplication. If the data on the web is say 1 exabyte, then there must be a corresponding amount on the hard drives/backups of people, organisations... who put this stuff on the web in the first place.
Red Storm System to Offer Supercomputer's Speed And Low-Cost Components By DON CLARK Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Cray Inc., which pioneered the market for supercomputers, hopes to blaze another trail with machines based on a new line of microprocessor chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
The Seattle company developed the technology under a $90 million contract with Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico, which is installing a system dubbed Red Storm that will be one of the most powerful in the world. Cray plans to announce Monday that it also will sell systems based on the Red Storm technology to other customers.
Cray's plans have spurred interest in the scientific community, because the company is addressing a technical bottleneck that has prevented systems based on inexpensive components to be applied to the most demanding computing tasks.
"This is an exciting development," said Horst Simon, director of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center in Berkeley, Calif. The center, which provides computing resources for research funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, may consider the Cray machines for its own future requirements, Mr. Simon said. "This type of technology is the correct approach to the current issues in high-performance computing," he said.
The term supercomputer is generally applied to the largest machines available, which are typically constructed from hundreds of microprocessor chips. Cray, the successor to a company formed by the late computer designer Seymour Cray, is known for augmenting those chips with proprietary circuitry that allows the chips to exchange data at very high speed. It sells a machine called X1 that uses a custom-designed microprocessor along with its communications chips.
Another approach, stressing low price over speed, uses standard chips from Intel Corp. or AMD along with circuit boards that are similar to those in personal computers or low-end server systems. Such low-price machines, called clusters, often use the free Linux operating system, further reducing costs.
But clusters aren't suited for some kinds of challenging tasks, because of delays in passing data among the many microprocessors. Wayne Kugel, Cray's program director for the Red Storm project, compares the problem to planning housing and transportation. "The more houses you add near the freeway, the more of a bottleneck you get," he said.
The Red Storm system combines the speed of proprietary supercomputers with low-cost components found in clusters. Cray says it designed communications chips that exchange data at close to the peak speed of AMD's Opteron microprocessor, or 6.4 billion bytes a second. That is about 20 times the speed of connections often used with clusters. The company hasn't set pricing or a precise delivery date, but expects to begin selling the system next year.
Cray's plans are good news for AMD, which is a much smaller player in server systems than rival Intel. But AMD is making some progress with Opteron, which was introduced last spring and competes with a high-end chip called Itanium 2 that Intel has been selling for high-end applications. Oct 27.
Something is better than nothing. Is it possible to post the blacklists on
google groups and then post the links on 10-15 mirror websites?
Those interested in updating their blacklists could copy and download the file
from google groups.
Is that possible or am I missing something very important here?
Also, I submitted a
article on slashdot 2 days back(got rejected) about network security,
windows and government agencies.
The guys who made simputer might have had a benevolent idea in mind but its fucking going to go nowhere. Why? Firstly, at the rate the cost of electronics is dropping, PDA's made by Palm and other companies are more or less in the same price range as this simputer. Secondly, mismanagament is the name of the game for the Indians. They might make shit but selling it is another matter. Those people who have 200, 400 $ to spend are *very* brand aware. They know the fucking difference between a palm, handspring, sony or the zaurus. Thirdly, if these simputer people had any brains, they could know it made more financial and business sense to import second hand pda's or outsource their pda needs from taiwan. If the customs duty was the problem, it could setup a factory to assemble or make the pdas but here is a problem*.
Fourth, *There is not much fucking DEMAND in India for pda's. In the US about 4 million pda's are sold every year. In India, the number of PC's sold is LESS than that. The number of notebooks is even more pathetic(60,000 as to 5 million in the US). So unless you have a decent demand, how are you going to be able to justify your R&D costs? It doesn't matter if that pda is developed in india or mongolia. Making 5,000-10,000 pda's is just *not* economical. It would be better if the indian govt setup a scheme for notebooks like the thai govt. But don't worry, thats not going to happen. The indian govt has its hands tied up in so many other bullshit stuff that worrying about who gets pda's and notebooks is the least of its worries.
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I opened the doom3 mainpage and that mechanical robot page. Jesus, what a coincidence.
It's almost as if that the doom3 monster *is* the mechanical robot covered in flesh.
Doom
Robot
If I recall.. google uses red hat for their server farms. Most of those servers contain the free version of red hat but google also has an enterprise license from red hat.
Red Hat's in court against sco. Its as simple as that. Until that red hat case or ibm case is sorted out, no big company is going to shell out a penny.
There was some report about a fortune 500 company paying for sco licenses. Its probably only ms.
Do you think any company that is so dumb to be swayed by sco's threats is going to have any fortune to speak of? They would get eaten up alive by their competitors. Google knows better.
plasma screens also emit a lot of heat.
;)
DLP screens are bigger than plasma tv's and cheaper. Therefore they are selling quite well in the nation's stores..
anybody want to elaborate about projector's?
also, looks like trustedreview's webservers must be currently cursing whoever en-trusted them to serve slashdot's appetite
My father's a tea wholesaler for 26 years. In India.
He sells the best tea for 2-8 $ per 2 pounds(1kg).
There are more than 60 different varieties and blends.
Its too bad the doctor's advised me not to drink milk otherwise I would like drink tea regularly.
I was going to post a comment on this very question. If they are unlicensed, is it not possible to ask the chains to stop selling them or sue them?
Take a look at the licensing website of philips. There are 76 licensees of dvd players in china.
Would it not be easy to spot the licensed and unlicensed players from their price difference itself?
Take a look at this article-nytimes.
drink tea!
Im not kidding. Instead of giving up coffee completely..
substitute one cup(or 2) of coffee with tea the first week... and so on until you're drinking only tea.
And then gradually cut down to 3 cups of tea a day.
Look around for good quality tea). You might have to experiment a bit.
For caffeine and flavor, I'd suggest black tea. You can make it the same way you make coffee
but strain the concoction a second time through the filter.
Understand that caffeine and sugar are a killer combination. Both of
these(alongwith a sedentary lifestyle) accelerate the onset of diabetes.
1. stop slashdotting helpless websites. :)
Its quite ironical that the country that was in the dark ages between 95 and 2000 is now leading the way in broadband and related applications while others try to catch up slowly.
Most of the credit should go to softbank bb. It does have a lot of debt from its ventures but hopefully its debt will reduce in the next 2-3 years.
with amazon, google etc venturing into this business..
How do these book excerpts aid the plagiarist?
Bus.
Those are some monster wheels.
And what is the actual cost of this wheel?
- could you read this?
Thought so.
Dude, open your windows. And be enlightened.;)
Maybe Lance Bass can still hitch a one way ticket to nowhere.
On the other hand.. I have an cutout scan from a newspaper(1956) about a London travel company taking reservations to the moon for the year 2040. Cost? Just 12,000 quid.
link!
On the registration page,
korea-dpr
There are three choices for gender-
male
female
other
Gotta take a look at their biology texts..
Kim Jong belongs to the third category, without a doubt.
Also, take a look at the
SECTION 4. REQUIRED TRAVEL INFORMATION
They ask for the passport no, issue date, expiry, nationality.. what the fsck are they thinking?
Those north korean officials will just skim this information off to use for fraud.
This article is right on target. I feel very strongly about this issue.
I read only the first para of that sf chronicle article before I decided to comment.
The governments are fucking stupid.
Roughly 4 years back when I was at michigan tech, I found out that a masters student(mech) was from some university of wisconsin college(hard to remember but I think it was Eau Claire). That college, had more computers per student than mtu. Increased productivity at his college. But only because the students using them knew how to harness them properly.
He told me computers in college do make a lot of difference. But in high school, its just eye candy for most. A conduit of porn and games. Nothing more. There might be exceptions but not at the cost of public money.
And in the past 2 years, MTU has had its budget cut by 10 % each year. Many people lobbied to keep the budget as it is, but no. The govt needs to cut down on aid to its most productive seector-college education.
A college education brings atleast 15-20 times more benefit than what the govt invests in it. Dumb fucking govt doesn't understand that.
MTU is losing good students because of this. Enrollment is dropping because tuition for an engineering college costs far more than an arts college. In 2001, the figure at my college PER credit hour- 371 $ engineering, 167 $, arts/humanities.
From 2002, engg majors have to pay 800 $ extra per semester.
The us is killing the goose that lays the eggs.
As lesser engineers graduate, the us loses more of its technical edge. Colleges can't get grants because they can't attract enough bright students.
And what else does the govt do? It sets aside a few million for laptops for school kids.
This, while the budget of productive colleges are being cut. MTU even has a link on the its mainpage. Laptops for college students brings about far more productivity. Guaranteed.
A few months ago, there was a story on slashdot about laptops for 6th graders in a Maine school.
A slashdotter then commented- in grade 6, forget about laptops, if I had my head attached to body at the end of the day, it would be fortunate.
Do you know how sorry the situation of higher education is in Maine?
At grades 6-12, the most important need is to DEVELOP THE BASIC SCIENCES.
When you go to college, how the heck do you expect to develop software if you don't know how the decent working knowledge of maths and physics?
Laptops, desktops are all fucking secondary and shouldn't even figure in.
What's the use of learning power point presentations in 8th grade? The fucking use is when you become a manager in a company, you'll use it to show how much your fucking company saved from outsourcing that work. You'll use it to show how to cut corners, how to cut quality, how fucking intellectually bankrupt you are.
Computers won't save you. Only a rigorous curriculum of maths and sciences will.
No wonder, the US needs to import engineers(not software people). Because there is a genuine shortage. There are more damn lawyers in los angeles county than in entire japan. Yup, you'll be busy making presentations on power point laughing with glee as to how much you'll earn through litigation while bankrupting a us company.
If you rather spend the millions on teachers and books, it brings more value 5-10 years down the line.
Mod it whichever way you want. I made my point.
one can critize slashdot for all the fluff that is modded up and it is valid too.. but comments like the parent make reading it worthwhile.
This comment would probably be the funniest I have read today(Comment)
I like Brunel but was able to catch only part of his program on the BBC. I did, however vote for him. The above post provided me information I might have never have chaned across..
Hello,
Could you help me setup movable type. I tried to set it up a few months ago but couldn't figure it all out. If you could provide your email id or website from where I can contact you, it would be nice.
abhisarda
Mail.
(READ THIS ARTICLE AND DRAW YOUR CONCLUSIONS)
PAGE ONE
NO COMPETITION?
China's Rush to Convenience
11/03/03
Page One: Competition in China Erodes Profit Margins
10/13/03
Heard in Asia: Chinese Market May Become Tough Going for Global Firms
06/17/03
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT)
PRICE
CHANGE
U.S. dollars 57.96
-0.32
11/12
Behind China's Export Boom,
Heated Battle Among Factories
As Wal-Mart, Others Demand
Lowest Prices, Managers
Scramble to Slash Costs
By PETER WONACOTT
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
SHAJING, China -- Under the corrugated-metal roofs of Ching Hai Electric Works Co., hundreds of workers toil in six plants to meet orders for millions of small appliances. Inside one factory, ex-farmers bend over a clanging conveyer belt where they turn squid-shaped hunks of steel and wiring into electric fans. The fans cost about $4 wholesale and eventually will retail in the U.S. for $15 to $40 through such online stores as Amazon.com.
This is the kind of picture U.S. politicians might conjure up when tapping the hot-button issue of American jobs lost to the flood of Chinese exports. But China's smaller manufacturers themselves face brutal new competition right at home.
China, one of the world's busiest factory floors, increasingly suffers from a production glut, and the big overseas retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. that soak up China's exports have been quick to capitalize. They're demanding rock-bottom prices and forcing factory bosses to cut costs any way they can in order to remain in contention for export orders. The average wholesale price for Ching Hai's fans, juicers and toasters has tumbled to $4 from $7 a decade ago, according to company executives.
It's the survival of the cheapest. At Ching Hai, manager David Liu has cut his labor force in half, to 1,500 workers, even while maintaining the same level of orders. The company's starting salary of about $32 a month is some 40% less than the local minimum wage. Many workers put in 18-hour days with minimal training and constant pressure to boost output. Despite the cost cutting, Mr. Liu says Ching Hai is just barely profitable, although he declines to provide any figures.
"I had no gray hair before I came," says the 41-year-old Mr. Liu, running a hand over a salt-and-pepper brush cut. "Profits now are too tough."
The relentless cost cutting raises questions about how much pressure retailers should exert in places where unemployment and weak labor laws are problems. Ching Hai, which has a high rate of accidents mostly involving fingers severed by machinery, has been investigated by the local labor bureau for possible violations. The company defends its safety record and says some accident claims may be bogus.
The lure of low production costs has been attracting new plants to China from around Asia for the past decade. In recent years, easy credit and expanding know-how in China have caused the number of local manufacturing operations to mushroom. The trade liberalization undertaken since China's entry into the World Trade Organization two years ago drew another raft of foreign manufacturers. Shajing alone, a city of 600,000, boasts about 1,200 factories.
Buyers are moving aggressively to play one factory against another. "As things get more competitive, the pressure that comes along with that, yeah, we try to take advantage of it," says Gary Meyers, a vice president in global procurement at Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart expects to buy $15 billion of goods in China this year, after purchasing about $12 billion last year, or about 8% of all the goods it bought in 2002. Overseas retailers bought a total of $30 billion in goods from China in 2001, according to the most recent government estimates.
The son of two textile workers in Taiwan, Mr. Liu was the first in his family to break into the ranks of management after he joined Ching Hai's Taiwan headquarters. Then, a decade ago, Ch
Would a dying standard be releasing a new specification version? Don't think so.
The naysayers can eat their statements. Wifi wasn't cheap and took a while to take hold. Same case with bluetooth.
The Palm Tungsten 3 does not include a wifi chip but a bluetooth one. Because a wifi chip takes up more power. For portable devices, bluetooth will become de facto in the coming year.
from-JPL.NASA "The solar system does not end at the orbit of Pluto, the ninth planet. Nor does it end at the heliopause boundary, where the solar wind can no longer continue to expand outward against the interstellar wind. It extends over a thousand times farther out where a swarm of small cometary nuclei, termed Oort's Cloud, is barely held in orbit by the Sun's gravity, feeble at such a great distance. Voyager 1 passed above the orbit of Pluto in May 1988, and Voyager 2 will pass beneath Pluto's orbit in august 1990. But even at speeds of over 35,000 mph, it will take nearly 20,000 years for the Voyagers to reach the middle of the comet swarm, and possibly twice this long for them to pass the outer boundaries of cometary space. By this time, they will have traveled a distance of two light-years, equivalent to half of the distance to Proxima Centauri, the nearest star. "
What if you take a page with text and scan it? It can take a size anywhere between 30-1000 KB. The same text can be written in an text editor in 5-6 KB. In MS word in 60 KB.
2 years back, CD-R's were the in thing. Everyone and anyone was storing data on it. Since its size was 700 MB, files were generally smaller and compressed. Higher broadband connections and DVD recorders(alongwith faster processors) are becoming common, people don't care so much about file sizes.
Regarding duplicate data- ask five people to compare what files take up how much of their hard disk.
Maybe slashdot could do a poll on this, asking what percentage of space do movies, music etc take up on the hard disk. This would give a rough guide as to how much data duplication takes place.
If you go to IRC servers, you will see bots with uploading speeds of 2-5-10 Mb/s..
Lots of people download files from there.
Stuff that is interesting to one might be interesting to millions of others on the net.
Similarly, if you check the files downloaded from download.com, you might see a 15 MB application downloaded millions of times.
That is a lot of data duplication.
If the data on the web is say 1 exabyte, then there must be a corresponding amount on the hard drives/backups of people, organisations... who put this stuff on the web in the first place.
Cray Picks AMD Chips for New Line
Red Storm System to Offer Supercomputer's Speed
And Low-Cost Components
By DON CLARK
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Cray Inc., which pioneered the market for supercomputers, hopes to blaze another trail with machines based on a new line of microprocessor chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
The Seattle company developed the technology under a $90 million contract with Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico, which is installing a system dubbed Red Storm that will be one of the most powerful in the world. Cray plans to announce Monday that it also will sell systems based on the Red Storm technology to other customers.
Cray's plans have spurred interest in the scientific community, because the company is addressing a technical bottleneck that has prevented systems based on inexpensive components to be applied to the most demanding computing tasks.
"This is an exciting development," said Horst Simon, director of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center in Berkeley, Calif. The center, which provides computing resources for research funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, may consider the Cray machines for its own future requirements, Mr. Simon said. "This type of technology is the correct approach to the current issues in high-performance computing," he said.
The term supercomputer is generally applied to the largest machines available, which are typically constructed from hundreds of microprocessor chips. Cray, the successor to a company formed by the late computer designer Seymour Cray, is known for augmenting those chips with proprietary circuitry that allows the chips to exchange data at very high speed. It sells a machine called X1 that uses a custom-designed microprocessor along with its communications chips.
Another approach, stressing low price over speed, uses standard chips from Intel Corp. or AMD along with circuit boards that are similar to those in personal computers or low-end server systems. Such low-price machines, called clusters, often use the free Linux operating system, further reducing costs.
But clusters aren't suited for some kinds of challenging tasks, because of delays in passing data among the many microprocessors. Wayne Kugel, Cray's program director for the Red Storm project, compares the problem to planning housing and transportation. "The more houses you add near the freeway, the more of a bottleneck you get," he said.
The Red Storm system combines the speed of proprietary supercomputers with low-cost components found in clusters. Cray says it designed communications chips that exchange data at close to the peak speed of AMD's Opteron microprocessor, or 6.4 billion bytes a second. That is about 20 times the speed of connections often used with clusters. The company hasn't set pricing or a precise delivery date, but expects to begin selling the system next year.
Cray's plans are good news for AMD, which is a much smaller player in server systems than rival Intel. But AMD is making some progress with Opteron, which was introduced last spring and competes with a high-end chip called Itanium 2 that Intel has been selling for high-end applications.
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At last there is another use for those penis enlargement spams.
The hard disks you will need for this kind of video will put pinocchio to shame.
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Something is better than nothing. Is it possible to post the blacklists on google groups and then post the links on 10-15 mirror websites?
Those interested in updating their blacklists could copy and download the file from google groups.
Is that possible or am I missing something very important here?
Also, I submitted a article on slashdot 2 days back(got rejected) about network security, windows and government agencies.
nobody thought of this link? or did somebody already post it?
Computer stupidities.
The guys who made simputer might have had a benevolent idea in mind but its fucking going to go nowhere. Why?
Firstly, at the rate the cost of electronics is dropping, PDA's made by Palm and other companies are more or less in the same price range as this simputer.
Secondly, mismanagament is the name of the game for the Indians. They might make shit but selling it is another matter.
Those people who have 200, 400 $ to spend are *very* brand aware.
They know the fucking difference between a palm, handspring, sony or the zaurus.
Thirdly, if these simputer people had any brains, they could know it made more financial and business sense to import second hand pda's or outsource their pda needs from taiwan.
If the customs duty was the problem, it could setup a factory to assemble or make the pdas but here is a problem*.
Fourth, *There is not much fucking DEMAND in India for pda's.
In the US about 4 million pda's are sold every year. In India, the number of PC's sold is LESS than that. The number of notebooks is even more pathetic(60,000 as to 5 million in the US).
So unless you have a decent demand, how are you going to be able to justify your R&D costs? It doesn't matter if that pda is developed in india or mongolia.
Making 5,000-10,000 pda's is just *not* economical.
It would be better if the indian govt setup a scheme for notebooks like the thai govt. But don't worry, thats not going to happen. The indian govt has its hands tied up in so many other bullshit stuff that worrying about who gets pda's and notebooks is the least of its worries.