In some of my old CS classes, I remember COLLEGE students playing games or watching movies during the lectures. I can forsee a similar problem with the younguns.
I can trump that. I know of MBA students getting emails telling them to stop surfing and pay attention during lecture by the TA sitting in back. The wonders of wireless. You just need teachers to be sadist admins... chatting during class? No laptop for a week!
In other news, reshaped SystemServices around the futile, idealistic goal of having daemons contribute the services instead of silly little shell script wrappers in the future. Ever poked through RH's/etc/init.d/ scripts? Its absurd... they do so much stuff in there that should be included in the bloomin' C code.
Interesting... with their share price at $0.94, their market capitalization is $197.95M. To compare, Sun's market cap is still $10.27B these days.
Here's the worst: SCO has a market cap of 209.63M today. SCO worth more than SGI? puke.
I tend to agree, because I sure as hell wouldn't want to do it in his shoes, but politicians are supposed to be able to thread their way through thornier issues than DRM. Like war.
Using the speed of light as a figure to calculate the propogation of an electrical signal through copper is very optomistic. If the signal has to travel only 5mm, it likely takes longer than 200 picoseconds. Basically, Intel can keep pumping up clock rate as long as they can keep a single-bit full adder cell faster than the clock period. It's the internal pipeline that limits clock rate, and the pentium's pipeline is very deep, with very simple stages. They do in fact have pipeline stages to account for wire delay within the chip already.
sombody hasn't been to a computer store in a while...The latest From HP and others are based on their latest printers. And since when is 1200 dpi a crappy scanner? As far as copying, well, it's not laser, but you do get color if you need it.
Of course not, I shop online.
You're talking about inkjets?! I'm sorry, that just proves my point... who the heck wants an inkjet printer tied to their flatbed scanner?
It's like the all-in-one printer/scanner/copier machines... you get a crappy printer, crappy scanner, and a crappy copier all in one big clunky package that doesn't allow you to upgrade the discrete components. neat!
I agree, it's big. And it also sounds like I couldn't have it here in the States even if I wanted one, "the Nokia 7600 is expected to be available in volume in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia-Pacific in fourth quarter of 2003."
But then the regents of Dartmouth U got a bee in their bonnet: They were a University. A University was SUPPOSED to be in business to teach students. So this resouce should be available to The Students.
That's Dartmouth College! Retaining "College" in the name of the institution reflects the College's focus on undergraduate teaching, despite meeting all definitions of a University.
Well, that, and the small fact that back in 1815 the state of New Hampshire tried to make the private Dartmouth College a public Dartmouth University in the Trustees of Dartmouth College vs Woodward Supreme Court case.
"It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it!" - Daniel Webster
Actually, many or most students at Dartmouth eschew cellphones in favor of email, using Dartmouth's proprietary BlitzMail protocol. While I say this from my experience as a recent graduate, there was a recent NY Times article about this. (Katie Hafner, the reporter for both that article and this new VoIP article, is a Dartmouth alum, so she has a good perspective on how technology is used at Dartmouth.)
Dartmouth just recently stopped billing students for long distance calls because administering billing was more expensive than the total charges... no doubt this VoIP initiative will help them save on total campus phone bills without overburdening the network. Dartmouth has been pretty chill about P2P-- they allowed a home-grown P2P program to be used for awhile. I'm pretty sure that even back in the heady days of Napster, they never totally banned its use, but rather metered Napster bandwidth. Regardless, they've recently upgraded network capacity to connect hubs with gigabit ethernet, and don't anticipate VoIP being a bandwidth burden.
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A more detailed article. IBM has been doing dual-core processors in it's flagship Power line for a few years now, although it appears higher numbers of cores per die will only be appearing in more experimental IBM projects. Except perhaps the PS3 Cell Processor, a collaboration of IBM and Sony. Since the Cell group is based in Austin, there's likely to be some collaboration between TRIPS and Cell. As a matter of fact, they sound very similar.
I wonder how many job offers 1st place winner and UT undergrad Andrew Hudson is going to receive... or for you conspiracy folks out there, how many shadowy organizations he'll be "invited" to join.
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Uhh, hate to ruin your theory, but GE/NBC already has dibs on VUE. They're being saved by Jeff Immelt's wallet, not Steve Ballmer's.
Elegance.
Interesting... with their share price at $0.94, their market capitalization is $197.95M. To compare, Sun's market cap is still $10.27B these days. Here's the worst: SCO has a market cap of 209.63M today. SCO worth more than SGI? puke.
I tend to agree, because I sure as hell wouldn't want to do it in his shoes, but politicians are supposed to be able to thread their way through thornier issues than DRM. Like war.
Naming a post "and meanwhile" just begs to be moderated offtopic, espeially when I have no idea what you're refering to.
There was a call for this before... Slashdot and Dean staff, are you listening?
He does have some patents. Like this one about interrupt sharing.
This story was yesterday's news... newsforge just need to wait a few hours.
Some civil engineer you are! That was extremely uncivil.
And I was just saying we'd never need 128 bits of memory addressing earlier this week.
Using the speed of light as a figure to calculate the propogation of an electrical signal through copper is very optomistic. If the signal has to travel only 5mm, it likely takes longer than 200 picoseconds. Basically, Intel can keep pumping up clock rate as long as they can keep a single-bit full adder cell faster than the clock period. It's the internal pipeline that limits clock rate, and the pentium's pipeline is very deep, with very simple stages. They do in fact have pipeline stages to account for wire delay within the chip already.
5Ghz = 200 picosecond cycle. That's like four gates, even at 90nm! What exactly are they using that clock for? Pumping up shares of utility stocks?
*I* thought it was a tooth that Coke dissolved. mmmm... coke.
You're talking about inkjets?! I'm sorry, that just proves my point... who the heck wants an inkjet printer tied to their flatbed scanner?
It's like the all-in-one printer/scanner/copier machines... you get a crappy printer, crappy scanner, and a crappy copier all in one big clunky package that doesn't allow you to upgrade the discrete components. neat!
I agree, it's big. And it also sounds like I couldn't have it here in the States even if I wanted one, "the Nokia 7600 is expected to be available in volume in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia-Pacific in fourth quarter of 2003."
Well, that, and the small fact that back in 1815 the state of New Hampshire tried to make the private Dartmouth College a public Dartmouth University in the Trustees of Dartmouth College vs Woodward Supreme Court case.
"It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it!" - Daniel Webster
Dartmouth just recently stopped billing students for long distance calls because administering billing was more expensive than the total charges... no doubt this VoIP initiative will help them save on total campus phone bills without overburdening the network. Dartmouth has been pretty chill about P2P-- they allowed a home-grown P2P program to be used for awhile. I'm pretty sure that even back in the heady days of Napster, they never totally banned its use, but rather metered Napster bandwidth. Regardless, they've recently upgraded network capacity to connect hubs with gigabit ethernet, and don't anticipate VoIP being a bandwidth burden.
A more detailed article. IBM has been doing dual-core processors in it's flagship Power line for a few years now, although it appears higher numbers of cores per die will only be appearing in more experimental IBM projects. Except perhaps the PS3 Cell Processor, a collaboration of IBM and Sony. Since the Cell group is based in Austin, there's likely to be some collaboration between TRIPS and Cell. As a matter of fact, they sound very similar.
Just to clarify, the Power4 is a dual-core processor, so the 32-chip IBM server has 64 processor cores and 23 L2 caches.
I wonder how many job offers 1st place winner and UT undergrad Andrew Hudson is going to receive... or for you conspiracy folks out there, how many shadowy organizations he'll be "invited" to join.