Sorry, I do have a Ph.D. And I don't have time to keep going back all the time to correct something some 12 year old has messed up. I have real work to do. Some of the entries are decent. Others are not. I'm a scientist, and I can tell you I don't trust it's accuracy on matters I consider important. It might be decent at computer-sci entries, but there is a lot more to science than that. Rather than wonder, I'll reference a real source or respected encyclopedia.
Psst, ADSL is asymmetric. SDSL is symmetric. Just because the line you have is ADSL doesn't mean lots of others of us don't have SDSL. We've had it for years. It's not a technological limitation. It's an implementation limitation.
Mod parent up. I've seen lots of posts on/. about how SQL Server Express is some new idea. MS has been giving away a lightweight version free for a long time.
So, before posting a ill-informed summary, they should check first as a reference a 'encyclopedia' that lets 12-year olds edit and delete stuff posted by Ph.D.'s working in the field?
As a biologist who does molecular biology for a living, you couldn't be more wrong.
1) It takes you thousands of hours for you to design a complex system. Wow. Impressive. We are trying to reveres engineer processes that have been going on for more than three billion years. And not one individual process, every time a bacteria/plant/fungus/animal reproduces, each of their offspring is a potential fork. That's a lot of forks over three billion plus years. That's a bit bigger of a project that reverse engineering a chip. We've only had the tools (molecular biology) to even begin working on the job for a few decades, and we are just now to the point where the technology allows us to map the genome of a individual from a species (let alone find all the normal variations within the population of that species). It will take quite some time to reverse engineer it fully. It's one hell of a lot bigger of a job than you will ever take on as a systems engineer.
2) The earth isn't a closed system. The sun adds an incredible amount of energy to the system every day. Overall disorder does increase. You just aren't looking at the whole system.
Oh, and evolution is incredibly useful in medical and biological research. I know. I do it for a living. A very large number of genes are conserved, with small modifications, all the way from yeast up through humans. You can use a yeast, fruit-fly, or mouse model system to explore the biology, and then apply what you have learned to the equivalent genes in humans. Looking at the genomes of species is a beautiful way to see the slow evolution of genes and biological processes, and extremely useful in research.
ID people try to inject it into science class, and it isn't a science. So yes, ID is against science.
Why couldn't you get anything done? The only place you should be 'surfing' on a MS server is to the manufacturers website to download new drivers, or the OS/applications makers website to download patches. You just add those websites to your whitelist, and your done.
If that's an attempt to bash the Catholic church on it's stance on science, you should know that a previous pope already accepted evoluction as 'probably the way god did it'.
I'm not missing the parents point at all. In the Commodore and Atari day (when I started) everyone who had a computer was a computer hobbiest. Yes, we wanted those because we enjoyed working with things like programming. These days computers are commodity home appliances. They are used by the majority of folks for surfing the web and doing email. The market is entirely different, and it's not shocking that the default application loadout is different. If you do want to program, the tools to do it in any number of languages are readily available, even if they aren't pre-installed.
Where did the phrase, "Ma Bell" originate as a slang name for
the Bell System or AT&T? Well, nobody seems to know for sure,
but here are some possibilities submitted by members of the
ATCA and TCI clubs:
"One apocryphal version is that employees of the Bell
System acquired an umbilical cord effect. That is why there
are very few people who ever quit the Bell System, and so many
of the employees who stayed for the duration."
- submitted by A. P. Bloom
"Another version is that the stock of AT&T (symbol 'T' on
the New York Stock Exchange) was purchased by or for widows
and orphans as a long-term investment, since its reputation
for reliabilty during recessions was its selling point."
- submitted by A. P. Bloom
"I worked for 'Ma Bell' for 34 yrs. Many, many years ago I
was told that the term 'Ma Bell' came from a corruption of
Alex Bell's wife's name, Mabel, which is pronounced May Belle,
and that the company was run as a family business. The first
employees were treated very well and thus referred to the
company in a friendly way as Ma Bell. I also read that at the
109 Court Street, Boston location (where Bell and Watson did
their earliest work on the phone in the 1870's) there was no
division of labor. No us against them, managment vs labor
division. Every employee was treated as an equal and listened
to for ideas. A family atmosphere, thus the term "Ma Bell".
True or not? I really don't know."
"When I got married in 1971 I was given one more day of
vacation (for the honeymoon) than I was due. When I went to my
foreman "Pop" to straighten out the mistake, I told him there
was a mistake and I wasn't due the extra day. 'Pop' put his
arm around my shoulder and took me aside and told me, 'the
same thing happened to me when I got married; you are now part
of the family and will be treated as part of the family. The
flip side of the coin is that when you go out and do telephone
work, you will do it like it's the family business'. I worked
that way for many years. Poor craftsmanship was simply not
tolerated. Your biggest critics were not the customer or your
foreman, it was your coworkers. I remember several times in
the 1970's being told, 'the greatest asset of our company is
the goodwill of the employees'. I never heard that said again
after the breakup of the company on Jan 1, 1984. If it is a
family now, it certainly is a disfunctional family!"
- Retired and enjoying it, Walter Smith
I would dare say you have never run a company, never even looked to comprehend taxes for a business, and worse, never setup a cluster greater than 25 machines or even read an online research paper about clusters.
And I would dare say you didn't even read the post I was replying to where he spacifically stated he would buy it, use it for one month, then sell it. Not
If it meets the need, it stays there to be run the next time or quarter without ANY cost to the company in terms of additional hardware.
That's specifically NOT what the grandparent proposed. Learn to read.
It's a HELL of a lot cheaper than Sun if you run computations regularly.
No doubt. That's why people who do need a cluster regularly buy their own. Sun intends this for folks who don't need it regularly and would rather farm it out than to buy a cluster, run it for a week or two a year, and otherwise have it sit idle. It's not worth it.
Of course it might be to your, with your your nice big rented warehouse, computers set up on old rusty filing cabinets or whatever spare rubbish you can find to pass for deskspace. I'm sure it would come out cheaper for you. I'm just not sure how happy your boss will be when you tell him that your sorry, but it's warm for June, and he might going to have to wait 4 or 5 months till it gets cool enough outside for you to crank up your cluster.
I'm sure someone has put you in charge of a large cluster... They'd deserved what they got I'm sure.
As others have said, this service isn't targeted at folks who use their CPUs 24/7. Those folks already have their own clusters. This is for folks who occassionally need massive computing. Your arguing numbers for entirely the wrong market. Know your market.
Brilliant. You've gotten your bean counters to cut a check and 350 dual-core, dual-processor Opterons are in a truck outside. Where are you going to put those 350 machines? You need some space. Another expense. That's a lot of hardware. Even being up for a month they are going to use a lot of electricity. Hmm, damn, it's hot in the room now. 350 high end dual-cpu machines generate a lot of heat, so now you need to back to the bean counters again and ask for money to buy extra AC units and have the HVAC guys hook those into your building. It's not cheap, but still cheaper than Sun!
Great. Now you need to buy a bunch of racks and equipment to connect those 350 machines togeather. Make that 350+, with that many going, your likely to experience some hardware failures. Your getting to be close personal friends with the bean counter. It's not cheaper, but it's gotta be cheaper than Sun.
Now we're cooking with gas. Now you you just need to hire someone who knows what the hell they are doing to hook them up in a workable cluster, tweak the hell out of it to get anywhere decent performance... hmm. Gotta either hire a body or contract out. HR won't want a body for short term. Ah well, better hire the expensive contractor since this is all going to close down in a month. Hey Mr. Beancounter, I need a contractor that's worked with big clusters before to spend some time here. Ouch, one who is really good, available, and will do it well and quickly is not gonna be cheap. $$$. Oh, and hope they don't botch the job so that it takes hiring another contractor (and more time) to do it right...
Ahh, finally. We've cranked through the job. Excellent Now we just have to go back to our friend Mr Beancounter and have him put 350+ odd machines on Ebay for us, plus the racks, switches, cables. Oh, and the big AC units... hmm, some of this might take quite a bit of time to sell to start recouping the money. Ah well, our beancounter wasn't going to be doing much else for the next few months. Or won't be now anyhow. Oh, plus we need to have someone tear down and box everything up. Probably for shipping to 1000 different places. Hmm, and the HVAC guys will have to come uninstall the extra AC units. But in a few months I'm sure we'll have back part of the costs of those machines!
A bit of a hassle, no? A big expense. You might, just might come out cheaper than if you went with Sun. Then again, you could just cut a check to Sun, know the job will go into their queue, and you will probably have your data back from them in a few days.
Sometimes it's just easier to pay someone who does that stuff for a living.
AFAIK there is no software for the iPod that does this. And if you are talking about just using the iPod as a portable HD to transfer the images to a real computer with a program that did the encryting/decrypting, why not save some cash and just buy a real portable HD instead?
Mod the parent up. The first thing I thought when I saw this was 'not HIPAA compliant'. Unless someone comes out with a hack to let you encrypt the iPod hard drive, require a secure password to let you view the images, etc, etc, there is no way I'd want an M.D. using this.
This might fly in Switzerland, but it's not going to comply with US laws.
Viewsonic has an entire range of products, from their budget line to the professional line. The professional line CRTs are great, and I'd stack them up against just about anybody elses. The budget line are... budget equipment, just as you'd expect. If all your experience with Viewsonic is what you are seeing at CompUSA, etc, you are probably just looking at thier budget line products.
It entirely depends on the services you are running. If all you are doing is talking about file servers and firewalls, there will be no employees adjustment because the end users will not know what OS is serving them files or filtering the packets. It's a different matter if you are talking about switching over from Sharepoint Server, or some other service where a change to another platform would be apparent to the end users.
In other situations, yes, you would have to account for adjustment of the network admins, but in this case they were already familiar with the platform they were switching to.
Yep. I definitely want good resolution. I've got 1920x1200 on my 15.4" laptop. Unfortunately I bought mine right before everyone rolled out 17" models. The text is so small sometimes it's a bit hard on my eyes. I'd definitely prefer it on a larger size screen.
The link is just to a site that points to the interview. It's a flash/audio interview. Not sometehing-to-read unless you've got some sweet audio-to-text converter on your laptop that your browsing with. Last I checked most folks don't normally use Dragon-NaturallySpeeking to browse websites.
Slashdot Mirror
Sorry, I do have a Ph.D. And I don't have time to keep going back all the time to correct something some 12 year old has messed up. I have real work to do. Some of the entries are decent. Others are not. I'm a scientist, and I can tell you I don't trust it's accuracy on matters I consider important. It might be decent at computer-sci entries, but there is a lot more to science than that. Rather than wonder, I'll reference a real source or respected encyclopedia.
Psst, ADSL is asymmetric. SDSL is symmetric. Just because the line you have is ADSL doesn't mean lots of others of us don't have SDSL. We've had it for years. It's not a technological limitation. It's an implementation limitation.
Mod parent up. I've seen lots of posts on /. about how SQL Server Express is some new idea. MS has been giving away a lightweight version free for a long time.
And your hoping for competence???
1) It takes you thousands of hours for you to design a complex system. Wow. Impressive. We are trying to reveres engineer processes that have been going on for more than three billion years. And not one individual process, every time a bacteria/plant/fungus/animal reproduces, each of their offspring is a potential fork. That's a lot of forks over three billion plus years. That's a bit bigger of a project that reverse engineering a chip. We've only had the tools (molecular biology) to even begin working on the job for a few decades, and we are just now to the point where the technology allows us to map the genome of a individual from a species (let alone find all the normal variations within the population of that species). It will take quite some time to reverse engineer it fully. It's one hell of a lot bigger of a job than you will ever take on as a systems engineer.
2) The earth isn't a closed system. The sun adds an incredible amount of energy to the system every day. Overall disorder does increase. You just aren't looking at the whole system.
Oh, and evolution is incredibly useful in medical and biological research. I know. I do it for a living. A very large number of genes are conserved, with small modifications, all the way from yeast up through humans. You can use a yeast, fruit-fly, or mouse model system to explore the biology, and then apply what you have learned to the equivalent genes in humans. Looking at the genomes of species is a beautiful way to see the slow evolution of genes and biological processes, and extremely useful in research.
ID people try to inject it into science class, and it isn't a science. So yes, ID is against science.
I can just see it now. "Lightning bolt!... Lightning bolt!... Lightning bolt!"
Why couldn't you get anything done? The only place you should be 'surfing' on a MS server is to the manufacturers website to download new drivers, or the OS/applications makers website to download patches. You just add those websites to your whitelist, and your done.
If that's an attempt to bash the Catholic church on it's stance on science, you should know that a previous pope already accepted evoluction as 'probably the way god did it'.
Yup. The 'while supplies last' is very worrisome.
I'm not missing the parents point at all. In the Commodore and Atari day (when I started) everyone who had a computer was a computer hobbiest. Yes, we wanted those because we enjoyed working with things like programming. These days computers are commodity home appliances. They are used by the majority of folks for surfing the web and doing email. The market is entirely different, and it's not shocking that the default application loadout is different. If you do want to program, the tools to do it in any number of languages are readily available, even if they aren't pre-installed.
Now I'm not sure if I want to drive a few hundred miles to the event.
All I can say is Da Da Da .... Da Da Da ... Da Da Da
Alexander Graham Bell and the invented the telephone.
He and several partners formed the Bell Telephone Company in 1877.
Management from Bell Telephone Company started another independent company called AT&T Long Lines.
In 1899 AT&T bought American Bell Telephone Company (formerly Bell Telephone Company )
In 1974 the Department of Justice broke up AT&T into the many 'Baby Bells' that are now rejoining.
That's where the "Bell" came from. As far as the "Ma" part...
According to bellsystemmemorial.com:
Where did the phrase, "Ma Bell" originate as a slang name for the Bell System or AT&T? Well, nobody seems to know for sure, but here are some possibilities submitted by members of the ATCA and TCI clubs:
"One apocryphal version is that employees of the Bell System acquired an umbilical cord effect. That is why there are very few people who ever quit the Bell System, and so many of the employees who stayed for the duration." - submitted by A. P. Bloom
"Another version is that the stock of AT&T (symbol 'T' on the New York Stock Exchange) was purchased by or for widows and orphans as a long-term investment, since its reputation for reliabilty during recessions was its selling point." - submitted by A. P. Bloom
"I worked for 'Ma Bell' for 34 yrs. Many, many years ago I was told that the term 'Ma Bell' came from a corruption of Alex Bell's wife's name, Mabel, which is pronounced May Belle, and that the company was run as a family business. The first employees were treated very well and thus referred to the company in a friendly way as Ma Bell. I also read that at the 109 Court Street, Boston location (where Bell and Watson did their earliest work on the phone in the 1870's) there was no division of labor. No us against them, managment vs labor division. Every employee was treated as an equal and listened to for ideas. A family atmosphere, thus the term "Ma Bell". True or not? I really don't know."
"When I got married in 1971 I was given one more day of vacation (for the honeymoon) than I was due. When I went to my foreman "Pop" to straighten out the mistake, I told him there was a mistake and I wasn't due the extra day. 'Pop' put his arm around my shoulder and took me aside and told me, 'the same thing happened to me when I got married; you are now part of the family and will be treated as part of the family. The flip side of the coin is that when you go out and do telephone work, you will do it like it's the family business'. I worked that way for many years. Poor craftsmanship was simply not tolerated. Your biggest critics were not the customer or your foreman, it was your coworkers. I remember several times in the 1970's being told, 'the greatest asset of our company is the goodwill of the employees'. I never heard that said again after the breakup of the company on Jan 1, 1984. If it is a family now, it certainly is a disfunctional family!" - Retired and enjoying it, Walter Smith
And I would dare say you didn't even read the post I was replying to where he spacifically stated he would buy it, use it for one month, then sell it. Not
If it meets the need, it stays there to be run the next time or quarter without ANY cost to the company in terms of additional hardware.
That's specifically NOT what the grandparent proposed. Learn to read.
It's a HELL of a lot cheaper than Sun if you run computations regularly.
No doubt. That's why people who do need a cluster regularly buy their own. Sun intends this for folks who don't need it regularly and would rather farm it out than to buy a cluster, run it for a week or two a year, and otherwise have it sit idle. It's not worth it.
Of course it might be to your, with your your nice big rented warehouse, computers set up on old rusty filing cabinets or whatever spare rubbish you can find to pass for deskspace. I'm sure it would come out cheaper for you. I'm just not sure how happy your boss will be when you tell him that your sorry, but it's warm for June, and he might going to have to wait 4 or 5 months till it gets cool enough outside for you to crank up your cluster.
I'm sure someone has put you in charge of a large cluster... They'd deserved what they got I'm sure.
Check the HIPAA regulations again. The worry it is breaks the HIPAA regulations.
As others have said, this service isn't targeted at folks who use their CPUs 24/7. Those folks already have their own clusters. This is for folks who occassionally need massive computing. Your arguing numbers for entirely the wrong market. Know your market.
Great. Now you need to buy a bunch of racks and equipment to connect those 350 machines togeather. Make that 350+, with that many going, your likely to experience some hardware failures. Your getting to be close personal friends with the bean counter. It's not cheaper, but it's gotta be cheaper than Sun.
Now we're cooking with gas. Now you you just need to hire someone who knows what the hell they are doing to hook them up in a workable cluster, tweak the hell out of it to get anywhere decent performance... hmm. Gotta either hire a body or contract out. HR won't want a body for short term. Ah well, better hire the expensive contractor since this is all going to close down in a month. Hey Mr. Beancounter, I need a contractor that's worked with big clusters before to spend some time here. Ouch, one who is really good, available, and will do it well and quickly is not gonna be cheap. $$$. Oh, and hope they don't botch the job so that it takes hiring another contractor (and more time) to do it right...
Ahh, finally. We've cranked through the job. Excellent Now we just have to go back to our friend Mr Beancounter and have him put 350+ odd machines on Ebay for us, plus the racks, switches, cables. Oh, and the big AC units... hmm, some of this might take quite a bit of time to sell to start recouping the money. Ah well, our beancounter wasn't going to be doing much else for the next few months. Or won't be now anyhow. Oh, plus we need to have someone tear down and box everything up. Probably for shipping to 1000 different places. Hmm, and the HVAC guys will have to come uninstall the extra AC units. But in a few months I'm sure we'll have back part of the costs of those machines!
A bit of a hassle, no? A big expense. You might, just might come out cheaper than if you went with Sun. Then again, you could just cut a check to Sun, know the job will go into their queue, and you will probably have your data back from them in a few days.
Sometimes it's just easier to pay someone who does that stuff for a living.
AFAIK there is no software for the iPod that does this. And if you are talking about just using the iPod as a portable HD to transfer the images to a real computer with a program that did the encryting/decrypting, why not save some cash and just buy a real portable HD instead?
Most medical image files I see (and I see a lot working in a clinical research field) do have HIPAA personal identifies in them.
This might fly in Switzerland, but it's not going to comply with US laws.
Viewsonic has an entire range of products, from their budget line to the professional line. The professional line CRTs are great, and I'd stack them up against just about anybody elses. The budget line are... budget equipment, just as you'd expect. If all your experience with Viewsonic is what you are seeing at CompUSA, etc, you are probably just looking at thier budget line products.
Oh the irony.
In other situations, yes, you would have to account for adjustment of the network admins, but in this case they were already familiar with the platform they were switching to.
Yep. I definitely want good resolution. I've got 1920x1200 on my 15.4" laptop. Unfortunately I bought mine right before everyone rolled out 17" models. The text is so small sometimes it's a bit hard on my eyes. I'd definitely prefer it on a larger size screen.
The link is just to a site that points to the interview. It's a flash/audio interview. Not sometehing-to-read unless you've got some sweet audio-to-text converter on your laptop that your browsing with. Last I checked most folks don't normally use Dragon-NaturallySpeeking to browse websites.