They do have prototype on real silicon now. They got them a couple months ago. ( I know a guy working with the project ) Im not sure if they have worked all the bugs out or not yet.
if you consider the entire states of NY, Pennsylvania, and NJ, the metro area then yes I will concede your point. And I'm not only referring to the parts of those states that are extremely close. I'm talking south jersey.
That is true it was wrong of me to assume the price would stay so high. But it is still a valued product by many people so I imagine it still wouldn't be cheap.
Thanks for pointing that out though.
I always prefer taxing and legalization compared with unenforceable "banning" for most problems that fit that generalization.
The other nice thing about drug legalization is the taxes can pay for the regulation and make sure they are safe. no impurities, no mixing drugs that could kill people in one dose. etc...
I did here some bad things about cerner but not until after I had accepted a job elsewhere.
Theres a news story from a few years back of the CEO going crazy over people leaving at 5 pm, he though they should be staying later. The memo leaked and the stock tanked afterwards.
I went with the company in NYC great benefits good pay even for NYC and its will be extremely interesting. I figure if it doesnt work out then I can always move back to Texas if i need to.
Terraforming mars or venus are both pretty much impossible from an energy/matter budget. You could possibly heat up mars in a few hundred years... but it would never have earths gravity. Mars is at ~ 1/4 earths gravity. You would have to move gigatons of matter from asteroids into the planet. The heat would just make the atmosphere be even more depleted. Mars may have some water, but I doubt it has as much water as earth's oceans frozen in its soil. You would have to move a tone of hydrogen like you said.
In these enclosed environments the water needs would be much lower than "wetting" the entire planet. And none of it would go to waste. Not a single hydrogen atom would leave the atmosphere into space. Now you still have a problem of bringing water there. And if earth keeps up we might have an excess of water (global warming melting all the ice) but that will still be expensive but atleast it can be spread out over time and sent piece meal with the colonizers.
Given that Venus is lower in the Sun's gravity well, it is closer to earth on average than Mars, has plenty of solar power, similar gravity I would say that Venus is the better target. Using floating cities is nice because no hard landing has to be made, potentially making entrance easier, but im not sure that may actually be harder.
Another nice thing about these strategies is they dont preempt terraforming. So if by some miracle we do gain that ability then we could go ahed with that.
But these domed/floating cities are they only possible way right now. The only thing lacking is an economic incentive. The engineering is much closer to being there. Biosphere failed because it was way too ambitious for a first try. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2 They attempted to recreate at least 4 different ecosystems separately under 1 roof this is overkill as far as creating a livable environment goes. Maybe a 100 or so years to perfecting that technology. But you can start with something the size of ISS and just continue to add modules. Looks like work is being done on the problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Analogue_Researc h_Station_Programme
I'm tried of all the bitching about how hard it is to find a job. I dunno about this "surplus". I figured it was going to be impossible to get one given how hard it sounds on slashdot. I will graduate in may 2007 and I had 3 well paying job offers lined up last semester. It wasn't hard at all. I'm not a 4.0 or anything either. 3.53 at UT Austin. While working 10-20 hours a week working as a programmer at research lab the university runs. Surprisingly none of the offers were from Austin companies. So perhaps their is a glut here. Most people who graduate from UT want to stay in Austin. I gave up on that goal pretty quick. I had offers in Kansas City, MO Houston, TX and New York, NY. Each offering jobs that could easily pay the cost of living in those areas. And good benefits too.
This isn't directly targeted at you, but there are many posts like this and I chose yours to respond to.
Maybe I'm just good at interviews... I'm pretty certain the only reason I got only 3 offers was that my job search was very spread out over time(due to recruitment schedule), so there would have been more. I had to turn down interviews after I got the offers and after I accepted one. But I set up all those interviews pretty much over the internet. Even the second round ones had very few times relating to setting up an interview. If you are unemployed there are plenty of jobs to be found. Just look at the job boards like hotjob, monster, dice. If there were no jobs why are there so many wanted ads?
An on site interview takes maybe 3-4 hours? In one week you could arrange interviews at least 10 companies. And if you are unemployed you pretty much have tons of free time so finding time for the interviews wouldn't be hard. I had to work mine around my school and work schedule.
If you are instead complaining that your current job sucks and you would like to work some where else but don't have time to work and go to interviews then you aren't trying. Now I know the company I chose gives me 20 vacation days (4 weeks thats awesome!) + 10 or maybe 14 scheduled holidays. Most give you 2 weeks at least. Schedule 2 interviews for a day and take that day off. Try to get phone interviews, and interviews outside of 8-5.
As has been stated over and over again it is not approved for boys yet.
I can tell you that if this were available to me I would get it. I wish to be protected from as many diseases and ailments as possible no matter what the cause.
"In the 2005 United Nations World Drug Report, the value of the global illicit drug market for the year 2003 was estimated at US$13 bn at the production level, at US$94 billion at the wholesale level , and at US$322bn based on retail prices and taking seizures and other losses into account." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade#Or igins
94 - 13 = 81 billion
81 * 25% ~= 20 billion.
so $20 billion in income taxes. and 94*.06 `= $5.5 billion in sales taxes.
That would be nice to get a bigger tax return due to the legalization of drugs wouldn't it! not even including the tax savings from not incarcerating drug users.
Pacenza: Couple who had sex on desk merely transferred
He argues that other workers with worse offenses were disciplined less severely -- including a couple who had sex on a desk and were transferred.
Fred McNeese, a spokesman for Armonk-based IBM, would not comment.
Pacenza claims the company decided on dismissal only after improperly viewing his medical records, including psychiatric treatment, following the incident.
"In IBM management's eyes, plaintiff has an undesirable and self-professed record of psychological disability related to his Vietnam War combat experience," his papers claim.
Diederich says IBM workers who have drug or alcohol problems are placed in programs to help them, and Pacenza should have been offered the same. Instead, he says, Pacenza was told there were no programs for sex addiction or other psychological illnesses. He said Pacenza was also denied an appeal.
Diederich, who said he spent a year in Iraq as an Army lawyer, also argued that "A military combat veteran, if anyone, should be afforded a second chance, the benefit of doubt and afforded reasonable accommodation for combat-related disability."
If the average salary is 43k per year for those jobs then its a win for the local economy. And its actually better than that with the multiplier effect.
Any economist care to check me on that? I think its right given my HS and University micro and macro economics courses.
No i wouldnt voluntarily limit my bandwidth usage. but as the demand for bandwidth rises and if you are right and the supply cant keep up, market forces will make the price rise. When that happens I will make a choice but it wont be voluntary it will be asimple cost benefit analysis.
Thats only a fair analogy if there was a limit on the number of semi's available for transporting vaccine and one of them was used for a monster truck show instead.
In that case I'm certain if you asked the attendees if they would be willing to take their money back so that the semi could go save lives you would get a near 100% approval.
I dont think you can really say that hard drive throughput is faster than flash drive. Maybe against a single chip. But it costs nothing to put the chips in parallel and access them as a bank, and you dont need to do any fancy raid, it just like memory banks. put enough of them in parallel and you will beat out disks.
Of course you can do the same for disks, but its much more costly to have the raid controller with the XOR engine and the typical huge cache sitting in front of it.
Also raids run rather slowly between a crash and rebuild of one of the drives.
speaking of Keplers laws. Is it correct to say that Keplers first law is completely false? I have heard people claim that that it does not describe planet motion correctly. and planets and the star they orbit, both orbit the center of mass of the planet-star system. The article seems to allude to it, but when I read it I'm left askifn the question, is the first law correct or incorrect.
And if thats the case, why do we even consider the first law anymore?
"What are those cores? They are not GPUs, they are x86 'mini-cores', basically small dumb in order cores with a staggeringly short pipeline. They also have four threads per core, so a total of 64 threads per "CGPU". To make this work as a GPU, you need instructions, vector instructions, so there is a hugely wide vector unit strapped on to it. The instruction set, an x86 extension for those paying attention, will have a lot of the functionality of a GPU."
To answer your question more directly. An x86 GPU is just what it sounds like: a processor thats main purpose is to produce graphics, it also happens to use the x86 instruction set along with its various extensions and probably a few graphics specific extensions.
In this same sense I can make an x86 dsp, an x86 sound card, etc. now it might not be very good at those functions but x86 is just a description of the ISA being used, nothing more.
I just got a presentation on gotoBLAS from the creator http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/~kgoto/, and his benchmarks show core2 duo nearly double the FLOPS of the opteron.
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They do have prototype on real silicon now. They got them a couple months ago. ( I know a guy working with the project ) Im not sure if they have worked all the bugs out or not yet.
if you consider the entire states of NY, Pennsylvania, and NJ, the metro area then yes I will concede your point. And I'm not only referring to the parts of those states that are extremely close. I'm talking south jersey.
I live in Texas but I have come to know that everyone in the northeast refers to NYC simply as "the city"
That is true it was wrong of me to assume the price would stay so high. But it is still a valued product by many people so I imagine it still wouldn't be cheap.
Thanks for pointing that out though.
I always prefer taxing and legalization compared with unenforceable "banning" for most problems that fit that generalization.
The other nice thing about drug legalization is the taxes can pay for the regulation and make sure they are safe. no impurities, no mixing drugs that could kill people in one dose. etc...
I did here some bad things about cerner but not until after I had accepted a job elsewhere.
Theres a news story from a few years back of the CEO going crazy over people leaving at 5 pm, he though they should be staying later. The memo leaked and the stock tanked afterwards.
I went with the company in NYC great benefits good pay even for NYC and its will be extremely interesting. I figure if it doesnt work out then I can always move back to Texas if i need to.
Terraforming mars or venus are both pretty much impossible from an energy/matter budget. You could possibly heat up mars in a few hundred years... but it would never have earths gravity. Mars is at ~ 1/4 earths gravity. You would have to move gigatons of matter from asteroids into the planet. The heat would just make the atmosphere be even more depleted.
r aforming This wont terraform mars but it would allow people to live there. And is nice that it has immediate payback.
s #Aerostat_habitats_and_floating_cities
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Mars may have some water, but I doubt it has as much water as earth's oceans frozen in its soil. You would have to move a tone of hydrogen like you said.
At best you could use this approach. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming#Parater
There is a similar approach suitable for Venus as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venu
In these enclosed environments the water needs would be much lower than "wetting" the entire planet. And none of it would go to waste. Not a single hydrogen atom would leave the atmosphere into space. Now you still have a problem of bringing water there. And if earth keeps up we might have an excess of water (global warming melting all the ice) but that will still be expensive but atleast it can be spread out over time and sent piece meal with the colonizers.
Given that Venus is lower in the Sun's gravity well, it is closer to earth on average than Mars, has plenty of solar power, similar gravity I would say that Venus is the better target. Using floating cities is nice because no hard landing has to be made, potentially making entrance easier, but im not sure that may actually be harder.
Another nice thing about these strategies is they dont preempt terraforming. So if by some miracle we do gain that ability then we could go ahed with that.
But these domed/floating cities are they only possible way right now. The only thing lacking is an economic incentive. The engineering is much closer to being there. Biosphere failed because it was way too ambitious for a first try. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosphere_2 They attempted to recreate at least 4 different ecosystems separately under 1 roof this is overkill as far as creating a livable environment goes. Maybe a 100 or so years to perfecting that technology. But you can start with something the size of ISS and just continue to add modules. Looks like work is being done on the problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Analogue_Resear
Soviets did some work too - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS-3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%E2%80%99s_law_ of_gravitation
Notice that angular velocity (spin speed) is not in the equation.
what about craigslist? - 100% goes to the person selling.
Of course I live in Austin with a very active craigslist.
I'm tried of all the bitching about how hard it is to find a job. I dunno about this "surplus". I figured it was going to be impossible to get one given how hard it sounds on slashdot. I will graduate in may 2007 and I had 3 well paying job offers lined up last semester. It wasn't hard at all. I'm not a 4.0 or anything either. 3.53 at UT Austin. While working 10-20 hours a week working as a programmer at research lab the university runs. Surprisingly none of the offers were from Austin companies. So perhaps their is a glut here. Most people who graduate from UT want to stay in Austin. I gave up on that goal pretty quick. I had offers in Kansas City, MO Houston, TX and New York, NY. Each offering jobs that could easily pay the cost of living in those areas. And good benefits too.
This isn't directly targeted at you, but there are many posts like this and I chose yours to respond to.
Maybe I'm just good at interviews... I'm pretty certain the only reason I got only 3 offers was that my job search was very spread out over time(due to recruitment schedule), so there would have been more. I had to turn down interviews after I got the offers and after I accepted one. But I set up all those interviews pretty much over the internet. Even the second round ones had very few times relating to setting up an interview. If you are unemployed there are plenty of jobs to be found. Just look at the job boards like hotjob, monster, dice. If there were no jobs why are there so many wanted ads?
An on site interview takes maybe 3-4 hours? In one week you could arrange interviews at least 10 companies. And if you are unemployed you pretty much have tons of free time so finding time for the interviews wouldn't be hard. I had to work mine around my school and work schedule.
If you are instead complaining that your current job sucks and you would like to work some where else but don't have time to work and go to interviews then you aren't trying. Now I know the company I chose gives me 20 vacation days (4 weeks thats awesome!) + 10 or maybe 14 scheduled holidays. Most give you 2 weeks at least. Schedule 2 interviews for a day and take that day off. Try to get phone interviews, and interviews outside of 8-5.
As has been stated over and over again it is not approved for boys yet.
I can tell you that if this were available to me I would get it. I wish to be protected from as many diseases and ailments as possible no matter what the cause.
Well according to wikipedia
r igins
"In the 2005 United Nations World Drug Report, the value of the global illicit drug market for the year 2003 was estimated at US$13 bn at the production level, at US$94 billion at the wholesale level , and at US$322bn based on retail prices and taking seizures and other losses into account."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade#O
94 - 13 = 81 billion
81 * 25% ~= 20 billion.
so $20 billion in income taxes. and 94*.06 `= $5.5 billion in sales taxes.
That would be nice to get a bigger tax return due to the legalization of drugs wouldn't it! not even including the tax savings from not incarcerating drug users.
They should use 3 phase commit :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-phase_commit
Of course even 3 phase commit can fail lol. Though I'm a bit rusty from my Operating Systems class...
Pacenza: Couple who had sex on desk merely transferred
He argues that other workers with worse offenses were disciplined less severely -- including a couple who had sex on a desk and were transferred.
Fred McNeese, a spokesman for Armonk-based IBM, would not comment.
Pacenza claims the company decided on dismissal only after improperly viewing his medical records, including psychiatric treatment, following the incident.
"In IBM management's eyes, plaintiff has an undesirable and self-professed record of psychological disability related to his Vietnam War combat experience," his papers claim.
Diederich says IBM workers who have drug or alcohol problems are placed in programs to help them, and Pacenza should have been offered the same. Instead, he says, Pacenza was told there were no programs for sex addiction or other psychological illnesses. He said Pacenza was also denied an appeal.
Diederich, who said he spent a year in Iraq as an Army lawyer, also argued that "A military combat veteran, if anyone, should be afforded a second chance, the benefit of doubt and afforded reasonable accommodation for combat-related disability."
What is with all the telephone sanitizer jokes? I'm clueless as to what this is referencing. Anyone care to fill me in?
Sounds about right to me.
$260,000,000 / 30 years = $8,666,666/year
$8,666,666/year / 200 jobs = $43,333/person/year.
If the average salary is 43k per year for those jobs then its a win for the local economy. And its actually better than that with the multiplier effect.
Any economist care to check me on that? I think its right given my HS and University micro and macro economics courses.
No i wouldnt voluntarily limit my bandwidth usage. but as the demand for bandwidth rises and if you are right and the supply cant keep up, market forces will make the price rise. When that happens I will make a choice but it wont be voluntary it will be asimple cost benefit analysis.
Thats only a fair analogy if there was a limit on the number of semi's available for transporting vaccine and one of them was used for a monster truck show instead.
In that case I'm certain if you asked the attendees if they would be willing to take their money back so that the semi could go save lives you would get a near 100% approval.
Wikipedia's take on dead weight loss.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_weight_loss
I dont think you can really say that hard drive throughput is faster than flash drive. Maybe against a single chip. But it costs nothing to put the chips in parallel and access them as a bank, and you dont need to do any fancy raid, it just like memory banks. put enough of them in parallel and you will beat out disks.
Of course you can do the same for disks, but its much more costly to have the raid controller with the XOR engine and the typical huge cache sitting in front of it.
Also raids run rather slowly between a crash and rebuild of one of the drives.
speaking of Keplers laws. Is it correct to say that Keplers first law is completely false? I have heard people claim that that it does not describe planet motion correctly. and planets and the star they orbit, both orbit the center of mass of the planet-star system. The article seems to allude to it, but when I read it I'm left askifn the question, is the first law correct or incorrect.
And if thats the case, why do we even consider the first law anymore?
45 minutes? I wouldn't drive more than 15 minutes (30 minutes max) to buy anything less expensive than a car!
lmfao hugeurl!!! Who modded this troll? this is both informative, it is in fact the wikipedia link, and funny.
from the article: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37 548
"What are those cores? They are not GPUs, they are x86 'mini-cores', basically small dumb in order cores with a staggeringly short pipeline. They also have four threads per core, so a total of 64 threads per "CGPU". To make this work as a GPU, you need instructions, vector instructions, so there is a hugely wide vector unit strapped on to it. The instruction set, an x86 extension for those paying attention, will have a lot of the functionality of a GPU."
To answer your question more directly. An x86 GPU is just what it sounds like: a processor thats main purpose is to produce graphics, it also happens to use the x86 instruction set along with its various extensions and probably a few graphics specific extensions.
In this same sense I can make an x86 dsp, an x86 sound card, etc. now it might not be very good at those functions but x86 is just a description of the ISA being used, nothing more.
read the article, that is an x86 GPU it wouldn't be able to compete with general purpose CPUs
I just got a presentation on gotoBLAS from the creator http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/~kgoto/, and his benchmarks show core2 duo nearly double the FLOPS of the opteron.
o blasfaq.php
http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/resources/software/got
perhaps you need to write some more cache efficient code to test with. goto BLAS can feed the beast like no other.