Not making faster Pentiums or Athlons. Sorry. Most of that magic has already been woven. Who out there is qualified to make systems level designs and decisions about bio computer systems? Think about the type of knowledge it must take about physics, electrical and computer engineering, as well as biological knowledge.
What type of magnetic and power restrictions will there be? Reliability? What type of optimizations will exist? Interfaces? Flexibility?
We're still quite far away from having things like this be applicable to modern day but think about when you too can say, "I know Kung Fu"!
Why SHOULDN'T the lawyers get a lot of the money? Who do you think usually starts these things? Who do you think invests the time and effort into the research that goes into these things? If they make it happen and spend months on this, why shouldn't they get paid for it by taking a third of the damages?
I agree it seems unfair, but you have no IDEA how much time goes into preparing and working on those cases; that's their dedicated activity for months. I'm not trying to say that these lawyers suffer, but I think its unfair to say they deserve nothing.
The university I attend has a mandatory lower division class that teaches SPARC assembly, and a Digital Design class that teaches how to make things like registers from flip flops (and flip flops from gates).
First of all, no latches... all these chips are clocked very tightly and timing propogation will get ruined by latches. They'll be flip flops or buffers.
Secondly, its likely that they've subdivided their stages so small it will require extra logic to accomodate more stages. Keep in mind the typical computer example uses FIVE pipleline stages (from MIPS processors), and we're at THIRTY ONE.
Most of these transistors I would bet are for upcoming SSE3 instructions that are not on and additional pipelining logic for branch prediction, and to allow more parallelism in between the stages, especially the fetching and decode stages. Will all the new trace and victim caches added, it will need more logic to check all the different caches.
California has a High Speed Rail Bureau working on a system that will originally connect San Francisico to Los Angeles. After running for a bit, it will then include Sacramento, and finally be linked to San Diego.
They did a TCO/ROI analysis of both High Speed Track and Maglev... the TCO/ROI is supposed to be higher for the Maglev.
So what's the difference? Estimated cost is around 45-60 billion dollars. BILLION. It'll generate income once its built, but its hard to convince the public to spend that amount of money when the state is dire financial need.
For the record, apparantly the project is being half funded by the state, half funded by private companies. They've almost raised the 20 billion to start construction.
That's pretty accurate I'd say. I do ride, and based on the gear and sound you've got a decent idea of what speed you are. The actual speed tends to be less important, its more your speed relative to everyone else and ensuring that you keep enough space for yourself. I dont think HUDs will add much of anything... they're more likey to be distracting. A good thought though.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but the point of the article is that THERE AREN'T Mac Viruses. No one bothers, and most exploits aren't found because no one cares to look. The point IS that Mac OSX probably doesn't have substantially fewer exploits, but that no one knows or cares about them.
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I think you're kinda missing the message.
There's really no point. While SPARC assembly is nice, clean, and well thought out, the only advantage AMD would get is being able to run Solaris and other Assembly level code without a recompile.
In real world applications the itanium won't scale as well. It's based on how the parallelism works, which is in the compiler. The compiler bundles instructions together based on how the can be run in parallel. These bundles can only be composed in a certain ways; if I recall its 2 int ops, 2 fp ops, and 1 branch op. Regardless, I know its 5 instructions, one of which HAS to be a branch per bundle; this is obviously hugely inefficient because 20% of your code base will not be branches.
I've volunteered in some local elementary schools to keep their libraries running. Some of them are using 286s with barcode wands as a START to computerize their libraries. With budget cuts and deficits, libraries are often the first thing to lose funding, so donate whatever old hardware you got to a good cause.
I don't understand why they don't let this go untaxed. Make up the loss of revenue by sales tax increase. Its not like phone service isn't something that everyone has anyway, so it should affect the same number of people.
How about the real problem: it only takes a few morons to mess with the ranking system to really mess it up.
Can't you see a group of people adding "penis" as a keyword to everything?
My school (Unversity of Cal. San Diego) has a research team that built a system specifically for this from scratch. First, they got HP to donate a ton of older model journads that they had lying around in some warehouse. These are now distributed along with a compact flash wireless card to computer science/engineering students, along with some new incoming freshmen.
Using the schools WiFi network, the research team developed a web based question that allows students to ask questions, take polls, and attempt to interact with the professor. The professor can set up polls beforehand, and then open them at appropriate times during the lecture.
The biggest problem is abuse, and what ended up happening is that a TA basically had to attend lectures to admin.
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Not making faster Pentiums or Athlons. Sorry. Most of that magic has already been woven. Who out there is qualified to make systems level designs and decisions about bio computer systems? Think about the type of knowledge it must take about physics, electrical and computer engineering, as well as biological knowledge.
What type of magnetic and power restrictions will there be? Reliability? What type of optimizations will exist? Interfaces? Flexibility?
We're still quite far away from having things like this be applicable to modern day but think about when you too can say, "I know Kung Fu"!
Why SHOULDN'T the lawyers get a lot of the money? Who do you think usually starts these things? Who do you think invests the time and effort into the research that goes into these things? If they make it happen and spend months on this, why shouldn't they get paid for it by taking a third of the damages?
I agree it seems unfair, but you have no IDEA how much time goes into preparing and working on those cases; that's their dedicated activity for months. I'm not trying to say that these lawyers suffer, but I think its unfair to say they deserve nothing.
The university I attend has a mandatory lower division class that teaches SPARC assembly, and a Digital Design class that teaches how to make things like registers from flip flops (and flip flops from gates).
Anyone wanna give me a job?
First of all, no latches... all these chips are clocked very tightly and timing propogation will get ruined by latches. They'll be flip flops or buffers.
Secondly, its likely that they've subdivided their stages so small it will require extra logic to accomodate more stages. Keep in mind the typical computer example uses FIVE pipleline stages (from MIPS processors), and we're at THIRTY ONE.
Most of these transistors I would bet are for upcoming SSE3 instructions that are not on and additional pipelining logic for branch prediction, and to allow more parallelism in between the stages, especially the fetching and decode stages. Will all the new trace and victim caches added, it will need more logic to check all the different caches.
looks like it'd be really noisy and susceptible to dust and whatnot cuz nothing's covered. No protection for any of the components.
SPARC is not any instruction after branch, its only non data dependent ops, as well as non synthetic operations.
They did a TCO/ROI analysis of both High Speed Track and Maglev... the TCO/ROI is supposed to be higher for the Maglev.
So what's the difference? Estimated cost is around 45-60 billion dollars. BILLION. It'll generate income once its built, but its hard to convince the public to spend that amount of money when the state is dire financial need.
For the record, apparantly the project is being half funded by the state, half funded by private companies. They've almost raised the 20 billion to start construction.
That's pretty accurate I'd say. I do ride, and based on the gear and sound you've got a decent idea of what speed you are. The actual speed tends to be less important, its more your speed relative to everyone else and ensuring that you keep enough space for yourself. I dont think HUDs will add much of anything... they're more likey to be distracting. A good thought though.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but the point of the article is that THERE AREN'T Mac Viruses. No one bothers, and most exploits aren't found because no one cares to look. The point IS that Mac OSX probably doesn't have substantially fewer exploits, but that no one knows or cares about them. p I think you're kinda missing the message.
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If only I had those mod points from a couple of days ago.
There's really no point. While SPARC assembly is nice, clean, and well thought out, the only advantage AMD would get is being able to run Solaris and other Assembly level code without a recompile.
In real world applications the itanium won't scale as well. It's based on how the parallelism works, which is in the compiler. The compiler bundles instructions together based on how the can be run in parallel. These bundles can only be composed in a certain ways; if I recall its 2 int ops, 2 fp ops, and 1 branch op. Regardless, I know its 5 instructions, one of which HAS to be a branch per bundle; this is obviously hugely inefficient because 20% of your code base will not be branches.
hey, I don't like mormons either, but easy man. Oh, you meant LSD.
I've volunteered in some local elementary schools to keep their libraries running. Some of them are using 286s with barcode wands as a START to computerize their libraries. With budget cuts and deficits, libraries are often the first thing to lose funding, so donate whatever old hardware you got to a good cause.
I don't understand why they don't let this go untaxed. Make up the loss of revenue by sales tax increase. Its not like phone service isn't something that everyone has anyway, so it should affect the same number of people.
How about the real problem: it only takes a few morons to mess with the ranking system to really mess it up. Can't you see a group of people adding "penis" as a keyword to everything?
My school (Unversity of Cal. San Diego) has a research team that built a system specifically for this from scratch. First, they got HP to donate a ton of older model journads that they had lying around in some warehouse. These are now distributed along with a compact flash wireless card to computer science/engineering students, along with some new incoming freshmen. Using the schools WiFi network, the research team developed a web based question that allows students to ask questions, take polls, and attempt to interact with the professor. The professor can set up polls beforehand, and then open them at appropriate times during the lecture. The biggest problem is abuse, and what ended up happening is that a TA basically had to attend lectures to admin.