Well, why doesen't someone invent better encodeing algorythims? Say run everything through a cleaner that removes artifacts and does say 16X AA? Seriously, we have grabing technology in Photoshop that can differentiate between various colours and heruistic phase why not just incoporate this into video software prior to compression? (remember the infared sony underpants camera?).
You seem to all forget that it's not the Voting that counts, its who counts those votes. Even then should this ever be considered it should be implemented by a NON-Profit organization that is enstated by Government Under federal Elections law. (Like we have in Canada). This deparment should awnser to no-one in office (and reside above office). And be populated primaraly on the Technical Side by USENIX members. It should operated like an NGO under fedral funds. E-Voting should require some form of Bio-metric identifacaition tied in with encryption (perhaps the primary key could be data generated by a fingerprint or retinal scanner in excess of 8000 bits?) and the system should use AES.
The U.S. has handed verisign a monopoly happily and now they are handing them your freedom, well not that American citizens have any freedom left.
Parenting 101:
Do not let your kids watch T.V. without concent!
Do not let your kids roam the internet without your concent!
Do not let your children online.
Most North-american families are content with the Television raising the kids, so the time your daughter is 14 she want's the high fashon, neo-capitolist consumerist propoganda that all of those in her social niche have been brainwashed by. Your son want's to be uber-cool (skater, snoboarder, singer, DJ, athlete) with a massive computer for better quake games. MS is using this "EXCUSE" as a way to propitize a non propitary part of their suite, it's that simple and it's ALWAYS about MARKET SHARE, anything else is hogwash used to blind the public.
Let's be realistic, there is a greater chance of your child getting abused via social channels (dance class, brownies/scouts, school, babysitters), CHURCH... than online that's were most pedo's are, the ones online are just as dangerous, and may even exist in moderated environs, it's not difficult to become a moderator and I'm sure MS is not going to conduct backround checks on all of the moderators they'll need. Besides the real pedo's have places like Ifriends.
We have five fingers and a good mouse requires three, for some odd reason designers at Apple figured out that requesting users to diffrentiate between, index, middle and ring was too complicated. Where as *nix users already know the power of 3. Hence the term ONE BUTTON FREAK! so If while I'm concoting explosives and I should blow off four of my five fingers on my right hand, then I'll use a mac.
1. Well It Runs windows and as such requires no hackers. 2. Every time the PC tech tests connectivity with his fav pr0n site the pop-ups would kill hundreds and offend millions. I wonder if that's libel? or Gross-neglagence?
Well why not use the systems and algorithims in place in commerical clusters like Mosix and OpenMosix as models and do simulations using current traffic queing theorey prior to any hardware design? Moshe Bar devloped OpenMosix as a cluster that operates by farming threads to the most available machine and the code is free. Using that model one can then develop a decent hardware platform that would be able to accomidate it's own monitroing system as part of the communications infrastructre.
Let us expand upond an N-dimensional Hypercube by adding more hypercubes as long as the interconnects scale accrodingly, processing power would scale logarythimicly. Ie; 2 dim Hcube has 2 interconnects of equal bandwidth. 4 dim has 16 so your connection bandwidth must be at least n^2 (that's Nsquared) where n = processors. Thus your crossbar is created. Using typical Queing theory and provided that you have a lot of netowrk bandwith your next issue is routing information in and out. So 1Terraflop is not unfathomable.
Do you speak hindi or Mandrin? because they do not speak english. Nor do they have the command of it us overpaid north-ameircan techno geeks maintain. Thus you will have your nice fincancial analasis or project outline impress your executives warrenting the $300/hr, besides we live here and have ready access to technology. They do not, as a result must be trained (ie: we ship some of us there and pay god-awful amounts to do so) in both technical and language not to mention customer service.
Die verifacation will be modified to accomidate the core level verifacation prior to multiple cores bieng used. Since you are layering dies on one another they will be verified individually, then as a whole if they do not add up as individuals then off to the scrap heap. But that all depends on the number of cores and process. Keep in mind that currently design sofware limits are around 20K layers of interconnects, so if a core is only 20 layers of interconnects (not uncommon) it's only 100 layers if its scrap and since it's vapor deposition the losses are neglegable (compareable to white noise or pennies on the hundred). Fab's spend more finding problems (and fixing them) than they do on materials. Yelds are much more prone to design flaws and external condition errors than failure due to a singular element (rmember the Pentium Floating Point error due to the capacitors not bieng sprayed at the right density?).
No no no.
Ok, HT double clocks the Cache! so you have two cache's for the price of one! The G5 is a multicore chip so is Cell Linky and The Opteron are all multicore chips, the diffrence (apart for the arch!) is the way VLIW's are feed to each of these.
They are NOT paralell processors, paralellisam can be defined as the maintence of cache coherence, it is either inclusive (cray) or excluseive (rs6000), and requries a lot of bandwidth (local x-bar versus network). Where as parallel computers are not cache coherent and have a remote x-bar architechure, it all adds up to the same hypercube.
Cell is a joint venture in vaporware by motorola and IBM, it's designed to be a "Massivelly Parallell Microprocessor" consisting of (last I read) 6 Dies on one core each to render a portion of your screen. Used in conjunciton with your broadband connection to render information. The problem bieng that brodband is horribly slow in terms of speed and throughput when compared with standard ethernet and high-speed crossbar architechures. Sony's CEO was quoted as saying that "Game developers wish to see a 1000 fold increase in compuational power and we will provide it in our next platform by using Grid-Computeing". I wonder what the Total Cost of Operation is on a Grid of PS3's?
Cray said "Modify the Algebra to suit your Hardware, don't kill your processors with floating point operations, instead use a diffrent more efficent method". And Intel Listened. Crossbar N-Dimensional hypercubes are great for decreaseing the wall-clock time on complex problems, most noteably simulations. The worlds Largest super computer (NEC's Earth Sim in Japan) is used to do just that. The issue is the netowrk bandwidth or moving information form one cache to another. That is costly and intorduces a processing tax on parallel information. Myrinet's solution is ultrafast interconnects so your crossbar is disgustinly fast. And essentially you are still dealing with a Hypercube, then the issue becomes the distrobution of information into and out of the cube.
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Hypercube Theory handels this quite well.
Addressing would be n-dimensional you can google hypercube and find lots of nifty SGI doc's for thier old Onyx architechure but it also applies to Beowulf's, PVM, MPI, Cray and any other massivlly parallell architechure. This would be a hypercube on a chip as opposed to a hypercube of chips. And I'm not going to mention the complexities of Queing theory but at 32nm it's a Doctoral Thesus waiting to happen.
The polotics surronding Nasa and any American ventures prevent them from bieng truly scientific exploration. A good example bieng the crisis that plague the shuttle program (Challenger 1988, and the recent explosion) The toilet's (The one on the space shuttle cost 20 Million, instdead of using the one from SkyLab due to Diffrences in contracting companies). The 2 Million Dollar ball point pen (Russians used pencils which are cheap and abundunt). And not to mention the problem where when they decide to come up with a program It ends up being 10x over budget due to the american commercial market gougeing Nasa because they know is a government organization. China will captiolize on the Moon and they already have mentioned that they will be the first on mars, and the Chinese are an Industrious, Economically Internalized people whom have the ability to cover-up any mistakes they make (so we never hear about thier failures). China and India will hopefully re-vitalize the Space race over the stagnant US/Russia state that it is currently in. Russia cannot afford one, and the U.S. Seems inept. Yes you've managed to kill more astronouts than any other country and you've put more people in space than anyone else but on the other side the projects that are funded by nasa have more to do with political standing than science, as a result the "Internatonal Space Station" takes 2.5 people to man (just to run) and allows for only.5 of a person to do resarch, where as the shuttle has a better standing for resarch, not to mention that it's already just a hunk of floating metal that is about 3x overbudget. Yes You can go google all the above for yourself, why Because I'm a lazy critic.
I'm Canadian so the RIAA and the MPAA can eat me, don't go into that Jourismydiction crap! I'm going to get lots of storage and become a super-node with over a terrabyte of music, than when they sue me in canadian courts I'll go Lookie, you already lost here we repeald those draconian laws because were semi-scociallist bastards who happen to smoke pot in public and like our tunes. And you poor americans stuck with right wing bi-partizan idocies. Here we have a whole schwak of parties and some are on the left, and others are further to the left. And McArthy thought Commies were bad, You know your scoicoty is Screwed when you need an "Enemy" to garner political clout.
Ok, Am I the only one whom happens to know about the story where IBM lost 80GB of customer data "Senesitive Data" like a whole database of "The Co-operators" insurance company which held all that sensitve informatation required for Identity theft?
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Hey, Why not use thin cLients?
I mean you could have one BIG raid array attached to a relatively large server. Than you can calcualate the total it would cost you with all those hard drives and controllers and spend the same money on a very reliable system that uses silent clients across a giagabit network.
What ever happend to this idea?
http://www.orangemicro.com/opc290.html
Anyone here remember OrngePC cards allowing you to run DOS applictions under a mac?
Why don't we just put the whole freaking PC in there? (Hey not a bad idea?)
Yes but only the UBER Geeks see the Phun in that. The rest of the world understand our primal instinct. (Can I eat it? Can I kill it? Can I....hmm nice sheep...:)
Noooo....It's the evil Republic let by Lord McBride and his trusty FUD-Sabre. Ohhh No, let them sue me into oblivion, I'm Canadian. (jouris-my-diction!).
Why don't we all just happily rename all the functions in linux from malloc() to fmalloc() (free as in beer!). and then run a nice little $cript to change all the FUD. We can have that same worm writer for blaster however the new kernel me read like the following....C0m3 S33 My L337T HaX0r'ng, 1 hAv3 $ingle hAnd3dLy $cr3w3d M$ and CalD3ra....no no no, wait cant have that would never make it past the board, perhaps we should all write a module that can be loaded to remove all FUD-Claims.
I'm now off to claim the moon in the name Ford Prefects everywhere! Thus when we do get obliterated by some form of INTELLEGENT life to make room for a highway, we will be rid of the SCO-FUD. No really I think Mr. McBride's strategem was concieved during a hemmorage caused by the board of directors trying to figure out a way to actually make any money with SCO, but instead of following a good sales & marketing strategy, catbert appered and fortold of the fud-ponzi scheme to screw the GPL using the Ignorance of the american legal system to thier favour.
personally, I hope red-hat sues them into oblivion, and Mr. McBride lands a Real McJob, that way at least he'll know he's still serveing Sh*t.
Those whom forget history are doomed to repeat it, again and again.
This is the true danger of using industry "Buzzwords" like Intellectual Property (IP), and my personal favorite "Total Cost of Ownership". SCO thinks that they can make the TCO of Linux their income, I just wish McBride would get struck by falling penguins so I could DIE laughing.
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Well, why doesen't someone invent better encodeing algorythims? Say run everything through a cleaner that removes artifacts and does say 16X AA? Seriously, we have grabing technology in Photoshop that can differentiate between various colours and heruistic phase why not just incoporate this into video software prior to compression? (remember the infared sony underpants camera?).
You seem to all forget that it's not the Voting that counts, its who counts those votes. Even then should this ever be considered it should be implemented by a NON-Profit organization that is enstated by Government Under federal Elections law. (Like we have in Canada). This deparment should awnser to no-one in office (and reside above office). And be populated primaraly on the Technical Side by USENIX members. It should operated like an NGO under fedral funds. E-Voting should require some form of Bio-metric identifacaition tied in with encryption (perhaps the primary key could be data generated by a fingerprint or retinal scanner in excess of 8000 bits?) and the system should use AES. The U.S. has handed verisign a monopoly happily and now they are handing them your freedom, well not that American citizens have any freedom left.
Parenting 101: Do not let your kids watch T.V. without concent!
Do not let your kids roam the internet without your concent!
Do not let your children online.
Most North-american families are content with the Television raising the kids, so the time your daughter is 14 she want's the high fashon, neo-capitolist consumerist propoganda that all of those in her social niche have been brainwashed by. Your son want's to be uber-cool (skater, snoboarder, singer, DJ, athlete) with a massive computer for better quake games. MS is using this "EXCUSE" as a way to propitize a non propitary part of their suite, it's that simple and it's ALWAYS about MARKET SHARE, anything else is hogwash used to blind the public.
Let's be realistic, there is a greater chance of your child getting abused via social channels (dance class, brownies/scouts, school, babysitters), CHURCH... than online that's were most pedo's are, the ones online are just as dangerous, and may even exist in moderated environs, it's not difficult to become a moderator and I'm sure MS is not going to conduct backround checks on all of the moderators they'll need. Besides the real pedo's have places like Ifriends.
I thought the highest concentration of kiddey-fiddlers were in the Roman Catholic church and the Scouting movement.
We have five fingers and a good mouse requires three, for some odd reason designers at Apple figured out that requesting users to diffrentiate between, index, middle and ring was too complicated. Where as *nix users already know the power of 3. Hence the term ONE BUTTON FREAK! so If while I'm concoting explosives and I should blow off four of my five fingers on my right hand, then I'll use a mac.
NO he was bought, 7th circut judges are cheap when compared with governers of flordia.
1. Well It Runs windows and as such requires no hackers. 2. Every time the PC tech tests connectivity with his fav pr0n site the pop-ups would kill hundreds and offend millions. I wonder if that's libel? or Gross-neglagence?
Well why not use the systems and algorithims in place in commerical clusters like Mosix and OpenMosix as models and do simulations using current traffic queing theorey prior to any hardware design? Moshe Bar devloped OpenMosix as a cluster that operates by farming threads to the most available machine and the code is free. Using that model one can then develop a decent hardware platform that would be able to accomidate it's own monitroing system as part of the communications infrastructre.
Let us expand upond an N-dimensional Hypercube by adding more hypercubes as long as the interconnects scale accrodingly, processing power would scale logarythimicly. Ie; 2 dim Hcube has 2 interconnects of equal bandwidth. 4 dim has 16 so your connection bandwidth must be at least n^2 (that's Nsquared) where n = processors. Thus your crossbar is created. Using typical Queing theory and provided that you have a lot of netowrk bandwith your next issue is routing information in and out. So 1Terraflop is not unfathomable.
Do you speak hindi or Mandrin? because they do not speak english. Nor do they have the command of it us overpaid north-ameircan techno geeks maintain. Thus you will have your nice fincancial analasis or project outline impress your executives warrenting the $300/hr, besides we live here and have ready access to technology. They do not, as a result must be trained (ie: we ship some of us there and pay god-awful amounts to do so) in both technical and language not to mention customer service.
Die verifacation will be modified to accomidate the core level verifacation prior to multiple cores bieng used. Since you are layering dies on one another they will be verified individually, then as a whole if they do not add up as individuals then off to the scrap heap. But that all depends on the number of cores and process. Keep in mind that currently design sofware limits are around 20K layers of interconnects, so if a core is only 20 layers of interconnects (not uncommon) it's only 100 layers if its scrap and since it's vapor deposition the losses are neglegable (compareable to white noise or pennies on the hundred). Fab's spend more finding problems (and fixing them) than they do on materials. Yelds are much more prone to design flaws and external condition errors than failure due to a singular element (rmember the Pentium Floating Point error due to the capacitors not bieng sprayed at the right density?).
No no no.
Ok, HT double clocks the Cache! so you have two cache's for the price of one! The G5 is a multicore chip so is Cell Linky and The Opteron are all multicore chips, the diffrence (apart for the arch!) is the way VLIW's are feed to each of these. They are NOT paralell processors, paralellisam can be defined as the maintence of cache coherence, it is either inclusive (cray) or excluseive (rs6000), and requries a lot of bandwidth (local x-bar versus network). Where as parallel computers are not cache coherent and have a remote x-bar architechure, it all adds up to the same hypercube.
Linkey Linkey Isin't google great, it's by far my favorite cluster to abuse.
Cell is a joint venture in vaporware by motorola and IBM, it's designed to be a "Massivelly Parallell Microprocessor" consisting of (last I read) 6 Dies on one core each to render a portion of your screen. Used in conjunciton with your broadband connection to render information. The problem bieng that brodband is horribly slow in terms of speed and throughput when compared with standard ethernet and high-speed crossbar architechures. Sony's CEO was quoted as saying that "Game developers wish to see a 1000 fold increase in compuational power and we will provide it in our next platform by using Grid-Computeing". I wonder what the Total Cost of Operation is on a Grid of PS3's?
Cray said "Modify the Algebra to suit your Hardware, don't kill your processors with floating point operations, instead use a diffrent more efficent method". And Intel Listened. Crossbar N-Dimensional hypercubes are great for decreaseing the wall-clock time on complex problems, most noteably simulations. The worlds Largest super computer (NEC's Earth Sim in Japan) is used to do just that. The issue is the netowrk bandwidth or moving information form one cache to another. That is costly and intorduces a processing tax on parallel information. Myrinet's solution is ultrafast interconnects so your crossbar is disgustinly fast. And essentially you are still dealing with a Hypercube, then the issue becomes the distrobution of information into and out of the cube.
Hypercube Theory handels this quite well. Addressing would be n-dimensional you can google hypercube and find lots of nifty SGI doc's for thier old Onyx architechure but it also applies to Beowulf's, PVM, MPI, Cray and any other massivlly parallell architechure. This would be a hypercube on a chip as opposed to a hypercube of chips. And I'm not going to mention the complexities of Queing theory but at 32nm it's a Doctoral Thesus waiting to happen.
The polotics surronding Nasa and any American ventures prevent them from bieng truly scientific exploration. A good example bieng the crisis that plague the shuttle program (Challenger 1988, and the recent explosion) The toilet's (The one on the space shuttle cost 20 Million, instdead of using the one from SkyLab due to Diffrences in contracting companies). The 2 Million Dollar ball point pen (Russians used pencils which are cheap and abundunt). And not to mention the problem where when they decide to come up with a program It ends up being 10x over budget due to the american commercial market gougeing Nasa because they know is a government organization. China will captiolize on the Moon and they already have mentioned that they will be the first on mars, and the Chinese are an Industrious, Economically Internalized people whom have the ability to cover-up any mistakes they make (so we never hear about thier failures). China and India will hopefully re-vitalize the Space race over the stagnant US/Russia state that it is currently in. Russia cannot afford one, and the U.S. Seems inept. Yes you've managed to kill more astronouts than any other country and you've put more people in space than anyone else but on the other side the projects that are funded by nasa have more to do with political standing than science, as a result the "Internatonal Space Station" takes 2.5 people to man (just to run) and allows for only .5 of a person to do resarch, where as the shuttle has a better standing for resarch, not to mention that it's already just a hunk of floating metal that is about 3x overbudget. Yes You can go google all the above for yourself, why Because I'm a lazy critic.
I'm Canadian so the RIAA and the MPAA can eat me, don't go into that Jourismydiction crap! I'm going to get lots of storage and become a super-node with over a terrabyte of music, than when they sue me in canadian courts I'll go Lookie, you already lost here we repeald those draconian laws because were semi-scociallist bastards who happen to smoke pot in public and like our tunes. And you poor americans stuck with right wing bi-partizan idocies. Here we have a whole schwak of parties and some are on the left, and others are further to the left. And McArthy thought Commies were bad, You know your scoicoty is Screwed when you need an "Enemy" to garner political clout.
Ok, Am I the only one whom happens to know about the story where IBM lost 80GB of customer data "Senesitive Data" like a whole database of "The Co-operators" insurance company which held all that sensitve informatation required for Identity theft? here
Hey, Why not use thin cLients? I mean you could have one BIG raid array attached to a relatively large server. Than you can calcualate the total it would cost you with all those hard drives and controllers and spend the same money on a very reliable system that uses silent clients across a giagabit network.
www.sourceforge.net http://openproject.sourceforge.net/index2.html http://freshmeat.net/projects/dotproject/?topic_id =130
What ever happend to this idea? http://www.orangemicro.com/opc290.html Anyone here remember OrngePC cards allowing you to run DOS applictions under a mac? Why don't we just put the whole freaking PC in there? (Hey not a bad idea?)
Hmmm, yes let's call up transmeta and get them to make a code morpher x86-64 to RISC. Hmm this will be good.
Yes but only the UBER Geeks see the Phun in that. The rest of the world understand our primal instinct. (Can I eat it? Can I kill it? Can I....hmm nice sheep...:)
Noooo....It's the evil Republic let by Lord McBride and his trusty FUD-Sabre. Ohhh No, let them sue me into oblivion, I'm Canadian. (jouris-my-diction!).
Why don't we all just happily rename all the functions in linux from malloc() to fmalloc() (free as in beer!). and then run a nice little $cript to change all the FUD. We can have that same worm writer for blaster however the new kernel me read like the following....C0m3 S33 My L337T HaX0r'ng, 1 hAv3 $ingle hAnd3dLy $cr3w3d M$ and CalD3ra....no no no, wait cant have that would never make it past the board, perhaps we should all write a module that can be loaded to remove all FUD-Claims.
I'm now off to claim the moon in the name Ford Prefects everywhere! Thus when we do get obliterated by some form of INTELLEGENT life to make room for a highway, we will be rid of the SCO-FUD. No really I think Mr. McBride's strategem was concieved during a hemmorage caused by the board of directors trying to figure out a way to actually make any money with SCO, but instead of following a good sales & marketing strategy, catbert appered and fortold of the fud-ponzi scheme to screw the GPL using the Ignorance of the american legal system to thier favour.
personally, I hope red-hat sues them into oblivion, and Mr. McBride lands a Real McJob, that way at least he'll know he's still serveing Sh*t.
Those whom forget history are doomed to repeat it, again and again.
This is the true danger of using industry "Buzzwords" like Intellectual Property (IP), and my personal favorite "Total Cost of Ownership". SCO thinks that they can make the TCO of Linux their income, I just wish McBride would get struck by falling penguins so I could DIE laughing.