When you suspended the drives, their vibrations no longer got absorbed into the chassis, but remained internalized inside the hard drive. This can create lots of heat, as well as inefficiency due to the hard drive constantly having to fight and compensate it.
Most of these labs have made their softwares available for download. Lots of modeling softwares to choose from. Just get a list of all of these labs and hit all of their websites, you might find the software you need. Certainly there are many FEM and fluid dynamics packages...
Oh, and NASA too, as someone else said.
I have seen these before when I searched for some such packages. Don't remember which site, as there was software at each site.
Because it was actually implemented as microcode and stored into the CPU, whether as mask rom or some other means of storing, but it was indeed software either way you look at it.
I have read all of the comments here and virtually all people are not understanding the issue here. As is stated in the article, Ontario did this for *economic* reasons.
Ontario is US' largest trading partner in the entire world, and the vast bulk of that trade is with the eastern timezone states of the US. There are vast economic reasons for them to keep to the same daylight schedule as the US.
There are literally no other reasons to do this, and if the reason was anything else, those complaining would have a point. But given the economic issues at stake, with full consideration, I can't see how anyone can argue against this move by Ontario.
Because face it, you used more than enough big buzz words and even some actual details to pinpoint who you work for, to anyone in the same company.
In this Ask Slashdot posting, you made many mistakes:
1. You bloated your post with managerial and marketing buzzspeak. I had a damned annoying time wading through it.
2. You identified your lack of pre-existing knowledge to anyone who works with you, as well as your inability to mask it by not knowing who really to ask for help.
3. Only people who work for your competitors are in a position to help, so basically you are soliciting free help from your competitors.
4. Or, if not competitors, you are soliciting from consultants who previously worked for competitors who have information and experience they normally charge big bucks for, since it is specialized and not exactly common. Think they will provide it for free ? No! They know they have a damned good shot at your job!
Under most local laws in the US, any part of a tree that crosses the fence/propery line is legally the property of that propery owner. It doesn't matter that the trunk of the tree happens to be owned by the other property owner.
Thus, while you normally pay for fruit, you don't have to pay for fruit you do not own.
On the other hand, EMF is electromagnetic waves. Just like in the US it is illegal to tap signals that you normally have to pay for, such as satellite TV, it would be illegal to tap, even at a distance, electrical power coils via induction.
That its ridiculous that RTLinux needs to run on a dual-core AMD Opteron in order to achieve those latencies ? How many RTOS *can't* do that ? How many embedded systems will be created out of dual-core AMD Opterons, considered that they are usually made out of bottom dollar hardwares ?
You really need to spend some time in Japan. The size thing *IS* a real issue.
Its not a matter of stereotypes, its a matter of reality.
1. With the original Xbox, who the heck wants to carry that thing from a store to their home ? Hint: most people won't throw it in the trunk. They have to hand-walk it out the store, down the street, into the subway, through x number of connecting subway and train lines, back up the street, and up the stairs into their apartment.
2. Most people *really* don't have room for something as large as an Xbox. Yeah sure, they have room for a TV, but thats one concession people have to make. Think they will make another concession for an xbox when they can just get a PS2 and keep what little space is left ?
3. The xbox is noisy as hell. Well the original PS2 was noisy too but they quieted it down. In a small space, noise matters.
Overall, size counts because as someone else said, people buy tons of devices and they are extremely frugal on space and cost.
It is quite possible for people to record things on a PVR, legally, and rip to PSP, legally.
In fact, Sony even sells a PVR in Japan (the vaunted but misnamed PSX - hint, its not a PS1) which in its latest release will rip recorded shows directly to a format that can be easily downloaded from the PSX to the PSP.
What you are describing, incorrectly as legal, is not only legal, but Sony even puts direct support for that activity in some of the hardware it makes and sells (even if its only sold in Japan).
Too bad he wrote as AC, but he has one of the most insightful points of the entire thread, an entire aspect that is overlooked.
The basic premise of the slashdot story is how cool it is that researchers are defending the acts of people to trade in uncorrupted *illegal* file trading.
After all, it seems the most if not all corrupted files are ones that, if they weren't corrupted, would have been illegal to trade anyway.
I think the RIAA and MPAA are scum sucking pigs who need bacon carved off their arses and handed to them. Still, I also think their concern about massive illegal fileswapping is legitimate, even though the leaders of their respective industries are the ones truly responsible for raping their own artists...
Yes, the Canadian government very much controls what can be seen on TV and the media in general. That we have known for a long time since Canadians are only allowed to see a certain portion of non-Canadian content. Personally, they are better off for it, but it does go against principles of freedom.
Or did you mean the US government controls the US media ? Hardly, considering how anti-US the bulk of the journalists in the news departments are. What you ascribe to government control is more accurately a symptom of the overall quality of the media - quite plainly they suck.
The main difference between US journalists and their fellow journalists across any border, is that US journalists pretend objectivity in their journalism, and write accordingly, though often poorly so.
Journalists in other countries usually don't both to make any such pretense of objectivity, so you get much more rampaging hystrionics on their reporting.
If I was in your management chain, I would be greatly concerned about the intelligence and usefulness of such a person working for me who, not understanding the value of their work and the investment of the company into their work, wanting to give it all away, or sell it on the cheap.
Look, if they think they can sell even 1 $500k license, thats better than the 10-20 $10k licenses you are proposing.
If the VP approached you about this, its probably because he knows much more about the $500k possibility than you do. Take it as a hint that something is really there, rather than something maybe being there.
Besides, maybe the VP also wants to make sure your salaries are justified in the face of out-sourcing or cost-cutting measures.
The only way anything can be a threat to Linux is if it is better.
There can only be fear if one does not think Linux is up to it. In which case, surely the Linux community has strength to solve such problems ?
Or not ?
If there was ever a real threat to Linux, it would be any legal challenges to licenses or intellectual property issues squeezing out such good and useful ideas a breathing oxygen or using a keyboard to type a useful program.
Movies and music may very well be region locked, as Sony stated more than likely they will region lock that stuff, but games so far have not been region locked, per Sony's stated intention.
Altivec was actually used heavily in both the user interface/windowing system of the Mac as well is in most of the multi-media apps that came WITH the OS. Its usage was heavily promoted and supported by Apple to developers, thus the usage is heavily used in 3rd party multi-media apps.
You have an extremely limited concept of what a "server" is. I have worked at and seen places with thousands of server hosts; databases and webservers comprised extremely small percentages of those servers.
Have you heard of: - Real time multimedia production ? Or batch processing of multimedia for that matter... - Numerical computation / simulation ? (for engineering / sciences)
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When you suspended the drives, their vibrations no longer got absorbed into the chassis, but remained internalized inside the hard drive. This can create lots of heat, as well as inefficiency due to the hard drive constantly having to fight and compensate it.
Most of these labs have made their softwares available for download. Lots of modeling softwares to choose from. Just get a list of all of these labs and hit all of their websites, you might find the software you need. Certainly there are many FEM and fluid dynamics packages...
Oh, and NASA too, as someone else said.
I have seen these before when I searched for some such packages. Don't remember which site, as there was software at each site.
Because it was actually implemented as microcode and stored into the CPU, whether as mask rom or some other means of storing, but it was indeed software either way you look at it.
Because it was implemented as microcode into the processor.
It still doesn't add up to 24Gbps but at least it makes more sense.
My God, the most insightful comment I have read in months! :)
I have read all of the comments here and virtually all people are not understanding the issue here. As is stated in the article, Ontario did this for *economic* reasons.
Ontario is US' largest trading partner in the entire world, and the vast bulk of that trade is with the eastern timezone states of the US. There are vast economic reasons for them to keep to the same daylight schedule as the US.
There are literally no other reasons to do this, and if the reason was anything else, those complaining would have a point. But given the economic issues at stake, with full consideration, I can't see how anyone can argue against this move by Ontario.
I am quite surprised the article didn't even touch on this, since Sony is a Japanese company. Would this really be released in S.Korea first ?
Because face it, you used more than enough big buzz words and even some actual details to pinpoint who you work for, to anyone in the same company.
In this Ask Slashdot posting, you made many mistakes:
1. You bloated your post with managerial and marketing buzzspeak. I had a damned annoying time wading through it.
2. You identified your lack of pre-existing knowledge to anyone who works with you, as well as your inability to mask it by not knowing who really to ask for help.
3. Only people who work for your competitors are in a position to help, so basically you are soliciting free help from your competitors.
4. Or, if not competitors, you are soliciting from consultants who previously worked for competitors who have information and experience they normally charge big bucks for, since it is specialized and not exactly common. Think they will provide it for free ? No! They know they have a damned good shot at your job!
The more Slashdot posts articles with such poor premise, especially the these pseudo-science tin-hat articles, the less I read Slashdot.
Your fruit tree example is faulty.
Under most local laws in the US, any part of a tree that crosses the fence/propery line is legally the property of that propery owner. It doesn't matter that the trunk of the tree happens to be owned by the other property owner.
Thus, while you normally pay for fruit, you don't have to pay for fruit you do not own.
On the other hand, EMF is electromagnetic waves. Just like in the US it is illegal to tap signals that you normally have to pay for, such as satellite TV, it would be illegal to tap, even at a distance, electrical power coils via induction.
That its ridiculous that RTLinux needs to run on a dual-core AMD Opteron in order to achieve those latencies ? How many RTOS *can't* do that ? How many embedded systems will be created out of dual-core AMD Opterons, considered that they are usually made out of bottom dollar hardwares ?
You really need to spend some time in Japan. The size thing *IS* a real issue.
Its not a matter of stereotypes, its a matter of reality.
1. With the original Xbox, who the heck wants to carry that thing from a store to their home ? Hint: most people won't throw it in the trunk. They have to hand-walk it out the store, down the street, into the subway, through x number of connecting subway and train lines, back up the street, and up the stairs into their apartment.
2. Most people *really* don't have room for something as large as an Xbox. Yeah sure, they have room for a TV, but thats one concession people have to make. Think they will make another concession for an xbox when they can just get a PS2 and keep what little space is left ?
3. The xbox is noisy as hell. Well the original PS2 was noisy too but they quieted it down. In a small space, noise matters.
Overall, size counts because as someone else said, people buy tons of devices and they are extremely frugal on space and cost.
It is quite possible for people to record things on a PVR, legally, and rip to PSP, legally.
In fact, Sony even sells a PVR in Japan (the vaunted but misnamed PSX - hint, its not a PS1) which in its latest release will rip recorded shows directly to a format that can be easily downloaded from the PSX to the PSP.
What you are describing, incorrectly as legal, is not only legal, but Sony even puts direct support for that activity in some of the hardware it makes and sells (even if its only sold in Japan).
Too bad he wrote as AC, but he has one of the most insightful points of the entire thread, an entire aspect that is overlooked.
The basic premise of the slashdot story is how cool it is that researchers are defending the acts of people to trade in uncorrupted *illegal* file trading.
After all, it seems the most if not all corrupted files are ones that, if they weren't corrupted, would have been illegal to trade anyway.
I think the RIAA and MPAA are scum sucking pigs who need bacon carved off their arses and handed to them. Still, I also think their concern about massive illegal fileswapping is legitimate, even though the leaders of their respective industries are the ones truly responsible for raping their own artists...
Parallels to the US and Britain ? You can't be further from the truth.
If you said Saddam Hussein's Iraq, China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, etc... as real examples in the world today, you would be far closer to the truth.
Yes, the Canadian government very much controls what can be seen on TV and the media in general. That we have known for a long time since Canadians are only allowed to see a certain portion of non-Canadian content. Personally, they are better off for it, but it does go against principles of freedom.
Or did you mean the US government controls the US media ? Hardly, considering how anti-US the bulk of the journalists in the news departments are. What you ascribe to government control is more accurately a symptom of the overall quality of the media - quite plainly they suck.
The main difference between US journalists and their fellow journalists across any border, is that US journalists pretend objectivity in their journalism, and write accordingly, though often poorly so.
Journalists in other countries usually don't both to make any such pretense of objectivity, so you get much more rampaging hystrionics on their reporting.
If I was in your management chain, I would be greatly concerned about the intelligence and usefulness of such a person working for me who, not understanding the value of their work and the investment of the company into their work, wanting to give it all away, or sell it on the cheap.
Look, if they think they can sell even 1 $500k license, thats better than the 10-20 $10k licenses you are proposing.
If the VP approached you about this, its probably because he knows much more about the $500k possibility than you do. Take it as a hint that something is really there, rather than something maybe being there.
Besides, maybe the VP also wants to make sure your salaries are justified in the face of out-sourcing or cost-cutting measures.
The only way anything can be a threat to Linux is if it is better.
There can only be fear if one does not think Linux is up to it. In which case, surely the Linux community has strength to solve such problems ?
Or not ?
If there was ever a real threat to Linux, it would be any legal challenges to licenses or intellectual property issues squeezing out such good and useful ideas a breathing oxygen or using a keyboard to type a useful program.
Game software on the PSP is *not* region locked.
Movies and music may very well be region locked, as Sony stated more than likely they will region lock that stuff, but games so far have not been region locked, per Sony's stated intention.
I was hearing confuzzled way back in 1995. Isn't there anything new ? :)
Altivec was actually used heavily in both the user interface/windowing system of the Mac as well is in most of the multi-media apps that came WITH the OS. Its usage was heavily promoted and supported by Apple to developers, thus the usage is heavily used in 3rd party multi-media apps.
You have an extremely limited concept of what a "server" is. I have worked at and seen places with thousands of server hosts; databases and webservers comprised extremely small percentages of those servers.
Have you heard of:
- Real time multimedia production ? Or batch processing of multimedia for that matter...
- Numerical computation / simulation ? (for engineering / sciences)
An "xbox" related website says Sony is all hype!
Additionally, the cream of the crop of that website know more about hardware than the people designing the chip (IBM and Sony).
Yeah, hype is why I ignored anything but the raw specs and architectural papers on the cell.
The equivalent for Mac / PPC - altivec, velocity engine, or vmx (whatever you want to call it) certainly revolutionized that platform.
The fact that on the x86 platform there was little revolution, or one little seen, may be more a reflection of the platform itself.
Honestly, people who can't see the value of making true and powerful use of SIMD are missing the boat. That is what the future is all about.
You look at your cellphone, mp3 player, mp4 codecs, digital tvs and radios, it is SIMD that makes all that happen (through DSP).
More visible to you, look at your GPU's powering your favorite games, specialized SIMD.
The main CPU is truly just the conductor and SIMD is the orchestra, as Sony puts it.