Well, I was originally getting connect error messages while trying to connect to Yahoo! Mail but only when the Google Web Accelerator was active.
Go figure!
The big fuss over cold fusion came about the same time as the bogus theory that water had a memory. If you can believe that the water in your next can of Pepsi (or Coke) "remembers" that it was most recently in your bladder, more power to you, but it's this same quackery that gives us homeopathic remedies. Let's not confuse what we would like to be, with what is reality. Bad science is just that and wishing that it wasn't doesn't make it so.
My sources indicate that the message was along the lines of "take me to your leader", but the folks over at the SETI project want to wait until after the US election in November before replying. BTW, here's a sample of the
results that users have submitted.
I'm surprised that there is so much worry over hurricane force winds against a launch vehicle that is designed to travel significantly faster than those wind speeds.
Unless, of course, the whole space exploration program is faked and the shuttles are just balsa wood models.
Seriously, tho' I don't get a chance to go out to too many movies, but this may be the exception. I saw the first one after it came out on DVD, but I think I want to see this 2nd movie on the big screen.
From Power
Vol. 1, No. 7 - October 2003 Have we maxed out yet on microprocessor power? Two industry veterans discuss the trade-offs. Introductions The computer industry has always been about power. The development of the microprocessors that power computers has been a relentless search for more power, higher speed, and better performance, usually in smaller and smaller packages. But when is enough enough?
Two veteran microprocessor designers discuss chip power and the direction microprocessor design is going. Dan Dobberpuhl is responsible for the design of many high-performance microprocessors, including the PDP-11, uVax, Alpha, and StrongARM. He worked at Digital Equipment Corporation as one of five senior corporate consulting engineers, Digital's highest technical positions, directing the company's Palo Alto Design Center. After leaving Digital, Dobberpuhl founded SiByte Inc., later acquired by Broadcom. In an October 1998 article, EE Times named him one of "40 forces that will shape the semiconductor industry of tomorrow." He has written numerous technical papers and is coauthor of the text, Design and Analysis of VLSI Circuits, well known to a generation of electrical engineering students. Dobberpuhl is the named inventor on nine issued U.S. patents and has several more pending patent applications in various areas of circuit design.
David Ditzel directs our conversation with Dobberpuhl. Ditzel is vice chairman and chief technology officer of Transmeta Corporation, which he cofounded in 1995 to develop a new kind of computer--one that would learn how to improve its performance and save power as it ran, by using software embedded in the processor itself. Before founding Transmeta, Ditzel was director of SPARC Labs and chief technical officer at Sun Microsystems' microelectronics division. Ditzel came to Sun from AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1987, where he was the chief architect of the CRISP Microprocessor, AT&T's first RISC chip. His work first attracted industry-wide attention in 1980, when he coauthored "The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC)."
DAVE DITZEL Dan, do you want to introduce yourself and say a couple of words about your professional background?
DAN DOBBERPUHL I recently founded a new fabless chip company called P.A. Semi. I have been in the industry for 36 years, and have been developing microprocessors since 1976. I have seen a lot of changes during that period in terms of both silicon technology and microprocessor development.
DITZEL You've got a wonderfully long history here. And our topic today is really about low power. Do you remember the very first computer you worked on, and can you take a guess at what kind of power that computer probably took?
DOBBERPUHL Well, it's interesting Dave. The power dissipation of the early MOS chips wasn't all that high, because the frequencies were so low and the chips were small and the transistor counts were very low. But they were typically in the range of three to five watts.
DITZEL In those days you probably used a minicomputer or mainframe to run your CAD tools, and there was a big difference between the performance and size of those development machines and the microprocessor chips you were developing.
DOBBERPUHL Sure. So when we developed the LSI-11, our processor design environment was basically a PDP-10, which was the time-sharing machine of the era. That was a large multi-rack system. And at the time the performance ratio was very high between those devices and the chips we were developing, in factors of 10 to 100. Over the next 10 years we brought that to equivalence and then basically the CMOS devices took over.
LSI-11 DITZEL So let's set the stage. The LSI-11 started about what year?
DOBBERPUHL The original LSI-11 started in the early 70s. It was designed jointly by engineers at Digital and Western Digital.
DITZEL And that had probably a MIPS rating. How many million instructi
Of course not. No more than TV, radio, and newspaper ads cease once you purchase an item. All you can do it choose to ignore them.
This easy enough to do in a newspaper and most magazines. With TV you almost have to prerecord all your shows and then zip (zap?) through them to eliminate the commercials.
This makes me wonder why no genius has created a "flip book" ad for TVs shows that are recorded and replayed with skip-search to bypass the ads. On fast forward a slow-motion ad would appear in real time, just no sound, but then all they would need to do is add subtitles. (Maybe I should patent this idea!)
But I digress.
With advertisers always looking for new ways to capture eyeballs and traffic and with many of these new Internet technologies, we will continue to see these new and dare say innovative methods to reach target audiences until the Internet truly matures.
I only hope that I live long enough to se it happen.
One time I sent an e-mail to MapQuest to alert them to an error on one of their maps. They replied stating that they wouldn't correct their maps as it was based on Statistics Canada (the Canadian census bureau) information.
It wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't a map for my old neighbourhood. No wonder nobody could ever find my house.
IDK if I'm impressed by the level of misguided individualized attention or surprised that there isn't a wide network of volunteer contributors spread out over Northern America working to make a better web-based mapping tool on the fly using Wi-Fi technology integrated with GPS.
Hey, maybe I should patent that idea!
Slashdot Mirror
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:gC1IVoriwq0J:www.michaelgeist.ca/+geist&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca
Use SRV records to find the port? But Stevie Ray Vaughan isn't making any new records.
snow joke!
But can it slice tomatoes so thin your inlaws will never come back?
Well, I was originally getting connect error messages while trying to connect to Yahoo! Mail but only when the Google Web Accelerator was active. Go figure!
The Google Web Accelerator blocks Yahoo! mail.
When we called VoIP "telephony". Now I don't know if it was supposed to be tele-phony or tele-funny.
Let It Be
or
Live and Let Die
If you can't play in the Super Bowl then why not get a great view of the action!
The big fuss over cold fusion came about the same time as the bogus theory that water had a memory. If you can believe that the water in your next can of Pepsi (or Coke) "remembers" that it was most recently in your bladder, more power to you, but it's this same quackery that gives us homeopathic remedies. Let's not confuse what we would like to be, with what is reality. Bad science is just that and wishing that it wasn't doesn't make it so.
My sources indicate that the message was along the lines of "take me to your leader", but the folks over at the SETI project want to wait until after the US election in November before replying. BTW, here's a sample of the results that users have submitted.
I'm surprised that there is so much worry over hurricane force winds against a launch vehicle that is designed to travel significantly faster than those wind speeds.
Unless, of course, the whole space exploration program is faked and the shuttles are just balsa wood models.
is "crossing your fingers" a valid contingency plan?
Didn't Vin Diesel use these goggles in "XxX"?
Seriously, tho' I don't get a chance to go out to too many movies, but this may be the exception. I saw the first one after it came out on DVD, but I think I want to see this 2nd movie on the big screen.
A Conversation with Dan Dobberpuhl
From Power
Vol. 1, No. 7 - October 2003
Have we maxed out yet on microprocessor power? Two industry veterans discuss the trade-offs.
Introductions
The computer industry has always been about power. The development of the microprocessors that power computers has been a relentless search for more power, higher speed, and better performance, usually in smaller and smaller packages. But when is enough enough?
Two veteran microprocessor designers discuss chip power and the direction microprocessor design is going. Dan Dobberpuhl is responsible for the design of many high-performance microprocessors, including the PDP-11, uVax, Alpha, and StrongARM. He worked at Digital Equipment Corporation as one of five senior corporate consulting engineers, Digital's highest technical positions, directing the company's Palo Alto Design Center. After leaving Digital, Dobberpuhl founded SiByte Inc., later acquired by Broadcom. In an October 1998 article, EE Times named him one of "40 forces that will shape the semiconductor industry of tomorrow." He has written numerous technical papers and is coauthor of the text, Design and Analysis of VLSI Circuits, well known to a generation of electrical engineering students. Dobberpuhl is the named inventor on nine issued U.S. patents and has several more pending patent applications in various areas of circuit design.
David Ditzel directs our conversation with Dobberpuhl. Ditzel is vice chairman and chief technology officer of Transmeta Corporation, which he cofounded in 1995 to develop a new kind of computer--one that would learn how to improve its performance and save power as it ran, by using software embedded in the processor itself. Before founding Transmeta, Ditzel was director of SPARC Labs and chief technical officer at Sun Microsystems' microelectronics division. Ditzel came to Sun from AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1987, where he was the chief architect of the CRISP Microprocessor, AT&T's first RISC chip. His work first attracted industry-wide attention in 1980, when he coauthored "The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC)."
DAVE DITZEL Dan, do you want to introduce yourself and say a couple of words about your professional background?
DAN DOBBERPUHL I recently founded a new fabless chip company called P.A. Semi. I have been in the industry for 36 years, and have been developing microprocessors since 1976. I have seen a lot of changes during that period in terms of both silicon technology and microprocessor development.
DITZEL You've got a wonderfully long history here. And our topic today is really about low power. Do you remember the very first computer you worked on, and can you take a guess at what kind of power that computer probably took?
DOBBERPUHL Well, it's interesting Dave. The power dissipation of the early MOS chips wasn't all that high, because the frequencies were so low and the chips were small and the transistor counts were very low. But they were typically in the range of three to five watts.
DITZEL In those days you probably used a minicomputer or mainframe to run your CAD tools, and there was a big difference between the performance and size of those development machines and the microprocessor chips you were developing.
DOBBERPUHL Sure. So when we developed the LSI-11, our processor design environment was basically a PDP-10, which was the time-sharing machine of the era. That was a large multi-rack system. And at the time the performance ratio was very high between those devices and the chips we were developing, in factors of 10 to 100. Over the next 10 years we brought that to equivalence and then basically the CMOS devices took over.
LSI-11
DITZEL So let's set the stage. The LSI-11 started about what year?
DOBBERPUHL The original LSI-11 started in the early 70s. It was designed jointly by engineers at Digital and Western Digital.
DITZEL And that had probably a MIPS rating. How many million instructi
if we actually bought the product?
Of course not. No more than TV, radio, and newspaper ads cease once you purchase an item. All you can do it choose to ignore them.
This easy enough to do in a newspaper and most magazines. With TV you almost have to prerecord all your shows and then zip (zap?) through them to eliminate the commercials.
This makes me wonder why no genius has created a "flip book" ad for TVs shows that are recorded and replayed with skip-search to bypass the ads. On fast forward a slow-motion ad would appear in real time, just no sound, but then all they would need to do is add subtitles. (Maybe I should patent this idea!)
But I digress.
With advertisers always looking for new ways to capture eyeballs and traffic and with many of these new Internet technologies, we will continue to see these new and dare say innovative methods to reach target audiences until the Internet truly matures.
I only hope that I live long enough to se it happen.
I always thought that NT stood for "No Tomorrow"!
That explains all the adult video stores on the maps...
(sorry, but I couldn't help myself!)
One time I sent an e-mail to MapQuest to alert them to an error on one of their maps. They replied stating that they wouldn't correct their maps as it was based on Statistics Canada (the Canadian census bureau) information.
It wouldn't have been so bad if it wasn't a map for my old neighbourhood. No wonder nobody could ever find my house.
IDK if I'm impressed by the level of misguided individualized attention or surprised that there isn't a wide network of volunteer contributors spread out over Northern America working to make a better web-based mapping tool on the fly using Wi-Fi technology integrated with GPS.
Hey, maybe I should patent that idea!