They have at least decided to implement the MPI (Message Passing Interface) standard for this cluster system. Hopefully it will be somewhat compatible with other MPI implementaitons like the C++ one I have used (I also used Java, but so far, I'm not impressed by Java MPI implementations).
I had a friend in HS who also hosted a proxy. Before he was in my school, I used to use I think diebess or bessswatter proxy or something like that to get past the bess web content blocker (damn bitch *bess's logo is a dog*). I told him about it, he put one up for himself, and gave me the address he was using so I could use it too since I gave him the idea.
I don't know about uptime, but I used to be a Linux-Only person when it came to servers. After recently falling into a job where I have had to administer Windows servers, I'll admit they are slick...... I picked up workiing with them a hell of a lot easier then I would have a Linux server (if I was new to it). Good LAN support features, ISA, Exchange, license management, fairly easy remote user/computer maintenance..... I'm probably going to give it a shot for my next home server once I get the parts. Although the software is costly if you want to learn it as a hobby (I'm getting it for my home server through MSDNAA).
That thinking is exactly what will make me buy a PS3. I've wanted an all in one set top box for a while (HTPC can work, but it just isn't as sleek). XBox works, but there are many limits on how easily it can be used as a computer. But I will not buy that it will be a realistic PC replacement until I see proof.... If they have to cut some corners to get it pushed out the door in time, this would seem like the first place they would to me. And it seems overly-anbitious to the point where it could easily be left out... I'll like it... Geeks will like it... But I wouldn't be surprised if this suffers the same fate as the Dreamcast. It was too soon for the dreamcasts features (online gaming out of the box, and it was just a great system that sadly never took off). The PS3 may be great and perfect for me, but I think this kind of all-in-one box won't sell to the mainstream people for another console generation....
Someone in a parallel computing class I was taking did a parallel application using FFT to do processing. I wonder if they could incorporate this into MPI for parallel computations pretty easily?
Sillie Frosh.... I remember when I used to be into crazy stuff like that, with a PC pimped out with lights and loud fans and all that crap...... I eventually got over it though....... Although that is controllable, and that makes a big difference. I personally think it's cool too, although the party mode would be overkill for me. I guess it is this sort of motivation that makes an MIT student though.
I predict as the world develops more, the US will shrink rapidly in technological power. As an American, I hate seeing this happen (although I'm not an obsessive brainwashed patriot that thinks the US is #1, I do have pride because it is my country). In the past, we have been a large driving force in bringing some truely great inventions into the mainstream, but It has been a while since we have done anything like that.... We aren't getting any smarter (we might actually be getting dumber some studies have indicated), and developing nations are educating very quickly. I'm glad to see Pakistan has some initiative. Much like another distasteful comment said, I never thought very highly of Pakistan (I know little about the area other then it neighbors Afghanistan). But I may think differently now since I know they are adapting technology beyond what the US is doing at the moment. In some ways i think the American lifestyle is the epiphany of how a country can live, but due to this, many here are becoming fat, lazy, and unambitious......
Only reason Microsoft has been successful is because they have an ass-load of money to buy up great game studios (Bungie, Rare, the creator of Final Fantasy, and a variety of others). Although Apple is doing well, I have my doubts they are over-confident enough to try buying some big-name companies......
The startup time for the newest version of MS Office on all but the newest systems is usally quite slow. Chop that time down and use the better document standard, and it would match quite well. I've been using iWork for a little while now, and there's a slight load time between converting a ppt file to a Keynote file. You know what though? I don't really care. It isn't that much of a problem.
Could you go to the authorities and say "OK, my Mac was stolen by this person", explain to them the situation, and would they actually be able to go after the person? And another thing. If I were to steal a MacBook (which however temping with my itty bitty iBook may be I wouldn't), the first thing I'd do if it started announcing to the world I'm a thief would be smash it into bitty bitty pieces and then let those pieces swim with the fish.......
UNIX/LINUX place a lot of restrictions on what can be modified by the user, and is part of where their good security comes from. Perhaps if children using AIM weren't logged in under the admin account or one with similar priviledges it would prevent the whole system from being hyjacked, and would just cause that account to need to be deleted. I don't know how much Windows limits user accounts, but if this isn't within the ability of Windows, it's quite sad.
If they are just going to be coding scripts or simple small programs, a normal editor like Vi/Emacs might work quite well, or a similar text editor. but if it may be on a slightly larger scale, an IDE might be better, since it allows greater organization.
$270 mil seems awfully steep. I didn't think many other countries had that kind of money to throw around towards things that had little purpose other then fulfilling curiosity other then the US.....
This was a great feature of the PS2. You want to know why? It was launched a couple years (maybe more or less, I'm not really sure) after the DVD standard launched, allowing it to have a relatively cheap drive people would _actually_ buy. I remember about a year before I got a PS2 I got a DVD player because I needed one. The PS2 was $300, and I got the DVD player for around $100. I think it will be a long time until a stand-aloneBlu-Ray player can sell for that price. Maybe in a few years when they can lower the price its sales may skyrocket, but until that day comes, they will probably be beaten to a bloody pulp by Nintendo (as the Slashdot poll indicate). People will probably get a Wii (Or XBox 360 since I expect their price will fall near Wii's price), wait a couple years, and then get a PS3 when they realize they need a Blu-Ray player. Of course if HD-DVD wins, people with a Wii may get a 360 instead if it gets integrated HD-DVD down the road......
I concur. Although I know nothing about the patent process (so this may be partially in effect as far as I know), companies shouldn't be allowed to sit on a "good idea" for years without using it, if they ever do. That would be slightly similar to the company making Tamaflu deciding "Ok, this hasn't hit critical proportions yet, so let's not sell it yet. Let's wait till it starts killing quite a few people, and selling the vaccine for $2000 a pop". Although that would be a case of waiting for the right time while non-used patents are just wating for the right accompanying technology, it's still withholding something that could be great from the people....
My girlfriend got an Asus laptop that did not come with an operating system because she didn't want to pay $100 for Windows when she plans on installing Linux on it. The problem is, Linux does not like to play nice with it...
"If it is granted, expect MS to settle to prevent another Vista delay." Or, if they find yet another reason they should work more on Vista, expect them not to settle to cover their butts much like a certain company once did due to source code theft (A company and game I happen to have the greatest respect for).
And I would also agree with that. It it looked so strange it could have been a 3rd party gimmick controller for another system. And it was more or less D-Pad or joystick, not both. But it was very ergonomical still. And no resistance? The original PSX joystick controller had even less resistence as I recall, and was even more of a pain for simple 8-axis control (since the n64 controller had grooves that would allow the stick to go into one direction).
I concur (I'm not trying to troll). They always use the excuse "We made the perfect controller even better", but the truth is, it isn't. The n64 was the most comfortable controller to me, and until they meet or beat that, it could use improvement.
The way I see it, they probably intend on patching the other problems, but they decided to get a decent amount done, and then release the update. Much like how Microsoft's once-a-month releases could give some time for the vulnerabilities to be taken advantage of (I recall that release cycle, I'm not sure if they are still done anymore though), if they waited for all patches to be done in this case, it may have prolonged the wait by quite a bit longer.
It seems like just yesterday I was using one. I hear historic computing, I think at least pre-diskette. For this to be "historic"... Makes me feel old...
This, right after I had an 8 hour long coding session yesterday night for a team project.... We may have slacked of a bit and sucked life out of vending machines... But still would have been good to know....
I concur. Although I was thinking of something more along the lines of an image of people dying, or maybe a godzilla-esque monster being shown killing humans...
Call me ignorant, but what if you did go into an MRI machine with it on if it had trace amounts of metal? Would it really burn you or come flying out of your arm, or would it just die as an electronic device? If it would just die, emergency situations don't seem to really be a terrible problem since you could just get a new one implanted.
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They have at least decided to implement the MPI (Message Passing Interface) standard for this cluster system. Hopefully it will be somewhat compatible with other MPI implementaitons like the C++ one I have used (I also used Java, but so far, I'm not impressed by Java MPI implementations).
I had a friend in HS who also hosted a proxy. Before he was in my school, I used to use I think diebess or bessswatter proxy or something like that to get past the bess web content blocker (damn bitch *bess's logo is a dog*). I told him about it, he put one up for himself, and gave me the address he was using so I could use it too since I gave him the idea.
I don't know about uptime, but I used to be a Linux-Only person when it came to servers. After recently falling into a job where I have had to administer Windows servers, I'll admit they are slick...... I picked up workiing with them a hell of a lot easier then I would have a Linux server (if I was new to it). Good LAN support features, ISA, Exchange, license management, fairly easy remote user/computer maintenance..... I'm probably going to give it a shot for my next home server once I get the parts. Although the software is costly if you want to learn it as a hobby (I'm getting it for my home server through MSDNAA).
That thinking is exactly what will make me buy a PS3. I've wanted an all in one set top box for a while (HTPC can work, but it just isn't as sleek). XBox works, but there are many limits on how easily it can be used as a computer. But I will not buy that it will be a realistic PC replacement until I see proof.... If they have to cut some corners to get it pushed out the door in time, this would seem like the first place they would to me. And it seems overly-anbitious to the point where it could easily be left out... I'll like it... Geeks will like it... But I wouldn't be surprised if this suffers the same fate as the Dreamcast. It was too soon for the dreamcasts features (online gaming out of the box, and it was just a great system that sadly never took off). The PS3 may be great and perfect for me, but I think this kind of all-in-one box won't sell to the mainstream people for another console generation....
Someone in a parallel computing class I was taking did a parallel application using FFT to do processing. I wonder if they could incorporate this into MPI for parallel computations pretty easily?
Sillie Frosh.... I remember when I used to be into crazy stuff like that, with a PC pimped out with lights and loud fans and all that crap...... I eventually got over it though....... Although that is controllable, and that makes a big difference. I personally think it's cool too, although the party mode would be overkill for me. I guess it is this sort of motivation that makes an MIT student though.
I predict as the world develops more, the US will shrink rapidly in technological power. As an American, I hate seeing this happen (although I'm not an obsessive brainwashed patriot that thinks the US is #1, I do have pride because it is my country). In the past, we have been a large driving force in bringing some truely great inventions into the mainstream, but It has been a while since we have done anything like that.... We aren't getting any smarter (we might actually be getting dumber some studies have indicated), and developing nations are educating very quickly. I'm glad to see Pakistan has some initiative. Much like another distasteful comment said, I never thought very highly of Pakistan (I know little about the area other then it neighbors Afghanistan). But I may think differently now since I know they are adapting technology beyond what the US is doing at the moment. In some ways i think the American lifestyle is the epiphany of how a country can live, but due to this, many here are becoming fat, lazy, and unambitious......
Only reason Microsoft has been successful is because they have an ass-load of money to buy up great game studios (Bungie, Rare, the creator of Final Fantasy, and a variety of others). Although Apple is doing well, I have my doubts they are over-confident enough to try buying some big-name companies......
The startup time for the newest version of MS Office on all but the newest systems is usally quite slow. Chop that time down and use the better document standard, and it would match quite well. I've been using iWork for a little while now, and there's a slight load time between converting a ppt file to a Keynote file. You know what though? I don't really care. It isn't that much of a problem.
Could you go to the authorities and say "OK, my Mac was stolen by this person", explain to them the situation, and would they actually be able to go after the person? And another thing. If I were to steal a MacBook (which however temping with my itty bitty iBook may be I wouldn't), the first thing I'd do if it started announcing to the world I'm a thief would be smash it into bitty bitty pieces and then let those pieces swim with the fish.......
UNIX/LINUX place a lot of restrictions on what can be modified by the user, and is part of where their good security comes from. Perhaps if children using AIM weren't logged in under the admin account or one with similar priviledges it would prevent the whole system from being hyjacked, and would just cause that account to need to be deleted. I don't know how much Windows limits user accounts, but if this isn't within the ability of Windows, it's quite sad.
If they are just going to be coding scripts or simple small programs, a normal editor like Vi/Emacs might work quite well, or a similar text editor. but if it may be on a slightly larger scale, an IDE might be better, since it allows greater organization.
$270 mil seems awfully steep. I didn't think many other countries had that kind of money to throw around towards things that had little purpose other then fulfilling curiosity other then the US.....
This was a great feature of the PS2. You want to know why? It was launched a couple years (maybe more or less, I'm not really sure) after the DVD standard launched, allowing it to have a relatively cheap drive people would _actually_ buy. I remember about a year before I got a PS2 I got a DVD player because I needed one. The PS2 was $300, and I got the DVD player for around $100. I think it will be a long time until a stand-aloneBlu-Ray player can sell for that price. Maybe in a few years when they can lower the price its sales may skyrocket, but until that day comes, they will probably be beaten to a bloody pulp by Nintendo (as the Slashdot poll indicate). People will probably get a Wii (Or XBox 360 since I expect their price will fall near Wii's price), wait a couple years, and then get a PS3 when they realize they need a Blu-Ray player. Of course if HD-DVD wins, people with a Wii may get a 360 instead if it gets integrated HD-DVD down the road......
I concur. Although I know nothing about the patent process (so this may be partially in effect as far as I know), companies shouldn't be allowed to sit on a "good idea" for years without using it, if they ever do. That would be slightly similar to the company making Tamaflu deciding "Ok, this hasn't hit critical proportions yet, so let's not sell it yet. Let's wait till it starts killing quite a few people, and selling the vaccine for $2000 a pop". Although that would be a case of waiting for the right time while non-used patents are just wating for the right accompanying technology, it's still withholding something that could be great from the people....
My girlfriend got an Asus laptop that did not come with an operating system because she didn't want to pay $100 for Windows when she plans on installing Linux on it. The problem is, Linux does not like to play nice with it...
"If it is granted, expect MS to settle to prevent another Vista delay." Or, if they find yet another reason they should work more on Vista, expect them not to settle to cover their butts much like a certain company once did due to source code theft (A company and game I happen to have the greatest respect for).
And I would also agree with that. It it looked so strange it could have been a 3rd party gimmick controller for another system. And it was more or less D-Pad or joystick, not both. But it was very ergonomical still. And no resistance? The original PSX joystick controller had even less resistence as I recall, and was even more of a pain for simple 8-axis control (since the n64 controller had grooves that would allow the stick to go into one direction).
I concur (I'm not trying to troll). They always use the excuse "We made the perfect controller even better", but the truth is, it isn't. The n64 was the most comfortable controller to me, and until they meet or beat that, it could use improvement.
The way I see it, they probably intend on patching the other problems, but they decided to get a decent amount done, and then release the update. Much like how Microsoft's once-a-month releases could give some time for the vulnerabilities to be taken advantage of (I recall that release cycle, I'm not sure if they are still done anymore though), if they waited for all patches to be done in this case, it may have prolonged the wait by quite a bit longer.
They want Read-only access to the internet from schools and libraries?
It seems like just yesterday I was using one. I hear historic computing, I think at least pre-diskette. For this to be "historic"... Makes me feel old...
This, right after I had an 8 hour long coding session yesterday night for a team project.... We may have slacked of a bit and sucked life out of vending machines... But still would have been good to know....
I concur. Although I was thinking of something more along the lines of an image of people dying, or maybe a godzilla-esque monster being shown killing humans...
Call me ignorant, but what if you did go into an MRI machine with it on if it had trace amounts of metal? Would it really burn you or come flying out of your arm, or would it just die as an electronic device? If it would just die, emergency situations don't seem to really be a terrible problem since you could just get a new one implanted.