You are completely correct. We use it on 2 and 4 node clusters. I am aware that accessing the shared diskgroup or diskset wuld be a challenge in case of more nodes.
Yeah, Apache was an important omission. And Sun ONE webserver - less famous but just as powerful (if not more, wehn raw performance is taken into consideration) and very capable of taking advantage of clusters.
That means, not so many applications will benefit from it. In fact, I'd say that 90% of desktop apps will run better on a 2 GHz single-cpu computer than on this one. In fact, a 2 or 4 CPU (non-cluster) computer would offer better performance for a larger number of apps, than any cluster. Software that takes advantage of clustered configurations has to be specifically written for them.
Oracle RAC is one, but I can't think of any other popular title that would, expecially not for the desktop.
You have a very valid point. Well, I do have admin rights to this Win2K laptop, and yet the kernel did not allow any writes to the ports performed by debug. Interestingly, debug does not complain, and within the session, you can even read back the values you wrote to the port. But one you close and re-open the session, the value is gone and the old one is in place.
In other words: you are very right. Too bad, as my laptop is locked down by the otherwise incompetent IM, not allowing me to boot some rather more interesting operating systems on it.
You have some excellent points, but I think the one about the keyboard is unfair, at least towards ThinkPads. I am no IBM lover, but the ThinkPad has a damn fine keyboard. I feel as confortable with it as I do with a full desktop keyboard, sometimes more so.
But, I still have to find a laptop that won't fry my nuts when used as the name implies...
OK, but the phone came out more than 6 months ago. Also, what other company makes a phone with this sort of keyboard? I know only of the Nokia 6800, that's it.
The money Israel gets from the USA must be all spent on armament bought from the USA - it returns home, so to say. Even when there are better Israeli products (this was the case with some fighter planes etc.) for the job, the US-made one has to be taken. But wait, that's not all: the amount of money Israel receives is still less than the combined monies going to egypt, UAE and S.Arabia. Those monies have to be also spent on armament purchased by USA, with some exceptions, like the Abrams tanks co-produced in Egypt (here egypt has an edge, as the Uranium-cladded Abrams are not matched by the Israeli Merkava tank (which is still a very fine machine).
Note also, that Israel has been attacked several times in the past, by it's Arab neighbors, and even without US help (sometimes very explicit non-help, thanks to Kissinger's illusion that an Israeli defeat ategypt's hands would bring peace to the middle east - luckily, the oldfart was wrong) the IDF managed to defend the country, sometimes gaining vast amounts of land in counter-strike.
So, my opinion is that the IDF did manage quite well witout the damned US money, and I feel that it still could do that - IF the US didn't give even more money to Israel's traditional enemies. It's all a ploy to keep the region in arms, and American arms at that. Excellent for the US industry.
Sure, ignore completely the fact that the Finnish soldiers were specifically *trained* for winter warfare! What is this "Stalin didn't send enough troops to the Finnish front" bullshit? There were almost ten russians to a finn in this conflict (suurin piirtein), so how the heck can you say that Stalin didn't send enough?
I am not a finn by birth, but dang, I get really riled up when someone tries to minimize the achievement of the finnish soldiers in WWII. Expecially because of the fabricated motivations for the russian invasion - but this is another, long story.
Well, funny really - to promote a good cause, they impede a good cause. Like with the nuclear plants - they want clean energy, so they are against nuke plants - but forget that the alternative is much dirtier, and emits in fact more radioactive material into the ambient: coal powerplants.
I do think the greens are well-intentioned but truly, dangerously dumb.
It's sad that the little guy's idea will run into all sorts of obstacles in the quest to patent and profit, while any conceivable brainfart of the big companies gets patented - "no questions asked".
You describe a novel idea, at least that's how it seems to me. I would be surprised to know there was prior art for it.
I have been in the same boat for around 15 years, Well, that explains it. You should try to see the world on shore, from time to time. I'm sure you'll find it changed in the last 15 years.
What I've seen uses some sort of snail rather than a classic turbine. I have to admit immediately that I know nearly nothing about all this stuff, except for the maths tools I've learned at UNI (vector maths used in fluid sciences). But I am also quite fascinated by this science. If I'm not mistaken, the idea of the superfast submarine is based on cavitation... but you probably know more about this.
Back on topic: if, God forbid, one day I should fall ill and need to have my heart's job replaced by one of these devices, I know I will waant to know that my blood cells are not harmed bu it.
Yours sounds lik an amazing intellectual job, and I am sorry to hear you were discouraged from patenting it. (God knows my company is patenting all sorts of crap..)
As for the turbines damaging blood cells: I saw a documentary about perhaps this very same device, and it appeared a great deal of atention was given to not damaging blood cells, by designing the shape of the turbine with CAD. They claimed to have obtained an optimal shape. Whether it's better than your design, it's everyone's guess.
Perhaps that's an intuitive way of thinking, and I had the same impression when I first heard of this, months ago. The truth is, hydrodynamics is a very complex science, more so at microscopic levels. It appears that whirling turbines or snails are much more destructive for the blood cells than pumps. Also, bear in mind that even if a small number of cells per volume of blood is destroyed, this destruction is constant, 24/7, and the blood is recicled. So, it is a big deal.
Our experience was exactly the same. In the end, we decided to try to hire the better performing individuals (if legally and contractually possible), and mostly dump the indian companies. Since a few years we are mostly using hungarian and polish contractors, in-house.
RedHat lost 1% marketshare, the biggest loss among Linux distributions. At the same time, SUSE gained 1%, again, the largest gain.
Sure, RedHat could easily overlook SUSE, as it has roughly 5 times more (visible) websites out there, apparently, and the Asian market is still completely open for taking. But, at least game is not over, yet!
Just a couple of comments: flywheels already now seem to offer a better energy/volume ratio. A Costner Industries branch has been working on carbon fiber flywheels and other such stuff. Not that the size of the flywheen would matter much for this application...
Ultra caps have the slight disadvantage that their voltage decreases as they are depleted. This can be fixed using switched-mode converters, at a certain loss in energy. However, for a few GW, you would need a whole lot of these converters. This increases cost and reduces reliability.
So, I would humbly suggest using a giant flywheel.
The story is very interesting, but they did not apply "brakes": they simply turned the motor into a generator. Depending on the current (and therefore energy output) of the generator, an induced magnetic field is formed within the generator, which acts in the direction opposite to the rotation. The higher the current, the stronger this field is, and the quicker the rotor decelerates.
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You are completely correct. We use it on 2 and 4 node clusters. I am aware that accessing the shared diskgroup or diskset wuld be a challenge in case of more nodes.
Yeah, Apache was an important omission. And Sun ONE webserver - less famous but just as powerful (if not more, wehn raw performance is taken into consideration) and very capable of taking advantage of clusters.
That means, not so many applications will benefit from it. In fact, I'd say that 90% of desktop apps will run better on a 2 GHz single-cpu computer than on this one. In fact, a 2 or 4 CPU (non-cluster) computer would offer better performance for a larger number of apps, than any cluster. Software that takes advantage of clustered configurations has to be specifically written for them.
Oracle RAC is one, but I can't think of any other popular title that would, expecially not for the desktop.
You have a very valid point.
Well, I do have admin rights to this Win2K laptop, and yet the kernel did not allow any writes to the ports performed by debug. Interestingly, debug does not complain, and within the session, you can even read back the values you wrote to the port. But one you close and re-open the session, the value is gone and the old one is in place.
In other words: you are very right. Too bad, as my laptop is locked down by the otherwise incompetent IM, not allowing me to boot some rather more interesting operating systems on it.
Yep, you are right, the kernel didn't allow for the port to be written to.
Many thanks for the interesting know-how, though.
Do you think this procedure (provided I could boot into DOS) would work for a ThinkPad?
Did this procedure work with any ThinkPads, as far as you can recall? I don't want to trash our company's laptop while doing this.
You don't need to boot from a floppy to get an MSDOS prompt and run debug. I have a Win2K system, opened a dos prompt and ran debug just fine.
You have some excellent points, but I think the one about the keyboard is unfair, at least towards ThinkPads. I am no IBM lover, but the ThinkPad has a damn fine keyboard. I feel as confortable with it as I do with a full desktop keyboard, sometimes more so.
But, I still have to find a laptop that won't fry my nuts when used as the name implies...
Yeah, and hard-sectored, too! You can't trust those controllers to determine the sector number, index holes are much sagfer.
OK, but the phone came out more than 6 months ago.
Also, what other company makes a phone with this sort of keyboard? I know only of the Nokia 6800, that's it.
the hijinx that I did not go into directly involves upper management.
But would you care to elaborate on this a bit, anyway? Curiosity is high!
The money Israel gets from the USA must be all spent on armament bought from the USA - it returns home, so to say. Even when there are better Israeli products (this was the case with some fighter planes etc.) for the job, the US-made one has to be taken. But wait, that's not all: the amount of money Israel receives is still less than the combined monies going to egypt, UAE and S.Arabia. Those monies have to be also spent on armament purchased by USA, with some exceptions, like the Abrams tanks co-produced in Egypt (here egypt has an edge, as the Uranium-cladded Abrams are not matched by the Israeli Merkava tank (which is still a very fine machine).
Note also, that Israel has been attacked several times in the past, by it's Arab neighbors, and even without US help (sometimes very explicit non-help, thanks to Kissinger's illusion that an Israeli defeat ategypt's hands would bring peace to the middle east - luckily, the oldfart was wrong) the IDF managed to defend the country, sometimes gaining vast amounts of land in counter-strike.
So, my opinion is that the IDF did manage quite well witout the damned US money, and I feel that it still could do that - IF the US didn't give even more money to Israel's traditional enemies. It's all a ploy to keep the region in arms, and American arms at that. Excellent for the US industry.
Sorry for sounding so cynical, and bitter.
Sure, ignore completely the fact that the Finnish soldiers were specifically *trained* for winter warfare! What is this "Stalin didn't send enough troops to the Finnish front" bullshit? There were almost ten russians to a finn in this conflict (suurin piirtein), so how the heck can you say that Stalin didn't send enough?
I am not a finn by birth, but dang, I get really riled up when someone tries to minimize the achievement of the finnish soldiers in WWII.
Expecially because of the fabricated motivations for the russian invasion - but this is another, long story.
Well, funny really - to promote a good cause, they impede a good cause. Like with the nuclear plants - they want clean energy, so they are against nuke plants - but forget that the alternative is much dirtier, and emits in fact more radioactive material into the ambient: coal powerplants.
I do think the greens are well-intentioned but truly, dangerously dumb.
It's sad that the little guy's idea will run into all sorts of obstacles in the quest to patent and profit, while any conceivable brainfart of the big companies gets patented - "no questions asked".
You describe a novel idea, at least that's how it seems to me. I would be surprised to know there was prior art for it.
And another fact: if everybody in the world had the same standard of living as US or european citizens, the earth would be uninhabitable.
I have been in the same boat for around 15 years,
Well, that explains it. You should try to see the world on shore, from time to time. I'm sure you'll find it changed in the last 15 years.
Or, at least try to change boats.
What I've seen uses some sort of snail rather than a classic turbine. I have to admit immediately that I know nearly nothing about all this stuff, except for the maths tools I've learned at UNI (vector maths used in fluid sciences). But I am also quite fascinated by this science. If I'm not mistaken, the idea of the superfast submarine is based on cavitation... but you probably know more about this.
Back on topic: if, God forbid, one day I should fall ill and need to have my heart's job replaced by one of these devices, I know I will waant to know that my blood cells are not harmed bu it.
Yours sounds lik an amazing intellectual job, and I am sorry to hear you were discouraged from patenting it. (God knows my company is patenting all sorts of crap..)
As for the turbines damaging blood cells: I saw a documentary about perhaps this very same device, and it appeared a great deal of atention was given to not damaging blood cells, by designing the shape of the turbine with CAD. They claimed to have obtained an optimal shape. Whether it's better than your design, it's everyone's guess.
Perhaps that's an intuitive way of thinking, and I had the same impression when I first heard of this, months ago. The truth is, hydrodynamics is a very complex science, more so at microscopic levels. It appears that whirling turbines or snails are much more destructive for the blood cells than pumps. Also, bear in mind that even if a small number of cells per volume of blood is destroyed, this destruction is constant, 24/7, and the blood is recicled. So, it is a big deal.
Our experience was exactly the same. In the end, we decided to try to hire the better performing individuals (if legally and contractually possible), and mostly dump the indian companies. Since a few years we are mostly using hungarian and polish contractors, in-house.
What's wrong in impersonating the knights who say "ni"? That's entirely appropriate for any nerd.
RedHat lost 1% marketshare, the biggest loss among Linux distributions. At the same time, SUSE gained 1%, again, the largest gain.
Sure, RedHat could easily overlook SUSE, as it has roughly 5 times more (visible) websites out there, apparently, and the Asian market is still completely open for taking. But, at least game is not over, yet!
Just a couple of comments: flywheels already now seem to offer a better energy/volume ratio. A Costner Industries branch has been working on carbon fiber flywheels and other such stuff. Not that the size of the flywheen would matter much for this application...
Ultra caps have the slight disadvantage that their voltage decreases as they are depleted. This can be fixed using switched-mode converters, at a certain loss in energy. However, for a few GW, you would need a whole lot of these converters. This increases cost and reduces reliability.
So, I would humbly suggest using a giant flywheel.
The story is very interesting, but they did not apply "brakes": they simply turned the motor into a generator. Depending on the current (and therefore energy output) of the generator, an induced magnetic field is formed within the generator, which acts in the direction opposite to the rotation. The higher the current, the stronger this field is, and the quicker the rotor decelerates.