Interesting comment, as my group has stopped using our 8 yr old Onyx in favor of dual 2.8Ghz Xeons and nvidia cards. Primarily it's the expense just to maintain, not mention any upgrades to the ol' SGI or buy new SGIs (as compared to PC workstations), plus the convience of each person having a desktop to develop on rather than share seats at the Onyx. Compared to the old Onyx, most performance numbers are better; frame count is roughly similar.
You've given me some good info to follow up on w/ Myrinet and infiband. Why do you say to keep an Onyx?
I caught the NASA channel yesterday with the two of them answering questions live from school kids, and they did zero-g somersaults that were not complementary in their jumpsuits.
One kid's question was about height and weight to be an astronaut, and there was a limit on height, but not weight...
No one over the age of 12 has become fluent in Navajo.
I believe there been attempts to document it since the 50's, but I'm not sure how successful that's been.
I would demand considerable intel prior to engaging in any conversations with aliens. There are several reasons reasons why RF comm isn't common place out there:
I still prefer RPN with my 15C when I balance the checkbook. Of course, from a business perspective, I haven't needed to buy an HP calculator in 20 years...
I had your thoughts when I started SETI too. Just had no better way of proving it, except by participating: and if I was wrong, it would be one of the greatest milestones in human history.
As for the doomsday ID4/Borg scenario to argue against responding back to a signal, would you bank on the distance-tech evolution ratio to protect us?
No wonder we can't afford health care, education, Social Security, welfare, and a living wage.
Interesting view on cost comparisons: according to my notes from a talk by a senator on the armed services committee:
JFK era: DoD was 9% of GNP or 32 cents on the tax dollar; 2002: DoD was 2.8% of GNP or 19 cents on the tax dollar. And this now includes env cleanup, QoL for volunteer army, etc.
DoD seems to have a pretty good handle on budget and schedule to win in combat. What would be the budget and schedule to eliminate social suffering?
They might have been thinking of notebooks in terms of using batteries rather than power cords. However, a minimum 4.4 hour LINPACK on battery at 100% CPU...
30 seconds before anyone (DUI's & tee-totalers) can drive off? That'll be the day. Maybe just for repeat offenders, and it'll be illegal for them to operate a non-configured vehicle.
Policy is great, so is open source philsophy. But what sells the idea to management is the presentation of a cohesive plan for implementing the new software: variant & feature selection, configuration controls, distribution to & training of users, support needed. Comparing these to the existing way you do business will show the pros&cons of changing over.
Looking at this article from a DoD IT admin perspective, going thru his points:
1. He discounts his first concern in the same sentence.
2. Security compromise by blindly installing a cut-rate distribution? Give me a break: large government agencies (by their very nature) will instill their own version control and authentication beyond what the open source community does, aka RedHat's already been COE certified by DISA.
3. Sure his last scenario is likely to occur: a malevolant individual in IT support compromises his local systems. Why is this limited to just open source? That's why there's the agency control processes from 2. above.
I'd like to see a measurable case against; the measurable budgetary case for exists.
When we are all said and done, after Sol goes/after the asteriod hits/or more likely after the next Toba, what did we accomplish on this rock? Sit around and argue or did we venture beyond our crib?
Ouch. Big diff. Engineers start with the two-year engineering core at most universities before specializing in both hardware and software. I think I was programming in 4 or 5 languages by the time I graduated (building assemblers and editors) even though I specialized in VLSI design my senior year.
Large administrative agencies need political direction (blame the "vision" or their "culture") to accomplish their great achievements. This is what large government programs are good at. Without that top-level impetus, you see the results: NASA's low-earth orbit trucking & the smaller/cheaper/#@$%! robotic missions.
One major technology development I see missing in planentary exploration discussions is serious research in the self-contained "biospheres" needed for long-term space habitation.
NASA's got to start experimenting w/ building on the scale of "bases".
I expect simplicity with the new HDTV (Samsung HLN4365W) - there's no reason to page thru a menu to change between wiring input sources, that's what the channel button is for.
Yes, there is a big reason to recover/remove space junk - orbital collisions. Theory has it that one sattelite's demolition into a million spreading pieces at 17,000 mph would wipe out anything in (or crossing) a similar orbit for years to come, each demolition creating new high velocity problems.
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same gross misconceptions as twenty years ago: same lynching, different victim
Interesting comment, as my group has stopped using our 8 yr old Onyx in favor of dual 2.8Ghz Xeons and nvidia cards. Primarily it's the expense just to maintain, not mention any upgrades to the ol' SGI or buy new SGIs (as compared to PC workstations), plus the convience of each person having a desktop to develop on rather than share seats at the Onyx. Compared to the old Onyx, most performance numbers are better; frame count is roughly similar.
You've given me some good info to follow up on w/ Myrinet and infiband. Why do you say to keep an Onyx?
I caught the NASA channel yesterday with the two of them answering questions live from school kids, and they did zero-g somersaults that were not complementary in their jumpsuits.
One kid's question was about height and weight to be an astronaut, and there was a limit on height, but not weight...
No one over the age of 12 has become fluent in Navajo. I believe there been attempts to document it since the 50's, but I'm not sure how successful that's been.
Who would be able to come in the morning and turn on the lights to find the bikes?
- for paraphrasing 2001:ASO
I would demand considerable intel prior to engaging in any conversations with aliens. There are several reasons reasons why RF comm isn't common place out there:
- nobody ever there
- nobody around anymore
- nobody wants to be located
I still prefer RPN with my 15C when I balance the checkbook. Of course, from a business perspective, I haven't needed to buy an HP calculator in 20 years...
I had your thoughts when I started SETI too. Just had no better way of proving it, except by participating: and if I was wrong, it would be one of the greatest milestones in human history.
As for the doomsday ID4/Borg scenario to argue against responding back to a signal, would you bank on the distance-tech evolution ratio to protect us?
Interesting view on cost comparisons: according to my notes from a talk by a senator on the armed services committee:
JFK era: DoD was 9% of GNP or 32 cents on the tax dollar;
2002: DoD was 2.8% of GNP or 19 cents on the tax dollar. And this now includes env cleanup, QoL for volunteer army, etc.
DoD seems to have a pretty good handle on budget and schedule to win in combat. What would be the budget and schedule to eliminate social suffering?
Since the Moon is actually increasing it's distance from us,
we should have a big buffer of orbital energy to steal.
Could be why it's so hard to go back after 30 years, it's so much further away.
Best way to debunk an incorrect price tag is to provide a more accurate estimate, backed up with details on how you arrived at that estimate. Geesh.
Combine voice, data, video, and security.
Replace the word software with journal submissions or peer-reviewed articles for a similar, time-tested approach in academia.
we're well out of the Big Bang, there's quite a difference.
They might have been thinking of notebooks in terms of using batteries rather than power cords. However, a minimum 4.4 hour LINPACK on battery at 100% CPU...
They're gonna need to resolve those power issues.
30 seconds before anyone (DUI's & tee-totalers) can drive off? That'll be the day. Maybe just for repeat offenders, and it'll be illegal for them to operate a non-configured vehicle.
Policy is great, so is open source philsophy. But what sells the idea to management is the presentation of a cohesive plan for implementing the new software: variant & feature selection, configuration controls, distribution to & training of users, support needed. Comparing these to the existing way you do business will show the pros&cons of changing over.
The devil is always in the details...
Looking at this article from a DoD IT admin perspective, going thru his points:
1. He discounts his first concern in the same sentence.
2. Security compromise by blindly installing a cut-rate distribution? Give me a break: large government agencies (by their very nature) will instill their own version control and authentication beyond what the open source community does, aka RedHat's already been COE certified by DISA.
3. Sure his last scenario is likely to occur: a malevolant individual in IT support compromises his local systems. Why is this limited to just open source? That's why there's the agency control processes from 2. above.
I'd like to see a measurable case against; the measurable budgetary case for exists.
When we are all said and done, after Sol goes/after the asteriod hits/or more likely after the next Toba, what did we accomplish on this rock? Sit around and argue or did we venture beyond our crib?
It's dark in the figurative sense of our common knowledge of it.
Ouch. Big diff. Engineers start with the two-year engineering core at most universities before specializing in both hardware and software. I think I was programming in 4 or 5 languages by the time I graduated (building assemblers and editors) even though I specialized in VLSI design my senior year.
Large administrative agencies need political direction (blame the "vision" or their "culture") to accomplish their great achievements. This is what large government programs are good at. Without that top-level impetus, you see the results: NASA's low-earth orbit trucking & the smaller/cheaper/#@$%! robotic missions.
One major technology development I see missing in planentary exploration discussions is serious research in the self-contained "biospheres" needed for long-term space habitation. NASA's got to start experimenting w/ building on the scale of "bases".
I expect simplicity with the new HDTV (Samsung HLN4365W) - there's no reason to page thru a menu to change between wiring input sources, that's what the channel button is for.
Yes, there is a big reason to recover/remove space junk - orbital collisions. Theory has it that one sattelite's demolition into a million spreading pieces at 17,000 mph would wipe out anything in (or crossing) a similar orbit for years to come, each demolition creating new high velocity problems.