...as a consumer I have never felt hurt by MS's monopoly
So that spambot your neighbor is (unknowingly) running on his Windows machine doesn't bother you at all? Nor the network outages caused by various Windows based worms?
Standard wisdom: "The markets are driven by fear and greed." Think of it that way and you'll maybe understand better.
The most profitable corporations aren't getting any love either. Exxon-Mobile stock did nothing because people don't expect they can keep up the sort of profit-making they had this last year. Wal-Mart comprises 2% of the entire US economy. That's absolutely HUGE. Yet they can't get any traction because people are afraid they can't increase profits by the same percentage as they have in the past.
Getting that first 2 percent of the economy took them a while, getting the next 2 percent should take at least as long but people don't see it that way. People are all looking for quick profits anymore. That creates some of the most upside-down reasoning anywhere and much more volatility. You're going to have to luck into your money and personally I think I'd rather take my chances at the black-jack table than try "day-trading" the markets.
If you want to invest, use it like a savings account. Put something into it on a regular basis and keep doing that. Eventually (barring any more large bubbles), you should have a tidy little savings when you're ready to retire.
Slow and steady wins the race every time. Some guys get lucky trying to get into the fast track, but more often they just loose their shirt.
Once quantum entangled communications happens, that problem goes away. It can be as large as you need, the only latency is that inherent in the system itself. Imagine communicating with a satelite orbiting Neptune as if it were sitting next door.
Yeah, I read that same line and thought the same thing. Great! Now you can make Perl look like Java, or C# or... assembler! I'd say you could make it look Klingon but it already does if you include much regex.
I love perl and I love perl modules, but debugging code written using perl modules makes me want to tear out my already thinning hair. I was going to write a "quick and dirty" script using the libwwwperl module but ended up going with some cURL calls in a shell instead. It was easier to see what the problems were and cURL did all the "heavy lifting" for me.
Storage is cheap, processing is cheap. They're both only getting cheaper. I would nearly expect this trend to keep happening until the length, width and mass of your last turd is recorded for posterity and instantly available on an FBI agents desk near you.
Whether you looked or not, they think you did and that only encourages them. They take that as a view, an impression. They take that set of eyeballs and turn around and sell it as more positive feedback. "This add is working, it's getting more views, let's keep doing this"
Of course, if you wanted to do it right you would create a script to continually download their images and any other large objects. They'd get the clicks but no revenue off the spent bandwidth. Eventually if you were irritating enough they might BLOCK YOU (In Soviet Russia advertising company blocks you, heh)
One of the uses for all that storage is for memory enhancing systems. See wearable computing.
Basically, the computer records and stores your daily activities. Say earlier you met some nice young chica, or a friend with a great business oportunity. Whatever, it's been recorded for you and is indexed and searchable.
"What was her number?" Play it back later on, you have it. Etc..
At least, that's one use for mega-storage. You need speedy processing to go along with it to enable face and voice recognition. I always forget names, it'd be nice to have a cue when I see somebody the next time.
Got mine as a gift. (Now I know that my wife Loves me:)
So I bought a 3rd party tape adapter (tape up front, changer in the back, best of both worlds) for my car and am considering the "line in" accessory for the unit instead.
I didn't mind spending another $15 to make it work. I did buy an iTrip and it's a piece of crap, doesn't matter what station I put it on, there's always interference. I don't want to crack it open to get a signal boost either. I'd rather use the tape converter or a direct line in instead. MUCH better sound, even from crappy MP3's. The crappy MP3's do stand out more on a good stereo though.:)
Our company just as recently as last year finally migrated the last desktop off of Windows 95 to Windows NT!
It wasn't for lack of trying either. Some of our users are extremely resistant to any sort of change, they're going to have a hissy fit when they have to switch to XP.:) Our main desktop right at the moment is Windows NT SP6.
We're upgrading hardware and with that comes Windows XP. SP2 has been avoided for now. Maybe sometime in late 2007 they'll consider SP2.:)
Some places will not accept a card not signed on the back. I've had problems with that before. I can't remember where though as I don't shop there anymore.
UPN == Universal Paramount Network == The people even producing the show to BE sold in the first place. Universal's not about to sell out the rights for anything ST just so this can stay alive and get produced elsewhere. Nope, sorry. That's all, game over.
Linux was able to boot, but access to all the various devices wasn't yet possible. They were able to access the piezo speaker and managed to get that to dump the firmware for inspection to see how to access thre remaining devices like the screen and clickwheel. NOW linux can be fully usable on the iPod, there's a roadmap for how things work on the new devices. Before this, there was some limited knowledge from the previous iPod's which still managed to work for the newst version.
I hope to be running me some Gentoo soon.:) Hehe... emerge world takes you 3 weeks..
Nothing at all is wrong with true communism. It's when the beasts in power twist it to their needs. Same goes with any system of beliefs. That includes religions like Islam and Christianity.
I've been thinking about this one for a while now. In fact it was part of a thunk on how to create driverless traffic. Meaning you get to relax on the way into work, the car gets you there on time with little or no hassle.
My thoughts were generally, each car is a node in a network of cars. They'd use a network built with the cars surrounding yours. In close traffic like rush-hour you might still be able to hit 60mph on average with very few slowdowns simply because every car knows where every other car WANTS to go and so accommodations are made automatically, perfect merges. Sort of like this except traffic's flowing in the same direction.:)
Even if a user chose to drive the car himself. If all cars have the computer and telemetry of the cars around them, all cars would be able to react to the one lone self-drivers foibles because his car tells all the others what's going on.
Of course if somebody hacks his transponder then you might have some trouble. As with any technology, there's an upside and a downside.
And then I stop and think, wouldn't this all go away if I was just telecommuting instead?
My company has been throught two rounds of layoffs now in the IT department. Permanent isn't so permanent anymore. Take the relative freedom you have now and go out on your own. They're willing to hire you up contracted, do it. Prove your worth. If they like you they'll either keep you contract or make your permanent. Either way it's as permanent as anything. Somebody said take your asking salary and add 1/3. I'd say more like 1/2 or even 2/3's again.
The contracting firm I worked for had basically doubled what I made just so they could offer up my bennies and pay my taxes. You're not supporting an entire corporation (just you) so 1/2 to 2/3rds is extremely reasonable. They're still on the cheap because they don't have to pay out all the benefits and taxes on your behalf, and if you suck (you don't, do you?!) they can let you go without too much worry or hassle.
Don't wait till you have kiddies at home, do this NOW!
Interestingly, after you read enough of them, you begin to see the standard disclaimers and can scan very quickly through the EULAs. The stuff that's different usually pops out at you pretty quickly. I can scan the normal EULA (there are some pretty standard ones out there) within 1-2 minutes. It's worth the extra minute to scan now than to have to try to dig out the spyware later.
Think about the "new" stealth planes. Those batman looking ones? Yeah, those are almost completely flown by computer. If it weren't for a computer intervening, most mortals couldn't react quickly enough to keep it from spinning out of control.
Cray computers were sometimes housed in several cabinets. The fact that there were several cabinets had nothing to do with the fact that it was still a single computer. They all generally have more than one processor/processor board.
The cluster style computer is not any less singular than that Cray. The hardware linking those machines and the software to run it all is no less complicated than the so called supercomputer. The distinction might be that the compute nodes are split into 2 or 4 processors per 'cabinet' rather than all 16 or 32 or whichever processors being in 1 or 2 cabinets. Semantically, there's no difference between the clustered computer and the specialized super computer.
I think what makes something a super computer isn't so much the form factor as how much can it handle? So I think the 500 list holds water, it's ranked by how much each machine can handle, not just it's peak, but the max sustained throughput. I think the ones that have a max closest to peak are closer to the classic definition of 'supercomputer' but there are some clusters that achieve a max close to their peak. Impressive no matter how you slice it.
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Why wouldn't he have put one of those in a Jetta? It seems much more appropriate to me.
...as a consumer I have never felt hurt by MS's monopoly
So that spambot your neighbor is (unknowingly) running on his Windows machine doesn't bother you at all? Nor the network outages caused by various Windows based worms?
Hmm...
Reminds me of a knock-knock joke my three year old daughter told me the other day.
Knock-knock
Who's there?
Olive
Olive who?
Olive YOU! (giggle) She's a nut...
That, or Raspberries. pthpthpthptphpthpth! No? Okay..
Is the stock market full of asshats or what?
Standard wisdom: "The markets are driven by fear and greed."
Think of it that way and you'll maybe understand better.
The most profitable corporations aren't getting any love either. Exxon-Mobile stock did nothing because people don't expect they can keep up the sort of profit-making they had this last year.
Wal-Mart comprises 2% of the entire US economy. That's absolutely HUGE. Yet they can't get any traction because people are afraid they can't increase profits by the same percentage as they have in the past.
Getting that first 2 percent of the economy took them a while, getting the next 2 percent should take at least as long but people don't see it that way. People are all looking for quick profits anymore. That creates some of the most upside-down reasoning anywhere and much more volatility. You're going to have to luck into your money and personally I think I'd rather take my chances at the black-jack table than try "day-trading" the markets.
If you want to invest, use it like a savings account. Put something into it on a regular basis and keep doing that. Eventually (barring any more large bubbles), you should have a tidy little savings when you're ready to retire.
Slow and steady wins the race every time. Some guys get lucky trying to get into the fast track, but more often they just loose their shirt.
Once quantum entangled communications happens, that problem goes away. It can be as large as you need, the only latency is that inherent in the system itself. Imagine communicating with a satelite orbiting Neptune as if it were sitting next door.
Yeah, I read that same line and thought the same thing. Great! Now you can make Perl look like Java, or C# or ... assembler! I'd say you could make it look Klingon but it already does if you include much regex.
I love perl and I love perl modules, but debugging code written using perl modules makes me want to tear out my already thinning hair. I was going to write a "quick and dirty" script using the libwwwperl module but ended up going with some cURL calls in a shell instead. It was easier to see what the problems were and cURL did all the "heavy lifting" for me.
... and this is why I don't read Slashdot every day anymore. Don't worry, if you miss one, it'll show up again in a week or two.
We don't put HTTP servers in the kernel.
I'm sure this will end up redundant but I'm going to comment anyway.
I give you TUX
Storage is cheap, processing is cheap. They're both only getting cheaper. I would nearly expect this trend to keep happening until the length, width and mass of your last turd is recorded for posterity and instantly available on an FBI agents desk near you.
Whether you looked or not, they think you did and that only encourages them. They take that as a view, an impression. They take that set of eyeballs and turn around and sell it as more positive feedback. "This add is working, it's getting more views, let's keep doing this"
Of course, if you wanted to do it right you would create a script to continually download their images and any other large objects. They'd get the clicks but no revenue off the spent bandwidth. Eventually if you were irritating enough they might BLOCK YOU (In Soviet Russia advertising company blocks you, heh)
One of the uses for all that storage is for memory enhancing systems. See wearable computing.
Basically, the computer records and stores your daily activities. Say earlier you met some nice young chica, or a friend with a great business oportunity. Whatever, it's been recorded for you and is indexed and searchable.
"What was her number?" Play it back later on, you have it. Etc..
At least, that's one use for mega-storage. You need speedy processing to go along with it to enable face and voice recognition. I always forget names, it'd be nice to have a cue when I see somebody the next time.
Not too damned long... you've got 6 digits!
Hell, I'm a relative newbie!
Got mine as a gift. (Now I know that my wife Loves me :)
:)
So I bought a 3rd party tape adapter (tape up front, changer in the back, best of both worlds) for my car and am considering the "line in" accessory for the unit instead.
I didn't mind spending another $15 to make it work. I did buy an iTrip and it's a piece of crap, doesn't matter what station I put it on, there's always interference. I don't want to crack it open to get a signal boost either. I'd rather use the tape converter or a direct line in instead. MUCH better sound, even from crappy MP3's. The crappy MP3's do stand out more on a good stereo though.
Our company just as recently as last year finally migrated the last desktop off of Windows 95 to Windows NT!
:) Our main desktop right at the moment is Windows NT SP6.
:)
It wasn't for lack of trying either. Some of our users are extremely resistant to any sort of change, they're going to have a hissy fit when they have to switch to XP.
We're upgrading hardware and with that comes Windows XP. SP2 has been avoided for now. Maybe sometime in late 2007 they'll consider SP2.
Some places will not accept a card not signed on the back. I've had problems with that before. I can't remember where though as I don't shop there anymore.
UPN == Universal Paramount Network == The people even producing the show to BE sold in the first place. Universal's not about to sell out the rights for anything ST just so this can stay alive and get produced elsewhere. Nope, sorry. That's all, game over.
Linux was able to boot, but access to all the various devices wasn't yet possible. They were able to access the piezo speaker and managed to get that to dump the firmware for inspection to see how to access thre remaining devices like the screen and clickwheel. NOW linux can be fully usable on the iPod, there's a roadmap for how things work on the new devices. Before this, there was some limited knowledge from the previous iPod's which still managed to work for the newst version.
:) Hehe... emerge world takes you 3 weeks..
I hope to be running me some Gentoo soon.
Nothing at all is wrong with true communism. It's when the beasts in power twist it to their needs. Same goes with any system of beliefs. That includes religions like Islam and Christianity.
I've been thinking about this one for a while now. In fact it was part of a thunk on how to create driverless traffic. Meaning you get to relax on the way into work, the car gets you there on time with little or no hassle.
:)
My thoughts were generally, each car is a node in a network of cars. They'd use a network built with the cars surrounding yours. In close traffic like rush-hour you might still be able to hit 60mph on average with very few slowdowns simply because every car knows where every other car WANTS to go and so accommodations are made automatically, perfect merges. Sort of like this except traffic's flowing in the same direction.
Even if a user chose to drive the car himself. If all cars have the computer and telemetry of the cars around them, all cars would be able to react to the one lone self-drivers foibles because his car tells all the others what's going on.
Of course if somebody hacks his transponder then you might have some trouble. As with any technology, there's an upside and a downside.
And then I stop and think, wouldn't this all go away if I was just telecommuting instead?
My company has been throught two rounds of layoffs now in the IT department. Permanent isn't so permanent anymore. Take the relative freedom you have now and go out on your own. They're willing to hire you up contracted, do it. Prove your worth. If they like you they'll either keep you contract or make your permanent. Either way it's as permanent as anything. Somebody said take your asking salary and add 1/3. I'd say more like 1/2 or even 2/3's again.
The contracting firm I worked for had basically doubled what I made just so they could offer up my bennies and pay my taxes. You're not supporting an entire corporation (just you) so 1/2 to 2/3rds is extremely reasonable. They're still on the cheap because they don't have to pay out all the benefits and taxes on your behalf, and if you suck (you don't, do you?!) they can let you go without too much worry or hassle.
Don't wait till you have kiddies at home, do this NOW!
Interestingly, after you read enough of them, you begin to see the standard disclaimers and can scan very quickly through the EULAs. The stuff that's different usually pops out at you pretty quickly. I can scan the normal EULA (there are some pretty standard ones out there) within 1-2 minutes. It's worth the extra minute to scan now than to have to try to dig out the spyware later.
Think about the "new" stealth planes. Those batman looking ones? Yeah, those are almost completely flown by computer. If it weren't for a computer intervening, most mortals couldn't react quickly enough to keep it from spinning out of control.
:)
At least that's what I heard.
Look at it this way.
Cray computers were sometimes housed in several cabinets. The fact that there were several cabinets had nothing to do with the fact that it was still a single computer. They all generally have more than one processor/processor board.
The cluster style computer is not any less singular than that Cray. The hardware linking those machines and the software to run it all is no less complicated than the so called supercomputer. The distinction might be that the compute nodes are split into 2 or 4 processors per 'cabinet' rather than all 16 or 32 or whichever processors being in 1 or 2 cabinets. Semantically, there's no difference between the clustered computer and the specialized super computer.
I think what makes something a super computer isn't so much the form factor as how much can it handle? So I think the 500 list holds water, it's ranked by how much each machine can handle, not just it's peak, but the max sustained throughput. I think the ones that have a max closest to peak are closer to the classic definition of 'supercomputer' but there are some clusters that achieve a max close to their peak. Impressive no matter how you slice it.
PearPC
:)
It's free (beer or libre, you choose)! It's admittedly slower than a G4, but cool anyway. And free!