You would be surprised at the number of people who are currently trying to run low end "supercomputer"-like things on windows machines or groups of them.
I do not currently see any special reason for anyone to run that on the highend level, as all those things are so specialised anyway, so you can get the right staff.
But the fact is, many of the aplications that low-end supercomputing could be used for are quite "common" in many enviroments. This coupled with the fact that extremly many companies have very entrenched Microsoft-only IT-cultures, makes me think there will be quite many of "supercomputers" running windows.
Please note the use Supercomputer in quotes, as most of these systems are really not going to be supercomputers, more something like "mini-supers".
I think the whole issue revolves around the fact that it might be easier to impersonate someone else when dealing with a new registrar than with the old one ie. create new passowrds and such.
Well, writing works on different levels, scholastic writing is a very different skill from freeform writing.
Each type of writing has it's own requirements and actually changing from one style to other is quite hard. I work currently in management and consulting, the docments in those who area allready quite different in form, but then I do some storywriting on my own time and I do note that regardless of the atttempt to stay away from those two styles they keep creeping in. Reading back at stories I wrote back when I was in university, my stories seemed to have more scholastic language.
Well, unfortunately it seems that the skill of being able to write in a clear manner is a lost art even among college graduates. One would think that atleast for something as simple as a CV a college graduate would succeed in actually expressing him/herself in a manner that is atleast somewhat gramatically correct and read through.
To quote one CV we got towards the end after the education and personal detail bulletpoints the person had actually managed to get quite well:
"Other intrests and activities:
Was involved with. Other intrests are, to read, jogging, do pottery. We do amateyr theater"
Indeed, but there is the other side of the coin too.. the busineses are mostly protected from frivilous lawsuits as the possible financial benefit to sue is not there anymore in most cases.
Indeed, the whole system of the two places is quite different. In most european countries the authorities will try to protect the customers, as it is seen as their job. In US the customer protection is supposed to be handled by the individual in the courts. That is you (either as individueal or in a group) sue the company for it.
Indeed, there would be need of strong customer protection organisations allowing people to list any grievances against any business, allowing them to make more educated choises. Unfortunately that would not work in the US, as anyone trying to do that would be sued out of existance.
This is an obvious step for them to take, though the actual merits might be debated.
The world use to be a place where most stores actually knew personally each of their customers, but those days are long gone at the same time as the village store. In those days the shopkeeper knew who to sell to and how, today the only way to get this information from among the thousands or millions of customers is the use of a CRM.
There was obviously an intermediate period between the demise of the village store and the introduction of these computer systems in question, so this thing seems new.
But in the end.. the store wants to make money by making sure it gets maximum benefit of their customers.. like any other company...
the whole thing makes me wonder market shares
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I mean how big a market share Linux gaming has today, and how big Mac gaming.
Did try to look up things on the web, but seems all the things I find point at old info saying basically linux Nil, Mac close to Nil.
The funny party is still some companies release these games, so there must be a market... Maybe..
You do not have to agree, but if you look at history "all" the real advances in technology have caused death in the phases of the enterprise.
Yes people die when things are not good enough, in most cases the reson for them not being good enough is because we do not know enough.
About attitude in general, I think that the current culture trying to overprotect people is stopping innovation in many fields. Some of them important some less important.
I just wonder at what point the good of individual became more important than the good of all. Probably at about the point that humans started to think they can afford the luxury.
Please note that I do not think that human life is cheap, but since the price of progress is the fact that people are willing to take risks, I for one feel the things are often worth it.
To use the small example I used, Airplane development: Sure we could have done it the way NASA does spaceflight with maximum sudy and minimum risks, but in that case I think we would be currently at about the stage where the planes are seen to be safe for public when they have gone through an extended safety training before flying. The high number of people actually collecting the information that today is the basis of aeroplane design were all heroes, and many of them died a hero's death.
To balance things, how many people have later been saved by use of planes to transport medicines and food and so on?
If we see same thing applied to non ARM architectures, there a many strange things going to happen, as quite many things in current computers are based on the assumption that things have specific clock rates. Obviously things might get very intresting...
In every military confrontation the one who has local superiority in terms of people, firepower, training, information, tactics etc. will win.
Note that the superiority is allways local as most forces have very limited ranges they can influence the battle. Forces that cannot influence the battle do not count. Thus a nonmobile army cannot bring it's forces to contact in ways that are beneficial. A faster army can bypass and attack selected peices of the enemy.
Insurgency is based on the same principle, the insurgets will try ro bring to bear a local superiority by selecting time and place of engagement. Traditional military superiority has less to do with fighting insurgents, unless you are willing to bring the full weight to bear and calling in full artillery strikes in middle of cities and such. though I understand that the marines atleast do this occasionally.
I did not try to imply that the system in question will stop those missiles, the point I tried to make is the reason why that number was picked as goal for the missile defence system. Nothing less nothing more. (of intrest to those paranoids, the number also happens to be about the total of the missiles that the french and brits have 64+64.)
Unfortunately ISS has to be expensive for the reasons you say and a few more, like the safety requirement. Any new technology is dangerous and people die when making them better. In order for things to get better you that needs to happen. The total number of people who died in the early years of aviation was huge, but again for political reasons that cannot be allowed in the space programs.
No. They've finally caught up to where the USA and Soviet Union were 40 years ago.
Well, yes indeed, but that is a bit missing the point. Currently US does not have manned launch capacity and russia has not progessed all that far in those 40 years.
Well, good for you and your business. Be careful though if you get into tangle with the law (assuming you are a non-Muslim). A lot of Muslim countries do not allow a non-Muslim to even testify against a Muslim.
Well here the only differences really come from if you step on too powerfull people's toes.. like a bit everywhere else...
If you are a woman, you have a lot of balls. Make sue those are seen if you chose to wear something revealing.
Well, here the tourists walk around in very revealing things, definitely a sight for sore eyes.. well those that are not overweight:)
If your religion does not match the local religion, you may find spray paint on your residence encouraging violence.
Anyone spraypainting is likely to not like it.. and there is nothing such happening..
If the government decides they do not like you, your business is confiscated without trial, and if you are lucky or smart enough to keep your mouth shut will be "peacefully" forced out of the country.
That might happen if you step on wrong toes probably.. though have not heard of anything like that happening...
Note: Much of what I said is based on what is going on in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, etc. I would think that United Arab Emirates is very similar, but I could be wrong.
Many of the western companies are in process of moving their middleeast offices here because of the liberal views.. like the nightclubs.. the inclusive business enviroment.. and so on..
I would not even dream of doing the same in Saudi Arabia.. or such. Here the women are not (much) second class citizens.. and one can be reasonably sure of rule of law.. and such..
There are benefits and there are downsides. I hope you weighed them all and the right choice. Good luck.
Weighted them all? Not very likely... but in any business who can weight all the possibilities?
I am currently involved in a startup in Dubai of all places. When orginally planning where to set up things, quite many places were considered, but in the end this place won.
The reasons for coming here were:
-Low regulations, but still holding contracts.
-Very low extra costs for labor above wages.
-Good availability to labor, with pragmatic immigration policy for getting emplyees from abroard.
-Working infrastructure.
-Low taxes
-Easy incorporation
-Low crime rate
In the end it basically came down to having a reasonable place with not too much bullshit and
a place where we can concentrate on the thing we do... unlike Europe or US...
I concede that point..:)
But that only reinforces my point about having to also think of where data is prosessed when you limit what to do with data... and they have obviously done that..
You have to remember that this threat is present in any transmission of data to countires with different laws than yours.
Like take for example the case of medical data going o subcontractors in india, that data is handled unde r their (nearly nonexistant) laws in that regard.
The fact is, for some sort of data to be protected in todays world, you have to make sure not only of making laws on the data protection, but also put in proper limits of where it can be handled.
The European union Personal data directives try to make rules on this, forbidding transfer of such data outside EU.
Too bad they caved in to US pressure on airtrafic part of it...
When it comes to things from middle east you can usually get atleast somewhat better picture if check out multiple sources information for each piece of news to try to get the different slants..
I tend to try to look up any news in things like: http://english.aljazeera.net/ Aljazeera for a quite extreme view. http://www.gulfnews.com/ GulfNews as example of moderate arab media a bit further away.
and many others as time and intrest permits.
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I do not currently see any special reason for anyone to run that on the highend level, as all those things are so specialised anyway, so you can get the right staff.
But the fact is, many of the aplications that low-end supercomputing could be used for are quite "common" in many enviroments. This coupled with the fact that extremly many companies have very entrenched Microsoft-only IT-cultures, makes me think there will be quite many of "supercomputers" running windows.
Please note the use Supercomputer in quotes, as most of these systems are really not going to be supercomputers, more something like "mini-supers".
I think the whole issue revolves around the fact that it might be easier to impersonate someone else when dealing with a new registrar than with the old one ie. create new passowrds and such.
oh, you mean like when microsoft.co.uk was not renewed and someone registered it in their name?
Each type of writing has it's own requirements and actually changing from one style to other is quite hard. I work currently in management and consulting, the docments in those who area allready quite different in form, but then I do some storywriting on my own time and I do note that regardless of the atttempt to stay away from those two styles they keep creeping in. Reading back at stories I wrote back when I was in university, my stories seemed to have more scholastic language.
To quote one CV we got towards the end after the education and personal detail bulletpoints the person had actually managed to get quite well:
"Other intrests and activities:
Was involved with. Other intrests are, to read, jogging, do pottery. We do amateyr theater"
Indeed, but there is the other side of the coin too.. the busineses are mostly protected from frivilous lawsuits as the possible financial benefit to sue is not there anymore in most cases.
I stand corrected then, but I wonder why this is not so well known then?
Indeed, the whole system of the two places is quite different. In most european countries the authorities will try to protect the customers, as it is seen as their job. In US the customer protection is supposed to be handled by the individual in the courts. That is you (either as individueal or in a group) sue the company for it.
Indeed, there would be need of strong customer protection organisations allowing people to list any grievances against any business, allowing them to make more educated choises. Unfortunately that would not work in the US, as anyone trying to do that would be sued out of existance.
The world use to be a place where most stores actually knew personally each of their customers, but those days are long gone at the same time as the village store. In those days the shopkeeper knew who to sell to and how, today the only way to get this information from among the thousands or millions of customers is the use of a CRM.
There was obviously an intermediate period between the demise of the village store and the introduction of these computer systems in question, so this thing seems new.
But in the end.. the store wants to make money by making sure it gets maximum benefit of their customers.. like any other company...
Did try to look up things on the web, but seems all the things I find point at old info saying basically linux Nil, Mac close to Nil.
The funny party is still some companies release these games, so there must be a market... Maybe..
Yes people die when things are not good enough, in most cases the reson for them not being good enough is because we do not know enough.
About attitude in general, I think that the current culture trying to overprotect people is stopping innovation in many fields. Some of them important some less important.
I just wonder at what point the good of individual became more important than the good of all. Probably at about the point that humans started to think they can afford the luxury.
Please note that I do not think that human life is cheap, but since the price of progress is the fact that people are willing to take risks, I for one feel the things are often worth it.
To use the small example I used, Airplane development: Sure we could have done it the way NASA does spaceflight with maximum sudy and minimum risks, but in that case I think we would be currently at about the stage where the planes are seen to be safe for public when they have gone through an extended safety training before flying. The high number of people actually collecting the information that today is the basis of aeroplane design were all heroes, and many of them died a hero's death.
To balance things, how many people have later been saved by use of planes to transport medicines and food and so on?
If we see same thing applied to non ARM architectures, there a many strange things going to happen, as quite many things in current computers are based on the assumption that things have specific clock rates. Obviously things might get very intresting...
Note that the superiority is allways local as most forces have very limited ranges they can influence the battle. Forces that cannot influence the battle do not count. Thus a nonmobile army cannot bring it's forces to contact in ways that are beneficial. A faster army can bypass and attack selected peices of the enemy.
Insurgency is based on the same principle, the insurgets will try ro bring to bear a local superiority by selecting time and place of engagement. Traditional military superiority has less to do with fighting insurgents, unless you are willing to bring the full weight to bear and calling in full artillery strikes in middle of cities and such. though I understand that the marines atleast do this occasionally.
I did not try to imply that the system in question will stop those missiles, the point I tried to make is the reason why that number was picked as goal for the missile defence system. Nothing less nothing more. (of intrest to those paranoids, the number also happens to be about the total of the missiles that the french and brits have 64+64.)
Unfortunately ISS has to be expensive for the reasons you say and a few more, like the safety requirement. Any new technology is dangerous and people die when making them better. In order for things to get better you that needs to happen. The total number of people who died in the early years of aviation was huge, but again for political reasons that cannot be allowed in the space programs.
No. They've finally caught up to where the USA and Soviet Union were 40 years ago. Well, yes indeed, but that is a bit missing the point. Currently US does not have manned launch capacity and russia has not progessed all that far in those 40 years.
Well, thse numbers do not mean as much as quality when it comes to armies, most of their army is not even motorised.
Well, why do you think the current missile defence system that US is developing is targeted at about the same number of threaths?
I would not even dream of doing the same in Saudi Arabia.. or such. Here the women are not (much) second class citizens.. and one can be reasonably sure of rule of law.. and such.. There are benefits and there are downsides. I hope you weighed them all and the right choice. Good luck. Weighted them all? Not very likely... but in any business who can weight all the possibilities?
I am currently involved in a startup in Dubai of all places. When orginally planning where to set up things, quite many places were considered, but in the end this place won.
The reasons for coming here were:
-Low regulations, but still holding contracts.
-Very low extra costs for labor above wages.
-Good availability to labor, with pragmatic immigration policy for getting emplyees from abroard.
-Working infrastructure.
-Low taxes
-Easy incorporation
-Low crime rate
In the end it basically came down to having a reasonable place with not too much bullshit and a place where we can concentrate on the thing we do... unlike Europe or US...
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/britia n/ghent.htm
I concede that point.. :)
But that only reinforces my point about having to also think of where data is prosessed when you limit what to do with data... and they have obviously done that..
Like take for example the case of medical data going o subcontractors in india, that data is handled unde r their (nearly nonexistant) laws in that regard.
The fact is, for some sort of data to be protected in todays world, you have to make sure not only of making laws on the data protection, but also put in proper limits of where it can be handled.
The European union Personal data directives try to make rules on this, forbidding transfer of such data outside EU.
Too bad they caved in to US pressure on airtrafic part of it...
I tend to try to look up any news in things like:
http://english.aljazeera.net/ Aljazeera for a quite extreme view.
http://www.gulfnews.com/ GulfNews as example of moderate arab media a bit further away.
and many others as time and intrest permits.