I've been running 2mi 2-3 times per week on my treadmill while (attempting) to play various FPS games.
It's a blast, and it really takes my mind off the boredom of jogging far more than listening to music or watching TV does.
I'd suggest you wear a helmet if you're going to try this, though:)
True. But this is just one example of the voluminous waste these people create for the company every day.
I have 7 layers of management between myself and the CEO. Four of those are vice presidents. I have never seen or heard from any of
the managers between the 4th line and the CEO. I have never even got an email from any of them, I have no idea what they do.
One executive's sole job apparently is to fly around to different sites a couple of times per year and give speeches about diversity. The guy could easily be replaced by a VHS tape.
In the last couple of years, they have even added some parallel managers, so instead of me having to give status in one meeting per week, I now have to give status reports seperately to my team leader, project manager, 1st line manager, and then even a team leader of an associated project. The decision makers for this project are three levels up, so I spend a lot of time making sure my clueless project manager understands the technical issues.
Agreed. But Instead, they have $100k lunches:
fiddling while Armonk burns (scroll down, or search for IBM)
I guess they could be buying it with their own money, but still, that's just bad PR in the middle of layoffs. a$$holes.
I thought BlueGene/P was targeting a petaflop?
I don't think this Cell based thing is its replacement.
If BGP is still coming, it should be coming soon: link
Its really sad when I have to scroll this far down through the usual facist state declaring nitwits to find a decent summary of the case, let alone someone who seems to have read the majority opinion.
The article summary states:
"Intel also claims that a Core 2 Extreme-based enthusiast PC will leave the pixel power of a Playstation 3 in the dust.
but then I also see in the article:
"[I don't know off the top of my head] the number of polygons it can draw versus a Cell, but I think it's going to be higher, because there's a lot more bandwidth on the quad system than on the Cell system."
A few floors collapsed, yes. But the bulidings did not. The force of a floor falling on the floor beneath it should not generally be enough to bring the lower floor down.
One floor falling on a lower floor, perhaps. But what about scores of floors? Each floor that collapses would produce additional momentum. There's also the damage caused from the jetliner to consider here for WTC1 and 2, or the falling debris on WTC7.
See this well done presentation.
Think about it: the floors have been holding that weight up for decades. That's a statement about mostly statics that is meaningless for this argument. They held up floors for decades, but without
the dynamics of significant structural damage, fire, etc.
A jet fuel fire is no hotter than any other hydrocarbon fire that reaches it's maximum possible temperature.
Under ideal lab conditions, sure -- but we're comparing something that intended to ignite and burn (fuel) with a random assortment of office equipment that would likely include fire retardants in the carpet, wiring, etc. These are things that are not intended to ignite, let alone burn for long periods of time.
Can you provide evidence that any of those previous building fires burned at the same temperature and for the same amount of time as a large jet fuel fire?
And even if they did, there's still the pesky problem of the massive amount of variables involved in each of these cases. I'll say it again, just because it didn't manage to fully collapse in a handful of previous cases involving different buildings and far different conditions, doesn't mean it is impossible or even unlikely.
There's simply no way the jet fuel was still burning weeks later when they were still finding pools of molten metal.
Assuming a few eyewitness accounts of pools of molten metal are true, what melted them? And what kept them in a liquid state for these eyewitnesses? Planted explosive charges in the basement? Seems like that would have cooled off quickly. Was steel the only metal at WTC? What about Aluminum, yaknow, from the planes? Al melts at ~1200F. Can these eyewitnesses visually tell different pools of molten metal apart?
Or couldn't they have meant melted steel?
Or perhaps it was glass. Some glass melts as low as 900F.
And where are the pictures of the molten metal?
The steel didn't need to melt for the towers to collapse. I'm sure you've seen it, but here's the link to the Scientific American debunking anyway.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. And so far, the "official" version of events has far better evidence.
from the first link above:
"
In October 2004 in Caracas, Venezuela, a fire in a 56-story office tower burned for more 17 hours and spread over 26 floors. Two floors collapsed, but the underlying floors did not, and the building remained standing"
"Also in February 2005 the 32-story Windsor Building in Madrid, Spain, caught fire and burned for two days. The building was completely engulfed in flames at one point. Several top floors collapsed onto lower ones, yet the building remained standing."
Also from the second link you supplied:
"The top floors of the landmark building have already fallen into lower storeys, reducing the skyscraper to a smoking, blackened skeleton."
It occurrs to me that there are examples above of severe structural damage to a building from fire.
Never mind that jet fuel will burn longer and hotter than an average smattering of supplies and equipment in an average office building.
And never mind that none of those examples involved planes.
Evern if there were no examples of major structural damage from fire, there are problems with this kind of argument. The post seems to imply that there are no previous instances of a building completely collapsing from fire in the past, so it must be impossible for it to happen in the future.
I'm sure you've heard of the example argument of "well, I've pulled the trigger five times and nothing happened, the gun must not be loaded" . . .
I'm sure spam, phishing scams, and annoying ads also play a role in the barrier for growth.
There's also my personal reason (for not getting online AS MUCH anyway) -- I sit at a computer
all day at work, why would I want to do more of that in my spare time?
Yeah, its for air flow.
See the large ppt presentation here: http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/briefing_day. html
Power, Packaging and Cooling, slide 20, I think.
Basically, the ducts are larger where the airflow is greater.
True, the biggest BlueGene/L implementation does best this number.
Also interesting to note, this thing has BlueGene in it:
"
The supercomputer, consisting of two systems -- Hitachi's multipurpose supercomputer with a peak performance of 2.15 terra flops and IBM Japan's Blue Gene Solution with a peak performance of 57.3 terra flops -- is capable of making about 59 trillion calculations per second, the Mainichi Shimbun reported Wednesday.
"
IBM can most certainly do low voltage (and low power) PowerPCs -- just look at the BlueGene compute chip, for example. Even the Cell is considered relatively low power at low voltages, especially considering it's a 9 core uP.
Apple's decision was about cost, plain and simple. They were too cheap to prod IBM into being interested in spending money on developing another desktop processor, especially when it must have been difficult in keeping IBM's interest what with scoring the entire game console market.
Microsoft switches to PowerPC, Apple switches to Intel, and now a "liberal" interpretation of the Constitution means my property rights can be trumped by any developers who manage to convince local governments that my house would be better for the public in the form of a walmart.
Another me-too post -- I used to frequent the one in Columbus on Bethel Rd and it was fantastic. They always had everything I needed, the Apple section was as good as any Apple store, and their return policy is the most liberal I've seen anywhere.
Now that I've moved, I visit the one in Minneapolis often and its just as good. I'd like to see this fantastic chain expand.
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I've been running 2mi 2-3 times per week on my treadmill while (attempting) to play various FPS games.
It's a blast, and it really takes my mind off the boredom of jogging far more than listening to music or watching TV does.
I'd suggest you wear a helmet if you're going to try this, though:)
I think I found one: here
search for "insurgency", or just keep scrolling. The mood here is downright ugly, and I'm not even in Global Services.
True. But this is just one example of the voluminous waste these people create for the company every day.
I have 7 layers of management between myself and the CEO. Four of those are vice presidents. I have never seen or heard from any of the managers between the 4th line and the CEO. I have never even got an email from any of them, I have no idea what they do. One executive's sole job apparently is to fly around to different sites a couple of times per year and give speeches about diversity. The guy could easily be replaced by a VHS tape.
In the last couple of years, they have even added some parallel managers, so instead of me having to give status in one meeting per week, I now have to give status reports seperately to my team leader, project manager, 1st line manager, and then even a team leader of an associated project. The decision makers for this project are three levels up, so I spend a lot of time making sure my clueless project manager understands the technical issues.
Yet, they don't seem to have a problem with the bad PR that something like THIS might generate.
(near the bottom of the story)
Agreed. But Instead, they have $100k lunches: fiddling while Armonk burns
(scroll down, or search for IBM)
I guess they could be buying it with their own money, but still, that's just bad PR in the middle of layoffs. a$$holes.
I thought BlueGene/P was targeting a petaflop?
I don't think this Cell based thing is its replacement. If BGP is still coming, it should be coming soon:
link
Its really sad when I have to scroll this far down through the usual facist state declaring nitwits to find a decent summary of the case, let alone someone who seems to have read the majority opinion.
someone please mod this guy up.
The article summary states:
"Intel also claims that a Core 2 Extreme-based enthusiast PC will leave the pixel power of a Playstation 3 in the dust.
but then I also see in the article:
"[I don't know off the top of my head] the number of polygons it can draw versus a Cell, but I think it's going to be higher, because there's a lot more bandwidth on the quad system than on the Cell system."
That doesn't sound like much of a claim to me.
A few floors collapsed, yes. But the bulidings did not. The force of a floor falling on the floor beneath it should not generally be enough to bring the lower floor down.
One floor falling on a lower floor, perhaps. But what about scores of floors? Each floor that collapses would produce additional momentum. There's also the damage caused from the jetliner to consider here for WTC1 and 2, or the falling debris on WTC7.
See this well done presentation.
Think about it: the floors have been holding that weight up for decades.
That's a statement about mostly statics that is meaningless for this argument. They held up floors for decades, but without the dynamics of significant structural damage, fire, etc.
A jet fuel fire is no hotter than any other hydrocarbon fire that reaches it's maximum possible temperature.
Under ideal lab conditions, sure -- but we're comparing something that intended to ignite and burn (fuel) with a random assortment of office equipment that would likely include fire retardants in the carpet, wiring, etc. These are things that are not intended to ignite, let alone burn for long periods of time.
Can you provide evidence that any of those previous building fires burned at the same temperature and for the same amount of time as a large jet fuel fire?
And even if they did, there's still the pesky problem of the massive amount of variables involved in each of these cases. I'll say it again, just because it didn't manage to fully collapse in a handful of previous cases involving different buildings and far different conditions, doesn't mean it is impossible or even unlikely.
There's simply no way the jet fuel was still burning weeks later when they were still finding pools of molten metal.
Assuming a few eyewitness accounts of pools of molten metal are true, what melted them? And what kept them in a liquid state for these eyewitnesses? Planted explosive charges in the basement? Seems like that would have cooled off quickly.
Was steel the only metal at WTC? What about Aluminum, yaknow, from the planes? Al melts at ~1200F. Can these eyewitnesses visually tell different pools of molten metal apart?
Or couldn't they have meant melted steel?
Or perhaps it was glass. Some glass melts as low as 900F.
And where are the pictures of the molten metal?
The steel didn't need to melt for the towers to collapse. I'm sure you've seen it, but here's the link to the Scientific American debunking anyway.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. And so far, the "official" version of events has far better evidence.
from the first link above:
" In October 2004 in Caracas, Venezuela, a fire in a 56-story office tower burned for more 17 hours and spread over 26 floors. Two floors collapsed, but the underlying floors did not, and the building remained standing"
"Also in February 2005 the 32-story Windsor Building in Madrid, Spain, caught fire and burned for two days. The building was completely engulfed in flames at one point. Several top floors collapsed onto lower ones, yet the building remained standing."
Also from the second link you supplied:
"The top floors of the landmark building have already fallen into lower storeys, reducing the skyscraper to a smoking, blackened skeleton."
It occurrs to me that there are examples above of severe structural damage to a building from fire.
Never mind that jet fuel will burn longer and hotter than an average smattering of supplies and equipment in an average office building. And never mind that none of those examples involved planes.
Evern if there were no examples of major structural damage from fire, there are problems with this kind of argument. The post seems to imply that there are no previous instances of a building completely collapsing from fire in the past, so it must be impossible for it to happen in the future.
I'm sure you've heard of the example argument of "well, I've pulled the trigger five times and nothing happened, the gun must not be loaded" . . .
I'm not going to watch it, unless Han shoots a new bounty hunter (first) at the opening of every single episode.
Only that will atone for Lucas's past sins.
I'm sure spam, phishing scams, and annoying ads also play a role in the barrier for growth.
There's also my personal reason (for not getting online AS MUCH anyway) -- I sit at a computer
all day at work, why would I want to do more of that in my spare time?
. . . an IBM Cell-based bladeserver. Lookie here:
The Linux Beacon--IBM Announces BladeCenter Kickers
The Cell Processor's Other Life - NewsFactor Network
You can get a IBM Cell blade, but its only availiable by special bid:
l 2 00000JLPQ
The Cell Processor's Other Life - NewsFactor Network
http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb021406-story02.htm
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=02
Yeah, its for air flow.. html
See the large ppt presentation here:
http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/briefing_day
Power, Packaging and Cooling, slide 20, I think.
Basically, the ducts are larger where the airflow is greater.
True, the biggest BlueGene/L implementation does best this number. Also interesting to note, this thing has BlueGene in it: " The supercomputer, consisting of two systems -- Hitachi's multipurpose supercomputer with a peak performance of 2.15 terra flops and IBM Japan's Blue Gene Solution with a peak performance of 57.3 terra flops -- is capable of making about 59 trillion calculations per second, the Mainichi Shimbun reported Wednesday. "
IBM can most certainly do low voltage (and low power) PowerPCs -- just look at the BlueGene compute chip, for example.
Even the Cell is considered relatively low power at low voltages, especially considering it's a 9 core uP.
Apple's decision was about cost, plain and simple.
They were too cheap to prod IBM into being interested in spending money on developing another desktop processor, especially when it must have been difficult in keeping IBM's interest what with scoring the entire game console market.
I wonder if this is Cell-based--
its 8 pixel pipelines, 90nm process, low voltage, "highest core clock of any GPU to date" . . .
That sounds a lot like Cell.
Of course, but you're missing the point.
This is a perfect opportunity to blather on with uninformed speculation, rumors, pipe dreams of dual core Antaries laptops, etc. . .
Why doesn't apple just continue to use both architectures?
Can I get a discount if I lose a few pounds?
Seriously though, kids weigh far less and take up less space, what about a donation for a make-a-wish foundation candidate?
yes, its been a good year for ironic twists.
Microsoft switches to PowerPC, Apple switches to Intel, and now a "liberal" interpretation of the Constitution means my property rights can be trumped by any developers who manage to convince local governments that my house would be better for the public in the form of a walmart.
And PowerPCs will have the Hypervisor so you can . . . Oh yeah, never mind.
Another me-too post -- I used to frequent the one in Columbus on Bethel Rd and it was fantastic.
They always had everything I needed, the Apple section was as good as any Apple store, and their return policy is the most liberal I've seen anywhere.
Now that I've moved, I visit the one in Minneapolis often and its just as good. I'd like to see this fantastic chain expand.
zombie eat brain, but zombie cannot swallow this injustice . .