Changes in hardware are not user's concern: he wants to play games, if that means throwing all the title available for X-Box 1, he'll wait until good titles are there for X-Box2... While, with backward comptibility, he would go straight to the shop, and buy it.
That would allow Microsoft to take a good advantage over PS3, setting its market before the PS3 arrival. But here users will wait until good titles, and also PS3 are there. As PS3 should be backward compatible, it will allow Sony to sell its gaming system quicker and at a higher price than Microsoft.
Thanks to wireless extensions, you can play around with your wifi cards, getting stats from the proc filesystem, changing your WIFI card's mode (or even increase its power level) with common IOCTLs.
I think that this helped a lot in the development of 802.11 networks: it offered a good opporunity for researchers to work together with standards and common cards, and fastened applications that shoved some weaknesses of the 802.11 industry's first implementations: WIFI sniffing, WEP weaknesses... So that industry could improve its weaknesses.
OK, so now, let's face another problem: Instead of looking for petroleum, we have now to find a way to get methanol and hydrogen.
As methanol is made of Carbon, Oxygen and Hydrogen atoms, a common mean to get some is from... Petroleum!
For hydrogen, easy, just take some water, some electricity, and separate Hydrogen from Oxygen. But, where do we get electricity? Sometimes from petroleum, often from nuclear plants...
So before everything else we should better develop cleaner ways for producing our electricity.
I found this on the Folding at Home site. It seems that they are running FAH on spare time and when you have a look at the statistics of team 446, you see that they are the first team, that they had 23721 CPUs active during the last 50 days...
that tells more about "the beast". So far, I just can tell that it is made of linux clusters, containing about 12500 nodes, because in case of clusters you are facing bi processors systems 98% of the time.
Here is the track, if someone wants to hunt the beast.
Many other clusters/grids computers can't be there. Defense clusters are amongst the most powerfull, but people are really reluctant to tell the other what their computing power is made of as it comes to defense...
In research, there are huge grids that cannot be benchmarked, because those are co-financed, and facing the difficulties to determine who would get the credit for the whole grid, the best is to avoid it.
And the final reason could be that now that the manufacturers are leading a war on this list, the figures are often allmost meaningless.
Where are the times where your homemade research bi-Athlon cluster could enter this list?
I have seen that there are 65 more IBM supercomputers in june than in october (jump from 159 to 224). I thried to figure out which computer those were, because it is an impressive gap: + 65 out of 500 in 6 month? Marketing gap?
In October, HP was impressive, because they filled the bottom of the list with Itanium based superdome: they ranked those all on the same bench figures, that means that those computers were not benchmarked by the customers but by HP. That was a good oportunity for IBM: each time they could put one of their computers on the list, they were sure to throw an HP one out of it, so increase the gap by a factor of 2 (+1 for IBM, -1 for HP) with their main rival.
So I am now wondering if this top500 list still means anything in term of performances and computing power, or is just a promoting tool, where manufacturers can conduct a war on market shares.
Is it still usable without any software modelisation? Indeed, this algorithm deals with kinds of mutations allowed: in this field those are motor caracteristics, the tires,... and a bad mutation leads to a car crash!!
On the other hand, if you have got a model, this may only lead to discovering how to improve your model because all those really accurate tunings will obviously fall into the gap of the differences between your model and reality. Moreover a formula one does not depend on only 10 factors as in video games, so the model used here seems to be really far from reality.
Ok, here comes a new API for login?? What about LDAP, isn't it secure, reliable and efficient? So Why do people have to reinvent the wheel everytime? It would be far more constructive to think about a way to integrate and interface a huge Internet distributed LDAP structure, and have a clear standard to implement the way it works...
Every website could have a root server for it's zone, registering new users' LDAP root server for authentification. They could also be third party LDAP server provider: ISP could be part of it, because they have go the login/pass associated to your connection, and they are already running LDAP servers.
When this worm hit a lot of my friends, at home, I first tried to figure out what it did, beside restarting computers.
It did nothing to the files, just rebooted the computer, and waited for a precise date to attack Microsoft site. I wanted to participate to this huge distributed computing effort.
To do this, no patch was required: just open the control panel, clic on ugly icons, and go to the RPC panel. Here, I was surprised to see that the main annoying comportment of this worm was due to a default windows setting!
The default option on RPC failure is to "restart computer"! So I chose the "restart service" option for every failure and that worked fine! All my friends could now live with this worm and contribute to this distributed computing effort!
Default options in Windows are users' worst choices: restart the computer on every failure!! The most funny, an stupid, one is the default restart computer on... boot failure!
To Fix every virus under Windows, put a Knoppix CD in your box and then restart your computer for the last time.
There is no way for me to buy a portable gaming system from a cell phone manufacturer: on their first attempt, they did not even know where to put the cartridge. That seems to anounce bad new for the upcoming games, anyway, they have got the solution: if it is useless, you can still call a hotline!
I will buy this kind of mixed system when Nintendo includes a cell phone in GBA.
Anyway, let's put some nano technology into the drivers first! Nano machines that can strenghten the spare parts of a car, also allow to strenghten the drivers' bodies.
There this marvelous technology would be more usefull than in the role of a price cutter for the industry.
That could be cool to build RF proof clothes with a tissue that has the same properties as this wallpaper. So that you could hear your cell phone, without fearing for your health! ok, problem arise when you put it in one of your pockets and wait for a call...
Some of this means more in the server room than on the desktop That is one of the points, I do not understand Intel's strategy! Are they coming back on the server market through desktop solutions? As my work deals with HPC clusters, I played around with PCI-X for 1 year, and it is only usefull for Gigabit NICs, for low latency high speed fiber NICs and also large SCSI RAID bays. PCI-X 1.0 can't deal with 10Gb/s NICs, and we have to wait further improvements to be able to fully use multiple Gb NICs over the same PCI-X bridge, so on the server market, it should already go faster...
A good news: you can put a PCI card in a PCI-X slot, the counter part, is that the whole PCI-X bus will act as a standard PCI one...
Moreover, on the graphic cards use, 4x is already enough, 8x gives a good margin, but, I don't see any need to increase graphics card bandwidth? Screen resolutions won't change tomorrow, and framerate improvements? I don't see the point, graphic cards already have their own memory, often faster than the one dedicated to the rest of the system... May be cool for huge graphic wall, with plenty of cards in one box? But ok, clusters dedicated to graphics already do that.
There are already Tyan motherboards for Xeon and opterons that give both PCI-X and AGP, that will only depend on Intel's will to ship chips alowing that, and, as I have seen it through Itanium, Intel like to discard technologies (for Itanium, they have even changed the standard for bootable CDs!!), this can be seen through the new BTX alim (BTX... why not ATY or AUX??). That is why I am so reluctant about this anouncement: you don't need PCI-X to enjoy broadband Internet, you don't need it for 3D apps, as well as you did not need a P4 to "surf on the web" as they claimed it on their ads... I have never liked Intel strategies to own the market!
you should have a look at via epia motherboards with integrated CPU, NIC, sound, graphics,... in small dimensions (17 x 17 cm), and consuming small amount of power. I think that the next revolution is low consuming and power adaptive CPUs just like transmeta efficeon, those are really cool! I have a laptop with a transmeta 5600: no heat, no nose (no fan inside!) and an incredible autonomy.
Just take everything out of your box, and throw away your alim, memory, graphic card, motherboard, and so, what's left? The good old floppy drive, and the case! That is a little bit hard to swallow! Moreover, Intel cannot change all the current technology on its own: now, AMD is a serious alternative, and, thanks to the Itanium (1 & 2) saga on the server market, we all know that Intel's choice have to be debatted, moreover Athlon 64 FX are very impressive, and allow you to keep your hardware! I don't know why this article deals with PCI-X and audio chipset, it is not a CPU feature, but depends on a motherboard's chipsets... Definitely, my next computer will remain AMD powered!
Microsoft Bus should better have a stop in France before other countries! Free software allows people to train by themselves, because you have got the source code, ok, if you can't read it,or you are too lazy, nope, you will use those software like any proprietary ones, but, freesoftware exists thanks to a community, and so, by nature people are willing to help the ones who need it. They are not reluctant people held in a call center in a country where work ing time is cheaper.
Distributors sell more cds, that is really cool for them, but now, they use the P2P argument to cut costs: "Selling cds is no more profitable", I don't think so, these companies laid off a lot of people, and only after that, they have found a new mean to recover money?? That sounds really strange, why not having done so at the beginning? Because it was only a matter of time, P2P was just a mean to increase profitability by cutting jobs and pushing non profitable artists out of the market.
And so, what now? Diversity in music is disappearing, and is only distributed through P2P networks... So you can be sued because you want to hear something that does not belong to the charts. Moreover, these protections are only jokes, whenever you can hear at the tracks, you can rip those. I will sustain those companies when they sell blank cds to prevent piracy.
I have played with EFI on some Itanium2 computers. It is a cool technology, because it allows you to conduct the way your computer is booting, adding your own scripts, you can even use python for that. But there are some disturbing points: these scripts are supposed to reside on your hard drive in a FAT16 formated partition, and the native EFI scripting language looks like windows style "autoexec.bat" scripting... So may be funny, but it would be far more better, and less intrusive for hard drive, to have linux bios instead.
Of course, but this did not depend on limitations due to LCD technology, while, it is the case here.
Dissociation of the 2 pictures is done on the same screen, depending on the viewing angle for each eye. This is a real technology limitation because with this, nothing can prevent you from mixing the 2 pictures. Other solutions involve a physical separation of the 2 eyes, with 3D lenses that have a filter that select the eye intended to see each picture out of an animation, or tiny video projectors that display each eye's point of view from a 3D scene on the retina. Those are really realistic, even if the use of lenses introduce blinking pictures, because it implies a division of the frame rate by a factor of 2. So I am waiting for the tiny video projectors.
I read about this technology when it was launched in Japan, but I have concerns about the viewing angle that allows to watch the screen in real 3D.
In fact this technology is based on the same as the small cards made of plastic and paper, that allow you to see a kind of animated 3D caracters.
And here, even with explanations on sharp site, I would say that there should be some problems when you are not exactly in front of your screen... If someone has got an answer about this accuracy.
Moreover, this technology is not used for professional 3D computer visualization.
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That would allow Microsoft to take a good advantage over PS3, setting its market before the PS3 arrival. But here users will wait until good titles, and also PS3 are there. As PS3 should be backward compatible, it will allow Sony to sell its gaming system quicker and at a higher price than Microsoft.
I think that this helped a lot in the development of 802.11 networks: it offered a good opporunity for researchers to work together with standards and common cards, and fastened applications that shoved some weaknesses of the 802.11 industry's first implementations: WIFI sniffing, WEP weaknesses... So that industry could improve its weaknesses.
As methanol is made of Carbon, Oxygen and Hydrogen atoms, a common mean to get some is from... Petroleum!
For hydrogen, easy, just take some water, some electricity, and separate Hydrogen from Oxygen. But, where do we get electricity? Sometimes from petroleum, often from nuclear plants...
So before everything else we should better develop cleaner ways for producing our electricity.
that tells more about "the beast". So far, I just can tell that it is made of linux clusters, containing about 12500 nodes, because in case of clusters you are facing bi processors systems 98% of the time.
Here is the track, if someone wants to hunt the beast.
In research, there are huge grids that cannot be benchmarked, because those are co-financed, and facing the difficulties to determine who would get the credit for the whole grid, the best is to avoid it.
And the final reason could be that now that the manufacturers are leading a war on this list, the figures are often allmost meaningless.
Where are the times where your homemade research bi-Athlon cluster could enter this list?
In October, HP was impressive, because they filled the bottom of the list with Itanium based superdome: they ranked those all on the same bench figures, that means that those computers were not benchmarked by the customers but by HP. That was a good oportunity for IBM: each time they could put one of their computers on the list, they were sure to throw an HP one out of it, so increase the gap by a factor of 2 (+1 for IBM, -1 for HP) with their main rival.
So I am now wondering if this top500 list still means anything in term of performances and computing power, or is just a promoting tool, where manufacturers can conduct a war on market shares.
A lot of people take the problem from the other side, while trying to download movies on your TV, we prefer to watch tv on our PCs.
On the other hand, if you have got a model, this may only lead to discovering how to improve your model because all those really accurate tunings will obviously fall into the gap of the differences between your model and reality. Moreover a formula one does not depend on only 10 factors as in video games, so the model used here seems to be really far from reality.
I'd like to improve the picture quality on my TV, I will now consider using genetic algorithms for tunig this. Thank you guys!
Every website could have a root server for it's zone, registering new users' LDAP root server for authentification. They could also be third party LDAP server provider: ISP could be part of it, because they have go the login/pass associated to your connection, and they are already running LDAP servers.
It did nothing to the files, just rebooted the computer, and waited for a precise date to attack Microsoft site. I wanted to participate to this huge distributed computing effort.
To do this, no patch was required: just open the control panel, clic on ugly icons, and go to the RPC panel. Here, I was surprised to see that the main annoying comportment of this worm was due to a default windows setting!
The default option on RPC failure is to "restart computer"! So I chose the "restart service" option for every failure and that worked fine! All my friends could now live with this worm and contribute to this distributed computing effort!
Default options in Windows are users' worst choices: restart the computer on every failure!! The most funny, an stupid, one is the default restart computer on... boot failure!
To Fix every virus under Windows, put a Knoppix CD in your box and then restart your computer for the last time.
I will buy this kind of mixed system when Nintendo includes a cell phone in GBA.
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There this marvelous technology would be more usefull than in the role of a price cutter for the industry.
Remenber: always put your cell phone in your pant's pocket!
That could be cool to build RF proof clothes with a tissue that has the same properties as this wallpaper. So that you could hear your cell phone, without fearing for your health! ok, problem arise when you put it in one of your pockets and wait for a call...
A good news: you can put a PCI card in a PCI-X slot, the counter part, is that the whole PCI-X bus will act as a standard PCI one...
Moreover, on the graphic cards use, 4x is already enough, 8x gives a good margin, but, I don't see any need to increase graphics card bandwidth? Screen resolutions won't change tomorrow, and framerate improvements? I don't see the point, graphic cards already have their own memory, often faster than the one dedicated to the rest of the system... May be cool for huge graphic wall, with plenty of cards in one box? But ok, clusters dedicated to graphics already do that.
There are already Tyan motherboards for Xeon and opterons that give both PCI-X and AGP, that will only depend on Intel's will to ship chips alowing that, and, as I have seen it through Itanium, Intel like to discard technologies (for Itanium, they have even changed the standard for bootable CDs!!), this can be seen through the new BTX alim (BTX... why not ATY or AUX??). That is why I am so reluctant about this anouncement: you don't need PCI-X to enjoy broadband Internet, you don't need it for 3D apps, as well as you did not need a P4 to "surf on the web" as they claimed it on their ads... I have never liked Intel strategies to own the market!
you should have a look at via epia motherboards with integrated CPU, NIC, sound, graphics,... in small dimensions (17 x 17 cm), and consuming small amount of power. I think that the next revolution is low consuming and power adaptive CPUs just like transmeta efficeon, those are really cool! I have a laptop with a transmeta 5600: no heat, no nose (no fan inside!) and an incredible autonomy.
Just take everything out of your box, and throw away your alim, memory, graphic card, motherboard, and so, what's left? The good old floppy drive, and the case! That is a little bit hard to swallow! Moreover, Intel cannot change all the current technology on its own: now, AMD is a serious alternative, and, thanks to the Itanium (1 & 2) saga on the server market, we all know that Intel's choice have to be debatted, moreover Athlon 64 FX are very impressive, and allow you to keep your hardware! I don't know why this article deals with PCI-X and audio chipset, it is not a CPU feature, but depends on a motherboard's chipsets... Definitely, my next computer will remain AMD powered!
Microsoft Bus should better have a stop in France before other countries! Free software allows people to train by themselves, because you have got the source code, ok, if you can't read it,or you are too lazy, nope, you will use those software like any proprietary ones, but, freesoftware exists thanks to a community, and so, by nature people are willing to help the ones who need it. They are not reluctant people held in a call center in a country where work ing time is cheaper.
Distributors sell more cds, that is really cool for them, but now, they use the P2P argument to cut costs: "Selling cds is no more profitable", I don't think so, these companies laid off a lot of people, and only after that, they have found a new mean to recover money?? That sounds really strange, why not having done so at the beginning? Because it was only a matter of time, P2P was just a mean to increase profitability by cutting jobs and pushing non profitable artists out of the market. And so, what now? Diversity in music is disappearing, and is only distributed through P2P networks... So you can be sued because you want to hear something that does not belong to the charts. Moreover, these protections are only jokes, whenever you can hear at the tracks, you can rip those. I will sustain those companies when they sell blank cds to prevent piracy.
Those guys are intolerant to intolerancy, so those thoughts should be banned by themselves.
I have played with EFI on some Itanium2 computers. It is a cool technology, because it allows you to conduct the way your computer is booting, adding your own scripts, you can even use python for that. But there are some disturbing points: these scripts are supposed to reside on your hard drive in a FAT16 formated partition, and the native EFI scripting language looks like windows style "autoexec.bat" scripting... So may be funny, but it would be far more better, and less intrusive for hard drive, to have linux bios instead.
Of course, but this did not depend on limitations due to LCD technology, while, it is the case here. Dissociation of the 2 pictures is done on the same screen, depending on the viewing angle for each eye. This is a real technology limitation because with this, nothing can prevent you from mixing the 2 pictures. Other solutions involve a physical separation of the 2 eyes, with 3D lenses that have a filter that select the eye intended to see each picture out of an animation, or tiny video projectors that display each eye's point of view from a 3D scene on the retina. Those are really realistic, even if the use of lenses introduce blinking pictures, because it implies a division of the frame rate by a factor of 2. So I am waiting for the tiny video projectors.
I read about this technology when it was launched in Japan, but I have concerns about the viewing angle that allows to watch the screen in real 3D. In fact this technology is based on the same as the small cards made of plastic and paper, that allow you to see a kind of animated 3D caracters. And here, even with explanations on sharp site, I would say that there should be some problems when you are not exactly in front of your screen... If someone has got an answer about this accuracy. Moreover, this technology is not used for professional 3D computer visualization.