Clearly not a programmer, but she is definitely much closer to the IT world than any other monarch, having working at Apple. She's babelicious too, we need more IT queens like her:
It seems this Washington Post correspondant didn't bother to investigate how Altnet is linked to Sharman Networks... Altnet is virtually Sharman Networks...
Maybe the reporter didn't want to get Mr. Whipple mad at hime and decided he wasn't going to squeeze the Sharman.
Smart contractors develop relationships with their clients in order to cultivate repeat business. When an employee bails out for another job, they rarely think about returning to the original employer - often they even harbor feelings of great mistrust, feeling that they were treated unfairly which is what motivated them to look for a new job in the first place. Because of these common situations it often makes more sense to trust the contractors than it does to trust the employees.
I'm a hard-core ad-filterer, been doing it for many, many years. But, I'd rather see this kind of technology come out than for more draconian DMCA type laws to be passed that effectively mandate that we sit with our eyes taped open when browsing the web.
At least this way we have a fighting chance in an "arms race" of pop-up-blockers and anti-pop-up-blockers and anti-anti-pop-up-blockers. When the law gets involved it all comes down to who has the bigger guns, and that's hardly ever the little guy like me and you.
Most of the key people at Chiaro are people who jumped ship from Convex Computer after they were acquired by Hewlett-Packard back in the mid-90s. Convex's claim to fame was to have invented and productized the first mini-supercomputer hitting the sweet-spot between the biggest vax and the smallest cray and they were very successful for about a decade.
Larry Smarr, of UIUC's supercomputing center (aka the place where Mosaic was developed) has always been a big fan of the Convex crowd.
Another bit of trivia - Jeff Christenson, of PERL fame is a convex alum as well as Dave Taylor of Id Software fame and a whole host of other key people now scattered about the world.
You don't know the half of it. Peruse this article in a recent Risks Digest.
For those who are unaware of the Risks Digest it is not your typical consipiracy theory discussion list - excerpts are regularly published by the ACM. They've had regular coverage of problems with electronic voting systems since before the Gush & Bore debacle, but each new item on the topic seems to be scarier than the last. We potentially have HUGE problems with our electronic voting systems -- if policies are not changed soon we will (if we haven't already) end up with a situation far more serious than watergate ever was.
I don't know why a hobbyist website is reviewing this unit - the target market is not for hard-core gamerz or other home user types. Solid state disks are primarily used as database accelerators. Although the throughput of a solid state disk like this can be easily beat by a reasonably small raid, it takes a much larger raid to beat the io/s rate. If you have indices that don't fit in ram, you stick them on the solid-state disk and watch your database speed up by an order of magnitude.
Alternatively, as at least one other poster has already mentioned - if you use a journalling filesystem like ext3 or rieserfs, then putting the journal on a seperate solid-state disk is a huge performance gain.
I know most people think of DiVX/XVid/MPEG4 as a tool to pass video around on the net at (relatively) low-bandwidth rates. But what I want to see is a standalone player that will support HDTV-level resolution. I have an HDTV capture card (or two) that I use to record broadcast HDTV as well as PPV, HBO and Showtime shows in high-def. I want to make DiVX DVDs of this high-def material - I want at least an hour of 1280x720 or 1920x1080i (really 1080p @ 24fps, which is just about the same as 1080i) on one DVD-R that I can play without having to use my computer.
If you haven't seen LoTR in high-def, you are missing out. Word is the new director's cut is going to be PPV once the DVDs are out. For a $5 PPV, that's way better picture quality than anything commercially available on DVD.
Not mention displaying on a projector used in either rear or front projection but without the ability to mirror in the projector (admittedly, most digital projectors can mirror, but not all and you know that murphy's law would probably apply here).
Not at all. The problem is that sure it looks good today, but commodity cpus increase in performance much faster than any other kind of processor. So, today putting the network stack in the NIC might look good, but 6 months from now it won't be so good and 1 year from now it will be a bottle-neck.
The industry has been swapping back-and-forth between smart I/O peripherals and dumb ones for at least 20 years now, each time they get to ~100% dumb I/O somebody decides that it would be a good idea to re-invent the past and go for a smart I/O controller, other companies follow suit we get a surge of smart I/O and after a couple of years people start to realize what a drag all these 1-2 year old I/O controllers are on modern systems and they swing back to dumb ones - rinse, lather, repeat.
Also, in the specific case of network stacks there are some smart asm tricks that will do most of grunt work (i.e. checksumming) in the cpu for the same cost as the data-copy itself. So, unless you do dma directly to the user buffers, the hardest part of the network stack is basically free.
I think you've been drinking the MS kool-aid, or at least somebody's kool-aid. I mean, what the heck is a hypocracy? Rule by under-acheivers? Government by the extremely mellow?
Would Spicoli be president if the US were a hypocracy? Would we be sending dubies to Iraq instead of bombs? Or, dude!, how about some of the poppies we got when we took over Afghanistan?
There is a difference in the restrictions on private individuals and companies versus the restrictions on the government. There is lots of precendent for this difference in restrictions - for example cops can't use evidence they found on private property without a warrant but if joe shmoe finds the evidence and hands it over to the cops, it is fair game.
Anyways, my point is that as a private individual you are free to take as many pictures of people in public as you want but the government is not allowed to do so *indiscriminantly*. Disposition of those pictures is another, really unrelated issue as you have pointed out.
Once upon a time, high-end boxes came pre-modded. But, then the cold war ended and high-end box manufacturers could no longer afford extravagances like that. Of those machines of the last generation of blinken-lights, the Convex Exemplar SPP-1000 was the most kickass looking computer system ever designed.
Check it out (As you can see, they were so kick-ass they not only walked on water, they hovered above it!)
Those yellow-green light-bars that go up the front, over the top and down the back are actually fully programmable individual one-inch lights. These boxes came with code to do all kinds of fancy effects with the blinken-lights, such as a ping-pong effect, or racing dots that went at different speeds depending on the load of the machine.
Although the pictures only show the base metallic-purple skins, you could order them with one of 20 different color schemes. The Scripps Research Institute got theirs in a very bright red, as you can see.
Ultimately, Convex got bought by HP and all future designs from that group were exceedingly dull-looking, until finally, just last week, HP laid off a boat-load of the Convex engineers because HP doesn't need technical expertise anymore - they are Microsoft's largest partner!
There are, but they ain't cards, they are usb devices. I'm to lazy to hunt down an all-in-one converter, but here is a link to a ps2-2-usb converter to get you started.
If you did you would realize the first amendment does not apply to criminal law.
Ba-fucking-loney.
Maybe in your twisted inner world, but not in the one the rest of us live in. One obvious example - Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) and their history in front of the supreme court.
Of course that's all a red herring on your part. An ANALOGY shows by example not by specifics. You clearly are too dense to understand that.
You seem to think if Padilla and his Towelheadettes are given a public trial, the attacks against the US will stop.
NOT AT ALL.
What I feel, and you so obviously are unable to comprehend is that if Padilla and any other person charged is given a public trial the attacks against the US by the US GOVERNMENT will stop.
If you think the 1000 or so people detained in America since 9/11 are a "potent threat to the USA" then you had better wear a lot of mosquito repellent - just one bites you and you'd probably be sucked dry since a mosquito is probably more potent than those people.
Close to 900 of those 1000 who have been detained have been released or deported WITH NO CHARGES FILED. In fact, NO CHARGES INVOLVING TERRORISM HAVE BEEN FILED AGAINST ANYONE so detained until just this last week.
Oh, those other ~100? Languishing, no charges filed. No lawyers allowed.
Ever hear the line about the 1st ammendment? The one that goes like this: "Of course [flag-burning|pornography|communist manifesto|etc] should be protected by the 1st ammendment - nobody wants to censor mom & apple pie, it is only the controversial stuff, ideas and expressions that many people dislike, that need protection."
Samething goes for punks like Padillo. If the full course of rights and freedoms of the American citizenry don't apply to the smallest amoung us, then the rest of us are cheated out of our rights as well. Padillo's right to a public trial is also about OUR right to SEE his trial. The public good is far better served by having the government obey the law than it is for them to break it - no matter what the character of the person is whom they are persecuting.
Synchronization is all about memory latency. For the most part, STREAM is all about memory bandwidth. Althought each has an effect on the other in any given architecture, it usually isn't too strong of an effect.
Yadda, yadda, yadda. Your attempt to present a facade of superiority really does nothing to support your position. In fact, it makes it evident that your understanding of the meta-levels of this discussion are poor to non-existant. Your claim that ignorance of a specialized vernacular is some sort of badge of honor is akin to saying, "I ain't got no use fo' nun o'dat der bark-larn'n!" I choose to use the afore mentioned(sic) terms because they are more precise than the common terms. You may not have a use for that precision, nor may you be able to discern the differences that the terms indicate, but that doesn't make your solipsistic perceptions any more true.
And your attempt at non-l33t dick measurement by claiming your first computer was an XT just doesn't cut the mustard. My dick is clearly longer, wider and far less l33t than yours since my first PC was a kaypro-2 running cp/m and prior to that I was working on PDP-11 machines. Whoop-de-freakin-do!
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, lets end this one with a disdainful, holier-than-though, my shit-don't-stink, I'll-get-the-last-word-because-I-am-above-reading- this thread-any-more send-off. Oh, I guess I just did...
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Get a clue, that anonymous coward ain't even an arab. He's just trolling and you were hooked.
Clearly not a programmer, but she is definitely much closer to the IT world than any other monarch, having working at Apple. She's babelicious too, we need more IT queens like her:
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/16
It seems this Washington Post correspondant didn't bother to investigate how Altnet is linked to Sharman Networks... Altnet is virtually Sharman Networks...
Maybe the reporter didn't want to get Mr. Whipple mad at hime and decided he wasn't going to squeeze the Sharman.
Smart contractors develop relationships with their clients in order to cultivate repeat business. When an employee bails out for another job, they rarely think about returning to the original employer - often they even harbor feelings of great mistrust, feeling that they were treated unfairly which is what motivated them to look for a new job in the first place. Because of these common situations it often makes more sense to trust the contractors than it does to trust the employees.
I'm a hard-core ad-filterer, been doing it for many, many years. But, I'd rather see this kind of technology come out than for more draconian DMCA type laws to be passed that effectively mandate that we sit with our eyes taped open when browsing the web.
At least this way we have a fighting chance in an "arms race" of pop-up-blockers and anti-pop-up-blockers and anti-anti-pop-up-blockers. When the law gets involved it all comes down to who has the bigger guns, and that's hardly ever the little guy like me and you.
Yer right, got the t in tchrist mixed up with a J...
Most of the key people at Chiaro are people who jumped ship from Convex Computer after they were acquired by Hewlett-Packard back in the mid-90s. Convex's claim to fame was to have invented and productized the first mini-supercomputer hitting the sweet-spot between the biggest vax and the smallest cray and they were very successful for about a decade.
Larry Smarr, of UIUC's supercomputing center (aka the place where Mosaic was developed) has always been a big fan of the Convex crowd.
Another bit of trivia - Jeff Christenson, of PERL fame is a convex alum as well as Dave Taylor of Id Software fame and a whole host of other key people now scattered about the world.
You don't know the half of it. Peruse this article in a recent Risks Digest.
For those who are unaware of the Risks Digest it is not your typical consipiracy theory discussion list - excerpts are regularly published by the ACM. They've had regular coverage of problems with electronic voting systems since before the Gush & Bore debacle, but each new item on the topic seems to be scarier than the last. We potentially have HUGE problems with our electronic voting systems -- if policies are not changed soon we will (if we haven't already) end up with a situation far more serious than watergate ever was.
I don't know why a hobbyist website is reviewing this unit - the target market is not for hard-core gamerz or other home user types. Solid state disks are primarily used as database accelerators. Although the throughput of a solid state disk like this can be easily beat by a reasonably small raid, it takes a much larger raid to beat the io/s rate. If you have indices that don't fit in ram, you stick them on the solid-state disk and watch your database speed up by an order of magnitude.
Alternatively, as at least one other poster has already mentioned - if you use a journalling filesystem like ext3 or rieserfs, then putting the journal on a seperate solid-state disk is a huge performance gain.
I know most people think of DiVX/XVid/MPEG4 as a tool to pass video around on the net at (relatively) low-bandwidth rates. But what I want to see is a standalone player that will support HDTV-level resolution. I have an HDTV capture card (or two) that I use to record broadcast HDTV as well as PPV, HBO and Showtime shows in high-def. I want to make DiVX DVDs of this high-def material - I want at least an hour of 1280x720 or 1920x1080i (really 1080p @ 24fps, which is just about the same as 1080i) on one DVD-R that I can play without having to use my computer.
If you haven't seen LoTR in high-def, you are missing out. Word is the new director's cut is going to be PPV once the DVDs are out. For a $5 PPV, that's way better picture quality than anything commercially available on DVD.
Not mention displaying on a projector used in either rear or front projection but without the ability to mirror in the projector (admittedly, most digital projectors can mirror, but not all and you know that murphy's law would probably apply here).
TCP on the NIC -
Not at all. The problem is that sure it looks good today, but commodity cpus increase in performance much faster than any other kind of processor. So, today putting the network stack in the NIC might look good, but 6 months from now it won't be so good and 1 year from now it will be a bottle-neck.
The industry has been swapping back-and-forth between smart I/O peripherals and dumb ones for at least 20 years now, each time they get to ~100% dumb I/O somebody decides that it would be a good idea to re-invent the past and go for a smart I/O controller, other companies follow suit we get a surge of smart I/O and after a couple of years people start to realize what a drag all these 1-2 year old I/O controllers are on modern systems and they swing back to dumb ones - rinse, lather, repeat.
Also, in the specific case of network stacks there are some smart asm tricks that will do most of grunt work (i.e. checksumming) in the cpu for the same cost as the data-copy itself. So, unless you do dma directly to the user buffers, the hardest part of the network stack is basically free.
I think you've been drinking the MS kool-aid, or at least somebody's kool-aid. I mean, what the heck is a hypocracy? Rule by under-acheivers? Government by the extremely mellow?
Would Spicoli be president if the US were a hypocracy? Would we be sending dubies to Iraq instead of bombs? Or, dude!, how about some of the poppies we got when we took over Afghanistan?
There is a difference in the restrictions on private individuals and companies versus the restrictions on the government. There is lots of precendent for this difference in restrictions - for example cops can't use evidence they found on private property without a warrant but if joe shmoe finds the evidence and hands it over to the cops, it is fair game.
Anyways, my point is that as a private individual you are free to take as many pictures of people in public as you want but the government is not allowed to do so *indiscriminantly*. Disposition of those pictures is another, really unrelated issue as you have pointed out.
Once upon a time, high-end boxes came pre-modded. But, then the cold war ended and high-end box manufacturers could no longer afford extravagances like that. Of those machines of the last generation of blinken-lights, the Convex Exemplar SPP-1000 was the most kickass looking computer system ever designed.
Check it out
(As you can see, they were so kick-ass they not only walked on water, they hovered above it!)
Those yellow-green light-bars that go up the front, over the top and down the back are actually fully programmable individual one-inch lights. These boxes came with code to do all kinds of fancy effects with the blinken-lights, such as a ping-pong effect, or racing dots that went at different speeds depending on the load of the machine.
Although the pictures only show the base metallic-purple skins, you could order them with one of 20 different color schemes. The Scripps Research Institute got theirs in a very bright red, as you can see.
Ultimately, Convex got bought by HP and all future designs from that group were exceedingly dull-looking, until finally, just last week, HP laid off a boat-load of the Convex engineers because HP doesn't need technical expertise anymore - they are Microsoft's largest partner!
O, ok, the tequila was a little bit stronger than usual tonight:
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http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/usb-ps2-adap
Shouldn't it be named YaYast instead of Yast2?
There are, but they ain't cards, they are usb devices. I'm to lazy to hunt down an all-in-one converter, but here is a link to a ps2-2-usb converter to get you started.
If you did you would realize the first amendment does not apply to criminal law.
Ba-fucking-loney.
Maybe in your twisted inner world, but not in the one the rest of us live in. One obvious example - Alien and Sedition Acts (1798) and their history in front of the supreme court.
Of course that's all a red herring on your part. An ANALOGY shows by example not by specifics. You clearly are too dense to understand that.
You seem to think if Padilla and his Towelheadettes are given a public trial, the attacks against the US will stop.
NOT AT ALL.
What I feel, and you so obviously are unable to comprehend is that if Padilla and any other person charged is given a public trial the attacks against the US by the US GOVERNMENT will stop.
If you think the 1000 or so people detained in America since 9/11 are a "potent threat to the USA" then you had better wear a lot of mosquito repellent - just one bites you and you'd probably be sucked dry since a mosquito is probably more potent than those people.
Close to 900 of those 1000 who have been detained have been released or deported WITH NO CHARGES FILED. In fact, NO CHARGES INVOLVING TERRORISM HAVE BEEN FILED AGAINST ANYONE so detained until just this last week.
Oh, those other ~100? Languishing, no charges filed. No lawyers allowed.
Ever hear the line about the 1st ammendment? The one that goes like this: "Of course [flag-burning|pornography|communist manifesto|etc] should be protected by the 1st ammendment - nobody wants to censor mom & apple pie, it is only the controversial stuff, ideas and expressions that many people dislike, that need protection."
Samething goes for punks like Padillo. If the full course of rights and freedoms of the American citizenry don't apply to the smallest amoung us, then the rest of us are cheated out of our rights as well. Padillo's right to a public trial is also about OUR right to SEE his trial. The public good is far better served by having the government obey the law than it is for them to break it - no matter what the character of the person is whom they are persecuting.
Synchronization is all about memory latency. For the most part, STREAM is all about memory bandwidth. Althought each has an effect on the other in any given architecture, it usually isn't too strong of an effect.
Have you seen dosemu? Works pretty good.
Yadda, yadda, yadda. Your attempt to present a facade of superiority really does nothing to support your position. In fact, it makes it evident that your understanding of the meta-levels of this discussion are poor to non-existant. Your claim that ignorance of a specialized vernacular is some sort of badge of honor is akin to saying, "I ain't got no use fo' nun o'dat der bark-larn'n!" I choose to use the afore mentioned(sic) terms because they are more precise than the common terms. You may not have a use for that precision, nor may you be able to discern the differences that the terms indicate, but that doesn't make your solipsistic perceptions any more true.
- this thread-any-more send-off. Oh, I guess I just did...
And your attempt at non-l33t dick measurement by claiming your first computer was an XT just doesn't cut the mustard. My dick is clearly longer, wider and far less l33t than yours since my first PC was a kaypro-2 running cp/m and prior to that I was working on PDP-11 machines. Whoop-de-freakin-do!
Oh yeah, I almost forgot, lets end this one with a disdainful, holier-than-though, my shit-don't-stink, I'll-get-the-last-word-because-I-am-above-reading