IANAG, but I imagine water is the most probable liquid to be found for the non-extreme kinds of temperatures that Mars has. What other liquid could be flowing in large amounts enough to erode the ground? I'm sure it's not oil, or we'd already be there digging it out. Maybe it was Pepsi?:)
What's the equivalent of the 'human resources' department in the company you work for? 'Human contributors to the well being of the company'?
Every company I know of calls employees 'human resources'. It doesn't mean they mine us, or burn us for eletricity. I don't know why you find the word so insulting.
As somebody said in another post, no matter how good you're treating your employees, someone can always give them a better offer, if they really want them. A lot of employees don't really understand that, and that's why they don't actively search for another job when they are happy at the current one. But when a headhunter grabs hold of their phone number, they immediately start to doubt whether they are really happy or not.
That's why there aren't many tech companies that don't try to keep the list of their employees secret.
Sure, blacking out their faces might be a little extreme, but you can understand their reasoning. They might be treating them very well, but they are afraid someone will offer them double the salary just to get them out of there, and they can't afford to double everyone's salary to keep them.
Actually, AMD processors running with a FSB of 133MHz can receive data at 133M x 64 bits x 2 (double-pumped bus) / 8 bits per byte = 2.13MB/s, not 1.066M/s.
The Pentium 4 data transfer rate is even higher, at 64/8 * 4 * 100 = 3.2MB/s.
So, nForce, at 4.2MB/s, doesn't really have that much extra bandwidth to play with, especially since it's sharing the RAM bandwidth with the graphics controller (altough, GC doesn't really use up that much of the bandwidth).
MS's IP approach is perfect for microsft at the expense of everyone else (want to measure that expense? just add up your software expenditure)
That's what every business is about -- doing something, and other people paying for it. M$ is evil, but not because they're charging people for their work. Almost everybody is the world would be evil, according to that argument.
Altough what you say is right, I think you're taking the metaphor a little too far. What's your equivalent to "freshest and most flavourful ingredients" in Free Software vs. Closed Source?
The software is run the same way every time by the CPU, while different cooks make different quality meals out of same recipes. So, I think this metaphor doesn't go any further than RMS has taken it.
Taking a look at the patent content, it's not as simple as running the page through a checksum generator. This wouldn't work with some dynamicaly-generated pages, for example, because their dates of creation will change every time.
The process in the patent allows you to select a portion of the web page, and then the server only tracks changes in that portion. It also generates a checksum for each portion of content between HTML tags, and it is smart enough not to tell you that the content changed if certain sections got reordered, but the content's the same. It will also show you exactly which portions changed, since it has a separate checksum for each section.
It's not fusion power, but it's an ok idea, and I don't think anyone has used it before. So, let them have the patent.
1000Mbits/sec are 125 mbytes/sec.
An uncompressed vidostream at 800x600, 32Bits, 25 fps gives (800*600*4*25/(1024*1024)) = 45 mbytes/sec.
Given that there is surely some overhead in PCI transactions, this means that two of this streams pretty much need the whole bandwidth that PCI can provide.
Actually, there is very little overhead on PCI -- in fact, once you start the stream, you can keep going at 32 bits/cycle forever. That's what the bus was designed for, after all.
Now, streaming two things at one time willl add overhead, because you have to interleave the streams, but I don't see why you'd have two long streams going at the same time. If you're dumping your tv stream to the hard-drive, that's only one stream.
You don't need a 'genetic' FPGA for this, just a plain old FPGA. Any (large rnough) FPGA is reprogrammable to do (almost) anything you want. In fact, kits with FPGAs on PCI cards are fairly inexpensive these days -- with a little hardware design knowledge, you can easily have what you described, at home.
The novel part of this article, though, is that FPGAs 'evolve' by reprogramming itself to a better version, over and over.
Clayton-based Linuxgruven.com laid off 100 employees today, sources tell the St. Louis Business Journal. The company, a Linux training and service company, reportedly had 106 employees as of January.
Is this a typo, or are they really left with 6 employees?
I'm all for small working groups, but this might be a bit of an overkill.
Where I live, we have 3 or 4 places that offer this, one of them operated by a friend of mine, and they all have top of the line equipment and games.. At peak hours, they are always full, but they're still not making much money.
The reason is that you need to keep the prices very low to attract anybody -- computers and fast internet connections are cheap these days, so you have to be cheap AND have better stuff than the average kid has.
At $5-$6 per hour per computer, with 10-20 computers, you're just not making too much money to begin with, and when you subtract operating costs (rent, utilities, internet hookup, software, hardware upgrades, part-time staff, security, etc. etc.), you're not left with all that much.
Signals do not bounce around the chip like that -- your "place and route" guys will try to keep things localized, so that register-to-register distances are much smaller than the size of the chip.
Of course, that's not to say that it's not an issue -- it will make things a lot harder to implement. But, then, every time the clock period goes down, it makes things harder. Designers just sit down and find another way to do things faster:).
An Electrical Engineer deals primarily with hardware - logic gates, and designing hardware that will perform algorithmic computations. IE. they design chips. These are the guys who work for Intel, AMD, etc. They don't worry much about programming.
As a working computer engineer, I'd like to point that that the above description fits computer engineers better than EEs. It's CEs that design hardware on the gate/algorithm level, while EEs generally work on "back end" -- they do custom cell implementations, place & route, I/O design, etc.
Of course, since CE is a very versatile program, many CEs specialize in software engineering, and just end up as programmers. That's the advantage of CE over CS -- you can do both CE and CS jobs with one degree.
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IANAG, but I imagine water is the most probable liquid to be found for the non-extreme kinds of temperatures that Mars has. What other liquid could be flowing in large amounts enough to erode the ground? I'm sure it's not oil, or we'd already be there digging it out. Maybe it was Pepsi? :)
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I'd say Merriam-Webster is a reasonable dictionary:
Main Entry: resource
Pronunciation: 'rE-"sOrs, -"sors, -"zOrs, -"zors, ri-'
Function: noun
....
d : a source of information or expertise
So, 'human resource' would make it a 'human source of information or expertise'. How is this misuse?
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So, what's your point? If it's their problem, wouldn't you expect them to do something about it?
They are not stopping anybody from leaving, they're just not actively advertising who works for them. There's a big difference there.
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What's the equivalent of the 'human resources' department in the company you work for? 'Human contributors to the well being of the company'?
Every company I know of calls employees 'human resources'. It doesn't mean they mine us, or burn us for eletricity. I don't know why you find the word so insulting.
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As somebody said in another post, no matter how good you're treating your employees, someone can always give them a better offer, if they really want them. A lot of employees don't really understand that, and that's why they don't actively search for another job when they are happy at the current one. But when a headhunter grabs hold of their phone number, they immediately start to doubt whether they are really happy or not.
That's why there aren't many tech companies that don't try to keep the list of their employees secret.
Sure, blacking out their faces might be a little extreme, but you can understand their reasoning. They might be treating them very well, but they are afraid someone will offer them double the salary just to get them out of there, and they can't afford to double everyone's salary to keep them.
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Actually, AMD processors running with a FSB of 133MHz can receive data at 133M x 64 bits x 2 (double-pumped bus) / 8 bits per byte = 2.13MB/s, not 1.066M/s.
The Pentium 4 data transfer rate is even higher, at 64/8 * 4 * 100 = 3.2MB/s.
So, nForce, at 4.2MB/s, doesn't really have that much extra bandwidth to play with, especially since it's sharing the RAM bandwidth with the graphics controller (altough, GC doesn't really use up that much of the bandwidth).
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MS's IP approach is perfect for microsft at the expense of everyone else (want to measure that expense? just add up your software expenditure)
That's what every business is about -- doing something, and other people paying for it. M$ is evil, but not because they're charging people for their work. Almost everybody is the world would be evil, according to that argument.
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Altough what you say is right, I think you're taking the metaphor a little too far. What's your equivalent to "freshest and most flavourful ingredients" in Free Software vs. Closed Source?
The software is run the same way every time by the CPU, while different cooks make different quality meals out of same recipes. So, I think this metaphor doesn't go any further than RMS has taken it.
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Isn't the cooking process a part of the recipe? The recipe is not just a list of ingredients, it is also an explanation of what to do with them.
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Taking a look at the patent content, it's not as simple as running the page through a checksum generator. This wouldn't work with some dynamicaly-generated pages, for example, because their dates of creation will change every time.
The process in the patent allows you to select a portion of the web page, and then the server only tracks changes in that portion. It also generates a checksum for each portion of content between HTML tags, and it is smart enough not to tell you that the content changed if certain sections got reordered, but the content's the same. It will also show you exactly which portions changed, since it has a separate checksum for each section.
It's not fusion power, but it's an ok idea, and I don't think anyone has used it before. So, let them have the patent.
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An uncompressed vidostream at 800x600, 32Bits, 25 fps gives (800*600*4*25/(1024*1024)) = 45 mbytes/sec.
Given that there is surely some overhead in PCI transactions, this means that two of this streams pretty much need the whole bandwidth that PCI can provide.
Actually, there is very little overhead on PCI -- in fact, once you start the stream, you can keep going at 32 bits/cycle forever. That's what the bus was designed for, after all.
Now, streaming two things at one time willl add overhead, because you have to interleave the streams, but I don't see why you'd have two long streams going at the same time. If you're dumping your tv stream to the hard-drive, that's only one stream.
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DMA has been a common-place thing on every bus.. SCSI, EIDE, PCI, AGP. That's hardly an important selling point for SCSI.
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We don't all have a pair of little speakers and a subwoofer on the floor.. Some of us would like to hear some midrange as well.
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See also the Reuters article on the same subject, and our previous story about an Australian version.
Or, see the exact same previous story from the last week.
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You don't need a 'genetic' FPGA for this, just a plain old FPGA. Any (large rnough) FPGA is reprogrammable to do (almost) anything you want. In fact, kits with FPGAs on PCI cards are fairly inexpensive these days -- with a little hardware design knowledge, you can easily have what you described, at home.
The novel part of this article, though, is that FPGAs 'evolve' by reprogramming itself to a better version, over and over.
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Well, the machine name is swapped, as well: it's not Architecture/z, it's z/Architecture. That's why it's also z/OS, and not OS/z.
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What are you going to do with a 8Gb+ hard drive in a game console? Install Windows?
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From the article:
Clayton-based Linuxgruven.com laid off 100 employees today, sources tell the St. Louis Business Journal. The company, a Linux training and service company, reportedly had 106 employees as of January.
Is this a typo, or are they really left with 6 employees?
I'm all for small working groups, but this might be a bit of an overkill.
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Where I live, we have 3 or 4 places that offer this, one of them operated by a friend of mine, and they all have top of the line equipment and games.. At peak hours, they are always full, but they're still not making much money.
The reason is that you need to keep the prices very low to attract anybody -- computers and fast internet connections are cheap these days, so you have to be cheap AND have better stuff than the average kid has.
At $5-$6 per hour per computer, with 10-20 computers, you're just not making too much money to begin with, and when you subtract operating costs (rent, utilities, internet hookup, software, hardware upgrades, part-time staff, security, etc. etc.), you're not left with all that much.
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Signals do not bounce around the chip like that -- your "place and route" guys will try to keep things localized, so that register-to-register distances are much smaller than the size of the chip.
:).
Of course, that's not to say that it's not an issue -- it will make things a lot harder to implement. But, then, every time the clock period goes down, it makes things harder. Designers just sit down and find another way to do things faster
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You're thinking of pipelines, but there are no pipelines with 1 transistor wide stages :).
Which doesn't really matter, since the article is talking about enabling CPUs to work at 10GHz, not about 10GHz transistors.
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As a working computer engineer, I'd like to point that that the above description fits computer engineers better than EEs. It's CEs that design hardware on the gate/algorithm level, while EEs generally work on "back end" -- they do custom cell implementations, place & route, I/O design, etc.
Of course, since CE is a very versatile program, many CEs specialize in software engineering, and just end up as programmers. That's the advantage of CE over CS -- you can do both CE and CS jobs with one degree.
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I don't agree with you. Have you seen any CS students taking digital/analog electronics, signals & systems, VLSI design, etc. courses?
CS students take digital logic design courses, but those alone could hardly be called "hardware courses".
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Remember playing Civilization? (or later Civ 2, Alpha Centauri..) How many times did you stay up all night because it's so easy to take a break? :)
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