Point, they now can offer 3 types of CPU on their blade systems. They compare with HP and DELL, but seem to "accidentally" forget SUN who deliver some very nice AMD-based blades at the moment http://www.sun.com/servers/blades/8000/specificati ons.jsp
Anycase, IBM blades were x86 already before, this won't change too much on that.
This concernds the Blade systems only, which were Xeon before, and does not at all affect their Regatta lines based on Power architecture, which are still the ones you see in the top500 clusters. I'm not sure what new stuff we can expect on the power line though.
Very valid point, strangely enought the first time I see this question here. I know I would want one just because it's a convenient machine, and I don't mind that it might be too much of a hassle for these people to organize per-piece sales, but that developers can't access it is really a big miss. Projects like this desperately need a boost from outside developers!
Come to think of it, the moment they have access to ebay you might be able to buy one from them;) Still, just know that you won't gain much feedback on that transaction, as they won't have anything to send their feedback from anymore... Actually, this is probably something that might happen, especially if they need the $300 they can get for it pretty bad.
Ah, I love that site, I actually knew about them because a local laundry shop had posted cartoons of luke and leia buying a father's day card with darth vader on it (something like: you're an evil bastard, but you're still our father) on their windows, and I accidentally found these later on the joyoftech site.
As someone else already said, and mentioned in Parent's link, this is a very specific machine, for Molecular Dynamics simulations, everything from memory handling to processing is optimized only for handlig particles and doing force calculations on them. Therefore, it'll serve a relatively small market.
That said, I'm very curious to see how fast it'll run gromacs, the MD program I use. This is pretty optimized for parallel simulations already, and I'm able to do the calculations I need on a small opteron cluster in no time.
The biggest problem might be now to find useful research questions to simulate on it! Actually that is the main problem why computational medicine didn't really take over yet. The good thing is that this machine will give researchers time to think about this instead of spending their time thinking how to get enough computing power.
"throws in numbers" and tosses together a design, then sends it out with the engineer's seal on it.
Funny story: An acquaintance of mine was in a legal battle. The lawyer of the opposite party sent him a Word document over e-mail with their demands, using a template that had their heading and probably a watermark, but no edit lock. Being a sort of efficient kind of person and rather hot-headed he put his reply in their letter and sent it back to them, still in their own template. Boy were they pissed!!! Lesson taken: secure your documents if you don't want people fooling around with them.
You're right, it doesn't make sense. A big MS fanboy is probably smart enough to know when he uses a pirated version or not. It's not an unusual thing, really, I heard before of pro-MS people that use pirated windows, just because they otherwise wouldn't be able to pay for it. Still, those are not the ones that will state their support for MS with their full-name and make more or less their business out of it.
Of course he had to give in to microsoft, as their product can't be incorrect, can it? This way, MS won't make a fool out of themselves, but I am probably not the only one who thinks that the blogger in question is even a bigger lamer then I would've thought before.
Oh, and to the parent: next time, use the preview button;)
I really don't care so much about people making jokes, jeez, I like the jokes about geeks just because I am one!
But what is the point is that it is their 'choice'. Here, there is some magical stuff going on. I recently saw a talk by a female computational physics professor about women in science. A few years back, about 50% of the Natural Science (math, physics, chemistry, etc.) students in Iran were women. Similar numbers can be found in Italy, Spain, South America. The big riddle is that no-one really knows what causes this. I am from a north-western european country, that has had several projects to get women in science, but percentages here are way below the ones in southern europe. Apparently in the anglo-european-american regions there is some very heavy stigma over science that scares women away from this field.
So is it their choice to go here? I don't think you should consider it like that. There really still are role models, especially in the 'western' world, and we need to get rid of them. I believe women and men should both be in science/IT, not because they're the same, but just because both their different approaches are needed for the best advancements in the field. Do women have naturally more social skills then men? I think so. But what is a professor nowadays? Someone who spends all day in the lab, or someone who has to connect with a lot of people to get a group working, funding organized, etc. etc.
Hmm, the poster of this log seems to have a history of posts marked 'Troll', which might be an indication.
Still, someone would have a reason to make a fake irc log in this direction, which can only be done if they'd have a personal grudge against this guy. So if this log is not fake, then it's probably good for everyone that he quit, if it is fake, then it's also clear why there was an atmosphere for him to quit.
The fact that people reason like the one in this log is really shocking, but true. People didn't seem to have learned anything about that we really need to be careful judging people: Not all muslims are terrorists, not all jews are responsible of this action of the Israeli government. Not all people put on the blacklist by air marshalls are a threat for your country. Thinking in black/white contrasts is not only bad for others, it is also very bad for yourself!
You, mr, should buy a trackball (kensington or logitech make good ones)
For the people that have problems moving their fingers (as the person with arthritis some posts down), I can imagine they will be happy with the device presented here.
Actually there are also still the bell labs of new, they even have a website: http://www.bell-labs.com/
I recently bumped into a more biology-related research paper of them, and that is (still) pretty far away from communications or information systems. Also look at the various IBM labs, who are doing more diverse things than you might think. All this can be pretty far away from 'standard' computing issues and really requires non-CS engineers.
Hmm, all replies thus far don't really appeal to me. 'I assume google is not doing bad stuff' doesn't sound like a decent fundament for fair and correct trading to me. What the Parent is trying to say, google can just make up the income from clicks themselves, or charge extra clicks to their costumers where they see appropriate. This is of course a mechanism beyond where any of us can get insight.
I guess what do counts is that they earn a percentage of all click-throughs on websites, which means that by looking at the money streams going in and out of google, one could get a decent estimate of how much money they're making. If too many advertizers complain about too high costs for what they get (say google does allow fraudulent clicks), then they'll move to another ad service. Still it remains partly virtual.
Probably most of these problems are solved (but ad revenues for many people diminished as well) when the system will be in place where and advertizement only pays off after a succesfull deal through the specific ad.
I'd mod this one funny as well if I had mod points:)
(mplayer fan myself, though)
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the small case on the left might belong to the monitor, I remember a monitor with external case being issues some times ago, just don't remember which:(
Or it's simply part of his speaker system.
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hah, me too, and I'm even more waiting for the plugin that will make Vim control the keyboard and help me find laTeX math symbols in a fast way.
By the way, I just checked the site and the 3-key pad seems delayed again,
till september 2006. I guess "end 2006" for the big one is still a bit optimistic.
But in the mean time that we're waiting, they seem to have introduced a cool pointy mouse and funny computer-related pins for in the office
Actually they have some stuff that would really make a good addition to the thinkgeek offers.
yo man, have you ever removed a symbolic link to a directory in *nix and then forgot to not put the/-sign after it?(*) There goes your original directory! These symbolic links have been a pain in the ass for *nix users for decades already.
(*) or was it the other way around? Just confusing everybody here to make things worse;)
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How are you going to watch the screen when your hand is lying on it? But for the rest, it's nicely done.
You can imagine why everyone kept their mouth shut:
It's especially a concern that Microsoft requires attendees to sign a document that allows the company to use anything that anyone says at the event.
"Having been put into that situation, people will feel more inhibited to say things," said Jimmy Kuo, a McAfee fellow and a veteran of the Microsoft events. "They ask us to sign a nondisclosure agreement, and if we say anything in those meetings that Microsoft is able to use, they have the right to do so." The agreement was introduced in recent years, he said.
Really, what kind of conference organized by a competitor that already puts in a clause that they can steal the ideas presented would actually render useful information? Think of some big pharmaceutical firm letting its competitors come and show their ideas with a clause like the one above. It would be surprising if anyone would actually show up.
In the Netherlands, we watched the original one, even without subtitles. I still could catch the story anyway, as they were not too hard. My first english words were "transformers, go!". Not very practical on daily life? As a nine year old, they are!:)
But they'll should get back the voice of Megatron as well, that was a pretty nasty voice.
Just to start a troll: Is there anyone who remembers MASK nowadays? Damn, that was just one cheap ripoff of Transformers. Fakers!
Well, the non-thinkpad notebooks anyway. Call me an optimist, but hopefully they'll keep the thinkpad line alive for some time to come (at least until I can afford one):(
I agree, the current ones are a bit better than 97, especially powerpoint. The default layouts you can choose seem however still to be designed in the late 80s.
What's more interesting, is that the guy who mode the virus can apparently write office visualbasic code compatible with 3 versions of office! He could earn good money with that!
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Point, they now can offer 3 types of CPU on their blade systems. They compare with HP and DELL, but seem to "accidentally" forget SUN who deliver some very nice AMD-based blades at the moment http://www.sun.com/servers/blades/8000/specificati ons.jsp
Anycase, IBM blades were x86 already before, this won't change too much on that.
This concernds the Blade systems only, which were Xeon before, and does not at all affect their Regatta lines based on Power architecture, which are still the ones you see in the top500 clusters. I'm not sure what new stuff we can expect on the power line though.
Come to think of it, the moment they have access to ebay you might be able to buy one from them ;) Still, just know that you won't gain much feedback on that transaction, as they won't have anything to send their feedback from anymore... Actually, this is probably something that might happen, especially if they need the $300 they can get for it pretty bad.
Ah, I love that site, I actually knew about them because a local laundry shop had posted cartoons of luke and leia buying a father's day card with darth vader on it (something like: you're an evil bastard, but you're still our father) on their windows, and I accidentally found these later on the joyoftech site.
concerning youtube
As someone else already said, and mentioned in Parent's link, this is a very specific machine, for Molecular Dynamics simulations, everything from memory handling to processing is optimized only for handlig particles and doing force calculations on them. Therefore, it'll serve a relatively small market.
That said, I'm very curious to see how fast it'll run gromacs, the MD program I use. This is pretty optimized for parallel simulations already, and I'm able to do the calculations I need on a small opteron cluster in no time.
The biggest problem might be now to find useful research questions to simulate on it! Actually that is the main problem why computational medicine didn't really take over yet. The good thing is that this machine will give researchers time to think about this instead of spending their time thinking how to get enough computing power.
Funny story: An acquaintance of mine was in a legal battle. The lawyer of the opposite party sent him a Word document over e-mail with their demands, using a template that had their heading and probably a watermark, but no edit lock. Being a sort of efficient kind of person and rather hot-headed he put his reply in their letter and sent it back to them, still in their own template. Boy were they pissed!!! Lesson taken: secure your documents if you don't want people fooling around with them.
Of course he had to give in to microsoft, as their product can't be incorrect, can it? This way, MS won't make a fool out of themselves, but I am probably not the only one who thinks that the blogger in question is even a bigger lamer then I would've thought before.
Oh, and to the parent: next time, use the preview button ;)
But what is the point is that it is their 'choice'. Here, there is some magical stuff going on. I recently saw a talk by a female computational physics professor about women in science. A few years back, about 50% of the Natural Science (math, physics, chemistry, etc.) students in Iran were women. Similar numbers can be found in Italy, Spain, South America. The big riddle is that no-one really knows what causes this. I am from a north-western european country, that has had several projects to get women in science, but percentages here are way below the ones in southern europe. Apparently in the anglo-european-american regions there is some very heavy stigma over science that scares women away from this field.
So is it their choice to go here? I don't think you should consider it like that. There really still are role models, especially in the 'western' world, and we need to get rid of them. I believe women and men should both be in science/IT, not because they're the same, but just because both their different approaches are needed for the best advancements in the field. Do women have naturally more social skills then men? I think so. But what is a professor nowadays? Someone who spends all day in the lab, or someone who has to connect with a lot of people to get a group working, funding organized, etc. etc.
Still, someone would have a reason to make a fake irc log in this direction, which can only be done if they'd have a personal grudge against this guy. So if this log is not fake, then it's probably good for everyone that he quit, if it is fake, then it's also clear why there was an atmosphere for him to quit.
The fact that people reason like the one in this log is really shocking, but true. People didn't seem to have learned anything about that we really need to be careful judging people: Not all muslims are terrorists, not all jews are responsible of this action of the Israeli government. Not all people put on the blacklist by air marshalls are a threat for your country. Thinking in black/white contrasts is not only bad for others, it is also very bad for yourself!
For the people that have problems moving their fingers (as the person with arthritis some posts down), I can imagine they will be happy with the device presented here.
I recently bumped into a more biology-related research paper of them, and that is (still) pretty far away from communications or information systems. Also look at the various IBM labs, who are doing more diverse things than you might think. All this can be pretty far away from 'standard' computing issues and really requires non-CS engineers.
I guess what do counts is that they earn a percentage of all click-throughs on websites, which means that by looking at the money streams going in and out of google, one could get a decent estimate of how much money they're making. If too many advertizers complain about too high costs for what they get (say google does allow fraudulent clicks), then they'll move to another ad service. Still it remains partly virtual.
Probably most of these problems are solved (but ad revenues for many people diminished as well) when the system will be in place where and advertizement only pays off after a succesfull deal through the specific ad.
And for several centuries on dutch TV as well. That and 'keeping up appearances'.
Well, actually now I know the command, without even asking ;)
(mplayer fan myself, though)
Or it's simply part of his speaker system.
By the way, I just checked the site and the 3-key pad seems delayed again, till september 2006. I guess "end 2006" for the big one is still a bit optimistic.
But in the mean time that we're waiting, they seem to have introduced a cool pointy mouse and funny computer-related pins for in the office
Actually they have some stuff that would really make a good addition to the thinkgeek offers.
(*) or was it the other way around? Just confusing everybody here to make things worse ;)
How are you going to watch the screen when your hand is lying on it? But for the rest, it's nicely done.
You can imagine why everyone kept their mouth shut:
It's especially a concern that Microsoft requires attendees to sign a document that allows the company to use anything that anyone says at the event.
"Having been put into that situation, people will feel more inhibited to say things," said Jimmy Kuo, a McAfee fellow and a veteran of the Microsoft events. "They ask us to sign a nondisclosure agreement, and if we say anything in those meetings that Microsoft is able to use, they have the right to do so." The agreement was introduced in recent years, he said.
Really, what kind of conference organized by a competitor that already puts in a clause that they can steal the ideas presented would actually render useful information? Think of some big pharmaceutical firm letting its competitors come and show their ideas with a clause like the one above. It would be surprising if anyone would actually show up.
But they'll should get back the voice of Megatron as well, that was a pretty nasty voice.
Just to start a troll: Is there anyone who remembers MASK nowadays? Damn, that was just one cheap ripoff of Transformers. Fakers!
Well, the non-thinkpad notebooks anyway. Call me an optimist, but hopefully they'll keep the thinkpad line alive for some time to come (at least until I can afford one) :(
What's more interesting, is that the guy who mode the virus can apparently write office visualbasic code compatible with 3 versions of office! He could earn good money with that!
Call me back when it involves a ninja