My dad is a financial consultant. When he consults someone my age, someone with a good chunk of working years ahead of him/her, he says something along the lines of "don't count on Medicare, and don't count on social security to take care of you. Chances are they won't be there." They are barely there now, as it is. My tax dollars are paying for your dad. Whose tax dollars will pay for me? There's no buffer in the system, and indeed the system is running itself into the ground.
Honestly, the system should be paid for by the individual. Between my employer's contributions and my own, we pay around $700 a month for good group medical coverage, for my entire family. When I was in college a few years ago, I paid out of pocket less than that to cover my wife and son (working part time, I had no coverage). I'm curious what socialized medicine programs can beat those rates with the same benefits I'm receiving now.
If they had hacked the Vista box yesterday, the prize was 20k. Throw the Vista box in the trash, but a MacBook Air, and pocket at least $15k. Obviously this is a better economic outlook and obviously it didn't happen. You have to believe people were trying and not just resting on their laurels to day 2.
Yeah, yeah - there's been low fidelity demo's of the first and the last on that list. But demos aren't operational. They're barely prototypes.
Give him credit... do you have multiple "barely prototypes" in LEO, and is NASA contracting with you for access to the technology you are developing? I didn't think so...
What's wrong with saying "Scott devised a way to record but not play back while Edison devised both" in the history books?
This morning my son (2) scribbled a drawing. "This is Salty" he said, his favorite train engine from Thomas the Tank Engine series. Now I kinda knew what it was because he picked the right colors, but in the end it was a bunch of scribbles on a page. A year from now we will have no clue what it is.
My son devised a way to record his thoughts, but not play them back a year from now. Is this meaningful? Not really. It's meaningful that he's trying, and his mental recollection is great, but scribbles on a piece of paper, other than sentimental value, will be meaningless a year from now. I think you suffer from sentimentality.
I am just trying to ponder what *I* would need 1 Tb of disk space for, when my 40Gb drive is barely used.
I was tearing up my 350 GB drive a year ago just with digital pictures. My wife and I have a 6 megapixel camera and we regularly take pictures of the kids to share with the grandparents and relatives who are all a thousand miles away. We have about 20 Mini-DV's worth of video (10GB apiece) of random stuff which I **don't** have uploaded to the computer. Buying a new hard drive and backing that media up, like I should, will instantly consume 200GB of data.
The other night I was running a computer simulation I wrote (a CFD code) and the output files and intermediate data was consuming over a gigabyte an hour of hard disk space. Now you can throw a lot of that away but for reference cases, for validation, you need to save that stuff to prove your code can replicate good results.
A terabyte of drive space? Give me 5 years and it'll be gone, easy, just in newly created data, not to mention purchased computer software and media.
His point, which is completely valid, is that Free software with a capital F doesn't automagically protect you from software patents. Which is 100% true. Stallman can do whatever he wants, but if Joe Coder releases a piece of Free Software that violates a software patent, the virtue that it's Free doesn't supercede the patent.
So in the end it doesn't matter. You can get screwed either way. Pick your poison.
It's easier to message someone rather than play phone tag.
If they are at their computer ready to answer an IM, they are generally by their telephone:) If not, you are essentially leaving a message via IM, and they are responding, the paradigm is precisely the same just the appliance you are using.
Where I work the first two (FireFox, SSH) are pre-installed and the third I haven't needed. Tech support happens over a dedicated phone number... useful if your computer can't get online:P
I'm bogged down in school right now (working on my PhD... CFD, heat transfer, etc.) but hoping this summer/fall to do something a little more "fun". Have to do some research to see if this is it.
Very interesting, I appreciate the feedback. It's a finite element method, you can break the work into chunks for 90% of the code until you need to solve the system of equations at the end of the iteration. And even in the solver, to a point you can parallelize if you are careful. I'm not sure about the memory requirements, to be honest with you it's still in 2D, I'm working on breaking into 3D right now. (then adding in all the fun stuff like reacting flows, etc.)
What resources did you use to learn cell programming?
I have a 4-core workstation and ALREADY I get crap usage rates out of it.
Screw the desktop, this is for the tinkerers, the computational scientists, the engineers. I can peg a 4 core Opteron.
I'm interested in cell programming, I do scientific computing (CFD) and I have a code that is highly parallelizable, in C++, and I've often thought after this semester about possibly porting to to the PS3 for kicks. But what you say is kind of discouraging. Would you recommend even trying?
Also, can you point out any good references you used to learn? Beyond a few intro docs from IBM, I'm pretty clueless. I'd appreciate it, thanks.
I will take a much faster computer with more RAM and sacrifice a bit of battery power in order to do it. I'm not that often removed from power for more than three hours. On cross-country trips (I take a handfull a year) I have an inverter in the car. On an airplane? Except for international travel, recharge at the airport during layovers. I'll trade power for battery any day down to 2-3 hours.
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My dad is a financial consultant. When he consults someone my age, someone with a good chunk of working years ahead of him/her, he says something along the lines of "don't count on Medicare, and don't count on social security to take care of you. Chances are they won't be there." They are barely there now, as it is. My tax dollars are paying for your dad. Whose tax dollars will pay for me? There's no buffer in the system, and indeed the system is running itself into the ground.
Honestly, the system should be paid for by the individual. Between my employer's contributions and my own, we pay around $700 a month for good group medical coverage, for my entire family. When I was in college a few years ago, I paid out of pocket less than that to cover my wife and son (working part time, I had no coverage). I'm curious what socialized medicine programs can beat those rates with the same benefits I'm receiving now.
If they had hacked the Vista box yesterday, the prize was 20k. Throw the Vista box in the trash, but a MacBook Air, and pocket at least $15k. Obviously this is a better economic outlook and obviously it didn't happen. You have to believe people were trying and not just resting on their laurels to day 2.
The difference is that what your son produced is indecipherable to anyone, while Scott's recording was coherent;
Without being able to play it back, he could not verify its coherency.
he just lacked the ability to play it back. There is no technology that would be able to decipher your son's scribbles, and none will be invented.
$10 says a contemporary of Scott said the exact same thing.
Yeah, yeah - there's been low fidelity demo's of the first and the last on that list. But demos aren't operational. They're barely prototypes.
... do you have multiple "barely prototypes" in LEO, and is NASA contracting with you for access to the technology you are developing? I didn't think so ...
Give him credit
What's wrong with saying "Scott devised a way to record but not play back while Edison devised both" in the history books?
This morning my son (2) scribbled a drawing. "This is Salty" he said, his favorite train engine from Thomas the Tank Engine series. Now I kinda knew what it was because he picked the right colors, but in the end it was a bunch of scribbles on a page. A year from now we will have no clue what it is.
My son devised a way to record his thoughts, but not play them back a year from now. Is this meaningful? Not really. It's meaningful that he's trying, and his mental recollection is great, but scribbles on a piece of paper, other than sentimental value, will be meaningless a year from now. I think you suffer from sentimentality.
As long as there are no Angels we should be fine, otherwise I'll have to whip out my Marduk report and start looking for teenage children, dammit!
I am just trying to ponder what *I* would need 1 Tb of disk space for, when my 40Gb drive is barely used.
I was tearing up my 350 GB drive a year ago just with digital pictures. My wife and I have a 6 megapixel camera and we regularly take pictures of the kids to share with the grandparents and relatives who are all a thousand miles away. We have about 20 Mini-DV's worth of video (10GB apiece) of random stuff which I **don't** have uploaded to the computer. Buying a new hard drive and backing that media up, like I should, will instantly consume 200GB of data.
The other night I was running a computer simulation I wrote (a CFD code) and the output files and intermediate data was consuming over a gigabyte an hour of hard disk space. Now you can throw a lot of that away but for reference cases, for validation, you need to save that stuff to prove your code can replicate good results.
A terabyte of drive space? Give me 5 years and it'll be gone, easy, just in newly created data, not to mention purchased computer software and media.
Perens is standing on a platform of reducing over-representation of vendors in OSI leadership in favor of developers.
DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS, DEVELOPERS!!!
His point, which is completely valid, is that Free software with a capital F doesn't automagically protect you from software patents. Which is 100% true. Stallman can do whatever he wants, but if Joe Coder releases a piece of Free Software that violates a software patent, the virtue that it's Free doesn't supercede the patent.
So in the end it doesn't matter. You can get screwed either way. Pick your poison.
It's easier to message someone rather than play phone tag.
:) If not, you are essentially leaving a message via IM, and they are responding, the paradigm is precisely the same just the appliance you are using.
If they are at their computer ready to answer an IM, they are generally by their telephone
Where I work the first two (FireFox, SSH) are pre-installed and the third I haven't needed. Tech support happens over a dedicated phone number... useful if your computer can't get online :P
So they've implemented semi-active laser guidance. Not exactly revolutionary, we've been doing it in missiles for years ...
Why would I do that, I'm married!
(I use Windows and Linux, but apparently not much linux, see line 1)
Audio analysis, if it's a consistent scene, it'll have consistent features in the frequency domain, etc.
I'm not even supposed to BE here today!
Whales with teets that put mine to shame
One doesn't just become a general... they generally earn it in some fashion.
Do appreciate it.
I'm bogged down in school right now (working on my PhD... CFD, heat transfer, etc.) but hoping this summer/fall to do something a little more "fun". Have to do some research to see if this is it.
Thanks again.
Very interesting, I appreciate the feedback. It's a finite element method, you can break the work into chunks for 90% of the code until you need to solve the system of equations at the end of the iteration. And even in the solver, to a point you can parallelize if you are careful. I'm not sure about the memory requirements, to be honest with you it's still in 2D, I'm working on breaking into 3D right now. (then adding in all the fun stuff like reacting flows, etc.)
What resources did you use to learn cell programming?
Thanks again for your insights.
I have a 4-core workstation and ALREADY I get crap usage rates out of it.
Screw the desktop, this is for the tinkerers, the computational scientists, the engineers. I can peg a 4 core Opteron.
I'm interested in cell programming, I do scientific computing (CFD) and I have a code that is highly parallelizable, in C++, and I've often thought after this semester about possibly porting to to the PS3 for kicks. But what you say is kind of discouraging. Would you recommend even trying?
Also, can you point out any good references you used to learn? Beyond a few intro docs from IBM, I'm pretty clueless. I'd appreciate it, thanks.
and biggie size it, to go, with CHEESE FRIES!
Yes.
I will take a much faster computer with more RAM and sacrifice a bit of battery power in order to do it. I'm not that often removed from power for more than three hours. On cross-country trips (I take a handfull a year) I have an inverter in the car. On an airplane? Except for international travel, recharge at the airport during layovers. I'll trade power for battery any day down to 2-3 hours.
video != video games.
The math load for a GPU that goes into video games, in general is much higher than goes into processing a video stream.
So they can now get internet at their previously disconnected school/office/library, the beauty of USB wireless cards.