maybe someone with a more recent HPC CS degree can break down this interconnect/routing architecture to me? I loved playing on 3D toroidal meshes, especially on SIMD MasPars (communication penalty was 1 instruction cycle & we could select which processors would execute an instruction...from what I remember).
Are there any advantages to this topology for certain classes of problems (the MasPars were awesome for matrix math & image processing) ? Or is the sole advantage in routing speed/interconnect traversal?
other givaways that the plane on flareout is *not* an F-22...take a look at the trailing edges of the wings, the angle is all wrong...as are the intake areas below the cockpit...this isn't a simple photochop, this is definitely a different plane that has similar stylings to a F-22 (::shock!::)
Being from Central FL, I had a chance to talk to one of the workers who closed the hatch on the Apollo 1. In his words, the fire flashed so fast that no escape system would have helped the astronauts. And the fire was hot enough that it actually melted quite a bit of the metal on the hatch when they initially tried to open up the Apollo 1.
The rollercoaster is a nice thought, but I really see very few situations where it'll have any chance to help avoid loss of life. This sounds like a contractor ploy to keep people employed.
Since I came down with ME/CFS, my body temp is around 96.8-98. If I go below 96.8 (gone as low as 94) I have a fever....usually it'll dip, and if its really nasty it'll swing back up, topping out around 104. The interesting thing is that my metabolism all the sudden (over a few weeks) got *extremely* efficient -- I was on a one cup of cream soup a day for three months, only lost 25lbs. Once I was able to keep one semi-normal meal a day down I gained all the weight back 30lbs.
But with the body's thermostat being so hinky all the time it makes life during summertime rather interesting, especially since my body can't regulate itself in high temps -- I just go straight to the 104 and tachycardia.
Miserable, but it sounds like I'll get a couple extra years outta it.:)
Oh, I was just being snarky--My cynicism got the best of me...Just chalk it up to me being a grouchy disabled vet who has had too many direct dealings with the lower echelons of the administration that follow in the footsteps of their leaders on the hill.
That would be "serf", and if it got to all-out war/imperialism I don't think we would care about the people or their infrastructure. Plenty of Black Gold for us to pull out of the ground on our own...with labor supplied by KBR, Exxon, and Halliburton.
Er, that sounds quite a bit like Denmark. And that 100% tax on cars has gone towards clean power generation through wind (& now wave) power. While the taxes are high, as a citizen you're getting quite a return--your country is one of the few that has a fairly rosy outlook for the next century or so.
And I heard that everyone goes down to Hamburg to buy their cars anyways...and while you pay a tax on bringing the car in from Germany, it isn't near 100%.
Oh, and you have a first class educational system, and some *really* kick-ass clubs. (My favorites actually being in Aalborg, not Copenhavn.
Uhm, actually if you drop the core, you will probably generate a *huge* radioactive steam cloud. I would imagine it would make chernobyl look like a baby burp in comparison.
You might want to check out S3/Jungledisk. S3 by amazon is relatively cheap (15 cents/GB + transfer) and Jungledisk acts as WebDAV middleware. The middleware is still rather basic, but it works for backups, and passes the "are they going to be around in a couple of years" test. All data is encrypted by the Jungledisk middleware.
I just happened to speak with them last night--they said max file size was 2.14GB, which is a serious PITA and a dealbreaker for me. Have you been able to upload larger files?
With artists like Sarah McLachlan, Delerium, BT, Avril Lavigne, Bare Naked Ladies, and MC Lars, they're not exactly a small label. (But no, they're not Sony-BMG either)
And they are doing their absolute best to give the RIAA the middle finger--not only by founding this not-for-profit (and picking up families' RIAA legal costs and any possible fines), but by selling decent quality NON-DRM'ed music at their own download store.
Not to get all serious on this story, but there's no reason that one of the embedded linux distros wouldn't work really well for one of these toys. My wife and I are currently fostering a 5yo girl and would love to have an option of a Barbie-branded toy that's somewhere in between the current barbie toy and a real lowend laptop.
I just wish I hadn't used up my mod points yesterday. You're right on the money, especially where belowthreshold comments are listed. I hope taco listens one of these days. It's why I'm using newsvine more and more. (even though their coments system is still in basic flat mode)
But the Newsvine guys actually write back, and write back with insightful replies. I'm really looking forward to their 2.0 rev of their commenting system. Even Digg's new (but still broke) commenting system is better than/.
I get to beat up whatever's left of him. Whatever moron at TXDOT decided to mix onramp/offramp traffic in one should be beaten....several times.
I have seen umpteen million near-accidents and accidents around San Antonio, Houston, & Dallas because of this single stupid policy. And the access roads (aka "drag strips" next to the major in-city interstates run a close second.
Can you please either fire this city manager for making false accusations, or at the least publicly censure him for his actions and lame attempts at intimidation.
A donation to CentOS for wasting quite a bit of time of the lead developer would be advised as well.
A reply would be appreciated, though be forewarned, if it is derogatory, inflammatory, or dismissing, it will be posted to slashdot for all the world to see.
So what's your opinion on tethers? (IAASE (Systems Engineer), NSS Member, no I don't work for Tethers unlimited)
A scaled-up horizontally launched platform (like the successor to SS-1) can reach the minimum altitude for a tether and transfer a crew module into LEO, or possibly MEO. From there you can just about go anywhere (L1 or L2). (Overview on Lagrange Points here)
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maybe someone with a more recent HPC CS degree can break down this interconnect/routing architecture to me? I loved playing on 3D toroidal meshes, especially on SIMD MasPars (communication penalty was 1 instruction cycle & we could select which processors would execute an instruction...from what I remember).
Are there any advantages to this topology for certain classes of problems (the MasPars were awesome for matrix math & image processing) ? Or is the sole advantage in routing speed/interconnect traversal?
other givaways that the plane on flareout is *not* an F-22...take a look at the trailing edges of the wings, the angle is all wrong...as are the intake areas below the cockpit...this isn't a simple photochop, this is definitely a different plane that has similar stylings to a F-22 (::shock!::)
Another SCA rapier fighter? ::grin::
I miss MDK -- a shooter with a decent sense of humor. Too bad it was driven into the ground and died.
Being from Central FL, I had a chance to talk to one of the workers who closed the hatch on the Apollo 1. In his words, the fire flashed so fast that no escape system would have helped the astronauts. And the fire was hot enough that it actually melted quite a bit of the metal on the hatch when they initially tried to open up the Apollo 1.
The rollercoaster is a nice thought, but I really see very few situations where it'll have any chance to help avoid loss of life. This sounds like a contractor ploy to keep people employed.
Absolutely correct! You win the cookie award for actually "getting it" :)
Since I came down with ME/CFS, my body temp is around 96.8-98. If I go below 96.8 (gone as low as 94) I have a fever....usually it'll dip, and if its really nasty it'll swing back up, topping out around 104. The interesting thing is that my metabolism all the sudden (over a few weeks) got *extremely* efficient -- I was on a one cup of cream soup a day for three months, only lost 25lbs. Once I was able to keep one semi-normal meal a day down I gained all the weight back 30lbs.
:)
But with the body's thermostat being so hinky all the time it makes life during summertime rather interesting, especially since my body can't regulate itself in high temps -- I just go straight to the 104 and tachycardia.
Miserable, but it sounds like I'll get a couple extra years outta it.
Oh, I was just being snarky--My cynicism got the best of me...Just chalk it up to me being a grouchy disabled vet who has had too many direct dealings with the lower echelons of the administration that follow in the footsteps of their leaders on the hill.
That would be "serf", and if it got to all-out war/imperialism I don't think we would care about the people or their infrastructure. Plenty of Black Gold for us to pull out of the ground on our own...with labor supplied by KBR, Exxon, and Halliburton.
Er, that sounds quite a bit like Denmark. And that 100% tax on cars has gone towards clean power generation through wind (& now wave) power. While the taxes are high, as a citizen you're getting quite a return--your country is one of the few that has a fairly rosy outlook for the next century or so.
And I heard that everyone goes down to Hamburg to buy their cars anyways...and while you pay a tax on bringing the car in from Germany, it isn't near 100%.
Oh, and you have a first class educational system, and some *really* kick-ass clubs. (My favorites actually being in Aalborg, not Copenhavn.
Uhm, actually if you drop the core, you will probably generate a *huge* radioactive steam cloud. I would imagine it would make chernobyl look like a baby burp in comparison.
Why is it that I never have mod points when I see a post like yours???
You might want to check out S3/Jungledisk. S3 by amazon is relatively cheap (15 cents/GB + transfer) and Jungledisk acts as WebDAV middleware. The middleware is still rather basic, but it works for backups, and passes the "are they going to be around in a couple of years" test. All data is encrypted by the Jungledisk middleware.
I just happened to speak with them last night--they said max file size was 2.14GB, which is a serious PITA and a dealbreaker for me. Have you been able to upload larger files?
Hey, we had a hell of a programming team when I was there. And the optics/physics labs there are really top notch.
Of course, in the spirit of full discosure, my dad is a professor emeritus from UCF, so I'm a little biased.
You mean like http://www.savethemusicfan.com/, founded by the Nettwerk Music Group CEO Terry McBride?
With artists like Sarah McLachlan, Delerium, BT, Avril Lavigne, Bare Naked Ladies, and MC Lars, they're not exactly a small label. (But no, they're not Sony-BMG either)
And they are doing their absolute best to give the RIAA the middle finger--not only by founding this not-for-profit (and picking up families' RIAA legal costs and any possible fines), but by selling decent quality NON-DRM'ed music at their own download store.
Not to get all serious on this story, but there's no reason that one of the embedded linux distros wouldn't work really well for one of these toys. My wife and I are currently fostering a 5yo girl and would love to have an option of a Barbie-branded toy that's somewhere in between the current barbie toy and a real lowend laptop.
Wow, pepto-bismol pink.
::barf::
I think I'm getting nauseous. Too many memories of the pink stuff after eating bad food in college.
I just wish I hadn't used up my mod points yesterday. You're right on the money, especially where belowthreshold comments are listed. I hope taco listens one of these days. It's why I'm using newsvine more and more. (even though their coments system is still in basic flat mode)
/.
But the Newsvine guys actually write back, and write back with insightful replies. I'm really looking forward to their 2.0 rev of their commenting system. Even Digg's new (but still broke) commenting system is better than
I get to beat up whatever's left of him. Whatever moron at TXDOT decided to mix onramp/offramp traffic in one should be beaten....several times.
I have seen umpteen million near-accidents and accidents around San Antonio, Houston, & Dallas because of this single stupid policy. And the access roads (aka "drag strips" next to the major in-city interstates run a close second.
Thanks for the start Dave! Here's what I sent to the Mayor.....
o ryid=127 [centos.org]
Hi there,
have you seen this one?
The world seems to be laughing about your city administration...
http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?st
Can you please either fire this city manager for making false
accusations, or at the least publicly censure him for his actions and
lame attempts at intimidation.
A donation to CentOS for wasting quite a bit of time of the lead
developer would be advised as well.
A reply would be appreciated, though be forewarned, if it is
derogatory, inflammatory, or dismissing, it will be posted to slashdot
for all the world to see.
-a
So what's your opinion on tethers? (IAASE (Systems Engineer), NSS Member, no I don't work for Tethers unlimited) A scaled-up horizontally launched platform (like the successor to SS-1) can reach the minimum altitude for a tether and transfer a crew module into LEO, or possibly MEO. From there you can just about go anywhere (L1 or L2). (Overview on Lagrange Points here)