MPI isn't that bad if you as the programmer don't have to do explicit memory management and hand computation of offsets. The achilies heel of MPI is that it is not fault tolerant, but there is active research in doing this with "Binomial Trees" and other error reporting schemes so it should be soon on par or better that Erlang's OTP library where you are stuck with the supervisor trees from a decade ago OTP has built in.
Near native C performance for the String class. Object.marshal() is the bottleneck and marshal.c could use a rewrite. I wasn't going to doing this myself until Ruby2 is near completion. Parallel file read/write is just as fast as native C since disk is way slower than CPU. Thanks for the DRb question, I might include timings of MPI vs DRb in the paper.
Romney gave me the willies when listening to his Iowa Straw Poll speech. He advocated that every computer sold in the US be installed with government spyware to protect the children.
As usual Ron Paul isn't mentioned. IMHO he is right on that as long as the justice department does it's job in enforcing RICO statues and other laws barring ISP's from coercing their customers we should be fine. The reason our telecom system is a mess is the monopoly deals the congress entered into in the 1990s. Stop all federal funding of telecom projects and true competition should normalize the market. States are more than capable of funding basic telecom to rural areas.
Design a site like google translate that renders web pages within a web page, and have a toolbar keyboard at the top to click type in the below screen. Heck, I could use that when I talking on the phone.
Just use SSH+Xwin to connect with your linux box. I would use the windows xlivecd: http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
The judge should just ban him from using the network if that was his intention. The half way thing isn't going to do anything but create a headache for some guy who has to read through all his logs. Anyway the case is copyright, so this should be in civil not criminal court and we all know how well the RIAA is doing there...
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Local geothermal use is much more efficient. Idea is that ground temperature is 60' F year round. In the winter you can exchange cool air to heat it, and in the summer you can exchange hot air to cool it. Usually a well or field of pipes is dug on the property and the water is pumped through the house to have the desired effect.
The *problem* is electric usage by the AC and burning natural gas, neither of which would be reduced by building a new power plant.
Ditto. Their process doesn't seem to add an enzyme to break down the cellulose. Instead they seem to be burning the stuff and then binding the CO2 to something else down the pipeline. Why not just co-fire it in a coal plant? Heck, instead of cellulose it seems you could use coal in their process and get better results.
The ACLU needs to work more closely with congressional staffers. Joe Q citizen will always get the run-around against the executive branch. Without congressional subpoena power they are up a creek. Also, SCOTUS can't give them the denial of standing BS.
After seeing a propaganda piece on The Weather Channel about this I knew exactly what they were up to. After Peter Weiss passed away in 2005 [1] Bush and his cronies have been chomping at the bit to restrict public access to US government weather data. They cite concerns over "security" and complaining that they are competing with the shareholders of Accuweather. Never mind that the US taxpayer already paid to collect the data...
Who is paying for this? Is this an earmark, or did some Bush appointee decide to throw executive branch funds at Texas? I think I read that it will take **3Megawatts** to power the thing. Might as well build a nuclear reactor on the side to power and cool it...
Also, since AMD is mostly based in Texas what kind of deal are they giving them on CPUs? Is this an AMD fire-sale to pump up the balance sheet, or did some AMD lobbyist work their mojo with the Texas government?
IBM should just haul them into court. If the school district had such bad financial problems why did it enter into a contract with big blue? Not only would the bankruptcy case serve as a warning to school districts that buy computers instead of teachers, it would also unleash the supena power of the court to get to the bottom of who made the contract and what happened to the machines.
What is f()? Right now we just now that f() seems to be a monotoically increasing function. If we can spend billions playing smash the particle , we can surely spend a few billion and get a very good approximation of what f() is using computer modeling.
After that we will have near perfect information to decide climate change policly. If burning all oil reserves only results in a 5' change in temperature we might not care too much. If burning all oil reserves results in a 20' increase in temperature, then we have a very good economic arguement to stop carbon emmisions as soon as possible.
Yes, if you mean making the consumer more price sensitive.
Information side: In the US health care providers should be forced to publish prices for all medical procedures 1 month in advance on a central website for each state. Right now consumers can't shop around.
Personal side: Tax all health care benifits, and maybe put tax breaks on high deductable plans. The consumer will see the cash leaving their wallet and be more apt to look up information.
My bad. I was glancing at the price with WWDC ticket included. Question: Does the student membership come with XCode3, or is that just part of the "Leopard early start kit"? If so I am flinging out the credit card ASAP.
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MPI isn't that bad if you as the programmer don't have to do explicit memory management and hand computation of offsets. The achilies heel of MPI is that it is not fault tolerant, but there is active research in doing this with "Binomial Trees" and other error reporting schemes so it should be soon on par or better that Erlang's OTP library where you are stuck with the supervisor trees from a decade ago OTP has built in.
Near native C performance for the String class. Object.marshal() is the bottleneck and marshal.c could use a rewrite. I wasn't going to doing this myself until Ruby2 is near completion. Parallel file read/write is just as fast as native C since disk is way slower than CPU. Thanks for the DRb question, I might include timings of MPI vs DRb in the paper.
Just use RubyMPI when I release it next week :)
The power of MPI wrapped in the beauty of Ruby.
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~crb002/
The word "algorithm" comes from the famous, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Khwarizmi , and the word "algebra" comes from the Arabic title of his book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Compendious_Book_on_Calculation_by_Completion_and_Balancing .
I'm surprised there isn't a widely available set of textbooks featuring Al-Kwarizmi to give a nationalistic nudge for science.
Romney gave me the willies when listening to his Iowa Straw Poll speech. He advocated that every computer sold in the US be installed with government spyware to protect the children.
As usual Ron Paul isn't mentioned. IMHO he is right on that as long as the justice department does it's job in enforcing RICO statues and other laws barring ISP's from coercing their customers we should be fine. The reason our telecom system is a mess is the monopoly deals the congress entered into in the 1990s. Stop all federal funding of telecom projects and true competition should normalize the market. States are more than capable of funding basic telecom to rural areas.
Design a site like google translate that renders web pages within a web page, and have a toolbar keyboard at the top to click type in the below screen. Heck, I could use that when I talking on the phone.
How about commercial licences? At least with FOSS you have a few major ones. With commercial every one is unique and usually much more complicated.
And in later news Microsoft is changing its ticker to BSOD.
Just use SSH+Xwin to connect with your linux box. I would use the windows xlivecd: http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/
The judge should just ban him from using the network if that was his intention. The half way thing isn't going to do anything but create a headache for some guy who has to read through all his logs. Anyway the case is copyright, so this should be in civil not criminal court and we all know how well the RIAA is doing there...
Fox outfoxed by Fark when Fox's farked fark of Fark was farked.
And in other news kdawson announces that will be leaving Slashdot become the new editor in chief of World Weekly News
The "NSBA" study in this case seems to be conducted by the National Software Business Aliance. http://www.bsa.org/
Local geothermal use is much more efficient. Idea is that ground temperature is 60' F year round. In the winter you can exchange cool air to heat it, and in the summer you can exchange hot air to cool it. Usually a well or field of pipes is dug on the property and the water is pumped through the house to have the desired effect.
The *problem* is electric usage by the AC and burning natural gas, neither of which would be reduced by building a new power plant.
Will Leopard fully support GNU binutils? More specifically will add2line work?
Ditto. Their process doesn't seem to add an enzyme to break down the cellulose. Instead they seem to be burning the stuff and then binding the CO2 to something else down the pipeline. Why not just co-fire it in a coal plant? Heck, instead of cellulose it seems you could use coal in their process and get better results.
Seriously.. Just because you can put OpenGL bindings in a corporate fabricated language doesn't mean you should.
The ACLU needs to work more closely with congressional staffers. Joe Q citizen will always get the run-around against the executive branch. Without congressional subpoena power they are up a creek. Also, SCOTUS can't give them the denial of standing BS.
After seeing a propaganda piece on The Weather Channel about this I knew exactly what they were up to. After Peter Weiss passed away in 2005 [1] Bush and his cronies have been chomping at the bit to restrict public access to US government weather data. They cite concerns over "security" and complaining that they are competing with the shareholders of Accuweather. Never mind that the US taxpayer already paid to collect the data...
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[1]http://www.nws.noaa.gov/com/nwsfocus/fs2005081
Who is paying for this? Is this an earmark, or did some Bush appointee decide to throw executive branch funds at Texas? I think I read that it will take **3Megawatts** to power the thing. Might as well build a nuclear reactor on the side to power and cool it...
Also, since AMD is mostly based in Texas what kind of deal are they giving them on CPUs? Is this an AMD fire-sale to pump up the balance sheet, or did some AMD lobbyist work their mojo with the Texas government?
IBM should just haul them into court. If the school district had such bad financial problems why did it enter into a contract with big blue? Not only would the bankruptcy case serve as a warning to school districts that buy computers instead of teachers, it would also unleash the supena power of the court to get to the bottom of who made the contract and what happened to the machines.
atmostpheric heat = f( atmospheric carbon quantity)
What is f()? Right now we just now that f() seems to be a monotoically increasing function. If we can spend billions playing smash the particle , we can surely spend a few billion and get a very good approximation of what f() is using computer modeling.
After that we will have near perfect information to decide climate change policly. If burning all oil reserves only results in a 5' change in temperature we might not care too much. If burning all oil reserves results in a 20' increase in temperature, then we have a very good economic arguement to stop carbon emmisions as soon as possible.
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Yes, if you mean making the consumer more price sensitive.
Information side:
In the US health care providers should be forced to publish prices for all medical procedures 1 month in advance on a central website for each state. Right now consumers can't shop around.
Personal side:
Tax all health care benifits, and maybe put tax breaks on high deductable plans. The consumer will see the cash leaving their wallet and be more apt to look up information.
Ruby now runs on Blue Gene/L :)
http://www.ece.iastate.edu/~crb002/cnr.html
My bad. I was glancing at the price with WWDC ticket included. Question:
Does the student membership come with XCode3, or is that just part of the "Leopard early start kit"? If so I am flinging out the credit card ASAP.