You can tell other things by looking for wobbles. You can look for drunk people by seeing if they wobble.
So this wobble method, are they looking for drunk planets? If the planet's speech is slurred, then we know for sure. Rocky planet, more like vodka on the rocks planet.
Rock on! Here's a toast to our hot (200-300 C) new cousin.
SSL has it's performance double when using 64 bit. That's one common application that anyone will find useful, besides the greater registers and increased memory space available for applications and operating system both.
Us gamers are already looking to 64 bit. I think Microsoft might be right about 2005 being it's year of implementation. Of course, that is assuming they ever ship 64 bit windows!!
I know one of these people and she really abuses costco, returning DVDs after watching them, even returns TVs every six months using similar approaches. She's a true devil customer and she's not helping anyone in their purchasing decisions! She's also not sophisticated on computer hardware.
Out of all the movies, episode 2 is actually my favorite. If you watch episode 1, Jar Jar isn't as annoying. If you watch episode 2, the romance isn't as bad. Episode 2 really sets up the next movie well and the entire last half was bad assed.
Personally, the dialogue from their romance actually sounds like something that might have come out of my mouth. Yes I'm a romantic who can sometimes talk in meladramatic hyperbole.:)
Take a movie like terminator 3, I enjoyed that too, but the only thing that movie did well was set up the 4th movie. I wonder if Arnold will have trouble getting around to the 4th movie being governer and all.
[moderators, you consider the parent post informative?! Maybe funny if it's meant sarcastically] Yes this is the sun that brought us Solaris, Java, Open Office, NFS, and they've dabled with Linux for a while. Let's face it, Linux is a Unix and sun has done Unix for decades.
A CNet article had specific power details on the 130nm Athlon 64 and 90 nm Pentium 4:
"The 3800+ chip consumes 91 watts of power at idle, rising to 172 watts under a full load. That compares with 155 watts at idle and 258 watts under a full load for the Pentium 4 560."
The lower power consumption of the AMD parts arises from their lower clock frequency, as well as from AMD's use of silicon-on-insulator technology.
It's not clear if Cool n Quiet was used, but it shows the much better power utilization in existing AMD processors over Intel, even though Intel was giving a long talk about how important power usage was at IDF.
Sure naked might get your attention, but that is far from what Burning Man is about. There are even some crossover between the open source software movement and the main form of Burning Man.
While on the surface it would appear that Burning Man is a week long party where people walk around naked, that is only the surface and anyone who one experiences this level is missing out.
No vending is allowed at the event, except for ice and coffee in center camp. There is something called the gift economy where everyone is supposed to give gifts to the community. So someone might cook pancakes for passers by, create some interactive experience or artwork. So instead of software for community enrichment, it's often artistic or even tangibles.
Community is also fostered by the difficulty of survival in the desert where the weather can change dramatically to hot or cold, rain, duststorms. The weather is an important part of the event. This forces people to either be self reliant or group into larger groups and plan how they're actually going to pull off some huge endeavor in what are called theme camps. Some of these camps are as big as hundreds of people and they construct buildings and some pretty impressive stuff. Working towards a common goal and overcoming obstacles does wonders for creating bonds among people.
At the event it made clear to everyone they are meant to be participants, NOT spectators. So everyone is supposed to add something to the event, not just gawk at the women.
There is also the environmentally conscious side of Burning Man. Even though these fanstic buildings are created, it must all be packed out. The trash has to be packed out, everything. Leave no trace is a mantra.
There is also a spiritual side to Burning Man. Each year, the night after the burning of the Man, there is a ornate hand made temple that is burned. People write messages on the temple to those loved ones that have died or add articles that metaphorically represent something you want to leave behind, like a picture of a girlfriend you want to forget.
Now there are growing year round communities in several major cities like San Fransisco and Los Angeles where these people that have come together have events. Yes, I know all this because I am one of them and I'm even on the Burning Man webteam.
You can find more information on the Burning Man web site. It's definitely an experience worth having!
MythBusters actually did something similar to your situation. They had an older vintage corvette and they seeled two dead pigs in the car, seeled it up for to let them rot for a month and then tried to see if the smell could be removed.
They tried for some time, cleaning it and they even consulted with some cleaners that come after people have died. In the end, they were never really able to remove the smell completely, even with expert advice. Consider on top of it that we're talking about cleaning for an object with sensitive electronic components and it would seem unlikely for you to be successful in removing the odors completely.
Wow! Thanks for saving me the trouble of responding to the article. You sum up my viewpoint perfectly and articulate it better than I would be able to.
That's not strictly true. The number of hypertransport link varies between series of processors. The number of hypertransport links determine how many CPU's it's connected to. These are direct connections, which is why for multiple processor systems, Xeons are considerably inferior. Even in the few places a Xeon system might beat a Opteron in a single processor system, the Xeon loses by with dual systems and is completely annihilated with even larger systems.
Paul Sundling
http://www.planatar.com
Summary Nationalize curriculum, complete revamp of system to use advanced computer technology and variety of teaching methods in a self improving system
Benefits
* Vast improvement to entire education system
* Less variance between schools
* Self improving system
* Quicker completion of current level curriculum
* Easier access to vocational training
* Tremendous economic benefits of more skilled average American
* Economies of scale on technical and educational development
* Expanded school hours could potentially act as day care
Costs
* In short term, increased education costs
* In short term, migration to new system difficult
Details
Students I have tutored from public schools were years behind those from private academies. Some high school graduates are still ill prepared for college level course work. As the most powerful country in the world, it's unacceptable that we score pooly in high school math and science.
Every time a president claims to be an education president, the normal solution is to throw more money at the problem, perhaps throwing in a few teachers. A fundamental change is needed to make lasting progress. Using a partnership between technologists and educators is a key to tremendous potential.
Teaching hasn't changed much in 50 years, while technology has improved a thousand fold. The education system will be revamped to use technology and self-improving processes in a feedback loop. Teachers can test innovative teaching methods and successful ones will be made part of the educational process. If we improve the efficiency of our curriculum, those who hate school can graduate earlier or get free vocational training. Those college bound, could build up ever more college level coursework while still in high school.
Since education is a cornerstone of my platform, I'm going to take some time to concentrate on it. Let me first tell you an example of what happen to me in our current educational system. I was pretty shy, so I stayed at the back of the classroom. At that age, I didn't realize I wasn't just like everyone else, that I was supposed to be able to see the front of the classroom. So what happened? My teachers classified me as retarded.
This could have ended badly, except my mom would not accept I was retarded. I was taken out of school and tested. They discovered how terrible my vision was and gave me glasses. I returned to school and in first grade even qualified for the mentally gifted minds program. I was smart, not retarded.
Besides that, I also had some trouble with learning to read. A teacher took some extra time to help me and once I learned to read I loved it and was an avid reader with a large vocabulary. By high school, I was like a walking dictionary. I was saved because of people around me that cared.
So what would have happened if I had trouble reading when I was classified as retarded? It would have been seen as proof that I was indeed retarded and I would have lived a very different life. I had to redo kindergarten, so it still cost me a year. With the right educational system, we will find our children are even smarter than we gave them credit for and we will more quickly diagnose learning disabilities as well.
How would my plan change the education system? I'll start with an insight from educators featured in spring 2004 copy of UCLA magazine.
Educators discovered a common misconception was that the correct answer always follows the equal sign, instead of understanding that equals means "the same as". In my personal tutoring experience, I've noted that problems with math often start from a previous misunderstood concept, like fractions. A chain reaction of confusion follows until math is a frustrating, hated subject. So these insights into where a student got off track are critical. Let's say I have a student with these problems: 1 + 4 = ___ (they put 5, correct!) 4 +
I'm one of almost 400 people trying for one of the 12 spots on the reality show American Candidate. It's a mock run for the president. One of my main platforms is along the lines of what this book discusses.
Take a look at my plan for using computers to advance education and let me know what you think. Education Plan.
Another similar torture I recall was forcing someone to drink a bunch of wine. It was featured in a movie set in the middle east, like sinbad or something. Wish I could remember:
A person would be sewn inside the carcass of a bull with only their head sticking out. They were forced to eat large quantities of honey and wine. Sometimes they were fed other things to give them diarrhea. They were then left in the sun to rot. The sun would heat the carcass and the person inside. Maggots and such would then feast upon the carcass and the person inside. Hungry anyone?
It shouldn't be suprising to find AMD at the top of a search for x86. Keep in mind that Intel uses the term IA32 instead. For their 64 bit clone of AMD64, they use IA32e?! Regardless of the actual source, anything must have Intel in the name...
Junit in action covers other unit testing frameworks that address what you're looking for including HttpUnit, Mock Objects, Cactus (which even does in container testing) and other related technologies. If you are trying to use J2EE and unit test, this is a fantastic book. The coauthor Ted Husted, is even one of the committers for the struts project.
Intel followed AMD to DDR, when they were unsuccessful and then had to de-emphasizing rambus and started releasing DDR based chipsets of their own.
You could say that they followed AMD to copper interconnects, but that's really just AMD doing it first. Not Intel making a conscious decision not to take the path AMD was taking.
Expect the next two follow ons to be integrated memory controller and hypertransport.
I still find it ironic that the Intel processors are in xbox, which uses AMD's hypertransport. Of course, even the G5 uses hypertransport, so Intel is dragging their feet.
Actually, Sun was on of the last RISC to the 64 bit party. I think alpha might have been first, but it was definitely not sun. Sun is the first to place AMD64 so prominently in their server lineup, including not just machines, but even making it part of their developer program. In that program an Opteron server is included as part of the yearly subscription!
There are two main ways to get a programmer's attention. Sexy blond works and the other is really awesome hardware. Hell, I'm not a dog like he was and I'd probably have fallen for the andriod, which is a whole different dimension. Then would come the difficult choice of living with the android you live or mankind... Baltar could have been a tragic romantic figure if they had tried that.
The problem with giving the programmer access to really advanced hardware is it's a bit difficult to explain, even if you say it's a prototype. Um, where did I get this 2 billion Ghz machine? Well, um....
If AMD can lower it's costs, they are in a much better position. Currently, even though they have superior products to Intel, they are still just barely holding on.
Intel can always clobber them with co-operative marketing rebates and money talks. Think about Intel's marketing budget. They spent $300 million telling people that they should want Centrino. Then when people go to stores they pick a Centrino, thinking they are getting really good wireless and get stuck with 802.11b when they could have better 802.11g wireless with an AMD notebook!! That's reality distortion you get from advertising. Too bad perception trumps reality.
Just tell me how many Intel and Dell adds you see. I'm always so impressed that AMD does what it does with the resources it has available. Wow! Just imagine what they could do if they had the resources, a sustainable profit could provide. Then we'd see more innovation.
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You can tell other things by looking for wobbles. You can look for drunk people by seeing if they wobble.
So this wobble method, are they looking for drunk planets? If the planet's speech is slurred, then we know for sure. Rocky planet, more like vodka on the rocks planet.
Rock on! Here's a toast to our hot (200-300 C) new cousin.
Paul
You set us up the disco ball!
Intel has been bombing lately!
Disco balls... Hmm, now I understand what 1000 points of light meant.
SSL has it's performance double when using 64 bit. That's one common application that anyone will find useful, besides the greater registers and increased memory space available for applications and operating system both.
Us gamers are already looking to 64 bit. I think Microsoft might be right about 2005 being it's year of implementation. Of course, that is assuming they ever ship 64 bit windows!!
I know one of these people and she really abuses costco, returning DVDs after watching them, even returns TVs every six months using similar approaches. She's a true devil customer and she's not helping anyone in their purchasing decisions! She's also not sophisticated on computer hardware.
Out of all the movies, episode 2 is actually my favorite. If you watch episode 1, Jar Jar isn't as annoying. If you watch episode 2, the romance isn't as bad. Episode 2 really sets up the next movie well and the entire last half was bad assed.
:)
Personally, the dialogue from their romance actually sounds like something that might have come out of my mouth. Yes I'm a romantic who can sometimes talk in meladramatic hyperbole.
Take a movie like terminator 3, I enjoyed that too, but the only thing that movie did well was set up the 4th movie. I wonder if Arnold will have trouble getting around to the 4th movie being governer and all.
Sun says they love linux, but they hate Red Hat
[moderators, you consider the parent post informative?! Maybe funny if it's meant sarcastically]
Yes this is the sun that brought us Solaris, Java, Open Office, NFS, and they've dabled with Linux for a while. Let's face it, Linux is a Unix and sun has done Unix for decades.
Solaris is even going open source next month.
Paul
Don't laugh, I didn't have to use the heater once in my room all winter (2 computers on 24/7), while the rest of the apartment was cold.
Paul
A CNet article had specific power details on the 130nm Athlon 64 and 90 nm Pentium 4:
"The 3800+ chip consumes 91 watts of power at idle, rising to 172 watts under a full load. That compares with 155 watts at idle and 258 watts under a full load for the Pentium 4 560."
The lower power consumption of the AMD parts arises from their lower clock frequency, as well as from AMD's use of silicon-on-insulator technology.
It's not clear if Cool n Quiet was used, but it shows the much better power utilization in existing AMD processors over Intel, even though Intel was giving a long talk about how important power usage was at IDF.
Paul
Sure naked might get your attention, but that is far from what Burning Man is about. There are even some crossover between the open source software movement and the main form of Burning Man.
While on the surface it would appear that Burning Man is a week long party where people walk around naked, that is only the surface and anyone who one experiences this level is missing out.
No vending is allowed at the event, except for ice and coffee in center camp. There is something called the gift economy where everyone is supposed to give gifts to the community. So someone might cook pancakes for passers by, create some interactive experience or artwork. So instead of software for community enrichment, it's often artistic or even tangibles.
Community is also fostered by the difficulty of survival in the desert where the weather can change dramatically to hot or cold, rain, duststorms. The weather is an important part of the event. This forces people to either be self reliant or group into larger groups and plan how they're actually going to pull off some huge endeavor in what are called theme camps. Some of these camps are as big as hundreds of people and they construct buildings and some pretty impressive stuff. Working towards a common goal and overcoming obstacles does wonders for creating bonds among people.
At the event it made clear to everyone they are meant to be participants, NOT spectators. So everyone is supposed to add something to the event, not just gawk at the women.
There is also the environmentally conscious side of Burning Man. Even though these fanstic buildings are created, it must all be packed out. The trash has to be packed out, everything. Leave no trace is a mantra.
There is also a spiritual side to Burning Man. Each year, the night after the burning of the Man, there is a ornate hand made temple that is burned. People write messages on the temple to those loved ones that have died or add articles that metaphorically represent something you want to leave behind, like a picture of a girlfriend you want to forget.
Now there are growing year round communities in several major cities like San Fransisco and Los Angeles where these people that have come together have events. Yes, I know all this because I am one of them and I'm even on the Burning Man webteam.
You can find more information on the Burning Man web site. It's definitely an experience worth having!
Paul Sundling
MythBusters actually did something similar to your situation. They had an older vintage corvette and they seeled two dead pigs in the car, seeled it up for to let them rot for a month and then tried to see if the smell could be removed.
They tried for some time, cleaning it and they even consulted with some cleaners that come after people have died. In the end, they were never really able to remove the smell completely, even with expert advice. Consider on top of it that we're talking about cleaning for an object with sensitive electronic components and it would seem unlikely for you to be successful in removing the odors completely.
Wow! Thanks for saving me the trouble of responding to the article. You sum up my viewpoint perfectly and articulate it better than I would be able to.
Paul
The odd thing is that in the AMD press release they note 30 AMD chips, but the top 500 site itself says 34 AMD processors. I wonder what the story is on the other 4.
Paul Sundling
That's not strictly true. The number of hypertransport link varies between series of processors. The number of hypertransport links determine how many CPU's it's connected to. These are direct connections, which is why for multiple processor systems, Xeons are considerably inferior. Even in the few places a Xeon system might beat a Opteron in a single processor system, the Xeon loses by with dual systems and is completely annihilated with even larger systems. Paul Sundling http://www.planatar.com
Silly me, I should have given the direct link:
Asus A8V Deluxe Socket 939 board
Paul Sundling
www.planatar.com
monarchcomputers.com has them, but they list ETA for the Asus A8V as June 17th.
I've bought stuff from that sight before and they have the best customer service bar none.
Paul Sundling
http://www.planatar.com
Education:
Summary
Nationalize curriculum, complete revamp of system to use advanced computer technology and variety of teaching methods in a self improving system
Benefits
* Vast improvement to entire education system
* Less variance between schools
* Self improving system
* Quicker completion of current level curriculum
* Easier access to vocational training
* Tremendous economic benefits of more skilled average American
* Economies of scale on technical and educational development
* Expanded school hours could potentially act as day care
Costs
* In short term, increased education costs
* In short term, migration to new system difficult
Details
Students I have tutored from public schools were years behind those from private academies. Some high school graduates are still ill prepared for college level course work. As the most powerful country in the world, it's unacceptable that we score pooly in high school math and science.
Every time a president claims to be an education president, the normal solution is to throw more money at the problem, perhaps throwing in a few teachers. A fundamental change is needed to make lasting progress. Using a partnership between technologists and educators is a key to tremendous potential.
Teaching hasn't changed much in 50 years, while technology has improved a thousand fold. The education system will be revamped to use technology and self-improving processes in a feedback loop. Teachers can test innovative teaching methods and successful ones will be made part of the educational process. If we improve the efficiency of our curriculum, those who hate school can graduate earlier or get free vocational training. Those college bound, could build up ever more college level coursework while still in high school.
Since education is a cornerstone of my platform, I'm going to take some time to concentrate on it. Let me first tell you an example of what happen to me in our current educational system. I was pretty shy, so I stayed at the back of the classroom. At that age, I didn't realize I wasn't just like everyone else, that I was supposed to be able to see the front of the classroom. So what happened? My teachers classified me as retarded.
This could have ended badly, except my mom would not accept I was retarded. I was taken out of school and tested. They discovered how terrible my vision was and gave me glasses. I returned to school and in first grade even qualified for the mentally gifted minds program. I was smart, not retarded.
Besides that, I also had some trouble with learning to read. A teacher took some extra time to help me and once I learned to read I loved it and was an avid reader with a large vocabulary. By high school, I was like a walking dictionary. I was saved because of people around me that cared.
So what would have happened if I had trouble reading when I was classified as retarded? It would have been seen as proof that I was indeed retarded and I would have lived a very different life. I had to redo kindergarten, so it still cost me a year. With the right educational system, we will find our children are even smarter than we gave them credit for and we will more quickly diagnose learning disabilities as well.
How would my plan change the education system? I'll start with an insight from educators featured in spring 2004 copy of UCLA magazine.
Educators discovered a common misconception was that the correct answer always follows the equal sign, instead of understanding that equals means "the same as". In my personal tutoring experience, I've noted that problems with math often start from a previous misunderstood concept, like fractions. A chain reaction of confusion follows until math is a frustrating, hated subject. So these insights into where a student got off track are critical.
Let's say I have a student with these problems:
1 + 4 = ___ (they put 5, correct!)
4 +
I'm one of almost 400 people trying for one of the 12 spots on the reality show American Candidate. It's a mock run for the president. One of my main platforms is along the lines of what this book discusses.
Take a look at my plan for using computers to advance education and let me know what you think.
Education Plan.
Paul Sundling
AC Homepage
My Campaign site, www.planatar.com
P.S. As a geek candidate, if you like what you see you can always click on my support link. Anyhow, feedback is reward enough anyway.
Another similar torture I recall was forcing someone to drink a bunch of wine. It was featured in a movie set in the middle east, like sinbad or something. Wish I could remember:
A person would be sewn inside the carcass of a bull with only their head sticking out. They were forced to eat large quantities of honey and wine. Sometimes they were fed other things to give them diarrhea. They were then left in the sun to rot. The sun would heat the carcass and the person inside. Maggots and such would then feast upon the carcass and the person inside. Hungry anyone?
It shouldn't be suprising to find AMD at the top of a search for x86. Keep in mind that Intel uses the term IA32 instead. For their 64 bit clone of AMD64, they use IA32e?! Regardless of the actual source, anything must have Intel in the name...
Junit in action covers other unit testing frameworks that address what you're looking for including HttpUnit, Mock Objects, Cactus (which even does in container testing) and other related technologies. If you are trying to use J2EE and unit test, this is a fantastic book. The coauthor Ted Husted, is even one of the committers for the struts project.
The moon is huge, but it's small compared to the earth...
On most accounts, AMD is only about 1/8th the size of Intel.
AMD is somewhere around 10K people to Intels 80K people.
AMD revenue 3 Billion, Intel Revenue 30 Billion.
profitability: AMD cumulative profit since it's inception in 1969, somwhere around $150 million! Intel profit just last quarter alone, $1.6 billion!
This is NOT THE FIRST TIME this has happened. :)
Intel followed AMD to DDR, when they were unsuccessful and then had to de-emphasizing rambus and started releasing DDR based chipsets of their own.
You could say that they followed AMD to copper interconnects, but that's really just AMD doing it first. Not Intel making a conscious decision not to take the path AMD was taking.
Expect the next two follow ons to be integrated memory controller and hypertransport.
I still find it ironic that the Intel processors are in xbox, which uses AMD's hypertransport. Of course, even the G5 uses hypertransport, so Intel is dragging their feet.
Paul
Actually, Sun was on of the last RISC to the 64 bit party. I think alpha might have been first, but it was definitely not sun. Sun is the first to place AMD64 so prominently in their server lineup, including not just machines, but even making it part of their developer program. In that program an Opteron server is included as part of the yearly subscription!
There are two main ways to get a programmer's attention. Sexy blond works and the other is really awesome hardware. Hell, I'm not a dog like he was and I'd probably have fallen for the andriod, which is a whole different dimension. Then would come the difficult choice of living with the android you live or mankind... Baltar could have been a tragic romantic figure if they had tried that.
The problem with giving the programmer access to really advanced hardware is it's a bit difficult to explain, even if you say it's a prototype. Um, where did I get this 2 billion Ghz machine? Well, um....
If AMD can lower it's costs, they are in a much better position. Currently, even though they have superior products to Intel, they are still just barely holding on.
Intel can always clobber them with co-operative marketing rebates and money talks. Think about Intel's marketing budget. They spent $300 million telling people that they should want Centrino. Then when people go to stores they pick a Centrino, thinking they are getting really good wireless and get stuck with 802.11b when they could have better 802.11g wireless with an AMD notebook!! That's reality distortion you get from advertising. Too bad perception trumps reality.
Just tell me how many Intel and Dell adds you see. I'm always so impressed that AMD does what it does with the resources it has available. Wow! Just imagine what they could do if they had the resources, a sustainable profit could provide. Then we'd see more innovation.