Simpler solution. All recent CPU's have a microcode option. This option allows you to replace certain instructions with others (repairs after a boot and before a use). You can presumably change instructions from privileged to non-privileged, and become a skilled virus creator, or you can invent new instructions. The new ones could dump cache.
QWERTY was the outcome of needing to slow down English typists when using the old mechanical typewriters. We needed time for the key to return to home position, without it colliding with the next character having been selected.
By the way, Qwerty was chosen for English, the French have a different QWERTY layout, because of the different frequency of occurrence of letters in their dictionary.
Had a ground source heat pump/AC unit when I lived in Toronto. Three wells of 100 foot depths were drilled and thick wall hose was forced down and up each well, yielding about 600 feet of contact area to the hose. It worked well for about 2 years, first liberating the heat in the house to pre-heat the hot water tank, and in winter, using the excess heat to heat the hot water tank. Heating bills were about 50% of the next lowest cost alternative.
In the spring of the third year, the ground shifted, pinching closed the thick walled hose. No more flow-- no more benefit, with the cost to repair being very high, as a drill rig would have to be brought in.
It would work best where there is a stream of running water. Running streams usually get ice covered, but beneath the ice, water continues to flow, and thus there is good heat transfer to non-toxic hose with non-toxic antifreeze in it.
There is proof that once an islamic (non-modern muslim) community gets to be 2.9% of the population, then they will begin to teach intolerance and insist on Sharia law). Exampls is Denmark and France. In so far as tolerating other religions, there is none. So if other religions are not tolerated, then gays, lesbians and physically deformed people are next.
My electricity comes it at 4Cents, except when the temperature is -20F (or -12C, which ever is reached first). Then it is 23Cents/kwh.
So, we folks do not use the dryer on cold nights, and we turn the house temperature down to 65F and wear sweaters. By the way, only about 2 weeks of such cold in a winter season.
I don't think I could wait 20 years to get a Nvidia payback based on electrical savings.
(PS, average year round, electricity is around 6 cents per kwh.)
If you have 10 programmers earning 80k each, that is 800k. So, the project is not very large, and assume that one needs at least a year of support, then the program is quite reasonably justified.
Why did she miss 2 semesters? That is 6 mo time.
If I had a problem, I would have contacted a friend for a friendly copy of whatever, and dumped Ubuntu. Perhaps she was very clever to recognize that it was UBUNTU, but wanted to get a free copy of that other software for her laptop.
One of the features of unmanned planes is that they can be drones. About 6 feet across, and with tv cameras and hours of fuel. They can also be used to aim intelligent missles as the drone locks into the target and directs the explosive to the site.
I hate to bring human biorhythms into this, but we are made to work not more then 6 days, and rest on the 7th, except if you are a farmer with animals to tend.
For the common religions (Christianity, Muslim, Jewish) one day has to be reserved for a Rest.
I could accept 4*10 or 3*13 (with a free 1 hour). But not 9 consecutive days on the job.
I am told that our local Montreal hospital has a deal with a hospital in Australia (12hrs difference in time).
Our x-rays are all digital images, and in the local midnight hours, images are are sent to the radiologist in Australia to read. During their midnight shift, our radiologists read their x-rays for them.
The result is that we each save a midnight shift for radiologists, and our radiologists get a good nights sleep.
We only produce film from the digital scan, and not the otherway around.
I am fairly certain that Broadcom does not have software developers in-house. They probably contracted out for the drivers and utilities.
That means they must protect their software house(s) from copyright violations.
Is it possible that with every cpu built, there is an ability to correct (replace) instructions with some microcode patches? If so, all one has to do is modify the cpu instruction set so that some instructions are not privledged, and you will break all security algorithms ever created.
With communication to the cloud and full screen video, I believe that what will be transferred will be delta information. A list of changes. Moreover, there is no reason why the data cannot be shared between host and cloud, and have all processing in the cloud, resulting in even less bilateral data transfer.
No need to always transmit a full screen refresh.
The Hyunda was a crappy car, but there was determination to make it compete with Toyota, and it did,
Is there an American car manufacturer who can compete with Hyunda today?
Rather then attacking Obama, why not write to your senator and congressman, and all the others about what you feel is an injustice. Don't complain here, noone cares to take action. In fact the only thing that happens on Slashdot is a bunch of blogging to provide opinions. Time to show that Slashdot readers do take proactive action.
Microsoft is moving into many other business areas, so as to not have all its eggs with two or three products. Major moves are with dynamics AX, with search engines, with cloud computing and so much more.
ICANN or other institution, the results would be the same. They did not open the door, they asked for comments.
I believe all the pessimism exhibited is due to people having lived these past eight years in the USA, where life under the current president was an exercise in frustration, cronyisme, profit taking, and poor to non-existant judgement.
ICANN wants feedback. They did not impose anything.
The internet is an information highway. All highways have traffic rules that are to be obeyed.
Therefore, the broadband stuff suggested will a) bring the USA into the 20th century (not yet 21st), and will come with some rules to obey.
My son in a poor country had 8gig per minute downloads from his ISP.
Some of the problems are attempting to be equitable. If life was fair, Walmart would not be the cut-throat retailer it is . Walmart ignores MAP and can do it because of volume purchases.
If you can police WalMart to insure they are MAP observant, then other retailers will be able to compete.
I am waiting for January DUMPING sales. True Dell stated that Black Tuesday has already occurred, but I am waiting for the real discounts.
MAP and discounts -- thats a laugh
One way to compensate is to keep a very good agenda, using a calendar software. I am 68, and work in ERP. I also read a lot, and create a lot of subdirectories in my Documents directory. Each one is about a topic for which I am an expert of sorts. And leave clues that remind you of the links to the topic. An agenda to record what you did each day is important, as in one week's time, you won't remember which day of the week it was that something important occurred.
I also don't stress out. Stress is an absolute memory blocker, and will cause you to disfunction.
I am 68 and I concur with you Joe. TV-NEWS, other then for the BBC(I don't trust ABC, NBC, or CNN as they are badly biased is geared to grade 7 mentality and grade 6 vocabulary), is the only news that tells me more truthfully, what is going on in the world.
Another frustration I have with TV is the eight minutes of program, broken by two minutes of commercials. (6 times per hour). Thats why we are all channel flippers -- it drives my wife nuts when I flip between PBS and Holmes on Holmes (or other home renovation program).
I am just an old dos c programmer, and here is my take. C is a wonderful language for multiprocessors, even if the low level programming paradigm is followed. The changes will not be in the language, but as I see it, in the function call process. When a function is invoked, the function may be treated as a task and therefore, for it's execution life may be scheduled to one of the processors in the multi-processor chip.
That means that if the compiler is not intelligent, we may have to add function property type qualifiers similar to "static" or some other property. That new type would tell the operating system how to schedule the function to a processor.
There of course would be some mechanism to force functions to specific processors or to be separate or bound together on the same one.
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Simpler solution. All recent CPU's have a microcode option. This option allows you to replace certain instructions with others (repairs after a boot and before a use). You can presumably change instructions from privileged to non-privileged, and become a skilled virus creator, or you can invent new instructions. The new ones could dump cache.
QWERTY was the outcome of needing to slow down English typists when using the old mechanical typewriters. We needed time for the key to return to home position, without it colliding with the next character having been selected. By the way, Qwerty was chosen for English, the French have a different QWERTY layout, because of the different frequency of occurrence of letters in their dictionary.
Had a ground source heat pump/AC unit when I lived in Toronto. Three wells of 100 foot depths were drilled and thick wall hose was forced down and up each well, yielding about 600 feet of contact area to the hose. It worked well for about 2 years, first liberating the heat in the house to pre-heat the hot water tank, and in winter, using the excess heat to heat the hot water tank. Heating bills were about 50% of the next lowest cost alternative. In the spring of the third year, the ground shifted, pinching closed the thick walled hose. No more flow-- no more benefit, with the cost to repair being very high, as a drill rig would have to be brought in. It would work best where there is a stream of running water. Running streams usually get ice covered, but beneath the ice, water continues to flow, and thus there is good heat transfer to non-toxic hose with non-toxic antifreeze in it.
There is proof that once an islamic (non-modern muslim) community gets to be 2.9% of the population, then they will begin to teach intolerance and insist on Sharia law). Exampls is Denmark and France. In so far as tolerating other religions, there is none. So if other religions are not tolerated, then gays, lesbians and physically deformed people are next.
My electricity comes it at 4Cents, except when the temperature is -20F (or -12C, which ever is reached first). Then it is 23Cents /kwh.
So, we folks do not use the dryer on cold nights, and we turn the house temperature down to 65F and wear sweaters. By the way, only about 2 weeks of such cold in a winter season.
I don't think I could wait 20 years to get a Nvidia payback based on electrical savings.
(PS, average year round, electricity is around 6 cents per kwh.)
If you have 10 programmers earning 80k each, that is 800k. So, the project is not very large, and assume that one needs at least a year of support, then the program is quite reasonably justified.
Why did she miss 2 semesters? That is 6 mo time. If I had a problem, I would have contacted a friend for a friendly copy of whatever, and dumped Ubuntu. Perhaps she was very clever to recognize that it was UBUNTU, but wanted to get a free copy of that other software for her laptop.
One of the features of unmanned planes is that they can be drones. About 6 feet across, and with tv cameras and hours of fuel. They can also be used to aim intelligent missles as the drone locks into the target and directs the explosive to the site.
I hate to bring human biorhythms into this, but we are made to work not more then 6 days, and rest on the 7th, except if you are a farmer with animals to tend. For the common religions (Christianity, Muslim, Jewish) one day has to be reserved for a Rest. I could accept 4*10 or 3*13 (with a free 1 hour). But not 9 consecutive days on the job.
I am told that our local Montreal hospital has a deal with a hospital in Australia (12hrs difference in time). Our x-rays are all digital images, and in the local midnight hours, images are are sent to the radiologist in Australia to read. During their midnight shift, our radiologists read their x-rays for them. The result is that we each save a midnight shift for radiologists, and our radiologists get a good nights sleep. We only produce film from the digital scan, and not the otherway around.
I am fairly certain that Broadcom does not have software developers in-house. They probably contracted out for the drivers and utilities. That means they must protect their software house(s) from copyright violations.
Is it possible that with every cpu built, there is an ability to correct (replace) instructions with some microcode patches? If so, all one has to do is modify the cpu instruction set so that some instructions are not privledged, and you will break all security algorithms ever created.
With communication to the cloud and full screen video, I believe that what will be transferred will be delta information. A list of changes. Moreover, there is no reason why the data cannot be shared between host and cloud, and have all processing in the cloud, resulting in even less bilateral data transfer. No need to always transmit a full screen refresh.
The Hyunda was a crappy car, but there was determination to make it compete with Toyota, and it did, Is there an American car manufacturer who can compete with Hyunda today?
Rather then attacking Obama, why not write to your senator and congressman, and all the others about what you feel is an injustice. Don't complain here, noone cares to take action. In fact the only thing that happens on Slashdot is a bunch of blogging to provide opinions. Time to show that Slashdot readers do take proactive action.
Microsoft is moving into many other business areas, so as to not have all its eggs with two or three products. Major moves are with dynamics AX, with search engines, with cloud computing and so much more.
Gee, College for a grade 10 course. What happened to US education? K12 is what is taught in grade 10, elsewhere in the world.
ICANN or other institution, the results would be the same. They did not open the door, they asked for comments. I believe all the pessimism exhibited is due to people having lived these past eight years in the USA, where life under the current president was an exercise in frustration, cronyisme, profit taking, and poor to non-existant judgement. ICANN wants feedback. They did not impose anything.
The internet is an information highway. All highways have traffic rules that are to be obeyed. Therefore, the broadband stuff suggested will a) bring the USA into the 20th century (not yet 21st), and will come with some rules to obey. My son in a poor country had 8gig per minute downloads from his ISP.
Why not use a bridge full wave rectifier to drive the LED lamp. Then the flicker will be at 120cps, or once for every half cycle.
Some of the problems are attempting to be equitable. If life was fair, Walmart would not be the cut-throat retailer it is . Walmart ignores MAP and can do it because of volume purchases. If you can police WalMart to insure they are MAP observant, then other retailers will be able to compete. I am waiting for January DUMPING sales. True Dell stated that Black Tuesday has already occurred, but I am waiting for the real discounts. MAP and discounts -- thats a laugh
Its also a waste of Google and Yahoo's cash. Who has the most cash though?
One way to compensate is to keep a very good agenda, using a calendar software. I am 68, and work in ERP. I also read a lot, and create a lot of subdirectories in my Documents directory. Each one is about a topic for which I am an expert of sorts. And leave clues that remind you of the links to the topic. An agenda to record what you did each day is important, as in one week's time, you won't remember which day of the week it was that something important occurred. I also don't stress out. Stress is an absolute memory blocker, and will cause you to disfunction.
I am 68 and I concur with you Joe. TV-NEWS, other then for the BBC(I don't trust ABC, NBC, or CNN as they are badly biased is geared to grade 7 mentality and grade 6 vocabulary), is the only news that tells me more truthfully, what is going on in the world. Another frustration I have with TV is the eight minutes of program, broken by two minutes of commercials. (6 times per hour). Thats why we are all channel flippers -- it drives my wife nuts when I flip between PBS and Holmes on Holmes (or other home renovation program).
I am just an old dos c programmer, and here is my take. C is a wonderful language for multiprocessors, even if the low level programming paradigm is followed. The changes will not be in the language, but as I see it, in the function call process. When a function is invoked, the function may be treated as a task and therefore, for it's execution life may be scheduled to one of the processors in the multi-processor chip. That means that if the compiler is not intelligent, we may have to add function property type qualifiers similar to "static" or some other property. That new type would tell the operating system how to schedule the function to a processor. There of course would be some mechanism to force functions to specific processors or to be separate or bound together on the same one.