Why point the finger at India, when the United States does the same. One way that we think is acceptable (and I agree) is to block porn sites, particularly child porn.
The other filtering that is taking place is related to "security". Try to find information about local state issues. You will not find any.
Since Bush's last bill regarding arrests without warrants or habias corpus, the USA has become a democratic version of a nazi government.
Shame shame shame
Instead of complaining that the Millenium prize is equivalent to the Nobel prize, complain that the US universities are not turning out students who are of the caliber to do fundamental research, or to be innovative.
Learning to think outside the box is a cultural attribute. It is time to think innovation, and the rest will follow
I pay a fair price for my music (anywhere from 11 cents to about 30 cents) per selection. And I don't have to purchase the entire album.
I have the option of listening to the first 30 or so seconds of the music I expect to purchase.
What I like about that offshore site, is that the majority of the money goes to the artist. Does it bypass the RIAA, or the other organisations? Well, I hope so, but I do not know.
Search for all of mp3 dot com
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With flash drives being made increasingly large, it would help if the smarts surrounding hard disk technology was brought to market with this cache technology.
As I see it, each hard disk could interchange data with the cache, and the cache, to the host. Having hard disk systems with 16 gig caches could reduce read/write times to almost zero milliseconds.
For non critical application systems, (home computers, or systems with small databases, you can do without ECC memory. Just as you can do without car insurance.
Suppose you have a terrabyte database and you have not used ECC memory. Suppose that a single bit error got into the database undetected. And some months later, the records or pointers or tree of data with the corrupted bit is corrupted. What would be the cost of repair against the cost of having ECC memory installed?
My understanding of ECC Memory operation.
Memory addresses are divided into words. The simplist design of ECC memory takes a check sum of the bits of a word of memory and of itself. Thus, for example, a 32 bit word would need 5 bits to hold a check sum, but then we have the ecc memory that is needed to store the checksum and of course, its own check sum. That adds at least a few more bits. To check 64 bit words only takes another bit, over using a 32 bit word.
The theory is, that for any single bit error, the error would be corrected on the fly and would be transparent to the application. In more sophisticated systems, the same holds true, but the error would also be reported as a soft error. A diagnostic processor in the system would analyse the ECC errors and distinguish between random soft and persistent hard failures.
ECC hardware detection would detect errors with more than a single bit would halt the system.
When ECC memory systems are well designed, you can pull out a card with faulty memory and replace the card with a repaired one. System design would have the card only support a single bit in a word, distributed over many the words of memory. After replacement, the access of memory would result in the rewrite of memory in the replacement card, resulting in generating the correct bit setting.
Our lowly PCs do not have that sophistication, but some mainframe systems do.
You should be, I survived 50 years in the business and still going strong. And I have a well respected reputation.
I love what I do and I do teach others. I even soldered an old backplane computer together.
Thank you for the accolades.
In queuing theory, and in practice, it is well known that in a multiple server environment, the shortest time to service occurs when there is a single queue facing multiple servers. The first task in the ready queue goes to the next available server. Service is from task initiation to task completion.
With this above configuration, the average queuing time, and hence service time is much less than if there is a dedicated queue per server.
From what I have seen, with multiple core systems, there appears to be a dispatcher per server, so that queues are the type that you find in grocery store check out counters (a queue per server). Throughput time is longer than if there was one server dedicated to dispatching and the others dedicated to running tasks.
The other thing that comes out of all the research and experience, is that 2 servers that execute twice as fast as the 4 servers provide higher throughput.
So, why the big fuss about quad core, unless it is to save real-estate or electrical connections. Give me dual core that executes twice as fast and I will be happier.
I actually think that a three core system, (a dispatcher cpu, and two server cpus) would be just fine. Now, to confirm that all operating systems use a single dispatcher and multiple server configuration I count on the operating system developers to check things out.
FYI. My background is that I have more than 40 years in Computer Capacity Planning, System Tuning and system development. I am a mathematician (applied) who uses this talent to my max.
Economy is like water, it seeks it's own level. It is only natural that the expenses move to where they are the lowest. But what makes the move attractive is the education that other nations provide their citizens, and the education level that their citizens can achieve, all without getting into a life time of debt repayment.
Americans do not have exclusivity on education, and this opens the door to opportunity.
How did this happen?
The United States (Canada too) has squandered it's wealth by giving inflated salaries to positions that are not justified, by concentrating on luxury goods and high salaries to pay for these goods, and in so doing, it has priced their technical gurus out of the market place. By making education very unaffordable, more Americans then ever do not complete university.
What is the future.
Getting back to my water theory, water seeks its own level. The global economy is like the great body of water, will seek its own level. That means, that at some time in the future, the off shore salaries will rise, while the domestic ones will remain flat, or fall. And when the financial benefit of going off shore disappears due to leveling off of costs, jobs may return. I say may return, because they will only return when the education level and competences of the next generation American match those levels provided by off shore countries.
Regarding socialism, there is more good in it than is wrong and it is better in many ways than full capitalism. Just look at the health of nations such as Norway, Scandinavia, and the black listed neighbor 90 miles off shore from Florida. The Spanish neighbors are poor, due to political doings from the USA, but their health standard and education are exceptionally high. In short, a little socialism is good (Old age pension, Medicare, Free education, and low cost universal education).
Leslie Satenstein
a) The market is close to saturation in North America and Europe. Therefore sales of PCs etc. are in decline. However sales are up in poorer economies and in those economies, the dollar is a more significant factor than new higher performance technology.
b) Price versus performance. AMD vs Intel. Intel is not there.
c) When the P4 was way way overpriced, technical and intelligent buyers know they were being gouged. Now there is a bad taste in their mouths, and since AMD offers a great product at what is a much better market price, the move is away from Intel.
d) Nothing really new for a long long time.
e) Families are purchasing large screen TVs and those fantastic new non-computer products. (IPODs etc). Priorities change.
f) Other costs and factors (gas, interest rates, jobs, wars in Afganistan, Iraq, etc) cause feelings of financial insecurity. Save money for a rainy day, cut expenses on luxury goods.
Gee,
With respect to the previous argument, if there was no Colt revolvers, there would not be a shooting. The colt company is an accessory to a shooting.
Thank God I live in a civilized countries where guns are outlawed, and where we rely on police and the military for protection. We have so few deaths from guns that it is embarassing to read about the great bit country north of Mexico, and it's death and dismemberment from weapons.
Back to the subject. The software company has a responsiblity to ensure that it's methods and services are not used maliciously.
Leslie
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Why point the finger at India, when the United States does the same. One way that we think is acceptable (and I agree) is to block porn sites, particularly child porn. The other filtering that is taking place is related to "security". Try to find information about local state issues. You will not find any. Since Bush's last bill regarding arrests without warrants or habias corpus, the USA has become a democratic version of a nazi government. Shame shame shame
Instead of complaining that the Millenium prize is equivalent to the Nobel prize, complain that the US universities are not turning out students who are of the caliber to do fundamental research, or to be innovative.
Learning to think outside the box is a cultural attribute. It is time to think innovation, and the rest will follow
I pay a fair price for my music (anywhere from 11 cents to about 30 cents) per selection. And I don't have to purchase the entire album. I have the option of listening to the first 30 or so seconds of the music I expect to purchase. What I like about that offshore site, is that the majority of the money goes to the artist. Does it bypass the RIAA, or the other organisations? Well, I hope so, but I do not know. Search for all of mp3 dot com
With flash drives being made increasingly large, it would help if the smarts surrounding hard disk technology was brought to market with this cache technology. As I see it, each hard disk could interchange data with the cache, and the cache, to the host. Having hard disk systems with 16 gig caches could reduce read/write times to almost zero milliseconds.
For non critical application systems, (home computers, or systems with small databases, you can do without ECC memory. Just as you can do without car insurance.
Suppose you have a terrabyte database and you have not used ECC memory. Suppose that a single bit error got into the database undetected. And some months later, the records or pointers or tree of data with the corrupted bit is corrupted. What would be the cost of repair against the cost of having ECC memory installed?
My understanding of ECC Memory operation.
Memory addresses are divided into words. The simplist design of ECC memory takes a check sum of the bits of a word of memory and of itself. Thus, for example, a 32 bit word would need 5 bits to hold a check sum, but then we have the ecc memory that is needed to store the checksum and of course, its own check sum. That adds at least a few more bits. To check 64 bit words only takes another bit, over using a 32 bit word.
The theory is, that for any single bit error, the error would be corrected on the fly and would be transparent to the application. In more sophisticated systems, the same holds true, but the error would also be reported as a soft error. A diagnostic processor in the system would analyse the ECC errors and distinguish between random soft and persistent hard failures.
ECC hardware detection would detect errors with more than a single bit would halt the system.
When ECC memory systems are well designed, you can pull out a card with faulty memory and replace the card with a repaired one. System design would have the card only support a single bit in a word, distributed over many the words of memory. After replacement, the access of memory would result in the rewrite of memory in the replacement card, resulting in generating the correct bit setting.
Our lowly PCs do not have that sophistication, but some mainframe systems do.
Leslie
If I am wrong, please let me know.
You should be, I survived 50 years in the business and still going strong. And I have a well respected reputation. I love what I do and I do teach others. I even soldered an old backplane computer together. Thank you for the accolades.
In queuing theory, and in practice, it is well known that in a multiple server environment, the shortest time to service occurs when there is a single queue facing multiple servers. The first task in the ready queue goes to the next available server. Service is from task initiation to task completion.
With this above configuration, the average queuing time, and hence service time is much less than if there is a dedicated queue per server.
From what I have seen, with multiple core systems, there appears to be a dispatcher per server, so that queues are the type that you find in grocery store check out counters (a queue per server). Throughput time is longer than if there was one server dedicated to dispatching and the others dedicated to running tasks.
The other thing that comes out of all the research and experience, is that 2 servers that execute twice as fast as the 4 servers provide higher throughput.
So, why the big fuss about quad core, unless it is to save real-estate or electrical connections. Give me dual core that executes twice as fast and I will be happier.
I actually think that a three core system, (a dispatcher cpu, and two server cpus) would be just fine. Now, to confirm that all operating systems use a single dispatcher and multiple server configuration I count on the operating system developers to check things out.
FYI. My background is that I have more than 40 years in Computer Capacity Planning, System Tuning and system development. I am a mathematician (applied) who uses this talent to my max.
Leslie Montreal
Americans do not have exclusivity on education, and this opens the door to opportunity.
How did this happen?
The United States (Canada too) has squandered it's wealth by giving inflated salaries to positions that are not justified, by concentrating on luxury goods and high salaries to pay for these goods, and in so doing, it has priced their technical gurus out of the market place. By making education very unaffordable, more Americans then ever do not complete university.
What is the future. Getting back to my water theory, water seeks its own level. The global economy is like the great body of water, will seek its own level. That means, that at some time in the future, the off shore salaries will rise, while the domestic ones will remain flat, or fall. And when the financial benefit of going off shore disappears due to leveling off of costs, jobs may return. I say may return, because they will only return when the education level and competences of the next generation American match those levels provided by off shore countries.
Regarding socialism, there is more good in it than is wrong and it is better in many ways than full capitalism. Just look at the health of nations such as Norway, Scandinavia, and the black listed neighbor 90 miles off shore from Florida. The Spanish neighbors are poor, due to political doings from the USA, but their health standard and education are exceptionally high. In short, a little socialism is good (Old age pension, Medicare, Free education, and low cost universal education). Leslie Satenstein
a) The market is close to saturation in North America and Europe. Therefore sales of PCs etc. are in decline. However sales are up in poorer economies and in those economies, the dollar is a more significant factor than new higher performance technology.
b) Price versus performance. AMD vs Intel. Intel is not there.
c) When the P4 was way way overpriced, technical and intelligent buyers know they were being gouged. Now there is a bad taste in their mouths, and since AMD offers a great product at what is a much better market price, the move is away from Intel.
d) Nothing really new for a long long time.
e) Families are purchasing large screen TVs and those fantastic new non-computer products. (IPODs etc). Priorities change.
f) Other costs and factors (gas, interest rates, jobs, wars in Afganistan, Iraq, etc) cause feelings of financial insecurity. Save money for a rainy day, cut expenses on luxury goods.
The cat the rat ate. Did the rat eat the cat?
Gee, With respect to the previous argument, if there was no Colt revolvers, there would not be a shooting. The colt company is an accessory to a shooting. Thank God I live in a civilized countries where guns are outlawed, and where we rely on police and the military for protection. We have so few deaths from guns that it is embarassing to read about the great bit country north of Mexico, and it's death and dismemberment from weapons. Back to the subject. The software company has a responsiblity to ensure that it's methods and services are not used maliciously. Leslie Canada