You don't know what you are talking about. Variants of IS-95 CDMA (the original 2G CDMA) are widely used in China, Korea, and elsewhere. In China, CDMA phones even have SIM cards. All 3G technologies (EV-DO, UMTS, HSPDA, etc.) use CDMA signaling technology because it is more spectrum efficient.
What the hell is wrong with selling software applications and making a living doing it? Having the bottom layers of the system being free and open is far better than the other way around.
Like the OP, I am virus-checker free for a long long time. However I did do an experiment once...where I installed a virus scanner (with the latest updates) on a machine that was virus-scanner free for 3 years. It didn't find anything.
Linux, for example, is technically superior to Windows, but its 'gaming quality' is very poor.
Care to back that statement up? You might be surprised at how "technically superior" the Linux kernel is compared to the Windows 2008 Server kernel. In fact you might be surprised at how inferior the Linux kernel might actually be...
Perhaps for people who don't care about their data... Privacy, security, accountability and reliability cannot be ensured by a third party. I'll keep my data in-house thank you.
Doing backup the right way is not easy for a non-IT professional. Or for an IT professional who isn't on his A-game at home.
Case in point-- last year my NTFS partition became corrupt and was silently turning files into 0-length files. I had a (non-incremental) backup that ended up copying over a bunch of 0-length files. A lot of the files were pictures of my 16-month old baby. Thankfully I have nearly all those pictures stored in the cloud.
If anyone cares, the patent deals with memory disambiguation. The basic jist is that it is hard to execute *memory* instructions out-of-order when previous the address computation of previous instructions has not completed (otherwise what would happen if the processor completes a load instruction, out-of-order, for a prior store instruction that did not yet complete due to a dependence on address computation?). Sohi's patent figured out a way to predict this and to allow the Core2 to get much better out-of-order execution.
Sohi is *highly* respected in the field of computer architecture. In fact Wisconsin is considered one of the best computer architecture schools in the world.
I use both a Thinkpad t61p and MacBook Pro
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I use both high-end laptops. Both have 15" screens.
MacBook Pro advantages:
+ much brighter screen
+ Nicer OS w/ native Unix support
+ trackpad is way better if you use trackpads
Lenovo Thinkpad t61p advantages:
+ 1920x1200 resolution fits *alot* of code on one screen
+ better build quality-- yes, I think the build quality is better than the macbook pro
+ its got the trackpoint (aka nipple) if you don't like the trackpad
+ much better keyboard
Ya...if you run a 5-petabyte storage system, let me know if you replace all of that with flash. Heck, anybody who stores > 1 TB will be using disk drives (and that is a lot of people given video, 16-megapixel cameras, etc.).
I went to graduate school at a well-regarded Computer Science department. The moon landings came up in conversation before class started. Nearly every student from India thought they were faked. I was disgusted.
Actually the University of Wisconsin-Madison (the flagship UW school) gets so little money from the state these days that it is within their rights to rename the school if they wanted. If I recall correctly, UW-Madison gets 10% of their budget funded from the state.
I used to work for a major cellphone manufacturer.
Cellphones already go into a special emergency mode. All phones definitely scan for more towers beyond those in the PRL list (preferred roaming list). I believe phones may also increase Tx power if battery is good and the CDMA noise floor is high.
One big problem I recall: it is not as well tested. The Verizon phone guys aren't going to yell "do you hear me now" at 911 operators. We had once instance where it was discovered that the 911 mode had a software bug and caused the phone to crash. That caused an immediate "stop ship". We definitely had to improve the synthetic 911 testing environment...
Funny. In 1996, my Windows NT 4.0 workstation box running on a Pentium 166Mhz machine would never skip playing an MP3 no matter what I threw at it. I could start 12 simultaneous programs and the WinAMP MP3 still didn't skip.
I didn't get skip-free Linux MP3 playback until about 2002 with a 1.5GHz machine. Move a window, playback skipped.
I don't remember the details from a group of computer architecture friends interested in forming a startup, but if you are interesting in licensing the ARM instruction set to develop your own ARM processor for sale, good luck with that. If I recall correctly, you get something like 12 months of exclusive rights, but then you have to give up your design to ARM. Someone correct me if I am way off here. Someone correct me if I am way off base.
Its open source. You can create your own fork if you want. Also the Mozilla Foundation gets most of their money these days from Google. Its nice to have companies, that make real money by providing real value, pay people to develop software.
I agree that 12 megapixels is fine for most people who never make big enlargements (or for those who do, do not care about viewing detail in these prints from a couple feet away).
Heck, I still shoot 4x5" large format simply because the quality is amazing even in a 8x10 print. They say the eye can only resolve 400dpi or so, but my prints say otherwise. 4x5" sheet film scanned at a modest 2000dpi gives (4*5*2000*2000) 80 megapixels.
I started my first software engineering job for a Fortune-50 company at the age of 22. Expecting to do great things, I quickly became bored with "boring tasks" on "boring code". After 2 years I quit and ran off to grad. school. 6 years later I have a PhD. I can't say it was the best move I've ever made, but looking at my first job, it was actually a pretty good gig and not far off from what I'm doing +6 years and PhD! LOL. Live and learn. At least I enjoyed grad. school.
Everyone is jumping on this guy for not knowing what he is doing.
We have no idea what the work of each query is.
Heck, I was involved with a web server where each query would result in a 60-second fluid dynamics computation. If it had 1000 unique visitors a day, poisson arrivals would result in the server being overloaded at some point.
VMWare does "content-based page sharing". Thus there are *not* 4 separate copies of all the userland shared libs. The VMM, in the background, scans pages across VMs with identical contents. It then maps them to the same physical page with copy-on-write semantics.
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There are not too many countries outside of the US where CDMA is even present!
I guess China doesn't count.
You don't know what you are talking about. Variants of IS-95 CDMA (the original 2G CDMA) are widely used in China, Korea, and elsewhere. In China, CDMA phones even have SIM cards. All 3G technologies (EV-DO, UMTS, HSPDA, etc.) use CDMA signaling technology because it is more spectrum efficient.
What the hell is wrong with selling software applications and making a living doing it? Having the bottom layers of the system being free and open is far better than the other way around.
How does this differ from the Network Block Device (NBD)? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_block_device
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Like the OP, I am virus-checker free for a long long time. However I did do an experiment once...where I installed a virus scanner (with the latest updates) on a machine that was virus-scanner free for 3 years. It didn't find anything.
Linux, for example, is technically superior to Windows, but its 'gaming quality' is very poor.
Care to back that statement up? You might be surprised at how "technically superior" the Linux kernel is compared to the Windows 2008 Server kernel. In fact you might be surprised at how inferior the Linux kernel might actually be...
Perhaps for people who don't care about their data... Privacy, security, accountability and reliability cannot be ensured by a third party. I'll keep my data in-house thank you.
Doing backup the right way is not easy for a non-IT professional. Or for an IT professional who isn't on his A-game at home.
Case in point-- last year my NTFS partition became corrupt and was silently turning files into 0-length files. I had a (non-incremental) backup that ended up copying over a bunch of 0-length files. A lot of the files were pictures of my 16-month old baby. Thankfully I have nearly all those pictures stored in the cloud.
If anyone cares, the patent deals with memory disambiguation. The basic jist is that it is hard to execute *memory* instructions out-of-order when previous the address computation of previous instructions has not completed (otherwise what would happen if the processor completes a load instruction, out-of-order, for a prior store instruction that did not yet complete due to a dependence on address computation?). Sohi's patent figured out a way to predict this and to allow the Core2 to get much better out-of-order execution.
Sohi is *highly* respected in the field of computer architecture. In fact Wisconsin is considered one of the best computer architecture schools in the world.
I use both high-end laptops. Both have 15" screens.
MacBook Pro advantages:
+ much brighter screen
+ Nicer OS w/ native Unix support
+ trackpad is way better if you use trackpads
Lenovo Thinkpad t61p advantages:
+ 1920x1200 resolution fits *alot* of code on one screen
+ better build quality-- yes, I think the build quality is better than the macbook pro
+ its got the trackpoint (aka nipple) if you don't like the trackpad
+ much better keyboard
All current ARM processors are 32-bit. There is nothing imminent on the roadmap for a 64-bit ARM processor.
Ya...if you run a 5-petabyte storage system, let me know if you replace all of that with flash. Heck, anybody who stores > 1 TB will be using disk drives (and that is a lot of people given video, 16-megapixel cameras, etc.).
I went to graduate school at a well-regarded Computer Science department. The moon landings came up in conversation before class started. Nearly every student from India thought they were faked. I was disgusted.
Actually the University of Wisconsin-Madison (the flagship UW school) gets so little money from the state these days that it is within their rights to rename the school if they wanted. If I recall correctly, UW-Madison gets 10% of their budget funded from the state.
I used to work for a major cellphone manufacturer.
Cellphones already go into a special emergency mode. All phones definitely scan for more towers beyond those in the PRL list (preferred roaming list). I believe phones may also increase Tx power if battery is good and the CDMA noise floor is high.
One big problem I recall: it is not as well tested. The Verizon phone guys aren't going to yell "do you hear me now" at 911 operators. We had once instance where it was discovered that the 911 mode had a software bug and caused the phone to crash. That caused an immediate "stop ship". We definitely had to improve the synthetic 911 testing environment...
Funny. In 1996, my Windows NT 4.0 workstation box running on a Pentium 166Mhz machine would never skip playing an MP3 no matter what I threw at it. I could start 12 simultaneous programs and the WinAMP MP3 still didn't skip. I didn't get skip-free Linux MP3 playback until about 2002 with a 1.5GHz machine. Move a window, playback skipped.
I don't remember the details from a group of computer architecture friends interested in forming a startup, but if you are interesting in licensing the ARM instruction set to develop your own ARM processor for sale, good luck with that. If I recall correctly, you get something like 12 months of exclusive rights, but then you have to give up your design to ARM. Someone correct me if I am way off here. Someone correct me if I am way off base.
Its open source. You can create your own fork if you want. Also the Mozilla Foundation gets most of their money these days from Google. Its nice to have companies, that make real money by providing real value, pay people to develop software.
16*20*300*300 = 28.8 megapixels.
I agree that 12 megapixels is fine for most people who never make big enlargements (or for those who do, do not care about viewing detail in these prints from a couple feet away).
Heck, I still shoot 4x5" large format simply because the quality is amazing even in a 8x10 print. They say the eye can only resolve 400dpi or so, but my prints say otherwise. 4x5" sheet film scanned at a modest 2000dpi gives (4*5*2000*2000) 80 megapixels.
I started my first software engineering job for a Fortune-50 company at the age of 22. Expecting to do great things, I quickly became bored with "boring tasks" on "boring code". After 2 years I quit and ran off to grad. school. 6 years later I have a PhD. I can't say it was the best move I've ever made, but looking at my first job, it was actually a pretty good gig and not far off from what I'm doing +6 years and PhD! LOL. Live and learn. At least I enjoyed grad. school.
nothing like sticking all your eggs in one basket.
In one year I can build a PC for $1000 that outperforms this for CPU-bound jobs. Give me 2 years for something I/O-bound.
Everyone is jumping on this guy for not knowing what he is doing. We have no idea what the work of each query is. Heck, I was involved with a web server where each query would result in a 60-second fluid dynamics computation. If it had 1000 unique visitors a day, poisson arrivals would result in the server being overloaded at some point.
VMWare does "content-based page sharing". Thus there are *not* 4 separate copies of all the userland shared libs. The VMM, in the background, scans pages across VMs with identical contents. It then maps them to the same physical page with copy-on-write semantics.
Flash memory has a rated bit lifetime of 10 years. Course that is a manufacture rating...you might get more in practice.