When building processors, you tend to be around 300mm2 in size, nomather what fab you are in, becouse is the size that gets you the best relationship between yield in 300mm waffer and cost to package. Depending on the fab you get more or less transistor. Is up to each vendor to create as much or as little cores, threads, etc. as he wants.
A extreme version of this is Sun T2 processor, with 8 cores, that is faster than Power6 per socket but slower than Nehalem.
Unformtunatelly the "I hit the low point some 4 years ago. , when it suddenly dawned on me that I tended to wake up in the morning thinking how much easier it would be just to give up; take an overdose of something pleasant and say goodbye. Except that you can't, really, when you have children adn a wife that love you - sometimes hope really is the worst thing." part is too familiar to me and to many other co-workers here.
I just quit psichiatric treatment and although it was great, I'm really scared that many others falls in the same depresion I was in... and reading this makes me feel it is going to be even more pervasive.
When I see sites that I want to comment on but they don't support comments or deletes them, I simply post to SideWiki. Google is in a great position to gain a reputation for not evil if they allow bad review of their own sites with SideWiki. Time will tell.
For what I understand, it is better to tax wealth than income. In doing so people that owns money will have to have it always working in order to aviod seen it eroded by taxes.
> But, if I figured out the One Great Internet Business Idea or write the Great American Novel and used the company laptop to do it, it's an avenue they could use to claim they own it.
No you won't. If you haven't done it yet, it won't happen. There's almost no big idea after 30 years old.
It is more usefull an Asus Eee 900A that you can get it for 165 USD refurbished from ebay, including shipping.
For more usefull I mean you can install Windows that runs shockwave... Why you might ask? My kids use online games that run on shockwave... unfortunatelly.
You can get from Ebay a refurbished Asus Eee 900A from 165USD Shipping included, You can resell it for 200 USD thus solving the eternal Slashdot dilemma...
1- Buy Asus Eee 900A for 165USD 2- Resell it for 200USD (was perviously ???) 3- Profit !!
It took me 15 years to read GEB. I started over and over constantly, each time going a little further. But it was worth it.
It is also much better to read it in spanish than in english, since the spanish version is way longer with a lot more of expanations of each part (of course you need to know spanish to do so).
This is becouse whe DH came upon the first spanish translation, he realized that it have quite a lot of mistakes becouse the context is so complex, so he wrote a companion book for translators, and the latest spanish version includes all of this added notes.
Nevertheless you should give it a try once a year, I'm sure that it will happen to you what happened to me that somehow the last time it just flowed.
If you can use a Solaris server as a router, you will be able to pinpoint exactly the problem using Dtrace and you won't have to keep on guessing what the problem is. Seriously!!
You can call Sun USA (1-800-786-0404) and ask for Bryan Cantrill (you can get his email from http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=50963 ) and ask him for help. Trust me, his a great guy and will be happy to help.
When I first heard about OLPC, I realized they would never reach the U$S:100 mark. The better alternative instead of reinventing the whell would have been for Palm to use their Zire 21 (that already sells fro U$S:100 retail) and add it wifi. With that functionality, if you sell it directly in millions of units (how OLPC does), you would get a zire 21 with wifi for U$S:100.
That would have been really transforming.
everything you ask for is covered by the ipod touch, and you can wait till june 9 to see if there's any update for it. at 299 it is the best choice, along with the EEE
I'm using Indiana preview 2 (final version comming out really soon). It boot from ZFS and I add two USB drives that get mirrored by ZFS. That's all I needed. Cheap RAID 1 that can be read by any computer that runs ZFS (MAC OS X, BSD, OpenSolaris and FUSE Linux distros).
Although I'm from Latin America and we are cheap bastards, price is really THE issue all around the world.
I have some friends that have bougth for U$S:350 dual-core, 1GB RAM, DVD-RW laptops, but only in sales and refurbished. For a non USA citizen, you will always pay full list price, though, the Asus EEE is the cheapest laptop available.
Also size mothers. If you are not able to take always with you, it is of not point. Asus EEE is cheap AND ligth. A big difference with Sony TZ, which is ligth and EXPENSIVE.
All other functionality (DVD, etc) you can wait until you get home to use it, but an usable keyboard is for more important. That's why my friends that have heir iPhone laso have their EEE, typing on iPhone or BlackBerry is soooo slow. And you can't manage attachments.
That's why I think OLPC XO is a really bad idea. It took more than three years to get the product out, at twice the U$S:100 original price, and only in bulk orders... When they could have gone to Palm, and get the Zire21 at U$S:100 reatail. In bulk orders for U$S:100 they could get the keyboard and even could get Palm to develop some WiFi adapter. Even without WiFi, Palms already have IR. So the OLPC would have only to develop the software on top of the Zire21, instead of trying to re invent the wheel...
Ok, so if you ask Palm to sell without intermediates on one millon bulk, directly to goverments, Im prety sure they can get it down to sub U$S:50 for the Palm Zire 22. It already have some networking capabilities with IR, but with the remaining U$S:50 you can also add some 802.11b networking.
Im not afiliate to Palm by any means, it is just that I hate when people reinvent the wheel... I just see this all OLPC circus so unfair to currently existing technologies...
I really would prefer Negropontes team to develop the educational software as small as posible on JAVA so you can install it wherever you like (Palm, OLPC, Asus, etc.)
From Douglas Hofstadter. This book tought me that no system can be complete and coherent at the same time (you are allowed to choose only one). That had profund impact on my life. In fact Godels incompletnes theorem is been studied for its philosophical consecuences a lot of times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incomple teness_theorem
Since Sun Microsystems is GPLing their latest processor designs (T1 and T2 at opensparc.net) they reaised the bar for a 100% OpenSource systems (OpenSolaris/OpenSparc). Something that Linux/x86 can`t achieve becouse of x86 closed ISA and closed implementations. We should all request a GPL implementation of their latest processors..
Hi, do you know the expected price range for the TI nspire? BTW, I'm a happy HP48GX owner from Argentina. In this country at least, TI doesn't have any presence at all. For high end calculators we had HP and for low end CASIO and thas it... no other brand is present. Nevertheless a friend of mine got a TI-92 many years ago and its software was way better than HP's, the main difference was that TI-92 could solve symbolic integrals and HP-48GX only could do it with defined integrals. Also the TI-92 was a lot faster. HP48GX biggest advantage for me was RPN and it construction quality and materials. Alls TI's calculators I saw seemed to be far lower quality products (though I admit that probably they have better software and a faster processor). One second question on te TI nspire, do you know if it will be accepted on USA standard school test? That's somethingh that can really add value to it...
I will buy an iPhone whe it hits the $199 mark. It will probablt be the no screen "iPhone Shuffle", life is random, you will never know who you called...
Just give it a though. When the firs iBook appeared, it was priced at almost the same as any other WinTel laptop, but as of today, $1099 for a MacBook is twice the price you will pay for a similar specd Dell... Now, with the iPhone, you get a sub $500 Mac OS X laptop... really cheap is you think it this way...
Nope. Sun was first to make dual-core in 1999. The Power4 came in 2001. search for MAJC in wikipedia to learn more about the first dual-core (and four threads per core) chip.
Anyone nows if the cell processor have 32 bits units? I've been told that to go behind 32-bits (it can go to 128 bits) it performs lots of 32-bits operations, thus going passed 32-bits is a really bad performer...
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Sorry but Nehalem has more than twice the performance per socket than Power6, and it is much cheaper.
http://tiny.cc/nuabU
http://tiny.cc/sQ1fT
When building processors, you tend to be around 300mm2 in size, nomather what fab you are in, becouse is the size that gets you the best relationship between yield in 300mm waffer and cost to package. Depending on the fab you get more or less transistor. Is up to each vendor to create as much or as little cores, threads, etc. as he wants.
A extreme version of this is Sun T2 processor, with 8 cores, that is faster than Power6 per socket but slower than Nehalem.
http://tiny.cc/Tm9r2
Wow...
Unformtunatelly the "I hit the low point some 4 years ago. , when it suddenly dawned on me that I tended to wake up in the morning thinking how much easier it would be just to give up; take an overdose of something pleasant and say goodbye. Except that you can't, really, when you have children adn a wife that love you - sometimes hope really is the worst thing." part is too familiar to me and to many other co-workers here.
I just quit psichiatric treatment and although it was great, I'm really scared that many others falls in the same depresion I was in... and reading this makes me feel it is going to be even more pervasive.
When I see sites that I want to comment on but they don't support comments or deletes them, I simply post to SideWiki. Google is in a great position to gain a reputation for not evil if they allow bad review of their own sites with SideWiki. Time will tell.
Please explain.
For what I understand, it is better to tax wealth than income. In doing so people that owns money will have to have it always working in order to aviod seen it eroded by taxes.
> But, if I figured out the One Great Internet Business Idea or write the Great American Novel and used the company laptop to do it, it's an avenue they could use to claim they own it.
No you won't. If you haven't done it yet, it won't happen. There's almost no big idea after 30 years old.
Even on your situaton, you do have a lot of time to excerise and keep working at the same time.
If you get yourself a high table you can work with your notebook standing up, this is great excersie !
Even on your conmute, you can try the 1.5 comute time to be standing up, and even doing some excersie, like walking inside the bus/train/wahtever.
It is more usefull an Asus Eee 900A that you can get it for 165 USD refurbished from ebay, including shipping.
For more usefull I mean you can install Windows that runs shockwave... Why you might ask? My kids use online games that run on shockwave... unfortunatelly.
You can get from Ebay a refurbished Asus Eee 900A from 165USD Shipping included, You can resell it for 200 USD thus solving the eternal Slashdot dilemma...
1- Buy Asus Eee 900A for 165USD
2- Resell it for 200USD (was perviously ???)
3- Profit !!
It took me 15 years to read GEB. I started over and over constantly, each time going a little further. But it was worth it.
It is also much better to read it in spanish than in english, since the spanish version is way longer with a lot more of expanations of each part (of course you need to know spanish to do so).
This is becouse whe DH came upon the first spanish translation, he realized that it have quite a lot of mistakes becouse the context is so complex, so he wrote a companion book for translators, and the latest spanish version includes all of this added notes.
Nevertheless you should give it a try once a year, I'm sure that it will happen to you what happened to me that somehow the last time it just flowed.
Just use an Open Source virtualization Sofware (virtualbox, quemu ,etc. ) so whenever the vendor makes it obsolete you can recompile it by yourself.
If you can use a Solaris server as a router, you will be able to pinpoint exactly the problem using Dtrace and you won't have to keep on guessing what the problem is. Seriously!!
You can call Sun USA (1-800-786-0404) and ask for Bryan Cantrill (you can get his email from http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=50963 ) and ask him for help. Trust me, his a great guy and will be happy to help.
When I first heard about OLPC, I realized they would never reach the U$S:100 mark. The better alternative instead of reinventing the whell would have been for Palm to use their Zire 21 (that already sells fro U$S:100 retail) and add it wifi. With that functionality, if you sell it directly in millions of units (how OLPC does), you would get a zire 21 with wifi for U$S:100.
That would have been really transforming.
everything you ask for is covered by the ipod touch, and you can wait till june 9 to see if there's any update for it. at 299 it is the best choice, along with the EEE
You want the most scalable mail-server on the planet? Use Sun Java Communications Suite 5 for free.
https://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_us/-/USD/ViewProductDetail-Start?ProductRef=COMMSUI
I'm using Indiana preview 2 (final version comming out really soon). It boot from ZFS and I add two USB drives that get mirrored by ZFS. That's all I needed. Cheap RAID 1 that can be read by any computer that runs ZFS (MAC OS X, BSD, OpenSolaris and FUSE Linux distros).
Although I'm from Latin America and we are cheap bastards, price is really THE issue all around the world.
I have some friends that have bougth for U$S:350 dual-core, 1GB RAM, DVD-RW laptops, but only in sales and refurbished. For a non USA citizen, you will always pay full list price, though, the Asus EEE is the cheapest laptop available.
Also size mothers. If you are not able to take always with you, it is of not point. Asus EEE is cheap AND ligth. A big difference with Sony TZ, which is ligth and EXPENSIVE.
All other functionality (DVD, etc) you can wait until you get home to use it, but an usable keyboard is for more important. That's why my friends that have heir iPhone laso have their EEE, typing on iPhone or BlackBerry is soooo slow. And you can't manage attachments.
That's why I think OLPC XO is a really bad idea. It took more than three years to get the product out, at twice the U$S:100 original price, and only in bulk orders... When they could have gone to Palm, and get the Zire21 at U$S:100 reatail. In bulk orders for U$S:100 they could get the keyboard and even could get Palm to develop some WiFi adapter. Even without WiFi, Palms already have IR. So the OLPC would have only to develop the software on top of the Zire21, instead of trying to re invent the wheel...
That's the awfull true... the human beeing is such a animal that he prefers to feel superior to others than to help them...
Ok, so if you ask Palm to sell without intermediates on one millon bulk, directly to goverments, Im prety sure they can get it down to sub U$S:50 for the Palm Zire 22. It already have some networking capabilities with IR, but with the remaining U$S:50 you can also add some 802.11b networking.
Im not afiliate to Palm by any means, it is just that I hate when people reinvent the wheel... I just see this all OLPC circus so unfair to currently existing technologies...
I really would prefer Negropontes team to develop the educational software as small as posible on JAVA so you can install it wherever you like (Palm, OLPC, Asus, etc.)
From Douglas Hofstadter. This book tought me that no system can be complete and coherent at the same time (you are allowed to choose only one). That had profund impact on my life. In fact Godels incompletnes theorem is been studied for its philosophical consecuences a lot of times. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_incomple teness_theorem
Since Sun Microsystems is GPLing their latest processor designs (T1 and T2 at opensparc.net) they reaised the bar for a 100% OpenSource systems (OpenSolaris/OpenSparc). Something that Linux/x86 can`t achieve becouse of x86 closed ISA and closed implementations.
We should all request a GPL implementation of their latest processors..
Hi, do you know the expected price range for the TI nspire? BTW, I'm a happy HP48GX owner from Argentina. In this country at least, TI doesn't have any presence at all. For high end calculators we had HP and for low end CASIO and thas it... no other brand is present.
Nevertheless a friend of mine got a TI-92 many years ago and its software was way better than HP's, the main difference was that TI-92 could solve symbolic integrals and HP-48GX only could do it with defined integrals. Also the TI-92 was a lot faster. HP48GX biggest advantage for me was RPN and it construction quality and materials. Alls TI's calculators I saw seemed to be far lower quality products (though I admit that probably they have better software and a faster processor).
One second question on te TI nspire, do you know if it will be accepted on USA standard school test? That's somethingh that can really add value to it...
Good luck with your product!
I will buy an iPhone whe it hits the $199 mark. It will probablt be the no screen "iPhone Shuffle", life is random, you will never know who you called...
Just give it a though. When the firs iBook appeared, it was priced at almost the same as any other WinTel laptop, but as of today, $1099 for a MacBook is twice the price you will pay for a similar specd Dell... Now, with the iPhone, you get a sub $500 Mac OS X laptop... really cheap is you think it this way...
Nope. Sun was first to make dual-core in 1999. The Power4 came in 2001. search for MAJC in wikipedia to learn more about the first dual-core (and four threads per core) chip.
Anyone nows if the cell processor have 32 bits units? I've been told that to go behind 32-bits (it can go to 128 bits) it performs lots of 32-bits operations, thus going passed 32-bits is a really bad performer...