So you're proposing a mobile-phone style "£x/month with y free GB, £0.zz/GB outside limit" deal?
That's ALMOST what we have, except it's advertised as "unlimited", y is often secret or variable and z is often a connection speed cut or warning instead of a cost.
I would be happy with that. They could even make it "y free off-peak* GB (* off-peak defined as 11pm-4pm)". After all, a lot of the ISPs (at least here in the UK) now only record "peak time" bandwidth usage.
I would guess that the $15 / 10GB/s represents a more accurate valuation of the bandwidth than the initial $50 for 250 GB. They're probably expecting most people to not use more than 30GB or so, covering the costs of the people who use up to 250GB and allowing them to advertise a 250GB limit that they may only be able to sustain 1/100 or 1/1000 people hitting.
I only buy power supplies with a real power switch - why would any geek not take this simple precaution? OK, it's more of a precaution against my home-built machine catching fire... Mine's done that once or twice. I didn't need the power switch to turn it off though, it did it itself:)
There might be a UK<->USA link problem, Some Americans have been complaining about trouble accessing EVE Online for a few hours, and the servers for that are in the UK. I'm in the UK, and haven't been able to read Slashdot all day until about an hour ago. Coincidence?
Or possibly the ludicrously powerful floating point processors known as GPUs?
Perhaps now that Intel and nVidia have commercial "floating-point acceleration units" for supercomputers, AMD/ATI will come up with something too? The Hypertransport bus is already pretty popular with supercomputers for plugging an interconnect into (Infiniband/path, as well as Cray's own) so a GPU (sorry, "floating point accelerator") that plugs directly into that bus and has direct communication with the system's CPU(s) should be pretty nice.
I know I wouldn't mind going from a dedicated graphics card to having a motherboard with two processor sockets with independent ram, cpu in one and gpu in the other. PCIe is just an unnecessary layer when the gpu could be plugged directly into the cpu's main bus.
Surely the November 2007 top500 list would be a better link than the June 2003 one? The computer at the top of the list you link to is only 30th on the most recent one.
Especially since the #1 system has the following in it's description:
The upgrading of BGL, notably through the addition of nodes with twice the memory, allows scientists from the three nuclear weapons labs to develop and explore a broader set of applications than the single package weapons science oriented work that has been the mainstay of the machine in the past.
A seg fault can happen if you try to read/write to a memory address which refers to some unmapped virtual memory, as well as it being a memory page that you don't have read/write permissions for.
In the former case there is quite literally no memory at that location to write to.
I think we need a new moderation. These NIMP posts aren't merely trolls, they're out to cause trouble.
According to the Slashdot FAQ, a troll post is one which is intentionally wrong in order to promote a response and wasting people's time. Essentially a more subtle flamebait.
I don't think links to a shock site fall under this, no matter how well disguised (and to be honest, they're often pretty blatant).
It depends on where the encryption key is. If it's generated from the drive or stored on the drive, there's not really any security, you take the key with you to the new pc. If it's generated from the disk controller or motherboard serial number or similar, then you can't move it to another pc at all. If it has to be entered by a person then you have real security and the ability to move the drive to another machine if you want. However in that last case you have the annoyance of having to enter the key every boot.
You may joke, but whether a computer part has LEDs on its fan(s) is a good indication of whether it's good or not.
If it has them, the designer is trying to distract you from how poor the product is. Ditto for interesting colours (e.g. gold), an excessive number of fans, UV fluorescing plastic, or claims of ability far in advance of anything else in the same price bracket.
Real equipment is black or plain metal in colour, has one fan if at all, and DOESN'T GLOW. Good quality parts also tend to be heavy, and typically cost twice as much as the cheapest available. It's worth it though, when your computer doesn't explode.
A pc with a side window and different coloured LEDs everywhere looks like a hyperactive kid with an entire bag full of sweets stuffed in his mouth, and is probably just as reliable.
You need two points (or one point and the size of one step) to define a scale.
In kelvin's case it is: 0 K is at absolute 0 273.16 K is at the triple point of water
Celius is defined with the same two points, as -273.15 C and 0.01 C. This definition makes the freezing point of water approx. 0 C and the boiling point approx. 99.9839 C
Some of the above may have been shamelessly ripped from Wikipedia. "Degrees" character removed because Slashdot mangles it into "Â".
Adding a hosts entry for rds.yahoo.com pointing to the localhost address is a hack. Better to block it with a proxy (or there's probably a Firefox extension that can do it), or if it has a different IP you can block it with a normal firewall.
The nVidia drivers for Windows make a pretty good go of it, no random issues once everything has been set up, but they won't let you plug a monitor in after the pc has been switched on and use it as a normal display. Spanned, mirror etc are all available, but not "Normal".
I also wish I could set my projector as completely independent (not connected to my desktop at all) and only play video (dvds, xvid etc) on it. The old video surface redirect thing I used with my 6800 isn't supported on the 8800 last time I checked:(
On the other hand, nearly everyone in the studio where I work has two ~17" monitors connected to a pc (and a 15" monitor connected to an xbox 360, but that's beside the point) and the screen space helps no end. Despite the minor issues I mentioned above, I'd never go back to only one monitor without protest.
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So you're proposing a mobile-phone style "£x/month with y free GB, £0.zz/GB outside limit" deal?
That's ALMOST what we have, except it's advertised as "unlimited", y is often secret or variable and z is often a connection speed cut or warning instead of a cost.
I would be happy with that.
They could even make it "y free off-peak* GB (* off-peak defined as 11pm-4pm)". After all, a lot of the ISPs (at least here in the UK) now only record "peak time" bandwidth usage.
I would guess that the $15 / 10GB/s represents a more accurate valuation of the bandwidth than the initial $50 for 250 GB. They're probably expecting most people to not use more than 30GB or so, covering the costs of the people who use up to 250GB and allowing them to advertise a 250GB limit that they may only be able to sustain 1/100 or 1/1000 people hitting.
Actually, us Brits mostly use the short billion (10^9) nowadays. We've been "officially" using the short scale for longer than I've been alive.
Speak of the devil, I now have FIFTEEN mod points to spend.
If that was the case we'd just have 39 "+5 Funny" (that often aren't funny really) comments instead.
I have to go with the GP, moderation is a bit thin at the moment.
Yes, I did; the editor was terrible. I graduated to QBASIC as soon as I could.
The equivalent of "Brits" for referring to Americans is "Yanks".
Guess I'm wrong: News: Unexpected Slashdot Downtime
There might be a UK<->USA link problem, Some Americans have been complaining about trouble accessing EVE Online for a few hours, and the servers for that are in the UK.
I'm in the UK, and haven't been able to read Slashdot all day until about an hour ago.
Coincidence?
Or possibly the ludicrously powerful floating point processors known as GPUs?
Perhaps now that Intel and nVidia have commercial "floating-point acceleration units" for supercomputers, AMD/ATI will come up with something too? The Hypertransport bus is already pretty popular with supercomputers for plugging an interconnect into (Infiniband/path, as well as Cray's own) so a GPU (sorry, "floating point accelerator") that plugs directly into that bus and has direct communication with the system's CPU(s) should be pretty nice.
I know I wouldn't mind going from a dedicated graphics card to having a motherboard with two processor sockets with independent ram, cpu in one and gpu in the other. PCIe is just an unnecessary layer when the gpu could be plugged directly into the cpu's main bus.
Especially since the #1 system has the following in it's description: The upgrading of BGL, notably through the addition of nodes with twice the memory, allows scientists from the three nuclear weapons labs to develop and explore a broader set of applications than the single package weapons science oriented work that has been the mainstay of the machine in the past.
A seg fault can happen if you try to read/write to a memory address which refers to some unmapped virtual memory, as well as it being a memory page that you don't have read/write permissions for.
In the former case there is quite literally no memory at that location to write to.
I think we need a new moderation. These NIMP posts aren't merely trolls, they're out to cause trouble.
According to the Slashdot FAQ, a troll post is one which is intentionally wrong in order to promote a response and wasting people's time. Essentially a more subtle flamebait.
I don't think links to a shock site fall under this, no matter how well disguised (and to be honest, they're often pretty blatant).
It depends on where the encryption key is. If it's generated from the drive or stored on the drive, there's not really any security, you take the key with you to the new pc. If it's generated from the disk controller or motherboard serial number or similar, then you can't move it to another pc at all. If it has to be entered by a person then you have real security and the ability to move the drive to another machine if you want. However in that last case you have the annoyance of having to enter the key every boot.
The question was: "How many other fast-tracked ISO standards have no conforming implementations?"
C++ isn't an answer because it wasn't fast-tracked.
I shouldn't have had to explain that...
You may joke, but whether a computer part has LEDs on its fan(s) is a good indication of whether it's good or not.
If it has them, the designer is trying to distract you from how poor the product is. Ditto for interesting colours (e.g. gold), an excessive number of fans, UV fluorescing plastic, or claims of ability far in advance of anything else in the same price bracket.
Real equipment is black or plain metal in colour, has one fan if at all, and DOESN'T GLOW. Good quality parts also tend to be heavy, and typically cost twice as much as the cheapest available. It's worth it though, when your computer doesn't explode.
A pc with a side window and different coloured LEDs everywhere looks like a hyperactive kid with an entire bag full of sweets stuffed in his mouth, and is probably just as reliable.
You need two points (or one point and the size of one step) to define a scale.
In kelvin's case it is:
0 K is at absolute 0
273.16 K is at the triple point of water
Celius is defined with the same two points, as -273.15 C and 0.01 C. This definition makes the freezing point of water approx. 0 C and the boiling point approx. 99.9839 C
Some of the above may have been shamelessly ripped from Wikipedia. "Degrees" character removed because Slashdot mangles it into "Â".
Adding a hosts entry for rds.yahoo.com pointing to the localhost address is a hack.
Better to block it with a proxy (or there's probably a Firefox extension that can do it), or if it has a different IP you can block it with a normal firewall.
Which is of course why we're trying to change to using 16-byte globally-unique addresses.
They use one known and one unknown word, and you have to enter both.
The "known" one is presumably known by having been entered identically as the "unknown" word in a sufficient number of other capchas.
Ah, but Net Neutrality isn't about packages (eg torrents) being delivered slower than letters (eg email), or one being prioritised over the other.
It's about the mail company storing Amazon's packages in a warehouse for 6 months because they've signed a deal with rival-internet-bookseller.
The nVidia drivers for Windows make a pretty good go of it, no random issues once everything has been set up, but they won't let you plug a monitor in after the pc has been switched on and use it as a normal display. Spanned, mirror etc are all available, but not "Normal".
:(
I also wish I could set my projector as completely independent (not connected to my desktop at all) and only play video (dvds, xvid etc) on it. The old video surface redirect thing I used with my 6800 isn't supported on the 8800 last time I checked
On the other hand, nearly everyone in the studio where I work has two ~17" monitors connected to a pc (and a 15" monitor connected to an xbox 360, but that's beside the point) and the screen space helps no end. Despite the minor issues I mentioned above, I'd never go back to only one monitor without protest.
I use dreamhost.com to host my site (which is more of a file store as it has NO html anywhere) but I'm definitely happy with their service.
Another vote for you to check out dreamhost.com.