I never understood why management isn't in the basement and IT infrastructure on the top floor. It makes a hell of a lot more sense.
Because management gets to decide what goes in the basement. Why would they waste a perfectly good view by giving it to the servers and routers?
Marc
This guy and his fake "Journal of Cosmology" is a lune. The joke is on slashdot for even putting this in the science category.
FPGA programming (or rather desiging for an FPGA, implementing algorithms) is not so much about EE as it is about CS.
Wrong. It has little to do with CS - and in fact, if you approach it that way, you'll make code that the synthesis tools can't handle efficiently. You'll end up with many levels of logic and won't meet your timing requirements. FPGA "programming" is about describing digital circuits in an HDL.
Marc
s/some vendors/most vendors/
Telecom and datacomm equipment have long used FPGAs at key points in their systems for one or more of the following reasons:
* off-the-shelf silicon sometimes costs to much
* off-the-shelf silicon is missing something that is important to you (maybe an interface type, or a key feature)
* off-the-shelf silicon doesn't have the density
* ASIC's cost a lot to develop, and prices have been going up (while each year, FPGA prices go down). If you don't have pretty high volume, each year it has gotten harder and harder to justify.
A number of HDTV's had Xilinx Spartan FPGA's in them... I'm guessing that some still do.
Marc
IMDb is a community-built site, which Amazon is monetizing on.
And now, it is hindring its users apparently.
So, I guess it is time to fork IMDb, and make something like wikipedia out of it.
TMDb is what you seek...
Due to ever changing site format, requiring ever changing scrapers, MythTV, XBMC, and others have switched to recommending TMDB for similar and other reasons. IMDB isn't "open" any more...
How does one go about "sucking profits"? What does that even mean? If you're going to advocate telling people how, with whom, and when they are allowed to buy or sell items with other willing individuals, you should at least have the common courtesy to clearly explain why such voluntary trades should not be permitted to occur.
I'm pretty libertarian, but I agree these should be stopped.
Me too (on both accounts)
As the other poster said, it gives real estate closer to the market servers an advantage, I'm not quite clear how it works, but it is evident that it does because people are doing it. I assume they can recognize short term patterns and jump in ahead of anyone else who might try to take advantage of them.
Trading is something where we want to have as level a playing field as possible. It's also something specifically designed to serve humans. The speed of your computer and connection shouldn't give you an advantage. It keeps our market freer.
This discussion is more accurate than most of you probably realize... I work for a router equipment vendor. Guess what the main market for ultra-low latency routers is? That's right - they have realized on Wall street that a router with lower latency means a higher chance of getting your trade in before your competitors. If your router has a latency of 500 nsec while your competitors all have 600 nsec routers, you have the advantage. At least until someone ponies up and buys one that is lower than yours.
Successful trades shouldn't have to be measured in nanoseconds.
Marc
I'm planning to go all lower case with my passwords though. I'll have to make my passwords 50% longer, but I think they'll be easier to type and almost as easy to remember as totally random ones. In fact my error rate with the totally random ones is an issue with shoulder surfing because I make mistakes and have to retype it so often, giving shoulder surfers repeated sightings, and because the numbers and symbols and shifts slow me down.
Going all lower case would not be a wise move... more and more stupid password systems are requiring mixed case alpha letters plus at least one digit. The most silly part of this is that I had to do this to download an update for a piece of commercial software. A piece of software that requires lmserv!
Does ANY client do gmail like conversation views? Zimbra didn't have it as of mid 2009. Does Horde have it? Anything?!
FPGA is usually the prototype phase.
That used to be the case much more than it has been over the past five to ten years, and it is even less true the past couple years. It all depends on the application. There are millions of telecom systems with FPGA's in them - full production (volume doesn't justify moving to ASIC because FPGA priced fall faster). I believe a large number ofHDTV's have FPGA's in them as well (time to market is the most important thing here, so they don't mind the slight extra cost of the FPGA).
Note that while these examples are true, there are obviously cases where ASIC's do make sense. Ultra high volume, ultra-low margin consumer stuff may need to be ASIC. Or designs that simply max out the density of current FPGA's (usually where you can combine functionality onto one die what would have taken multiple FPGAs).
Marc
The PSU is only 1100W
Only? That's more juice than your microwave (~750 watts), toaster (~1kw), more like a space heater. This thing sucks electricity HARD. A Vaccuum cleaner is about 500-700 watts. I don't think my electric clothes dryer uses as much electricity as this thing, which is using ten times the juice a normal PC uses (or more).
I doubt you have a single appliance in your house that uses much more electricity than this, and those appliances, unlike a computer, don't run 24/7.
The pot growers use 650 watt lights. If you get one of these computers, expect to be raided by the DEA when the electric company narcs on you and the DEA sees the heat signature through your walls. They'll have a no-knock warrant, and you'll be lucky if they don't shoot you. They WILL have you face down on the ground with your hands cuffed behind your back. When they find it's a computer and not a pot growing operation, they'll just plant half a pound of dope and arrest you anyway.
That is, if you survive their entrance. Maybe this will be a good thing, when the DEA starts killing too many innocent people maybe we'll rethink our stupid, insane drug laws.
Wow. I started counting the number of low estimates in your post and lost track. 1200 Watt microwaves are a dime a dozen. Then we have the 1400 Watt toaster ovens, and 1500 Watt space heaters. And I'm NOT going out of my way to find high numbers... in fact, for every one of these, I quick found items that were considerably more power. We can keep going with your poor estimates: a 4000 Watt clothes dryer and the 180-200 Watt 3 GHz Pentium 4 computer. In fact, the only number you appear to be accurate on is the pot growing (according to Google. I don't like the smell).
So really, what everyone wants to know is: when did you start growing pot?
Marc
Is it different from Model II TRS-DOS? I could swear I have an original 2.0a disk around here somewhere, and I thought the 12 was essentially similar but with half-height floppies and a less ugly color. Disk images would be annoying though, since the first track is SD and the rest is DD.
Indeed. The Model 16 could house two 8" floppy drives rather than just one like the Model II and had a much nicer case. It also added a second MC68000 co-processor. Model 12 was the same as Model 16, except without the co-processor.
Oblink: http://home.claranet.nl/users/pb0aia/cm/modelii.html
I've still got a bunch of old disks and a couple of hard drives, and perhaps a full documentation set on these things. Problem is that they are stored in an attic, so there is likely bit-rot.
Marc
In most areas of the country, it's not a question of if but when your house settles and puts some nice big cracks in your concrete. Whether or not it would be a enough to damage the pipe is another question, but if you're relying on it to cool a semi-expensive piece of hardware, I might be a little nervous about it.
Also, seems like this will severely limit your options for where to put your computer physically.
Are fans really that horrible? They make them fairly quiet now. Is that extra
As others in the thread have pointed out, the likelihood of a damaged pipe is quite low. If it wasn't, all the houses in the USA and around the world with concrete slabs more than a few years old would be sprouting water leaks... cause the water pipes go through the foundation.
Marc
I suspect this is common to the middle east. When I was little, my father worked for Aramco and we lived in Saudi Arabia. Locals obeyed the traffic laws if they felt like it - but most of the time, they appear to have taken the attitude of "inshallah" (if god wills it, they will arrive safely. If he doesn't will it, there is nothing to be done about it anyway). When there was a wreck (which was often), they were usually pretty bad. The government would leave the wrecked cars out for everyone to see, I suppose trying to get them to understand what could happen to them or their property.
> Debian users are far more eclectic in their software choice, less likely to use any default options
Which could also mean that the Ubuntu default choices and/or options are more usable or at least acceptable than the Debian ones. Without a much more thorough analysis, the conclusion can't be supported as strong as it is proposed.
Marc
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
