tatsu69 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:I must admit... (Score 1) 181

by tatsu69 on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @07:05PM (#32907740) Attached to: Wireless PCIe To Enable Remote Graphics Cards

Yes it really does work that way. Any PCI device in your system can read/write to any location it can address. If the device only has 32-bit PCI then it is limited to the lower 4G of memory space, if it is 64-bit PCI then it can go anywhere.

There is an IOMMU (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOMMU) but I am not very familiar with it. More modern machines than I was working with would probably implement this for protection from the device.

Comment Re:I like the idea (Score 1) 126

by tatsu69 on Tuesday June 08, 2010 @10:12PM (#32505496) Attached to: Restaurant Tells Diners To Eat Everything On Their Plate

Just order the 8 piece rolls or 2 pieces of sushi.

But your screwed if you wanted an odd number.

Submission + - Getting Students to Think at Internet Scale (slashdot.org)

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Hugh Pickens

on Monday October 12, 2009 @12:39PM

Hugh Pickens writes: "The NY Times reports that researchers and workers in fields as diverse as bio-technology, astronomy and computer science will soon find themselves overwhelmed with information so the next generation of computer scientists has to learn think in terms of internet scale of petabytes of data. For the most part, university students have used rather modest computing systems to support their studies but these machines fail to churn through enough data to really challenge and train a young mind meant to ponder the mega-scale problems of tomorrow. “If they imprint on these small systems, that becomes their frame of reference and what they’re always thinking about,” said Jim Spohrer, a director at IBM.’s Almaden Research Center. This year, the National Science Foundation funded 14 universities that want to teach their students how to grapple with big data questions and students are beginning to work with data sets like the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, the largest public data set in the world, which takes detailed images of larger chunks of the sky and produces about 30 terabytes of data each night. “Science these days has basically turned into a data-management problem,” says Jimmy Lin, an associate professor at the University of Maryland."

Submission + - Is working for the gambling industry a black mark? 5

Submitted by on Monday October 12, 2009 @12:25PM

An anonymous reader writes: I'm a recent university graduate. I and have been offered a software developer position in a company that supplies software to the gambling and betting industry. At first I was very excited about the opportunity. However, a few of my friends have told me that working for the gambling industry will put a permanent black mark on my career as a software developer. I don't know that many people in the industry with experience in hiring. Google has not helped in any way. And everybody else I ask doesn't know. So I'm asking slashdot. In your experience is this true? When you hire developers, is the fact that they worked for a gambling company a big turn off? Also, I'm currently in the UK, but would like the freedom of working in US or somewhere else later on in life. So experience from anywhere in the world is welcome.

Comment Let them give it away free (Score 1) 782

by tatsu69 on Saturday August 01, 2009 @07:32PM (#28912765) Attached to: The Ethics of Selling GPLed Software For the iPhone

Its probably already been said here, but they have access to the source code. If the original developers feel that strongly about it they can compile it from your source and get it listed on the app store too. And they can foot the bill for releasing it too.

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