tyvkiuiyi

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by tyvkiuiyi 17y ago
All mp3 players used to be like that, remember paying $100 for a 32Mb version.
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by tyvkiuiyi 17y ago
Custer scheduling is a huge area. I used to work on MPI clusters and it is an art to balance CPU, Bandwidth, propagation time to pick the optimum number of processors for a particular algorithm. Especially on commodity ethernet based MPI,
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by tyvkiuiyi 17y ago
Thanks I hadn't seen that, although OTFE can't (yet) encrypt the system drive.
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by tyvkiuiyi 17y ago
Doesn't matter, the nice thing about software patents is that somebody somewhere could have a patent on using the number '2' in a video codec. And you never know until they get bought out by your enemy.
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by tyvkiuiyi 17y ago
You can enter a password to reset it. But you can always just start Windows in safe mode and uninstall the app! For real security Truecrypt your hard drive and store the key file on the USB key - in this case, do NOT lose the usb key!
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by tyvkiuiyi 17y ago
That sounds like a standard 'negotiable' clause - you can argue that pretty much anything should/shouldn't have been done for a world class superstar. The M+M one is cleverer because it is a no-arguements, you did it or did not. You don't h
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by tyvkiuiyi 17y ago
Pure genius! I had a lecturer (a Brit) who would insert the phrase 'Rule Britannia' into lecture notes to see if anyone ever read them. There is also an urban myth about some entrance exam for Police/Army/Pilots etc where the instructions s
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by tyvkiuiyi 17y ago
Depends on utilisation. If you own a cluster and are able to keep it busy 24x7 then it pays off pretty quickly. Amazon have to have enough spare idle capacity to handle unexpected customer loads and make a profit - you are paying for this.
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by tyvkiuiyi 17y ago
If you wanted to find a needle in a stack of chicken feed would you use 1024 chickens or two oxen?
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by tyvkiuiyi 17y ago
Tell that to the people at ARM who ship 10 RISC cpus for every Intel desktop chip out there.