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LOL! Thanks, JC, I've saved that story in my Classic Quotes folder. It's so true. BTW, I agree with Didactylos too, just in case the sarcasm in my previous post in this thread got misinterpreted.
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Johnny Cool
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Dagorath, the person does have a unique sense of humor (humour). Obviously very bright as well. Take a look at his public website here.
----------------------------------------Be sure to go to "Documents" and then "Personal". Amusing stories. I liked the one concerning that "company" in Redmond. LOL! And his interview with BBC in the "The Multimedia Story" ("The Early Days") He is quite the character! Some good engineering content as well; as evidenced by his "The Accidental Technical Writer" document. And not to worry, I have used an AV scanner on the ones I have down-loaded.  Edit: If you go to "complete list of everything I have published", you will see documents about the Microsoft "Talisman" project that never saw the light of day. Oops, no longer there. Also, his "BMW 1981 R100 Motorcycle Rebuild" project. Interesting chap indeed. ---------------------------------------- [Edit 2 times, last edit by Johnny Cool at Jul 2, 2006 6:59:52 PM] |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I know a well-known CTO who lives here in Colorado Springs who used to work for Microsoft. He was one of the original Team Members who had worked for the original MS NT Team. It took a moment. Stamp collectors would call that "Cancelled To Order" and have been using that acronym before there were electronic computers. So next time you fly to a software conference, be happy that Boeing doesn't build its planes the way Microsoft writes its software. The Boeing 777 WAS designed on computers. It got a medal from Computerworld-Smithsonian the year after *I* got one for an application in Lotus Notes. My company ignored it so I have it at home and a certificate on the wall instead of on the Company Director's wall. I don't know what Boeing's done lately. United Devices got the same medal later .... for .... grid computing.
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Sekerob
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Rom Walton posted another update on BOINC's ability to read CPU's and throws Graphical Processing cards into the equation BOINC Q&A -- 09/15/2006 .... in excerpt:
----------------------------------------When David and I talk, in our daily phone calls, it is all about what is going on with BOINC. What happened to utilising GPUs for processing WUs? (Are single precision floats good enough?) Starting with BOINC 5.6 it will detect CPU features such as SSE and 3DNow as well as video cards. All the demand for video card detection has come from the community at large, so I don't know of any project that is actively developing a client. Whether single precision floats are good enough, that is up to the project. I believe the biggest problem is actually the memory bus bandwidth between the systems main memory and the video card. Until PCI-Express was released the video card bus was design to push data to the video card as quickly as possible but didn't do very well transferring data from the video card to system memory. It is my understanding that PCI-Express can handle the loads that DC apps will generate. I suspect that once BOINC 5.6 is released we'll be able to start publishing video card and CPU feature data to the stat sites and let them start generating some useful graphs for projects to look at. Once the projects know what is out there they might be able to justify the expense of specialized clients ....... skip paragraph ...... I can only speak about BOINC here, but I believe BOINC has secured funding for a couple of years. Well, off to bed now. ----- Rom Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:30:14 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
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