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Re:Bluetooth ....
You've independantly discovered the idea of an Ad-hoc network by the sounds of things. Have a look at the AODV protocol. I'm currently doing research into routing in large scale ad-hoc networks, such as what you describe.
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Re:Metacrap
If you take these key points at face value, this appears to be a rather negative read, however each of the points illustrates neatly why metadata that is pervasively authored can work, as discussed here.
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I haven't managed to get all of the last image yet but I will update it as and when I do.
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I haven't managed to get all of the last image yet but I will update it as and when I do.
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I haven't managed to get all of the last image yet but I will update it as and when I do.
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(The server is bo Akes powered - you can't
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Re:Slow already..Piccies mirrored here:
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Re:Slow already..Piccies mirrored here:
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Re:Dangerous occupation
It was mine detection, actually, but the joke was great anyway.There are two parts to the new trick. One is to change the signal the device sends out to a broadband pulse, but the main part is the software to tease the extra information out of the echo.
I'm picturing some British slashdotter coding away frantically while scarfing down typical programmer food, wondering if his new invention will help him in time.
There is a bit more information on this horribly laid-out page. I haven't found the patent application yet, maybe someone with better access to British patents can help out here. Also nothing scholarly on the web that I can find. Who did the work?
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shockwave rider"Whereas I think I read shockwave rider (not sure of the title, but it had a techie hero, a manage-a-trois love scene, using eels to splice nerves, etc) and it also had the zen unity angle going for it, but it SUCKED"
Whatever it is you're describing, you're right about one thing -- you got the title confused. Shockwave Rider doesn't have any of those things. It has for a protagonist a confused guy (Nick) who was the product of a weird experimental school (Tarnover), escaped, and ended up in a secret town built with serious amounts of QWAN and funded by a hotline of *listeners* (talk about selling your attention). That's Shockwave Rider by John Brunner, a cyberpunk pre-cursor. (Nick reprogrammed his lives using a telephone touch pad... pre PC, pre cell phone tech.)
I don't think I ever read the 3-way-eel-splicing book. But I'm curious what the title is if anyone remembers.
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Why IBM is so important?
Clustering is such a fascinating area on its own and the article is so shallow that I'm curious why they've published it at all. They could mention the potential benefit of cluster computing as well as examples of some working clusters like Beowulf or Mosix or even the famous fact that there is a cluster among top 500 supercomputers.
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Ada faster than assembly?
High-level languages are not always slower than assembly. For specific tasks, tuned high-level language compilers have more optimization hints. Plus "hand tuned" assembly isn't always optimal, especially across various Intel hardware.
"Ada Whips Assembly"
With the intent of getting an Ada waiver, a defense contractor wrote a portion of its software in Ada to prove that Ada could not produce real time code. The expectation was that the resultant machine code would to be too large to be effective for a communications application. However, the opposite was verified. After minor optimization, Ada compiled smaller and faster than assembly.
