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If I Had a Hammer
adpowers writes: "Anandtech is running an article about their preview of AMD's Hammer. They had one machine running 32-bit Windows and the other running 64-bit Linux. The Linux machine had a 32 bit program and an identical program that was compiled for 64-bit processor support. Both processors were less than 30 days old and running without any crashes, but they weren't at full speed." We did one Hammer story a day or two ago, but there have been several more posted since then (wild guess: the NDA expired). Tom's Hardware has a story, so does Gamespot.
As any reader with decent scientific background should know computerized understandig of human language is beyond the capabilities of toways computers. But (and notices that this is a fat, big, huge "but") you can go after phrases.
Modern computers hold more than enough power to analyze the phrases used in a text. Note that such phrase analysis is much more than merely pattern matching (perl/sed/awk won't be sufficient), it needs a rather complicated analysis of reflexion, phoneme search, grammatical style and similar things. The result is that you can get information about the socio-cultural background of the writer of a text. And it's even rather complicated the fool the program because even if you know the algorithms and want to fake a different social background. There are always certain phrases/ grammatical styles which just "skip in" unconciously.
Lets look at some simple examples:
- John Katz's articles: background journalist, white, male, protestant,
liberal with some small conservative strains.
- Taco's articles: background software enigneering, however no affections to math,
white, male, atheist, (slightly radical) liberal
What were the results of the slashdot analysis ?- 69 percent adcademic background (abbr.: bg), at least BS/BA degree
- 45 percent computer science or practical computer experience bg
- 16 percent mathematical bg (might include some people with physics bg)
- 7 percent physics bg
- 2 percent rated "professor"
- at UIDs UIDs > 300000 seem to be nearly always replications of accounts below 300000
- comments rated at -1 seem to come at 83 percent from academic bg
- comments rated > 0 to BSD topics have 89 percent academic bg
- comments to YRO come at only 52 percent from academic bg (we are not sure if our
program catches all laywers as "academics")
Please note that we could only include comments with enough text (more then 20 words) in our analysis. It also ignores reposts of older comments and non-text comments like "ascii art"Some results were very surprising though, e.g. we are pretty sure that the user Tollaxor has background in plasma physics. Well, you never know with some people.
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
what is "dryer lint"? where dose it come from,my clothes? why is it always grey/dark colored then,no matter what I clean?
Sib7 Mib Dom Lab
Si j'avais un marteau
Sib7 Mib Dom Lab
Je cognerai le jour
Sib7 Mib Dom Lab
Je cognerai la nuit
Sib7
J'y mettrai tout mon coeur
Mib
Je bâtirais une ferme
Dom
Une grange et une barrière
Lab Mib
Et j'y mettrais mon père, ma mère
Lab Mib
Mes frères et mes soeurs
Lab Mib Sib7
Ho oh
Mib
Ce serait le bonheur
Si j'avais une cloche
Je sonnerai le jour
Je sonnerai la nuit
J'y mettrais tout mon coeur
Pour le travil à l'aube
Et le soir pour la soupe
J'appelerais mon père, ma mère
Mes frères et mes soeurs
Oh oh
Ce serait le bonheur
Si j'avais une chanson
J'la chanterais le jour
J'la chanterais la nuit
J'y mettrais tout mon coeur
En retournant la terre
Pour alléger nos peines
J'la chanterais à mon père, ma mère
Oh oh
Ce serait le bonheur
Si j'avais un marteau
et si j'avais une cloche
Si j'avais une chanson à chanter
Je s'rais le plus heureux
Je ne voudrais rien d'autre
Qu'un marteau, une cloche et une chanson
Pour l'amour de mon père, ma mère
Mes frères et mes soeurs
Oh oh
Ce serait le bonheur
C'est l'marteau du courage
C'est la cloche de la liberté
Mais la chanson c'est pour mon père, ma mère
Mes frères et mes soeurs
Oh oh
Pour moi c'est le bonheur
C'est ça le vrai bonheur
Si j'avais un marteau
Si j'avais un marteau
Smile, don't click...
RMS made up a song years ago, in anticipation of this processor's release:
If I had a hammer,
I'd throw it in the morning,
I'd throw it in the evening,
All over this land;
I'd throw it at Loki,
I'd throw it at Fen-rir,
I'd throw it at the war between
The Gods and the Giants,
All-ll over this land...
--RMS
There may be another verse or two but I've forgotten. Anyway the headline made me think of this. I always remember these words to the song instead of the regular ones.
Hey this is not fscking redundant you pikeys !
It was very original indeed.
You stink.
PS: lameness filter is lame itself, why doesn't it filter itself ???
Smile, don't click...
Can slashdot comment moderators just REMOVE this
kind of comments ?
You're one of those xenophobic british yobs who like to stir up a riot in soccer and rugby games, aren't you?
Hee hee. You don't get it, do ya! If you don't wanna see stuff like dat, then don't browse at (-1).
Now stop whining and suck my mother fucking dick.
You and Ralph JewHater Nader need to get together...
Why ?
Do you think I am gay ?
Shut up you pink-triangle-wearing freudian pikey !
Smile, don't click...
I will not go further with you because you are nothing
but an idiot at the top of his splendor.
Now comes the time to study specimens like you.
So, admit your homosexuality and you'll soon be free from the burden of fascist anger.
this is nothing more than the usual McCarthyst
:
2 cents excuse.
I have only 1 thing to say
your freedom ends, when mine begins.
You speech is free since it doesnt hurt me for
ethnic/religous reason.
Ig Bi Nö Faszist,
My comrade Benito was but this was soooooo l4m3
he was hung like a Schwein in a Metzgerei !
I served in all ranks from second lieutenant to major general. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just a part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups.
This is typical with everyone in the military service. Thus I helped make Mexico, and especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenue in. I helped in the raping of half-a-dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. He record for racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers and Co. in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras "right" for American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell rack. I was rewarded with honors, medals, and promotion. Looking back on it, I feel that I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate a racket in three city districts. The Marines operated on three continents.
General Smedley Butler (U.S. Marine Corps major general and commandant), Common Sense
Gays are not oppressed on a whim, but because of the specific need of capitalism for the nuclear family. The nuclear family, as the primary - and inexpensive - provider and carer for the workforce, fulfilled in the nineteenth century and still fulfills an important need for capitalism. Alternative sexualities represent a threat to the family model because they provide an alternative role model for people. Gays are going to be in the front line of attack whenever capitalism wants to reinforce family values.
We are plesed to inform you that, after careful consideration, we have accepted your troll into the Troll Library.
You show a masterful skill at trolling.
Thank you for your time and your contribution.
There has never been a riot at a rugby game (at least not by the spectators) that I have ever heard about.
Rugby is a very different mindset to soccer. Rugby attracts better educated middle and upper-class types where as soccer is generally the favoured game of the working-class yob - thus the riots.
...with both the 'Union' & 'League' varieties.
Soccer fans riot because of the lack of violence in the actual game.
Step 1: Build a 128-bit CPU.
Step 2: ????^H^H^H^HConvince every atom in the known universe to keep a video diary.
Step 3: Profit!!!!
When do we get funding?