I won't go into details here, but anything that can be implemented in hardware can be done in software and the other way around too. This is a nearly ancient Electrical Engineering principle.
Nope - anything digital that can be implemented in hardware can be done in software.
Analog circuits can only be approximated in software, though with unlimited precision FP math the approximations can be pretty good (though slower).
There are reasons why we old luddites prefer vinyl (or a good mag tape) over digital - the sound is purer, there are no digital artifacts, high tones are more faithfully rendered etc. etc.
That's analog for you - play me a digitally recorded track to match George Shearing and Peggy Lee recorded live in Miami onto a 2-track magnetic tape, and I might be convinced.
Having said that, you're absolutely right for the digital case, but I think their USP is that they have implemented the GA software directly on the same FPGA that they are evolving the circuits on, rather than going through an 'evolve, download, evaluate, repeat' cycle.
Ah yes, but the new Tory party, under Dave "Dave Angel" Cameron, have gone greener than green in an attempt to differentiate themselves from Blair's 'New Labour' (i.e. Thatcher Lite) party.
They're even moderately anti-war, though they did just vote for the Trident replacement.
Dave drives a Lexus hybrid, and occasionally cycles to work (followed by his chauffeur driven car carrying his paperwork...)
Add to that the fact that Blair and Bill Gates are thick as thieves, and it's no surprise that George Osborne (a likeable buffoon, but still a buffoon) is throwing his not inconsiderable weight behind OSS.
The new Tories are actually more progressive than Labour - I may even vote for them next time so long as they change my local candidate (he's an odious little prick, and I'd sooner vote for a monkey in a suit).
P.S. Dave Angel was a character in 'The Fast Show', a comedy show from the 1990s that might or might not have made it onto HBO or public service TV in the states - he was a classic! More here:BBC
Reminds me of the time I fscked up a system upgrade in a SCO / Sage shop - forgot to put the bootstring in to work round the 1MB that the Rio serial cards grabbed at 15MB, and also forgot to license the second processor!
Funny thing is, though, the users were really happy with the performance (64 users on one P3 500, sitting in 16MB RAM) and it was only when I was fiddling with the system that I noticed it at all!
Well, it was one of those installs that finished about 3AM...
See this summary: she is pressing copyright infringement, but from the summary -
The Internet Archive did not move to dismiss copyright infringement claims defendant asserted arising out of its copying activities, which will also go forward.
She's obviously a bit of a loon, though - her 'contract' stipulates a fee of $5000 per page for copying, with a $50,000 penalty per page plus another $250,000 if you breach this alleged contract.
Perhaps the hospitals in Colorado have been closed, and all the residents thrown on the streets....
On a serious note, since when as an analytical, scientific approach worked in catching bad guys.
Well, here in the UK, it's pretty common practice for the police to use CCTV to track suspects both forwards and backwards in time from an incident - the 7/7 bombers being a prime example of backtracking (there was no need to track their subsequent actions), and the 21/7 bunglers being a good example of forward tracking.
Now I'm no fan of the surveillance society, but when used correctly and well, it is a useful tool for the protection of life and liberty.
On the other hand, if they want to put a camera on my TV, they'll have to put up with my fat hairy belly filling the picture most nights!
As I understand it, ODF allows for the document to be compressed - the storage issue is thus null and void.
So far as processing speed goes, if you're running on a slower processor, with less available memory, then yes, it'll likely be slower than opening a proprietary binary format, but the interoperability benefits are such that it's a price worth paying.
Microsoft have a long history of bizarre non-compliance and interoperability wierdness - try using the Outlook COM interfaces to set an Outlook mail sig and see how far you get (hint - you can't do it, you need to go through the Word interfaces!)
Well, I've looked and looked again at my post, and can't see the word 'Palestine' in there at all. And if you think some specious 2000 year-old claim by people who in all good conscience aren't even genetically related to the OT Hebrews amounts to anything, you're even dumber than you first appeared when you didn't seem to know that Baathism was secular.
To claim that a religion has the right to ethnically cleanse an area of land in order for it to have a state for its adherents is ludicrous - I despise anyone that supports the Israelis, since it is a state that was founded by terrorists, and has been a constant threat to its neighbours ever since its establishment.
Actually, only one of the regimes you threw out were genocidal religious maniacs - the Baath party in Iraq were genocidal secular maniacs.
Having siad that, the US has no business screwing up the Middle East anyway, other than being Israel's bitch.
If the US really wanted to promote regional stability, it would be better to isolate Israel, and cut off subsidy for that state of land thieves until they get their fundamentalist maniac settlers out of the occupied territories and pay full reparations to the victims of their ethnic cleansing in 1948. Then we might see the chance of real peace, since none of their neigbours would have anything left to bitch about (excepting the Lebanese who Israel so disgracefully bombed last summer, but full reparations should be paid by Israel for that too).
Maybe the Iranians possessing long-range missile technology will make that chimp in the Whitehouse think twice before acting as Israel's proxy - that can only be a good thing.
Anyone who believes in any religion or god deserves no respect.
That's not quite true - they deserve no respect for their superstition, but they may otherwise be good, intelligent, altruistic folk who deserve our respect for leading their lives in a way that helps others.
Letting them impose their 2500 year-old tribal moralism on the rest of us is wrong, and I'm among the first to condemn belief in the non-existent as rank stupidity, but most god-botherers I know are otherwise quite nice people who I like and respect for who they are, not for their Sunday morning delusions.
This drug, if it works, is a benefit to society as a whole, and no good person should let some nonsense writtten in the desert 2500 years ago tell them otherwise.
If I had mod points, I'd mitigate the karma-burning effects of your post, but I don't so I'll just have to sort of agree with you.
Despite being misspelt, the parent comment was entirely comprehensible, despite being totally unrelated to its own parent.
It's not the English that's the issue - just the spelling, and that's not something that any civilised person should take issue with, so long as your interlocutor's meaning is clear.
Just off to synergistically fellate myself and run it up the flagpole to see who salutes - all this playing in the long grass with the big dogs makes me want to facilitate a systematic and holistic personal satisfaction solution.
I too was using Word back in the DOS days - from Word 2, in fact - and have to admit that it was a damn sight easier to produce decently formatted and styled documents before all the WYSWIG crap arrived. It was so much easier when you had to think about how your final output would look before you started to write, rather than trusting (program x) to render whatever guff you had put on screen correctly.
Having said that, a standard mark-up language for documents is a good idea, and given the choice of an open standard or a proprietary standard, the preference is obvious.
When I read the comment about stopping 747s in mid flight, I immediately had a vision of a huge net of this material covering the Whitehouse and the Pentagon, ready for the next time those black-hatted Al-Qaeda guys try to pull a fast one on Cowboy George and the Neocon posse!
Yeah, but I (the black hatted figure in the background) don't care what you do at the server side, because all I'm interested in is harvesting data from the user, and because I've just manipulated the XMLHTTPRequest prototype, all the data is copied to my little logging subsystem on my server.
The fundamental problem is the insecurity on the client side - your server and application may be unfsckable, but the user is totally pwned.
Cambridge, East Anglia used to get fscking cold in the winter when I was studying there 20-odd years ago - there's a bastard east wind that blows across all the way from the Urals and freezes the hell out of East Anglia in the winter.
Never been back (the pubs were good, but not that good, and you can get IPA and Abbot pretty much anywhere nowadays) since, but even with global warming, I reckon it'll still be a mite chilly!
William Dunlop was convicted retroactively under this change in the rules - the law was changed in 2003, while he had been acquitted of the murder in 1991.
If there is clear road in front of a police car, and he hasn't got his matrix sign on, and he's doing the speed limit or less, then there's no reason not to overtake.
I'm forever passing cop cars at around 80 on British motorways, and have never been given so much as a sideways glance by the police - I drive smoothly, safely and leave big gaps between me and the other traffic.
Either Dutch drivers are more cautious, or Dutch police react differently to British police.
Go man go! Even better, if you have a friend in another vehicle, ample fun may be had by having the lead driver pull into the constricted lane, blocking the impatient buggers and forcing them to merge sensibly, with the following driver allowing just enough space for the lead driver when the constriction starts. And if that makes me an even bigger bastard, well that's tough shit.
In other news, urged on by Microsoft, the US declares war on Libraria for possible patent violations in their communist Open Source software. Libraria retaliates by confiscating all pet goat books, depriving Bush of his primary source of 9-11 material.
Personally, I'd stick the windmills on barges, tether them to the Houses of Parliament and wait for a good strong westerly - release the anchors and tow the politician buggers to Holland.
Part of education (once you reach the capacity for rational argument) is debate.
Having said that, the proper place for teaching creationism is in religious education lessons, not in biology lessons. It should rank alongside 'wearing the niquab' as 'one of the many things which some folks believe, but which have no grounding in reason'.
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Nope - anything digital that can be implemented in hardware can be done in software.
Analog circuits can only be approximated in software, though with unlimited precision FP math the approximations can be pretty good (though slower).
There are reasons why we old luddites prefer vinyl (or a good mag tape) over digital - the sound is purer, there are no digital artifacts, high tones are more faithfully rendered etc. etc.
That's analog for you - play me a digitally recorded track to match George Shearing and Peggy Lee recorded live in Miami onto a 2-track magnetic tape, and I might be convinced.
Having said that, you're absolutely right for the digital case, but I think their USP is that they have implemented the GA software directly on the same FPGA that they are evolving the circuits on, rather than going through an 'evolve, download, evaluate, repeat' cycle.
They're even moderately anti-war, though they did just vote for the Trident replacement.
Dave drives a Lexus hybrid, and occasionally cycles to work (followed by his chauffeur driven car carrying his paperwork...)
Add to that the fact that Blair and Bill Gates are thick as thieves, and it's no surprise that George Osborne (a likeable buffoon, but still a buffoon) is throwing his not inconsiderable weight behind OSS.
The new Tories are actually more progressive than Labour - I may even vote for them next time so long as they change my local candidate (he's an odious little prick, and I'd sooner vote for a monkey in a suit).
P.S. Dave Angel was a character in 'The Fast Show', a comedy show from the 1990s that might or might not have made it onto HBO or public service TV in the states - he was a classic! More here:BBC
Funny thing is, though, the users were really happy with the performance (64 users on one P3 500, sitting in 16MB RAM) and it was only when I was fiddling with the system that I noticed it at all!
Well, it was one of those installs that finished about 3AM...
I'm well out of that game ;-)
She's obviously a bit of a loon, though - her 'contract' stipulates a fee of $5000 per page for copying, with a $50,000 penalty per page plus another $250,000 if you breach this alleged contract.
Perhaps the hospitals in Colorado have been closed, and all the residents thrown on the streets....
Well, here in the UK, it's pretty common practice for the police to use CCTV to track suspects both forwards and backwards in time from an incident - the 7/7 bombers being a prime example of backtracking (there was no need to track their subsequent actions), and the 21/7 bunglers being a good example of forward tracking.
Now I'm no fan of the surveillance society, but when used correctly and well, it is a useful tool for the protection of life and liberty.
On the other hand, if they want to put a camera on my TV, they'll have to put up with my fat hairy belly filling the picture most nights!
So far as processing speed goes, if you're running on a slower processor, with less available memory, then yes, it'll likely be slower than opening a proprietary binary format, but the interoperability benefits are such that it's a price worth paying.
Microsoft have a long history of bizarre non-compliance and interoperability wierdness - try using the Outlook COM interfaces to set an Outlook mail sig and see how far you get (hint - you can't do it, you need to go through the Word interfaces!)
To claim that a religion has the right to ethnically cleanse an area of land in order for it to have a state for its adherents is ludicrous - I despise anyone that supports the Israelis, since it is a state that was founded by terrorists, and has been a constant threat to its neighbours ever since its establishment.
Having siad that, the US has no business screwing up the Middle East anyway, other than being Israel's bitch.
If the US really wanted to promote regional stability, it would be better to isolate Israel, and cut off subsidy for that state of land thieves until they get their fundamentalist maniac settlers out of the occupied territories and pay full reparations to the victims of their ethnic cleansing in 1948. Then we might see the chance of real peace, since none of their neigbours would have anything left to bitch about (excepting the Lebanese who Israel so disgracefully bombed last summer, but full reparations should be paid by Israel for that too).
Maybe the Iranians possessing long-range missile technology will make that chimp in the Whitehouse think twice before acting as Israel's proxy - that can only be a good thing.
That's not quite true - they deserve no respect for their superstition, but they may otherwise be good, intelligent, altruistic folk who deserve our respect for leading their lives in a way that helps others.
Letting them impose their 2500 year-old tribal moralism on the rest of us is wrong, and I'm among the first to condemn belief in the non-existent as rank stupidity, but most god-botherers I know are otherwise quite nice people who I like and respect for who they are, not for their Sunday morning delusions.
This drug, if it works, is a benefit to society as a whole, and no good person should let some nonsense writtten in the desert 2500 years ago tell them otherwise.
If I had mod points, I'd mitigate the karma-burning effects of your post, but I don't so I'll just have to sort of agree with you.
It's not the English that's the issue - just the spelling, and that's not something that any civilised person should take issue with, so long as your interlocutor's meaning is clear.
Just off to synergistically fellate myself and run it up the flagpole to see who salutes - all this playing in the long grass with the big dogs makes me want to facilitate a systematic and holistic personal satisfaction solution.
I too was using Word back in the DOS days - from Word 2, in fact - and have to admit that it was a damn sight easier to produce decently formatted and styled documents before all the WYSWIG crap arrived.
It was so much easier when you had to think about how your final output would look before you started to write, rather than trusting (program x) to render whatever guff you had put on screen correctly.
Having said that, a standard mark-up language for documents is a good idea, and given the choice of an open standard or a proprietary standard, the preference is obvious.
If they're buying lemons, shouldn't that be Peugeot Citron?
When I read the comment about stopping 747s in mid flight, I immediately had a vision of a huge net of this material covering the Whitehouse and the Pentagon, ready for the next time those black-hatted Al-Qaeda guys try to pull a fast one on Cowboy George and the Neocon posse!
The fundamental problem is the insecurity on the client side - your server and application may be unfsckable, but the user is totally pwned.
Never been back (the pubs were good, but not that good, and you can get IPA and Abbot pretty much anywhere nowadays) since, but even with global warming, I reckon it'll still be a mite chilly!
Possibly none of the same side effects, but a heart attack may make you think twice!
And no - I'm not at all medical, but I am a fucking pedant.
In this case, an equivalent drug can now be produced generically, at lower cost, and made available far more widely.
That, to any reasonable person not dependent on the pharmaceutical company involved, is progress indeed.
Hep C is not a pleasant disease, and any cheap widespread treatment is to be welcomed.
Sometimes they are - the removal of the UK's double jeopardy rule, for instance.
William Dunlop was convicted retroactively under this change in the rules - the law was changed in 2003, while he had been acquitted of the murder in 1991.
If there is clear road in front of a police car, and he hasn't got his matrix sign on, and he's doing the speed limit or less, then there's no reason not to overtake.
I'm forever passing cop cars at around 80 on British motorways, and have never been given so much as a sideways glance by the police - I drive smoothly, safely and leave big gaps between me and the other traffic.
Either Dutch drivers are more cautious, or Dutch police react differently to British police.
Go man go!
Even better, if you have a friend in another vehicle, ample fun may be had by having the lead driver pull into the constricted lane, blocking the impatient buggers and forcing them to merge sensibly, with the following driver allowing just enough space for the lead driver when the constriction starts.
And if that makes me an even bigger bastard, well that's tough shit.
Libraria retaliates by confiscating all pet goat books, depriving Bush of his primary source of 9-11 material.
LOL - gave me a small tingle of vi-carious pleasure!
Personally, I'd stick the windmills on barges, tether them to the Houses of Parliament and wait for a good strong westerly - release the anchors and tow the politician buggers to Holland.
Training is for dogs - people need education.
Part of education (once you reach the capacity for rational argument) is debate.
Having said that, the proper place for teaching creationism is in religious education lessons, not in biology lessons. It should rank alongside 'wearing the niquab' as 'one of the many things which some folks believe, but which have no grounding in reason'.
What sort of pseudo-zeitgiest trendy bull is that?
Old as in printed? New as in unresearched, inane, badly spelt ungrammatical bloggy scandalsheet?
Fuck off back to your winebar and drown in the cesspit of your inanity, mofo.