Perhaps have the scoring based on the most "necessary mechanical systems" that the robot can lose while still being the last robot standing/operating...
Or perhaps have the scoring based on "Mass removed from the other robot" - so the more chunks you break off, the higher your score. It would drive the competition towards lighter components (the other team scores less if it breaks off) with more damaging capability.
But now that Ethical AI is Patented, doesn't that mean that more people are _less_ likely to make an ethical AI? As you mentined, it's a Profit-Driven Marketplace.
Couldn't something like Hashcash be done in a java applet? Just embed the Java applet in the signup page, using a seed as well as the given data (name and stuff that is entered) to create a hash value for that person. Submit both the hash and the values, if they don't match, dump it. Just put a little "Processing %% complete" at the bottom of the page after they do the submit.
of course that costs CPU time on the server side as well... Link it to IP address too perhaps?
Sometimes stories expand on a previous article... perhaps Slashdot should allow "Story Threading", allowing multiple stories to be threaded together. Perhaps almost in an Everything2 sort of way?
Why should you, or I, or anyone else have the "right" to post slanderous or just plain false comments about companies/people without their ability to respond?
Frankly, if someone starts posting bad things about me or my company somewhere, I really would like to be able to respond to those comments.
My only concern about this is the potential for abuse:
Let's say that I post a "Company X sucks" rant on my web site... Company X sends a response, that according to this law would be required to be posted on my site. Company X's response is in the form of an extremely large file. Company X then has an employee post an anonymous article to Slashdot ( First use of annoying new low in EU! Take a look _here_[annoyingly large file, hosted on my server]). My hosting company kindly then sends me a bill for the bandwidth useage, and I quietly go bankrupt...
I don't think this is a cheat, as long as the energy taken to increase the performance in the test is similar to what is used to optimize for particular games.
I'm not going to complain if they can optimize the drivers to get 10% better performance in Battlefield 1942 with no degredation in quality, would you?
The only way I would call this a cheat would be if Nvidia never optimized for any other applications.
The chunking exploit file is a fun read, my favorite so far is this one:
* --- heh, this is a middle finger to all those open source, anti-"m$"
* idiots... slashdot hippies...
"If you limited normal users to 100 messages per second and major companies to 10,000 messages a second it would be hard for legitimate users to complain, but spamming would be much harder."
Hm... At a limit of 100 per second that only means I can send out 100x60x60x24 = 8,640,000 e-mails per day. How am I going to be able to talk to all of my friends now?
Read both of the articles, you will see that After Effects only uses one processor - hence the ability to "double your performance" using the dual processor "tip" from the second article. My calculation is correct, given that the second processor is roughly equivalent to a brick as far as After Effects is concerned in it's standard configuration.
The entire point of my post was to extrapolate from given data what the data may have looked like if White's testing had used the dual processor tip, instead of just using a single 1.25Ghz G4 vs a 3.06Ghz Intel.
Reading the "Mac vs. PC III: Mac Slaughtered Again" article was an exercise in frustration, particularly when the other link states how to nearly double rendering performance. The writing in the article just generally pissed me off.
Anyway, perhaps it's time to send a nicely worded e-mail to Mr. Charlie White. A real benchmark may be impressive, considering a 3.06Ghz Dell system was only 2 times faster than the 1.25Ghz G4 in the best case - a Mhz/Mhz comparison should put it closer to 2.4 times faster.
By doing a little analysis of their data, we get the following table:
Test Name (Mac Time in Seconds/Dell Time in Seconds) = Time Ratio 1. After Effects: Simple Animation (14/7) = 2.0 2. After Effects: Video Composite (85/54) = 1.57 3. After Effects: Data Project (227/125) = 1.82 4. After Effects: Gambler (43/29) = 1.48 5. After Effects: Source Shapes (426/254) = 1.68 6. After Effects: Virtual Set (495/264) = 1.88 1. Photoshop: Layer styles & transformation (7.1/4.5) = 1.58 2. Photoshop: Filter Effects (62/35.1) = 1.77 3. Photoshop: Manipulations and adjustments (4.5/3.4) = 1.32
Average Time Ratio: 1.68
That means that On Average The Mac, running at 1.25Ghz only took 1.68 times longer to do the same task.
The "How to Double your After Effects Performance" article averages almost exactly a 2x speed increase, taking on average 49.2% of the time on the "long tests". Taking this into account, we can look at the two longest tests, factor in the speed increase, and look at the "final" performance:
5. After Effects: Source Shapes (209.65/254) = 0.83 6. After Effects: Virtual Set (243.61/264) = 0.92
If we go through the same calculation for _all_ of the calculations, we get the Mac BEATING the Dell, taking only 83% of the time that the Dell took. If we take the Photoshop calculations out of the average, it is still at only 86% of the time the Dell took.
Note that these are all calculated values, and as such may vary significantly from actual values, also that I used the improvement on the "long" test for everything, and did not use the improvement on the short test at all - I imagine that the two systems would end up nearly even in a real test.
Apparently all of my tables were lame when I had them formatted, thanks lameness filter!
Slashdot Mirror
Perhaps have the scoring based on the most "necessary mechanical systems" that the robot can lose while still being the last robot standing/operating...
:)
Sort of goes back to the Intrusion Tolerance article from earlier today.
Or perhaps have the scoring based on "Mass removed from the other robot" - so the more chunks you break off, the higher your score. It would drive the competition towards lighter components (the other team scores less if it breaks off) with more damaging capability.
The balsa is a great idea
Word game...
Pro is to Con as Progress is to ___________?
It's a pet project of mine, but I think it bears commenting on: The space elevator.
I think it may be a _very_ good option for the nation's space needs.
More information can be found here:
Space Elevators: Low Cost Ticket to GEO?
More on Space Elevators
Going Up?
Calling the Space Elevator
Space Elevator May Become Reality - The Linked Study(PDF) Was fascinating.
Space Elevator Could Cost Less Than You Thought
Stepping Closer To The Space Elevator
Would this be slashdotting the air force?
"Sir, we're getting reports of UFOs all across the world... All of our birds are flying."
"Call the president, set the terrorism level to periwinkle!"
Anyone have a bittorrent link for the video?
But now that Ethical AI is Patented, doesn't that mean that more people are _less_ likely to make an ethical AI? As you mentined, it's a Profit-Driven Marketplace.
Should start a phone-in campaign, calling Sony every time you want to play a game to ask permission to put it into your system.
Thank You.
Hey, this is one of those "Added Features" that "Impriove the Experience", right? Sounds like some of the software updates I've seen...
"Hey, this "feature" is good for you, Mr. Pilot. It lets us make the decisions for you."
Watch out, or I'll poke you with my +2 flame!
Couldn't something like Hashcash be done in a java applet? Just embed the Java applet in the signup page, using a seed as well as the given data (name and stuff that is entered) to create a hash value for that person. Submit both the hash and the values, if they don't match, dump it. Just put a little "Processing %% complete" at the bottom of the page after they do the submit.
of course that costs CPU time on the server side as well... Link it to IP address too perhaps?
Sometimes stories expand on a previous article... perhaps Slashdot should allow "Story Threading", allowing multiple stories to be threaded together. Perhaps almost in an Everything2 sort of way?
Would you like some nice hot buttered, scrummy toast?
Talkie Toaster is my deity.
"I Toast, therefor I am."
More Red Dwarf Please.
Why should you, or I, or anyone else have the "right" to post slanderous or just plain false comments about companies/people without their ability to respond?
Frankly, if someone starts posting bad things about me or my company somewhere, I really would like to be able to respond to those comments.
My only concern about this is the potential for abuse:
Let's say that I post a "Company X sucks" rant on my web site... Company X sends a response, that according to this law would be required to be posted on my site. Company X's response is in the form of an extremely large file. Company X then has an employee post an anonymous article to Slashdot ( First use of annoying new low in EU! Take a look _here_[annoyingly large file, hosted on my server]). My hosting company kindly then sends me a bill for the bandwidth useage, and I quietly go bankrupt...
We'll see a log file...
Then the next day we'll see another log file...
Then it will be cross-posted in YRO, and games.
Then it will show up in Features.
I think that is part of the difficulty...
With 512 BYTES of ram you can literally look at the entire contents. You can be aware of every single bit on the system.
Now, where we have gigabytes of ram, and even more other storage it is simply impossible to sort through every bit. This errors roll in.
I'm not sure what to do about it, but I see why there is difficulty.
Couldn't the distro be done through a loopback to a file on the disk?
No need to format a drive or repartition it.
I think the major requirement for that to work would be really good drivers for Microsoft File Systems.
But who said we need to boot into linux to use open source software?
I don't think this is a cheat, as long as the energy taken to increase the performance in the test is similar to what is used to optimize for particular games.
I'm not going to complain if they can optimize the drivers to get 10% better performance in Battlefield 1942 with no degredation in quality, would you?
The only way I would call this a cheat would be if Nvidia never optimized for any other applications.
I think it's a completely reasonable mistake.
The initial article should have been posted under games in the first place, not as just a general article.
I don't think the issue is really simoniker's fault, it was just a combination of minor errors.
The chunking exploit file is a fun read, my favorite so far is this one:
* --- heh, this is a middle finger to all those open source, anti-"m$"
* idiots... slashdot hippies...
LOL
"If you limited normal users to 100 messages per second and major companies to 10,000 messages a second it would be hard for legitimate users to complain, but spamming would be much harder."
Hm... At a limit of 100 per second that only means I can send out 100x60x60x24 = 8,640,000 e-mails per day. How am I going to be able to talk to all of my friends now?
Well Said!
Read both of the articles, you will see that After Effects only uses one processor - hence the ability to "double your performance" using the dual processor "tip" from the second article. My calculation is correct, given that the second processor is roughly equivalent to a brick as far as After Effects is concerned in it's standard configuration.
The entire point of my post was to extrapolate from given data what the data may have looked like if White's testing had used the dual processor tip, instead of just using a single 1.25Ghz G4 vs a 3.06Ghz Intel.
Reading the "Mac vs. PC III: Mac Slaughtered Again" article was an exercise in frustration, particularly when the other link states how to nearly double rendering performance. The writing in the article just generally pissed me off.
Anyway, perhaps it's time to send a nicely worded e-mail to Mr. Charlie White. A real benchmark may be impressive, considering a 3.06Ghz Dell system was only 2 times faster than the 1.25Ghz G4 in the best case - a Mhz/Mhz comparison should put it closer to 2.4 times faster.
By doing a little analysis of their data, we get the following table:
Test Name (Mac Time in Seconds/Dell Time in Seconds) = Time Ratio
1. After Effects: Simple Animation (14/7) = 2.0
2. After Effects: Video Composite (85/54) = 1.57
3. After Effects: Data Project (227/125) = 1.82
4. After Effects: Gambler (43/29) = 1.48
5. After Effects: Source Shapes (426/254) = 1.68
6. After Effects: Virtual Set (495/264) = 1.88
1. Photoshop: Layer styles & transformation (7.1/4.5) = 1.58
2. Photoshop: Filter Effects (62/35.1) = 1.77
3. Photoshop: Manipulations and adjustments (4.5/3.4) = 1.32
Average Time Ratio: 1.68
That means that On Average The Mac, running at 1.25Ghz only took 1.68 times longer to do the same task.
The "How to Double your After Effects Performance" article averages almost exactly a 2x speed increase, taking on average 49.2% of the time on the "long tests". Taking this into account, we can look at the two longest tests, factor in the speed increase, and look at the "final" performance:
5. After Effects: Source Shapes (209.65/254) = 0.83
6. After Effects: Virtual Set (243.61/264) = 0.92
If we go through the same calculation for _all_ of the calculations, we get the Mac BEATING the Dell, taking only 83% of the time that the Dell took. If we take the Photoshop calculations out of the average, it is still at only 86% of the time the Dell took.
Note that these are all calculated values, and as such may vary significantly from actual values, also that I used the improvement on the "long" test for everything, and did not use the improvement on the short test at all - I imagine that the two systems would end up nearly even in a real test.
Apparently all of my tables were lame when I had them formatted, thanks lameness filter!
Wouldn't Shock and Awe be a good name for a web browser and e-mail client?
Awe - Web Browser, it's got all those neat-o plug ins, right?
Shock - e-mail client - I know some of the spam I've recieved is rather shocking!