Nethack is more like real life than this post. In nethack, you stroll through shops filled with goodies you can't afford, and are attacked for the slightest misbehavior (except attacking other customers.)
And the median income is more like reality than this post, since in Nethack you can barely afford to buy enough food to stay alive.
He's lucky his drive lasted that long. I've yet to see a maxtor or a seagate inside of one of their enclosures last that long. Having taken them apart, I saw that the seagate one was completely covered, multiple times, with no airflow.
Those things get way too hot. My mom has a new hard drive (as of this summer) with three directories of files recovered from signatures. Nasty.
Drives should be covered with moving air. They should also be mounted to the ground plane (which is the PC case.)
Actually, Budweiser stems from a Chzech beer, Budvar, that has a similar taste and color. People make fun of American brews, not of the microbrew variety, because there is no variety, in general. Some people like a good stout, rather than what they refer to as 'piss-water'.
Even further, the article states the the increase in speeds of CPU's will enable CPU-driven rendering. However, this seems to be illogical, since any dynamically generated graphic first requires processing a large amount of memory, then generating the data (be it pixel color data or geometry data), which has to be stored somewhere.
Ultimately, the article's premise would require a reversion to old-school pixel color data written to frame buffer memory. Each subsequent stage in translating the original 'concept data' to the dynamically generated graphic would require the CPU to constantly read and write memory. Since current designs trend towards multi-core systems not utilizing 'shared memory' (unlike systems like the XBOX or the PCI bus,) memory accesses are staged over the same FSB.
This demands that the CPU be fast enough, per frame, to handle both the graphics processing and whatever traditional logic programming games require or will require. Given the fact that each new generation of games tends to stress both GPU and CPU to the limit, and simple tasks like path choosing can't be sufficiently addressed by the clock cycles remaining to the CPU, this whole thing strikes me as a pipe dream.
It is not the architecture referenced in the article, where GPU commands are integrated with the CPU commands. Please examine the specs from Microsoft:
There is a dedicated GPU, with a memory controller on-die. The CPU cores are on a separate die, and contain a separate instruction set. The CPU's memory access is tightly linked with the GPU so that the CPU can send geometry data to the GPU with no delays.
If anything, this represents a third architecture, more different from that discussed in the article than it is from a PC shared-memory architecture (except in the PC, the north bridge mediates the memory access, instead of the GPU.)
My point is entirely that if you merge the CPU and GPU command set into the same core, you will slow the system down. The XBOX360 gets speed from linking the CPU's geometry data send to the GPU's memory access, in essence allowing it to get a free pre-fetch. That's not what the article is about.
To root your windows box and look for child porn? I jest, it is probably because the tool used to create the flash banner was taught to the graphic designer in his six month course where he/she got a two-year degree in computer science. Way easier than all that markup and JavaScript - I mean, have you ever tried to figure out a heirarchical data structure?
Sheesh, drag 'n drop is way superior to thinking. Or having to work with one of those icky 'coders' who complains if you change your image dimensions halfway through the project.
The graphics controller on the xbox is separate from the cpus. The whole point of the article is merging the cpu and gpu onto one chip, requiring memory access to go over the same lines.
The geographical location of the patent (U.S., Europe or China) will exclude foreign companies who are infringing. India can always complain and/or challenge the patents, but first they'll be excluded from some of the biggest markets in the world.
Also, India is pro-patent when it comes to pharmaceuticals. So it is just as likely that Indian companies will leech off this research. Remember that it is the actual drug molecule that is patented.
Take for example, escitalopram and citalopram, escitalopram is an enantiomer of citalopram. Escitalopram is patented by Forest Labs, and marketed as Lexapro. Lexapro was created and patented by Forest Labs (lundbeck) because citalopram (Celexa) lost its patent in 2003. Both drugs were designed to treat major depression and generalized anxiety disorder.
It isn't the research that gets patented. It is the drug. In the case of citalopram and escitalopram, two drugs that are merely stereoisomers (mirror images.)
Well, the real problem is that this process basically describes the type of drug they need. That lets a drug company step in and create a drug that exhibits the particular description (binding sites and weights and all that molecular interaction stuff.) Once they do that, the law lets them patent the molecule if it is unique.
What I think would need to happen, is for the patent office to recognize that the molecule is only unique with respect to other molecules. I.e., it was built from a specification, which means that it was an obvious result. That would take the place of 'GPL-like'.
Good luck with that though, because the logic could break any number of previously granted drug patents, especially if the leg-work for those drugs was done by other companies or universities.
On second thought, his request isn't all that odd. It is probably unrealistic, and ultimately unfair.
Rating a site does not mean it will have good content in the future. It also fails to assure that the site has the 'best' content. The need to sort through pages of distinctly that people only read sites they can handle are the next logical step.worded searches will probably never go away.
So I agree with the author that the idea will probably disappear, but not because it lacks merit. It will disappear because it is unfeasible to implement in a fair, non-commercial manner (unless you have a strong way of authenticating votes made by individual humans.)
If it is truly open, won't corps just follow the research then throw money into their own labs at the end of the project? Then they could patent the chemical.
It seems to me that the project could be leeched off of fairly easily. E.g., at work package 10.
Other than that, it is the inevitable result of high prices and monopolies. Open source, coops, public libraries; they all exist to let a larger group of people get access to limited resources for less. That's an interesting article.
But there's no guarantee that incorrect statements of prior art, or even just totally bogus statements will be contradictory. So I kind of get what you're saying, but I think it is easier and more correct to just visualize a bunch of people assigning a rank to each statement or sample. Then, those with higher rank move forward.
E.g., these systems deal not only with possibly true statements, but totally incorrect, possibly spurious, statements.
Seems more like something describable by natural computation, hypercubes and such.
My question about how it works was mostly facetious. I was trying to make fun of slashdot. Sometimes garbage gets moderated up, and my inference was that the "Wisdom of the Crowds" often isn't (wisdom).
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Nethack is more like real life than this post. In nethack, you stroll through shops filled with goodies you can't afford, and are attacked for the slightest misbehavior (except attacking other customers.)
And the median income is more like reality than this post, since in Nethack you can barely afford to buy enough food to stay alive.
He's lucky his drive lasted that long. I've yet to see a maxtor or a seagate inside of one of their enclosures last that long. Having taken them apart, I saw that the seagate one was completely covered, multiple times, with no airflow.
Those things get way too hot. My mom has a new hard drive (as of this summer) with three directories of files recovered from signatures. Nasty.
Drives should be covered with moving air. They should also be mounted to the ground plane (which is the PC case.)
Actually, Budweiser stems from a Chzech beer, Budvar, that has a similar taste and color. People make fun of American brews, not of the microbrew variety, because there is no variety, in general. Some people like a good stout, rather than what they refer to as 'piss-water'.
And, there has to be poo in bird's nest soup.
And bread, of the sourdough and refined yeast types. It is only biscuits for you from now on!
On the bright side, we might get to test this theory. http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2088
Happy thoughts
Cthulu waits.
Cheaper and less dangerous, for the police. It may take ten years, but when do we see the first combat robot deployed in a 'peacekeeping' capacity?
Yeah, but has he merely defined the theoretical limits of solar cell technology, or has he come up with a manufacturing process?
The real payoff is the manufacturing process.
Maybe it will work better than 'Jam Echelon Day'. Besides, they've moved a bit beyond that, tapping U.S. Internet traffic directly.
Even further, the article states the the increase in speeds of CPU's will enable CPU-driven rendering. However, this seems to be illogical, since any dynamically generated graphic first requires processing a large amount of memory, then generating the data (be it pixel color data or geometry data), which has to be stored somewhere.
Ultimately, the article's premise would require a reversion to old-school pixel color data written to frame buffer memory. Each subsequent stage in translating the original 'concept data' to the dynamically generated graphic would require the CPU to constantly read and write memory. Since current designs trend towards multi-core systems not utilizing 'shared memory' (unlike systems like the XBOX or the PCI bus,) memory accesses are staged over the same FSB.
This demands that the CPU be fast enough, per frame, to handle both the graphics processing and whatever traditional logic programming games require or will require. Given the fact that each new generation of games tends to stress both GPU and CPU to the limit, and simple tasks like path choosing can't be sufficiently addressed by the clock cycles remaining to the CPU, this whole thing strikes me as a pipe dream.
It is not the architecture referenced in the article, where GPU commands are integrated with the CPU commands. Please examine the specs from Microsoft:
There is a dedicated GPU, with a memory controller on-die. The CPU cores are on a separate die, and contain a separate instruction set. The CPU's memory access is tightly linked with the GPU so that the CPU can send geometry data to the GPU with no delays.
If anything, this represents a third architecture, more different from that discussed in the article than it is from a PC shared-memory architecture (except in the PC, the north bridge mediates the memory access, instead of the GPU.)
My point is entirely that if you merge the CPU and GPU command set into the same core, you will slow the system down. The XBOX360 gets speed from linking the CPU's geometry data send to the GPU's memory access, in essence allowing it to get a free pre-fetch. That's not what the article is about.
To root your windows box and look for child porn? I jest, it is probably because the tool used to create the flash banner was taught to the graphic designer in his six month course where he/she got a two-year degree in computer science. Way easier than all that markup and JavaScript - I mean, have you ever tried to figure out a heirarchical data structure?
Sheesh, drag 'n drop is way superior to thinking. Or having to work with one of those icky 'coders' who complains if you change your image dimensions halfway through the project.
Flash is awesome!
Maybe the city gets charged for extra bandwidth, and someone wants to slashdot their police department site as revenge?
It wouldn't be the first time someone used slashdot as a dos tool, IIRC
The graphics controller on the xbox is separate from the cpus. The whole point of the article is merging the cpu and gpu onto one chip, requiring memory access to go over the same lines.
The geographical location of the patent (U.S., Europe or China) will exclude foreign companies who are infringing. India can always complain and/or challenge the patents, but first they'll be excluded from some of the biggest markets in the world.
Also, India is pro-patent when it comes to pharmaceuticals. So it is just as likely that Indian companies will leech off this research. Remember that it is the actual drug molecule that is patented.
Take for example, escitalopram and citalopram, escitalopram is an enantiomer of citalopram. Escitalopram is patented by Forest Labs, and marketed as Lexapro. Lexapro was created and patented by Forest Labs (lundbeck) because citalopram (Celexa) lost its patent in 2003. Both drugs were designed to treat major depression and generalized anxiety disorder.
It isn't the research that gets patented. It is the drug. In the case of citalopram and escitalopram, two drugs that are merely stereoisomers (mirror images.)
Well, the real problem is that this process basically describes the type of drug they need. That lets a drug company step in and create a drug that exhibits the particular description (binding sites and weights and all that molecular interaction stuff.) Once they do that, the law lets them patent the molecule if it is unique.
What I think would need to happen, is for the patent office to recognize that the molecule is only unique with respect to other molecules. I.e., it was built from a specification, which means that it was an obvious result. That would take the place of 'GPL-like'.
Good luck with that though, because the logic could break any number of previously granted drug patents, especially if the leg-work for those drugs was done by other companies or universities.
The need to sort through pages of distinctly worded searches will probably never go away.
that people only read sites they can handle are the next logical step.
That got all messed up. The cat must have stepped on the touchpad and I didn't notice. I do have a cold, that's why I'm posting to slashdot.
Yes, especially Vidalia Sweets!
The onion is far more accurate than your average editorial page.
On second thought, his request isn't all that odd. It is probably unrealistic, and ultimately unfair.
Rating a site does not mean it will have good content in the future. It also fails to assure that the site has the 'best' content. The need to sort through pages of distinctly that people only read sites they can handle are the next logical step.worded searches will probably never go away.
So I agree with the author that the idea will probably disappear, but not because it lacks merit. It will disappear because it is unfeasible to implement in a fair, non-commercial manner (unless you have a strong way of authenticating votes made by individual humans.)
Take that, google!
If it is truly open, won't corps just follow the research then throw money into their own labs at the end of the project? Then they could patent the chemical.
How it works
It seems to me that the project could be leeched off of fairly easily. E.g., at work package 10.
Other than that, it is the inevitable result of high prices and monopolies. Open source, coops, public libraries; they all exist to let a larger group of people get access to limited resources for less. That's an interesting article.
But there's no guarantee that incorrect statements of prior art, or even just totally bogus statements will be contradictory. So I kind of get what you're saying, but I think it is easier and more correct to just visualize a bunch of people assigning a rank to each statement or sample. Then, those with higher rank move forward.
E.g., these systems deal not only with possibly true statements, but totally incorrect, possibly spurious, statements.
Seems more like something describable by natural computation, hypercubes and such.
My question about how it works was mostly facetious. I was trying to make fun of slashdot. Sometimes garbage gets moderated up, and my inference was that the "Wisdom of the Crowds" often isn't (wisdom).