Do you know anybody who either decided to vote, or changed their vote, based on some stranger autodialing their number? I don't, and I don't imagine this sort of shift would happen often enough to actually change the election. It sounds like they used data mining to optimize campaign contributions more than anything else.
The republicans had an utterly weak candidate. Even with the economy as trashed as it is, they couldn't take the silver platter offered to them, just like the democrats couldn't capitalize on GWB's unpopularity for his second term even though it should have been a shoo-in.
The polls are getting further and further removed from reality. People just aren't getting landlines anymore, and the populace in general grows more suspicious of marketing and identity theft regarding weird probing phone calls.
FPGA implementations of x86 or ARM are going to be far slower and way more power hungry than their native chip equivalents. FPGA acceleration would be good for loading up application-specific netlists to do some deep acceleration of specific workload steps, not to run general purpose processor cores.
And how many parallel memory buses will you need to keep that fed? The more cores you throw behind a single chip, the more bottleneck pressure is on the edge of the chip.
This is one of the reasons why GPGPU only really shows benefit for certain types of problems; the memory throughput is optimized only for particular configurations.
After all the outrage in the Apple tax thread, everyone should stand for paying their fair share of sales taxes, not dodging them by ordering out of state from somebody they normally wouldn't.
Yes, nobody should be allowed to shop around and find the best deal. If there's a K-Mart next door, it's dishonest to shop elsewhere! They opened up that store by you because they're going to be selling to your neighborhood! How DARE you drive down the street to get a better deal elsewhere?!
No, it's not vengeance. It's a judgement that the person is incapable of ever returning to productive society, and is more humane and in theory should be less burdensome than locking them up and throwing away the key. It's the equivalent of taking a farm animal out behind the barn with a shotgun when they become an irredeemable burden.
I can't say I'm completely pro death penalty, but the above is the rationale behind it, not vengeance.
I had (and I think it's still in the garage) one of the Nokia 445 21" CRT monitors. It reported to the video card that it only supported up to 1600x1200, but that's just because that was the highest video card res at the time it was manufactured. I hacked an.inf file for it manually and added 2048x1536 60Hz, which was within the frequency specs of the monitor, and it all worked great. At 640x480 it did over 200Hz, but as that was above its rated vertical frequency, I only tested that a bit and then scaled back.
Nice thing about that one is that there is zero lag between resolution changes, too. It doesn't cut the display beam at all.
Recommending an annoyingly-to-uselessly narrow display is not an improvement over using an annoyingly-to-uselessly short display.
In even the simplest non-power-user case of playing Facebook games, many of them don't even fit onscreen vertically on a 1366x768 laptop. Just the bog-standard stock layout of Windows taskbar on the bottom of the screen, and default maximised browser layout does not leave enough room for many games' meager display assumption, and sometimes fullscreening the browser (a rarely used hidden feature) doesn't even get it all.
Plus, laptop displays have been actively shrinking in the vertical dimension. The "standard" laptop res nowadays is a widescreen version of the circa 1990 1024x768, but the prior low/mid-range standard res at least used to be 800 pixels tall, with 1280x800. And yes, those 40 or so rows matter when you're highly constrained in that dimension.
Of course, the ThinkPad had a 2048x1536 15" option, but that's really not fair as it's a pretty exclusive upgrade. But it shows that the tech for decent-resolution portable displays has been around forever.
No fundamental goal can be rationally justified, only steps to achieve that goal can.
Fundamental goals are arbitrary, irrational, and fall in line with emotion and empathy. Once established, however, you can use rational analysis to figure out how to achieve that irrational goal.
Empathy also bounds the space in which rational analysis searches, because irrationality allows for conflicting and competing goals, having some arbitrary measure to weight and decide between what is offered in the search to reduce offending secondary irrational goals.
So really, you need both to optimize a human/sociological situation, and it will never converge on a single optimum.
Say you have 10 packets to transmit. You encode them into 10 linearly combined results, with a 10-byte coefficient header (1 per packet), and transmit those 10 encoded packets.
If the 5th packet was lost, in standard TCP you'd need to retransmit packets 5-10. With this encoding, you could in theory transmit only 1 packet to complete the set, regardless of which was lost, based on how the new ACKs describe the algebraic degrees of freedom remaining in solving for the original packet bytes. That means that you put out 11 packets instead of 15 packets into the same noisy environment, and the existing TCP window controls perceive less losses. If everybody does that, the overall contention might go down compared to stock TCP.
In the case where it's very difficult to get any individual packet through, I could see this still encoding 2-3 packets at a time and saving bandwidth on resending vs regular unencoded serial transmission.
iPhone theft inclines the victim to purchase a new phone. Deterring iPhone theft would reduce that purchasing pressure. It doesn't matter to Apple if they get paid out of pocket or from an insurance payout.
Or the manufacturers can argue that the high FLOPS/Watt means that the big gfx cards are in fact efficient, and that the policy should take that into account.
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Do you know anybody who either decided to vote, or changed their vote, based on some stranger autodialing their number? I don't, and I don't imagine this sort of shift would happen often enough to actually change the election. It sounds like they used data mining to optimize campaign contributions more than anything else.
The republicans had an utterly weak candidate. Even with the economy as trashed as it is, they couldn't take the silver platter offered to them, just like the democrats couldn't capitalize on GWB's unpopularity for his second term even though it should have been a shoo-in.
The polls are getting further and further removed from reality. People just aren't getting landlines anymore, and the populace in general grows more suspicious of marketing and identity theft regarding weird probing phone calls.
In 2-5 years, ARM will be competitive with today's Intel mid/top tier processors. But in 2-5 years, Intel will be far past that as well.
FPGA implementations of x86 or ARM are going to be far slower and way more power hungry than their native chip equivalents. FPGA acceleration would be good for loading up application-specific netlists to do some deep acceleration of specific workload steps, not to run general purpose processor cores.
And how many parallel memory buses will you need to keep that fed? The more cores you throw behind a single chip, the more bottleneck pressure is on the edge of the chip.
This is one of the reasons why GPGPU only really shows benefit for certain types of problems; the memory throughput is optimized only for particular configurations.
After all the outrage in the Apple tax thread, everyone should stand for paying their fair share of sales taxes, not dodging them by ordering out of state from somebody they normally wouldn't.
They're a service to the government, not to the people, unfortunately.
Yes, nobody should be allowed to shop around and find the best deal. If there's a K-Mart next door, it's dishonest to shop elsewhere! They opened up that store by you because they're going to be selling to your neighborhood! How DARE you drive down the street to get a better deal elsewhere?!
Except for the color of the sky, and presumably the color of light hitting the rover.
Those are the little trenches where it was scooping soil samples.
No, it's not vengeance. It's a judgement that the person is incapable of ever returning to productive society, and is more humane and in theory should be less burdensome than locking them up and throwing away the key. It's the equivalent of taking a farm animal out behind the barn with a shotgun when they become an irredeemable burden.
I can't say I'm completely pro death penalty, but the above is the rationale behind it, not vengeance.
I had (and I think it's still in the garage) one of the Nokia 445 21" CRT monitors. It reported to the video card that it only supported up to 1600x1200, but that's just because that was the highest video card res at the time it was manufactured. I hacked an .inf file for it manually and added 2048x1536 60Hz, which was within the frequency specs of the monitor, and it all worked great. At 640x480 it did over 200Hz, but as that was above its rated vertical frequency, I only tested that a bit and then scaled back.
Nice thing about that one is that there is zero lag between resolution changes, too. It doesn't cut the display beam at all.
Clearly, then, fitted sheets are related to the fascinating Hexaflexagon.
All movies are 16:9.
The vast majority of movies (ie, theatrical releases) are much wider than 16:9.
(I don't know why 16:10 is being advocated),
but 4:3, that really does not make any sense.
Because people spend far more computer time on their Facebooks and other vertical-content document/page-oriented tasks vs watch movies.
Recommending an annoyingly-to-uselessly narrow display is not an improvement over using an annoyingly-to-uselessly short display.
In even the simplest non-power-user case of playing Facebook games, many of them don't even fit onscreen vertically on a 1366x768 laptop. Just the bog-standard stock layout of Windows taskbar on the bottom of the screen, and default maximised browser layout does not leave enough room for many games' meager display assumption, and sometimes fullscreening the browser (a rarely used hidden feature) doesn't even get it all.
Plus, laptop displays have been actively shrinking in the vertical dimension. The "standard" laptop res nowadays is a widescreen version of the circa 1990 1024x768, but the prior low/mid-range standard res at least used to be 800 pixels tall, with 1280x800. And yes, those 40 or so rows matter when you're highly constrained in that dimension.
Of course, the ThinkPad had a 2048x1536 15" option, but that's really not fair as it's a pretty exclusive upgrade. But it shows that the tech for decent-resolution portable displays has been around forever.
No fundamental goal can be rationally justified, only steps to achieve that goal can.
Fundamental goals are arbitrary, irrational, and fall in line with emotion and empathy. Once established, however, you can use rational analysis to figure out how to achieve that irrational goal.
Empathy also bounds the space in which rational analysis searches, because irrationality allows for conflicting and competing goals, having some arbitrary measure to weight and decide between what is offered in the search to reduce offending secondary irrational goals.
So really, you need both to optimize a human/sociological situation, and it will never converge on a single optimum.
Panhandling is very similar to spam or telemarketing. Even if a fraction of a percentage of people give money, that's enough to "succeed".
Just because (panhandling|telemarketing) lets a (homeless person|business) get by doesn't mean that the majority of people respond positively to it.
What's the point of homebrew on a modern console?
Because it's there, and it's an unknown. You do realize this is Slashdot, right?
He retired, he didn't die.
It prevents backtracking the stream.
Say you have 10 packets to transmit. You encode them into 10 linearly combined results, with a 10-byte coefficient header (1 per packet), and transmit those 10 encoded packets.
If the 5th packet was lost, in standard TCP you'd need to retransmit packets 5-10. With this encoding, you could in theory transmit only 1 packet to complete the set, regardless of which was lost, based on how the new ACKs describe the algebraic degrees of freedom remaining in solving for the original packet bytes. That means that you put out 11 packets instead of 15 packets into the same noisy environment, and the existing TCP window controls perceive less losses. If everybody does that, the overall contention might go down compared to stock TCP.
In the case where it's very difficult to get any individual packet through, I could see this still encoding 2-3 packets at a time and saving bandwidth on resending vs regular unencoded serial transmission.
(given my skimming of the paper)
iPhone theft inclines the victim to purchase a new phone. Deterring iPhone theft would reduce that purchasing pressure. It doesn't matter to Apple if they get paid out of pocket or from an insurance payout.
Or the manufacturers can argue that the high FLOPS/Watt means that the big gfx cards are in fact efficient, and that the policy should take that into account.
This just shows that the congressman didn't stick his head out to rally against SOPA out of principle, he was bought out by Google to do so.
They only have 1 complex problem they're trying to pursue; breaking crypto systems.
Quartary question: What sort of minuscule relativistic time differential will they experience during the run, compared to people at rest?