No. Far from almost always. The basic idea behind the log factor is that you are able to repeatedly trim off some fraction of the recursive step's input set each iteration. Many algorithms cannot guarantee half (quick-sort using median of medians for pivot) and many can guarantee more than half (B-trees).
It does make perfect sense, because the only reason some one would ever possibly contribute to open source, spending countless tireless hours writing code in their free time, is some "speculative hope that they might get some 'back end' revenue."
I can understand the argument for lightbulbs, but light sockets make sense (single expense, rather than perpetual). It could tell you whether the bulb is on, could be turned on/off remotely or on a timer controlled by your comp, whether the bulb needs to be replaced, estimated life, energy used.
Just imagine a house that gives you recommendations for power savings: "If you turned your computer off at night, you could save $50/year!" OR, with the click of a button you could put your house in "power savings mode" while you head out to work, or go on vacation.
Sure we could do these things using other tech, but why? IPv6 is a standard, ubiquitous (well, at some point it will be), and can be implemented in only 11kb =]
I know this is Slashdot, but if you'd read the article, you'd see they're looking for cards that can play new video games at decent speeds. Something they claim most sub-$100 cards can't do (ie. that was the point of this article). You can definitely get cards cheaper than $70, but you whining about it is like having a car site review cheap sports cars that are between $30k-$50k, but still have good performance, then you coming in and bitching that you can buy a Toyota Yaris for $20k.
No, painters don't cite "brushes" in the same way that geometers don't cite Euclid's Elements. However, new unique software that can be used to obtain new results elsewhere deserves citations. Citations are about giving credit where credit is due. If you even want to look at it your way, software can definitely be used to generate new sources of information that wouldn't have been available otherwise.
Didn't you say you high-beamed the guy after he went in front of you? That's dangerous for 2 reasons. One, you high-beamed the guy. Two, you let your anger get a hold of you, which can cloud your judgment just as much as being drunk can (and sunk you down to his level). Angry drivers, like yourself, should not be on the road. I'd much rather drive with a bunch of courteous fast drivers, than a bunch of slow angry drivers. Much less chance of an accident.
I think you're right. Achievements can serve to help people suffer through the not-so-fun parts of games with the hope that this suffering will be worth it in the end (for the achievement). When the game becomes 90% about getting the next achievement, and not the gameplay in between achievements, then that's not cool. I remember playing Pokemon as a kid and sitting for hours (literally, 4h+) just walking through tall grass to level up my Pokemon. At no point was this fun, but I did it to get to that next level. There is something almost evil about this. Playing on some instinctive impulse of ours that makes us willing to waste hours of our lives for mediocre rewards. I think achievement based-games are great, but I think the minute you have to start "grinding" to get the achievements, the game has gone horribly wrong. I like Zelda games, because you basically just play the missions through, and get your achievements at the end of each mission. All the missions are fun, save a few frustrating bits. Games like Pokemon depend on you playing the game (quests and the like) for 1h, then grinding away (in the long grass) for 4h.
I think they may provide a hybrid internet based storage. Basically, you can keep your most recently used stuff on flash, but the older and larger files get pushed onto a file server. It would be really cool if it was mostly (as much as doesn't affect playability of games) transparent.
Just playing devil's advocate, but the countries you listed are all much smaller than the US and their populations are much more dense. Refactoring large parts of the infrastructure in Japan is probably much easier than doing the same in the US.
Yeah, but I enjoy life right now. I don't want to simply not exist. Sure, I won't care once I'm dead since I'm not alive to care, but as long as I am alive, the thought of simply not being (ie. where I was >23 years ago) unsettles me. Mind you, trying to imagine an infinite life is just as scary as finite life.
Uh, what? You average American spends more on health care then your average Canadian (16% of US GDP vs. 10% CAD GDP). And 40-60% tax!? I pay 25% tax before deductions. Just including the standard deductions everyone gets (around 10k both federally & provincially) that drops down to 21%. If you have a total net income of 100k/y then you are still only paying 29% (26% if you take off the standard 10k deduction). Also, no idea what you talking about with the salary caps (why?) or enforced work schedules and holidays.
So true. Our browsers (via the sites we use) are now our e-mail clients, IM programs, media players, picture albums, document editors, etc. Considering everything it does, 1/9th of my ram isn't really asking a whole lot.
Good point. Our organization has been blacklisted a couple of times by accident (people send spam using our addresses), and it is a royal pain in the arse to get off those lists. This would definitely be a good business argument for not spamming.
My GeForce MX 440 (suped up GeForce 2) actually played Doom 3 smoothly. I just played it 800x600 with no special effects (it still looked pretty good).
Really? There are 2 laptops (the 900 series), one with XP and one with Linux. The XP has less disk space and costs less. The Linux version has more disk space and costs more. Not only that, but I'd bet the linux version is significantly more responsive. I'd say it looks like if you want the "better" version of the laptop, you want to get the one with Linux. This may actually be good marketing:) Plus, there is no such thing as bad publicity. I think the fact that this laptop has linux at all is absolutely awesome. I love it when my friends say how Linux is so obscure no normal user would ever use it. The Eee is the first really awesome product I can show that them that brings Linux to the masses. Not only that, its apparent that Asus invested quite a bit into this, which shows the public that Linux is now ready for general consumption, even if its still considered a "premium" (hehe) product.
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No. Far from almost always. The basic idea behind the log factor is that you are able to repeatedly trim off some fraction of the recursive step's input set each iteration. Many algorithms cannot guarantee half (quick-sort using median of medians for pivot) and many can guarantee more than half (B-trees).
It does make perfect sense, because the only reason some one would ever possibly contribute to open source, spending countless tireless hours writing code in their free time, is some "speculative hope that they might get some 'back end' revenue."
In computational complexity, log can refer to any constant base (greater than 1).
I can understand the argument for lightbulbs, but light sockets make sense (single expense, rather than perpetual). It could tell you whether the bulb is on, could be turned on/off remotely or on a timer controlled by your comp, whether the bulb needs to be replaced, estimated life, energy used.
Just imagine a house that gives you recommendations for power savings: "If you turned your computer off at night, you could save $50/year!" OR, with the click of a button you could put your house in "power savings mode" while you head out to work, or go on vacation.
Sure we could do these things using other tech, but why? IPv6 is a standard, ubiquitous (well, at some point it will be), and can be implemented in only 11kb =]
I wish someone had tried to sell me a bundle w/ an extra Wii-mote. It took me 2 months to get a 2nd Wii-mote after I got my Wii!
He just bought a camera on-line for £17, I doubt his computer was super-awesome.
I know this is Slashdot, but if you'd read the article, you'd see they're looking for cards that can play new video games at decent speeds. Something they claim most sub-$100 cards can't do (ie. that was the point of this article). You can definitely get cards cheaper than $70, but you whining about it is like having a car site review cheap sports cars that are between $30k-$50k, but still have good performance, then you coming in and bitching that you can buy a Toyota Yaris for $20k.
No, painters don't cite "brushes" in the same way that geometers don't cite Euclid's Elements. However, new unique software that can be used to obtain new results elsewhere deserves citations. Citations are about giving credit where credit is due. If you even want to look at it your way, software can definitely be used to generate new sources of information that wouldn't have been available otherwise.
Datsun switched to Nissan at roughly the same time as DNS was invented.
Vigorous exercise once a week is more than most Americans? Sheez, it's not like the bar was really set high.
Didn't you say you high-beamed the guy after he went in front of you? That's dangerous for 2 reasons. One, you high-beamed the guy. Two, you let your anger get a hold of you, which can cloud your judgment just as much as being drunk can (and sunk you down to his level). Angry drivers, like yourself, should not be on the road. I'd much rather drive with a bunch of courteous fast drivers, than a bunch of slow angry drivers. Much less chance of an accident.
I think you're right. Achievements can serve to help people suffer through the not-so-fun parts of games with the hope that this suffering will be worth it in the end (for the achievement). When the game becomes 90% about getting the next achievement, and not the gameplay in between achievements, then that's not cool. I remember playing Pokemon as a kid and sitting for hours (literally, 4h+) just walking through tall grass to level up my Pokemon. At no point was this fun, but I did it to get to that next level. There is something almost evil about this. Playing on some instinctive impulse of ours that makes us willing to waste hours of our lives for mediocre rewards. I think achievement based-games are great, but I think the minute you have to start "grinding" to get the achievements, the game has gone horribly wrong. I like Zelda games, because you basically just play the missions through, and get your achievements at the end of each mission. All the missions are fun, save a few frustrating bits. Games like Pokemon depend on you playing the game (quests and the like) for 1h, then grinding away (in the long grass) for 4h.
I think they may provide a hybrid internet based storage. Basically, you can keep your most recently used stuff on flash, but the older and larger files get pushed onto a file server. It would be really cool if it was mostly (as much as doesn't affect playability of games) transparent.
Just playing devil's advocate, but the countries you listed are all much smaller than the US and their populations are much more dense. Refactoring large parts of the infrastructure in Japan is probably much easier than doing the same in the US.
We got an old OS/2 vm/switchboard running where I work. Sucker is still going strong, running 24/7. Pretty impressive actually.
Yeah, but I enjoy life right now. I don't want to simply not exist. Sure, I won't care once I'm dead since I'm not alive to care, but as long as I am alive, the thought of simply not being (ie. where I was >23 years ago) unsettles me. Mind you, trying to imagine an infinite life is just as scary as finite life.
I ran an Abit IC7-G with a P4 2.6GHz overclocked to 3.2 for 4 years. Good machine, good board.
Uh, what? You average American spends more on health care then your average Canadian (16% of US GDP vs. 10% CAD GDP). And 40-60% tax!? I pay 25% tax before deductions. Just including the standard deductions everyone gets (around 10k both federally & provincially) that drops down to 21%. If you have a total net income of 100k/y then you are still only paying 29% (26% if you take off the standard 10k deduction). Also, no idea what you talking about with the salary caps (why?) or enforced work schedules and holidays.
I live in Canada btw.
This is Slashdot, I think most people are probably using Firefox, if not a Free operating system as well, and hate the RIAA with a passion.
Maybe IBM might wish to consider throwing some money at someone developing those apps.
IBM does throw lots of money at Open Source projects. For example, he mentioned Sakai; http://www.umich.edu/news/?Releases/2005/Apr05/r042605a
The PCIe bus itself supplies up to a max of 75W. So, 150 + 75 + 75 = 300.
So true. Our browsers (via the sites we use) are now our e-mail clients, IM programs, media players, picture albums, document editors, etc. Considering everything it does, 1/9th of my ram isn't really asking a whole lot.
Good point. Our organization has been blacklisted a couple of times by accident (people send spam using our addresses), and it is a royal pain in the arse to get off those lists. This would definitely be a good business argument for not spamming.
My GeForce MX 440 (suped up GeForce 2) actually played Doom 3 smoothly. I just played it 800x600 with no special effects (it still looked pretty good).
Really? There are 2 laptops (the 900 series), one with XP and one with Linux. The XP has less disk space and costs less. The Linux version has more disk space and costs more. Not only that, but I'd bet the linux version is significantly more responsive. I'd say it looks like if you want the "better" version of the laptop, you want to get the one with Linux. This may actually be good marketing :) Plus, there is no such thing as bad publicity. I think the fact that this laptop has linux at all is absolutely awesome. I love it when my friends say how Linux is so obscure no normal user would ever use it. The Eee is the first really awesome product I can show that them that brings Linux to the masses. Not only that, its apparent that Asus invested quite a bit into this, which shows the public that Linux is now ready for general consumption, even if its still considered a "premium" (hehe) product.