It varies the voltage to each core. If people can get new patents by adding "on the web" or "on a cellphone" to an existing technology, then I'd bet that this guy can get a patent by adding "for multiple cores".
There are many problems that are too hard for humans to solve. We may be able to give a good guess at the answer, but to answer them correctly we must use a computer. The development of the computer and the research that has determined how to solve problems on a computer has brought about lots of good things. We can analyze medical images for cancer, launch satellites into space, fly around the world, and talk to anyone we want whenever we want. However, there is yet another set of problems that too hard even for computers to solve. Much like us, computers may be able to give a good guess at the answer, but they cannot answer them correctly. Research into P=NP is there to let us determine the nature of these problems. If P=NP, it means our computers can solve these problems, even if not on today's machines. If P!=NP, it means that our computers (of today) won't ever really be able to solve the problems. In either case, the decision will have enormous impacts on how our governments and corporations invest in research in the future.
I am now a long time Ubuntu user. Previously, I have used (in order) over about 10 years; Red Hat, Slackware, LFS, Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu. I like Ubuntu because I am a programmer and as a programmer I like to program. I love Linux, but don't like fiddling around with it as much as I did when I was a teenager. I'd much rather be doing things I currently enjoy. However, I'm happy that us Ubuntu users make you feel better about being able to install an operating system.
Presumably, the winning company would also be able to make money on the tech they developed to put stuff on the moon. The prize is the icing on a rather large cake.
I'd say almost all of those goal posts were set before the modern computint era. Text and speech recognition, computer vision, playing chess, etc. have all been goals set a long long time ago. Heck, speech recognition devices have been around for over 50 years now. I'd say, by the 1960s, and with the dawn of modern silicon based computers, all of these goals would've been stated in one way or another.
There seems to be a trend of people overestimating the Chinese market. China is still largely an export country. They have tons of their own natural resources and they have artificially kept their dollar low to keep the flow of goods going out and not coming in.
My average experience w/ coffee shops in downtown Toronto. It's cold and snowing; my wife and I want to get a coffee and sit down for 20 minutes while we wait for a movie to start or for our reservation at a restaurant. We go to a nearby coffee shop. It is full of people that look like they've set up an office (books, laptop (yes, both), notepad, etc) and have no intention of leaving anytime soon. No seating means we're leaving, trying the next place. Frankly, I'd love it if a few coffee shops discouraged people from sitting around for hours, milking a coffee + refills.
Switching carriers is one of the big, legitimate, value adds to jail breaking your phone. Tethering is also another good value add. I pay for xGB of data, so why should my carrier care how I use it up? Tethering was a Godsend during my last vacation (2.5 week road trip). My wife or I would upload photos, download music, and whatnot while the other drove. My phone (an Android) actually allowed tethering when I got it (and during the vacation). The feature was actually removed after a recent update from my carrier...
Seriously. The first reason I moved to consoles was precisely because an entire console costs as much as a single graphics card. That you KNOW you won't have to change it for another 5 years is the next reason. Finally, I'd rather spend the money that'd normally go to a half-decent desktop PC capable of gaming on replacing my laptop every few years.
NDP supported getting rid of the decision early on. Then the liberals recently jumped on board. A petition has been signed by hundreds of thousands of people. Elections are coming up. I am not terribly surprised the conservatives made this a priority this week.
Bell Canada are network infrastructure providers, a retail ISP, a content provider and even a content producer (eg. they are currently trying to buy CTV). It'd be funny if I didn't live in Canada.
I think you hit on the problem he found; if it was truly randomized (ie. just order), there'd be far more winners than they actually have. This means the set of cards that are likely to win are underrepresented. If there is a pattern they have in common, then you simply need to look for it. This guy figured out that winning tickets are likely to have a high frequency of singleton numbers and chose those.
I always see people rifling through a set of cards, trying to "feel out" a winner. Of course, these people aren't statisticians and aren't actually doing anything better than random picks.
Well, lim n->inf 10.7 * (1.07^n) = inf. With his math, Webkit based browsers will hit 100% market share in ~33 months (and have >100% share every month thereafter).
Defensive driving is actually often rewarded in racing games. Many racing games have such a low tolerance for failure (crashing, going off the track, etc) that staying clear of the other cars, being attentive, watching other cars, and knowing how long it takes to stop in game is pretty much a necessity to win. And while it certainly isn't your life, the prospect of having to redo (and win) the previous 4 tracks in the championship you just raced (30+ minutes) is a pretty good motivation to simply be defensive, even if it means taking 2nd or 3rd once in a while.
That said, the 2 skills (video games & driving) are largely disjoint and I think most people understand the difference.
I often hover over links to see the address (in search results), as you can often tell a lot about a page by its URL (other than being spam). I also know that when reading pages I often highlight the current paragraph/chunk of text I'm reading I'm reading. I jump around the page a lot, and it helps me to get back to where I was (visually) quickly.
Actually, I recently bought a Kindle, but up to now have purchased most books at bookstores (excluding textbooks & obscure stuff). I've been planning on switching to an eReader for a while, but was waiting for the price to drop (which it finally has). Anyways, eBooks are real books. The book is the content, not the delivery mechanism. You lose some things (loaning the book out), but gain quite a bit (try reading a novel w/ thick gloves on while waiting for a train in the freezing cold).
Don't confuse good programming/best practices with standards. The HTML standard will definitely let you use B tags and TABLE layouts. What you're talking about is years of people learning the right way of doing things; regardless if this is for accessibility, maintainability, cost, etc.
I didn't know that - that said, I looked up the resolution of several games I play often, and none are 900x400. Most seem to be 720p. A few are larger.
Yeah, but DN3D was the really the last good game of its breed, whereas Quake was the first of a new one (completely 3D). The Quake engine provided the basis for many fantastic games, including Half-Life.
Consoles run at 1920x1080p; to double the resolution, you'd need a monitor w/ sqrt(2) times the horizontal & vertical pixels (ie. ~ 2715x1527). Most PC gamers I know have approximately 1080p resultion monitors, give or take, so I don't see how they could run at 2-3x the resolution. In fact, the only person I know w/ a larger resolution has a 30" monitor that cost as much as my TV and PS3 together.
I think "Iris" is buggy. In one house I lived in for a year I got highspeed internet from Bell. It was always very flakey and very slow. I couldn't even play a game of Counter-Strike. Anyways, after weeks of complaining to Bell, I finally found out that my place was actually too far away from a DSLAM (or whatever) to have gotten High Speed internet (they should never have offered it to me). However, since my speeds were a hair over their broadband definition (the big problem was with dropped packets, which made games unplayable), they wouldn't refund me any money and since I had signed a year contract, I had to pay to get out of it. Ugh.
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It varies the voltage to each core. If people can get new patents by adding "on the web" or "on a cellphone" to an existing technology, then I'd bet that this guy can get a patent by adding "for multiple cores".
I am trying to explain the importance of P(=|!=)NP to the GP's 89 year old grandfather. Simplicity is probably valued over a pedantic explanation.
There are many problems that are too hard for humans to solve. We may be able to give a good guess at the answer, but to answer them correctly we must use a computer. The development of the computer and the research that has determined how to solve problems on a computer has brought about lots of good things. We can analyze medical images for cancer, launch satellites into space, fly around the world, and talk to anyone we want whenever we want. However, there is yet another set of problems that too hard even for computers to solve. Much like us, computers may be able to give a good guess at the answer, but they cannot answer them correctly. Research into P=NP is there to let us determine the nature of these problems. If P=NP, it means our computers can solve these problems, even if not on today's machines. If P!=NP, it means that our computers (of today) won't ever really be able to solve the problems. In either case, the decision will have enormous impacts on how our governments and corporations invest in research in the future.
I would say 15 minutes going through some well commented and/or clear code is certainly acceptable if it means I find a solution to a problem.
I am now a long time Ubuntu user. Previously, I have used (in order) over about 10 years; Red Hat, Slackware, LFS, Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu. I like Ubuntu because I am a programmer and as a programmer I like to program. I love Linux, but don't like fiddling around with it as much as I did when I was a teenager. I'd much rather be doing things I currently enjoy. However, I'm happy that us Ubuntu users make you feel better about being able to install an operating system.
Presumably, the winning company would also be able to make money on the tech they developed to put stuff on the moon. The prize is the icing on a rather large cake.
I'd say almost all of those goal posts were set before the modern computint era. Text and speech recognition, computer vision, playing chess, etc. have all been goals set a long long time ago. Heck, speech recognition devices have been around for over 50 years now. I'd say, by the 1960s, and with the dawn of modern silicon based computers, all of these goals would've been stated in one way or another.
There seems to be a trend of people overestimating the Chinese market. China is still largely an export country. They have tons of their own natural resources and they have artificially kept their dollar low to keep the flow of goods going out and not coming in.
My average experience w/ coffee shops in downtown Toronto. It's cold and snowing; my wife and I want to get a coffee and sit down for 20 minutes while we wait for a movie to start or for our reservation at a restaurant. We go to a nearby coffee shop. It is full of people that look like they've set up an office (books, laptop (yes, both), notepad, etc) and have no intention of leaving anytime soon. No seating means we're leaving, trying the next place. Frankly, I'd love it if a few coffee shops discouraged people from sitting around for hours, milking a coffee + refills.
Switching carriers is one of the big, legitimate, value adds to jail breaking your phone. Tethering is also another good value add. I pay for xGB of data, so why should my carrier care how I use it up? Tethering was a Godsend during my last vacation (2.5 week road trip). My wife or I would upload photos, download music, and whatnot while the other drove. My phone (an Android) actually allowed tethering when I got it (and during the vacation). The feature was actually removed after a recent update from my carrier...
Seriously. The first reason I moved to consoles was precisely because an entire console costs as much as a single graphics card. That you KNOW you won't have to change it for another 5 years is the next reason. Finally, I'd rather spend the money that'd normally go to a half-decent desktop PC capable of gaming on replacing my laptop every few years.
NDP supported getting rid of the decision early on. Then the liberals recently jumped on board. A petition has been signed by hundreds of thousands of people. Elections are coming up. I am not terribly surprised the conservatives made this a priority this week.
Bell Canada are network infrastructure providers, a retail ISP, a content provider and even a content producer (eg. they are currently trying to buy CTV). It'd be funny if I didn't live in Canada.
I think you hit on the problem he found; if it was truly randomized (ie. just order), there'd be far more winners than they actually have. This means the set of cards that are likely to win are underrepresented. If there is a pattern they have in common, then you simply need to look for it. This guy figured out that winning tickets are likely to have a high frequency of singleton numbers and chose those.
I always see people rifling through a set of cards, trying to "feel out" a winner. Of course, these people aren't statisticians and aren't actually doing anything better than random picks.
Well, lim n->inf 10.7 * (1.07^n) = inf. With his math, Webkit based browsers will hit 100% market share in ~33 months (and have >100% share every month thereafter).
Defensive driving is actually often rewarded in racing games. Many racing games have such a low tolerance for failure (crashing, going off the track, etc) that staying clear of the other cars, being attentive, watching other cars, and knowing how long it takes to stop in game is pretty much a necessity to win. And while it certainly isn't your life, the prospect of having to redo (and win) the previous 4 tracks in the championship you just raced (30+ minutes) is a pretty good motivation to simply be defensive, even if it means taking 2nd or 3rd once in a while.
That said, the 2 skills (video games & driving) are largely disjoint and I think most people understand the difference.
I often hover over links to see the address (in search results), as you can often tell a lot about a page by its URL (other than being spam). I also know that when reading pages I often highlight the current paragraph/chunk of text I'm reading I'm reading. I jump around the page a lot, and it helps me to get back to where I was (visually) quickly.
Actually, I recently bought a Kindle, but up to now have purchased most books at bookstores (excluding textbooks & obscure stuff). I've been planning on switching to an eReader for a while, but was waiting for the price to drop (which it finally has). Anyways, eBooks are real books. The book is the content, not the delivery mechanism. You lose some things (loaning the book out), but gain quite a bit (try reading a novel w/ thick gloves on while waiting for a train in the freezing cold).
Don't confuse good programming/best practices with standards. The HTML standard will definitely let you use B tags and TABLE layouts. What you're talking about is years of people learning the right way of doing things; regardless if this is for accessibility, maintainability, cost, etc.
Seriously, OP is 100% right. Someone please mod the GP down, I'd hate it if someone actually did this.
I didn't know that - that said, I looked up the resolution of several games I play often, and none are 900x400. Most seem to be 720p. A few are larger.
Yeah, but DN3D was the really the last good game of its breed, whereas Quake was the first of a new one (completely 3D). The Quake engine provided the basis for many fantastic games, including Half-Life.
Consoles run at 1920x1080p; to double the resolution, you'd need a monitor w/ sqrt(2) times the horizontal & vertical pixels (ie. ~ 2715x1527). Most PC gamers I know have approximately 1080p resultion monitors, give or take, so I don't see how they could run at 2-3x the resolution. In fact, the only person I know w/ a larger resolution has a 30" monitor that cost as much as my TV and PS3 together.
I think "Iris" is buggy. In one house I lived in for a year I got highspeed internet from Bell. It was always very flakey and very slow. I couldn't even play a game of Counter-Strike. Anyways, after weeks of complaining to Bell, I finally found out that my place was actually too far away from a DSLAM (or whatever) to have gotten High Speed internet (they should never have offered it to me). However, since my speeds were a hair over their broadband definition (the big problem was with dropped packets, which made games unplayable), they wouldn't refund me any money and since I had signed a year contract, I had to pay to get out of it. Ugh.