Actually, sticking to the 5-7-5 format isn't really required - the Japanese have a term, "jiamari" (literally, "too many characters") that they use to refer to haiku that exceed the 5-syllable limit on the last line.
Wired News tested BAIR by creating a Perl program to extract images randomly from an 87MB database of thousands of both pornographic and non-pornographic photographs. The program then assigned each of those images random numbers as file names.
...Do you suppose they could be convinced to open source that database? Quick, someone call ESR!;)
The problem is not that X is failing to yield the PCI bus, but rather that the the requests to the card are being stacked and sent in a burst. (This is why the problem doesn't occur on some slower machines that don't have this feature, paradoxically.) It's not X, but rather the chipset itself that causes the problem. As for playing multiple sound streams at a time, try doing this: "while true;do esdplay (your sound file here);done". By my calculations, my machine is sending around 10 streams per second to the sound card, and the main limit seems to be the speed at which the kernel can execute new processes (rather than the actual audio streams themselves.) This is on 2.2.13 on a PII@400MHz with a Creative AME64 on an ISA bus. I'd expect PCI soundcards to do better than this.
I've seen benchmarks of Intel vs. AMD under Linux, and unfortunately Intel generally kicks AMD's ass. I suspect someone needs to take a look at gcc's optimizations...
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You obviously didn't read very far into the rules - the use of a deliberately losing strategy (against other 'bots created by yourself) will result in only the last entry being accepted.
I like that bit about cataloging pages with a five-word "lexical" signature based on words that appear mainly only on that page. How are they going to deal with the 5,000,000,000 web pages that contain only the word "porn"?;)
As far as I understand it, the hypothetical hostile agency has only to establish a rough order of publication to narrow down the maximum number of possible combinations quite quickly - and introducing delays is only a stopgap solution. The ideal situation is obviously one where all pads appear to have been produced simultaneously, but I do not believe this to be possible. The evidence has to be somewhere (by definition, otherwise nobody would be able to access it).
I think one of the harder points of your scheme to implement would be the obfuscation of creation date of the various pads floating around. Obviously, under your scheme a person has to be able to obtain an arbitrary pad - otherwise the system is of no use to them (as they won't be able to find the pads they need to rebuild the information). All that means is a hostile agency would have to go through all the servers it can find on a regular basis and record exactly what pads were available at that point in time. That gives thema reference to use when deciding if a pad has been newly created or not.
Not quite. You have to compensate for the 50Hz or 60Hz noise coming from your power supply. And make sure that you use only the least significant bits from the input (actually, you can use more than the LSB - check out Applied Cryptography for more info).
Don't be disingenuous. You know perfectly well that I was referring to the total weight of the laptop as being three kilos, not the weight of the DVD drive. As for the DVD stuff, maybe you have different priorities than I do - on a business trip, I just want to cut down the stuff I have to lug around to the bare minimum.
OK, some people might WANT one, but what would they NEED one for? Anything that spins a 12cm disk at several thousand rpm is going to be a burden on your battery - if you want battery power, you need to make tradeoffs (at least until someone figures out how to put fuel cells in a B5 package...). As for "wasting space" on your HD, a standard CD holds at most 640MB (and how much of any particular CD do you really need?), so the HDs included in laptops these days could easily fit the contents of ten full CDs and you'd barely notice the difference.
Funny, every business-class flight I've been on has had personal video screens showing at least three movie channels (there's usually at least one that you can stand to watch), and it doesn't require me to drag along a 3-kilo laptop with all those DVDs that I've already watched at least once.
I think the term you're looking for is CAT-5 (RJ45 is the connector, not the cable), but anyway... Who said anything about using cables? I'm planning on hooking my laptop up with 802.11b wireless (11Mbps).
WHY does anyone need a CD-ROM (or DVD, for that matter) in a laptop? My ideal laptop has a 1024x768 LCD of around 12 inches, a keyboard, a low-consumption HD of 10GB or so, 128MB of RAM, two PCMCIA slots and that's about it. Anything else I can get over the network, thanks (or attach externally - e.g. the floppy).
Iwas wondering the same thing - the latest Celerons are on the same 0.18m process as PIIIs, so there's no reason why they should suck more power (especially with their smaller L2 cache) UNLESS these Celerons are actually on the older process (unlikely) or the PIIIs have something up their sleeves.
The articles don't touch on it, but I'm just wondering if the power consumption they're quoting is when the chip is running at full speed, or if it's what it pulls running at a lower clock speed (most of Intel's portable chips these days switch to lower MHz when they have to save power).
In Japan, Melco have a Lucent-based system with the base station for 33000 yen (around $US300; street price is a bit less), and the cards for 12000 yen (around $US110). This is all DS 11Mbps stuff, and has Linux and FreeBSD drivers to boot (as well as a few extra features like WEP. I've been thinking about getting a set so I can use my laptop in the dining room.
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Actually, sticking to the 5-7-5 format isn't really required - the Japanese have a term, "jiamari" (literally, "too many characters") that they use to refer to haiku that exceed the 5-syllable limit on the last line.
There are 80-minute CDs available now. (Can't be read on some drives, though...)
Yeah, I remember the Microdrives... blech!
I wonder if the name is still Trademarked??
Even if it is, ol' Clive would probably be too ashamed to say so
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Wired News tested BAIR by creating a Perl program to extract images randomly from an 87MB database of thousands of both pornographic and non-pornographic photographs. The program then assigned each of those images random numbers as file names.
...Do you suppose they could be convinced to open source that database? Quick, someone call ESR!
The problem is not that X is failing to yield the PCI bus, but rather that the the requests to the card are being stacked and sent in a burst. (This is why the problem doesn't occur on some slower machines that don't have this feature, paradoxically.) It's not X, but rather the chipset itself that causes the problem.
As for playing multiple sound streams at a time, try doing this: "while true;do esdplay (your sound file here);done". By my calculations, my machine is sending around 10 streams per second to the sound card, and the main limit seems to be the speed at which the kernel can execute new processes (rather than the actual audio streams themselves.) This is on 2.2.13 on a PII@400MHz with a Creative AME64 on an ISA bus. I'd expect PCI soundcards to do better than this.
Just do a ln -s and ldconfig, dude...
I've seen benchmarks of Intel vs. AMD under Linux, and unfortunately Intel generally kicks AMD's ass. I suspect someone needs to take a look at gcc's optimizations...
You obviously didn't read very far into the rules - the use of a deliberately losing strategy (against other 'bots created by yourself) will result in only the last entry being accepted.
I like that bit about cataloging pages with a five-word "lexical" signature based on words that appear mainly only on that page. How are they going to deal with the 5,000,000,000 web pages that contain only the word "porn"?
As far as I understand it, the hypothetical hostile agency has only to establish a rough order of publication to narrow down the maximum number of possible combinations quite quickly - and introducing delays is only a stopgap solution. The ideal situation is obviously one where all pads appear to have been produced simultaneously, but I do not believe this to be possible. The evidence has to be somewhere (by definition, otherwise nobody would be able to access it).
Obviously, it's displaying in 3D. You just need to get a pair of those red/blue glasses, cross your eyes, and it should be fine
I think one of the harder points of your scheme to implement would be the obfuscation of creation date of the various pads floating around. Obviously, under your scheme a person has to be able to obtain an arbitrary pad - otherwise the system is of no use to them (as they won't be able to find the pads they need to rebuild the information). All that means is a hostile agency would have to go through all the servers it can find on a regular basis and record exactly what pads were available at that point in time. That gives thema reference to use when deciding if a pad has been newly created or not.
Not quite. You have to compensate for the 50Hz or 60Hz noise coming from your power supply. And make sure that you use only the least significant bits from the input (actually, you can use more than the LSB - check out Applied Cryptography for more info).
Don't be disingenuous. You know perfectly well that I was referring to the total weight of the laptop as being three kilos, not the weight of the DVD drive.
As for the DVD stuff, maybe you have different priorities than I do - on a business trip, I just want to cut down the stuff I have to lug around to the bare minimum.
OK, some people might WANT one, but what would they NEED one for? Anything that spins a 12cm disk at several thousand rpm is going to be a burden on your battery - if you want battery power, you need to make tradeoffs (at least until someone figures out how to put fuel cells in a B5 package...).
As for "wasting space" on your HD, a standard CD holds at most 640MB (and how much of any particular CD do you really need?), so the HDs included in laptops these days could easily fit the contents of ten full CDs and you'd barely notice the difference.
Funny, every business-class flight I've been on has had personal video screens showing at least three movie channels (there's usually at least one that you can stand to watch), and it doesn't require me to drag along a 3-kilo laptop with all those DVDs that I've already watched at least once.
I think the term you're looking for is CAT-5 (RJ45 is the connector, not the cable), but anyway... Who said anything about using cables? I'm planning on hooking my laptop up with 802.11b wireless (11Mbps).
WHY does anyone need a CD-ROM (or DVD, for that matter) in a laptop? My ideal laptop has a 1024x768 LCD of around 12 inches, a keyboard, a low-consumption HD of 10GB or so, 128MB of RAM, two PCMCIA slots and that's about it. Anything else I can get over the network, thanks (or attach externally - e.g. the floppy).
Iwas wondering the same thing - the latest Celerons are on the same 0.18m process as PIIIs, so there's no reason why they should suck more power (especially with their smaller L2 cache) UNLESS these Celerons are actually on the older process (unlikely) or the PIIIs have something up their sleeves.
The articles don't touch on it, but I'm just wondering if the power consumption they're quoting is when the chip is running at full speed, or if it's what it pulls running at a lower clock speed (most of Intel's portable chips these days switch to lower MHz when they have to save power).
In Japan, Melco have a Lucent-based system with the base station for 33000 yen (around $US300; street price is a bit less), and the cards for 12000 yen (around $US110). This is all DS 11Mbps stuff, and has Linux and FreeBSD drivers to boot (as well as a few extra features like WEP. I've been thinking about getting a set so I can use my laptop in the dining room.
I can pick up a Gigabit Ethernet card in Akihabara for around $US250. The real problem is the switches
Slashdot already did that one.
Whoops... that didn't come out right. I meant to type "M-x (the message that was displayed using the first EE)".