You know, I wouldn't like to see what happens when the newly elected US President turns around to the EU and says "MS might be a naughty company but it's OUR naughty company!!". Given the typically right wing views of the candidates and what has been mentioned in other posts, this anouncement can only means trouble!!
The way I see, you don't necessarily need to contain all of the information in a single light wave. You just have to send different pulse of light. If you treat it as a problem for modern networking, the transmission medium is really the only thing that changes. Measure when signals come in and compare with a prearranged timing protcol or whatever. Voila, a binary signal FTL.
...it wouldn't be much use any way. (I think)it mentioned in the article that you could only get 1 result. With out having read the paper itself (I don't intend to until I have a vast supply of Asprin for the headaches), my guess is that if you don't get a definite answer, the algorithm will just come up with something like "answer not found". It'll be more useful when it can list all possible alternatives, possibly with there likelyhood of being right. Who knows, the next one might be that, but until then don't get too excited!
2 people, $5/hour for 10 hours/day(for example) is $100, $700/week. For 50 weeks (allowing for public holidays etc.) thats $35'000/year. Over 5 years? $175'000. That $25'000 is a lot more than I get paid ATM. The saving gets better when, slaves are paid more. You probably save more due to training and the like, not to mention the likely hood that your average slave isn't going to turn up on time everytime.
All that having been said. It wouldn't be a bad idea for a couple of management types to learn how to flip burgers just in case of an emergency ie. everything goes pearshaped, the robot decide it can't take life anymore and decides to take a couple o' people with it:)
The thing about CISC is that they have a habit of using microcode to translate all of the complex instructions into smaller ones for the core of the processor (AFAIK). The time it takes to decode instuctions is considerable at this stage, sith several hundred instuctions. If they were to take the 10% most used instructions for x86s (which you would probably find were used 90%+ of the time) and implemented the processor again, you could probably get so much of a performance people would think its an entirely new brand of processor. (Please note, this last statement is based solely on a *vague* notion of what happens behind the scenes, don't take it as gospel. I don't pretend to be saying anything other than baseless theories). All this is before you have simplified all of those bas***d addressing modes. Once you've got rid of all of that unnecessary complexity, you can start to make it neater.
I must admit that I didn't take the time to look through the whole website but I was just curious. I remember seeing a 3D tv screen while I was on a tour of Universtiy of Manchester, in their 3D labs a couple of years ago. Also, on the BBC, I saw an article about such devices in Japan. They work on the principle of the freznel lense I think. It basically acts as hundreds of round screens on a plane. When you look at each bead, it shows you a slightly different view of pixel than from other angles. The camera works like an insects compound eye. Not yet available but looks promising.
Some of my most succesful programs (read, they actually worked or there abouts) came about because I was in a funny mood and decided to actually plan it out. From what I hear about in the real world, some (but by all means not all or even most) programmers look down on clients just because they don't know much about programming. They assume that just because they have a certain expertise over others that they somehow know more than them in general. The good thing about the way software is written here is that the requirements are written down and sorted out before they even do the planning. How many prgrammers, groups, firms etc. can say that. I will admit, though, that a major problem is changing requirements. Something that just happen in the same way for NASA. It might just be better if people decided to wait a bit before jumping in to the programming. They'll save themselves more time and money in the long run.
The UK has something called the Data Protection Act. Basically every one(with certain common sense but well defined exceptions) has to register with the Data Registra before they can legally collect and store any data electronically (not much use if the company still uses 100% paper storage). They must declare what data they will collect, why, who will have access etc. You are not allowed to use thawt data for any purpose other than that specified but I think anything goes as long as the Data Registra knows about it. You must keep the data up to date (within reason, you can't send people round to someones house just to see if they still live there. Also, you have to tell people what data you have on them by law (for a nominal fee typically around £10-£15). There's a few extra bits but that's essentially it. The thing is though, that their trying to bring in a new privacy bill (or whatever) which effectively gives you less privacy. It's all been a big shambles AFAIK. I don't know the specifics on that one yet.
I've heard that Salford University here in the UK does a lot of work with intelligent Agents. Their CS webpage is at http://www.cms.salford.ac.uk/web/home.nsf/34a0a1c4 dccd32d180256549004f44f4/4e388a29a352c50 7802565da0078fe1c!OpenDocument I think you might have to register for this one.
...how many people actualy know about the company that started up ARM in the first place. They made what are in my opinion the best desktops around. Acorn computers may not exist anymore but Castle technologies has taken up the task of developing them. RISC OS was doing things in 1986 that windows has only implemented in Windows 95. RISC OS, now owned and developed by RISC OS Ltd.(I think), seems to be going from strength to strength! People might be interested in Acorn computers which would have taken over the world if people at acorn hadn't decided that there was no need to advertise their new products because they were so good, they would advertise themselves. BTW, I recommend you read Steve Furbers book on VLSI design (I can't remember the name). Very informative and interesting, using ARM chips as examples and the such.
I think I saw a TV program in France (at least 4 years ago now!!), and some there ws going to try putting up a solar sail device. I'm not sure if it went ahead or not but they did a good job of convinving me that it was as good as already up there and working. Did any one else here about this or have those voices in my head been at it again.
I hope we gt nice big CD style compilations of programs and clip art etc. ATM you can only get bloody films which is of absolutely no use to me. Maybe when people get to record their own DVDs, we might get some decent stuff that hasn't already been shown at the cinema. That will of course be easier when they bring out an IDE or SCSI version.
The device you mention for getting minerals back to earth orbit has been mentioned in many fine SF tales and is called a mass driver(I think, don't hold me to that). One of the biggest problems is the ease of use as a weapon of mass destruction cf. Babylon 5 when the Centari trash the Narn homeworld. That might only be a story but when you think about it, a 1000 kg slug travelling at 100000kmh(for example, and not an unreasonable speed) has 3.858*10^11J of energy. Not a small amount.
I just quit a company in the UK. But just before I did, there was a change in the terms of employment(nothing to do with why I left, it was just a shit job). I saw some of the memos that my boss received and they described in great detail what would happen if any member of staff refused to accept them. You could see what would happen to you all the way down the tree diagram. It started at 'discussion with you(manager)' all the way down to 'discussion with full disciplinary board'. I feel that some how that that's in better taste than your average companies terms.
You complain about $2/gallon? Here in the UK we get £0.79/litre or around $4.55/gallon. Thats for the cheapest non-polluting petrol(gas to you), which is less than 4 star by a long way, in the cheapest region of the country. I don't even want to think what it is in the south!
I think part of what makes life, life is that it has the ability to change and adapt non-deterministically(is it spelt right?) according to its environment. The thing about purely gravitational systems is that they can all (conceivably IMHO) be theorized about under 1 equation or something like that, AFAIK. The point is that you can take an effect and look directly at the cause once you have the right equation, works well in the other direction as well. With biological systems or the star based one you decribe, the whole system can only be generalized. You can't look at 1 part of the system and see everything else. You can only make deductions by process of elimination. The point is, I'm not sure you can have life if you don't have some sort of non-deterministic system, like particles colliding but not stars orbiting in a galaxy.
PS. Please don't flame me or some such. This theory is very much 'work in progress'. No doubt it will be revised and re-revised before toon long.
I also saw sonmething else on DBZ recently. When Goku had just had his first proper fight with Vegita, someone had tried to give him a little modesty (very badly I might add). When he was lying naked on the ground, they treid to draw a bit of blue cloth, that might conceivably have been a rag from Vegitas clothing, over his groan.
...but aren't they opening themselves up to revenge attacks. I don't know how much the culprits use IRC to coordinate these attacks but this sort of action needs to be thought out seriously before it is taken. I'm sure they have but as far as I know this could be a risky move. Correct me if I'm wrong, please.
Didn't I hear about simple farm hand in the spageti (I don't know how to spell it) being miss treated. We should find copies of this virus and launch a revenge attack on those nasty farms owners and make them PAY!
ps. BBC Panorama, April 1, Early 70's for those of you who don't know.
I hope to god that people start to realise that the x86 architecture is a pile of w*nk. It's a pain in the arse to deal with. From what I read in that article it appears that AMD might be moving away from Intel. I don't know how strictly they are following the Itanium plans. Hopefully they'll start moving towards RISC!!!
Now I may be being a bit cynical here, but shouldn't we look at what TB and Bill get out of this, or rather their respective governments. Sorry, just a knee jerk action after all that Echelon/Spying on business' malarky. Still it has to be good news.
BTW does the Human Genome Project include all efforts to map our genes or is it just one of the attempts.
What do they mean innovation. If you look at it from an academic point of view, it's one of the first things they teach you about in your 1st year, 1st semester database design modules. Redundancy is bad and has been bad for dozens of years. It is one the founding principles of modern database design. Far be it for me to start slagging off M$ but the guys who built Access aren't renouned as world leaders in their feild. They just waste valuable brething space.
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You know, I wouldn't like to see what happens when the newly elected US President turns around to the EU and says "MS might be a naughty company but it's OUR naughty company!!". Given the typically right wing views of the candidates and what has been mentioned in other posts, this anouncement can only means trouble!!
The way I see, you don't necessarily need to contain all of the information in a single light wave. You just have to send different pulse of light. If you treat it as a problem for modern networking, the transmission medium is really the only thing that changes. Measure when signals come in and compare with a prearranged timing protcol or whatever. Voila, a binary signal FTL.
...it wouldn't be much use any way. (I think)it mentioned in the article that you could only get 1 result. With out having read the paper itself (I don't intend to until I have a vast supply of Asprin for the headaches), my guess is that if you don't get a definite answer, the algorithm will just come up with something like "answer not found". It'll be more useful when it can list all possible alternatives, possibly with there likelyhood of being right. Who knows, the next one might be that, but until then don't get too excited!
2 people, $5/hour for 10 hours/day(for example) is $100, $700/week. For 50 weeks (allowing for public holidays etc.) thats $35'000/year. Over 5 years? $175'000. That $25'000 is a lot more than I get paid ATM. The saving gets better when, slaves are paid more. You probably save more due to training and the like, not to mention the likely hood that your average slave isn't going to turn up on time everytime.
:)
All that having been said. It wouldn't be a bad idea for a couple of management types to learn how to flip burgers just in case of an emergency ie. everything goes pearshaped, the robot decide it can't take life anymore and decides to take a couple o' people with it
The thing about CISC is that they have a habit of using microcode to translate all of the complex instructions into smaller ones for the core of the processor (AFAIK). The time it takes to decode instuctions is considerable at this stage, sith several hundred instuctions. If they were to take the 10% most used instructions for x86s (which you would probably find were used 90%+ of the time) and implemented the processor again, you could probably get so much of a performance people would think its an entirely new brand of processor. (Please note, this last statement is based solely on a *vague* notion of what happens behind the scenes, don't take it as gospel. I don't pretend to be saying anything other than baseless theories). All this is before you have simplified all of those bas***d addressing modes. Once you've got rid of all of that unnecessary complexity, you can start to make it neater.
I must admit that I didn't take the time to look through the whole website but I was just curious. I remember seeing a 3D tv screen while I was on a tour of Universtiy of Manchester, in their 3D labs a couple of years ago. Also, on the BBC, I saw an article about such devices in Japan. They work on the principle of the freznel lense I think. It basically acts as hundreds of round screens on a plane. When you look at each bead, it shows you a slightly different view of pixel than from other angles. The camera works like an insects compound eye. Not yet available but looks promising.
Some of my most succesful programs (read, they actually worked or there abouts) came about because I was in a funny mood and decided to actually plan it out. From what I hear about in the real world, some (but by all means not all or even most) programmers look down on clients just because they don't know much about programming. They assume that just because they have a certain expertise over others that they somehow know more than them in general.
The good thing about the way software is written here is that the requirements are written down and sorted out before they even do the planning. How many prgrammers, groups, firms etc. can say that. I will admit, though, that a major problem is changing requirements. Something that just happen in the same way for NASA. It might just be better if people decided to wait a bit before jumping in to the programming. They'll save themselves more time and money in the long run.
"the Canadian government likes to watch"
I think you might want to rephrase that before there is some missunderstanding!!
The UK has something called the Data Protection Act. Basically every one(with certain common sense but well defined exceptions) has to register with the Data Registra before they can legally collect and store any data electronically (not much use if the company still uses 100% paper storage). They must declare what data they will collect, why, who will have access etc. You are not allowed to use thawt data for any purpose other than that specified but I think anything goes as long as the Data Registra knows about it. You must keep the data up to date (within reason, you can't send people round to someones house just to see if they still live there. Also, you have to tell people what data you have on them by law (for a nominal fee typically around £10-£15). There's a few extra bits but that's essentially it. The thing is though, that their trying to bring in a new privacy bill (or whatever) which effectively gives you less privacy. It's all been a big shambles AFAIK. I don't know the specifics on that one yet.
I've heard that Salford University here in the UK does a lot of work with intelligent Agents. Their CS webpage is at http://www.cms.salford.ac.uk/web/home.nsf/34a0a1c4 dccd32d180256549004f44f4/4e388a29a352c50 7802565da0078fe1c!OpenDocument
I think you might have to register for this one.
...how many people actualy know about the company that started up ARM in the first place. They made what are in my opinion the best desktops around. Acorn computers may not exist anymore but Castle technologies has taken up the task of developing them. RISC OS was doing things in 1986 that windows has only implemented in Windows 95. RISC OS, now owned and developed by RISC OS Ltd.(I think), seems to be going from strength to strength! People might be interested in Acorn computers which would have taken over the world if people at acorn hadn't decided that there was no need to advertise their new products because they were so good, they would advertise themselves.
BTW, I recommend you read Steve Furbers book on VLSI design (I can't remember the name). Very informative and interesting, using ARM chips as examples and the such.
I think I saw a TV program in France (at least 4 years ago now!!), and some there ws going to try putting up a solar sail device. I'm not sure if it went ahead or not but they did a good job of convinving me that it was as good as already up there and working. Did any one else here about this or have those voices in my head been at it again.
Time to go to my therapist again I think.
I hope we gt nice big CD style compilations of programs and clip art etc. ATM you can only get bloody films which is of absolutely no use to me. Maybe when people get to record their own DVDs, we might get some decent stuff that hasn't already been shown at the cinema. That will of course be easier when they bring out an IDE or SCSI version.
The device you mention for getting minerals back to earth orbit has been mentioned in many fine SF tales and is called a mass driver(I think, don't hold me to that). One of the biggest problems is the ease of use as a weapon of mass destruction cf. Babylon 5 when the Centari trash the Narn homeworld. That might only be a story but when you think about it, a 1000 kg slug travelling at 100000kmh(for example, and not an unreasonable speed) has 3.858*10^11J of energy. Not a small amount.
I just quit a company in the UK. But just before I did, there was a change in the terms of employment(nothing to do with why I left, it was just a shit job). I saw some of the memos that my boss received and they described in great detail what would happen if any member of staff refused to accept them. You could see what would happen to you all the way down the tree diagram. It started at 'discussion with you(manager)' all the way down to 'discussion with full disciplinary board'. I feel that some how that that's in better taste than your average companies terms.
You complain about $2/gallon? Here in the UK we get £0.79/litre or around $4.55/gallon. Thats for the cheapest non-polluting petrol(gas to you), which is less than 4 star by a long way, in the cheapest region of the country. I don't even want to think what it is in the south!
I think part of what makes life, life is that it has the ability to change and adapt non-deterministically(is it spelt right?) according to its environment. The thing about purely gravitational systems is that they can all (conceivably IMHO) be theorized about under 1 equation or something like that, AFAIK. The point is that you can take an effect and look directly at the cause once you have the right equation, works well in the other direction as well. With biological systems or the star based one you decribe, the whole system can only be generalized. You can't look at 1 part of the system and see everything else. You can only make deductions by process of elimination.
The point is, I'm not sure you can have life if you don't have some sort of non-deterministic system, like particles colliding but not stars orbiting in a galaxy.
PS. Please don't flame me or some such. This theory is very much 'work in progress'. No doubt it will be revised and re-revised before toon long.
I also saw sonmething else on DBZ recently. When Goku had just had his first proper fight with Vegita, someone had tried to give him a little modesty (very badly I might add). When he was lying naked on the ground, they treid to draw a bit of blue cloth, that might conceivably have been a rag from Vegitas clothing, over his groan.
You forgot to mention 'Ulyses 2000', at least I think thats what it was called.
"Och, Captain. We cannea tek the Enterprise thru' a storm as strong as this. It's a damn G3."
...but aren't they opening themselves up to revenge attacks. I don't know how much the culprits use IRC to coordinate these attacks but this sort of action needs to be thought out seriously before it is taken. I'm sure they have but as far as I know this could be a risky move. Correct me if I'm wrong, please.
Didn't I hear about simple farm hand in the spageti (I don't know how to spell it) being miss treated. We should find copies of this virus and launch a revenge attack on those nasty farms owners and make them PAY!
ps. BBC Panorama, April 1, Early 70's for those of you who don't know.
I hope to god that people start to realise that the x86 architecture is a pile of w*nk. It's a pain in the arse to deal with. From what I read in that article it appears that AMD might be moving away from Intel. I don't know how strictly they are following the Itanium plans. Hopefully they'll start moving towards RISC!!!
Now I may be being a bit cynical here, but shouldn't we look at what TB and Bill get out of this, or rather their respective governments. Sorry, just a knee jerk action after all that Echelon/Spying on business' malarky.
Still it has to be good news.
BTW does the Human Genome Project include all efforts to map our genes or is it just one of the attempts.
What do they mean innovation. If you look at it from an academic point of view, it's one of the first things they teach you about in your 1st year, 1st semester database design modules. Redundancy is bad and has been bad for dozens of years. It is one the founding principles of modern database design. Far be it for me to start slagging off M$ but the guys who built Access aren't renouned as world leaders in their feild. They just waste valuable brething space.