With all the talk about the "Mhz Myth" lately, I was wondering if there has been any effort to standardize an industry benchmark for CPUs, the result of which would be publicly visible as part of the model #. Instead of "Pentium IV 2.0Ghz", we could have Pentium IV ISR100, where ISR could mean industry standard rating, and 100 a normalized score.
I used to care about how people used and abused the English language. Then I realized, like all other languages in the world, English evolves over time, and sometimes in the "wrong" direction. So if enough people "misuse" a symbolic term, and redifine that symbolic term by doing so, well by golly, it doesn't matter.
Did anybody else read "on boats" as "on board" the first time? I was starting to think Hemos was a little sick in the head when I realized it was myself. To much IRC has tained my thought process I guess.
People take their kids to see violent films nowadays. I remember children as young as six when I went to see "Kiss of the Dragon." Talk about family material...
What was bizzare about the film is that it was culturally very different. Miyazaki has a small obsession with the relationship with man and nature, and his film go far beyond in exploring this than anything I've seen in the US. Afterall, who in the US would create a God character resembling a deer that gives and takes life as it walks about? It was differences like the above that made it hard for people to swallow, not the "darkness."
While I'm here, I'll also rant about the dub for Mononoke. Claire Daines as the princess completely ruined it for me. Billy Bob Thorton's southern voice as an old Japanese monk type character put the icing on the cake. What a half-ass job for the voice actors Disney did.
This might be a solution, but most will not opt for it. I'm not sure about these new Durons, but connect the multiplier l1 bridges, and then underclock your processor and reduce the voltage.
Also, instead of the CPU and video card fans, try a low RPM 120mm monster installed by cutting out a hole in your case. This fan is intake, PS fan is outtake. The caveat is that you have to get a can of spray air and clean out the system every three months.
Ok, I'm Mr. Joe schmoe here who is relatively unimpressed with NASA. It seems like we've hit a dead end or perhaps rather slowed down to a snails pace when it comes to space and planetary exploration. Why aren't we concentrating on simply getting a large payload up into space? Perhaps if payload wasn't such a large factor, we wouldn't have to depend on inventions like "Spaceballs." Isn't it something like $10000 a pound for space shuttle cargo? Utterly rediculous IMHO.
I remember when I was young, the only thing that held me back from a lot of activities was my age. "You're too young to do that." The Internet removes this problem by making everybody an IP address and all locations equadistant. This unlimited freedom allows kids to reach their full potential by allowing them to get any piece of information almost instantaneously. Right here and now I can go and learn the rules of Wall Street, read a couple academic journals, and chat with some friends in Taiwan. Imagine if you could do that 20 years ago, and how it could affect your life today.
I'm wondering how these numbers help us in general. Right now, them seem to be nothing more than means to gloat and or demean competition. I've also read a couple articles like:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19661.htm l
which show the meaninglessness of statistics like these up to a point. What are your thoughts?
NAS
Stop wasting time with these primitive concepts ..
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I need a device that reads my brain.
Shoot that pixel on that guy's head.
Move there NOW!
Seriously, has anybody else had problems similar to playing the old Nintendo Tetris @ level 30 and finding that the pieces fall so fast that it's impossible to even move them to the right or left side of the screen? If I could think where the next piece should be and have it so, this problem wouldn't exist.
Image the type of gameplay where reaction time is cut 95% or so.
I'm starting to think that we need a system where *every* slashdot reader has the opportunity to moderate any message as "incorrectly moderated as 'funny'" and likewise for the other options. The amont of scoring a moderator gets would effect how often he or she gets moderation again. This also favors new blood since first time moderators would have the highest possible score (0 bad points). On the other side, some type of aging would have to be present so that active moderators aren't disproportionately hurt. In any event, I think the current system has to change.
There is web site dedicated to a guys stretched out anus. Although I'm sure it took years of dedicated work, I bet the actual act of loosening one's sphincter isn't too tough.
Double density CD-RWs, DVD-R, DVD-RAM. Bah. All of still doesn't compare to the vaporware that I've seen previously posted here on Slashdot. Where's that 140GB FMD-ROM drive? Where's the storage device that uses media in the shape of a cube and holds 1TB or more of data? Isn't secondary storage supposed to be larger and slower than my primary drive? I say stop all development on this tiddly 10GB crap and shoot for the stars. After all, after pr0n, mp3s, DivX DVD rips, and a shitload of anime, my 75GB IBM drive doesn't cut it any more.
50% will not be enough when I can buy a 1.33Ghz Thunderbird for $216, and a 1.5Ghz P4 for $460 (www.pricewatch.com). $230 is still more expensive for less overall performance. You also have the issue of being forced to use RDRAM, which is still a good deal more expensive than SDRAM or even DDR SDRAM. The only possible way I would ever buy a P4 is if they started ramping up the clock speed substantially (3Ghz or so) without gouging the consumer on pricing.
Every time Taco posts something about anime, I see the following types of posts:
1. Anime is crap (no reason)
2. Anime is crap (because they're childish cartoons)
3. Anime is bad because it's made by the immoral Japanese.
4. Anime isn't geek news
5. CmdrTaco thinks he's some anime expert
To stop this madness right now I'll reply to them all:
1. Worthless opinion. Clarify it!
2. You haven't watched a decent amount of anime to judge it.
3. To the Japanese, Americans are a bunch of fat idiots who bombed then in WW2. Get off your high pedistal.
4. The term for "anime geek" in Japanese is otaku.
5. Taco has his strengths and weaknesses in anime as well as everybody else. Take his opinion with a grain of salt.
One thing we might do is write software which has checking to make sure certain kinds of common errors can't happen, and the programs don't crash. Specifically, we could do bounds checking on arrays (getting rid of some high percentage of security holes, and potentially catching memory corruption heisenbugs earlier) and automatic memory management (getting rid of memory leaks).
Lets say that you have 30 million lines of code? Is it possible to say "this code works 99.999% of the time?" What about 300 million? What about 30 billion? Is there some critical mass for software where it then becomes theoretically too complex? Will there be a similar limit for hardware? Any URLs?
As a geek, high school was tough on me. I was told not to fight back, and rather notify a teacher or other authority. However, who wants to be the nark? Most likely, they would have picked on me even more after being given a 3 day vactaion away from school. So everytime I was picked on, or physically bullied, I just took it. I learned to constrain my anger, but it basically built up over the years.
After four years, and in college, I'm glad all that stress is gone. However, deep down inside, I wish I never listened about not resolving my problems physically. I swear that was the only thing those assholes understood. Fist in face == pain == don't do it again.
However, I wasn't at the the worst end of the spectrum either. I knew people who kept lists of those they hated, and those they were going to get revenge upon. Take this one step further, and you have Columbine.
In order for this to be effective, wouldn't they have to attach a random ID to your TiVo??? Doesn't this make this as bad as the PIII serial number, if not worse? If I'm completely wrong, could you please enlighten me on exactly how this "anonymous" info usage is collected?
Modeling the installation requirements with the following:
1.00 50
2.00 120
3.00 320
4.00 650
5.00 2000
where the first column is Windows generation, and the second column is minimum installation size requirements, produces the following exponential equation:
y = 19.865 * e ^ (0.9067x)
R^2 = 0.9964
Skip to genation 10 to shit your pants. I know this data isn't anything conclusive, but it's fun nonetheless.
Slashdot Mirror
With all the talk about the "Mhz Myth" lately, I was wondering if there has been any effort to standardize an industry benchmark for CPUs, the result of which would be publicly visible as part of the model #. Instead of "Pentium IV 2.0Ghz", we could have Pentium IV ISR100, where ISR could mean industry standard rating, and 100 a normalized score.
I used to care about how people used and abused the English language. Then I realized, like all other languages in the world, English evolves over time, and sometimes in the "wrong" direction. So if enough people "misuse" a symbolic term, and redifine that symbolic term by doing so, well by golly, it doesn't matter.
Did anybody else read "on boats" as "on board" the first time? I was starting to think Hemos was a little sick in the head when I realized it was myself. To much IRC has tained my thought process I guess.
People take their kids to see violent films nowadays. I remember children as young as six when I went to see "Kiss of the Dragon." Talk about family material ...
What was bizzare about the film is that it was culturally very different. Miyazaki has a small obsession with the relationship with man and nature, and his film go far beyond in exploring this than anything I've seen in the US. Afterall, who in the US would create a God character resembling a deer that gives and takes life as it walks about? It was differences like the above that made it hard for people to swallow, not the "darkness."
While I'm here, I'll also rant about the dub for Mononoke. Claire Daines as the princess completely ruined it for me. Billy Bob Thorton's southern voice as an old Japanese monk type character put the icing on the cake. What a half-ass job for the voice actors Disney did.
Enonu
This might be a solution, but most will not opt for it. I'm not sure about these new Durons, but connect the multiplier l1 bridges, and then underclock your processor and reduce the voltage.
Also, instead of the CPU and video card fans, try a low RPM 120mm monster installed by cutting out a hole in your case. This fan is intake, PS fan is outtake. The caveat is that you have to get a can of spray air and clean out the system every three months.
NAS
Ok, I'm Mr. Joe schmoe here who is relatively unimpressed with NASA. It seems like we've hit a dead end or perhaps rather slowed down to a snails pace when it comes to space and planetary exploration. Why aren't we concentrating on simply getting a large payload up into space? Perhaps if payload wasn't such a large factor, we wouldn't have to depend on inventions like "Spaceballs." Isn't it something like $10000 a pound for space shuttle cargo? Utterly rediculous IMHO.
I remember when I was young, the only thing that held me back from a lot of activities was my age. "You're too young to do that." The Internet removes this problem by making everybody an IP address and all locations equadistant. This unlimited freedom allows kids to reach their full potential by allowing them to get any piece of information almost instantaneously. Right here and now I can go and learn the rules of Wall Street, read a couple academic journals, and chat with some friends in Taiwan. Imagine if you could do that 20 years ago, and how it could affect your life today.
Otherwise I won't get to gloat that my BOGO MIPS is higher than yours.
I'm wondering how these numbers help us in general. Right now, them seem to be nothing more than means to gloat and or demean competition. I've also read a couple articles like:
m l
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/19661.ht
which show the meaninglessness of statistics like these up to a point. What are your thoughts?
NAS
I need a device that reads my brain.
Shoot that pixel on that guy's head.
Move there NOW!
Seriously, has anybody else had problems similar to playing the old Nintendo Tetris @ level 30 and finding that the pieces fall so fast that it's impossible to even move them to the right or left side of the screen? If I could think where the next piece should be and have it so, this problem wouldn't exist.
Image the type of gameplay where reaction time is cut 95% or so.
NAS
I'm starting to think that we need a system where *every* slashdot reader has the opportunity to moderate any message as "incorrectly moderated as 'funny'" and likewise for the other options. The amont of scoring a moderator gets would effect how often he or she gets moderation again. This also favors new blood since first time moderators would have the highest possible score (0 bad points). On the other side, some type of aging would have to be present so that active moderators aren't disproportionately hurt. In any event, I think the current system has to change.
There is web site dedicated to a guys stretched out anus. Although I'm sure it took years of dedicated work, I bet the actual act of loosening one's sphincter isn't too tough.
Double density CD-RWs, DVD-R, DVD-RAM. Bah. All of still doesn't compare to the vaporware that I've seen previously posted here on Slashdot. Where's that 140GB FMD-ROM drive? Where's the storage device that uses media in the shape of a cube and holds 1TB or more of data? Isn't secondary storage supposed to be larger and slower than my primary drive? I say stop all development on this tiddly 10GB crap and shoot for the stars. After all, after pr0n, mp3s, DivX DVD rips, and a shitload of anime, my 75GB IBM drive doesn't cut it any more.
That sure is a yottabytes!
HAR HAR
NAS
I wonder how long until all the quake mod geeks become human mod geeks.
"Our new auto-aim mod for the standard U.S. soldier causes instant and accurate targeting of the enemy ..."
50% will not be enough when I can buy a 1.33Ghz Thunderbird for $216, and a 1.5Ghz P4 for $460 (www.pricewatch.com). $230 is still more expensive for less overall performance. You also have the issue of being forced to use RDRAM, which is still a good deal more expensive than SDRAM or even DDR SDRAM. The only possible way I would ever buy a P4 is if they started ramping up the clock speed substantially (3Ghz or so) without gouging the consumer on pricing.
Every time Taco posts something about anime, I see the following types of posts:
1. Anime is crap (no reason)
2. Anime is crap (because they're childish cartoons)
3. Anime is bad because it's made by the immoral Japanese.
4. Anime isn't geek news
5. CmdrTaco thinks he's some anime expert
To stop this madness right now I'll reply to them all:
1. Worthless opinion. Clarify it!
2. You haven't watched a decent amount of anime to judge it.
3. To the Japanese, Americans are a bunch of fat idiots who bombed then in WW2. Get off your high pedistal.
4. The term for "anime geek" in Japanese is otaku.
5. Taco has his strengths and weaknesses in anime as well as everybody else. Take his opinion with a grain of salt.
Peace
Answer: Java
I don't think you read your book correctly. What I posted was the definition for right-linear, regular grammars.
Regular expressions match grammers that are in the form:
S --> a
or
S --> aA
or
S --> lambda
Where S and A are any non-terminals, and 'a' is a terminal. Lambda represents the null string.
Example:
S --> aaA
A --> bA | b
regex = aabb*
I hope this helps. To gain further insight, do a net-search on "DFA".
NAS
Lets say that you have 30 million lines of code? Is it possible to say "this code works 99.999% of the time?" What about 300 million? What about 30 billion? Is there some critical mass for software where it then becomes theoretically too complex? Will there be a similar limit for hardware? Any URLs?
http://www.curl.com/html/technology/documentation. jsp
Seriously though, any new language is good, despite what anybody says. A different way to attack a problem always brings insight into solving others.
As a geek, high school was tough on me. I was told not to fight back, and rather notify a teacher or other authority. However, who wants to be the nark? Most likely, they would have picked on me even more after being given a 3 day vactaion away from school. So everytime I was picked on, or physically bullied, I just took it. I learned to constrain my anger, but it basically built up over the years.
After four years, and in college, I'm glad all that stress is gone. However, deep down inside, I wish I never listened about not resolving my problems physically. I swear that was the only thing those assholes understood. Fist in face == pain == don't do it again.
However, I wasn't at the the worst end of the spectrum either. I knew people who kept lists of those they hated, and those they were going to get revenge upon. Take this one step further, and you have Columbine.
In order for this to be effective, wouldn't they have to attach a random ID to your TiVo??? Doesn't this make this as bad as the PIII serial number, if not worse? If I'm completely wrong, could you please enlighten me on exactly how this "anonymous" info usage is collected?
Modeling the installation requirements with the following:
1.00 50
2.00 120
3.00 320
4.00 650
5.00 2000
where the first column is Windows generation, and the second column is minimum installation size requirements, produces the following exponential equation:
y = 19.865 * e ^ (0.9067x)
R^2 = 0.9964
Skip to genation 10 to shit your pants. I know this data isn't anything conclusive, but it's fun nonetheless.