I have been wondering about this kind of thing for a long time. I have used Lame as of late because it is very fast with the optimized compile I have. I wish it were as fast on VBR, but I guess I'll have to settle for CBR.
I'd really like to see something like this with Ogg Vorbis once it matures. Or now even, because it seems to be a bit better already, though it's hard to tell on my laptop speakers.
Because 99% of all situations you will ever run into come very close to your best case scenario, and very far from your worst case scenario, assuming you have a properly designed algorithm. It would be accurate for Intel to say "Crusoe is sometimes a lot slower" but it would be deceptive advertising to say that across the board if in fact Crusoe is only marginally slower under most conditions.
We need a good set of common use benchmarks. Things that run the spellchecker in Word while trying to play MP3s. Then the tests need to be done, on these mundane tasks, with non-virgin crusoe chips. Chips that have been run through these routines and have adjusted themselves to those tasks.
The FAA and similar agencies around the world are just going to love this. It's bad enough that we've got people building rockets in their back yards. This reminds me of the expedition where a bunch of people died on Everest because they went up with no experience. It was just anyone who had a couple hundred thousand could join up for the thrill.
On a side note, is it just me, or has it seemed like the Russians have been doing a garage sale lately? I hope the rumors about the nuclear fuel are mostly false, at least.
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The whole "Bug in Slashcode" thing sounds like a crock of shit to me. I just think they don't want people getting into it unless they are caring enough to figure out how to get there.
Personally, I think placing it semi-prominently in the FAQ should be good enough. Here you are, knock yourself out. Better yet, knock out an overzealous moderator.
In case you follow your messages, Coward, please note that there are many, MANY people in this world who have no choice about which OS they use at work or at school. I am one of those people. So, while I prefer using mature OS's (which I do not consider W2K to be) I am not always blessed with that flexibility. Just think, with the money you spent on W2K you could have bought a linux distro CD with support, an O'Reilly book in case you're a newbie, and still had plenty of money left over for more crack.
It's true that most optimizations are not portable, but there is something that can be done about this. Properly ifdef'd code can be optimized for the appropriate iteration of the platform by any moderately well-designed compiler. You don't want to be using runtime variables more than you have to, and certainly not for memory requests for caching, but you can handle it in the source code, provided that you actually let your users have the code so they can compile it themselves.
If you think about it, such a probability is irrelevant in a full-detail simulation. The algorithm simply ends when it ends. Such a prediction would only be needed in a rather vaguely detailed simulation. Given the fact that this universe is capable of demonstrating that abstraction, it would stand to reason that the simulation if it exists (we might as well be agnostic about it, there's really no way to know) has that degree of detail that it actually works out the algorithm. More specifically it works out the individual gate changes inside the processor, and from there down to the level of adjusting the mass of electrons as they gain and lose energy, etc.
Let's just hope they use ECC or something along those lines!
It also makes me wonder what a BSOD would look like across the whole universe. I can see it now:
"You've been playing Quake on the universe machine again, haven't you? I don't care what framerate it gets, if you don't keep your hands off that stuff, I might just send you back again. I thought you learned your lesson the first time. At least I have a recent backup. *grumble*"
Apologies to non-Christians for the implicit references. Feel free to alter it to your own ends. Atheists may ignore it, if they'd prefer.
Not to mention the fact that every irrational number can be expressed as an infinite sum of rational numbers. If I were designing such a system, I'd just set the thing to round everything off to the nearest multiple of Planck's constant, and obscure the exact values of numbers small enough to make this possibly noticeable by setting up a system that would make it impossible to measure multiple relevant properties of an object simultaneously. Now you don't really even need an FPU on your grand machine.
Then we have superstring theory suggesting 11-dimensional space that appears to be 4-dimensional, with everything else "folding" into obscurity at any scale capable of observation. Sounds almost like an object-oriented system to me.
If you read carefully, they're saying "Since it hasn't yet been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that it wasn't hacked, as of this moment, it wasn't hacked." Corporate denial at its finest.
Their accusations against Salon are pretty extreme, considering that they themselves don't know that Salon was wrong. They're just pissed that Salon got someone on the inside to talk, and messed up their chance for a damage control press release. Salon was perfectly ethical. The article mentions that it's an anonymous source and not the official word. The article simply makes it clear that there are forces within SDMI that want it to die, and who assert that it will. That there is no uncrackable watermark is common sense, so I don't think Salon went too far.
I saw in the article a mention that some of the developers said they prefer an open forum similar to that of slashdot. Now, this is all well and good, but wouldn't something like sourceforge or usenet be more appropriate?
I don't want my peer-to-peer network client randomly requesting pictures of Natalie Portman pouring hot grits down her pants.
There are two ways to dynamically decrease power usage in a chip like this. The first is to decrease the clock speed, which has a linear effect on on power consumption. The second way is to decrease voltage, which is made easier by reducing clock speed, and has a quadratic effect. The Intel method cuts power a little more than half by cutting clock speed in half, since there is a very small voltage change. The Crusoes are designed so that clock speed can be decreased in proportion to clock speed, so the resulting power saving is linear*quadratic=cubic. Cut speed in half and you're using 1/8 the power. Add to that the fact that the crusoe chips have about 1/4 the transistor count, and you have a rather impressive power savings.
Intel doesn't have a prayer at catching Crusoe in the immediate future on power consumption. The best that they can do is get it low enough that the monitor is the main limiting factor for battery life. The smaller die size and integration of some of the memory interface components on the crusoe could mean that the cost savings become the greatest benefit of the technology.
I'm curious if this kind of internet-blaming is a curiosity limited to the U.S., or if it exists elsewhere. I'm sure everyone either read about or at least glanced at the headline earlier about the banning of arcades in Malaysia, so I think this kind of attitude exists elsewhere. Anyone have any examples?
...from some huge communications technology company or another that was advertising a method using microscopic bubbles. I don't know if this is actually in production anywhere, since PR ads tend to be full of vapor, but that's another possibility for the switching method.
Application for a patent on distributed software development:
A business method in which the business operator begins development of a programming effort, and then freely distributes the code under a license requiring that source code be made available with any derived works. This gives legal recourse if a competitor attempts to market the product as their own proprietary product. The original developer's status as project manager should be sufficient to retain control of the project, while volunteers assume the bulk of the development effort. These expert volunteers derive their compensation by having input on the project, and being able to freely use the product, due to the aforementioned license, which requires that source code be left open and freely distributed along with the product. The original developer is left in an optimal position for selling services and support related to the product to the common user.
I suspect that those NICs with the built-in SSL accelerators may gain popularity if this hair-brained scheme goes into effect and is not violently opposed in the courts. If I were running a business site, I'd encrypt EVERYTHING.
On a side note, does anyone know what happened with the idea to add univeral encryption to IPV6? That would be a wonderful way of protecting some semblance of privacy and freedom out there.
Ok, the working concept for a craft powered by solar wind involved a 300m wide sheet of 0.1mm thick carbon fiber fabric, or something like that. From an engineering standpoint, that is hellishly complex. The torque forces on something that would have to be small enough to launch complete by rocket, with a fold-out sail that enormous, are phenomenal. In addition, the solar sail's thrust is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the sun, while the magnetic bubble expands as the wind gets more rarified, so the net thrust is the same at any distance.
The fuel efficiency of this thing is pretty respectable, too. 1 kg per day is a little expensive over the course of a long mission, but they expect their efficiency to improve, and they would also probably also not need the full power field during cruising legs of the trip.
The safety issue is the icing on the cake. This kind of thing would also make explorations of Jupiter easier, since Jupiter's equivalent of the Van Allen radiation belts give an exposure on the order of 5x a lethal human dose just to pass through at a speed reasonable for assuming a low orbit. Granted, there's not much on Jupiter for a human to walk around on, but if the radiation is 5x the lethal human dosage, your flight hardware needs to be very heavily shielded. This magnetic field frees up a lot of weight, which in turn increases the fuel efficiency.
Now if only they could find a way of sailing upwind in the solar wind stream. You can do it with a properly configured sailboat, usually within about 45 degrees from the wind direction, give or take a few degrees depending on various specifics. If they could do it with solar sails, you'd have a viable human-transport system. Otherwise, the best return mechanism you could use would be to go out on full power, swing around a planet (without stopping) and power down to just enough to protect the crew, and drift back on momentum.
Yes, but root can't be accessed from the outside world. Sure, there may be root exploits, but this sounds safer than the current method. As he says in the article, if they have physical access, all bets are off anyway.
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I have been wondering about this kind of thing for a long time. I have used Lame as of late because it is very fast with the optimized compile I have. I wish it were as fast on VBR, but I guess I'll have to settle for CBR.
I'd really like to see something like this with Ogg Vorbis once it matures. Or now even, because it seems to be a bit better already, though it's hard to tell on my laptop speakers.
Because 99% of all situations you will ever run into come very close to your best case scenario, and very far from your worst case scenario, assuming you have a properly designed algorithm. It would be accurate for Intel to say "Crusoe is sometimes a lot slower" but it would be deceptive advertising to say that across the board if in fact Crusoe is only marginally slower under most conditions.
We need a good set of common use benchmarks. Things that run the spellchecker in Word while trying to play MP3s. Then the tests need to be done, on these mundane tasks, with non-virgin crusoe chips. Chips that have been run through these routines and have adjusted themselves to those tasks.
The FAA and similar agencies around the world are just going to love this. It's bad enough that we've got people building rockets in their back yards. This reminds me of the expedition where a bunch of people died on Everest because they went up with no experience. It was just anyone who had a couple hundred thousand could join up for the thrill.
On a side note, is it just me, or has it seemed like the Russians have been doing a garage sale lately? I hope the rumors about the nuclear fuel are mostly false, at least.
End public education and you see a small decrease in violence by disaffected middle-class kids.
Then watch the riots start.
Then watch the revolutions unfold.
Pick your poison.
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The whole "Bug in Slashcode" thing sounds like a crock of shit to me. I just think they don't want people getting into it unless they are caring enough to figure out how to get there.
Personally, I think placing it semi-prominently in the FAQ should be good enough. Here you are, knock yourself out. Better yet, knock out an overzealous moderator.
1) MacOS X
2) Classic Environment
3) VirtualPC for MacOS 9
4) Windows NT 4.0
5) LinuxOne Lite (name? You know what I'm talking about.)
6) WINE
7) Word 2000
Or you can wait for the official port, which should be out soon. At least in theory.
In case you follow your messages, Coward, please note that there are many, MANY people in this world who have no choice about which OS they use at work or at school. I am one of those people. So, while I prefer using mature OS's (which I do not consider W2K to be) I am not always blessed with that flexibility. Just think, with the money you spent on W2K you could have bought a linux distro CD with support, an O'Reilly book in case you're a newbie, and still had plenty of money left over for more crack.
...when they get rid of Forum 2000? Sure, the forum started getting lame, but please...
Try lynx. It works fine from AIX. You're right about fox being moronic, though.
It's true that most optimizations are not portable, but there is something that can be done about this. Properly ifdef'd code can be optimized for the appropriate iteration of the platform by any moderately well-designed compiler. You don't want to be using runtime variables more than you have to, and certainly not for memory requests for caching, but you can handle it in the source code, provided that you actually let your users have the code so they can compile it themselves.
If you think about it, such a probability is irrelevant in a full-detail simulation. The algorithm simply ends when it ends. Such a prediction would only be needed in a rather vaguely detailed simulation. Given the fact that this universe is capable of demonstrating that abstraction, it would stand to reason that the simulation if it exists (we might as well be agnostic about it, there's really no way to know) has that degree of detail that it actually works out the algorithm. More specifically it works out the individual gate changes inside the processor, and from there down to the level of adjusting the mass of electrons as they gain and lose energy, etc.
Let's just hope they use ECC or something along those lines!
It also makes me wonder what a BSOD would look like across the whole universe. I can see it now:
"You've been playing Quake on the universe machine again, haven't you? I don't care what framerate it gets, if you don't keep your hands off that stuff, I might just send you back again. I thought you learned your lesson the first time. At least I have a recent backup. *grumble*"
Apologies to non-Christians for the implicit references. Feel free to alter it to your own ends. Atheists may ignore it, if they'd prefer.
Not to mention the fact that every irrational number can be expressed as an infinite sum of rational numbers. If I were designing such a system, I'd just set the thing to round everything off to the nearest multiple of Planck's constant, and obscure the exact values of numbers small enough to make this possibly noticeable by setting up a system that would make it impossible to measure multiple relevant properties of an object simultaneously. Now you don't really even need an FPU on your grand machine.
Then we have superstring theory suggesting 11-dimensional space that appears to be 4-dimensional, with everything else "folding" into obscurity at any scale capable of observation. Sounds almost like an object-oriented system to me.
There it is, right there.
You mean like this?
If you read carefully, they're saying "Since it hasn't yet been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that it wasn't hacked, as of this moment, it wasn't hacked." Corporate denial at its finest.
Their accusations against Salon are pretty extreme, considering that they themselves don't know that Salon was wrong. They're just pissed that Salon got someone on the inside to talk, and messed up their chance for a damage control press release. Salon was perfectly ethical. The article mentions that it's an anonymous source and not the official word. The article simply makes it clear that there are forces within SDMI that want it to die, and who assert that it will. That there is no uncrackable watermark is common sense, so I don't think Salon went too far.
I saw in the article a mention that some of the developers said they prefer an open forum similar to that of slashdot. Now, this is all well and good, but wouldn't something like sourceforge or usenet be more appropriate?
I don't want my peer-to-peer network client randomly requesting pictures of Natalie Portman pouring hot grits down her pants.
There are two ways to dynamically decrease power usage in a chip like this. The first is to decrease the clock speed, which has a linear effect on on power consumption. The second way is to decrease voltage, which is made easier by reducing clock speed, and has a quadratic effect. The Intel method cuts power a little more than half by cutting clock speed in half, since there is a very small voltage change. The Crusoes are designed so that clock speed can be decreased in proportion to clock speed, so the resulting power saving is linear*quadratic=cubic. Cut speed in half and you're using 1/8 the power. Add to that the fact that the crusoe chips have about 1/4 the transistor count, and you have a rather impressive power savings.
Intel doesn't have a prayer at catching Crusoe in the immediate future on power consumption. The best that they can do is get it low enough that the monitor is the main limiting factor for battery life. The smaller die size and integration of some of the memory interface components on the crusoe could mean that the cost savings become the greatest benefit of the technology.
I'm curious if this kind of internet-blaming is a curiosity limited to the U.S., or if it exists elsewhere. I'm sure everyone either read about or at least glanced at the headline earlier about the banning of arcades in Malaysia, so I think this kind of attitude exists elsewhere. Anyone have any examples?
...from some huge communications technology company or another that was advertising a method using microscopic bubbles. I don't know if this is actually in production anywhere, since PR ads tend to be full of vapor, but that's another possibility for the switching method.
Application for a patent on distributed software development:
A business method in which the business operator begins development of a programming effort, and then freely distributes the code under a license requiring that source code be made available with any derived works. This gives legal recourse if a competitor attempts to market the product as their own proprietary product. The original developer's status as project manager should be sufficient to retain control of the project, while volunteers assume the bulk of the development effort. These expert volunteers derive their compensation by having input on the project, and being able to freely use the product, due to the aforementioned license, which requires that source code be left open and freely distributed along with the product. The original developer is left in an optimal position for selling services and support related to the product to the common user.
I suspect that those NICs with the built-in SSL accelerators may gain popularity if this hair-brained scheme goes into effect and is not violently opposed in the courts. If I were running a business site, I'd encrypt EVERYTHING.
On a side note, does anyone know what happened with the idea to add univeral encryption to IPV6? That would be a wonderful way of protecting some semblance of privacy and freedom out there.
Ok, the working concept for a craft powered by solar wind involved a 300m wide sheet of 0.1mm thick carbon fiber fabric, or something like that. From an engineering standpoint, that is hellishly complex. The torque forces on something that would have to be small enough to launch complete by rocket, with a fold-out sail that enormous, are phenomenal. In addition, the solar sail's thrust is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the sun, while the magnetic bubble expands as the wind gets more rarified, so the net thrust is the same at any distance.
The fuel efficiency of this thing is pretty respectable, too. 1 kg per day is a little expensive over the course of a long mission, but they expect their efficiency to improve, and they would also probably also not need the full power field during cruising legs of the trip.
The safety issue is the icing on the cake. This kind of thing would also make explorations of Jupiter easier, since Jupiter's equivalent of the Van Allen radiation belts give an exposure on the order of 5x a lethal human dose just to pass through at a speed reasonable for assuming a low orbit. Granted, there's not much on Jupiter for a human to walk around on, but if the radiation is 5x the lethal human dosage, your flight hardware needs to be very heavily shielded. This magnetic field frees up a lot of weight, which in turn increases the fuel efficiency.
Now if only they could find a way of sailing upwind in the solar wind stream. You can do it with a properly configured sailboat, usually within about 45 degrees from the wind direction, give or take a few degrees depending on various specifics. If they could do it with solar sails, you'd have a viable human-transport system. Otherwise, the best return mechanism you could use would be to go out on full power, swing around a planet (without stopping) and power down to just enough to protect the crew, and drift back on momentum.
Yes, but root can't be accessed from the outside world. Sure, there may be root exploits, but this sounds safer than the current method. As he says in the article, if they have physical access, all bets are off anyway.
This situation kinda reminds me of this cartoon. Substitute your favorite four letter acronym ending with "AA" at your leisure.