Yes, this is the more unknown part of moore's law: Chip-fabrication cost doubles every 18-24 months. This will probably be the barrier for most "chipsmiths"; not the physics..
They are different. Shogi is from Japan, Xiangqi from China. (Or IIRC, Shogi was developed in Japan from Xiangqi).
The board differs, the Xiangqi board is made up of ten horizontal lines and nine vertical lines and a "river". Shogi is played on a 9x9 uncheckered board. The pieces differs as well.
Check out www.chessvariants.com for details on each game.
If anyone wants to play some Chess, Xiangqi (chinese chess), Go or some other boardgames online then you should check out this site. Unfortunately they don't have Shogi (yet).
Hehe, you are of course perfectly right. That's the (sad?) thing with marketing; you don't have to be honest as long as the customers keeps buying. I don't think that "developer respect" was high on their list when deciding what to promote, and I don't think it's high up on any marketing departments list either.
Making "Write Once, Run Anywhere" a Java mantra was a huge mistake. It should have been more like "Write once, tweak a little, maybe it'll run... But it's easier than porting C code!" A more modest claim would have been much better.
Let me guess, you don't work with marketing, right?:-)
My opinion? Those who believe it without trying it makes a mistake, but from a marketing point of it was brilliant. Imagine the number of power-point slides with
* Platform independent
that has been shown to management as a rationale when choosing Java technology for the upcoming project.
Just because it is presented and accepted as a rationale doesn't mean it *is* rational. The marketing is brilliant.
results may vary between drives, but the difference in performance from ATA100 and ATA133 is negligible.
If you look at the Read Max/Min/Avg values on page four they are almost the same. This should imply that the time to transfer the data is small compared to finding it on the disk. I think. Is that correct?
It's not "C++ STL", it should be "C++ ST,L", which stands for "C++: Suck This, Loser". (At least that's what the compiler's error message says, if you manage to read between the lines... I think this post will prove the point.)
Those compiler guys really have a weird sense of humor. IT'S NOT FUNNY, YOU HEAR ME??!?
If you have to make everything X times wider (eg registers, buses..) you will use approx X times more chip area -> Higher cost. So to keep a constant cost, you have to wait until the silicon guys come up with some process that can make your chip X times smaller.
2) Power consumption (heat dissipation) A wider bus will need more current to charge it's capacitive load. If the load gets higher your only options to keep a constant power consumption and keeping your processor from melting are these:
* lower probability for bitchange (smarter coding) * lower frequency (not desired, right?), or * lower voltage (1990: 5V, 2002: 3.3V. 2010: 1.5V?)
Perhaps 2) is not a real issue wrt bus sizes, I haven't investigated it. Take it for what it's worth; a semi-educated guess.
I guess that in video game consoles they have either the margins to take the higher cost, or they use 128-bits only in parts of the processor and didn't tell the marketing department.;-)
> but what use is a theory if it has no application?
Hey, that's the thing with research. You never know what applications your work will have.
If you know the application, your work is usually called 'engineering'.
Don't remember who said it, don't remeber the exact wording, but it's something to think about: "There is nothing more applicable than a good theory!" (Perhaps it was Einstein's answer when a journalist asked him how this relativity-thingie was supposed to be used?)
Anyway, what this is useful for? No idea, what's a neutrino?;-)
No, Cults are not just religions with fewer members. From the Xenu.net FAQ:
<Quote> "Is CoS a cult or a religion?"
There are many types of cults. Some are religious cults and others are not, the first term does not rule out the other. Every cult can be defined as a group having all of the following five characteristics:
uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate and retain its members
forms an elitist totalitarian society
Its founder/leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable and has charisma
It believes 'the end justifies the means' in order to solicit funds and recruit people
Its wealth does not benefit its members or society
This definition is taken from the CIC homepage and it is my opinion that CoS fits this definition of a cult. Many critics and former members of CoS also describe CoS as a bait and switch racket or the mafia of religion.
</Quote>
That said, I agree that it's not really the government's job to deal with religions. But it is the government's job to deal with criminals.
Microsoft staffers spent a long time hand carving this imposing statue of BillG at the entrance to WinHEC. Based on Native American folklore from the Northwest apparently it wards off government lawyers.
I believe that in some (or most?) of the better demos produced on the C64, the coders used the floppy-drive processor to help calculate the vectors. I never coded for the C64, so I don't know for sure though.
Anyway, the demo coders from the C64-scene are definitely impressing. Talk about using the resources you have to a maximum.
I guess sending it the straight forward way is not the best option. You would probably want to code your signal in some semi-intelligent way before transmitting it. Some sort of transform coding (eg DCT) or perhaps Huffman (if the overhead of the huffman tree is acceptable) I guess reducing to 25% of the original size should be doable, of course IANATEE (telecommunications engineer, either:)
I guess he is refering to the cost of implementing a large scale linux based solution. (When these guys talk about "free" they are usually talking about the beer cost, if not otherwise stated).
And I'm quite sure that RH will not do this for "free". Congrats to them!
Gateway also faulted another provision of the new licensing agreement, which requires PC makers to pay a Windows royalty on every PC shipped, even if it didn't include Windows. To top it off, to qualify for market development funds, PC makers have to put a Microsoft OS on every PC. As a result, trying to sell non-Windows PCs, or even PCs without software, is a financial loser for computer makers.
Man, I've heard of business angels, but this is more like the work of Business Devils. You have to give creds to the guy at MS who came up with this "market development fund" and then made the OEMs agree on it... I'm impressed!
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Is there such a thing as a sh-hof? In that case I would like to nominate the sed hack in the story, and this webserver written in postscript...:)
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Yes, this is the more unknown part of moore's law: Chip-fabrication cost doubles every 18-24 months. This will probably be the barrier for most "chipsmiths"; not the physics..
Well, I just got home after watching the movie. If I'd had the option I would rather have worked. It sucked.
Jar-Jar Binks must die or I must get a job.
They are different. Shogi is from Japan, Xiangqi from China. (Or IIRC, Shogi was developed in Japan from Xiangqi).
The board differs, the Xiangqi board is made up of ten horizontal lines and nine vertical lines and a "river". Shogi is played on a 9x9 uncheckered board. The pieces differs as well.
Check out www.chessvariants.com for details on each game.
If anyone wants to play some Chess, Xiangqi (chinese chess), Go or some other boardgames online then you should check out this site. Unfortunately they don't have Shogi (yet).
Hehe, you are of course perfectly right. That's the (sad?) thing with marketing; you don't have to be honest as long as the customers keeps buying. I don't think that "developer respect" was high on their list when deciding what to promote, and I don't think it's high up on any marketing departments list either.
Making "Write Once, Run Anywhere" a Java mantra was a huge mistake. It should have been more like "Write once, tweak a little, maybe it'll run... But it's easier than porting C code!" A more modest claim would have been much better.
:-)
Let me guess, you don't work with marketing, right?
My opinion? Those who believe it without trying it makes a mistake, but from a marketing point of it was brilliant. Imagine the number of power-point slides with
* Platform independent
that has been shown to management as a rationale when choosing Java technology for the upcoming project.
Just because it is presented and accepted as a rationale doesn't mean it *is* rational. The marketing is brilliant.
results may vary between drives, but the difference in performance from ATA100 and ATA133 is negligible.
If you look at the Read Max/Min/Avg values on page four they are almost the same. This should imply that the time to transfer the data is small compared to finding it on the disk. I think. Is that correct?
"I think k$40,000,000 will be enough for anybody"
- Bill G, fifteen years ago
hmm...
> I would have included a link to the actual page,
;)
> but my internet access is down at the moment.
Oh, first ever snail-mail post on slashdot. Congrats!
couldn't resist:
Q: How many programmers does it take to change a broken light bulb?
A: None, it's a hardware problem.
It's not "C++ STL", it should be "C++ ST,L", which stands for "C++: Suck This, Loser". (At least that's what the compiler's error message says, if you manage to read between the lines... I think this post will prove the point.)
Those compiler guys really have a weird sense of humor. IT'S NOT FUNNY, YOU HEAR ME??!?
Bastards.
Hmm. Well. This kinda sums it up:
;-)
1) Cost.
If you have to make everything X times wider (eg registers, buses..) you will use approx X times more chip area -> Higher cost. So to keep a constant cost, you have to wait until the silicon guys come up with some process that can make your chip X times smaller.
2) Power consumption (heat dissipation)
A wider bus will need more current to charge it's capacitive load. If the load gets higher your only options to keep a constant power consumption and keeping your processor from melting are these:
* lower probability for bitchange (smarter coding)
* lower frequency (not desired, right?), or
* lower voltage (1990: 5V, 2002: 3.3V. 2010: 1.5V?)
Perhaps 2) is not a real issue wrt bus sizes, I haven't investigated it. Take it for what it's worth; a semi-educated guess.
I guess that in video game consoles they have either the margins to take the higher cost, or they use 128-bits only in parts of the processor and didn't tell the marketing department.
> but what use is a theory if it has no application?
;-)
Hey, that's the thing with research. You never know what applications your work will have.
If you know the application, your work is usually called 'engineering'.
Don't remember who said it, don't remeber the exact wording, but it's something to think about: "There is nothing more applicable than a good theory!" (Perhaps it was Einstein's answer when a journalist asked him how this relativity-thingie was supposed to be used?)
Anyway, what this is useful for? No idea, what's a neutrino?
<Quote>
"Is CoS a cult or a religion?"
There are many types of cults. Some are religious cults and others are not, the first term does not rule out the other. Every cult can be defined as a group having all of the following five characteristics:
- uses psychological coercion to recruit, indoctrinate and retain its members
- forms an elitist totalitarian society
- Its founder/leader is self-appointed, dogmatic, messianic, not accountable and has charisma
- It believes 'the end justifies the means' in order to solicit funds and recruit people
- Its wealth does not benefit its members or society
This definition is taken from the CIC homepage and it is my opinion that CoS fits this definition of a cult. Many critics and former members of CoS also describe CoS as a bait and switch racket or the mafia of religion.</Quote>
That said, I agree that it's not really the government's job to deal with religions. But it is the government's job to deal with criminals.
From the text under the picture:
Microsoft staffers spent a long time hand carving this imposing statue of BillG at the entrance to WinHEC. Based on Native American folklore from the Northwest apparently it wards off government lawyers.
*grin* Those guys are quite funny, methinks.
> Have these people not been paying attention lately?
:-) Probably not.
From google's cache: "Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content."
I wonder how the german court will look on the disclaimer. If they find google guilty then it is perhaps the end of silly disclaimers.
<disclaimer> This post represents the official view of the voices in my head. </ disclaimer>
Comparing Unix with MAC is like comparing Apples and ora.. oh.. wait. Apple.
As always, multiply the marketing department's wishes with pi. In this case, 3*3.14, it's something like 9.5 years. I'd say end of 2010 at best.
I believe that in some (or most?) of the better demos produced on the C64, the coders used the floppy-drive processor to help calculate the vectors. I never coded for the C64, so I don't know for sure though.
Anyway, the demo coders from the C64-scene are definitely impressing. Talk about using the resources you have to a maximum.
I guess sending it the straight forward way is not the best option. You would probably want to code your signal in some semi-intelligent way before transmitting it. Some sort of transform coding (eg DCT) or perhaps Huffman (if the overhead of the huffman tree is acceptable) I guess reducing to 25% of the original size should be doable, of course IANATEE (telecommunications engineer, either :)
I guess he is refering to the cost of implementing a large scale linux based solution. (When these guys talk about "free" they are usually talking about the beer cost, if not otherwise stated).
And I'm quite sure that RH will not do this for "free". Congrats to them!
Man, I've heard of business angels, but this is more like the work of Business Devils. You have to give creds to the guy at MS who came up with this "market development fund" and then made the OEMs agree on it... I'm impressed!
Is there such a thing as a sh-hof? In that case I would like to nominate the sed hack in the story, and this webserver written in postscript... :)
> Nobody expects to eat an Apple computer.
Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!
*ROTFL*
:-))
*ROTFL again*
Aaaw, stop it, it hurts! *LOL*
Where are the mod-points when you need em?