The code morphing is still there. Read the article. This chip is not a "low power x86" but a RISC-style chip that runs x86 instructions through efficient emulation. This is what makes Transmeta interesting. The processor itself is 256-bit! So can it address 2^256 bits of memory? That really should be enough for anyone. It's kind of funny, with Intel in the background saying that 32bit is good enough for any desktop application...
The story writeup has a howler of a conceptual mistake: It conflates the idea of breaking the law and doing something wrong. If you had asked American downloaders whether they're breaking the law, I'm sure the great majority would say they are. But get with it. Sometimes breaking the law is the right thing to do. Now I'm not saying that filetrading is a sort of civil disobedience, but I think, understandably, many Americans think that filetrading is as immoral as jaywalking--so, not very.
Yeah, isn't it funny. People gave David Lynch a lot of crap for the movie, but we might decide in retrospect that the problem might have been in the book itself. I honestly think he did a good job filming a book which just doesn't translate well into a screenplay. And I honestly think his set designers and effects people were incredible. This new show doesn't look bad, but it really fails to capture the alien-ness of the time the way Lynch's version does.
I suppose there are several real-time efforts going on, but I'm curious about why this is one that Linus supports while he seemed set against the preemptible kernel. So is there a connection? Is this the next revision of the preemptible kernel code?
Do you honestly think that if we could have complete control over our appearance we would choose to simply look like some supermodel? Well, I'm sure some people would, those with the creativity of a ant. The rest of us would become something cool.
I know exactly what I would want:
I'd wand really black skin, two small horns, and (most important) a thick layer of soft, white sheep wool (everywhere but on my face, hands, etc.). That way, I wouldn't have to think about what I want to wear when I go out. In the summers I'd have myself shorn so that I wouldn't get too hot, and I'd always be experimenting with dying my wool in various artistic ways. I suspect the chicks would love it (especially if my competition were a bunch of nobodys that look like Ken dolls). But even if the chicks wouldn't love it, I would.
Philosophical afterword: Isn't it interesting how we usually think we should not praise or blame people for the things that are outside their control, but we have just the opposite attitude about their appearance. If somebody actually takes charge and dramatically alters their "natural" appearance, we critisize it for being "fake" and so somehow second-best. But we praise people who just look good naturally, even though we know they did absolutely nothing to earn our praise. Maybe these attitudes will change once controlling our appearance genetically becomes more common.
Is there going to be any legitimate non-gaming or high end science usage for something like this? I can't see this being relevant to any more than 1/100 of the computer using populace.
Why, cause the other 99/100 of the computer using populace is doing "high end science usage"? Wow, what country are you in? Lemme guess: if high-end science can find no use for it then nobody could want it--right? Cause these guys like cornered the market. Sorry, I'm just enjoying this, trying to picture a world that really would work like that... you know, mobs of geeky people in labcoats breaking down the door of CompUSA when the newest device useful for "high end science applications" arrives in the store. Tom's hardware would rave about how many "high end science calculations per second" the latest, greatest hardware can do, and everywhere, "high end scientists" drool on their keyboards. Then, when they finally get their new science hardware, they show up groggy for work every day, because they're up all night doing "high end science" on their wonderful new scientific device.
It depends on Microsoft, actually. Once they decide what they will call the version of DirectX after 9, that's what ATi will use as a base of their numbers. So who wants to make bets what the next DirectX will be called. Probably not DirectXX... It'll probably be something lame like DirectX 2004...
You know, it used to be that as a part of a friendly rivalry, you would steal a school's mascot or "soil their grounds" in some creative way. But now, every little jerk who's pissed at Cornell can just DoS attack the students, and kill their month's supply of bandwidth in a few minutes.
Just wait till the summer when they start mailing out rejection letters. Some will surely end up with script kiddies....
The USA doesn't need Canada's help in making the ISS a total piece of crap--but thanks anyway for that worthless thing. I hope you have different people working on the robotic arms that do surgery.
I totally agree. This isn't news; it's a plug. Actually, it might be nice if they had a "cool new product" section with its own icon, so I could block it in my user preferences. I like real "technology" stories, but I hate this sort of crap.
Godddamn it! This is going to be such crap! This year we cancelled what was looking to be the best sci-fi show ever. Unless we are totally stupid, which we apparently are, our first priority should be figuring out a place that will pick up that show.
Thank you for this message. I would mod it up if I handn't already posted in the forum. Unfortunately, I don't read too much hope into the message you reposted. Basically, there is nothing like good news; only the lack of definitive bad news. Why would FOX pay to have the set taken down if they want the show to continue?
It sounds like Tightpants is a pretty nice guy IRL and I wish him the best of luck.
If the program can tell what's a hit and what isn't, why not create another program that randomly puts chords and words together, and pipe the output into the "hit finder" program. When process 1 writes a hit, save the file, repeat.
This is a bad year for Whedon, with the idiots at FOX cancelling Firefly... and now this. I was not a real Buffy fan, but I did see enough to acknowledge that the writing was first rate.
Instead of a spinoff, I want Whedon to fight for a new home for Firefly. That was the best first season of any show, ever. But I guess the average viewer is too dumb to recognize a masterpiece.
Yeah, but every one of the dollars from the "undesirables" goes to Overture. How desirable is that? This would just be arming them for their inevitable great Crusade to bring "civilization" to Google.
Yeah, look up the cassettes (sold by Recorded Books Inc.). I personally think the BBC dramatization was brilliant, but Robert Inglis's reading is many times better still. That has something to do with the nature of the book. LotR is a narrative-driven story which overwhelms you with detail to the point where it becomes psychologically difficult to think of it as fiction. That detail necessarily gets cut out when you try to compress it into 12 or 13 hours, like the BBC or Peter Jackson did. It forces it to be a plot-driven story. I know there are some books that are 3/4 padding, but not Tolkien's.
BTW. I noticed that the unabridged recording is floating around on Direct Connect if you want to sample it before you buy the tapes. It really is that cool.
Yeah, I think you're right about Robert Inglis's performance. It really was awesome. But it's not because the BBC production was somehow shoddy. In fact, I think it is in many ways more enjoyable and definitely better thought out than the movies, which themselves are not catastrophic.
I can tell you that if I had read the books into a microphone, it wouldn't have been anywhere near as enjoyable to listen to. Robert Inglis is just an amazing voice actor. Having listened to the whole 51-hour recording several times, I can honestly say it's some of the best entertainment there is. But that's not because unabridged readings are in themselves entertaining. It's because it was a great book by a great author, read by a talented actor who knew how to set the right mood. I imagine that combination comes together quite rarely.
I think TrollTech are onto a good thing. One thing that surprises me is that with all this QT running without X windows underneath is that it isn't giving people ideas about a better desktop GUI. I mean, a lot of effort has gone into a super-efficient X-less QT that requires minimal hardware to run well. Why not translate all that work to the desktop and start now on the plan of phasing out the X windowing system from unix GUIs. I'm not saying we take drastic steps now, but we'd be stupid to take no steps to transition the desktop to QT all the way down.
X windows reminds me of the space shuttle. It's big and old and we know it won't last forever, but we hide our heads in the sand and we don't want to hear about it. Well, that's a really stupid attitude, especially since there is such an inviting alternative.
The slightly less stupid one is about the solvability of chess. Yes, chess is theoretically solvable. However, the number of arrangements you would have to calculate are far greater than the number of atoms in the universe. Good luck solving that! The solvability of chess plays no role in the design of current (and future) chess programs. None of them can just "brute force" look down every decision tree. They have to be "smart" about which lines they care about and which they ignore. Programming in this smartness is what chess software is all about. As Kasparov said, it makes much more of a difference than two orders magnitude in processing speed. If Junior isn't real AI then we have no AI.
Now for the more stupid thing: Where did you hear that "white win has been proven?" I think you're full of shit. All the evidence I heard points to black always being able to force a draw. But what would a proof of either look like?
And if you do a search for how many posts here have mentioned that go programs are easier to beat than chess programs, you will see why you must now be shot.
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Five seconds?? Ohhhh... but I want it NOW!
The code morphing is still there. Read the article. This chip is not a "low power x86" but a RISC-style chip that runs x86 instructions through efficient emulation. This is what makes Transmeta interesting. The processor itself is 256-bit! So can it address 2^256 bits of memory? That really should be enough for anyone. It's kind of funny, with Intel in the background saying that 32bit is good enough for any desktop application...
The story writeup has a howler of a conceptual mistake: It conflates the idea of breaking the law and doing something wrong. If you had asked American downloaders whether they're breaking the law, I'm sure the great majority would say they are. But get with it. Sometimes breaking the law is the right thing to do. Now I'm not saying that filetrading is a sort of civil disobedience, but I think, understandably, many Americans think that filetrading is as immoral as jaywalking--so, not very.
Quite right!
Yeah, isn't it funny. People gave David Lynch a lot of crap for the movie, but we might decide in retrospect that the problem might have been in the book itself. I honestly think he did a good job filming a book which just doesn't translate well into a screenplay. And I honestly think his set designers and effects people were incredible. This new show doesn't look bad, but it really fails to capture the alien-ness of the time the way Lynch's version does.
I suppose there are several real-time efforts going on, but I'm curious about why this is one that Linus supports while he seemed set against the preemptible kernel. So is there a connection? Is this the next revision of the preemptible kernel code?
Do you honestly think that if we could have complete control over our appearance we would choose to simply look like some supermodel? Well, I'm sure some people would, those with the creativity of a ant. The rest of us would become something cool.
I know exactly what I would want:
I'd wand really black skin, two small horns, and (most important) a thick layer of soft, white sheep wool (everywhere but on my face, hands, etc.). That way, I wouldn't have to think about what I want to wear when I go out. In the summers I'd have myself shorn so that I wouldn't get too hot, and I'd always be experimenting with dying my wool in various artistic ways. I suspect the chicks would love it (especially if my competition were a bunch of nobodys that look like Ken dolls). But even if the chicks wouldn't love it, I would.
Philosophical afterword: Isn't it interesting how we usually think we should not praise or blame people for the things that are outside their control, but we have just the opposite attitude about their appearance. If somebody actually takes charge and dramatically alters their "natural" appearance, we critisize it for being "fake" and so somehow second-best. But we praise people who just look good naturally, even though we know they did absolutely nothing to earn our praise. Maybe these attitudes will change once controlling our appearance genetically becomes more common.
Why, cause the other 99/100 of the computer using populace is doing "high end science usage"? Wow, what country are you in? Lemme guess: if high-end science can find no use for it then nobody could want it--right? Cause these guys like cornered the market. Sorry, I'm just enjoying this, trying to picture a world that really would work like that... you know, mobs of geeky people in labcoats breaking down the door of CompUSA when the newest device useful for "high end science applications" arrives in the store. Tom's hardware would rave about how many "high end science calculations per second" the latest, greatest hardware can do, and everywhere, "high end scientists" drool on their keyboards. Then, when they finally get their new science hardware, they show up groggy for work every day, because they're up all night doing "high end science" on their wonderful new scientific device.
It depends on Microsoft, actually. Once they decide what they will call the version of DirectX after 9, that's what ATi will use as a base of their numbers. So who wants to make bets what the next DirectX will be called. Probably not DirectXX... It'll probably be something lame like DirectX 2004...
Just wait till the summer when they start mailing out rejection letters. Some will surely end up with script kiddies....
The USA doesn't need Canada's help in making the ISS a total piece of crap--but thanks anyway for that worthless thing. I hope you have different people working on the robotic arms that do surgery.
I totally agree. This isn't news; it's a plug. Actually, it might be nice if they had a "cool new product" section with its own icon, so I could block it in my user preferences. I like real "technology" stories, but I hate this sort of crap.
1. Learn to speak German
2. Look at some websites, make some calls, do some research.
Why you expect the Slashdot community to RTFM for you boggles my mind. I don't think we should have any patience with lazy-ass posters like you.
Godddamn it! This is going to be such crap! This year we cancelled what was looking to be the best sci-fi show ever. Unless we are totally stupid, which we apparently are, our first priority should be figuring out a place that will pick up that show.
It sounds like Tightpants is a pretty nice guy IRL and I wish him the best of luck.
If the program can tell what's a hit and what isn't, why not create another program that randomly puts chords and words together, and pipe the output into the "hit finder" program. When process 1 writes a hit, save the file, repeat.
Instead of a spinoff, I want Whedon to fight for a new home for Firefly. That was the best first season of any show, ever. But I guess the average viewer is too dumb to recognize a masterpiece.
I like this idea very much. I hope some kind soul writes it up as a plugin.
Yeah, but every one of the dollars from the "undesirables" goes to Overture. How desirable is that? This would just be arming them for their inevitable great Crusade to bring "civilization" to Google.
Really? I'm not looking forward to BIOS hackers.
BTW. I noticed that the unabridged recording is floating around on Direct Connect if you want to sample it before you buy the tapes. It really is that cool.
I can tell you that if I had read the books into a microphone, it wouldn't have been anywhere near as enjoyable to listen to. Robert Inglis is just an amazing voice actor. Having listened to the whole 51-hour recording several times, I can honestly say it's some of the best entertainment there is. But that's not because unabridged readings are in themselves entertaining. It's because it was a great book by a great author, read by a talented actor who knew how to set the right mood. I imagine that combination comes together quite rarely.
X windows reminds me of the space shuttle. It's big and old and we know it won't last forever, but we hide our heads in the sand and we don't want to hear about it. Well, that's a really stupid attitude, especially since there is such an inviting alternative.
This was a really interesting interview. Thanks for linking it!
Now for the more stupid thing: Where did you hear that "white win has been proven?" I think you're full of shit. All the evidence I heard points to black always being able to force a draw. But what would a proof of either look like?
And if you do a search for how many posts here have mentioned that go programs are easier to beat than chess programs, you will see why you must now be shot.