Is on-line at www.findsame.com. You may run any piece of text or document through it and find out from where on the web they have used material. The side-by-side view simply rocks.
One interesting note as to the usefulness of this tool is that it can be used both ways: you can find the cheaters, but cheaters can now change their material just so to avoid getting caught.
Nikos "Just Call Me Nikos" Papanikolopoulos is an awesome professor. He taught Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures II at the U of MN, and to this day it has been the best CS class I have taken at the U.
He really had a way of coming up with projects to make those boring dyktra's searches seem more interesting...
Just in case anyone is out there who has the power to market such things: I would buy a CmdrTaco action figure, as I am sure a lot of other people would. I think I would also buy a Hemos and a JohnKatz.
Taco should be wearing an anime tee-shirt, and should have his face fixed in one of those crazy wide-eyed crazy-man expressiosn that only he can give.
Hemos should look responsible.
Of course, Katz would come with wearing a flak jacket.
It would be really cool if they operated like that old Transformer set where you could link them all together into some sort of uber toy...I think the ultimate would be if they linked together to form some sort of a real working web-server running Slash or something.
I want to say up-front that I do not believe that blank media should be taxed. I want to point out the error in your logic.
The key-word in this taxation is compensation (or, whatever that is in French!). This is compensation in the legal sense. This is not the type of type of, "I compensate you for your services or product," type of compensation; it is the you have done wrong upon me under the law and now you must pay me for it.
When O.J. was found guilty in the civil lawsuit put forth against him for killing two people he was forced to compensate the Goldman family. The fact that he compensated them did not make his killings legal.
Some of these images are breath-takingly beautiful. Does anybody know is even higher resolution versions of these images exist? I would love to spit some of these images out on my wide-format printer for my wall!
Or, really is bandwidth so narrow or is the CCD so small that they only shuttle back ~1MB images from the Cassini?
A good example of this at the other end of the audio frequency spectrum is that you really can't hear notes much lower than 45Hz...however you sure can feel them if they are loud enough; anybody who has woke up to a, "ghetto-blaster," boom-b-boom-b-boom driving through the night knows what I mean. It sort of works in the same way for ultra-high frequencies: the various frequencies bounce around in your ear-canal and create far-out physical harmonies.
It is amazing to see who makes up all of plaintiffs in the case. Take a gander!
A & M RECORDS, INC., a corporation, GEFFEN RECORDS, INC., a
corporation, INTERSCOPE RECORDS, a general partnership, SONY
MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT INC., a corporation, MCA RECORDS, INC., a
corporation, ATLANTIC RECORDING CORPORATION, a corporation,
ISLAND RECORDS, INC., a corporation, MOTOWN RECORD COMPANY
L.P., a limited partnership, CAPITOL RECORDS, INC., a corporation, LA
FACE RECORDS, a joint venture, BMG MUSIC d/b/a THE RCA
RECORDS LABEL, a general partnership, UNIVERSAL RECORDS INC., a
corporation, ELEKTRA ENTERTAINMENT GROUP INC., a corporation,
ARISTA RECORDS, INC., a corporation, SIRE RECORDS GROUP INC., a
corporation, POLYGRAM RECORDS, INC., a corporation, VIRGIN
RECORDS AMERICA, INC., a corporation, WARNER BROS. RECORDS
INC., a corporation,
JERRY LEIBER, individually and dba JERRY LEIBER MUSIC, MIKE
STOLLER, individually and dba MIKE STOLLER MUSIC, and FRANK
MUSIC CORP., on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated,
You ain't nothin' but a hounddog, a cryin' all the time! You ain't nothin' but a hound dog...
I speak a little Japanese from what I took in college, and there are some unique features of the language that might effect syntactical structure.
For instance, the acting verb in a sentence almost always occurs at the end of a sentence. To use English with Japanese grammer, the sentence, "I use Perl," would roughly reconfigure as, "I Perl Use."
This may have the effect on function definition and usage. Perhaps this would be the case:
{
argument++;
} function (&argument) increment;
i = 0;
((i)increment)print;
I think the one other good way to trace or guess as to the syntactic etomology of a programming language would be to look at that nation's written mathimatic syntax, as many computer languages stem from math notations.
Yes, at compile time. I figure these features are long enough off that the compilers would generate "parallelizable" code that the O/S or some firmware could broker off to different processors or boxes.
It is just a matter of time (how long, who knows!) before we hit the wall on processor speed. It will have to be an intelligent solution that would reach the above aims. It may not be mine, but one thing is for sure: it probably won't be me implementing it!
Well, I don't think it is possible now. But, what if your compiler had enough smarts to divide register level tasks umongst different processors-- in the worst case-- and vectorize tasks that look like vectors (FFT & the like)? Assuming the current trend of VLIW processors, it might not be too far off in the future that compilers do something like this at a local/SMP level soon through shared-memory.
Of course, you would need a very fast network with low-latency logic in between to probably get a speed gain, unless most of your processing was on very large vectors.
Just what I think, as outlandish as it may be. But wouldn't it be cool?
Mosix does rule, but I think it is based on the fork() and forget principle. I think it would be even cooler to have something that, given enough bandwidth, would transparently divide up processor time for a single thread/task. Why? Because I want to see ridculous speed for applications I cannot, myself, easily parallelize such as seti@home or commercial codecs.
...maybe comets erupt more often than we think. How often in the past have we had the ability to resolve the detail of a plume ejected from an erupting comet?
I hate to sound coy but these processors should maybe not be called, "durons," as they consume a lot of power, which makes me really wary about the lifespan of these products due to the extra heat; less actually overclocking one of these suckers without a refrigeration system. Here is a quote from the sharkyextreme article:
The CPU is made of 25million transistors and takes up 100mm^2 of die space. In comparison, the Thunderbird uses 37 million transistors and takes up 120mm^2 of die space. Power comes in at 1.65V at a maximum of 25A, which means the Duron consumes up to about 41W of power. That is over twice the power consumption of an Intel Celeron 600MHz, which only consumes 18W. It is also a bit over half the power consumption of the AMD Thunderbird, which consumes up to about 79W... yikes! We will discuss power usage more a bit later on.
Sharkyextreme goes on to mention that the 16k L1 cache size may attribute to the extra power consumption-- but for a new chip with little air-time it makes me worry.
And don't forget about how reveloutionary the VLIW concept is. Just think about the best case coming out of these new compilers: as long as everything is compiled out to one super-long instruction, it will execute in just one clock tick! Intel is trying to make MHz matter again! Imaging your Quake 3 framesrates then people...
Technology is dividing people in to classes, m'kay? Down with republicans and libertarians, up with liberals-- government funded cooky-cutter computers for everybody to stupify the people into being the same! Then we can all be stupid and happy together without any class distinction: and we'll have this nifty roll playing game to play!
Here is the official Sony announcement in English.
One interesting note from that page is that it seams as though the LCD panel can ONLY be run from AC power:
When connected to the specially designed "PS one" LCD monitor that is planned to be available next spring, it is possible to take the world of PlayStation entertainment with; from room to room, house to house and out and about in a car*.
Here in Japan there is a wire-less data service that is gaining a lot of ground called PIAFS. PIAFS is actually a point-to-point connection-oriented protocol that runs on top of ISDN.
PIAFS supports both 32k and 64k data rates (and within the PIAFS 2.1 spec, it can switch between these rates on the fly depending on signal quality).
With my PIAFS adapter and phone dialed into my ISP, I can pull down stuff at 6kB/s with 120 ms latency:)
What I like about PIAFS is that:
1) It is here in Japan now. 2) It works and has good geographical coverage (including subways!). 3) The PHS phones that talk PIAFS don't need powerful tranmitters because the antennae are so close together. Battery life is a non-issue. I can use my phone for days without a recharge! 4) You can dial into any ISDN equipment.
However, I am not sure if this is the phone type that this new PS can talk to. Anybody know?
I think their service is an Internet analog to the many services that provide ways of handling contraband goods.
For instance, let us say you live in a restrictive country, "A," but you are currently visiting country, "B." You find something you would like to buy country B, but cannot legally own it when you are in country A: but you can ship it to a service in country "C!"
Datahaven may be like country C in that you can store your contraband there and access it through someplace in country B without breaking any laws in country A.
Slashdot Mirror
-AP
Nikos "Just Call Me Nikos" Papanikolopoulos is an awesome professor. He taught Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures II at the U of MN, and to this day it has been the best CS class I have taken at the U.
He really had a way of coming up with projects to make those boring dyktra's searches seem more interesting...
Anybody else on here have him?
-AP
Just in case anyone is out there who has the power to market such things: I would buy a CmdrTaco action figure, as I am sure a lot of other people would. I think I would also buy a Hemos and a JohnKatz.
Taco should be wearing an anime tee-shirt, and should have his face fixed in one of those crazy wide-eyed crazy-man expressiosn that only he can give.
Hemos should look responsible.
Of course, Katz would come with wearing a flak jacket.
It would be really cool if they operated like that old Transformer set where you could link them all together into some sort of uber toy...I think the ultimate would be if they linked together to form some sort of a real working web-server running Slash or something.
-AP
I want to say up-front that I do not believe that blank media should be taxed. I want to point out the error in your logic.
The key-word in this taxation is compensation (or, whatever that is in French!). This is compensation in the legal sense. This is not the type of type of, "I compensate you for your services or product," type of compensation; it is the you have done wrong upon me under the law and now you must pay me for it.
When O.J. was found guilty in the civil lawsuit put forth against him for killing two people he was forced to compensate the Goldman family. The fact that he compensated them did not make his killings legal.
-AP
Some of these images are breath-takingly beautiful. Does anybody know is even higher resolution versions of these images exist? I would love to spit some of these images out on my wide-format printer for my wall!
Or, really is bandwidth so narrow or is the CCD so small that they only shuttle back ~1MB images from the Cassini?
-AP
Also see my MPLS node on everthing for a short and sweet overview.
-AP
If it's referenced on Slashdot, is it nodevertising?
A good example of this at the other end of the audio frequency spectrum is that you really can't hear notes much lower than 45Hz...however you sure can feel them if they are loud enough; anybody who has woke up to a, "ghetto-blaster," boom-b-boom-b-boom driving through the night knows what I mean. It sort of works in the same way for ultra-high frequencies: the various frequencies bounce around in your ear-canal and create far-out physical harmonies.
-AP
The style of resturant you are actually thinking of is called, "Mongolian Barbeque;" where I am from anyway.
There used to be a real good one just outside of the U of MN campus in Dinkytown. I think it is closed...that's too bad.
-AP
It is amazing to see who makes up all of plaintiffs in the case. Take a gander!
You ain't nothin' but a hounddog, a cryin' all the time! You ain't nothin' but a hound dog...
-AP
I speak a little Japanese from what I took in college, and there are some unique features of the language that might effect syntactical structure.
For instance, the acting verb in a sentence almost always occurs at the end of a sentence. To use English with Japanese grammer, the sentence, "I use Perl," would roughly reconfigure as, "I Perl Use."
This may have the effect on function definition and usage. Perhaps this would be the case:
{
argument++;
} function (&argument) increment;
i = 0;
((i)increment)print;
I think the one other good way to trace or guess as to the syntactic etomology of a programming language would be to look at that nation's written mathimatic syntax, as many computer languages stem from math notations.
-AP
Yes, at compile time. I figure these features are long enough off that the compilers would generate "parallelizable" code that the O/S or some firmware could broker off to different processors or boxes.
It is just a matter of time (how long, who knows!) before we hit the wall on processor speed. It will have to be an intelligent solution that would reach the above aims. It may not be mine, but one thing is for sure: it probably won't be me implementing it!
-AP
Well, I don't think it is possible now. But, what if your compiler had enough smarts to divide register level tasks umongst different processors-- in the worst case-- and vectorize tasks that look like vectors (FFT & the like)? Assuming the current trend of VLIW processors, it might not be too far off in the future that compilers do something like this at a local/SMP level soon through shared-memory.
Of course, you would need a very fast network with low-latency logic in between to probably get a speed gain, unless most of your processing was on very large vectors.
Just what I think, as outlandish as it may be. But wouldn't it be cool?
-AP
Mosix does rule, but I think it is based on the fork() and forget principle. I think it would be even cooler to have something that, given enough bandwidth, would transparently divide up processor time for a single thread/task. Why? Because I want to see ridculous speed for applications I cannot, myself, easily parallelize such as seti@home or commercial codecs.
-AP
...maybe comets erupt more often than we think. How often in the past have we had the ability to resolve the detail of a plume ejected from an erupting comet?
-AP
These should be submitted to the Linux Image Montage Project!
-API hate to sound coy but these processors should maybe not be called, "durons," as they consume a lot of power, which makes me really wary about the lifespan of these products due to the extra heat; less actually overclocking one of these suckers without a refrigeration system. Here is a quote from the sharkyextreme article:
Sharkyextreme goes on to mention that the 16k L1 cache size may attribute to the extra power consumption-- but for a new chip with little air-time it makes me worry.
And don't forget about how reveloutionary the VLIW concept is. Just think about the best case coming out of these new compilers: as long as everything is compiled out to one super-long instruction, it will execute in just one clock tick! Intel is trying to make MHz matter again! Imaging your Quake 3 framesrates then people...
:)
-AP
I'll admit it...you are correct sir!
-AP
I plan to make a bunch of money on the recursive version of this algorithm:
useProduct(&productLeft) {
If (!productLeft) {
buymoreProduct(productLeft);
return;
}
lather();
rinse();
useProduct(productLeft);
}
(c) 2000 AP, Protected Under US Patent#: (patent pending)
To illustrate & agree, I could pull a stupid reference from The Matrix and paraphrase what that lead agent guy said about the first matrix:
I couldn't agree more. Everything in moderation, including moderation-AP
Technology is dividing people in to classes, m'kay? Down with republicans and libertarians, up with liberals-- government funded cooky-cutter computers for everybody to stupify the people into being the same!
Then we can all be stupid and happy together without any class distinction: and we'll have this nifty roll playing game to play!
YAY!
-AP
Here is the official Sony announcement in English.
One interesting note from that page is that it seams as though the LCD panel can ONLY be run from AC power:
*Requires appropriate AC Adapter
Yay! So pointless!
-AP
Here in Japan there is a wire-less data service that is gaining a lot of ground called PIAFS. PIAFS is actually a point-to-point connection-oriented protocol that runs on top of ISDN.
:)
PIAFS supports both 32k and 64k data rates (and within the PIAFS 2.1 spec, it can switch between these rates on the fly depending on signal quality).
With my PIAFS adapter and phone dialed into my ISP, I can pull down stuff at 6kB/s with 120 ms latency
What I like about PIAFS is that:
1) It is here in Japan now.
2) It works and has good geographical coverage (including subways!).
3) The PHS phones that talk PIAFS don't need powerful tranmitters because the antennae are so close together. Battery life is a non-issue. I can use my phone for days without a recharge!
4) You can dial into any ISDN equipment.
However, I am not sure if this is the phone type that this new PS can talk to. Anybody know?
-AP
I think their service is an Internet analog to the many services that provide ways of handling contraband goods.
For instance, let us say you live in a restrictive country, "A," but you are currently visiting country, "B." You find something you would like to buy country B, but cannot legally own it when you are in country A: but you can ship it to a service in country "C!"
Datahaven may be like country C in that you can store your contraband there and access it through someplace in country B without breaking any laws in country A.
But of course, this is all speculation!
-AP