I've been using an iPod for over a year now, and conferring often with many friends who use iPods. We've all come to the conclusion that the iPod shuffle is not entirely random, that it most definately "learns" what songs you prefer: it picks tracks for shuffle based on playcount and last played. iTunes does the same thing, and the data that is used can be transferred from iTunes to an iPod and vice versa (when syncing is on).
I'm not entirely certain if this is still the case, but I heard a few years back that the only effective process we have for seperating pure Hydrogen for use as fuel requires that we use petroleum as the base. In other words, Hydrogen isn't an alternative to Oil, it's just another face of the same Hydra.
I want to play Blood Gulch paintball, CTF that would be ungodly cool. Anyone know any possible sites? I know some civil engineers who could help us build the bases out of concrete...
This line (or so;):
"85. For example, Linux is currently capable of coordinating the simultaneous performance of 4 computer processors. UNIX, on the other hand, commonly links 16 processors and can successfully link up to 32 processors for simultaneous operation. This difference in memory management performance is very significant to enterprise customers who need extremely high computing capabilities for complex tasks. The ability to accomplish this task successfully has taken AT&T, Novell and SCO at least 20 years, with access to expensive equipment for design and testing, well-trained UNIX engineers and a wealth of experience in UNIX methods and concepts."
So they're saying IBM cheated because Linux now do something that took the smartest computational scientists 20 years to achieve, maybe, but that a 20 year old can now understand? Weak.
Blaming this on piracy is a joke, but blaming the complete suckage of music these days on this isn't. If artists are only getting $40,000 a year by releasing an album a year, they have to release an album a year. Yuck.
Great, another piece of hardware/software trying to do more than it should that won't work very well, and be just one more source of blame when things aren't working. Sweet.
Air - Moon Safari (practically the whole album)
Air - the Virgin Suicides Soundtrack (all but the last song)
Does them in everytime.
And also check out:
Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By (if she's edgier, but be careful, you'll know how far to push her)
The biggest pain in the @$$ cross-OS key change is and always has been going between Macs and PCs (sorry for the obligitory use of the general term... would you prefer I called them x86 based machines?) and using Command vs. Control. If they were in the same place on both keyboard layouts it wouldn't be so bad, but they're not. After using a mac I'm always hitting Alt on my PC; and after using a PC I'm always hitting the function key on my mac laptop. It's really quite irritating.
Don't even get me started on those silly Sun keyboards. Damn you Sun Microsystems, I'm port forwarding my Solaris apps over SSH to my OS X box from now on.
They have made a tremendous amount of money due to the ignorance of "moms and dads" who assume that bigger numbers mean faster computer.
Right, the article says "In making such claims, though, Intel might itself be bolstering the arguments its rivals have long been making that chip speed is hardly everything when it comes to gauging processor performance".
Am I the only one who finds this statement hilarious? It almost gives validity to Intel's marketing blitz that claims clock speed is everything. It makes it sound like these "arguments" somehow need Intel to "bolster" them before they will be valid...
Speaking as a slave to Mentor Graphics who has seen Icarus before (you beat me to posting a link), I was wondering if you could offer any insight into how it well it works? Since you seem to have more experience with it than I do I was hoping you could expand on your declaration of Icarus as "competent".
An FPGA is used to design hardware in it's early stages. It allows hardware engineers to define the hardware on a PC, by drawing schematics and writing descriptions in Hardware Description Languages (HDLs) like Verilog and VHDL. The FPGA software on the PC then links to the FPGA itself (through a serial cable or whatever) and programs an "array of gates" to implement the functionality the designers have defined. What this means, essentially, is that it defines the interconnections between prefabbed gates on a chip to cause them to implement the specified logic.
It is used in early stages of hardware design to verify timing and functional correctness, and heavily in education. Sometimes final production products will use FPGAs, but usually only when the production volume is low. This is because FPGAs are more expensive per individual unit than ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits), but ASICs require more expense on design costs.
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anyone got a link to the EFF page of endangered/threatened tech?
It may not be in this case. Google has recently filed a patent application for this technology.
I've been using an iPod for over a year now, and conferring often with many friends who use iPods. We've all come to the conclusion that the iPod shuffle is not entirely random, that it most definately "learns" what songs you prefer: it picks tracks for shuffle based on playcount and last played. iTunes does the same thing, and the data that is used can be transferred from iTunes to an iPod and vice versa (when syncing is on).
fans of D&D and Forgotten Realms should get it.
I'm not entirely certain if this is still the case, but I heard a few years back that the only effective process we have for seperating pure Hydrogen for use as fuel requires that we use petroleum as the base. In other words, Hydrogen isn't an alternative to Oil, it's just another face of the same Hydra.
"Wisconson geeks, take note of your Senators actions!"
Those of us who live in Wisconsin will also take note of your inability to spell the name of our state correctly.what, like turning on logging? doesn't even aim have the ability to do so? just log to a file server...
There is an article up on the register about this - http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/31026.html
I want to play Blood Gulch paintball, CTF that would be ungodly cool. Anyone know any possible sites? I know some civil engineers who could help us build the bases out of concrete...
Even then, the lighter will come in handy.
It also says it's for Mac OS X version 10.1.5, I seem to recall this having been fixed already in the 10.2 update tree, maybe.
Thought it was worth noting, Sprint is up to pretty much the same thing right now:o c=FF-APO-1700&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20030527%2F0818 18105.htm&sc=1700
http://channels.netscape.com/ns/news/story.jsp?fl
This line (or so ;):
"85. For example, Linux is currently capable of coordinating the simultaneous performance of 4 computer processors. UNIX, on the other hand, commonly links 16 processors and can successfully link up to 32 processors for simultaneous operation. This difference in memory management performance is very significant to enterprise customers who need extremely high computing capabilities for complex tasks. The ability to accomplish this task successfully has taken AT&T, Novell and SCO at least 20 years, with access to expensive equipment for design and testing, well-trained UNIX engineers and a wealth of experience in UNIX methods and concepts."
So they're saying IBM cheated because Linux now do something that took the smartest computational scientists 20 years to achieve, maybe, but that a 20 year old can now understand? Weak.
Blaming this on piracy is a joke, but blaming the complete suckage of music these days on this isn't. If artists are only getting $40,000 a year by releasing an album a year, they have to release an album a year. Yuck.
"Whoo" is right. Now you have to pay extra for the privilige of being hit by worms like Slammer.
Great, another piece of hardware/software trying to do more than it should that won't work very well, and be just one more source of blame when things aren't working. Sweet.
this one does ;) seriously, i'd tell this guy to keep looking at the Apple machines.
Air - Moon Safari (practically the whole album) Air - the Virgin Suicides Soundtrack (all but the last song) Does them in everytime. And also check out: Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By (if she's edgier, but be careful, you'll know how far to push her)
The biggest pain in the @$$ cross-OS key change is and always has been going between Macs and PCs (sorry for the obligitory use of the general term... would you prefer I called them x86 based machines?) and using Command vs. Control. If they were in the same place on both keyboard layouts it wouldn't be so bad, but they're not. After using a mac I'm always hitting Alt on my PC; and after using a PC I'm always hitting the function key on my mac laptop. It's really quite irritating. Don't even get me started on those silly Sun keyboards. Damn you Sun Microsystems, I'm port forwarding my Solaris apps over SSH to my OS X box from now on.
Right, the article says "In making such claims, though, Intel might itself be bolstering the arguments its rivals have long been making that chip speed is hardly everything when it comes to gauging processor performance".
Am I the only one who finds this statement hilarious? It almost gives validity to Intel's marketing blitz that claims clock speed is everything. It makes it sound like these "arguments" somehow need Intel to "bolster" them before they will be valid...
If you convert the Ogg algorithms to verilog/vhdl it could...
Speaking as a slave to Mentor Graphics who has seen Icarus before (you beat me to posting a link), I was wondering if you could offer any insight into how it well it works? Since you seem to have more experience with it than I do I was hoping you could expand on your declaration of Icarus as "competent".
It is used in early stages of hardware design to verify timing and functional correctness, and heavily in education. Sometimes final production products will use FPGAs, but usually only when the production volume is low. This is because FPGAs are more expensive per individual unit than ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits), but ASICs require more expense on design costs.
He named the main character Cayce?? Give me a freakin' break! Anybody else remember Neuromancer, where the main characters name was Case....?
If you want their code, read the ROM. It'll be there. So technically, they aren't hiding anything.