The functional programming language Haskell already handles infinite lists. It is no problem since you don't have to allocate or compute any data until the program actually uses it - lazy evaluation.
Quantum computing would handle infinite lists even more efficiently since only the correct answer would have to be evaluated.
So the induced charge results in an electrostatic force that breaks the equilibrium and forces the spheres to move.
Another inefficient way to create a motor is to run a current through a ball bearing into the axis. If the current is large enough the contact areas of the balls will be heated and expand which forces the balls to rotate sligthly, starting the motor.
Dr Martin Cooper placed the first cellular phone call, to a rival scientist
Don't you realize that this scenery implies that the rival scientist had to get the cellphone first, Dr Martin Cooper must have been second to be able to make the first call...
CF is not really equal to flash, it's a special format created by Sandisk that emulates ATA disks.
Pretec has announced a CF-card with 6 GB of flash at Cebit (lowering the price of the 3 GB ones)
Since the ATA protocol needs some interface circuits it can probably be adapted to larger sizes and if size is the only thing that matters you can always try to connect a normal harddrive with an adapter.
Since it's been over a year since someone saw working SVG on Mozilla, using IE as a workaround must be acceptable. No, Native SVG on Mozilla isn't kicking yet.
Besides... Imagine what a programmer would do if his program had to work first time around (no chance to test).
Much better: Reprogrammable Co-processors
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Gzip on a PCI card
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A lot of computing records over the years have been set vector computers or other specialized hardware. Putting that power on a PCI-card like this gzip-solution and in addition making the algorithm reprogrammable and reconfigurable you get:
Mitron Co-processor on a PCI-card.
FPGA enhances PC
You don't have to be a logic constructor to make use of FPGA-chips. Using a normal PCI-card and a compiler from the innovation startup Flow Computing in Lund, programming in Flow's dialect of C is enough.
- We can make a normal PC do calculations that otherwize would have needed supercomputers of large Linux-clusters, said Josef Macznik on Carlstedt Research & Technology, a company that invested and works together with Flow Computing.
The main idea is parallelism. That implies that the PC hardware has to be added in some way,
since normal PC-processors works sequentially and normal programs are written to be executed in that way.
Flow has chosen to use normal PCI-cards.
The cards are equipped with an FPGA-chip from Xilinx with two million gates, but the size of the
chip can be selected depending on requirements according to Josef Masznik.
The corporate secret lies in the compiler. Software has to be written in Flows own variety of C, and the compiler can decide which processes that wins the most on parallell execution, configuring the FPGA for maximum efficiency.
- The user don't see the FPGA-chip and don't really have to know what kind of hardware there is on the card. We are directed towards programmers - that's where the market is, said Josef Macznik.
Flows solution is currently used by a bioinformationcompany in Lund. But the technology can according to the company be used for all purposes where the computing power in a PC needs to be multiplied using parallelism ane where the effort to adapt their programs to the special variety of C is worthwhile.
There's a Dr. Mario clone for GBA called Vitamins that you can download at http://www.gbadev.org/
Its 18KB so it ought to fit in one of those 4 MB cartridges. Since that is an expensive solution its really sad that noone has exploited the possibility to download games into the GBA without a cartridge, that it would need the copyrighted Nintendo logo is just a sad example of abuse of copyrights.
Flash+RAM if what they mean is a move to permanent storage and applications executions space seems like a move towards a more PC-like setup.
Without better support for XIP (execute in place) Linux have seemed to fit less well on portables needing more memory than necessary.
Now with support of applications executed from CF cards and the like (and maybe a Swap partition) wouldn't this make us run in circles around standard PDA's.
Of course this doesn't mean that this is the best way to do things on a PDA. Is the Sharp solution backing away from what's really suitable for a handheld or has the new approach been made possible by getting closer to XIP?
It's the duty of paying leechers to put up mirrors for us other people. When they are at it I think the 10 minute head start would be good enough to put up a totally free mirror of slashdot aswell:)
Though to handle both slashdot and slashdotted sites I guess a highly efficient p2p network would be needed to accomodate the load.
"You may notice that TV and monitor sizes are always given as a diagonal measurement because the aspect ratio is known."
Ouch, you may not have noticed Widescreen TV's. Using the same diagonal measurement you can sell these at a higher price since you get a longer diagonal for the same area compared to the old 4:3 aspect ratio. Like Megapixels this is just a marketing trick which not everybody have been cool about...
Though, I must admit that the actual number of pixels isn't really as deceptive. You could argue that a small increase in x and y resolution is advertised as 4x the change, but at least it encourages improvement.
The trend around here is that temporary
worker providers is getting into more and
more advanced markets, and the positions filled
can't always be said to be temporary.
When one of these companies are hired for
recruiting services for their customers you can get disclaimers that the applications can be used for statistical or 'corporate purposes within the said firm.
Isn't it a more immediate threat that more and more information is processed by these kind of middlemen with no real ethics of their own other than to find new ways to earn money. I think that any data could be used for data-mining, and if you have to attach disclaimers of your own to prevent it I can't see that it will be some rare exceptions...
Anyone using CSS at all would be aware of bug in every browser, even Opera: Real-world example
There are no chance that they would have gone through the process to server different code to different browsers without testing it out afterwards.
IE on macintosh is reported to work very good, and there are XML engine updates for Windows to download. This all points to the fact that microsoft is very capable of actually supporting the standards, but we also know that standards would give people no reason to prefer IE over some other browser.
Adobe's SVG viewer has been incompatible to mozilla since version 1.0. They obviously used an unfroozen API and haven't come up with a new version since.
Ballistic doesn't refer to any new physical principle. It's the fact that the nickel layer is just a few nm thick that removes statistical properties such as resistance since there just aren't enough atoms in the thin layer for electrons to collide with, hence ballistic electrons. Prepare for ballistic transistors when they grow sufficiently small.
Well freestyle was a Sony trademark once, but since people started to use it for any portable casetteplayer it got into dictionaries and isn't usable for trademarks anymore. Liberate your language!
Slashdot Mirror
My CD-R produces a lot of coasters,
can they be used for some thing less useful than coasters...
The functional programming language Haskell already handles infinite lists. It is no problem since you don't have to allocate or compute any data until the program actually uses it - lazy evaluation.
Quantum computing would handle infinite lists even more efficiently since only the correct answer would have to be evaluated.
So the induced charge results in an electrostatic force that breaks the equilibrium and forces the spheres to move.
Another inefficient way to create a motor is to run a current through a ball bearing into the axis. If the current is large enough the contact areas of the balls will be heated and expand which forces the balls to rotate sligthly, starting the motor.
Dr Martin Cooper placed the first cellular phone call, to a rival scientist
Don't you realize that this scenery implies that the rival scientist had to get the cellphone first, Dr Martin Cooper must have been second to be able to make the first call...
CF is not really equal to flash, it's a special format created by Sandisk that emulates ATA disks.
Pretec has announced a CF-card with 6 GB of flash at Cebit (lowering the price of the 3 GB ones)
Since the ATA protocol needs some interface circuits it can probably be adapted to larger sizes and if size is the only thing that matters you can always try to connect a normal harddrive with an adapter.
Since it's been over a year since someone saw
5 67 #c30
working SVG on Mozilla, using IE as a workaround
must be acceptable.
No, Native SVG on Mozilla isn't kicking yet.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133
Besides... Imagine what a programmer would do if his program had to work first time around (no chance to test).
A lot of computing records over the years have been set vector computers or other specialized hardware. Putting that power on a PCI-card like this gzip-solution and in addition making the algorithm reprogrammable and reconfigurable you get: Mitron Co-processor on a PCI-card.
has been traditional areas for these kinds of devices, but with the new FPGA's and PCI-express on the horizon I can see it becoming usable for even more specialized applications.
Here is a crude translation of an article in Swedish ( Source Elektroniktidningen)
FPGA enhances PC
You don't have to be a logic constructor to make use of FPGA-chips. Using a normal PCI-card and a compiler from the innovation startup Flow Computing in Lund, programming in Flow's dialect of C is enough.
- We can make a normal PC do calculations that otherwize would have needed supercomputers of large Linux-clusters, said Josef Macznik on Carlstedt Research & Technology, a company that invested and works together with Flow Computing.
The main idea is parallelism. That implies that the PC hardware has to be added in some way, since normal PC-processors works sequentially and normal programs are written to be executed in that way.
Flow has chosen to use normal PCI-cards. The cards are equipped with an FPGA-chip from Xilinx with two million gates, but the size of the chip can be selected depending on requirements according to Josef Masznik.
The corporate secret lies in the compiler. Software has to be written in Flows own variety of C, and the compiler can decide which processes that wins the most on parallell execution, configuring the FPGA for maximum efficiency.
- The user don't see the FPGA-chip and don't really have to know what kind of hardware there is on the card. We are directed towards programmers - that's where the market is, said Josef Macznik.
Flows solution is currently used by a bioinformationcompany in Lund. But the technology can according to the company be used for all purposes where the computing power in a PC needs to be multiplied using parallelism ane where the effort to adapt their programs to the special variety of C is worthwhile.
Moral, they really need the beer-producing energy-source in Saudi Arabia.
This must be the next biggest market for anything, second just to TV-shop marketing.
There's a Dr. Mario clone for GBA called Vitamins that you can download at http://www.gbadev.org/
Its 18KB so it ought to fit in one of those 4 MB cartridges. Since that is an expensive solution its really sad that noone has exploited the possibility to download games into the GBA without a cartridge, that it would need the copyrighted Nintendo logo is just a sad example of abuse of copyrights.
Flash+RAM if what they mean is a move to permanent storage and applications executions space seems like a move towards a more PC-like setup.
Without better support for XIP (execute in place) Linux have seemed to fit less well on portables needing more memory than necessary.
Now with support of applications executed from CF cards and the like (and maybe a Swap partition) wouldn't this make us run in circles around standard PDA's.
Of course this doesn't mean that this is the best way to do things on a PDA. Is the Sharp solution backing away from what's really suitable for a handheld or has the new approach been made possible by getting closer to XIP?
Ahh the switch and match games.
It's finally time for "Barcode battlers" to get cool.
It's the duty of paying leechers to put up mirrors :)
for us other people. When they are at it I think the 10 minute head start would be good enough to put up a totally free mirror of slashdot aswell
Though to handle both slashdot and slashdotted sites I guess a highly efficient p2p network would be needed to accomodate the load.
But I'm not sure that we are convinced enough to make Spatula City successfull in Europe.
If you still think we should use spatulas, why don't you send a Virtual Spatula to prove your case.
Ouch, you may not have noticed Widescreen TV's. Using the same diagonal measurement you can sell these at a higher price since you get a longer diagonal for the same area compared to the old 4:3 aspect ratio. Like Megapixels this is just a marketing trick which not everybody have been cool about...
Though, I must admit that the actual number of pixels isn't really as deceptive. You could argue that a small increase in x and y resolution is advertised as 4x the change, but at least it encourages improvement.
The trend around here is that temporary worker providers is getting into more and more advanced markets, and the positions filled can't always be said to be temporary.
When one of these companies are hired for recruiting services for their customers you can get disclaimers that the applications can be used for statistical or 'corporate purposes within the said firm.
Isn't it a more immediate threat that more and more information is processed by these kind of middlemen with no real ethics of their own other than to find new ways to earn money. I think that any data could be used for data-mining, and if you have to attach disclaimers of your own to prevent it I can't see that it will be some rare exceptions...
I'm glad you decided to come out in the open with this ;)
Anyone using CSS at all would be aware of bug in
every browser, even Opera: Real-world example
There are no chance that they would have gone through the process to server different code to different browsers without testing it out afterwards.
IE on macintosh is reported to work very good, and there are XML engine updates for Windows to download. This all points to the fact that microsoft is very capable of actually supporting the standards, but we also know that standards would give people no reason to prefer IE over some other browser.
Adobe's SVG viewer has been incompatible to mozilla since version 1.0. They obviously used an unfroozen API and haven't come up with a new version since.
;)
Though it still works nice with IE
Ballistic doesn't refer to any new physical principle. It's the fact that the nickel layer is just a few nm thick that removes statistical properties such as resistance since there just aren't enough atoms in the thin layer for electrons to collide with, hence ballistic electrons. Prepare for ballistic transistors when they grow sufficiently small.
... the tornado in a can and we don't need to think about where to put all that chicken slaughter waste anymore.
Your english might be curious if you learn it from popular movies.
Otherwise you might not be able to view your film collection 30 years from now...
It's open source peer-to-peer and handles exactly the problem of distributed serving.
Well freestyle was a Sony trademark once, but since people started to use it for any portable casetteplayer it got into dictionaries and isn't usable for trademarks anymore.
Liberate your language!