I got this rule somewhere, and it seems to work for filtering out the gif spam for me:
If the "content-type" header contains "multipart/related", classify as spam (and not in address book, previous recipients, etc).
Don't know exactly what this implies, but seems to be working for me, otherwise I would be getting tons of gif spam that passed my server's spam assassin and my e-mail client's bayes filter.
The desktop probably won't see much from having a realtime kernel. A RTOS is great for integrating certain types of hardware, such as data acquisition systems, which can be time dependent. We use RTAI Linux at the lab for time-accurate data acquisition and control system in robotic applications. Most 'desktop' processes do not really depend on time; video and audio playback do, though without a RTOS video/audio play just fine. I do not believe you need kHz-MHz resolution for any desktop application for timing.
Not to be pessimistic, but I question the quality of Intel's development in the India branch. In India, especially engineers in the big cities, there is a tremendous amount of hiring going on. People do not stay at one job for too long, and there is a lot of turnover. In addition, the Intel branch will be mostly getting the 'B' class engineers, as the 'A' class are already in the US! I think a lot has to stabilize before we will see any fruits in development areas from India.
I agree with the parent; although not as nice of an interface, Fugu is actually fast for SFTP. I can only get at most 1MB/s in cyberduck on a local network SFTP transfer, and full rate with Fugu.
If computer science isn't about computers, what is it about?
I was rather under the impression that computer science was the theory of computation, where the computer is simply a tool; just as much as a soldering iron is a tool in electrical engineering.
Top 500 has lists going back to 1993; back then the fastest supercomputer listed showed 60 Gigaflops. This is probably a little faster, but on the same order of magnitude, of a high-end desktop today (I am just estimating, as I cannot find general linpack scores in under 3 minutes). So perhaps give or take a 15-year span; that is, an average computer in the present is as fast as the fastest computer in the world of 15 years back.
The thermal problem is something with the way the thermal paste is applied on the CPU, not the number of fans it has. Besides, light detection hardware, i.e. a photoresistor, costs pennies and fits on a screwhead.
Speaking of being blinded to alternatives... It damn well does matter what is running and what isn't. Every program you have spinning its wheels in the background is eating up memory. I don't want a copy of Visio or Word running in the background when I am trying to play a game, when I close it, I want it to close. If it doesn't close, or I leave it open, I want an indication of that.
VM has been around for ages, and I hope you've heard of, swapping to the disk (and with disk sizes these days, does it even matter?). Of course Windows has the tendency of swapping everything to the disk if you, for an instance, look the other way (not true of other OSes). Anyhow with this, memory is freed for apps that really need it; and I presume your computer has more than 64mb ram and 0.5 gb disk space.
You do know you can customize that right? First off, I would recommend going back to the classic menu (I prefer this myself).
Customizing is entirely out of the point; the fact that Windows' default configuration is slow is at fault. What if every single setting in Windows was in some slow mode, but you can customize it (considering that in any default installation of windows, I routinely disable things like excessive visual effects, hiding of icons, telling I'm not allowed to browse into C:\Windows, unnewbifing the file search function, removing the fisher price theme, etc)? This just points to the fact that it isn't designed well from the start.
Well, duh, the MBP flexes, aluminum isn't the stiffist material in the world. Sure you can make your laptop case out of ceramic or some stiff material; but ductile materials provide more shock absorption. The fact that it flexes has little to do with its build quality.
The test you mention isn't the same as the test of this article; in the one you mention, there is a training period involved to determine which key is to be pressed. In this situation, one will improve time after subsequent uses (getting used to pressing which key for which input... if you've played DDR, you'll know what I mean), however in the test mentioned in this article, it does not appear there will be a training period.
It should be noted that 'cures for blindness' are only useful in people who have developed their visual systems; that is, people who were not blind during their early ages when the brain was very plastic. For those who are blind all their life, suddenly gaining the sense of vision is pretty much useless; the person is still effectively blind as their brain has not developed the meaning of vision, and how to use it.
And soon enough, we'll have a Paperboy revolution! I just hope Nintendo dummy-proofs their controllers so that when I miss and throw it into the toilet, it's all good.
One has to wonder if Claude.A even counts as a Mac virus. It's targeted at a particular application, Word, which is made by *gasp* Microsoft! The same company that makes Windows!
It should be noted that there are numerous Mac viruses for Classic (though not nearly as many as there are for Windows), and are rather rare (I remember being infected by Sevendust at one point many years ago).
It's kind of silly to have a super-realistic model for defining the phases of a particular medium, in a virtual game. That's not the point of a game at all. These algorithms are also probably very intensive; i.e. expect >1 frame/minute or more for a simple model.
Realistically, an approximation will be used to simulate any phase changes in a game, probably a very simple algorithm.
If you look at the specifications, the brightness and contrast ratio is higher on the Dell screen than the Apple (unless they are exaggerated). So they could be different.
Actually, Valrie is dead. Her hard drive crashed, and no backups were found (can you believe that! here, at CMU! not backing up a simple thing). I believe they are trying to do the desparate hard disk recovery protocols; maybe Valerie will be back one day.
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I got this rule somewhere, and it seems to work for filtering out the gif spam for me:
If the "content-type" header contains "multipart/related", classify as spam (and not in address book, previous recipients, etc).
Don't know exactly what this implies, but seems to be working for me, otherwise I would be getting tons of gif spam that passed my server's spam assassin and my e-mail client's bayes filter.
The desktop probably won't see much from having a realtime kernel. A RTOS is great for integrating certain types of hardware, such as data acquisition systems, which can be time dependent. We use RTAI Linux at the lab for time-accurate data acquisition and control system in robotic applications. Most 'desktop' processes do not really depend on time; video and audio playback do, though without a RTOS video/audio play just fine. I do not believe you need kHz-MHz resolution for any desktop application for timing.
Not to be pessimistic, but I question the quality of Intel's development in the India branch. In India, especially engineers in the big cities, there is a tremendous amount of hiring going on. People do not stay at one job for too long, and there is a lot of turnover. In addition, the Intel branch will be mostly getting the 'B' class engineers, as the 'A' class are already in the US! I think a lot has to stabilize before we will see any fruits in development areas from India.
It obviously results in a Quantum Fireball...
I agree with the parent; although not as nice of an interface, Fugu is actually fast for SFTP. I can only get at most 1MB/s in cyberduck on a local network SFTP transfer, and full rate with Fugu.
I was rather under the impression that computer science was the theory of computation, where the computer is simply a tool; just as much as a soldering iron is a tool in electrical engineering.
Hi Bill!
Posting on slashdot for financial advice, wow, I never thought you'd do it. But I think if you bought enough chairs...
Top 500 has lists going back to 1993; back then the fastest supercomputer listed showed 60 Gigaflops. This is probably a little faster, but on the same order of magnitude, of a high-end desktop today (I am just estimating, as I cannot find general linpack scores in under 3 minutes). So perhaps give or take a 15-year span; that is, an average computer in the present is as fast as the fastest computer in the world of 15 years back.
And these snobbish attitudes are exactly the reason why linux has difficulty in desktop penetration and overall mindshare.
The thermal problem is something with the way the thermal paste is applied on the CPU, not the number of fans it has. Besides, light detection hardware, i.e. a photoresistor, costs pennies and fits on a screwhead.
VM has been around for ages, and I hope you've heard of, swapping to the disk (and with disk sizes these days, does it even matter?). Of course Windows has the tendency of swapping everything to the disk if you, for an instance, look the other way (not true of other OSes). Anyhow with this, memory is freed for apps that really need it; and I presume your computer has more than 64mb ram and 0.5 gb disk space.
You do know you can customize that right? First off, I would recommend going back to the classic menu (I prefer this myself).
Customizing is entirely out of the point; the fact that Windows' default configuration is slow is at fault. What if every single setting in Windows was in some slow mode, but you can customize it (considering that in any default installation of windows, I routinely disable things like excessive visual effects, hiding of icons, telling I'm not allowed to browse into C:\Windows, unnewbifing the file search function, removing the fisher price theme, etc)? This just points to the fact that it isn't designed well from the start.
You clearly have not read the patent. There was something about chains, locks, and first born children in there.
Well, duh, the MBP flexes, aluminum isn't the stiffist material in the world. Sure you can make your laptop case out of ceramic or some stiff material; but ductile materials provide more shock absorption. The fact that it flexes has little to do with its build quality.
Well, 'pico' tech would essentially refer to the atomic/subatomic scale; we already have a word for that - Quantum.
The test you mention isn't the same as the test of this article; in the one you mention, there is a training period involved to determine which key is to be pressed. In this situation, one will improve time after subsequent uses (getting used to pressing which key for which input... if you've played DDR, you'll know what I mean), however in the test mentioned in this article, it does not appear there will be a training period.
Of course, Ford also owns Aston Martin, so they have their own super luxury brand.
It should be noted that 'cures for blindness' are only useful in people who have developed their visual systems; that is, people who were not blind during their early ages when the brain was very plastic. For those who are blind all their life, suddenly gaining the sense of vision is pretty much useless; the person is still effectively blind as their brain has not developed the meaning of vision, and how to use it.
And soon enough, we'll have a Paperboy revolution! I just hope Nintendo dummy-proofs their controllers so that when I miss and throw it into the toilet, it's all good.
It's great to see that a laptop with 2 cd drives, 4 usb ports, etc etc still does not have a full-fledged 6-pin firewire port.
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One has to wonder if Claude.A even counts as a Mac virus. It's targeted at a particular application, Word, which is made by *gasp* Microsoft! The same company that makes Windows!
It should be noted that there are numerous Mac viruses for Classic (though not nearly as many as there are for Windows), and are rather rare (I remember being infected by Sevendust at one point many years ago).
It's kind of silly to have a super-realistic model for defining the phases of a particular medium, in a virtual game. That's not the point of a game at all. These algorithms are also probably very intensive; i.e. expect >1 frame/minute or more for a simple model.
Realistically, an approximation will be used to simulate any phase changes in a game, probably a very simple algorithm.
If you look at the specifications, the brightness and contrast ratio is higher on the Dell screen than the Apple (unless they are exaggerated). So they could be different.
Where have you been? The 'Mighty Mouse' has 4 'buttons' already.
Actually, Valrie is dead. Her hard drive crashed, and no backups were found (can you believe that! here, at CMU! not backing up a simple thing). I believe they are trying to do the desparate hard disk recovery protocols; maybe Valerie will be back one day.