"- 67 pre-programmed functions including pick-up, throw, kick, sweep,dance, fart, beltch, rap, and half-a-dozen different kung-fu moves. - Speaks fluent international "caveman". - Three demonstration modes: Disco dance, Rude behavior, and Kung Fu kata.
Well, looks like I'm going to lose my job to a $100 robot.
if these nerve cells (organic) are grown on silicon (not really organic), could these possibly have a computing application as well, instead of bio-tech?
What I wonder, is what the lifespan (or MTF) these silicon "nerve chips" have. After all, if the nerve cells are "grown", they obviously are fed and nurtured in some way. What kind of upkeep and lifespan are we talking here?
If you have a good computer "know-how", you know how to squeeze the maximum performance out of what you have already.
Back when I was a freshman at UC Berkeley, I had a job as a Residential Computing Consultant. You know, tech support. You wouldn't believe how many people had top of the line (at the time) Pentium 3s that felt much, much slower than my AMD K6-2, because their windows installation was stuffed full of stupid utilities, realone, popups, popup blockers, popup blocker blockers, the list goes on.
I am now a unix systems administrator, but to this day, I have yet to buy an athlon, thunderbird, or a pentium 4. My friends always wonder why I'm always on the top of leading edge technology, but alwyas using old, slow, outdated computers. Last computer I really bought was a pentium 3 - it did everything I needed it to do, quickly too. My main workhorse PC is a cyrix 6x86(ugh) 233mhz running freeBSD. Its not as if buying a box with a pentium4 will let me do things I wasn't able to do before - it just does the things I need to be able to do, but faster.
I'm not sure if this will do it, but check out http://www.dialabc.com
Re:Upgrading Chips != More Cheap Horsepower.
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No offense taken.:)
American engines being undertuned - I don't know if they're really "undertuned". I think its just that there's a much, much higher performance ceiling, in general.
For example, the LS1 engine (a great engine, btw), nets about 300-315rwhp bone stock, gets 30mpg on the highway, and still ends up qualifying as a LEV engine. Pretty cool, if you ask me. But I guess it seems as if american engines come "undertuned" because with the sheery displacement, they've got to pull a few strings to fall under emissions regulations.
Just my two cents.:) (and btw: big engine with FI is the best of both worlds! I myself hope to own a '03 cobra or a mkiv supra one day).
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On a non turbo'ed car, gains from an upgraded "chip" will not net you much horsepower at all, definitely not enough to warrant the cost of a new chip.
In an n/a car, a new ecu will really not do much unless there have been significant changes in the airflow of the engine - i.e aftermarket cam, nitrous, etc. And usually with that, the fuel injectors and system should be upgraded to prevent the mixture from leaning out and causing detonation/pinging.
Either way, turbo cars benefit a hell of a lot from an upgraded ECU, but for an n/a car, the chip is just the "icing on the cake" after a hefty round of modifications. For example, I drive a 1995 camaro z28. When I had the average boltons (headers, intake, exhuast), I decided to go witih a more aggressive camshaft and larger ratio roller rockers for more valve lift. I netted about 20-25rwhp hp from the camshaft and valvetrain upgrade. Once I sent my PCM in to be reflashed with a new program suited for the cam, I gained another ~20rwhp.
Chips aren't the only thing making cars go fast these days. If I had a turbo car, the first thing I'd buy after intake/exhaust is a chip. On an n/a car, the chip comes far later.
what about the betamax copying case? According to courts, its ok to record the broadcast onto a tape. Isn't that considered copying a copyrighted work?
P2P is a perfectly legal technology, its just a network protocol! When these courts and RIAA talk about P2P, they speak as if P2P itself is illegal. No.. its just the distribution of "illegal goods" that is illegal, not the P2P network itself.
One gripe I have is that the courts and RIAA seem to completely disregard the Copyright Act of 1976. According to that act, redistribution of files were ok as long as it was under "Fair Use". The "Fair Use" guidelines evaaluated the "infringement" upon 4 categories:
1 - Purpose: Is the proposed copying for commercial or non-profit use?
2 - Nature: Is the copied work factual, or creative?
3 - Relative amount: How much of the original work is being copied?
4 - Effect: What is the market effect of the alleged copying?
For criteria 1, 2, and 3, we can already allege that mp3 trading on P2P networks is "Fair use". As for #4, the RIAA claims that they're losing $1 billion per year in revenue since P2P filesharing increased starting in 1999. What they don't tell you, is that the number of new records released by the RIAA fell sharply after 1999. How can they expect to make the same amount of revenue while cutting the number of new releases? Their logic defies me.
I hope that this court hearing goes well, for P2P's sake. P2P networks have a lot more use and purpose than just mp3 sharing, and I'd hate to see network after network being shot down by the RIAA and the courts.
So many people are so quick to complain about the hardware "monopoly" apple has. OSX only runs on apple hardware - why can't we buy cheap, faster PC hardware instead?
I think this model is a double edged sword for apple. But if you think about the benefits, I really don't mind paying the extra $$$. Apple knows exactly what kind of hardware is in what platform, and it is just a small set of hardware to support. We don't have to deal with APIs with layers of drivers piled upon it. All the hardware works together very well, and is packaged together very nicely as well. As a result, you fire up OSX, OSX knows what to expect, and you have everything working right out of the box.
If you're concerned about competitive hardware and bargain prices, use a PC - hardware has only gotten faster, and cheaper. But if you don't mind paying the extra dough and settling with hardware that isn't bleeding edge/top of the line, but would like somethign that works, buy an apple.
I hate to bring in the age-old, cliche cars to computers analogy, but I'd much rather have a well built all-around car with parts that work together. You could buy the fastest engine, turbocharge it, but put on a crappy transmission with some incorrect gear rations and you're going to be running into a lot of problems.
Eh.. I'll stop ranting here. So pretty much, I don't feel any guilt using OSX, although I miss hacking around in linux once in a while. I guess that's what yellowdog linux is for.:)
You know, after the Challenger was lost, my birthdays were never the same. My birthday happens to fall on the 28thof Jan, and everytime that date comes around, I remember the Challenger and its tragedy.
The crew of the Columbus are heroes. I've always wanted to be an astronaut, but to be honest, the fact of flying at tens of thousands of miles per hour, hundreds of miles above the atmosphere, in a small manmade spacecraft scares the shit out of me.
Amazing, but very sad article to read. My hats go off to the crew of the Columbus, as well as the Challenger. I'll probably be thinking more of the Challenger and Columbus, my birthday is nothing in regards to the tragedies.
Keep in mind google didn't release it - its just a side project by a guy named Orkut, who happens to work at google. I guess google decided to back him a bit though, as the bottoms of the pages say "affiliated with google, inc.".
oh, i wasn't aware of that. I thought there were soundclips of him saying it in an interview floating around, but I guess those aren't very trustworthy.
I took my x-box controller and tied a 15lbs barbell to it. Now I'm fit and healthy, thanks to my healthy 8 hour/day dosage of xbox gaming. Who needs a kilowatt controller?
Are you so insecure that you have to comment anonymously on other people's meaningless, yet harmless quips to make yourself feed better about yourself? May I suggest taking a very powerful microscope and finding the small piece of meat in between your legs?
Microsoft filed suit against the website Michael Robertson, owner of Lindows and a strong anti-Microsoft voice, will undoubtedly be disappointed with the ruling.
But you have to consider - the iBook comes with a combodrive that can burn CDs, as well as read DVDs. The powerbooks that are even thinner, come with a superdrive that'll read/write DVDs and read/write CDs. Slot loading, too!
On top of that, you get DVI output, firewire ports, and usb ports too. I couldn't see what this new Sony laptop had (site is slashdotted), but looking at the images, it seems pretty bare-boned. Does it even come with a mouse/trackpad, or do you have to use the external USB mouse they provide?
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"- 67 pre-programmed functions including pick-up, throw, kick, sweep,dance, fart, beltch, rap, and half-a-dozen different kung-fu moves.
- Speaks fluent international "caveman".
- Three demonstration modes: Disco dance, Rude behavior, and Kung Fu kata.
Well, looks like I'm going to lose my job to a $100 robot.
it isn't $600. :)
with your UID, I don't doubt you one bit. :)
if these nerve cells (organic) are grown on silicon (not really organic), could these possibly have a computing application as well, instead of bio-tech?
What I wonder, is what the lifespan (or MTF) these silicon "nerve chips" have. After all, if the nerve cells are "grown", they obviously are fed and nurtured in some way. What kind of upkeep and lifespan are we talking here?
I agree as well. Offtopic, but here's my 2 cents.
If you have a good computer "know-how", you know how to squeeze the maximum performance out of what you have already.
Back when I was a freshman at UC Berkeley, I had a job as a Residential Computing Consultant. You know, tech support. You wouldn't believe how many people had top of the line (at the time) Pentium 3s that felt much, much slower than my AMD K6-2, because their windows installation was stuffed full of stupid utilities, realone, popups, popup blockers, popup blocker blockers, the list goes on.
I am now a unix systems administrator, but to this day, I have yet to buy an athlon, thunderbird, or a pentium 4. My friends always wonder why I'm always on the top of leading edge technology, but alwyas using old, slow, outdated computers. Last computer I really bought was a pentium 3 - it did everything I needed it to do, quickly too. My main workhorse PC is a cyrix 6x86(ugh) 233mhz running freeBSD. Its not as if buying a box with a pentium4 will let me do things I wasn't able to do before - it just does the things I need to be able to do, but faster.
I'm not sure if this will do it, but check out http://www.dialabc.com
No offense taken. :)
:) (and btw: big engine with FI is the best of both worlds! I myself hope to own a '03 cobra or a mkiv supra one day).
American engines being undertuned - I don't know if they're really "undertuned". I think its just that there's a much, much higher performance ceiling, in general.
For example, the LS1 engine (a great engine, btw), nets about 300-315rwhp bone stock, gets 30mpg on the highway, and still ends up qualifying as a LEV engine. Pretty cool, if you ask me. But I guess it seems as if american engines come "undertuned" because with the sheery displacement, they've got to pull a few strings to fall under emissions regulations.
Just my two cents.
On a non turbo'ed car, gains from an upgraded "chip" will not net you much horsepower at all, definitely not enough to warrant the cost of a new chip.
In an n/a car, a new ecu will really not do much unless there have been significant changes in the airflow of the engine - i.e aftermarket cam, nitrous, etc. And usually with that, the fuel injectors and system should be upgraded to prevent the mixture from leaning out and causing detonation/pinging.
Either way, turbo cars benefit a hell of a lot from an upgraded ECU, but for an n/a car, the chip is just the "icing on the cake" after a hefty round of modifications. For example, I drive a 1995 camaro z28. When I had the average boltons (headers, intake, exhuast), I decided to go witih a more aggressive camshaft and larger ratio roller rockers for more valve lift. I netted about 20-25rwhp hp from the camshaft and valvetrain upgrade. Once I sent my PCM in to be reflashed with a new program suited for the cam, I gained another ~20rwhp.
Chips aren't the only thing making cars go fast these days. If I had a turbo car, the first thing I'd buy after intake/exhaust is a chip. On an n/a car, the chip comes far later.
Everyone is saying not to look at the code for fear of "contamination". I say look at the code, so that you know how not to write your code.
Maybe they can use a 20hz tone and just accidentally aim it at the nearby Honda facility. :)
Brown noise, anyone?
what about the betamax copying case? According to courts, its ok to record the broadcast onto a tape. Isn't that considered copying a copyrighted work?
I don't get why P2P is under fire.
P2P is a perfectly legal technology, its just a network protocol! When these courts and RIAA talk about P2P, they speak as if P2P itself is illegal. No.. its just the distribution of "illegal goods" that is illegal, not the P2P network itself.
One gripe I have is that the courts and RIAA seem to completely disregard the Copyright Act of 1976. According to that act, redistribution of files were ok as long as it was under "Fair Use". The "Fair Use" guidelines evaaluated the "infringement" upon 4 categories:
1 - Purpose: Is the proposed copying for commercial or non-profit use?
2 - Nature: Is the copied work factual, or creative?
3 - Relative amount: How much of the original work is being copied?
4 - Effect: What is the market effect of the alleged copying?
For criteria 1, 2, and 3, we can already allege that mp3 trading on P2P networks is "Fair use". As for #4, the RIAA claims that they're losing $1 billion per year in revenue since P2P filesharing increased starting in 1999. What they don't tell you, is that the number of new records released by the RIAA fell sharply after 1999. How can they expect to make the same amount of revenue while cutting the number of new releases? Their logic defies me.
I hope that this court hearing goes well, for P2P's sake. P2P networks have a lot more use and purpose than just mp3 sharing, and I'd hate to see network after network being shot down by the RIAA and the courts.
So many people are so quick to complain about the hardware "monopoly" apple has. OSX only runs on apple hardware - why can't we buy cheap, faster PC hardware instead?
:)
I think this model is a double edged sword for apple. But if you think about the benefits, I really don't mind paying the extra $$$. Apple knows exactly what kind of hardware is in what platform, and it is just a small set of hardware to support. We don't have to deal with APIs with layers of drivers piled upon it. All the hardware works together very well, and is packaged together very nicely as well. As a result, you fire up OSX, OSX knows what to expect, and you have everything working right out of the box.
If you're concerned about competitive hardware and bargain prices, use a PC - hardware has only gotten faster, and cheaper. But if you don't mind paying the extra dough and settling with hardware that isn't bleeding edge/top of the line, but would like somethign that works, buy an apple.
I hate to bring in the age-old, cliche cars to computers analogy, but I'd much rather have a well built all-around car with parts that work together. You could buy the fastest engine, turbocharge it, but put on a crappy transmission with some incorrect gear rations and you're going to be running into a lot of problems.
Eh.. I'll stop ranting here. So pretty much, I don't feel any guilt using OSX, although I miss hacking around in linux once in a while. I guess that's what yellowdog linux is for.
oops, I meant Columbia. Was in class and typed out the response as I listened to a lecture, haha. I'm dumb.
You know, after the Challenger was lost, my birthdays were never the same. My birthday happens to fall on the 28thof Jan, and everytime that date comes around, I remember the Challenger and its tragedy.
The crew of the Columbus are heroes. I've always wanted to be an astronaut, but to be honest, the fact of flying at tens of thousands of miles per hour, hundreds of miles above the atmosphere, in a small manmade spacecraft scares the shit out of me.
Amazing, but very sad article to read. My hats go off to the crew of the Columbus, as well as the Challenger. I'll probably be thinking more of the Challenger and Columbus, my birthday is nothing in regards to the tragedies.
Godspeed.
Keep in mind google didn't release it - its just a side project by a guy named Orkut, who happens to work at google. I guess google decided to back him a bit though, as the bottoms of the pages say "affiliated with google, inc.".
oh, i wasn't aware of that. I thought there were soundclips of him saying it in an interview floating around, but I guess those aren't very trustworthy.
Thanks for the URL.
Bill Gates also forecasted that 640KB should be "enough for anybody".
I don't think I should believe him, but the force sure is compelling..
I took my x-box controller and tied a 15lbs barbell to it. Now I'm fit and healthy, thanks to my healthy 8 hour/day dosage of xbox gaming. Who needs a kilowatt controller?
Are you so insecure that you have to comment anonymously on other people's meaningless, yet harmless quips to make yourself feed better about yourself? May I suggest taking a very powerful microscope and finding the small piece of meat in between your legs?
I would love to continue using windowshade X, but once I use exposee's "view desktop", the icons come back enlarged and out of size.
:)
Minor glitch, but annoying for me, since I use exposee all the time.
The double-control window transparency is really awesome, though.
then it shouldn't hurt HP/ATI/Compaq to advertise their laptop parts as having a 9000 chipset, not a 9200.
Microsoft filed suit against the website Michael Robertson, owner of Lindows and a strong anti-Microsoft voice, will undoubtedly be disappointed with the ruling.
sorry, but what does that mean?
[i]That's okay, I really don't want it.[/i]
:)
Give it to me! I'll whore it on ebay for $3500 and buy 2 12" Powerbooks for the price.
But you have to consider - the iBook comes with a combodrive that can burn CDs, as well as read DVDs. The powerbooks that are even thinner, come with a superdrive that'll read/write DVDs and read/write CDs. Slot loading, too!
On top of that, you get DVI output, firewire ports, and usb ports too. I couldn't see what this new Sony laptop had (site is slashdotted), but looking at the images, it seems pretty bare-boned. Does it even come with a mouse/trackpad, or do you have to use the external USB mouse they provide?