I sort of like the current Antec cases with the extra space, quick access side panels, etc. I use them for some systems I have built for people because of easy availability via the chain stores and local outlets.
Point being, if there is a problem, then the owner has a place they can drive to, which is important. This qualifies as the equivalent of a ford or chevy solution (vs a yugo solution)
PC Power and Cooling has attracted advocates with a religious level dedication, especially the quality of their power supplies.
They also have this chart on what various components draw is very useful for figuring out how much power you need. Worth a bookmark in itself.
Mr. Sarnoff next gave a little talk, in which he cheerfully, and with enormous self-effacement, admitted that the real problem of television was not its mechanical vagaries but finding programs for it when it finally gets ironed out
I can count the number of hours worth watching each week on the fingers of one hand, which means I am not getting cable anytime soon.
so they should make echelon's results freely available to the public, with a nifty web search interface. It just might lead to more honesty and faster progress...
I don't know, but life would be very interesting if every politicians life were more an open book.
But then there is the problem of only saints would be qualified for public office. and who would volunteer, or be wise enough?
Looking back over time, it is interesting to look at the history of electronic intelligence and survellience.
I seem to remember that when the US was the only one with surveillance satellites, countries like Ruissia got very very nervous and upset about it, claiming the violation of airspace, etc.
With the advent of the first Russian spy satellites, things got a lot easier. and dealing with the Russians was easier, because they could verify things with their own spy satellites. They didn't have to take the US word on things.
You didn't have a situation of someone saying "Trust Us"
I wonder if a similar situation will exist with other forms of surverlliance as they develop. Countries tend to get nervous when there are a lot of secrets involved, especially their own. While countries probably can justify secrets, I imagine that life will be easier when there is some sort of parity.
This would be especially interesting in seeing about the average citizen getting some parity with his/her/its government.
if convicted of all counts, Royer and Elgindy could receive 65 years in prison. Wingate faced up to 45 years in prison if convicted, and the other defendants, Cleveland and Troy Peters, each could be given 40-year prison terms.
If only we had similar penalities for spammers.
I wish I could make a joke about Wingate, (there has to be one someplace) but I don't realy have enough coffee in me yet.
"a senior Microsoft Corp. executive [who] told a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. He later acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed."
Which would be a national security threat?
And they wonder why the Pentagon is Doubtful?
It certainly doiesn't sound like something worthy of milspec regulations.
I imagine that the uniqueness of content would be an issue, given the generic nature of the products involved (spray on sun tan lotion). On other hand, an FAQ on a unique situation could be very differnt depending on the author.
a FAQ on someone like Bill Gates, or Bill Clinton, or GWB, etc would vary greatly depending on the viewpoint of the author. With points for style, this would certainly make it copyrightable.
Game consoles historically do one of two things. They live long, healthy lives with software support for many years (the original Playstation still does brisk business today, and just dropped to $49), or they die horrible, horrible deaths when the console sales stagnate and software publishers run screaming (Sega Dreamcast). If sales stagnate, a console will die.
Some seem to think that it doesn't matter if Microsoft loses millions or billions on the XBox, because they will just release the XBox 2, and everybody will buy that, according to some larger Microsoft "strategy" to "own the living room". Game consoles don't work that way, for some reason. If the XBox goes the way of the Dreamcast, nobody... NOBODY is going to be clamoring for the XBox 2 (how many millions of people are eagerly awaiting Dreamcast 2? That's right, zero million.)
Now if only we can get MS to keep throwing money away....
The things I actually do tend to vary, the last couple of weeks have involved playing Illuminati and practicing my world domination skills (one win, one joint win out of two)
I almost wonder if his is a space alien (like something out of Men in Black). I wonder which one he would be.
In any case, it sounds like he has been putting his courses in improvisational science and cultural reconfiguration to good use.
Explorer 'euphoric' at rescue
A Scottish explorer who had been stranded on an ice floe at the North Pole is said to be euphoric after he is rescued.
Marooned explorer's last gasp rescue
A Scots explorer marooned on an ice floe near the North Pole has been rescued after calling for help via e-mail.
Polar Scot's life or death dash
A stranded Scots explorer must travel 100km in eight days to be rescued from an expedition to the North Pole.
Explorer vows to cheat death
A Scots adventurer says he is not scared as he faces a race against time to be rescued from a solo expedition to the North Pole.
Scot abandons pole trek
A Scottish explorer has abandoned his attempt to be the first person to walk solo from Canada to the North Pole.
Scots Marine heads for North Pole
A Royal Marine from Stonehaven is racing against time and the weather to complete the UK's first unsupported walk to the North Pole.
Delivery of the riches brings up an interesting point - the use of the Moon as a military base. It is relatively easy to start tossing large rocks that plunge to earth with high impact results. Aiming the things is a little delicate, however.
Unfortunately, this is not the moral High Ground.
I seem to recall something on this written by some science fiction author someplace. I am sure some military planners someplace are sweating over this right now.
The math is a bit complicated, but I've been able to compress it into one line of pseudocode. Can you should me where the bug is? --
For all X, Explanation(X) = if X makes sense then change X until it doesn't, otherwise return bogus reason for X.
The bug is you use the value "makes sense", when the proper value is "it works". You used a philosophical term when an engineering term is more appropriate.
Some elements which are interesting are the capture of enemy pieces. this is worse than mere attrition, because in the hands of an opponent, they can be dropped on the board from "out of the Sky" almost like a para trooper. This can be fun, but is very different than chess.
The thing is, is that chess is sufficiently small in dimensions and variety of pieces that it achieves a certain sparness of balance compared to Shogi, which is more complex in a variety of ways.
A good way for testing computer intelligence would to have a computer playing shogi, and become expert in it's use. Point being here is that there are not alot of western experts in Shogi, and so the possibility for an AI to learn the game beyond the obvious potemtial knoledge of the western experts is interesting
This is going to be a good thing, just because there is a central location to verify if something is public domain, or what kind of license they are using, etc.
This is a good thing.
Unless various legislation sponsored by the xxAA's gets passed, making greed mandatory
I suspect that there would be a comment on it that says:
Does not get along well with others
While talented, and extremely bright, MS has an inflated sense of self, and sometimes shows bullying behavior on the playground, and has difficulty in respecting the rights and property of others. This offers some concern for the future development of MS. MS displays developmental problems, conforming to what used to be called a "spoiled child", a symptom of ineffective parenting, with an inadequate example being set in the home.
Possibly MS would wind up in foster care, being assigned to a parent that could both set a better example, and provide the proper discipline to encourage growth as a reponsible citizen.
Just a wild day dream before the morning coffee kicks in.
The researchers have already begun testing the technology on video of Ted Koppel, anchor of ABC's ''Nightline,'' with the aim of dubbing a show in Spanish, according to Tony F. Ezzat, the graduate student who heads the MIT team. Yet as this and similar technology makes its way out of academic laboratories, even the scientists involved see ways it could be misused: to discredit political dissidents on television, to embarrass people with fabricated video posted on the Web, or to illegally use trusted figures to endorse products.
This about somes it up for me....
Although imagining Ted Kopel speaking in spanish is a riot.
I remember being in europe some place, listening to the BBC for ten minutes on a shortwave radio, desperately trying to understand what the guy was saying through all of the static. It then occurred to me that the announcer was speaking in spanish in a really thick and proper british accent. The accent was so strong it threw me off, between the static, and everything.
So I wonder if Koppel would even be understanding.
just idle speculation, but it sounds like it sounds like you have infighting between various factions, such as idealists, business types, and some folks who are now facing the music about becoming another dot-bomb. No one likes being bought out by another company. I can imagine the board room scenes as it spins out of control.
I hope people were able to salt away money as a cushion for their future.
Typically, when you boost the performance of one parameter of a system, you do not see the change taking place uniformly across the system. If you increase performance 33% percent, then all other related components should also be increased to see an equivalent boost.
One easy example of this is, for example, email downloads on a dial up modem. Try it with the same 56k modem in an earlier PI or PII vs a newer high end machine. The time to download your 100 email of spam will be much much faster on the new system, even tho it is in fact the same modem.
so minimal change in performance is not that unusual, although I would have expected to see something more.
I imagine it is something similar to to when the MMX feature came out in the Pentiums. If you didn't have software written to explicitly take advantage of the feature, the perfomance boost was minimal. I can even remember doing benchmarkes to processors of different makes and models, running at the same clock speed. Often the the performance boost was only 10 or 15 % between generations, everything else being equal.
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Point being, if there is a problem, then the owner has a place they can drive to, which is important. This qualifies as the equivalent of a ford or chevy solution (vs a yugo solution)
PC Power and Cooling has attracted advocates with a religious level dedication, especially the quality of their power supplies.
They also have this chart on what various components draw is very useful for figuring out how much power you need. Worth a bookmark in itself.
another tool for budding mad scientists around the world. arghhhhh.
Even more so now that researchers are looking for numbers 23 and 24.
Strange stuff indeed. That is the problem with this class of metaphysician. reality intrudes from time to time.
I can count the number of hours worth watching each week on the fingers of one hand, which means I am not getting cable anytime soon.
I don't know, but life would be very interesting if every politicians life were more an open book.
But then there is the problem of only saints would be qualified for public office. and who would volunteer, or be wise enough?
I seem to remember that when the US was the only one with surveillance satellites, countries like Ruissia got very very nervous and upset about it, claiming the violation of airspace, etc.
With the advent of the first Russian spy satellites, things got a lot easier. and dealing with the Russians was easier, because they could verify things with their own spy satellites. They didn't have to take the US word on things.
You didn't have a situation of someone saying "Trust Us"
I wonder if a similar situation will exist with other forms of surverlliance as they develop. Countries tend to get nervous when there are a lot of secrets involved, especially their own. While countries probably can justify secrets, I imagine that life will be easier when there is some sort of parity.
This would be especially interesting in seeing about the average citizen getting some parity with his/her/its government.
If only we had similar penalities for spammers.
I wish I could make a joke about Wingate, (there has to be one someplace) but I don't realy have enough coffee in me yet.
"a senior Microsoft Corp. executive [who] told a federal court last week that sharing information with competitors could damage national security and even threaten the U.S. war effort in Afghanistan. He later acknowledged that some Microsoft code was so flawed it could not be safely disclosed."
Which would be a national security threat?
And they wonder why the Pentagon is Doubtful?
It certainly doiesn't sound like something worthy of milspec regulations.
a FAQ on someone like Bill Gates, or Bill Clinton, or GWB, etc would vary greatly depending on the viewpoint of the author. With points for style, this would certainly make it copyrightable.
Some seem to think that it doesn't matter if Microsoft loses millions or billions on the XBox, because they will just release the XBox 2, and everybody will buy that, according to some larger Microsoft "strategy" to "own the living room". Game consoles don't work that way, for some reason. If the XBox goes the way of the Dreamcast, nobody... NOBODY is going to be clamoring for the XBox 2 (how many millions of people are eagerly awaiting Dreamcast 2? That's right, zero million.)
Now if only we can get MS to keep throwing money away....
I almost wonder if his is a space alien (like something out of Men in Black). I wonder which one he would be.
In any case, it sounds like he has been putting his courses in improvisational science and cultural reconfiguration to good use.
Unfortunately, this is not the moral High Ground.
I seem to recall something on this written by some science fiction author someplace. I am sure some military planners someplace are sweating over this right now.
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Postulate 1: Knowledge is power
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Postulate 2: Time is money
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As every engineer knows, Power = Work/Time
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Since: Knowledge = Power and Time = Money, then: Knowledge = Work/Money
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Solving for Money, we get:
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Money = Work/Knowledge
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Thus, as knowledge approaches zero, money approaches infinity regardless of work done.
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Conclusion: The less you know, the more you make (but then you probably knew that already).
There is this addendumThe bug is you use the value "makes sense", when the proper value is "it works". You used a philosophical term when an engineering term is more appropriate.
The thing is, is that chess is sufficiently small in dimensions and variety of pieces that it achieves a certain sparness of balance compared to Shogi, which is more complex in a variety of ways.
A good way for testing computer intelligence would to have a computer playing shogi, and become expert in it's use. Point being here is that there are not alot of western experts in Shogi, and so the possibility for an AI to learn the game beyond the obvious potemtial knoledge of the western experts is interesting
I mean, what does it take to get the attention of some folks?
This is a good thing.
Unless various legislation sponsored by the xxAA's gets passed, making greed mandatory
Sadly this is the way alot of teenage angst comes across.
Angst and anger while being trained to be a member of the elite Jedi doesn't say much for his upbringing.
Just a wild day dream before the morning coffee kicks in.
This about somes it up for me....
Although imagining Ted Kopel speaking in spanish is a riot.
I remember being in europe some place, listening to the BBC for ten minutes on a shortwave radio, desperately trying to understand what the guy was saying through all of the static. It then occurred to me that the announcer was speaking in spanish in a really thick and proper british accent. The accent was so strong it threw me off, between the static, and everything.
So I wonder if Koppel would even be understanding.
So when you introduce your future children or grand children to the Star Wars saga, in which order will you show the films?
On the order they were shot (4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3), or in the order of the story (1, 2, 3, 4 ,5, 6)?
I hope people were able to salt away money as a cushion for their future.
Strange, I thought that the proposal was one of the most rational proposals I have heard yet.
Speaks volumes about character of Hilary Rosen.
One easy example of this is, for example, email downloads on a dial up modem. Try it with the same 56k modem in an earlier PI or PII vs a newer high end machine. The time to download your 100 email of spam will be much much faster on the new system, even tho it is in fact the same modem.
so minimal change in performance is not that unusual, although I would have expected to see something more.
I imagine it is something similar to to when the MMX feature came out in the Pentiums. If you didn't have software written to explicitly take advantage of the feature, the perfomance boost was minimal. I can even remember doing benchmarkes to processors of different makes and models, running at the same clock speed. Often the the performance boost was only 10 or 15 % between generations, everything else being equal.