I'll start off devils advocate, if I may, but I'll meet you in the middle later...
The Transmeta 'code morphing' is not actually that great an intellectual leap! OK, now I've annoyed the fans of it I'll try to pacify them.
It takes a few reasonably well used components - hardware, firmware, and software - and then implements them together without requiring any software component.
I'm sure that the brains behind it were fully aware of the intricacies of :
- Microcode.
I have it from an Motorola engineers mouth that there were 8 different test 68000 implementations that differend only in microcode - one of which would decode x86 instructions (endianness-corrected, of course)!
The x86 of course also having plenty of micro code too (for stuff such as 'REP', 'LOCK' etc.) x386->uops has of course been around for 5 years in itself.
- Emulation:
What did Apple do when they moved over to PPC? Got some UK wizzkids to implement a JIT emulator (rewriting in machine code, so only translated one) for the old 68K code that was already out there.
What did Dec do when they got in bed with Microsoft? Implemented a feedback-optimising
emulator. It runs great, and the feedback is so good it runs better on only the second time round (further improvements are very small, as it's optimised all the most important bits already). This Fx32 emulator/translator/optimiser is _brilliant_. The engineers were rocket scientists.
OK, so Transmeta have rolled it all into one, with the cherry on top being the fact that the self-optimisation is in real-time.
Yes it's cool. Yes it is one of the coolest recent developments. However, don't forget the Motorola/Intel/DEC guys who've done some equally brilliant work in their time.
(Now is not the time to bring management-oriented Intel muck-ups into the argument. Even brilliant engineers produce broken products if the budgets and deadlines and other requirements are unfavourable. So praise where it is due, they do have _some_ good engineers you know...)
FatPhil --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
"
That's a very narrow-minded view you have. There are reasons that some jokes (racist, sexist, etc.) aren't funny. This particular joke happens to be unfunny and disrespectful to these people who have put in a lot of work developing the Itanium.
"
What about the _groundbreaking_ genii who were responsible for the development of the 4004. Nowadays 64-bit is catch-up technology; the late eighties and early nineties were when you should have been paying chip designers their due respect.
FatPhil
(who's been 64bit for quite a while now...) --
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Sounds remarkably like a LASER
on
Stop, Light.
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· Score: 1
"
Using a distantly related but much more powerful effect, the Walsworth-Lukin team first slowed and then stopped the light in a medium that consisted of specially prepared containers of gas. In this medium, the light became fainter and fainter as it slowed and then stopped. By flashing a second light through the gas, the team could essentially revive the original beam.
"
Send light into the lasable medium (ruby/gas/whatver), the quanta are absorbed. Then stimilate (the second flash) and the quanta are released again.
I can see a fair bit of similarity, no?
My physics may be a little rusty so please correct me.
Phil --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
But you're violating the terms and conditions by doing that.
I registered as 'idonotcomply', thus indicating to them that I do not comply with the terms and conditions, and generously they let me use the service even though I don't comply.
FP. --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
I've looked at your web page which claims to be something related to "humour". Why was your sense of it so dulled when you read and replied to my post earlier? Look up 'irony' in an etymological dictionary please. It even contained _two_ incongruities. Sheesh!
Having said that:
http://www.amishshoppingmall.com/
FatPhil --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Or the optical equivalent of it. CDs rely on distinguishing between a reflection and not-a-reflection of the laser light. There are many dBs between the two levels on pressed CDs. On burnt CDs the 'mirror' ain't as shiny, and the dull bit, ain't as dull.
Try different brands of CD-R, or ones burnt on different recorders, perhaps.
I wouldn't put it down to malice ab initio.
FatPhil --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
In the UK, a 'pro' is common parlance for prostitute, certainly.
However, I'm not sure I agree with your 'easy to identify' statement. Here are the 'obvious' meanings (to me) of some of the other TLDs.
.com - communes, man. Or for commies.
.biz - bizarre things.
.mil - the Amish, and other grain workers.
.org - orgies
FatPhil --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Re:No more unsightly spots...
on
Nano-pants
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· Score: 1
If you put them on inside out, does the liquid all accumulate on the inside?
Eugh!
FP.
--
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Re:Another alternative to Gore-Tex?
on
Nano-pants
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· Score: 1
The answer is to not sweat.
If you're sweating at 0F or lower, then you are asking for trouble. Gore-Tex and breathable materials aren't the solution - unzipping your top layer before you start to sweat is. Your target is to _maintain_ your body temperature. If your clothes force you to try to lose heat they're wrong.
You're right about strategic (armpit) zips (velcro etc.) certainly, they're a big help.
FatPhil
(my birthday 1994, half an hour walk home at -25F, brrr!) --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Remember, the binary symbols are much shorter than radix-10 ones, as you don't have to error detect/correct between 10 different symbols. You could stick one bit in 4 pixels and have better error resistance.
Mapping the whole thing into base 10 is anthropocentric nonsense (no disrespect to the Babylonians)
The aliens will read it, see the first page and say "these stupid creatures can't decide which base to use"...
FP.
--
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
"
Where the very laws that the Lord decreed cannot be used to determine behaviour?
"
Troll. I'll bite.
Not that line though, but this one:
"
... if laws apply, they should apply everywhere!
"
We don't have "laws" as such. We have models. The models apply well in most situations. Black holes break our normal models. That doesn't mean that any intrinsic laws of physics are broken, it means our present model isn't capable enough, that's all.
FatPhil --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Primes are not 'frequently of the form 2^x-1'.
Number of that form are _less_ likely is if anything then to be prime than other arbitrary numbers of the same size.
The reason the larges primes we know are frequently of that form is because they are the currently the (equal) easiest to prove. (You can use the Lucal-Lehmer test rather than Proth's Theorem, or the Brillhart-Lehmer-Selfidge test).
What's worse is that the messag is a lie! That's not the largest known prime, and hasn't been for well over a year.
Grrrr....
FatPhil --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
I don't believe one information theorist, mathematician or engineer was behind this.
Their use of '010' and '101' to make 0s and Xs is not particularly resistant to transmission errors.
Loss of sync makes makes them far closer.
The most resistant code is '111' for 1 and '000' for 0.
Quite why they decided to waste space explaining base 10 is an anathema to me. They've used unary (the small 2x2 dots) and binary (the 'ox' stuff) already, why confuse matters with a third radix.
They're a couple of years out of date w.r.t. the larges prime known too.
Note - the single pixel border isn't a single pixel - it's 2 pixels wide. One is on one line, the other os on the next line. TVs don't put half of the colourburst on one side of the frame and one half of it on the other side of the frame, does it?
FatPhil --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
"
telnetted from Romania to FishNet, a Ventura, California-based Internet service provider. Once he obtained highest-level "root" access at FishNet, the
"
...
"
"Fortunately, he wasn't too bright because he left a lot of trails," said Bill Benefield, a system administrator with FishNet.
"
So he haxored your machine and _you_ think _he_'s not too bright? That man should become a polititian...
FP. --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
"
- vendor independant
"
No way Jose!
Only the vendors who can cough up the money to participate can claim official SPEC results. Until quite recently, that didn't even include AMD!
FatPhil
--
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
A third _necessary_ criteria for something to be vaporware is that there's no corroborated evidence for the product.
Developers have had pre-release 2.4s for ages. (and I don't mean the things called 'pre-release', they are simply the final stages before release, there are dozens of iterations before actual release)
Ipso facto 2.4 was never vaporware, it was simply delayed.
FP. --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
I censored myself as the previous reference had been censored. It's also in the Slashdot advice on posting to moderate ones language.
I know it's cranky. I realised I was doing it, and it felt a bit weird.
"Try not to swear on Slashdot unless really wound up", is my maxim.
FP.
--
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
How do you rate the following as reasons for the PPCs lower market share:
- Apple's restrictive (often non-existant) licensing/OEM policy.
- Linux only reaching PPC relatively recently.
i.e.
- could linux have saved the PPC from its unfair minority fate?
FatPhil
(who happily runs AlphaLinux on another 'minority' CPU) --
Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Slashdot Mirror
I'll start off devils advocate, if I may, but I'll meet you in the middle later...
The Transmeta 'code morphing' is not actually that great an intellectual leap! OK, now I've annoyed the fans of it I'll try to pacify them.
It takes a few reasonably well used components - hardware, firmware, and software - and then implements them together without requiring any software component.
I'm sure that the brains behind it were fully aware of the intricacies of :
- Microcode.
I have it from an Motorola engineers mouth that there were 8 different test 68000 implementations that differend only in microcode - one of which would decode x86 instructions (endianness-corrected, of course)!
The x86 of course also having plenty of micro code too (for stuff such as 'REP', 'LOCK' etc.) x386->uops has of course been around for 5 years in itself.
- Emulation:
What did Apple do when they moved over to PPC? Got some UK wizzkids to implement a JIT emulator (rewriting in machine code, so only translated one) for the old 68K code that was already out there.
What did Dec do when they got in bed with Microsoft? Implemented a feedback-optimising
emulator. It runs great, and the feedback is so good it runs better on only the second time round (further improvements are very small, as it's optimised all the most important bits already). This Fx32 emulator/translator/optimiser is _brilliant_. The engineers were rocket scientists.
OK, so Transmeta have rolled it all into one, with the cherry on top being the fact that the self-optimisation is in real-time.
Yes it's cool. Yes it is one of the coolest recent developments. However, don't forget the Motorola/Intel/DEC guys who've done some equally brilliant work in their time.
(Now is not the time to bring management-oriented Intel muck-ups into the argument. Even brilliant engineers produce broken products if the budgets and deadlines and other requirements are unfavourable. So praise where it is due, they do have _some_ good engineers you know...)
FatPhil
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
"
That's a very narrow-minded view you have. There are reasons that some jokes (racist, sexist, etc.) aren't funny. This particular joke happens to be unfunny and disrespectful to these people who have put in a lot of work developing the Itanium.
"
What about the _groundbreaking_ genii who were responsible for the development of the 4004. Nowadays 64-bit is catch-up technology; the late eighties and early nineties were when you should have been paying chip designers their due respect.
FatPhil
(who's been 64bit for quite a while now...)
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
"
Using a distantly related but much more powerful effect, the Walsworth-Lukin team first slowed and then stopped the light in a medium that consisted of specially prepared containers of gas. In this medium, the light became fainter and fainter as it slowed and then stopped. By flashing a second light through the gas, the team could essentially revive the original beam.
"
Send light into the lasable medium (ruby/gas/whatver), the quanta are absorbed. Then stimilate (the second flash) and the quanta are released again.
I can see a fair bit of similarity, no?
My physics may be a little rusty so please correct me.
Phil
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
But you're violating the terms and conditions by doing that.
I registered as 'idonotcomply', thus indicating to them that I do not comply with the terms and conditions, and generously they let me use the service even though I don't comply.
FP.
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
I've looked at your web page which claims to be something related to "humour". Why was your sense of it so dulled when you read and replied to my post earlier? Look up 'irony' in an etymological dictionary please. It even contained _two_ incongruities. Sheesh!
Having said that:
http://www.amishshoppingmall.com/
FatPhil
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Or the optical equivalent of it. CDs rely on distinguishing between a reflection and not-a-reflection of the laser light. There are many dBs between the two levels on pressed CDs. On burnt CDs the 'mirror' ain't as shiny, and the dull bit, ain't as dull.
Try different brands of CD-R, or ones burnt on different recorders, perhaps.
I wouldn't put it down to malice ab initio.
FatPhil
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
In the UK, a 'pro' is common parlance for prostitute, certainly.
However, I'm not sure I agree with your 'easy to identify' statement. Here are the 'obvious' meanings (to me) of some of the other TLDs.
.com - communes, man. Or for commies.
.biz - bizarre things.
.mil - the Amish, and other grain workers.
.org - orgies
FatPhil
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
If you put them on inside out, does the liquid all accumulate on the inside?
Eugh!
FP.
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
The answer is to not sweat.
If you're sweating at 0F or lower, then you are asking for trouble. Gore-Tex and breathable materials aren't the solution - unzipping your top layer before you start to sweat is. Your target is to _maintain_ your body temperature. If your clothes force you to try to lose heat they're wrong.
You're right about strategic (armpit) zips (velcro etc.) certainly, they're a big help.
FatPhil
(my birthday 1994, half an hour walk home at -25F, brrr!)
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
OK, you've compared unary to radix-1000.
You've forgotten binary.
Remember, the binary symbols are much shorter than radix-10 ones, as you don't have to error detect/correct between 10 different symbols. You could stick one bit in 4 pixels and have better error resistance.
Mapping the whole thing into base 10 is anthropocentric nonsense (no disrespect to the Babylonians)
The aliens will read it, see the first page and say "these stupid creatures can't decide which base to use"...
FP.
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Why bring pure maths into a physics thread?
FatPhil
(a pure mathematician)
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
"
Where the very laws that the Lord decreed cannot be used to determine behaviour?
"
Troll. I'll bite.
Not that line though, but this one:
"
... if laws apply, they should apply everywhere!
"
We don't have "laws" as such. We have models. The models apply well in most situations. Black holes break our normal models. That doesn't mean that any intrinsic laws of physics are broken, it means our present model isn't capable enough, that's all.
FatPhil
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
It's one louder
FP.
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Cynic!
It's not just indirect evidence - there's an "Artist's Concept" too.
Peanut butter comes in jars. Jam comes in jars. Therefore peanut butter is jam. (Jello)
FP.
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
There are two ways. Symmetry doesn't work
I_think
_that_U
_should
_see_my
_point.
I_thi
nk_th
at_U_
shoul
d_see
_my_p
oint.
Of course correlation measures will tell them which is more likely.
FatPhil
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Primes are not 'frequently of the form 2^x-1'.
Number of that form are _less_ likely is if anything then to be prime than other arbitrary numbers of the same size.
The reason the larges primes we know are frequently of that form is because they are the currently the (equal) easiest to prove. (You can use the Lucal-Lehmer test rather than Proth's Theorem, or the Brillhart-Lehmer-Selfidge test).
What's worse is that the messag is a lie! That's not the largest known prime, and hasn't been for well over a year.
Grrrr....
FatPhil
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
I don't believe one information theorist, mathematician or engineer was behind this.
Their use of '010' and '101' to make 0s and Xs is not particularly resistant to transmission errors.
Loss of sync makes makes them far closer.
The most resistant code is '111' for 1 and '000' for 0.
Quite why they decided to waste space explaining base 10 is an anathema to me. They've used unary (the small 2x2 dots) and binary (the 'ox' stuff) already, why confuse matters with a third radix.
They're a couple of years out of date w.r.t. the larges prime known too.
Note - the single pixel border isn't a single pixel - it's 2 pixels wide. One is on one line, the other os on the next line. TVs don't put half of the colourburst on one side of the frame and one half of it on the other side of the frame, does it?
FatPhil
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
"
telnetted from Romania to FishNet, a Ventura, California-based Internet service provider. Once he obtained highest-level "root" access at FishNet, the
"
...
"
"Fortunately, he wasn't too bright because he left a lot of trails," said Bill Benefield, a system administrator with FishNet.
"
So he haxored your machine and _you_ think _he_'s not too bright? That man should become a polititian...
FP.
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
Remind me about Lolo Ferrari's tits.
Having said that - I've just discoved the solution to the Undernet DDoS problem - drive the tosser to commit suicide...
FP.
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
" - vendor independant " No way Jose! Only the vendors who can cough up the money to participate can claim official SPEC results. Until quite recently, that didn't even include AMD! FatPhil
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
A third _necessary_ criteria for something to be vaporware is that there's no corroborated evidence for the product.
Developers have had pre-release 2.4s for ages. (and I don't mean the things called 'pre-release', they are simply the final stages before release, there are dozens of iterations before actual release)
Ipso facto 2.4 was never vaporware, it was simply delayed.
FP.
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
I censored myself as the previous reference had been censored. It's also in the Slashdot advice on posting to moderate ones language.
I know it's cranky. I realised I was doing it, and it felt a bit weird.
"Try not to swear on Slashdot unless really wound up", is my maxim.
FP.
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
In order to further obscure the documents being stored, these different networks should cooperate with each idea, and occasionally swap files.
Not only would you not know what machine a file was on, but you also wouldn't even know what network it was on, or what protocol was managing it!
FatPhil
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
How do you rate the following as reasons for the PPCs lower market share:
- Apple's restrictive (often non-existant) licensing/OEM policy.
- Linux only reaching PPC relatively recently.
i.e.
- could linux have saved the PPC from its unfair minority fate?
FatPhil
(who happily runs AlphaLinux on another 'minority' CPU)
-- Real Men Don't Use Porn. -- Morality In Media Billboards
"
Stupid f'ckhead "Dotcomguy"
"
That's what I like to see, straight and too the point.
FP.
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