If by some slim chance a beetle is born with this highly unlikely combination, that beetle would kick some serious ass and mate, and thus the progression.
Careful there, evolution doesn't work that way. Complex systems simply do not spring into existence in one generation. (There is a chance a human eye could have appeared in one generation, but it is something like 10 to the power of a 100 digit number.)
It takes tens, even hundreds of thousands of generations for species to change, diverge, evolve. It takes selection pressure. It takes lots of things to create the complex space that genomes move through.
Thinking in terms of a dinosaur one day hatching a feathered offspring isn't evolution.
Read "The Blind Watchmaker" by Dawkins. Great read, doesn't get boring, and I'm not a biologist.
yes, that is good example. i was thinking embedded, but from what I've read coming out of EEMBC (www.eembc.com), embedded processors are superbeefy too.
however, handhelds (like the linux wristwatch) are growing in computing power... architectures are becoming more power savvy (strongARM)... and battery technology is improving... so maybe the same trend will occur.
You make a valid point, and I think the answer depends on the balance at the time.
Right now code is out of control -- just look at how easy it is to simply throw lines of source at a problem until it is solved. It is the easiest method because CPUs continue getting faster -- the burden is on the CPU designers.
However, once gains in CPU power stall, there will be no choice but for developers to take stock of their bloaty code and make changes. Having recently attended a panel with the original implementors from Atari, it is very clear that necessity drives invention and creativity.
right now there is simply no need for creative coding w.r.t. efficiency. there may not be a need for a long time.
Achieve super high speeds for super short durations to impress the spectators.
What do you mean? It runs at 4.7 GHz.
a) that's not even close to super-high b) how is it a super-short duration?
if you've been paying attention for longer than 2 years you will clearly notice that EVERY processor intel demonstrates becomes mainstream in a few quarters. period. they've never failed.
I'm wondering where the woman carrying this discussion comes into play. You appear to forget that she is more than a petri dish for your thought experiment. That starting cell is a part of her the same way a fingernail or a skin cell is, since the latter may eventually be reverted to a "totipotent" cell, would you afford equal protection to every cell in her body? Would you imprison her for getting a haircut?
I love when men argue about what can and can't be done with a woman's body.
An earlier point said would you charge a woman with murder for exercising too hard and losing her zygote. So you're telling me that's it's "natural causes" when she exercises and doesn't know she's pregnent, but then becomes murder after she skips her first period and willfully works out too hard?
I'm not convinced of your argument that it is a life.
Furthermore, what if we "err" on the side of pro-life: what if she can't afford to raise it? Will you pay her child support? Will you adopt the child? Or would you support laws that would bring more suffering into the world?
Just a few q's that make it hard for me to be pro-life.
Pick up any gangsta rap album (of any ethnicity), and you'll probably hear something like:
"Let me aks you niggaz sump'n, a'ight?"
That's how languages evolve, deal with it.
Anyone who says "dude", "man", "gonna" or "ain't" is guilty of contributing to the change of english. No one speaks Chaucerian or Shakespearian or even Coleridge-ian anymore! And it's perfectly acceptable in the real world. For better or for worse.
Fuck, look at how badly George W mutilites the language. Ever notice when Newspapers quote him, they always type what he "meant" to say, versus what he actually said? Only liberal papers insert the [sic].
And rap is hardly to blame -- I also blame Cyndi Lauper and her vowel reversal trend that started all this!
(My apologies, as I'm not sure if the n-bomb is offensive or not in this context, i'm just a Benneton(tm) white-boy who thinks he's PC)
Heh heh, back when the Computer Shopper listed all major BBSs (and was the size of a phone book). Oh the porn we had -- 320x200 CGA, baby!
Anyone remember what that BBS game was that involved you taxing peasents and training lords and taking over other people, but you could only play once a day? It was on a whole bunch of BBS's...
I hear that from friends. I'm in the same camp. I waited for 1GHz piii's to drop below $150 so I could run Linux fanless with a matrox 2d card. I'm a coder not a gamer -- I want quiet!
I looked at the cappucino (at thinkgeek.com), but it was too expensive (yeah, I'm a cheapskate!). You might be interested in it.
I think her suggested list applies to a lot more than voting. She deserves a lot of credit, because work like hers is the dirty work no one ever wants to do... real nuts-and-bolts stuff that takes lots of thought.
I love it -- Take that all you kiddies who say "duh, how hard could it be? I could do it in perl in an afternoon, i'm so huge!" huge you are!;)
True true -- hacking the ROM is conceivable, especially if the keys are in the BIOS.
I was more referring to patching windows. It's hard enough writing device drivers even after taking MS sponsored classes, I would think it would be quite an effort to hack a patch into windows, especially now that they're on to us, er, them (the hackers).
I went to an Atari panel with Owen Rubin and he told us about the traps he would put into game ROM so that companies couldn't tear out the Atari logo and steal the code. Keep in mind he made it nearlyu impossible to reverse engineer a patch in only TWO KILOBYTES of code. If someone like him were to obfuscate a windows kernel... ugh!
I guess I'm really just skeptical of the ability of hackers. Don't get me wrong -- if I was a religious man I would say that I pray someone breaks palladium. I just don't see that skillset posting on/.
(I'm also partially speaking in deliberate terms [trolling/baiting] to stoke the fires of hackers that read this, to get them ready for the task nearly at hand... I've got the karma)
Palladium _will_ be broken. Unless they implement the whole of the operating system on hardware, palladium's software side will be hacked quite soon (remember the XBox).
The Xbox didn't require hardward tokens to decrypt code entering the core. Palladium will be broken, but not by software hackers -- people will need a logic analyzer and dedicated hardware on the busses to defeat it. Perhaps something you plug your DRAM into. Of course, that would be a circumvention device which would be considered terrorism under Clinton's legislation being enforced by Ashcroft...
Of course, if a s/w hacker breaks RSA/DiffHlmn then we don't have to worry...
Dude, if you think AMD isn't developing the same thing, you are sorely mistaken.
Everyone wants security, and any CPU that offers security features will immediately have a competitive advantage.
The battle between AMD and Intel is ferocious right now, why do you thing AMD is taking it in the shorts by manufacturing a 2MB Athlon core? This feature is a HUGE cost hit simply because they need to be competitive.
Think they will let a competitive security feature slide, not a chance!
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Sorry to be redundant, but I think this argument benefits from restating the obvious:
I still play D&D with the same books I recieved as birthday presents TWENTY YEARS AGO. The only thing I've purchased repeatedly are new dragon dice! (How many of you salivate when you hear the term "dragon dice"?).
I haven't purchased a new D&D book since Dieties and Demigods!
I just wish I hadn't written my name all over my books with a big red crayon...
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If by some slim chance a beetle is born with this highly unlikely combination, that beetle would kick some serious ass and mate, and thus the progression.
Careful there, evolution doesn't work that way. Complex systems simply do not spring into existence in one generation. (There is a chance a human eye could have appeared in one generation, but it is something like 10 to the power of a 100 digit number.)
It takes tens, even hundreds of thousands of generations for species to change, diverge, evolve. It takes selection pressure. It takes lots of things to create the complex space that genomes move through.
Thinking in terms of a dinosaur one day hatching a feathered offspring isn't evolution.
Read "The Blind Watchmaker" by Dawkins. Great read, doesn't get boring, and I'm not a biologist.
hmmm... i hadn't thought of handheld devices...
yes, that is good example. i was thinking embedded, but from what I've read coming out of EEMBC (www.eembc.com), embedded processors are superbeefy too.
however, handhelds (like the linux wristwatch) are growing in computing power... architectures are becoming more power savvy (strongARM)... and battery technology is improving... so maybe the same trend will occur.
You make a valid point, and I think the answer depends on the balance at the time.
Right now code is out of control -- just look at how easy it is to simply throw lines of source at a problem until it is solved. It is the easiest method because CPUs continue getting faster -- the burden is on the CPU designers.
However, once gains in CPU power stall, there will be no choice but for developers to take stock of their bloaty code and make changes. Having recently attended a panel with the original implementors from Atari, it is very clear that necessity drives invention and creativity.
right now there is simply no need for creative coding w.r.t. efficiency. there may not be a need for a long time.
Achieve super high speeds for super short durations to impress the spectators.
What do you mean? It runs at 4.7 GHz.
a) that's not even close to super-high
b) how is it a super-short duration?
if you've been paying attention for longer than 2 years you will clearly notice that EVERY processor intel demonstrates becomes mainstream in a few quarters. period. they've never failed.
Doesn't an engineer more qualified than the users of Engineer-in-a-box 2.0 need to WRITE Engineer-in-a-box 2.0?
Yes, one or two can do it, then they are obsolete.
nice, fast, small, simple...
ahhh...
no proxy support, but at least i can browse my intranet pages...
ahhhh...
I'm wondering where the woman carrying this discussion comes into play. You appear to forget that she is more than a petri dish for your thought experiment. That starting cell is a part of her the same way a fingernail or a skin cell is, since the latter may eventually be reverted to a "totipotent" cell, would you afford equal protection to every cell in her body? Would you imprison her for getting a haircut?
I love when men argue about what can and can't be done with a woman's body.
An earlier point said would you charge a woman with murder for exercising too hard and losing her zygote. So you're telling me that's it's "natural causes" when she exercises and doesn't know she's pregnent, but then becomes murder after she skips her first period and willfully works out too hard?
I'm not convinced of your argument that it is a life.
Furthermore, what if we "err" on the side of pro-life: what if she can't afford to raise it? Will you pay her child support? Will you adopt the child? Or would you support laws that would bring more suffering into the world?
Just a few q's that make it hard for me to be pro-life.
Pick up any gangsta rap album (of any ethnicity), and you'll probably hear something like:
"Let me aks you niggaz sump'n, a'ight?"
That's how languages evolve, deal with it.
Anyone who says "dude", "man", "gonna" or "ain't" is guilty of contributing to the change of english. No one speaks Chaucerian or Shakespearian or even Coleridge-ian anymore! And it's perfectly acceptable in the real world. For better or for worse.
Fuck, look at how badly George W mutilites the language. Ever notice when Newspapers quote him, they always type what he "meant" to say, versus what he actually said? Only liberal papers insert the [sic].
And rap is hardly to blame -- I also blame Cyndi Lauper and her vowel reversal trend that started all this!
(My apologies, as I'm not sure if the n-bomb is offensive or not in this context, i'm just a Benneton(tm) white-boy who thinks he's PC)
Heh heh, back when the Computer Shopper listed all major BBSs (and was the size of a phone book). Oh the porn we had -- 320x200 CGA, baby!
Anyone remember what that BBS game was that involved you taxing peasents and training lords and taking over other people, but you could only play once a day? It was on a whole bunch of BBS's...
Are you scared about going to prison? Do they prepare you in any way before you enter the facility, or do they just throw you in and that's it?
Just typing these questions make me uncomfortable.
Give me small and quiet any day.
I hear that from friends. I'm in the same camp. I waited for 1GHz piii's to drop below $150 so I could run Linux fanless with a matrox 2d card. I'm a coder not a gamer -- I want quiet!
I looked at the cappucino (at thinkgeek.com), but it was too expensive (yeah, I'm a cheapskate!). You might be interested in it.
i didn't realize we were overdue for yet another "speed of like broken" article submission.
guess taco's gotta meet his quota...
I think her suggested list applies to a lot more than voting. She deserves a lot of credit, because work like hers is the dirty work no one ever wants to do... real nuts-and-bolts stuff that takes lots of thought.
;)
I love it -- Take that all you kiddies who say "duh, how hard could it be? I could do it in perl in an afternoon, i'm so huge!" huge you are!
Fuck that.
I say, Better Red then Dead.
I would have gladly been part of an uprising to take back the USA from commie invasion in the 40's, as opposed to destroying the entire planet.
One line cliches give you one line answers. Think bigger.
True true -- hacking the ROM is conceivable, especially if the keys are in the BIOS.
I was more referring to patching windows. It's hard enough writing device drivers even after taking MS sponsored classes, I would think it would be quite an effort to hack a patch into windows, especially now that they're on to us, er, them (the hackers).
I went to an Atari panel with Owen Rubin and he told us about the traps he would put into game ROM so that companies couldn't tear out the Atari logo and steal the code. Keep in mind he made it nearlyu impossible to reverse engineer a patch in only TWO KILOBYTES of code. If someone like him were to obfuscate a windows kernel... ugh!
I guess I'm really just skeptical of the ability of hackers. Don't get me wrong -- if I was a religious man I would say that I pray someone breaks palladium. I just don't see that skillset posting on
(I'm also partially speaking in deliberate terms [trolling/baiting] to stoke the fires of hackers that read this, to get them ready for the task nearly at hand... I've got the karma)
Are you bored at work or something?
;-)
painfully!
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awww, and i was stupid enough to comment about the comment about it (anonymously, nonethelesss)
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awww, i upset an AMD zealot with mod points...
all you will have to do is to patch windows so it doesn't perform the checks.
HAH HAH HAH!
You're joking, right?
Palladium _will_ be broken. Unless they implement the whole of the operating system on hardware, palladium's software side will be hacked quite soon (remember the XBox).
The Xbox didn't require hardward tokens to decrypt code entering the core. Palladium will be broken, but not by software hackers -- people will need a logic analyzer and dedicated hardware on the busses to defeat it. Perhaps something you plug your DRAM into. Of course, that would be a circumvention device which would be considered terrorism under Clinton's legislation being enforced by Ashcroft...
Of course, if a s/w hacker breaks RSA/DiffHlmn then we don't have to worry...
Dude, if you think AMD isn't developing the same thing, you are sorely mistaken.
Everyone wants security, and any CPU that offers security features will immediately have a competitive advantage.
The battle between AMD and Intel is ferocious right now, why do you thing AMD is taking it in the shorts by manufacturing a 2MB Athlon core? This feature is a HUGE cost hit simply because they need to be competitive.
Think they will let a competitive security feature slide, not a chance!
Sorry to be redundant, but I think this argument benefits from restating the obvious:
I still play D&D with the same books I recieved as birthday presents TWENTY YEARS AGO. The only thing I've purchased repeatedly are new dragon dice! (How many of you salivate when you hear the term "dragon dice"?).
I haven't purchased a new D&D book since Dieties and Demigods!
I just wish I hadn't written my name all over my books with a big red crayon...
"Worst application ever."
Doesn't the inventor at least have to have a prototype or some way of building it for it to get a patent?
oops... i take back the part about republicans, now _I'M_ being the troll...