The sentence from the summary which you're replying to makes more sense in its full context in the article:
Even so, One-Der is imminently usable as it is. Unlike many other FPGA CPU cores, this one is very simple to customize even if you aren't an expert on its internals. Applications that can benefit from custom instruction in hardware -- things like digital signal processing, for example -- are ideal for One-Der since you can implement parts of your algorithm in hardware and then easily integrate those parts with the CPU.
In other words, it's an ideal starting point for these applications.
The rotten egg odor is coming from sulfur. It's probably harmless in the quantity you're getting, even if you can smell it. Whole house filters that remove the odor are going to cost a hell of a lot more than $50 and require ongoing maintenance, so if the water company offers a service to provide extra-filtered water for a one-time fee, you should jump.
They're not using Times New Roman. The CSS just asks for "font-family: serif;" and you've apparently got Times New Roman set as your default serif font. If you don't like it, change your browser setting to something you find more appealing, and there you go.
In general, sans serif fonts are more immediately legible, but serifed fonts are easier to read in larger blocks of text. Since Craigslist posts are generally short, the site would probably be okay with either, but tending towards serifs for body text is in general a good thing.
Andy said at LCA2007 it was a 30% hit, I don't see a 30% performance hit being 'slightly' slower.
It depends where you're measuring 30% performance hit to each system call? 30% performance hit to all floating point math? 30% performance hit under some specific normal workload? All very different. In some places, 30% is a big deal, but in others it's negligible.
You kidding? That's like a spam-filtering dream. If I can automatically know that anything related to your spammer friend's.pillz domain is untrustworthy, I can very happily have my e-mail client completely disregard it.
And since setting up a new tld is apparently going to be non-trivial, it's not like the guy can just go and get a different one tomorrow.
(Weird; the parent post got posted anonymously. I'm pretty sure I didn't check that box. Reposting with my name.)
I mean, I know we all like to have things appropriately-nerdily categorized and sub-categorized, but the current situation is that everything gets stuffed into.com (or your country's equivalent) unless that's not available, and then they might get some.net or.org domain instead -- regardless of whether that's appropriate in any way.
It's effectively like we *have no TLDs*. There's a competition to stuff everything into the.com namespace, and the others act as backups. That's silly -- clearly the original intent is long gone in the real world.
So why not just allow whatever people like? If anything, the upcoming plan sets the bar way too high. You should be able to go to pairnic or godaddy or wherever and register "[anything].[anything]", and if the tld isn't in use yet it'd be created on the fly.
The scaling problem is no worse than whatever currently piles-on.com. The trademark worries are likewise ridiculous -- if Microsoft wants to register microsoft-[everywordinthedictionary].com, okay, fine, it's their money. If they want to do the same with microsoft.[everywordinthedictionary], equally fine.
"releasing the source" on a tight leash
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From the blog post:
The source will be made a available, so that users can study and modify the application for their own needs. If they want to contribute their changes back, they can submit them for review. To discourage piracy, a tiny but essential core (also containing the licensing code), will be kept private (at least until users reach a certain rating).
Earlier in the post it says "The central dilemma of Open Source is, and has always been, how to make a living doing it" -- but then it turns out that the actual plan is a non sequitur.
Today's XKCD seems particularly relevant.
There's bigger things to worry about right now. This is a silly distraction -- like the whole "earmarks" thing.
Heh. Pretty funny given your sig and your own spelling skillz. But really, is there any problem with using spellcheck as a tool to learn proper spelling? Presumably, it's not enjoyable to have to make a lot of corrections, so there's even more incentive to get it right.
As a result, and after bad experiences with Fedora core on my servers (least of which is no upgrade path) [...]
While I definitely agree that Fedora Core isn't a good choice for servers, I'm curious about your "no upgrade path" statement. I've seen similar comments on Slashdot before, so it seems to be not just an isolated perception. Yet, you can upgrade from RHL9 to FC1 to FC2 to FC3 to FC4 to (future) FC5 just fine -- seems like an upgrade path to me.
This sounds a lot like the "Big Dumb Booster" design -- a big rocket made of repurposed shuttle parts -- from Stephen Baxter's hard sci-fi Manifold trilogy.
Nice to know someone at NASA is doing their reading.:)
Another proof at how the left wing doesn't know what its extreme left wing is doing.
Or rather, a proof that much of the left wing hasn't realized how many democrats have sold out to the right in the guise of being "centrist".
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I wonder how comes no one built a software to look for patterns such as those that could resemble ice in the collection of images. Making the difference between a lot of red and a lot of blue shouldn't be THAT hard.
They presumably *did* do this with software, although probably through something more sophisticated than simply looking for visible blue or red. Several of the instruments on the orbiter are specifically intended to help look for water.
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really. IANARS*, but how did previous missions miss that? haven't we already imaged most or all of the martian surface from orbit at a resolution high enough to see this glaringly obvious bullseye?
Well, this patch of ice looks like it has a surface area of what, 75 square km? All of Mars is about 145 million square km, so we're talking about 0.00005% of the surface -- I can kinda see how that might take a while to notice.
Basically, planets are big -- Mars may be smaller than the earth, but since there's no ocean, it has about the same land area.
The meanings and connotations have been re-arranged a lot since those terms were first coined, but the true pedant should be holding out for the original terminology.
Well, okay. In fact, the term was coined in reference to the Cold War to mean exactly what the original poster said -- not your New/Old/Third thing. (Which sounds mostly like a logical but incorrect guess.)
Oh, and as for that "bit of a caffeine-like hit", that's no surprise, since guarana, like mate, is a source of the actual real thing, not some imaginary-elf-land "more natural/healthy" alternative.
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In other words, it's an ideal starting point for these applications.
The rotten egg odor is coming from sulfur. It's probably harmless in the quantity you're getting, even if you can smell it. Whole house filters that remove the odor are going to cost a hell of a lot more than $50 and require ongoing maintenance, so if the water company offers a service to provide extra-filtered water for a one-time fee, you should jump.
They're not using Times New Roman. The CSS just asks for "font-family: serif;" and you've apparently got Times New Roman set as your default serif font. If you don't like it, change your browser setting to something you find more appealing, and there you go. In general, sans serif fonts are more immediately legible, but serifed fonts are easier to read in larger blocks of text. Since Craigslist posts are generally short, the site would probably be okay with either, but tending towards serifs for body text is in general a good thing.
Andy said at LCA2007 it was a 30% hit, I don't see a 30% performance hit being 'slightly' slower.
It depends where you're measuring 30% performance hit to each system call? 30% performance hit to all floating point math? 30% performance hit under some specific normal workload? All very different. In some places, 30% is a big deal, but in others it's negligible.
You kidding? That's like a spam-filtering dream. If I can automatically know that anything related to your spammer friend's .pillz domain is untrustworthy, I can very happily have my e-mail client completely disregard it.
And since setting up a new tld is apparently going to be non-trivial, it's not like the guy can just go and get a different one tomorrow.
(Weird; the parent post got posted anonymously. I'm pretty sure I didn't check that box. Reposting with my name.)
I mean, I know we all like to have things appropriately-nerdily categorized and sub-categorized, but the current situation is that everything gets stuffed into .com (or your country's equivalent) unless that's not available, and then they might get some .net or .org domain instead -- regardless of whether that's appropriate in any way.
It's effectively like we *have no TLDs*. There's a competition to stuff everything into the .com namespace, and the others act as backups. That's silly -- clearly the original intent is long gone in the real world.
So why not just allow whatever people like? If anything, the upcoming plan sets the bar way too high. You should be able to go to pairnic or godaddy or wherever and register "[anything].[anything]", and if the tld isn't in use yet it'd be created on the fly.
The scaling problem is no worse than whatever currently piles-on .com. The trademark worries are likewise ridiculous -- if Microsoft wants to register microsoft-[everywordinthedictionary].com, okay, fine, it's their money. If they want to do the same with microsoft.[everywordinthedictionary], equally fine.
Earlier in the post it says "The central dilemma of Open Source is, and has always been, how to make a living doing it" -- but then it turns out that the actual plan is a non sequitur.
Today's XKCD seems particularly relevant. There's bigger things to worry about right now. This is a silly distraction -- like the whole "earmarks" thing.
As I started reading, I discovered I don't care enough to read the whole thing.
But I thought the beginning was awesome: "You can disagree with me only if you are wrong."
Tip #1: Get your blog linked to in a story at Slashdot....
Don't do it!
You're new here, huh?
Yep. It's not clear that it's really possible. However, unlike warp drive, it's at least not violating the laws of physics.
Hence the challenge. Clearly, current materials can't do it. Sci-fi implementations usually involve some sort of nanotech manufacturing.
Well, size, for one thing. You can't just dump a car in the trashcan.
Heh. Pretty funny given your sig and your own spelling skillz. But really, is there any problem with using spellcheck as a tool to learn proper spelling? Presumably, it's not enjoyable to have to make a lot of corrections, so there's even more incentive to get it right.
As a result, and after bad experiences with Fedora core on my servers (least of which is no upgrade path) [...]
While I definitely agree that Fedora Core isn't a good choice for servers, I'm curious about your "no upgrade path" statement. I've seen similar comments on Slashdot before, so it seems to be not just an isolated perception. Yet, you can upgrade from RHL9 to FC1 to FC2 to FC3 to FC4 to (future) FC5 just fine -- seems like an upgrade path to me.
Luis and Clark? Goverment funded cellos, you say?
Hmmm, that doesn't sound quite right.
Maybe you meant Lois and Clark? That would make sense with the satellite thing....
This sounds a lot like the "Big Dumb Booster" design -- a big rocket made of repurposed shuttle parts -- from Stephen Baxter's hard sci-fi Manifold trilogy.
:)
Nice to know someone at NASA is doing their reading.
I see your confusion; you think I'm a Democrat. No; I simply think, as I said, that many Democrats have sold out to the right.
So instead of:
it's
Another proof at how the left wing doesn't know what its extreme left wing is doing.
Or rather, a proof that much of the left wing hasn't realized how many democrats have sold out to the right in the guise of being "centrist".
I wonder how comes no one built a software to look for patterns such as those that could resemble ice in the collection of images. Making the difference between a lot of red and a lot of blue shouldn't be THAT hard.
They presumably *did* do this with software, although probably through something more sophisticated than simply looking for visible blue or red. Several of the instruments on the orbiter are specifically intended to help look for water.
really. IANARS*, but how did previous missions miss that? haven't we already imaged most or all of the martian surface from orbit at a resolution high enough to see this glaringly obvious bullseye?
Well, this patch of ice looks like it has a surface area of what, 75 square km? All of Mars is about 145 million square km, so we're talking about 0.00005% of the surface -- I can kinda see how that might take a while to notice.
Basically, planets are big -- Mars may be smaller than the earth, but since there's no ocean, it has about the same land area.
The meanings and connotations have been re-arranged a lot since those terms were first coined, but the true pedant should be holding out for the original terminology.
Well, okay. In fact, the term was coined in reference to the Cold War to mean exactly what the original poster said -- not your New/Old/Third thing. (Which sounds mostly like a logical but incorrect guess.)
Well, it's been tried with cola -- why not beer?
Oh, and as for that "bit of a caffeine-like hit", that's no surprise, since guarana, like mate, is a source of the actual real thing, not some imaginary-elf-land "more natural/healthy" alternative.