You're exactly right. The post doesn't even mention power, which is the whole point of this technology. This actually sounds cool. Do Slashdot's editors do this on purpose, or are they just being sloppy?
According to Rabaey, each node in the picoradio network will draw no more than 100 microwatts of power, three orders of magnitude less than 802.11b's 300 milliwatts. The benefits of such a low power network are obvious: no batteries are needed because each node can harvest all the energy it needs from its environment.
Compilers, programming paradigms, all that stuff. Just plug into the.NET Runtime and play around with all the toys. I think it's more about that than for kids learning to program.
movies that get crappy ratings always turn out ok or good
I've had a different experience. When there is really nothing in it worth seeing, I'm generally aware of this just from reading two or three reviews. Occasionally I disagree with them. But I'm still better off overall.
Heh. You thought I was buying this to get your secrets. No, that's just the icing on the cake. This baby's for LAN parties. Nothing plays Quake quite like it.
And there's the occasional corporate secrets to bust into once in a while. Ahhh.
I'm afraid Mr. Woody's point is correct. He was showing that the shortness of a "Universal Machine" program will depend on the language you use. If your language's compiler compiles a binary 1 into a universal machine, then it's pretty easy to code one up. I could code Linux into one bit if I wanted to. The compiler would be kinda big, though.
This also has interesting implications for DeCSS. Is the bit 1 a circumvention device? Then 0 must be too, since we can just invert the rule.
Thanks for the math. Very interesting. I see two potential explanations for this:
The Internet is a magic place where money appears out of nowhere, and none of the old rules apply, because, well, it's the Internet.
Or maybe they don't really want to license their music to anyone else.
Take your pick.
Rules are being remade. Soft money is being passed out like candy. At long last, they will control who is listening, when they listen, how often, where, and make them pay every time. What a beautiful time for the RIAA.
is there some hidden application of this that I'm not seeing?
How about doing other stuff really fast?
3D modeling. 3D simulations. Even extensive photoshop editing with complex filters can benefit from this kind of raw speed.
It wouldn't be a catchy headline, though, if it said "render a scene of a house in 40 seconds--oh, and here are the details of the scene so you can be impressed if you understand 3D rendering..."
There are hundreds of applications for this, many of which we don't do every day on our desktop simply because they take too much juice to be useful. With ever-faster computers, we will continue to envision and benefit from these new possibilities.
I remember the good old days, before everyone wanted a cell phone or PDA, back when you could buy a used laptop for $80 (USD).
Ummm. I don't. I mean, I saw some that were ancient and many didn't work on dutch auction at e-bay. But I don't think there really was an $80 golden age.
What I have seen, though: Before, your basic decent new TFT laptop started well over $1500. Now it's under $1000. I'm sure used prices will be dropping in kind, and I'm quite happy about it.
Not to mention, for your $80 you can get a PDA that's faster and has more RAM than a high-end laptop from 10 years ago.
if stores were required to give an actual refund if you want to return them
Worse, I have been told by store employees that there are actually laws prohibiting them from taking a CD or DVD back, unless they are exchanging it for the same title. Doesn't matter if I hated it, was offended by it, or, apparently, it doesn't actually work.
It's amazing what soft money will buy for you these days.
Microsoft's illicit business practices did play a significant role in the settlement, although the media seemed to focus more on the software issues, which may have been easier to explain to the public. In the end, the settlement seems to have more restrictions on these than the software side of things. Of course, the other states still have their demands, so who knows where this will end up.
All you have to do is send an e-mail, sometime before, or even as the story is breaking that says, 'if you want to have your site cached on Slashdot, please click this link.'
Then (or even previously) you have the "SlashDot spider" make a map of the site, say, 3 links deep.
No mess. No fuss. Oh well. Good ideas seldom get used.
It's nice to hear a voice of reason amidst all the wild "Video games are cool. Therefore they have to be harmless. Not to mention you can't take away free speech, blah blah blah..."
It is not so obvious that they don't have a bad effect. In fact, after looking at people I've known who were practically addicts, I'm kind of glad I didn't play more.
As for the law side of it, I've always wondered how speech got extended to include almost any action. Yeah, I know, I should have the right to do anything as long as I don't hurt anyone else. But 1) This still isn't speech and 2) Even if I agree with this statement, does it make rights decisions any easier? Most actions that harm one person hurt others as well.
My favorite part was getting modded Offtopic for that post. Look at the first two words of the post.
Perhaps it was too thoughtful for the moderator. Too much analysis going on. Not enough "yeah, me too." or "Teddy bear...cool"
I can see how posters might feel ripped off after spending time reading a post like that, rather than one that delves into the serious life-altering issues of routers in Teddy bears.
On the other hand, writing about funny moderators really is off-topic. Mods, you know what you have to do.
I agree with you on this. One thing that's a little scary is that it's connecting to their server every morning, and who knows what it could be downloading.
I'm thinking of buying an All-in-Wonder Radeon 7500. Not too expensive. Comes with a wireless remote. And they give you the TV listing info for free. And, of course, you can attach as many hard drives as you want. Of course, there's also the new HDTV recorder card for $399. But I don't like that they encrypt what you record...
Having an external firewire connection to me makes MUCH more sense in that they can use to for additional storage for drives.
Yes, but I think Tivo would rather limit what you can do, so you have to buy another Tivo when you want more space. Of course, they haven't managed to prevent swapping hard drives.
Slashdot Mirror
You're exactly right. The post doesn't even mention power, which is the whole point of this technology. This actually sounds cool. Do Slashdot's editors do this on purpose, or are they just being sloppy?
According to Rabaey, each node in the picoradio network will draw no more than 100 microwatts of power, three orders of magnitude less than 802.11b's 300 milliwatts. The benefits of such a low power network are obvious: no batteries are needed because each node can harvest all the energy it needs from its environment.
How 'bout research?
.NET Runtime and play around with all the toys. I think it's more about that than for kids learning to program.
Compilers, programming paradigms, all that stuff. Just plug into the
movies that get crappy ratings always turn out ok or good
I've had a different experience. When there is really nothing in it worth seeing, I'm generally aware of this just from reading two or three reviews. Occasionally I disagree with them. But I'm still better off overall.
Heh. You thought I was buying this to get your secrets. No, that's just the icing on the cake. This baby's for LAN parties. Nothing plays Quake quite like it.
And there's the occasional corporate secrets to bust into once in a while. Ahhh.
Did I mention Pac Man?
So a Universal machine would be anything that implements a language that is Turing complete, of which a Turing machine is an example, no?
I'm afraid Mr. Woody's point is correct. He was showing that the shortness of a "Universal Machine" program will depend on the language you use. If your language's compiler compiles a binary 1 into a universal machine, then it's pretty easy to code one up. I could code Linux into one bit if I wanted to. The compiler would be kinda big, though.
This also has interesting implications for DeCSS. Is the bit 1 a circumvention device? Then 0 must be too, since we can just invert the rule.
"This band is your band. This band is my band..."
Yeah. It's in poor taste. Not much else to say.
"Hey, what does that one say?"
"Hold on, I'll check."
(a few seconds pass)
SCReeeeeeeeeeechh!!!!
"Um, this says it was a stop sign."
"Thanks."
Thanks for the math. Very interesting. I see two potential explanations for this:
The Internet is a magic place where money appears out of nowhere, and none of the old rules apply, because, well, it's the Internet.
Or maybe they don't really want to license their music to anyone else.
Take your pick.
Rules are being remade. Soft money is being passed out like candy. At long last, they will control who is listening, when they listen, how often, where, and make them pay every time. What a beautiful time for the RIAA.
is there some hidden application of this that I'm not seeing?
How about doing other stuff really fast?
3D modeling. 3D simulations. Even extensive photoshop editing with complex filters can benefit from this kind of raw speed.
It wouldn't be a catchy headline, though, if it said "render a scene of a house in 40 seconds--oh, and here are the details of the scene so you can be impressed if you understand 3D rendering..."
There are hundreds of applications for this, many of which we don't do every day on our desktop simply because they take too much juice to be useful. With ever-faster computers, we will continue to envision and benefit from these new possibilities.
I've had the same kind of experience. I avoid using Win95/98/ME at any cost, but Win2k/XP are pretty nice to develop on.
I remember the good old days, before everyone wanted a cell phone or PDA, back when you could buy a used laptop for $80 (USD).
Ummm. I don't. I mean, I saw some that were ancient and many didn't work on dutch auction at e-bay. But I don't think there really was an $80 golden age.
What I have seen, though:
Before, your basic decent new TFT laptop started well over $1500. Now it's under $1000. I'm sure used prices will be dropping in kind, and I'm quite happy about it.
Not to mention, for your $80 you can get a PDA that's faster and has more RAM than a high-end laptop from 10 years ago.
Do you know any good places to read about this?
if stores were required to give an actual refund if you want to return them
Worse, I have been told by store employees that there are actually laws prohibiting them from taking a CD or DVD back, unless they are exchanging it for the same title. Doesn't matter if I hated it, was offended by it, or, apparently, it doesn't actually work.
It's amazing what soft money will buy for you these days.
Microsoft's illicit business practices did play a significant role in the settlement, although the media seemed to focus more on the software issues, which may have been easier to explain to the public. In the end, the settlement seems to have more restrictions on these than the software side of things. Of course, the other states still have their demands, so who knows where this will end up.
Taco's just being lazy.
All you have to do is send an e-mail, sometime before, or even as the story is breaking that says, 'if you want to have your site cached on Slashdot, please click this link.'
Then (or even previously) you have the "SlashDot spider" make a map of the site, say, 3 links deep.
No mess. No fuss. Oh well. Good ideas seldom get used.
Just bring along a few cans of compressed air, and you can be even more mobile with the slime.
It's nice to hear a voice of reason amidst all the wild "Video games are cool. Therefore they have to be harmless. Not to mention you can't take away free speech, blah blah blah..."
It is not so obvious that they don't have a bad effect. In fact, after looking at people I've known who were practically addicts, I'm kind of glad I didn't play more.
As for the law side of it, I've always wondered how speech got extended to include almost any action. Yeah, I know, I should have the right to do anything as long as I don't hurt anyone else. But 1) This still isn't speech and 2) Even if I agree with this statement, does it make rights decisions any easier? Most actions that harm one person hurt others as well.
Take out the middle-man and point the story's links straight to the Slashdot mirror (with permission, of course).
My favorite part was getting modded Offtopic for that post. Look at the first two words of the post.
Perhaps it was too thoughtful for the moderator. Too much analysis going on. Not enough "yeah, me too." or "Teddy bear...cool"
I can see how posters might feel ripped off after spending time reading a post like that, rather than one that delves into the serious life-altering issues of routers in Teddy bears.
On the other hand, writing about funny moderators really is off-topic. Mods, you know what you have to do.
...No more Soggies!
This story has all the right elements to appear on the front page. It mentions:
College students (and lots of bonus points for being MIT students)
Star Trek
"female companionship"
The challenges of geekhood
Network connectivity
Taking things apart and modifying them, not necessarily for a useful purpose.
Toys
Of course, I don't know how it got through without even mentioning Linux or Anime. Maybe Slashdot needs to work on its story filter.
I agree with you on this. One thing that's a little scary is that it's connecting to their server every morning, and who knows what it could be downloading.
I'm thinking of buying an All-in-Wonder Radeon 7500. Not too expensive. Comes with a wireless remote. And they give you the TV listing info for free. And, of course, you can attach as many hard drives as you want. Of course, there's also the new HDTV recorder card for $399. But I don't like that they encrypt what you record...
Having an external firewire connection to me makes MUCH more sense in that they can use to for additional storage for drives.
Yes, but I think Tivo would rather limit what you can do, so you have to buy another Tivo when you want more space. Of course, they haven't managed to prevent swapping hard drives.