easily filtered out with some aftermarket device (unless content providers get control of the video stream up to the phospher; even then, there are felt tipped pens)
I'm gonna go out and kill some unborn kids right now. Where are those tissues and the stump-porn I bought? If you want, I can send you the results to use in your propaganda campaign.
This is all talked about in the other article, but basically it boils down to this: "Which version (exactly) of Perl is now part of the standard environment?" Perl has changed and continues to change, and by not relying on it for the most critical things, system users can more easily keep it up to date. Perl is still and easy to install option, just not a requirement.
...regulate the ability of youngsters to obtain video games that contain the kind of thing we already don't let them observe in movies or talk about in public.
I must respectfully ask, what in hell are you talking about? Is there a law against kids seeing violence in movies? If there is, my parents should be in jail right now (for the corruption of my younger brother, who was raised on VCR day care). And as far as "talking in public", I hear kids talking about how they are going to "piledrive" each other, after a "Stone Cold stunner" (tm), on a regular basis (and I hear the same from young adults as well). Do you believe there is a law against allowing kids to see the WWF?
My biggest gripe with that movie's logic, wasn't the silly physics. It was that the bad guy wants about 2.7 million dollars, and rather than give it to him, they let him destroy about $500 million dollars worth of equipment (airplanes, subways, etc.). The sequal should have been about the insurance companies getting revenge on the police department.
...and to the Republic for which it stands. one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
You forgot the ",under God,", as in "One nation, under God", which is another superstition with no more evidence to support it than ESP, alien abductions, psychic powers, etc.
Replace "customers" with "citizens". The DMCA is not just anti-consumer (which some could legitimately debate), but removes rights that citizens previously had (reverse engineering, study, personal use, etc.) You can infringe and be guilty, even without ever having a "customer" relationship with the sellers (you may just be curious).
If there had been logic to self adjust (and probably there was), and the computer was allowed to do so during and between matches, I think that would have been fair. But allowing human intervention during a match simply smacks of unfair tactics.
To me, when you look deeper into the Deep Blue matches vs. Kasparov, it becomes almost purely a PR event, and much less significant an achievement in the field of A.I. (or human endeaver in general).
The method Celera used would not have been feasible when HGP started, because it relies on technology, computing power, and statistical theory that wasn't available or trusted when HGP started. And without HGP's results to verify, it would have existed under a cloud of doubt.
Frankly, the Celera technique seems well suited to for DNA "land grabs", which is why companies love it (cheap and fast). But for those who want rigor (scientists), it may still be looked at with some suspicion.
But who is to say that Dell and/or Gateway wouldn't want a piece of the set top box market (in the future, if it ever looks remotely lucrative), but then they would have to compete against microsoft (if the hypothesized home appliance is realized). Furthermore, sales of the xbox might conceivably cut into their PC sales right now; why buy a PC for games, if the whole xbox deal is cheaper. So, I'm sure they are very concerned about how the XBox could affect them.
I would imagine many parents are deciding that rather than buy a "PC" system that only plays games, they could spend a bit more for a ultra-cheap PC, and hope the kids might learn something rather than zone-out in front of games all day. Especially in a tight economy, I'd spent money on something that is (theoretically) practical, rather than an expensive toy, even if it cost a bit more. Xbox prices will have to drop a lot before they "take off". But I expect they will eventually gain a foothold, as the games mature.
Yes, that's an important clarificaton. I simply meant that he could get a USB keyboard and mouse (designed to work for PS/2 as well), use a KVM switch, and then use the adapter to plug into the 386 box. Although, actually, the switch probably only controls one USB port, and it may not be possible to break that into both a keyboard and mouse PS/2 connection (and the devices themselves might get confused by the switching... hmmmm).
On the other hand, there are and will be plenty of motherboards that support PS/2, so I personally wouldn't be to bothered. I recently bought a PS/2 KVM switch, rather than a USB, and I expect I'll be using it for a long while.
There are cheap dongles that allow you to attach your USB mouse to a PS/2 port, and I'm assuming they work for keyboards as well. Besides the Belkin OmniView Soho KVM switches DO allow mixing USB and PS/2 computers on the switch, and they can be found at reasonable prices.
The design of the BSD file system, when using "softwrites", is specifically engineered to handle this. It does require a rather sophisticated fsck (and one that is aware of how softwrites works). On the other hand, this also removes some of the complexity of the file system (which is not to say it isn't tricky code, but tricky in a different way from, say, a journaled filesystem)
I simply did a net install onto my iBook2 using Brandon Robinson's (and others) web instructions. I then upgraded to Debian's "unstable/development" branch, which installs linux 2.4.18, and is mostly all synced up with the powerpc linux developers. Everything works (except, I'm told, the modem, which I don't use)
However, if it your first Debian experience, it won't be as smooth as a Mandrake install, especially if you don't have a decent network connection (ie. can afford to download a few hundred megs). A recent burn of the unstable branch on CD would be best.
Frankly, while I use Debian, I installed Mandrake on my girlfriend's PC, and think it is fine for people not as concerned with daily updates and developments. But once you get used to Debian's method of keeping up to date, even Mandrake seems a little limiting (Debian has over 9000 software packages ready for download)
Also, the Debian net install allows you to easily get going with a small install (less than one CD worth), and gradually install things as you need them. MUCH better than downloading and burning install CDs, if it is an option.
I got my iBook (my first Mac ever, bought two weeks ago) up and running Debian (and dual booting OS X) using the various instructions on the web (links posted elsewhere in this thread). It was relatively straightforward; what problems specifically do you have, maybe we can help.
PS. Loving my iBook, BTW. It is small, fast, and QUIET! Also, it doesn't burn a hole in my lap.
Though horrible, this reverse-engineering experience will be much needed for the day when Sony finally deploys "Snow Crash" virus technology in Everquest.
A brain that can stand up to massive amounts of Celine Dion music (thanks a LOT, James Cameron...), might have a chance at avoiding meltdown.
For example, it seems to me that a lot of work has been done with materials and structures for pulling heat out of overheated areas (computers, cars, etc.) It makes sense that building designers could start to incorporate these ideas and materials, such as heat transferrence rods alongside a building's support columns (for example).
And how do these libraries work? Is it basically iterating stuff over a huge array of amplitudes? So that to implement the lowpass filter, you actually have to somehow or other scan the array to look for patterns that need to be smoothed out? (actually, it occurs to me that you might be able to do this by averaging adjacent entries together. Okay, then, how do you do a high-pass filter, keeping the local oscillations but dropping the low-frequency ones?)
Well, you are getting there... Basically, a lot of the actual processing of discrete sample sequences (such as a.wav file) are based on an operation called a convolution (which is the same as a correlation with one argument reversed in time). Thus, you "convolve" a digital sequence with another, usually much shorter sequence that is known as a filter. The filter sequence is deisgned to be low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, etc.
The key point is that a convolution in the time domain (ie. dealing with discrete samples in time) has an equivalence to operations in the frequency domain (what you get when you do a Fourier Transform on a sequence of time samples). By designing your filter in the frequency domain, you come up with filter sequences in the time domain, and the "convolution" does the rest. It is really some of the most elegant mathematics one can study in an engineering discipline (IMO)
Anyway, this oversimplifies many things, but is a step toward removing the "mystery" of digital filtering. I would suggest a book such as Hamming's "Digital Filters" (which is cheap and good), or checking Google for "Fourier digital filtering", etc. for more info. You were on to something when you talked about averaging; that is indeed a simple low-pass filter, but much better ones can be made almost as simply.
BTW, wavelets are a related topic, but it is probably better to understand the Fourier realm first.
I welcome any corrections or clarifications to these statements by those in the know; or follow up questions if what I said is unclear.
Ummm, what is the difference? RF and "microwaves" are the same (ultimately photons in a certain frequency range). I see what you are saying, I guess (that in beaming photons at the food, some photons sent out in directions that never even go to the shielded enclosure); but it could be misconstrued by some that RF and "microwave leakage" are two different types of radiation.
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easily filtered out with some aftermarket device (unless content providers get control of the video stream up to the phospher; even then, there are felt tipped pens)
I'm gonna go out and kill some unborn kids right now. Where are those tissues and the stump-porn I bought? If you want, I can send you the results to use in your propaganda campaign.
Hey, I pray for people's death all the time. A study should be made to see if this has an effect on those people's health.
(Not posting as an AC because I don't like to hide; but I recognize this should be a +0 post; do your worst, moderators)
This is all talked about in the other article, but basically it boils down to this: "Which version (exactly) of Perl is now part of the standard environment?" Perl has changed and continues to change, and by not relying on it for the most critical things, system users can more easily keep it up to date. Perl is still and easy to install option, just not a requirement.
I must respectfully ask, what in hell are you talking about? Is there a law against kids seeing violence in movies? If there is, my parents should be in jail right now (for the corruption of my younger brother, who was raised on VCR day care). And as far as "talking in public", I hear kids talking about how they are going to "piledrive" each other, after a "Stone Cold stunner" (tm), on a regular basis (and I hear the same from young adults as well). Do you believe there is a law against allowing kids to see the WWF?
My biggest gripe with that movie's logic, wasn't the silly physics. It was that the bad guy wants about 2.7 million dollars, and rather than give it to him, they let him destroy about $500 million dollars worth of equipment (airplanes, subways, etc.). The sequal should have been about the insurance companies getting revenge on the police department.
You forgot the ",under God,", as in "One nation, under God", which is another superstition with no more evidence to support it than ESP, alien abductions, psychic powers, etc.
Replace "customers" with "citizens". The DMCA is not just anti-consumer (which some could legitimately debate), but removes rights that citizens previously had (reverse engineering, study, personal use, etc.) You can infringe and be guilty, even without ever having a "customer" relationship with the sellers (you may just be curious).
If there had been logic to self adjust (and probably there was), and the computer was allowed to do so during and between matches, I think that would have been fair. But allowing human intervention during a match simply smacks of unfair tactics.
To me, when you look deeper into the Deep Blue matches vs. Kasparov, it becomes almost purely a PR event, and much less significant an achievement in the field of A.I. (or human endeaver in general).
The method Celera used would not have been feasible when HGP started, because it relies on technology, computing power, and statistical theory that wasn't available or trusted when HGP started. And without HGP's results to verify, it would have existed under a cloud of doubt.
Frankly, the Celera technique seems well suited to for DNA "land grabs", which is why companies love it (cheap and fast). But for those who want rigor (scientists), it may still be looked at with some suspicion.
Her second album was not bad, and as far as I know, can't be accused of being anything but her own work. But I'm no expert in this matter.
But who is to say that Dell and/or Gateway wouldn't want a piece of the set top box market (in the future, if it ever looks remotely lucrative), but then they would have to compete against microsoft (if the hypothesized home appliance is realized). Furthermore, sales of the xbox might conceivably cut into their PC sales right now; why buy a PC for games, if the whole xbox deal is cheaper. So, I'm sure they are very concerned about how the XBox could affect them.
I would imagine many parents are deciding that rather than buy a "PC" system that only plays games, they could spend a bit more for a ultra-cheap PC, and hope the kids might learn something rather than zone-out in front of games all day. Especially in a tight economy, I'd spent money on something that is (theoretically) practical, rather than an expensive toy, even if it cost a bit more. Xbox prices will have to drop a lot before they "take off". But I expect they will eventually gain a foothold, as the games mature.
Yes, that's an important clarificaton. I simply meant that he could get a USB keyboard and mouse (designed to work for PS/2 as well), use a KVM switch, and then use the adapter to plug into the 386 box. Although, actually, the switch probably only controls one USB port, and it may not be possible to break that into both a keyboard and mouse PS/2 connection (and the devices themselves might get confused by the switching... hmmmm).
On the other hand, there are and will be plenty of motherboards that support PS/2, so I personally wouldn't be to bothered. I recently bought a PS/2 KVM switch, rather than a USB, and I expect I'll be using it for a long while.
There are cheap dongles that allow you to attach your USB mouse to a PS/2 port, and I'm assuming they work for keyboards as well. Besides the Belkin OmniView Soho KVM switches DO allow mixing USB and PS/2 computers on the switch, and they can be found at reasonable prices.
The design of the BSD file system, when using "softwrites", is specifically engineered to handle this. It does require a rather sophisticated fsck (and one that is aware of how softwrites works). On the other hand, this also removes some of the complexity of the file system (which is not to say it isn't tricky code, but tricky in a different way from, say, a journaled filesystem)
(ie. Diablo... ie. Dia-BLOW)
I simply did a net install onto my iBook2 using Brandon Robinson's (and others) web instructions. I then upgraded to Debian's "unstable/development" branch, which installs linux 2.4.18, and is mostly all synced up with the powerpc linux developers. Everything works (except, I'm told, the modem, which I don't use)
However, if it your first Debian experience, it won't be as smooth as a Mandrake install, especially if you don't have a decent network connection (ie. can afford to download a few hundred megs). A recent burn of the unstable branch on CD would be best.
Frankly, while I use Debian, I installed Mandrake on my girlfriend's PC, and think it is fine for people not as concerned with daily updates and developments. But once you get used to Debian's method of keeping up to date, even Mandrake seems a little limiting (Debian has over 9000 software packages ready for download)
Also, the Debian net install allows you to easily get going with a small install (less than one CD worth), and gradually install things as you need them. MUCH better than downloading and burning install CDs, if it is an option.
Debian, Debian, Debian (unstable). As bleeding edge as you want to be (and will still be up-to-date 5 months from now). So, YDL is not the *ONLY* one.
I got my iBook (my first Mac ever, bought two weeks ago) up and running Debian (and dual booting OS X) using the various instructions on the web (links posted elsewhere in this thread). It was relatively straightforward; what problems specifically do you have, maybe we can help.
PS. Loving my iBook, BTW. It is small, fast, and QUIET! Also, it doesn't burn a hole in my lap.
Though horrible, this reverse-engineering experience will be much needed for the day when Sony finally deploys "Snow Crash" virus technology in Everquest.
A brain that can stand up to massive amounts of Celine Dion music (thanks a LOT, James Cameron...), might have a chance at avoiding meltdown.
For example, it seems to me that a lot of work has been done with materials and structures for pulling heat out of overheated areas (computers, cars, etc.) It makes sense that building designers could start to incorporate these ideas and materials, such as heat transferrence rods alongside a building's support columns (for example).
Well, you are getting there... Basically, a lot of the actual processing of discrete sample sequences (such as a .wav file) are based on an operation called a convolution (which is the same as a correlation with one argument reversed in time). Thus, you "convolve" a digital sequence with another, usually much shorter sequence that is known as a filter. The filter sequence is deisgned to be low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, etc.
The key point is that a convolution in the time domain (ie. dealing with discrete samples in time) has an equivalence to operations in the frequency domain (what you get when you do a Fourier Transform on a sequence of time samples). By designing your filter in the frequency domain, you come up with filter sequences in the time domain, and the "convolution" does the rest. It is really some of the most elegant mathematics one can study in an engineering discipline (IMO)
Anyway, this oversimplifies many things, but is a step toward removing the "mystery" of digital filtering. I would suggest a book such as Hamming's "Digital Filters" (which is cheap and good), or checking Google for "Fourier digital filtering", etc. for more info. You were on to something when you talked about averaging; that is indeed a simple low-pass filter, but much better ones can be made almost as simply.
BTW, wavelets are a related topic, but it is probably better to understand the Fourier realm first.
I welcome any corrections or clarifications to these statements by those in the know; or follow up questions if what I said is unclear.
Ummm, what is the difference? RF and "microwaves" are the same (ultimately photons in a certain frequency range). I see what you are saying, I guess (that in beaming photons at the food, some photons sent out in directions that never even go to the shielded enclosure); but it could be misconstrued by some that RF and "microwave leakage" are two different types of radiation.
Who the hell actually reads the linked-to articles?
Even "stomped" (As in, on his own fat foot). THAT was the funniest moment in the video, IMO. The rest was just disturbing.