That should be "at what Delta-V?" More Delta-V == faster.
If, by "Delta-V" you mean "change in velocity," then that would indeed be acceleration -- which doesn't necessarily mean faster.
Think about it: I drive my car from 0 to 60mph in 3 seconds, while yours only goes from 0 to 60mph in 12 seconds. At the end of that time, we're both going the same speed (assuming we stop accelerating once we hit 60mph), but my acceleration was much quicker than yours (4 times as fast, in fact).
Actually, this is funny and pathetic at the same time - the UNC board of directors are raising the tuition at all UNC system schools (Duke included) by $300 per year for the next three years [they made this decision a year ago, so it actually is for the next two years]. I guess they had this in mind when they made that tuition hike.
Of course, if that were the case, then every student at every UNC school is paying for it.
I'm in Dr. Rhee's CSC316 (Data Structures for Computer Scientists) course. He absolutely knows his stuff, but he can be very hard to understand sometimes. His website is here, with a picture of the guy that doesn't really do him justice. When he walks into the classroom, I swear he looks like one of the laid-back teachers that will just let you slide by through the course, but he *really* makes you learn the material, inside and out.
Anyway, if you're interested in a link to the original article hosted off of the NCSU servers, it is here.
This article shows what Sony has done to limit access to the system, but it doesn't say exactly how Sony has stayed within the GPL, or how it is only staying within the GPL through "shifty" means.
Quick summary? Sure: There are so many limitations to the "Runtime Environment" that I don't know why anyone would want to have one. Basically every hardware interface is disabled, and you're not going to get much hard disk space using that whopping 8MB memory card (so you're limited in how many external programs you can run).
This thing sounds so crappy that I'd doubt that there's even a compiler on the system!
-bigginal
One suggestion I have for a VERY complicated programming project is a bot for the hugely popular AOL Instant Messanger (or you could even port it to ICQ...). However, this bot should be able to use AI to intelligently respond to questions and such...I am thinking of a conversation like this:
Questioneer: Hello. AIMBot: Hello. My master is not available at the moment, but feel free to talk to me, an artificial intelligence! Questioneer: Alright. So where is your master? AIMBot: My master is using the restroom. Questioneer: And when will he be back? AIMBot: He should be back in a few minutes.
...
This is just a sample of what is available with today's technology. And I know someone who is currently working on something like this...check out the AIM screenname AIMPerlBot, and you will actually be able to talk to the work in progress.
But this is just an idea. Feel free to pick it apart...
The question posed in the root article is a very interesting one. Can a Natural Language (NL) CLI replace an OS such as Windows or *nix? The answer is no, at least not at our present level of software and hardware engineering. A good reference point to say that we have actually accomplished this is present in the Star Trek Television Series. A voice-operated computer capable of controlling all of the computer's functions. To do this, we would have to create a new voice-recognition program that can perform all low-level OS functions and then take input from the voice recognition module and output it to the OS module. And then you would have to have some form of output, right??? Well, needless to say, it is a little ways off before this will happen. A few architexture overhauls, several processor upgrades, and it may be possible.
As for now, we already have, at least more or less, a NL-CLI. Except it isnt in a command-line form. Microsoft Voice is a product that takes your input, in natural language form, and outputs it into the OS, moving the mouse or selecting the next option and such. You might want to check it out...very useful. Also, the last I knew, Dragonmount had a product to do the same thing, except it would integrate into the voice-recognition product also installed and running on the computer and the result would be the same as MS-Voice. In any case, we are currently working towards a NL-CLI, but it is probably 5 years or so off...
Alan 'Round the firewall, Out the modem, Past the server, Through the router, Down the wire, NOTHING BUT NET! (BTW, this is my first post. May there be many more...)
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That should be "at what Delta-V?" More Delta-V == faster.
If, by "Delta-V" you mean "change in velocity," then that would indeed be acceleration -- which doesn't necessarily mean faster.
Think about it: I drive my car from 0 to 60mph in 3 seconds, while yours only goes from 0 to 60mph in 12 seconds. At the end of that time, we're both going the same speed (assuming we stop accelerating once we hit 60mph), but my acceleration was much quicker than yours (4 times as fast, in fact).
Of course, if that were the case, then every student at every UNC school is paying for it.
I'm in Dr. Rhee's CSC316 (Data Structures for Computer Scientists) course. He absolutely knows his stuff, but he can be very hard to understand sometimes. His website is here, with a picture of the guy that doesn't really do him justice. When he walks into the classroom, I swear he looks like one of the laid-back teachers that will just let you slide by through the course, but he *really* makes you learn the material, inside and out.
Anyway, if you're interested in a link to the original article hosted off of the NCSU servers, it is here.
-bigginal
This article shows what Sony has done to limit access to the system, but it doesn't say exactly how Sony has stayed within the GPL, or how it is only staying within the GPL through "shifty" means.
Quick summary? Sure: There are so many limitations to the "Runtime Environment" that I don't know why anyone would want to have one. Basically every hardware interface is disabled, and you're not going to get much hard disk space using that whopping 8MB memory card (so you're limited in how many external programs you can run).
This thing sounds so crappy that I'd doubt that there's even a compiler on the system!
-bigginal
I took one quick look at the first author's name and thought it said:
"Simon & Garfunkel"
-bigginal
One suggestion I have for a VERY complicated programming project is a bot for the hugely popular AOL Instant Messanger (or you could even port it to ICQ...). However, this bot should be able to use AI to intelligently respond to questions and such...I am thinking of a conversation like this:
...
Questioneer: Hello.
AIMBot: Hello. My master is not available at the moment, but feel free to talk to me, an artificial intelligence!
Questioneer: Alright. So where is your master?
AIMBot: My master is using the restroom.
Questioneer: And when will he be back?
AIMBot: He should be back in a few minutes.
This is just a sample of what is available with today's technology. And I know someone who is currently working on something like this...check out the AIM screenname AIMPerlBot, and you will actually be able to talk to the work in progress.
But this is just an idea. Feel free to pick it apart...
Bigginal
The question posed in the root article is a very interesting one. Can a Natural Language (NL) CLI replace an OS such as Windows or *nix? The answer is no, at least not at our present level of software and hardware engineering. A good reference point to say that we have actually accomplished this is present in the Star Trek Television Series. A voice-operated computer capable of controlling all of the computer's functions. To do this, we would have to create a new voice-recognition program that can perform all low-level OS functions and then take input from the voice recognition module and output it to the OS module. And then you would have to have some form of output, right??? Well, needless to say, it is a little ways off before this will happen. A few architexture overhauls, several processor upgrades, and it may be possible.
As for now, we already have, at least more or less, a NL-CLI. Except it isnt in a command-line form. Microsoft Voice is a product that takes your input, in natural language form, and outputs it into the OS, moving the mouse or selecting the next option and such. You might want to check it out...very useful. Also, the last I knew, Dragonmount had a product to do the same thing, except it would integrate into the voice-recognition product also installed and running on the computer and the result would be the same as MS-Voice. In any case, we are currently working towards a NL-CLI, but it is probably 5 years or so off...
Alan
'Round the firewall, Out the modem, Past the server, Through the router, Down the wire, NOTHING BUT NET!
(BTW, this is my first post. May there be many more...)