Definitely No-code. I mean cmon, having the code requirement is SO 1800's. Doe anyone use that anymore? It was hard enough getting my ham license without the code requirement. The theory questions could be made a little harder I guess, but ohmygoodnessno don't require code.
All he needs to set up is an HTTP proxy. Alternatively he can sell a subscription service to a software add-on conglomeration that functions like spybot+adblock+parental controls+email spam filtering. Most of the stuff he's talking about is HTTP & Email protocol, it's not like he's trying to block ports on the internet. Your point about him being an ISP is moot. His service would be considered along the lines of the RBL service. Heck, if he had all that stuff bundled together into an 1-click installable package I'D subscribe to it. Can you imagine the time I would save installing and maintaining all that junk separately?
If power usage is the problem, design the system to detect switching to Directx, and switch from integrated to add-on card. Better yet, design the real card to scale its power consumption according to its needs. They did the same thing for CPU's ages ago.
Actually, why not add in a way to read back the state of each of the lines going to the xor gates via say an undocumented register. Ship one batch to the manufacturer for authorization, buy it from a vendor, read the code out and you're done.
Another solution is to wire-bond a very small microcontroller onto the pins that listens for the encryption code and writes it to EEProm memory. Microchip makes some processors that would work nicely for that. All it takes is one of those custom fabricated spychips to record the authorization code. You don't need to change any masks at all.
How do you do stuff like model the differences in materials? Steel, plastic and rubber will bend then break. Wood and fiberglass will leave long fibers sticking out. Each of the above will have a different end texture.
I mean if you crash one car into another both cars don't dissolve into colored grains of sand.
Other than that, I have been quite frustrated at how little the average gamer can impact his environment, and if voxels can help that sounds really cool.
Holler instead of whispering. How do you tell a hundred people all the same thing? Call a meeting and announce it with a loudspeaker, play it over the radio, broadcast it on TV.
The point is, memory bandwidth is NOT the problem if you're trying to transport the same data to multiple places at the same time. You broadcast it on a bus to multiple memory stores. One other cool thing in a memory architecture like that is that it could act like Content Addressable Memory. Database people would then start buying video cards to get quicker response time hehe.
Raster processors are gonna get mowed down like a cardboard box under a Mack truck.
Woahhh. If you can ray-trace a scene that is larger than physical ram that would mean that in a massively parallel graphics card you don't need to have the whole scene loaded into each GPUs memory. That's... HUGE. Are they doing on the fly level of detail to minimize the amount of data needed for each section of the image? If so, then partitioning of images among the processors would no longer be scanline based but probably rectangular sections. If I have this right you could have a 1 meg gaming type model rendered on an array of GPUs each with 256k of local memory (Assuming factor of four as you posted).
Why do you say it's exaggerated with more execution units? Wouldn't each GPU execution unit have its own memory block? If 1/2 the data is a common to all the GPUs, the amount of data needed to be transferred wouldn't be that bad.
Sounds kinda dumb to me. Option 1: Co-processor with a nice fat pipe to the graphics memory (GPU) Or Option 2: Co-processor transferring both model AND image data over the system bus.
It unfortunately could work the other way. There is a friend of mine in jail for 20 years as a child molester for a crime he didn't commit. He was a teacher, and if there had been cameras at that time he would have been exonerated. All it would take would be a couple of those, or proof of the students harassing the teachers to cement their usage.
The big problem here is getting the population to expect this depredation of their liberties by starting with kids. When those kids grow up they'll think it's normal for Big Brother to be watching them 24/7.
*Add* something instead. Add in a fusible link that would disable the protection scheme. It would have to be subtle enough to pass inspection by the original mask creators.
Instead of creating a bogus, complicated and expensive DRM scheme, just introduce a watermark onto the mask. Use the watermark to identify which manufacturer is selling the extra chips.
The counter of course is the good ole compare blueprints trick. However then we're back to what you mentioned before, the calibration expense issue.
Tube to curb would be disastrously expensive. Tube to local pickup station is a different story. In the Wild West, towns would spring up around railroads. In this case, Internet companies would tend to congregate near the local pickup stations.
The primary early destinations for this type of system would be Fedex, UPS, Post office. Each of their offices in a city would connect to the others. After that connections to airports and possibly docks. Repackage the multiple smaller tubes into a standard shipping container to become compatible with the big boys.
Couple of questions: Does the shape have to be round? If not can "This side up" be maintained? Can maximum lateral G force limits be maintained?
The reason I ask this is for delicate goods shipping. I want my pizza to arrive hot and right side up! The other reason is that combining box shaped packages works SO much better than combining cylinders.
I have a better idea! Let's just use trebuchets to deliver the packages!
4 more years of a devaluing dollar would make his statements prophetic. Who would be better at solving the (then huge) problem than the guy that predicted it 4 years ago?
... And I don't care who wins this election so long as its not Hillary.
Napalm bombs on Japan killed even more civilians than atomic weapons in Japan. From globalsecurity.org:
"On 21 March 2000, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued a memorandum detailing records of "criminal acts against humanity" committed by United States troops during the three-year Korean War (1950-1953). The DPRK report stated that the United States killed peaceful citizens by indiscriminate bombing and naval bombardment against urban and rural areas in the North. According to the DPRK, from 11 July to 20 August 1951, more than 10,000 United States planes had conducted over 250 air raids on Pyongyang, dropping as many as 4,000 bombs, killing 4,000 civilians and wounding 2,500 more. From 11 to 12 July 1952, 400 United States planes dropped more than 6,000 napalm bombs and time-bombs, killing 8,000 civilians, including women and children. "Town and country were reduced to ashes and several million peaceable inhabitants killed", the Permanent Representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Li Hyong Chol, said. According to the DPRK report, Napalm and other bombs dropped by United States war planes totaled more than 600,000 tons, which was 3.7 times the 161,425 tons dropped over Japan during the Pacific War."
Also
"A single firebomb dropped from an airplane at low-altitude was capable of producing damage to a 2500-yd2 area. In targeted Japanese cities, napalm bombs burned out 40% of the land area. In a Japanese residential neighborhoods with wood and paper houses, there was no way to fight the fires. On March 9 and 10, 1945, US forces dropped more than 1,500 tons of napalm bombs, all produced at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, on Tokyo. The resulting firestorm destroyed enormous sections of the city."
"Estimates of the number killed range between 80,000 and 200,000, a higher death toll than that produced by the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima or Nagasaki six months later."
It took not one but two atomic bombs to convince the Japanese to surrender, and this was AFTER the horrendous firebombing.
Firebombing cities accomplished its purpose. From http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWfirestorm.htm : "A wave of terror radiated from the suffering city and spread through Germany. Appalling details of the great fire was recounted. A stream of haggard, terrified refugees flowed into the neighbouring provinces. In every large town people said: "What happened to Hamburg yesterday can happen to us tomorrow". After Hamburg in the wide circle of the political and the military command could be heard the words: "The war is lost"."
So I ask, who are the terrorists?
The expansionistic prisoner of war torturing invaders, the ones dropping the napalm bombs on the invaders' civilian population, the ones ordering the dropping of napalm bombs, or the ones that voted into power the people that ordered the dropping of napalm bombs?
At some point citizens ARE responsible for the actions of their leaders. And yes, War is Hell.
Tailgating is a response to other impolite drivers. I've been practicing those suggestions for 5+ years, and it's hard to do because of all the impatient jerks. It pays off though when they jump into your lane thinking it's faster, go flying up to the bumper of the car in front of you, then have to wait until a spot opens up in the lanes on either side that are going faster. I get a chuckle every time it happens.
I think main motorways should be allowed to use the shoulders when traffic is backed up They do that in LA. On a bunch of the older, busy freeways they squeezed in another lane or two by making them narrower and marking them so you drive on the shoulder. Some have signs that say driving on shoulder is allowed during rush hour (times explicitly stated).
None of the "enhancements" you're talking about gives ray tracing a leg up on conventional rendering. I didn't say that ray tracing would ever be faster than dirty hacks that do not accurately model the real world.
Speed of conventional rendering, in good designs, is limited by how fast you can feed the chip geometry. YOU MUST ACCESS EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF VISIBLE GEOMETRY EVERY FRAME. There is no way to avoid it with any rendering strategy, it's just not possible. I was saying that accessing the geometry is not a bottleneck. All that is needed is more cpu and more broadcast updated ram, which (see below)
Moore's law is working against ray tracing, not FOR it. ... which Moore's law is working absolute wonders by making available more CPU power (in this case more GPU power) and ram. I was suggesting that instead of having 1 copy of the geometry, you have N copies of the geometry, all loaded at the same time from the master copy of the geometry. Memory bandwidth ceases to become an issue, it's a matter of how much ram you can squeeze onto each GPU core. Broadcast is MUCH faster than either peer-to-peer or unicast.
Or did you miss the point where you have a massively parallel GPU setup? 64 GPU cores ought to be enough for anyone:p
Four points: - It's not age discrimination as was alluded to earlier, it's behavior discrimination, which IS legal. - It doesn't work on an airplane, unless you were to build a sound-proof divider on the airplane (Third-class anyone?). - It appears to work in libraries (quiet please) and restaurants (no smoking, shoes, shirt) just fine. - I wasn't saying that all children can be quieted all of the time. You're right, it is very nearly impossible to quiet a baby.
It seems to me that parenting has been going downhill for a while. My parents did not let me scream unless injured since I was 5 years old (or earlier, I can't remember farther back than that). I cringe when I see 10 year old children screaming in stores and the parents do nothing about it.
Here's an idea: Create a "storm simulator" to replicate the conditions of an airplane flying in a storm: Lightning flashes, thunder booms, lurching, swaying seat, lower air pressure, and then if the child or baby continues making noise for more than 1 minute afterwards then they won't be allowed on non "family-friendly" flights. When it's not being used for testing children it can be used (with appropriate video and or gaming controls) to kill time before a flight by adults.
Would someone please explain to me how having a no screaming section is different than having a no smoking section? We have laws against loud stereos (>100 feet audible). No shirt, no shoes, no service is common. Aren't people with screaming children asked to leave the library?
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Finally a valid reason to still use ftp. Wake up you sftp developers and crack that whip, those hamsters are loafin.
Anyone that can get away with charging $100/mon for ftp service qualifies as an unmitigated genius in my book.
Definitely No-code. I mean cmon, having the code requirement is SO 1800's. Doe anyone use that anymore?
It was hard enough getting my ham license without the code requirement. The theory questions could be made a little harder I guess, but ohmygoodnessno don't require code.
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Wow. The articles people link to are way better than the ones on the front page of slashdot.
Thanks for that link Goonie.
All he needs to set up is an HTTP proxy.
Alternatively he can sell a subscription service to a software add-on conglomeration that functions like spybot+adblock+parental controls+email spam filtering. Most of the stuff he's talking about is HTTP & Email protocol, it's not like he's trying to block ports on the internet.
Your point about him being an ISP is moot. His service would be considered along the lines of the RBL service.
Heck, if he had all that stuff bundled together into an 1-click installable package I'D subscribe to it. Can you imagine the time I would save installing and maintaining all that junk separately?
If power usage is the problem, design the system to detect switching to Directx, and switch from integrated to add-on card.
Better yet, design the real card to scale its power consumption according to its needs. They did the same thing for CPU's ages ago.
Actually, why not add in a way to read back the state of each of the lines going to the xor gates via say an undocumented register. Ship one batch to the manufacturer for authorization, buy it from a vendor, read the code out and you're done.
Another solution is to wire-bond a very small microcontroller onto the pins that listens for the encryption code and writes it to EEProm memory. Microchip makes some processors that would work nicely for that. All it takes is one of those custom fabricated spychips to record the authorization code. You don't need to change any masks at all.
How do you do stuff like model the differences in materials?
Steel, plastic and rubber will bend then break.
Wood and fiberglass will leave long fibers sticking out.
Each of the above will have a different end texture.
I mean if you crash one car into another both cars don't dissolve into colored grains of sand.
Other than that, I have been quite frustrated at how little the average gamer can impact his environment, and if voxels can help that sounds really cool.
Holler instead of whispering.
How do you tell a hundred people all the same thing? Call a meeting and announce it with a loudspeaker, play it over the radio, broadcast it on TV.
The point is, memory bandwidth is NOT the problem if you're trying to transport the same data to multiple places at the same time. You broadcast it on a bus to multiple memory stores. One other cool thing in a memory architecture like that is that it could act like Content Addressable Memory. Database people would then start buying video cards to get quicker response time hehe.
Raster processors are gonna get mowed down like a cardboard box under a Mack truck.
Woahhh. If you can ray-trace a scene that is larger than physical ram that would mean that in a massively parallel graphics card you don't need to have the whole scene loaded into each GPUs memory. ... HUGE.
That's
Are they doing on the fly level of detail to minimize the amount of data needed for each section of the image?
If so, then partitioning of images among the processors would no longer be scanline based but probably rectangular sections.
If I have this right you could have a 1 meg gaming type model rendered on an array of GPUs each with 256k of local memory (Assuming factor of four as you posted).
Why do you say it's exaggerated with more execution units? Wouldn't each GPU execution unit have its own memory block? If 1/2 the data is a common to all the GPUs, the amount of data needed to be transferred wouldn't be that bad.
Sounds kinda dumb to me.
Option 1: Co-processor with a nice fat pipe to the graphics memory (GPU)
Or
Option 2: Co-processor transferring both model AND image data over the system bus.
It unfortunately could work the other way. There is a friend of mine in jail for 20 years as a child molester for a crime he didn't commit. He was a teacher, and if there had been cameras at that time he would have been exonerated.
All it would take would be a couple of those, or proof of the students harassing the teachers to cement their usage.
The big problem here is getting the population to expect this depredation of their liberties by starting with kids. When those kids grow up they'll think it's normal for Big Brother to be watching them 24/7.
Daleks don't need stairs. They just exterminate the whole building.
*Add* something instead. Add in a fusible link that would disable the protection scheme.
It would have to be subtle enough to pass inspection by the original mask creators.
Instead of creating a bogus, complicated and expensive DRM scheme, just introduce a watermark onto the mask. Use the watermark to identify which manufacturer is selling the extra chips.
The counter of course is the good ole compare blueprints trick. However then we're back to what you mentioned before, the calibration expense issue.
Tube to curb would be disastrously expensive. Tube to local pickup station is a different story.
In the Wild West, towns would spring up around railroads. In this case, Internet companies would tend to congregate near the local pickup stations.
The primary early destinations for this type of system would be Fedex, UPS, Post office. Each of their offices in a city would connect to the others.
After that connections to airports and possibly docks. Repackage the multiple smaller tubes into a standard shipping container to become compatible with the big boys.
Couple of questions:
Does the shape have to be round?
If not can "This side up" be maintained?
Can maximum lateral G force limits be maintained?
The reason I ask this is for delicate goods shipping. I want my pizza to arrive hot and right side up!
The other reason is that combining box shaped packages works SO much better than combining cylinders.
I have a better idea! Let's just use trebuchets to deliver the packages!
They're using E=MC^2 Express. The problem is the liquid nitrogen cooled superconducting line they have to connect up each node in the network with.
Please give us a list of the 10 worst of those. As a programmer/DB admin, and I think it would be very educational.
Nono recommend APL. The entire universe can be written very concisely in just 1 line of it... And you thought PERL looked like line noise.
Who would be better at solving the (then huge) problem than the guy that predicted it 4 years ago?
... And I don't care who wins this election so long as its not Hillary.
Napalm bombs on Japan killed even more civilians than atomic weapons in Japan.
From globalsecurity.org:
"On 21 March 2000, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea issued a memorandum detailing records of "criminal acts against humanity" committed by United States troops during the three-year Korean War (1950-1953). The DPRK report stated that the United States killed peaceful citizens by indiscriminate bombing and naval bombardment against urban and rural areas in the North. According to the DPRK, from 11 July to 20 August 1951, more than 10,000 United States planes had conducted over 250 air raids on Pyongyang, dropping as many as 4,000 bombs, killing 4,000 civilians and wounding 2,500 more. From 11 to 12 July 1952, 400 United States planes dropped more than 6,000 napalm bombs and time-bombs, killing 8,000 civilians, including women and children. "Town and country were reduced to ashes and several million peaceable inhabitants killed", the Permanent Representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Li Hyong Chol, said. According to the DPRK report, Napalm and other bombs dropped by United States war planes totaled more than 600,000 tons, which was 3.7 times the 161,425 tons dropped over Japan during the Pacific War."
Also
"A single firebomb dropped from an airplane at low-altitude was capable of producing damage to a 2500-yd2 area. In targeted Japanese cities, napalm bombs burned out 40% of the land area. In a Japanese residential neighborhoods with wood and paper houses, there was no way to fight the fires. On March 9 and 10, 1945, US forces dropped more than 1,500 tons of napalm bombs, all produced at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, on Tokyo. The resulting firestorm destroyed enormous sections of the city."
See also http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/tokyo.htm where it states:
"Estimates of the number killed range between 80,000 and 200,000, a higher death toll than that produced by the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima or Nagasaki six months later."
It took not one but two atomic bombs to convince the Japanese to surrender, and this was AFTER the horrendous firebombing.
Firebombing cities accomplished its purpose. From http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWfirestorm.htm :
"A wave of terror radiated from the suffering city and spread through Germany. Appalling details of the great fire was recounted. A stream of haggard, terrified refugees flowed into the neighbouring provinces. In every large town people said: "What happened to Hamburg yesterday can happen to us tomorrow". After Hamburg in the wide circle of the political and the military command could be heard the words: "The war is lost"."
So I ask, who are the terrorists?
The expansionistic prisoner of war torturing invaders, the ones dropping the napalm bombs on the invaders' civilian population, the ones ordering the dropping of napalm bombs, or the ones that voted into power the people that ordered the dropping of napalm bombs?
At some point citizens ARE responsible for the actions of their leaders. And yes, War is Hell.
Tailgating is a response to other impolite drivers.
I've been practicing those suggestions for 5+ years, and it's hard to do because of all the impatient jerks. It pays off though when they jump into your lane thinking it's faster, go flying up to the bumper of the car in front of you, then have to wait until a spot opens up in the lanes on either side that are going faster. I get a chuckle every time it happens.
Broadcast is MUCH faster than either peer-to-peer or unicast.
Or did you miss the point where you have a massively parallel GPU setup? 64 GPU cores ought to be enough for anyone
Four points:
- It's not age discrimination as was alluded to earlier, it's behavior discrimination, which IS legal.
- It doesn't work on an airplane, unless you were to build a sound-proof divider on the airplane (Third-class anyone?).
- It appears to work in libraries (quiet please) and restaurants (no smoking, shoes, shirt) just fine.
- I wasn't saying that all children can be quieted all of the time. You're right, it is very nearly impossible to quiet a baby.
It seems to me that parenting has been going downhill for a while. My parents did not let me scream unless injured since I was 5 years old (or earlier, I can't remember farther back than that). I cringe when I see 10 year old children screaming in stores and the parents do nothing about it.
Here's an idea: Create a "storm simulator" to replicate the conditions of an airplane flying in a storm: Lightning flashes, thunder booms, lurching, swaying seat, lower air pressure, and then if the child or baby continues making noise for more than 1 minute afterwards then they won't be allowed on non "family-friendly" flights. When it's not being used for testing children it can be used (with appropriate video and or gaming controls) to kill time before a flight by adults.
Would someone please explain to me how having a no screaming section is different than having a no smoking section?
We have laws against loud stereos (>100 feet audible). No shirt, no shoes, no service is common.
Aren't people with screaming children asked to leave the library?