I wonder how long it will take before someone comes along with instructions for bringing it back up to 133MHz. It would eat batteries like crazy, but get rechargables, or plug it into the wall.
Math was one of my majors in college, and I am now working in theoretical chemistry. How often do I use a calculator? About once a week or so. A calculator is going to help very little with real mathematics, and even a supercomputer is rather limited in doing anything but crunch numbers (and who's going to write the programs, eh?). All I need is a pen and paper for most things, a calculator for arithmetic, and a computer for any arithmetic the calculator can't handle (which isn't very often). Anyone listening to mp3s instead of doing their homework isn't being helped out at all by having an advanced calculator.
What has changed in our culture to account for this increased violent streak in people? I'm sure playing QuakeIII all night may have something to do with it. TV and music also seem to have gottten more violent since then. This is an old argument, but I think there is some truth to it. We are not the same culture that existed in the 80's, so we should not compare today's violence to the relative social peace of that decade.
Netscape lasted more than 3 seconds when I ran the applet. I even got a few pages downloaded before it died. If I had left things mostly alone, I bet it would stay okay for a while, at least long enough to get/etc/passwd if / was mounted. Of course, that's rather useless since the passwords are in/etc/shadow which isn't user readable, and (hopefully) root would never be running netscape. It did, however, die quite horrably when trying to close it, and had to kill -9 it to oblivion (^c didn't work).
Couldn't state spam laws be gotten around by routing mail between states? If I send my spam from Maine, route through New York, then go anywhere I want to, wouldn't it fall under federal juradiction (I think like if someone comits a state crime and escapes to a different state)? Better yet, route the spam through a different country.
Better yet, when a band is making an album of their songs, or a record company is putting together a `best of' type album, this analysis could help make sure compatable songs get put next to each other. For symphonies written in the classical era, there is a set pattern of key changes and such that keep a listener interested by providing new material without having completely contrasting musical ideas thus confusing the listener (like many modern symphonies). I'm sure this already happens in albums (I imagine fast songs are intersperced with slow songs for instance). Perhaps this would do a better job than actually having to think (like listening to MIDI...)
I wonder what Fourier transforms of music would tell us. I know they are important in image recognition. Let's see:
Music is made up of notes. Notes have pitch (frequency), dynamics (amplitude), and tamber (noise?). Different notes are played at the same time, and so their equations add up. There is also tempo, so these equations are changing with time. A local approximation would easily be made by a Fourier series since the sound is repeating (if I play an `A' on a violin, it will have a continuous sound). This should transfer over fairly well to...oh never mind, let's just fft the whole thing and see what we get.
I once went to Gateway Country for fun, and tried to drive the worker there crazy by asking such things as if I could get a computer built (the advertizments say thier computers are custom built) without an OS, or a CD-ROM, or a video card, or something else along those lines, and he just stared at me, not knowing what to answer. He asked one of his supperiors, who then informed me that the computers are customizable given a certain set of options, and not having an OS was not one of those options. All the more reason to build computers yourself, although that's a little more difficult for large buisnesses and programs funded by grants, etc.
Imagine a Japanese company having a computer product called Windows before MS. MS would have had to sell their product in Japan under a different name.
How about a hardware store selling doors and `windows'?
Hard drive? Just set up a DHCP server, and have the system set up (through BIOS) to get its kernel and file system (which it would kep in memory) from the server. No hard drive, no floppy drive, or anything. I would ditch the idea of using the USB port for maintenance (just reset the system and get a fresh OS), rather use it for network (or better yet, use fiber).
I put together a firewall once. It was a 486 with 32MB ram, floppy (no HD), and two 3C509 cards. It fit into the cardboard box I got my latest Maxtor Hard Drive in. I could have made it smaller than that if I wanted. Think about it: what do you really need for a computer? Motherboards are about 10x9, and the network cards/floppy adds a few inches of height. The power supply really adds a chunk of space, but if one has three or four of these boxes, they can share a power supply.
I admit that I ran Win2000 for awhile. I was doing computational chemistry calculations, which maxed out the CPU, memory (400MB worth), and several GB of swap space for weeks on end. The OS never crashed (which NT4.0 did quite often). Note, however, that I had no other software (like office suites) installed. I've noticed that Windows can be rather stable until you actually try to install anything else on it. [if only we had liscenses for the linux version of the chemistry software; I bet things would have run much faster]
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I wonder how long it will take before someone comes along with instructions for bringing it back up to 133MHz. It would eat batteries like crazy, but get rechargables, or plug it into the wall.
Math was one of my majors in college, and I am now working in theoretical chemistry. How often do I use a calculator? About once a week or so. A calculator is going to help very little with real mathematics, and even a supercomputer is rather limited in doing anything but crunch numbers (and who's going to write the programs, eh?). All I need is a pen and paper for most things, a calculator for arithmetic, and a computer for any arithmetic the calculator can't handle (which isn't very often). Anyone listening to mp3s instead of doing their homework isn't being helped out at all by having an advanced calculator.
What has changed in our culture to account for this increased violent streak in people? I'm sure playing QuakeIII all night may have something to do with it. TV and music also seem to have gottten more violent since then. This is an old argument, but I think there is some truth to it. We are not the same culture that existed in the 80's, so we should not compare today's violence to the relative social peace of that decade.
Netscape lasted more than 3 seconds when I ran the applet. I even got a few pages downloaded before it died. If I had left things mostly alone, I bet it would stay okay for a while, at least long enough to get /etc/passwd if / was mounted. Of course, that's rather useless since the passwords are in /etc/shadow which isn't user readable, and (hopefully) root would never be running netscape. It did, however, die quite horrably when trying to close it, and had to kill -9 it to oblivion (^c didn't work).
...um...HTML?
also, whatever happened to MathML?
I beleive the latest versions of mozilla support MathML. See thier webpage on it here
Couldn't state spam laws be gotten around by routing mail between states? If I send my spam from Maine, route through New York, then go anywhere I want to, wouldn't it fall under federal juradiction (I think like if someone comits a state crime and escapes to a different state)? Better yet, route the spam through a different country.
Better yet, when a band is making an album of their songs, or a record company is putting together a `best of' type album, this analysis could help make sure compatable songs get put next to each other. For symphonies written in the classical era, there is a set pattern of key changes and such that keep a listener interested by providing new material without having completely contrasting musical ideas thus confusing the listener (like many modern symphonies). I'm sure this already happens in albums (I imagine fast songs are intersperced with slow songs for instance). Perhaps this would do a better job than actually having to think (like listening to MIDI...)
I wonder what Fourier transforms of music would tell us. I know they are important in image recognition. Let's see:
Music is made up of notes. Notes have pitch (frequency), dynamics (amplitude), and tamber (noise?). Different notes are played at the same time, and so their equations add up. There is also tempo, so these equations are changing with time. A local approximation would easily be made by a Fourier series since the sound is repeating (if I play an `A' on a violin, it will have a continuous sound). This should transfer over fairly well to...oh never mind, let's just fft the whole thing and see what we get.
I once went to Gateway Country for fun, and tried to drive the worker there crazy by asking such things as if I could get a computer built (the advertizments say thier computers are custom built) without an OS, or a CD-ROM, or a video card, or something else along those lines, and he just stared at me, not knowing what to answer. He asked one of his supperiors, who then informed me that the computers are customizable given a certain set of options, and not having an OS was not one of those options. All the more reason to build computers yourself, although that's a little more difficult for large buisnesses and programs funded by grants, etc.
Imagine a Japanese company having a computer product called Windows before MS. MS would have had to sell their product in Japan under a different name.
How about a hardware store selling doors and `windows'?
Hard drive? Just set up a DHCP server, and have the system set up (through BIOS) to get its kernel and file system (which it would kep in memory) from the server. No hard drive, no floppy drive, or anything. I would ditch the idea of using the USB port for maintenance (just reset the system and get a fresh OS), rather use it for network (or better yet, use fiber).
I put together a firewall once. It was a 486 with 32MB ram, floppy (no HD), and two 3C509 cards. It fit into the cardboard box I got my latest Maxtor Hard Drive in. I could have made it smaller than that if I wanted. Think about it: what do you really need for a computer? Motherboards are about 10x9, and the network cards/floppy adds a few inches of height. The power supply really adds a chunk of space, but if one has three or four of these boxes, they can share a power supply.
I admit that I ran Win2000 for awhile. I was doing computational chemistry calculations, which maxed out the CPU, memory (400MB worth), and several GB of swap space for weeks on end. The OS never crashed (which NT4.0 did quite often). Note, however, that I had no other software (like office suites) installed. I've noticed that Windows can be rather stable until you actually try to install anything else on it. [if only we had liscenses for the linux version of the chemistry software; I bet things would have run much faster]