Check out http://vtun.sourceforge.net/. I know of at least one VoIP appliance company that uses vtun links to their home base for updates and managment.
UWB sounds great until you talk to users of other technologies, and how UWB raises the noise floor level for all other communication devices within the band covered. Not something anyone else wants.
So do we know why exactly did the IEEE decline to make it a standard? I haven't read the papers, so someone please summarize.
They can save some of the DB bloat by using a great single file compact database, like SQLite. It's the fastest thing out there too. That would eliminate most of the java compilation slowdowns, etc.
Java really shouldn't be used for things like desktop apps, since one can't easily hide it's startup time while the user is expecting something else.
And yes, someone mentioned that the important things should load up first, like the virtual paper and cursor, ready to take in your input, while the rest of the components load in lower priority, not to make anything feel chunky.
Games like this keep reminding me of Descent 3
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Remember good old Descent 3 ? Either you hated it because you couldn't figure out how to control the ship in 3D or you loved it because it felt like the most free environment short of a space sim. Totaly 360 degree, and very playable with a mouse + keyb.
Dust off the old copy and install it on todays hardware. I'll bet it'll impress all over again. It did for me. The sounds are great, the graphics sweet, and playability is good too. I liked the cunningness of the AI and being a hotshot at the controls, strafing everywhere in 3D. The indoor/outdoor dual fusion engine behaved smoothly in transitions and gave you more options when dealing with the baddie robots.
Ahh the memories.. too bad the average gamer was so conditioned to the Doom style of play back in the day, and couldn't appreciate the extra degree of freedom and excitment.
The Descent genre needs a resurrection. Especially now with Mars exploration;]
Why don't they ever mention the real world stats or operational supercomputers? They keep saying BlueGene/L when it's not even completed (maybe it finally is). There's also/C which is falling behind, but at least they're not reporting any numbers until it actually works.
The fastest operational (like anything else matters) supercomputer is Columbia at NASA. And guess what? It's doing a ton of usefull work, like helping make sure the Space Shuttle launches without a hitch by computing all the Thermal Protection System problems and various other analyses.
Look at the number of processors it uses and it's performance compared to the others. It's one of the more efficient of the bunch.
Just wait until they upgrade it..
Top500 should include different rankings, like efficiency or measurable areas other than projected TFlops. In the end it's not how many you got, but how well you can use them.
.. or the reporter at Bussiness 2.0 doesn't know his bussiness..
Here's one little tid bit that will put those of you who invested at ease.. Transmeta is the one doing the design for the Cell processor.. yeah that amazing thing. Yes, for the Sony PS3.
By getting their machine infected, they've autorized their computer to accept new software. So install new software, mainly the OS. There's a few nice scripts out there that automatically convert machines to Debian or FreeBSD (Debianize / demonize).
Then have fun with it, each week pick a diff iso to format the machines with.. one week knoppix, the next ubuntu, the next morphix, oh the fun.. for weeks!
If they started thinking about the medium they're in, they wouldn't be so surprised. Take another medium, for instance sand. You drop a rock into sand and the sand "splashes" away in a radial perimeter, creating a small crater. Remove the sand, and there's no "splashing" or crater, just the soft mud underneath.
Another surprise they claim is: air has drag. No kidding. You hurl something into air fast enough and the air wil push back, hard!
Why do you think droplet shapes are they way you think they are.. flat on the bottom and a nice curve around the sides with a flat top. Ususually it jiggles, since the air pushes on it unevenly when it's falling. In a vacuum, it's perfectly spherical and undisturbed during it's fall. The video shows that clearly.
Re:As Dave Barry pointed out....
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Yes, but immagine the Japanese's horror if they did drop intermittent wipers all over them!
They should make a googleCluster Live CD.. ala clusterKnoppix....or perhaps use more of clusterKnoppix features or openmosix..share cpu/mem.. sourceforge is begging for something like this..
Their engineer desktops have special google builds of linux which help them compile things insanely fast with g4, ie hacked p4 (Perforce).
They also have one of the best intranet sites I've seen. Lots of info and services the employees can use, apart from email.
The internal blogs really help with keeping track of projects you're not working on, and what others are doing. Their mailing lists are often usefull too, for example there's a lost and found, for sale, and biking partners list. All kinds of usefull little stuff, taking care of the people with little nice things. Lots of reading too.
Yes, well to test the theory, someone just has to start an open source project like XPde, but with the OS X like GUI, and clone it's functionality. Then you can have the best of three worlds, x86 hw, linux software core and an OS X like GUI on top. It's all about choice right? This is one option I haven't seen explored yet.
A More usefull hack is needed, one that enables the user to keep browsing and reading the pages. Not to be limited by only two in either direction, since that is where they really get you. They peak your interest, then provide a purhcase link, when you only want to read a few more pages to satisfy your burning question. Hook line and sinker.
For proof either way, one needs the full disclosure of the entire scientific community. Since this includes all the classified data, including the real data of our trips to outer space, the population is out of luck.
There is nothing I can say to prove it to you, unless you see the anomalies and wonder why. Even then you'll need to use your own head.
Math really does not explain much. It only serves as a tool to express ones observations and presumptions.
Most of the world has no idea of what is really going on, like most think the Sun is scorching hot with out any real proof other than what they feel on a sunny day. Try googling for "the sun is cold" and learn something.
Wouldn't it be interesting if they kept only 1 copy of words or even phrases, then as emails came in they were encoded, and hence compressed once.
(Like if they kept spam, only 1 need be saved, and just re-served to everyone that received it, DB style.)
When a user goes to read the email, it's reconstructed on the fly. Compression possibly better than one would expect. Especially since there's only so large a set of words we use in our everyday communication, 1GB of generated email could be stored in something much less, for almost everyone using the system. Uber-consolidation.
Somehow I don't believe they're going about this the traditional way of just throwing storage at it. Seems too inefficient.
What happens when you stack a bunch of metal strips on top of each other with a fine gap in between? How about rolling them up?... Congratulations, you just made a capacitor!
Now place in a magnetic field to have it possibly resonate at the frequency that it resonates at.
Or like others suggested, a leftover security strip in the wallet.
People really should learn how to troubleshoot properly. Which reminds me of a story... in short, grad student doing research on fleas, trains his flea to jump when he yells out "Hop!". After much testing and mutilation, one by one, all of the legs get pulled off the flea. He yells out "Hop!", and nothing happens. Hence he begins to write his conclusion:
"When all of the legs are pulled off the flea, the flea becomes deaf".
Oh come on! This is a dead ringer! The whole galaxy in a marble! Complete with gravastars and black holes! Ok, so they cut out those scenes.
Extremely neat concept, that seems a lot of people missed. Doesn't look like many people even read the comment, since it isn't modded up a single point.
Isn't the plot of the movie Men In Black (1||2) about a universe inside a marble sized jewel, which is the source of great power?
And then at the end, as the camera zooms out past our solar system and beyond, we're just another marble in some alien kid's marble collection? Made me think a bit..
Where did the writers of the film get these ideas?
Ok, this is a deja-vu for me since I remember seeing this type of display technology on the SeaQuest series several years ago, where Capt. Bridger talks to his computerized friend who shows his face on the "fog screen".
Anyone done any research on this, or where the SeaQuest producers got the idea?
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Check out http://vtun.sourceforge.net/. I know of at least one VoIP appliance company that uses vtun links to their home base for updates and managment.
Heh, how many are brave enough to have this alias: d='\rm -rf' and use it in all your accounts?
Think. Then Act. No Problem.
UWB sounds great until you talk to users of other technologies, and how UWB raises the noise floor level for all other communication devices within the band covered. Not something anyone else wants.
So do we know why exactly did the IEEE decline to make it a standard? I haven't read the papers, so someone please summarize.
They can save some of the DB bloat by using a great single file compact database, like SQLite. It's the fastest thing out there too. That would eliminate most of the java compilation slowdowns, etc.
Java really shouldn't be used for things like desktop apps, since one can't easily hide it's startup time while the user is expecting something else.
And yes, someone mentioned that the important things should load up first, like the virtual paper and cursor, ready to take in your input, while the rest of the components load in lower priority, not to make anything feel chunky.
Remember good old Descent 3 ? Either you hated it because you couldn't figure out how to control the ship in 3D or you loved it because it felt like the most free environment short of a space sim. Totaly 360 degree, and very playable with a mouse + keyb.
;]
Dust off the old copy and install it on todays hardware. I'll bet it'll impress all over again. It did for me. The sounds are great, the graphics sweet, and playability is good too. I liked the cunningness of the AI and being a hotshot at the controls, strafing everywhere in 3D. The indoor/outdoor dual fusion engine behaved smoothly in transitions and gave you more options when dealing with the baddie robots.
Ahh the memories.. too bad the average gamer was so conditioned to the Doom style of play back in the day, and couldn't appreciate the extra degree of freedom and excitment.
The Descent genre needs a resurrection. Especially now with Mars exploration
n/m, it's Xeno CMS 2.1, and no it's not free OSS. xenomedia.com for details.
Does anyone know which CMS they're running? It's not advertized anywhere.
Why don't they ever mention the real world stats or operational supercomputers? /C which is falling behind, but at least they're not reporting any numbers until it actually works.
They keep saying BlueGene/L when it's not even completed (maybe it finally is). There's also
The fastest operational (like anything else matters) supercomputer is Columbia at NASA. And guess what? It's doing a ton of usefull work, like helping make sure the Space Shuttle launches without a hitch by computing all the Thermal Protection System problems and various other analyses.
Look at the number of processors it uses and it's performance compared to the others. It's one of the more efficient of the bunch.
Just wait until they upgrade it..
Top500 should include different rankings, like efficiency or measurable areas other than projected TFlops. In the end it's not how many you got, but how well you can use them.
Sources shall remain nameless, but they are from Transmeta :)
To "Think", is to "Know" nothing.
.. or the reporter at Bussiness 2.0 doesn't know his bussiness..
Here's one little tid bit that will put those of you who invested at ease.. Transmeta is the one doing the design for the Cell processor.. yeah that amazing thing. Yes, for the Sony PS3.
Check back in a year.
Now move along and get a better story to read.
I am the cookie monster, no more cookies for you!
problem solved.
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By getting their machine infected, they've autorized their computer to accept new software. So install new software, mainly the OS. There's a few nice scripts out there that automatically convert machines to Debian or FreeBSD (Debianize / demonize).
Then have fun with it, each week pick a diff iso to format the machines with.. one week knoppix, the next ubuntu, the next morphix, oh the fun.. for weeks!
If they started thinking about the medium they're in, they wouldn't be so surprised.
Take another medium, for instance sand. You drop a rock into sand and the sand "splashes" away in a radial perimeter, creating a small crater. Remove the sand, and there's no "splashing" or crater, just the soft mud underneath.
Another surprise they claim is: air has drag. No kidding. You hurl something into air fast enough and the air wil push back, hard!
Why do you think droplet shapes are they way you think they are.. flat on the bottom and a nice curve around the sides with a flat top. Ususually it jiggles, since the air pushes on it unevenly when it's falling. In a vacuum, it's perfectly spherical and undisturbed during it's fall.
The video shows that clearly.
Yes, but immagine the Japanese's horror if they did drop intermittent wipers all over them!
They'd think we'd wipe them out.
They should make a googleCluster Live CD.. ala clusterKnoppix.. ..or perhaps use more of clusterKnoppix features or openmosix..share cpu/mem..
sourceforge is begging for something like this..
Their engineer desktops have special google builds of linux which help them compile things insanely fast with g4, ie hacked p4 (Perforce).
They also have one of the best intranet sites I've seen. Lots of info and services the employees can use, apart from email.
The internal blogs really help with keeping track of projects you're not working on, and what others are doing. Their mailing lists are often usefull too, for example there's a lost and found, for sale, and biking partners list. All kinds of usefull little stuff, taking care of the people with little nice things. Lots of reading too.
-- Robi
Yes, well to test the theory, someone just has to start an open source project like XPde, but with the OS X like GUI, and clone it's functionality. Then you can have the best of three worlds, x86 hw, linux software core and an OS X like GUI on top.
It's all about choice right? This is one option I haven't seen explored yet.
A More usefull hack is needed, one that enables the user to keep browsing and reading the pages.
Not to be limited by only two in either direction, since that is where they really get you. They peak your interest, then provide a purhcase link, when you only want to read a few more pages to satisfy your burning question. Hook line and sinker.
Any takers?
For proof either way, one needs the full disclosure of the entire scientific community. Since this includes all the classified data, including the real data of our trips to outer space, the population is out of luck.
There is nothing I can say to prove it to you, unless you see the anomalies and wonder why.
Even then you'll need to use your own head.
Good luck
Math really does not explain much. It only serves as a tool to express ones observations and presumptions.
Most of the world has no idea of what is really going on, like most think the Sun is scorching hot with out any real proof other than what they feel on a sunny day.
Try googling for "the sun is cold" and learn something.
Wouldn't it be interesting if they kept only 1 copy of words or even phrases, then as emails came in they were encoded, and hence compressed once.
(Like if they kept spam, only 1 need be saved, and just re-served to everyone that received it, DB style.)
When a user goes to read the email, it's reconstructed on the fly. Compression possibly better than one would expect. Especially since there's only so large a set of words we use in our everyday communication, 1GB of generated email could be stored in something much less, for almost everyone using the system. Uber-consolidation.
Somehow I don't believe they're going about this the traditional way of just throwing storage at it. Seems too inefficient.
What happens when you stack a bunch of metal strips on top of each other with a fine gap in between? How about rolling them up? ... Congratulations, you just made a capacitor!
Now place in a magnetic field to have it possibly resonate at the frequency that it resonates at.
Or like others suggested, a leftover security strip in the wallet.
People really should learn how to troubleshoot properly. Which reminds me of a story... in short, grad student doing research on fleas, trains his flea to jump when he yells out "Hop!". After much testing and mutilation, one by one, all of the legs get pulled off the flea. He yells out "Hop!", and nothing happens. Hence he begins to write his conclusion:
"When all of the legs are pulled off the flea, the flea becomes deaf".
Oh come on! This is a dead ringer! The whole galaxy in a marble! Complete with gravastars and black holes! Ok, so they cut out those scenes.
Extremely neat concept, that seems a lot of people missed. Doesn't look like many people even read the comment, since it isn't modded up a single point.
Oh wait, here come the real Men in Black..
Isn't the plot of the movie Men In Black (1||2) about a universe inside a marble sized jewel, which is the source of great power?
And then at the end, as the camera zooms out past our solar system and beyond, we're just another marble in some alien kid's marble collection?
Made me think a bit..
Where did the writers of the film get these ideas?
Ok, this is a deja-vu for me since I remember seeing this type of display technology on the SeaQuest series several years ago, where Capt. Bridger talks to his computerized friend who shows his face on the "fog screen".
Anyone done any research on this, or where the SeaQuest producers got the idea?