That virus is called "Young Girls." Get rid of it, and nobody would buy the the boy band cds. Of course, the "Young Boys" virus would then have a lot less fun...;)
"Don't shoot me. If my heart stops, this thing will explode."
On a more serious note, this thing would be great for my wife. She has had to have numerous pieces of equipment plastered to her to monitor her EKG. That stuff is heavy. I hope this gets into production soon.
Not if your honest about it. You'll lose them faster, as the skilled ones get themselves a new job, but you should be ready for that. The company I work for gave some of it's employees 6 months notice, but gave others only 1 month. This is ruining morale. The fact that the merger which made these jobs obsolete was 2 years in coming, and nobody told the affected people that it was coming, didn't help either. It also has made many of the still employed workers dislike the employees of the other company...after all, their friends would still have jobs, if we had never merged.
The above post is my own thoughts, and not the respective opinions of my employer, coworkers, or church.:P
It is impossible to get 5 sides right, and NOT have the 6th right, too. After all, if the first 5 are all right, what color is left to mess up the bottom?
They're using the current(physical) standard to establish the new(elctronic) standard.
The new standard is going to be "the ammount of mass properly balanced by XXX volts and YYY amperes in the referenced system." That ammount is expected to be more consistent than "the ammount of mass needed to properly balance that hunk of metal we have in the basement."
The current (physical) standard changes from time to time due to dust, wear(from cleaning), etc.
isn't more specialised sets. What they need (and would probably sell like hotcakes) is lots of cheap instruction books. Instead of an R2-D2 kit, with specialised parts to make the "real" R2-D2, sell a 40-page booklet that shows how to build R2 out of standard parts. The books could sell cheap, compared to a LEGO set, and would stir up interest in buying more of the basic sets.
Or make the vendor responsible for damages caused by a software bug. Then, patches won't cause crashes, and people will be more willing to patch their software with the latest patches.
First of all, Microsoft doesn't sell the blueprints, it sells the whole house. In most cases, MS won't even give you the blueprints if you ask for them. MS's business practices are like me buying a house, and MS putting running the plumbing through the pool, which I didn't want in the first place. Sure, you can fill in the pool, but it still leaves ugly pipes sticking out.
If this is the future, and we are going to use particles to carve our silicon instead of light waves,(and yes, I know even light is particles.) When do we reach the lower limit of features that are the same size as the particles themselves?
>What they WANT is to the ability to do this to anyone, anytime, while using a bare minimum of
>physical resources. I don't believe making it this easy to violate civil liberties is in the best interests of our
> society.
The point of this, of course, is accountability. With wire taps and surveillance, it is harder to set it up without going through the channels. And physical things like taps can be inventoried, and it can be tracked to who ordered those parts. Sniffers, of course, are untraceable. When they are discovered, there is no one to sue for invasion of privacy, since there is no simple way to track who placed it.
As the article states, random accesses prove to be the largest problem, since new pages need to be output, and the cache has to be emptied. Does there exist (and if not, is it even possible) a program that manages the memory pages in a packing manner, similar to a defrag program for hard drives? Something that would note what addresses are generally request in sequence, and move those memory locations to a single page, to prevent cache misses? Seems like a simple idea, but I've not seen it before.
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This bring up (as an aside) an important problem that internet voting would bring about... What if someone chooses to DOS the voting server in a 90% Rep/Dem/whatever county? "Oops, nobody voted before the polls closed, sorry."
Not that I'm interested in pissing off TiVO, but... Does this open the door for someone to reverse-engineer the guide format, and then offer an alternate guide, either cheaper than TiVOs or free? TiVO needs to put a stop to this, or get some really good encryption...
It refers to an interesting sci-fi book, which I can't remember the title of. Aliens (Giant ants or something) where going to invade our universe after detecting a Supercolider experiment. The main character then traveled back in time to prevent the construction of the SSC.
>>one of the interesting problems in physics is the n-body problem, which is just the problem of describing the motion of n different objects under the laws of general relativity. Suffice to say it hasn't been solved for even 3 objects, so I would suggest that relativistic galaxy collisions are probably pretty complicated events.
Actually though true, that is an understatement. The N-body problem has never been solved even for 3 objects in a Newtonian Universe...much less a relativistic one!
Unfortunately, at expert level there is a rather high chance of getting multiple consistant solutions, ie the mines remaining cannot be determined without guessing. I've never done a statistical study, but I would guess around 40% of the generated fields have this problem... Also, of course you have to be lucky enough to avoid mines in your first few random clicks.
high score...I think around 186 seconds...:)
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That virus is called "Young Girls." Get rid of it, and nobody would buy the the boy band cds. Of course, the "Young Boys" virus would then have a lot less fun... ;)
This sounds like all those sci-fi terrorists.
"Don't shoot me. If my heart stops, this thing will explode."
On a more serious note, this thing would be great for my wife. She has had to have numerous pieces of equipment plastered to her to monitor her EKG. That stuff is heavy. I hope this gets into production soon.
Not if your honest about it. You'll lose them faster, as the skilled ones get themselves a new job, but you should be ready for that. The company I work for gave some of it's employees 6 months notice, but gave others only 1 month. This is ruining morale. The fact that the merger which made these jobs obsolete was 2 years in coming, and nobody told the affected people that it was coming, didn't help either. It also has made many of the still employed workers dislike the employees of the other company...after all, their friends would still have jobs, if we had never merged.
:P
The above post is my own thoughts, and not the respective opinions of my employer, coworkers, or church.
It is impossible to get 5 sides right, and NOT have the 6th right, too. After all, if the first 5 are all right, what color is left to mess up the bottom?
They're using the current(physical) standard to establish the new(elctronic) standard.
The new standard is going to be "the ammount of mass properly balanced by XXX volts and YYY amperes in the referenced system." That ammount is expected to be more consistent than "the ammount of mass needed to properly balance that hunk of metal we have in the basement."
The current (physical) standard changes from time to time due to dust, wear(from cleaning), etc.
isn't more specialised sets. What they need (and would probably sell like hotcakes) is lots of cheap instruction books. Instead of an R2-D2 kit, with specialised parts to make the "real" R2-D2, sell a 40-page booklet that shows how to build R2 out of standard parts. The books could sell cheap, compared to a LEGO set, and would stir up interest in buying more of the basic sets.
is that /. will repost the same stories, sometimes within hours of each other.
See?
What I'd like to know, was there any corresponding force on the apparatus? Did the superconductor experience any load, or did the cooling apparatus?
Yeah 1-800-AUDITME Anyone who complains will be the first targeted for audit.
Or make the vendor responsible for damages caused by a software bug. Then, patches won't cause crashes, and people will be more willing to patch their software with the latest patches.
First of all, Microsoft doesn't sell the blueprints, it sells the whole house. In most cases, MS won't even give you the blueprints if you ask for them. MS's business practices are like me buying a house, and MS putting running the plumbing through the pool, which I didn't want in the first place. Sure, you can fill in the pool, but it still leaves ugly pipes sticking out.
Maybe they should use all that cabling and host a massive LAN-party!
If this is the future, and we are going to use particles to carve our silicon instead of light waves,(and yes, I know even light is particles.) When do we reach the lower limit of features that are the same size as the particles themselves?
What kinda slashdotter are you? You actually tried the link BEFORE you posted?
Don't sue 'em....Slashdot 'em!
>What they WANT is to the ability to do this to anyone, anytime, while using a bare minimum of >physical resources. I don't believe making it this easy to violate civil liberties is in the best interests of our > society. The point of this, of course, is accountability. With wire taps and surveillance, it is harder to set it up without going through the channels. And physical things like taps can be inventoried, and it can be tracked to who ordered those parts. Sniffers, of course, are untraceable. When they are discovered, there is no one to sue for invasion of privacy, since there is no simple way to track who placed it.
Iraqis read slashdot!! They're building a beowulf cluster of these things!
Which is exactly what my father ( a former-navy guy who works, indirectly, for the DoD) has been suggesting since the company went belly-up.
As the article states, random accesses prove to be the largest problem, since new pages need to be output, and the cache has to be emptied. Does there exist (and if not, is it even possible) a program that manages the memory pages in a packing manner, similar to a defrag program for hard drives? Something that would note what addresses are generally request in sequence, and move those memory locations to a single page, to prevent cache misses? Seems like a simple idea, but I've not seen it before.
This bring up (as an aside) an important problem that internet voting would bring about... What if someone chooses to DOS the voting server in a 90% Rep/Dem/whatever county? "Oops, nobody voted before the polls closed, sorry."
Not that I'm interested in pissing off TiVO, but... Does this open the door for someone to reverse-engineer the guide format, and then offer an alternate guide, either cheaper than TiVOs or free? TiVO needs to put a stop to this, or get some really good encryption...
It refers to an interesting sci-fi book, which I can't remember the title of. Aliens (Giant ants or something) where going to invade our universe after detecting a Supercolider experiment. The main character then traveled back in time to prevent the construction of the SSC.
Actually, Bumble bees can fly. It just has to be explained with vortex aerodynamics, not linear aerodynamics.
>>one of the interesting problems in physics is the n-body problem, which is just the problem of describing the motion of n different objects under the laws of general relativity. Suffice to say it hasn't been solved for even 3 objects, so I would suggest that relativistic galaxy collisions are probably pretty complicated events. Actually though true, that is an understatement. The N-body problem has never been solved even for 3 objects in a Newtonian Universe...much less a relativistic one!
Unfortunately, at expert level there is a rather high chance of getting multiple consistant solutions, ie the mines remaining cannot be determined without guessing. I've never done a statistical study, but I would guess around 40% of the generated fields have this problem... Also, of course you have to be lucky enough to avoid mines in your first few random clicks. high score...I think around 186 seconds...:)