You mean 1 Db, 1 Calorie/square inch surface dissipation, and 1 Watt usage, all under maximum load in continuous use, along with 5ns seek and 1GB/s non-burst read/write? I find those to be acceptable levels for hard drives.
No, Seriously (except for missing all the other contingencies: physical size, cost, interface, GB capacity etc.). Until that happens, I'm just putting up with a (crappy?) industry design.
Oh, capacitors. Sorry, it took another poster for it to click for me. So do you change the capacitors to higher quailty ones or just higher-rated ones?
Could you elaborate? Caps ?= filters = what? I assume you're not talking about air filters as I don't think I've seen one yet with any blocking their air holes, so what kind of electronics parts are you talking about? I haven't cracked one open yet, but I do have a dead PS I can do some exploratory on...
Actually, I can't stand the taste of beer - f'ing horrible since I live in Wisconsin with tons of homebrew and microbreweries. So I'll take the cholera with sprinkles, please.
That does make me wonder - why is it the Food and Drug Association versus the Department of Alcohol, Drug, and Firearms?
Are they really fighting over the same drug territory, or is it "Medical" drugs versus "Outlawed" drugs? Er, was it Congress who decides what is outlawed?
Since there were ads on US TV about some smoking drug (joints?) having more nicotine(? tar?) than cigarettes *and* causing some kind of comparable number of accidents to alcohol, I tend not to believe any of it. I've never had those experiences, but media propaganda makes me disbelieve their words, not concurr.
I'll continue to do so until... well, probably after I've seen someone's biased statistics and until I see some hard evidence.
I assume the author knows about the code being open.
However I also know that name recognition is extremely important in the world we live in, and if MS or someone else could ideologically corrupt Linus so he did unspeakable acts against the code base, it would all be reported in the media and hence associated directly with the Linux name. After that, anything taken from the same code base would always have that negative connotation to it.
Example: The hearsay I've, um, heard says Mac OS 10.x is based on BSD. If I thought BSD was worse than MS Windows, I'd never approach a computer with OS 10 on it and consider anything using it to be a security hazard which crashes often.
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Beautiful, insightful - just a plain ol' great post! I heartily agree with the ideas and frustration.
Funny that what popped into my head was all the movie reviewers talking about how one-dimensional characters are in movies X, Y, and Z - does that means those movie characters are too much like real life (that the majority has relegated themselves to)?
And if the reviewers themselves one-dimensional, does that mean all these poor characters are really just a fractional-dimension?
Taste, like heat, is relative. Stick one of your hands in a bowl of cold water for a minute, then stick both hands into a bowl of warm-to-hot water: the cold water hand is going to feel significantly different temperature than your other hand right next to it.
Same thing happened for me wrt water: I tried several bottled waters and *hated* their tastes. I only found one (Fiji?) which I actually liked.
Then I got a filtering system for my home's water. That didn't taste so good but when a friend whose tastebuds I trust said it tasted wonderful, I gave it some time. After about a month it tasted much better. Then I drank a glass of water and immediately noticed that I hadn't used the filtering - it didn't taste normal anymore. Ditto with going back to my parents' house - of course their tap water has tasted different since my time in Boston.
So in a taste test, the people are really only showing that the bottled water tastes different than what they've drunk every day for years.
1) So copyright holders are guaranteed access to any and every computer system in the universe, right? (NSA, Chinese gov't, all those broadcast signals going to Alpha Centauri, etc.)
2) The user gets 2 warnings, then a destroyed computer. Time delay between warnings? Ability to respond? Or are the warning just so we know it's time to unhook the computer from the net? (or is that illegal?)
3) Good way to trash anyone else's computer, right? Plant an MP3 on MS's development servers, change a filename on the IRS' servers to be an MP3's title, etc., watch the machines die. No due process, and after RIAA's done, no evidence to the contrary (you'd have to throw files on their log servers, etc. to be sure)...
Do the same thing you did back in C/C++ (or did you? I had to, there was no Java):
char cc = System.in.read(); // or String line = System.in.readLine(); // etc.
(Syntax may not be exact, it's been a while)
A language is only as hard as you make it. When it becomes useful, later, get into the stream classes. If you're *really* interested, I've started a training guide to help gradually bring people into Java.
I'm also concerned about the loss of single-player games/parts of games. Quality of most any sort has gone out the window and thought to be replaced by the chat functions. Ugh.
The simple solution to not wanting to interact with ppl during a game is use the AFK flag, though in the on-line games I've tried it's actually been fairly difficult to *start* interacting - have to find others either in your class or near your level, besides them wanting to interact.
The article, though, is disturbing to me as to others - kids playing and learning that nothing has any value except what you take and own. People/characters have no intrinsic value, there's no reason to spend time doing anything, etc. Double-ugh.
One thing the Dalai Lama does with western scientists is travel right here to Madison, WI USA to get his brain scanned. They've found significant differences in his brain use and activity than in the rest of us, supposedly (?) because he does not worry or fear.
In a recent slashdot on the PowerPC970, the linked article at Ars pointed back to earlier articles, including this one. At the very bottom of the page is a startling paragraph (apparently I have a very brittle concept of how perfect humans' products should be). This is most of the paragraph:
The trade-off for this decreased failure rate and improved reliability was that the Power4's transistors have slower switching speeds, so even with process shrinks it's harder to push the design to higher clock speeds. Since the 970 is made for the desktop market, there's no need for such measures and therefore the new chip's clock speed will scale much higher than the Power4's. In sum, the 970 is made to be faster, cheaper, and significantly less reliable than the Power4. (Of course, when I say "significantly less reliable than the Power4," you have to understand that this puts the 970's product life and failure rate on par with other mainstream CPUs, since the Power4's increased gate oxide thickness makes it significantly more reliable than most mainstream CPUs.)
Even though the other replier says Sam's book says he never did it, etc., the TV documentary I saw on Sam showed that he tried to grab competitor's prices but that once anyone in the store saw him doing it he was immediately (politely) asked to leave the store.
Apparently, to those TV producers at least, price scraping is protected under law. That's why no one can bring a camera into a store and start snapping pictures. Those surveillance cameras aren't there only to discourage shoplifting.
CGI and Music often go together. Actually music is included in almost all parts of Hollywood movies, just like CGI is included in almost all parts of several recent movies.
There's not a category for special effects (sounds), though, and foley definitely isn't a negligible part of movies.
What method do they use to split up a movie?! = really poor "research".
Since the perfect film is completely based on a person's mood and attitude, isn't this more of a study of what most often received a positive mark by people - but isn't that an average or mean?
Of course they only listed some vague details about the study so I also don't yet understand how they eliminated the content for these abstract concepts from the viewers surveyed, but that's a statistical-gathering debate.
Last, and perhaps most important, the article says that they only went through the highest grossing films. That means they didn't compare those parts-per-hundred of the highest grossers to the lowest grossers, right? What if they both share the same statistics?
It's not so hard to synchronize realities - it depends on what models you are using.
If, say, everything is modelled in 3D vertices then you could have one model of reality but the models get different skins for each viewer (people in suits always use the "monkey" skin for you but the "FBI" skin for me, but "techies" look the same to both of us).
This 'skinning' varies on all levels in all senses. Always thought that would be the best way to create a MMOG - let everyone play the game they want to - I think only the real role-players' chatter would give a hint that someone is seeing a hi-tech world vs. an ancient fantasy world (and that could be mostly alieviated with certain storylines).
In The Matrix perhaps (in a different version of the story) the machines aren't giving inputs into all nerves of each human but are instead using some lighter, less intrusive stimulation (less work) to influence the humans' perceptions which then do most of the interpretation - maybe it's just a light current being put in but one human registers it as a Mideivil overlord and another as a US Government official...
In the more philosophical sense, what interests me is just *which* models and at *what level* we all are sharing in this perceived life.
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You mean 1 Db, 1 Calorie/square inch surface dissipation, and 1 Watt usage, all under maximum load in continuous use, along with 5ns seek and 1GB/s non-burst read/write? I find those to be acceptable levels for hard drives.
No, Seriously (except for missing all the other contingencies: physical size, cost, interface, GB capacity etc.). Until that happens, I'm just putting up with a (crappy?) industry design.
Similar to automobiles.
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Oh, capacitors. Sorry, it took another poster for it to click for me. So do you change the capacitors to higher quailty ones or just higher-rated ones?
Thanks,
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Could you elaborate? Caps ?= filters = what? I assume you're not talking about air filters as I don't think I've seen one yet with any blocking their air holes, so what kind of electronics parts are you talking about? I haven't cracked one open yet, but I do have a dead PS I can do some exploratory on...
Thanks!
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Actually, I can't stand the taste of beer - f'ing horrible since I live in Wisconsin with tons of homebrew and microbreweries. So I'll take the cholera with sprinkles, please.
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That does make me wonder - why is it the Food and Drug Association versus the Department of Alcohol, Drug, and Firearms?
Are they really fighting over the same drug territory, or is it "Medical" drugs versus "Outlawed" drugs? Er, was it Congress who decides what is outlawed?
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Please site sources.
Since there were ads on US TV about some smoking drug (joints?) having more nicotine(? tar?) than cigarettes *and* causing some kind of comparable number of accidents to alcohol, I tend not to believe any of it. I've never had those experiences, but media propaganda makes me disbelieve their words, not concurr.
I'll continue to do so until... well, probably after I've seen someone's biased statistics and until I see some hard evidence.
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I assume the author knows about the code being open.
However I also know that name recognition is extremely important in the world we live in, and if MS or someone else could ideologically corrupt Linus so he did unspeakable acts against the code base, it would all be reported in the media and hence associated directly with the Linux name. After that, anything taken from the same code base would always have that negative connotation to it.
Example: The hearsay I've, um, heard says Mac OS 10.x is based on BSD. If I thought BSD was worse than MS Windows, I'd never approach a computer with OS 10 on it and consider anything using it to be a security hazard which crashes often.
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Beautiful, insightful - just a plain ol' great post! I heartily agree with the ideas and frustration.
Funny that what popped into my head was all the movie reviewers talking about how one-dimensional characters are in movies X, Y, and Z - does that means those movie characters are too much like real life (that the majority has relegated themselves to)?
And if the reviewers themselves one-dimensional, does that mean all these poor characters are really just a fractional-dimension?
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Taste, like heat, is relative. Stick one of your hands in a bowl of cold water for a minute, then stick both hands into a bowl of warm-to-hot water: the cold water hand is going to feel significantly different temperature than your other hand right next to it.
Same thing happened for me wrt water: I tried several bottled waters and *hated* their tastes. I only found one (Fiji?) which I actually liked.
Then I got a filtering system for my home's water. That didn't taste so good but when a friend whose tastebuds I trust said it tasted wonderful, I gave it some time. After about a month it tasted much better. Then I drank a glass of water and immediately noticed that I hadn't used the filtering - it didn't taste normal anymore. Ditto with going back to my parents' house - of course their tap water has tasted different since my time in Boston.
So in a taste test, the people are really only showing that the bottled water tastes different than what they've drunk every day for years.
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Very nice post. I'm glad you expressed yourself here.
Beauty is very good Quality, so it is completely dependant on the viewer and the viewer's current state besides the object and it's state.
If you (or other readers) haven't taken read it already, I suggest Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.
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1) So copyright holders are guaranteed access to any and every computer system in the universe, right? (NSA, Chinese gov't, all those broadcast signals going to Alpha Centauri, etc.)
:(
2) The user gets 2 warnings, then a destroyed computer. Time delay between warnings? Ability to respond? Or are the warning just so we know it's time to unhook the computer from the net? (or is that illegal?)
3) Good way to trash anyone else's computer, right? Plant an MP3 on MS's development servers, change a filename on the IRS' servers to be an MP3's title, etc., watch the machines die. No due process, and after RIAA's done, no evidence to the contrary (you'd have to throw files on their log servers, etc. to be sure)...
Let the fun begin
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Was I trying to be funny? It's rhetorical.
Ah well, next time.
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Rhetorically clobber him, or clobber him with rhetoric?
Must be a different definition I'm not used to.
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Do the same thing you did back in C/C++ (or did you? I had to, there was no Java):
// or
// etc.
char cc = System.in.read();
String line = System.in.readLine();
(Syntax may not be exact, it's been a while)
A language is only as hard as you make it. When it becomes useful, later, get into the stream classes. If you're *really* interested, I've started a training guide to help gradually bring people into Java.
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They're 2 different file formats, *of course* they're not going to look the same.
What, you say you're not viewing them with a hex editor?
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Actually I'd bet a LOT of things 5th graders come up with are non-obvious (by any definition) and probably should be marketed and patented.
Or wait, maybe I'm thinking of 1st graders. By 5th grade they are pretty well ingrained to our capitalist-hierarchy society-school structures.
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I'm also concerned about the loss of single-player games/parts of games. Quality of most any sort has gone out the window and thought to be replaced by the chat functions. Ugh.
The simple solution to not wanting to interact with ppl during a game is use the AFK flag, though in the on-line games I've tried it's actually been fairly difficult to *start* interacting - have to find others either in your class or near your level, besides them wanting to interact.
The article, though, is disturbing to me as to others - kids playing and learning that nothing has any value except what you take and own. People/characters have no intrinsic value, there's no reason to spend time doing anything, etc. Double-ugh.
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One thing the Dalai Lama does with western scientists is travel right here to Madison, WI USA to get his brain scanned. They've found significant differences in his brain use and activity than in the rest of us, supposedly (?) because he does not worry or fear.
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Even though the other replier says Sam's book says he never did it, etc., the TV documentary I saw on Sam showed that he tried to grab competitor's prices but that once anyone in the store saw him doing it he was immediately (politely) asked to leave the store.
Apparently, to those TV producers at least, price scraping is protected under law. That's why no one can bring a camera into a store and start snapping pictures. Those surveillance cameras aren't there only to discourage shoplifting.
Wish I could find the reference, though. Anyone?
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I caught the end of last week's Ebert/movies show and they said this week was going to be a show *only* about Matrix:Reloaded!
When's the last time he gave a whole show to a single movie? Old or new?
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CGI and Music often go together. Actually music is included in almost all parts of Hollywood movies, just like CGI is included in almost all parts of several recent movies.
There's not a category for special effects (sounds), though, and foley definitely isn't a negligible part of movies.
What method do they use to split up a movie?! = really poor "research".
8-PP
Since the perfect film is completely based on a person's mood and attitude, isn't this more of a study of what most often received a positive mark by people - but isn't that an average or mean?
Of course they only listed some vague details about the study so I also don't yet understand how they eliminated the content for these abstract concepts from the viewers surveyed, but that's a statistical-gathering debate.
Last, and perhaps most important, the article says that they only went through the highest grossing films. That means they didn't compare those parts-per-hundred of the highest grossers to the lowest grossers, right? What if they both share the same statistics?
8-PP
It's not so hard to synchronize realities - it depends on what models you are using.
If, say, everything is modelled in 3D vertices then you could have one model of reality but the models get different skins for each viewer (people in suits always use the "monkey" skin for you but the "FBI" skin for me, but "techies" look the same to both of us).
This 'skinning' varies on all levels in all senses. Always thought that would be the best way to create a MMOG - let everyone play the game they want to - I think only the real role-players' chatter would give a hint that someone is seeing a hi-tech world vs. an ancient fantasy world (and that could be mostly alieviated with certain storylines).
In The Matrix perhaps (in a different version of the story) the machines aren't giving inputs into all nerves of each human but are instead using some lighter, less intrusive stimulation (less work) to influence the humans' perceptions which then do most of the interpretation - maybe it's just a light current being put in but one human registers it as a Mideivil overlord and another as a US Government official...
In the more philosophical sense, what interests me is just *which* models and at *what level* we all are sharing in this perceived life.
Ideas?
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I thought you were talking about the book: http://books.cambridge.org/052138673X.htm
I had a Plants and Man class at the UW-Madison where we used that as the textbook - a long with LOTS of extra handouts.
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