That's exactly the point. The paper is based on _simulations_; Bram hasn't found any good reliable simulations for bittorrent, so he has little faith in this.
Vaporware is technically correct: you can't download and use Avalanche. But you may be able to in a year or two. Hopefully, they'll make it useable by then.
Here's the thing, they're using a 'tit-for-tat' algorithm that was in bittorrent v1, 4 years ago. Which makes me believe that they are currently 4 years behind BT. They do have the advantage of following, so they can catch up faster than Bram's original work, but this is still just ideas.
I must say, I too don't see the point of error correcting codes, I mean, you have to transmit them too. You're substituting data for other data. And instead of tring to calculate all of what you need, Bittorrent will save you the CPU and HD cycles and just wait and find the original, instead of trying to build it. This might work fine if you have 2 processors and 4 gigs of ram, but I'll stick with bittorrent until Avalanche is a proven product. Even then, it will probably still not be cross-platform...
I couple years this may be better than BT(today's) in pure network speed, but then again, BT will likely be faster by then as well. Right now its just academic.
Free will does work with an omnipotent and omnicient creator works just fine.
You're forgetting time. You think time occurs for God, just like us. WRONG! We experience time, and can only go one way, forward. But God can see everything that has, is, and will happen. You made the choice, God just knew which one you chose.
Eve had the choice, she chose poorly, and God knew she would, but that doesn't mean she didn't chose.
Saying we don't have free will because God is omicient, is like saying Abe Lincoln was pre-determined to make the Gettysburg address just as it is, BECAUSE its in our textbooks like that.
If you lived at the end of time, and could see the whole past, you'd see what choices we all made, but does that mean that we didn't have free will to do so? NO, we did choose
The article definitely seems buzzword compliant, but to get a really good grasp, I think you'd have to try to develop a mod or something on each one to have a proper opinion.
The other question is how expandable are they. In other words, how much can you do with them, with the least work. I think that improving half life graphics will be much harder than improving D3 networking.
I'm not sure about Doom3 physics. How related is it to the game versus the engine. I seems that they just limited its use in the game, short of its potential in the engine.
I bought an Emachines Athlon 64 3000+ last febuary at Best Buy. It also has 802.11g and a mobile radeon 9600.
It doesn't have a great battery life, and it kinda big, but is really very powerful, and great for gaming. And I paid much less than I was expecting for such a powerful beast.
yes, exactly! This is a big deal! Also this works for regionally known schools. There are smallers schools that are well known in their area for having good alumni. It can have a similar effect, where you develop a bigger network, in higher positions, and more willing to help out fellow alumni.
I think its the small schools with lots of school spirit that help the most in networking.
I called it in late 2000, I just wish I had published it. Also I remember rumors of dual core Hammers in late 2000. I think dual cores was a side plan of AMD's for some time now.
As for 64 bits, sure as hell may need to once Longhorn comes out. It will such down 2 GB of memory IIRC, just by itself. Does anyone have a chart showing "average" memory consumption for the last 5 years or so?
Any kind of imaging(medical, research) has needed loads or ram for a long, long time now.
Was Einstein being immature and pig-headed when he left Nazi Germany? I dont' think so.
Granted, we're nowhere near that, but four more year s of bush and people might start to think so. I don't think anyone's died at Guantanamo Bay in detention, but they sure aren't happy or free, and many of them aren't terrorists either.
It is political, but I do believe him when he says his father never picked up the phone an lobbied for him.
From what I've heard, I dont' know why Howard Stern doesn't contest the charges and fines in court. He said he can't , but Powell said he was welcome to. I think Stern sucks if he's just unwilling, though.
I certainly hate censorship, but considering what's on Stern's show, I don't think the fines are outrageous. Stern moving to satellite radio is probably a win-win for everyone.
I started to believe in negative numbers as soon as I asked my parents, " what's 7-8?" and poof! I realized that negative numbers existed. I was in second grade at the time.
Because the G5 cluster is a cluster. It is not useful in all applications. I believe that earth simluator was very special purpose, and I believe that Blue Gene/L is/will be multi-purpose, but not general purpose.
Sometimes you need a real supercomputer instead of a cluster.
I'm curious about your take on the commercial spaceflight. First, would/will you go up to space? How do you think this will impact Sci-fi writing. Its been a prominent theme in sci-fi for quite a while, but in reality, very slow to take off. So do you think it will push more stuff to looking at a "star trek" like future? Or do you think its already overemphasized in the literature?
I've gotta say I agree. If you look at it from the aspect of a horror/zombie movie, I think it stands up quite well. There's a real plot, characters, subplots, etc. Its far from the best movies out there, but is really in a very different league than the other video game movies. Mortal Kombat and Tomb Raider had some small value, but Super Mario, Wind commander, and Street fighter sucked. They might be entertaining if you're really into the games(probably really hardcore).
Many video games don't translate too well to movies. I think they did a superb job with Resident Evil.
I was dissappointed with the sequal though. It just wasn't as good a movie.
Oh, and Colin Salmon has the coolest voice since James Earl Jones.
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That's exactly the point. The paper is based on _simulations_; Bram hasn't found any good reliable simulations for bittorrent, so he has little faith in this.
Vaporware is technically correct: you can't download and use Avalanche. But you may be able to in a year or two. Hopefully, they'll make it useable by then.
Here's the thing, they're using a 'tit-for-tat' algorithm that was in bittorrent v1, 4 years ago. Which makes me believe that they are currently 4 years behind BT. They do have the advantage of following, so they can catch up faster than Bram's original work, but this is still just ideas.
I must say, I too don't see the point of error correcting codes, I mean, you have to transmit them too. You're substituting data for other data. And instead of tring to calculate all of what you need, Bittorrent will save you the CPU and HD cycles and just wait and find the original, instead of trying to build it. This might work fine if you have 2 processors and 4 gigs of ram, but I'll stick with bittorrent until Avalanche is a proven product. Even then, it will probably still not be cross-platform...
I couple years this may be better than BT(today's) in pure network speed, but then again, BT will likely be faster by then as well. Right now its just academic.
Well, it can play movies and video clips. That might be useful.
I would be cool for things like wikipedia, I suppose. That's what one of the reviews mentioned.
Its not good enough to be a true portable video player though, unfortunately. On review said the battery life was too short.
Better input capabilities, and a much larger screen. So you can watch movies, and do some work perhaps?
I think Cell phones are too small for many pda-ish things, currently.
Unless someone comes up with a better display method, perhaps holographic, they are limited. Oh, and they need a better input interface
I'm sure they will. They have with others. This is certainly powerful enough
Or as some know it the DMCA.
a g_back_.html/
Cory Doctorow has some comments on this at http://www.boingboing.net/2005/05/13/broadcast_fl
I think this will be harder to get passed than the DMCS was.
There's another. To quote the famouse Carl from ATHF: "with a bullet."
Free will does work with an omnipotent and omnicient creator works just fine.
You're forgetting time. You think time occurs for God, just like us. WRONG! We experience time, and can only go one way, forward. But God can see everything that has, is, and will happen. You made the choice, God just knew which one you chose.
Eve had the choice, she chose poorly, and God knew she would, but that doesn't mean she didn't chose.
Saying we don't have free will because God is omicient, is like saying Abe Lincoln was pre-determined to make the Gettysburg address just as it is, BECAUSE its in our textbooks like that.
If you lived at the end of time, and could see the whole past, you'd see what choices we all made, but does that mean that we didn't have free will to do so? NO, we did choose
I guess its time to turn off automatic updates.
I really does break some software, software this is properly written.
The article definitely seems buzzword compliant, but to get a really good grasp, I think you'd have to try to develop a mod or something on each one to have a proper opinion.
The other question is how expandable are they. In other words, how much can you do with them, with the least work. I think that improving half life graphics will be much harder than improving D3 networking.
I'm not sure about Doom3 physics. How related is it to the game versus the engine. I seems that they just limited its use in the game, short of its potential in the engine.
I bought an Emachines Athlon 64 3000+ last febuary at Best Buy. It also has 802.11g and a mobile radeon 9600.
It doesn't have a great battery life, and it kinda big, but is really very powerful, and great for gaming. And I paid much less than I was expecting for such a powerful beast.
Yeah, I was really wondering if 11 year olds have gotten so much more mature than they used to be.
yes, exactly! This is a big deal!
Also this works for regionally known schools. There are smallers schools that are well known in their area for having good alumni. It can have a similar effect, where you develop a bigger network, in higher positions, and more willing to help out fellow alumni.
I think its the small schools with lots of school spirit that help the most in networking.
Oh man, I've certainly wasted enough time with that game.
Thanks, it's a great little game!
I called it in late 2000, I just wish I had published it. Also I remember rumors of dual core Hammers in late 2000. I think dual cores was a side plan of AMD's for some time now.
As for 64 bits, sure as hell may need to once Longhorn comes out. It will such down 2 GB of memory IIRC, just by itself. Does anyone have a chart showing "average" memory consumption for the last 5 years or so?
Any kind of imaging(medical, research) has needed loads or ram for a long, long time now.
Exactly. I think Blue Gene will become a commodity system when IBM begins putting it on the shelf.
Was Einstein being immature and pig-headed when he left Nazi Germany? I dont' think so.
Granted, we're nowhere near that, but four more year s of bush and people might start to think so. I don't think anyone's died at Guantanamo Bay in detention, but they sure aren't happy or free, and many of them aren't terrorists either.
It is political, but I do believe him when he says his father never picked up the phone an lobbied for him.
From what I've heard, I dont' know why Howard Stern doesn't contest the charges and fines in court. He said he can't , but Powell said he was welcome to. I think Stern sucks if he's just unwilling, though.
I certainly hate censorship, but considering what's on Stern's show, I don't think the fines are outrageous. Stern moving to satellite radio is probably a win-win for everyone.
Could the hirings of the browser people be just to integrate desktop search better with current existing browers? That does sound more likely to me.
I started to believe in negative numbers as soon as I asked my parents, " what's 7-8?" and poof! I realized that negative numbers existed. I was in second grade at the time.
Because the G5 cluster is a cluster. It is not useful in all applications. I believe that earth simluator was very special purpose, and I believe that Blue Gene/L is/will be multi-purpose, but not general purpose.
Sometimes you need a real supercomputer instead of a cluster.
Probably Dillo too.
Darn, I just upgraded my Mozilla at work to 10.1, oh, well.
Guess we're all getting pwnXored today, Windows, Linux and Mac.
I'm curious about your take on the commercial spaceflight. First, would/will you go up to space? How do you think this will impact Sci-fi writing. Its been a prominent theme in sci-fi for quite a while, but in reality, very slow to take off. So do you think it will push more stuff to looking at a "star trek" like future? Or do you think its already overemphasized in the literature?
I've gotta say I agree. If you look at it from the aspect of a horror/zombie movie, I think it stands up quite well. There's a real plot, characters, subplots, etc. Its far from the best movies out there, but is really in a very different league than the other video game movies. Mortal Kombat and Tomb Raider had some small value, but Super Mario, Wind commander, and Street fighter sucked. They might be entertaining if you're really into the games(probably really hardcore).
Many video games don't translate too well to movies. I think they did a superb job with Resident Evil.
I was dissappointed with the sequal though. It just wasn't as good a movie.
Oh, and Colin Salmon has the coolest voice since James Earl Jones.