True I guess, but the phones on the fringe of the jammer may still be able to contact the base station, and so Tx power may increase as they see the interference from the jammer.
Oh course, if your phone is just in your pocket and not in call then it isn't transmitting much anyway.
Isn't it likely that most of the top chess players will have studied the way in which other grand masters play, and therefore top players can identify a computer opponent since it will have a style different to all other top players?
i.e. the computer will stick out like the new kid in the playground?
Whenever I see things like this I think that it is quite cool, but wonder what the point really is. Isn't this guy just trying to re-invent the PC? Can't he do something better with his time?
As most people now have cell phones, I don't think reliability is paramount as it once was; most people will probably think of the savings first.
The disadvantage that I can see is that you now need an expenive, complex, power hungry beast to make a phone call - until you can get a VoIP that looks like a phone user acceptance might not be good...
Modern GSM phones will also seek emergency coverage if they cannot find a cell with which they can register (e.g. no SIM or are barred) and forward emergency calls for free.
Mike
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holds the promise of reducing the time required to transfer and download multimedia content and other massive files
Yes, I'm sure that most of us are limited by the bandwidth to the memory when downloading large files.
{I can see how it will help with moving large files around in memory though...)
HUH? Sun has put a TON of resources into Java, gives it away freely ("costless"), provides *extensive* docs, and even lets you look at the full source
Java is only free for weekend developers - if a company wants to use a JVM in a product they have to either pay big money or make their own (Like IBM and HP have).
The Blackberry from RIM is a most impressive Java based handheld, although I suspect that the reasons for Java being used on this handheld were to reduce the time and cost of developing the UI, and not particularly to allow other developers to add extra code and features to it.
In fact, I would suspect that the main reason for Java being suported by handhelds at the moment is to allow rapid development to robust components for the device as opposed to enabling every man and his dog to roll their own applets/applications for the device - something that could lead to broken devices and support nightmare if not carefully though about.
until an open source project comes up with an alternative.
I don't see why wget and some scripts can't spider content from my own machine and put it onto my PDA without the need for some central control like AvantGo, which I have always be suspicious of.
engineering around power limitations means smart, efficent designs, not wasteful products that just suck up energy. i think these limitations helped designers innovate.
To make desktop apps power efficient really means that they have to start moving towards the real-time domain; the problem with this is that it puts the cost of the software up. It won't happen.
However, if you look at PDA's and mobile phones (I program mobile phone software for a living at present) when battery life is a feature, great effort is made to save power, both in hardware and software
Fast efficient algorithms with low memory overhead are employed to reduce RAM and MIPs requirements allowing less power hardware to be used and batteries saved. Additionally techniques such as slow clocking are used so that when the device is largely idle, it sleeps and a much slower clock is used to keep it barely ticking over and saving power. Also, as different parts of the hardware are determined to be idle they are powered down, and powered up again as needed.
In short, if money could be made from 'trimming' a standard application it would be done, but it isn't a selling point and probably has a negligable effect on the whole system (consider using a LCD instead of a CRT for starters)!
The best thing about these puppies is the display. It is a really nice display that is almost as good as paper. It is very sharp and has a most generous viewing angle for LCD - it is visible in almost all lighting conditions (except complete darkness of course!!)
I use Ogg because I don't like the licencing for MPEG. As a developer I like the idea that if I wanted to make a great bit of software that is able to play a popular music format, I should be able to do so for free without having to pay licences or be subject to any restrictions.
I percieve the system to be an open message board, but more intrusive and perhaps more relevant/tied to the real world.
Like slashdot, I think that the system would be used to post a hell of a lot of crap, ASCII art spam etc.... but with some nuggets.
Where slashdot suceeds is that users can moderate, metamoderate and filter out the crap. Unless this system is capable of similar checks, it would be doomed to failure as it filled with garbage and then spammed everone with it....
Long live CoolTown. Long live CTNotes. Long live Alistair Mann!!!
This is true. GA's/GP's don't always converge and may not always converge to find the perfect solution immediately.
In fact, the thing that gentic approaches are probably good at are allowing solutions to be found about problems without the need to fully understand the task in hand... This may not be a good thing, although not all problems can be understood by a human in reasonable time, so perhaps genetic algorithms are needed.
Does the circuit still work properly if the temperature increases by 10 C? What if the FPGA data file is loaded into an FPGA from a different vendor or an FPGA fabbed on a newer process?
You just need to make the fitness function take into account the 'parameters' that you mention. One way of doing this is to test each solution on a range on FPGA's and then make the fitness reflect perfomance on all of the FPGA's. A weighted mean would probably do (i.e. Make sure it works well a 10-80 degrees C, and then it should degrade gracefully outside this range?)
So now all I need to do is to get busy with wget | sed, make some chat scripts and have my computer dial these guys when I'm not doing anything.
Of course, I'll have to modify the init string so that it doesn't try to negotiate a modem connection, otherwise it will fail too many times and the numbers will become BLACKLISTED.
Oh - and I need to move to the US since it won't be free otherwise:(
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You still can't beat ANSI C for portability though...
...theft. Taking bandwidth for which you haven't paid is theft.
And I suppose that you can't just disable or 'hack' the chip since that would be circumventing a digital protection mechanism...
Darn!
True I guess, but the phones on the fringe of the jammer may still be able to contact the base station, and so Tx power may increase as they see the interference from the jammer.
Oh course, if your phone is just in your pocket and not in call then it isn't transmitting much anyway.
Isn't the key distribution a bit of a bummer for one-time pads?
i.e. the key is as big as the message and has to be sent to the recieving party (AKA Bob) in some secure fashion...
Mike
Isn't it likely that most of the top chess players will have studied the way in which other grand masters play, and therefore top players can identify a computer opponent since it will have a style different to all other top players?
i.e. the computer will stick out like the new kid in the playground?
Whenever I see things like this I think that it is quite cool, but wonder what the point really is. Isn't this guy just trying to re-invent the PC? Can't he do something better with his time?
Mike
Not that I'm a cynic, but I just read the 'Black is the new beige' article and noticed that the advert at the top of the page was for this place
As most people now have cell phones, I don't think reliability is paramount as it once was; most people will probably think of the savings first.
The disadvantage that I can see is that you now need an expenive, complex, power hungry beast to make a phone call - until you can get a VoIP that looks like a phone user acceptance might not be good...
Modern GSM phones will also seek emergency coverage if they cannot find a cell with which they can register (e.g. no SIM or are barred) and forward emergency calls for free.
Mike
holds the promise of reducing the time required to transfer and download multimedia content and other massive files
Yes, I'm sure that most of us are limited by the bandwidth to the memory when downloading large files.
{I can see how it will help with moving large files around in memory though...)
HUH? Sun has put a TON of resources into Java, gives it away freely ("costless"), provides *extensive* docs, and even lets you look at the full source
Java is only free for weekend developers - if a company wants to use a JVM in a product they have to either pay big money or make their own (Like IBM and HP have).
Of course, they could accept his contributions via a proxy, I believe
Ironically, Apple are probably worried that someone else is accepting their code by proxy through this chap - leaving them exposed
The Blackberry from RIM is a most impressive Java based handheld, although I suspect that the reasons for Java being used on this handheld were to reduce the time and cost of developing the UI, and not particularly to allow other developers to add extra code and features to it.
In fact, I would suspect that the main reason for Java being suported by handhelds at the moment is to allow rapid development to robust components for the device as opposed to enabling every man and his dog to roll their own applets/applications for the device - something that could lead to broken devices and support nightmare if not carefully though about.
This is what I love...
:)
Where there is a need, open source will find a way
Mike
until an open source project comes up with an alternative.
I don't see why wget and some scripts can't spider content from my own machine and put it onto my PDA without the need for some central control like AvantGo, which I have always be suspicious of.
engineering around power limitations means smart, efficent designs, not wasteful products that just suck up energy. i think these limitations helped designers innovate.
To make desktop apps power efficient really means that they have to start moving towards the real-time domain; the problem with this is that it puts the cost of the software up. It won't happen.
However, if you look at PDA's and mobile phones (I program mobile phone software for a living at present) when battery life is a feature, great effort is made to save power, both in hardware and software
Fast efficient algorithms with low memory overhead are employed to reduce RAM and MIPs requirements allowing less power hardware to be used and batteries saved. Additionally techniques such as slow clocking are used so that when the device is largely idle, it sleeps and a much slower clock is used to keep it barely ticking over and saving power. Also, as different parts of the hardware are determined to be idle they are powered down, and powered up again as needed.
In short, if money could be made from 'trimming' a standard application it would be done, but it isn't a selling point and probably has a negligable effect on the whole system (consider using a LCD instead of a CRT for starters)!
The best thing about these puppies is the display. It is a really nice display that is almost as good as paper. It is very sharp and has a most generous viewing angle for LCD - it is visible in almost all lighting conditions (except complete darkness of course!!)
What we need now is a black list of bad blacklists so that people picking a technology hopefully chose to go with one of the better projects...
And if that doesn't work, we simply have a black list of blacklist blacklists, and so on!
I think it is likely that if someone does something really good Google might well make a job offer... the $10k is just the bait.
Mike
I use Ogg because I don't like the licencing for MPEG. As a developer I like the idea that if I wanted to make a great bit of software that is able to play a popular music format, I should be able to do so for free without having to pay licences or be subject to any restrictions.
Ogg seems good for this.
Mike
I percieve the system to be an open message board, but more intrusive and perhaps more relevant/tied to the real world.
Like slashdot, I think that the system would be used to post a hell of a lot of crap, ASCII art spam etc.... but with some nuggets.
Where slashdot suceeds is that users can moderate, metamoderate and filter out the crap. Unless this system is capable of similar checks, it would be doomed to failure as it filled with garbage and then spammed everone with it....
Long live CoolTown. Long live CTNotes. Long live Alistair Mann!!!
This is true. GA's/GP's don't always converge and may not always converge to find the perfect solution immediately.
In fact, the thing that gentic approaches are probably good at are allowing solutions to be found about problems without the need to fully understand the task in hand... This may not be a good thing, although not all problems can be understood by a human in reasonable time, so perhaps genetic algorithms are needed.
Does the circuit still work properly if the temperature increases by 10 C? What if the FPGA data file is loaded into an FPGA from a different vendor or an FPGA fabbed on a newer process?
You just need to make the fitness function take into account the 'parameters' that you mention. One way of doing this is to test each solution on a range on FPGA's and then make the fitness reflect perfomance on all of the FPGA's. A weighted mean would probably do (i.e. Make sure it works well a 10-80 degrees C, and then it should degrade gracefully outside this range?)
So now all I need to do is to get busy with wget | sed, make some chat scripts and have my computer dial these guys when I'm not doing anything.
:(
Of course, I'll have to modify the init string so that it doesn't try to negotiate a modem connection, otherwise it will fail too many times and the numbers will become BLACKLISTED.
Oh - and I need to move to the US since it won't be free otherwise