an almost forgotten programming language bears his name, because he was the one, about 1660, to build the first adding and multiplying machine....Babbage was surely aware of his work !
you forgot to mention that in the case of the camera, there is also shutter speed involved...the kind of camera you think of here are the most primitive Pathe or Lumiere !
with a modern camera, you can film at 50fps but 1/10000 s exposure time.
I do not know about India, but in Maghreb (I think Algeria and especially Libya which is more or less out of the world trade system anyway) people couldn't care less about pirating software. I think there is not even a representative of Microsoft in some of those countries ! so they end up working with age old versions of pirated stuff. That's why indeed they should switch to free software, to have something younger than six or seven years and which actually works !
On the opposite, in 1st world countries, the price of 1 licence of XP/Office Pro/whatever represents maybe 4 hours of pay of an averaged qualified worker, including overhead... think installation and configuration time for some free stuff !
Some businesses shell out 100K/year on some software to spare one or two workers, so free software has really to be competitive in performance and stability to convince some management to switch.
the only way to survive in a market where you are not the leader is simply to deny the existence of others... it fools the ignorants and might help gain market share. I do not think those ads can convince seasoned professionals with years of UNIX/big iron mainframe
experience (admittedly hard to setup, but runs for ever afterwards) to switch to windows (just the opposite).
is this the best they could come with to justify their losses ? Jean-Marie Messier (J2M) is just a stupid fool with hypertrophied ego.
The Universal music division made also a laugh of themselves by taking 5 years to release their music encryption scheme, which was cracked in 2 weeks, and had been overtaken by mp3s three years before. They did not understand that they could make money with mp3s (by merchandise, concerts, and stuff) and keep spending billions developing stupid encryptions, crashing web sites and harrassing highschool students trading mp3 CDs.
Canal+ France was once a great channel, with all major blockbusters maybe 10 months old, great prOn, soccer, and excellent humor and hosts. Nowadays they show less than half of the good movies of the year before, most of them being actually 18/24 months old (because they have to go through their lameass pay per view channels first), run old TV movies, have lost many of their young talents, audience has plumetted to 1 % marketshare, prices went up (some say that in the 80s coke was free for everyone at their parties, now even the prices of the other kind of coke at the vending machines have gone up).
The leader of the group is french, and still manages his lab in Toulouse. The project is half french, half american, and students travel continuously in between the two labs.
the femtosecond pulse might induce an ultrasonic wave of roughly the same frequency, which bounces off the other side of the slab...did they try varying the lead thickness ?
some time ago. The author stated that tea made this possible, as opposed to alcohol for europeans, because water would not remain drinkable without it. But due to lack of demographic pressure, no need for gold or trade, the Chinese did not exploit those new lands. They even had some contacts with the Aztecs.
Reminds me of several "Civilization" games on the real world map...
The quite famous (at the time) french writer
JP Manchette got away with this for three years or
more ! He wrote film critics for "Charlie Hebdo"
from a remote mountain commune, based on what
his 12 years old son would say to him on the phone, and critics from daily newspapers. So he was the only french intellectual to (rightly) praise "Indiana Jones I" or "1941" !
The critics were actually so good that they were
recently released as a book.
I think he did it as a mixture of situationnism and despise for the readers, whom he may have considered of the same mental age as his son.
He ended the game when the journal went bankrupt
by announcing a sneak preview of a Georgian stalinist movie of the late 40's, without
subtitles, in a remote suburb of Paris, staged at 11:30 PM (so everyone would miss the last subway). Pitch : love story between a sovkhoze farm worker anda tractor repairer. Indeed, he just
wanted to make fun of snob, left-wing
pseudo-intellectuals. He then revealed that
he had cheated on all of his movie reviews.
Maybe this stuff with videogames is related : journalist just exploting the sheepy attitude
of teenagers (or not grown ups 20-30 yo),
only wanting to impress their friends with
their knowledge of the newest games.
If I remember correctly, there were 3D prOn
flicks made during the 70's golden era
(think "Boogie Nights"). I was told
these films were pretty impressive on widescreen...maybe this technology
will also bring a revival of those
artistic explorations !
about your fallacy 6 : I can
point you to some free or commercial
numerical software that can bring ANY
computer to its knees, like weather forecast,
finite elements, quantum chemistry, qcd, etc.
Think that if the computations run fast
on a 16*16*16*16 grid, for instance,
try and double grid size, just to see
if the solution improves....
I remember that before powerful Pentiums,
my code would take hours to compile on RISC
systems with all the optimizations turned
on. The same compiles now in about 1 minute
on a Pentium (and is way faster).
I perform Fourier analysis about once a month.
Once an hour at some point in my PhD.
I used chained lists, and graph theory,
which I learned about in school,
in a molecular dynamics
code.
My cat just loves it when I keep my laptop connected to the grid (and closed) so that she can sleep on it...seems to be perfectly warm.
When the battery is loaded, she just invades
the briefcase if it is not perfectly closed !
Hair haven't provoked any malfunction yet
(there was a story recently about how much
abuse a laptop could stand, don't know if cat hair
were mentioned).
Compute the 2D FFT of each frame (in grayscale), then get
the intercorrelation function of two neighbouring
frames. The maxima are more or less where
the objects have moved.
I only used this method on artificially generated
frames, ie 1 frame with translation and noise
added. Still, the intercorrelation sinks quite
fast. On natural images, there must be a lot
of fiddling to do.
who said more or less that "after all,
the world is maybe just an illusion
that devils move in front of our eyes".
(the point being that the only certitude
is that we think).
The confusion of virtual and "real" worlds
is indeed a step in that direction.
the techniques you point out converge
to the exact result, the problem being
as you say, CPU time. DFT is in principle
exact, wrong as no exact functional is known,
but way faster than traditional quantum
chemistry methods as CI, CC, etc. Since
Kohn got a prize for DFT, I think that
finding something similar that would multiply
speed once again by tens or hundreds would come
useful. Brute force, waiting for faster computers,
is not the only way to go and certainly not
a way to leave a name to history.
1) explaining high Tc superconductivity
2) explaining turbulence at all scales
3) developing something more advanced than DFT
in order to solve the quantum N body problem
accurately for large systems : then, "compute"
drugs and understand life
4) make quantum computers that work, on a
desktop, with plenty of qubits
I keep noticing that most of the major players
in the Beowulf arena still use 2.2.x kernels
(Scyld, Myricom come to mind). Only
a few completely custom system have upgraded
to 2.4.x , for claimed superior TCP/IP
performance. There must be something there...
the problem of freeriders is more or less
taken care of nowadays. What I see more as
a problem in p2p is people who only share
the folder created by their client, so
that there is only "nonoriginal" stuff in it,
files that can already be found elsewhere on the
network. One should advantage people who share
folders of say Morpheus and Gnutella at least,
and add files of their own.
The Iowa, and other battleships of that class
were kept in more or less active duty for almost
60 years...I do not really see the difference
here.
France uses 40 year old Crusaders and
SuperEtendards on carriers. Harriers, used
in UK and by the US Marines, are not that
young either, as the Hueys one still sees
in Afghanistan.
Everyone knows that especially the B1 was an
overengineered, underpowered political tool
to give work to every county in the USA excepted
maybe in Alaska, as opposed to the B52, designed
by patriots at a time when aerospace engineering
attracted the brightest people.
And against enemies without defense, even very
old technology can be lethal. Someone pointed
out the Colt 1911, but I would also be careful
of black powder enthousiasts playing Davy
Crockett (with.50 bullets...), or even
of a charging horsemen with a sabre !
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an almost forgotten programming language
bears his name, because he was the one,
about 1660, to build the first adding
and multiplying machine....Babbage
was surely aware of his work !
you forgot to mention that in the case
of the camera, there is also shutter speed
involved...the kind of camera
you think of here are the most primitive Pathe
or Lumiere !
with a modern camera, you can film at 50fps
but 1/10000 s exposure time.
I do not know about India, but in Maghreb
(I think Algeria and especially Libya
which is more or less out of the world trade
system anyway) people couldn't care less about
pirating software. I think there is not even
a representative of Microsoft in some of those
countries ! so they end up working with age old
versions of pirated stuff. That's why indeed
they should switch to free software, to have something younger than six or seven years and
which actually works !
On the opposite, in 1st world countries, the
price of 1 licence of XP/Office Pro/whatever
represents maybe 4 hours of pay of an averaged
qualified worker, including overhead...
think installation and configuration
time for some free stuff !
Some businesses shell out 100K/year on some software to spare one or two workers, so free
software has really to be competitive in
performance and stability to convince some
management to switch.
then it would be a pleasure to pick
a music CD or a game, make a copy, and
go out...
by the way, this would be an
interesting use of a laptop with a Cd-RW,
when I think of it !
the only way to survive in a market
where you are not the leader is simply
to deny the existence of others...
it fools the ignorants and might help
gain market share. I do not think
those ads can convince seasoned professionals
with years of UNIX/big iron mainframe
experience (admittedly hard to setup, but runs
for ever afterwards) to switch to windows
(just the opposite).
went down as the rest, IMHO, and
the expression is appropriate !
maybe it's just a reflection of what happened
in the industry (think "Boogie Nights").
is this the best they could come with to justify
their losses ? Jean-Marie Messier (J2M) is just
a stupid fool with hypertrophied ego.
The Universal music division made also a laugh
of themselves by taking 5 years to release
their music encryption scheme, which was cracked
in 2 weeks, and had been overtaken by mp3s three
years before. They did not understand that they
could make money with mp3s (by merchandise,
concerts, and stuff) and keep spending billions
developing stupid encryptions, crashing web sites
and harrassing highschool students trading mp3
CDs.
Canal+ France was once a great channel, with all
major blockbusters maybe 10 months old,
great prOn, soccer, and excellent humor and hosts.
Nowadays they show less than half of the
good movies of the year before, most of them
being actually 18/24 months old (because they
have to go through their lameass pay per view channels first), run old TV movies, have
lost many of their young talents, audience
has plumetted to 1 % marketshare, prices
went up (some say that in the 80s coke was free
for everyone at their parties, now even
the prices of the other kind of coke at the
vending machines have gone up).
And they blame it on Murdoch and the Israelies !
The leader of the group is french, and still
manages his lab in Toulouse. The project
is half french, half american, and students
travel continuously in between the two labs.
the femtosecond pulse might induce an
ultrasonic wave of roughly the same frequency,
which bounces off the other side
of the slab...did they try varying
the lead thickness ?
the timescales would be coherent with that.
fp !
some time ago. The author stated that tea
made this possible, as opposed to alcohol
for europeans, because water would not
remain drinkable without it. But due
to lack of demographic pressure, no need
for gold or trade, the Chinese did not
exploit those new lands. They even had some
contacts with the Aztecs.
Reminds me of several "Civilization" games
on the real world map...
The quite famous (at the time) french writer
JP Manchette got away with this for three years or
more ! He wrote film critics for "Charlie Hebdo"
from a remote mountain commune, based on what
his 12 years old son would say to him on the phone, and critics from daily newspapers. So he was the only french intellectual to (rightly) praise "Indiana Jones I" or "1941" !
The critics were actually so good that they were
recently released as a book.
I think he did it as a mixture of situationnism and despise for the readers, whom he may have considered of the same mental age as his son.
He ended the game when the journal went bankrupt
by announcing a sneak preview of a Georgian stalinist movie of the late 40's, without
subtitles, in a remote suburb of Paris, staged at 11:30 PM (so everyone would miss the last subway). Pitch : love story between a sovkhoze farm worker anda tractor repairer. Indeed, he just
wanted to make fun of snob, left-wing
pseudo-intellectuals. He then revealed that
he had cheated on all of his movie reviews.
Maybe this stuff with videogames is related : journalist just exploting the sheepy attitude
of teenagers (or not grown ups 20-30 yo),
only wanting to impress their friends with
their knowledge of the newest games.
If I remember correctly, there were 3D prOn
flicks made during the 70's golden era
(think "Boogie Nights"). I was told
these films were pretty impressive on widescreen...maybe this technology
will also bring a revival of those
artistic explorations !
about your fallacy 6 : I can
point you to some free or commercial
numerical software that can bring ANY
computer to its knees, like weather forecast,
finite elements, quantum chemistry, qcd, etc.
Think that if the computations run fast
on a 16*16*16*16 grid, for instance,
try and double grid size, just to see
if the solution improves....
I remember that before powerful Pentiums,
my code would take hours to compile on RISC
systems with all the optimizations turned
on. The same compiles now in about 1 minute
on a Pentium (and is way faster).
I perform Fourier analysis about once a month.
Once an hour at some point in my PhD.
I used chained lists, and graph theory,
which I learned about in school,
in a molecular dynamics
code.
but *AHEM* I am not the average person
either...
My cat just loves it when I keep my laptop connected to the grid (and closed) so that she can sleep on it...seems to be perfectly warm.
When the battery is loaded, she just invades
the briefcase if it is not perfectly closed !
Hair haven't provoked any malfunction yet
(there was a story recently about how much
abuse a laptop could stand, don't know if cat hair
were mentioned).
Compute the 2D FFT of each frame (in grayscale), then get
the intercorrelation function of two neighbouring
frames. The maxima are more or less where
the objects have moved.
I only used this method on artificially generated
frames, ie 1 frame with translation and noise
added. Still, the intercorrelation sinks quite
fast. On natural images, there must be a lot
of fiddling to do.
if I understand correctly, this would amount
to a kW range infrared laser available
"for free" in the car. You can then
shoot down birds, 007 style (gives a new meaning to roadkill)
do some welding in the car while driving
punish tailgaters on the spot
have a very trendy cigarette lighter that saves some fuel
...
who said more or less that "after all,
the world is maybe just an illusion
that devils move in front of our eyes".
(the point being that the only certitude
is that we think).
The confusion of virtual and "real" worlds
is indeed a step in that direction.
the techniques you point out converge
to the exact result, the problem being
as you say, CPU time. DFT is in principle
exact, wrong as no exact functional is known,
but way faster than traditional quantum
chemistry methods as CI, CC, etc. Since
Kohn got a prize for DFT, I think that
finding something similar that would multiply
speed once again by tens or hundreds would come
useful. Brute force, waiting for faster computers,
is not the only way to go and certainly not
a way to leave a name to history.
1) explaining high Tc superconductivity
2) explaining turbulence at all scales
3) developing something more advanced than DFT
in order to solve the quantum N body problem
accurately for large systems : then, "compute"
drugs and understand life
4) make quantum computers that work, on a
desktop, with plenty of qubits
I keep noticing that most of the major players
in the Beowulf arena still use 2.2.x kernels
(Scyld, Myricom come to mind). Only
a few completely custom system have upgraded
to 2.4.x , for claimed superior TCP/IP
performance. There must be something there...
the problem of freeriders is more or less
taken care of nowadays. What I see more as
a problem in p2p is people who only share
the folder created by their client, so
that there is only "nonoriginal" stuff in it,
files that can already be found elsewhere on the
network. One should advantage people who share
folders of say Morpheus and Gnutella at least,
and add files of their own.
The Iowa, and other battleships of that class
.50 bullets...), or even
were kept in more or less active duty for almost
60 years...I do not really see the difference
here.
France uses 40 year old Crusaders and
SuperEtendards on carriers. Harriers, used
in UK and by the US Marines, are not that
young either, as the Hueys one still sees
in Afghanistan.
Everyone knows that especially the B1 was an
overengineered, underpowered political tool
to give work to every county in the USA excepted
maybe in Alaska, as opposed to the B52, designed
by patriots at a time when aerospace engineering
attracted the brightest people.
And against enemies without defense, even very
old technology can be lethal. Someone pointed
out the Colt 1911, but I would also be careful
of black powder enthousiasts playing Davy
Crockett (with
of a charging horsemen with a sabre !
well, your link seems malformed, but
I think you are referring to the farewell
message by Spafford (linked
from the google announce) ?
And for the 1994 mention...well, things are
one or two years late here in Europe !