I think you're tilting at windmills here, Jon. Don't be impatient for some news that's worthy of your commentary though, it's early in the week yet.
C'mon, it's just a game, and everybody's welcome to make and play games.
I think you're scaring yourself this time.
Besides, wasn't there already a religious video game callled Afterlife or something? Now that sure made a splash!
Jon, you strike me as a creative kind of guy, why don't you make a video game? Maybe something along the lines of a huge post by you, that people then have to read through fast and say something pertinent for points.
What kinds of accidents or eevil designs could we have with these things? Let's see, umm: (disclaimer: each of these items has probably been thought of *many* times before)
1) nanoviruses - like software variety, but reproducing with explosive growth. Mechanical Outbreak anyone? What will the CDC do? Downsides could include: - using up a heck of a lot of carbon and leaving vast amounts of nano-junk in its place to wade or swim through - using off-limits resources for self-replicating, like say, my arm. Hmm, maybe this should be in its own category called "3) eating the wrong thing"
2) bugs - nanites with software bugs. I wouldn't want Microsoft-programmed nano's anywhere near my home. How do your install sevice packs on trillions of molecular critters running amok?
3) nano's eating the wrong thing, like say - people - oxygen - plants - our power grid - the earth's mantle (say if there were geothermal powered nanites)
4) missing or failed comprehensive kill -9. I could just imagine some tired lab engineer saying "whoops, that's not what I intended. Oh, they're eating though the container. Hungry little guys aren't they? Maybe I'll just hit the panic button around now... oh, they ate the panic button."
5) wrong product made by nanite assemblers. - lots of uranium instead of lots of geraniums - meat with human DNA (you know, the "people for dinner" scenario)
Orson Scott Card & Dan Simmons are good, yes - I didn't know "The Rise of Endymion" was out - thanks. All these series are hard to keep track of. I usually resort to polling the bookstore shelves, but interrupt-driven works well when there are enough people around with like interests like here.
Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson is great and/although strange.
Rudy Rucker has some zany books with great ideas. Some good ones were : Software Wetware, Freeware. Fast reads, enjoyable reading and out there. AI with forced evolution.
"The Difference Engine" by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling was excellent. What would have happened if Charles Babbage's difference engine was actually built and the information age hit us 150 years early?
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The author's reasoning seems incomplete in some ways.
First of all you'd need 12 numbers, not 10 to describe the location of 3 points in Newton's universe. Maybe he assumes that all 3 points exist at the same time. But he should state these assumptions, especially in an article about time.
His rules for Triangle Land would sweep out a plane, not a pyramid. Maybe he's leaving some other assumptions out. It would be useful to see the diagram he refers to to find what defines the axis extending from his Alpha point.
I'd say he's still firmly in Euclidean space however uncool that may be these days.
His mention of a particle's spherical wave function misses the point that the function breaks down when observed. It then takes on a single value. The path taken by the Alpha particle sweeps out a sphere until you look. It then becomes a particular path. Schrodinger's Cat only exists as a wave function until you open the box. After that it's just an ordinary cat.
He seems to be stirring a lot of concepts together, but instead coming up with chocolate chip cookies he ends up with a gooey mess that we can't sink our teeth into.
I'd say the topic was time, but the substance was bogon.
At our school we started with one Apple II with a tape drive - programmed in machine language for fun but I'd just type in the hex each time. It was faster than loading from a tape. Later came the Commodore PETs - 8k and 16k I believe - with tape recorders.
I remember the suspense of waiting a few minutes to see if our programs would finish loading up okay.
oh yeah, and the sound of FFing, REWing and listening to the tapes to find where to start loading if you had a bunch of programs on the same tape! Nowadays I gues I listen to 56k modem connect sounds instead.
Suddenly those terabyte servers of the big guys don't seem that big anymore. Just get four of these suckers on an EIDE board and you're just about there.
yours is cool and stable maxed at 2.2V - no problemo and you know it.
I'm more concerned with people who may want to give this a try for the first time without knowing some rough boundaries.
What scared me initially was that the link showed that a person could up the voltage to 2.6V! They had a warning that they don't guarantee that components would work properly when manually set, but they didn't mention that higher voltages could damage the CPU.
For those of you attempting this for the first time, if your overclocked Celeron doesn't run stably at 2.0V a standard technique is to increase the voltage by.05V at a time.
But if your system hasn't stabilized by 2.2V you run a risk of smelling blue smoke. Not all Celerons can make it to the higher speeds for long.
Higher voltage causes more heat. You may need a cooling technique (open case, CPU fan,..). Cooling can help stabilize your board too.
There was a lawsuit years ago here in Canada where a kid became a paraplegic from falling off his bike while trying stunt jumps off a ramp in a locked and chained schoolyard which was under construction.
The city was sued and found 1% at fault, but since it had the cash, had to pay the whole amount awarded (in the millions).
The moral I think is "sue the rich".
The other dynamic may be that potential jurors probably haven't heard of id, while they know Nintendo, Sony, et al, and know they're big. There'd be more emotional impact suing Time Warner than id ("id who?").
Moral #2 may be "sue the famous big company". I'm sure jealousy may factor in here as well.
I also think some lawyers are just opportunistic and might approach parents of victims with the lawsuit idea.
BTW I can't wait to see how playing Shogo will warp my psyche!
---------------------------------- Rather than try to match a result in a benchmark test that was already in dispute, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard chose to craft a solution that would more closely match actual business conditions, including the need to get maximum value from any enterprise solution. They also wanted to develop a solution that met the original intention of TPC-D.
"There was no merit in responding to the aspect of the challenge that was nothing more than a marketing stunt," explains Microsoft's Douglas Leland. "Instead, what we found interesting was the opportunity that the challenge raised for us to use our technology in a way that focuses on what customers really need, which is affordable, scalable, and powerful solutions that are flexible enough to answer a wide range of business needs and issues."
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So who knows what they used? They don't define their database. Here's a silly analogy:
It's as if Bill was challenged to eat four crackers and whistle all within a minute. Well he went off, ate and whistled in a minute, but he decided that eating crackers didn't make sense so he substituted something else. "Rather than trying to eat crackers I chose to eat something else. I'm not telling you what I ate, but I ate something."
Well good for you Billy Boy, good for you. But that ain't going to get you the prize.
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(cr#p, my submission got lost, oh well, retype)
I think you're tilting at windmills here, Jon. Don't be impatient for some news that's worthy of your commentary though, it's early in the week yet.
C'mon, it's just a game, and everybody's welcome to make and play games.
I think you're scaring yourself this time.
Besides, wasn't there already a religious video game callled Afterlife or something? Now that sure made a splash!
Jon, you strike me as a creative kind of guy, why don't you make a video game? Maybe something along the lines of a huge post by you, that people then have to read through fast and say something pertinent for points.
Oh wait, I guess we're already playing your game.
Never mind.
First was the information superhighway, now we'll be hearing about superhighway information.
Hmm, let's take a short walk down a dark road.
... oh, they ate the panic button."
What kinds of accidents or eevil designs could we have with these things? Let's see, umm: (disclaimer: each of these items has probably been thought of *many* times before)
1) nanoviruses - like software variety, but reproducing with explosive growth. Mechanical Outbreak anyone? What will the CDC do? Downsides could include:
- using up a heck of a lot of carbon and leaving vast amounts of nano-junk in its place to wade or swim through
- using off-limits resources for self-replicating, like say, my arm. Hmm, maybe this should be in its own category called "3) eating the wrong thing"
2) bugs - nanites with software bugs. I wouldn't want Microsoft-programmed nano's anywhere near my home. How do your install sevice packs on trillions of molecular critters running amok?
3) nano's eating the wrong thing, like say
- people
- oxygen
- plants
- our power grid
- the earth's mantle (say if there were geothermal powered nanites)
4) missing or failed comprehensive kill -9. I could just imagine some tired lab engineer saying "whoops, that's not what I intended. Oh, they're eating though the container. Hungry little guys aren't they? Maybe I'll just hit the panic button around now
5) wrong product made by nanite assemblers.
- lots of uranium instead of lots of geraniums
- meat with human DNA (you know, the "people for dinner" scenario)
Okay this is getting silly so I'll stop now.
Orson Scott Card & Dan Simmons are good, yes - I didn't know "The Rise of Endymion" was out - thanks. All these series are hard to keep track of. I usually resort to polling the bookstore shelves, but interrupt-driven works well when there are enough people around with like interests like here.
Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson is great and/although strange.
Rudy Rucker has some zany books with great ideas. Some good ones were : Software Wetware, Freeware. Fast reads, enjoyable reading and out there. AI with forced evolution.
"The Difference Engine" by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling was excellent. What would have happened if Charles Babbage's difference engine was actually built and the information age hit us 150 years early?
The author's reasoning seems incomplete in some ways.
First of all you'd need 12 numbers, not 10 to describe the location of 3 points in Newton's universe. Maybe he assumes that all 3 points exist at the same time. But he should state these assumptions, especially in an article about time.
His rules for Triangle Land would sweep out a plane, not a pyramid. Maybe he's leaving some other assumptions out. It would be useful to see the diagram he refers to to find what defines the axis extending from his Alpha point.
I'd say he's still firmly in Euclidean space however uncool that may be these days.
His mention of a particle's spherical wave function misses the point that the function breaks down when observed. It then takes on a single value. The path taken by the Alpha particle sweeps out a sphere until you look. It then becomes a particular path. Schrodinger's Cat only exists as a wave function until you open the box. After that it's just an ordinary cat.
He seems to be stirring a lot of concepts together, but instead coming up with chocolate chip cookies he ends up with a gooey mess that we can't sink our teeth into.
I'd say the topic was time, but the substance was bogon.
I'd rather not start getting junk mail that matches what I was watching three weeks beforehand.
..."
"Dear os and so,
We noticed that you have an interest in watching sport fishing. Our company sells a complete line of free-range worms
I can see a lot of viewer information being sold if it's possible.
It'll be expensive, intrusive, and unstable. But maybe I'm just off my coffee.
If 100 people with identical information on the inside get exactly the same information on the outside, well, there's got to be a name for that.
"We have given you bitter pills with sugar coating. The pills are inert - the poison's in the sugar."
I have no idea what it means, but certain events like this call in to mind. So what do you say? Who'll be ingesting what from whom?
Well at least you have career goals so I guess you've got that going for you...
Didn't start with the trash 80 but wanted one.
...
At our school we started with one Apple II with a tape drive - programmed in machine language for fun but I'd just type in the hex each time. It was faster than loading from a tape. Later came the Commodore PETs - 8k and 16k I believe - with tape recorders.
I remember the suspense of waiting a few minutes to see if our programs would finish loading up okay.
oh yeah, and the sound of FFing, REWing and listening to the tapes to find where to start loading if you had a bunch of programs on the same tape! Nowadays I gues I listen to 56k modem connect sounds instead.
The more things change
That and jandrese's comment give me a better model for it (possibly).
So what you're saying is Seagate shoudl concentrate more on expanding the "gate" and less on the "Sea"?
Suddenly those terabyte servers of the big guys don't seem that big anymore. Just get four of these suckers on an EIDE board and you're just about there.
yours is cool and stable maxed at 2.2V - no problemo and you know it.
I'm more concerned with people who may want to give this a try for the first time without knowing some rough boundaries.
What scared me initially was that the link showed that a person could up the voltage to 2.6V! They had a warning that they don't guarantee that components would work properly
when manually set, but they didn't mention that higher voltages could damage the CPU.
For those of you attempting this for the first time, if your overclocked Celeron doesn't run stably at 2.0V a standard technique is to increase the voltage by .05V at a time.
..). Cooling can help stabilize your board too.
But if your system hasn't stabilized by 2.2V you run a risk of smelling blue smoke. Not all Celerons can make it to the higher speeds for long.
Higher voltage causes more heat. You may need a cooling technique (open case, CPU fan,
As an old calculus prof used to say, "precision is nontrivial".
The nitpicking matters isince in a lot of industries the owner of the design is completely different from the people writing code to spec.
Your other good point is about intent. (And I thought it was just crime and art where intent was key.)
There was a lawsuit years ago here in Canada where a kid became a paraplegic from falling off his bike while trying stunt jumps off a ramp in a locked and chained schoolyard which was under construction.
The city was sued and found 1% at fault, but since it had the cash, had to pay the whole amount awarded (in the millions).
The moral I think is "sue the rich".
The other dynamic may be that potential jurors probably haven't heard of id, while they know Nintendo, Sony, et al, and know they're big. There'd be more emotional impact suing Time Warner than id ("id who?").
Moral #2 may be "sue the famous big company". I'm sure jealousy may factor in here as well.
I also think some lawyers are just opportunistic and might approach parents of victims with the lawsuit idea.
BTW I can't wait to see how playing Shogo will warp my psyche!
Microsoft mentioned that they din't use TPC-D.:
----------------------------------
Rather than try to match a result in a benchmark test that was already in dispute,
Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard chose to craft a solution that would more closely
match actual business conditions, including the need to get maximum value from
any enterprise solution. They also wanted to develop a solution that met the original
intention of TPC-D.
"There was no merit in responding to the aspect of the challenge that was nothing
more than a marketing stunt," explains Microsoft's Douglas Leland. "Instead, what
we found interesting was the opportunity that the challenge raised for us to use our
technology in a way that focuses on what customers really need, which is
affordable, scalable, and powerful solutions that are flexible enough to answer a
wide range of business needs and issues."
----------------------------------
So who knows what they used? They don't define their database. Here's a silly analogy:
It's as if Bill was challenged to eat four crackers and whistle all within a minute. Well he went off, ate and whistled in a minute, but he decided that eating crackers didn't make sense so he substituted something else. "Rather than trying to eat crackers I chose to eat something else. I'm not telling you what I ate, but I ate something."
Well good for you Billy Boy, good for you. But that ain't going to get you the prize.