It was possible to win a game just by refreshing the board so much that the opponent's timer ran out. Later the ICC had timestamping which should reduce effects of net lag.
When you look at the Enrons and Nortels accountants are trying to make n figures look like n+k > n+1. Somehow taxes don't seem to be a consideration - I wonder why, especially if you don't have n+k but you are taxed for it. I guess the figure submitted to the government is not n+k figures and the money is earned in a different country.
Any simulation depends on the initial conditions. Since we all hardly know very much about reality - you for instance don't even know where your cell phone is - any result is acceptable.
The idea of a simulation is useful for insight into possibilities but not for specifics. We can focus the simulation into a personal world where initial conditions are meticulously gathered. This can only go so far since outside influences cannot be fully observed or predicted. Even the imposition of boundaries will skew results to reflect the unreality of boundaries.
A simulation of the universe ought to point out the possibility of the basics in our understanding of science and nature. The simulation might be deemed to fail if it cannot predict the formation of stars. It's all speculation.
Can science fiction do just as well as any simulation of the universe? Much science fiction is based on abilities that do not exist. Both have the same unreality. The simulation may be far more conservative.
Philosophy aside, it comes down to the new philosophy. We're living in a technological age. I want enhanced features like making my own backups and being able to copy and download.
Payment may be made with a subscription fee attached to media playing devices. As long as the fee is paid up, the user can play anything downloaded or copied. Else the user can only play purchased media or media made with independent equipment. Advertising could be used in lieu of subscription fees.
The cost per capita would not change that much I don't think. People will enjoy simpler interfacing to the new technology.
Suppose we try to achieve high switching speed as well as low leakage.
Consider a design where transistors and circuits shrink when under load in order to switch faster but enlarge at idle time for leakage reduction.
Consider another design where a computer system contains multiple CPUs where the load is shifted with a heat balance scheme. Hot CPUs are idled to cool them. CPUs can be run with very short duty cycles in order to minimize heating. This way extremely small logic circuits can be duplicated within a CPU but are not all turned on at the same time. The load can be moved from circuit to circuit. Switching speeds ought to be super fast.
If you know how to shop you can still buy Microsoft software without overspending.
For people who are not interested in learning computers to a science, Microsoft provides a very workable do-it-yourself computer software that is compatible with a vast number of third party software and hardware. These people are all too happy to keep buying Microsoft - Microsoft became a monopoly due to people's buying habits. By and large Microsoft has lived up to expectations.
Somehow software that has attempted to rival Microsoft have not given the same level of satisfaction. I tried WordPerfect a few times but it was awkward and not intuitive. There are lots of non-Microsoft software packages that I use because they are good.
Simply if people really think Microsoft is getting too big for its britches, they should create a new company to compete. Microsoft's product is a proven source of profit. Apparently no one thinks Microsoft's business area is worth competing in. Apple sticks to its own computers. Sun, IBM, and their ilk stay out of the man-on-the-street business. Is Linux going to influence hardware makers to provide drivers?
It seems Microsoft is still the way to go although I'm still leery of installing SP2 for XP.
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I like my laptop but handtop is the preferred direction - easier to carry, less heat, etc.
Laptops are getting bigger but with all the size, the features don't seem to go anywhere. There's enough space for 25 USB ports but these machines don't even give you a floppy, not a real big deal if you can boot from CD.
The biggest handtop I found - it has a 17" screen and weighs about 20 pounds. Reminds me of the base of Sun Sparc 1.
Recently I configured a web server running on a single processor single drive machine. It's time to connect it to the 10000 Gb/s so everyone can download. Uh oh - I can't provide more than 4 or 5 Mb/s if more than one person is connected.
One of the major features of Word is the "second pass" processing I use to programmatically determine whether the output is the way I like it. LaTeX is easily scriptable to run on a program-generated input but the output needs to be visually scrutinized. Unfortunately for me, this is a task well beyond programming within the time required to pay for the cost of living.
With Word, once the output is generated, I can ask Word to tell me where it put certain things. If I find that they are in the wrong spot, I can add paragraphs or page breaks. With LaTeX/TeX I can use some if statements to preprocess to determine whether a construct is going somewhere, but I'm not sure how far that will take me not to mention the feasibility of TeX coding going like this:
formatting(putItHere(complexConstruct(n)), listOfFormatting); sequence-of-commands-to-verify -formatting(listOfFormatting, listOfErrors); if listOfErrors = [] then
putItHere(complexConstruct(n));/* put it here for real this time */ end
With all the wonderful results Word is giving me, I still don't like how slow it is. I can watch Word put each thing on the page - a lot faster than a human, but it still takes a minute or two to compose a two-page report. I could whip out a text based report without the nice fonts and use fixed width fonts to create spacing in subsecond speed - this is the speed I'm looking for in Word.
Come to think of it, I can bite on a bullet and generate a raw.doc file, which I will open with Word to start the "second pass" phase. Are.doc files in a sensible format or are they some kind of binary gibberish?
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It was possible to win a game just by refreshing the board so much that the opponent's timer ran out. Later the ICC had timestamping which should reduce effects of net lag.
When you look at the Enrons and Nortels accountants are trying to make n figures look like n+k > n+1. Somehow taxes don't seem to be a consideration - I wonder why, especially if you don't have n+k but you are taxed for it. I guess the figure submitted to the government is not n+k figures and the money is earned in a different country.
This is good for me (a nonshareholder) because a company that has good sales tends to offer good deals and quality products.
Certain people claim censors exist. Certain censors claim people exist.
Now you might assert that certain censors claim God exists.
Think of all the damage done by the millions of people reacting to false information.
Then again, if Wikipedia did not exist, think of all the damage done by millions of people lacking information.
Any simulation depends on the initial conditions. Since we all hardly know very much about reality - you for instance don't even know where your cell phone is - any result is acceptable.
The idea of a simulation is useful for insight into possibilities but not for specifics. We can focus the simulation into a personal world where initial conditions are meticulously gathered. This can only go so far since outside influences cannot be fully observed or predicted. Even the imposition of boundaries will skew results to reflect the unreality of boundaries.
A simulation of the universe ought to point out the possibility of the basics in our understanding of science and nature. The simulation might be deemed to fail if it cannot predict the formation of stars. It's all speculation.
Can science fiction do just as well as any simulation of the universe? Much science fiction is based on abilities that do not exist. Both have the same unreality. The simulation may be far more conservative.
That was supposed to be four of hearts.
Not true.
You can't for instance cut it into the shape of a star with sharp edges, at least in certain jurisdictions.
A digital thing lasts forever
An abstract notion simply exists without relation to time.
Philosophy aside, it comes down to the new philosophy. We're living in a technological age. I want enhanced features like making my own backups and being able to copy and download.
Payment may be made with a subscription fee attached to media playing devices. As long as the fee is paid up, the user can play anything downloaded or copied. Else the user can only play purchased media or media made with independent equipment. Advertising could be used in lieu of subscription fees.
The cost per capita would not change that much I don't think. People will enjoy simpler interfacing to the new technology.
Top heavy comes to mind. Does the stand come with an optional nut and bolt?
Suppose we try to achieve high switching speed as well as low leakage.
Consider a design where transistors and circuits shrink when under load in order to switch faster but enlarge at idle time for leakage reduction.
Consider another design where a computer system contains multiple CPUs where the load is shifted with a heat balance scheme. Hot CPUs are idled to cool them. CPUs can be run with very short duty cycles in order to minimize heating. This way extremely small logic circuits can be duplicated within a CPU but are not all turned on at the same time. The load can be moved from circuit to circuit. Switching speeds ought to be super fast.
If you know how to shop you can still buy Microsoft software without overspending.
For people who are not interested in learning computers to a science, Microsoft provides a very workable do-it-yourself computer software that is compatible with a vast number of third party software and hardware. These people are all too happy to keep buying Microsoft - Microsoft became a monopoly due to people's buying habits. By and large Microsoft has lived up to expectations.
Somehow software that has attempted to rival Microsoft have not given the same level of satisfaction. I tried WordPerfect a few times but it was awkward and not intuitive. There are lots of non-Microsoft software packages that I use because they are good.
Simply if people really think Microsoft is getting too big for its britches, they should create a new company to compete. Microsoft's product is a proven source of profit. Apparently no one thinks Microsoft's business area is worth competing in. Apple sticks to its own computers. Sun, IBM, and their ilk stay out of the man-on-the-street business. Is Linux going to influence hardware makers to provide drivers?
It seems Microsoft is still the way to go although I'm still leery of installing SP2 for XP.
I like my laptop but handtop is the preferred direction - easier to carry, less heat, etc.
Laptops are getting bigger but with all the size, the features don't seem to go anywhere. There's enough space for 25 USB ports but these machines don't even give you a floppy, not a real big deal if you can boot from CD.
The biggest handtop I found - it has a 17" screen and weighs about 20 pounds. Reminds me of the base of Sun Sparc 1.
Recently I configured a web server running on a single processor single drive machine. It's time to connect it to the 10000 Gb/s so everyone can download. Uh oh - I can't provide more than 4 or 5 Mb/s if more than one person is connected.
Looks like it's going to take a lot of RAM
If 10 Gb is coming to the masses, surely the central network will be ready for anything
The best way to make security work is to experience the failures and attacks.
I'll tell you. Fast as this may seem, it's still too slow for beaming.
Not if you don't want to save the data - do you save everything you see on TV?
Now, any processor that wants to deal with the data one bit at a time wouldn't be able to keep up.
In less than 1 second, all the RAM I have will fill - that's quick enough for now
The way I see it most of the data is redundant to the nth degree. And the amount of crap is overwhelming to the mth degree.
One day libraries will be digital and online. It would be better to figure out how to make this evolution work than to raid some filesharers.
Isn't Pb lead?
picobit? millibit? centibit? microbit? nanobit?
Bits aren't supposed to be divisible. Why is my Internet connection running at 3 millibits/s?
Don't some people have better things to do than to attack the Internet? Spam, DOS, trojans, exploits. Enough is enough. No one is b
The Internet has survived disasters and outages.
Sometimes one has to wonder - not what I would do without the Internet but whether I appreciate the Internet enough when it's functioning.
Half the world installing SP2 will meltdown the Internet - probably sporadically at the leaf level where a lot of clients just crash.
ISPs should cache SP2 so that the backbone doesn't have to send the same redundant copies all over the place.
If the Internet is down, anyone can run their own Google server. A vacuous truth about a vacuum - if my personal Google mirrors the Internet ...
With Word, once the output is generated, I can ask Word to tell me where it put certain things. If I find that they are in the wrong spot, I can add paragraphs or page breaks. With LaTeX/TeX I can use some if statements to preprocess to determine whether a construct is going somewhere, but I'm not sure how far that will take me not to mention the feasibility of TeX coding going like this:With all the wonderful results Word is giving me, I still don't like how slow it is. I can watch Word put each thing on the page - a lot faster than a human, but it still takes a minute or two to compose a two-page report. I could whip out a text based report without the nice fonts and use fixed width fonts to create spacing in subsecond speed - this is the speed I'm looking for in Word.
Come to think of it, I can bite on a bullet and generate a raw
Who's Akamai? The one wearing the cape and possessing bulging muscles not to mention alien superpowers?