I would like to mention that the tiny cache size of the Celeron processor can very well make optimizations that increase code size have a negative effect.
Actually, if you mark your DVD+R disc as DVD-ROM (there is a special number that tells that), there is a very good chance that your laptop will be able to read it.
Mine (Inspiron 5000) refuses to read disks marked as DVD+R, but has no problems with disks marked as DVD-ROM, even though they are the same in every other respect.
Military technology is often an example of perfect intermediate product. Making something that explodes or works only for a short period of time is easier than something we can use in more everyday situations.
A good example is thermonuclear synthesis. The bomb was made a long time ago, but the reactor is still being researched.
Also, being nice will probably not stifle the force of military innovation. As long as people believe that there might be a bad guy out there somewhere they would want a better weapon.
And, of course, a good way to prove existence of bad guys is to be one yourself, if only through imagination by watching a movie.
Humans are sentient, a quality machines cannot match.
A machine can be better than a human in a narrowly defined situations - like playing chess or performing a specific task (say measuring temperature).
Earth-orbit experiments still need humans - it is just they can participate via remote control.
On Mars, the delay from radio wave propagation is too large, so a live human would be very useful, assuming the mission is not "land, look around, go back".
Lastly, nothing humans created so far can match animals (and, in particular, humans) in power efficiency. Provided oxygen is taken care of (and vast quantities of it will likely be needed for takeoff anyway), humans can survey a larger area quicker and more thouroughly than a robot.
You could use ATI Remote Wonders (or, perhaps, a similar kind of X10 remote).
These are RF remotes and 16 of them can be configured to use different channels. They use USB dongle for reception - same dongle can serve multiple remotes if needed (just don't transmit simultaneously).
I would suggest "Foundations of mathematics and logic".
This has several goals/reasons:
teach students the notion of proofs and how to make them. This is very useful for writing correct code;)
expose students to manual computation - this has a different flavor from automated computation and thus you avoid the problem of students being accustomed to some methods so much that they don't stop to think why certain things are done one way and not the other.
teach students logic, Godel's theorem is a nice place to discuss difference between human and computer approach to solving problems
prepare students for courses on compiler construction, etc..
show how to make integers out of sets, rationals out of integers, etc.
this course is self contained and thus bypasses the issue of woefully unadequate background of most US students
They only claim 70-80% of Carnot efficiency, not absolute 70-80% efficiency. I.e. this will not be better then the ideal heat cycle device and approximately on par with traditional macroscopic cooling systems like refregirators. Of course, being small, electric powered and having no moving parts is a plus.
If all you want is to display DVDs on high quality display consider getting a usual projector instead. They are comparable in price (or cheaper) and a lot of them are "HDTV-compatible", and you can play Quake (or whatever you like) on them too.
CDE is fast ? Last time I used it it was quite slow. It is faster than KDE or GNOME on xterminals because of increased network traffic caused by fancy buttons, but no CDE is not fast at all.
It is my honest belief that current research in AI is not so much about how to make computers think, but rather about how to reproduce the behaviour tranditionally associated with thinking. The distinction is important. While a human will think about a new situation possibly inventing and using new rules, current AI programs rely on (possibly partial) knowledge of what is going on.
A human can "extend" existing knowledge. An AI is good at "bridging the gaps".
Strictly speaking, data mining is not statistics. Statistics deals with analysis of time-based data, typically small amount of parameters is sampled many times. Data mining studies non or weakly time-based data, with lots of parameters but just a few samples taken.
Examples: taking measurements of temperature in a region over 50 years and trying to predict climate change is statistical problem, while
analysing samples of minerals in an area to try to find oil or gas is data mining. (as, presumably, mineral composition does not change over time so only single sample from each point is taken)
I second this. I have started with Slackware and would recommend this to anyone. With Redhat you get quicker to "something does run" state, but then you have tons of problems figuring out what the various scripts do. With Slackware, once you got it running properly you have already learned pretty much all you need to make it your _own_ distribution.
Remember - distribution is just an easy way to avoid compiling all that software. It does not replace knowledge on the part of the user.
In fact they sometimes don't have money to pay their stuff (and this can be less than the charge for a new domain,..., I think - I have not checked exchange rates lately).
Very much like Newtons mechanics, general relativity is valid only for a certain range of physical phenomena. In particular, it is not considered to describe correctly what happens at quantum scale (note that this has nothing to do with use of general relativitistic mathemetical constructs in quantum mechanics - they might start with formulas from g.r. but they end up with something rather different).
Having read only the abstract, I can say that there is nothing that says this can't be true - but, of course, the only way to be sure if a lot of people can reproduce this. (if you recall, in case of high-temporature superconductors it was not long before you could buy a school-project kits to try them out).
I think most of the postings above are missing the point.
GPL is about culture, about the way you want to live. Suppose you had a choice to program a closed source application and an open source one, what would you choose ? Or, if you just wanted to use it ?
Besides backup here are another two examples of fair use that would require the original work:
A future scientist/scholar might want to examine not the content of the works themselves, but, rather, the methods used to create them, which digital technieques were applied etc. This could be useful, for example, to both study the artist's choice of tools and to find out which choices were more appealing to the public.
Another use is for processing with computer programs. All our experience shows that computers do not look at video/music the way humans do. A lot of programs/algorithms will fail miserably if fed data modified by analog noise. DMCA effectively mandates that the only way the DVD could be used is by playing it in an approved DVD player. Examples:
Artwork: "Digital collage" in which irregularly shaped (perhaps cut along edges of figures) pieces of movies are played on giant computer screen.
Programs/research in programs to search video content (i.e. "find all people dressed in yellow")
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I would like to mention that the tiny cache size of the Celeron processor can very well make optimizations that increase code size have a negative effect.
Radio shack has a nice page about different batteries.
I would not be surprised that, if the law were struct down, they would call people on the do-not-call list more often.
Mine (Inspiron 5000) refuses to read disks marked as DVD+R, but has no problems with disks marked as DVD-ROM, even though they are the same in every other respect.
See "DVD+RW/+R for Linux" for more details.
Outside will be the jail.
Military technology is often an example of perfect intermediate product. Making something that explodes or works only for a short period of time is easier than something we can use in more everyday situations.
A good example is thermonuclear synthesis. The bomb was made a long time ago, but the reactor is still being researched.
Also, being nice will probably not stifle the force of military innovation. As long as people believe that there might be a bad guy out there somewhere they would want a better weapon.
And, of course, a good way to prove existence of bad guys is to be one yourself, if only through imagination by watching a movie.
Then we can honestly say: "No, I don't see code. I see Lucy, Bitterman and Xairo - and they want to frag me !"
See, for example, www.opencores.org.
Humans are sentient, a quality machines cannot match.
A machine can be better than a human in a narrowly defined situations - like playing chess or performing a specific task (say measuring temperature).
Earth-orbit experiments still need humans - it is just they can participate via remote control.
On Mars, the delay from radio wave propagation is too large, so a live human would be very useful, assuming the mission is not "land, look around, go back".
Lastly, nothing humans created so far can match animals (and, in particular, humans) in power efficiency. Provided oxygen is taken care of (and vast quantities of it will likely be needed for takeoff anyway), humans can survey a larger area quicker and more thouroughly than a robot.
You could use ATI Remote Wonders (or, perhaps, a similar kind of X10 remote).
These are RF remotes and 16 of them can be configured to use different channels. They use USB dongle for reception - same dongle can serve multiple remotes if needed (just don't transmit simultaneously).
Linux driver can be found at GATOS website
Sure, people in other countries can do it too, but:
Slackware.
It has the best game of all - GNU/Linux
This has several goals/reasons:
They only claim 70-80% of Carnot efficiency, not absolute 70-80% efficiency. I.e. this will not be better then the ideal heat cycle device and approximately on par with traditional macroscopic cooling systems like refregirators. Of course, being small, electric powered and having no moving parts is a plus.
If all you want is to display DVDs on high quality display consider getting a usual projector instead. They are comparable in price (or cheaper) and a lot of them are "HDTV-compatible", and you can play Quake (or whatever you like) on them too.
If you want a fast manager run twm.
Examples: taking measurements of temperature in a region over 50 years and trying to predict climate change is statistical problem, while analysing samples of minerals in an area to try to find oil or gas is data mining. (as, presumably, mineral composition does not change over time so only single sample from each point is taken)
Remember - distribution is just an easy way to avoid compiling all that software. It does not replace knowledge on the part of the user.
In fact they sometimes don't have money to pay their stuff (and this can be less than the charge for a new domain, ..., I think - I have not checked exchange rates lately).
Very much like Newtons mechanics, general relativity is valid only for a certain range of physical phenomena. In particular, it is not considered to describe correctly what happens at quantum scale (note that this has nothing to do with use of general relativitistic mathemetical constructs in quantum mechanics - they might start with formulas from g.r. but they end up with something rather different).
Having read only the abstract, I can say that there is nothing that says this can't be true - but, of course, the only way to be sure if a lot of people can reproduce this. (if you recall, in case of high-temporature superconductors it was not long before you could buy a school-project kits to try them out).
- I can fit at least a single 80x25 color xterm window in it
- It can connect seemlessly to my network (preferably wireless and not IR)
And, oh ya - the usual - it should not cost and arm and a leg and it should last at least 24 hours on batteries.GPL is about culture, about the way you want to live. Suppose you had a choice to program a closed source application and an open source one, what would you choose ? Or, if you just wanted to use it ?
Vladimir Dergachev