Fascinating. I myself was diagnosed with ADHD - inattentiveness/impulse control at age 6, and it's pretty much stuck with me to 24. From in here (the head) it's pretty similar to what you describe in your son. I have never had a problem visualizing complex systems, a talent that is extremely beneficial to my chosen profession (net. eng.). Also, throughout my life, I've noticed that I pick up on stupid little phrases and use them _far_ out of context. (please don't ask, it's rather embarrassing) I also have good musical ability. On hearing a song once, I can almost always recall it completely from memory, and even if I miss the key, the note progression stays consistent. I can hear harmonies on the second time around, once I've gotten past the thrill of the melody. I'd be willing to bet your son harbors a great deal of musical talent.
Also, there's the issue of the lack of attention. The slightest thought can pull me away from something. I have difficulty completing _any_ task as a result. I'll say this for various pharmeceutical (sp?) treatments, tho. On Ritalin, (which only lasts for about 4 hours per dose) _every_ problem listed above drops away. I cease to exist in a perpetual dream state and become more 'real' if you will. alas, it's so damned fleeting. I'd give real money to cure it once and for all...
Whoa. i rambled:) see?
makes me wonder how much we'll finally know about ourselves as a species when we have accurate design schematics for the hardware we run in...
actually, the light has no trouble moving around just as fast as ever, whether it's inside or outside the event horizon. It's just that space inside the edge of the hole is curved so badly that it spirals right into the singularity. Outside the hole, space is merely slightly curved, so that the light (when it follows the geodesic) can move away from the hole. It's not really "escaping" or even trying to. Light just follows the various "bends" in spacetime.
dude, chill, it's called a "slow news day" N/T
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The animals were brought _to_ the man, which means he existed before they were created, as they were brought straight to him. The bible says so. Hell, _your_ bible says so.
Secondly, all the action and linking verbs in this passage are past tense, so the 'had formed' part is perfectly natural. Hebrew's structure is a bit different from germanic languages like english, so you can expect to get some funny looking syntax after translation (especially when dealing with complex ideas).
I'm sorry, _you_ are mistaken. There are two disparate accounts of the creation of the world. There are many other glaring technical errors as well, too numerous to list. It pretty much invalidates the whole book, because, hey, if those are copyist errors, what isn't?
Reduce the abortion rate! Change society so that sex isn't such a taboo subject! So that girls aren't called "sluts" for exploring their sexuality while boys are considered "studs" for doing the same! So that buying condoms is _not_ a shameful thing (for teens, or for that matter, anyone)!
Seriously, the issue isn't whether or not kids should see these flicks, it's that the theater is taking the responsibility for those decisions from the persons who should be making them, the parents.
except that with FEMA and various Executive Orders over the years, not to mention the Emergency Powers Act (various years, I forget), the Executive branch now (under declaration of a National Emergency ) has the power to annex any and all property, infrastructure, etc., and suspend the Constitution for up to six months.
And there isn't a thing Congress can do about it.
And for those of you that say the Judicial branch can declare this unconstitutional, let them. They have no power to enforce their decisions.
let's have a moment of silence for the departed Amiga. It was truly a machine before it's time.
*silence*
Thank you.
on one point tho.. yes, the psx2 has more cpu, but i don't see anyone doing vis/sim work on one of these things. oh, yah, that's because my 1.2GB world won't fit into it's local memory. Silly me, I somehow got the idea that 32MB should be enough for _anybody_..
I seem to recall hearing that this is going to be AmigaDOS 5.0's de facto scripting language, to replace ARexx. From what I understand, it's abolutely phenomenal compared to it's predecessor (ARexx, in it's own right pretty nifty).
I dunno. I saw Rexx on OS/2, it's native platform (next to mainframe), and it beat the hell out of DOS batch files. If REBOL's even half as good as the glowing commentary I've heard, I may buy a New Amiga (if it ever arrives) just to play with...:)
Reminds me of the old Compaq days, immediately following their release of a PC clone.
I don't think that Creative is going to be in any trouble. They're big enough to have the resources to devote to a clean-room emulator. If Compaq could get their PC BIOS approved by a court, I'm sure that Creative can write an emulator in such an environment so that their collective legal asses aren't left hanging out in the open.
And let's face it. This is SOP for companies in this volatile market. 3dfx merges with STB to solidify their position. Creative, Diamond, et al. write emulator software to take the wind out of 3dfx's sails, as far as their proprietary interface is concerned.
Now, if only someone could do a DX6 -> OGL translator!
I can get full duplex 1000-basewhatever to 200+ hosts through a single switch backplane. At that point the bandwidth available in the system makes the situation moot.
yah, pricing... just what _are_ lightstreams going for these days?
And have you tried it across _your_ WAN links? I don't know about you, but I don't consider 12Mbit of WAN connectivity to be exactly cheap, regardless of your transport... And just what do you mean by WAN? Those sissy little 500m fiber runs on campuses? Or my 23,000mi of multichannel OC192?
oh wait, I forgot that the frame types are also 100% compatible with commodity hardware...:)
That's really cool, and you're right, for your particular application, ATM is going to kick the bejeezus out of any frame-based tech.
And that's the real, point, isn't it? For some applications, ATM makes good sense. I wouldn't implement anything but, if I needed to run concurrent media streams alongside my data. But for me, I just need a way for rows and rows of servers to get to the backbone with as little contention as possible. Pretty much all my frames end up as ether (at the server), so why try to change things?
Once again:
What do you want to do? What software (network, layer2, whatever) does that best? On what hardware does that software work the best?
the big push for gig ether is campus trunks between buildings. goes up to 10km (single mode) and Cisco's Gigabit EtherChannel can aggregate up to 16 links. Really great if your org grew strangely, and you have departments in two buildings. It also helps in linking switches in a internet server fanout. Either way, it's more of a backbone technology than anything else. In fact, PCI32's theorietical peak (132MB/s) doesn't match the throughput of full duplex 1000Base-SX. And NT's networking core prevents running the network over 400Mbit peak.
Interestingly enough, on most tested unices, i think they're getting around 800-900Mbit. It'd be interesting to see how fast ftp.cdrom.com would be with gig ether to the backbone... Maybe then i'd see more than 10KBps...
yah, wow. So you're pushing 240+ SPECfp95. Great. At what price? Aren't POWER3 RS6000s going for five-digit sums these days? Great.. or I could wait a year, and get a box that'll smoke it for under a grand (more likely less than $300US), plays really awesome games, DVDs, connects to the internet, has nifty peripherals (firewire, etc)... I could go on.
And that number was 20,000,000 triangles/sec, with peak somewhere around 66million triangles/sec. And it seems that the IR2 doesn't really get going until you've poured $2-4million into the system. Hell, even the next-to-best system they quote on the site has half the poly rate, and 1/30 the fillrate!
A) Performance: The figure you quote for the Voodoo3 is correct. The card is physically capable of taking a stream of 5+ million polys/sec and displaying them on the screen in realtime. The problem is that the floating point unit of the P6 core (even with SSE) can't push geometry for more than about 500k polys/sec. the Emotion Engine fixes this by adding a pair of vector processing units for all those nasty FMUL and FDIV instructions. This gets geometry running at 20x10^6 polys/sec. 6.2GFLOP doesn't suck.
B) Obsolesence: This system is so head-and-shoulders out there, I don't think you're going to have to worry about introducing a new box for 4-5 years (which is actually industry average). And since Intel (hell any CPU manufacturer) doesn't apparently have plans to boost floating point to the PSX2's level anytime soon, I bet it'll be awhile before PCs catch back up.
C) Competition: Well, considering that the deck they've described is about 9 times faster than a $2mil Infinite Reality 2, I don't think that they'll have to worry about competition from the esablished companies. Yah, so 3dfx has some pretty trick stuff out now, but they've already spent hordes of cash on an existing architecture that's orders of magnitude slower. And even if you take the 9 month doubling timescale into account, given current performance, 3dfx will be pushing 1.2 Gpixels/sec, while this deck has a fillrate in excess of (and this is a guess, considering the bandwidth available) 6-9 Gpixels/sec. Should be good for about 3-4 years on this end, too...
D) Price: yah, at $500-$700, it's a littel pricey, but for USB, IEEE 1394, PCMCIA slots, and a DVD-ROM, I can see it. And remember, there'll be REAL Firewire components available for use with the PSX2 by the time it comes out. In a year, a 2.1GB disk will be had for around $120 in an external encosure (who knows, maybe Sony will make their own), plug right in to the i-Link port, customer slots the boot CD (or DVD, whatever), and has an AMAZINGLY functional and expandable internet/information/entertainment appliance.
I seem to recall that when Florida enacted their Concealed Carry legislation, _all_ violent crime (rape, murder, assault, robbery) went _down_ by 6%-7%. All "breaking and entering" type crimes went up about 10%, because the criminals were breaking into peoples houses when they knew they weren't home, mostly because they feared getting shot by a gun owner. If that's not proof that widespread gun ownership reduces crime, I don't know what is...
There was also a town in Florida that took this a step further. All homeowners were required to not only possess a firearm, but were required to be certified in it's use, and were allowed to carry it openly in public. I think that the violent crime rate in that town went nearly to zero, with all other crime dropping significantly as well.
me/you == spiritual entity mind == collection of pictures you've carried for lifetimes brain == the control center for the current body you are amusing yourself with (massively overrated)
no no no... You're approacing the issue from the wrong direction:
Brain = Layers 1/2/3/4/5 (base hardware and hard-coded communication protocols)
Mind = Layer 6 (the core OS, all subconcious processing, involuntary responses, handles image lookup, waveform matching, linguistics processing, sensory input sorting)
You = Layer 7 (the top level, what a person percieves as themselves, the voice you hear when speaking in your head. notice just how fast you can think w/o having to slow words down for speech)
this comparison isn't completely accurate, since the hardware eventually accelerates stuff normally handled in software. As an example, I noticed one day (by trying to read upside down and backwards) that my visual cortex has a small window used for text processing. It sits slightly below and off to the right of the center of my vision. What it seems to do for me is allow text in that area to be fast blitted into memory with very little overhead. When reading in the opposite direction (right-to-left and bottom to top), I found that in order to simply have captured the bitmap took more concentration than reading normally. This apparently holds true in the general case, as I tried it with cyrillic fonts and then Kanji to remove the possibility that it was the language and character set that made this happen.
I wonder how this looks in light of those shootings in Columbine High School (Across town from where I live)? Can it exlplain the capacity to plan and cold bloodedly carry out mass executions? Can it explain not only why but how someone can be so intelligent yet so evil?
Yes, it can. The thing to remember is that the incident in Denver wasn't an overnight decision. There had to be literally _years_ of buildup to that kind of behavior, including but not limited to: lack of social acceptance, weak personality development, possible peer abuse (you can kid around with your friends, tossing insults back and forth, but to someone who's not playing the game, it makes everyone look like complete assholes), poor home life, etc. The only real way to get to the bottom of this would be to have a series of psychological interviews with the students, the parents, the teachers, and most of all the suspects. Unfortunately, since they killed themselves, the mindset of the attackers will be forever left to conjecture.
But yes, you can troubleshoot psychological issues just like troubleshooting software, hardware, and network issues. The tools may be different (and the medium radically so), but in the end, the mind works on rigidly defined principles just the same.
Like that Shoemaker-Levy commet, it screwed up Jupiter's crap. The largest recorded explosive release of energy man has ever witnessed (other than the Crab (or was it the horse?) nebula which burned as bright as the sun during day light for a couple weeks a little over 1000 years ago, can you imagine seeing two suns for a couple weeks?
Or the gamma ray burst from a quasar on the edge of the universe.. The estimates for that sucker are that for about 2 minutes, it was brighter than the entire known universe.
talk about getting a tan the hard way...
What colour is the sky in your world?
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I'll _crush_ that Indigo2 with a dual P2-400 and a TNT2. If you want to limit hardware to what's out now, substitute a Rage128.
What colour is the sky in your world?
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Did I say real time visualization? No, I said that hardware 3D is being pushed into the consumer market, making it more of a commodity than anything else. And I also didn't suggest that a 4 CPU RISC UNIX system is going to be faster than a Wintel box. BUT... The Wintel box is about 1/4 - 1/10 the price of the InfiniteReality2, and for model design, scene design, all the pre-render work that goes into big projects, the Wintel box is WORLDS better than an Indy, an O2, even in some cases an Octane. My point was that SGI was seeing THESE markets disappear, and decided to supplement them with server sales. And IMO, their server offerings are expensive, difficult to maintain, and simply not robust enough for use in a customer-facing production environment.
Linux Conspiracy #326 - Microsoft will break Samba
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Utterly, absolutely, and completely wrong. WinNT4SP3 works just dandy with Win95/98 using several flavors of SMB. If you trace it, you'll see that the connection handshakes to determine which flavor of SMB both OS's support, and then they use that.
Okay, YOU install a copy of the August 24 release of Win95, and see if an NT4SP3 system will talk SMB to it.
Surprise! IT WON'T.
OSR2, Win98, these will work, for exactly the reason you describe.
Well, I guess when you consider that you can either go out and buy quality, name-brand gear and have it work (at least from a hardware perspective), or, you can save around 50% and get a board that has all kinds of electrical problems, signal reflection, ringing on the I/O lines, bad traces, trace cuts, bad solder joints, etc. There's a rule in this industry, and it goes, "You get what you pay for."
I have bought high-quality stuff in the past, and I have bought bargain-basement stuff in the past, and out of all the crap I've collected, the brand stuff works the best consistently.
IMO, the real problem with plug-and-play (and PC hardware in general) is the crappy way in which Windows handles drivers. I haven't had to set a jumper or anything in YEARS, and yet new hardware will consistently f*ck Windows up.
Clean installs with all the parts in the box work fine, for the same reason. Windows doesn't get a chance to mung the registry or any other of it's config files.
aarrrgh, no the worlds not gonna end...
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Everyone here seems to forget that by us (humans) having planted the THREE MILLION ACRES of crops in the first place, we have artificially inflated the pest insect population. We keep them in check by killing them with insecticides, pesticides, etc. By making our food source pest-proof, we not only keep the pest population in check, we keep their predator chain in check, and so on down the line.
It's also kind of neat being able to feed 2 billion people off of that crop...
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Fascinating. I myself was diagnosed with ADHD - inattentiveness/impulse control at age 6, and it's pretty much stuck with me to 24. From in here (the head) it's pretty similar to what you describe in your son. I have never had a problem visualizing complex systems, a talent that is extremely beneficial to my chosen profession (net. eng.). Also, throughout my life, I've noticed that I pick up on stupid little phrases and use them _far_ out of context. (please don't ask, it's rather embarrassing) I also have good musical ability. On hearing a song once, I can almost always recall it completely from memory, and even if I miss the key, the note progression stays consistent. I can hear harmonies on the second time around, once I've gotten past the thrill of the melody. I'd be willing to bet your son harbors a great deal of musical talent.
:) see?
Also, there's the issue of the lack of attention. The slightest thought can pull me away from something. I have difficulty completing _any_ task as a result. I'll say this for various pharmeceutical (sp?) treatments, tho. On Ritalin, (which only lasts for about 4 hours per dose) _every_ problem listed above drops away. I cease to exist in a perpetual dream state and become more 'real' if you will. alas, it's so damned fleeting. I'd give real money to cure it once and for all...
Whoa. i rambled
makes me wonder how much we'll finally know about ourselves as a species when we have accurate design schematics for the hardware we run in...
actually, the light has no trouble moving around just as fast as ever, whether it's inside or outside the event horizon. It's just that space inside the edge of the hole is curved so badly that it spirals right into the singularity. Outside the hole, space is merely slightly curved, so that the light (when it follows the geodesic) can move away from the hole. It's not really "escaping" or even trying to. Light just follows the various "bends" in spacetime.
see above
??? What are you smoking?
The animals were brought _to_ the man, which means he existed before they were created, as they were brought straight to him. The bible says so. Hell, _your_ bible says so.
Secondly, all the action and linking verbs in this passage are past tense, so the 'had formed' part is perfectly natural. Hebrew's structure is a bit different from germanic languages like english, so you can expect to get some funny looking syntax after translation (especially when dealing with complex ideas).
I'm sorry, _you_ are mistaken. There are two disparate accounts of the creation of the world. There are many other glaring technical errors as well, too numerous to list. It pretty much invalidates the whole book, because, hey, if those are copyist errors, what isn't?
I remember when IBM was _GIVING_ away COMMENTED SOURCE to the PC BIOS.
board schematics, etc...
oh how I long for those days...
Reduce the abortion rate! Change society so that sex isn't such a taboo subject! So that girls aren't called "sluts" for exploring their sexuality while boys are considered "studs" for doing the same! So that buying condoms is _not_ a shameful thing (for teens, or for that matter, anyone)!
Seriously, the issue isn't whether or not kids should see these flicks, it's that the theater is taking the responsibility for those decisions from the persons who should be making them, the parents.
except that with FEMA and various Executive Orders over the years, not to mention the Emergency Powers Act (various years, I forget), the Executive branch now (under declaration of a National Emergency ) has the power to annex any and all property, infrastructure, etc., and suspend the Constitution for up to six months.
And there isn't a thing Congress can do about it.
And for those of you that say the Judicial branch can declare this unconstitutional, let them. They have no power to enforce their decisions.
let's have a moment of silence for the departed Amiga. It was truly a machine before it's time.
*silence*
Thank you.
on one point tho.. yes, the psx2 has more cpu, but i don't see anyone doing vis/sim work on one of these things. oh, yah, that's because my 1.2GB world won't fit into it's local memory. Silly me, I somehow got the idea that 32MB should be enough for _anybody_..
I think you should take your own advice.
I seem to recall hearing that this is going to be AmigaDOS 5.0's de facto scripting language, to replace ARexx. From what I understand, it's abolutely phenomenal compared to it's predecessor (ARexx, in it's own right pretty nifty).
:)
I dunno. I saw Rexx on OS/2, it's native platform (next to mainframe), and it beat the hell out of DOS batch files. If REBOL's even half as good as the glowing commentary I've heard, I may buy a New Amiga (if it ever arrives) just to play with...
[yah, yah, PERL, Linus, *nix, who-hoo! ]
Reminds me of the old Compaq days, immediately following their release of a PC clone.
I don't think that Creative is going to be in any trouble. They're big enough to have the resources to devote to a clean-room emulator. If Compaq could get their PC BIOS approved by a court, I'm sure that Creative can write an emulator in such an environment so that their collective legal asses aren't left hanging out in the open.
And let's face it. This is SOP for companies in this volatile market. 3dfx merges with STB to solidify their position. Creative, Diamond, et al. write emulator software to take the wind out of 3dfx's sails, as far as their proprietary interface is concerned.
Now, if only someone could do a DX6 -> OGL translator!
but, wow check this out:
:)
I can get full duplex 1000-basewhatever to 200+ hosts through a single switch backplane. At that point the bandwidth available in the system makes the situation moot.
yah, pricing... just what _are_ lightstreams going for these days?
And have you tried it across _your_ WAN links? I don't know about you, but I don't consider 12Mbit of WAN connectivity to be exactly cheap, regardless of your transport... And just what do you mean by WAN? Those sissy little 500m fiber runs on campuses? Or my 23,000mi of multichannel OC192?
oh wait, I forgot that the frame types are also 100% compatible with commodity hardware...
That's really cool, and you're right, for your particular application, ATM is going to kick the bejeezus out of any frame-based tech.
And that's the real, point, isn't it? For some applications, ATM makes good sense. I wouldn't implement anything but, if I needed to run concurrent media streams alongside my data. But for me, I just need a way for rows and rows of servers to get to the backbone with as little contention as possible. Pretty much all my frames end up as ether (at the server), so why try to change things?
Once again:
What do you want to do?
What software (network, layer2, whatever) does that best?
On what hardware does that software work the best?
^how to build an infrastructure^
Cisco's switching layer 3 at 40mpps, and layer 2 at 256mpps. All at wire speed gigabit ethernet, OC48 ATM, etc., all non-blocking. mmm... beefy...
the big push for gig ether is campus trunks between buildings. goes up to 10km (single mode) and Cisco's Gigabit EtherChannel can aggregate up to 16 links. Really great if your org grew strangely, and you have departments in two buildings. It also helps in linking switches in a internet server fanout. Either way, it's more of a backbone technology than anything else. In fact, PCI32's theorietical peak (132MB/s) doesn't match the throughput of full duplex 1000Base-SX. And NT's networking core prevents running the network over 400Mbit peak.
Interestingly enough, on most tested unices, i think they're getting around 800-900Mbit. It'd be interesting to see how fast ftp.cdrom.com would be with gig ether to the backbone... Maybe then i'd see more than 10KBps...
yah, wow. So you're pushing 240+ SPECfp95. Great. At what price? Aren't POWER3 RS6000s going for five-digit sums these days? Great.. or I could wait a year, and get a box that'll smoke it for under a grand (more likely less than $300US), plays really awesome games, DVDs, connects to the internet, has nifty peripherals (firewire, etc)... I could go on.
And that number was 20,000,000 triangles/sec, with peak somewhere around 66million triangles/sec. And it seems that the IR2 doesn't really get going until you've poured $2-4million into the system. Hell, even the next-to-best system they quote on the site has half the poly rate, and 1/30 the fillrate!
you forgot a few things:
A) Performance: The figure you quote for the Voodoo3 is correct. The card is physically capable of taking a stream of 5+ million polys/sec and displaying them on the screen in realtime. The problem is that the floating point unit of the P6 core (even with SSE) can't push geometry for more than about 500k polys/sec. the Emotion Engine fixes this by adding a pair of vector processing units for all those nasty FMUL and FDIV instructions. This gets geometry running at 20x10^6 polys/sec. 6.2GFLOP doesn't suck.
B) Obsolesence: This system is so head-and-shoulders out there, I don't think you're going to have to worry about introducing a new box for 4-5 years (which is actually industry average). And since Intel (hell any CPU manufacturer) doesn't apparently have plans to boost floating point to the PSX2's level anytime soon, I bet it'll be awhile before PCs catch back up.
C) Competition: Well, considering that the deck they've described is about 9 times faster than a $2mil Infinite Reality 2, I don't think that they'll have to worry about competition from the esablished companies. Yah, so 3dfx has some pretty trick stuff out now, but they've already spent hordes of cash on an existing architecture that's orders of magnitude slower. And even if you take the 9 month doubling timescale into account, given current performance, 3dfx will be pushing 1.2 Gpixels/sec, while this deck has a fillrate in excess of (and this is a guess, considering the bandwidth available) 6-9 Gpixels/sec. Should be good for about 3-4 years on this end, too...
D) Price: yah, at $500-$700, it's a littel pricey, but for USB, IEEE 1394, PCMCIA slots, and a DVD-ROM, I can see it. And remember, there'll be REAL Firewire components available for use with the PSX2 by the time it comes out. In a year, a 2.1GB disk will be had for around $120 in an external encosure (who knows, maybe Sony will make their own), plug right in to the i-Link port, customer slots the boot CD (or DVD, whatever), and has an AMAZINGLY functional and expandable internet/information/entertainment appliance.
This'll be brief...
I seem to recall that when Florida enacted their Concealed Carry legislation, _all_ violent crime (rape, murder, assault, robbery) went _down_ by 6%-7%. All "breaking and entering" type crimes went up about 10%, because the criminals were breaking into peoples houses when they knew they weren't home, mostly because they feared getting shot by a gun owner. If that's not proof that widespread gun ownership reduces crime, I don't know what is...
There was also a town in Florida that took this a step further. All homeowners were required to not only possess a firearm, but were required to be certified in it's use, and were allowed to carry it openly in public. I think that the violent crime rate in that town went nearly to zero, with all other crime dropping significantly as well.
feel free to refute...
me/you == spiritual entity
mind == collection of pictures you've carried for
lifetimes
brain == the control center for the current body you are amusing yourself with (massively overrated)
no no no... You're approacing the issue from the wrong direction:
Brain = Layers 1/2/3/4/5 (base hardware and hard-coded communication protocols)
Mind = Layer 6 (the core OS, all subconcious processing, involuntary responses, handles image lookup, waveform matching, linguistics processing, sensory input sorting)
You = Layer 7 (the top level, what a person percieves as themselves, the voice you hear when speaking in your head. notice just how fast you can think w/o having to slow words down for speech)
this comparison isn't completely accurate, since the hardware eventually accelerates stuff normally handled in software. As an example, I noticed one day (by trying to read upside down and backwards) that my visual cortex has a small window used for text processing. It sits slightly below and off to the right of the center of my vision. What it seems to do for me is allow text in that area to be fast blitted into memory with very little overhead. When reading in the opposite direction (right-to-left and bottom to top), I found that in order to simply have captured the bitmap took more concentration than reading normally. This apparently holds true in the general case, as I tried it with cyrillic fonts and then Kanji to remove the possibility that it was the language and character set that made this happen.
Try it yourself...
I wonder how this looks in light of those shootings in Columbine High School (Across town from where I live)? Can it exlplain the capacity to plan and cold bloodedly carry out mass executions? Can it explain not only why but how someone can be so intelligent yet so evil?
Yes, it can. The thing to remember is that the incident in Denver wasn't an overnight decision. There had to be literally _years_ of buildup to that kind of behavior, including but not limited to: lack of social acceptance, weak personality development, possible peer abuse (you can kid around with your friends, tossing insults back and forth, but to someone who's not playing the game, it makes everyone look like complete assholes), poor home life, etc. The only real way to get to the bottom of this would be to have a series of psychological interviews with the students, the parents, the teachers, and most of all the suspects. Unfortunately, since they killed themselves, the mindset of the attackers will be forever left to conjecture.
But yes, you can troubleshoot psychological issues just like troubleshooting software, hardware, and network issues. The tools may be different (and the medium radically so), but in the end, the mind works on rigidly defined principles just the same.
Like that Shoemaker-Levy commet, it screwed up Jupiter's crap. The largest recorded explosive release of energy man has ever witnessed (other than the Crab (or was it the horse?) nebula which burned as bright as the sun during day light for a couple weeks a little over 1000 years ago, can you imagine seeing two suns for a couple weeks?
Or the gamma ray burst from a quasar on the edge of the universe.. The estimates for that sucker are that for about 2 minutes, it was brighter than the entire known universe.
talk about getting a tan the hard way...
I'll _crush_ that Indigo2 with a dual P2-400 and a TNT2. If you want to limit hardware to what's out now, substitute a Rage128.
Did I say real time visualization? No, I said that hardware 3D is being pushed into the consumer market, making it more of a commodity than anything else. And I also didn't suggest that a 4 CPU RISC UNIX system is going to be faster than a Wintel box. BUT... The Wintel box is about 1/4 - 1/10 the price of the InfiniteReality2, and for model design, scene design, all the pre-render work that goes into big projects, the Wintel box is WORLDS better than an Indy, an O2, even in some cases an Octane. My point was that SGI was seeing THESE markets disappear, and decided to supplement them with server sales. And IMO, their server offerings are expensive, difficult to maintain, and simply not robust enough for use in a customer-facing production environment.
Utterly, absolutely, and completely wrong. WinNT4SP3 works just dandy with Win95/98 using several flavors of SMB. If you trace it, you'll see that the connection handshakes to determine which flavor of SMB both OS's support, and then they use that.
Okay, YOU install a copy of the August 24 release of Win95, and see if an NT4SP3 system will talk SMB to it.
Surprise! IT WON'T.
OSR2, Win98, these will work, for exactly the reason you describe.
PC hardware not well behaved?
Well, I guess when you consider that you can either go out and buy quality, name-brand gear and have it work (at least from a hardware perspective), or, you can save around 50% and get a board that has all kinds of electrical problems, signal reflection, ringing on the I/O lines, bad traces, trace cuts, bad solder joints, etc. There's a rule in this industry, and it goes, "You get what you pay for."
I have bought high-quality stuff in the past, and I have bought bargain-basement stuff in the past, and out of all the crap I've collected, the brand stuff works the best consistently.
IMO, the real problem with plug-and-play (and PC hardware in general) is the crappy way in which Windows handles drivers. I haven't had to set a jumper or anything in YEARS, and yet new hardware will consistently f*ck Windows up.
Clean installs with all the parts in the box work fine, for the same reason. Windows doesn't get a chance to mung the registry or any other of it's config files.
Everyone here seems to forget that by us (humans) having planted the THREE MILLION ACRES of crops in the first place, we have artificially inflated the pest insect population. We keep them in check by killing them with insecticides, pesticides, etc. By making our food source pest-proof, we not only keep the pest population in check, we keep their predator chain in check, and so on down the line.
It's also kind of neat being able to feed 2 billion people off of that crop...