Using golly, I've run the Metacatacryst pattern to 10^11 generations in a matter of minutes, at which point it contained ~10^14 active cells and covered an area of (~10^11)^2 cells. On a common laptop computer - algorithms have improved.:)
This probably is not a great feat these days, but it is quite beautiful to look at. There also exist (rather large) patterns that simulate life/in/ life.
The only way you could have avoided water poisoning in that situation is if you were already badly dehydrated, to the point that a large part of the water simply restored the normal balance.
Mod parent up - that was the clearest explanation of the political spectrum that I've seen yet.
Though if you believe Stephen Hawking, it's already too late to stop the venusification of earth. I can only hope he's wrong; it's not his field, after all.
Not so very crackpot, though probably by accident - EVERY time-travel idea ever considered has the caveat of not being able to go back to before the machine was built.
So, in fact, what the lack of time-travellers demonstrates is the lack of any time-machines, either of the human-built kind or the appropriately-charged-black-hole kind.
GPUs are larger, but not more complex. It's a fairly homogenous array of execution units - massive SIMD, in other words.
It doesn't take anywhere *near* as much knowhow to produce a GPU as it takes to produce a CPU - and it's an entirely different sort of knowhow, as well.
nVidia might have a chance at producing a (special-purpose, GPU-like) supercomputer chip; they'd have serious trouble producing an x86/x86_64 CPU competitive with what Intel and AMD make. Of course, they know that themselves, so they're not doing that.
"Then everybody's TCP throttles back using the same algorithm and you split the bandwidth "fairly" - with the 3M users getting four times as much of it as the 750Ks."
This sort of makes me want to make mine use a different algorithm. Something asocial.
It's an interesting idea, and would no doubt work well... but. And here's quite the but:
How are you planning to catch hold of the timings? Remember, you certainly can't trust javascript or.. well, any code that runs on the client. Absent that, is it really that hard to generate plausible-looking timings based on human examples?
That's fine by me - as you said, you paid for it yourself, so the only one hit by whatever inefficiency may have been caused is you.
I do think your views are insane, but on the other hand you're an atheist, which makes up for quite a lot of insanity, and I've yet to meet a completely sane person. You just sound like you're taking it too far; are you _sure_ you'd rather die than accept the risk of a disease?
The big selling point for heat-pump heating is that it's more efficient than resistive heating, right? As in, one watt of power will give you 3-4 watts of heat?
Surely the exact same thing goes for a heat pump being used for cooling - more, actually, since you aren't opposing heat's normal tendency to go where it's cold.
I don't *want* the pain; feel free to rob me of it.
I'm probably not going to argue the point, but to me the notion that all pain is for the better ranks alongside deathism for sheer sophistry. Its only use is to justify the pain/death, and I refuse to believe there's any deeper meaning.
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Using golly, I've run the Metacatacryst pattern to 10^11 generations in a matter of minutes, at which point it contained ~10^14 active cells and covered an area of (~10^11)^2 cells. On a common laptop computer - algorithms have improved. :)
/in/ life.
This probably is not a great feat these days, but it is quite beautiful to look at. There also exist (rather large) patterns that simulate life
A gallon of water in one sitting..
The only way you could have avoided water poisoning in that situation is if you were already badly dehydrated, to the point that a large part of the water simply restored the normal balance.
Your memory may be exaggerated.
Mod parent up - that was the clearest explanation of the political spectrum that I've seen yet.
Though if you believe Stephen Hawking, it's already too late to stop the venusification of earth. I can only hope he's wrong; it's not his field, after all.
Not so very crackpot, though probably by accident - EVERY time-travel idea ever considered has the caveat of not being able to go back to before the machine was built.
So, in fact, what the lack of time-travellers demonstrates is the lack of any time-machines, either of the human-built kind or the appropriately-charged-black-hole kind.
Yes. Quite. It does.
GPUs are larger, but not more complex. It's a fairly homogenous array of execution units - massive SIMD, in other words.
It doesn't take anywhere *near* as much knowhow to produce a GPU as it takes to produce a CPU - and it's an entirely different sort of knowhow, as well.
nVidia might have a chance at producing a (special-purpose, GPU-like) supercomputer chip; they'd have serious trouble producing an x86/x86_64 CPU competitive with what Intel and AMD make. Of course, they know that themselves, so they're not doing that.
"Then everybody's TCP throttles back using the same algorithm and you split the bandwidth "fairly" - with the 3M users getting four times as much of it as the 750Ks."
This sort of makes me want to make mine use a different algorithm. Something asocial.
It's an interesting idea, and would no doubt work well... but. And here's quite the but:
How are you planning to catch hold of the timings?
Remember, you certainly can't trust javascript or.. well, any code that runs on the client. Absent that, is it really that hard to generate plausible-looking timings based on human examples?
That's fine by me - as you said, you paid for it yourself, so the only one hit by whatever inefficiency may have been caused is you.
I do think your views are insane, but on the other hand you're an atheist, which makes up for quite a lot of insanity, and I've yet to meet a completely sane person. You just sound like you're taking it too far; are you _sure_ you'd rather die than accept the risk of a disease?
One of these selling on Ebay right now. /is/ rather expensive. Well, what's a kidney between friends?
I wonder if I should get it... though it
Send in a tech? With a high-intensity gamma source stuck nearby?
Surely you must be joking.
That can't be right.
The big selling point for heat-pump heating is that it's more efficient than resistive heating, right? As in, one watt of power will give you 3-4 watts of heat?
Surely the exact same thing goes for a heat pump being used for cooling - more, actually, since you aren't opposing heat's normal tendency to go where it's cold.
I don't *want* the pain; feel free to rob me of it.
I'm probably not going to argue the point, but to me the notion that all pain is for the better ranks alongside deathism for sheer sophistry. Its only use is to justify the pain/death, and I refuse to believe there's any deeper meaning.
This is the FBI.
We know about the body you buried in your yard. Resistance is futile.
[i]I'm afraid not. Think software. Consumer goods would no longer be sold they would be "licensed".[/i]
So we'll get open-source cars, then?
Ok, maybe not cars, but you get the idea.
So that's why it failed to play a 200MB mp3?
Not very good design, is it?
You mean, like Lisp has been capable of for the last thirty years?
:D
I think you're looking for macros. Proper, Lisp macros, not the weak text-substitution nonsense C comes with.
Ooh, this story is great. Next on, how to reinvent the wheel - in XML!
Wouldn't that be more likely to look like
(mymethod record)?
*grin*
They've already done that; the AMD64 chip has the memory controller on-die.
You insensitive foreigners!
For crying out loud. :P
Yeah right, 'cause we always execute our voice mail messages!
Wrong situation.
The problem isn't with viruses on your phones; it's with zombied Windows machines.
You know it will happen... someday soon, some luser's computer will start sending spit instead of mere spam
That would just cause more spam, you realize.
"S33 A sPamner beh3aded! Your credit card here!"
Who cares what it's good for?
I want one!
A private shell account isn't an open proxy, and you can't search SSH connections.
It's encrypted, you know.