These things move way too fast to actually be able to track a person. Until there are several thousand in the sky you won't have anything to worry about. Also, their cameras probably cannot send a continuous feed of video (at high quality) as would be needed to track something.
I think they are tracking clicks between sites, not between pages. So Yahoo and Playboy are 1 click apart, even though you have to do through Yahoo quite a ways to find it.
Overall this reminds me of a game we used to play in the college computer clusters. You get a bunch of people to start at a really innocent site, say, whitehouse.gov, and then race to see who can get to playboy.com the fastest just by clicking. Pretty interesting stuff really.. it's amazing how close some really conservative sites are to hardcore pr0n, when measured in number of clicks.
Unfortunately the phonies & frauds list doesn't keep a running tally (at least visibly), but I did find it interesting that the large majority of the ones I saw read "Bill Clinton"
While these boxes are dirt slow, they are great platforms for testing the portability of your code. Since they are both big-endian and 64bit all the size and byte order problems are covered.
And it's damn cool to tell people that you own an Alpha.
(btw, for those of you getting one, external SCSI is the only way to go, $50-100 for a drive and $30 for an enclosure.. and no heat problems).
Wasn't this the promise of DSP chips when they were introduced a few years ago?
I remember at that time DSPs were exhalted for their reprogramability and speed. It seems that all most consumers got out of it were software-driven WinModems.. (although I know there are a lot of specialized DSP applications out there).
Will FPGA chips be relagated to similar specialized tasks (like video compression or speech recognition) or will they truly be useful for general purpose computers?
You guys are missing the whole point of this publicity stunt! Microsoft WANTS Gary to Win.
Why?
Simple.. think about what that would prove -- one person who knows what he's doing and can execute freely is better than a million people who have to decide by commitee.
Microsoft is making a statement about the way Internet standards are created. Their message is clear: Trust us to make the standards. We can do it faster and better than any committee.
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Yea.. I've noticed the possible ambiguity as well. Could someone explain why the hell they choose to use ":" for a seperator instead of "."?
These things move way too fast to actually be able to track a person. Until there are several thousand in the sky you won't have anything to worry about. Also, their cameras probably cannot send a continuous feed of video (at high quality) as would be needed to track something.
I think they are tracking clicks between sites, not between pages. So Yahoo and Playboy are 1 click apart, even though you have to do through Yahoo quite a ways to find it.
Overall this reminds me of a game we used to play in the college computer clusters. You get a bunch of people to start at a really innocent site, say, whitehouse.gov, and then race to see who can get to playboy.com the fastest just by clicking. Pretty interesting stuff really.. it's amazing how close some really conservative sites are to hardcore pr0n, when measured in number of clicks.
for $100 (2x the price) you could buy 128mb of memory.. jeez..
Unfortunately the phonies & frauds list doesn't keep a running tally (at least visibly), but I did find it interesting that the large majority of the ones I saw read "Bill Clinton"
While these boxes are dirt slow, they are great platforms for testing the portability of your code. Since they are both big-endian and 64bit all the size and byte order problems are covered.
And it's damn cool to tell people that you own an Alpha.
(btw, for those of you getting one, external SCSI is the only way to go, $50-100 for a drive and $30 for an enclosure.. and no heat problems).
Wasn't this the promise of DSP chips when they were introduced a few years ago?
I remember at that time DSPs were exhalted for their reprogramability and speed. It seems that all most consumers got out of it were software-driven WinModems.. (although I know there are a lot of specialized DSP applications out there).
Will FPGA chips be relagated to similar specialized tasks (like video compression or speech recognition) or will they truly be useful for general purpose computers?
Maybe they were having trouble open sourcing those?
Check out the full plan here: http://finger.planetqu ake.com/plan.asp?userid=johnc&id=12549
"AMD K7 cpus are very fast."
I suppose the only reason to draw a connection to Microsoft is because they are sponsoring the event.
Microsoft WANTS Gary to Win.
Why?
Simple.. think about what that would prove -- one person who knows what he's doing and can execute freely is better than a million people who have to decide by commitee.
Microsoft is making a statement about the way Internet standards are created. Their message is clear: Trust us to make the standards. We can do it faster and better than any committee.