I downloaded a program for Toshibas thats runs the fan all the time - keeps the laptop cooler - uses a bit more juice I suppose - but who really uses bateries for anything more than shoulder strain?
cost is $2 - save yourself the $45 dollar (with shipping) silly thing
While the rest of the world is busy helping out on the farm.
Ok so maybe its not a farm, but children of parents who are not rich - often end up working to help out the family.
What it takes to get a pHD is rich parents (and the discipline to limit keggers to weekends) - or even richer parents - in which case the keggers matter less.
It has to do with the fact - that pHD are the perpetuation of wealth as much as intelligence.
Until we have an education system which is immune to historical prejudices (of which wealth is the common carrior) we will not achieve equality of opportunity.
And the answer to the question - what does it take to get a pHD will continue to be "Rich Parents."
I'm not bashing Bush - just remarking on his less than average conversational abilities - a remarkable choice to lead a nation.
His language belies the fact that he does not seek or aquire information at a very high rate.
The chances are high that his comprehension is as stunted as his expresion - and as a consequence - its no wonder that the CIA fudges its way through the briefings.
"Mr. President - we have a security situation."
"I think you're overmissestimating the evil ones"
"Um ok Mr. President - but if anyone asks - tell them we read this to you - its called a "briefing" but you can call it a PDB because briefing sounds a lot like briefcase."
"ok. god bless. - you're doing a fine job in there."
- without bashing - may i suggest it is useful to put someone who CAN assimilute information in the ONE SEAT in this country that gets the information.
AIK
- not excited about the alternative either - thank you.
Its very hard to get people to pay to use a road - sure there are.1% toll roads - and maybe we will end up with.1% toll WiFi Spots.
But as a people - we need to realize that communication, like travel, is a net benefit, and the cost/benefit is highest when use is convienent and costs are shared.
Making WiFi a national project - like going to the moon - really has more merit, more justification, and would in the end provide more benefit - at a ridiculously low price.
Sure - some argue they don't want to pay - because they don't "USE" it.
But I suggest that even those who think they don't use it - would still reap the benefits. Fedex-like tracking systems would be very inexpensive - almost everyone gets mail somehow.
Appliances like smart sprinkler system which could save water by responding to the weather forecast could be commercialized successfully.
Water savings helps everyone.
Almost everyon recieves a service which in some way involves computer transactions which could be carried over the internet.
Thus the most logical way to pay for it is - the national treasury.
Unlike cars which pollute - using the internet has very little negative externalities - and so they is little reason to extract a price at the point of use.
You could bring light down by light pipe. Ironically - I believe underground space could be made quite pleasant.
It would need to include large areas, and probably small ajoining rooms which open into large atriums - with surface light. That construction is quite appealling, and is often rendered by hotels above ground.
I worry that underground construction is more expensive.
But the speed of application is simply this - they must be fast enough to be tolerable - no faster.
customers are not going to choose a product which makes drastic speed enhancements at the expense of features - provided those features can be run at reasonable speeds on available hardware.
Rather - there are features out their waiting for hardware speeds to see the limelight.
Voice recognition is often touted as waiting for higher CPU speeds.
So is Live renderings - (when you watch a movie by rendering each frame in real time from the actor and motion files alone.)
Add to this teleconferencing, cryptography, etc
selling software amounts to a compromise of features to speed - and the right compromise is as close to the edge as you can get away with.
The guy with a two feature database that runs like bloody hell is not going to beat Access - even if it is occassionaly slower.
What there is not - is plenty of education, energy, and air / water purification.
Underground saves you some energy - that's good.
Subways offer underground exchanges - which can include malls, food courts, and hotel lobbies - while at the same time reducing noise, air, and visual pollution.
Better that we should travel underground and eat crumpets with a view.
Optimizing for speed - should be a third party tool.
It should work like shared virus checking - collect performance data from large numbers of machines - experiment with solutions - and recommend them - with rollbacks.
If such were included with the OS - it might apply ONLY to the OS - as third party - it can profile every exe that runs.
I don't know about a totally car free zone, trucks still need to be able to make deliveries for instance.
In Europe - Northern Germany (Oldenburg) to be exact - there are walking areas, and these rather samll delivery trucks come early in the morning.
I'm not sure if there's a sticker - a time - or a general understanding - but I didn't see unnecessary vehicles - and it is clear that thetruck are on pedestrian turf - not the ither way around - which drastically changes the way they are driven
The City must establish LINEAR High speed transit corridors.
Because only LINEAR transit routes can achieve - Rapid - as in faster than an SUV - transportation (After you figure in the cost of waiting around)
Deliberate Haste doesn't mean kicking people out of their homes - it does mean allocating the region for change. - and insisting that any changes - result in higher density outcomes.
Those neighbourhoods are nice precisly *because* they have no high desnsity housing.
This is perception. When I was in Egypt I stayed in a resort - it was very high density - but also a very nice neighborhood. We had gardens, pools, beaches - well you get the idea.
If cities would reward high density housing with resort grade amenities - they could reclaim their air.
Sure - only one row of houses can really have a nice view - but the theory of shared resources says its better that MORE PEOPLE have this view than fewer.
And housing does not HAVE TO completely ruin the natural beauty - there are aztec designs - and a variety of old world looks which have natural appeal.
The most important task is to alter public opinion - that living near railroad tracks in tenement buildings is sexy.
Making sexy trains, and sexy tenement grounds is the solution to clean air.
1. Send everyone to europe for a 2 week manditory car cooling off period.
2. After they come back - they can vote on a central carfree zone in their city.
3. We have better technology now to bridge the gap between the limitation of mass transit (the last mile problem)
SOME IDEAS:
The city should lay down some serious linear transit routes - in order to encourage as much brownfield redevelopment, and density conversions as possible.
Low density neighborhoods in the line of High Density Trasit should be scheduled for redesign "with all deliberate haste".
We should allocate natural beauty for High Density Housing - rather than the other - which is to reward ineffecient design with luxurious vistas.
So if your city has a desireable location (waterfront, knoll, ocean view,) or other attraction - that should be a target for High Density - low impact Transit and housing.
a cellphone GPS based service which garentees a small electric car is waiting for you at at the terminal.
A similar service which can pick you up at the terminal and take you and a few others to work - Like a disney golf-train.
Given the cellphone can know where you are - and where you need too get - it could optimize a last mile service based on current demand and requirements - rather than a fixed - use it or lose it schedule.
So the question then is - how do you layout a city such that 10 million computer experts can all get to one place and design a super computer capable of calculating the design of such a city.
Idea: remove the vehicle subsidy - which is killing trains, buses, and bicycles.
Then you get mass transit.
In the end - the real barrior to optimizing streets will be the arab oil cartells screaming about the loss of oil revenues to keep those compluters stuck in traffic burning up time, space, and O2.
In about 1995 - I developed (not claiming to be first) an algorithm which served the purpose of auto classification.
The idea was to filter a series of - say word docs - for words which are neither common or unique.
Unique words are useless for classification - as are common words.
For any set of key-value pairs there is one key which is the most (uncommon AND not unique).
For each set defined by that key - the same is true etc.
The result of this algorithm is that any known set of key-data pairs can be dynamically categorized for most effecient access (least number of questions)
Which means I could take all the know diseases and their respective symptom profiles - and dynamically generate a dynamic list of the most effecient next question.
In so doing - I can divide and conquor my way to the answer.
Slashdot Mirror
Your mileage may vary - but the author of the exe says he has one in the family which has been running that way for years.
I don't have a choice - my computer will overheat and the display driver will freeze if I don't keep it cool.
Also it seems not to run at full on - so it isn't as loud as it could be.
AIK
I downloaded a program for Toshibas thats runs the fan all the time - keeps the laptop cooler - uses a bit more juice I suppose - but who really uses bateries for anything more than shoulder strain?
cost is $2 - save yourself the $45 dollar (with shipping) silly thing
AIK
While the rest of the world is busy helping out on the farm.
Ok so maybe its not a farm, but children of parents who are not rich - often end up working to help out the family.
What it takes to get a pHD is rich parents (and the discipline to limit keggers to weekends) - or even richer parents - in which case the keggers matter less.
AIK
its luck in slovenian (if you haven't been you won't get the joke.)
In fact - its just a missed key.
When Slashdot gets that (Edit your post) function that will happen less.
AIK
It has to do with the fact - that pHD are the perpetuation of wealth as much as intelligence.
Until we have an education system which is immune to historical prejudices (of which wealth is the common carrior) we will not achieve equality of opportunity.
And the answer to the question - what does it take to get a pHD will continue to be "Rich Parents."
AIK
I'm not bashing Bush - just remarking on his less than average conversational abilities - a remarkable choice to lead a nation.
His language belies the fact that he does not seek or aquire information at a very high rate.
The chances are high that his comprehension is as stunted as his expresion - and as a consequence - its no wonder that the CIA fudges its way through the briefings.
"Mr. President - we have a security situation."
"I think you're overmissestimating the evil ones"
"Um ok Mr. President - but if anyone asks - tell them we read this to you - its called a "briefing" but you can call it a PDB because briefing sounds a lot like briefcase."
"ok. god bless. - you're doing a fine job in there."
- without bashing - may i suggest it is useful to put someone who CAN assimilute information in the ONE SEAT in this country that gets the information.
AIK
- not excited about the alternative either - thank you.
This really is crap.
.
Sure - there is an element of lucj and timing - and sure - you can raise your odds by playing more hands.
But good pictures are more often than not - less than accidental.
You can for example - go somewhere no-one has gone - or everyone wants to be - and take a picture - almost any picture will be important in that case.
But if joe photobug wakes up and says - I want to take a great picture - he will get closer much sooner if he understands what makes pictures work.
Pictures are a 2D of a 3d reality - this requires tricks to convey depth.
first a big piece of glass say 6" across is great.
next proper shadows
next proper highlights - generally over the shoulder - or the rear of the subject.
And just because the focus sensor is in the middle - doesn't mean the head goes there - learn about focus holding (half shutter).
and watch the edges - don't cut off things accidentally. keep hands intact, avoid limbs wandering off the frame - bring the hands back in.
One Master told me generally show one ear and one hand.
For skinny faces - use soft light - for fat faces - use more directional light.
Use soft focus filter for everything.
use an incandenscent backlight for blondes - gives a warm richness to hair - use blue filtered backlight for dark hair - neutral highlights.
etc . .
These are for people generally - but these is much already learned for other kinds of photography.
The only case that really benefits from random overshooting is action sports and wedding candids.
AIK
Your florescent light problem is interesting.
A proper exposure under florescent light (with an added bounce flash of course) - involves filtering the florescent light at the lens.
This however throws off your strobe color - so you need to filter the strobe to match the florescents.
This means a magenta filter on your camera and a green filter on your strobe.
(Point your strobe into the ceiling with a postcard proped up behind it)
That's the professional route.
Good luck - if you ever decide to make money at that - let me know Ben(et)yonan(+)net
AIK
Didn't get that straw.
I think George Bush got his Master degree because of his parents.
Likley wouldn't be accepted on merit.
AIK
Its very hard to get people to pay to use a road - sure there are .1% toll roads - and maybe we will end up with .1% toll WiFi Spots.
But as a people - we need to realize that communication, like travel, is a net benefit, and the cost/benefit is highest when use is convienent and costs are shared.
Making WiFi a national project - like going to the moon - really has more merit, more justification, and would in the end provide more benefit - at a ridiculously low price.
Sure - some argue they don't want to pay - because they don't "USE" it.
But I suggest that even those who think they don't use it - would still reap the benefits.
Fedex-like tracking systems would be very inexpensive - almost everyone gets mail somehow.
Appliances like smart sprinkler system which could save water by responding to the weather forecast could be commercialized successfully.
Water savings helps everyone.
Almost everyon recieves a service which in some way involves computer transactions which could be carried over the internet.
Thus the most logical way to pay for it is - the national treasury.
Unlike cars which pollute - using the internet has very little negative externalities - and so they is little reason to extract a price at the point of use.
AIK
1000x
Your post suggests that we understand how the mind learns and thinks - say a neural network.
While simulating a neural net in a finite register model may be ineffecient - it is nonetheless a suitable test of the theory of thought.
In short. If the problem is merely speed - we should come to the same quality of conclusion - given more time.
building silicon to more effeciently run a given set of instructions is not out of reach - if the algorithms truly perform.
They don't.
Learning has as much to do with dreams - that is the reassimulation of data - as it has to do with mere presentation of model data.
I suggest that neural nets have not yet been trained to reassimulate.
Until then and beyond - creating the silicone which is 1000x faster as the things you mention isn't justified.
But I could be wrong
AIK
the return key is your friend - appropo - and funny.
You could bring light down by light pipe. Ironically - I believe underground space could be made quite pleasant.
It would need to include large areas, and probably small ajoining rooms which open into large atriums - with surface light. That construction is quite appealling, and is often rendered by hotels above ground.
I worry that underground construction is more expensive.
AIK
This discussion is pedantic.
Sure - speed is good,
But the speed of application is simply this - they must be fast enough to be tolerable - no faster.
customers are not going to choose a product which makes drastic speed enhancements at the expense of features - provided those features can be run at reasonable speeds on available hardware.
Rather - there are features out their waiting for hardware speeds to see the limelight.
Voice recognition is often touted as waiting for higher CPU speeds.
So is Live renderings - (when you watch a movie by rendering each frame in real time from the actor and motion files alone.)
Add to this teleconferencing, cryptography, etc
selling software amounts to a compromise of features to speed - and the right compromise is as close to the edge as you can get away with.
The guy with a two feature database that runs like bloody hell is not going to beat Access - even if it is occassionaly slower.
AIK
I doubt this would help as much as suggested.
Windows - for example - brings up some dialogues with gradual transparency.
While this obviously slows that operation - it has minimal effect before or after the transition.
As a result the impact is felt only while the user is tooling about - ostensibly NOT doing other things.
Performance enhancements which affect getting data into and out of storage would go a lot farther.
AIK
There's actually plenty of space for people
What there is not - is plenty of education, energy, and air / water purification.
Underground saves you some energy - that's good.
Subways offer underground exchanges - which can include malls, food courts, and hotel lobbies - while at the same time reducing noise, air, and visual pollution.
Better that we should travel underground and eat crumpets with a view.
AIK
Optimizing for speed - should be a third party tool.
It should work like shared virus checking - collect performance data from large numbers of machines - experiment with solutions - and recommend them - with rollbacks.
If such were included with the OS - it might apply ONLY to the OS - as third party - it can profile every exe that runs.
AIK
I don't know about a totally car free zone, trucks still need to be able to make deliveries for instance.
In Europe - Northern Germany (Oldenburg) to be exact - there are walking areas, and these rather samll delivery trucks come early in the morning.
I'm not sure if there's a sticker - a time - or a general understanding - but I didn't see unnecessary vehicles - and it is clear that thetruck are on pedestrian turf - not the ither way around - which drastically changes the way they are driven
AIK
Thanks for your perspective.
I think you may have glossed over a point.
The City must establish LINEAR High speed transit corridors.
Because only LINEAR transit routes can achieve - Rapid - as in faster than an SUV - transportation (After you figure in the cost of waiting around)
Deliberate Haste doesn't mean kicking people out of their homes - it does mean allocating the region for change. - and insisting that any changes - result in higher density outcomes.
Those neighbourhoods are nice precisly *because* they have no high desnsity housing.
This is perception.
When I was in Egypt I stayed in a resort - it was very high density - but also a very nice neighborhood. We had gardens, pools, beaches - well you get the idea.
If cities would reward high density housing with resort grade amenities - they could reclaim their air.
Sure - only one row of houses can really have a nice view - but the theory of shared resources says its better that MORE PEOPLE have this view than fewer.
And housing does not HAVE TO completely ruin the natural beauty - there are aztec designs - and a variety of old world looks which have natural appeal.
The most important task is to alter public opinion - that living near railroad tracks in tenement buildings is sexy.
Making sexy trains, and sexy tenement grounds is the solution to clean air.
AIK
Mod this Up.
Often without saying it - That MUST be the effect of shared transit.
This is the primary reason that buses suck.
Buses must have HOV lanes to be a considered alternative.
The other is the cost of parking - London has fees just for entering downtown.
Cities should NOT provide subsidised parking.
They should put that money instead into - as you say - Rapid Transit.
AIK
You're Right - That is an excellent point.
I suggest to do this - we
1. Send everyone to europe for a 2 week manditory car cooling off period.
2. After they come back - they can vote on a central carfree zone in their city.
3. We have better technology now to bridge the gap between the limitation of mass transit (the last mile problem)
SOME IDEAS:
The city should lay down some serious linear transit routes - in order to encourage as much brownfield redevelopment, and density conversions as possible.
Low density neighborhoods in the line of High Density Trasit should be scheduled for redesign "with all deliberate haste".
We should allocate natural beauty for High Density Housing - rather than the other - which is to reward ineffecient design with luxurious vistas.
So if your city has a desireable location (waterfront, knoll, ocean view,) or other attraction - that should be a target for High Density - low impact Transit and housing.
a cellphone GPS based service which garentees a small electric car is waiting for you at at the terminal.
A similar service which can pick you up at the terminal and take you and a few others to work - Like a disney golf-train.
Given the cellphone can know where you are - and where you need too get - it could optimize a last mile service based on current demand and requirements - rather than a fixed - use it or lose it schedule.
AIK
This is a great site.
We need to insist that carfree options are explored on an equal footing with highway expansion proposals.
AIK
So the question then is - how do you layout a city such that 10 million computer experts can all get to one place and design a super computer capable of calculating the design of such a city.
Idea: remove the vehicle subsidy - which is killing trains, buses, and bicycles.
Then you get mass transit.
In the end - the real barrior to optimizing streets will be the arab oil cartells screaming about the loss of oil revenues to keep those compluters stuck in traffic burning up time, space, and O2.
AIK
Cities should layout their High Speed Bus (er Train) routes early
This will provide the contract builders need to build high density housing along high speed corridors - rather than randomly.
The key to getting commuters out of traffic - is only in part - optimizing their route.
The real key is getting them out of their damn cars.
(Electric Bicycle commuter speaking)
AIK
Almost Too Late.
In about 1995 - I developed (not claiming to be first) an algorithm which served the purpose of auto classification.
The idea was to filter a series of - say word docs - for words which are neither common or unique.
Unique words are useless for classification - as are common words.
For any set of key-value pairs there is one key which is the most (uncommon AND not unique).
For each set defined by that key - the same is true etc.
The result of this algorithm is that any known set of key-data pairs can be dynamically categorized for most effecient access (least number of questions)
Which means I could take all the know diseases and their respective symptom profiles - and dynamically generate a dynamic list of the most effecient next question.
In so doing - I can divide and conquor my way to the answer.
AIK