This is very true. I noticed it a few years back when Matrox changed from using TI DSPs on its genesis DSP boards to using powerPC's. However the genesis gets a lot of its grunt from the xilinx FPGA that it also has. a few tens of millisecs to set up the FPGA and it storms though many common DSP tasks. Also the fact that you can put about 15 processors (8 boards) intogether.
I do think you are being a optimistic about the performance of the P4 though.
3 In England and Wales, firearms were discharged in 6 incidents in 1994-95; 5 incidents in 1995-96; 4 incidents in both 1996-97 and 1997-98; 7 incidents in both 1998-99 and 1999-2000 and 9 incidents in 2000-01. In Scotland, police shots were fired in 4 operations in 1995-96, 9 in 1996-97, 1 in 1997-98, 8 in 1998-99. (this is usage by the police not criminals please compare to stats in America).
And if youd read the reports you were referencing 6 The collection of recorded crime data in England and Wales changed to a financial year basis from 1 April 1998, which coincided with a change in the counting rules for recorded crime. Due to this, the data shown for 1998-99 and 1999-00 are not comparable with those shown for previous years. See Notes and Definitions.
So the year they finally banned handguns, although they were very heavilly regulated for decades before, the number of crimes committed that involved guns incresed. This also coincides with a change in the way that crime stats are reported.
Ithink we should use option 1) Scaletrix has already proved its possible. Image, drive onto the freeway and your car picks up power from tracks in the road. Might be a bit dangerous for pedestrians but does provide the big advantage of you not having to steer your vehicle on those long journeys:)
You are correct when you say that there are many people who wish Israel gone. And there is a reason for that. Israel did not exist before 1948. There are many people who remember (less as the years go on) the creation of israel and do not approve.
There was terrorism in the region even before this against the British occupation of the area. An tension has been building since the begining of the last centuary as the Zionist movement encouraged jewish people to move into the region (encouaged in the 30's by increasing anti jewish behaviour in a number of germanic countries)
It makes you wonder what they are taught in school doesn't it?
The "Space Race" amuses me too.
Russia's firsts. First craft into orbit First animal into space First human into space First human into orbit First space walk First space docking First space station First to orbit the moon (unmanned of course) First to lad a probe on the moon (sample return but it crashed). First woman in space. In addition: Records for time spent in space. Records for space station lifetime
America's firsts: First to put a man on the moon. In addition: Most money spent? Went to the moon many times.
I can just imagine the heads of US industry in a meeting.
suit A> If the US signs the Kyoto accord we'll have to cut CO2 emissions. That will cost us millions of dollars. suit B> Yep. We'd best lobby the government to disuade them from signing the Kyoto Accord. suit A> How much will that cost? suit B> A couple of million dollars.
When I was last in Canada ( a number of years ago), I was appauled to find that there appeared to be a budding trade in converting the hands into ashtrays and selling them to tourists. I hope this babaric practice has been stamped out.
The data in the database may be entirly factual. however the composition of it is not factual. Somone went to a lot of effort (or perhaps just a small amount of effort) to collate and create the database. They may deserve some form of protection of this investment. After all if the data in the DB was derived from the public domain then you can compile your own DB from the original data. This should not give you the right to just copy someone elses DB and the value that they added to the original data by compiling it.
I don't think they are discussing Copyright. I believe that they are considering the creation of a new law to cover DB's.
However its two sister ships sailed for many years. Until one was sunk by a mine.
The two sister ships (Britanic and Olympic) were slightly different as they had double hulls and more lifeboats.
Remeber that ships didn't have watertight compartments at the time an as such had no failsafe mechanism in case of flooding. From that perspective the Titanic set a very important trend for ship safety matfud
Someone posted some graphs of the BBC network earlier. From those it appears that the Beeb have a minimum 70Gbs of external bandwidth. Their entire usage at the moment is averaging 600Mbs to 1Gbs (though peek rates are probably larger)
I can't see how opt in would work in the US. As soon as you opt in to one company their "business partners" would start sending you "solicited emails" too.
Would you not also need some form of personal data protection legislation?
You haven't changed your credit card/debit card recently have you? Most new cards issued have a chip in them. not sure if its ram/rom or smartcard though.
Just been watching the TV. Lots of reports of fiarly heavy fighting. Now were are the bodies? May reports of X number of surrenders of Iraqi soldiers. Mnay reports of the two US soldiers killed. Where are the reports of the number of people they killed?
It seems that TV new coverage is not covering the story of the peeps on the other side of this conflict. I know that this is an almost impossible task due to lack of access to these people but I would have thought that counting bodies would not be that hard. Is it that the press do not want to depress thier viewers with such unplesent news?
Opps sorry to say it but the Mig 25 (foxbat) which entered service in 1967 can fly higher and faster. It still holds the altitdue record at 118,898 feet (36.2km). It has been observed at mach 3.2 (by america somewhere over Israel) although the engines needed changin after and it couldnot sustain that speed for long.
Apart from that the Blackbird is and will be for a long time one of the most pretty plance ever built.
I was never quite sure if Infinite Jest was a joke ( of great length) played by the author on the reader.
That said it is still a very good read and well written (if you don't mind 200+ pages of footnotes) Although that lack of a strong well defined central plot will irritate many (e.g those that think strong well definied plots are essential to a good book)
Great they have obtained a patent on classifing text using a classifier. Specificaly a SVM however the patent allows for any classifier to be used. Will the wonderous USPTO never stop.:)
Slashdot Mirror
This is very true. I noticed it a few years back
when Matrox changed from using TI DSPs on its
genesis DSP boards to using powerPC's. However the
genesis gets a lot of its grunt from the xilinx
FPGA that it also has. a few tens of millisecs to
set up the FPGA and it storms though many common
DSP tasks. Also the fact that you can put about 15
processors (8 boards) intogether.
I do think you are being a optimistic about the
performance of the P4 though.
matfud
However if you use Stanley Millgrams theory then
it is possible to connect you to the taliban or pretty much any organisation on the planet.
Yes, Why not look at the statistics.
3 In England and Wales, firearms were discharged in 6 incidents in 1994-95; 5 incidents in 1995-96; 4 incidents in both 1996-97 and 1997-98; 7 incidents in both 1998-99 and 1999-2000 and 9 incidents in 2000-01. In Scotland, police shots were fired in 4 operations in 1995-96, 9 in 1996-97, 1 in 1997-98, 8 in 1998-99.
(this is usage by the police not criminals please compare to stats in America).
And if youd read the reports you were referencing
6 The collection of recorded crime data in England and Wales changed to a financial year basis from 1 April 1998, which coincided with a change in the counting rules for recorded crime. Due to this, the data shown for 1998-99 and 1999-00 are not comparable with those shown for previous years. See Notes and Definitions.
So the year they finally banned handguns, although
they were very heavilly regulated for decades before, the number of crimes committed that
involved guns incresed. This also coincides with a
change in the way that crime stats are reported.
matfud
Ithink we should use option 1) :)
Scaletrix has already proved its possible. Image,
drive onto the freeway and your car picks up power
from tracks in the road. Might be a bit dangerous
for pedestrians but does provide the big advantage
of you not having to steer your vehicle on those
long journeys
matfud
You are correct when you say that there are many people who wish Israel gone. And there is a reason for that. Israel did not exist before 1948.
There are many people who remember (less as the years go on) the creation of israel and do not approve.
There was terrorism in the region even before this against the British occupation of the area. An tension has been building since the begining of the last centuary as the Zionist movement encouraged jewish people to move into the region
(encouaged in the 30's by increasing anti jewish behaviour in a number of germanic countries)
matfud
It makes you wonder what they are taught in school doesn't it?
The "Space Race" amuses me too.
Russia's firsts.
First craft into orbit
First animal into space
First human into space
First human into orbit
First space walk
First space docking
First space station
First to orbit the moon (unmanned of course)
First to lad a probe on the moon (sample return but it crashed).
First woman in space.
In addition:
Records for time spent in space.
Records for space station lifetime
America's firsts:
First to put a man on the moon.
In addition:
Most money spent?
Went to the moon many times.
matfud
I can just imagine the heads of US industry in a meeting.
suit A> If the US signs the Kyoto accord we'll have to cut CO2
emissions. That will cost us millions of dollars.
suit B> Yep. We'd best lobby the government to disuade them
from signing the Kyoto Accord.
suit A> How much will that cost?
suit B> A couple of million dollars.
The logic of bought politics
matfud
I always like the battleship (Fast Picket)
Xenaphobe
When I was last in Canada ( a number of years
:P
ago), I was appauled to find that
there appeared to be a budding trade in
converting the hands into ashtrays and
selling them to tourists. I hope this babaric
practice has been stamped out.
matfud
>databases are composed of facts.
I think that "composed" is the key word here.
The data in the database may be entirly factual. however
the composition of it is not factual. Somone went to
a lot of effort (or perhaps just a small amount of effort) to collate and create the database. They
may deserve some form of protection of this
investment. After all if the data in the DB was derived
from the public domain then you can compile your
own DB from the original data. This should not give
you the right to just copy someone elses DB and
the value that they added to the original data by
compiling it.
I don't think they are discussing Copyright. I believe
that they are considering the creation of a new law
to cover DB's.
matfud
However its two sister ships sailed for many
years. Until one was sunk by a mine.
The two sister ships (Britanic and Olympic) were
slightly different as they had double hulls and
more lifeboats.
Remeber that ships didn't have watertight
compartments at the time an as such had no
failsafe mechanism in case of flooding. From that
perspective the Titanic set a very important trend
for ship safety
matfud
Them natives are good they count in base three.
One
Two
Many
Many One
Many Two
Many Many
Many Many One
etc
matfud
Dont't you mean. When the government wanted to increase fuel taxes. A load of blokes blockaded the fuel depoes and caused the fuel crisis.
matfud
For whole words just put them in quotes.
Any words you enter in the search box are
ORed together so phrase searches can be done (not
well admittedly but they can be done)
matfud
Someone posted some graphs of the BBC network earlier. From those it appears that the Beeb have
a minimum 70Gbs of external bandwidth. Their
entire usage at the moment is averaging 600Mbs to
1Gbs (though peek rates are probably larger)
matfud
What exactly is the relationship between Canadians and the Telnet protocol's "Interpret As Command" signal.
Are they now Gods to be obayed to maintain compatibility.
matfud
I can't see how opt in would work in the US. As
soon as you opt in to one company their "business
partners" would start sending you "solicited
emails" too.
Would you not also need some form of personal data
protection legislation?
matfud
Im not sure if I'm glad that I can no longer hear this very irritating noise ( Unless I really listen for it :)
You haven't changed your credit card/debit card recently have you? Most new cards issued have a chip in them. not sure if its ram/rom or smartcard though.
matfud
(UK)
Try R an open source SPSS clone. I found it very useful for my research. Esp. drawing custom graphs.
Matfud
Just been watching the TV. Lots of reports of fiarly heavy fighting. Now were are the bodies? May reports of X number of surrenders of Iraqi soldiers. Mnay reports of the two US soldiers killed. Where are the reports of the number of people they killed?
It seems that TV new coverage is not covering the story of the peeps on the other side of this conflict.
I know that this is an almost impossible task due to lack of access to these people but I would have thought that counting bodies would not be that hard.
Is it that the press do not want to depress thier viewers with such unplesent news?
matfud
Opps sorry to say it but the Mig 25 (foxbat) which entered service in 1967 can fly higher and faster. It still holds the altitdue record at 118,898 feet (36.2km). It has been observed at mach 3.2 (by america somewhere over Israel) although the engines needed changin after and it couldnot sustain that speed for long.
Apart from that the Blackbird is and will be for a long time one of the most pretty plance ever built.
matfud
I was never quite sure if Infinite Jest was a joke ( of great length) played by the author on the reader.
That said it is still a very good read and well written (if you don't mind 200+ pages of footnotes)
Although that lack of a strong well defined central plot will irritate many (e.g those that think strong well definied plots are essential to a good book)
Matfud
point of order.
The George the III was captured from the british and named the enterprise.
Minor point and probably not worth the effort
Great they have obtained a patent on classifing text using a classifier. Specificaly a SVM however the patent allows for any classifier to be used. Will the wonderous USPTO never stop. :)