In addition to the scalability of the kernel, I'm interested in the hardware that implements this on the motherboard. How big is the address bus? Data bus? What sort of bus is used to mux/demux all of this???
1) I own a cd and allow a friend to copy a song. No money changes hands...Isn't there a Federal (Supreme?) court ruling that this is permitted? Isn't this the core of the Napster defense (that I can't seem to find on their site).
2) I own many vinyl albums. Suppose person (b) owns the equivalent CD and has ripped all the tracks....I own my vinyl but don't want to go through the messy process of ripping from an album. If I aquire person (b)'s mp3's ripped from his legit copy, is that permitted use?
If anyone can respond with a legal cite (not just "yeah, that is/should be allowed") I'd appreciate it!
It was way more of a pain to use than it was worth. Cool, but just not for me. Now that I am an mp3 *addict* I want much higher capacity and ease of xfer. I think the price is very reasonable and I *will* own one!
I walk into radio shack and say "gimmee"...I'm handed a plastic bag containing a scanner, a CD, and misc paperwork. I throw away everything but the scanner and happily begin scanning my cereal boxes, cds, and books.
What license did I agree to that I am now violating??
I just gave away a Diamond Rio mp3 player because serial transfers are such a pain in the butt. My dad and brother both have digital cameras and both complain about slow xfers. I have a Bose Wave stereo and would *love* to be able to send it a few hours of mp3's via ethernet.
So which one is going to survive? SVG or VML? I know that VML is pushed by Microsoft but that isn't necessarily a reason to jump to something else. VML is here now (in IE5 of course) I haven't found a way to actually display SVG output yet (in my 10 minutes of trying).
Get the ascii data from the genome server and then do some basic analysis. Something like a histogram of basic sequences would probably be very interesting. Start with maybe a length of 10, tally up the number of "AAAAAAAAAA", then the number of "AAAAAAAAAC", etc. Then repeat for different sequence lengths. The hypothesis might be that there are sequences that occur more often than others with statistical significance, and the null hypothesis would be that they are uniformly distributed.
Obviously text processing of a 33MB data stream is pretty intensive. A simple project might just take a subset of the data. A more complex programming exercise might be to make it a beowulf-aware application.
Analog Devices has had a part available for a while that is based on wavelet coding. They claim 350:1 realtime video compression, which sounds quite impressive!
I remember an experimental flight vehicle from about 6 or so years ago that looked very promising. I believe it was from mcdonald douglass, possibly part of the bid for the "National Aerospace Plane". I believe one of their goals was to significantly reduce the orbital cost per pound. Basically it was a tall skinny triangular rocket that could takeoff vertically, hover, move horizontally while still upright, and then land. They distributed an mpeg of the flight and called it a dramatic success....unfortunately that was the last I ever saw of this technology. Does anyone have a better long term memory than me? (Yes, I googled a bit but didn't find it)
IMHO the best of both worlds. Sybase ASE version 11.9.2 is available for linux here. I've been using Sybase on HP-9000, linux, and NT platforms for a couple of years. Sybase is stable, fast, well supported, supports transactions, sub selects, triggers etc, and its supported by PHP.
Interesting and cool, but will need orders of magnitude better accuracy and precision before it could be a viable replacement for commercial coordinate measuring machines such as the ones built by Brown and Sharpe. They say they can "split the micron" which is pretty impressive.
Their CMMs are for a completely different market though...more manufacturing oriented.
I agree. Sometime in the past year or so, there was a show on PBS (might have been Frontline) about the disasters aboard Mir. They detailed the differences in philosophy between US astronauts and their Russian counterparts. Particularly in the area of safety. They showed pictures of fouled hatches (bulkheads that could not be sealed due to extension cords and cables that ran through the opening) and other insanely unsafe conditions that would never ever be tolerated.
I predict that the only way they will avoid an accident is to not use it...Rather like NT...."Stable while idle"
I've been using MS Visual Studio for a couple of years now, and I really like it. It's quite stable, I can't remember ever having the IDE crash, and it's very powerful.
By far, my favorite feature is the popup Intellisense, when you're working with an object or struct and type "." or "->" you get a window with the details of the object at that level. You will quickly get hooked on this feature.
Plus, you can now edit and recompile c on the fly while debugging. That's a big timesaver for me (for correcting "freshman" mistakes like incorrect loop bounds without having to start all over).
And finally, if it's good enough for John Carmack, it's good enough for me!
As part of the story he implies that he got this screenshot right after detecting her online for the first time...is this possible or am I just taking the time sequence to literally (perhaps he got the screenshot later)
It seems to me that he would have to use something like BO (Which she would have to install) in order to get it.
Catchy subject, no? I read this article about a year ago and found it fascinating. Sorry I can't cut and paste because its a PDF document, but it can be summarised as:
java's floating point arithmetic is blighted by five gratuitous mistakes
And they give several examples where java will produce incorrect results in numerically intensive applications.
My question is, is this analysis and the observations still valid now?
Ok, I'll OpenSource my great business idea, since I know I'll never follow up on it. I know *lots* of sailors. I've been to lots of Marinas here in the northeast. And I know that many if not most of the folks, at least in the moderately sized boats (over say, 25 feet) demographically are computer users.
In fact, as you move up in the boating hierarchy the owners are more likely to have laptops and desire remote access, and as already pointed out, cell phones suck and satellite is too expensive.
Idea: T1 to a marina running a moderately powerful server (cobalt, linux, etc) providing wireless access to an area covering roughly a few acres. Provide wireless lan pcmcia cards to users...Premium rates would probably apply ($30/month?). The folks I've talked to would be happy to pay it!
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1) I own a cd and allow a friend to copy a song. No money changes hands...Isn't there a Federal (Supreme?) court ruling that this is permitted? Isn't this the core of the Napster defense (that I can't seem to find on their site).
2) I own many vinyl albums. Suppose person (b) owns the equivalent CD and has ripped all the tracks....I own my vinyl but don't want to go through the messy process of ripping from an album. If I aquire person (b)'s mp3's ripped from his legit copy, is that permitted use?
If anyone can respond with a legal cite (not just "yeah, that is/should be allowed") I'd appreciate it!
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32 meg of memory
64kbps mp3 encoding
very slow serial transfer
It was way more of a pain to use than it was worth. Cool, but just not for me. Now that I am an mp3 *addict* I want much higher capacity and ease of xfer. I think the price is very reasonable and I *will* own one!
I walk into radio shack and say "gimmee"...I'm handed a plastic bag containing a scanner, a CD, and misc paperwork. I throw away everything but the scanner and happily begin scanning my cereal boxes, cds, and books.
What license did I agree to that I am now violating??
so you haven't been topriorart.com?
I just gave away a Diamond Rio mp3 player because serial transfers are such a pain in the butt. My dad and brother both have digital cameras and both complain about slow xfers. I have a Bose Wave stereo and would *love* to be able to send it a few hours of mp3's via ethernet.
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Obviously text processing of a 33MB data stream is pretty intensive. A simple project might just take a subset of the data. A more complex programming exercise might be to make it a beowulf-aware application.
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these look promising.
Basically it was a tall skinny triangular rocket that could takeoff vertically, hover, move horizontally while still upright, and then land. They distributed an mpeg of the flight and called it a dramatic success....unfortunately that was the last I ever saw of this technology. Does anyone have a better long term memory than me? (Yes, I googled a bit but didn't find it)
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Their CMMs are for a completely different market though...more manufacturing oriented.
"which will take up the floor space equivalent to two basketball courts and weighs as much as 17 full-sized elephants"
And while we're at it, I hate "hail the size of golf balls" and anything the size of Rhode Island!
(posting from RI :))
"Bangalore, We have a problem"
I predict that the only way they will avoid an accident is to not use it...Rather like NT...."Stable while idle"
According to this Inktomi has "more than 80 customers". Their current market cap is "Fifteen Biiiillion Dollars" [Dr. Evil]
80 customers and a market cap that ends in a B. This new economy scares me!
By far, my favorite feature is the popup Intellisense, when you're working with an object or struct and type "." or "->" you get a window with the details of the object at that level. You will quickly get hooked on this feature.
Plus, you can now edit and recompile c on the fly while debugging. That's a big timesaver for me (for correcting "freshman" mistakes like incorrect loop bounds without having to start all over).
And finally, if it's good enough for John Carmack, it's good enough for me!
Oh we're *well* past the theoretical limits :)
What I want is a tiny tiny LCD screen at the bottom of my glasses to tell the time. Is that so hard? I'll bet that could be done now!
But I've never been able to find it again :(
It seems to me that he would have to use something like BO (Which she would have to install) in order to get it.
And they give several examples where java will produce incorrect results in numerically intensive applications.
My question is, is this analysis and the observations still valid now?
In fact, as you move up in the boating hierarchy the owners are more likely to have laptops and desire remote access, and as already pointed out, cell phones suck and satellite is too expensive.
Idea: T1 to a marina running a moderately powerful server (cobalt, linux, etc) providing wireless access to an area covering roughly a few acres. Provide wireless lan pcmcia cards to users...Premium rates would probably apply ($30/month?). The folks I've talked to would be happy to pay it!