Mr l33t:
I am sending an email to BILL GATES to show him how badly LINUX is HURTING WINDOWS. To do that, I would like to show him the NUMBER OF ACCOUNTS that have NEVER GIVEN MICROSOFT A DIME. Let's show BILL how smart we are and how we're NOT SPENDING OUR MONEY ON WINDOWS! To help me, please send your name, bank account numbers, and credit card numbers to me so that I can put togther a HUGE LIST! Send your information to billsucks@linuxrox!.com immediately!
Yes, it's only in America, with all that "fuzzy math" being argued about...
On the other hand, rather than running away to Canada (my first thought...) this has actually caused me to have real thoughts about becoming active in politics, at least at the local level. I'm no longer content to let others make a mess of things; I want to do my share. Then at least I can blame myself.
Actually, many of the farmers are paid to _not_ produce crops, which (by artificially constricting supply) keeps crop prices high enough to make the farming cost-effective. If being paid to not produce something so what you do produce is worth producing is not twisted, I don't know what is...
I've gotten an Outlook version (using VBA) running, and it works vry well. I'm working on tuning some of the a priori probabilities, but right now I'm getting very good success... with much lower false negative than I've gotten on any other straight filter based method. (Meaning it very rarely classifies good email as spam.)
The key to making this work is having a very large corpus of both "good" and "bad" email with which to generate the word probability lists... I have ~2000 spams and ~10,000 good mails in the training corpuses. With 1000 messages, it still works well, but has occasional false positives and negatives.
"In the laboratory, a 10m range for the system has been confirmed, but NTT is expecting to try and extend the range to 100m."..12 second...7 seconds....2 seconds... Submit!
Looking through the posts, I see many that cry for the billions of $$$ to be given to the poor, the starving, the schools, the environment, or whetever the PC pet-project of the week is.
Keep in mind that this money doesn't dissapear. The money goes to R&D labs, computers, sailors, into the host community, and many other places. It's re-entered into the community so that the common people (that's you and me) can have a job and DON'T HAVE to go to the food bank, and can afford to pay taxes to support the schools.
Look at the R&D money spent on sailing alone. The materials knowledge being developed about the properties of carbon, exotic composites, and other extremely lightweight materials will likely eventually be used in making lighter cars, plans, and other "day to day" items that will use less energy, pollute less, and last longer. Same arguments about why the US should be involved in the Space Program.
So quit bellyaching about the money being spent. At least it's being spent and not being kept locked in a bank account.
Besides, I'm a sailor, and want some of the toys they're developing!!!!
So, now that the absolutely hilarious Slashdot April Fools program is (finally) over, anyone have any FUNNY stories about April Fools jokes that they were on the giving or recieving end of?
T he main problem I see is the relatively low logic density of FPGAs as compared to dedicated hardware...
Not to mention the cost!!! Per gate, FPGA's are more expensive to manufacture, and a design to emulate a set of gates generally uses more gates than the design it's emulating. It adds up to a very expensive system.
An FPGA-type of architecture may make the hardware more flexible than fixed-function hardware, but it certainly won't be as cheap!
This makes me wonder what market Transmeta is targetting.
Generic home user? A Celeron or K6 is cheaper.
Business user? Transmeta is not yet accepted in the business market, and likely won't be able to gain significant market share for a long time. Witness AMD.
Power user? Maybe... but it won't be cheap, and won't be in big volumes. Targetting the power user is generally not a got business model, because there just isn't money there.
Handhelds? Hmmm... much more interesting. "I'm a cell phone! No, I'm a PDA! No, I'm a network analyzer!" A multifunction, small device could benefit from a flexible processor... which coul emulate the Intel processors used there now... which would reduce size and power by having flexible hardware...
So maybe the is the processor for the Hithiker's Guide!
Impedance over the course of the entire channel is very difficult to control. The motherboard, connectors, RIMMs, etc all need to be impedance matched, or the reflections from the discontinuties in the signal propagation path cause big problems at the reciever.
The third slot just adds enough noise to use up all the margin, and "bad things" happen. BTW, very carefully designed boards work just fine at 400MHz with 3 slots; it's the fringe cases which are the problem. Unfortunately, the fringe cases are significant enough to make it not worth shipping. It's not unlike overclocking... it will usually work, except when you really, really need it to:).
Adding a terminator pack as the third RIMM would indeed work well, but there are three problems, all non-technical: 1) User instruction: a user has to know that the third slot can't be filled with RAM, causing headaches for OEM support teams..
2) The additional terminator card adds cost
3) The chipset was spec'd to use three RIMMs, and two don't provide enough memory.
Very correct. The RAMBUS channel needs to be terminated, exactly like a 10bT or SCSI channel. The signal reflections from an unterminated stub cause major headaches, to the point where the system won't work. That's why either a memory stick or a continuity stick must be in each socket, so that the signal can propogate all the way to the terminator resistors on the motherboard at the end of the channel.
Rambus memory is a big deal for a few reasons. First of all, most modern chips are becoming very pin-limited, so the 80 or so pins to implement an SDRAM interface compared to the 20 or so pins necessary to implement an RDRAM interface is very important. Routing 80 or so signals at 133MHz is very difficult; routing 20 signals at 400MHz is easier.
RDRAM is also "multi-symbolic", meaning that there are multiple transactions on the bus at any one time. The clock speed is faster than than the propogation of the signal, so it's possible to have multiple pieces of data on the bus at the same time. This allows higher speeds; higher even than the 400MHz clock (800MHz data transfer rate) that RDRAM uses today.
I heard someone else mention DDR SDRAM... this may work in a server, but it requires a huge amount of power, which in turn means cooling, which in turn means cost. It's not terribly suitable for a general desktop. RDRAM manages power better.
While RDRAM may or may not be the future, SDRAM and deriviatves are definately not. They simply cost to much to scale to higher throughputs. Intel tried to move to something better, but got burned because it was to technically difficult for a generic OEM to produce. Oops.
The article implies that the box will somehow be integrated to the current h2g2 site. While the h2g2 site is certainly entertaining, its not the kind of _information_ that I'd spend a (probably) large amount of information to have access to at anyplace.
Existing products already provide a similar level of information... there are several GPS products with information about roads, services, resturaunts, etc.
Integrating the system with a cell to get feedback from the general populace on a resturaunt that you've never been to in the city you're visiting would be interesting, but I can see the potential for abuse already. It only takes one rumor of a roach sent all over the internet to ruin a resturaunt's business. Once you start moderating, then you might as well have a (much less expensive) static database on a Palm or such.
But a Palm doesn't have a "Don't Panic" button... hmmm...
Although my background isn't in neuro or such, this seems to be a questionable experiment. If I'm looking for a detail in a image (a nick on a block) I will examine each block sequentially, and look for the feature. If it's a big nick, it may not take long, but if it's small, I can certainly tell that I'm examining each block.
On the other hand, does this experiment actually indicate that the brain is _interpreting_ a scene serially? (That's a tree, that's grass, that's an anvil dropping on my head) Or just processing a task serially? (Where is the oak tree?)
I guess the artical didn't really give enough information; perhaps the experiment was more than indicated.
To throw my thoughts on the pile... art is where form is beyond function. A simple truss bridge to cross a river is not art, but an elegant bridge that is more stylized or intricate than necessary may be art.
A simple "Hello World" program is not art, but many of the programs in the "Obfuscated C" contest accomplish as much as the 3 line "Hello World" that is C Programming 101, but have a form that is far beyond what is required by function. Thats is "art", IMHO.
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Mr l33t:
I am sending an email to BILL GATES to show him how badly LINUX is HURTING WINDOWS. To do that, I would like to show him the NUMBER OF ACCOUNTS that have NEVER GIVEN MICROSOFT A DIME. Let's show BILL how smart we are and how we're NOT SPENDING OUR MONEY ON WINDOWS! To help me, please send your name, bank account numbers, and credit card numbers to me so that I can put togther a HUGE LIST! Send your information to billsucks@linuxrox!.com immediately!
Thanks,
Ali Gator
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Oh, wait...
Built-in decryption hardware for digital rights management (DRM)
Does that mean you won't buy AMD chips either???
Yes, it's only in America, with all that "fuzzy math" being argued about...
On the other hand, rather than running away to Canada (my first thought...) this has actually caused me to have real thoughts about becoming active in politics, at least at the local level. I'm no longer content to let others make a mess of things; I want to do my share. Then at least I can blame myself.
Urmm... Creationism is a sham (not even a sham science), and it does not have any scientific evidence. Words in a book do not evidence make.
It is obvious.
Now get your pink unicorns out of my classroom.
Actually, many of the farmers are paid to _not_ produce crops, which (by artificially constricting supply) keeps crop prices high enough to make the farming cost-effective. If being paid to not produce something so what you do produce is worth producing is not twisted, I don't know what is...
I've gotten an Outlook version (using VBA) running, and it works vry well. I'm working on tuning some of the a priori probabilities, but right now I'm getting very good success... with much lower false negative than I've gotten on any other straight filter based method. (Meaning it very rarely classifies good email as spam.)
The key to making this work is having a very large corpus of both "good" and "bad" email with which to generate the word probability lists... I have ~2000 spams and ~10,000 good mails in the training corpuses. With 1000 messages, it still works well, but has occasional false positives and negatives.
Did you read the article???
..12 second...7 seconds....2 seconds... Submit!
"In the laboratory, a 10m range for the system has been confirmed, but NTT is expecting to try and extend the range to 100m."
If it were a fair/equitable distribution (or your idea of such) then it wouldn't be capitialism now, would it?
These people (Ellison and McCaw) founded extremely successful companies, and held stock in companies which other people percieved as valuable.
Your views sound very (socialistic||communistic) (I always forget the economic definition of each), but it ain't capitalism.
Looking through the posts, I see many that cry for the billions of $$$ to be given to the poor, the starving, the schools, the environment, or whetever the PC pet-project of the week is.
Keep in mind that this money doesn't dissapear. The money goes to R&D labs, computers, sailors, into the host community, and many other places. It's re-entered into the community so that the common people (that's you and me) can have a job and DON'T HAVE to go to the food bank, and can afford to pay taxes to support the schools.
Look at the R&D money spent on sailing alone. The materials knowledge being developed about the properties of carbon, exotic composites, and other extremely lightweight materials will likely eventually be used in making lighter cars, plans, and other "day to day" items that will use less energy, pollute less, and last longer. Same arguments about why the US should be involved in the Space Program.
So quit bellyaching about the money being spent. At least it's being spent and not being kept locked in a bank account.
Besides, I'm a sailor, and want some of the toys they're developing!!!!
So, now that the absolutely hilarious Slashdot April Fools program is (finally) over, anyone have any FUNNY stories about April Fools jokes that they were on the giving or recieving end of?
Not to mention the cost!!! Per gate, FPGA's are more expensive to manufacture, and a design to emulate a set of gates generally uses more gates than the design it's emulating. It adds up to a very expensive system.
An FPGA-type of architecture may make the hardware more flexible than fixed-function hardware, but it certainly won't be as cheap!
This makes me wonder what market Transmeta is targetting.
So maybe the is the processor for the Hithiker's Guide!
And by the way, the RAMBUS site has some white papers on the general technology and how it works. Fun stuff. :)
Impedance over the course of the entire channel is very difficult to control. The motherboard, connectors, RIMMs, etc all need to be impedance matched, or the reflections from the discontinuties in the signal propagation path cause big problems at the reciever.
:).
The third slot just adds enough noise to use up all the margin, and "bad things" happen. BTW, very carefully designed boards work just fine at 400MHz with 3 slots; it's the fringe cases which are the problem. Unfortunately, the fringe cases are significant enough to make it not worth shipping. It's not unlike overclocking... it will usually work, except when you really, really need it to
Adding a terminator pack as the third RIMM would indeed work well, but there are three problems, all non-technical:
1) User instruction: a user has to know that the third slot can't be filled with RAM, causing headaches for OEM support teams..
2) The additional terminator card adds cost
3) The chipset was spec'd to use three RIMMs, and two don't provide enough memory.
Very correct. The RAMBUS channel needs to be terminated, exactly like a 10bT or SCSI channel. The signal reflections from an unterminated stub cause major headaches, to the point where the system won't work. That's why either a memory stick or a continuity stick must be in each socket, so that the signal can propogate all the way to the terminator resistors on the motherboard at the end of the channel.
Rambus memory is a big deal for a few reasons. First of all, most modern chips are becoming very pin-limited, so the 80 or so pins to implement an SDRAM interface compared to the 20 or so pins necessary to implement an RDRAM interface is very important. Routing 80 or so signals at 133MHz is very difficult; routing 20 signals at 400MHz is easier.
RDRAM is also "multi-symbolic", meaning that there are multiple transactions on the bus at any one time. The clock speed is faster than than the propogation of the signal, so it's possible to have multiple pieces of data on the bus at the same time. This allows higher speeds; higher even than the 400MHz clock (800MHz data transfer rate) that RDRAM uses today.
I heard someone else mention DDR SDRAM... this may work in a server, but it requires a huge amount of power, which in turn means cooling, which in turn means cost. It's not terribly suitable for a general desktop. RDRAM manages power better.
While RDRAM may or may not be the future, SDRAM and deriviatves are definately not. They simply cost to much to scale to higher throughputs. Intel tried to move to something better, but got burned because it was to technically difficult for a generic OEM to produce. Oops.
The article implies that the box will somehow be integrated to the current h2g2 site. While the h2g2 site is certainly entertaining, its not the kind of _information_ that I'd spend a (probably) large amount of information to have access to at anyplace.
Existing products already provide a similar level of information... there are several GPS products with information about roads, services, resturaunts, etc.
Integrating the system with a cell to get feedback from the general populace on a resturaunt that you've never been to in the city you're visiting would be interesting, but I can see the potential for abuse already. It only takes one rumor of a roach sent all over the internet to ruin a resturaunt's business. Once you start moderating, then you might as well have a (much less expensive) static database on a Palm or such.
But a Palm doesn't have a "Don't Panic" button... hmmm...
Wow... it's really tempting to moderate this translation as "Funny".
It's really difficult to tell what the artical is even saying, but it does appear that it is on behalf of c't? Or did c't report it?
Although my background isn't in neuro or such, this seems to be a questionable experiment. If I'm looking for a detail in a image (a nick on a block) I will examine each block sequentially, and look for the feature. If it's a big nick, it may not take long, but if it's small, I can certainly tell that I'm examining each block.
On the other hand, does this experiment actually indicate that the brain is _interpreting_ a scene serially? (That's a tree, that's grass, that's an anvil dropping on my head) Or just processing a task serially? (Where is the oak tree?)
I guess the artical didn't really give enough information; perhaps the experiment was more than indicated.
But then again, what do I know.
To throw my thoughts on the pile... art is where form is beyond function. A simple truss bridge to cross a river is not art, but an elegant bridge that is more stylized or intricate than necessary may be art.
A simple "Hello World" program is not art, but many of the programs in the "Obfuscated C" contest accomplish as much as the 3 line "Hello World" that is C Programming 101, but have a form that is far beyond what is required by function. Thats is "art", IMHO.